skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well as a matter of fact btc is none of these things compared to any other crypto, which are themselves not particularly any of these things.

But I agree with the fact it’s not the SEC’s role to tell us the merit of btc.
I do have some worries on the Tether scam still going on for example though, which has been manipulating BTC for years.
Isn’t DotA2, one of their core properties, built on a somewhat generous interpretation of what constitutes fair use?
Streaming gives them much better information than a user's voluntary stars. Did you actually watch it? All of it? How soon? All at once?

User ratings are fraught. The things a user actually does are more likely to be sincere. And it doesn't put any burden on the user. I have a feeling that even the simple thumb up/down means less than whether you actually finished watching the movie.
First I've heard of this project, which is a shame because it sounds(/sounded?) quite cool.

In case anyone else goes looking, I found a mirror that is current as of January 4th, 2024 (commit 61d225e).

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...
Credit Karma spun their tax service off to Cash App. So Intuit doesn't own both.
We've over-corrected so far now, people make up and put mental illnesses in their twitter bio to be part of some in-group. Mental illness has become a fashionable affectation. There's probably now people out there who keep theirs quiet because they don't want to get lumped with those groups.

The last thing most people want is turning their very real mental illness into an identity, but we've somehow made that the de-facto default.
Exactly. "Inflation rate" usually denotes price inflation not change in monetary base or similar measures. More money in circulation can mean price inflation, but it doesn't need to.
The current crop of execs grew up watching Star Trek TNG - a flying office building where everyone lives for their work and you could sound a klaxon and everyone scrambles to the conference room. Also everyone loves and is willing to die for the leader. That's all you need to know.
Asteroid City. Beau is Afraid. Dream Scenario. Medusa Deluxe. Poor Things. Saltburn. Skinamarink. Smoking Causes Coughing.

Barbie. Oppenheimer.

Soon, The People's Joker, which has been stuck in purgatory since last year given its unconventional telling of a mythos that (on the surface) seems similar to Batman's.

You don't have to like any of these movies, and they're all challenging, but all of them were unconventional and innovative and released to theaters in 2023. This has been a wildly unconventional year, and a fairly exciting one in mainstream cinema.

Oh, wait, what am I arguing against? I read the study, and it says that cinema remains innovative despite discourse arguing otherwise! Indeed.
I was honestly surprised that Hawaii even had a coal plant. A 500Mwh plant uses 4,500 tons of coal per day - 45 train cars of coal per day. That all had to be shipped in by boat. But just looking it up, apparently a single "capsize" ship can haul 180,000 tons, so only about a dozen could supply a powerplant for a year.

Every time I think of how much coal is used in generating power, I shudder. Have you ever seen a photo of the coal going into a plant? The train cars stretch for miles. All that carbon just going into the atmosphere. We can't switch to renewables soon enough.
> so you'd need to have something like 10x solar if you wanted the overcapacity strategy to work, which also make things prohibitively expensive.

In the short-term, gas backup for such scenarios (which are relatively rare, and during which renewables will still operate at some non-100% fraction of the required energy) seems like it might be a reasonable option: we could probably get to (pulling numbers out of thin air) 95% renewable generation or something that way.

Longer term, we'll definitely need some kind of long-term storage though. Perhaps synthetic fuel driven by overcapacity renewables during peak generation times might be an option here?
Many people own an Xbox One S/X, Xbox Series X, or PS5, which can all play 4K Blu-ray. Many more people own a PS3, PS4, or regular Xbox One, which can all play regular Blu-ray.
It's something that's both a common B2B requirement because users keep asking for it ("I want to see all of my data at once"), and something functionally ~useless.
Gold has an inferior tax treatment.

Gold has considerable storage/security costs compared to Bitcoin.

Gold has considerable fake risks/costs compared to Bitcoin.

The supply of gold is continually inflated by mining (also true for Bitcoin though the mining rate in bitcoin decreases over time).
There's a fair amount of ill-placed arrogance. It seems that the majority on this board confidently and incorrectly believe that they know all there really is to know about bitcoin. Essentially that it's a scam that wastes energy.

If you try to help them understand, you're generally attacked as if you are shill, and then they continue along in their ignorant bubble. It's a shame, but their attitude isn't conducive to me losing any sleep.

You buy bitcoin at the price you deserve.
90% of the stuff written is just utter trash.

I'm not joking when I say the hairdryer article amounted to "trust this person because she's used hair dryers for a long time."

She was measuring airflow speed out of the hair dryers but not volume. Absolute moron.
California let's you file state taxes for free through the state:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/inde...
That's the double-edged sword of capital markets, right? If you take investment then you need to produce big returns forever, and if you don't then you're in danger of being beaten in the short term by those who do. Small consultancies and contract shops might be an exception, but that's not because of the owner is wise so much as because those kinds of businesses don't scale with investment like more typical software companies.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38806650 - Dec 2023 (102 comments)
If the technology doesn't work, and you didn't wait until the last possible minute to do it, file an appeal with the department or Dean.

This is how it works when you have a shit faculty.

Now. If the technology doesn't work because you aren't following the required specs, or you waited until the last minute to do anything, you're fucked.

Source: I teach in higher ed, but I do not use third party software because it's all trash.
They say so much in their article but never dive into how this happened, seems like the most important part? User error? Configuration error?
Coca-Cola doesn't have trouble selling soda, but they still have commercials.

Of course making their own shows was more impactful in a bunch of ways. But, the investment is also so much more. A season of a show is in the tens to hundreds of millions.
What are you talking about? TCP/IP hasn't changed in the last 20 years... like, at all.

There might be best practices which have changed around NAT, software defined networking and load balancing, but it's all on top of existing protocols.

If you are talking about subnetting practices, it has always been an operational thing... that's not what these books are talking about.
you are aware that twitch still has its own CEO right?
My apologies for taking too long to reply, and thanks for being patient. I must've missed this in the thread. I'm not sure what is happening. Things look correct.

Could you reach out to us at support@corgea.com with your account? We're happy to help you resolve this.
As far as I understand it the deluxe version is basically the “the online help isn’t answering my question and I want to talk to a real person” / “I may need to file amended returns” option. But none of the actual filing functionality is locked behind it. I know none of the simple 1099 self sole proprietor stuff needed deluxe in previous years.
> That is, let's hypothesize a house uses 24 kWh per day

We're at approximately half that and it still isn't a tractable problem just for a single day, for the 1st week of January we used 88 Kwh and made 18.7 Kwh in solar, about 7.5 of which went to the grid (so would have been available to charge a battery). We'd need 4 times as much solar to get through the days and even then there would be days when there wouldn't be enough to go around. Making that work for a week would require 70 KWh of storage and a nameplate installed solar capacity of about 60 Kw, well into fantasy territory, it would never make sense from an economics perspective to set that up. You're looking at 150 to 200 panels depending on type, massive power infrastructure (your normal hookup will not even be close to enough for this) and a formidable array of batteries for storage.

It won't happen locally for that reason, much as I would like to. The only thing we can do is to try to conserve even further but we're already close to what you can do with four people in one house, approximately 3 KWh / person / day, especially in the winter. Transporting that power from the excess in the summer would be an even more impressive feat. We still have 11 months of netmetering and then that's over.
"If Palestinians had accepted being killed and colonized, they would have had a state since 1948. Since they weren't okay with that, we will keep killing them and steal their home and land to build illegal settlements".
So you're saying it's like the Queen's duck? https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
Heat pumps are simple, easy to understand, efficient (uses very little energy) devices.

But it still blows my mind every time — that we can use the heat of the sun to cool our homes. What a wonderful time to live in!
Fortunately, I'm using Qubes OS, which would make the attack easily detectable and curable on my system.
Good stuff - too many people focus on the wizz-bang of new tech they forget how effective a well-designed monolith can be across a lot of very important dimensions.

I've been doing LEPP stack (Linux / Nginx, Python, Postgres) stuff for awhile now without an ORM; which makes you really consider how you're handling transactions ahead of time. So requests have become idempotent and transactional - the default of many frameworks to run in auto-commit really defeats the purpose of having a good transactional database imo - ymmv.

Also re concurrency, I've been using gevent for a long time - it's a nice framework and lets you write blocking code while being async behind the scenes. And it's nice for writing little backend http or tcp services. But, I think for what I do I could mostly just use OS threads - thread per request in gunicorn - and that'd work just fine. Request context is stored in thread-locals anyway, so there isn't really shared state across requests to worry about the GIL much. And I'd run a process per vcore anyway behind gunicorn.
I believe underwater lines are typically not that expensive (compared to other major energy generation/transmission projects). It's actually much easier to lay a cable in water (just drop it in) that it is over land (where you either have to construct pylons or dig a trench).
I still follow same advise my dad told me before I left for Navy bootcamp. He was an Army vet. But it goes something like, 'when you wake up in the morning and realize you hate putting on that fucking uniform, its time to hang it up. Or else you'll end up doing shit and getting in trouble.' Now that I am out and went into software, and even before while I was working in the chemical industry while I went to school, I use that same philosophy but reworded.
> Stiftung Warentest

does something like this exist outside of germany? Having a Stiftung Warentest subscription always strikes me particularly german.
Thermal storage is hamburger, hard to re-use, hard to transport. You need electrons.
Whenever I see a story like this I just feel how f**d we are.

When you can waste an exploit like this on installing crypto

Whatever NSA and other advanced nation states have is magnitudes next level.

NSO Group sells some advanced stuff, but again what Israel keeps behind
locked doors again have to be magnitudes next level.
That doesn't mean that _you_ can't use version control. Or just introduce it to the company.
There is zero way a system that is wired into the place where pain is translated won't be used for evil.
not three, but 2022 saw a two week period of wind drought in the north sea.

This was well documented.
My team of 5 synchronized our hybrid schedules (same two days in the office together). We love the mix of in-person collaboration days and remote "leave me alone so I can accomplish something" days. We're a small startup in the Midwest, so I have no idea how it would scale to FAANG-level problems, but it's the best of both worlds for us.
It's great, but they need to do a much better job at showing customers which data they are sharing with these 3rd parties and how these 3rd parties then use our data.

A couple of examples would be enough.

It reminds me a bit of the time when widgets were popular on Facebook or other sites, and I have mostly a negative memory about it.

I mean, apparently most of it is free, but I guess they store the data and who knows if they might then sell it to data brokers.
Direct link to the pdf:
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper7806.pdf
Residential in general indeed isn't much of a concern. That can - even in Germany - be done by solar, wind, battery backups and geothermal.

The more pressing problem is industry, which makes up about 44% of our electricity. Some processes, e.g. metal and glass smelters, absolutely require years of uninterrupted power supply or need dozens of millions of euros and months of downtime to get repaired. Some, like electric-arc aluminium smelters, can handle a short-term load disconnect and receive a premium on their electricity prices for that. The utter majority however could in theory be suspended and resumed at will, adjusting to market prices and stability requirements... but the owners don't like that uncertainty and workers don't like it either because they wouldn't get paid.

Other large consumers like city lighting or advertising could in theory also be shut down or reduced during peak demand times. But as we've seen in the winter following the Russian invasion of Ukraine where that was outright banned by an emergency decree, this is politically untenable - people have grown so accustomed to the luxurious energy waste that they're (literally) willing to kill over it.
History of Xerox Interlisp and BBN-Lisp
Data Persistence Strategy at IncraShop: A Journey Beyond Traditional Databases
> That so many people are so focused on things "having" to be in a constant state of exponential growth makes me feel uneasy. It's like so many people can't see the forest for the trees - we can't have infinite exponential growth forever.

From first hand experience, let me explain why I need this. It's because when the growth stagnates, management starts to attack their own reports. This is an effort to squeeze productivity that comes all the way from the top. Middle management politics governs your life. There are constant threats like PIPs, politics, measuring BS metrics such as lines of code. Your director may be getting antsy about their own promotion and want to fire you away to perform a reorg that makes themselves look good. Your coworkers will turn against you because management will start stack ranking. Imagine going into work everyday where every slack message, every email, every code review is all about posturing to let someone else take the blame. The consequences are dire. Productivity actually gets shot because no one is willing to help anyone. Entire services stagnate, dependent teams do not respond timely and the org is not willing to support any efforts.

How does this work environment sound to you, as an engineer?

Everything about that job becomes about management games. You will be blamed for things not in your control.

I would accept stagnation as an employee if the company can accept stagnation. Everyone knows infinite growth is impossible. And if the company runs out of ideas, no amount of pressing IC engineers is going to fix anything. But pressing IC engineers is exactly what they do. And this is why I don't want to work at stagnating companies. I am not a kid who will willingly take the blame for BS management.
Not quite everything, there's a (short) list of unsupported forms here: https://www.freetaxusa.com/forms-federal

I found this out one year because they don't fully support Form 8283, which I needed in order to handle a deduction of a cryptocurrency donation to charity.

But apart from that, they've been great. And your main point is correct in that they don't upcharge for any of their supported forms.
Save approx. 1% on fees annually is the point.
Saying RTO picks the fruits of the trees and leaves the husks is true only in the way that it keeps the best workers which can create more fruit, and those "fruit" that fall off weren't going to be around long in any case.

The best, and safest practice is to only allow remote work only as an exception for those that produce results way above the average.

Anyway. One sign to actually leave a company though, is the free soda / coffee being cut off and it turning to something the employees have to pay for in the kitchen / cafeteria. Believe me, this is often a sign that the company is losing its way.
They have that info right here: https://www.freetaxusa.com/deluxe

And they specifically state small business support here: https://www.freetaxusa.com/pricing
Infisical Update December 2023
SEC approves first spot Bitcoin ETFs in boost to crypto advocates
I'm stunned that it's something that unavailable and expensive.

I'd expect it to be some mass-produced cheap router.
Englishman who posed as HyperVerse CEO says sorry to investors who lost millions
Credit Karma had to sell their tax filing offering to complete the sale, so Intuit doesn't own it: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN285275/
I guess it really depends on what kind of stuff we work on. It's very common for service layers in systems that I work on to be shared between various ingress points (HTTP, GRPC, Kafka handler, etc).
Yeah, big +1 to this. I recently left a role I was at for four years, paid well, but turned sour quickly due to changes in leadership and mismanagement across the organization. I followed my gut out the door with nothing lined up and it was absolutely the right call for my health and sanity.
First they ignore you,

then they laugh at you,

then they fight you,

then you win.
Phase 1 is a Millstone, not a Milestone
> Suffice it to say I find their recommendations basically useless.

This is a are in general that has become pretty useless over the last years - the shills have won out. I'd go so far as to say that on average the first few pages of any web search for product advice result in negative value overall.
Unlike the old days of broadcast TV when the networks had to produce shows that appealed to the broadest possible audience, Netflix can, and does, produce shows that appeal to a narrow demographic. This results in a sliver of shows that are highly appealing amidst a lot of stuff perceived as "garbage." But what a teenage boy thinks is garbage differs widely from what a retired grandma things is garbage. To each their own.
Although this is in the grand scheme of things hard to verify. Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation?
It appears they now support Form 8283 Section A.
I agree it would not be the consumer's fault or responsibility, but in terms of deciding on the overall probability of risk in a profile, some residential ISPs do have proportionately more bad traffic than others.

We don't attribute a high number of points to this because it doesn't deserve a high weighting but it's probably right to factor it into the score.

Having said that it's early days for us and we're still tweaking/testing.
The story is supposed to be about a crazy visitor experience at the CIA HQ (and the author does a great job of writing it), but reading through it I couldn't help but think the whole time that if you replaced "CIA" with "generic big corporation" all of it would still make perfect sense.

Random employee social group organizing a talk, no budget for speaking fee, "must be escorted at all times", full parking lots, confused officials/security people, getting multiple visitor badges, impossible to find conference rooms, employee gift shop, complex rules about what employees can publish on their own time, long-tenured employee who has no idea how many people work at the company...yep you are at Google.
>If my diet jacks up my leptin levels such that I don’t lose weight, that will show up on the scale, and I have to adjust my calories down to compensate.

>With this system I am guaranteed to lose weight so long as I don’t cheat.

Unfortunately, that's just not true. Here's some great quotes from the book "The Obesity Code" (which I've just recently found and find an excellent book):

>The abrupt increase in obesity began exactly with the officially sanctioned move toward a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet.

>A 30 percent reduction in caloric intake results in a 30 percent decrease in caloric expenditure.

>Total energy expenditure is the sum of basal metabolic rate, thermogenic effect of food, nonexercise activity thermogenesis, excess post-exercise oxygen consumption and exercise.

>Since hormones control both Calories In and Calories Out, obesity is a hormonal, not a caloric, disorder.

>If hormones regulate fat growth, then obesity is a hormonal, not a caloric disorder.

>Sugar will increase the blood glucose level and provoke an insulin response from the pancreas. Olive oil will not...[cause] significant increase in blood glucose or insulin. The two different foods evoke vastly different metabolic and hormonal responses."

All of this is to say that it's not enough to simply adjust calories. Yes, calories matter to a point, and everyone knows that starvation (e.g., 0 calories for an extended period of time) is effective in the long-term, but starvation will also harm your body, and no reasonably-minded person can suggest it as a viable approach to weight loss.

The best available scientific evidence shows that continuing to decrease caloric intake can make weight loss more difficult for an obese person.
The criticisms of file descriptors and files and device nodes and Linux-centrism are all totally reasonable.

The stackoverflow link is irrelevent -- it is a question about C. Rust's stdlib and implementation of stdout/stderr buffering is wholly unrelated to the one in C.
> ” As an employee, it’s usually best to leave in the first wave of cuts.”

That’s only valid if you can very easily find another job with similar salary and better work environment, right?

If I am a regular IC that will have to go through a lot of interviews to find a new job it is best to just wait until I am fired (while looking for a new job without leaving the current one).
That's true up to a point, but digital media really is different from analog media which cannot be updated dynamically. That's the difference, I think.

(And, yes, more and more people are putting away the phone because they realize how intrusive it is in terms of time spent doomscrolling, etc.)
Checkout the graph

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...
World gold supply inflates at 2% per year due to mining. That's an key point of the Stock2Flow model.
The Lightning Network isn’t working as intended and the devs have basically admitted it’s never going to though. I don’t think blockchain as it is built for the btc network is as scalable as you think it can be.