skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin supports something like 7 transactions per second on the blockchain. That’s globally.

If currencies are the only part of blockchain that isn’t a scam, they really suck at the thing they’re supposed to be good at.
I moved a service that was costing me $300+/mo to Fly and this month it was like $15. Some months I fall under the minimum $5 billing threshold and it is just free.

They are the only provider that has nailed the killer feature: turn off shit while it isn't in use.
Redox is a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust
I tried it on Chromium a while back and it seemed to cope fine
OSHA is not the ultimate authority, it's just one country's solution to the problem.

I don't have a problem with rules being applied to me, I just see it as dysfunction that any organization gets to the point that they need a significant set of rules. The more rules, the worse the dysfunction, typically. Exceptions include life-critical applications, where the entire existence of the company hinges on stripping human error from the product. But even then, more rules ≠ less problems.

This even works introspectively; it's a bit like fitness tracking. Is a little bit of data helpful? Yes. But who is out there reading into every time they got sick and missed a few thousand steps, or thinking about every utterance and flatulence during sleep and how it signals an overall moral failing needing to be addressed? People with mental disorders, that's who.
And warm!
It's all about the social contract. Which is largely culturally dependent. Society may have never cared about young men, but (as someone else said here) the old contract with men here was build and fight wars and monogamy is enforced most will get the opportunity to raise their own family.

As I get older I realize that evolution is less about me and my DNA and more about the cultural DNA of civilization. There's individual nature, there's cultural nurture, and they combine at scale to create what we call civilization. Man may be a magnificent machine, but that pales in comparison to the complexities and intricacies of civilization as a whole.

I marvel that every ~80 years the entire planet is simply handed to and managed by a whole new group of humans. Not just that, but the transition is handled with almost seamless continuity. It boggles the mind.

What is civilization as a whole? Merely a bunch of different cultures, competing for resources to breed, and passing on different values to their offspring, and combining with other cultures to form new combinations and mutations.

I believe in survival of the fittest culture is what drives civilization. Few cultures are successful, and those that are don't stay that way forever. Turning the pages of history we see great cultures rise and fall. The best parts of our culture will be absorbed by others, some will be lost to time.

It's not a question of "will the west fall?" it's a question of "when and how will the west fall?". The times are a changin'. They've always been a changin'.

Ascribing to this worldview, I posit that the cultures that are the most fit long term are the ones that have the best/happiest productive outcome for everyone across society, and encourage/reward breeding and family building to ensure continuity.

If true, then cultures that don't value productive young men (and women!) will find themselves conquered or outbred by those that do. As someone mentioned here, Ukraine is going to stand or fall on the backs of it's young soldiers. We are watching the turning of history. edit: I'm not saying only men need to be valued, but that the cultural value of men is what is being discussed here.

The rise and fall of cultures is a good thing for civilization on the whole.

DNA doesn't care about your happiness, it just wants to make more humans. Happiness has to be pursued on your own time. It was never really about us to begin with.
Funny - that's exactly how I perceive my M3: boring. And I love it (3y driving it).

If you get the feeling it's hyped, stop believing the media (esp. about Elon) and rent it for a week, or a weekend's long trip.

Most of the stuff you setup once and you forget it exists, because the car was designed to stay out of your way. I have done 0 maintenance in 3y, except for tire rotations.

Most "OMG I NEED A BUTTON" things are either reachable via voice control (usually good enough if you ask me), or you may have already AP engaged and you can do it via touchscreen in <3s. Climate control is usually good at keeping a good temperature w.r.t. to the outside, so it's mostly a +- 0.5°C quick-tap when it feels to warm or too cold (and the up/down controls are always present on-screen).
Integrated navigation w/ Supercharger network is so amazing, it's boring. I can hop in the car for a 2000km unplanned trip, and the car will make sure I get there by planning all charging stops, preconditioning the battery for fast charging, and you can also add intermediate destinations to plan more complex trips.
The first time I checked out my parents new cars (my father owns VW ID.4, my mother a Peugeot e-208) it felt like the Enterprise's deck, with buttons popping out everywhere, and you usually need a phone to have modern/up to date navigation support in addition.

Updates are usually about rolling out new (mostly opt-in) features, or bugfixes, or sometimes improving quality of life considerably (latest was "auto blinkers", last month).
Sometimes they are required to improve or fix critical battery/powertrain/driving management issues.
When they decide to shuffle stuff in the UI without appeal, that sucks, agreed, but it's usually for the better and it's generally an easy transition - in a couple days I usually forget I had a different UI.
I can tell you for sure I'd rather have any time a 30m update installation overnight every couple weeks, than fiddling 3 days preparing a 64GB USB stick in the right format for the car to consume, only for it to fail multiple times. Or bringing in the car for service a couple days just to allow perform a "recall" that could have been only virtual. Or dealing with Bad Software Practices® anyway, like releasing v3.4 but calling it "v3.3 (rev 2205)" in the dashboard (all parents experiences).

The cute gimmicks are an opt-in, you don't need to use/enable them all the time, or at all :)
AliPay is 3rd party?
> Human brains don't intuitively understand causality

But human brains do understand causality, just not the part that does intuition, otherwise human brains wouldn't be able to invent statistics. Therefore you only get the stupid part of human brains when you try to make models like ChatGPT that only tries to replicate human intuition and not human reasoning.
I think this way of looking at things is rather recent historically speaking, and may in fact be part of the antinatalist sentiment you are trying to refute. Globally, improved standards of living have decreased birthrates, not increased them. If the real reason was finances, this would not happen. I think you have to consider peoples' shifting priorities, and look at what is expected culturally.

Look at our recent ancestors. There was a baby boom after WWII when times were good, but before then in the 1930s, people still had a net positive birthrate. This was true throughout our history except in the very worst of times. People simply prioritized having children. Children were the luxury. People were willing to have leaner times in order to have children. They were not considered a burden or a drain. They were a gift, for which a temporary sacrifice of small luxuries was considered worth it.

One could argue that the increased availability of contraception was a big part of the cause, and that people wanted less children but couldn't achieve that. But really contraception was available long before birthrates started declining, and what changed most of all was cultural attitudes towards contraception.
Just moved our app (tourcandy.com) from Heroku to fly.io. The experience was not great.

The product is far less mature than Heroku and the pricing is confusing. For example, it took us 3 days to figure out how to run Redis properly (their integrated UpStash Redis has quite a few bugs. We ended up going with self-host Redis on fly.io). Besides, we have no idea on how the pricing would work when fly.io shows our app as one app but there are actually 3 processes running (web, Sidekiq and Redis).

The good part is it's seems much cheaper. And because it has more edge nodes to choose from, it's also much faster in our case.
“Working on ticket X, but not sure how to do Y.”

“Oh, that’s easy, you just need to change Z.” Or, “No worries, let’s stay on the call and figure it out.”
"Felix" is not mentioned in the original article or anywhere else in this thread, so I had to Google who OP is talking about. Apparently it's entrepreneur Felix Dennis, founder of Dennis Publishing and publisher of Maxim, Stuff, and Blender magazines:

1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9622552-if-it-flies-floats-...
Yes, that's the good future, except the overwhelming majority of people are virtual (keeping meat alive is expensive!)
Off the top of my head:

For the disks: Vinyl can get permanently scratched. The disks can get warped. The playback needle can put too much force on the groove and damage it.

For the playback: It's incredibly difficult to get a motor to spin the disk at a perfectly uniform rate, so you get distortions in the frequencies being played back known as "wow" and "flutter". The groove is not the audio exactly as recorded, but instead equalized to lower bass frequencies so that the needle doesn't skip out of the groove. This RIAA equalization has to be undone for playback, and if it is done with analog components, it's never going to be exact.
Try this funny little Schopenhauer game
Just a guess, but if companies are paying for recruiters[0] and HR software anyway[1], companies may as well keep jobs open, do market research on past compensation, give their engineers practice, and calibrate interview questions among many laid off engineers from top companies. Also, companies are required to collect diversity metrics for state laws or visa purposes, which may be helpful when the company decides to make an offer.

Any entity may list and accept job applications, schedule meetings, and ask candidates to write code. It may be a great way for leadership (tech/people/product) to run their product ideas past candidates and identify how to improve their interview process or product.

[0] Some recruiters may work for free (100% commission) for many companies at once, until a company extends an offer that is accepted.

[1] Software may also be "free" when the company already prepaid for an annual plan; or a license includes X interviews per month; or, the recruiter brings their own tooling, question banks, and services for screening candidates.
I did indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
I buy that it's ~500x harder to grow 500 plants than 1 plant. But on a per plant basis, it is very very easy. And at scale you would do even less work per-plant than people trying to maximize a single plant.
mlua looks amazing. Is that the go-to library for Lua bindings in Rust or are there still several options jostling for position?
Why is it good to get kids excited about STEM?
Python lost a lot more due to the constant flamewars about the transition, how many people wanted to just not care about py3 for many long years, etc.

languages that are actually growing in userbase/popularity are not static. this is hard to accept for many users of popular languages.
LG C1 OLED here, and my setup is rather simple and has been going just fine with zero issues for over a year now (with no update requests or anything like that).

I set it up normally at first, but software updates and such were annoying. LG TV has been connected to my router using wifi, so I simply clicked the "block internet connection for this device" in my router settings, and that was the end of my issues.

As for how I deal with outdated apps and such on the smart tv, I have never used them in the first place. AppleTV has been hooked to the LG TV the entire time, and all apps are used from the AppleTV side. Haven't had a single "update your tv software" dialogue even once since then.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I was responsible for the dependency that another team was using as a plugin. They weren't going to switch to conan, and our code was already using Conan for itself and its dependencies. They wanted to bring us in as a submodule, and that was just never going to work. I think what I'm pulling out of this thread is that c++ package management is so fragmented, there isn't really a safe choice to ensure you can use or be used by people who made other choices.
Has anyone blocked their TV's MAC address in the home router? Seems simple to do.

Also, are there any service menu hacks to dumb them down?
Helium was AirBnB for LoRa before they turned it into a crypto (land coverage) gold rush.

If A16Z encouraged that pivot or invested after it, the parent comment stands.
Language prediction model is not a closely guarded secret, I suggest looking into academic papers about what they are and maybe even see/do some implementation yourself.

There are no magic, it is just a more complicated transpose, created by training over perhaps 10% of all available text on the internet.

It does have a lot of use, for one I think it would probably put grammarly out of business, and maybe even do some work for law firms.
I imagine that we would disagree mightily on quite a few things, but this I do feel is mostly accurate. I think a key and missing component of the way American society is structured is a real way for people to (for lack of a better term) upskill and make a way for themselves, with dignity, without requiring outside help. There are some who manage it, even marginalized folk, but with the caveat that they made some sort of major, risky sacrifice ("Yeah, I lived in my car why studying"), or else had access to a support network ("Thank you so much for subscribing, I'm opening commissions tomorrow!").

This is part of why things like (for example, and bear with me) the failure of single-payer healthcare was such a blow. It would have been a way to end a huge factor in why people are tied to the dysfunction of the current structure, of course, but there was also a hidden loss: so many people continue to be unable to access mental health care. With the transformation of the system in Obama's first term, might we have created a crucial nexus and resource for young people and their concerns to have met and been heard by older generations? A way, in particular, for young men to embrace guided reasoning through their desires for life in a society where traditional paths had broken down? For the people observing this unpacking of hopes and lived experience to, perhaps, find the wherewithal to parlay and make way? Maybe. Instead we got Gamergate and the toxicity of contemporary social media culture, abject failures as balms for even the ills they try to address.

Of course, this is just one link in a long chain of missteps that lead us to where we are. To expand on your statement: it's not something that can be fixed by fiddling with the money supply because it's not something that started merely with poorly-conceived monetary policy.
Agree. Imagine the free publicity of hitting HN front page.

I've closed countless of them because they don't get to the point once I'm there.

I'm doom scrolling on HN. I click interesting links. I'm not (usually) going to waste 5 minutes on your project just to figure out what it is exactly.
I shouldn't have phrased it as "appealing to the center", but rather something like "appealing to true independents" or "appealing to swing voters". There is significant ideological breadth within the parties, and it's clear that appealing to more center-leaning voters can be a winning strategy, but that's less because there's a big chunk of the electorate composed of nonpartisan centrists and more because the most extreme candidates also tend to polarize and demotivate parts of their own party coalition while unifying and motivating the opposing party. Swing voters are far from nonexistent, it's just that their numbers are small compared to partisan (again: not necessarily registered party-affiliated) voters unless you define "swing voter" incredibly broadly [1]. Capturing their votes is clearly good for a campaign, but only if it can be in a way that is also sensitive to their partisan voters.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/just-how-many-swing-vot...
BUILD2 Engine
> Dismissing it out of hand because you dislike who prepared it is fallacious.

Please, it's like you cited a paper called "Do Ghosts Exist?" prepared by a member of the There's No Such Thing as Ghosts club. You don't feel at least a little bit silly?

- - - -

Anyway, I'm reading the paper now.

He starts out well, with a DB of 315 articles, but then discards all but 63 of them "based on the criterion of whether the journal in which the given articles were publisher was recorded on on the Master Journal List of the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia. This operation does not require justification
in more detail."

Okay...

That's about 20%. Didn't you just say that "18% is statistically insignificant"?

But for the sake of discussion, let it pass: we will assume that these 63 papers are a good sample of the available information.

He goes on to select "Thirty-three empirical articles, which tested the tenets of the concept and/or the tenets-derived hypotheses."

He breaks them down into three subcategories:

> 1. Nine works supporting the NLP tenets and the tenets-derived hypotheses (27.3%).

> 2. Eighteen works non-supportive of the NLP tenets and the tenets-derived hypotheses (54.5%).

> 3. Six works with uncertain outcomes (18.2%).

Note that in the abstract the numbers for "supporting" and "uncertain" have been exchanged:

> Out of 33 studies, 18.2% show results supporting the tenets of NLP, 54.5% - results non-supportive of the NLP tenets and 27.3% brings uncertain results.

Is 27.3% statistically insignificant?

Anyway, I'll dig through these papers but I doubt I'm going to find a "smoking gun" that invalidates NLP.

As for this meta-study, it's really just Skeptic propaganda:

> My analysis leads undeniably to the statement that NLP represents pseudoscientific rubbish, which should be mothballed forever.

That doesn't really sound like an objective scientific statement does it?

What I find extremely weird and a bit concerning is where he writes:

> Here I would like to refer to the statement expressed by O’Donohue and Ferguson (2006), who propose that each type of therapy that does not have empirical supportive evidence of its effectiveness should be called experimental. They also put forward a suggestion that each case of performing such therapies without informing the clients about its experimental status should be referred to and treated as criminal activity. I fully agree with this view.

I mean, talk about gatekeeping, eh?

He wants people to be charged with a crime for not prefacing their work with his disclaimer.

He believes that NLP is nothing, yet it's somehow so dangerous that it needs a warning label? That seems irrational.

Anyway, I'm going to look through the referenced papers and see if I can figure out what's going wrong...

Cheers!
Crypto Theses 2023 [pdf]
It's definitely about full device control. How else would the mandatory "anti-keylogger" software work?
> security plugins

A contradiction in terms of epic proportions.
> That and Wired magazine.

I would show my Dad copies of Wired back in 1993-1995. When I finally got him set up with email and Netscape his comment was:

"The magazine about the Internet is more interesting than the Internet itself!"
Your analogy introduces factors that aren't present in the system, I dont think you need to use one here. Solar panels arent exactly random for one, pizzas arent fungible for two, and the grid is already composed of many producers and consumers for three.
In non-authoritarian countries like the US, the users are responsible for all of the bank's losses.
One of the non-obvious reasons vinyl albums often sound better than their digital counterparts is that the mastering process for cutting vinyl is extremely “hands on” and is typically performed by senior mastering engineers working with top of the line equipment. The very act of having an old set of ears listening critically to each track, and making subtle changes like shelving equalization, surgical multiband compression, and stereo width reduction in the low end (to keep the needle from bouncing), will often improve the sound of an album before it’s even sent to the vinyl cutting machine.
The number of qbits isn't exponential in key length with this paper (if it's correct)
The three laws were only ever literary: Asimov was exploring the consequences in a story universe of imposing laws invented by the bigoted John Campbell. The final outcome was humans confined to Earth (for their own safety: space travel is dangerous) and all other (potentially) spacefaring life exterminated.

There is a crossover scenario where Saberhagen's Berserkers are Asimovian robots and their humans are distinct from Saberhagen's.
Every summer, my dad and I used to sail the Intracoastal Waterway from St. Augustine down to Marathon in the Keys (and back) and I’d fish the whole way. Once we took the motor off the boat and sailed into the Banana River No Motor Zone near NASA to spend the night. They were doing a night launch of something and a helicopter flew over us and shined a light on us before the launch. I guess we looked harmless enough!

One of my favorite places was Eau Gallie with the big concrete dragon — which now is long gone as well.

Bitter Southerner is a great site and worth supporting with a membership or one-time donation. I like a lot of their merch too and proudly wear my Yoknapatawpha t-shirt.
simpler code is always important to pave the way for innovation
I read your comment and I thought this was going to be about "links"... but it isn't: it is about embedded resources like scripts or stylesheets. I am with the author on this one: it is really annoying and definitely "anti-social".

I've had people do this to me and then I go to update my stylesheet on my website and suddenly a ton of other websites I use are broken and I was like "wtf". After trying to get people to stop directly embedding it and realizing the problem was just too widespread, I ended up having to freeze an old copy of my stylesheet at the fixed URL that everyone was using and now I generate random URLs for my new stylesheet updates (that both look like something you shouldn't rely on and which do disappear later).

(FWIW, I will say that the random URLs are probably a better solution anyway as if you are going to have a stylesheet used by various pages of yours it is difficult to do an atomic upgrade of the resource and the pages that use it without momentarily breaking some content. My "random" URLs are actually hashes and it is honestly better than what I had before.)