skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors of the Lightning paper were well aware of the cost of Bitcoin mining to the environment. We (the authors and myself) speculated at the time that energy usage of Bitcoin mining could one day exceed the current output in the energy markets. I was the one that made the joke about forcing us to wrap the sun in a Dyson sphere one day to satisfy the need for power. It concerned us and they (Joseph and Tadge) ended up doing something about it, while I just sat back and watched.

Lightning isn't limited to Bitcoin, either. As long as the cryptographic algos are compatible, cross-chain swaps can be a thing on the network. That said, Lighting was initially architected to take advantage of Bitcoin's scripting and post-dated payment abilities (which are done using full nodes, not miners). That means anything using Lightning doesn't necessarily contribute to excessive power usage by the Bitcoin network. This is why I called out the attack on Lightning by association to Bitcoin. Would it, if used widely, contribute to Bitcoin's power usage problem? No, it wouldn't. Bitcoin's power usage problem is unique to the mining strategy for the chain, not the use of the transactions it enables, off chain.

Does Lightning still require on-chain transactions? Yes, but they can be done within the current capacity of the network AND even then that doesn't contribute much to the power usage given the full nodes process these payments, not the miners.

If mining came to a near halt, Lightning would still be functional. This means blaming it for anything related to Bitcoin is not a valid argument, which is why I said what I said. It's not that you are wrong about mining costs to the environment or energy markets, but more that the thing you are blaming has little to do with those issues.

Besides which, Bitcoin isn't the primary enemy here, it's the idea of PoW put into production plus human behavior to attempt to acquire wealth with it that is the real boogeyman. Ethereum is making a big bet on PoS, but some remain skeptical this can give way to a fair market. We'll see, I guess. Those folks appear to be way smarter than I am, even on a good day. In the meantime, Ethereum is still stupid slow and still uses PoW to do what it does.
Funnel some of your money into hiring a therapist or coach or both.

Choose a niche tech stack and learn everything there is to know about that. Don't worry when others are interested in new languages etc, only pick up new tech when it's becoming mainstream and related to your tech stack.

Become the best in your own world and aim to become a contractor.

Funnel your funds and create diverse investments in other's startups rather than do your own. Spend your time learning about investing instead of working on ideas on the side.

Learn to separate yourself from work, and don't invest any more energy than what you're contractually obliged to do. Learn to say no, don't install slack on your phone, don't over exert yourself - make it your goal to stay calm and not have issues pump your adrenaline or stress levels. Strive to be Monklike.

Learn to love what you do outside of work. Find joy in weekends and stepping away from the machine.

Oh - one other thing I'd do is hire other developers in areas I'm weak in to help tutor me and improve my skills.
It is simpler in some ways, mostly because scheme has a "syntax tower" where even the most basic things can be understood in terms of other things. Let can be defined in terms of lambda. Let* in terms of let. Letrec* is also not that hard.

Once you know this and the difference between definition context and bodies (which is simple) there isn't much to add. The top-level works mostly like letrec*. Internal definitions work like letrec* Libraries work like letrec*
Because you so confidently asserted that they were "all scumbags" who have no "credibility", I'd expected much more certain evidence about the nefariousness of Worldcoin.

I, like you, believe it is very important to remind folks that they should clearly understand the value prop of an exchange before they participate in it.

But I don't think that calling "scumbags" the folks behind any proposed value exchange (like Worldcoin) that you yourself (self-admittedly) don't fully understand the implications of, is a way to achieve that.
Yep. Promoting shit like this on a public forum is borderline malicious.
This seems pretty different -- you have a relationship with that company. Probably there's like a contract, right? They must have included something in the fine print about not taking advantage of the service yourself (unless they are, like, real dumb).

Restaurants have no obligations to random people on the internet who decide to re-sell their food without permission.
> Well, ownership implies and enables interoperability.

Does it? Each service has to actually be designed to interoperate with it. And there's nothing about having a legal property right over the data that enables interoperability at all, you can do that with just making the data available for download. XML and JSON already solve that problem in a pretty straightforward way.
I think there's a big difference between a busybody staring out the window sometimes and being upset with what they see versus a busybody with a 24/7 security system that pings them at all hours of the day with alerts and video clips about "suspicious" activity it detects, along with apps like Nextdoor, Citizen and the Ring Neighbors app that allow the paranoid to continuously share said clips and create local echo chambers of paranoia, suspicion and distrust.
A password may be compromised via other routes than just through a password manager hijack, which is probably far down the probability scale of all of the possible ways to do so
No price for the phone, that I can find, anywhere on their site.
I don't understand, isn't 41-35=6 USD ?
What uncoated lenses do you have? Polycarbonate lenses usually have an anti-scratch coating, and most lenses have an AR coating as well.
What's a PPS?
this happened to me with facebook pre ipo! someone tried to impersonate them and screw with me on a fake technical interview. That person ended up getting kicked out of our college for academic reasons and the campus facebook recruiter found out and extended me an interview.
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It's explainable by looking at polls for how Americans feel about major institutions. Gallup did one for various public and private institutions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-... and what they found is the only two major institutions that maintain a universal (across political affiliation and other demos) positive trust rating are small businesses and the military. Everybody else either varies a lot or just has universal low trust.

You'll note from this source that "big technology companies" score above all 3 branches of the federal government. Part of this is how partisan politics has become, so one party will have a majority of people expressing trust in an institution their party controls, the other hardly anybody, resulting in a fairly low score for the presidency and supreme court. Congress, it seems, is so universally despised it doesn't matter who controls it, it sits at single digit trust percentage.

In light of this it becomes understandable why somebody would be fine with big tech spying on them at the behest of the police (another institution with pretty high universal trust, though it does vary depending on political affiliation a bit it's considerably higher than any federal institutions), yet react with suspicion from something set up by bureaucrats from a federal agency.
Your comment made me wish the tax code was small enough to be diagrammed on a napkin. Instead if feels like it is designed to inhibit innovation and new business.
Athena launches AmazonHurts campaign to end AWS ICE/IDF contracts
Quite - it's the simple but effective design that matters (not whatever language it's implemented in).

It could be that Lisp because forces one to think more than just hacking out code, the end result is better designed.
This is really good thank you. Worthy of a follow-up submission on HN of its own since we're pretty deep into comments here.

Note that this study is specifically focused on North Carolina. I'm curious if similar research has been done in the Western US. California in particular is very popular for GA. Here's the top 10: https://generalaviationnews.com/2020/02/03/top-10-busiest-ge...

edit: Another link: Santa Clara, CA recently banned sale of leaded fuel https://grist.org/transportation/california-county-bans-toxi...
> I believe kids can be taught how to interact with technology responsibly.

A school cannot do this while doing all the other stuff they have to do, and you don't get to teach your kids' peers not to do horrible things with their devices.

AFAI am concerned teaching them responsible use would include teaching them that a smartphone has no place in school. Shit, they never let us carry dumb phones and it was only near the end we could even keep them in our lockers, and that was the right decision. I don't think they let our predecessors carry Electronic Football around at school, either, and that was also the right call, despite those devices posing ~no danger and being about 1% as disruptive as a smartphone.
For clarification, isn't it true that you can only use Vite with Vue and React, and not Angular. Angular is too tied to WebPack (At least not today) I am not entirely sure, so I wanted to ask.
Mathew Baker and the Art of the Shipwright
Wow, that is interesting... Thank you for an excellent explanation, makes sense now.
Ask HN: Do you have to schmooze for work at your job?
I've been at my job for 3 months and QPP's are coming up. I have no QPP's setup. Everyone else appears to have been schmoozing with lead dev's and mangers and meeting up to get their QPPs together.

I've never worked at a job with QPP's or that I've had to schmooze to get work. I've typically just grabbed tickets or my boss would give me something to work on.

Do you all have to schmooze to get work? Or are things pretty much given to you?
If I'm understanding correctly, it's worth zero iff you attribute $0 of value to the delivery.

DD's value prop is that they deliver. If you don't want that, then yes it's probably not for you.
The article seems to be an overview of the person, rather than anything detailed about a specific paper he wrote. Apparently he received an award recently?

This looks like it might be the paper the article mentions, though: https://mbraverm.princeton.edu/files/ICM2022-Braverman.pdf
I'm guessing the coupon only applied to the value of the order items and not to taxes + fees (lol) + tips.
Mandating remote work? You have terrible ideas.
What if the house market crashes in 10 years? Live in a car for 10 years?
How does that matter? It's the same size project, no matter how much is going on in the rest of the economy.

Also, the Manhattan Project took three years. Fusion has been actively researched for seventy years.

We can spend all day quibbling but it seems clear that fusion research is at least roughly "on a scale similar to Manhattan."
Thanks! Only knew fail2ban from securing SSH, but yeah, works for other daemons, too...
I would assume it's just propping up legacy codebases that are too expensive/difficult to be re-written

Why have a solution when there's good money to be made kicking the problem down the road and all that
I have only used two pairs of glasses for around 12 years, I replaced my old ones only because I left them at the gym and never got them back.

The magic: I just bought the glasses at good place (not the most expensive brand in my country, but quite decent) and picked the "greatest package" of features. They offered me like four features to pick from:
- anti blue light
- scratch resistance
- scratch resistance level 2
- something else I don't remember but sounded useful

so I picked them all. The frames wasn't anthing top-branded so I paid like $200. The prices may differ around the world, I know but it's still lower than any mid-range smartphone and I suspect it should be similar in most of the world.

I used to use a t-shirt without any fluid for years (results were good enough), but since covid I clean my glasses with hand sanitizer with 60% alcohol (water based, not that jelly thing that would smear the view) and 4-layered tissues, the softest ones I can find (I have allergy, so I use tissues all the times, so just by "coincidence" I always have the softest tissues you can find with me).

Scratches? I can see a few, I suspect they all happened when I dropped my glasses on the concrete. I once sit on my glasses, I once dropped something heavy on the glasses I left on the floor near my bed. Frames got bended and they don't keep on my head that good anymore, so I drop them like twice a month, especially when I'm working physically on something. But still don't get scratches even by that.

For contrast:

My girlfriend bought the "greatest package" in a quite no-name shop (but with high rating on Google Maps, everyone is recommending the place), paid around 80% of what I paid, just because she liked the frames they were offering. After three years her glasses are scratched like hell, they look like a thing made from scratches. It's definitely time to replace them. Idk if she ever dropped them, she cleans them the same way I do. But those tiny scratches are definitely caused just by cleaning.

So to everyone I recommend trying to find a good store for your glasses and spend bigger amount of money on them. If you're replacing glasses every two years your investment on something better will return fast. If you are low on money - prefer good lenses over looks.

It will still be cheaper than ultrasonic cleaner and easier than treating your everyday item like an ancient artifact :)
This is going to be like what happened to SourceForge.
Honestly, phones mostly just feel like utility devices to me anymore. I can't say I "like" my phone, but when I don't like one I can definitely tell you!
A service where you pay a few bucks and send your glasses for deep cleaning, refurbishing of hinges, and touch up paint etc. would be cool, assuming you have redundant pairs or don't wear them every day. I do notice the grime that accumulates in the nooks and crannies of my glasses.
The OP is part of a longer work: Making mathematical practice: gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England by Stephen Johnston.

https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj/thesis/
I love mine, but I miss old ages when a smartphone was small (5 inch or less) and you can put in your pocket easily
I use the exact same cleaners and have for years.
I was dismissive, and I did that on purpose, but I wasn't being sarcastic. Only time will tell which of you is right, all I've got is "eh. looks fine from here".

As for their happiness, I know people with a lot of Bitcoin, and I know a few people who are underwater on their BTC, but there's no overlap in those groups. They might feel a twinge around 7k, more likely, they'd buy as much as they can afford.
We’ve seen inflation in different areas for two lears - lumber (both supply side by mills shutting down from covid , and demand side from people doing construction projects due to covid), imports (shipping chaos from covid and the evergiven didn’t help), silicon chips and their knockons into things from cars to network switches due to china’s covid policies, to oil (demand evaporated due to covid, then when demand came back supply didn’t follow), then Russia caused more supply constriction in both oil and grain supplies.
> An xhr api request returned an expected 403, which resulted in the browser suddenly concluding the basic auth (which was unrelated to the api call) was invalid and the user needed to be reprompted for credentials again.

That sounds like it was a mistake on the part of the api. The browser should only prompt for credentials if the response headers include a WWW-Authenticate header, but that header should only be included with a 401 response (at least according to MDN).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/WW...
I don’t see any mentions of what you define as “spoof-proof.” Are you performing a liveness check [0] ? Eg can I hold a picture up of someone else’s face, or commandeer the camera feed to play a video of my choosing?

[0] https://www.liveness.com/
I think your missing my point. The page is entitled "a Benchmark For Analytical DBMS" not "A Benchmark for Single Table Query Execution". Most analytical workloads are more complex then single table queries.

I didn't say it wasn't useful to test single table columnstore performance on workload that runs best on single host databases, just that this isn't the be-all end-all of Analytical Database performance testing.
That's not how the multiple listing systems work in the US real estate market.
DD drivers definitely take their frustration out on both restaurants and DD customers.

I've seen a lot of drama from DD drivers at restaurants, one thing that sticks in my mine was during a midnight run to White Castle. The place was packed and the workers kept asking about this huge bag of food for DD. The bag was easily 2 foot tall and completely packed full of food. The entire time I'm waiting on my food, people keep asking "any word on this door dash?"

Then some lady comes in screaming, "f- y'all, I've been waiting 20 f- minutes for a f- order and y'all slow mfers won't do shit!" The manager tells her the order is here and has been ready for 15 minutes. She goes up to the counter, takes the food, then throws the drink at the manager, screaming "f- you", throws the bag of food back at them yelling, "f- door dash" and "f- this $4 tip!"

So, not only did the person not get their food (and probably didn't find out for a long time afterwards), the restaurant had to cover the costs of all of it, and the delivery driver was out like her time and gas.
Yep, that's a fair point: both the Raspberry Pis and the smart PLCs were indeed absolutely overkill for the project. However, they're what we know best, and minimising development time for a small prototype multi-site deployment was more of a concern than using expensive-ish hardware. For production, obviously we'd move to something less ridiculous.
Yeah a similar thing happened at a rental property we own. Someone in the neighborhood learned the code to get into the building and started stealing packages. Changing the code would help for a few days and then it would happen again. I haven't heard about the issue in a few months, so it seems like they've fixed whatever the problem was. My guess is someone was watching people input the code and then using it later to get in. Another owner recently moved out, so maybe they were the weak link? Who knows.
Well, the funds you mentioned are not on the website.
I've stopped following bitcoin at a deep level for some time. Could someone summarize for me what changes/problems led current bitcoin to need lightning?
Why your mind will kill your best ideas (and what to do instead)
People who do not understand the role of balking and price information act at their own peril. This economic backpressure is something that executives hate - it keeps line from going up - but people who actually do the work love, because it keeps workloads manageable.

If you ever wanted a feature-length explanation of queueing theory and how ignoring it makes everything worse, well... here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE . The context is Disney parks and Fastpass, but the lessons are applicable to basically any business. Everything is a queue.
The normalization I was thinking of was :

Lets assume you have a 'straight' vector of line of sight pointing your Earthly-Bound-Lens [hubble/jswt/whatever] at the object of interest.

you also have an idea through previous observations of gallaxies on the line of sight, which will have gravitational impact on the trajectory of the photons of interest...

the arrival photon's wiggle represents a wobble in time to get to earth. Meaning it changed phase multiple times between our sensor receiving it, and its origin.

If one could look at the path and the grav-lenses it went through, one may be able to extrapolate a more clear picture at various distances(times)....??? /r/NoStupidQuestions

( I am picturing a straight shot - but the photon traveled between many other celstials - and those
I want a language for safe collaboration. Suppose I create a GPL-licensed library for decoding mpeg4 that I publish somewhere. Someone should be able to fix a bug in that library and publish a new with minimal involvement from my side and minimal overhead work. I shouldn't have to review pull requests or anything. It should all be automatic and the language should protect against malicious users inserting flawed code.

Copyright would be handled using a block chain so every commit's author would be publicly visible to users of the library.

The "source code" would be stored as a call-flow graph and perhaps nodes would have different permissions to sandbox the effect of untrusted contributors changes.
Get them into programming. I spent hours a day on the computer playing games when I was 18, then I got into programming. Making games is more fun than playing them, I only worry I forget what fun means to my audience.

Instead of criticizing what your kid is doing on the computer, spend time engaging with them and participate in their hobbies with them. At 18, the kid will leave the house soon, and if you have things to talk about/do together over the internet, you might have a better relationship with your child.
It took 11 paragraphs of fearmongering to get to "Though the variant does not appear to lead to more severe illness..."
But why?

The default behaviour that's used by like every other software is different than that.

Seriously people who copy paste Excel tables to Teams are the majority?

Cannot they just add edge cases for stuff like tables and leave normal text alone?
There are tons of rewarding companies (probably smaller) that would never ask those interview questions.
And in the last 30+ years do you think that maybe some of what we do with temperature data has changed? Or how we interact with a network? Or the data that sensors can produce?

If you think you can answer parents problems without even knowing the problem space, you're behaving foolishly.
I took A-levels in 1980 (entirely pen and paper) and a comp sci degree in 1983. The exams for the latter were entirely paper-based.
"These judges have ruled that privacy is not important enough to be guaranteed. Therefore, no good will come of showing them the dangers of a lack of privacy."

This is called a proof by contradiction. You strengthen the argument that "privacy is important" by assuming it's not, then showing how that leads to contradictory (or, in this less formal scenario, undesirable) results. That then supports the argument that privacy is important. And as it creates personal and emotional investments for the judges making these decisions, it's one of the most effective ways to do so.

People rarely listen to reason and logic unless they're professional STEM folks discussing STEM topics (and sometimes not even then). People often listen to personal consequences of their decisions.

Am I saying it's right that they were doxxed? No. But it certainly is a sound and effective argument against the judges' decision, and perhaps might be the lesser of two evils here if it actually motivates them to rethink their belief that privacy isn't/shouldn't be legally protected in the US.