skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"They are literally, in the literal sense of the word literal, definition-matching actions to the phrase "virtue signaling".

And this is the definition you shared:

"the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue."

Emphasis mine, wearing clean clothes and grooming is not publicly expressing opinions and sentiments about one's own good character.
I know that one happened.

But because it was celebrities people just thought "oh it wouldn't happen to me".
Ask HN: Best Beginner Books on Cryptography?
In particular, I'm trying to wrap my head around the different algorithms available, how much protection they provide, and how they differ from one another in an academic sense (no opinions unless they're circumstantial).

Not looking to implement my own algorithms or do analysis, just looking to remove naivety and be able to say "oh, don't use that one because of ___, or, use that one because of ___." Practical/prescriptive information would be a bonus.
You invented 'retroactive.' I suppose you are blasé about this because it applies to someone of an opposing political party.
Australian energy prices doubled in the last 6 months.

I'm not sure who would ever use the Australian market as a model, other than "under no circumstances follow suit".
> - higher latency

Which is a tradeoff, and it's okay as long as the client doesn't notice it.

> - uses more server resources per-client, therefore it's more expensive

Which is okay as long as the added expense is inconsequential (which it is).

> - harder to do SPA-like apps

Why?
I didn't know that. Do you get to be 1 year old if you are born on Feb 29, to account for leap years?
I daily drive Linux and I kind of agree with you. The amount of people I know that use Linux, use non-dev apps on their laptop/desktop, and aren't developers are zero (excluding myself obviously). The actual percentage of non-dev native gui tool users on Linux is probably within the noise of the measurable data.
India lifts ban on American Express
It's incredible that Obama was just given a complete pass on that. But knowing what we know now about the media, it's not really all that surprising.
I've got news for you. "Reality" is already edited. Actually is a model made up by the brain.
Basically, to validate a block, you need to bruteforce a SHA-256 hash of the block by incrementing a nonce in it. And by essence, bruteforceing is wasteful (and by extension, expensive).

And this is by design, as the only way to mint a new bitcoin is to throw away computational power (ie energy -> money). And the amount of power needing to be wasted is constantly adjusted by the network (it's targeting a certain amount of blocks / hour, adjusting the difficulty of the sha bruteforce, compensating for technological improvement).

Now, to create a bitcoin you need to mine a block (solving the bruteforce), inherently requiring a set (on average) amount of real world value (mostly energy) to be irrevocably wasted. For the miners to recoup those losses, they MUST sell the bitcoin they just created for at least their lost value. Which in turn, guarantee the minimum value of each bitcoin.

And with this system, the minimum value of each bitcoin is inversely equal to the amount of value "wasted".
If you are paying for financial data subscription, there is a 0% chance you can give it to other people for free without violating the terms of that subscription and being dropped by the vendor.
Monero is untraceable.
I think it's a problem because most societies rely on working age folks to support retirees. As birth rates fall off, the ratio of young to old reduces and too few people in the society are working for it to function well.
Dev velocity in Rust is directly proportional to how well you grok lifetimes and ownership.
> are continuously ashamed of things we did

Maybe "ashamed" is too strong a word, but thinking smaller scale, if you look back at the way you handled things when you were younger, don't you think you could have done anything better?

Isn't this how we learn and progress as a person? Seems likely to be true for a society as well.
If the majority of validators adhere to OFAC regulations then your chance of getting a transaction approved that violates OFAC drops. Anybody can be a validator but if the majority of validators choose to adhere to these rules then that's what you end up with. Crypto isn't successful because it creates some anarcho-capitalist alternative universe (though that was the initial impetus). And the die-hard bitcoin followers who believe so are slowly seeing their market cap falling below that of ether.
Netflix is very much profitable and has been for years. Well they did just stop borrowing money to produce and acquire content in 2020.

Disney expects Disney+ to be profitable including “transfer payments” by 2024.

Streaming doesn’t piggyback off of getting access to the internet cheaply no matter what cable providers say. They pay for their bandwidth.
GH Actions is also breaking. Is Lambda used internally to kick off new CI runs?
The Ohio National Guard is not a branch of the US military. It reports to the government of Ohio.
Where are you getting this definition of index?
The demonstration is 5kW year round with insignificant consumption of fossil fuels everywhere with a climate about as good as Toronto or better, not having somewhere to put all the sunlight. Mid-winter in high latitude you get as little as 2hrs of sunlight/day (or 0 in the arctic, but hardly anyone lives there). If you live in the tropics, 10kW is probably fine.

Also if you feel the need to use it up, electrolyzers are cheap and hydrogen is worth money. You can also store a great deal of energy in a few tonnes of NaOH and avoid using precious winter electricity for heating.

You can also reshuffle the wind, solar and battery for your local climate, or wait a year or three for sodium batteries to halve the price.
I find exception handling in Python to be one of its weakest spots. I really like Python and I use it often. But I'm never quite sure which exceptions a library function might throw. This is rarely documented well and so you end up encountering new exceptions at run time, which is exactly when you do not want to be encountering new thrown exceptions.

Usually I end up looking at source of libraries and making a list of all exceptions that can be thrown. But of course this is also terribly error prone.
Yes. Java was removed from browsers due to "security concerns", and yet, here we are, compiling Java to WASM and running it in the browser. Truth is, removing it was more of a political move against Oracle.
I find Rust to have a particularly expressive type system, and a quite strict one to. Not all languages with type systems such have strict enforcement of mutability or null safety.
I read your article (the English translation). Very nice work. I did have a question, more about the translation, since I don't know any Russian (besides a couple of simple words).

What is meant by: "many fryukhovovod and linukhovod"? How does that translate to English?
> I think it's good that US intelligence uses every tool at their disposal against foreign threats.

This either naively assumes the US's goals are aligned with some objective "good," or that things that benefit the US also directly benefit you, regardless of their goodness.

The second one I don't think I need to refute? Assassinating people for personal gain would not be valid under very many moral frameworks I don't think.

So we're down to basically "does the US generally use violence for widespread good?" Which is fraught, for sure, but also pretty clearly no? We use violence for all kinds of reasons some of which are roughly good for a lot of people but many are not at all. These institutions just aren't trustworthy in this way.
But companies collect your data and sell it to the government.
> How will they do this, exactly?

Easy. Heavily regulate the farmers with climate regulations including carbon taxes. Or pass emissions laws like they have in the Netherlands which would force ranchers to downsize their herds. This would drive up cost to produce and scarcity of the product.

As for the second part of your comment I truly am not sure what you're talking about? It seems like your sentiment confirms the first part of my answer.
I dropped it, but picked it back up for the Nick programming.
Still ads, but only a few, mostly at the beginning.
Really irritating, but I hear the ads version is practically unwatchable.
Cataloging Data Catalogs
Related. Others?

The Merge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535059 - Aug 2022 (387 comments)

Proof-of-Stake is better than Proof-of-Work; the Merge won’t fix other problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32531655 - Aug 2022 (44 comments)

“The Merge,” the biggest change in Ethereum history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32523763 - Aug 2022 (15 comments)

The Merge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32519340 - Aug 2022 (175 comments)

Ethereum merge on schedule after successful Goerli test merge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32429380 - Aug 2022 (1 comment)

Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32427992 - Aug 2022 (310 comments)

Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH 2.0)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048468 - July 2022 (35 comments)

Ethereum Proof-of-Stake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012352 - July 2022 (326 comments)

Ethereum mining is going away, and miners are not happy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772418 - June 2022 (23 comments)

Why Proof of Stake? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006793 - Nov 2020 (35 comments)

Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18814409 - Jan 2019 (11 comments)

Proof of Stake or Proof of Work, What's the Difference? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369593 - Nov 2018 (107 comments)

Ethereum Foundation Releases Alpha Casper Proof of Stake Testnet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042070 - Dec 2017 (199 comments)

Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15054903 - Aug 2017 (120 comments)

Proof of Stake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001511 - Nov 2016 (77 comments)

Long Read: Alternatives for Proof of Work, Part 1: Proof of Stake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091773 - Aug 2015 (3 comments)
You’re not “avoiding ads” by manually having to skip over them.
Because no matter how much the dollar depreciates, the amount of debt itself always increases, and the actual dollar amount of the debt is what people pay. The fact that $50,000 in debt is worth 10% less than $50,000 x years ago does not mean $5,000 of that debt was "forgiven."

And even if that were the case, then interest on that debt would easily cancel the effect out, since interest far outstrips inflation on many student loans.

Arguing that student loans are "forgiven" and that no action needs to be taken because deflation is solving the problem, despite the crushing weight of that debt on so many borrowers even when they're trying to work it off, is twisted logic.
> Modern gasoline cars already emit virtually zero poisons.

Can you cite a source for that?
The problem is that electrification of fossil fuel applications is going to significantly increase the demand on our grid. So it’s not enough to get to parity in renewables, but we have to go far beyond our current capacity in order to accommodate a world in which almost every car is electric (whether electric hybrid or green hydrogen) and almost every home uses electric rather than natural gas for heating (not to mention all of the industrial applications that will need electrification).
> Why are you comfortable giving them digital control of something you (in theory only) own?

I wouldn't want it myself. I don't get why people think it's unethical though. Someone called it a 'crime' elsewhere. That boggles my mind. It's their product - they can offer whatever payment model they want. If it's a crap one then don't buy it. If enough people think it's crap the market will adjust. It's a luxury car, not baby formula.
A few random thoughts:

1. There are symbiotic relationships between different sources of energy. In order to suck petrol out of the earth we need coal (used in steel manufacturing). In order to mine coal we need petrol (used by diggers and for transport). We still don't know how to manufacture solar panels and wind turbines without fossil fuels. The mining, steel forging and international transport of these products is still based on fossil fuels.

2. Electricity consumption represents only about 30% of total energy consumption. A lot of people seem to underestimate the difference in energy density between petrol and lithium batteries. This difference makes it highly unlikely that we'll move to electric ships and aircraft in the near future.

3. The mining activity associated with manufacturing solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, smartphones and electric cars is highly demanding in energy, is highly polluting, and demands great quantities of fresh water as part of the process of refining the different metals. With the rise of electric cars, the continuing demand for smartphones mining is expected to demand even more energy and fresh water, and pollute even more our rivers and soils. This, in a period of constrained energy sources, droughts, and an already degraded environment.

4. Judging by the comments on here people demand an always-on supply of energy, be it electricity, petrol or gas, which is a privilege only some countries enjoy today, and is relatively recent in human history. I think the idea of intermittent energy supply is worth exploring, and might make it easier to achieve 100% renewable energy production, in conjunction with a lower energy consumption.
> Considering how long it took AWS to add IPv6 to services across the board

Unfortunately all but a handful of their APIs have yet to support IPv6.
Wait, I'm confused. Why exactly is this low-effort FUD post pinned to the top?
I wish it could be that way, but the content providers started to jack up their prices and withhold certain content a long time before Netflix started their own content factory. Hulu, owned by one of the largest content providers out there, was the turning point. In retrospect it might have been a good time for government to step in and declare that content providers and streaming services must be separate for the good of consumers.

Interestingly, the same thing almost happened with Spotify, but most artists eventually came back instead of defecting to other services. I know there are some exclusive artists on each platform, but we've somehow dodged that same bullet with music streaming. Maybe because there are 3-4 relatively popular services, and artists have a little more sway over their distribution? Of course, Spotify is currently commiting this same sin in the podcast space so it's not like their hands are clean.
> The government was killing its enemies 100 years before the word digital was invented

Citation needed. The current pattern of extrajudicial remote targeted killings outside of a Congressionally-declared battlefield is completely novel and only began in the Predator drone age, as far as I can see

Edit: some data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_the_...
Um, just buy the electric motorcycle for 8x the cost of your ebike?
> With PoW, the big players cannot coerce the small players in any way. Everyone independently controls their own blocks. If 66% of miners censor you, your transaction will merely take 3x as long to be confirmed.

This is false. If miners controlling 66% of hash power decide to censor you, they can ignore any blocks produced by the minority who include your transaction.
Linux runs just fine on my smartphone. If it doesn't work for you, just google it.
"You are spamming the HN comments and didn't read links, therefore your question is invalid, because of who asked it" is ad hominem.

It's easy enough not to reply. No need to get an attitude about it.
Here’s my approach to accounting:

If $moneyIn > $moneyOut:
Print(“hells yeah”)
Else:
Print(”oh shit”)
The real problem is that humans have always deluded themselves that some technology was a 'truth technology'. It's been done with everything from typewriters to cameras.
However, the camera has always lied, always rendered a counterfactual to a hypothesized truth state, denied access to fundamental reality.
That a camera may now lie in a slightly different fashion does not alter that.

Are you going to believe your lying eyes?
Some poor physics in many comment
There was at one point 3 shows that had ads at the beginning and end because of previous contract negotiations.
This is an excellent idea - on a per-conversation granularity at least you could declare whether the intent of the conversation is sync or async, distinguishing IM from mail or forums.
I did some digging and the principles are elucidated by vitalik on his blog.[0] The principles are based on the fact that proof of work is antisocial, impractical or unrealistic. The 6 times this was discussed last year[1] in the ethereum devs meeting on zoom might also be of-interest.

[0]: https://vitalik.ca/general/2016/12/29/pos_design.html
[1]: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/361
My bad, I mixed up thoughts about dev/office usage and gaming.

For dev and desktop usage no IGP has let me down. Unless work needs a dedicated GPU to be done I think an IGP is enough for everything else these days.

I don't think people using dedicated GPU wouldn't see differences with an IGP in day to day usage.
We should really consider conserving analog versions of taking pictures.
> The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power of the purse. A president unilaterally cancelling up to $1.6 trillion would be a rank violation of that power. Of course, the federal student loan programs are themselves unconstitutional. The federal government only has the specific, enumerated powers given to it by the Constitution, and the authority to fund education, either directly or through loans, is nowhere among them. Cancellation would thus be a double violation of the Constitution.

What does HN think?

Various administrations have already cancelled billions in student debt for people who were scammed by fraudulent colleges. And although the government cannot spend money without Congress' green light, does debt forgiveness count as spending?
I don't know why the parent poster linked to his son, but this is probably who he was thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

A US citizen who was executed by a drone strike ordered by Obama himself.
Look at Ride1Up e-bikes as well.
Completely agree. Rust shines as a language for small tools that need to be performant and correct, like Unix utilities. Exa and fd are great examples of this.
yeah, like, I was thinking just the other day.. "there's just not enough porn in the world" haha
Some unintended consequences:

> This change caused my chromium browser to report that it's being managed by
my "organization". I thought that my machine was somehow compromised. This
is terrifying! I wound up deleting my entire chromium profile before I
discovered that the root cause was this DuckDuckGo config change.

https://bugs.debian.org/956012
Yeah. Having runtime errors in a non-trivial Python code base is indicative of poor test coverage.
It should be clear that a lot of Bitcoin's value is in its established history, legacy and to some extent trust. This is it's key differentiator to any other chain. PoW is part of Bitcoin's history and legacy, but it isn't PoW itself that gives bitcoin value.
Pretty sure it was metadata that allowed the US to locate and strike Zawahiri in Kabul with a predator drone.

So safe to say the US isn’t going to stop doing this any time soon.
That was literally everybody's plan. The alternative was to continue using coal while ramping up renewables.

For all the handwringing about the turned off nuclear plants they were getting old in the tooth and wouldnt have made a substantive difference to the current crisis. New plants would take 3x as long and cost 3x as much.

France is in just as much shit as germany this winter coz their nuke plants are aging out.

The realistic alternatives for germany avoiding a gas crisis were dont turn off coal plants "just in case a war with russia starts" or dont try to rile up russia.
4GB/s is a pretty high requirement. What did you end up using?

Redis looks like it would struggle with this requirement also without some serious hardware, tweaks, or configuration. https://redis.io/docs/reference/optimization/benchmarks/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/news/lunar-atmosphe...
> The CIA has killed lots of the wrong people because "signature strikes"

Please cite a source for this claim.
It's an industry standard to use Denuvo to protect the first few weeks from launch, when majority of sales happen for a game. Once the dust has settled many companies quietly remove it from their games.

I think it was the Dying Light 2 devs who openly admitted this being a standard practice when the game launched.
As somebody who wants a world with more buses, cycling, and walking, I welcome the car companies declaring war on their own users.

Maybe it feels like there is no hope but to pay auto companies to abuse you, but there are alternatives, and we can all help try to build the world we want to live in.
It's like English pronunciation, there's little logic. I gave up finding logic in these things at an early age, and resorted to memorizing everything instead.
So, since the client is debiting the slasher, then THAT transaction is an ether transaction on the chain, and it gets reviewed just like any other transaction as well?

Thanks for your answer!
Yeah there may be awful byproducts at burn temperatures required for optimal power generation but if they can be captured/condensed/solidified they can be collected as solid waste and buried.
I understand what you said the first time and I agree with you, you won't be able to only practice in a flight simulator and expect to take your flight license after that.

But again, it can give you a head start. Even learning what yaw, yoke and so on is easier if you can actually practice it, even virtually, helps you more than not knowing anything when first starting out.

(I could say "trust me, I know, because I am that person", but I won't stoop that low).
Do people not study grammar in American schools? I thought all kids learn the distinction between cardinal (one, two, three) and ordinal (first, second, third) numbers.
Incredibly chilling for you to have to type this! But yes indeed.
Yes now all I have to do is trudge the internet for content, make sure my Plex server is running, wait for content to be available, hope it’s popular enough that it is being seeded. Then have to worry about the quality.

Or I can just pay a few bucks and watch what I want on any of my devices.
Doesn't Korea use the same new year as China? Usually second new moon after winter solstice.
It's not a technical issue, but an economic one.

If you have so much wind and solar generation that they spend too much of their lifespans sitting idle and not generating income, they potentially never even pay for their initial build cost and basic maintenance, let alone be a better investment than just buying a treasury note yielding 1%. That's a recipe for long term stagnation and depression.
I think it's the Webkit vulnerability CVE-2022-32893 that is of concern. As I understand there's this one and the other vulnerability is in the kernel which requires physical access to exploit. The former lets nefarious actors compromise devices without physical access and is in fact being actively exploited in the wild (by Apple's own admission), so it's encouraging to see that BoA is taking the initiative to go so far as emailing users to update to keep them safe.