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Because there's money to be made on it. It's a buzzword that sells to a certain demographic.

Stablecoins are especially funny, since they're not even real cryptocurrencies. They have an issuer that you have to trust, and are pegged to a fiat currency controlled by a government. They're entirely opposite to the promise of independent, distributed, and trustless cryptocurrencies.
I’m curious why it took you guys so long to do a Launch HN considering you are from YC S19 — a batch from 4 years ago?!

Is GitStart a significant pivot from what you started with?
I understand most of these problems are the undesirable consequences of Google Maps trying to make money. But there’s no excuse for the ones that are just bad UX, like the zoom level or location changing when searching “food” at a given place, or how it’s impossible to search “smash burgers” if there’s a business called smash somewhere around
Selective skepticism. No methodology is good enough if you don't like its conclusions.
as far as I can tell, you weren't asked to prove either climate change or a round earth, or any concept at all

recall the tangent we deflected to was the mere existence of round earth deniers, climate change deniers (read: people), both of which do, in fact, exist as real people in the real world, as can be easily confirmed by anyone researching the topic in good faith, like I said

anyhow, back on topic: the proposed alternative just doesn't seem better than the status quo, no matter how you've sliced it so far, for the reasons given in my original post and ignored by you
Your "it's just a matter of taste" just shows a lack of research.

The decision has a lot of important second-order effects, and a lot of people are heavily invested in denying that because they are more familiar with "Type name".
Webinstall: Effortlessly install developer tools with easy-to-remember URLs
I've always wondered what those types of PCs are for, other than enterprise workstations in offices. What do you use your home server for? Serving media?
For sure. With the T200, I usually get about 0.5 miles because they’re low power but a full 2-Watt radio like this should work: https://www.buytwowayradios.com/wouxun-kg-805f-mr.html

Best way to find out is buy the gear and test with your kid. Have fun!
Street charging at 10-30a wouldn't require much more infrastructure than existing street lights; most cars are parked on the street for hours at a time (depending on if parking near where the owner lives / works or "just visiting"). An hour at 16a / 240v is 10-15 miles of added range.

An AC charger is basically just a smart extension cord. A public AC charger is a smart extension cord plus a payment terminal or 3g backhaul to payment APIs and maybe power balancing (draw 30a if nothing else is charging; draw 5a if every other charger on the circuit is also charging). You could have a street with 20 of these things and it'd draw the same power as a normal house (IE it's not big infrastructure).

It wouldn't be perfect, but it's certainly possible.

The key to thinking about charging EVs is you can do it without the person attending to the process. Plug car in; walk away.
A nation state compromises a cloud infra and that's your takeaway? Was your takeaway after solarwinds the opposite? To move it to the cloud?

It's almost as if it is very easy to make reductionist statements without considering the nuances of the subject.

While you're at it, stop using gmail and other webmail and selfhost. I am sure it will be more secure? Lol.
Interesting but can't beleive how author didn't spend more time on how crazy discriminatory this practice is, which is also common in other countries in the middle east. No war but class war.
Anthropic's Claude summarized this, too (the article was too long for ChatGPT):

In April 1993, Don Calhoun made a miraculous full-court shot during a Chicago Bulls game to win $1 million. He was an average office supply salesman but felt calm and destined to make the nearly impossible shot.
The shot went viral and sparked a boom in in-game contests at sporting events. Companies like SCA Promotions started insuring these big-money contests, which remained popular crowd pleasers.
Calhoun initially feared he wouldn't get the money because he had played some college basketball recently. This violated a common rule that contestants couldn't have played the sport recently.
The Bulls held a press conference saying they would pay Calhoun the $1 million regardless of the insurance outcome. Later, Michael Jordan privately told Calhoun that the Bulls players had pressured the insurance company to pay him.
Calhoun got Jordan to sign the winning ball years later after persistence. He kept the autographed ball not as a collectible but for his kids to play with, symbolizing how the shot changed their family's trajectory.
The $1 million was paid out as $50k checks over 20 years. It provided a nice supplement to Calhoun's middle-class lifestyle but did not make him wealthy. The experience and memories were priceless.
Show HN: Voice Control for Tiling Window Managers Concept
I put together a proof of concept for controlling a tiling window manager using voice commands.

Hopefully this can make twm workflows easier for people who suffer from RSI or for whom keyboard shortcuts are impractical.

I think that this approach can be replicated for any tiling window manager that exposes a CLI interface to send interaction messages (bspwm, yabai, etc)
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the second mouse gets the cheese.
Apart from the high gasoline prices, California is a state with a very aspirational culture. EVs have replaced ICEs as the aspirational vehicle.

Yes, it's true that this skews heavily towards those with homes with driveways/garages (and therefore are typically better off). Nonetheless it's a big shift in preferences in a huge new vehicle market.
The Agent Protocol: Developers Community Setting a New Standard
I really, really don't understand why these simple-ass microcontrollers are running proprietary software instead of something open source like ESPHome or Tasmota. There is no added value in the proprietary software running on an MCU with a sensor, it is all in the service that run on top of them.

It infuriates me that all these perfectly fine devices now are junk, because some clown decided that they needed to develop their own "platform".
Experimenting on babies-to-be by having them gestate inside a female reproductive system that has been grafted into a male body bears such a huge lifetime risk to their health, plus the risk to the recipient of these organs, that it would be unethical for any researchers to even attempt this.

That some men may desire the experience of pregnancy and childbirth for whatever reason doesn't mean there's any actual medical benefit. It's not exactly life-saving surgery.
You might want to into who makes Linux. Intel wrote 23% of the changes for kernel 6.0 and AMD wrote 32%.

https://lwn.net/Articles/909625/
Ask HN: Zoom alternatives which preserve privacy and are easy to use?
unfortunately, all online meetings in our institution are over Zoom. I never trusted the company for obvious reasons. but given their new ToS, I'm looking for alternatives that respect privacy.

Any alts must enable desktop sharing and must be easy to use by old people.
in other words, we the taxpayers pay so that someone else can serve (voluntarily for a market salary) instead of everyone getting drafted.
I was writing with a US-centric mindset, so I agree that neither Omaha or Alaska is that realistic if you're a Canadian citizen. I'm intrigued by your assertion that there is not any low-end work available in Canada, though; my understanding is that Canada is taking on millions and millions of low-end immigrants who live together in tenement-style housing and work low-paying jobs to support each other. I thought that this meant that there was abundant low-end labor. If this is the case, then Canadians who feel forced into prostitution should just go find immigrants and ask them what they're doing for work and then do that, but if there's not actually any work available that may not be good advice.

However, the author of the article was getting a Bachelor's degree. I don't think she had fully explored every possible avenue for her life to take before she took a job as a prostitute.
>I know I'm not going to be dealing with lengths longer than 100km, then fixed point would be ideal for that.

Huge fallacy. No, you can not use fixed point numbers like that, it can not work. It is irrelevant what the actual maximum/minimum scale you are dealing with is. The thing which matters is the largest/smallest intermediate value you need. You need to consider every step in all your algorithms.

Imagine calculating the distance of two objects being 50km in x and 50km in y direction apart. Even though the input and output values fit within your range, the result is nonsensical if you use naive fix point arithmetic. Floating point allows you to write down the mathematical formula exactly, using fixed point arithmetic, you can not do that.

Looking at the maximum and minimum resolution you need is a huge fallacy when working with fixed point arithmetic and one big reason why everyone avoids using it. You need to carefully analyze your entire algorithm to use it.

>The impression I got from the commenter I was originally replying to was "fixed point is absolutely terrible and there is never a reason to prefer it over floats".

My position is that sometimes there might be a situation where fixed point arithmetic could be useful. If you are willing to put in a significant amount of time and effort into analyzing your system and dataflow it can be implememted successfully.

It is a far more complex and errorprone system and if you aren't careful it will bite you. In all cases floating point should be the default option and only deviated from if there are very good reasons.
My Dad tried this when we first taught him to use an ATM and setup his PINs.

He carefully wrote them in the back of his planner which he keeps in his pocket. Then he realized he needed extra security and added some extra digits before and after.

Then promptly forgot which digits to remove and which to keep.

His new approach is:
1. Pick a “famous” battle
2. Hand me a card and ask me to go to an ATM for him
3. Tell me the PIN is the battle of whatever
4. Yell at me for being an idiot for never having heard of the battle, let alone know the date.
I agree with you that one does not have to be excited to ship production quality results.

I was previously referring to the 'external "didn't care" enough' which is generally true, and IMO not an inherently bad thing on its own

But I am not sure outsourcing to cut costs is happening as much now than a few years ago. The entire outsourcing tech market is shrinking, as most teams prefer to keep devs in-house than to outsource it away.
This isn't the issue regarding JPEG XL support. That issue is still closed as "won't fix". This is a new issue asking for that issue to be re-opened.
How is 5k per head enough? How many conscription age Egyptian males are there abroad?
The concern I’m seeing is more about IP that the members of the call have legal access to, but which zoom does not. Things for which one must sign an NDA, or copyrighted material owned by the company. This is pretty different than someone using copyrighted material in a slideshow, which would be infringing material whether or not zoom is involved.

I’m curious if there is a distinction between consumer and business accounts, although based on the responses here, I’m guessing there isn’t one.
LLNL achieves net positive fusion reaction
Never knew that although it seems like the acronym was contrived after the obvious "ping" (as in sonar) was coined.
Then coinbase is admitting it is either a moron or straight up grift.
Hi, I checked out the demo and it looks very promising. As someone who is not very familiar with AI development, I feel a bit puzzled looking at the code examples. If I use the lib and it sends textual prompts based on some templates, can I be certain that the AI outputs will be well structured and contain the right information? Would it be possible to build an AI model with a lower level, programmable interface...?
> All the discussion is about reducing CO2 emissions. But we have nothing to show for it. Even the during the Covid lockdowns, CO2 emissions were reduced by only 10%

I am not sure that many here know the fact that man-made CO2 emissions are only about 10% of the natural CO2 emissions [0]

> That total dwarfs humanity’s contribution, amounting to ten times as much CO2 as humans produce through activities such as burning fossil fuels.

The problem with man-made CO2 emissions that even though they are small relative to natural CO2 emissions, they change careful CO2 balance in atmosphere and over decades tips the CO2 balance.

Unfortunately, only relying on reducing man-made CO2 makes for a lousy control variable precisely because man-made CO2 is only 10% of total CO2 emissions (kind of a second-order effect). Any effect of reducing it will only show up decades later and we do not know what the new CO2 equilibrium point will be. We need to think out of the box and develop alternative and active climate engineering methods. It will not be easy but we should study, discuss and debate all alternative without exceptions.

[0] https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-carbon-dioxide-does...

EDIT: grammar & some wordings.
Show HN: PayPerRun.com – A New Way to Monetize Your Code
Why should only videographers have a platform to post and monetize their content? What about us, developers?

Hello, Hacker News! I'm Elias, and I've been thinking about this problem. Developers often need to build entire companies to monetize their software, and it shouldn't be this hard.

So, I've built https://PayPerRun.com to offer a simpler solution. It's a platform where developers can monetize their services in a pay-per-use model. I invite you to give it a try!

The platform operates on pre-purchased internal credits - 'Joules'. Users buy Joules, which carry no transaction fees and have minimal latency, and spend them on the diverse range of services available on the platform. Each service is extremely affordable, with 1 Joule worth 1/1'000'000 of a US dollar.

Developers can cash out when they've accumulated enough Joules (still deciding on a limit, but leaning towards ~$100 worth). PayPerRun only earns when developers cash out, taking a 10% fee (plus transaction costs) - this is designed to stimulate more services being built on top of existing ones.

A 'service', as per our platform, could be any function or object that can be represented in Python or JavaScript.

PayPerRun utilizes a Python/JS library I developed, Telekinesis, to streamline the interaction with functions and objects running on other computers. A service can simply return a Telekinesis object, acting as a web pointer to a particular object or function. Check it out here: <https://github.com/telekinesis-inc/telekinesis>.

The website is live and ready for exploration. It's still a work-in-progress and likely has bugs, but I'm hoping this is the start of a meaningful conversation that can lead to something remarkable.

I'm available to answer any questions, and I have a couple for you:

- What service would you like to monetize on this platform?

- Which services would you prefer to pay-per-use, without subscription plans or commitments?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

P.S. I welcome feedback and ideas - reach out at elias@payperrun.com. Also, if you're looking for something to hack, try to steal e-neuman's Joules or data, then share how you did it (that's my personal profile). Together we can make PayPerRun secure!
But open source and not compiled by Google. Much of that was somebody else's code before Google ingested and linked to it.

I don't think it's accurate to treat Google as an indelible taint.

Google's intentions are the problem, but they're fairly transparent so easy to bypass.
I use this a lot: https://jsbeautify.org/

It has a downloadable version you can run locally, but it's handy for quick and dirty beautifying of code when you're in a hurry, and don't want to pass the local version on to other machines.
Yes that is exactly my point
> I think what really happened is that Democratic insiders, both in the media and the DNC, did their best to sideline his campaign, possibly even with some hanky-panky in the SC and Super Tuesday elections. The "Bernie Bros" narrative is perhaps part of that, but just as a Red Herring. Why did they engage in this evil plot? Not because they dislike Sanders so much, as because he would have been hopeless in the General.

This narrative (not good for the General) is of course their preferred one. But I am not inclined to take them on their word when they chose to smear him with a “red herring” (your words) in the first place.

The 2016 election was when people started complaining about Populism, and both Trump and Sanders were populists in rhetoric, although very different in their substance. But the Dems would still have us believe that a non-populist, completely Establishment candidate (Clinton) was what the Dems needed for the General.

The more likely explanation is that the Dems would rather lose rather than run with a social democratic candidate.
"Did you see what those Antifa people are doing now?!?!"

"Nah, I'm not really into Pokémon."
I think there is probably some selection bias here, you know people in those situations that don't have any problems because they wouldn't have bought those cars if they would have problems.
But I don't want to make any assumptions about the people you know, some people are also just less bothered by these things or care enough about driving an EV that they take it in stride.

I'm sure that when you want 100% of car owners to switch to EVs there are those that will run into issues.
Like people that work from home and can't charge at an office, or when there's no charging spot available when they're out shopping and they really don't have time this week to go charge their car somewhere. Not to mention the fact that charging at home is likely a lot cheaper than charging from public infrastructure (I don't own an EV so I don't actually know how the prices compare)

I'm not saying that these are insurmountable problems, or that some of them won't get solved along the way (like if we end up getting a surplus of chargers at public parking spots), but there are some genuine disadvantages to owning an EV when compared to an ICE.

I personally wouldn't want to buy an EV until I have my own driveway and can charge my car at home, but with current housing prices (and EV prices) I don't see this happening for a while.
Yet another repulsive software move. Our collective deterioration continues unabated.
You mean cold chips
JXL to de moon!
I doubt they are scammers in the traditional sense. But it's worth thinking about the total carbon cost to 'capture' and 'store' a given amount of carbon.

What I would be surprised to find is that there was a massive differential between the cost (in carbon) for raw materials, manufacturing, distribution/transportation and running (energy + people costs) and the amount of carbon captured.

It's a bit like perpetual motion machines. If you zoom in enough, they can seem to move forever. But if you zoom out they are getting energy from somewhere.

On the small scale they transform money into sequestered carbon. But how much of that money goes (directly or indirectly) into generating carbon?
Vocal minority in Urban Dictionary

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vocal%20mino...
I can't help with references for research about this but I was thinking that this is a somewhat related phenomena to statistics like how the majority of the content on wikipedia comes from a surprisingly small number of people. I believe there are some actual hard numbers around that. Not sure if anyone has tried to quantify and study what this article is talking about, though.
An important thing that I don't think many people realize:

On big popular sites like reddit, especially on main sub posts, you can find any opinion you want in the comments. What this means is that if you are pushing an agenda, you don't need to be the originator of the comments/posts. You can use unknowing bystanders to carry your banner for you, giving the content much more legitimacy.

I don't think people understand how pervasive this is. Being able to control upvotes is far more powerful than being able to generate authentic looking accounts with strongly persuasive comments.
I noticed that as well, the fix for me is pretty easy: just create the account in bitwarder first and then autofill it in the actual account creation page. No extra work, and becomes habit quite quickly.
In other words, they'll lie to themselves.
Today, in a very round-about way, one could use a livebook as if it were a blog post: download-install Livebook on your machive, download the blog post livemd file, run it locally.

Here's an example. Note in the first paragraph a link to the post as a livemd file: https://genericjam.com/blog/image-processing

If you go through the steps, you'll notice that the livemd isn't stylized as a blog post. This is where the next opportunity lies: creating beautiful blog posts as livebooks, and without the need to install and run a livebook server locally.
Gordon Brander – Fragments: Attractors
> Continued existence of complex interactive systems depend upon preventing the maximization of any variable.
(Gregory Bateson quoting W. Ross Ashby)

Living systems are perhaps best characterized as systems that dynamically avoid attractors. (Chris Langton)
> ...given their new ToS...

I'm assuming you are referring to concerns like laid out here [0]?

[0] https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-u...
In my experience driving Tesla vehicles (Model S & Y):

- Super convenient to never go to a gas station during my every day routine driving.

- Single pedal driving takes less effort overall. I prefer it at least.

- Generally much better performance (acceleration, breaking) at the same price point. The car is so fun. Much more confident making yellow lights and overtaking compared to gas cars.

- Very smooth because no gear shifting. The S is particularly spooky because it sounds about the same in the car driving 60mph and 90mph so it’s really easy to go 90 without noticing if you’re expecting engine noise to hint you’re going fast.

- Less routine maintenance like oil change

- This could be common to all modern cars, but I love having infinity car keys to share with family and visitors since any phone can be a car key

- This could be common to all modern cars, but I love pre-air conditioning the car from the checkout line of the grocery store

- This could be common to all modern cars, but I like that I can leave my dog in the car and know she’ll be cool & comfortable, and people won’t worry about her because the car display shows “dog mode aircon is on!” on the large display.

My complaints, which are about trim and not the drive:

- No Apple CarPlay. Boo. The built in thingy is much better than the average automaker but Apple stuff is better still.

- No over door hand holds :(

- I prefer tactile controls to touchscreen for everything. I will be looking at non Tesla options in the future for this reason.
How can there be eddy currents in a 1D superconductor? And if there are no eddy currents, wouldn’t that prevent diamagnetism?
5-10x as many chargers doesn’t seem unreasonable if there are 5-10x as many EVs
This doesn't really have anything to do with Michael Jordan playing basketball tho, nor is it one of his famous "shots" -- for example, a fadeaway buzzer beater he hit later this year in the playoffs that became iconic.
I think that's a good point. Companies are likely going to try to neutralize this by saying that telemetry just being another kind of data that they can make safe by removing PII etc.
The formula and atomic structure should not be patentable (like gene sequence), but a novel and non-obvious industrial process to fabricate such material could be patented. There may be many different such patents.