skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some years ago bitcoin started running into scaling issues. The period between blocks is fixed at 10 minutes and the maximum size of each block is also fixed at 1Mb so the network transaction throughput was quite limited. Because of the limited transaction throughput the fees per transaction increased significantly because miners prioritize the high-fee transactions for inclusion in blocks. Low fee transactions would sit in the mempool until they were stale or dropped.

This limited throughput led to a massive debate amongst the community about how best to scale bitcoin. One side wanted to change the blocksize (either a step-up in size or to use dynamic scaling), and the other main side wanted to keep the block size at 1Mb and implement off-chain scaling (Lightning Network). I won't recount their arguments for/against, or even tell the story of the debate because it would be very long and there was so much shenanigans involved that I would probably struggle to remain neutral. The long and short of it though is that the side that wanted to keep the block size fixed at 1Mb won out and got to keep the Bitcoin (BTC) name while the other side spun out into a fork called Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
> Forward slash as a modifier prefix was IBM's desire because it was what they used in Mainframe OSes at the time. A lot of MS-DOS things were for "compatibility" with IBM Mainframes at the time

Not true. On IBM mainframes, options are generally specified in a NAME=VALUE or NAME(VALUE) format. For example, here is a TSO command to allocate a dataset: ALLOCATE DATASET(ALLOC.FILE1) NEW DIR(4) TRACKS SPACE(2,3) DSORG(PO) RECFM(F) LRECL(80) BLKSIZE(800) CATALOG

VM/CMS uses an open parenthesis to introduce options instead, for example: LISTFILE (LABEL

The forward slash option style does not come from IBM mainframes.

Nor (despite what many people think) does it come from CP/M – CP/M's own option style was to put options in square brackets: PIP B:=A:*.COM [G9 V]

Not sure exactly where CP/M gets that from, but may be very vaguely inspired by IBM mainframe conventions (especially VM/CMS), with square brackets replacing parentheses for whatever reason, and using single characters to save memory and typing.

What I actually believe happened: forward slash comes from DEC via Microsoft. Microsoft's development tools for CP/M used that option style, which Microsoft got from DEC, because they didn't like CP/M's native option style. QDOS/PC-DOS/MS-DOS 1.0 copied that Microsoft option style.

Yes, IBM did tell Microsoft not to change it from / to - between PC-DOS 1.0 and PC-DOS 2.0. But that was simply because IBM cared more about backward compatibility between DOS 1.0 and DOS 2.0 than Microsoft themselves did. It was nothing to do with mainframes.

The only thing about DOS which shows any strong direct IBM influence, in terms of actual syntax/terminology/concepts/etc, is code pages.
> As an owner for 5+ years, the cars show well but pretty quickly become a pain in the ass.

I agree. As a former owner. They are fun to show. But there are real annoyances. In the case of the Model 3 in particular, I quickly tired of the door handles. The psychotic windshield wipers. No CarPlay. The smartphone unlocking which worked most of the time until just that moment when your hands were full. It became a chore to live with. But dear god was it fast (I had the Performance trim). Not enough. I need my daily driver to not be a PITA.

I'm very interested in what the competition is doing. Ford one-upped the Model Y by putting that knob on the display and then adding another display in front of the driver. Most of the competitive EVs have real interiors, for that matter. All of them have CarPlay. Porsche made a legit sports car.

The future looks bright!
no paywall
https://archive.ph/0QN9v
It's unfortunate that the article doesn't mention the great villain of sleep debt, caffeine. The substance we use to wake up is the one taking away our deep sleep.

https://michaelpollan.com/books/caffeine-how-coffee-and-tea-...
Toyota Priuses have been sold for over 20 years (closer to 25 actually!) and they are very reliable. There are Prius taxis with half a million miles on the original battery.
Thankfully the 1.4 version of teams is still available on Linux. That version actually works on my system. If I install a 1.5 release, I can use teams for 25 seconds, and then it crashes.. and restarts, so I can get another 25 seconds, and the cycle just continually repeats.
I got to live alone for days at a time when I was 17 finishing high school. I'd play Dark Age of Camelot on my 28k modem and browse Slashdot. But whenever my mom or dad was able to return home they'd make me go outside with them. Hikes, bike rides, and walks. They'd never outright push me alone out of the house but I'd sometimes walk down the street to hang out in the public libraries computer lab with school friends.

Start small and then escalate to cord cutting, but be resigned to them playing Runescape on a public machine regardless.
> If most people believe, then traffic might not be impossibly bad.

In that case, a meaningful fraction definitely wouldn't get out, because they wouldn't even be trying to.
Cost of user acquisition for native apps is enormous. Most people install very few apps per month, and the vast majority uninstall them afterward.

"Utility apps" (messengers, banking apps, etc.) do OK if the user must use them. All other types of apps are competing against the few big social apps and games that are more than adequate for most users.
Even with a charitable assumption that ads will stay limited to a free tier; this will still reduce Netflix program quality because stories need to have breaks to insert ads into without feeling weird.

Remove the ads and you then have storyline peaks and troughs which are not needed, which will break the immersion, leading to a worse outcome.
Apple has always had piss-poor PWA (progressive web apps, aka websites that can be installed and used offline as apps) support.

It's done by design to try and force more people to use their app store, where apple can take a cut of everything it can.
It depends on where you live and the time of year.

I've lived places where in the winter, the tap water is just a couple of degrees above freezing. I've lived in places where in the summer I've measured the tap water at over 90 degrees.

He must live somewhere that doesn't get to any real temperature extremes.
The (forced) threaded chat in Teams is an absolute nightmare and I refuse to believe they dogfooded it to see if it was actually useful. It just made everything take a whole bunch of extra time and effort to follow and comes across as a feature that someone thought was just kinda neat without caring to determine actual usefulness.

Do teams really have that many separate discussions in a single chat so often that it necessitates threads instead of, say, splitting those broader topics into new rooms? That also lets users mute or otherwise adjust notification settings for things are are less relevant to them. Last I remember, threads barely even reported new messages inside them, and would only show the first message, so the team chat just looked dead forever the moment it was added.

It really is absurdly awful.
The people who feel that way about election officials have missed the forest for the trees. The US is a one party state, elections don't matter because the runners are decided by those with the capital to finance them

Both parties are captured by corporate interests
Ask HN: Why do Razor Blades become dull?
Litteraly no issues on my M1, except for the team chat design.
What a strange comment. Yes, obviously I'm in an extremely privileged and lucky position.
The stuff I've seen issues with have fairly clear demand-side stories behind them. For instance: everything home construction or renovation-wise. A lot of things that were planned around a certain level of demand is struggling to keep up with a boom.

"Supply is unlimited" was 'fleddr's impression of the old status quo, but I don't think that was ever accurate. I think demand was predictable and well-planned-for is a better description of what the status quo was. Historical supply constraints showed themselves in areas like console launches - a certain level was planned for, and it wouldn't be economical to meet that all on day 1 vs a lower steady-state production, for instance.

Covid-induced behavioral changes shifted a lot of demand around very rapidly. We are learning that the system can't respond instantly, but:

* how surprising is that, and is it really something that could realistically be avoided in the future in case of other major instantaneous changes? Investing a lot of money in new garage door production right now is a big gamble - what happens if you clear that backlog and demand settles back to historical levels?

* and, how concerning should that be? Is it indicative of permanent societal decline or future failure? That's the part I'd consider alarmist and poorly supported based on what we've seen so far. Many sorts of leisure goods, grocery store items, etc, have nearly fully recovered compared to summer of 2020 shortages. My amazon orders anecdotally mostly are coming in 1 day. Not all of them have, but which way do we think it'll go?
Good - you have the skills needed to bootstrap the thing for cheap. Don't even worry about what's going to happen after your MVP right now - you'll have to work your ass off to ever get to that point. My advice is to NOT spend any significant amount of your own money on the project, because chances are you will not see it again. The reality of the startup game is that even the well-prepared will fail most of the time.
Not in Germany at least (for an European data point). I get my prime orders usually in one or two days and the estimated date at the checkout is usually correct.
How much of this is supply chain issues and not the aging fact that physical synthesizers are long on their way out?
Glad to hear it was helpful!
Azure already has ARM VMs (as well as AKS)?

The equivalent would be cloud build, not GKE <-> GH actions, right? does cloud build support arm runners?
Big tech isn't releasing software. They're loss leading market killers designed to destroy competition. The state of the product obviously reflects that. The frustrating part is those making purchasing decisions aren't typically sophisticated enough to notice this fact.
Facebook made Portal, the video chat device that follows you around. The only problem was it was made by Facebook. If almost any other company made that I would’ve bought it. The wrist fatigue from FaceTime can get pretty bad. Constantly worrying about being in the frame does too.
I think google maps is close to the crisis point. Where niche alternatives exist, people will use those instead. One of the reasons I bought an iphone was to have apple maps as an alternative to google maps.
In emerging markets, hybrids are a much smarter choice. Here in Brazil there are few fast chargers (say 40kW+), and a great bunch of them are broken anyway. My next car will be a plug-in hybrid. Maybe an electric in 10 years.
The other disadvantage hybrids have is that you have all the complexity of a both an electric and a gas car. One nice thing about full electric is that you do away with much of the regular maintenance of an ICE car.
That is neither smart nor safe, given your need as a human to eat and drink clean food, which requires coordination with others.
If they live in a pretty typical North American suburb where a car is required to do anything it is a pretty inevitable outcome for most kids. When you literally can’t do anything without getting your parents to drive you somewhere, you turn to the computer. At this point the habit is hard to break.
> Does anybody seriously think Karpathy would step down if FSD was really close to be released ??

Life is not only about work. I stepped down from the company I funded after 14 years, it never stopped growing after that. Some people just get bored after doing one thing for a long time and want to explore other areas, especially if they always had broad interests.

> It really starts to feel like Tesla is a huge fraud which is about to be uncovered.

I seriously doubt that my Model S will somehow stop working so well and turn out to be just a fake car after 5 years.
Yes it is really nice.

No I don't want encouragement to go back to school. My point was that helion is a really cool company, and anybody with the credentials to work there should should be happy about it.
We have had them for years and everyone (most people) hate them.
The edge is microscopically thin and our human hair is abrasive. All material eventually dulls.
Because of entropy?
I once had delivery guy give my package to random kids that were loitering outside my door.

The way I see it, untill i have recieved it, it's the seller's responsebility
Same reason any blade becomes dull with use: cutting things changes the shape of the cutting edge, and not for the better.
No. Someone just wasn’t being paid to keep the aerogel production line on cold standby.

[1] http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/nwj2_09.pdf
Please make your substantive points without swipes. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I could have written this. Too relatable.
I believe what I have read about people being driven by driverless taxis in some cities in America.

Unless I have been reading lies, this statement is at least half false
Thanks for the recommendation. Added to Audible!
IMO 18 isn't a kid or even really a teenager any more, here in Australia you can live fully independently the second you hit 18. Point being; if this person wants to play games 8 hours a day then that's their prerogative BUT as they're an adult the parents are now under no obligation to fund that lifestyle.

> The parent has tried locking the computer in a different room, which works, but it lacks nuance.

This makes me think that it must be their computer? If so then they can just change a password or two and boom - problem solved.
The Verification Gap: A Major Hurdle for the Industry Adoption of Formal Methods
Don't forget the Brew and Bottle steps.
5: / 1:03:22 Panel Discussion with Jack Szostak, Nick Lane and Donald Johanson
These guys are top scientists and the video only has 3K views. Worth a look IMHO.
> When your analog synth has presets, it's because there's a DSP chip in there that's helping to record, store, and replay voltage values for the knobs and sliders and switches in the analog signal path. If your analog synthesizer has a sequencer, there's a pretty solid chance that's done on a chip. If your analog synthesizer has a modern modulation matrix, you need a DSP chip for that. If your analog synthesizer has a method for self-calibration, you need a DSP for that.

None of these things are done with a DSP chip. They're done with a microcontroller roughly equivalent to an early-80s home computer.
He's done the first 90%, the last 90% is now all just drudgery.
I've had nothing break after 5 years so far. Best car I've ever had (previously: VW Passat, BMW 525iX, BMW 530xd).
PHP seems like it would be a reasonable choice in early 2004. Ruby on Rails wasn’t out yet and LAMP was a very common stack. The competition MySpace was originally using Perl which nobody understood so they had to rewrite it in ColdFusion.
There is a wonderful RFC which solves the same problem - Problem Details for HTTP APIs. This approach is quite popular in good quality APIs. I was quite surprised that nobody mentioned it before.

- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807
As in, the Sun stays above 18 degrees below the horizon all night?
The problem with Zeihan is that he spots a pattern (correctly), then extrapolates and escalates it to the very maximum, and leaves the conclusion at that.

Meaning, the very concept of agency or intervention to correct course does not exist in his world view.
Don't know of ecobee alternatives specifically, but whatever the alternative is will lead you here: https://www.home-assistant.io/
Isn’t that sort of the definition of a foot gun? That the downside/danger isn’t obvious.
If your VST has excellent analog emulation capabilities, you can probably make decent money selling it. Still doesn’t give the user the tactile feel of analog controls.
It's borderline, but this probably falls under the 'tangential annoyances' that the site guidelines ask commenters not to complain about:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

The point isn't that such things aren't annoying, it's that commenting about them leads to shallow off-topic tangents in the thread, which only piles one annoyance on top of another.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We often can figure out how to take a product that works 90% and bring it to 99%, and then to 99.9%. The engineering challenges involved in each nine are often vastly more than the percentages indicate, but they're conceivable. With AI we have absolutely no idea how much effort might be required to get to that next level of reliability. We hope that bigger models, or better AI technology might get us there, but there's also a chance that they won't.
You can have free access here to dalle at https://replicate.com/nicholascelestin/dalle-mega and dalle mini https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini
> why do I care about how good a language is for writing a program that I'm not trying to write? Why would I care about that?

If you’re planning to pick a language de novo for each program, you don’t care about this. That’s probably not the common case that a dev intends/is willing to learn a new language for each new program.
definately the floorlamp one, iylt refuses to connect to the app because it's in a different country, the lamp is country-locked, its telling me what do to, and none of this was in the original contract of sale.

Also arson is illegal. I am thinking more like witch-burning
Why should it? It's geting really good.

https://www.youtube.com/c/WholeMarsCatalog/videos
We’re hiring for this role at supabase (if you’re looking): https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/4307456004
Yep, it'll take a long time to bottom. That said, I'm surprised how much things have already fallen in AZ. Some of the properties with 10% price cuts, have been sitting on the market for over 2 months. Demand has fallen off a cliff here. I can't see how it gets any better with the Fed continuing to rate rates.
I got, like, FOUR Arduinos in a bin out in the garage somewhere. I'm gonna be rich!
And just now console.log() :)
https://github.com/daneelsan/zig-wasm-logger
Celsius informs state regulators that it’s filing for bankruptcy ‘imminently,’
Looking forward to an all electric rebrand of this by someone out there.
Couldn't read the article because of the paywall (maybe the submitter can provide a non-paywalled link), but what I found interesting it's going to be done using manual labor. Because of the sanctions they can't import machines to automate the process, so they'll hire people to manually cut the chips, re-program them and put them in new cards.
Now I'm curious, what did you replace it with and which model did you have?
The job offer says they'll receive an iMac Pro, a bunch of hardware and software, including "Crimson Editor". I wasn't familiar with it, but it seems to be an HTML editor for Windows that was last released in 2008, it's "so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk". Their website doesn't even have HTTPS: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Did they copy part of this list of perks from a 15-year-old scam script?
Fully vested and widely respected. Great position to be in.
Depends what is meant by "dead". Mobile apps aren't going to stop being made and existing good apps aren't going to suddenly stop being useful. That said if you look at the numbers I think we're starting to get to the other side of the S curve of app revenue and download rates. At the same time there is more competition than ever due to barrier to entry being basically nothing these days.

To some the lack of "forever going to be going to the moon" may seem like dead, to others it may seem very much alive and healthy without that.
Oh. Well that puts a different spin on things then. Karpathy said he wanted to sharpen his technical skills. He might have left in part because he felt he was too far from the action, since he was at least 2, if not 3 levels removed from the actual research and implementation work.
I also imagine it is a space where...you very quickly get to a product that seems magical...but you can see in the data the places where your magical product will regularly be unable to make clear decisions. Unlike a lot of traditional product development, that knowledge makes it very hard for you to release, because the liability and ethical problems are very real.

It's somewhat unfair because we used to simply collect less comprehensive data on performance and therefore know less about our corner cases - but you don't get to live in the future without dealing with the problems of the future.
The problem is that hybrids are good only for range anxiety. You assume you're getting an EV and a great range — best of both worlds. The reality is that you get worst of both worlds: a crappy low-end EV experience with worst-case charging, and a poor ICE car with even less cabin/cargo space than a pure ICE (and much less than a pure BEV).

In hybrids, the battery is very tiny, so lasts for a day or two instead of a week or more. This means having a home charger is an absolute necessity. Small batteries don't support rapid charging, so you won't be able to use many public chargers, even if you were patient enough to wait hours instead of minutes.

Horesepower of hybrid cars is advertised as a sum of EV+ICE engines together, but that's a rare scenario. You'll be mostly using underpowered EV-only half when you can, and then the underpowered ICE-only half when you run out of juice.

When you're on electricity, you're lugging an ICE engine, and when you're road tripping, you have worse fuel economy due to lugging a useless battery and an EV motor (regen doesn't do much even when it works, and highway cruising is the worst-case scenario for it).

In many hybrids transmission/clutch adds a lag, so you don't get the sweet instant torque BEVs are known for.

You have worst-case maintenance costs. On top of all the moving parts of an ICE engine and a complex gearbox, your battery will wear out sooner. A small battery will tend to be cycled 100% to 0%, instead of kept in the 80%-50% range that is much gentler for lithium batteries.
They might stop at raising the price of the ad-free tiers.
SF. It depends on the item, some things still arrive within 2, but a lot more are wildly variable now.

- I have a Baseus USB power bank that was ordered yesterday, arriving next Friday.

- I have some ESP32 kits that has gotten this multiple days in a row: Your package is on the way but running late. We’re sorry for the delay. Now arriving tomorrow by 10 PM.

- USB cable from prime day, amazon basics brand, no shipping ETA, no prediction, and "not yet shipped"

- Random assortments of things like a gigabit switch, common equipment, cat6 cables, screwdriver: https://i.ibb.co/dtMRDVy/image.png

I don't envy the Amazon people though. Already seeing pileups in the mailroom, floor to ceiling boxes dumped on the floor, every delivery locker filled.
And if you care about physical security, you should hire someone to kill you :).
But how many of those brain diseases would occur if the brain's support system - the rest of the body - was not deteriorating?
it actually works, now he goes out with friends and stuff, before was 12h/day stuck playing LoL
AFAICT most of the talk about Rust having slow build times is a combination of kneejerk FUD from people that don't like Rust for other ideological reasons, and people that last used Rust when it was much earlier in development. (And also people that have some massive project with hundreds of dependencies that would be slow to build in any language)