skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I think a hype like this comes along once or twice in a career. Java was every bit as revolutionary in its day and had Sun Microsystems (they were a Big Deal) pouring every spare dollar into fluff pieces about it and it still never achieved a true Jehovah’s Witness vibe.
One has to be particularly careful with climate policy because fuel prices have a long track record of high political relevance.
Relevant Oatmeal cartoon:

https://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences/cutting_off
> This is for example how CPUs and GPUs are sold, and many other products.

Many products use a consistent manufacturing process with binning... a qa step where their performance is measured and then sorted, so you pay more for the top 10 percentile. That makes sense to me... but things like this always seem wasteful regardless of the industry.
SQLAwesome? :)
That is because it's easy to support an abstract policy like "better social safety net" or "solve climate change".

When the actual policy implementation is revealed and people see how it will affect them, they realize it's not free of trade-offs and downsides.

For example, higher taxes and higher gas prices will make a lot of people drop support for climate policy.
Even if the crypto market for GPUs dries up, the ML market only seems to be growing. GPU manufacturers should be just fine.
Yeah, I usually just settle back to allow room and pretend they’re a city bus - probably faster, way better smelling
As a former outdoorsman I’ve been in situations where I had to rush to a potentially critically injured near-stranger, and other situations where I was startled by a large wild animal, and as far as I can tell it’s the same response. My rational mind simply disengaged like a clutch, and it was barely even informed of what I was doing until minutes later. My memory says my body was moving without my help. I’m usually the one who’s calm and troubleshooting like a robot while others are freaking out, but when the brain decides it’s time for an adrenaline flood I believe that trumps every other thing.
Part of the issue is that people are generally in favor, but those things aren't their top priorities and they're not willing to pay a high cost for them. A lot of the polling changes if you ask things like "How much would you be willing to pay for X".
When performance and correctness are paramount, I personally stick to Ada/SPARK. Proven to be perfect for the job, and to be honest, Rust is quite a difficult language and I am not sure it is worth learning it considering that Ada/SPARK ticks all boxes when it comes to both low-level and high-level programming for critical systems.
This has basically always been the case.

I have yet to see compelling numbers that show these systems do much of anything.

The markets most heavily served by piracy are either

1. Those completely neglected by normal distribution channels (poor countries)

2. Those who are extremely budget conscious (poor people in any country)

But it's a good sales pitch to execs to show piracy numbers and claim "Think of all the lost revenue!!!!" - when the blunt reality is that most who pirated simply don't have the means to pay for it in the first place.

The right short term answer is to heavily discount digital products for those markets (see: Steam sales) and bring the price back in line with the budget available.

The long term answer is political, and will require restructuring how digital products are made and licensed (it's time to ditch the per-copy-sold costs - they aren't the right answer for goods that have ZERO marginal cost per copy produced).
I’ve always found this an interesting criticism. Switch controllers might break more often but I’ve never had a game system controller that didn’t end up with drift in the course of a year or two (and I don’t play games often.)
How do you enforce payment? Chasing vendors around? Adding analytics to your platform to tattle-tale?
That’s pretty much how it works! :)

Here’s how I see it.

When startup companies need product design skills, they generally hire a full-time product designer, a freelancer or a design agency. There are advantages but also drawbacks for these options. Recruitment can take months, full-time roles are a long term commitment, freelancers are not always available for work or reliable, and design agencies are expensive.

A SaaS offering for product design brings a few cool benefits:

- START IMMEDIATELY. Subscribe via Stripe and submit your design requests and revisions on the dedicated Trello board. Receive your designs within 1 or 2 working days on average.

- PAUSE OR CANCEL ANYTIME. The monthly plans are flexible based on your needs. The quarterly and yearly plans have a nice discount for longer projects.

- FRICTIONLESS COLLABORATION. You can submit unlimited design requests and revisions for as many projects and brands as you need. All requests are added to your queue and delivered to you one by one.

- SCALABLE. The queue capacity can be increased with the Enterprise Plan for clients with large amounts of design work (multiple projects with overlapping timelines and multiple teams).

- GOOD PRICING. You can access product design services from experienced designers for as low as $50k per annum via the yearly plans.

I believe these are the things that makes Designline a SaaS or a DaaS (Design as a Service) startup company.
Right, parent is overstating it, and that's fair to call out, but it's still a low barrier to entry (even without the staking pools). At the current price (where anyone can get in), it's ~$1660, so 32 ETH would be ~$53k. How many "paycheck-to-paycheck" households blew that much on a fancy new pickup truck? Or home remodel? Or extra interest charges on the lifetime of a home loan from stretching their budget?
> often connecting new devices that don't access the password manager

Isn't that what plex.tv/link is for?
They'll regulatory capture that industry out of existence before it ever gets off the ground and you (you HN readers, not you personally) will vote for the politicians that will do it after telling you it's to prevent odometer fraud or dodging safety/emissions inspections. Maybe they'll even frame it as something those filthy poors who should be taking the bus anyway are doing that needs to be reigned in.
For reference, ZEVs are so far 16% of sales in 2022, were 12% in 2021, and 8% in 2020.

Edit: That makes 2026 almost exactly a linear forecast of the current trend, but 2030 is higher: https://i.imgur.com/J48LULx.png
They are not hard-forking, it will be compatible with the original chain and original rules. There will be two competing forks, one censored, one not censored, and the censored one is longer (because 51%). Consensus rules say longer chain is valid. So it _is_ the official "bitcoin", according to consensus rules.

The 51% attack is not some made up thing.
If the 49% mine a block, the 51% can ignore it and will eventually surpass the 49%'s chain's length long term, no matter how lucky they are short-term.
Except that blocks are not “finalized”, like you’re imagining. With 51% of mining power, I can mine faster than the rest of the network, for an arbitrary number of blocks. The 51% attacker will have the longest chain for as long as they keep mining their chain because they’re chain will always (eventually) be the longest one.
What would be the advantage of doing this in space as opposed to Terra Firma? Is wireless delivery of power even practical at the national / global scale?
One way or another we are going to find out...

What a time to be alive :)

Whether the project dies or continues forward the innovation coming from the space is pretty amazing.
AFAIK in any network (including Bitcoin), any miner can select any transaction in the mempool.

There will always be a miner (or validator in PoS) that will be willing to take Tornado Cash fees.
That's an extremely high percentage, is it possible?
I agree, provided the purchase arrangement of the car included the perpetual (at least until it broke) heated seats functionality.

If the car was instead sold/bought with the heated seats as a subscription, I don’t see any problem with them being, well, a subscription.
First, those streaming services are ad-free. Cable is not. Second, those streaming services cover what would be considered "premium" content on cable, so that price comparison is grossly misleading. They're comparing subscribing to all of those services to what likely amounts to "basic" cable.

The great thing about those streaming services is you can pick and choose. I used to subscribe to more services than I do now, and there's so much content on each of them that I found myself neglecting about half the services I subscribed to. So I dropped it down to what I actually use. You can't do that with cable. I spend far less with my ad-free streaming content than I would if I purchased ad-filled cable content.

And when I say ad-filled, so much of it is every 5 minutes or so you get about 5 or so minutes of ads. For how much you pay for the service, that is completely unacceptable.

So, no, I will not be spending MORE on cable in order to be served ads constantly. I'm doing fine on my small collection of ad-free streaming services.
No one ever said it's up to the consumer, it's up to the market. Granted, California banning them isn't the market, but the bank not offering loans is.
It's so common we even have a name for it: road rage. What it is about driving that induces rage in so many people is beyond me.
X070 prices are still like double what they were 5 years ago. This isn’t a crater yet. I’m not surprised they’re having difficulty moving the extremely expensive cards to non-miners, but x090Ti cards were never really about practical gaming.
I was just told by Amazon that I can't sell a used book there because the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann, is currently not accepting applications to sell and denied my request to sell.

I was pretty stupefied. Amazon and the publisher have colluded, for whatever reason, to police how used books are sold.
One sad lesson I learned early on in my software career is, for every ethical stand you are willing to take as a developer, there's always some other developer who is willing set aside ethics or has a different set of ethics. Software needs some kind of baseline ethical standard, like a Hippocratic Oath. A line that we "shall not cross."

I remember my first job out of college, I was asked to write code that caused our software to cheat at a certain industry benchmark. I was very junior, but still realized it was wrong. I finally worked up the courage to tell my boss that I had an ethical problem with doing this and wouldn't do it, and to my surprise, he said "Oh, that's fine! We treat software developers well here. I'll just give you a different bug ticket to work on!"

Jim, a few cubicles down from me had no problem writing the benchmark-cheating code. It's kind of futile.
Whoops, you're right, I meant markup instead of margin. Fixed now. (For the curious, margin is (revenue-cost)/revenue, and markup is (revenue-cost)/cost.)
For humans, a lot of the "dumb" stuff is rooted in our evolutionary history as primates, for whom dominance hierarchies are a big part of their evolutionary environment.

For our nearest ancestors, chimps, being a dominant male has a lot of value in terms of reproductive success. So it's not shock to me that humans males are prone to the same sort of dominance assertion and performance of being highly placed that chimps are. I read this sort of behavior as the driver asserting his "superiority", putting "lesser" people in "their place".

If you're interested, de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics" was a real eye-opener for me. There was a big chunk of human behavior that went from "what is wrong with him" to "ah, ok, primates gonna prime".
> Several developers have walked back their use of Denuvo after fan outcry, usually armed with data about how it adversely affects performance.

No they haven't. They stopped paying for Denuvo after a time, given they have to pay on a monthly basis, because the number of sales they make goes down over time and Denuvo has done it's job.
This bothers me because those raw materials and byproducts of manufacturing still get either used or produced. So this seems like a net negative for the planet when there have been pushes to reform the impact this industry in particular has on the environment.
Another article pointed out that the economics of staking are completely different than those of mining. With mining, some of the earned coins need to be sold to pay for electricity. With staking, the biggest holders just sit there and collect coins with few operational costs.

To me it sounds like staking has a much more powerful snowball effect than mining and the gap between the wealthiest ETH participants and everyone else will increase faster under PoS.
Are you telling me that it would be impossible for the phone companies to do away with this problem? That they're not making any money from it?

The keyword here is network effect.
I think of it this way: if our current understanding of physics is correct, then there is no room for free will. Everything is subatomic particles acting according to known laws. Cause and effect rules all. If, on the other hand, free will exists, then our understanding of the physical world is completely wrong. In which case all the arguments against souls, gods, demons, precognition, the afterlife, magic, and everything else weird and spooky goes out the window.
What should we do today for our 45th birthday?
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How the Space Industry Has Changed in the 6 Months Since Russia’s Invasion
> Please don't - this is typical 'tough on crime' trick: promise long sentences, so easy - longer sentence-less crime, right? Wrong. Sentenses are useless if no-one ever gets caught. Look at countries with the toughest sentenses in the world, and you will find they have loads of crime

Perhaps the causality goes the other way here? Perhaps suffering under loads of crime makes people vote for tough sentences?
Seems to conclude:

>Our research indicates the important role of these insects in the epidemiology of parasites pathogenic to vertebrates. Conducted parasitological examination suggests that edible insects may be the most important parasite vector for domestic insectivorous animals. According to our studies the future research should focus on the need for constant monitoring of studied insect farms for pathogens, thus increasing food and feed safety.
Biden cancels $10k in student loan debts
> For years, privacy advocates, who foresaw the contours of the surveilled world we now live in, warned that privacy was a necessary prerequisite for democracy, human rights and a flourishing of the human spirit. We’re about to find out what happens when that privacy has all but vanished.

Hopefully there will be enough popular backlash in the near future, without too much institutional breakdown, that elected government officials will have no choice but to figure out how to fight for and protect everyone's right to privacy in personal spaces.

Hopefully.
The article discusses "European" road signs as being something inspirational. They should specify that they were inspired by Spanish road signs, rather than "European" ones in general. For instance in Germany, freeway exits are notoriously poorly marked. In most situations you will only get a big blue sign that says Ausfahrt and no details nearby.
KDE Connect can be used to move your mouse, too.
Ask HN: Go vs. Python (Docker SDK)
I was just reading Rust – A hard decision pays off (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578743) when I stumbled upon this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32580654

> Docker is built with Go. Compare doing things with Docker api between Go and Python. I usually recommend people to "script" things with Go but I start to think that Go has to go... https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/sdk/examples/

The very first example of the SDK page is quite a shock. To "run a container" in Python is 3 LOC. To do the same in Go takes 56 LOC. But why? I can imagine one could add a simple method to the Go SDK to mimic what the Python SDK is doing, but that's not the case. So, why this huge difference? One solution is "Pythonic" and the other is "the gopher way"?
If a majority of miners implements new rules that the validating nodes don't support, then the blocks are just ignored. They may as well be mining Bitcoin Cash or Litecoin blocks.

The majority of miners implementing new rules only has an effect on which rules the validating nodes will start enforcing if those nodes implemented them and allowed miners to signal when to start.
And, at the very least, they add to the weight or energy consumption of the car, thereby decreasing my fuel economy and adding costs to my budget.
What exactly is this problem with this?
For us non-specialists, is 444 a shorthand "terminate with extreme prejudice" upon suspected hacking?

https://serverfault.com/questions/822484/nginx-444-error-eqi...
The Power of Metaphor – Mike Hill
Anecdotally, the moment new Doom eternal brought it on, I demanded a refund with a clear indication why I submitted it. I am paying for this. And no, I do not care one bit that an executive can't buy a yacht this year if I have to suffer for their crappy decisions.

But that is the thing.. you have to be a conscious customer. You can't just say 'oh, i guess everyone is getting screwed; on average i am being screwed less; so i win..'.

The only appropriate response is, and I am not using profanity lightly:

'No. Because fuck you that is why.'

I accept I am a minority, but I also was raised in different era and have patience that comes with age.
I think focusing on the technology of blockchain is a mistake. A lot of web2 people look at blockchain like its a capability they csn integrate
into their enterprise architecture. That's not really what it is.

What modern crypto has become is a new digital economy. You can build a digital economy without blockchain (most people here probably work in one), but what blockchain is bringing is sovereignty to the economy.

This distinction is important. Tech people keep talking about technical solutions to recent problems, but this isn't a problem caused by tech and its not a problem solved by tech. The conversation about things like tornado cash is one of foreign policy.

A self sovereign digital economy has autonomy, but it relies on imported compute, which means it needs friendly relationships with foreign governments.
People didn't use fentanyl, then they did. Does that suggest fentanyl is good?
Certbot is fine, but it’s nice to have that functionality built directly into the reverse proxy as opposed to having to configure and update multiple tools. I would ideally like to see Nginx integrate a subset of Certbot’s feature set into their code base especially given that offloading SSL is one of the primary use cases of Nginx.
> Toyota, meanwhile, started charging $8 a month to remotely start vehicles using a key fob — a feature that had previously been free.

It's probably not safe to operate these sorts of features in perpetuity. Funding the security team to deal with hacks seems necessary and the cost is reasonable. Really, it's comforting to hope that in 20 years time you might still get security updates. (As opposed to my smartphone which is only 4 years old and can't be upgraded to the latest Android at any price.)
You seem to be operating further from good faith than them.
>I didn't think Sony would follow Microsoft in charging a subscription for online play,

This is explicitly why I'd never buy a PS5, and really didn't touch PS4 except to play Bloodborne. All digital services seem to eventually become anti-consumer. You become reliant on the service, the service keeps changing for the worse or becoming more expensive, and it becomes harder and harder for the user to extricate themselves from it.

Even in cases where it's easy to step away from a service, it almost always either degrades over time, or else morphs into something you don't have any interest in. It's like a ticking clock. You can't even enjoy this product because you know it's totally ephemeral. Eventually it will be worse than it was, exploit you in some way, or price you out of it.

There are a few exceptions here, but they are rare, and I suspect they are still going to go extinct at some point as well, they will merely take longer.
Yeah they’re trying to get as much money as possible from you. They’re a business - that’s their reason for existing. When it’s a luxury good I can’t see any ethical issue in that.

When I ask for a pay rise for doing the same job from my employer am I being unethical?
> About the author

> Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation that produces computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and related services.

Apparently this thing is introducing itself...
> Basically, if there is no free will, there is no point in debating, because it is already determined what you will believe in a way that has no relationship to logic.

I don’t understand this. There are plenty of tasks with deterministic outcomes that are no less worth doing. Sorting a big list of numbers is deterministic, yet it’s often worth doing. There are many tasks which are deterministic but have results which cannot be “predicted” any faster than by simply performing the task.
that's arguing semantics (about "absolute"), not addressing the overwhelming experience of the right to bodily autonomy. we live in a complicated sociopolitical world and one contrived thought experiment doesn't a refutation make.

by right, people get to choose what to do with their own bodies when harm to others is small not simply zero (e.g., smoking).
The gut feeling is that you basically need a file share that serves static files that are 5-50MB in size that are joined together on client side.

How do you think this compares in complexity with real time distributed transactions that spans across several financial partners across the globe?
> First - clearly reducing the environmental impact of anything by this much is pro-humanity.

How long until BTC follows suit?
What if they then show bogus evidence