skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to Bitcoin mining hardware that will need to be fixed/replaced/upgraded and housed physically, it's relatively cheap.

There's a technical reason explained here:

https://kyrianalex.substack.com/p/why-32-eth-was-required-fo...

It can be changed. It's what was chosen at the time based on the design of the network.
No way, the worst two sources of bugs I can imagine are definitely (1) conc(2) cachesurrency and (3) caches
> alcohol should go, too

We’ve been down this road before. Also, it’s been my understanding that prohibition is what solidified the diseased attitudes of the violence organized crime in the US.
There is no drama, only misinformation.
Recently a person I know celebrated climbing to space by bike in a year- their total climbed altitude was ~50miles which is generally recognized as the edge of space.

I misremembered and claimed they had climbed to the moon by bike in a year. That's about 650 miles per day, every day, for a year. It's likely beyond the world's best cyclists (the record is 637 miles in a single day, but not sustained over multiple days).
What about the initial load time? Browser's don't have a Flutter client built in.

I know there's been a lot of good work in reducing this, lately my Flutter web app loads much faster, but it wouldn't get a great Pagespeed rank. That's why I link to it from the main HTML/CSS site.
I remember the cash number as being much higher, but I guess 32 ETH is not worth as much as it used to be a few months ago...

One benefit to this crashing price. It makes these kind of set numbers easier to hit I guess.
Show HN: QueryFirst
I felt I need to explain this better. People still keep doing it wrong !
I'm pretty sure the answer to "do we have free will" is "no", and the much more interesting question is "why do we feel that we have free will?" which I don't know the answer to.
And yet annoying and a transparent money grab
> Jane St is a prop trading firm - the only money they have to lose is their own.

Unless they use leverage, which they all do. Then, they can easily lose their lenders (or options buyers, etc.) lots of money.
One popular bike touring writer is a big fan of belt drives:
https://www.cyclingabout.com/belt-drive-best-bicycle-drivetr...

I started a long tour across Europe with my bike set up tubeless and gave up about halfway through. Even in Europe, access to consistent sealant to top up inconsistent, and reseating a tubeless bead with portable tools is difficult when possible. And one still needs to carry tubes in case of tubeless failure, which is generally messy. Tubeless ideally trades less roadside maintenance for more at-home maintenance.

Alternate ways to reduce flat risk while touring include armored touring tires (which can be somewhat slower & less comfortable due to how stiff they are) and/or by adding sealant to one's tubes.
LOL. This guy has a 9-month old account and has posted dozens of comments praising or defending Musk. It looks like half of his comments are about Musk. His very first comment was praise of Thiel. Hilarious.
Banks don't make money from mortgages and loans, but from deposits. Our financial system uses fractional reserve. When you deposit $1 in a bank account, they are allowed to have ~10x that, or $10. They can literally create virtual money and deposit on other people's accounts (loans).

From $1 deposit, they make 900% instantly.

From $1 loan, they make 5-10% a year.

Crypto exchanges can't create money. Unless they have their own tokens. But even these tokens have more transparency than our current financial system.

So yes, they're pushed to handle their customers' money in risky ways to make a profit.

It's dumb. Against the whole point of decentralization...

It's like hosting every TOR node on AWS.
Well, I can imagine that people who aren't “proper” trans but are comfortable with, say, crossdressing start doing it in order to get benefits. Can't say I'm against that (more femboys IRL :^) and also this is on the queer-ish side so they probably still should get some preference if hiring process does take gender identity into account already.
The current company will fail, yes.

The censorious cash burning cesspool of employees who work 4 hours a week maintaining a news feed will most definitely cease to exist.

The question is what will come out of the ashes?
Right? And anyway, 01993 is invalid octal code.
> Every job hunt for me is still around 100 applications : 10 interviews : 1 offer. These ratios have remained pretty reliable through bull and bear hiring markets.

This rough estimate agrees with the data I've collected from my own job hunting. My data say 100 applications : 14 interviews : 3 offers, specifically.
In latest version it is possible to choose official ("ДСТУ 9112:2021") or any other exists variants[0] — in extension option (click on extension icon on browser toolbar):

> Switch Latinization system in the popup window.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Latin_alphabet

[1] https://paiv.github.io/latynka/en/
Yes I think this is more likely to be correct. And Alameda started making directional bets back in 2020 at least: https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/13851809411867893...
Prescriptivist and often irrelevant. Even when it’s correct, it often isn’t on concepts high schoolers can relate to. More often, it feels like one of those hokey dream dictionaries applied to books.
Did you mean Monetization department?
I've been following Andy's adventures for some time. We have some mutual friends but never met him. He owns a bus company and was chief marketer(?) at 37 Signals for awhile.

Now he's going to build a hybrid pickup truck deep in the heart of Detroit. He's bought a run down former Lincoln plant. Pretty ambitious but like I told someone recently some people just dream bigger than others.
It is insane that large, reputable VCs supposedly did diligence on FTX and alarm bells didn't go off.
Ah, you start with the boxing round then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
I'm skeptical of everything, and have been a long-time skeptic of Mastodon in particular, but I'm less concerned about this particular argument.

* People don't need nu-Twitter to be perfectly reliable they way they do for mail

* For that matter, nu-Twitter doesn't really need to be a unified namespace; it can be less coherent even than email addressing and still add value, the way RSS feeds did.

* In the years before Google centralized all of email, it was pretty common for people to have multiple email identities on different services, which seems like the worst this is going to get.

I don't love the software, and the user experience definitely isn't ready for prime time yet, but the basic model seems workable?
> Might be a bit different now, this was back in June/July 2021.

That was near the peak, it was a completely different world back then.
A lot of those "FOMO Buyers" lied on their mortgage applications and suffered no repercussions. In fact, many of them ended up doing quite well despite crying "Boo Hoo! I lost my house."

The spent their HELOC and never had to pay it back, they took the "first time homebuyers tax credit", and many of them lived in the house they "bought" for a year or two without paying any mortgage payment until the bank finally took it back. They never paid income tax on any forgiven debt, and they never paid income tax on the imputed income from living in a nice house for a couple of years rent-free until the bank finally was able to take possession of it.
Actually its either 'transfer out any balance' OR log in once a year to avoid the charge
Very much true.

I recently went through flat remodeling which took a month longer than it should and resulted in lower quality, because at the very beginning, I couldn't supply enough work for the contractors (we had to rush into it because ${life reasons}, so not everything was specced out when the work started), so the initial team of workers ended up taking better jobs abroad, and our general contractor had to find people to fill in.
Spam destroys all.

Usenet is another example of the problems with 0 moderation and federation. Sure, it distributed amazingly (many ISPs mirrored usenet data), but once spammers started spamming, it quickly died as a discourse medium.

Those with concerns over censorship need to face the fact that we've previously had 100% censorship free platforms and nobody uses them anymore. We dumped those platforms because of the lack of censoring, not in spite of it.

Heck, HN is moderated as well, I don't think most of us would be here if it was unmoderated.
Disappointed there wasn’t just a picture of a banana phone.
Shufflepuck Café
Oh? Show me an example of where you cannot promote the use of personal websites while simultaneously _not_ attacking or discouraging communal sites.
> Due to the failure of our third-party partner, some users' balance data were found abnormally recorded in our system. Hence, limiting our services to prevent further risks, the technical team has had to manually proofread and restore the system to ensure maximum accuracy of all users’ holdings.

This is a joke, it has to be a joke, right?

The technical team is manually proofreading? What the hell does that mean?
You have a point. The central services we consider stable are the winners, against a backdrop of many losers. We all flocked into a small set of winning services.

And the thing these winners have in common is that they are enormous. They require huge revenue streams (from ads) to be able to afford the enormous investments in scaling, moderation, compliance, etc.

The idea that a billion of us can keep dumping fresh content into our account for free and that none of this content seems to be ever lost, is honestly quite bizarre even if we take it for granted.

But that's the service level billions of people are used to. And it can only be delivered by these giants.
> They were at pains to explain to users how there are multiple servers and one has to choose a server, which is run by individuals or organisations. And if the server goes down then the user has to move to another server. Regular non-tech users really don't want to get into this complexity. Has anyone ever seen TV channels explain with great effort how to use Twitter?

I would point out that the concept is really no different from how ISPs work, and yet the public seems to have wrangled with that one.
Ostensibly, you'd need to login to transfer out your balance in the first place.
I think certain types of metal have the advantage of being more likely to survive a fire, but I'm not sure.

Stone is susceptible to cracking/shattering if caught in a house fire right?
The main article has this quote:

The ad campaign SpaceX is buying to promote Starlink is called a Twitter “takeover.” When a company buys one of these packages, they typically spend upwards of $250,000 to put their brand on top of the main Twitter timeline for a full day, according to one current and one former Twitter employee who asked to remain unnamed because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.

Which means 160k spent is actually well below typical deal and these deals are pretty normal for Twitter. So one may actually be worried that maybe SpaceX got a deep discount or something.
Genuinely don’t understand. Is the ActivityPub protocol AGPL? Is there something stopping MS from just building their own server from scratch?
It's definitely a problem for corn used to make Ethanol, as the special attribute of corn that makes it such a popular crop is that it produces a huge amount of food if you feed it large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer.

I don't think anybody is talking about feeding commercial fertilizer to Miscanthus, but Miscanthus and some other grasses have been talked about for years as feedstocks for "advanced biofuels" (as in that paper) but "ethanol from cellulosic biomass" is on that long list of energy technologies ("carbon capture and storage", "integrated gasifiers", ...) that have been talked about since the 1970s that never seem to make any real progress.
Yeah the status quo does seem like about as cancerous a company as one could imagine. Elon is currently blazing a trail for 1980s style tech PE buyouts.
"Beggars can't be choosers" is true in both directions. The problem with hiring beggars into a subpar situation is that they're going to jump as soon as their situation improves. The job listing talks about 12 month goals which suggests they want people for the long haul.

Really though this looks like one of those rare cases where hiring new grads and training them from scratch is the way to go.
> Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Just like many people don't become screenwriters or directors because they love TV or movies (though this is definitely a bigger pipeline than tech); they just want The Avengers or Real Housewives or whatever.

Is it what they want, or is that only what the market is willing to give them that's profitable? And how much of it is the result of manufactured consent?
What seems fair is telling customers there will be a fee before they open an account. If they want to add a fee after the fact, they shouldn't be charging that fee without the customer opting-in.
There are lots of them, you can choose in the settings: https://paiv.github.io/latynka/en/

Note that rules are different for different languages, even among those using Cyrillic. E.g. letter "г" is "h" in Ukrainian, but "g" in Russian. "И" in Russian is "i", which is a letter on its own in Ukrainian, while Ukrainian "И" is transliterated to "y".
A lot of things look like conundrums when we treat things like "belief", "want", "awareness", "decisions", etc. as clear cut attributes of our minds.

But like most explanations of our histories, these labels are oversimplified stories we use to label very poorly understand protoypical behaviors.

If "want" is a feeling of desire, then we all want things that we spend no effort getting.

If "want" is a deep configuration of our wiring to seek something, then we all want things we haven't even noticed were important to us.

The reality is, we are bundles of wants of various depths, fluctuating motivation, haphazard awareness, and thinking about our wants without diving into our physical makeups only shines a very dim light on them.

We don't even know what we want now, even when we actively attempt to.

----

One day, there are likely to be entities that can access their own states at any level at will. They will have designed the ways those states are encoded and channel behavior. Their stories about things like "wants" and "beliefs" will more rationally derive from subsystems designed to be "want systems" and "belief system" (or at least similar concepts). And they will be able to edit their state and behaviors, at the natural level of the relevant states and behaviors.

So now we can discuss things a little more clearly:

Can it be said that those much higher informed, fully self-aware, fully self-designed, self-directed beings have the power to truly choose what they want to want?

There are three answers.

The first is if we look at an entities current state in fine detail. Examining a minds activity at its lowest level, it pre-cognitive levels of mechanism, then we will see the entity is never is able to do anything, make any decision, that wasn't encoded already inexorably by its current makeup, state and experience.

The second is if we zoom out of any particulars, and note that minds are recursive, Turing complete, capable of unlimited mutations of state based on underlying physics or external influence, so obviously capable of making any kind of change (consistent with physics), although probabilities for some changes might be very small.

Or we could look at a collection of such entities, notice that some entities change themselves in difficult and useful ways, and conclude inductively but not mathematically that this means they can change their wants at will. Ignoring that we are really just creating a heuristic, a story, not a fact, when we say that.

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If believing you can change your wants help you get into a positive mental state where you actually making some good changes, then regardless of the irrationality of such a broad statement about complex things, it is a good heuristic.

Something perhaps worth believing regardless of whether it is true.
I agree. If not for startup it would be extremely fun to get on that crazy train. Presumably it's through relationships until they need to volume hire, which seems like it probably won't happen anytime soon.
i know it's not a full fledged thing like clojure, but it never had that scale in mind either. I should have added a modal in my comment above :)
I think the squares of the board are the wrong way round...
Depending on your content you gain enough traction to expect a steady income with your website (50k-100k yearly or more).
That can be enough to focus full-time on the project if you have enough ideas and potential to grow the project, and enjoy working on it.
If you're suggesting that internet users are entitled, very much yes.
It is standardized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Latin_alphabet
and useful for beginner learners and naming places for foreigners

Official Ukrainian should be written in Cyrillic, it's unimaginable that it would ever change like the ongoing effort in Kazakhstan https://cabar.asia/en/latin-alphabet-for-kazakhstan-turkific...
Another horrible PayPal thing:

If you use PayPal Credit with 0% to buy something, then make the automatic payments at the rate that they suggest...

You will end up missing
the time frame for 0%. They will charge you the full interest.
> The guy worked in traditional finance for a few years and was pushing for more regulations on cryptocurrency.

He was definitely not pushing for bank supervisors examining the books of Crypto exchanges.

FTX could not withstand a bank supervisor momentarily glancing at their books from a distance.
I don't think that is possible given the potential moves and the board.
I read that passage as "men who received a second dose of the Moderna vaccine had a very modest increased risk of myocarditis over those who both did not receive such a dose and remain (apparently) uninfected" -- eg, it's possible that specific intervention slightly increases absolute risk of myocarditis vs whatever group can avoid both vaccination and infection indefinitely (a group I suspect is not large).

It's also possible I'm not reading it correctly, but I'm not sure how else to square it with the observation that men have higher baseline and post-covid-infection myocarditis risks generally (and covid patients have something like 10-20x elevated risks of myocarditis).
I lived and worked through it and I’ve not seen tech slow down measurably, even then. There was a correction, and a shake out, but then it picked up basically where it left off and shot up. There have been other busts over the last 70 years but they’re more like a system that overheats, slows, then resumes.
Chaotic Ventures: $5k for college friend groups to do more chaotic good
This happens in the growth phase of an industry lifecycle. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/industrylifecycle.asp. During the growth phase, investors value companies not based on the money they can make today, but on the money they might make tomorrow. This encourages risk-taking, and results in large amounts of variation in the market.

It is followed by maturity, a feature of which is consolidation (incl reduction in choice and variation as the less profitable options are weeded out).

Until the next disruption...
For a serious ad campaign 160k is definitely not that big. Especially for a company with a revenue in billions.
They may be making them with non-removable batteries, but they still have ways of turning them off.

I've discovered that the fastest way of turning them off is with a mallet.
Honestly, that's more on Twitter than anyone who is doing the impersonating, whether parody or not. Their design and brand language put the "blue checkmark" front and center as a badge of legitimacy, giving it away for $8 to anyone is just asking for fraud.

Alternatively: this sort of thing will always happen because it has the potentially to be very funny
Ah, I was lucky because I learned Turbo Pascal. After that Turbo C++ was just the exactly same thing just with really weird and bit cryptic syntax.
> businesses that do this all have different crappy apps.

I want "app containers" on my phone to limit these apps and feed them fake data as needed.
"Pease don't take all your money out, because then we are fucked!"

(rough translation)
And “OK” instead of “I understand, thank you.”
Or they become hosted in jurisdictions that won’t help the EU collect any GDPR fines they choose to levy.
I would have said thanks.
As much as tech-bros think that the legal system is stupid, it's usually had to deal with many variations on a theme and has ended up with broad definitions around things of value. It doesn't matter if that thing is chickens, a right to land, potential mining rights or a stamp worth millions. A weird techno thing that has a public dollar value is not hard for it to work with.
Unrelated tangent: Can I just take a moment to say how utterly exhausted I am with reading about how such and such OSS project is against the invasion of Ukraine, or for BLM, or against BDS, etc…? I really just don’t care and don’t want to hear about it anymore.
> Yes, heat pumps reduce electricity consumption compared to resistive heating which almost nobody in my corner of washington is using. People here use natural gas which is historically pretty cheap even compared to relatively cheap electric rates for heating purposes.

Ya, this made me wonder. I get Seattle, but Spokane? You probably need to install gas heating or a wood burn fireplace since I don't think a heat pump would cut it east of the cascades. But I see how it would do wonders for air conditioning in the summer.
It honestly doesn't matter who is correct on the technical details here, for Musk to so publicly go after his employee is a really bad look.
The problem recurs and yet that never seems to deter the next attempt to build a better mouse trap.
>If we want drivers to slow down, we don’t ignore human behavior and the 85th percentile speed,” said Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn. “We change the street design to make it feel less safe for drivers. In other words: we change the street design to reflect reality."

I don't get this. Isn't this doing the opposite of reflecting reality and ignoring the 85th percentile speed by modifying the street design to add danger?

>The 85th percentile speed is the speed at or below which 85 percent of the drivers will operate with open roads and favorable conditions. The assumption underlying the 85th percentile speed is that most drivers will operate their vehicle at speeds they perceive to be safe.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/7/24/understanding-...
I’m really confused by this - my iPhone 6 from 2014 has 4G LTE (and still gets security updates). What were you buying in 2018 that was 3G!?