skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that the original use case was distributed computing, and the content-addressable stuff took on a life of its own after that.
Yes, but not using that tool. Certainly not at a $8 price-point over USB 2.0 (and while some of them have USB 3.0 looking ports, they're USB 2.0 internally).

I'd start by looking at the Black Magic Intensity Pro 4K, but you're looking at hundreds of dollars.
I didn't pick that one because I didn't want to have a comment on HN with "Long Island's Sand Filled Condom" :D

It's hilarious.
But that’s pretty pricey right?
Why is the attacker able to supply a crafted font? Why isn’t that cryptographically signed?
* Buy Driveway sized tarp from Harbor Freight for like $20 or whatever

* Buy largest Harbor Freight off roading winch for probably $100

* Attach the winch to the ground somewhere in the yard

* bye bye snow until end of driveway
The actual report: https://www.iatp.org/emissions-impossible-methane-edition
It’s just a bit of a surprise, and Rust hasn’t ironed out some of these surprises. I’m sure it will get fixed eventually.

Yes, you can give examples of cases where unusual code (like deep type nesting) can create these large data structures, and you can call it an anti-pattern. But Rust is also pitched as a C++ replacement for greenfield projects, so you have all of these C++ programmers who are used to being able to “new” something into existence of any size, and then initialize it. A series of design decisions in Rust has broken that for objects which don’t fit on the stack.

I’m satisfied with the explanation that “no satisfying and sound solution has been found” and I’m also satisfied with “Rust developers haven’t gotten around to addressing this issue”. I’m not really interested in hearing why some people who run into the same issue are making bad decisions.
I can identify 20% of global carbon emissions in 8500 coal power plants.

Only 8500 plants need to be replaced and we can reduce 20% of emissions.

Hey I’ve got a stupid idea. Let’s tell everyone to stop eating meat, replace a billion gas powered cars, drive less and stop flying

Let’s rinse and repeat and have this discussion every day for the next decade, just like we have done for the past 2 decades
Sure and you can buy groceries directly from the farmer. It's just not practical at any meaningful scale.
What Happened at FTX?
> Intrinsic value is a value outside of perceived value.

Yes, and we're not talking about perceived value. We're talking about intrinsic value from a peer-to-peer network that's used by many people.
Fedwire manages similar amount per second, yet it is the basis of the current monetary system. Can you use your head to think why and how?
> I don't get the problem with traveling to stars though. If I could move at the speed of light through space

Well, to be a stickler for the laws of physics, you can't move through space at the speed of light. In principal, you can get moving pretty quick though, but what if there's a space pebble between you and those stars? If you're going at half the speed of light, the collision force would be in the atomic bomb range. So that's a potential problem.
What's an example of a pretty language?
Group distances themselves from person that made them look bad? Hmm, that's an unusual scenario.
This matches the rules south of the border and is probably the worst thing about expecting a bunch of land wars in Asia to break out in the next 20 years (Iran, Ukraine, Tibet, Korea, Taiwan etc).

When my kid was born in the US, I got the selective service notice and while discussing the downsides of the US citizenship question was very surprised to find out that US green card holders need to sign up for the draft. So keeping a Green card and a different nationality wasn't enough to stay out of it.

Not just that the DACA kids who are in the US right now with no other citizenship rights, need to sign up for Selective service - this is not a recruitment process, it is mandatory to sign up if they want a path to citizenship in the future through marriage or other ways.

I hope it never comes to that, but I wish it was mandatory training like the swiss or singapore, so that my kid will never get called to a battlefield with minimal training only after they run out of experienced troops.
And they charge good money for it too.
> I have a zero-deductible ACA plan. There are plenty of them.

How much does that cost? And which state?
I have a simple solution, allow multiple CAs to issue a cert and for a site to use a CAA record or the like to pin them and for browsers to encourage and enforce CAA record upkeep. So you can say letsencrypt and digicert and only those two can issue a cert for my site. Or if updating DNS is cumbersome, include a field in the cert for alternative CAs. Browsers can then pin CAs to a site.

That way it would require multiple CAs to be compromised or act in concert to affect a user who visited the site prior to a compromise. For new visitors, browsers can expand their normal CT check to include alternative CA declarations. The connection is secure only if all CAs certify all other CAs as valid and the certificate being authentic. If there is a valid cert issues in CR logs from a different CA, user gets an insecure connection warning -- which does mean random CAs can mis-issue certs and cause errors (for sites with multiple CAs that is) but will only help get rid of those CAs.
This is all pretty much spelled out in the Legal link at the bottom of HN.

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#calprivacy
APL feels like the ideal language for AI to write code with.
My favorite things about crypto is how it is always your fault.

Use an exchange and get ripped off? Your fault, dummy.

Go it on your own and fail to maintain perfect security or backups, and you lose your wallet? Not our problem, moron.

Be one of the 0.0000000000000001% of crypto users who actually want to exchange it for goods and services and you get ripped off and want a refund? LOL pound sand, loser.

Some flaw in the implementation of the protocol is discovered and shit hits the fan? Haha you should have been on XYZcoin, idiot!
The fact that so many people happily focus on the targets the MIC is currently upset about with no introspection at all makes me sad
The adjustment algorithm still requires blocks to be generated before it adjusts. If enough miners shut down at the same time, time between blocks will skyrocket, pushing the difficulty adjustment forward even further and crippling the transaction throughput.
Perhaps not, but plenty of good ideas kick around for years or decades before someone finally figures out how to put them together right.
The most programmable Supercloud with Cloudflare Snippets
So, our freedom of association was yet another thing that the wash of free capital on the US was harming. Good to know.
Maybe the lack of any kind of business relationship matters? I.e. HN isn't making money from the people posting here.
Ok, I'll bite.

Give me the elevator pitch. I'm not in tech [0] so treat me as you would a grandmother. Average speaking speed is ~150 words/minute. Say the average elevator ride is ~30 seconds. So, in ~75 words, tell me what the nuance is as you would say to a grandmother? That fair?

To be clear, I'm honestly not trying to be snarky. Sorry if it comes off that way. I can only multitask through this meeting so well.

[0] I'm in biotech, so I can hang with you all and be a hacky programmer, but most in depth discussion go over my head.
This far-right politician believes in MMT?
There might also be a relationship between those quotes about great software engineers being lazy and ADHD often looking like laziness from the outside...
Programming is REALLY to teach.

Unless you worked on some complex problems from start to finish, you can't really understand why things are where they are right now.
It's not clear that the mining is still in China. It may look like mining is in China based on where new Bitcoins enter the network, but the mining farm may be elsewhere with the control hub still in China. Or the mining may have moved to other provinces. The big crackdown was at the provincial level, where the electrical load was substantial.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/china-is-second-biggest-bitc...
I use SingleFile occasionally for saving and sharing interactive pages. E.g. ones with zoomable charts. Works great.
All episodes of the Arraycast have both transcripts and extensive show notes for background information for those who may not be array programmers. The challenge of delivering knowledge via an audio format is real, but use of transcripts makes it much more accessible.
It's the level of sweetness and crispness I'm troubled with most of the time. Braeburns are crispier and are better balanced at sweetness (neiter sour nor too sweet) IMO.
I always get the impression that CoPilot critics have never actually used it to get any work done and are basing their criticism solely on a tweet they saw about the Quake square root copy pasta function
Copilot's default behavior is stupid. You can turn off auto-suggest so that it only recommends something when you prompt it to, and that should really be the default behavior. This would encourage more thoughtful use of the tool, and solve the fatigue problem completely.

In IntelliJ, disabling auto complete just requires clicking on the Copilot icon in the bottom and disabling it. Alt+\ will then trigger a prompt. I know there's a way to do this in VSCode as well, but I don't know how.
I'm surprised by how rarely stuff like this happens given the scale of these websites. It's still fascinating to me that most of the time all of your data is there and it all just works.
Dark pattern banners I call them. One day I clicked the 'more options' button on a foreign website and it was a list of over 1000 different third parties listed each with their own toggle.
same creative use of mark to market accounting but compared to FTX, Enron was fraud on difficult mode. They had to (attempt to) actually build things like power plants in India. FTX just yeeted tokens to bag holders based on fancy darkmode graphic design and a screwball haircut.
At best, PBAs are indirect bribery. The PBAs take that money to defend police misconduct in the rare cases that their misconduct ends up on court. Relative lack of corruption is what distinguishes egalitarian societies.

Cops shouldn't accept free coffee and snacks. Just as politicians shouldn't accept gifts. That's corruption.
They are under scrutiny, and here are some facts:

- they lied about the reserves and weren't backed at 100%

- they did fraudulent attestations wiring money for the 'snapshot' of accounts for the attestation then moving it back to owners (from Bitfinex exchange if I remember - which is the same people - see a pattern here ?)

- held money in their personal accounts

the above were proven without doubt by the NY AG.

- promised an audit for several years (it's always just a few months away)

- publish attestations that are obviously false. some red flags - in the first one, they claimed to have so much money in commercial paper that would put them in top 10 players - yet, among desks trading those papers, nobody ever heard of them ! In the last 2, if what they published was true, they would already be under water, given the decline of all coins - yet, somehow they are all okay.

- each time an exchange / scam goes down - they publish those papers saying they have 0 exposure to them (recently FTX, Genesis) - this despite findings that Alameda (FTX affiliated hedge found) was on the recepient of >30% of all Tethers

- last I checked, their CEO wasn't seen publicly for several years. Most of their financial 'communication' is done by their AG and 'the IT guy'

There are many more. In case of doubt, watch this interview and judge yourself if this feels like guys legitimately managing 70B real dollars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBEqyiO35cQ

It's all scam - it's so obvious that it's amazing. It will collapse - we just don't know when.
You might find this breakdown of popular american supermarket apples (in the context of pie):

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-what-are-the-best-a...
It's not on the list, but if you haven't had Ananas Reinette apples you're in for a treat. Look for them!
This is a stunningly beautiful app! The thought and care put into the user experience really shows, and works particularly well for my brain.

I’d love to see support for more of a week-agnostic format. That our weeks traditionally start on Monday or Sunday means nothing to me. If it’s Friday or Saturday and I’m mapping out my next five days, I’m stuck with the jarring experience of having to navigate back and forth between two arbitrary groups of days.

I’m imagining a layout option where of the 7 days, day 2 is always today, perhaps with some sort of smooth-scroll snapping capability that lets me granularly travel forward or backward through days as needed.
And I won't be satisfied until Emacs can run Windows 95 binaries [1], but I'm not sure that it's either on Microsoft or on Richard Stallman to make this happen.

There is no shortage of open protocols that you can use to communicate with all your friends. I don't see that you should be able to compel application vendors, that all build on top of open protocols into any interop they don't want.

[1] Emacs is, after all, an operating system with ambitions of being a text editor.
I'm of two minds about it
And those banners aren't even mandatory. Someone did it without learning the actual law and almost everybody does that.
It's such an absurd thing to even try and attempt. I have no doubt they will.
If everyone knows he was a grifter, then why did people give him money?
I’ve always found it funny people think GDPR matters outside of the EU.

You cannot regulate a steel manufacturer in China from the EU. Similarly, you cannot regulate how a company and server is setup in another country. It’s where the company is operating.

In the case of hacker news the CCPA probably does have an impact. So i suspect they follow the appropriate law there. That’s because that’s where they are operating out of.

That said, HN is moderated pretty well. I suspect if you ask them they’ll tell you and / or delete what ever you ask.
Just started using SingleFile — love it. Are there any other utilities/projects that you think that would have such personal and broad utility they would be a decade+ runway?
But there's only ever going to be a fixed number of bitcoin - does it all just stop working when it's all mined out?
The Legoland theme parks are not even owned by Lego anymore.

Edit: Apparently I was wrong. Lego sold the themeparks during a downturn 20 years ago, but actually bought them back a few years ago, and now consider them a strategic part of the brand.
The article doesn't read in either direction; it's not that specific.

Quotes like "The FBI had not returned his phone calls, he added" would seem to indicate he's primarily dealing with the FBI, as is proper.
Ah yes. True, good point.

Early on I went to a support group for laid off employees, and many of them stood up to tell heartbreaking stories of emotional turmoil and bleak prospects. I walked out of there and never looked back. I had a young family and bills to pay. I didn't have time or energy to be someone else's pillar of strength.
You rank Jazz apples a 65? What?

Clearly flawed site is clearly flawed.
The larger issue is how do we manage a society to follow accepted norms. Most jurisdictions have elected to choose a police force, but smaller ones --not sure how extendable that is-- use councils or elders or whatnot. These can also end up in weird derailments on occasion.

In large societies, the US, India, China, Panama, etc., with many strangers living among each other in large settlements, how do we, uhhh, "police" the population? Or how do we manage the population from infringing/violating each other's rights?
Oh? Do tell! That sounds interesting. I lost interest in BTC after they decided to cap the block size and push LN because LN was so poorly thought out.
This is weird site run by someone who clearly isn't an apple fan. My personal favourite apple, the Cortland, is rated "24 Despicable" because:

> "The general public usually doesn’t have access to an apple fresh off the tree in a cold orchard. My rankings must reflect what is available to regular folks."

In Ontario, this apple is only available for a few weeks in the fall because it ages and travels poorly. At least they have the proper opinion about the Granny Smith ...
He was tight with the regulators and literally advising congress, yet they had no idea what he was doing and gave his operation a veneer of authenticity, so he's correct on that point.
Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game: Process Substitution
That rolls back the lack of trust in that specific project but does not prevent contagion (“who’s next? Who else was doing this?”)

Moves like this are supposed to be reassuring to the broader market. Punishment is something done after an error but does not guarantee that someone else also didn’t do this, and punishment doesn’t go back in time and undo actions.

If you are not decisive enough the markets can quickly spiral into contagion, however rational that may be. (See: the prolonged cascading during the Euro crisis)
Ask HN: Can crypto-mining farms be retooled to run AI algorithms?
I've been thinking about this for a while, and now even more since the collapse of FTX. If the crypto-currency bubble is really bursting like some are asserting, then I figure there is going to be a lot of out of work crypto-farmers in the near future.

Now, I never really paid much attention to AI tech until the AI-art scene arrived at its current level of maturity. As such, my understanding of AI algorithms and their hardware requirements is very limited. The same goes for my understanding of crypto-mining, it's very limited.

I know that both AI and crypto-mining use GPUs to run their calculations. But that's about the extent of my knowledge.

I'm curious to discuss these topics:

1. How difficult would retooling be?

2. When will the demand for AI computations exceed the current level of hardware availability (making retooling an attractive pivot) ?

3. Which AI projects are going to drive market demand for AI computations ? (again making retooling attractive)
You can opt into secret scanning on private repos, but it isn’t default when I last used it.
I distinctly remember picking red delicious as easily my favorite apple in the 80's. It's unrecognizable now.
You need to negotiate and agree upon output metrics as a team.

Story points can easily be translated to dollars. If an engineer and a product manager can agree that a story is worth 3 points, they can agree that it's worth, say, $1,500. Whether the work ends up taking 30 minutes or 30 days, neither party can complain because they both agreed on a price.
No, not when the cost helps you make/save money.

Like, would you pay $2500/mo to help you make $25000/mo?

"Pricey" is subjective; and is only one number. You need another number to get the Ratio. Then we can see if Price > Gains; making $THING is expensive.
>It’s a staggering number that if broken down per capita would equate to each Canadian citizen losing about $43,000.

$131 billion / 38 million ~ 3500$
Two Minute Papers – Nvidia’s New AI: Beautiful Simulations, Cheaper
Eh, ycombinator definitely benefits from HN as an advertising method and has information on people that use HN, so there's only no sort of business relationship if you also believe that other major advertisers (such as Google) have no business relationship that applies.
No, it's actually pretty dry compared to the real thing happened in the bond market. What it means is that no bond could be fully trusted in South Korea in the long term. Whenever political power shifted, some crazy politician can decide to default it and there's no system to stop them from doing such stuff. If you cannot trust government-issued bonds, you don't have the economical foundation at all.

> Wouldn't it have been easier to retract the policy of the local government, sack the local leaders, etc., to rollback the loss of trust?

That would help the situation, but the only solution here would be the systematic guarantee to punish such politicians but we don't have any hope for a foreseeable future since the governor is from the ruling party and was a prosecutor. South Korean prosecutors are the worst for this job, they're corrupted to the root and is a highly political entity but without being elected. I don't see any possibility of prosecuting the governor for abuse of power.
Compatibility with a terminal from 1971 yet I can't run a copy of Logic Pro 9 I bought 10 years ago - and haven't been able to for years - because Apple.
Well, the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse will be entering public domain soon.
What is crypto used for? Who uses/needs the crypto network for anything except speculation?
I prefer this vigil vs "I fail to see the harm." which I hope doesn't get any traction in the application of AI.
> I do not believe there is any credible theory that any investor could possibly have been unaware of these issues.

I'm not convinced that the issues that caused Binance to back out even existed the last time FTX raised outside capital (March 2022 according to Crunchbase). My understanding is that in March, FTX had a basically normal balance sheet for a crypto exchange, with roughly enough non-FTT assets to balance against its liabilities.

Alameda was an over-leveraged crypto hedge fund, which in hindsight wasn't great news for Alameda's investors or creditors. But there's a world where Alameda goes to zero but FTX is mostly fine. After all, FTX would automatically recalculate margin levels and liquidate assets as needed every 30 seconds. If they did that with Alameda like they would have for an arms length counterparty....I'm not going to say that FTX would have been unscathed - a lot of those loans seem to have been secured by FTT, plus Alameda seems to have made up a lot of FTX's trading volume - but the end result of incinerating billions of dollars' worth of customer deposits wasn't inevitable. IMO, FTX's fate wasn't sealed until its management team built a backdoor into its systems to siphon customers' assets to Alameda. And that probably didn't happen til summer, months after its last funding round.
This one is really an example of the US having a 3rd world safety net. No matter how much that worker makes, her partner can have more uncovered medical costs.
Actually we would be better consuming more soybeans. Most of it goes to animal feed.
> That's like saying that code copy/pasted from OSS projects on github was "written by the developer".

I don't think that's what OP is saying. What I think OP is saying (and I agree) is that submitted code is trusted if you trust the source. If you take the person putting code in front of you and ask "Would this person copy someone else's code and submit it as their own" and the answer is "No they would not copy code" then every step that trusted-person took to get to that code is immaterial. Whether they used StackOverflow or Copilot or whatever AI assisted code generating tools do or don't get developed in the future. At the end of the day a good, trustworthy engineer isn't going to use licensed software by "accident"[1].

1. I put "accident" in quotes because it seems so crazy to me that someone would start writing a method "doThing" and then CoPilot spits out a licensed implementation of "doThing" and the engineer would look at it and go "This seems fine."
They are mandatory if by browsing a website your data ends up in a 3rd party, which means almost all websites.
I actually got some lock picks around that age. I was also very mature about it. Just wanted to bring that up, because it's non-trivial to become a felon by using (or even possessing during a different crime) those. The recipients should definitely understand the possible risks and be responsible enough to handle that.
Read books. That's how we used to learn when those languages were invented.
It's ML syntax. I'm also not used to it, but many who are consider it beautiful.