skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Movies yes, but often a single episode of a show is say $2. That means if you watch a season in a month, you're up to $16-20 pretty quickly with 8-10 episodes.
WHOA!!! Callback! Who's this!?!
The Internet, is a series of tubes and gardens.
Lol power usage is such a strawman argument. 1% of all electricity in USA is used watching Netflix but you don't hear people complaining. But running a global permissionless decentralised store of value currency network should supposedly be "super cheap" or it's an environmental disaster and must be stopped.
The DVD business was ~1% of total revenues by the time they shuttered it. At that point, it was no longer really cost effective for them to retain such a large physical infrastructure for so little ROI.
Sounds like a 7 red lines situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Or, more rationally - China has closed way more coal plants (small, inefficient, old technology) than it has built new coal plants (larger, new filters, scrubbers, adjacent to fresh coal fields with better grades of coal), in addition to having expanding demand for power.

Currently in China new nuclear construction is slightly below new wind+solar addons, and nuclear+wind+solar are together still a small fraction of total power due to coal.

Yes, China is phasing out coal - but it's a beast.

In the meantime old sulphur filled coal field are being retired, new fields are being opened, and new plants with cleaner burning technology is built next to new fields in order to minimise transport costs (and associated C02 from transport).
Amazon doesn't run on AWS. There's separation between Amazon resources and AWS ones, even if much of the tech stack is shared.
Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant
Bitcoin isn't directing companies to start ETF's, nor is it trusting institutions. It's just a protocol. Institutions came, bought Bitcoin and are selling it to investors.

I suppose if those institutions were worthy of trust then there wouldn't be such high demand for Bitcoin's gargantuan energy usage in the first place.
yeah, I agree. Most of the apps I've looked at seem to be fairly low value.
Saying Israel set this up is quite misleading. This group is no more affiliated with Israel than Alex Jones is affiliated with the U.S.

This is a grassroots organization doing this and in fact its funding and support mostly comes from Americans, such as casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and the Israeli-American Council.
The US is also an outlier in terms of murder rate compared to poor countries. The Us homicide rate is over 6 per 100k, while Pakistan (which has plenty of guns) is under 4. But the US isn’t really one place. Idaho’s homicide rate is 2.2, while Puerto Rico’s is 19.3. Which is 5 times higher than Afghanistan. Note that Spain’s homicide rate is under 1. Puerto Rico and Spain actually have similar GDP per capita. And Puerto Rico is an island with strong gun control.
The operation is little more than a hobby with less than 200 orders a month. I tried to automate the boring stuff so I only need to spend 15-20 minutes a month on book keeping and GST filing.
>even if you managed to launch at the speed of 25000km/h from the ground, the payload would slow down before it left the atmosphere.

Project HARP was shooting 16 inch artillery shells at 2100m/s, and they reached 180km altitude, i.e. the atmosphere was slowing it down only for 15%. While higher speeds cause higher losses, the larger payloads would benefit from decreasing surface-to-volume ratio, plus if one launches from say a plateau in Andes where atmosphere is aleady thinner, I think the losses will be similar for large payloads at speeds close to orbital.
Games on a surface level used to be somewhat simpler, but man, I pine for the days of games that wouldn't waste your time with long intro segments and just let you enjoy what it had to offer right from the get go.
This reminds me of Dollhouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_(TV_series)
yes there are inefficiencies - but biotech is expensive - I can't just start a business. My credentials aren't good enough for consulting either.
fr... on god, this BTC ETF is bussin
Instructions unclear, have career in infrastructure now.
It will work with any existing Rails app as long as you are using

- Tailwind

- Stimulus

Installation instructions are here - https://zestui.com/docs/installation

It is right now only tested with Rails 7 and Ruby 3+ but it should work with Rails 6.1+ and Ruby 2.7+
No data tables in library? Other than that nice work!
I appreciate it - what's the best way I could leverage my life sci background?
100 GW isn't absurd, compared to global human energy consumption of around 20000 GW.

The problem is, until we figure out how to stop burning fossil fuels and fix climate change, the amount of spare power we have is actually a large negative number.
> No one can simply state "I am not interested in Bitcoin" in a discussion without triggering some "response". Regardless of the merits of Bitcoin, or absence of them, that is fscked up. Red flag.

Lol this is ridiculous. If you popped up on a hacker news thread about abortion rights and said "I am not interested in abortion rights" would you also say it is a "red flag" regardless of the merits (or lack of merits) of abortion?

If you truly have no interest then lurk. But if you choose to talk (noone is forcing you to!) then don't be surprised at responses.
Ah, god bless cloud feudalism and nepotism...
Still, even when building the decompiled source yourself it gets its assets by stripping them from the copy of the ROM we all legally dumped from our personalized copies of the cartridge.
I'd be willing to take a stab at 1099 sales jobs - I just haven't found many
2 of the 3 places I've worked (non FAANG) did not have IC tracks that went past senior or if they did it was 1 position that was not promoted internally and it never opened up again.
Actually, the fact that Gazans are far better off than Syrians and other Arabs in other conflicts is rarely discussed. Israel is required to destroy Hamas in Gaza as the US was required to destroy Germany and Japan. But Israel has been using hi-tech weaponry rarely discussed even on HN, a tech website.
For example, Iron Sting, a mortar guided by both GPS and laser is used even at night so that when a Hamas terrorist emerges from tunnels, they are immediately blown up. This helps to preserve Gazan civilian lives but not discussed in the media.

Iron Sting Mortar | How it Works | Israel Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg

Rarely mentioned by the media is that Hamas builds command and control centers under hospitals intentionally putting civilians in harms way.
I think this is a large part of why many Americans in particular don't understand crypto. They already have access to the world's best financial system and all the protections of the state when using it.

Living in Australia and trying to invest in financial markets overseas is like pulling teeth sometimes, because every country has their own incompatible systems and local rules and regulations. And this is a developed well integrated country!

Crypto is the first time we have a global financial system that everyone can join without any one country being able to set the rules and control the system. This is extremely beneficial for countries that don't trust each other to be able to integrate and trade.
act.il was a pretty well known effort, there are multiple sources that describe the same thing and it wasn't exactly a secret.
This, 100%. Bitcoin has proven its value already, and it's the only tool we have against authoritarian governments that print money and steal as much as possible with taxes. You can ask people in Argentina or Venezuela about that.
Perhaps I just don't understand how this works all that well, but shouldn't it be easy to defeat GPS spoofing when you're 30,000+ feet in the air? Presumably the spoofed GPS signals are all coming from the ground, or close to it. I would think it would work to use a semi-directional antenna that is on top of the aircraft, pointing upward. Even an antenna that has a 180-degree field of view should reject fake GPS signals from the ground, no?

Only thing I can think of that would invalidate this is if the fake GPS signals bounce off the atmosphere above the planes and come back down. What else am I missing here?
Absolutely fascinating read. I am really curious about his artist-colleagues who find ChatGPT to be a boon to their work. That does not strike me as intuitive.
That questioning methodology reminds me of Daemon/Freedom(TM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
> societal decline as a direct result of inflation and overspending

Really? Direct? Pretty sure the Roman’s had many other things happening upstream of overspending.

Many things were going wrong.
That’s only due to extensive synchronization and much more accurate timekeeping. Modern extremely high quality mechanical watches today are only accurate to something like +/-5 seconds per day. If you wear one for months it may be off by minutes.

Today’s quartz watches are accurate to something like 1 second a year (for really good ones), but those didn’t exist back in timetable railroad days.
This is definitely true in the West.

I said millions because of every day crypto usage in countries like Argentina and Turkey, where inflation makes it challenging to save money, and in countries where there are high remittance rates.

More builders are definitely needed to improve the crypto user experience across a range of categories.
Can you please stop posting these? I'm sure your intention is good but anything as repetitive as https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... is off topic on HN.

You've also posted some good unpredictable comments so I definitely don't want to ban you. Basically, any form of predictability is what we're trying to avoid here.
A good idea with a flawed implementation is still a good idea
At 0.25c the probes would blast through the centauri system in minutes. Hardly enough time to collect data more useful than what we already can sitting here practically stationary, even if absurdly far away.
Can somebody that knows how please send me an actual physical N64 cartridge (my PO Box is in this user profile) that I can simply plug in to my OEM N64 Console and play Portal64.

I will send you a check if you wish to include an invoice — either before or with the cartridge's shipping. It will clear. Name your price. Or swap for Mario Kart and Donkey Kong. I will even pay for the steam sourcecode license (to avoid ©) — I do not use email and don't have gaming computers, and honestly don't wish to sign up for anything... I just want a cartridge that swaps in and out, as desired.
If you’re using SSH for commit signing, you do need that in your git configuration.
I've always loved Mathematica, it breezed me thru grad school. Too bad I've never found a job that uses it at all. Everyone insists on python packages.
try a modern console :(

first you press the power button, then wait for the console to load (5-10s usually for a Switch), then dismiss the ads asking you to buy or subscribe to something, then navigate to the game you already have inserted into your console, then press play, then confirm you DON'T want the recommended update (which prevents you from playing the game), then accept the update when you realize it stops you from playing the game, then wait for the update to finish (10-30s + a console restart), then accept the System update which didn't even pop up before (another 1-2m + restart), then finally go through the above again, and now.... you're finally at the main menu of the game

sorry i just tried picking up the Switch again today during my sick day and had to wade through all this just to play Metroid Prime (a game that came out a decade ago)
The cryptography community, yes. The cryptocurrency community is a bunch of Wall St. bros looking for a new pay day.
Africa, LATAM, and parts of Asia are still for grabs.
I really don’t know where this mis conception keeps coming from. The course very explicitly makes clear the need for profiling and instrumentation, and the lab write ups require breaking down the impact of each change you made. But that’s all trivial compared to the main content of the class, it can be taught in a single lecture (+ hands on guiding in recitations/homework). After that is where the “ok X specific section is slow, now what?” comes in.
Nice blog post https://tontinton.com/posts/database-fundementals/
Mastodon is extremely similar to the Twitter consumer product. The differences are minor. We compare with Twitter because unlike Mastodon Twitter runs at large scale.

Yes, we implemented the entirety of Mastodon from scratch.
Its for keeping the descentralized network secure, which is of extreme value. So no, "literally nothing useful" is utter bullshit.
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THCX the cannabis ETF went from $230 to $16. Maybe it was not known to be risky, but it was a massive rug pull. Does that qualify?
This makes me think of the matrix.

Maybe one can't shield their true thoughts if they don't know they're in a simulation...?
Who said anything about forcing anything?
Haha ! I miss how experimental those old games feel... unique gameplay, art & music, no design best practices and no cut&paste from internet when those were created, just pure skills
I see this statement as an absolute win for the “senior” dev.
>> President Reagan ordered an unencrypted version of GPS to be made available to the public so that civilian aircraft would have a reliable form of navigation. At the time, no one apparently foresaw any motive or incentive for tampering with GPS signals, so no provision was made to protect them.

That can't be true, I believe one of the Die Hard films made at the time is based on this idea.
In my opinion, Google is run in favor of the shareholders with the majority of voting rights.
Given its growing profile, it seems like Valve had two options: either "legitimize" the project by giving them a license, like they did with Black Mesa, or take it down.

I guess that the first option was cut off by the use of the proprietary Nintendo code.
They show a chart of the various 'non-teaching' roles. To my eyes, research positions are not included.
I suspect this comment under TFA is closer to what’s going on: “My sense is that winning Westinghouse has slanted substantially toward the types who just want to overachieve and go to Harvard relative to the types who are weird nerds even apart from any differences between subjects.” Access to the professional mentoring and resources needed for kids to do projects at the currently-competitive levels has literally been commodified. This underlying population change then explains why they don’t go into science careers.
This is a non sequitur. The comment you're responding to isn't complaining about having to pay, or about the amount being too high. It's complaining about having to pay without knowing what you're even getting.
For one, a bitcoin wallet can't be seized by fiat by any 3-letter agency of any country.
A fair amount of it is speculative, but unlike a pure-speculative ponzi scheme it's rooted in some appreciation of intrinsic value.
> If you look at the history of empires, from the Romans to the Han, it is littered with instances of societal decline as a direct result of inflation and overspending.

Not only was the decline of the Roman empire too slow and variegated to attribute to a single cause, "inflation and overspending" isn't even on the shortlist. If we're oversimplifying, it was more akin to the opposite of the sentiment that you're shooting for here: the decline of Rome was due to the erosion of centralized authority, which increased factionalism and caused the elites to at best become apathetic to the plight of the empire and at worst actively pursue its destruction for their own gain, leaving Rome ripe for disruption from without. A blockchain wouldn't have saved Rome.
Last time I used Garage Band, it had a traditional notation / sheet music view.

There's software I use (Reason) that doesn't have this, and piano roll or even things like Digital Performer's direct midi event list editor are one variety of really effective tools, but in my experience, anytime you end up working on a piece that might eventually need collaboration, lacks of notation will end up being a stone in your shoe.
Yeah, the article really places the blame squarely on individual bad choices due to declining mental health from covid and other bad news things. I find it plainly absurd that thousands of additional car wrecks are due to people feeling sad about America’s covid response and foreign policy. The only really plausible evidence for this is additional drunk driving due to mental health, but that doesn’t explain most wrecks.

Maybe people just started driving the actual design speed of the road when they were empty during covid. Like the speed limit is 40 but people feel comfortable going. 60 because American roads are wide, straight, and unobstructed. Then a pedestrian steps out in front of them and their 3 ton pickup crushes them. The problem isn’t like internalized trauma, its the fact that American traffic engineers design for vehicle throughout and speed and nothing else.
There are a couple movies/TV shows that were unobtainable via Netflix DVDs, and which seem unstreamable. Some very old DVDs float around at high prices.

Examples are: Exit to Eden, The Others, and Baccano!

How does this happen? Why do rights holders want movies killed?
I don’t fully understand the relevance of that paragraph, but launchd and systemd both work this way, both for similar reasons

I do believe that launchd came first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2565780
This is the problem with getting people to understand that ChatGPT can't actually think: a lot of people also don't actually think as a matter of habit.
Super Mario World is earlier than Mario 64, not later.
The killer use case has existed from day 1: remove the middleman. That is banks, or goverments. That's it. There's literally nothing else to it.
Speculating on its value, while possible, has nothing to do with its purpose.
Bitcoin is far too slow and far too energy intensive to ever pose a real threat to a centralized system. I do think there is truth in that the future of currency is decentralized though!
The competing solutions were offered only by other bloated MIC corporations with similar habits of feeding from the government pork barrel.

I've been on both sides of this tendering process, and it's absurd how horrifically inefficient it makes things. Small, agile, and capable vendors are literally excluded from the process and can't even begin to meet the criteria for acceptance. But... that's the point. It's not about cost-efficiency or product quality, but about keeping a few well-connected companies happy.

Try to look at things from the perspective of someone like Elon Musk, or a leader you admire from any FAANG or successful modern company.

Now tell them with a straight face that you're going to keep using computer hardware from the 1990s for 20+ years without an upgrade because... the paperwork is too hard.

You'd be laughed at, and then booted from the organisation for gross incompetence.

In the military, that's normal way things are done.

Imagine running Facebook, Google, or Amazon on 20 year old hardware. Picture that for a second.

Or if you want space-rated flight hardware, imagine SpaceX using something from the 1990s for Falcon 9 rockets because of red-tape.

You're rationalising nonsense. You're trying to tell me that it's good and proper that America and its allies are going to war with planes that have flight hardware that is equivalent to what I wear on my wrist to tell me the time, but uses 100,000x the power, takes up 500x the volume, and costs 1,000x as much.
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> Are memecoins a scam? I would say they're more like a massively multiplayer form of gambling.

They're practically indistinguishable from penny-stock scams, and they almost always involve a bunch of outright lies in their promotional materials; the only reason you can argue that many buyers aren't deceived is because lying is so rampant and expected in that space that people take it as given that the claims are going to be lies, which is hardly an argument that it's a healthy activity.

> Even beyond that, there's a lot happening in crypto that most certainly isn't scams. You have stablecoins and payment rails like USDC, stores of value like Bitcoin, smart contract chains like Ethereum, decentralized finance applications like permissionless exchanges and lending markets, social applications like farcaster, decentralized AI, and gaming.

All of which still fails to add up to anything actually working and useful, 15 years in. The best cases people can come up with are sympathetic criminals like people evading capital controls. What minimal practical use of cryptocurrency there was is already in a clear decline; fewer and fewer stores are accepting it for payment, the few efforts at interesting crypto games have already collapsed...

> Like most technological experiments most will fail. But if that was the criteria for "scam" then the entire startup sector is also wall-to-wall scams.

There's a big difference between "most" and "all". The startup sector as a whole has enough successes to balance out the failures and end up as positive ROI (and even then, a lot of startups really are scams - just not all of them).
A big reason for not updating avionics to more secure versions is price. Anything that is qualified to fly is very expensive.
And swimming
my place in Tahoe is in California but the power comes from the Nevada grid. It costs 14c, so 3x (!!!) less. It’s pretty rural and tree dense :)
This is ridiculous. Set aside the (incredibly optimistic, to be charitable) thinking that is going into the acceleration of these probes. The astronavigation itself is hugely questionable, especially with probes that aren't big enough to hold the kinds of equipment necessary to detect bodies that would perturb the trajectory, let alone make adjustments after encountering these.

I don't think people realize how mind-bogglingly, incomprehensibly HUGE space is. It's BIG. Like think of the biggest thing you can comprehend, and it's not even the size of an atom in comparison to even "short" distances in space.
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Hawala networks don’t have ETFs.
I hadn't heard of the word either but I sure do have the condition! I was a triathlete at one point, but I would take a very large swing around the marker buoys just in case one might touch me... and the grandparents comment of "big spooky tubes" sent a surge of adrenaline through my body. I feel so seen:)
It'd be fucking weird if they were decreasingly sophisticated.
Yes, but...the analogy I like to use is to imagine that we are tiny creatures living in a hole in a vast sheet of ice. Our hole is ~1 au in diameter, Proxima Centauri is 270k au away. So if the hole is 1cm wide the next hole is ~2.7km away. That's a long way for a microbe to walk, but it's not outside the realm of possbility if the ice is very, very flat and it can make tiny ice skates such that you don't need to spend energy to maintain speed.

Of course, the real problem with the analogy is that the fastest you can go 1 cm in this universe is about 8 minutes. So the absolute shortest time it takes you to travel that 2.7km is 4.2 years. That's a few hundred cm per year. But in reality the best we could possibly do is a few tens of cm per year (e.g. c/10), and even that's in the realm of science fiction.

On the bright side, humanity has the Solar system all to itself with wonderful natural barriers to invasion and conquest. So we have time to figure out how to not blow ourselves up and/or stop dismantling our life support system to make Ikea furniture.