skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is proof of work being used?

Not for all blockchains. If that is the point of contention in regards to crypto, then just look at the many other blockchains that do not use PoW.
Security guard Frank Wills discovered Watergate break-in
It's as if you deny there is any such thing as reindeer because you heard "bat shit crazy" people tell you a story about about a man in a red suit living at the north pole.

Don't conflate an entire socio-economic class with a conspiratorial cabal.
Most Times I can't bring myself to get into a cold shower. If I start warm I can cool down from there. Is there a way to start cold and go even colder?
What do we owe former lab chimps?
By contrast, digital work is almost never finished. Everything keeps changing, everything breaks and needs fixing, there's always one more revision or update... we have truly created a diabolical machine to enslave ourselves to.

You're talking about telic (finite) vs atelic (infinite) activities. Life needs a balance in the matrix of [painful/pleasurable + telic/atelic].

Ultimately the atelic stuff that we naturally find pleasurable is where we want to spend a lot of our time, but life doesn't work that way. And it sounds like you're heavily skewed to the painful side of atelic work.

I personally enjoy that I can come back to my favorite SW projects and never run out of new ways to play with + improve them. Plus if you limit your time vs binge until overfilled/overworked, it creates a sense of looking forward to the activity later that is motivating. It's a matter of perspective really.
StrangeLoop talk: "Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings
I don't think of an especially workable way, but an inflation-linked multi-year price-per-weight history for the product on the price label?

I'm sure it would be instantly worked around because shrinkflators are already busily playing sneaky tricks. Probably they'd just slap "great new taste" on it every year and pretend it's a new product.

Package sizes were regulated in the EU starting in the 70s, presumably for this reason, but they've been deregulated in the last decade (other than alcohol).
Strong disagree.

It regularly moves wildly faster than any other commonly traded asset. There is no possible way that any margin requirement could cover it, because no-one is going to stake 90% down for 10% margin, which is what you'd need to guarantee against a crash - especially if you're putting up USD for collateral.
I removed 'at one locus' before 'in rice' due to the characters limit. That aside, this is interesting since with th climate change upon us, we need better crops that can withstand higher temperature. The discovery might help us engineered them.
> The security model seems to be "terrible UX defaults that you turn to unsafe defaults instead."

Except practically nothing in git is unsafe, it's like Plan9's Venti in the sense that you can only add content to it. You never lose data, but you can easily lose your bearings.

I presume a major reason why there's not much effort put into UX guard rails preventing losing one's bearings in the day-to-day work is a product of the fundamental fact that the underlying committed data is always there. People just need to at least familiarize themselves with `git reflog` to help lose the anxiety.
Why? You're ASSUMING such an alien civilization's goals would be in line with countless strategy games.

What if millions of years of advancement wound up leading to very, very different goals for colonization than what we're used to based on pretty much nothing else other than fairly recent (by comparison) human history?

What if, for example, if you're a civilization that's been around for millions of years, your goals are no longer to "extract base resources" like in "Starcraft" ... but rather to play a sort of "Sims" game where you guide the development of life on various planets and "extract" research data – or simply sit back and enjoy the show?

Or what if they have an advanced Ai they're testing and want to see if life on colonized planets turned out like the Ai said it would, and if so – to what extent?

In that case, the "resource to be extracted" wouldn't be physical as much as knowledge and possible entertainment.
Not quite sure, but I think you're saying greed didn't change, it just was "set free" for other reasons?
Yeah, and what is “100% heating”? Do they mean 100% of the capacity? Why do people write things with important words just left out?

My new car can do 100% driving!
I'll admit I didn't read these articles. However, all of these reek of:

Claim! Thing good!

Wait! Thing has downsides!

It's not thorough comparison, it's just showing that everything in life has tradeoffs, which is obvious.
I think I understand those that fear immortality and youth, and I finally felt that fear my self after my fathers death, the grief and the loss, the question.. what if I outlast all that matters to me and all I have is grief ? It’s terrifying.
Still, I have a deep desire to live, till the stars them selves dim, till all matter collapses, or till we learn reality is something different than we expected..
Why die, there is so much to learn, being human is overrated, we can become new things in time.
I find it very hard to buy into the core premise of this article. Namely:

> Sassoon’s analysis of how we’re taught to hold pens makes a much stronger case for the role of the ballpoint in the decline of cursive. She explains that the type of pen grip taught in contemporary grade school is the same grip that’s been used for generations ... modern pens requires that they be placed at a greater, more upright angle to the paper—a position that’s generally uncomfortable with a traditional pen hold.

I was lucky enough in college to study calligraphy & penmanship through an independent study program. Most days I would be at my desk writing for six to ten hours. It was an obsession. After graduating, my practice continued at this pace for the next four years. I have experienced zero cramping or discomfort in my hand.

In that time, I've used an array of pens. From traditionally cured and cut quills, dip pens, to modern fountain pens. Ultimately, the vast majority of my practice was done with a ten cent Bic pen. They're cheap, reliable, and write quickly & consistently.

The actual difference between writing then vs. now has less to do with the pen itself, and more with how it's handled.
Your poor, unpracticed, overly-tense grip on the pen is what causes discomfort. As does manipulating the pen with the fingers, rather than the larger muscles in your arm/shoulder.

Penmanship education, I'd argue, has been non-existent in America for well over a full generation. The further you go from the so-called "Golden Age of Penmanship" (~1860-1920), the more distance there is from real, quality professors of penmanship. Institutional knowledge is lost, and present day teachers are merely parroting back things they were told to be true, rather than educating based on a deep-seated practical knowledge.

Penmanship, and thus cursive, was incrementally killed by ever-easier ways of putting text to paper. Typewriters -> word processors -> computers -> cellphones.
The biggest thing is that FAANG learned to avoid Microsoft's mistakes, up to a point, and for example a bunch of them have policies where they destroy documents after a certain period plus they train employees to not put stuff in writing.

It will be much harder to prove something against them because proof will be gone.
I used to debate this but after learning Rust it’s undeniable.
That is true only of the 13" m1 Pro, and the 13" m1 macbook air. The 14" m1 mbp, 16" m1 mbp, the m1 mac mini, and m1 studio all support more than 1 external display.
> most people are roughly aware of these things as explaining the spec-cost gap

Ahhh I see what you mean.
I was expecting to see pixel hunting[0] in the article but did not. Pixel hunting in adventure games turned me off the whole genre. As the trope describes I find pixel hunting to be fake difficulty.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PixelHunt
The Technology Connections guy is going to be vindicated!
Ah, I see, so the setup time is very slow. I don't work in python much but I've worked in a few other languages with slow startup, and amortization is your friend. It's hard though when you have a small module with 'only' 300 tests and your test is 6ms of code that works out to 40ms once setup and teardown are included. I haven't had many opportunities to have the "well maybe you should be making bigger modules" conversation but I am ready for that moment to arise.

This is usually the point at which I pull out a 'watch' implementation, since the 5 seconds it's going to take me to switch windows and hit 'up' the right number of times counts too, if we're comparing apples to apples.

That said, one of the last times I had a unit testing mentor, I walked into a project that ran 3800 tests in about 7 seconds, and then started poking around trying to figure out who was materially responsible. (He didn't know much more than me from an implementation standpoint, but boy was he good at selling people on test quality.) If that had been 20 seconds it would have still been lovely, but it wouldn't have grabbed my attention quite as much.
The Strange Case of Nakamoto’s Bitcoin
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Owes Me a Million Dollars
Every retailer with a median transaction size under $20 hates credit cards. Yet with rare exception they all take cards.

The customer chooses the mechanism, not the merchant. To best credit cards you'll have to be more customer friendly.
Beanie Babies actually exist IRL.
Nonsense. The conquistadors were indeed appalling in many ways, but no they did not go for full on genocide. The diseases that came with them killed off possibly 90% of the New World population regardless of what they did or didn't do. They were slavers for a time and even that was fought against quite vigorously by a surprising number of other Europeans (read for example about Bartolomé de las Casas). Much of the modern narrative mixes up an essentially unstoppable and non-deliberate mass die-off from European diseases with genocide. The two things were not the same even if the conquistadors also did often butcher native populations in specific contexts. As for the Aztecs, they truly were barbarous to their subjects. Their culture, for all its sophistication and many fascinating aspects, was based on an enormous amount of ritual and practical violence across many areas. There's no white washing this for PC reasons if you read even a moderate amount of literature about their empire. Even the Spanish didn't practice the ritual slaughter of over 20,000 people in just a few days simply for the sake of a religious festival. The Aztecs did indeed do this at times.
So what do you pay with? Your transaction data? Subscription to other services?
Certainly better to avoid it if at all possible, and I'll be eliminating them specifically to improve Windows compatibility.

It's not that unusual, though, a quick search turns up 1.1k GitHub repositories with `git config core.symlinks true` in their documentation or CI pipelines - including quite popular projects like Ava, Apache Arrow, Solana, Chrome Devtools, adobe-fonts, IBM/houdinID, travis-ci, RabbitMQ, various Google projects & more.
> By empirical measure, static typing reduces bugs

As the article says, this does not appear to be actually true when you go and check.
I like programming puzzles, I have done a lot of leetcode for fun. I can do any of them correctly given a few hours and a cup of tea to think it over.

I still failed an interview for a FAANG because of the coding test. Even though I've been doing this job successfully for decades.
This argument totally belies the massive uptick in P2P payment usage on Venmo, CashApp, Zelle, etc
Alberts et al. Essential Cell Biology is a bit less advanced, but I'm finding it very complete, just not quite so exhaustive (pun intended). It's still 700 pages, so you'll get your money's worth (if you buy a used copy).
As I understand it, Verizon initially refused the iPhone, probably due to Apple's requirements of unmetered data and selling unsubsidized phones at full price, so the iPhone launched exclusively on Cingular/AT&T in the US.

I'm not sure what leverage Microsoft would have had over AT&T or Verizon to block the iPhone.
Cost per unit or weight is already a requirement in Europe.

Though supermarkets seem to always engineer a way to have the "main" product be sold by weight and the "main alternative" to be by unit (e.g. prepacked), so you can't directly compare.
They lobby.

That’s the primary lesson learned.

Microsoft, in its hubris, did not.
Blurring and seeing double? Has this not been done?
James Joyce almost became a famous singer (2021)
What tools fix this?
Tether is being DDoS'ed after receiving ransom request
I don't know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.
> Benchmarking cutting-edge graph-processing algorithms running on 128-core clusters against a single-threaded 2014 Macbook Pro. The laptop consistently wins, sometimes by an order of magnitude.

LOL, this hits close to home. My company had a modeling specific VM set up to run our predictive modeling pipelines. Typical pipeline is about 50,000 to 5 million rows of training data. At best, using an expensive VM, we managed to get 2x training speed from lightgbm on the VM vs my personal work laptop. We tried GPU boxes, hyper threaded machines, you name it. At the end of the day, we decided to let our data scientists just run models locally.
I had a good time using Project Euler puzzles as a way to gain familiarity with new programming languages or getting the hang of using Vim for the first time!
I work in construction and I notice this attitude is becoming more common, even among my coworkers. The reality is the western world is falling behind in essential infrastructure in every capacity. And I think our attitudes towards construction have a lot to do with that. Its hard to build roads, highways, sewers these days without some pushback. We need to start changing our views and start seeing constriction as an essential human need and return to the old view of infrastructure as something we take pride in
I agree that Windows could do more to support the developers on other platforms. Symlinks just seem like a petty thing to complain about IMHO. Didn’t realize how common they were though.

NTFS does support them, however. Is Git just not supporting them properly?
So, you burn natural gas in a powerplant to create electricity somewhere around 55% (hopefully) efficiency; in most of the US, the heat output is wasted. You then lose 6% to transmission, getting to 52% efficiency, to put it into a 2x COP heat pump (which we mandate use gases with GWP in the thousands) to get 104% of natural gas heating.

Or, spend the same amount on air sealing reducing heating needs by about 30%, pay workers instead of factories, and get the same reduction in natural gas use, also without the refrigerant bomb waiting to go off, and not needing more power plants built. Mandate every rental have lower than 6 ACH50, since misaligned incentives mean they're usually worse than homeowner-occupied units.
Is "user defined on demand real-time volumetric 3D digital spaces for spatial computing" in this instance a euphemism for fanfic porn?
The complexity isn't that it's hard to write out a set of gun regulations. The complexity is that many Americans support only a subset of the measures you're describing. So when universal background checks (for example) come up for a vote, a lot of people who support them in principle raise concerns that they'll be seen as a backdoor for creating a gun licensing program, and thus they get a lot less popular support than you'd expect from polling data.
Probably because it matters what the majority of adopters believe the purpose is.

Right now the belief of most bitcoin/crypto adopters is that it’s a way to get rich quick

Like most macroeconomic forces, it matters more what the majority believe to be true than what the vision is for something, whether it’s true or not.
Sorry, I misread. The graph here shows that a single individual needs to make nearly $40k or $20/hour in order to have a basic lifestyle that doesn't even include savings or entertainment: https://uc735a30719703449309c8146b8e.dl.dropboxusercontent.c...

Besides, do you want people to not have children at at least the replacement rate? You know, that's bad for the economy, right? Current US fertility rate is below replacement rate, and immigration is only barely making up for it.

The argument stands.
That, and it taught them that they needed (a) a large law staff involved in all aspects of the busines, and (b) political connections in DC.

That 2nd aspect has led to them getting entangled in all kinds of partisan shenanigans.
Yes, because nearly every house in cold climates is ducted, and we’re trying to get people off oil heating quickly, easily, and cheaply. Popping a new heat exchanger in an existing furnace is stupid simple compared to running coolant lines to new, wall-mounted exchangers all over the house.
Microsoft's days as a 'primary' desktop operating system are numbered. The OP doesn't seem to understand this, but even Microsoft itself does, which is why most of its major moves the past few years haven't been improving its own desktop, but positioning itself to control "open source" the best it can.

More people within the MS ecosystem should understand this.
Apparently they also use Cloudflare now, the under-attack-mode shows up when visiting the website.

So the decentralizers use the single biggest centralizing factor in recent internet history.

(Cloudflare is a great product, but it's ironic regardless)
We use WiFi to stream the signal, which is far more convenient. But yeah, all the monitors have display port as well if you want to plug in.
I use single dollars a month in gas cooking.
Why SoundCloud Will Be Worth More Than Spotify (2016)
Come to Berlin and marvel at how many cash-only shops we have.

And if you are talking about internet retailers, can we make an exercise to think of how many new businesses would be viable if transactions of 20 cents were a thing?
Having worked in MS's DCs, they are, in fact, hazardous. They absolutely push the limits on heat exposure for humans -- those hot aisles are HOT, and we all carried heat index alarms as a result.

Further, I think its weird you don't think of the sound as a hazard. When its so loud you must wear 30+NRR hearing protection, it sure seems like a hazard to me.
For those unaware, Praxis is a WIP virtual programming IDE for Prolog.

[A preview of] Praxis; Visual Programming in Prolog https://toblotron.com/blog/2022/06/05/a-preview-of-praxis-vi...
Russia has a nuclear armed military also. Strong enough to deter the US from direct confrontation.

Yet, somehow they have never been a prime destination for investment.

Economy matters as well. And loss of faith in the USD cannot be fixed with a few mushroom clouds.
Dilithium is just a quark-boson metacrystal, don'cha know.
In Russia 200 years ago the was a spike in interests in platinum. Gold melts at temperature of wooden house fire and substantial amount of it was lost this way. Platinum melts at much higher point.
> technology isn't what makes housing near reasonable places to live(employment, good community, etc) expensive.

In a free market, housing prices are determined by supply and demand. Since location is a key factor in housing, supply is usually restricted at some point, which drives up prices in places that are in high demand. (Technology that enables remote work can help with this, though, by reducing the need for high demand in particular locations.)

However, housing in current developed societies is not a free market. There are many top-down restrictions that artificially restrict supply, and there are government policies like printing money for mortgages that artificially inflate demand. This drives up the price of housing everywhere, but it's at its worst in areas that are already in high demand.

So the best way to improve housing prices, across the board but especially in high demand areas, would be to remove the artificial effects on supply and demand and let the free market work. Which is bottom-up, not top-down. Top-down is hurting, not helping.

> given socialized medicine, good public transportation and affordable housing

Which either don't exist, or only exist because people are willing to pay for them anyway and don't feel gouged by the taxes required--which means that in those societies, those things would exist even in a free market, because people would pay for them anyway. So even where top-down supposedly works, it only works because it's not needed--it's "imposing" things that people would freely choose anyway. That's not an argument for top-down; it's an argument against it.
> There's got to be a flaw in this idea

Environmental impact or geopolitics issues aside, an electricity grid is much more convenient and cheaper than a propane/ethanol/gasified wood grid. Transporting gaz by trucks and storing it in individual houses is not very convenient too.
AFAICT this is a library that implements the 'do calculus' as described in Pearl's 'Book of why'.

What I recall from that book:

- RCTs aren't the only way to find causality

- you DO need a model of your situation, that shows all the possible causal chains

- if you have this model then, using data, you can calculate the influence of each part using the 'do calculus'

- the ideas have been met with resistance
That's exactly it. Windows developers know NTFS has Symbolic Links https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/creati...
A "14-17%" cut seems very reasonable for the suite of services Patreon provides. Generous, if anything. I wouldn't fault them for taking 20%
I’m Sorry Mr. Schwarz, but You’re a Goner
Yeah take the energy you pump from Reservoir A to Reservoir B divided by the energy requires to do that and that's COP. Which you can think of as an efficiency.
“ In a letter sent Thursday [PDF], Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) asked Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to look toward a strategy that would require universal charging standards in consumer tech”

Bravely solving a problem that doesn’t exist, immune from all unforeseen consequences.

Unless there is some kind of consumer safety issue involved I see no authority to dictate technical choices.
Fairly interesting movie. One 18-year-old guy got a MacArthur "genius" grant for his work on that. He presented a scholarly paper at age 12.
One thing I wonder about is whether Apple could have ever built the current crop of laptops if it hadn't gone through the terrible design that over-emphasized minification. That is, were there gains in space-saving that were only possible because of the single-minded focus on making small laptops, which we now enjoy in our more-sensibly sized MBPs?

As an outsider, I have no idea whether this is the case. But I could imaging that if they had stayed on a more evolutionary design path, their current laptops might not be quite so amazing.
Someone Tweet this at him, pronto!
Leave it outside in the car (assuming car theft is not high risk in your area).
Being naturally bad at something isn't magic, there is a reason and mechanism

Same as being naturally good at something, there is a mechanism
Or 3DSecure which is becoming very common in Europe. No chargebacks.