skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are only niche methods because we haven't invested in them and they hold an enormous amount of promise.

The dialog around agriculture and sustainability all too often is akin to telling people to just cut their power consumption rather than discussing or exploring non-emitting sources of energy.

You say I have some weird axe to grind, because I keep pushing back on people saying that meat consumption is a much bigger contributor to GHG emissions than it is. Yet you keep insisting that I'm somehow not accounting for a meat reduction as a piece of the puzzle when I have readily admitted that it should be a piece of the puzzle multiple times, and have happily conceded that it will be necessitated if we switch to the more sustainable, but less productive modes of producing it.

I think I've made my point pretty clearly, and repeatedly. Seems to me like your the one with an axe to grind, one not supported by the data.
If one really wanted to cheat with a computer, I imagine it would be better to only carry around enough hardware to communicate wirelessly with it, rather than the whole thing.

This would be harder to detect as the amount of hardware would be much smaller, and it would allow using a more powerful computer.
Granted I know most criminals are not that smart, and that's how they get caught, but you would think people intending to break the law would use E2E encryption given its availability and half a clue, yeah?
One decent metric are the fees[1]. Basically how much money people are actually spending to use the cryptocurrency.

Raw usage (as in number of transactions) is meaningless because it can be trivially manipulated by wash trading if the fees are super low (typical of a barely used chain).

[1] https://cryptofees.info/
If only the folks saying this stuff showed up in force to defend people other than nightmare bigots.
This seems like a "hot take" that doesn't stand up to more than a few moments thought (akin to the "I just tell it like it is" excuse).

Some folks honour their commitments, and you making a request doesn't obligate them to carefully consider whether your request outranks their commitments plus the reputation cost of breaking their word. Better to say "sorry I can't" than to say "sure!" and not do it.
So, teleport is just ssh?

Or maybe like ssh over Tailscale?
Alumina Programming Language
My post was BS. The reason Macs became ubiquitous in audio had nothing to do with file formats and likely had everything to do with pro audio software and hardware developers that initially ignored Windows and PCs, and by the time these became platform independent, Mac was too ingrained to be dislodged. But AIFF does have smooth and sexy contours compared to WAV's clunky aesthetic. There I go again.
Related news explaining story:

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/02/friendlyjordie...
> Could yo I elaborate on this?

Think about it for a second. Imagine you have

function(bool foo, bool bar) {

if(foo) {
//Something
} else {
//Something else
}

if(bar) {
//Something
} else {
//Something else
}

}

If you add two unit tests that test foo(true,true) and foo(false, false) you get 100% line and branch coverage, but only hit 50% path coverage.
They already did for one :)
you can always count on death, taxes, and a discussion on HN about health insurance to run down the “but the obese” path.
Chia probably represents about 0.01% of the data in the world (I'm extrapolating from old info -- https://rivery.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-day-in-data2....).

The process of plotting the data is strenuous on SSDs. You might kill an SSD if you are plotting a petabyte or so. But if you are that serious, you can plot in RAM (or just eat the cost, which is insignificant compared to the cost of a petabyte).

The process of farming/mining doesn't stress HDDs in the slightest.

To the OP, why isn't Chia in this list?
As energy availability goes to infinity, labor demand goes to zero, so leisure time for education, hobbies, art, etc. increases.
The inaccuracy or weirdness of the resulting images has no bearing on how good or bad it is as art. Art has nothing to do with that. I would argue this is a shitty tech demo more than anything else.

I do not mean to discount the creator as it’s cool regardless, it just doesn’t really have anything to do with art. They’re literally just running some old computer images through a technology. That’s it.

There will probably be good art conceived of good artists that uses this style and these techniques at some point, though.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with doing it yourself if you’re consciously aware of the costs and benefits. Promise us you’ll do a blog post in a year talking about it, though! :)
As far as I can tell, there’s only 2 upsides I’m getting by using AWS as a registrar:

1. I’m lazy, and I already manage a bunch of other stuff in AWS, so it’s convenient for me to have the domains in the same place

2. For some of the domains, I’m serving records that point to other AWS resources (like Cloudfront and S3). AWS’s Route53 has clever helper features when you’re pointing records at other AWS services).

Otherwise, you’re right that there’s plenty of registrars that’ll do perfectly solid DNS
FTA: “Improve appearance of ()^ glyphs in system font”

The commit (https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d/commit/c14e14f51af3b055c1e60c...) says

Fonts: Improve ()^ glyphs
The parentheses strokes were a single pixel wide, which is much
narrower than most other glyphs. And the caret was so minimal it was
almost invisible.

Beef up these glyphs.

but doesn’t show the change. Anybody have more info? I’m curious as to how such an issue could have been present for almost 4 decades and on whether this really would have been better on the monitors of the day.
Simple languages tend to be very unportable. This has been a plague on Scheme since the beginning, and which the R6RS / R7RS standards have tried to rectify (it's debatable how successful this effort has been). This is one way in which simple languages are limited. (The fact that there are many different Scheme standards certainly doesn't help).

Another part is stripping of useful features to ease implementation. The Scheme language is full of uncomfortable, low-level constructs for the sake of simplicity. In contrast, Common Lisp is far from simple but it contains many high-level constructs which are nonetheless simpler to use.
There's also HTTP HEAD requests, and "304 Not Changed" that you need to take care of. This is what makes static site download look instantaneous. There's more of such optimizations.

With all these I find it better to stick with old Apache or similar service for speed, rather than a simpler service that only takes care of GET.
> speaking in my capacity as someone who has worked in the film industry for the last 30 years, the writing of the first two episodes was objectively "not good".

You keep using the word objectively but it doesn't mean what you think it means. You did not like the writing, that's fine. I don't think it's fair to call it "objectively" not good. There were some awkward parts and some awkward scenes, but I personally found a lot of the dialogues to feel quite natural and compelling. The elves are a bit of a stiffer but that's part of the characters. It is plagued by some of what I call the modern "marvel" adventure quirky speech (especially some exchanges with Galadriel) where a lot of exchanges turn into funny quips back and forth but that's par of the course in the current movie industry.

On the other hand the cinematography, environments, special effects, sound stage (sauron's whispers in a 3D home theater system were just SO GOOD), and a lot of other stuff is absolutely amazing.
I just tried this using my brute force embedding search library that runs on CPUs and it does it in 171s (16-core AMD). How often do you need to do this? This may be shorter than the initial indexing time for most approximate libraries if you aren't doing ad hoc queries.

https://github.com/spullara/bfes-java
He's making a more general statement, with "root of all evil", that improving some aspect of something without understanding its effects on the whole outcome, is literally the root cause of evil in the world, in general. Winning the battle but losing the war. Not seeing the forest for the trees. Getting lost in the weeds. Unenlightened self-interest. Not hyperbole, but a particular instance of a general concept.

But on code optimization, k deeply nested loops are not a bad guide to O(n^k), and a candidate for optimization.

That said, I once cached something that obviously needed to be cached - so obvious in fact that a deeper level in the system already cached it.
You're equating a website going offline to shooting me in the face? No, that's not a competition of ideas. It's murder. Does that really need to be spelled out for you?
Sources for anyone else who wanted to upgrade this from 'internet stranger fact' to 'thing I would repeat to my acquaintances':

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange...
I guess I should qualify that with, most printers sold in the US are letter size by default, and that would be true for pretty much any sort of office supply store in the US. Which means that it‘s also the easiest thing to source in the US.
Many years ago (> 25) a friend's cd player showed this information, I think it was a denon.
AMP-less link:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/02/friendlyjordie...
These are consistent definitions; they talk of production line style work, not heirarchical work assignment.
Uh, no. I'm responding to the interpretation that the KW users generally want the people they follow to stop doing the things that make them worthy of being followed. ("Followed" here meaning "being talked about and having the things they do documented".) That's just not true, by-and-large.
"You're gonna microkernel whether you want to or not! Only our devs are allowed to crash the system."

--Apple
The Naming Problem applies, I just used package names as an example. How many times have you seen a network, computer, project, or whatever named for something that no longer exists? The OP mentioned "Github organization / repo names" specifically. I know of github repos that are less than a year old and already refer to teams that don't exist any more. I presumed that's what was meant by "human readable IDs". Now if the "human readable" just means something like "pronounceable words", well, the only problem is no matter what language is chosen for those words, there will likely be someone who doesn't know what they mean, so they are just gibberish anyway.
(Edwin from Stripe here.) Stripe CVV verification can be turned on with a click or two in the Dashboard (https://dashboard.stripe.com/radar/rules). (The card issuer automatically also does their own verfication, and they can choose to decline or approve based on their own logic.) But the effectiveness really depends on the type of business. We have it off by default because we found it improves payment acceptance rates for businesses by 0.08% on average—with no tangible effect on fraud. Basically, Stripe Radar ML fraud detection would catch the fraudster anyway. So we thought businesses could use the small bump in revenue.
Weird how the "hey, it isn't illegal" defense is good enough for KF but not for Cloudflare.
Making nanodiamonds out of bottle plastic
Probably the same reason PoW is wasted on "useless calculations" instead of calculating protein folding or whatever.

Because these useless calculations have cryptographic properties (one way functions) that make the process secure. Useful calculations instead of just calculating a simple hash function would either be risky in term of future security (because of unknown properties), or outright insecure.
There's a long history of this.

I'd first encountered the notion of currency-as-energy in Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth (1975). You'll also find it in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Clarke seems all but certainly to have encountered the idea in the work of his own hero, H.G. Wells, where it is a major theme in The World Set Free (1914).

(That's mentioned elswehere in this thread: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32725668>)

The Nobel-prize laureate chemist Frederick Soddy advanced the notion in his own work in economics.

I've explored that history in a Reddit post some years back: <https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/24wyty/tracing...>

My own view is that this is attractive and occasionally useful but ultimately something of a mirage. Money is in fact a notional record of claims on production, a social creation (with legal and economic underpinnings). The fact is that money can be transacted for many things. Ultimately, though, those demands must be secondary to the actual productive capability of an economic system, and a fixed peg to anything (gold, silver, Joules, MWh, bushels of wheat (among several original bases, see the shekel), cryptographic hashes/second, whatevs, will run up against reality when the notional value is out of step with the actual available resource. At such times, useful monetary systems must have the capacity to deflate (that is, the currency deflates and prices inflate) to bring the financial and real economies back into balance, as well as to distribute sufficient purchasing power amongst the population. Such inflations are a feature of such systems and a symptom of greater issues rather than a bug or failure of themselves.

Again, my own view, and one not widely shared though elements are beginning to appear in concepts such as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Yeah but part of what happens is that there are tons of people who just don't like the show and then pretty quickly everybody that doesn't like the show is a racist by implication.

And of course that is the typical company response. Negative reviews, well its all political and racism.

But the reality is that there are also people who don't like some of the race choice in 'House of the Dragon' and that property is as big as Lord of the Rings, and yet those racist don't manage to motivate lots and lots of people to write reviews.

So when you make a good show racists are a small minority, when you have a bad show then all of a sudden all the criticism is because of racism.
Correct, asic's could have multiple, but in reality, don't. There is litecoin with scrypt. I was the 3rd largest scrypt miner there for a while. But these are all speculation coins without any solid utility. Nobody is going to build asics for coins that don't have demand. We saw this happen with Grin coin.

Another little tidbit for you... GPU mining didn't really impact the supply as much as people like to talk it up in the press. Maybe for a short while, but it was more just a lack of manufacturing than anything.

Because ethash is memory hard, older (4-5 year old) gpus are actually the most ROI profitable. It isn't the same nm hardware race as asics. People buying up the most expensive GPUs for mining were not helping themselves at all.

CPU based mining is kind of a shit show... less about people buying CPUs and more about bot networks being used to mine.
I don’t believe password manager counts as a paste but Ctrl+V does… and one of the signals that the user might not actually have the card when combined with IP location of the user and issuer.

In our case the card was issued by a Saudi Arabia bank but the user pasted it from Morocco.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32730923
Is it really? I haven't read many papers where new algorithms or techniques were demonstrated using Scheme.

> Being easy to implement from scratch is a must for both uses cases.

If you are teaching how to write a compiler or an interpreter, yes. Otherwise I would have to disagree.
Some myths of velocity and points:

- Points are a measure of time elapsed.

- Velocity between teams can be compared.

- Points between teams can be compared.

- Points are a unit of value.

- Velocity has meaning or utility outside of the team, scrum master, and product owner.

- Velocity measures or indicates individual productivity.

- Velocity needs improved.

Keep it simple, use it within your team to plan your next sprint and estimate when/what you can deliver.
Per the article, this is a false dichotomy. If we increase energy production by 1%, and use it for carbon capture, then we will have a carbon negative economy.
> Are people on assistance not allowed to sue people?

Of course they are, which is why I never said or implied this.

I am referring to people who spend years filing frivolous lawsuits that are continuously dismissed for things like improper jurisdiction, failing to state a claim, or suing the wrong people, and ignore any judgement or advice provided by the judge. Hence why I referred to them as vexatious.

> The narrative is obviously "those idiot leftists on the dole don't have jobs and waste their time and money on this." The causal relationship is critical to the narrative.

I am fairly left-leaning and grew up on government assistance. There is no narrative beyond describing factual events.

I will try to link some relevant court cases when I get home.
Thanks for the kind replies, I know it's not pleasant to get a moderation scolding like that.

There's sort of a fuzzy line between outright flamewar and generic ideological tangents (which religious topics certainly are covered by), both of which are against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I agree that not all those exchanges were equally flamey, but I just don't think generic religious argumentation is on topic here. If you want to argue that I was a bit too indiscriminate, I'd say you may have a point :)

On the other hand, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32619634 was on topic and a really nice historical contribution to the specific topic of the thread—the point at which the discussion went generic-religious (flamewar or not) was the point at which the quality of the discussion plummeted.

I hope this helps explain things a bit!
That’s pretty convenient.
Money is an exchange medium through which any transactable commodity, good, service, or asset may be exchanged for another.

The fact of one such conversion is only a subset of the larger whole.
Politicians are harassed all the time and it is frequently organized. They are told they should die, they are bullied, etc. Their house address is frequently put on the internet. There is no difference between the harassment leveled towards people on KiwiFarms and what politicians experience on a daily basis.
If you do not have a consistent standard other than something arbitrary and subjective then it is only a matter of time until the line changes again.
Do you not know the story of Galileo? He claimed the earth revolved around the sun. The mainstream narrative (Catholic Church) said the opposite. Galileo contradicted the mainstream narrative (again, the church) and was put under house arrest.

You want people that ask questions about the vaccine to shut up and take the shot (that is the mainstream narrative in this example).

How again are you not the church?

You said YOU were being "scientific"...I would love to hear that explanation. I kind of also want to hear where anything I've said so far is "opposing science" as you claim.
Do you believe your ISP should be allowed to drop you if you say something they don't like? What about your phone company? We, as a society, already forcing companies to support content they don't endorse.
Can you name a website that allows user content that is not "complicit in spreading hate for trans people"?
At that point it's not an implementation detail anymore and that's kind of the point.

Static binaries are great but they don't solve every problem and they do to have to.

The vast majority of usecases don't need kubernetes, that's fine too.

You don't have to bash kubernetes because you don't specifically need it for your one use case.

There are plenty of other perfectly valid reasons to bash that dogpile.
Playable Neural Network Pokémon
I'm waiting for the crossover with McMansion Hell where somebody uses similar image generation to generate the exteriors and interiors of McMansions.
Again, you don't want to change regex, you want to create it in the first place.

Maybe a simpler example, what if I wanted this in (pseudo-)C?

with(s = fopen("/foo/bar", ...)) {
...;
...;
println(readln(s));
...;
...;
}

When the "with" clause ends, the file will automatically be closed. This is more or less bog standard RAII expressed as a new language construct.

In Lisp, this is a feature you could build and provide as a library feature. In fact, we can do it, straight here in an HN comment.

(defgeneric destroy (x)
(:documentation "A destructor for use with the WITH feature".))

(defmacro with ((var = val) &body body)
"Python-style RAII macro. VAR will be
bound to the value of VAL, and upon
exiting scope, will be destroyed with
DESTROY."
(assert (eq = ':=))
(let ((orig (gensym)))
`(let* ((,orig ,val)
(,var ,orig))
(unwind-protect
(progn ,@body)
(destroy ,orig))))

We can register a new destructor easily for open file streams:

(defmethod destroy ((s stream))
(close stream))

(We could add some more error handling, etc. to make it more robust.)

Now, we effectively have RAII in Lisp:

(with (s := (open "/foo/bar" ...))
...
...
(write-line (read-line s))
...
...)

This is now real Lisp code you can actually run, completely integrated into the language, and nicely orthogonal to the existing gamut of features.

This is a concept we can use almost immediately after learning about it, instead of waiting for Python's PEP 6363 to pass with consensus from people who may have different programming goals than you do.
The annoying thing is that the issuer started the problem in the first place.

Someone enters a credit card and a bad CVV, Stripe sends it to the bank for validation, it fails, but the bank approves the charge anyway. Now you have an approved charge with a bad CVV. The bank punted the problem back down to Stripe, and Stripe punts it to you to figure out.
Is it a free country if they don't tolerate "hate" speech?
Nice work on this! I’ve looked into task queue libraries for Node and Java in the past. Yours looks straight-forward. A few questions:

1. What’s the error handling strategy for when a task/payload fails?

2. How exactly do delayed tasks work? For example, are you delaying execution until say 10mins later? How do you process delayed tasks in sequential timed order?

3. What kind of metrics/stats are available?

4. Is there a way pause and resume or is this the same as start and stop?

Congrats.
For Eth validators, most of them will be in AWS or similar.
To each his own, obviously, but I've programmed a fair amount in CL and Scheme and vastly prefer syntax-case to defmacro. There is a little more cognitive overhead, but it all makes sense. Syntax-case macros are easier to write and read, from my point of view.

And Racket has syntax-parse, which is even nicer, I seem to recall.
Sounds quite simple already. I still wonder if for FLAC there's an equivalent of what QOI is to PNG.
Any video?
I copy and paste it out the password manager.

Are you expecting your customers to literally hand-type card numbers into a website every time?
Thanks for honest answer. I hope you enjoyed the development of this software. I will use it the next time I need a queue.
The post claims that the cards originate from the people who perform work and are sent to the people who need it. That's not consistent with the definition from wikipedia (or any other source).
There's a certain amount of ambiguity about the term "tensor" and what it means in any given context. I think there was a fairly highly discussed article or essay here on HN a couple of years ago where readers seemed to realize people were using the term in similar, but not identical ways.
Could you maybe give a link to where she found it? Thanks.