skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say hello to Littercoin, a new zero waste climate currency for humanity

Produced geospatially through the verification of real-world observations, most of our users have no idea they are secretly mining littercoin, which is hidden in the background of openlittermap as another layer of gamification.

Inspired by OSM in 2013, the idea for OpenLitterMap was born to create a real-time real-world open source data collection layer overlayed on top of OSM.

After finishing a 2nd masters dissertation in 2015, I was introduced to the concept of tokenisation and already looking for some kind of a digitally native reward for giving people when the idea for Littercoin was inspired as a joke that would get a laugh out of people. I mean a cryptocurrency for picking up litter, come on.

This year, after teaching myself how to code and getting my first funding in 15 years from Project Catalyst on Cardano, we finally launched littercoin on 4/20.

As much of the cryptocrap rightfully burns to the ground because its a toxic pile of shitcoins, we are rising from the garbage ashes to become a beacon of hope for people who want to see a new era of climate friendly incentives. Powered by the strength of change and the desire for good memes, we are turning cleaning the planet into a game and we need your help! All of our code & data is open source, allowing for maximum lulz.

Littercoin is remarkably different from all of the other cryptocrap for many reasons
1. We won't be listing it on any exchanges. Wasn't that the whole point of bitcoin?
2. The only place you can spend it is with pre-approved green-listed climate merchants. Instead of NFTs on the metaverse, how about some still unwashed vegetables, fresh from the dirt.
3. It doesn't even have a logo. Who are these people that think the world needs more visual overload?

Follow along for good memes and join the community to be a part of the "movement".
The other extreme would also create a very high barrier to being understood at all.
> But remember that capitalism doesn’t optimize for minimal physical waste - it optimizes for minimal waste overall.

Such a weird take.

Capitalism only optimizes to increase profit. If waste is profitable, it will be very wasteful, especially if the downsides of this waste can be externalized.

This is obvious in terms of pollution and physical waste, but given the perfect perverse incentives, it will also waste human brainpower, opportunity cost, et cetera and so forth.
>Didn’t even offer me any.

I hope that middle bite was frozen.
So is the hypothesis that the Ensey's want to ensure Newell receives the new liquor license, but the reporting by the newspaper was going to interfere with that?

Or more generally we could just assume that the Ensey's and Newell are friends due to their business relationship, so the County Attorney was simply attempting to protect his friend from bad press.
One of their dyes is yellow as a powder, but it reacts with lye water when making soap so that it turns a bright orange. Once the saponifying process is completed, the orange comes back to the expected yellow. Very unnerving process when you failed to read that part of the product listing. I also happened to use it for the first time with a fragrance that super accelerated, so it was a double whammy of a disappointing feeling. So at least the fact it turned back to yellow made the batch less disappointing.
I think the onus is on Verisign to justify their price increases, not the consumer if the monopoly.

So far I've seen them hand waive about inflation and "demand for domains".

As of 2022, their operating margin was about 65%... That doesn't indicate a company that needs to increase prices.
I think you are projecting your interests onto the population at large, planned obsolescence of phones is not really a major concern for most people.

And if you are starting out by asking people to accept a poorer lifestyle because it will be sustainable and repairable, you are setting yourself up to lose.

I don't even agree that these are choices we necessarily have to make - I think we are getting closer and closer to sustainable growth, not merely subsistence.
Very interesting. Then, what would be the well-established "nocebo" effect?
Sometimes what you think is an absurd hack is still what I want to do after having thoroughly considered all other options. It's infuriating in those cases to end up on a Stack Overflow question where someone wanted to do exactly what I want to do, and the only answers are redirecting them to other solutions that I've already considered and ruled out.
No, I'm sorry but you are ignorant.
100% or 14.
I inherited a box full of microfilm reels from my dad. Some are 35mm and some are 16mm. No sprocket holes, though.
The high bit is generally used to indicate humour.
“first ever correspondence chess game over Space”
Yeah this is pretty spot on. I didn't work for one of the big consultancies, but it was pretty much the same playbook in the three different places I worked. As one of the underlings, I always tried to do good work for clients, but in the end I don't think it was usually worth it for them to pay us as much as they did. It's a weird world, where the value you provide is one of the following:

1. Using up someone's budget, because they don't get to keep it and want to look like they're doing something with it.

2. Doing a bunch of pretend work so you can come to the conclusion the VP wanted in the first place.

3. Being sent in to die on a doomed project, so you can take the blame for it.

Eventually, you look back at your career and notice nothing you've ever worked on made a difference to anybody. The paycheck is nice, but there are other places to get one just like it.
I can highly recommend an episode of 99% Invisible [1] about the musician's strike of 1942, which was a fight about royalties from recorded music, but was in large part actually about the the loss of livelihood from music recordings. Very little new music was recorded for over a year, and the president of the musician's union was pushing for record labels to pay into a fund that would benefit unemployed musicians in order to end the strike. I didn't make the connection when I heard this, but yeah, it does feel analogous to what we're facing now.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/one-year-the-day-the-...
Your sentence on its own would be alarming if it were generalized. But this is specific and particular.

A person dispensing alcohol in many states and provinces is legally responsible for safety of their patrons. Argument might be made that in all cases they have some moral responsibility as well - although I understand there are people who will philosophically disagree with this and I think interesting discussion can be had there.

A person with "felony DUI" has proven to a tremendous (and usually repeated) degree that they cannot execute a key portion of what their liquor license actually entails.

So understanding slippery slope arguments and so on, in this one case, I'm not outraged at the regulation.
I am pretty sure we stopped innovating at the things that matter a long time ago.
> XML namespaces .. All complaints about this feature were coming from people discovering it for the first time.

"XML Namespaces: Giving developers the vapors since 1999."
> arouse the anger of a small but very vocal crowd who really can't stand any challenge to the status quo.

This sort of narrative is common cope from developers who make substandard software. Ego blinds them to their own limitations so they blame the users. Just look at the difference between Pulseaudio and Pipewire. Pulseaudio is widely hated and the developers said it's because people just hate new things. But Pipewire is newer and people love it, the supposed reflexive hate for new things doesn't manifest for Pipewire. So what's the difference? Pipewire does what it's meant to and doesn't cause problems for people. Pulseaudio caused endless grief, that's why people hated it. SystemD earned ire by causing people problems; had it not done that most users never would have realized they were using it in the first place.
To put it perhaps oversimply: because growth isn't just more stuff produced the same exact way, it is also better stuff in new ways. Look at the GDP compared to a bronze age civilization to modern times. We didn't achieve that just by herding more goats and forging more bronze, although we have far more of both goats and bronze thousands of years later. Most of it is in things that money flat out couldn't buy in the past. Just antibiotics for one, let alone more complex medicine and services.
If "promotes people to upper management who don't deserve it" was a disqualifier then you would be left with exactly zero companies to work for. Ultimately you have to be able to tell whether it's a systemic problem or just one disgruntled employee.
>by saying this?

It is not clear which part 'this' refers to. We as humans know very little about our brains.

The original commenter assumes there is little variation in the human mind based on a narrow observation about memory feats in chess, then generalized that idea to the entirety of humanity.
as a CS undergrad i interviewed at PwC or a similar firm one day. The lady hands me one of their 2 page publications on IT and asks me to write a summary. She gets back and I explain that the publication makes no sense and is full of inaccurate bullshit. Needless to say I didn’t go work there.
They do though...unless you're talking about something other than demand-response programs?

SDG&E offers:

> Receive a financial incentive if your business meets its goal to reduce energy use on days when conservation is needed.

> Earn a bill credit if your business can reduce energy use during a statewide grid emergency.

> Earn a monthly bill credit if your business can reduce energy use within 20 minutes of SDG&E calling for conservation.
24 kHz gravitational waves are made by…

a pair of objects orbiting 24 thousand times per second.

This happens when black holes or neutron stars merge and that's it; this means you don't have enough of them to do what you're claiming, not even if I trusted what looks suspiciously like you blindly asserting without evidence how much they should alter wavelengths.

The effect of gravitational waves is barely anything even on the LIGO detector, and they need to use a squeezed quantum state to even notice because it's much smaller than the wavelength of the light even over the length of the entire beam-line.

Also, gravitational waves don't redshift the photons, they change the length of the path the photons take.

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And as LIGO, NANOGrav etc., are relying on a prediction of the exact same GR equations that also lead to the big bang etc., you trying to shoehorn that in is roughly analogous to a Young-Earth Creationist talking about carbon dating.
I’d purchase a simpler, easier to debug algorithm over a complicated one for 2ms. But that’s me…

The overall speedups are still quite impressive - but for “thousands” of data items a simple O(n^2) algorithm seems fine, doesn’t it?
Also, more importantly: taxes.

And in the South / Midwest: religion.

As to taxes, alcohol licensing and sales bring in revenue, so state limitation increases the value of a license.

As to religion, politicians can trumpet about how they're keeping vice limited in the area.

PS: Example irony: the Tennessee town where Jack Daniels is made (Lynchburg) is in a dry county (Moore).
Some chunk of traditional medicine has psychodelic component.

Slowly but consistently, thanks to careful testing, there is some flow of "plant medicine" application from "traditional medicine" to medicine.

Not sure that homeopathy, acupuncture, etc will be able to survive careful scientific verification to become part of the modern medicine.
Try recording “we smell sausage” and playing it backwards ;)

All credit goes to Mark Mothersbaugh
Yes. Many restaurants in the United States do not accept Apple Pay, Android Pay, Venmo or Zelle. Every restaurant accepts a credit card, which makes that the option with the least friction.
Ha I've had more than one of these (nothing this bad, but still). Turns out for a lot of recruiters "lunch interview" means interview that is scheduled during lunch, not interview in which lunch is provided.
I would love to see your maps app that doesn't touch zoom.
Did you accidentally register as a business instead of an individual?

I can't imagine why that happened, but I can say that my registrations have never been flagged and have always been straightforward.
> reporters are pretty bad at taking this on.

The format of a typical press conference is designed to make it hard for a reporter to follow up when the politician dodges their question, because the politician usually moves on to the next reporter. If they ever get a chance to ask a follow-up, it's after the original context is long gone from anyone's working memory.
Economies that don't innovate shrink when they get eaten alive by regulation and administrators.
If you're shopping at Mad Micas, you probably are.

This is like someone typically that shops at Mad Mica coming to a site you are probably more custom to using and asking what LLM, CNN, etc means. A lot of the articles I've seen about the topic just naturally assume the reader already has some context and just uses acronyms without ever spelling it out nor even attempting to define on a ELI5 kind of a situation which for some reason you are expecting this site to do for you
It's not the end of a craft, it just means that the prestige of "made by human" will increase even more and be pushed by by companies as a means of making money through copyright. That means that the few artists at the top will be rich while the niche between "art" and "craft" disappears. Professions involving visual art become like the music business.
> Rent control only makes housing less affordable in the long run

Rent control doesn’t exist to make housing affordable in general, or in the long run; it exists to prevent existing residents from being priced out of their existing residence, particularly against localized (in time and/or space) market movements.

It is intended to (or, at lrast, it is not an unknown cost when it is adopted) to make housing more expensive for others (new market entrants, and, when rent control is targeted by age, income, or other conditions, those existing residents not eligible) to provide that benefit.

Absent general new supply restrictions which are the actual problem, it is a redistributive that makes an area brcoming attractive to new and richer populations less destructive to existing and more econonically precarious communities. If there are problematic general new supply restrictions it magnifies the effect, but the solution is to deal with the new supply restrictions.
The increase in hours worked is somewhat illusory. Primary care giver (eg. in the past, usually mothers) worked full time to look after the children, cook, organize family life.

We now mostly work the same hours for money, then pay someone to do what mothers used to do for free; except possibly with some extra friction (tax, stress, commutes etc.).

Even nowadays, in the UK for example, many families are pushed to realize the soaring cost of childcare is greater than post tax earnings for one parent and skip employment to save money.
> If any of you have recommendations for a hosting service that strikes that balance between quality and affordability, I'd love to hear about it.

CloudFlare
> how is it so much cheaper

Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it:

> At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be submitted to third-party auction services.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/37-what-happens-after-a-domai...

Other registrars, like GoDaddy, do this too.
Play to win. You want to get in front of someone before a competing dating market participant does, and people are tolerant of “white lies” when necessary (“dating apps are the worst amirite?”). If you can’t excuse it away, work on your sales skills.

Hate the fact that third spaces have evaporated and you need a dating app to meaningfully participate in the dating marketplace, not that you have to take liberties with facts to increase your opportunities and potential to close into a relationship.

Tangentially, love is grown, not found. Find someone you can grow to love (ie trust and mutual respect, shared values and belief systems).
The elements in the book are great. Seeing them on screen was fun. A sci-fi heartland America, still plagued by problems of small town stagnancy, issues with drugs and corruption. A far off future that's crossed to the other side of disaster, and a class of ragingly rich madmen & other interesting folks (Lowbeer!). A link between (the book did a much better job slowly filling in the mysterious link for the protagonists).

Not without issues, but I really enjoyed seeing such a fun & awkward mix of elements on screen! The imaginativeness was great, and the actors were doing a great job with what they had. I'm sad we won't get to see more of this saga.
Thanks! Why .net? It seems to be owned by Verisign but isn’t as critical as .com, so probably more likely to be exploited.
I sketched something in the first sky and then our started putting up blobs with a single word like "sun" and "banana." I have no idea what's going on.
IMO, this could be discussed so much more rigorously... I think we have the framework for it.

All work exploits some gradient of energy, i.e. a potential difference. Any "innovation" is a discovery of some such gradient. As the gradient is exploited, the difference in potential decreases. The innovation loses its potential return on investment. The most basic reason for this is that the simplest/least costly methods for exploiting the difference will be the most likely to be discovered.

Our societies organize around these processes for exploiting gradients. Greater influence is given to those who can do the most work. That influence directs future collective investments. Those with the influence will use it to increase investment in the source of their profit... extraction of work from the same gradient which they've been exploiting.

Eventually that gradient is exploited beyond an positive return on investment. All low-hanging fruit has been consumed. There is no longer investment available for finding other gradients along which work can be done and those with influence use that influence to extract resources from other members of the society since their external gradient no longer exists. Their influence increases in proportion to the other members' and the society eventually eats itself.

IMO there's the basis for a quantitative model in there. The conclusions are total speculation, but the basic foundations I think are valid. (They mostly come from a combo of information theory, joseph tainter's collapse of complex society, as well as "incomplete nature" by terrence deacon). But of course we don't have the money available for investigation into such things :/ Funding seems to only be available for models that bolster existing sources of profit.

https://spacechimplife.com/theories-of-historical-change/
Neither Accenture nor McKinsey are Big 4. The Big 4 are PwC, EY, KPMG, and Deloitte. Despite what the name suggests they aren’t actually the top consulting firms (the name comes mostly from their accounting work.The three consulting firms, at least in terms of cost/prestige, are McKinsey, BCG, and Bain (MBB for short).
I ran a blogging SaaS platform for a while. I had some instructions for configuring a reverse proxy to serve the blog. There were instructions for most major web servers. One step was adding a custom header.

- Go to <link> and get your publisher ID
- Add the following line to your config(replacing xxx-xxxx-xxxxx with your code from the previous step):

AddHeader X-Publisher-Id: xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx;

We had a bunch of people leave the x's in and were confused why it wasn't working. So we made a blog that explained the misconfiguration, and replaced xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx in the documentations with that blog's ID. We got far fewer support requests after that.
I figure that at the level of fast food, the "why do you want to work here" and similar questions are really just to filter out someone that cares so little they can't even make up an answer. It doesn't have to be a good answer, even a "I like cooking food" is usually fine enough. But a decent amount of people will just shrug.
This is linked to in the rant that's submitted to HN. It does a much better job explaining the situation.

https://dbushell.com/2023/08/16/wordpress-6-3-breaking-decad...
This isn't quite what they asked about, but much of my work has been freelance contracts from the internet. One of the biggest red flags for a project description is when they mention that the project is "very simple" or "easy for someone who knows what they are doing". That just means they are dirt cheap and looking to rationalize the way they squeeze contractors.

Another red flag is that it's a freelancing site.
I think the cucumber thing is about being surprised by something snake like. They'll absolutely fuck with snakes (depending on their personality).

Here's a cat batting at a snake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptJpLivNyoE
You gotta save that optimization for when performance ends up on a top level OKR!
Should I be this disappointed that there is no C or C++ library?
> Sure, if you're an architecture god who plans out all their internal interfaces in advance on paper it was OK, but I was 15.

Us Architecture Gods don’t need planning. The internal interfaces have been immaculately conceived in our mental space. It’s the regular peasantry of architecture that need to do the planning.
I don't know if that's 'way beyond'. Those samples look similar to Imagen and Parti in terms of quality and following complicated text prompts. (Look at the PartiPrompts for the absurd prompts Parti can execute accurately.)

I'm glad to see OA does have a successor for DALL-E 2, though: the service seems to have somehow gotten worse since release.
I've been thinking of late that we need to add some sort of five year sunset rule about brands and acquisitions to antitrust laws. So after an acquisition the buyer has a couple of years before they have to stop using the acquired companies name and brand.
That's my point though. Damage a monolith - big trouble. Damage a microservice - much more approachable to rewrite or replace.
The desert may have unlimited power with the sun, but they don't have easy access to water.

Moreso, the opportunities exist in the coasts as that's where the inertia of import/export of both goods and humans are.
Why are AI people always trying to convince me to do something now based on an argument that it will work later? Regardless of whether you're right a working model six months from now is not a working model now. Wouldn't your hypothetical person be much better off firing their illustrator in six months?