skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine paying at the supermarket with bitcoin and waiting 15 minutes till the transaction is through.

We don't have to imagine or make up situations.

When Steam experimented with BTC a few years ago, it was a complete disaster. BTC can only handle so many transactions per 10 minutes because of the blockchain limit. The influx of purchases caused the BTC transaction fees to skyrocket from $1 / transaction to $10/transaction or $20/transaction, which for a $10 to $60 game is just unworkable.

Furthermore, when returns happened, you have to deal with the ridiculous price changes of BTC. For example, a 30-day return policy means that a user could have bought a $50 game for 1.7 mBTC on May 21st 2022, but if the user hits the "return" button... what do you return?

* Do you return 2.4 mBTC (representing today's $50 value?)

* Do you return 1.7 mBTC (representing the original purchase price of 1.7 mBTC?)

If BTC goes up, or down, during the traditional 30-day return window of retailers, the entire process is completely screwy. There's no good solution.

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The general answer is to "transact everything in terms of dollars", in that the 1.7 mBTC is converted into $50 back then. When you return the game, its $50 is returned and you get 2.4 mBTC back.

Except you just paid 2x BTC Transaction fees for this purchase and then return-order. And transaction fees are a market that varies in price severely. Or really, 8x BTC Transaction fees, because you went User -> dollars-to-BTC exchange -> User's Wallet -> Steam's wallet -> exchange -> Steam's bank account... then the return path of Steam's Bank account -> exchange -> Steam's wallet -> user's wallet -> exchange -> user's bank account.

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This is why the BTC community started yelling "store of value" for years, because the Steam purchases / BTC purchase experiment was a colossal failure. The BTC network simply cannot handle real-world transactions in a way that satisfies Steam gamers or the Steam store.

And here we are, a few years later, and it seems like no one actually tries to answer these questions or fix these problems in Bitcoin. Instead, we get Bored Apes, NFTs, and Stablecoins as the major sources of "innovation" over the past few years.

I'm all for the experimentation of money. But experimentation is only useful if you try to fix the problems that have come out of these experiments!! The BTC / Cryptocoin community has stopped innovating where it matters.
I think to truly advance this discussion in good faith (as opposed to just as a general snow against e-waste concerns), you have to look at the full lifespan story. Like, yeah, that computer that's 10 years old maybe shouldn't be running any more, but do the gains associated with annual replacement justify the production and e-waste cost of all the intermediate ones? What about a 2- or 3-year replacement cadence?

How does the calculus change if the computer is being operated somewhere where it's cold most of the year and so the "waste" heat still has a useful function?

How does it change if throwing out the computer also means throwing out a battery and screen, as is the case for laptops and phones? Does the extra mass of a tower pay for itself in terms of longer lifespan as people upgrade those systems piecemeal?
Well, I guess this kind of trivialization of the situation is the culprit in the elite's delusional thinking. Of cause, invading other countries is not "ok", and by the same logic and the same intensity of moral force, it is not "ok" to engage in policies that one knows very well will provoke others to "invade" (use force in any other way).

Hence, I do consider such "game theory" ideas impotent and not a valid starting point for formulating policies that will cost young people their lives if one misreads situation (or is not committed to use force). One has to be serious to the utmost here.

So back to my question, is there any rational, strategic justification for this? What is the goal? What is intended/presumed reaction of RU to this? How is this leading to peace (or which block of peaceful future resolution does this build upon?)
> a few are genuinely clever

Another perspective is that it would take a computer only a few minutes to generate all these circuits and test them for usefulness in a simulator.
It's still a double standard to me. They should have done better with content filtering and responding to harmed users, but they're hardly alone there.

Google still indexes revenge porn sites; I'm not going to look, but I'd be shocked if Google Videos can't find revenge porn. Last I heard, YouTube still had issues keeping explicit underage content off their site. Facebook is in a perpetual struggle with keeping pedophiles away from children. They've all had their share of issues with revenge porn. None of them have sufficient content filtering in place to wholly prevent this. Hell, the last time I was on Tinder, there was a significant number of people there just to buy/sell drugs. Uber's got drivers killing people.

MindGeek has an even harder time building content filters because they can't just outright ban nudity. They need content filters for "is this consensual", "is this person of age", etc. Those are hard for a human to judge, much less a machine, and drastically harder than "is anyone in the image naked".

TL;DR I don't think MindGeek did a good job, but nobody at that kind of scale is doing a good job of content filtering. It seems like an obvious double standard that MindGeek is expected to manually filter content, while YouTube allows in hundreds of gigs of data per minute without any manual review.
Colons are a little bit special in Bournish shells, since they're a delimiter in variable assignments after which tilde expansions, and some shells extend this behavior to command line arguments.

Frankly, I don't find it outside the realm of possibility that there's some combination of options that will make :memory: misparse on a popular shell, I just don't know of any...
Could they charge more and push the product improvements faster? Seems like 10/m/u is optimizing for how bearable the price is but then you have a bunch of users that are quick to complain while you don’t have the budget to make rapid improvements to the platform.

Charge 10x more (or more) and let the dreamers help push the product further and faster. Once it’s awesome then charge a commoditized price for the service.

Charging 10x+ more means we have enough skin in the game to properly send feedback and improvement ideas. At 10/m/u it’s barely worth you reading my support tickets and it’s almost with me just not using it while paying for it.

Thoughts?
For many devices (e.g. a power tool, or part of a vehicle) making a chip that lasts for many years would be more efficient than replacing it with one that drew less power but required a large batch of power to manufacture, plus the cost to dispose of the old one.

Also, there are many hardware components besides CPUs where durability and repurposability would far outweigh operating efficiency.
In the UK, BBC vans drive around with unsecured WiFi networks to see if any houses have smart TVS connect, and then fine them if they don't have a TV licence.
They literally had visible fried marks on the batteries and machines would fail to boot until the batteries were replaced.
> I don't understand your problem with using scientific arguments.

The Scientific Method is unambiguously great. The modern Science (TM) is a political tool used to browbeat people into submission for money and power. I'm not trying to be insulting in any way, but my opinion is that people with your general worldview cannot see how there's a difference between those 2 things because Science (TM) strongly aligns with your worldview.

> I think that you reject evidence conceptually and are "not seeing" any climate change is a self-refuting argument if you're willing to think about it.

In the post you're responding to, I listed a set of conditions that all have to be true in order to make "climate change" an actual problem, caused by man, that can be fixed by human action, and whose solution is a win from a cost-benefit standpoint. There's not just 1 variable here that has to be weighed. Science qua science cannot advocate any action. Science is just a tool for understanding the natural world. Once you use science to understand the world as best as possible, it's human risk-management that actually allows people to decide on a course of action. Science does not and cannot make decisions for anybody or advocate any specific action.

> The reason climate change is seemingly eternal and difficult to solve is because the biggest polluters aren't going to stop and we can't make them.

Actually, you can probably make anybody do anything with enough force, but is it worth the cost? And by cost, I don't just mean money, I mean the second order effects in terms of human lives and misery. That's another one of my big questions. The economic calamity that might ensue by giving climate warriors carte blanche to do whatever they want to do might harm billions more lives than the worst possible outcome from climate change.

We're starting to see what a relatively small increase in gas prices is doing to families on the bubble. If prices end up going higher, food will literally begin to be impossible to grow, process, and transport and it will not be feasible for many people to work. How many might starve? And that's just with a relatively small gas price increase without the real climate change crowd running the show.

> Here's more info on the systemic issues if you're open to any data or new ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_justice

Framing anything in terms of "climate justice" is horrifyingly bad from a persuasion standpoint. This kind of framing is preaching to your own choir here and is not persuasive at all.

PS: I'd like to reiterate my following general statement that I think everybody can agree with. If you believe that climate change is a problem, nuclear is the only answer that solves it. If you don't believe that climate change is a problem, you should still want nuclear because it's clean and cheap energy that is capable of powering all human activity and industry. This is a win-win that anybody, regardless of worldview, should be able to get behind.
On the other hand, creating a new computer and throwing out the old might be a lot more harmful to the environment than just continuing to use the old computer.
Do you really think the reaction would be the same if instead they kept the neutral icon but donated a percentage of app fees to charities directly supporting the cause?

I genuinely think more people would be fine with that for the sorts of causes that come to mind.

I think people respect action but find virtue signalling without action annoying.
There's going to be break even point where it's worth doing the replacement.

Manufacturing a modern laptop produces around 360 kg of CO2, while energy utilisation operating it for 8 hours a day for a year produces roughly 15 kg of CO2. So in CO2 terms manufacturing costs dominate massively over operating costs. Even if you run the computer for 10 years the energy consumption comes to less than half of the manufacturing footprint.

That's for modern laptops though, so I suppose if a 10 year old computer uses vastly more energy its possible it's energy consumption dominates over it's manufacturing footprint in a much shorter period.

https://circularcomputing.com/news/carbon-footprint-laptop/#....
You laugh, but I actually did! [1]

Wikimedia was deleting all the video game guide content from their wikibooks project for god knows what reason.

I took it over and moved it to my existing wiki, https://strategywiki.org

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Copy_to_gaming_w...
Yeah, my bad there. Jumpstart ships with Administrate, not rails admin.

I'm humbled to have built something that could ship with Jumpstart. Thank you for the kind words!
Very insightful comment... however, I'd argue that there are still people out there that aren't social media users, and you can find these communities and regain this as an individual, even though it is massively less available than it once was
In most scenarios, new ways of writing the same code is a waste of time. I actively discourage use of things like type inference in newer Java versions as it goes against the purity of the original vision of the language. It's a detriment to mental agility, and it also makes scores of incredibly useful, deep books and learning resources outdated and useless.
> Your argument strikes me as very odd -- you seem to suggest that nothing can beat Bitcoin in theory, but Ethereum is already beating it in practice.

In theory everything is possible. I do not follow the beating really. They can both exist with different use cases.

Bitcoin wants to be digital gold (and money) and Ethereum wants to be a smart contract world computer running dapps. They solve different problems.
The premise is that at some point one of these chains will win. Forking btc will be no more meaningful than forking usd.
>none of this 1 year cliff vesting nonsense

It is foolish to give immediate equity to a new hire who hasn't proven themselves as a good worker and good fit.
Very cool.. signed up. I'll post my needs/wants list in a new issue on Github.

https://github.com/dan-lovelace/status-vista-public
No, the original comment meant: pay a disgruntled employee to get what you want instead of developing an HDMI exploit for your target.
Just to update this response, I've just released a new version that contains a new `position` function, as well as the capability to execute SELECT statements without a FROM part. So i.e. the above

octosql "SELECT position('hello', 'ello')"
Occasional gaming on my wife's work PC (in parallel as she's working there).

VMWare can provide DirectX 11 support for guest OS, and there are many kinds of gaming-friendly remote desktop applications to play remotely from my Linux laptop.

Originally inspired by this LTT video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mgnwn4twZE>, except that I wanted "work" system to have 100% of all resources when "gaming" one is not used (since it's started up only once in a few months). Hence, nothing as fancy as in video: "host" OS is the work system, and "guest" OS is booted up once in a few months for occasional gaming.
We're there again with WASM and WAGI.

https://www.fermyon.com/blog/wasm-wasi-wagi
still no PHP support :(
> if the light bleeds into the background, then surely if the background is light, then it would bleed into the dark letters?

No that's not what the GP said.
Well, combine that fact with the fact that the majority of Americans are deficient in at least one vitamin, and the study seems to be saying:

Vitamin supplements don't help, except for most people.
Teachers talk to kids about families all the time to illustrate ideas or just to build relationships.

What happens when a student has two dads or two moms?

Homosexuality isn't some abstract idea. Gays have kids and nephews and nieces.

The same goes for all those other topics. There are developmentally appropriate ways of talking about most of them.
Oh, no, I see what you are doing, but I mentioned Germany, France, Spain and Greece. I come from central Italy and that’s the part of the world I know best. I’m saying that the UK outside Inner London doesn’t look European, but it’s a gigantic periphery.

Here’s a list of random places I visited in Europe that would be the most beautiful place in the UK if teleported there:
- Berlin
- Paris
- Krakow
- Hamburg
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- Palma
- Aix-en-Provence
- Avignon
- Vienna
- Random Greek island
- Istanbul

List of places that would be the second most beautiful thing after Inner London:
- Frankfurt
- Cologne
- Warsaw
- Kassel

I can provide more if you need.
In the paragraph immediately following the one you quote:

The scientists then discounted any speculative reports, only keeping those with evidence of a bird as the cause. These could include a photograph of a burned bird carcass at the fire’s ignition site, or a statement made by an expert, such as a firefighter, detailing the presumed cause of the fire. Finally, they checked to see whether any particular environment was especially susceptible to these fires.

From TFA.
And they do not have to be there for a long time to start providing immense value.
Parent didn't imply any anxiety issues, but you just did, and it doesn't look like a coincidence to be honest. If I calmly assume that I've seen enough of the piece of art based on a meaningful sample, it's kinda hard to maintain my interest.
They need to send in some ducks and elephants.

Q: Why do ducks have webbed feet?

A: To stamp out fires.

Q: Why do elephants have flat feet?

A: To stamp out burning ducks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Coming_Home
There's also Monitorian for Windows: https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
Between this and the payments stuff it was probably decided the gravy train has jumped the tracks. Time to pull the ripcord on the ol' golden parachute.
in practice the filtration in a room goes down exponentially and quite quickly even with budget filters that only filter out 90%. even in shops where you are sanding.

https://woodgears.ca/dust/dylos.html
> I've always put my groceries on the back seats or back floor, even if I have a trunk.

Why? Isn't it easier to a access the trunk?
I don't. The ads and tracking enabled by digital offset the cost of manufacturing; sans that products will cost more, and price is a major factor in purchasing decisions.
> Remember that the minimum wage here is around USD 200

Q: 200 USD over what time period?
Only in you live in or close proximity to London.
Isn't it an extended Python? I thought I read that somewhere.
> There's more to life than the political

Everything is political. If you think a subject isn't political, it's because that subject isn't controversial to you personally.
And what happens when AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, OpenShift, IBM, … roll this out?
solarized light remains the king imo. been using it for almost a decade and while I aesthetically prefer other color schemes I always end up back on it because it's the most comfortable for long periods.
So genius that both EVM and Solidity have huge unforced footguns that have caused gazillions of dollars in damage.
I'd imagine tagging along with the exploded ones to be either dull or impossible.
> Funny because I don’t see how they can make any money from this....

Deno Deploy makes money; it's $10/mo/app: https://deno.com/deploy/pricing
Licensing is a critical question that is often not considered. Code trained on non-permissive code (think Oracle API's) has very significant risk, ask Google. We took a different tact three years ago in building Tabnine BUT went with only fully permissive code for training, ability to train on your own code base, and zero sharing of your completions. Also we give the developer the flexibility to adjust the length of completions if you want faster shorter suggestions.
Or could. With the push to “secure data”, DRMed internal docs already exist.
You can buy push-pull configured transistor pairs in a package.
> At least I’m happy for him he could finally cash out on sequoia money and become a SV millionaire like everyone else !

It doesn't actually work that way. This is an A round, so a priced round, so in theory the founders' equity could have some noticeable valuation but in reality the common will have no meaningful cash value and the founders aren't worth anything as a result of this funding. Yet, at least.
> A disposable culture of sealed, one-use products is very recent, skin deep, and largely unwanted

I'm convinced this is only very temporary as we're living in an era of abundant resources. Recycling and fixing things will be the norm in the near future.
Bless you for being a rare person who understands the semantics of such things. For too long passenger carrying airplanes has struggled under such a weight.
Why is "emerging from computation" simple? As an explanation, it seems vastly more complex. I mean, the laws of physics don't even contain terms for defining or valuing computation. Even my examples (which were meant to be bad arbitrary explanations) at least have the benefit of being describable as physical quantities. So at least one side of the explanation is already grounded in things that physics recognizes.
I think you think that the only kind of study that confirm this hypothesis is some kind of RCT, where we give one group a placebo toilet flush, and the other I try to get infect with norovirus. The point of "https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094" which is more or less making the same tongue in cheek argument as you, is that there are limitations to what can be counted through an RCT.

I am, however, not talking about an RCT. I am talking about the conspicuous lack of observational study of the clinical phenomenonology of toilet plume, rather than some secondary observation about scary germs.

Epidemiologists must find ways to study illness without actually making people ill, but they still, for the most part, manage. Moreover, observational study is not, in any way, lacking, about what happens when you jump out of a plane with a parachute. It's not merely common sense, it has been observed to happen. Moreover, this is reflected pretty fucking well in the literature https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1478603/pdf/brj....
Cell coverage inside datacenters isn't always suitable, occasionally even by-design.
Show HN: PyCircTools – A Python library to create circuits
PyCircTools is a python library that allows any programmer to create circuits with it. It is currently a work in progress and as for today, v0.0.3 is the most recent release.

It just has logic gates, custom exceptions and tests for now, but the library will be updated with more content, so check back on it back to see new additions!
Justice Department and Meta settle landmark housing discrimination case
I trialled Hey.com on a professional domain-based email address. I didn’t use it for any prolonged period - a month. However I found it utterly frustrating and like a fisher price version of email. The interface is obnoxious and intrusive and the “tools” it offers are idiotic.

Sadly I returned to Google Workspace.

I’m perhaps not the target market because I’m probably an email “power user” by a lot of metrics - lots of filters set up to cut the crap, and lots of labels I can apply to triggers automations.

I wanted to love it but hated it quite strongly.
Yup. The combo of “this is hyper critical financial code” and “every extra instruction to check invariants is very expensive” are two fundamentally opposed ideas and will cause pain forever.
Ask HN: How can I fix my sleep schedule?
I've had trouble getting to sleep at a reasonable hour my entire life. Lately, I go to sleep at ~3:00am and wake up at ~9:45am. I'd like to get 8+ hours of sleep and go to bed before midnight, but after countless attempts, my body always reverts back to this ~3:00am sleep schedule. I've tried everything: melatonin, not eating past 6pm, reducing caffeine intake, regular exercise, but none of it seems to have a lasting effect.

To anyone who has had a less-than-desirable sleep schedule, how did you fix it?

Thanks!
This is lovely - pleasing to the eyes and nice features such as time machine

I see its in nixpkgs - think I'll alias it to watch right now
Is it possible to MITM yourself and use a proxy to downgrade SSL for you?
Growing belief?

It's hard to square that with the enormous amount of censorship Serling faced.
Probably monthly