skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indeed. It'd be curious if someone started publishing a CPI basket priced in BTC […]

This was done in Canada accidentally: at one point Pierre Poilievre (a right-leaning politician) put forward cryptocurrencies as a hedge against inflation:

> Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre said Monday a government led by him would do more to normalize cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum in Canada to "decentralize" the economy and reduce the influence of central bankers.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-bitcoin-policy-1....

> As early as September 2021, then-finance critic Poilievre touted “digital currencies … giving people an opportunity to protect themselves against inflation.” Six months later, as a Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate, he doubled down. At a campaign event at a restaurant, Poilievre bought a shawarma with Bitcoin and extolled “the freedom to use other money, such as Bitcoin… Choice and competition can give Canadians better money and … let Canadians opt out of inflation with the ability to opt into cryptocurrencies.”

* https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/01/10/opinion/pierre-p...

If this advice was actually followed:

> The number of bitcoins needed to pay for shawarmas, groceries, gas, and housing is up 73.1 per cent compared with 5.2 per cent annual inflation measured in Canadian dollars.

* https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/03/29/poilievres-over-i...

Poilievre seems to no longer hold any:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cryptocurrency-political-co...

While not having a very inflationary currency is certainly important, not having a deflationary one is even more important, and one that is somewhat predictable (at least over 'short' time frames like <3 years) is especially important. BTC, being the poster child for cryptocurrencies, hardly seems to fit the latter two criteria.
In the case of this article, the experiment entailed putting a sample in an instrument, do the measurement and check the values. And the checks I propose are nothing out of the ordinary. Many academic fraud postmortems tell that the fabricated data had repeated or perfectly rounded values, strange timestamps, numeric data in a different format than expected, etc. Take a look at the (raw or processed) data, there’s unfortunately no way around it.
Just do:

.SECONDEXPANSION
foo: $$(patsubst %.c,%.o,$$(wildcard *.c))

No need to tell Make how to invoke a C compiler for the billionth time.
>"It wasn’t just that we’d managed to get a [black] triangle onto the screen. That could be done in about a day. It was the journey the triangle had taken to get up on the screen."

Related concepts:

Egg of Columbus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

Hindsight Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
While we're dreaming, could we also replace M.2 slots on desktop boards with U.2 or OCuLink connectors? M.2 is optimized for thin, light portable devices like laptops and tablets; it makes zero sense in a desktop, where it basically just wastes board space and makes cooling more awkward.
Definitely include a banana for scale.

(But seriously, showing something like car keys hanging next to the currently-isolated shots would help a lot.)
Reading some docs from MIT during that era, one can notice instructions that required use of multiple different machines, and how pervasive transparent network filesystem access was involved in that.

For example, to build a dial-in server using cheap PDP-11, essentially a way for mid-1980s students to connect a bunch of random PCs they might have to MIT's network, involved building code using at least PDP-10 and Lisp Machines - PDP-10 to run PDP-11 assembler and linker, and then Lisp Machine because several of them had permanently attached EEPROM programmers. The burned EEPROM would then be used as ROM for a common cheap PDP-11 cpu board combined with Interlan Ethernet board, and the ROM would download the remaining OS code over network.

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/mits_s
Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought
Yes, my mistake. I meant the effects of inflated prices. When people say inflation is dropping they sometimes confuse that with prices going down instead of the rate of inflation simply slowing.
Jtsummers's answer is correct, but we turn off canonicalization for some classes of URLs and I think you've found a good example of that. I've exempted Google Books links for the future and put your submitted URL back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38774261.
Yeah finger clamps shine through the finger completely. They don't use reflected light.

They are much more accurate for this reason but also more annoying to wear. I think the only daily-wearable one that works this way is the Oura ring.

I'm surprised how well it still works on a watch though. I never tried Apple's implementation as I don't have an apple phone to pair it with, but my galaxy watch 6's SpO2 works pretty decently compared to a finger clamp one, considering it is much harder to do it on the wrist.
An anecdote about corporate bs
Folks, watch out for yourself.

In 2016, I got a job offer from Yahoo. The Manager pulls me on a call because he senses that I like a competing offer more - from Google. He also brings his Director on the call.

So this Director smooth talks me about how Yahoo is the next big thing and Google is overvalued. He is just adamant about this, and claims that he had a job offer from Google too, but he chose Yahoo and doesn't regret it. It's a future play, he says. It's important to note that at this time, it was obvious to most that the product they were working on was not doing well. But I thought, maybe most people are wrong. This Director is so optimistic, I might be missing something.

However, I was surprised at what happened in 2 weeks. The Director left Yahoo. That's right, this guy who was telling me how this company was a rocketship - left the rocketship. One month later, the manager left. In the next 2 months, much of the team left.

Luckily, I didn't fall for his schmoosing. I joined Google. However, I was truly surprised at the level of BS he spewed at me. He probably knew himself that this was not the company to be in, and the product to work on, and yet he decided to misguide me. It felt like a con.

Watch out for yourself folks. Don't trust higher ups until you know them. They literally lie and get away with it, because it's socially acceptable for them to do so. Yes, lying is acceptable in upper management. I'm not saying that all of them lie. I think the good ones don't. In fact, I once a manager gave me advice that was against his employer, and I was forever grateful to him. Even if he had lied to me though, I would just write it off by saying - that's his job.

Be careful who you trust, folks - and watch out for their incentives.
There are three kind of power plants being built in Europe right now. Wind, gas and solar. Even in countries like Sweden the building plans and permits being given out right now is wind, gas and solar.

Battery storage, nuclear and reverse hydro might be built in the future. They are all potential technology that cost too much compared to wind, gas and solar.

A rather large contextual note is that wind, gas and solar get practically all the government subsidies, so there is a uphill fight if investors wanted to invest into some of the "future stuff". Wind get most subsidies, solar next, natural gas (and oil) third. Many gas and oil plants in Europe is actually government funded through out, as they operate as reserve energy. They get subsidies just to exist, and then get subsidies when they balance the grid, and last they can get subsidies again since prices during high demand and low supply can become more than the market is willing to bear.
Lists of files are usually used more than once for more than one task.

This would only make sense if the only rule that needed the list was that one that builds, no install/uninstall/package/modify/audit/hash/clean/etc, which is never the case. You also don't want to use globbing in place of an explicit list either.
respect for something's knowledge seems orthogonal to trust to me. I can respect a serial killers intelligence without remotely trusting him.
I don't know how that would work or if there's any precedent for that. Generally states enter into agreements and different laws about enforcement. Or they sue each other in federal court (eg cannabis issues recently).
Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming [pdf] (1996)
The point being that a lot of people have connections, money, or whatever, but those people still don't end up with world changing successes.
I know you can't port a web app to it easily. But Expo, wrapper around React Native, does do a great job at handling that. It also comes with a build in ci/cd and over the air bug fixes (alternative to codepush)

I've set up a custom flow with Fastlane with React Native. Works pretty well, but Major Version, OS and architecture update are a huge pain.
> PS: I also got to the point I could shell 30 hard boiled eggs in under 30 seconds with a 2-handed shell technique.

This is something I'd love to master. Not sure why but I'm terrible at shelling hard boiled eggs.
Off the top of my head, protein folding and drug discovery have a huge potential to be extremely positive.
Why don't they build data centers where it's really cold, for example north of Canada, and just pipe outside air in?

If you train an AI, you don't need low latency/high bandwidth Internet access.
Taste is an opinion but whether or not a singer can hit certain notes on cue is objective.

Not using computers to assist with your artistic creations is largely foolish but measurable things aren't opinions. Somebody can be a better artist but also a worse singer.
Walking and talking one on one is fine and good but this sort of formalized group activity with strangers sounds like a form of torture. I'm surprised this is appealing to anyone except the very lonely or very extroverted. All this organization and these rules are only necessary because of the group. Someone please explain the appeal???
>All Raptor systems shipped after May 10, 2021 use the open-source Ortega firmware for the BCM5719 device.

https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/BCM5719
why would someone learn c++ in 2024, assuming one is not about to work on legacy projects? I'm about to start a quixotic new personal project and was considering using (read: learning) c++ for it, but it feels like rust is getting all the new attention. (and I'm already spoiled by haskell and racket.)
I assumed they also controlled for population growth, though actually that's smaller than I would have expected, ~2.9M in 1973, ~3.2M now. I grew up next door in Nebraska, and lost my mother and one of her brothers to colon cancer when they were both still quite young (late 40s / early 50s), I think there's certainly some chance of agricultural runoff being implicated (their two siblings who left and never returned are both still with us...)
Flutter is pretty nice, but I have a really hard time trusting Google to continue supporting it.
No that's not true. UK punctuality figures are based on actual lateness, not perceived lateness. If a train is more than 15 minutes late in the UK you're entitled to compensation on a sliding scale up to one hour when you're entitled to a full refund of your ticket.
usbc can do 48v, its not that dangerous
Presuming the just.sh compiler is doing everything right, you shouldn't have a shell problem, any more than using C compiler means you now have an assembly-language problem.

Also, the trade-off here (in my mind, at least) is that you could maintain higher-level Justfiles, but distribute releases containing the portable-shell-script artifacts of said compilation — so that anyone using your package doesn't need just, only a POSIX environment.
> Debugging was a bit of a nightmare

Debug in Android Studio, connect phone on USB, enable USB debugging, hit play button

Debug in Xcode, connect iphone (wireless), hit play button
> USB uses 5V, 9V, 15V, 20V, 28V, 36V or 48V. M.2 uses 3.3V. But those are all interface voltages

USB uses 3.3v signalling up through USBHS. (USBSS is 1V differential.) The higher voltages are for power delivery only.
What are your costs? I find their pricing scheme a bit confusing...
Here’s a shameless plug for my collection of short, succinct Django articles at https://photondesigner.com/articles

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says 600W GPU, that's 50A. Screw based connectors would do just fine - delivery 48V would require to step it down to some other (sub 20) voltage first. That part would be at the GPUs.

Also I do understand how it works.
The link between climate change and a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023
So the size of the tooling was about the same size as the your web app pushes on every user?

The horror.
Sure, I'm just pointing out you don't need to type out the C compiler invocation again.

FOOOBJS = foo.o bar.o baz.o
foo: $(FOOOBJS)
Macchiarini conducted research on human subjects without MoH ethical approval. 2011 and 2014, Macchiarini implanted artificial windpipes in at least eight patients in Sweden, the United States, and Russia. All but one died following severe complications with the implants. (The patient who survived had the implant removed.)

The most outrageous part of his fraud is his colleagues who attempted to be whistleblowers when they noticed adverse outcomes from Macciarini were silenced and retaliated against by the Karolinska Institute.

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/03/24/three-tough-years-mac...
The idea that reintroducing an animal is telling someone "how to live" is wild. They existed there long before us, raising livestock can still happen with them there, and ranching existed in Colorado along side wolves long before this discussion.

I live in rural Colorado and raise a small hobby amount of animals (currently a bit over 40 chickens, turkeys, and ducks but the number varies through the year). I've lost plenty of animals to predators. I've had neighbors call me out to their land to shoot others. This is part of rural life with a healthy and functioning ecosystem. Predators exist.

I personally abstained from the vote; I felt like this is something better handled by career biologists and not the uninformed public. But the idea that is this "America's 87% telling the 13% how they should live" its trying really hard to jam this into existing framing of how we view American culture war issues. It'll do us some good to calm down, take a breath and put the topic in proper context. Rural residents and ranchers can still maintain their lifestyle.
All of these are non-issue if you use grpcurl and enable server-side reflection
So, use modern features that don't encourage mistakes. Most C bugs come from mistakes with pointers; in good modern C++ you rarely see pointers, and can afford to focus all the attention needed where they do appear.
Just checked; both my comment and TFA appear full width on my phone. Bog-standard Android.
The pro-wolf side won by 50.4% of the vote. So a tie.

But the folks who voted for it won't have to live with the consequences of their vote.
Thanks, I didn't know about vouching. I guess there's indeed an history behind each ban of a real user. (Not talking about spam of course, it's a different thing)
Exactly. You need Android Studio or Xcode. Fucking pain in the ass.
coo coo ca choo
The banning of these Apple products _does_ promote cooperation. After all, it is actively punishing Apple's lack of cooperation.
My desktop CPU uses 200 Amps. At 1v.
Is YouTube using AI to digitally "enhance" some videos?
I read an article a few days ago (I can't remember the link) about some kind of processing being applied to videos, and on watching the above video I can clearly see that the video has been processed.

This is one I watch every now and then and it is looks very different from what I used to see.

The faces are smooth and lacking in detail and the sound even seems out of sync.

If it is something done by Youtube then it is horrible. I'd rather have the original "unenhanced" ones if the quality is low.

These are videos going back to the late 70s and early 80s so the original quality may not be so good, but this processing seems to have made them worse.

Here is another one, showing similar traits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLTDpewIpfw

Am I the only one to have noticed this? I don't think it has to do with my monitor or video card.
Is there a unit in marketing courses called 'new ways to be awful'?
Not relatively recent! The feature is from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271
This such an interesting thread.

Thanks for the info.
48v seems vastly safer. There's 1/4 the thermal heating for equivalent power. The new high density 12VHPWR connector for GPUs has been melting down & had to get basically redesigned. That would not have been a problem at all on 48V.

There shouldn't be an intermediary step down to 12V. Google's been doing direct step down from 48V->~1V with GaN fets for half a decade, which is vastly more power efficient than the two step 277V->12->1V that many server systems go through.

It'd also be amazing to have usb-c extended power (48v) be something we could just add for free, essentially. (Alas this is complicated by needing to step down to lower voltages too, necessities some semiconductors in the delivery path to usb-c, which would have some voltage drop. This strongly implies to me something more like 52V or 54V would be ideal instead of 48V.)

For anything that typically runs under 100W, I agree that 48V is ridiculous. But I would love love love to see some motherboards for ThreadRipper that have GaN fet for direct conversion from 48V, or stuff like that. It'd be pretty niche. But it should be an option!

One of the big potential winners could be people with solar; being able to run your system directly off your solar bank would save double digits percent of power, versus inverting then converting back.

You're right that in the immediate term we'd see a lot of intermediary conversions. I'd love to have a better game plan, for not just motherboards but other components to expect either 48v or wider voltage inputs. Non-trivial to support 10-60V but if that was a market expectation & not a niche need we'd see very affordable solutions spring up practically overnight. There's already a range of usb-c focused power converters that are exceedingly cheap that could step in for this need!

Edit: seems like Google is using two stage conversion primarily, but not necessarily 4:1 48V:12V. Their fixed ratio converter seems to have a 6:1 mode (8V) target as well, or be configurable for even bigger ratio (they said up to 12:1 in their talk). As of 2019, a bit of change of tune from original 2016 ambitions. Good talk? https://youtu.be/aBkz2JR4UVs
I quite like gRPC but unfortunately it suffered from typical google's "old version is deprecated, new version is wip" syndrome.
Most ranchers in western Colorado run their cattle on public land, not private property.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/rangeland-management/grazing/permits...
Globbing is possible but unwise. You do want a variable with an explicit list of sources, even while trying to make things as automatic and dynamic as possible.
untranslated z-library apk analysis (Z-Lib 1.10.2)

App contacts npes.org, freehaven.net, cipa.jp, tensorflow.org, aiim.org, iptc.org, drewnoakes.com

interesting persmissions: allows use of camera for taking pictures and videos at any time, no additional user input required

raises question of image/video permissions and domains above linked to metadata/image extraction/processing and access to fine location data
Ah thanks for the info, That makes a lot of sense.
13% shouldn’t get disproportionate say in how things are run just because they live in a different place
Unless you were going to spend that electricity on compute anyway. In that case might as well reuse the waste heat.
Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
I remember reading that the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone had a much bigger positive impact than expected. I’m sure this is an oversimplification of a complex ecosystem-wide impact, but my understanding is that the effect is mostly that it forces deer and elk to stay on the move, making it easier for certain types of plants and trees to survive.
Interesting. I haven't worked with React Native or Expo, but that sounds exactly like what I was suggesting.
Power regulators that can efficiently produce the 1-1.5v output with the most minimal noise generally have lower maximums on their input voltage as well. In designing some of my own IoT devices I've looked into a fair number of power regulator ICs and 36V is a common maximum input voltage. The efficiency curves on the datasheets also usually show the efficiency gets lower the higher the input DC voltage. In a power regulator, inefficiency means even more heat you have to dissipate, not great in a GPU. I'm sure the GPU would love to take even lower voltage if it could, but 12V is the compromise we've decided on to get decent efficiency without requiring insanely thick conductors.
Oh, making a profitable company, of any kind, isn't easy :) . Most businesses fail. (90% within 5 years, something like 1% make it to 10.)

Of course there are successful examples of just about every model under the sun. If you can find a model, and a business which allows externalities like Open Source then that's fantastic.

And yo be clear I'm not saying companies fail because they are Open Source. Mostly they'll fail for the same reasons every other model folks- they don't generate enough cash to pay the bills.

Indeed Open Source can be an attractive start. There's at least a chance of free labor. There's some marketing milage.

The problem is not the start. The problem is when the money starts flowing. When you're "surviving" no-one is really incentived to muscle in. When you start "thriving" then suddenly your space looks really interesting to others.
Rubber that doesn't grow cracks when stretched many times
And that's a small cost to pay to make sure market competition still exists in the future and that the corporations in the west are forced to innovate instead of killing economy by stagnation and walled gardens.
> claims that he had a job offer from Google too, but he chose Yahoo and doesn't regret it

10 years earlier we had a guy at Yahoo! who joined Google and came back shortly after. Apparently the Google group was too disorgaized and unfocussed or without a plan. At Yahoo! they dragged him into dozens of interviews to tell that story again and again.

That said I wouldn't trust Google interviews either.
That's not actually how Nostr works. It is a hub (relay) and spoke (client) architecture where clients can connect and publish to N relays. No ledger and no propagation.
I don't believe that is correct anymore, and I think TFA is right:

> Hacker News currently has one full time moderator: Dan Gackle (dang), and formerly Scott Bell (sctb). Their comment replies provide a pseudo-log of Hacker News moderation.

I've never seen an anyone else besides dang comment that they are an HN admin in the past 5-ish years or so.
When smartphones became ubiquitous they patented multi-touch, meaning those of us with early android phones had to spend hours hacking the capability into out devices.Pretty sure the original XDA threads are still up.

Then there was the previously mentioned rounded corners etc.

This is all the end result of allowing businesses to perform regulatory capture.

'Bout time it bit apple in the ass

We live in a world where companies want us beholden to them and not the other way around.
How is the CDDL any more detestable than the GPL family of licenses? Not saying that they are detestable in any way, but the CDDL is also a free software license so I don't get how it's worse or bad