skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it works in Safari? I wish they’d said that on the web site. I went there, saw “Chrome and Firefox” and immediately hit the back button.
The problem is HN is an exhausting circular firing squad when it comes to crypto. I could extol the benefits of private currency on philosophical and moral grounds but this won’t convince a lot of people. So I try to put it in more concrete terms and then it’s either criticized or brushed off.

If you believe as I do that government control of money is a mistake for many different reasons, then crypto is a revolutionary technology. If you say “Bitcoin has all the problems” then I refer you to monero.
> The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting.

Wouldn't this advise need to keep in mind absolute height? BMI tracks the ratio between the height and weight, but it does nothing to tell the difference between a short thin person and a taller heavier (but same BMI) person. The latter which would need more calories than the former. I know people who eat ~400 kcal less than me per day, because they are shorter and similarly thinner. Following that why wouldn't their crash diet threshold be sufficiently lower?
> Experiments like this are designed to find out where that inflection point is, and the evidence that's coming in so far suggests that the inflection point is somewhere below 40 hours. More research is needed, but that's exactly what is happening

If someone's job is in customer service and the key part of their role is to answer the phone when it rings/respond to the email when it arrives ... you don't need research to determine that if they are not there, the phone/email doesn't get answered.

If you let them stay at home on Fridays, either you pay someone else to come in on those Fridays, or you accept that phone calls/emails won't be answered on Fridays. Ever.

This appears to be really easy to propose/promote when it's not your company :(
Threats, libel, and slander must be directed towards a specific person
I don't really get it either. Sure I'd like to work less and get paid more, but if employees can do 5 days of work in 4 days, doesn't that mean that you should fire 20% of your staff?

I could see it have no effect at first while people appreciate the extra time off, so they work harder for four days, but if it becomes the norm that would normalize and productivity would slowly drop across that society.
"PHP is a joke."
"PHP is widespread."

It's good to see humorous developers love spreading jokes.
The great American ‘homewashing’ is happening under our noses
Aside, there is no reason for them to be bronze, they look nice, but you could 3d print them and fill them, cast out of ceramic in plaster mold, make them from plaster, etc.

If I were going to do a one-off set, I'd 3d print them and fill with sand.
> I assume there is some sort of middle ground between working too much and working too little. Are there any actual evidence that that optimum middle ground is 4 days and not 3, or 5?

That's the problem with this whole thing. People don't have a rationale for it. They just want to work fewer hours.

If the 4-day week happens, we will see the same arguments being made for the 3-day week, because there is no actual basis for any of this: people will always want to work fewer hours than they work now.
The bias is interesting here.

https://stylometry.net/user?username=nickstinemates

Number 2 for me is someone I worked closely with for a few years, and then putting his name into this results in all of the people we worked with for a few years. So it seems content>style, or, we are all more alike than we thought.
The crucial question is: are they bots?
That norm is definitely mostly broken. While I suppose we should always question old norms, we probably should apply at least as much scrutiny to new ideals as well. Despite some gains here and there (and some of it irretrievably important), I don't think we've really figured it out on the social front at all, and we're losing almost as much as we are gaining.
In my opinion, making fun of extreme views is the best way to counteract them.
Generally the lead joints described above were only used for waste plumbing where the max pressure is very very much lower than the water supply pressure
Confirmed, 1908 craftsman :) The roof is 20 years old, maybe that’s when the switch to aluminum started?
...the Nazis were hardly a "small group of people".
Why don't you decline?
Individuals thrive in communities. Individualism is doing your thing.

What we have in the west (and increasingly the east) is the opposite: the creation of isolated cogs, educated to be mere cogs, following mass fashions, work as replacable units, and leave no mark of their existence.

Their "individuality" is reduced to consumerism, and is sold to them through chosing among ready made brands (of gadgets, clothes, cultural products). They're "invididually" part of market groups.

Those are, as you observe, better able to function alone than in the past (e.g. no need to cooperate to get it), but they also have no support group, and often not even family and friends to support them, and help them do anything and to allow them to be able to resist (work conditions, political pressure, etc).

They're not individuals, they're cogs with cookie cutter "identities". Nobody knows or cares who they are even - because each of them is as good as any other, just a unit to get some services of.
Relevant discussion when it comes to Redis compatible API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796311
I noticed that. What do you think the reason is for that? Protecting YC-invested crypto companies? It’s very unfortunate because it was a well written recap of recent events.
Anonymously. I suspect that matters.

But I think you're right, that even doing it anonymously is something. It's a step.
> those of us actually using cryptoassets for [...] inflation resistance

Heh, gotta say cryptos have weathered their first real test as a hedge against rising global inflation (since early 2021) really well. Meaning, the rising interest rates have almost decimated dollar valuation of cryptos as the tech gold rush imploded.

Please do not mistake this article's author's concern as an attack on the libertarian fundamentals of cryptocurrency. The article is about how crypto has been marketed as an investment to retail consumers, and this space is simply wrought with terrible scams.
My complaint with Musk is that he's running the company in a chaotic and destructive way. It's true, I don't agree with his politics, but that's not the problem here. He's got $1B/year of interest to pay, but has lost half of his advertisers. He's gutted the moderation teams, and says he will reinstate all of the banned accounts. He's capriciously laid off much of the staff. It's hard to see how Twitter will continue to survive.
Do you boycott Unicode because they deemed 卐 and 卍 to be worth including?
Protestors urge China's President Xi to resign over Covid restrictions
> history was rewritten

Hundreds of millions of people still use it regularly in India, it's everywhere. It's pretty innocuous. Unless you stop them from doing so somehow, history is not rewritten. Attempts to colonize ancient symbols will not succeed.
But how much corruption and how many failed projects? It has been particularly disastrous for Ecuador.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/americas/ecuador-ch...
You're seriously correcting my spelling and trying to put words in my mouth (of course I don't know what happened & never implied I did), while implying I'm triggered & need to take a step back in your flagged comment?

I'm sorry if this has been upsetting to you; I'm not looking to piss you off. But frankly, it seems to me that if I had been misinterpreting in my original criticism - you'd just have said that?

When I have interactions like this, I sometimes show them to people I trust to give me honest feedback. I'd encourage you to consider it. Because it's clear to me this interaction is pissing you off, I won't be responding further; I hope you have a nice day.
My exact thoughts. This would definitely be one of my questions.
Low-level web programming in Racket and a wiki in 500 lines
I feel like the biggest problem is they arent fetched by default, so you dont want to put anything important as half the people cloneing your repo wont see them.
As you mention in the article, this is small by modern hardware standards and means the indexes can be entirely held in memory. Curious how things look for much larger tables where the index has to be read from disk?
D2 ER diagram from a Postgres db
D2 Diagrams were on top of HN last week. I wanted to use them on an existing db, but didn't find a way to do that. I made a little hacky tool to do just that
The Position Calculation and Satellite Selection sections are a little over-simplified. It's not true that one satellite is used for time synchronization and three are used for trilateration. In a four-satellite case, all four are used to solve the four dimensional problem of "where am I in time and space?" In reality, upwards of 12 satellites are used to find a solution to this problem and adding more data improves accuracy.

It's true that satellites overhead provide better more vertical position information and that satellites at low elevation are more impacted by the atmosphere. But the math isn't that simple - satellites aren't used for specific purposes. They all contribute to a position solution and useful parameters like vertical and horizontal uncertainty.
I know quite well, as you probably do, that international law has zero bearing on the military decisions made by the USA in terms of its interests. Yes, it'd be illegal, unless the UN Security Council gave its blessing. Just like the second Gulf War was illegal. That has never stopped the US before.

> How does it correspond with "we are the nation of laws"?

It does not. The United States government rejects the idea it is restricted by international law on these matters.

As for South Korea, it can argue it's an internal domestic matter.
True. But worth mentioning that Germany is in fact pretty big, as Alaska tends to skew the US number quite a bit.

Germany is twice the size of New England and 16x the size of Massachusetts.
That just sounds like a challenge. :)
The paper abstract says "The yield of 18 ion beams of radioactive gold nuclei produced in the thick uranium target".

But gold, as in, gold isotopes in high intensity radioactive beams, not gold bars. In general the ISOLDE-CERN factility can creat radioactive beams of high isotopic purity. This facility has produced isotopes of 74 elements.
Even a single 4 day week a month is a huge bonus for most people I’d say.
Maybe the post was edited? I don't see the clear explanation.

Here's an exercise, I'll replace a bunch of words with their opposites, and present it as my counter argument:

"This is a great argument, and not clickbait. Obvious enough to anyone who actually understands how bitcoin, or eth work, it fits the definition of a ponzi scheme."

Are you convinced? Do you know where you got it wrong?
One aspect not directly addressed is how the combination of tech at scale and capitalism is misaligned with social good or survivability.
Cars are far more likely to kill people, and quite a few at once. In fact it is almost certain death if a pedestrian is hit by a speeding car. And if that speeding car collides with another vehicle, there's death abundant.

You're being told repeatedly by Europeans your take isn't right but you keep digging in and entrenching. Why is that? Have you considered you might actually be wrong?

The unsafest I've ever been was commuting between Brooklyn and Manhattan for two years as a cyclist: the number of near misses and actual side swipes (yes from cars) would shock you.
>Do your homework! You're not the first person who ever thought of attacking a bitcoin node. While I'm sure there are areas for improvement, you're not likely to be able to make useful suggestions from a position of almost total ignorance.

again, i've successfully found remote crashes and dos issues in 25 - 30 blockchains. i don't care if you're a biased developer who takes this to heart. i'm going to see to brutalizing bitcoind and making it clear to you what happens when i attack nodes. cocky academics like you motivate me. he who laughs last etc.
It's used in different ways. I think it's original meaning was writing a script for a program, which means specifying high level behaviors like a movie script. Game engines are written in a programming language and then expose a scripting language to build the game rules, control the characters, and so on. For the web, scripting ends up being the front end, because it's specifying the behavior of the web page, and it's high level on the software stack of the browser. Of course now frontend is very complex and not so much scripting... which does make me wonder why companies don't create their own frontend scripting language on top of typescript or javascript.
Excuse my financial ignorance but.. shouldn't it be immediately illegal to claim "46% risk-free return"? That is impossible. Asking people to give you money to do something that is clearly impossible (make a shitton of money sustainably from.. nothing?) is just fraud. Why can't they just get sued as soon as they put a website up that is inciting people to send them money under false pretenses?
I worked on something like this in university. GPS bistatic radar. Two SDR frontends with directional antennas pointed in different directions to do various remote sensing, ranging, and other things.

The GPS network is essentially kept up to date with a few ground stations. The ground station is a source of truth that is used to send correction updates to the constellation periodically which are sent to all receivers.
Scientists make unprecedented detection on a planet 700 light-years away
The term is irrelevant here. No matter who you are, you don't have the right to have your viewpoints amplified by a private platform unless your viewpoints qualify as protected speech.
> wish there is a cloud VM image

What do you mean? Multipass only runs Ubuntu server cloud images.
Yes.

I think the opinion NYT is programming into their readers is that normal people owning the means of private transportation is bad. The particular facts or coherence of the argument is immaterial.

Just believe the opposite of whatever Pravda says and you’ll be a’ight.
That would make way too much sense
Thanks, you can pinch to zoom if that helps? I should probably document that feature somewhere...

I'll take a look at adjusting the padding. What device are you using it on btw?
Why not?

To me, the possibility of my users facing serious physical harm would be a very compelling concern. If I worked on something of YC’s scale I’d take those kinds of ethical considerations very, very seriously.
Presumably < 100,000

https://time.com/4392413/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivors-rem...

That was 2016.
Madoff is the ultimate example of a ponzi scheme done well.

1. The "mark" trades his dollars for something he/she thinks is of value, in Madoff's case it was a balance in the Madoff fund.

2. The fund increases the "balance" for the marks, making them think their money is actually increasing in value. This discourages people from wanting their money back. Meanwhile the actual dollars is squirrelled away to some series of numbered accounts.

3. The ponzi scheme is only exposed when there's a run, which happened to Madoff in 2008 during the financial crisis.
The argument I've heard is that the other nutriments needs (vitamins, minerals, etc) don't scale as much with height. So even a very short person would have a vitamins/mineral deficit on less than 1200KCal per day.

How true is it? I don't know. But even then I don't see why they couldn't take multivitamins.
Feedback: I instantly tried moving a note around on my phone. Did not move. Then I tapped a note and it opened fullscreen and the closing x supersmall at the edge of the screen. Instantly left the site.

I read the comments, oh this is for websites. Cool idea. UX just needs to be top notch.

That security issue (requiring all data) is a bit too much, dunno if you can do anything about it though.
Big bang theory and archaeology are both founded by Jesuit priests.
> i've popped 25 - 30+ blockchains

Most "blockchains" are just garbage scams. Many are just whitelabled junk put out by scamcoin factories-- development sweatshops that bang out whatever features at least appear to fulfill some nonsense a non-engineer wrote in some marketing whitepaper, in exchange for some payment. Then they pay exchanges to list then, pay influencers to hype them, dump their premines on the suckers who bought in and then wash rinse repeat until they're either wealthy enough to quit or blow their bankroll on a pump that fails.

If any of those are secure from attack at all it's mostly by accident -- security is certainly not a goal for them, and a non-fatal attack would just be a bit of free marketing.

Even ones that are less intentionally scammy, spend much of their time essentially failed under their own weight due to a lack of any technical competence supporting them.

> i suspect that there could be something here

A fine starting point for research, not a reason to make a public announcement.

Not even knowing if connections are long lived or not really shows you haven't even bothered checking on the most basic stuff that you could easily find with a few minutes of reading.
Thanks for the comment. It's a valid concern.

Chrome and Firefox have a review team for their extension marketplace, though I believe there are instances of malicious extensions getting through anyway.

And while rather labor intensive, another path toward vetting is examining the source code. I haven't obfuscated it, and Googling for "view extension source code" has many results.

And for what it's worth, I can give an assurance that I'm not a bad actor.

Maybe relevant:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

> A business that receives a verifiable consumer request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records

Is a comment personal information?
If it is a well known extension i will trust it, but often i find myself to extract the extension and Look at the "source code" if it is not open source.
Most VCs go in with a go-big-or-go-broke mentality. The entire calculation is to get a couple 10x-100x exits to offset all the failed attempts. Leveling off after a series C to "just" a profitable company makes business sense for the company and founders. But if you do that the series B and series C investors can't get their big exit, so they will do whatever they can to prevent that.

The best way out once you're in this deep is probably an IPO. The investors get their exit, and you're now "only" beholden to shareholders, who are more used to sustainable businesses that can survive decades or centuries.
Is this British or American pavement that you are referring to?

As far as I am aware, it is illegal in the UK to drive on the pavement.
I use Feedly premium and treat my newsletters the same as any other form of written content (including HN, Product Hunt)

Each day I go through 300 articles using shortcuts :

n -> go to the next
p -> go to the previous
m -> mark as read
x -> discard
o -> open

I do my daily curation this way. I would say I read roughly 5% of the articles/content.

But it's pretty quick and I am aware of new major versions of programming languages/frameworks I use.

New products, interesting newsletter content, etc.
The (Some) Fallacies of Test First Development
yep, same deal with exercise. Doesn't matter how, I just wanted some type of movement that I could get into the habit of. Tried a bunch of different activities but was not able to form a habit until I got a rowing machine and even then I still have days where I don't want to use it :)
It's my rolodex, that's about it. I don't look at it or post anything, really

Phone numbers change far too often/easily, this has been a decent constant
“Dedicate a street smart colleague to collect outstanding receivables.”

Could be taken the wrong way :)

(We have a running joke about ‘sending the boys around’ to a customer who owes us a lot of money and no plan to pay)
> The burden of proof is on the crypto promoters to demonstrate ability to create wealth.

For crypto to be financially successful, strictly speaking it doesn't need to create wealth, it only needs to attract it.

Plenty of profitable businesses are arguably a net negative to society - tobacco, gambling, private prisons, ad agencies, data brokers - but that doesn't make them ponzi schemes.
I think it's similar to the CDOs used in the housing crisis. You take something of little to no value, wrap it up with all sorts of complexity but then present it as this simple thing you can buy and trade that supposedly has value. People lap it up without understanding the underlying value, which is effectively none. Bitcoin takes up energy to be born. Thus, a bitcoin starts life with negative value. It only attains "value" by someone willing to exchange normal currencies for it. Then it increases in value when someone else pays more. But there is no backing value. Yes, fiat currencies no longer have a gold standard, but there is a ton of value backing the fiat currencies. The dollar is backed in value by the U.S. economy. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are entirely ephemeral. I think I saw someone relate them to the Beanie Baby crazy. At least at the end of that craze, you had a Beanie Baby left, as opposed to ones and zeroes on a hard drive with cryptocurrencies.

> There is seemingly also a small fraction of true believers, idealists and evangelists who seem convinced that all of this could replace both states and banks without ending up much worse.

I think a lot of that culture comes from staunch libertarian ideals and also the "free software" crowds, such as GPL enthusiasts. It just is not how human society works and will never work. I saw it in a thread in regarding a commonly used software library that has a GPL license. The author of the package said they would never consider any other license, even while the other thread posters were requesting a license that would allow them to use it in proprietary code but actually pay for that use. People were essentially stating that no one, other than hobbyists, will ever use the package because they can't in their jobs and companies but that they would be willing to pay for a non-GPL license, and the authors staunchly stood behind their ideals. Thus, no one uses it.

I feel cryptocurrencies are very similar. Taking a hardline approach to the decentralization means it will never be incorporated into anything other than hobbyist and enthusiast use.
It’s definitely not in the forest. This is a high desert, a destitute part of the state that seems to be a locale of last resort for some of the poorest folks. It’s bitter cold in winter, remote, and rotten agricultural conditions. There’s no running water or sewage, despite living 500’ apart, which has been an ongoing topic of debate. (In short, the residents can’t afford that infra, but it could become a real health & sanitation problem)

Very much the opposite of what people dream of when they imagine building a lux cabin by a pond, growing their own food, and naming the dog Thoreau.
PalmPilot Emulation at Internet Archive
There is, at least, some demand for crypto that relates to real-world economics.

It's an excellent intermediary currency. People use it successfully in hyper-inflationary countries and people use it to bypass currency transfer difficulties. These are definite and real use-cases.

The rest of the demand looks like pure and simple speculation based on faith that the other various claimed uses will come good, i.e. a ponzi.

It's not a complete ponzi, but I'd say about 80% of it is.