skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty remarkable how much of the total population to have ever lived is alive today or recently. This is especially true if you consider how many of the past deaths were of young children. Just roughly, assuming half of the preindustrial deaths were of children, leaves about 8/55 billion, or 14.5 percent of adult persons ever living today, or at the time of the figure. That's still small overall but pretty huge for the timeframes involved.

I really think people haven't come to terms with how unusual our era is.
Interop with c++ is definitely inherently bad.
Eh, by that logic you shouldn't consider any fintech company to be "real world" either because they just involve moving bits around in the banking world.

The difference is that you consider the traditional banking world legit and the crypto one scammy and fake, which is a perfectly valid opinion to have, but completely begs the particular question of whether any of this shit has real world utility.
> That is irrelevant, Google, PornHub respect the local laws if they want to do business here

But they don't do business "here", they do their business "there". We're "here" and connecting to their service "there". EU doesn't want us to connect to their business "there".

> Also no need to pretend you don't know what Russian version of the "facts" are, you can find what their claim in media and social networks. But in Russia world each fact might be in a superposition of 3 realities, the initial Russian fake reports, then when caught the second altered fake report , and the third convoluted fake version where the army of trolls found all their previous holes and patch them with more idiotic falsehoods.

I was born in yugoslavia, I know how the government-lead media is. And that's another reason to not-censor foreign media, even foreign government owned, because the real truth is always somewhere between what russians say and what the western media says. I really don't want to read articles like this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/may/17/evacua...
I do see one use of Bitcoin - harvesting energy in remote places where the electricity transmission cost is prohibitively high. Cheap energy in remote places that have no chance of transmitted out for normal usage is converted to value in Bitcoin.
>If you first fix this, and then have something to say about other people's bad behavior, or about moderation failures, I'd be happy to address it.

After I fix it, what should I do next time I encounter a racist comment? Should I just pretend it’s not there?

And no, I don’t believe the natural fate of forums is self-destruction. We have plenty of examples showing otherwise, from Usenet to 4chan to the entire scientific publication system. The fate of every _commercial_ forum is self-destruction, because it self-regulates into something that doesn’t quite align with the commercial owner’s best interest, because it’s different from users’ best interest - and it appears that this problem can only be toned down, but not fixed in a sustainable way. An example of this is the vast majority of current startup culture.
The reality of my personal situation - and I'm sure others are at the same point - is that remote work offers the biggest chance we have to fight (in my opinion) two of the most important issues of our time - cost of housing and climate change.

First - housing. The cost of housing is hugely tied to location and being remote offers a chance to fight back against that. There's not more land in San Francisco and New York and building has become politically untenable. This has and will have tremendous consequences for my financial future. Being remote offers a way to fight against that both because workers can expand their horizons for other locations that are building housing but also because in the future we potentially have an opportunity to re-zone commercial real estate into residential, higher-density real-estate. Rather than needing to provide an individual with two places (house, office), in the future a lot of jobs would only require an individual to have one place (house).

Second - climate change. The environment cost of commuting everyday is high since many cities functionally require a car. Traffic and pollution wreck real, tangible havoc on our habitat. Reducing the need to commute coupled with another opportunity to redesign urban landscapes into greener landscapes offers at least some pushback against climate change.

In my opinion, both of these concerns massively outweigh any intangible benefits such as workplace community.
Recently I found in my library an old Linux magazine (a real printed one!) from 2011 that my parents bought me in Sanborns. It included a cd with Ubuntu 11.04 which I (of course) installed in an old Pentium 4. I was 10 back then, so I didn't remember a lot about this magazine. But there is something that catch my attention (This is about Ubuntu 11.04):

>[...] y en cuanto a servidor gráfico incluido, decir que se trata de X.org 1.10.0. La próxima edición de Ubuntu, Oneiric Ocelot, que teóricamente saldrá en octubre posiblemente ya incluya Wayland. [...]

It says that Ubuntu 11.10 was probably going to include Wayland as a graphic server. But this is funny, since a few days ago, I tested the latest Ubuntu version on a laptop, but after all these years it still defaults to xorg.

I don't think that Wayland is a bad idea though. But it isn't there yet.
Sorry, what radiation is released from coal? Do you mean gas emissions?
> I know plenty of folks in certain countries with massive inflation and projects such as bitcoin are their refuge from 100-1000% inflation a year.

Countries with hyperinflation lend to not have a ton of assets. Even if this were a use-case, it doesn't seem to justify anywhere near the valuation of BTC or other crypto.

And why on earth you would you use BTC as opposed to a stable-coin in that case?
Crypto does not bypass in any way the ability for a company to charge me a subscription instead of offering me an option to buy something outright.
Except destroying Cuban economy with sanctions, which continue to this day.

There is a difference though: we can’t punish US, because it’s a superpower. USSR was a superpower too. But Russia isn’t.
Would these not be able to detect clots (ie DVT/PE) in calf and such since you are already going for ultrasound @ first detection?
No each thread does it’s own alloc/free. I reduce the locking to a minimum by using per-thread caching and memorisation. I had to implement that to make the code scale linearly with number of cores. Without per-thread caching it would only scale to about 3 cores. Now it scales very cleanly. Which is nice.
You're doing the "our glorious soldiers, their savage brutes" meme, with far too many words.

Virtually all of this is true about both USA and Russian media. There are some minor differences due to historical circumstances, but the bottom line is that both have massive & sophisticated domestic and foreign propaganda apparatuses. Both governments crack down hard on credible, organized threats to their control. Saying "I don't like $LEADER" on the street, alone, is neither, and you won't get persecuted in Moscow for doing this no matter how much Radio Free Europe insists.

> The information situation between Russia and the United States or any other Western country is not comparable.

This is shockingly naive.
Had high hopes for Pat Gelsinger, but this is one of the most egregious failures of corporate leadership I’ve ever seen, short of fraud. In the context of geopolitical changes since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, it’s also one of the most dangerous. We in the West have a long road ahead on semi manufacturing and we are falling over in a heap at the starting line.
Polymarket looks interesting but crypto/blockchain isn't necessary for prediction markets-- with Polymarket you still need a trusted entity to record whether the event happened. There are much more legitimate non-crypto prediction markets -- this new one is actually federally regulated in the US https://kalshi.com/
What evidence do you have for, "99% of internet based ransoms are being paid via Bank Wires"?

That would be decisive if it were true.

But I always thought that it is much easier to get ill-gotten gains out of BTC than out of the banking system.
>A plant has to be well-maintained and competently run. Waste products have to be safely stored and transported. As soon as you add corporations to the mix, you've now created a profit motive to neglect safety and maintenance because the risk of disaster is low but the failure modes are incredibly large.

When are we outlawing hydroelectric dams? Accidents with those have killed far far more people.
Something not mentioned here is that each and every single macOS update will break your Nix install too. This is, by far, the most frustrating part of using Nix on macOS.
No — governments coerce you to participate, rather than being a voluntary association.
Or we could just burn it. In what way is bitcoin more valuable than smoke?
I meant everyone wanting and buying something, that other choices don't exist anymore.
Like dumb TVs.
"they use dollars not bitcoin" for their daily purchases. But how are they storing the money they have. Are they depositing dollars in a bank? How did they get the dollars? Are they banked at all?

They can't take a bitcoin out of their wallet and pay for something at their local store. They can't use their bitcoin like a credit card.

If you looked at my daily spending habits, you'd say "that guy doesn't have any crypto or stocks, look, he buys everything with a debit card which takes fiat currency out of his back account".

You can't see crypto with your eyes, but look at blockchain activity, and ask people what the source of their currency is.

Obviously it's a TINY TEENSY bit that is held in crypto. I'm not suggesting it is a majority. Crypto is hard to work with for the average person, it's volatile, and scary, but so was trading on the internet in the early days. Trust isn't there, the paypal of crypto does not yet exist.
And why exactly does this need to happen? Especially if it is dirty coal or gas generation?
Findings on imaging have value in specific clinical contexts.

There are a lot of things you can see that will take you down a rabbit hole of further investigations and turn out to be nothing.

We perform fetal ultrasonography which excludes most of the relevant deadly cardiac conditions.

It is well established in medicine that improved/early detection does not equal improved patient outcomes and can actually result in patient harm.
Aww sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension
I disagree with nearly everything you wrote all the way down to investing in single stocks.

But I appreciate your thoughts and you sharing them.
Eh, I'm gonna posit something other that what's proposed: that these articles are intended to raise someone's publishing record.

I'd say there's 2 reasons one might pollute the datastream:

1. Obfuscate competitor's data queries

2. Use "approved" articles as a tool to trick regulators in a grander series of fraud.
How much tax is that? I couldn’t live with the thought of Uncle Sam getting that much tax from me. Then state tax, too. Probably why I don’t play.
NGINX (pronounced as “Engine-X”) is one of the most popular web server in the world and is trusted by many of the busiest websites. It is Open-Source and as of writing this article, it powers more than 400 million websites.
I would agree, except this is different, anyone can be the one to provide this framework, you don't depend on the language stewards for it.

With Generics in Go, it's more about asking for more power to the community itself to be able to extend the language.

Clojure is strange in a way how much it can be extended by the community itself.

Now, it might still self-select out people who don't want to contribute to a big web framework and just want one they can use right away. But it wouldn't self-select against people wanting to build a web framework.
If Netherlands allow smoking marijuana, and your country doesn't, should you remove all the signposts pointing towards the Netherlands (DNS block) and block the border crossings (IP block), because you're afraid some of your people will go there to get high?
Proclaim debt amnesty throughout the land? Biblical solution to present problem
It’s not. In radiology we are careful when we scan a fetus, especially with Doppler mode, because of the tissue heating effect.
Netscape's news portal page [0]. Loads fast, basic HTML, and uses official Netscape branding!

[0] https://isp.netscape.com/news/
Logging isn't print debugging... Logging is long term and you would log significant things. Print debugging is stuff you need to remove before commit. Stuff that tracepoints/logpoints can probably handle better for most developers.
No, he started programming for children earlier, but the show Misterogers [sic] began in 1962 in Canada.

It later became Mister Rogers' Neighborhood [sic], which is what we know and remember him for today.

Some of the puppets he used were first introduced in Children's Corner in the 1950s, but the first show to carry his name, in any form, and starring him, was Misterogers in Canada.
Avg high school grad in the 1960s was as intelligent as avg college grad today
The performance per watt is clearly a LOT worse then the M1. You really can't make it more clear then the graphs in the article.
> What if they just turn off the external internet?

No government is capable of this. Even North Korea has people smuggling phones over the border. A single cell or satellite connection that can sustain 2-3 KB/s is all you need to keep the rest of the country connected.
No, the GP comment specifically said regular non-connected, non-Ivy League folk. That's an enormously wide net.

In any case, $5 lottery ticket x 2 draws/week x 52 weeks/year = $520. You can buy some stock with that. And plenty of people (unfortunately, mostly poor people) spend a lot more than $5 per draw.
> That is the whole point of bitcoin. There is no entity that can prevent you from using it.

This is a common marketing claim which doesn't hold up if you think about it even a little. It's like saying that no entity can prevent you from saying something because you define “prevent” as whether there's a cop following you around ready to punch you if you open your mouth — almost all real-world censorship happens after the fact or relying on third-parties, and Bitcoin is no different in that regard.

Bitcoin can trivially be blocked or tracked at the network level. If you have a hostile government, consider the risks of connecting to a well-known network if they've banned it.

If Bitcoin is not completely banned, a government can require everyone to report transactions for taxation or other purposes. That means that your ability to evade punishment for a transaction comes down to whether all of your earning and spending can be done outside of the country without leaving a trace of that network activity, and that you and everyone you make transactions with will never be compromised (think about how would you know?) or cooperate with the authorities (businesses will share their records because they have a legal presence which can't ignore local laws). Similarly, if you want to actually spend that money you have to be extremely stealthy to avoid the authorities wondering how you're spending more money than you appear to make, hope that someone you know never develops a grudge or is coerced to tell the authorities that you're, say, living lavishly on your trips outside the country, etc.

If _any_ of those points aren't true for you, Bitcoin is not safe to use — especially because the public ledger gives the authorities a huge data source of all of your historic activity so you have to consider not just whether they're watching you at the time of an illicit transaction (as is the case with cash) but also whether you or the the other party will at any point in the future have your wallet IDs leaked.

(Yes, I've heard of tumblers. Ask yourself who in this situation is going to risk being charged as an accomplice to the worst crime anyone else using that tumbler is involved with — or whether the police are running the tumbler to get criminals to self-identify their intent to do something illicit.)

The underlying concept to understand here is that sovereign states control their territory. If you live under an abusive government, you are only safe to evade their rules to the extent that the government is weak — if so, just use USD like everyone else. If not, all of the options are risky and there's no magical thinking about technology which is going to materially change that … but almost all of it opens up new avenues for fatal mistakes which are hard to recognize until after the fact.
> the grandparent was specifically talking about inflation hedging, not about payments

Their assertion:

> There are a lot of much better assets to buy as an inflation hedge

.. was in indirect response to a parent comment:

> Bitcoin is not really a 'young technology' anymore, and the only thing it has enabled so far is risky, unregulated investment strategies, and an staggering amount of crime.

I think clarifying that there is a material population of crypto users who use Bitcoin as a currency not an investment is material in this context?
If you search for 'Internet production users', you won't find Google or Amazon or Facebook.
I suppose you could, but Nix (and NixOS) defaults to keeping packages for an insane amount of time. 3 months of regular Nix use can accrue ~300gb of packages, which is definitely not what you'd have on something like Homebrew.
It sounds good (ha!) for the winter to keep warm. Ultrasound gloves and socks?
Is there not an entire currency speculation market? [0]

> When speculative investing involves the purchase of a foreign currency, it is known as currency speculation. In this scenario, an investor buys a currency in an effort to later sell that currency at an appreciated rate, as opposed to an investor who buys a currency in order to pay for an import or to finance a foreign investment.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/speculation.asp
Yep the code is not open source so I can’t provide that. However I am happy to explain exactly how it works down to the lowest level details. Perhaps somebody gets inspired to implement it themselves as open source? That would be neat.
Aviation, photography, and the internet required huge investments in developing and building new hardware and infrastructure. All of that is difficult and takes a lot of time. Bitcoin just requires some not-particularly-novel software, plus either commodity hardware or trivial-to-design custom hardware, plus a shit-ton of electricity to burn.
Much agreed, along with Greg Egan, Peter Watts writes stories that are probably perfectly suited towards the interests of HN'ers. Both are "hard sci-fi". Blindsight even has an appendix that lists sources and explanations for how concepts from the book tie back to things that can be seen in the real world.
Does anyone know whether this slip up by Apple is because the M2 should have been on 3nm, which was delayed? Honestly that's the only way I can really explain this. The M1 is actually the superior chip.
I mean.. let's be honest.. if it's a cold winter this year, Russia will be punishing all of us. I live in slovenia, we're tiny, we have only a handful of soldiers, and we're still a part of occupying forces in countries like syria... so maybe we deserve it... but i prefer watching "punishments" on tv, and not by being cold and hungry in my own home, because a few politicians are in a dick-size competition, while they're stealing a bunch of our money and helping their pals in the weapons industry.
Er, no? Sequential consistency isn't some Rust invention, Leslie Lamport (yes the LaTeX one) invented it for his 1979 paper "How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs"

I rather like Lamport's last observation about what happens if you don't have sequential consistency and instead your programs just put up with whatever was cheap/ efficient to implement (as will happen by default on a modern multi-core CPU): "verifying their correctness becomes a monumental task"

It was later proved that it's not merely "monumental" this is actually an undecidable problem in general which explains why humans aren't good at it.

So, this is important in principle to get right, and (safe) Rust does so. You are of course welcome to decide you don't care, why aim to write correct programs anyway? And for now at least it seems in our industry many people agree.
This was my initial reaction also, but then realized the use case probably isn't always on continuous use.

An expecting parent is very excited by seeing the ultrasound of their unborn child. Maybe they wear a patch for a few hours to get more imaging, but I don't think they're going to do 24/7 for months at the risk of harming the baby.
A Cisco 8200 would probably be what he wants.
I disagree. Victims of assault aren't after "revenge" - they're after safety. The goal of prosecution and jailtime specifically is to ensure that the perpetrator doesn't do it too them again, and to society to ensure the perpetrator doesn't keep doing it.

Most victims would prefer absolute assurance the perpetrator cannot come near them again - i.e I suspect if offered "give them jail time" or "force them to stay out of your half of the country, with GPS tracking to ensure compliance" then almost all would choose the latter.
Perhaps. My argument contains an unspoken "ceteris paribus" clause, which is typically the case, when we compare things: that all relevant factors are on the table and everyone agrees on them. To generalise your argument: From a logical point of view, no conclusion is ultimately settled, because it cannot be ruled out that not someday someone comes up with a new and better argument.[1]

So when I pointed out a "flaw in the argument", I meant the argument as presented, without additional refinements (as you are trying to develop).

A minor detail: When discussing a normative question, it is important to carefully distinguish between normative and descriptive aspects. The descriptive aspects are everything that is the case. The normative aspects are everything that should be the case. Therefore, the question is what value a society should place on finding solutions that are supportive rather than punitive. -- And the idea that norms are up to a certain point "subjectively" is in itself a description whose normative relevance asks for an intense debate.

[1] There might exist a few exceptions, such as fundamental logical theorems. But this is too far off from our case.
I explain in more detail below, but: Mr. Rogers began children's programming work earlier in the 1950s, but the show we know him for today began in Canada as Misterogers in the 1960s.
It provides return to people who like it. It does not have to provide value to the "whole society" (which really mean, it does not provide a value to "me") to justify its existence.
> what radiation is released from coal?

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-po...
I'm not sure why this question is down voted. I am genuinely curious as to whether this service is of any use to malware victims who have made crypto payments.
Also, I wanted to say that $70K barely beats inflation, based on $40K invested since 2004 (almost $63K): https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Basically, he made like $400/year in "real" money! Yeah, at least he didn't lose any...