skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in a possible future overhearing of two aliens discussing us being made out of meat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ we might be able to fib and convince them the meat is made out of carbon dioxide? Universe, here we come!
We had to use nib-based pens until 1st Form, when we were allowed biros. Suddenly my clothes were no longer soaked in ink, my pages were no longer Rorshach inspired artworks.

And my writing, for the first time ever, was legible. This is what killed cursive, it's bloody hard to read.
Meat farming takes in CO2 (photosynthesis), and produces CO2 (cows breathing) and CH4 (cows farting). CH4 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, so, even by your flawed simplified model, farming cows has a net negative greenhouse effect.
Funny, I just re-played the entire Myst series and re-read the books. I keep getting recommended Outer Wilds by everyone, so I think that's next. It seems like it did okay, got some awards.
> ('Assault Rifle' is a term of art

It is, but it actually has two different meanings. There is what you mean by it (the traditional military definition) and then there is “assault rifle”=“rifle which was legally classified as an assault weapon under the 1994-2004 US Federal Assault Weapons Ban”-a civilian AR-15 is (generally) not an “assault rifle” in the first sense, but it is in the second. Now, you can argue the second is an abuse of language - but once a usage becomes supported by US federal law (even if since expired), that becomes an ipso facto legitimate definition, and it would be better to acknowledge people who use that definition as doing so than lecture them that they don’t know what they are talking about (maybe they don’t, but when you don’t acknowledge the different definition of the term which they are actually using, it doesn’t make you sound like you do either)
For business-news-only: https://yup.is (Not OS though)
Define “useless”. Many pure mathematicians wouldn’t call their work useless, but also don’t care about its application to the ‘real’ world. G.H. Hardy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy):

“I have never done anything "useful". No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.”

He also wrote:

“It is never worth a first-class man's time to express a majority opinion. By definition, there are plenty of others to do that.”
Ethereum is mostly mined using custom hardware, it's not graphics cards really, certainly nothing you could re-sell to anybody who expects to play Bioshock or whatever. Very small operations are people buying and using actual consumer GPUs, but they tend to be absolutely destroyed by the process and then sold to unwitting buyers. I've sorted through literal milk crates of GPUs before to find a single one which could reliably display a video output after they had been used in a mining operation.
> A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover.

The ones that were a party to fraud or extreme folly, sure, but competent people generally had the same difficulty finding a new position as anyone else after their company goes under. I knew people at Enron and Lehman that had new jobs within days and weeks of the blowup. It isn't a big deal and no reasonable person is going to hold normal employees responsible for the blowups of executives or tides of the market. Especially when useful developers are in extreme demand.

> but quite a few people will think this very hard in their head.

Not having to work with people who think this about potential colleagues is a blessing in itself.
Good. The world definitely does not need more wasteful bitcoin mining.
> However, the constant backlash from the public is nagging me.

There isn't a constant backlash from the public - most people don't care, the ones that like it buy and the ones that don't write grumpy blog posts about it. The people who do care have split into the aye and nay camps and are arguing the situation out. The usual anti-capitalist types will hate it, but they hate everything financial.

Although any specific crypto is probably a mad idea that will eventually go bust, it is pretty clear at this point that the industry as a whole is here to stay. It has been more than a decade now, it is hard to come up with a scenario where all the money goes away.
> This has happened so many times, that it's not really news.

Did it, though?

Coindesk shows BTC right now trading at 18100$, way down from it's 2-month peak of 32k and year-peak of 66k.

This means that in less than a year BTC tanked to 27% of its peak year value, and it's tanking even further.

When was the last time you saw BTC lose 48k in value?
> crypto suffers an old fashioned bank run

Any half decent exchange in a western country that holds them to account has over 100% of customer assets, they don't get special rules like banks who only need a few % of customer deposits.

Bank runs aren't really possible unless there is corporate fraud happening.
Hamming gave a this talk again in 1995 and it was recorded!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw&t=134s
I’ve experienced a lot of people recommending and learning a trendy technology to get it on their resume, and then leaving a mess behind when it gets them a new job. Leadership can’t fully abdicate the decision.
Point telescope x point browser: this one was funny :-)
What is the situation where people are being paid to sustainably consume power? Genuinely curious - seems like a ripe arb situation so I’m curious why it isn’t being taken advantage of.
updated the post. I ran the benches that were mentioned here[1] and here[2].

[1]: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#benchmarks
[2]: https://github.com/ohsayan/sky-benches
Similar - wanted to see how much ram gron would need for a particular file and needed much more than the 16GB or 32GB available at home. Quick and easy to spin up a 192GB EC2 to verify it needed ~95GB all told. No way I could have done that without something like AWS.
You remind me of the legions of people on the internet who think they have understood or discovered something due to dubious interpretation of relationships which are non-causal, especially among application of self care or care of others.

I have a colleague who hands out TCM 'remedies' every day, she and her patients all believe they work, in the medical sense, in a very rational way.

Even though 'Western Medicine' has a pretty good foundation, it's layered in complexity and ambiguity.

So if someone had some recurrent, acute issue, that was solved with some diet or action change that was discernibly impactful - maybe. That would be worthy of note.

For example: "I had chronic fatigue - mostly we changed my diet to low carbs, no alcohol, regular sleeping and basic cardio + vitamin D due to deficiency and within a few months it was gone". That rings reasonable.

But 'these are 10 things that worked' raises many red flags.

I've had CFS myself - and ran the gambit of different angles of attack on it, and it's a tricky set of symptoms that doesn't even represent a verifiable ailment: CFS, lethargy etc. is the result of a bunch of different things which we do not even fully understand.

More important note what I just said: 'symptoms' not an 'underlying condition'. There are multiple things that cause them. Even the notion of treating 'symptoms' before arriving at a proper diagnosis is a pretty giant red flag.

Some of symptoms described could feasibly be the result of forms of ulcers, cancer, HIV, iron deficiency, kidney problems, liver problems, adrenal gland problems, gluten intolerance etc. etc..

So no - we don't just go to 'Probiotics and Vitamin D' - necessarily.

Personally - getting rid of energy drinks and sleeping a regular schedule 'cured' me but it's rather impossible to tell what did what. But merely seeking medical advice, and knowing it was not 'something serious' (like Cancer) was a huge load off my shoulders, which can affect recovery dramatically. In fact, I literally started feeling better the day I knew I wasn't dying. But that's just me.

If someone is feeling tired consistently and it's clearly not due to some obvious event or issue - then they should !! see a doctor !! and go from there.
I personally like the single button mouse. It is the only mouse I got so far that on MacOS let me scroll webpages up and down, left and right without any effort.

I really like that the almost the whole surface is active and have gestures.

I agree that for video games not having dedicated buttons is not ok. I dont play those so for me this is the perfect mouse.

Being using them from the first generation I think 2010-2011 and it is hard for me to go back to normal mouse.
I sort of wish Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook all contribute $200K each and say hey can you now make Mold MIT or BSD.
If you worked for Amazon, Facebook, Google, or a similar social media / adtech company, I think you’d be doing more real damage to society. The only difference is that these organizations have a better PR department.

Crypto has pluses and minuses and you should determine whether it’s a technology you believe in or not. I think basing your opinion of it on “the public” or (notoriously uninformed about crypto) HN opinion is just a bit mentally weak. Either believe in what you’re doing, or do something else. But don’t base your feelings on what the mob thinks.
> When you can hire someone on the cheap, it becomes a skills market. You get what you pay for.

You lost the plot in your defense. If skills are equal, and the Mexican can ask for less salary _and enjoy the same quality of life and purchasing power_ (due to the cost of living in their native country) as a 200k/year American dev it isn’t a skills market. It is very much a cost savings market.

And I am sorry but don’t delude yourself, that dev in Mexico or Colombia is just as talented as state-side devs. Couple their talent with the reality that you don’t even need to be a savant to build a SaaS app in JS and you will see that the privilege enjoyed by software engineers in the USA is on life support.
> Plenty of us do. The fact that we're not running the world is a detail.

I think that "we're not running the world" was the GP's point. It _is_ an important detail in the context of the President saying these words, to remember that he is not one of us who do really engage in this type of thinking.
Bitcoin miners used specialised mining hardware that isn’t useful for anything but mining bitcoin.

And best of all, it becomes completely obsolete at around 6 months when better specialised hardware comes out. So the only thing the miners can do is stop and throw their hardware in the dump.
There is also a new generation of platform that runs on top of Kubernetes that are emerging. Like Qovery
yup this is what we do at my work. There is data and then all business logic / asynchronous processing is done using serverless functions. Ends up being really cost effective and it can scale well. All the data exists (and setup with replication) so you can always migrate ur app to some other platform or architecture if need be.

we have CI/CD pipeline that builds and deploys serverless functions using serverless containers.

not a serverless enthusiast btw. microservices have their own set of issues but they can be the right fit for certain apps.
Well aware of the conspicuous minority that comprise that (stereo)type, but you can levy similar charges against any knowledge job from engineering to academia to the priesthood and I highly doubt those sorts of people are more highly represented in art than most other professions.
Yeah I said no to Google & Facebook a long time ago.
When I saw bitcoin tank from 1000 to 500, it's all a matter of scale.
I guess you've never met a competent generalist, then, which is funny because that's exactly who you need as your first employee.
> The issue of whether or not to use Go instead of Rust seems inevitable in any organization.

This assumes Go is even evaluated as an option, let alone Rust. There are many programming languages any organisation can pick from. The right choice is usually "the language most programmers are most productive in".

I don't think "let's teach an entire team this novel programming language" is something you'll see in many companies. It makes sense for new companies, startups, and divisions, I suppose. A company with 200 employees is hardly still a startup, though, that's just a regular old company, even if it relies solely on new investors not to go bankrupt.
Things That Make Your Investors Lose Confidence
Don’t worry about what the public thinks. Does your work align with your values? Do you feel it’s ethical and doesn’t take advantage of people?

The public morality once thought it was unethical to help humans escape slavery. It is not a good barometer, especially when the tide against crypto has turned strictly because it stopped making speculators and scammers cash.
It's not really serious unless transaction fees need to spike massively to compensate, otherwise like others noted, difficulty adjustments will handle to problem just fine.
Most pyramid schemes do not require massive amounts of energy.
Would anyone like to explain their downvotes?

From my point of view, even when someone is on the correct 'side' of an argument, if they got there by mistake it's still important to point that out. Both fortran77 and CoastalCoder can be wrong at the same time.

Is "I think you misread that line" far ruder than I thought it was?

...surely "I doubt my mom knows" wasn't supposed to be a developer anecdote that I misunderstood massively?
Can you please share the link about how it helps in inner loop? Sorry, I never heard of these tools and google is not returning any useful results
Apparently not professional enough to know a feature as old as Windows 2000.
Do you doubt that it’s most, or doubt that it’s many/any?
There is a point here that even the twitter poster is missing.
This machine is imitating a human better than a human itself, and we now have statistics to prove it.

The question is... if statistically it's better at appearing human than a human itself, than is this machine really just a language generator? Or is it something more?

I'm not saying these things are sentient. But the AI has risen to the point where this question is becoming ask-able. We are at the border here. If we can't ask this question now, then we are really damn close.

A lot of pretentious people on HN claim absolutely that our best chat bot technology is clearly not sentient. It reminds me of the beginning of the COVID pandemic when the CDC said masks were ineffective and you had a bunch of know-it-alls and armchair experts just repeating that BS over and over again as if they knew what they were talking about.

I think if these pretentious people were actually intelligent they would know that we actually do not HAVE enough information to make a claim in EITHER direction. We can't know if it's actually sentient or not.

That fact in itself is both interesting and compelling

4 or 5 years ago chatbots COULD not imitate humans and were CLEARLY fake. What we're seeing unfold before our eyes is a first.

We're not even sure what sentience is. But we do know that humans are sentient. And we don't know if whatever is going on inside of these chatbots is comparable with what's going on inside human brains.

Thus when given a chatbot that imitates humans perfectly, it's actually impossible to know if it's sentient.
a genuine Brexit benefit
Finding the right problem to work on is probably the most difficult part. Renaming problems in most fields are either too difficult or too boring.
> Windows’ file I/O and process launching is so slow.

It's not Windows' fault, rather it's NTFS.
Yeah, because the software developed for 80% of the desktop market appears out of thin air, no developers required.
At $0.07/MB, your talking over $70K to transfer a TB. Am I missing something here? Because I'd say $70k is quite a bit more than "a couple of dollars" the GP mentions. (No, I dont deal with cloud pricing at all, so I'm a little perplexed here)
What was the price?
Note: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=12...
Richard Hamming would often give this lecture when he traveled to another university. I was in grad school in 1979 when he showed up to give this talk at the University of Illinois (his alma mater). He chose to give his talk in a lounge rather than a formal lecture room, and it was remarkable because he not only spoke but he listened intently to the students. I remember asking him whey he had settled in Monterey California, and he said he had traveled all over the earth but decided there was no place prettier than Monterey. He was wonderfully warm and insightful.
macOS will allow access to single files to software without any permissions if the action to open the file was deliberately done by the user (e.g. the file was selected in an OS open file dialog, the file was double-clicked, or dragged onto the app icon, etc). The app gets a runtime-limited lock on that one file and still can't willy-nilly list or read other files.

IIRC this is also the only run-mode for sandboxed App Store apps, where all file opens must be user-initiated (and some utility apps work around this by asking you to open the disk root manually)
If you watch while cooking or cleaning, then your "I don't have a time" is still quite true and non-puzzling. You are doing work that needs to be done, just in slightly more pleasant way.
I'm just really glad not to work in a company under these delusions
They use graphics cards.
It's possible that, like Eliza, Lamda is borrowing the author's style while talking about a niche topic.
> When was the last time you saw BTC lose 48k in value?

Not using proportions is pure sensationalist nonsense. >50% drawdowns have happened several times in Bitcoin. So tell us again how this time is different.
What about if you need rolling deployments?
When you have nothing to contribute, say nothing.
The point of an Emacs OS is not much in GUIs terms, and partially in workflow terms, the real point is: a damn unique OS witch means a single application, framework, where anything is just a piece of code in an integrated environment so you can see and change anything as you wish, or the classic idea of an OS vs the Unix and successors idea of an OS like a base-layer, apps as single small worlds etc.

Emacs OS main point, classic systems main point is: the environment must be a single desktop where anything is integrated because users have a single mind where anything is integrated...

Emacs itself suffer from a 50+ years old codebase and a development still alive but definitely far from the fast of the Lisp golden age, so it's normal that you have spotted issues here and there that demand too much effort to be sorted out, but the principle is the evolutionary key IMVHO we need in IT...

Unix violates it's own integration principles introducing GUIs where there are no unix IPCs behind cut/copy/paste and (pre-unix or) more recently drag&drop, that's why we keep using unix CLIs in 2022. Emacs offer a 2D/GUI unix CLI with "far better IPCs". That's the essence :-)
Floyd?
Whoops, yes! Evening responses are not my most alert time!
It could be a server running on the local machine serving only requests that come from 127.0.0.1. Then from a user's point of view it is not much different from a "desktop application". You start it up locally and connect to it with a browser running locally.
Almost as if redundant colo servers on VRRP or CARP costs less like damn
Bitcoin mining hasn’t been done on gpus in a decade.
What's wrong with the current agpl license, especially for a linker?
“Due to politics” is doing a lot of work in that statement.
This master's thesis sort of does it for individual layers, but it doesn't have any fine-tuning yet so it completely wrecks the accuracy: https://github.com/joennlae/halutmatmul.

If someone worked on contributing this functionality to Composer [1] I'd be down to help out. I can't justify building it all on my own right now since we're 100% focused on training speedup, but I could definitely meet and talk through it, help code tricky parts, review PRs, etc.

[1] https://github.com/mosaicml/composer
Yeah, sounds easy enough, but people keep dying in the Outback when they get lost or their vehicle breaks down or gets stuck.

Bit like Death Valley I suppose.
Forgot to add: also about aesthetics. I'm a minimalist guy who loved simplicity (hence loved Ive'd designs). Less ports and possible slightly thinner chassis as a result of it is something I'd have preferred even if there was no price difference.
Here’s what I don’t understand. I’m genuinely looking for an explanation for this.

Let’s assume everything works great for BTC. BTC is designed to eventually max out the number of coins. I believe the current expectation is that no more coins will be issued by 2040.

What happens after that? If no more coins are issued, there’s no incentive to mine. And if there is no more mining then there will be no more transactions.

Will the BTC blockchain just freeze at that point? If so why will it have any value any more?

I’m not sure what the ideal expectations are beyond this scenario.
There is a nutritional cure for schizophrenia discovered by Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD. (Niacin and other nutrients..) Start reading here:

http://doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

and here:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_anecdote.html

And also see references and recommended books (some available entirely free, posted online) and additional articles, etc.

Glad you are in remission. The above information may help you stay in remission, and the plus is you can learn about it and do it yourself. All with inexpensive vitamins and other nutrients.

Most psychiatrists don't know (and don't want to know) about this. I understand your reluctance to see a doctor. Maybe you were smart to stay away from them.

As for work, you might give contracting a try for a while instead of seeking direct employment..

Best of luck to you!
I recently was in the same position. Went from curious to skeptical to disgusted by the whole crypto/web3 space.

The turning point was seeing my name on the company website, I was embarrassed for myself. Was an easy decision to quit.
People using flair gas from oil wells for example to power a generator. The alternative is just burning the gas.
The difficulty adjustment is deliberately slow (once every 2016 blocks) to prevent volatility in block hardness. That the hash rate is not dropping off a cliff over the last 6 months is testament to that.

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/difficulty
Have you done any presentations at the big companies yet?
There are still transaction fees to encourage mining.

If you are interested in more detail, the original bitcoin paper goes in detail and is decently well written and much more straight forward to read then most people probably expect.
I've never seen or heard of a study of the mechanics of ballpoint pen manipulation. However, I have seen a considerable amount of handwritten correspondence from the early to mid-20th century. With the general change from fountain pens to ballpoints, there was a significant change in letter forms, particularly among female writers. The newer style is marked a reduction in straight vertical lines, a general trend to circular motions, and a slower advance along the line. This seems not surprising when you consider that quill/dip/fountain pen movement is more with the arm, while ballpoint movement is more with the fingers. So...it seems that a new form of cursive has already (informally) evolved to a degree.
Apple is worse in that regard. Is XCode open-source? Other than Darwin Kernel, is any part of macOS open-source? Did Apple even try to make Swift cross-platform? Is iCloud really comparable to OneDrive? How about Apple's locked and closed-source bootloaders?