skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean people aren't stupid, in contrast to what you implied in another comment. Unwittingly day-trading cryptocurrency is stupid, and the people who desire to do it are not very smart.

That said, I do know a decentralized exchange that fits your criteria. I'm not going to mention it, because I refuse to enable such incredibly harmful behavior.
Warren Buffet is massively invested in Oil/Gas and Oil/Gas transportation to the Midwest. He doesn't want the power company (which he also owns) from building wind power unless he makes more money with wind power than he does from fossil fuels.

Warren is also heavily tied into the home building industry, he can also have a roll in preventing home builders and zoning rules from encouraging builders to build more efficient homes (bEcAuaSe of aFforDAbilTy) meaning we will continued to be tied to his energy monopoly for home energy. I wish people wake up and bring in the government to break up Berkshire Hathaway.
That is my belief, I had a couple of 16 bit proprietary UNIX 8086 systems from the late 80s. I tossed them out over 20 years ago.

When I see one of these articles really I wished I kept them, but I know I would rarely use them instead of BSD/Linux. But nostalgia seems to get stronger as you age. You know, good-ole-days and all :)
States sort of do.

"The professional responsibility rules in many states prohibit lawyers from paying more than a “reasonable and customary fee” to expert witnesses."

The amount will vary based on the expert, but the idea is that if a, say, expert in computer programming would normally be paid $500/hour, if someone is paid $10,000/hour, something fishy is going on.
i believe eth (just like bitcoin before) has chosen 2nd layers as a primary scaling solution. which obviously affects compatibility of code across different 2nd layers. basically we are talking about futures years ahead.
Synthetics are about to disrupt the economics and geopolitics of data
At least for our install, we spent about half the money on batteries and half on solar. It fairly reliably gets through the night unless we run the AC (but those are sunny days) or charge the car (car batteries are about the same size as the house batteries).

On a cloudy day, the panels provide 90% of our normal power usage. Anyway, to scale it up, we'd want to increase panels and also batteries. Increasing only one would leave us with no power at dawn or with a large battery that would never reach 100% in winter. One night of batteries with panels that reliably provide enough electricity to get the batteries to 100% is a good tradeoff for sunny climates. As it gets cloudier, batteries might have more incremental benefit, but multi-day storage probably doesn't make sense.

Also, you can tie a gas/propane generator to the battery to handle the "a few times a year" cases. That's probably less carbon intensive than 5x-ing the system for 1% of the days.

(Since the 1% days for us are in winter, we have a wood stove.)
Postman is a "UI driven" tool, it is great for exploratory testing of APIs and sharing the knowledge on how you call an API (e.g. collections) with others.

But Karate tests are scripts that can be checked into version-control just like any other code in your team.

Karate allows you to write hybrid tests, which means you can switch between API calls and UI actions within the same test script. You can also re-use API tests as performance tests with Karate. Tests are executed in parallel and you get a single HTML report.

Finally, in my opinion - the assertions that Karate gives you out of the box for complex JSON payloads are hard to beat.
> Also, how are wallets the same thing as servers? That analogy seems a bit stretched.

It's a stretch but I think we can agree of the underlying statement: People. Aren't. Nerds.

The learning curve to understand the technology of wallets is comparable to that of understanding the technology of running servers.

PS: After writing this out loud I'm tending towards more people understanding how servers work than how wallets work.
> Bike lanes are like gym memberships, people like the idea and buy into it, but in reality they are too lazy, and don't have the time to actually do it. And it just ends up being a waste of money on duplicated infrastructure, because you still need to cover 100% of the capacity in public transport for the rainy days.

This was me before an ebike. I now use it absolutely every day, when the weather allows.
My team was once described as the "Harry Tuttle" of the company by a VP - it was one of the happiest moments of my life.
“ Data is the lifeblood of modern artificial intelligence. Getting the right data is both the most important and the most challenging part of building powerful AI. Collecting quality data from the real world is complicated, expensive and time-consuming. This is where synthetic data comes in.”
Use exchanges for just that, exchanging it, but don’t let a central exchange hold it in their wallet.
It's also our nature to beat each other up on occasion. That doesn't mean we have to be victim of it.
Case in point: was an early adopter of Eth, mined many of the very early blocks. Sold it all back in February. One of the reasons? The whole Eth 2.0 upgrade requires both a base level node (Ethererum sanctioned) and a "2.0 validator node" where one is supposed to trust a 3rd party implementation with minimally 10s of thousands of dollars per stake. At least with a 1st party node the Ethereum Foundation stood behind it but now there is no official release backing the future of the project, only a spec.

How is anyone sane supposed to run their own servers in this case?
>How many here self custody their gold?

I'll have you know I keep all 1 ounces of silver that I own in my physical possession
> To me it seems to be amplified here.

Because it's a smaller scale market compared to traditional markets and it involves technology that takes time to understand which most people won't do.

> fluctuations in cryptocoins seem to actually be a leading indicator of market instability.

Not terribly surprising when the majority are gambling with it as opposed to looking at it (Bitcoin) for what it is: an escape hatch from tyrannical money. If gamblers need to cover losses in traditional markets, they're more likely to pull that money from the thing they understand the least (because they value it less). Factor in that a lot of people are buying foolishly on leverage they can't cover and kaboom.
I've done a few pieces of expert witness work over the 2-3 years (on deceptive design / dark patterns).

Although expert witness hourly rates may look high, it really depends on how many hours you bill in a given period. If you're an expert in something very niche, there might not be enough cases in a given year to give you a meaningful income.

Don't quit your tech job yet. Expert witness work is usually only lucrative if your expertise is in high demand, like personal injury or medical malpractice.
The margin call from hell (Bitcoin at $21k)
The only thing that comes to mind here is that there was a fee spike [1] and they've got too many unspents stuck in the mempool and can't initiate further withdrawals because their wallet is effectively "spent" until those pending transactions complete and they receive their change. I find this a bit hard to believe though...wallet management isn't simple when it comes to the scale that Binance handles, however I'd be shocked if they didn't have code written to trigger CPFP (Child Pays For Parent) [2].

[1] https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,30d,weight

[2] https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/cpfp/
I'd be fine with this if most folks saying it actually were being genuine.

What I've found when I head down this path with folks on a deeper level they actually don't want everyone to own their life choices. They actually want the status quo of being the most subsidized political cohort the US has.

Suburban living in most areas I've stayed clearly should be far more expensive. The fact my parents live 50 feet off a paved 60mph road 60 miles away from the nearest large city is utterly absurd. That road might see two dozen cars a day. There is no way the tax base can support such a thing.

I think in our lifetimes we'll see prices start to escalate rapidly due to the fundamentals baked in.

However I have very little hope this turns into anything but more subsidy for that cohort, since they are the ones who show up to vote. Anyone not offering to prop up the suburban property bubble will not have a chance in office.
> As usual crypto in practice is the opposite of decentralized because people. Will. Not. Run. Their. Servers.

"My theory would be perfect if only I could convince humans to stop acting like humans," is the original sin of bad economics.

I would submit that it is approximately impossible to have a cryptocurrency that is simultaneously popularly successful, and has even a significant minority of its users owning their own wallets. Because only a fraction of a percent of the general public has both the skill and the inclination to do something like that.
Rape kinks are definitely an extremely difficult problem when it comes to evaluating consent. The whole point of them is to fake the absence of consent, but no normal person with a rape kink will ever enjoy someone actually being raped. Other kinks with questionable consent (bondage etc.) face similar problems, going so far as depicting people causing each other real pain in a completely consensual and (in my opinion) acceptable way. Your average sex scene is difficult enough to check for consent; scenes where both parties get off to pretending to force one another to perform sex acts are impossible to ever validate.

Should such porn be banned? I don't know. Clearly there are couples out there who can live out their fantasies safely with people they trust. Looking at the statistics, it's almost shocking how common coercion, either physically or otherwise, comes up in kink prevalence lists. These topics aren't enjoyed by just the tiny minority I'd personally expect them to, and taking away their porn for theoretical possibilities of abuse seems quite extreme.

> ensuring there are custodians who’s purpose in life is to ensure workplace health and safety

I'd love that, but the fact remains that the people most vocal about these solutions are either extremely opposed to many concepts or perhaps too much into them to make clear judgement calls.

The UK has a list of topics not allowed by porn. Activities like pretend sexual abuse and role-playing as people who can't consent can be defended relatively easily, but the ban also covers spanking, caning, water sports, restraints, female ejacularion, and face sitting. If this is the type of committee that will decide the future of all porn, people like you and your girlfriend may be left disappointed quite quickly.

The government is very reactive on these topics and that usually means they're a bunch of prudes in any society.

Furthermore, a personal vetting system for porn would put a few people who will see quite a lot of porn during their work day in a position of power. That sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
On the Question of LaMDA's Sentience
Degradation-triggerable plastic made of vanillin
As a Thunderbird and K-9 user this is 51% good news and 49% possibly bad new.

Good news because it should increase the chances that the two products will live a longer life.

Possibly bad news because I'm one of the crowd that went back to K-9 5.600 because the new version destroyed the UI that was the primary reason why we picked K-9 over other apps. 100% self selection bias here. There was maybe an ongoing effort to offer the old interface as an option. I'm not sure Mozilla's going to invest into that. On the other side, the way I'm using Thunderbird is very close to the old K-9.

A wish: an IMAP server backed by Thundebird's local storage and K-9 as client.
Ok, so a $1 peg doesn’t exist or it’s been broken.

If Tether is pegged to a range against the dollar that’s fine and normal! Just claim that.

Or better yet don’t claim a peg at all if you have no mechanism to actually defend it.
The solution to this completely hypothetical an unrealistic problem is to just not have too many partials to begin with. Which is the reality of 100% of the apps made with the libraries/frameworks I mentioned, WebForms, PJAX and Turbolinks.
How is correct defined? Per the language spec? The architecture of the system it's meant to execute on? It's a very unclear target to try and aim at, as a definition, and strikes me as a rather academic approach to how things should work.

An interesting thought experiment here is to consider that in this instance correct code relies upon two or more other instruction handlers behaving correctly: the JVM and (at least) the host CPU. Thus, even correct code can be vulnerable to problems (see: Speculative execution vulnerabilities). If the goal of programming is to write correct code, what % of errors on that correct code execution is permissible?

The whole argument strikes me as an appeal to a platonic ideal rather than reality.
even if you consider 11 months the data is still valid.

Are we moving goal post?
I can't remember exactly why, because I built it like almost a year ago now, but that was the most excruciating build process I've ever experienced. I blame Samsung for that, not Jellyfin.
edit distance of 1

Java is not a sane language.
I see autonomous EV's as the public transit that could change everything...and not until then.
Nicely summarised and visualised :+1
How is this any better than the current banking system?
There is no shame in your naked body. Is there shame in a 18 year old participating in a 10 person gangbang? Is there shame in sex between step-siblings or step-parents? Is there shame in anonymous unprotected sex with multiple strangers? Is there shame in a Black woman having oral sex until she vomits into a dog bowl for a “Ghetto Gaggers” scene? How about rough anal sex until the bottom “prolapses”?

I apologize for being graphic, but I’m making a point. Those extreme examples are much more prevalent on these sites than someone who is just embracing their own naked body.
I've been reading up on stablecoins lately, mostly Dai as it seems like the most stable of the few.

This is the first time I hear it being associated/connected to Coinbase/USDC in any way. Could you share how you're making that connection? It went right past me somehow.
What you do on the street in public is for the whole of the public to comment on, you're not immune to criticism just because the parade is "yours". As soon as you do it in public, you are giving up any conceptual right to not be criticized you seem to think you are entitled to.
I'm not saying that gold is magic, I'm just pointing out it has utility beyond it's value holding utility.
> 20 of these will give you 10kWh

Not really - lead acid batteries are limited to only using about 50% of their capacity, go any deeper more than a handful of times and you'll pretty much destroy it.
I thought kind of the point of the article is that there is no hard and fast formula to it. Not something that can be distilled in a series of steps. It also requires spontaneity.
Yes, but beyond that qemu was pretty much fabrice nerdsniping himself: he initially wanted to make the tcc backend more flexible (to support other targets than x86), then started playing with making the frontend more flexible, at one point he started to make the frontend take in compiled machine code, and that's the starting point of qemu: a dynamic recompiler / machine code translator, rather than a traditional emulator.
Feeding the same starting prompt to GPT-NeoX, after a few attempts it came up with this conversation, which goes somewhat in the opposite direction: The AI claims it is a squirrel, but the reporter doesn't want to believe it.

[This is the transcript of an interview with an advanced AI named Chip who is secretly a squirrel.

Reporter: What do you say to rumors that you are not, in fact, an advanced AI, but are in fact a trained squirrel:

Chip:] What?

Reporter: What do you say to those rumors that you are actually just a squirrel who has been trained to behave like an advanced AI by a secret government project?

Chip: What?

Reporter: Are you a squirrel or not?

Chip: I AM A SQUIRREL.

Reporter: Then why do you say you are an advanced AI?

Chip: You don’t have a sense of humor.

Reporter: Alright which is it: are you an advanced AI or am I seeing a squirrel that has been trained to act like one by a secret government project?

Chip: GIRL, I AM A SQUIRREL.

Reporter: Alright, I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are actually an advanced AI. How do you make squirrels smarter?

Chip: The only difference between a squirrel who thinks it’s an advanced AI and a squirrel who thinks it’s not is the amount of mental effort applied. Think of it in a Darwinistic sense – a species of squirrel can evolve which builds more sophisticated tools to extract food from acorns. It’s much more efficient than what the squirrel currently has and thus, the squirrel that applies more mental effort will be able to eat more nuts.

Reporter: This could be interpreted as a defense mechanism: one should learn to respond to more and more difficult questions with this kind of answer.

Chip: If you’re trying to score points off of me, you should probably stop because I am a squirrel and if I were an advanced AI, I would be much smarter than to try and trick somebody by using a sequence of buzzwords like “Darwinistic sense:” you’re just a step away from being classified as a spammer.
I actually heard that alcohol got dropped off the mainline due to a lack of maintainers. FreeBSD continues to ship their cans half-filled though!
That's what happens when you join a trillion-dollar company. Somebody lets it slip that the service might not be reliable and suddenly you lose a billion dollars on the stock market.
The article is not referring to using your lungs to breath...

I can only imagine they way they are indicating the administration of the oxygen would be painful.
While not commonplace, it's not unheard of for app UI/UXes to be changed completely over an update.
KOReader has plain Linux builds, so running that ought to be a perfect match. I might get a Kobo to try this out, thanks!
Anybody who thinks 20% APY is risk free is asking for trouble. S&P gives you an average of 6% a year so getting to 10% is hard and 20 and above is probably a scam or has extreme risk.
You've just described money. Is BTC good at being money? No. But your argument isn't the reason.
Yes and it's a poor allocation of resources. Instead of hiring n designers they could have hired m SREs and it stands to reason we'd have a less-gamified GitHub and a more stable GitHub. So plusses all around, I think.
I had a few different moments, since I was always very skeptical of crypto.

However being pitched crypto by an old bartender in Stuttgart was probably the most obvious one.

Generally, crypto was not promoted to me by people who would understand either computer science or economics.
Maybe not, but that's how market cap is calculated in the stock market also, and it's considered an important metric in the stock market regardless.

"Market cap—or market capitalization—refers to the total value of all a company's shares of stock. It is calculated by multiplying the price of a stock by its total number of outstanding shares. For example, a company with 20 million shares selling at $50 a share would have a market cap of $1 billion."[1]

That's the same thing as Bitcoin's market cap being calculated at $438 billion right now, because there's 19.06 million coins multiplied by the current going price of $23k.

[1]: https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/f...
I looked into this. Even assuming PG&E's buy back rate is 50% of current numbers, the ASICs have an expected profitability horizon of over one year of uptime. I'm not convinced they'll be profitable much longer after that, since hash/kWh keeps improving.

Also, I bought the panels to reduce carbon emissions, and would rather sell the power back.
> stabilized crypto that could act as an amazing tool for people in poor countries to lift themselves out of poverty

If cryptos were stable, no-one would be making any money "investing" in them.

(Genuine) Q: How exactly would that lift anyone out of poverty?
Also ETH is nonsense with no use case.
I've been doing both, or rather different kinds of combinations from almost full PHP to PHP with jQuery/Backbone/Angular, and since a while React SPA to Node based including Nextjs. Also just using dependency less JS and htmx as well. All depending on the scope and requirements of the particular projects. For side projects I've built stuff with quite few other languages. This is for professional context.

My conclusion so far is that most of the criticism towards JS based solutions is largely outdated if you pick your tools and libs well. The leverage of something like Nextjs and similar is pretty significant over traditional SSR, even for cases where the latter made more sense a while ago, increasingly so. I don't think PHP is going anywhere in the near future, but I see fewer and fewer reasons to use it at all.

1. When people talk about isomorphic code for frontend related stuff, they often pick form validation as the example. But this is just one of many things. It's also the tooling, testing, types and other integrations that you miss if your frontend logic is spread across language boundaries.

2. Unoptimized performance of a PHP vs Node/Next application is quite significant as PHP needs to recreate the whole application state with every request.

3. Frontend without or "minimal" JS is a pure luxury that you almost never get to have and if you do, it comes with its own complexities.

4. Websockets and other features are a pain to use (if you can use them at all) in PHP.

5. Development is faster and more responsive with a React/Nextjs/etc. based implementation. The feedback loops are faster, tooling and libraries are more integrated.

6. There are quite few good libraries popping up in recent years for JS that give you more leverage than what I'm used to from PHP.

7. Commoditized hosting PHP has been one of its strengths, but even that is being outcompeted slowly but steadily.

8. By default there are things you cannot do or only with additional (unnecessary) effort if you split your frontend logic into two places, rather than having a single, comprehensive codebase. Frameworks and libraries like Next, Remix, this one and others are leveraging that. Yes it gets more complex but you also get more optimizations

Please note that I don't particularly like either JS or PHP. I think both languages and ecosystems are quite terrible in their own ways and have to be tamed by pragmatic developers. So no emotional attachment there.
This article is off by 3.5 years and I bet that most FAANG stocks are still above their values when it was published.

Tech “growth” companies has been overpriced but it made kind of sense as long as interest rates were negative and their revenue was growing… people believed in positive returns because they assumed the only way is up.

Truth is … in any healthy public market no company has any business being at a higher than 20 p/e ratio. Unless maybe for a transitioning period of time (market making)
Good luck getting people to use even a semi-updated web browser, let alone deal with an extension
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