skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really what it comes down to.

I really didn't mind bitcoin before the price exploded, it was a curiosity and interesting experiment.

Since then, it has been used to transfer a lot of wealth using outright fraud, cons, and other criminal means.

I get paid a lot of money (fiat) to program digital payment systems, and have spent time understanding the underlying technology, as well as a holding a degree in economics. I get what crypto is and how it works, and I won't go near it.

Bitcoin isn't inherently dangerous, but the way that the crypto ecosystem convinces people to gamble on a zero sum game they don't understand is absolutely dangerous. For every bitcoin millionaire, there's someone that pumped real dollars into the system. Very real harms have, and continue, to be caused by bitcoin and crypto.
I guess the idea here is not that they're lighting the batteries on fire and capturing the heat to spin turbines, but that it's buffering renewables to provide a steady baseload?
Nvidia's fat margins are a worrying sign of its market power
They launched with one with a built-in disc drive and one without. For their mid-cycle refresh they changed it to a single model with a disc drive add-on but sell a SKU that includes the drive in the box.
You can also print dollar bills, and they will have no value either.
No, and yes. Systemd is needed to put linux under the thumbs of glowies. The people defending it are paid by your tax dollars
Google Maps will give EV drivers real-time battery range info,starting with Ford
This is amazing but I'm guessing it won't be long before Nintendo takes it down.
Blackrock's BTC ETF is .12% for the first year, SPY (The largest ETF) is .09%

You know, if all the BTC haters actually knew what they were talking about we could have intelligent discussions on HN.
I agree with the idealistic sentiment, but disagree with most of the points made in this post and if I had a product or business I wanted people to use, I'd absolutely have it on a store (disclaimer, I now work for Google Play, but base this on my previous experience at a retail startup).

1. Organic app store traffic is non-zero, particularly in markets with less tech-savvy users. People do search app stores for apps to solve problems they have. Also it's a marketing channel (like any other performance marketing channel) that you can bid on and spread marketing across, more channels typically means lower business risk.

2. Yes there are horror stories, but apart from the HEY story (which comes with a dose of DHH caveats), many policies are things like needing a privacy policy, or needing account deletion functionality. If you can't meet these sorts of requirements for an app store I think there's often a deeper problem for users (although I recognise this is not always the case, legitimate issues do slip through cracks in my non-Google experience).

3. This is web idealism. I agree in principle, but the world doesn't work this way.

4. I don't think the sort of modern, good PWA is what Apple envisioned when they said "don't repackage your website". If an average user can't tell the difference, Apple won't care. And that statement from the MS open source project does not appear to be from a user with any actual association with MS or the project, it's a random GitHub comment.

5. App stores are more convenient, anyone making this claim is either being dishonest, or has no idea of the average level of technical ability of a mobile user.

6. This is a legitimate point and a blog post structured around this as the main point would be a much stronger argument.

7. Cool. But why not both?

8. Sure it's more work but like anything, it needs trading-off with the business opportunity of being on an app store.

9. ChatGPT is on the App Store and has been very successful there. Wordle famously got cloned by a number of app store devs who made a ton of money before getting called out for it.

10. Advert.
A general principle of backup systems: if you didn't test it this month, it's broken.
Well, to make his analogy more rigourous, because his 200 km is laughably too small.

Moon: 238,900 miles --> 1.3 cm or 0.00 km

(This defines the scale as 0.0000054416073670992 cm / mile.)

Voyager 2: 12,000,000,000 miles --> 65,299.0 cm or 0.65 km

Proxima: 25,000,000,000,000 miles --> 136,040,184.2 cm or 1,360.40 km
Bitcoin exists to solve the principal-agent problem that comes with delegating control of the money supply to singular institutions.

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. This unilateral currency debasement is much harder if the collective (and global) definition of money is determined by distributed networks of computers.

Maybe Bitcoin itself isn't the final form, but the fact that distributed systems and cryptography tech is out there means the cat is out of the bag.

Even if your view on the crypto industry is negative, it's important to take some time to understand why millions of people around the world are involved in it. It's not only because of the appeal of ponzi schemes.
On these sites the idea is that answers belong in the top-level answer posts where they can be voted up and down for the purpose of sorting the competing ideas and forms of responses to the primary question post. Criticisms should remain in the comments until they are integrated and addressed in the answers, at which point they are obsolete and can be removed. Therefore chats belong elsewhere, and are helpfully moved into chat rooms, which you can click through to and read if you're interested.
It's not interest rates or AI. It's companies trying to suppress and ultimately lower wages paid to software engineers. Unless workers quit companies that are doing multiple rounds of layoffs and working people to death, it's not going to get any better.
So you encounter a person who makes an informed decision about declining extraordinary and invasive medical treatment, and your solution is to paternalistically force that invasion onto his body, with a pretense of life extension?

Is this a good example of the philosophy of "My Body, My Choice" that should pervade health care today?
> Akamai has been monitoring NoaBot for the past 12 months in a honeypot that mimics real Linux devices to track various attacks circulating in the wild. To date, attacks have originated from 849 distinct IP addresses

This doesn't sound particularly new or concerning. Right?
I think the implication is 4 full filtrations per hour, not 4 air changes.

Air purifiers still sometimes call this "air changes" or sometimes "equivalent air changes" (e-AC/hr).
In what way? It would be an LLM on the phone, running locally
dang has nothing to do with it.
If you learn something new, then you probably have to start with an entry-level position.

The only way I know of sustaining your salary expectations is to demonstrate your ability to immediately deliver value at say 5+ times your recent salary. As they say you either make them money or save them money.
> Any 5+ year holding has been ridiculously profitable.

The more remarkable a short history the more likely it is not sustainable: Beanie babies, tulips, etc.

In a zero sum investment for every win there is a loss. Bitcoin however is highly negative sum. For every win there are far more losses. Who do you suppose pays hourly train loads of coal turned into CO2? How many years now?
About 120 meters.

Interstellar space is big.
Can you expand on this: Lack of RoI on US talent ?
I’m surprised that air purifiers without UV lamps seem to be the standard. If you’re going to buy something to clean the air, why not have the option to also kill bacteria/viruses/mold spores if any? Especially in houses like mine with kids spewing all kinds of contagion everywhere.
What exactly are you expecting? That a company will post a job opening and then tell the candidates "On second thought we've passed you all up for AI"?

That's never gonna happen.

As far as you seeing no indication, I saw a job posting today on Indeed for a Software QA and one of the bullet points included working with AI tools. So you may not see it anecdotally but it's out there.

Actually, ya know what. I went and tracked that job posting down https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/100347/senior-software-qual...

It's from Red Hat... So yeah... It's significant
Little surprised there isn't a prompt to upload the copy of the ROM we all legally dumped from our personalized copies of the cartridge.
> It must be more than a little annoying to feel very strongly that Bitcoin is pointless, but to also notice that it's still here. Year after year.
If that shoe were on my foot, in addition to being annoyed I'd be curious about what I was missing.

There are MLM’s that have been around for over 100 years. I feel strongly that they’re all complete scams, yet they live on. Maybe I’m closed minded for not joining Amway. But I think I’m just being sensible, tbh.
Why do you require both email and phone number?
> The functionality is key for socket-activated daemons which is a Big Idea behind systemd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd#Socket_activation_prot...
Great find! Seems to be a common issue with games, found the same issue with trying to auto play PICO-8 cartrages on web.
Many thanks for posting my article here <3
Haha well there goes everything I had planned for tonight
You could tell a rationalist wrote it from the title alone. No one else writes blog entries titled "Contra X".
Just a few Gb of ram and the feds can audit your state when their zeroday crashes your machine, what a deel.
Hardly "little details". They give a fairly broad explanation about the high level flaws in Wirecutter's analysis. The point they make about the issue of marketing speak "true HEPA" is a bit out of place and sort of irrelevant but it isn't even wrong.

> call into question the Wirecutter write-up

Nothing is being questioned, it is thoroughly debunked.
I wish they ported Proteus to the switch, I’d love to be able to play on that.
Using the moon for the farthest distance humans have traveled… Voyager has traveled 60,000 times further (14 billion miles).

1 cm x 60,000 = 600 meters

Which is less than 0.5% of the distance to Alpha Centauri (“200 km” in the analogy, 25 trillion miles in real units)

Edit: a neighboring comment pointed out that on this scale of distance to moon ~= 1 cm, the Alpha Centauri system is more like 1000 km away. So voyager is less than 0.1% of the way.
Keyboard may not work, but a controller did! Still, A for effort :)
Fair enough; I didn't go hunting around for my discs to check the order of "video" and "CD" in the moniker.

"Video-CD" was widely used in China long after DVDs came out, lasting almost until the HD era (when the Chinese attempted to introduce their own HD disc format that still used a red (insert "communist" wisecrack here) laser.

I always thought that those Chinese discs were CD-I, which failed miserably in... well, everywhere else. But in fact CD-I was a bastardization of Video CD that was incompatible, although it offered slightly higher (but still crappy) resolution. In the end, the format that prevailed all those years in the east was presumably Video-CD.

Oh yeah, I have a few examples of yet another obscure disc variation: the 8-inch LaserDisc. If I remember correctly, I have "I Want to Break Free" and "Radio Ga-Ga" by Queen, and "Salt in My Tears" by Martin Briley. The back sides of those are opaque white plastic.
Hell, if something doesn't make sense, ask it again for clarity. It does a reasonable job at that, but again, before you hand off a solution, make darn sure you understand it, because chances are high, whoever pitches a solution that sounds usable, is going to break ground and work it.
I've been rejected on the App Store, only to have a discussion over email with the reviewers and come to an understanding that with minimal work resulted in approval. I've read many instances of this. Those discussions require good faith, going in and assuming bad intent or gaslighting the other party with regards to their motivations will go nowhere.

From his public persona, I have little confidence that DHH can play the necessary part in those discussions, and therefore I assume that he gets worse overall outcomes and his experiences are therefore not representative or useful to most.
> Ideally I think app stores should allow listing PWAs directly, rather than banning them (like Apple) or forcing them to use a wrapper (like Google).

I think it’d be a bit of a challenge — in both ecosystems, corporate MDM and parental controls currently define policies to control app installation by store-specific metadata. You’d need equivalent PWA standards these OSes could grab ahold of, to determine which PWAs to allow installation of, or to surface in app discovery views in the store. (Probably it’s be something akin to the old https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Conten... system, but probably reworked now that we actually know what things people care about preventing their kids — or employees — from accessing online.)

Which in turn, to support the spirit of PWAs as a vendor-neutral “web thing” — means that the OSes would need to agree on what exactly the set of content rating controls are that they’re allowing administrators to define policies against. I.e. the stores would need a more-unified data model; perhaps even an externally standardized one.
Not far if I recall a few documentaries properly.

The kuiper belt is outside the solar system and then there is the shell of the Oort Cloud that Voyager won't pass through for ages. So it's been decades and we haven't even truly sent anything outside the solar system.

This is all assuming I remembered the terms correctly. Maybe someone who knows this field can comment. Point being getting to another star would take a lot of time :)
Well, I have no idea why a hypothetically omnipotent and benevolent god would allow bugs in my code to exist either. Unfortunately, not being omnipotent myself I have certain disadvantages in that regard.
you can be a product manager, project manager, product marketing manager, sales engineer, sales person, designer (if you are graphically inclined) and of course, you can be a front-end engineer or backend engineer but you need to spend a couple of months immersing yourself in it and get an entry level development job to get your skills up and rise up. none of the options will be handed on a silver platter and you've got to put in hard work and make it happen. See what most attracts you (it may be something off the list above of course) but go all in and do not accept defeat. become as best you can. It is a competitive world and you have to compete to earn. no skills? gain the skills. through working on yourself. good luck, you can do it!
depends on if it pales in comparison to the volcano vent heat output.
There are no lack of spending for schools and housing and infrastructure and welfare.

15% of federal spending is for defense, of which F-35 spending is part of.

To compare, 22% is for social security, 14% is for health, 10% is for medicare, 3% is for education. Note that this is federal, most of education spending is at state and local level.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
New and Improved Features in Mathematica 14.0
I’ve already taken steps in the last few years to reduce plastic use. Use a glass water pitcher filter system, use glass containers for leftovers, drink water/beverages from glass and not plastic, use reusable grocery bags, stopped buying clothes made with plastic, etc.

It didn’t take much, just learning there is plastic in my blood and water is enough. Sure, health effects are inconclusive for now. That doesn’t mean I want to eat plastic.

I already feel like plastic now is going to end up like cigarettes or lead.
I believe overscroll-behavior is better

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overscroll-...
A 10x engineer is an engineer who understands when not to over engineer. Martin Fowler cultists ain't it. It’s the dudes and dudettes that can have a chat about things without ceremony. You know, the people that built the stuff that facilitated the growth that financed the party that just ended. They are out there but have been pushed aside by those who cant work without a scrum master changing their nappies and cry for meetings at the first sign of blockage because they couldnt be bothered to read a line of code on their own, cant touch a database because they are not database developers, or cant manage a server because they dont do “devops”. In other words 10x engineers are not ABET types that behave as if they were operating an assembly line - they are the factory themselves.
And the question was how to get the their coworkers to stop giving copy/pasted ChatGPT technical answers from prompts written by nontechnical people, not how ChatGPT can do a better job.
Reality check … working at a company with hyper growth is of course fun, but also extreme rare in business.

Most companies in the world are a slow slug.

Tech got spoiled this past decade.

Now it’s time for reality to settle in.
> Baltic and Mediterranean, the cheapest properties on the board, correlate to historically ethnic neighborhoods (even in name), while the historically rich, white enclaves

Am I missing something? I just googled "baltic people" and I think some of these people are whiter than me..
"Maybe Bitcoin itself isn't the final form, but the fact that distributed systems and cryptography tech is out there means the cat is out of the bag."

The bitcoiner argument would be that only bitcoin has reached a level of decentralization to survive, and the powers that be stand ready to crush any would-be stronger substitutes before they reach critical mass.
You should be doing this regardless of where the suggestion comes from, just to make sure you all don't miss something obvious, this is literally what happens in troubleshooting / brainstorming sessions.
Do you rigorous budgeting to keep your costs that low?
I never argued otherwise. Especially since you clearly don't mind false negatives. ;-)
> I guess it doesn't matter as long as insurance pays out...

Pays out in what though?
The author attributes the rise in mental illness among teen girls to them "spending hours each day posting photos of themselves and scrolling through hundreds of carefully edited photos of other girls". As someone who was a teen girl suffering depression and extreme anxiety in the 2010s, the idea rings quite shallow. I can assure you I was not suicidal because ... other girls are pretty? what? ... but because of narcissistic controlling hyperreligious parents fucking me up mentally and withdrawing into a smaller and smaller fringe bubble, cutting me off from normal people and normal life. I think the main problem destroying people's mental health is social atomization/isolation/polarization/decay, and social media does have a role to play in that, but is not the problem in and of itself.
I go into the office twice a week to sit on Zoom calls with coworkers around the country. I'm the only one on my team that has to do so because of where I live.
I imagine they’d go back to using glass if the cost of using plastic were higher. Hopefully that ends up being the case, we’ll see.
Wow , oracle got away with a $23 mil fine whereas SAP is stuck with 220 mil ? https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-173
Basically, a non-malicious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
In most service oriented companies, the number of users and even revenue can experience growth, while the number of employees remains relatively constant. This only stops being true at hyper scale, where maintenance problems become more difficult, but even then the employee growth doesn't have to be proportional.

What I find objectionable is the constant focus on unbounded growth, and that that is somehow a signal of a healthy company. This is usually the case in VC funded companies, which is not the only way to build a business. It might be the quickest and easiest, but it creates an environment where wrong incentives can thrive.
The overbuild isn't free but the cost of (renewable) generation is so cheap compared to storage that it's most often cheaper to just build too much.
Based on other recent events, I would't be surprised if Valve somehow steps in and does it for them.
Apologies, I didn't realize it didn't allow for an invite, it's an open server: https://discord.com/invite/tfs2
This really depends on the rate at which air inside the house gets exchanged with air from the outside.

In my 2008 house, two air purifiers on low are sufficient to keep AQI at 0 and in the single digits during wildfires. They're rated for about 350 square feet each, while the house is about 1500 square feet.
DNSSEC does not add any protection for end users.
If you live in the US there is a good chance that was your phone company throttling Netflix and the app automatically switching to 480p to adjust to the reduced bandwidth. They probably do that more broadly now but when they first started it was only Netflix.
Why jump through hoops with this special systemd fd when you can just create a regular file somewhere and mmap that?
> It seems like inconsideracy on the road is at a high.

Could it be "Work From Home"?

A lot of what would be middle aged professionals probably now work from home. Pulling a big cohort of what insurance companies conssider to be quite safe drivers out of the traffic flow both decreases the absolute number of control rod-like safe drivers and increases the percentage of poor drivers on the road.

I'm sort of dead on in that cohort, and I make an absolute point to not be on the road during any traffic spike times.
I dunno, I went with their mattress recommendation (at least the one of three years ago, don't know what it is now) and lived it, it's the first mattress I've really liked since becoming an adult.
That’s beautiful, sometimes it can be impossible to beat the productivity of Old Software.
Companies need to give up on this whole "we own your time" thing. Work product should be all that matters. If an employee has two or three jobs, but is able to get their work done with the quality expected of them, that's all that should matter.

(Certainly there are exceptions; working for two competitors at the same time is not ok for hopefully obvious reasons.)
Can you give us examples of “clear expectations”?
Land Reclamation Is in the 9th Circle of Stagnation Hell
You wouldn't have such a capacity mothballed and forgotten for years, it would have to be maintained and tested regularly. There's a concept in energy market design that helps finance such standby operation called a "capacity market". The plant would sell emergency capacity and get paid for not emitting, just staying available. Failure to respond to an emergency cycle would presumably carry hefty contractual penalties, erasing all the previous revenue.

So this makes the battery and the gas plant compete in the market place, each with it's own economic strengths. The gas plant won't handle daily cycles since the emissions cost would kill it, but it can provide emergency power at a rate and for a duration that would make batteries monstrously capital expensive.

By slowly sliding up the emissions pricing, you will tradeoff the long term emissions versus the energy cost, and let the market efficiently allocate the resources until net zero, or near zero, becomes economically attainable.
The best way to develop GMO technologies is to regulate it after it injures millions of people. And that regulation is... declaring anyone who questions the science a terrorist.
Oh cool I had no clue.
Amok Syndrome
Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwabyeong
Studios like money and will produce what makes money. When that changes, they’ll slowly adapt. Slowly being the key word. People love their blockbusters, though, so that’s less likely to change.
No, none of my coworkers watch netflix movies at work. Its easier to do when remote.
Because reading StackExchange is how ChatGPT got good?