skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but what does the blockchain do exactly? You can have all that with traditional databases and asymmetric signatures.

My suspicion is that all these benefits were just from traditional process improvements, but the suits only approved the expense once someone slapped "blockchain" on the Powerpoint slide to sufficiently bamboozle them.
Twitter allows MBS aide implicated in spying plot to keep verified account
I can work as a consultant with clients anywhere in the world, for example. It is significantly more difficult to be employed by a company in another country (and many “remote” and contractor positions are increasingly becoming “US-only” in the current conditions). So yes, I have quite a lot of uses for crypto money in adversarial environment, and I expect it will have to use it even more, for perfectly legal work.
I mean, even local farms are usually in rural areas, where the lead contamination is probably much less than in the inner cities studied by this article. Still, I wonder where the lead originally came from? Old deposits from leaded gasoline fumes? Or does it come from lead paint, lead roofing, lead pipes or similar?
This doesn't have any effect on my claim, that displays have a gamut that's bounded by how they physically create lights.

I'm not sure how to explain why further than that, it's not even wrong, something I've definitely seen is the more people know about color, the more complex it seems when usually it's more simple when you start thinking across reference frames / viewing conditions

Source: builds color spaces using color appearance models
Hopefully it can release a large amount of Lithium demand for use in stationary batteries.
He got chased by a mob of students with baseball bats for refusing to absent himself during the “Day of Absence” when woe people weren’t allowed on campus. For the maximally charitable to Evergreen College version of events see Wikipedia.

> In May 2017, student protests disrupted the campus and called for a number of changes to the college. The protests involved allegations of racism, intolerance and threats; brought national attention to Evergreen; and sparked further debate about free speech on college campuses.[18] During the protests, protesters entered one of Weinstein's classes (which he had held in a public park) and confronted him, loudly accusing him of racism, demanding that he resign, and forcing the class to break up.[19][20] Weinstein was advised by the Chief of Campus Police to temporarily stay away from campus for his safety.[21]

> Weinstein and his wife, Heather Heying, brought a lawsuit against the school, alleging that the college's president had not asked campus police to quell student protesters.[22][23] Weinstein also said that campus police had told him that they could not protect him, and that they had encouraged him to stay off campus. Instead, Weinstein held his biology class that day in a public park.[24][25] A settlement was reached in September 2017 in which Weinstein and Heying resigned and received $250,000 each, after having sought $3.8 million in damages.[18]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein
That reasoning makes sense to me. Do you think there actually _is_ some material disadvantage to co-operatives that leads them to be less economically successful than companies where shareholders have all the power and ownership? If so, do you think there is something that can correct this imbalance such that companies structured in more equitable ways can work just as well as the current inequality-laden corporations?
The article didn't seem to say how much they're raising prices, only that they're raising prices due to electricity.

Where are you pulling seeing the price change %? I may need to edit that to marginal, if it's only 10%. :)
I know this feeling, noticed it since at least the aluminium PowerBook G4 I had once.
If DM has to have a very specific initial distribution to reproduce what we see, for example, that too is a constraint but it's also fine-tuning. Another theory that is free of such parameters should be preferred. Some types of constraints really should decrease a theory's plausibility.
Of course neither article reports what the offensive tweets actually were ...
Isn't Filecoin Protocol Labs' solution to the cencorship problem?
You'd be surprised how quickly people forget those bad things and go back to shop at said e-commerce provider, though... I've seen it happen so many times. Sometimes it takes days, other times months, but people eventually go back once the anger subsides and they remember that website. :/
Can you run the kernel on real hardware and debug from another PC (automated, either container or not)? Most of the kernel nightmares I've seen and wanted to debug involve drivers (amdgpu sleep-wake GPU hangs, ALSA USB audio setup, touchpad resolution, display backlight PWM frequency), and containers are insulated from physical hardware by design.
Likely, I'll have to search a bit if someone already took a stab at getting the mod work too.
First of all, we need to differentiate between surrender and unconditional surrender.

Even before the Soviet entry of the war, the situation was hopeless for the Japanese military leadership. Their best case scenario was to somehow avoid unconditional surrender, they would have gladly taken any deal to end the war that avoided that.

So a already devastating situation went from bad to worse when the Soviets entered the war. That was a absolute game changer in terms of strategy and made a conditional surrender pretty unlikely. So clearly were was no point in prolonging the war anymore.

The atomic bombs didn't really enter into the equation.

> If you want any further proof, just look at who the Japanese actually surrendered to. There is nothing in their culture (then or now) which would cause them to surrender to anyone besides their actual victor.

There are obviously good reasons why the leadership preferred to surrender to the US. The Soviets probably would have pushed for bigger societal changes, requiring something like the de-nazification campaign in Germany.
no

>and to say let’s just ignore this because things I don’t want to happen are is ignoring the realities and difficulties of the world.

Right. Better then to make it so we can't ever hear, record, or react to the realities of a difficult world. Terrorists stop being terrorists when they can't talk to each other on your platform.

SESTA and FOSTA writ large. I strongly disagree.
Advanced nuclear threatened by reliance on Russia as sole source of needed fuel
Yeah, don't jump right in and try to look smarter than them. Give them the opportunity (time) to look bad on their own with no answer. OTOH, helping them save face is also a good way to go if that's someone you want to work with.
To borrow from the library on Kindle, just use the Libby app. Very painless and easy. You can send to your kindle as the last click of checkout.

https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
not gonna say Dominoes is great - however, to say that "It's obvious Italy doesn't like a reinterpretation of their own invention" is debatable given that both America and Italy (as a whole) have a substantial claim to it's fame https://eccentricculinary.substack.com/p/pizza-isnt-italian
this is from reddit, i wouldn't be surprised if it was just made up.
pastel-mature-herring~> What are the issues listed in these comments about IPFS?

victorious-capuchin|> The main issues seem to be that IPFS is not yet up to the standards that cURL should reasonably expect from a protocol asking for inclusion. In particular, there are concerns about the lack of censorship resistance and user privacy.
We are immune to advertising. Just forget it.

The idiotic rise of the "influencer" and all the surrounding cultures show we aren't just not immune to advertising, we crave it.

Edit: removed pointless snark/retained essential cynicism.
If somebody has a goal to communicate a certain thing, and does not succeed in communicating that because [nearly] everybody interprets them as being rude or obtuse instead, deductive reasoning would point to the conclusion that their approach to communication was the wrong one for the situation, and to the conclusion they should probably attempt to modify their communication if they wish to achieve a different result. (I appreciate that for autistic people, it might be particularly difficult to discern how or why their attempts to communicate a point do not succeed. I also appreciate that failed communication applies both ways, and that a neurotypical person telling an autist that they "never admit they're wrong" is a failure on the part of the neurotypical person to appreciate that this statement will most likely be interpreted hyper-literally)

Alternative, one can avoid that reasoning and rationalise not discarding consistently failing conversational stratagems because the cause of the failed outcome of a conversation is a person's opinion which lacks the same consistency as mathematics (and therefore more effective conversational stratagems can - at best - only be supported evidentially by inductive reasoning). But that just leads to the wrong outcome more often.
New programmable materials can sense their own movements
> Apple has their own power efficient systems and will compete with AWS

Are you saying Apple is going to roll out an AWS competitor to the public? I find that highly unlikely.
Show HN: GitHub Commit Visualiser
I built a tool which you can use to visualise your git commits at an org or repository level. It shows just how much work an engineering team, or even an individual does, that often goes unseen by non-dev teams.

You can read about the build here: https://ably.com/blog/visualize-your-commits-in-realtime-wit...

Repo is here: https://github.com/ably-labs/github-commit-visualizer

You can deploy your own to netlify (or provider of your choice) and start visualising your own project's commits in realtime.
Cat metaphors have been used to make science writing more approachable
That is always going to depend on the context. Sometimes a small number makes a difference, sometimes not.

40 times greater chance of a comet hitting you on the head? Still gonna be negligible and you probably shouldn't be too concerned.

40 times more lead in your eggs? Well, you should really be aiming for zero lead in your eggs and lead poisoning can happen over time (My cousins got lead poisoning from old plates and bowls). If you have chickens, you are probably being fed a consistent diet of eggs. So yeah, it might very well be a concern.
This doesn't read to me as dismissing the author's autism. It reads to me as observing that a non-autist could have written substantially the same article (minus making it about autism), and they then went off to observe that this comment section would likely have looked very different in that case.

It's an interesting thought experiment, and at least to me it feels like you're the one who is reading dismissal into it for no good reason.
A new explainable AI paradigm that could enhance human-robot collaboration
That's interesting. Good to know.
Follow up post saying FSD was never enabled [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32417286
Colo costs are just insane compared to consumer prices.

At home: 12 or 42 €/month (details¹), depending on whether I want gigabit upload or not. Advantages:

- fast LAN speeds,

- don't need to go anywhere to do hardware maintenance/replacement/additions,

- low cost,

- partially solar powered if you have solar panels,

- don't need to make things fit in a rack (can be a raspberry pi, an old laptop, or whatever you like),

- likely you have more space available, and you get to share that gigabit uplink if you pay for it for your server.

Colocation: €128 / month (120 base price, 8 electricity in germany; if you want to fly to Finland for accessing your hardware, then electricity is half the price). Advantages:

- redundant power supply,

- maybe noise if you don't have a separate room for this stuff,

- you can do this also if your home has poor internet.

¹ I pay €50/month for my internet connection regardless (I didn't buy a bigger bundle for the server), the server uses ~35W average which makes ~26 kWh/month which makes ~9 €/month. Though, I'd pay the base connection fee for electricity anyway so the added cost is even a bit lower. Rent is about €6 per m², but I have my stuff in between storage (above and below) so the column above those 1.5 m² is basically cut in three, coming out to about 3 €/month added cost. The added cost of hosting a server at home is about 12 euros per month. If I wanted to upgrade to gigabit symmetric internet, that would be an added 30 €/month (total 42 €/month). At 35W it doesn't make much of a difference for cooling, but there is no AC installed in my home anyway.
The article gives the prices in a table in you scroll down a bit :

electricity/air conditioning rate old price* new price*\

Germany € 0.29/kWh € 0.45/kWh

Finland € 0.12/kWh € 0.22/kWh
It's like with refrigerators - when some years ago it was both cost-efficient and even 'green' to scrap working refrigerators and replace them with new ones, because the difference in improved energy efficiency meant that the electricity cost savings outweighed the cost of the new refrigerator already within a year or two and the reduced pollution from less electricity (at the time, fossil fuels) outweighed the environmental cost/waste of making that new refrigerator.
I'm pretty sure at some point the Kobo mini was about that at some point...

It's not like $45 is the regular price of the Kindle either. Camelcamelcamel has the new base model having it's lowest at $70 and I've seen the Nia for $80 and they are pretty comparable.
I wonder how much of this is from lead paint around buildings
You really picked up the worst possible examples.

Solution #1 - don't buy properly crap food that is literally slowly killing you and making/keeping you addicted, while you pay the money to said corporations. A generally smart move. Yes they also own normal food(TM) brands, but here in Europe there are tons of alternatives on shelves, ie 1 cocoa powder from nestle, other 5 from small often fair trade producers.

Maybe in US Amazon owns everything, although I doubt it. But US is what, 5% of the world? In most of the world, Amazon is OK but nothing big. In Switzerland for example, there is no Amazon and its non-trivial to order anything from other countries, many sellers simply do not ship here. Stuff comes via Swiss post/small companies, from local eshops. So yeah not giving much to Bezos even if I wanted to.

Now what did I solve though? Nothing apart from good feeling (and paying more for postal serviecs and eating more healthily)
Deconstructing WeatherBill's $930M Pivot
Since learning two years ago about the story behind David Friedberg's WeatherBill pivot in 2011, I've constantly referred back to it in conversations with other founders and product managers. Seems to me like a textbook perfect pivot that should be studied by everyone setting up their own startup (before they need to pivot in the first place).
Unfortunately with Crohn's disease it can pop up anywhere in the Gi tract (including even my mouth, which I found out last year when I got to puzzle my dentist and an ENT with some weird tongue, lip, and gum inflammation!).

Ulcerative Colitis, a close relative to Crohn's, is generally vanquished once you remove the large intestine.
2022 attacks An August reading list to go “Shields Up”
Does anybody know whether fruit & vegetables can contain lead if all external matter is 100% removed or peeled off? i.e do plants suck this stuff up? my parents grow fruit and vegges at home and we live next to a road in a fairly old neighborhood..
Please see: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/price-adjustment/#wh... "in all locations" = Yes, the ASH location will also be affected. --Katie, Hetzner
> Do you think that just because something is not regularly done, that automatically means it is bad or not feasible?

I think it proves that co-ops are just worse at complex tasks. A company requires just one dedicated and driven individual (the founder), and the rest of people can be hired and just do tasks assigned to them. Whereas, in a coop, the decision-making process is much harder, and just doesn't work as well for complex organizations. And, game devving (like many other complex tasks) is so hard and fraught with perils, that you don't want to throw in additional complications if you don't have to.
There is a UX benefit I've found, and maybe the app folks felt it as well.

Android has a nice universal "back" button which can close an opened tab and return you the app that spawned it. iOS tried a similar option with a "go back to App" link at the top left, but it doesn't fully close out browser tabs spawned by the app. Safari has gotten smarter about this, with browser "back" buttons closing spawned tabs in many cases, but not all.

So, in all those emails where I click to launch a browser to "read more" but see no reason to keep it around, the embedded browser actually plays a maintenance role: no need to get rid of those tabs that were just a funny comment I wanted to see but never need to keep.

Yes, the tracking is disappointing, but the UX of not having a zillion tabs open (and in old iOS version, hitting tab limits) makes my life easier.
Except we don't get to invent where they are because you can see normal matter. We tried before to invent some normal matter to explain the orbit of Mercury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet).
Could you explain your reasoning? My understanding is that:

fiber=c
lasers=c
fiber=nonlinear
lasers=linear

So in physics terms, starlink will eventually surpass buried fiber in latency for all situations where fiber routing divergence from linear exceeds the ~1000km orbital round trip.
New test may predict Covid-19 immunity
Latest CommonCrawl archive (Available FOC) includes 1.4B new URLs
Not sure why I was downvoted, but it doesn't look good in the EU either.

https://europepmc.org/article/MED/30204015

I think it's from paint the chickens pick on, fallen off older farm houses, it wasn't uncommon in the 60-70s.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/ways-to-minimize-lead-pa...
What the public wants and what the legislature’s provide are fairly far from each other on this issue.

The minute the Dobbs decision came down several states laws changed to dramatically limit abortion. Much more limited than the national polls suggest are the desired outcomes. Indiana of all places had to rush a change on the books to make sure their ban wasn’t too limiting.

In that climate, and the way midterm elections go, I think a national ban is a definite possibility.

Meanwhile, an assault weapons ban is very popular with the public, but is effectively impossible to get passed.

Structurally, this Supreme Court is more activist than the public wants and is misaligned with the majority opinions (though I’ll grant that’s not the courts mandate).
I love the Wayback machine. We really are risking losing historical sites and data like this but I'm happy there are active people working on archiving like this like the Internet Archive.
There is another bit of history that possibly informs the change. ~Up until Reagan, US needed to present an alternative to communist and socialist systems. Post USSR collapse, 'history ended', and that's when the neo-liberal genie was let out of the bottle. This is a somewhat cynical view, but imo not an unreasonable speculation.
Working on your startup while having a 9to5? You don't need time, you need focus
The strategy of Russia pointing at a very unlikely fire safety issue and the coyness of Ukraine not taking direct responsibility for it (yet) are interesting from a communication perspective.
Ask HN: What are you reading? (Aug 2022)
Anything with detail and substance. Preferable books, ideally non-fiction, but recommendations for Substack (or similar) is welcomed as well.
Just write efficient software, then you won’t need that many servers.
Los efectos dañinos de la luz azul empeoran con la edad, revela un estudio
Solar a literal light-bulb moment showed us we can cut costs even further
Low cost geo? Offshore technology center? Surely they didn’t just call it “outsourcing.” That would be rather crude.

But if India was called out, perhaps leadership is behind. That’s not the only low cost geo. Far from it. It can even be spendy, relatively speaking! You can save a lot by spending a little, bootstrapping a LCG even. Hopefully no other companies try to pilfer your cogs, but maybe you can pilfer theirs.

“Low cost geo” = “cheaper cogs” = only upper management are people.

There are valid reasons to spread a workforce across time zones. Coverage, availability, reasons that respect human existence rather than put a price on it.

But so often the reason is “this saves me money, the end.” Upper management seems to gravitate to the delusion that they personally are mental giants that can move mountains, and the cogs are interchangeable - and those over there are cheap!

Is upper management responsible for not adequately forecasting and planning for the cost of paying existing employees, if not hiring new ones? No, it’s the high maintenance cogs that are wrong.

Or maybe the economy, or covid, please understand layoffs are brutal on leadership, so stressful. Better schedule an exec retreat!
Induction stoves are awesome, normal electric stoves suck. You know what sucks? Gas stoves. [0]

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54
> Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.

> Several years ago, Musk said that public transit was “a pain in the ass” where you were surrounded by strangers, including possible serial killers
In Germany, my rule of thumb was that a constant 1W load is 1€/year. This year, I had to update it, it is now more something like 3€/year. The increase is so important I am still not sure if my calculations are right!

1W x 24h x 365 = 8760Wh
My current price: 0.33€/kWh (100% renewable)
8.76kWh x 0.33€/kWh = 2.89€
It also does not seem to be immune to creative interpretation. See e.g. current copyright laws.
In old neighborhoods in the US (anything over a century is old in the US) you find the craziest things in the soil. The sheer amount of glass and plastic and metal is staggering. Just digging the holes for ornamental plants was enough to make me realize all food gardening would need to be in raised beds with liners and known soil.

In parts of the world with longer periods of habitation (all of them) what do you find in the soil?
Except you'd only have the keys for your data...

And encrypted data you don't have the key for is indistinguishable from random noise. 'Combined' blocks that you don't know which partner blocks are necessary for decoding are likewise useless.

You're being like a mailman handling mail - you can't look into the mail, so you can't know if you're delivering love letters, junkmail, or terrorist propaganda.
amazing how much damage cars have done in 100 years
Knowledge is information you can recall. Wisdom is knowledge you know how to apply.
It's looking a lot like the Swedish central bank's interest rate forecasts (an iconic illustration dubbed "the hedgehog"):

https://cornucopia.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/riksigelkot...
What other verticals does it have to seek out next, if growth is demanded by shareholders?