skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have never been more people that run their own bitcoin/lightning node then there are right now.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31673886
Part of it may be just Windows. I use Windows a lot to move files and folders around and the File Explorer is something I constantly need to wait on to respond. The Windows as GUI is not very responsive in my experience.
The first doubt was around the fact that a language with the pronounciation background coming out of the English language will be "easier" to learn than a strictly phonetic one.

Just looking over the list of words in your last link, I'm pretty sure that any number of them would trip someone that is a blank slate. For example: "who", "wheel" and "humour" are vastly inconsistent with regards to how they sound. Having to learn these idiosyncrasies, even for 900 words, would be - in my opinion - more difficult than the basic rules of Esperanto (and Ido, which seems even simpler).

I would imagine that coupled with a phonetic transliteration of the common sounds it would be easier but then the language would probably become a different thing all together.

I hope that clarifies a bit.
IDK why we'd assume that there's a different cognitive process for learning mathematics with radix 10 than with radix 16?

Mathematics_education#Methods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_education#Methods :

> [...] Rote learning: the teaching of mathematical results, definitions and concepts by repetition and memorisation typically without meaning or supported by mathematical reasoning. A derisory term is drill and kill. In traditional education, rote learning is used to teach multiplication tables, definitions, formulas, and other aspects of mathematics.
You can easily live in Seattle city limits without owning a car, and our transit story is pretty bad. In a city that really funded transit it would be trivial.
It's easy to criticize tools that actually exist. Makes you forget about all the tools that haven't made it to your computer.
pf or ipfw?
How do you feel about gifted programs in school districts where black and brown student largely don't exist?

OR for that matter, how about the inverse?
huh? I haven't tried it...is it somehow fooling a porn filter or something?
It makes a little more sense knowing that A/UX install media was hard to find for a long time, until recently (2021?) there were no compatible emulators, and a lot of the real hardware is probably too slow to run Doom or has too little memory to do the build.
I thought this was hyperbole but it's almost verbatim their 2nd sentence. What a waste of all kinds of resources.
Ask HN: are there any planned cities in the USA that have these kinds of European style values in their constitution / laws?
There's a lot going on that's squeezing out real value and replacing
it with a controllable facsimile of value. And yes, this is
anti-social, and anti-capitalist, in the purest and best sense of both
those terms. It's a bonfire of human value.

In the face of so much disruptive potential, so much surplus of
intellect, and so much human energy unleashed by automation and fossil
fuels, the strategy of the incumbents has been to stifle it.

I mean, isn't that what the entertainments business has been focused
on for the past 40 years, with DRM etc? What some parts of the tech
industry does is actually anti-technology. We have a kind of job
creation scheme with one person digging a hole, while another fills it
in. Some computer scientists working to create innovation, and others
overtly set on stifling it. To ignore that adversarial aspect is to
completely fail to understand modern technology.
If you look at the weight of the tech product (phone) in isolation, you are correct although not in a very meaningful way. If you look at the amount of physical material that went into the process leading up to producing that product, the quantity would amount to many tonnes of material in terms of crushed ore, fossil fuels, water consumption, chemicals, packaging and so on. A phone does not only represent its own grammes material, but an enormous tail of environmental impact in form of waste, emissions and extraction remains. (This is not to mention the human labor cost involved in obtaining some of the rare earths used, from countries with, ehrm, lax labor laws).
Alternative interpretation: the author is having a stroke. See how they miscategorized the "soul-stifling metaverse" tweet as "extremely positive". ...That's not what the tweet is saying... :)
Can you link to evidence of this happening? Because all I could find were stories about how Trump's lawyers argued this was the case, but were forced to admit in court there were poll watchers acting on Trump's behalf:

>Judge : “Are your observers in the counting room?”

>Trump lawyer: "There's a non-zero number of people in the room.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/11/trump-law...
I'm not sure how this attack even works. You can't make up dead people; you have to know who the dead people are. You can't cast votes for random dead people; they have to be dead people from the precinct you're EJ'ing. I buy that you could get 1-2 votes cast this way, but not how you could cast a material number of them. Meanwhile, getting caught just casting 1 such vote is a guaranteed prison sentence. You can't have a vast conspiracy across many dozens of precincts in order to rack up a material number of dead-person votes. It just doesn't make sense.
When a collector purchases the Ship of Theseus, they expect to get the Ship of Theseus, not some mere copy.
I followed this discussion in the US quite close actually. Simply because we need to have government ID. It is racist to require it if access to those IDs is, in praxis, limited for the demographics that should have limited access to voting. It is not if you are required to have government ID, and it is very easy to get one. getting a provisional passport for travel, with a validity of 6 months, takes all of one hour tops over here in Germany.
Wouldn't the opposite argument be easier given past history? \They\ want it to be hard to repair so only the country that has authority over the manufacturer has power over the food production of countries that don't have power over the manufacturer.
This is sick. What does anyone learn doing by working like this? Is anyone gaining experience from this? It just feels like people are ground down so they can't physically work anymore.
Is a video game any more of a "functional" item than a book? Or a vinyl record, in another analogy given in this thread?
If people prefer that, they can pay for that. No reason to prohibit others from building denser. Nobody will stop you from buying a lot downtown and replacing the high-rise building with your single family home and adding a multi-car garage. On the other hand you will be stopped if you want to build a high-rise without parking even if lots of people want to live there.

Let's stop telling people what they should want and let the market build what people want. If "the market" builds what nobody wants, some folks are gonna lose some of their own money and someone else will make a profit from correcting it.
To be fair, that's about all you can do with a painting: hanging it on a wall and keeping it clean. A better way for me to read your comment is: "No one made the decision to throw them out with the garbage."
Requirement: when someone opens your front door, closing the contacts of a magnetic reed switch, send a (hard-coded) http message to a serverless function.
Which spot?
Me too, what kind of nonsense is someone paying 200 dollars for some reheatable pasta and having it delivered thousands of miles? It sounds like an exercise on how to create the most wasteful and ridiculous business ever.
As if they aren’t bleeding money fast enough…
How is this not vulnerable to side-channel attacks like disk-access patterns?

Could I, as a malicious server, request myself a target article and correlate that with legitimate user requests?
> We don't have medieval cities, but saying cities were designed around the car is patently false.

It's not. Cities have literally been created from nothing in the last few decades. Just because NYC, Atlanta, DC, etc. are old are have a history of redlining does not mean that every city does. Case in point: the cities around where I grew up were built in the last 3 decades. Those cities didn't have a choice but to have zoning laws and miles of road.
These configs exist for a reason: The "developing world", "the on average poor countries", or whatever you might want to call them. This is the market that is currently getting the extreme low-end systems with the OS running on mechanical harddrives which of course is barely usable.

I think a 128 GB solid state drive for Windows and apps and a 1 TB mechanical HDD for media storage could be the basis for a really neat and cost effective little laptop. Just make sure the Downloads folder is mapped to the mechanical HDD by default...
> Is this context the words "hierarchy" and "authority" are used exclusively to refer to the coercive aspect that can exist. Anarchism does not oppose social organization in itself!

I think the point is that even in the absence of explicit hierarchy, you can still have coercion in the form of shaming/shunning/etc.
Accessibility is a peeve of mine (for no other reason than sympathy). Thanks for your work on this.
In the case of the clickbait-ish title I would agree, but if the actual claim is an accurate representation of the data[0] how is one supposed to phrase that idea in a way that _wouldn't_ be considered demagoguery under this broad of a definition?

[0] I don't currently have time to verify this myself.
> Would you consider the replica equivalent to the original person?

Yes. How could you not?

My loved one died. If there was perfect replica of her somewhere ready to spin up how could I not consider her equivalent to original person?
There are also a whole bunch of languages for:

- Describing levels in video games, which are primarily data with code mixed in

- Describing transformations of different sorts (e.g. the types of languages used in compilers for specifying a programming language parser, and then optimizations)

- Defining hardware (analogues to Spice, Verilog, and VHDL). Hardware can also include mechanical objects, as well more broadly, wetware (e.g. custom bacteria, a la Ginko Bioworks)

- Run on custom hardware (e.g. SIMD and MIMD platforms, similar to GPGPU)

- Are primarily mathematical (e.g. for describing control systems, neural network architectures, etc.)

... and so on.

Not all of this is a DOD/medical mess. A lot of DSLs are REALLY REALLY FUN.
You are basically eating microwave food when it gets there.

For $200, you might as well go to a restaurant in-person.
I took the BART for a year, unless it was really late, essentially nobody on the train was "scary".

It still smelled like a latrine (once I'm positive someone shit in a fast food bag and left it in the middle of the car sometime before my midday ride). BART wasn't a "last resort option" but an "only resort" if I didn't want to spend $100 a day on parking.

It's not even public transit, my neighborhood is past the point of "safe" especially at certain times of day where I don't want to subject anybody who couldn't beat me in a boxing match to walking around significant distances between sunset and 10am (lots of people getting mugged around 7 or 8 in the morning too).
The Cayman is the best car I've ever driven from a handling perspective. But I ended up getting a 4 seater because of the kids.
Yeah, its my bad for not articulating this in the post. Obviously, any giant product like a modern movie or game is made by teams. I think one hallmark of a great director is the ability to build a great team around you, which is just as important as being passionate and understanding the medium.
The name is Den. Snow Den.
Having less parking has nothing to do with “living in tiny apartments with barely space”. That doesn’t make any sense and those two things aren’t related at all. You can have less parking - like removing giant surface lots and not having mandatory parking minimums and have space. This isn’t an either-or scenario. In fact, it was the default for many places for a long time. In cities that got a start before cars became dominant you’d see tree-lined streets, beautiful large houses (along with smaller homes, townhomes, apartments, shops, and parks) and backyards for fun. In fact, this is still the default in Europe where so many Americans love to vacation to and talk about how great the towns and cities are.

It’s funny because we would literally have more space if cars and their infrastructure took up less of it. So, in a way you’re advocating for cramming people together.

> People should have backyards with enough spacing where they can have solitude from other people.

> People should live far enough apart that you don't hear your neighbors.

I think that sounds just fine. And you can do that in America today. What does that have to do with living in the city or in nearby residential suburbs?
Read the room, Uber. We are in a climate crisis.
This gives me hope that the techbro contrarian letters/essays led by the same 3 people will finally get the opposition they deserve.
While I pretty much agree with the sentiment, there's a bit of information that's missing from this analysis. I attended a high-tuition private high school, but I was far from rich. The only reason I was able to attend is because I got a 100% academic scholarship. A large number of students in that school were there without paying tuition, in fact: there were the academic scholarship kids like me, the athletic scholarship kids, and the kids whose parents worked at the school and therefore got free tuition.

So you can't really just take the tuition of the school they went to as an indication of how much money they had at the time, without looking into things like grants and scholarships.
One Charles de Fleury catalogued pieces of the true cross in the 1800s and found them to sum to 2% of a plausibly sized cross, not the oft-repeated claim that they add up to a large ship, or a nice house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross#Dispersal_of_relics paragraph 6. While perhaps biased, it does seem plausible that a cataloguing of such claimed relics today would add up to a similar total volume.
For all the dwarf fortress fans out there, check out Songs of Syx. It’s still early access, but it captures a lot of the same appeal with a slightly more streamlined interface. All built by one dude as well.
Car Is Tracking You Just as Much as Your Smartphone Is
This post amuses me because of the classic Katz Deli slogan of WWII: “Send a salami to your boy in the army!”
What strikes me looking back at the PC era is how siloed it was and how little information people had in general. DOS, Apple //, Mac, Amiga, Atari, Unix, DEC, mainframes were completely separate worlds and people from one rarely knew much or anything about the others. Every platform had completely different and incompatible file formats, different software, completely different (and very expensive) developer tools, separate magazines, separate user groups, separate BBSes, etc.
> not negatively impacting car owners at all

It would be a socially good will step to instead adequately compensate car owners for their respective losses under legislation -- random eg: Maybe offer to buy their car off them for a lifetime of free bus passes, or whatever makes them not lose while society wins.
I need to leave this shithole.
Transpiling and bundling are two separate things. Removing the need for one of those would have benefits even if the other were still there

That said, I'm not convinced this would actually remove one of them:

- It would mean shipping more code which is a no-no

- It probably won't ever cover the whole of typescript's features, so many people will continue to use that, and will still have to transpile

I'm sure this will help... somebody, but it's going to be a very narrow set of workflows that benefit
From the abstract of the actual study, not the article.

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308
But that goes even deeper into a bit of the weird aspect of collecting. If I have my original 386 laying around, that is mine and is the one I used; if I get another one, even if it is the same make and model, it wasn't mine and so it's basically just a copy.

Part of it, of course, can be the "I couldn't get this when I was young, now I can" which drives up a lot of prices on old Lego sets, but there's more to it than just that, especially when collectors start buying items because they're rare, not because they once had them or wanted them.
I run a lot of unmodified linux binaries on my FreeBSD box. I've not tried any games though, but linux binaries generally 'just work' on FreeBSD.
Evidently, according to the article, the plan is to contract with a drug manufacturer (so, "someone who knows what they are doing"). Since any new generic has to go through trials, I guess the state would put up the money for this.
I recently took up Golang and had a great time building an IRC client. I was never around when IRC was bigger, but I enjoy hanging out on it now. Kinda reminded me of how HAM radio guys must feel about building their own rig.

This book helped a lot: https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/
> How do you know who filled in the ballot at the polling place? All I would need is to show up and know someone else's name and address and I could vote for them

Presumably by some kind of voter identification? Like the way most countries do it.

> The poling place is open on exactly one day, and you have to wait in line for your turn. Have to go to work that day? Well, tough shit. For some people this is simple, but for quite a lot of people in overcrowded polling places and inflexible working conditions it is not. The option of a mail in ballot provides a convenience for people less privileged with the ability to make it to a polling place during a sub-24 hour window.

I guess I don't get it. The polling places open at a ridiculously early hour and end at 8. You could have multi-day polling too, that's fine. I don't understand why this is so hard in this country.

> Notice I said option. If filling out a ballot is difficult for you, you can still do it by showing up in person.

No I can't because I live in Oregon, which despite being a high tax state, is unable to conduct even the most basic election.

> Perfect is the enemy of good.

It's not when we have an easy answer to this problem -- have a physical place to vote. I've voted absentee in California, and one year, my ballot got lost there. Do you know what I did? I went to a polling location. In Oregon, because it was COVID, there was no place to get a ballot. EIther you use the byzantine system set up by the state which was too complicated, or tough shit. That's not acceptable. Why aren't these 'voter suppression' tactics used in liberal states not up to questioning? Why is only the motivations of one party suspect? I don't think it is easier to vote in Oregon than any other state, despite what everyone here wants you to believe.
> No. Why do you?

I mean, i like TypeScript a lot. I think i do find it odd, because i'm used to using languages, that are constructed with a certain feature set.
Obviously Java/ECMA Script evolved a lot more chaotic than most other languages.

Transpiling a superset of a language to its subset introduces indirection, which makes it feel hacky imo.

I feel like, if there is another language feature we want to add in the future, how should that be injected? In form of a superset of TypeScript?

I would be cool with TypeScript as the target language, though.
Here's some anecdata for you... I went to a relatively elite private high school on the east coast. Where I and several other people fixed elections through various methods for clubs and school offices. 2 of 5 people that were in on it now hold public elected office one at the state level and one at the federal level the other three, myself included, do not hold public office.

I believe this behavior is the norm. I grew up around DC and know the types of people that work there and what they're actually like. It's also possible I'm just jaded.

I personally regret doing it and justify it due to peer pressure. 'If so and so is doing it and their uncle is a congressman and their father is an elected judge it must just be how its done.' I'd tell myself.
oh I had a typo in my original comment. I meant *without* a notebook UI. i.e. I don't want to see a cell UI like a notebook. I want it to be just a normal Python file where the output shows up in line.
Mister Shoes?
Wow I was expecting this to be the 463rd distributed computing streaming framework since its Apache. Shocked that its not
For the fun issues you described, read-modify-write (either using optimistic concurrency control or pessimistic) can work, if I understand your question correctly.

Spanner is awesome and one of my favorite systems/papers. I think it would be very computational and power expensive to run the social graph workload on a spanner-like system. Do you have an estimate of how many megawatts (if not more) are needed to support one quadrillion queries a day on Spanner?
I mean, sure. Some places have become urban centers recently and that's fair. But coast to coast, our biggest population centers were all established and built up before car centric planning.

I live in Seattle, for instance, which used to have a network of rails. They've all been torn out and we're just now putting them back.
> I held out for a year or so after VSCode was released. It felt scummy how MS had swooped in and tried to hijack this new category of editor that GitHub had invented (this was before they'd been acquired, I believe)

Depending on what you consider the "category" to be, Sublime Text (2) was well-established for years before Atom came out, with BBEdit and TextMate before it.

Not to mention Kate, Geany, and the various other "lightweight extensible code editors" that have been out there for years and years.
Yes I'm paying a premium for space and location (having recently left mountain view also helped making everything seem very inexpensive), not having a family and wanting to be close to things to do contributes much to this.

However the "was that a gunshot or fireworks" question nearly daily with about a 50:50 distribution is not good for my stress levels or general sanity.
Wow, so many hidden nodes. A majority in fact. I wonder if it's due to Chinese mining?

Looks like the hash rate grew similarly since July last year: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

The "Unknown" category is the largest one, but fortunately it doesn't have majority yet. If it does gain majority, a single actor might control the mining (but hopefully clients warn of this).

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/pools
> I don't know whether Algebra I is above or below what eighth graders can be expected to do

I went to school in Eastern Europe in the eighties. We had algebra (and separately geometry) since 7-th grade. Also physics, chemistry and biology. And it was an ordinary secondary school. Some kids were struggling, also depends on how good/bad the teacher was. But majority was coping with the load alright.
the anti-car case can be made without any reference at all to global warming. designing cities around expecting everyone to own and drive a car is stupid and makes us all poorer and unhealthier. that includes electric vehicles btw.
I suspect the saying comes from a time more in the past when many many false relics would abound. Once the fervor around them died off, any ones deemed fake would disappear from circulation and the total amount would dwindle.
It makes sense when you write it that way, but not in reality. There is a risk/reward to doing this. Part of your premise is that you can know when an election is going to come down to 6 votes. But in fact Meeks vs. Hart was newsworthy because results like that are incredibly rare. 99 times out of 100, if you try to juke the election, you're putting yourself at pretty grave legal risk and accomplishing absolutely nothing.