skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is not going to go away just because lots of people criticize it. Bitcoin is only going to go away when we build an alternative that has (most) of its (perceived) benefits and fewer of its drawbacks.

IOW, stop criticizing "crypto" and start focusing on criticizing "Bitcoin". Be specific about your arguments, otherwise everyone will feel like they are on a Mexican standoff and you will never get the support to win the good fight.
Brilliant work, and the researcher involved seems quite humble, despite her impressive discovery.

Where in the world is Carmen Sandi’s ego?
Germans mostly rent and it's fine. Because they have tenant protection laws.
The Number of ‘Lonely, Single Men’ Is on the Rise Thanks to Higher Standards
> Now, there’s no special brilliance needed to come up with this kind of test. Frankly, it’s pretty obvious and I’m sure the Wirecutter is aware they could do it. They just don’t.

They are giving others way too much credit here. If Wirecutter is aware they could do it they probably also think that their test and this test are equivalent.
It’s the same as with Bitcoin:

- wait a bit to make sure that you can talk to different people on the network and see what each of them see

- check checkpoints on twitter or websites like etherscan (are they seeing the same thing I’m seeing?)

In projects like Mina, since you do not download the history of the chain (there’s a single zero knowledge proof of a few kB that covers the whole history) you must rely on a marker for “chain quality “ to differentiate potential forks.

Note that there was also some research on how to get signal from the transactions you see that you’re on the correct fork (from some ex colleagues working on libra): https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1440.pdf
Or less.

Jimmy Carr says that the shortest joke he's ever written is two words: dwarf shortage.
Were you not aware that those same supplements (vitamin B12 i guess you referring to) are feed/ injected to livestock? And the “avoid death” is a bit overblowing B 12 is stored in the liver so it takes years to be depleted and same as animal products there are fortified foods which are more than enough to cover the 2.4mcg needed.
Music is a little different because you don’t need proprietary hardware in order to listen to music. Everything plays an MP3. A CD is a CD and all CD players play CD’s.

With console video games, you can’t just pop the game disc into any disc tray that plays games. You can’t run your downloaded Xbox game on the PlayStation. The thing you licensed (since we don’t own them technically) is tied to proprietary hardware.

Imagine if you had to own a Mac in order to listen to your music you bought on iTunes/Apple Music
I finally got to look at the source code.

There's a lot going on, and it's pretty well organized into components and small files. The worst thing is the flat file structure.

Diving into a React codebase definitely requires some process and familiarity with dev tools, common patterns and React in general, but the upside is that the process is repeatable. Doesn't do you a lot of good for diving into a random codebase, but as a pro React dev, I can hit the ground running much faster than with a project of similar complexity.
It was hundreds of years before doctors stopped using leaches...
Judging from photos, the Rhine at Kaub is quite wide, so it would be possible to narrow the river via concrete embankments to deepen the maximum depth. This would be a pretty large engineering project so it would likely need many years to complete. It might just be easier to build another freight railway.
A lot of the tourists come for day trips via cars or cruise ships. Banning short term rentals like AirBnB might help slightly but wouldn't really solve the problem.

Living in a place where tourists outnumber permanent residents will always kind of suck no matter what. The same type of issues impact beach towns in the summer and ski towns in the winter.
I can't think of any non-rulebreaking comments that would get you banned just for expressing a distasteful idea. Can you give some examples?
This is a recent guide that attempts to cover everything in depth: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-gui...
This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction!
I genuinely believe that AB testing as practiced by every major tech company (and the incentives it creates) has caused much of this. AB testing is a really unsophisticated way of measuring extremely short-term incremental gains in isolation. That's how we've ended up with products which have gradually become so hostile to users. Because individually the changes seem like small wins, but taken together and over the long term they are deeply destructive to the core product. AB testing doesn't capture long-term changes to user behavior from the accumulation of disparate features. The incentive structures within these companies are all set up to be able to prove these small wins in dollar values to get a raise or promotion which has led to a race to the bottom as teams create features nobody wants to justify their existence.

Anecdotally I and many people I know have reached a kind of breaking point where these apps have become so demanding in terms of attention that we have to stop using them entirely. Whether it's YouTube's incessant advertisements, TikTok's infinite scroll or Facebook's insane jumble of a UI/feed these products are demonstrably inferior to their incarnations 5-7 years ago.
well the whole point of trying to produce color corrected monitors was to avoid the whole process of printing things out and looking at them in white rooms as desktop publishing started to become a thing - high end publishers were (are?) very sensitive to their color fidelity, compelling color is very much part of what draws in their readers
I feel you completely. The children brought me joy that no way I can express how grateful I am. They made me realized experience can only be, well, experienced. No amount of describing can imprint the experience onto anyone. Now I empathize much more with co-workers when they seem oblivious to some solutions. Right now the children are asleep. I tried to catch up some articles or to prototype some something. But hey, no more focus juice left at all :)
I like the analysis and optimism in this article, but it does not answer a key question: who would pay for this social network that truly "brings the world closer together", if not advertisers? What is the business model?
Glad I decided to get out of my comfort zone and grab the Google Pixel. Few initial teething issues, but pretty great overall. Seeing this just hammers home that I dodged a gimmicky bullet.
NVidia and AMD drivers are 20+ years of piling hacks upon hacks just to make sure games run properly and a paper over obscure bugs. It's gonna take time for Intel to catch up.
While he doesn't call it out these ideas mirror Clayton Christensen's Jobs To Be Done. For people who are interested in this concept that would probably be a good place to start looking, as there are a lot of articles and related resources under that name.
You need a slightly older-than-current firmware version, though, correct? I haven't kept up on Mobiread forums lately.
I'm not sure if the homeless of NYC would like to be shipped to a house in the mountains of Vermont without food, support, food or anything else. I mean NYC would be happy I guess until they found their way back.
> Hacker News always has crazy takes when it comes to anything diet related. It's always strange.

HN has crazy takes on everything not within the very narrow sphere of tech expertise that is common to everyone on this board.

You notice it for diet-related things since you are a (relative) expert on that topic.

But it's also the case for anything economic, political, scientific, or sports or hobby related, and so on.
For over a decade, every August, Byte magazine published columns covering one programming language. Here’s a list of years and languages covered:

8/77 - APL

8/78 - Pascal

8/79 - LISP

8/80 - Forth

8/81 - Smalltalk

8/82 - Logo

8/83 - C

8/84 - Modula 2

8/85 - Declarative programming

8/86 - Object Oriented programming

9/87 - Misc programming
I found unpickling a lot slower than json loading.
Starts with the title: "Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam" instead of something like "Google gets green light to exempt campaign mail from spam filters".

Then almost the whole article is dedicated to the best arguments of the opposition, while cherry picking a single proponent argument and presenting it in the worst possible light. The only time a non-opponent gets a proper quote is when Google is justifying having a pilot program - and they're more of a neutral party here.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
In this thread, we engineer from first principles why "innocent until proven guilty" is a thing--at least in the United States.
I suspect that nodding off in meetings or lectures, a lot of time, is caused by too much CO2 in the air, caused by poor ventilation and a room full of exhaling people.
Eh wouldn't it be cheaper to buy an old used truck and get it overhauled if you don't care about modern features?
How much of a connection has your "digital nomadry" made with locals? It sounds like most of your connection is with other people in the same rootless situation, not with people who actually live in the nifty places you're visiting.

You are certainly in a community but you are probably not much of a part of the community you're visiting. And if my experience as someone who grew up in a tourist destination is any guide, the locals whose job it is to be nice to you probably swap stories about your cluelessness about the local culture, and a lot of the locals whose job is not being nice to you view you with vague disdain at best.

You are raw material for the local economy and, we will generally do our best to politely pick you up by your ankles, shake you until money stops falling out, and send you on your way, while making sure you have a good enough time doing this to come back again once you have more money.
Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?
In proof of work the leader election (the thing that decides who gets to write the next page/block of the ledger) is based on how much money you can put in computing power or how big your mining pool is. The more computing power, the more lottery tickets you get to write the next block.

In proof of stake, the more crypto tokens you have, the more lottery tickets you get to win the right to write the next block.

In PoW the lottery is solving puzzles, that’s the energy inefficiency, in PoS the lottery is decided like a real lottery: with a random number generator (a distributed one at that, so that people agree that it was generated honestly)
One can at least "try" to find a similar ayurvedic medicine. It has no side effects
This theory is called MOND. It is generally considered to have fatal issues with observations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics#Re...
Thanks, I hope it was useful! The printing thing is an interesting point, because I hear from older people that everyone used to have to type up and turn in their assignments printed out, and handwritten items were refused.

For a long time now, they don't want typed and printed assignments; in fact some of my instructors in primary school would actually look upon these suspiciously - the default assumption is that if you are printing it out you are trying to bypass the anti-plagiarism system. That's also partially why every assignment is turned in online: your writing is run through one or more anti-plagiarism systems (and saved for later use against yourself and others).
Granted, it will take you several years to die. If you're a woman you'll lose your menstrual cycle pretty quick, too.
The ideas that break the rules.
> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latency communication over the internet.

I don't have as much hope for such a thing. To me, this trend is also a reflection of perhaps the societal devaluing of IRL social connections.

In a world where encountering "new people" was novel, and typically done only In Real Life, maintaining that connection using an online component had value. You may not encounter that person again, and good connections are rare, so you want to keep in touch. However, over time, the internet has made it trivial to encounter new people, even if the encounters themselves are more trivial than the previous In Real Life meetings were. Perhaps there was a two-way conversation before. Well now, you just read their tweets or watch their videos and click a button to follow.

Tracking real-life encounters isn't as valuable as it once was, especially when you can find an online substitute who is actively creating "content" to keep you engaged.

The newer connections are also way more transactional than they used to be. Just about everyone is selling something or trying to use their channels to promote themselves somehow.

I think there's an interesting overall trend in here between the fall of social networks and societal devaluing of real life connections (as well as a trend of them being more transactional), but I'm not an academic, so these are all just hunches.
> If you finance most vehicles they will install a poorly hidden cell tracker that usually draws power from the OBD2 port.

What kind of janky banks are you working with?

My spouse and I financed a couple of cars recently, one new and one slightly used, and did not have anything of the sort. Different manufacturers, different banks, different dealerships.
How did you get into this space? I previously would imagine that most EV companies or folks building out their own chargers would have this type of thing figured out, and so I'm probably wrong! Would like to hear more about that.
I'm skeptical that white noise would be equal or better to the quiet of suburbia. Especially against high db sounds like firetrucks, helicopters, and trains. Doesn't look like there is much research in this area though.
> Now I'm growing my book collection instead. No subscriptions, DLC or microtransactions for those at least

No subscriptions, DLC, or microtransactions... yet.
> Garbage collection tasks are postposed to when we're asleep, but they can only be put off for so long and there's a capacity for "stuff to consolidate later" that fills up

Do we have a strong reason to believe that? I know brain and sleep mechanisms are tricky topics with lots of unknowns, but I thought I had read research that showed sleeping brains likely perform a chemical analogue to "garbage collection".
Well, no. They're all in OneAPI, and DPC++/SYCL, which if they manage to make it not suck too much, may be far better to use and evolve than OpenCL. Yeah you have to port most stuff, but BLAS/mkl and onednn/openvino are getting (slowly) there. That's the first steps and with that they get some hpc or machine learning creds.

I really wish they'd focus for good on making their sw stack better, debuggable, tooled and far more optimized. No more rebranding, cryptic error messages, outdated docs, hard to install/dev/profile stuff, please.
Fascinating, are there any other similar products in this same category as DALL.E and Craiyon?
Are Toit or Ruby important?

We used to think Ruby would turn out to be important. Then it didn't, and Python reclaimed its niche. I have probably heard of Toit before, but am unsure.

Snapshotting your VM state as the way to deliver programs was probably Smalltalk's chief failing.
Ask HN: Having a good career without meaningful work relationships?
Trying to build meaningful relationships at work stresses me out. But also, I don't want my career to stay bad from the lack of good work relationships. I just don't want to be stressed, neither in the short run nor in the long run.

I treat interactions with people at work as being very "in the moment", very transactional, just doing the minimum to realize the goals of our work and the company. I don't invest time to build relationships at work beyond that. With my group of friends, I don't see them at work. I don't have many friends but with those that do, I still care about. Far less stressful compared to building genuine relationships at work.

Might be something to do with the workplace setting and money being involved in work. I don't get how transactional behavior in professional settings became taboo when money is at the center of most of it anyways. Nothing personal, just business.

My life shouldn't revolve around work or the people in them, but I do still want it to be stable enough in order to financially support my life outside of work. Can I have it both? In other words, low-investment, high stability work, in tech. Maybe that's a unicorn job in tech, I don't know.
1. Transactions won't change noticeably since the gas costs won't change and the network won't have more capacity.

2. The 'demand' from mining for GPUs is over-rated. It was a brief problem years ago. You are correct that energy usage for validation will go down.

3. One difference between bitcoin and eth... ethash is a memory hard algo so it doesn't require the fastest GPU. 4-5 year old GPUs are more ROI efficient. Everything is bound in the speed of the memory controller.

4. To be seen.

5. 'staking' today is just depositing ETH into an ETH1 contract that doesn't have a withdraw function. It will require forks to add that functionality.

6. Correct.

7. Correct. Although this likely won't have an impact on price like people think.

8. A fork could always change things.
“non-rulebreaking” implies that there are rules stating that certain ideas are not allowed.
No I can't, because my account would get banned. Probably under the pretext of the stated rule, "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes."
I have used the same magnet link searcher, same software (transmission / transmission-remote) for the past 10 years.
Someone should tell her that.
> Microsoft's list of faults would make this comment several megabytes. Sony is not without fault either: they're already selling a PlayStation with no game slot for a disk or cartridge, it's download only. They're killing the secondhand market, and probably the long-term availability of many titles, which in the future will not be playable (since they'll be lost), only watchable on YouTube.

You lost me here. The solution is to improve library portability and backwards compatibility, not clinging to increasingly-obsolete physical formats.

Imagine putting a cartridge in your phone for every app. Insanity.
You can both be right!
> Homelessness is an ancient problem, noone was able to solve that yet.

No, it's a fairly recent and entirely cultural phenomenon. For one thing, there was no homelessness at all in North America before the Seventeenth century or so.
@dang has been explicit that they deem certain topics “inherent flame wars” and ban discussion because it upsets people.

Certain ideas aren’t allowed here — even when calmly stated and cited with evidence.

For example, citing the clip of the BLM founder saying she’s a “trained Marxist” would get you banned: HN was in flat out denial, even though it was her own words on film [1]. She is literally answering a question about the ideology behind BLM.

Unfortunately, that kind of censorship enabled BLM to commit the fraud they did [2].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5zUwiCTzw

[2] - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amazon-boots-black-l...
What I meant is, from the point of view of the creator of the bin, locking the bin prevents a criminal from taking all the donations meant for homeless people.

If the charity leaves it unlocked they have no control over whether donations go to somebody who needs charity.
Regulations will take care of that. I expect that bitcoin will either be banned, or miners will be forced to reduce their computations, or users will be required to pay a pollution tax at exchanges. Move to greener chain if you have bitcoin, that’s my advice
No. Global population isn’t the rate-limiting factor for US immigration.
The benchmark is bad. Because after you load a json you can't really use it. Well to use it you must check lists are lists for real, objects are really objects and have the keys you think they should have and so on.

The alternative is using something like typedload (which I wrote) or pydantic in addition to json load, to avoid cluttering the code with the countless and error prone checks one must do to use untrusted json.

In the end dealing with untrusted json directly is terrible.
I agree, but I'm hard pressed to come up with the appropriate criteria at least in advance of getting any real life examples. At the moment, I can't think of anything better than 'republican|democrat' but I bet that will generate both false positives and false negatives.

That said, I doubt that I have to be concerned about it as I'm pretty unknown in political circles, other than having signed up for vote.org years ago.
It's unfortunate that he mis-used the term "cohousing," which is a distinct type of neighborhood/community that can be very beneficial for raising a family. It's a neighborhood in which your neighbors are often a kind of extended family. It would have deserved its own examination in the article. Cohousing is not living with more people in one house as the author characterized it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing
>Communities come in all shapes and sizes.

Yeah, a lot of things ca be a community. Even my board games or bouldering communities. But that has nothing to do with the type of city community in this topic.

>Your definition of community is too narrow.

It's not my definition here. In this topic we're talking specifically about digital nomads and whether they'd benefit the city of Venice.

>If you want to play "more community than thou", you're going to lose to the cohousing I spent my 20s in

I'm not playing anything against any community, but the topic was whether groups of digital nomads can form a community that would benefit the existing communities of the city of Venice and I gave my opinion on why that would not be the case, so please, let's stop changing goalposts to contrarian anecdotes (your community in your dorm from your 20's is not the same as the community of the city of Venice).
Same here. I completely blocked myself from accessing to YouTube on my smartphone and MacBook, just because of the shorts. This stuff is so addictive that I couldn't avoid it in my free time for dozens of minutes every single time I've opened youtube.
> Imagine what social networking could be!! The best days of social networking are still ahead. Now that the pretenders are leaving, we can actually start solving the problem. Social networking is dead. Long live what will emerge from the ashes. It might not be called social networking, but it will be, just better.

Not to be pessimistic, but this missing the whole point. Just because social networking is gone doesn’t mean it’s somehow in the hands of the people. They will flock to the ML addiction machines and 20 years from now something even more horribly grotesque.

I care about Mastodon, ActivityPub, PeerTube, BlueSky and all these open standards. But these platforms Are sole dependent on users and at the moment, they all look like programmer/activist-centric wastelands.
This is why Constitutionalists exist: to escape the false left/right dichotomy. That most people can't escape the false dichotomy is their own fault.
Or mowing a few lawns. I pay the teen who mows my small front and back yards $40. It's not a big deal. He's done in 30-40 minutes and moves to the neightbors down the street. This is just a couple weekends of side hustle.
"Venice’s main island has lost more than 120,000 residents since the early 1950s, driven away by myriad issues but mainly a focus on mass tourism"... surely it's the tourists driving away the residents and not the fact that the city is fucking underwater