skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One thing that I find interesting in the electricity debates is that if we took the gaming example and looked at the collective consumption of all people playing video games around the world, you'd arrive at even larger numbers of power usage and emissions.

Okay, this is the second time I've seen an argument of the form: If you're not okay with the energy consumption of PoW cryptocurrencies, you can't be okay with X.

The first time I called it out, was someone pointing at the energy consumption of making, transporting, and storing ice cream. You are bringing up gaming.

You are advocating for making our children's/descendants lives worse, our lives worse, and trying to throw a valuable industrial subsidizer of the state of the art in many sub-fields of computer science...

...to defend the least efficient, wasteful,least empowering form of computation we've ever discovered. You're taking and making hostages of something that has objectively wrought joy and innovation to millions of lives.

If you find yourself on one side of an argument, and ice cream/video games on the other... I'd recommend having a long hard think about how you managed to get there.
Sounds like you have interesting background on the history with a specific perspective Can you share more?
Thanks! I think it makes sense, as a non-game programmer it felt "weird" so appreciate the confirmation from your angle.
what's your reasoning?
A string of digits instead of a string of characters to be precise
LOL, wait until you hear about ERISA and learn that everything you just said is wrong for most employee insurance plans and that you can't even get damages when they act in bad faith.
He's not naïve to make the claim he did. Are you challenging his claim?
Interesting to see another post on HN frontpage about Stripe's "incompetent" review team, and then see this one.
We strongly encourage that all of our remote employees use the same IP phone and headset models to help minimize this kind of problem. We pay for it all and try really hard to make sure everyone has it set up in the same way.

The kind of work we do is very complex and having people get distracted with random audio problems is just too much to deal with.

For those enthusiasts among us... I also think if you are fiddling with microphone preamps and phantom power before your daily standup, that you might have some unnecessary distractions going on in your office.
> But when say "Ok, let's build social tools where the user owns their social graph via cryptographic proof" then there is nothing but (blind?) hate.

No, the hatred is for the next sentence, which is "Buy my cryptocurrency".
Reflio: Open-source ReferralCandy/Rewardful alternative
> The mining process provides network security all on its own, transactions or no transactions.

The mining process provides a fixed amount of network security. $125,000 per 15000 transactions. The fact that it would still cost that much money even with zero transactions is not a feature. It's not a good thing.

Each individual block is secured. You can't just add more and more transactions to each block without reducing security.

> Bitcoin competes with the traditional financial system, including all the people and infrastructure involved in cash handling.

Right now bitcoin competes with practically nothing. How much pizza is bought with bitcoin vs cash? You're effectively assuming that all those other functions are either irrelevant or that bitcoin can somehow do them for zero cost. Neither is true.

> And that is a cost borne not just by the United States federal government, but every government with physical currency and every bank on the planet.

60% of global federal reserves are in dollars. Dollars are the world's dominant currency. Compared to the massive disparity in energy use, it doesn't matter if even only 10% of global currency is in dollars. Dollars win.

Plus, if you're trying to compare with the places where cash really matters -where they can't use VISA or cell phones to transfer money- then bitcoin is certainly at a huge disadvantage after you have to buy computers for all those people.

> The idea that doing all this with physical objects is less power consuming than doing it with data is ridiculous.

Again, you're not replacing coins with data. You're replacing coins with USB sticks.

But you're right! It IS ridiculous, because it's completely insane how pathetically inefficient bitcoin is.
2 ways to reduce orbital debris: get rid of stuff that's already there, and generate less. This law seems to me like it would tackle both.

More stringent deorbiting standards and better methods for satellites to commit sudoku will reduce the amount of satellites that become debris.

But that doesn't change the fact that the majority of debris in orbit today comes from 2 sources: the Chinese ASAT test and leaky Soviet nuclear reactors. The proposed ASAT test ban helps that from being an issue, but you still need a way to clean up the existing debris (other than waiting decades or centuries)
Yes, but that market mostly existed before everyone expected every app to be online and connected to other services, and since then the market has moved to SaaS. So if customers will pay more for a subscription that is inclusive of these details and maintenance, why would I choose the option that leaves me with less revenue and fewer customers?
I just tried on Android and got the same weird reply.
Anyone remember the Hanna Barbera cartoon where Yogi and the gang are trying to find the "perfect place" free of pollution? They eventually end up in space, thinking this must be it, only to see it becoming more cluttered and full of junk. They finally decide to go back home and clean it up, because they won't find the perfect place, they have to make it.
Lots of simulators for robotics use ODE or Bullet, actually, and they're quite good for lots of things that you might want to simulate. But there are some people who would argue that they aren't the best for it, especially for simulating legged locomotion, because of the way physical constraints such as joint limits are enforced (via Lagrange multipliers). A popular alternative formulation is Featherstone's Method[1], which is becoming more widely available and goes by other names sometimes; for example, Rust's `rapier` physics engine refers to this type of dynamics model as "reduced coordinates" (they don't yet support it, but it's on their roadmap). Featherstone's method is becoming more popular but it's still not widely used in a lot of physics engines because most physics engines are targeting games and Featherstone's doesn't always have the best performance characteristics, instead favoring physical fidelity. Bullet can run using Featherstone's Method, by the way. One of the few FOSS engines I know of that supports it out of the box.

Additionally, there are people in robotics who like to say that simulators are like lightsabers, you haven't become a true Jedi until you've built your own, so there's a lot of home grown physics simulators in robotics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherstone%27s_algorithm
Is there something that explains the Pros/Cons of Spanner vs their new AlloyDB offering?

Both have a PostgreSQL compatibility layer...
You're in the Western world. In the third world you'd be buying your PS2 pre-chipped, lol.
I mean, the real improvement to D3 was they massively upped the drop rate of rare items, which "coincidentally" happened when they stopped taking a cut off people selling their rare items for real money.
To be fair the guy is ancient and Patagonia wasn't public, so he could only ever take out loans against the company, he couldn't actually turn his shares into cash. It's like owning 2 billion in real-estate on the moon
It's half true. There's not really underwriting for auto policies like there is with life or home insurance. You register your rating rules with the state and anyone who qualifies gets a policy. All the risk calculations and pricing are just look up tables and done automatically.

Now if you are in line for a large payout the insurance company will definitely review your application to see if you lied. Significant lies will get your policy cancelled and no payout. So don't lie on any insurance applications.
Do you feel this way about all protests? Or just ones based around protecting people's incomes?
You mean that Adobe that recently aquired Macromedia and killed off Dreamweaver and Fireworks?
Fakespot adjusted rating: 3

https://www.fakespot.com/product/ring-video-doorbell-1080p-h...

Checks out.
Agreed - feels like fewest links requires more thought and less manic clicking.
How do I enter these from an iphone? Or should I just let my laptop output the dtmf tones?

I'm def. gonna try this out. I usually pres & and # a couple of times, because it often skips the useless menus and takes me to a person
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That actually sounds like an idea whose time has definitely come. Anyone here on the HTML standards body (or works for Google in the requisite part of the Chrome team)?

There are other uses for fixed precision besides currency (co-ordinates, tolerances, etc.), but currency would be used a LOT!
> Dishonest, expensive, slow.

And depending on your use case, bloated. In all the features Photoshop has gained since 6.0, 7.0, and CS1, only a tiny handful add anything of value for my usage. If 7.0 or CS1 were ported to modern operating systems they would fill my needs well and then some.

This is another reason why alternatives such as Affinity Photo and Pixelmator are increasingly enticing; their core feature sets have reached near-parity with that of Photoshop for many and so Photoshop offers very little extra value.
Most important seems to be:

- don't smoke

- always have infants sleep on their back
Quick Start with Docker, Prometheus and Grafana with pre-built dashboards.
Don't discount that walk in losing weight. I hear a lot about weight loss being mostly diet, and you can't outrun a cheeseburger, etc. But in reality, if you are around borderline eating 2000 calories per day, and if that walk burns an additional 300 calories, well 12 walks will cause a pound of weight loss. Plus, if you have free time to take a walk, that means you aren't using that time to snack either.
This is a problem that's actively being worked on (SudoSwap as an AMM for NFTs, Scatter.art as a competitor, et cetera).
Kia Ora,

Im from a chunk of Australia known for a tonne of roundabouts and observed the same issue. My theory is that this is actually roundabouts working as intended, despite the frustration of the South-Enterers.

Basically, if the flow of traffic is both moving too fast and with too great a vehicle density to allow for safe entry (even if slow, like 1 SouthBound Vehicle for 5x Northbound + 5x Westbound) then the traffic organism is actually distributing resources based on need, rather than convenience.
The flow WILL automatically correct itself as the population of vehicles diminishes, the question is if the WAIT time for Southbounders (and the population of Southbounders) is sufficiently large that interfering with their flow is actually delaying more people than the North and West routes, but that is more of an issue of roundabout placement than it is the roundabout itself being inefficient.

(^^The above is all 100% observation and guesswork, anyone with some education on the matter want to chime in?)
Two words for you to meditate upon : Chesterton, Fence
The current head of the FBI was appointed by Trump. Are you arguing that the FBI head has no power or that he's secretly a stooge of the Democratic party?
Libtexprintf: Formatted Output with tex-like syntax support
Why is exit so valuable? Ok, money, I understand, fair enough, if your goal is money, and not company and/or product. It is Ok.

But I see contradiction between "much loved company" and "successful exit". Successful acquisition is death for "much loved company" or "much loved product" almost always.

If your company/product is "much loved" (and created not because you are serial entrepreneur for whom exit IS THE goal, but because you want to create this exact product), acquisition is like selling you child to slavery, isn't it?

Edit: grammar.
I personally don't care much about the strong condorcet criteria as long as the weak one is met. Condorcet methods (RP and Schulze are most common) typically get higher voter satisfaction efficiency under ideal conditions (voters being completely honest) but not under strategic conditions. They also aren't winning my much. This[0] gets shared a lot but often people don't pay attention to the spread in VSE over different strategies, which is just as important as max VSE. Though, of course, voting requires much more than just getting a good VSE. If you're a VSE maximizer, than yeah, Condorcet methods make the most sense, but it is naive to approach it as the only criteria.

[0] https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/
This again is untrue. Some individual doctors I've encountered are much more pro-vax than others.
What is the main benefit to running a gateway? Auth should already be handled by the api and adding things like rate limiting, ip address filtering ,caching and so on are ridiculously trivial..
> Intelligence needs to be defined with respect to a range of tasks and a range of priors.

Yep, you’re right. I forgot to mention that in my “loosely put” sentence, although the work by Hutter and Legg does mention that and discusses algorithmic information theory heavily.
Extensive repository with all my cheatsheets
We did cloud backup as a single-purchase pluggable-into-any-provider desktop application for decades? I don't recall anything like that.

The features OP is asking for in their not-SaaS product wishlist just plain didn't exist before SaaS. There was no cloud backup, there was no automatic account connection in your budgeting app. It's not obvious to me that things that require a connection to an always-on server (and some features really do require that) could be sustainably delivered in a one-time purchase model.
So weird to see a piece ostensibly about logical fallacies deploy one so cavalierly:

> I offered to bet [Elon Musk] $100,000 he was wrong [about AGI by 2029] [...] Musk didn’t have the guts to accept, which tells you a lot.

The fact that you couldn't get someone engaged in a conversation absolutely does not "tell you a lot" about the substance of your argument. It only tells you that you were ignored.

Now, I happen to think Marcus is right here and Musk is wrong, but... yikes. That was just a jarring bit of writing. Either do the detached professorial admonition schtick or take off the gloves and engage in bad faith advocacy and personal attacks. Both can be fun and get you eyeballs, and substack is filled with both. But not at the same time!
Now we’re gonna have stupid age verification pop ups to go over the stupid GDPR pop ups. Yay.
Great product! Do you use PayPal as well to transfer funds to affiliates?
It's because merchants tolerate a certain amount of fraud loss in order to reduce friction for the customer when making a payment. The same reason nobody ever checks you ID when you pay with a credit card in a store (unless you're in Vegas where they seem to do that, for some reason).
I wasn't aware of that, do you happen to know the actual cost?
I don't know of any current ones. Because when I have encountered them, I've reported them and the haproxy maintainers fixed them quickly, and backported the fixes to still maintained older versions.

I don't remember the exact specifics off the top of my head, but in one case a certain kind of invalid config resulted in a crash rather than a normal error message. In another, there was an error in a bounds check, where if you chained multiple converters in the right way, you could end up capturing some additional data from other http headers.
Still it's a laudable contribution! Let's not diminish it :)
I haven’t tried it yet, but it might be possible by doing a `devbox build` to create a container with the environment. Then you would configure it as a PyCharm Docker interpreter, similar to what you’d do with Podman.
Yeah but it's not like that software had lifetime free updates either.

You pay for that full version (3.x to 4.0, or 3.2 to 4.2). Want updates? Pay for an upgrade.

This is how a lot of software still works, and so the devs aren't perpetually working for free to existing customers.
The error in your thinking is that many consultancies are aware of their legal nexus, and actively protect it, so ignorance is not a valid defense for any sensible company.

Talk to people who work for a big consulting firm, they've been taking "tax holidays" for the last 70+ years to ensure they don't spend more than 50% of their time away from their home base.

These companies are no fools; they wouldn't eat productivity and billable hours if they felt the state wouldn't care.
I have literally cancelled (and later re-obtained) subscriptions to CC at least 15 times. It hasn't been an issue, and I've never needed to call anyone.

They do offer you things, but those things tend to be free months. Not random stuff you won't care about.
> Users here are extremely quick to push back if we do something they find objectionable.

This is simply not true; you act like you're the only person who's been around here for 15 years. There is simply no mechanism to organize any kind of meaningful pushback. Additionally, by virtue of the fact that you already dismiss the people (like me, with your declarative statements about the nature of my comments) who give you this pushback, it's not clear you'd even notice. Just looking at your history I can see a number of folks who fundamentally disagree with how you give feedback, but I guess to you that's not "valid" pushback?

I only feel safe to give you this pushback in the first place because I know your moderation efforts are ineffective to how I prefer to use HN. Otherwise I'd be afraid of getting actioned against, as you aren't a rational actor when it comes to taking actions against users on HN.

Further, you have this habit of making declarative refutory statements such as these without justification or elaboration. That's pretty much the exact definition of "shallow dismissal".

For example, a "serial abuser" might actually just be someone you disagree with who you then take action against as part of that disagreement, but the way you operate is clearly without that possibility in mind.

Edit: What[0] would[1] you[2] call[3] these[4] comments[5], if[6] not[7] pushback[8][9]? Or do these not count because you dislike these users? I'm quite sure, in your mind, you've dismissed these complaints as invalid, and I think that's an error.

Also no, none of these are me. Also also not for nothing but 'tptacek seems to spend an inordinate amount of time defending your work in the form of replies to complaints, and I personally think that's a massive waste of his time, but c'est la vie...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32857054

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32831746

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32801256

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782368

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32777165

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32777628

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32780934

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32773572

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32776460

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32772466
This is based on OpenResty, so it's Nginx (C) + LutJit. However, it supports external plugins (any language) and WASM plugins.
I live in Victoria, Australia, and we’ve had roundabouts for ages. I think they are very good for a certain scale of road/traffic. Mostly intersections with moderate amounts of traffic on average, and not high-speed. e.g., the main intersections within housing estates. Having too many of them instead of give-way signs drive you a little batty (I’m looking at you, Warrnambool) while really heavy traffic, major intersections work better with traffic lights.

When teaching my kids to drive, they found roundabouts one of the trickier intersections to navigate. You have to read the traffic flow. This person about to enter on your right is going straight ahead, so will block you entering the roundabout[1], but they have to wait for that person coming the other way from you and going straight through, so you can slip in the gap that creates without cutting anyone else off. As with many things it is familiarity and practice that makes them work[2]. I think roundabouts work very well here for the most part. It’s not rocket science[3].

The science of roads and traffic I imagine is a surprisingly nuanced expertise involving a lot of physics and psychology. I find when I cross over the border to New South Wales I feel like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I eventually figured out it was because the signage was a different distance before the intersection compared to my home state. Once I was aware I could adapt.

[1] We drive on the left side of the road because Australia is in the southern hemisphere.

[2] I bet the first traffic lights caused an uproar. “Why the hell should I stop just because there’s a red light?!”

[3] Oh wait, actually, it is rocket science.
Well yeah this is how he gets paid. It's not about being informative about a class of technology, its about generating clicks to get more patreon subscriptions and youtube ad payments.
This is leaving out the most important part of the incentive structure: most books are entertainment and their value to the reader is based on things other than money. That means they’re not interchangeable and people make decisions based on things like the author or publisher’s reputation as opposed to the current exchange rate.
Yep, better keep the peons fighting each other than uniting to oppose the elites like they did in 2011.
>what makes bad ponzi schemes is when the underlying asset that everyone is speculating on doesn't do anything useful.

Also, what's your comment on the multiples expansion that all stocks have seen since the 1990's?
Thanks for the pointer, looks great!
It’s the other way around. You can transport barrels of oil overseas and use for trading but sending electricity requires infrastructure that may take some time to deploy. It’s the same problem with gas pipelines.
> LOL, wait until you hear about ERISA and learn that everything you just said is wrong for most employee insurance plans and that you can't even get damages when they act in bad faith.

We may be talking past each other here. I was referring to property and casualty insurance in my comment, while it sounds like you're talking about health and disability insurance. Two completely different worlds and regulatory frameworks.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Digs Up Organic Molecules on Mars
Blimey. People really won't take your word online these days.

OK, here, I made you a screenshot.

https://imgur.com/a/frml6cs
Come to Palo Alto where they are equipped that way on small residential streets!

Massive ones like you describe don’t need stop signs.
Non-SaaS still exists. Why does my OS update every week?
They buy good software and then neglect them until they fall into disrepair or kill them off. Extracting rents the whole way.

Slumlords of software.
This is pretty naive to say on the same day that Okta was told they can't operate in certain regions.

The SEC and Shareholders care if you go against NIST guidelines.
Ethereum now uses 99.5% less electricity. That's all it means.
Again, you're confusing "mining" (economic activity that produces new coins and fees that happen to be measured in BTC) with "investment" (acquiring BTC via any means with the intent to hold).

They are not the same concept, in fact they're completely orthogonal. You don't mine to get coins for investment, because you can get coins much (MUCH!) more cheaply via other means. You mine to get income in the present.
There's a whole wasteland of people mining to keep coins alive. But not very many people. If ten people are running one graphics card each, out of nostalgia or just in case it catches a rocket to the moon, this is no environmental catastrophe, any more than a personal Minecraft server is.