skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the value dropped to
Zero, I’d “buy” them all and then run my own miner to confirm the transaction and sail off into the virtual sunset with my story about how I bought all the bitcoin in the world. I’d keep running the miner and publishing my chain. But then someone would come along with more hashpower than me and rewrite all my transactions with their longer chain and my sunset would turn to darkness, and I’d be poor again… but ironically they’d probably not be worth zero anymore. Then people would rewrite that chain with more hashpower… And so on, until greed secures the transactions again and restores value.

At which point I’d turn my miner off and wind the chain back to when I was rich on my private virtual island for one and live happily ever after.
SBF had huge sleaze vibes, so I don't know if your logic applies.

> and not a single flashy Ferrari

the article mentions his $30 million dollar penthouse ... It seems the only place the flashy assets didn't exist was in the press coverage put out by organizations SBF gave money to...
For a certain sort of prospective law student, I’m sure this makes Stanford even more appealing. You’ll be able to learn from not one but two professors who helped their own son cop a federal plea deal!
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Pet peeve regarding all calendars everywhere: why do you think I have less todo during the weekend? No parties? No shopping? No family reunions?

Please make the saturday and sunday as large as the weekdays. <3
I am neither an accountant nor attorney.

The way I do it is using Schedule C and the relates forms.

Banking is one thing a sole proprietorship simplifies because all you need is a separate personal account to use for the business and banks are happy to set one up.

If the business doesn’t generate much income you might even get away with not paying out taxes quarterly and use additional withholding instead.
Why does that even matter? Or do you just assume everyone is a Javascript programmer?

If I say "need" people will tell me it's my fault and to change jobs.

If I say "want" people will tell me it's my fault and to change jobs.
I wish I lived in the world where "obviously beneficial to everyone" implied "it will be the future!" Plenty of things just get worse, just because. People are fucking awful. I look forward to the day when AGI takes over the world.
In the same way it's so hard to disrupt Google.

They are such a powerful monopoly the average Joe rarely thinks there is an alternative.
People vote incompetent populists who lie to get elected (tell people what they want to hear or false promises).

When they win, they are bad at their jobs.
The balance sheet doesn't include the crypto funds associated with depositors on the exchange. Which is sort of a problem - they should be both asset and liabilities, and 1:1 match.
Absolutely, was just implying it was served as HTML but about as little as you can get, just a tiny preamble.
It is true that learning to read the kanji is harder than learning to read, e.g., Spanish. But I understood your original statement to not be about ease of learning but ease of reading (once learned). It is not obvious to me that Japanese is at a disadvantage here when we compare kanji vs. romaji within the same subject.

By the way, you might know this, but if a Japanese speaker doesn’t know a kanji, they are not at a complete loss. Words often consist of multiple kanji so they can infer from the meaning and possible pronunciations of the other kanji in the word. The context in which the unknown kanji appears helps too. And in literature aimed at young readers, they often also show the pronunciation written next to more unusual kanji (furigana). All of this is less relevant to APL though.
I don't think businesses benefit from a 4 day work week but who cares, I don't think they benefit necessarily from a weekend either and we still do it.
Opens the Game Bar, whatever that is.
This was my (weak) attempt at referencing the venerable https://www.html5rocks.com/en/index
The missing ingredient is whom it is that's producing the software.

If I wanted to be a solo developer, I would go with option 1 and simply charge as high a price as I possibly can and still make enough profit. That way I have better quality customers and fewer of them to complain about things. If a feature is widely requested, my customer base already has demonstrated that they've reached financial "escape velocity" and may be willing to front the money to make new features happen. What I might do from the outset is split more distinct features into their own "add-ons" that can be paid for extra. That way, if a feature is needed but only applies to a fragment of my user base, only the people who want it will be charged for it.

Subscription models are idealized because you can charge peanuts and rely on the fact that most people won't remember to cancel their subscription. I'm not much a fan of this model because the quality of user is lower and it turns every user into a customer all the time. A one time purchase, on the other hand, doesn't necessarily imply that support be provided indefinitely. From a technological perspective, managing subscriptions is a pain in the rear, whereas not a whole lot of code is needed to charge cards just a single time. You might need a license server, but I'd rather my license server be compromised than find a rogue for-loop charged my customer's credit cards a hundred times over.
Several of the byte-for-byte copies pointed out by open source authors were longer than 20 lines, and contained verbatim comments.

I am not a lawyer, but that's been enough to get people in legal trouble in the US.
Then build the world’s largest battery factor. Germany can afford it, an there is an emergency that requires such actions.
The tab groups extension for Chrome works well for automating moving tabs to the correct group. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-groups-extensi...
A tiny school outside of an Air Force Base in Mississippi --- the school got DoD funding for all the students from the base attending.
Emissions are increasing at a decreasing rate and are in the declining in absolute terms in the largest economies, except for China and India.
I feel the same. It's like the tech community likes to stick to one fad at a time and then moves on to next big fad. WTF does Web3 even mean. I have no clue.
Grrr.

Just leave my basic browser functionality (scrolling, copy/paste, etc) ALONE.
7zip can use 2 cores (maybe more now), zstd can use all of them, but zstd doesn't support solid compression - you need to use tar with it.
>I'm starting to think that crypto exchanges can't be run profitably.

Coinbase and Kraken would beg to differ. They have been operating since 2011 and 2012 respectively.

>As the number of crypto exchanges that have imploded spectacularly keeps rising

Given that the number can only go up (exchanges can't un-implode), this statement seems like a truism. You could say the same about VC backed companies, for instance.
What is this annoying unusuable scroll behavior? And arrow keys / pguppgdown don't work at all.
Our clothing prices will only get lower as we get higher volume.

With Uniqlo specifically, their clothes generally seem to look more streetwear-esque and usually fit a bit bigger than usual.

Thanks for the feedback though.
>In the 1800s, it was common for people in manufacturing to work nearly 100 hours per week: between 10- and 16-hour shifts over six-day workweeks.
>By the early 1900s, many industries had adopted the eight-hour workday, but most people were still working six days a week.

If these figures are true, it helps me to understand why so many people in the 19th and early 20th century were huge advocates of socialism and communism. Even though, having read about the history of the last 100 or so years, I think that communism is a relatively inefficient and often brutally murderous form of government, even I feel that it might be better to launch a revolution to overthrow the rich and take their stuff than to put up with working so much that there is essentially no time in one's life to do anything other than work, all just to be able to live in some cramped apartment in a dirty industrial city.
How are HN parents teaching their kids to code? I've got a 6 yo who I think might be ready to start learning and am curious how you've done it. What age is a good age to start? How do kids age out of languages/runtimes into other languages/runtimes?
I also have an Alienware and I had the same experience until I spent a lot of time tuning battery life, now I can get 7-9 hours of autonomy. If you want, I can share my setup with you to spare you the trouble.
The law should be blind. If not, then there's discrimination. Should there be special cards to dispense it?
There are always going to be people who take advantage of anything "free". I once worked at a boring large company that didn't offer any of these perks. They repeatedly had to tell people that the office supplies were for work use only. One person was caught selling office supplies on eBay. Another person had been using them to supply the office for his side business.
How many t-shirts do I have to buy a year for it to be cheaper?
The paper they're quoting doesn't actually say that and it's double counting some parts of the system that are already accounted for in the 350GWh figure. Try again.
It definitely does. Stimulants really have helped me in meaningful ways. I also recommend ADHD/ND specific therapy. Not just CBT, we tend to play too many meta head games for that to work well on us. The meds work best when you have learned behaviors that you’re changing along with the clarity and motivation that they can unlock. If not, you end up being a lot more motivated and effective at done the least useful things lol.
HN is whatever its users make it. It evolves according to the user community's perceived needs and interests. Attempts to define it one way or another (and often coerce conformity) are dysfunctional and pathological. If you don't like it now, perhaps you will like it next year.
One party wants a disenfranchised base that will keep voting for them. If they are made whole by the government they might start having wrongthink.
> They pay for enormous capacity that is used only sporadically.

In this day and age? I am highly skeptical.

Any large, upcoming surge of traffic is planned in advance, as in the case of the Taylor Swift Era Tour ticket sales, so they can easily preemptively scale up infrastructure ahead of that. There is zero reason to hold onto that infrastructure all year long, and dynamic scaling works fine for this type of service the rest of the year.
Yes that's probably the most likely factor. For a while, clang didn't have all the support necessary to build chrome on win-aarch64 but that's no longer the case. Chromium builds exist already so there's probably not much except a business commitment to build/test/support the platform. And yes maybe the share just isn't enough to justify that yet.
Does Cron have that feature?
Doesn't have to be personal data. You'd know the performance of every website's funnel, most used features of every app etc. Somebody would have paid a lot for it.
A waste of money, too. They're 3-4x as expensive as the other apples here.
Okay, I'll bite. What has materially improved with regards to corruption and transparency in journalism in the past century?
250GWh/year isn't quite 750MWh/day, but it's close enough for rhetoric since the OP mentioned 750MWh as the total storage capacity currently installed in Germany.

250GWh/year definitely would be the world's largest battery factory if it was operational today, but by the time Brandenburg ramps up to that it likely won't be.
Yes it does work with JavaScript. At yazz that is exactly how we store is code, by the iPfs hash
They can convert themselves to a Russian citizen at any time. They don't do it, because they don't want to actually live in Russia. They just want to be able to go there regularly for family and friends.

In the 1990s Estonian citizenship was given to any resident who asked for it, zero requirements. The people who remain stateless today rejected the proposal. Nowadays its more difficult to get Estonian citizenship, but still within reach for plenty of these people. They just don't want to do it, again, because they have friends and family in Russia - and Estonian citizens can't freely travel to Russia.

They can still vote for local elections and work. So there isn't really a strong incentive to care.

The best incentive for getting an actual citizenship is for those who want to travel beyond EU & Russia, because the global world doesn't give these stateless people special rights.
Here's what I believe : the fraternizing and huddling around the break room during coffee breaks and distracting leisurely talks with coworkers at their desk, which all contribute to wasted time at the office would still happen in a 30 hour work week.

Except, Workers would be demanding overtime pay to finish the work they have normally been doing in a 40 hour work week and employers would have to pay premium compensation for the same level of work they used to be getting at 40 hours a week.
You’re not building Costco for apparel. This is just Gilt.
Do you think people would be able to maintain 100% productivity when working 20 hours/week?
Only in fantasy like Spider-Man.
Let us not forget SPARC's register windows.

I don't know if you could say RISC-V was optimized, as such, for undergraduate courses, but historically that was its design target. That said, there was a lot more attention to extensibility via regularized instruction set extensions than the undergraduate target demanded.

RISC-V's permanently-zero register is akin to other RISCs' special multiplication registers.
"Of that total, $1 billion went to Bankman-Fried in the form of a personal loan, while $2.3 billion went to an entity he controls, Paper Bird (Bankman-Fried has told Forbes that owns 75% of the entity, with Wang owning the rest)—so that’s another nearly $1.73 billion at Bankman-Fried’s disposal."
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Pros: zstd, presto, react

Cons: created a post-truth world which destroyed democracy and killed millions of people by spreading antivaxx propaganda

Eh.
Your login / signup flow is broken.

If I signup, then I get the membership purchase view. If I log out to go look at product, I go back to the signup screen. If I login again, I'm back at products.

I can't get back to the membership screen. This will likely hurt your signups.
Great x-files episode with said title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Mori_(The_X-Files)
Oh man... going to any one thread there... you can smell the marlboro reds and desperation through your screen
I'm another f/t Fedora user. I've been using Linux on dozens of laptops for over 2 decades. Not once in my experience has Linux got the same battery life as Windows on the same machine, regardless of tweaks. I did have about 5 years on MacOS, and that was the best of all, but that was different hardware of course.

Linux just is worse on battery than any of the other mainstream OSs in my experience, though the margin has reduced over time. It's still my platform of choice (because even now, in 2022, the choices available are crap), but denial makes them disappear only from the imagination, not reality.
(Unison Developer here), yes we've done two such migrations this year. It has typically meant that we have an "are you ready to upgrade" message when you start up and the migration took less than a minute on my pretty large codebase. It's not a big deal
I couldnt sleep for months with those two running around free knowing they could strike at any time
Are these real products I can buy today?

Most of the photographs look like stock images.
My son turned 6 recently. You might find this doc helpful:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qNHqaZ9CdVwQsh4sEslf3GG...

The things my son has used or is using:

* Osmo Coding Awbie (requires Osmo hardware)

* Osmo Coding Jam (requires Osmo hardware)

* Scratch Jr. To use Scratch Jr effectively, it’s good to have a book or a guide. I chose this set of example exercises: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593278993

* Code.org (Course A or Course C)
Usually when there is a question in the title, the answer is no. Not this time. But 35h is also ridiculously too much. It needs to be 20h max, just because households are dual income, and personal work needed to be done did not disappear.
He did not open his books to investors. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/technology/ftx-investors-...

“Sam Bankman-Fried’s pitch to investors was not much of a pitch: It was a take-it-or-leave-it offer.

“In meetings to raise money for his cryptocurrency exchange FTX over the last year, the entrepreneur left little room for negotiation, two investors said. FTX was his company, Mr. Bankman-Fried told them, and he planned to run it with little oversight. Interested investors should ‘support him and observe,’ one investor who heard the pitch said.”
base64 random data would be that bad only because of base64. Random data does not compress at all on average.

As an example, I have zstd enabled on some zfs pool. The client-side encrypted time machine backups does not even compress 1 %, as expected.
This is my personal theory: modern technology and media has made it more possible to surround yourself with only like-minded views that share your "fairy tale thinking", even if the eventual outcomes are obvious from the outset.

Was really glad that this article mentioned Liz Truss at the end, because I think the dynamics are absolutely the same. It was painfully obvious (indeed, the current PM made it clear in the summer) that cutting taxes, and having no way to pay for them, in the midst of rampant inflation is an idiotic idea. I read elsewhere that it's almost as if Truss and Kwarteng formed a pact in college saying, "if we ever make it to the top of government, we'll prove that supply side ideology works!", and then completely disregarded the current economic climate.

I just see it more and more over the past decade or so that things that you know are not going to end well (see also crypto deposits paying 10% interest) somehow snowball because it's easier to surround yourself with "ideological cultism".
What evidence? I don't think there's a machine that delivers on all those aspects, and makes Linux a first-class citizen.

Dell and Lenovo generally do a pretty good job, and those machines sell well, but I think the quality is still below what, say, Apple can deliver. Judging by the push to get Linux to run on Apple hardware, I'd say Linux enthusiasts are not only willing to pay a premium for a quality product, but willing to invest time and effort getting it to run well in a hostile and closed ecosystem.

So I think there's a big market opportunity for someone to deliver Apple quality hardware, that integrates well with open source software. Framework is probably at the frontlines in this regard.
I'd rather have some "middle-ground" solution instead of losing such a tool

I don't see anything wrong with "stealing" code that was meant to be public

Banning it brings no value in compare to those tools.

Also, how is that different from Google's scraping whole internet?
Well, that reminds me of Muji
Here's a couple more that I've found useful over the years:

- pandoc: convert (almost) any document format to (almost) any other document format

- The Elm Compiler: Possibly the most widely used statically typed pure frontend language

- XMonad: A tiling window manager for linux that I enjoyed using even without knowing much Haskell

- Purescript: the other widely-used (for an FP language) statically typed pure compile-to-javascript language
Their CEO melted down and disappeared. The old CEO had to step back in. His Twitter would just be sad.

Although he did famously yell at (wall street) analysts on a quarterly earnings call right before he broke down.
First digital nation Tuvalu turns to metaverse as rising seas threaten existence
Yes, that's exactly it. Local UI (initially in the browser, but could be on a rich-client or mobile app) but all compute is in the cloud.

The difference from existing thin-client models is that it's a single stack: When you write a program, you write the UI code as if on a local computer. E.g., you just call MessageBox("Hi, there") and the platform is responsible for remoting that as appropriate.

"A super massive global mainframe" is the correct analogy, but instead of a text-mode VT100 terminal, you get a full remote GUI (more like X Windows).
Honey crisp massively overrated.
I setup a double entry bookkeeping solution for my LLC that uses Amazon QLDB as a block chain ledger. Not sure if this really counts, but it seemed like a good use case for the tech. I used amazon-qldb-double-entry-sample-java as a starting point if anyone is curious.
It's a solved problem technically, certainly, but assuming all of the relevant source code will always be available ignores some social and legal issues.
Subscriptions for updates and support are fine, but desktop software should work perpetually. Subscriptions mainly make sense for time and money put into constantly changing data such as automotive repair software.
I explained this in the first comment to which you responded [1]. Hydroelectricity is by far the most effective source of energy generation, although it has the distinct disadvantage of being geographically limited. Nuclear power is the most effective dispatchable source after that. Every country that has decarbonized their electricity grid has done so primary through a combination of hydroelectricity and nuclear power. No developed country has deployed a majority wind and solar grid, ever.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33636418
Show HN: Delphi – A Natural-Language-to-SQL AI for the Modern Data Stack
Hi HN!

Before my current job, I worked in data analytics and spent 3 years leading data at an ed-tech nonprofit.

A big problem we had was "self-service" data. Everyone wanted to use data and make data-driven decisions, but it was often too complicated. So our data team spent a lot of time answering ad-hoc questions and requests to "do a quick pull."

Tons of data teams face this problem. It's the source of a bunch of memes and jokes in the community.

So I'm super excited to share Delphi.

Delphi takes plain English questions like "how much money did we make from gift cards in California last week?" and answers them using the data in your company's data warehouse.

We're using OpenAI's Codex, but unlike some of the text-to-SQL products you might have seen, Delphi integrates deeply with the Modern Data Stack tools teams are already using.

Instead of just generating arbitrary SQL, this lets Delphi scale to real-life data sets. Plus, users can use Delphi as a jumping-off point to explore data in their favorite BI tool.

Our prototype, a Slack bot, is ready for you to try today! And if you're using dbt's Semantic Layer, you can run queries against your own data. Check out the website for more, and reach out if this is a space that interests you!

Thanks everyone <3
Michael
> With copyright and account issues etc issues I would be surprised if it broke 20% and that’s for a website that’s still around.

On YouTube there are around 20 different labels claiming to own the copyright to a recording of the Red Army Choir singing the Soviet national anthem more than 50 years ago.

UMG has already decided you're not allowed to embed it on some other sites. Additionally, due to licensing issues, music "owned" by certain labels hasn't been/is not available in the certain countries.