skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd add that changing zoning laws and building more densely in urban areas is absolutely a good thing -- and we should definitely do that as well.

But doing so does absolutely nothing to revitalize lower population density areas, where 20% of the population[0] lives. I'd expect that better communication/transportation infrastructure would increase that somewhat as well, since if you don't need to live in an urban metro area to have a good job, a whole bunch of people would move to those areas. Potentially making them not rural any more, but why does that even matter?

Or should we just tell folks in rural areas to fuck off and die? I don't support that, although I'm sure there are some (you, perhaps?) who do.

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america...
For the record, I think this is primarily targeting scope 3, at least based on their most recent Sustainability Report. But I agree that focus on driving 1 and 2 to 0 and shrink 3 as much as possible is the best approach.
A small family-run coffee shop can be profitable. It might pay for your kids' college and a comfortable retirement one day. But everyone (or everyone's investor) wants to be the equivalent of the next Starbucks.
> Where can I learn about which cryptocurrencies constitute securities and which don't? Is there a list?

Yes. Start with the SEC’s complaint against Coinbase: SOL, ADA, MATIC and ten others [1].

Beyond that, ask a securities lawyer or ask the SEC. Coinbase did. The SEC answered. Coinbase didn’t like the answer, and focussed its messaging on irrelevant statements (or a lack thereof) by Gensler about Bitcoin and Ether. If someone only cash traded those two, they would have a legitimate argument against the SEC’s ambiguity. But practically nobody does: instead they operate unlicensed and illegally-configured securities outfits.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr2023-1... 114
I quote from TFA:

Coinbase also writes in great detail in the S-1 about
the risk that the SEC might bring a lawsuit exactly like
the one they just have:

[W]e could be subject to legal or regulatory action in the event the
SEC, a foreign regulatory authority, or a court were to determine that a supported crypto asset
currently offered, sold, or traded on our platform is a “security” under applicable laws… [W]e could
be subject to judicial or administrative sanctions for failing to offer or sell the crypto asset in
compliance with the registration requirements, or for acting as a broker, dealer, or national
securities exchange without appropriate registration.

[T]here is regulatory uncertainty regarding the status of our staking activities under the U.S.
federal securities laws.

It's pretty clear they knew they were operating in a shady area from their S1 filing -- and so now you're surprised the regulatory hammer fell on them?

Imagine if a company was selling "ground human meat" (see the movie "Soylent Green"). And they did it, well, because the market for ground human meat was suddenly exploding! I mean, in their S1 they might say "Sure this might be illegal, the FDA might take regulatory action against us." But also "Ground human meat is one hot market right now, you don't want to be left out on this rocket that's going straight to the moon!"
More like $0 (I ain't registering it), but still not worth.
Defending a bad meta comment is the worst option of all.
I would like a source on how it is useless greenwashing. I work in an investment banks that take investor money and turn them into solar farms that we then sell for massive profits. Sometimes we build entirely new farms, sometimes we buy old ones and renew them, which thanks to advances in tech is also very profitable.

Anyway, paying for these things is a complicated process which among other things like favourable loans involve a bunch of subsidies. Some come from governments, some come from NGOs like carbon credits. I’ll be the first to admit that NGOs are absolute amateurs compared to government support, and it would be much, much, healthier for the climate financing if Facebook were paying a climate tax and not buying carbon credits. But, and this is really important, that’s obviously not as easy as it sounds. It would require an EU and US level corporation of their respective member states to prevent companies from playing each state or country out against each other. That will probably happen eventually, but in the mean time these NGOs help enable progress. It’s not optimal, there’s a lot of issues with some of them cheating or skimming, but it’s still better than doing nothing. World change is this complicated mix of policy, public opinion and money, and while you may get on a box in speakers corner and yell at this, it’s simply how the world operates and will continue to operate for long enough that you’ll have to play into the system if you want to make an impact. If something better comes along at some point, great, but what is the current alternative? For Meta it would likely be to do nothing. Public opinion, corporate image and their internal culture are important to them, but it’s it like they have an issue doing bad things when it’s necessary for them to make money

Now, the reason I ask for a source on carbon credits being usless is genuine. Because as I said, some of these NGO concepts are frauds, and if Meta just bought 7m frauds then I think we would all like to know. If it’s just “like your opinion, man” then that is alright too. I think it’s fair to call a lot of these things for public relations as it would likely be better for the climate if Meta just didn’t build their new datacenter.
And yet under Nadella Windows is way more developer-centric than it ever was under previous leadership.
The stories are pretty raunchy! Fun though.
Did they ever ask? You can ask the SEC for a "no-action letter", where they will officially tell you if what you want to do is OK. Here are all no-action letters.[1]

Here's one for Paxos.[2] They asked for permission to run a small-scale blockchain-based clearing operation without being registered as a clearing house. No more than 7 institutional customers, a limited list of stocks, and a time limit.
They got it.

Somehow, Coinbase doesn't seem to be on the list there. It's a public record.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mr-noaction

[2] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mr-noaction/2020/fin...
> Sure, and then they start to argue with you instead with the author. Not interested into that.

If that's your attitude, it would probably make more sense for you to not post at all. Otherwise you're going to get "argued" with, one way or another.
Modern educated young people generally don't stay in their small rural towns devoid of opportunity, so the supply of willing healthcare workers dwindles and the population of these towns trends older and sicker. 30 years ago I suspect people had more kids and they had a greater propensity to stick around due to sheer ignorance of outside opportunity/QoL pre-internet age.

Traveling nurses like myself can fill the holes, but we don't come cheaply as we give up a lot to work away from friends and family in undesirable locations. Traveling docs (locums) feel the same, and are even more expensive- 20k to work a weekend in an ER isn't unheard of.

My personal opinion having driven all across America over the last few years and working in a bunch of these small to mid size cities is that they really have no reason to exist and would fade away without government welfare prolonging the misery. Most were founded near a mine or factory that has long since left and is extremely unlikely to ever return. In the past you'd quickly get a ghost town, today you get an economically depressed meth town that stumbles along for decades consuming lives.
They didn’t say white supremacist attacks

You’re conflating hate crime with white on everyone else hate crime and the law (and stats) don't reflect that

You went as far as to add those words, which is fascinating to say the least
ControlNet begs to differ
“Strat Now” sounds like a button you would find on a guitar learning site. Maybe he reused the landing pages. ;-)

When I encounter typos like these, I assume people are just dyslexic, it’s not a question of “too many websites”. If I made 9 start-up POCs, I‘d never Strat Now. But I might Strat Eventually.
The "1 in 5" comes from that Coinbase survey or is there any other source?

I also own crypto somewhere. I don't use it, I don't sell it, I don't care.
Besides the already mentioned subreddits != tags, I also find the “high quality discussion” goal questionable in this idealistic form.

There is time for fun, and while some jokes are definitely overdone on Reddit, I do occasionally enjoy reading them. A better idea would be to have different kinds of upvotes, at least ‘useful’ and ‘funny’. That way a genuinely informative comment that for example calls out the post can float to the top as the funnier, low-effort one won’t directly compete with it.

Also, censorship is a must for any forum/community as anyone who have come remotely close to one should know. It just won’t work otherwise, 100%.
I’m my defense I remembered the artwork then I bought their stout whenever I visited until I couldn’t find it anymore
I don;t complain of anything, let's just call a spade a spade. This is not philanthropy or altruism. It's marketing, a business and entertainment.
There's a great interview with Eben Upton that explains a lot of this, including what "Business customers" actually are (i.e. mostly mom and pop style enterprises)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ
Hot Coffee Case
I know one of the influencers in this article. Kris Ruby is a huge influencer in politics and media.
I use Win 10 in the work place, it is - fine - once you spend the hour or two to lock it down. Ignoring the privacy issues.

But the joy of having a fresh install of something like Linux Mint (or Kubuntu)and having nothing to lock down is so refreshing. It is like stepping back into the simplicity of Window XP but knowing it is up to date with current technology requirements.
I have found Terraform or Pulumi to be very convenient even with a single cloud because they offer many cloud-agnostic features as well.

- random provider to generate a db password, cloud provider to provision db and admin user, random and mysql providers to provision additional non-admin users, k8s provider to upload credentials to secrets

- tls provider to create ca, k8s provider to create namespace, create certs for each k8s namespace, upload to k8s secrets

- Cloud provider to issue service account key, GitHub provider to upload to GHA (don't do this anymore since oidc is supported, before it was rather important)

While I haven't used CDK much, I believe it is still basically about provisioning aws resources and would not have such cross cutting configs, though I think they may have had a mechanism for importing tf providers.

Terraform can have its issues but overall being able to provision such diverse resources with a single command has been great for onboarding/reducing human error. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where CDK is easier too, these are just to demonstrate why you may use TF even when locked in.
> I don't believe in censorship

Umm... I like to know how would be handled stuff like :

* People putting fascist propaganda

* Praising a massacre

* Fake news

* Harassing post against other users

* P0rn
HN is a lot more like a village. HN users may be strangers, but share a large common denominator, namely people with at least some tech knowledge or background. This enables more intelligent discussions that you don’t find in other online boards.
What's the destination, we've come along way, and where do you think we're going?
> This is the absolutely critical point that people are either too privileged to have ever thought of, or too disingenuous to admit.

...or fundamentally disagree with? Yes, you're describing something real. You're also setting a double standard. Is it possible to understand the premises but come to different conclusions?
This is the origin of the famous quote from Rob Pike which goes something like "Simple data structures are better when n is small and n is almost always small". It hasn't aged as well as he might have liked, given that sometimes n gets really really big now, but the point still holds- in lots of common use cases simple algorithms with low constant factors dominate fancy algorithms with theoretically better O() up to a certain threshold data scale.

In this case it would presumably be up to a certain number of routes and/or ip addresses.
What I find strange is that I don’t want to be part of only a single community. Yeah I know I can follow others, but to me it’s still somehow stranger than e.g. reddit’s model.
BOTH and Anchor are about five blocks apart, so…
All we really want is Windows 2000 with modern security updates and drivers. Instead we get this non-sense!
Yup - you can be banned from most reddit subs for simply disagreeing with a moderator.
Karma farming, but now for money.. cant end well.
Bitch all you want, but the legalization process costs money. It has to be made back somehow.

I've been donating to MAPS monthly for years. Those FDA trials were not cheap to run.
Zoom has issues with hardware acceleration and screen sharing on Linux, similarly with Discord. Netflix requires specific setup to work at all, and you get 720p at best unless you use Chrome with some custom extension to get 1080p at best. And back in the day (2018, not long ago) when you needed Adobe Flash to watch the World Cup on the only legitimate US site for it, Linux was a dead end.

> Not a problem with most PCs. Unless you have a really special hardware, Linux will work just fine. Sometimes brand new hardware takes time to receive kernel updates but most hardware is absolutely fine.

Somehow my hardware has always been "special" but worked fine with Windows. And people at work are constantly messaging about Bluetooth headsets flaking with Linux on their Thinkpads, which are supposed to have first-class support.

Of course my servers have always been fine with Linux, but a laptop with a trackpad, BT, wifi, sleep, and USB-connected accessories, that gets dicey.

> any problems that you run into, you can just search for the same problem for Ubuntu and the fix will work.

But those fixes will work for Ubuntu too. I'm no fan of it, in fact I agree with someone else here that it's the Windows of Linux OSes, but "how to do X in Ubuntu" always gives updated results.
Can https://non.io/#all just become a part of https://non.io homepage? So that the marketing goes first, and #all goes after it.
Intel in talks to be anchor investor in Arm IPO
If you give me millions of dollars for it? I could clean tons of trash yes, or fund a lot of cataract surgeries. I can found hundreds of thousands if by the end of the year I'm left with more money than I started. Awesome idea.
A line of anything already pegs you as a run-of-the-mill influencer, exploiting the parasocial relationship your victims have with you to peddle them substandard ware at high markup.
I remember this talk quite well. Also the other talks by David are interesting.

Somehow there are not really consequences on this. So either archiving stuff, at least in the business context, is not really important. Or we simply trust these copies. The latter one is of course scary.
Wow, I nearly forgot C-Dogs! Played the hell out of it on my 386. Later, when I got my first Pentium, the same with Tapan Kaikki.
No, that's just your caricature of reality. Reality depends entirely on the reality of what the users asked for and the product.
I have an old 2010 Mac Mini that I wanted to sell on, figured I would install it back to the base OS (was a Linux box for a very long time) and then see what I could get on Ebay.

The horrors or trying to get that thing reset without an Apple account! I gave up after a few hours and it is just sitting as back up in case I blow away an install and need a machine to get a disc image from.
Dunbar's number is 150, which seems about right for the number of people to be involved for the group to end up devolving into two macro communities. The micro-communities still hover round the 2 to 5 mark where everyone gets to feel like they're participating and appreciated.
You're getting downvoted but your point is valid. Why is art sacred?
Was confused because I thought this was in reference to the Quantum Physics software Orca, would be interesting if AI could be used in such a way though
Baldness Breakthrough: MicroRNA Stimulates Hair Growth in Aging Follicles
Do you think that if the SEC thinks that Coinbase is operating some sort of unregulated securities exchange, that they should bring some sort of enforcement action?
If you think about a P=NP proof… you show it’s false and collect a million dollars, but if you prove it’s true, you sit tight on your buttocks and print money with your top secret solution.

Just people playing the capitalism game.
If you want a reddit-like that runs w/o JavaScript I am working on BrutaLinks, a federated link aggregator and discussion platform. An example instance is at https://brutalinks and the code is on SourceHut: https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks
Rolling with AI: Nvidia tech powers autonomous skate park
The explanation I've seen is that certain programs (mail, chat, forums, etc) automatically recognise urls that are not hyperlinked and convert them into a hyperlink.

E.g. "example.com" becomes "<a href="http://example.com/">example.com</a>".

Such features would now (potentially) also work on mentions of zip files, i.e. on messages that state "download install.zip from github".

Edit: ghi, HN actually does this. Not yet with zip TLDs though.
Well there's multiple versions of it so it's more like multiple groups of students' attempts at a high school coding project
Ask HN: How do I become a competent engineer?
How do I become a better engineer? I ask this looking back on my four years as an undergrad…and realizing that I sucked at pretty much every single lab class I had. I’ve done okay on homeworks and tests where I could read a textbook and see how a certain kind of problem was to be solved; and yes, sometimes I could take a new novel problem, sort of break it down, and then solve it with the tools/concepts I had learned. But the fact remains that in any lab class or homework, I am completely lost at what to do. Nearly every group member (though some won’t admit it) does the majority of the work at the end of the day, though I wish I could do more. When they ask me for help on how to debug something, I almost never can figure out a strategy of how to even identify the problem, much less figure it out. When they ask me for help to design something, I end up constructing either something that misses the requirements/specifications completely, or I end up with an overcomplicated mess which does poorly. I just feel intensely frustrated because I cannot seem to “figure out” what I am doing wrong – it feels like everyone around me has some sort of natural inclination, some sort of innate reasoning, which enables them to solve problems.

I don’t mean to suggest that I think they’re geniuses – I know I watch them struggle for hours to fix things at times – but I feel that if I were in their shoes, I would never be even able to do that much. I’ve tried asking them for advice, but almost all of them just try to make me “feel better”, or claim that they do not know what they are really doing as well – that I am “reading too much” into their actions, as it were. I agree that this is perhaps true for some, but there’s no way that they can be so successful without there being some sort of strategy, though they are perhaps unaware of it. So I want to ask you, how does one actually solve problems, in a systematic and clear fashion? How does one solve novel problems without the luxury of being able to read a textbook and learn how to solve them? I legitimately feel so lost and confused, and frustrated with engineering as a discipline – part of me just wants to give up and quit engineering altogether. Should I just accept that it is not my calling, that if I don’t think naturally in a certain way, it is not meant for me?
Not a clone, but Zelda Classic is a custom game engine with about a thousand fan games created in it.

https://hoten.cc/blog/porting-zelda-classic-to-the-web/
Startup Ripped Off Millions – A16Z Backed the CEO’s New Company
"People really don't change defaults..."

Because they are scared of breaking things.

Also, most people actually do change defaults: style and theme.
Carbon credits can be a reasonable way to help richer nations help poorer, more polluting nations transition to greener alternatives.

However more often than not they are indeed "a scam". Credits have been around since the 70's and have had questionable impact on the growing climate crisis.

If I were a benevolent dictator of a nation, I would take the following approach:

- Start with the legal requirement for every business to understand their Scope-1 and Scope-2 emissions. Scope-3 will need to also be understood in the future to ensure no loopholes but that's much easier when the supply chain understands their scopes 1&2;
- Set a net-zero target for all businesses that requires overall emissions reductions and leverages carbon removal for any avoidable emissions;
- Treat emissions accounting the same way as financial accounting, requiring annual submission to the state and penalizing fraud/mis-representation;
- Offer tax incentives for carbon credits however set stricter standards (credits must have a certain amount additionality and/or be demonstrating help to reduce emissions of other businesses within this imginary nation);
- Carbon credits cannot be used to reach the net-zero targets set above;
- Future goals/incentives can encourage businesses to

The overall aim is to highlight the hidden costs of unsustainable practices, effecitvely eliminating the green premium that currently exists for more sustainable products/services. Companies should then prefer cleaner practices and suppliers to keep their own costs down which accelerates the fly wheel towards a sustainable future.

Now of course there are issues (e.g. the supply of CDR is small and expensive or the availability of clean energy) with this approach, however nations can help encourage development here (e.g. with the IRA) as well as private investors. Then of course there is the consumer society to contend with who wants lots of cheap produce but that's why the "dictator" part...
For some reason this reminds me of an encounter with a guy called "Dave" who used to frequent the more, er, bohemian end of Chapel Street in Melbourne way back in the day. He was clearly struggling with something but he was nice, and we had a friendly acquaintance.

Anyway, one day he comes right up to me and says, apropos of nothing:

"They never used to let me have fun... but they do now"

and then he just walked off.
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