skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for the supposed objectivity of the "weird nerd", I don't know what to say. I have met more conspiracy theorists in my interactions with "weird nerds" than in my everyday interactions with normal people.

Conspiracy theorists are people who are obsessed with the "truth", so your observation supports the statement.

Being a conspiracy theorist isn't self serving, the only reason to be one is that you care so much about the truth to ostracize yourself. When such people have a well calibrated mind we call them geniuses, but most people get things wrong here and there and then they become conspiracy theoriests since they chase stupid theories.
I imagine it would also be an interesting way to recover/continue on from a panic/segfault
Summary: "I visited CIA Langley, parking was a pain, security was a pain, and the food isn't very good." OK, whatever. Everybody who's worked with DoD or the three-letter agencies has that experience. How could a Washington-based writer not know this?

Both CIA and NSA have classified in-house periodicals of general interest. Eventually they get declassified and published openly. Some of those are amusing.

CIA: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/

NSA: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cyber-vault/2018-12-...
In Thailand at least, this is due to the high number of motorcycles/scooters. They're far more likely to die in a collision (about 80% of the fatalities are from motorcycles)
People are quick to forget. It was Twitter. Which was enabled by high interest rates.
Have you looked at the economy in the last 80 years? The fed and other central banks have been stealing purchasing power non-stop from the people.
I think the very fact that the CEO of a review site contacted the makers of a reviewed product and asked for money is bad enough.
Eh, meddling in foreign politics is just the name of the game of a globalist world. Not really the panacea of a sin I think you're making it out to be.

The mere existence of intelligence agencies is proof, sending aid to others is also proof (which we know gets intercepted all the time), having military bases or consulates, even more.

If all of the above, and more including the recession of all foreign aid would make me believe its a sin again, doubled with strong isolationist thinking and very strict border control.

People can make documentaries all they want, it doesn't matter, they're crying about things their country does all day, every day, and probably even better than those they're accusing. They just don't want egg on their face. I definitely don't really feel bad for hypocrites.
Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
Enough sunlight lands on the Earth every 2 minutes to power humanity for a year [1]. ~500-600GW of solar will be deployed in 2024 globally, and we are accelerating to 1TW deployed annually [2].

Commerical nuclear fission is unviable at this point [3], even at nimble startups [4] [5], but proponents are free to argue in support of it to anyone who will still listen. Renewables and batteries have reached an escape velocity trajectory [6].

This global energy system will eliminate energy poverty in our lifetime, and like bankruptcy, it'll happen slowly, and then all of a sudden.

[1] https://www.ku.ac.ae/two-minutes-of-sun-enough-to-power-a-ye...

[2] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/12/25/all-i-want-for-christ...

[3] https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894631

[5] https://neutronbytes.com/2023/01/24/nuscales-smr-costs-hit-h...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502924
Without specifying a particular representation[0] on the struct you want to put in "permanent memory", this seems liable to break any time you recompile the code with different optimization flags, or with a newer or older compiler that may optimize differently, or even if you just change seemingly unrelated code that then triggers or de-triggers some optimization.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/type-layout.html#represe...
You could try BlackHat forums, I think there's a market for it
Does anyone know to what degree the Section 174 changes are responsible for this market? It's been brought up separately in a few venues with dire warnings, but I've rarely seen it mentioned when people are talking about the current job market.
more batteries needed...
Mickey Mouse Is Now in the Public Domain
I guess what I'm asking is do they have to do it? I haven't tried reading any of the filings, etc... I'm wondering if someone has already done the work for me to say if this issue has been addressed by the SEC and/or individual ETFs.
Marginal improvement? I'm not sure I can compete with that.
Design, Manufacturing and Open-Loop Control of a Soft Pneumatic Arm
Arok the Robot
The only thing worse than having to increase prices, is going from free to paid.
Good typo in the article:

“the energy source for a lightsail is photos (which have no mass and move at the speed of light).”

So, it can be powered by memes?
It may not be replacing anyone, but is it allowing 3 people to do the job of 4? I think so, and that reduces job opportunities for everyone.

Also, is AI allowing junior engineers to do the job of senior engineers? I think so too.
I know, but the model above suggests massively overbuilding solar and wind to convert it to hydrogen for storage. That overbuild isn't "free" and I can't see how you can get to €50eur/MWh at the moment for baseload esque power.
They are the actual stochastic parrots. If anything, ai is replacing content writers. These people have not been providing value - the contrary, have been part of the problem - for years.
There is one individual Michael Rae who is able to do just this. He stays at 115 pounds despite eating 1,900 calories/day with a BMI of 15.6, which is insane. Most men would probably need to eat 1000-1500/day to get to that lean, as the infamous Minnesota starvation study showed, and even then many of those participants did not get that thin.

Here is a profile of him, among other individuals who are part of his dieting cult/group https://nymag.com/news/features/23169/

Michael’s regimen of 1,913 calories a day is exactly that: 1,913 calories every single day, 30 percent of them derived from fat, 30 percent from protein, and 40 percent from carbohydrates. Cooking for him is the same elaborate exercise in dietary Sudoku it is for all CR die-hards, only more so.

There is no evolutionary justification to have such an wasteful metabolism (for all of history until now it's a a disadvantage), so people like him are rare, but they exist.

Another is ‎Roy Walford who got to a similar weight during Biosphere2 on a similar 1900/day diet when the artificial habitat began running out of food.
I mean, if BTC fails at that then it was never meant to be, I guess. Contrary to you, I am not pessimistic about the project being able to sustain its value as a global payment network backed by a hard and uncensorable coin.
If you aren't being tasked and you aren't being paid it is still really clear. Go look at almost any bug bounty and they will give you really clear "when to stop terms" Often the moment you access data you aren't supposed to access (exposing PII) or come to a point where you could even potentially disrupt the operation of the system you need to stop.

When we begin any assessment on a production system we have a very clear discussion about the rules of engagement. But we are often authorized to access data someone that is not authorized can't legally access with their unauthorized bug hunting. Once you have some experience and understand the relevant laws it is pretty clear when you should stop without violating the law. The general threshold when you are authorized is that you stop if it would risk the stability of the system. If you aren't being paid the general rule is once you have accessed others' PII you need to stop. If you broke an authorization control or accessed any functionality a regular user can't, you need to stop.

Gaining root to any network you don't own or have authorization to operate is clearly crossing the line. You went from finding issues to actively exploiting them. If you have to actively exploit to find an issue and you don't own the system and you don't have permission you don't do it.
Yeah, but in an article this pedantic, you'd expect the author to know something that basic.
Why is non-1:1 PAR bad beyond just the raw pixel count?
It definitely does have this problem, on Firefox at least. Refreshing the page has a lot of layout shift as buttons render.
Fun sequence of posts from the same author:

https://dynomight.net/thanks-3/
What’s the benefit? Rust actually is a nice language. C++ requires deciding which features to use? I don’t know modern C++ but it seems to have a kind of cult like indoctrination where everything else is wrong and only each persons flavor is correct leading to endless bike shedding.

C may have technical challenges but seemingly personal preferences are much more limited, just like the language. That helps large projects move forward.
Interest rates and AI impacts aren't mutually exclusive.
Agreed. And lacking apparent growth area is another reason. We had social media and rapid development of e-commerce in the 2000s, mobile revolution in the 2010s. What do we have now that sweeps the entire industry? Gen AI? But many companies are still trying to figure out what Gen AI can truly revolutionize.
Same with the group downvoting of any negative article or opinion - it shows the true characters of the crypto maniacs! They "punish" anyone who gets in their way of becoming millionaires overnight!
Chip fabs have QA departments that check for bad batches and make sure they never get used too, though. ;-)
> Can we move on from the tired old "haha idiots forgot about night time" slam on renewable energy yet?

maybe if they move to volcano power plants
Agreed, that small fact speaks to a variety of issues I think haha
I'm not sure how the 'actually delivered' would be enforced. Does Google have an affirmative requirement to deliver a 3rd parties message? I hope not.

My gmail address received 35 emails yesterday (which didn't get spam filtered). All but 3 of those got auto-archived by the filters I have in gmail. I would love google to just do this automatically.

Practically I might need another message or two a week that didn't hit my inbox.... but that's fine as long as it's as it is still searchable.
what is that warren buffet about "when the tide goes out, something something naked"?

searches ...

One of Warren Buffett’s most famous quotes is: “Only when the tide goes out do you learn who has been swimming naked.”

from

https://fortune.com/2022/10/03/warren-buffett-famous-quotes-...
Oahu's average residential electricity costs $0.43/kWh[0]. My last PG&E bill shows an average cost of $0.35/kWh. Still outrageous considering the national average is less than half that, but I think your numbers are off.

Having said that, PG&E is the worst. Agreed.

[0] https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/billing-and-payment/rates-a...
Spot on. DeFi relies heavily on CeFi.
The use case for the NFT thing has been so sad. I thought it would give rise to some sort of decentralized ID tech, but all it amounted to in the real world was mutant gorilla pictures.

And then you have a bunch of competing blockchains with significantly different underlying code, so how does anything get standardized?
No, we're going to ensure poverty. Climate is already fucked.
I read the sentence as "their two specific Blueair recommendations don't have HEPA-rated filters".
Coinbase is a joke as an exchange. Other behemoths exchanges support it, such as Kraken or Binance. But I recommend you p2p exchanges, which don't require KYC, e.g. RoboSats or LNP2Pbot.
Apparently so?? I've never been able to fit a disc there. Oops.
you obviously meant a lot more by "linear programming" than the mere words' definitions.

> Spotify playlists are not linear programming, obviously. Linear programming implies that the whole audience is listening to the same thing at the same time.

Not "obviously." How many listeners are tuned into Spotify's most popular playlists at the same time, and not interacting with them at all? Versus the number of listeners of a local radio station? I would bet the first >> the second.

As for whether royalties were enough to sustain a rock act then or now: I really don't know. They said that a modern recording budget is comically small compared to what it would have been in the 90's, so clearly the money has changed.

However, I didn't get from that video any claim that royalties used to be enough. What I got was that the artists are getting screwed by a lot of BS charges. And, of course, that corporate ownership of radio is bad, which I would hope very few HN'ers would argue with.

As for "You would need to provide extraordinary evidence to support it": I actually spent a lot of time at YouTube in my time at Google. "The lean-back experience" was something they really lusted after, and that wa the term they used for it. In fact, if I play one music video on YT, it usually seems to segue into another. So I don't think the broad mass of music listeners is quite as on-demand in their actual behavior as you think.
Nice- did you upload the whole book? Curious to see how copyright stuff shakes out in this realm.
Cryptocurrency still works the same as it ever did. I would be more concerned that the average bitcoin transactions costs over $11 dollars (down from over $37 USD a month ago)

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...
The point being that when I watch something with my 7yo, she's not gonna watch any of the crap I watch and I'm not gonna watch any of the crap she watches. We're gonna find something in-between.
Coinbase is a centralized exchange, the trading does not happen onchain so the trading itself has nothing to do with crypto, it's fundamentally just like a stock exchange. Onchain trading would be using a decentralized exchange, and that's much cheaper now on Ethereum L2 for example (although still in the experimental phase, slowly getting there). Coinbase is btw one of the more expensive CEX, but I guess you're there paying the higher fees and not with the competition, because they're reputable and unlikely to steal or lose your funds, correct?

The great thing about cryptocurrency is you can trade it any way you like. You can take your tokens in self custody. You can in theory trade with a random guy on the street, without any third party involvement and with zero fees. I know a guy who does this because he's worried about a coming police state, so he buys everything with cash during meetups.

I think the high fees CEX are currently charging, which you're right about, has multiple reasons. One is it's a completely new and largely unregulated space. There are a lot of risks, they need to set aside a lot for litigation. FTX had very low fees for example while stealing customer funds to lobby Washington ;) Coinbase is legit but has to spend a lot on legal fees and compliance, because they're in it for the long run. Also a huge part of the reason is surely simply because they can. Crypto traders are making so much money that they're more likely to accept paying high fees than the average stock trader. That won't last forever, it's just because the market is new and volatility is crazy.
Sure..assuming the cause of your segfault was not somewhere in that data...as it surely was
The cost of generation is a tiny fraction of the cost of the transmission and distribution grid in California.

We hav pricy electricity because of our "fixed" grid costs, not because of expensive generation. Utilities usually take a fixed rate of profit from T&D, and are therefore incentivized to overbuild as much as possible, and it's the regulators' job to stop that.

A socialized grid probably would be run much better than the one by PG&E, however legislation to buy them out has usually been extremely poorly timed so that the state, as purchaser, would take the biggest losses instead of the investors who backed the bad management team.
That has nothing to do with this discussion, I don't think that non nerds are more toxic, they are just better at it. My point is that when we emphasize social games and popularity contests then nerds tend to lose more than before, so non-nerds bubble up in the hierarchies, changing the makeup of the organizations.
It's not clear to me cancer rates are actually higher than the past. People are living longer because they're not dying of other diseases (tuberculoses, syphilis, heart attacks, etc. etc.), and no one was checking what did or didn't give you cancer in the past.

And animals get cancer. Tasmanian devils and their infectious mouth cancer is a famous example.
Passphrase in a bank safe deposit box.
These are cash creates not in kind creates. So there is no escaping taxes. You will be paying capital gains just by holding spot Bitcoin ETFs

Edit: after further research it appears that the cash create mechanism doesn't cause a tax event for shareholders as it does with mutual funds. See https://www.grayscale.com/blog/legal-topics/addressing-poten...

We will have to see how every Bitcoin ETF is structured. YMMV depending on this structure and how you get taxed.
Exactly, all this does is disproportionately affect smaller firms. This was by design.
The real hard part was always customer acquisition and retention.

I got free apple tv+ with an ipad I bought and I couldn't find a reason to keep it after the free trial ran out.

I roam different video services, switching every month or two. I don't have time to need all the services at once anyways.
Yeah, the tone was a huge turnoff for me too. I just kept wondering how one human could care so much about something so trivial. Not even air purifiers themselves, but the fact that wirecutter didn't choose the "right" air purifier from his standpoint.
BTC ETF in in a 401K/IRA can be contributed, grow, or possibly be withdrawn tax-free depending on how you set it up. Coinbase reports your gains and you owe taxes on them. (Don't think Coinbase has an IRA/401K option for custody. Yet.)
> This is obviously not the case.

It really is though. People just don't understand the ethics of white hat hacking.

> Suppose you suspect the company could be using a default admin password

Putting in that password on a system you don't own without any sort of permission to do so is very clearly against the law. You are accessing the system without permission. You just walk away if you want to be ethical about it.

The only ethical path is to let them know you have some reason to believe they are not using secure passwords or whatever. Accessing their system illegally is not the move. It just isn't the white hats problem.
It also let's someone create a new business that's cheaper than before.

The size of the pie isn't fixed.
I guess it’s sort of game theoretical - making you sift through extra words has a lower downside than somebody else in the company thinking I’m being curt and aggressive with them, thus it’s safer to add the ‘corp-politeness’
What happened to them? They used to be a good company, quite recently even.
MacOS’s case insensitive filesystem makes the point moot, if the OP is on that platform. But it makes me wince too!
The Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant, which is the largest geothermal power plant in Iceland cost approximately €380 million to build.

However a smaller geothermal plant such as the Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant cost only around €100 million to build
Wow. What saas are you using that’s so expensive?
Warning - GenX get-off-my-lawn follows:

I've been driving for 40 years. Drivers today are way less considerate than when I started driving.

It's not speed- people have always driven fast, and teenage boys have always driven recklessly. It's a complete lack of courtesy. For example, you can be 3/4 of the way out of a perpendicular parking space and there's still an excellent chance that someone turning into the aisle will cut you off. It's common that if you're right-turning onto a street, and there is a red light on the street with traffic stopped nearly to where you are, that through traffic will ignore you and block your intersection rather than "give up" a car length to let you turn in. People in the right lane on interstates don't bother to change to the center lane when approaching an on-ramp. People in stop-and-go traffic won't let traffic merge in from on-ramps.

I don't know what caused this or what to do about it.
Wife has a capital in the middle of her first name, no spaces. Think JoAnn.

Surprising number of systems can’t handle this gracefully even when they handle McGuffin as a last name just fine.
One bitcoin is very much distinguishable from another bitcoin as they can be traced through transactions and wallets, with the outcome that some bitcoins might be rejected by recipients that are uncomfortable with certain source wallets or mixers.
It feels more like AI is doing tasks that senior engineers would have pushed out to more junior engineers more than it's leveling up junior engineers
Well the claim is that if HN isn’t bullish on crypto in 2024 it must be inside a strange “negativity bubble.”
> Among a list of LinkedIn content that Iron Truth told its Telegram followers it had passed along to the company was a post demanding evidence for the beheaded baby claim, categorized by the project as “Terror/Fake.”

Just one instance of that is one too many in my books.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-...
Yes - but just imagine the inescapable horror-show once you can force information into them.
Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices
I keep buying Aqua Panna glass-bottled water but keep wondering how much water gets into the glass through plastic pipes!

Also, it recently became evident that HDPE/LDPE jugs contain even more dangerous than BPA chemicals. Same with water pipes in home. So, there's no escape!
No-RTO is the workers finally realizing they have actual power over management (thanks COVID!) We don't need to provide any numbers to the business because we don't care about the business when thinking about RTO. It's for us. Our lives. Not for the business. If anything, it's the business who has to provide numbers to convince us to go back.

So we just need to refuse RTO. Fire us if your really want to. We'll move to your competitor and the numbers will speak for themselves. We might be wrong and we might be back to the office if you can crush your competitors with the benefits of RTO even with all that talent lost.
My guess is no enforcement. It's pretty much a free-for-all where I live and everyone seems to know it. The cops don't patrol or even sit in their favorite speed traps anymore. They don't come if you report property crime either. Honestly, I'm not sure what the police are even doing anymore.
You're describing consumer-accessible internet trading of any kind.
10 years ago we had everyone trying to find a legit use for blockchain.
I think it's obviously bad for Dot-by-Dot displaying especially on LCD, but I remembered that 480p DbD LCD wasn't a thing.
‘forgive me that I’m not fully understanding what you mean - but could you possibly give me an example or two to kick my brain into gear?’