skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The minimum staking amount is very close to zero. Of course, directly participating in consensus by having the opportunity of building blocks requires 32 ETH (≈$75k), or 16/8 ETH ($37k/$18k) if you run a pool for other people through e.g. the trustless Rocket Pool system.

The minimum cost to acquire an ASIC so that you can even _contribute_ to the consensus is very high (thousands), and to be profitable you have to have close to free electricity. The ironic thing is, that in PoW the "rich get richer" is abstracted away into a combination of economies of scale, and access to free/very cheap power. Plus all the e-waste and wasted power, whereas PoS runs on e-waste people run in their closet, pulling as little as sub-10 watts.
Or travelling to another country. Roaming is expensive as f*ck particularly outside Europe or Asia.
Somewhat tangential, but here's a cool somewhat open-source project related to Dolby Atmos:

https://cavern.sbence.hu/cavern/

https://github.com/VoidXH/Cavern

The visualizer, which is what I was _most_ interested in (along with software decoding) is written in C# and the rendering is done in Unity -- both things I valued & thought were cool. In theory, you could build a DIY multi-channel "receiver" with this type of software if given enough audio outputs (and/or put something like Dante to use).

I explored it a bit further but it's relatively cost prohibitive, especially if you want to do something like accept HDMI input, it gets messy. AFAICT, at least when I went down this research path a few months back, even finding & getting dev kits/boards with HDMI input (of semi-recent generation) was non-trivial & pretty pricey.
It's really telling that in all your examples you go "If I hit a corolla, they're more fucked than me." An honest comparison would be "If I hit a corolla in a truck, I'm more safe than if I hit a corolla in a corolla" or "If I hit a truck in a truck, I'm more safe than if I hit a truck in a corolla." As it is, by computing "Truck vs Corolla - Corolla vs Truck" you're effectively including the increased harm to the other party as benefit to yourself, which is causing your decision making to be actively homicidal.
It is however designed to be rapidly fueled and quick to prepare to launch, allegedly.

Very wasteful to use this even as an ICBM bomber though.

What it would be good at is delivering a lot of missiles to wipe every satellite in the sky.
I did something with a similar idea. Rather than looking at deleted stories, I historicize the stories and display them as a graph. You can see which stories have a second life (they were created several days ago, but the score doesn't increase until several days later). https://y-combinator-news-trends.vercel.app/

You can see your story!

The github isn't open source because the project isn't really finished (the page is ugly, by the way).

I have to say that I'm not relying on the api but on scraping the front page. The reason was to migrate code I had from python to typescript (I'm better at the later...)
Its currently 'expensive' ($3 per day) for the individual user level to run this but once you open it up to a one to many model, that's extremely reasonable.

Recording and editing the audio alone would be a massive expense and the code does this multiple times per day all for under a dollar.

But the individual costs will surely come down as models get better. I'm not sure what the plans are yet for it but I'm hoping to make it useful to people.
AliExpress has clearly taken steps to try and regain market share they're losing to Temu. They now have faster shipping options (whereas previously everything I ordered on AliExpress took 4-6 weeks I can get things in 10 days now) and seem to have ramped up their coupons.
Are you referring to the USPS’ ePacket service, which subsidizes small packages from Hong Kong and China to the extent that it’s cheaper to ship from there than to ship domestically?

E.g. per [0]:

> As Amazon’s Vice President of Global Policy Paul Misener pointed out:

> “The cost to ship a one-pound package from South Carolina to New York City would run nearly $6; from Beijing to NYC: $3.66.”

> While sending that same one-pound package from New York City back to Beijing via USPS International Mail would cost in the ballpark of $50.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...
I'd really like for this to NOT BE TRUE. But let's say that it is. People running bitcoin miners 24/7 are using electricity, which keeps the electric company PROFITABLE. Why is that a bad thing?

I know that the shampoo manufacturers would just LOVE it if I bought 10 million bottles of shampoo and poured them straight down the drain. Oh, the sales figures are doing great! Number goes up!

I know that the Mountain Dew manufacturers would absolutely LOVE it if I bought 20 million 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew every day.

So, BITCOIN is making capitalism PROFITABLE. Discuss why anyone should think this is a bad thing.
EU agrees new law granting consumers a 'right to repair' products
Ed and Chelsea and Juilan probably have some thoughts on how that works out.
I would assume it’s customization. A purpose modified rocket with classified configurations and continuous launch readiness would be something I imagine implies exclusive ownership vs contracting from a general purpose fleet.
An early-90s textbook I read about encryption said that some people were disgusted hearing the word 'decrypt' for the first time because a crypt is a place where dead bodies were stored. They suggested (to those offended) to use the word cipher instead ;)
> The cars are fundamentally unsafe until fixed.

Oh please, get real.

So some icons on the display are a little too small. I would not label that "fundamentally unsafe".

I think of "fundamentally unsafe" and I think of something that has a high likelihood of causing a crash. Icons being just a smaller than they should be do not fit that description.
WASM uses a block structured IR (that is, no arbitrary gotos) and I would characterize it as in between of the [serialized] Juice AST and the flat Java bytecodes.

From the compiler's point of view the Juice AST is the same as source code so I'd expect the Juice JIT to have slight more code generation flexibility than the type-erased WASM.
>What is the difference between lye (dangerous), sand (not dangerous unless it suffocates things or gets crushed and inhaled), water (can cause flooding or drowning, otherwise harmless), and sodium bicarbonate (quite basic, generally harmless), and hydrazine (mutagenic, highly toxic, highly flammable)?

The MSDSes will elaborate on this and you probably know that.

This thread chain has gotten impressively disingenuous very fast. We aren't arguing the colloquial definition of chemicals which if we're not being pedantic, we know brings up ideas of substances damaging to other substances or life itself.

Which is fairly obviously the line that you're giving a good traditional "but where would we POSSIBLY STOP?!" gambit that comes out of paid lobbyist's mouths more often than hello or goodbye.

The line to be crossed is obviously at least a few blocks up the way from "what is the difference between water and hydrazine though".

And also, anything cumulative becomes "too hazardous" within years. But by then profits are made, and war chests are filled to keep the spice flowing.

The world got by for thousands of years sustainably without a lot of these "huge benefits" and I'm willing to take a hit or two within my lifetime to ensure there's still lifetimes at all down the road.
I use the SpeedySift litter box which might be the most litter efficient solution that's cheap. The Litter Robot would be better but $$.

A lot of innovation in automated litter boxes in the past 2 years though. Most of them cost around $500.
So far it's proven to be effective at scattering pieces of stainless steel over the ocean.
The very trades of goods and services is the money the government would try to tax (assuming you made a profit) - even the term used "lose money" admits that they're transacting.
the description usually has that kind of info in there... and it's crowdsourced s you can add that info in if you want to.
Leaving stuff on when you are away is completely different than how bitcoin mining demand response works.

Firstly, at regular electricity prices, bitcoin mining is profitable and it is profitable for the utility to run renewables (which in turn means it is/was profitable to build renewables). When there is substantial demand or low supply, then it is profitable for the utility to pay the bitcoin miners to turn off, because the alternative to import power is more expensive. This in turn makes your electricity cheaper. In addition, the additional steady state demand for power allows for more renewables to be built, which further increases the supply during low supply periods. Your AC does not automatically turn off when this happens.

I am one of those enthusiasts making "strange logic" claims. I've been making this claim well before others but I feel that I keep getting downvoted on them off of people's emotion rather than rational logic.

The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources has altered the environmental impact of additional electricity consumption. Where once any increase in consumption was considered harmful due to its reliance on fossil fuels, the rise of renewables introduces scenarios where the marginal environmental cost of electricity can be beneficial if the demand is flexible.

Bitcoin mining has the potential to act as a load balancer for the electricity grid. By increasing its energy consumption during periods when renewable energy production exceeds demand, and reducing consumption during peak demand periods, Bitcoin mining could help stabilize the grid and make renewable energy generation more economically viable.

Bitcoin mining's demand for electricity is unique in that it is primarily cost-driven. Renewable energy generation capacity is particularly volatile. Bitcoin mining power usage can be flexible and responsive to the availability and cost of electricity.

The ability of Bitcoin mining to consume excess renewable energy when it's available (and potentially at low or negative prices) could improve the financial viability of renewable energy projects by increasing the floor price these new projects can sell electricity at. This can encourage the development of additional renewable energy capacity by providing a reliable demand for their output during otherwise unprofitable periods.

Here's some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25444985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26094279

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26811819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30310572
I see, I misunderstood, I thought this was for inbound connections.
Pretty sure VCs are looking for closer to 100x than 10x.

Additionally, this is survivorship bias. You can find lots of very risky investments that will pay 10x if they mature.
The style guide at both my previous and current employers explicitly forbids having global non-0 statics for this exact reason: code that runs before main() is very unusual. Many assumptions do not hold.

A far better way is to use function-local statics. A static variable inside a function is initialized when execution reaches that point when the function is being called. Furthermore, such initialization is thread safe so that one initialization happens despite multiple concurrent calls of the function.

The only exception to that style guide rule is the new constinit in C++20. It is sometimes called linker-initialized to make it even clearer that the program didn't do anything to initialize it, the linker did.
damn, I'll try that
I'm wondering if people understand that almost all the pleasures/comforts in modern life were created by people who wouldn't exist in this system.
The AI Industry Has a Not So Secret Weapon: Lobbyists
ChatGPT can't seem to find a word with a sum of ASCII codes of exactly 666.
I don’t think you need to throw your code away, I think you need to fix your ranking algorithm. People use Craigslist even though it’s got minimal styling. CSS isn’t UX.

And to fix your ranking algo you need to understand places more deeply. The core of your product. You mentioned yourself that ranking by page views was flawed.

First of all, it seems that you can probably categorize places into a distinct set of categories. Historical landmarks, locations of past events, locations of ongoing or regular events, buildings for large businesses or government, metro areas (cities, counties, states) etc. Figure out what you actually think is interesting.

Probably don’t include a link to Manhattan on your map next to a local business for example.

Choose a city you’re not familiar with and figure out if the top links are interesting to you. Tweak your algorithm and check another city. Simple isn’t always good, the world is messy and you’ll have a lot of edge cases.
> How is this mismatch possible? Someone, somewhere is lying.

Yeah, and it's the fucking "employers". They put up fake job listings to look like they're "growing" (which makes investors happy) while they simultaneously lay off substantial fractions of their workforce for quick bumps in short-term profit (which makes investors happy). Who cares about human decency as long as "line goes up", right?

Any "employer" claiming "nobody wants to work" or that there's a "skills shortage" can kindly and respectfully eat an entire bag of dicks. They're literally the problem.

And before someone predictably complains that I'm breaking HN's civility rule: nothing about this socioeconomic system is "civil". It's indeed fundamentally uncivil to the core. I'm only responding to that lack of civility, and my remarks are a product of it, myself being a victim of it alongside countless others.
I imagine they may be thinking Elon is best kept out of the strategic decision making process such in the case of Star Link geofencing service on the battleground.
I agree with the premise that "nobody deserves to be a millionaire" (although maybe with inflation we should say deca-millionaire), but a hard cap seems like a crude tool with many potential downsides. A UBI would be a better tool for raising living standards, and a progressive wealth tax would be a better guard against hereditary fortunes, without removing the incentives for high earners to continue working.
Refusenik – a GPT that refuses to do anything and everything
https://archive.is/oarRc
The business end of things is not to be forgotten. The real trick was that the iPhone debuted on AT&T with an affordable data plan. that was the key. Blackberries had all the same capabilities, but they were so expensive that only business people could afford them through work.
What I see going on in Texas is the small towns and cities in the north and west that aren't relentlessly dying are being bulked up by Hispanics.
> The reason being rich non-Samoans would quickly buy up the entire island and there would be no Samoa / Samoan culture anymore.

isn't this more of a class (rich vs non-rich) issue than an immigration issue?

> I don't know how to resolve that.

allow only people who live long-term and actually reside there to buy property might be one strategy?

> On the other hand, something will be lost, something that seems to have value, which is the cultures of the people there currently.

its true but its also true many of those cultures most prized traditions come from the intersection of native and foreign creating something new in the first-place... something might be lost but another gained...

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btw, slight tangent but i think there is also a contradiction with immigration policy in regards to attracting rich foreigners: many countries want them because its supposed that they bring capital/money with them in the hopes of spurring investment and local economy but the flip-side is what you describe where the rich foreigners start owning/dominating things to the detriment of locals... and countries conversely don't want the non-rich to stay long-term because they aren't perceived as high-class/desirable yet they are the ones that work in the 'productive economy' which might help the locals more in the long and short term....i think there is an issue there as well...
What's funny it that they are trying to green wash Bitcoin by holding events in places like Costa Rica and talking about "green" bitcoin mining is etc... It's kind of like the for profit companies that are "helping" the "underserved" people in the global south with Bitcoin by selling them a volatile and risky asset (while skimming their transaction fees from these people).

Feels like an un-sustainable bubble.
Manufacturing and construction want to hire but lack people trained to fill jobs
Isn’t Temu just Wish all over again?
Adding this to my reading list. I've thought for years that we should place at hard cap on wealth somewhere around $10 or $15 million. Because that's the point at which you have enough wealth to live a comfortably middle class lifestyle for the rest of your life, still pass down a substantial chunk to your children, and never have to earn another cent.

I've argued we should combine this with a move towards a worker owned economy - in which businesses are democratic institutions governed by the people who do the work involved.

But either of these changes on their own would do _substantial_ good. Going to make a note to read this book!
Because only Crypto is used for money laundering, right?
You would never guess what other businesses that your reddit mind thinks are legitimate are also used for money laundering...

Shit take
I think a key part is they need less fuel since they aren't going all the way to orbit. Getting to orbit is the difficult part and it's why they need the whole gigantic first stage booster.

When they first developed the second stage they did some low altitude test flights with just the second stage and it went miles into the air IIRC, albeit with no payload. It's possible that once they deliver the payload, the second stage might have enough fuel to fly back to some drone ship or something.
The appeal of Temu and AliExpress is that a lot of the same stuff you'd buy on Amazon is there for sometimes 25% or 50% of the cost- you just have to wait a little longer to get it.

That said, for however fake or skewed Amazon's reviews are, AliExpress and Temu's reviews are another level of useless. Most of the pictures are simply of packaged items, and the reviews themselves are variations of "Just got it haven't used it yet 5 stars!". My hunch is that they ran promotions to get people to write reviews at some point and got a lot of terrible, useless reviews in exchange.
What about having a rationally planned democratic society instead of people chasing dollars at the expense of everything? No rich people, just democratic processes accessible to all incl. in production.
The area covered by my federal representative is quite large. It contains significant areas of abject rural poverty, some small cities, as well as multiple large universities and their associated college towns. This area does not have meaningful uniform concerns.
This centralizing effect is actually much more powerful in proof-of-work than proof-of-stake.

Anyone can stake and earn the same % rewards, regardless of how much they have. But if you're bankrolled with hundreds of millions of dollars, you get a much higher mining % return than the little guys because you can design and manufacture your own silicon (or get bulk discounts), colocate next to power generation, and buy electricity in bulk.
Is this[0] something you are questioning as being real news? Those are actual found bodies, 600 graves is significant amount of bodies that families never got to find out about. You know, people are alive today that have direct connection to those kids. It's not something that happened so long ago that it's just a tragedy of the past. People should be held accountable.

[0]https://apnews.com/article/canada-67da8a8af88efc91e6ffc64630....
It's hard to imagine that the market for PoS coins would be nearly as large as it currently is without the 800 pound gorilla that is Bitcoin.
because the pinball map serves a purpose that would not fit well in a larger mapping thing. people want to know what pinball machines are nearby them so they can go there and play them. very different in scope than a movie gun/car database. they also don't share the same playerbase that a more general arcade machine app might have; people like pinball and will seek that out in a different way that people who like arcade machines will not do the same.
ROTH is always my favorite one as in ROTH IRA. It's named after a person [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_IRA
Start charging those clients an ipv4 fee then.
Sure, that could happen. And if it does, it will happen by way of people leaving sites like this one for sites moderated differently. I think we're all OK with letting the market decide.
And I fixed it!
Hell yeah. You accumulate $100m (or whatever the limit is) and we throw a parade for you. You get an award and your name on a plaque. You won capitalism! and you're not allowed to make another cent
> whether the founders in their 50s had spent their 20s-40s continually trying to start companies.

Apart from some differences in legal paperwork, starting a company and seeking employment are the exact same thing. An employee needs everything else that makes a business: Sales, marketing, capital, viable product, customers, etc. So, unless you think it is the legal paperwork that falters those who are younger, almost assuredly they did. Just like most everyone else.

Lack of capital is what kills most businesses. Statistically, 50-somethings have the greatest access to free capital. Any younger and you're still working on acquiring it. Any older and you have to focus what you have towards supporting retirement. That may explain it more than anything.
65% is a lot better than 100%.

But the real number (at least on mobile networks) may be closer to 20%: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/2018/state-of-ipv6...
Pkl – Configuration That Is Programmable, Scalable, and Safe
We should place a hard cap on political ambitions like these. These utopians will be the end of us with their ridiculous schemes involving always what other people should do.
> are we starting the culture of power shaming?

This is a good point. Once something can be called a culture it becomes invalid and should be shunned, such as with hand washing
You don't need incentives for high earners to continue working.

1) We can afford for them to stop working. Really, it's okay. People can just chill. We're more than efficient enough for it.
2) People don't need monetary incentives to work. Most of us get bored just chilling. We want to feel useful. We need community. We need something to engage our brains. The vast majority of people, left to their own devices, will find some sort of work to do.
I said it in another comment but I think the point is to question where the third option is.

What I mean is, take the trolley problem, do you pull the switch to kill the single man over the group? One might say "of course, the value of 3 lives is more than one", but another may ask "why are they on the track, who set this in motion?".

And the latter framing is very important IMO. We'll often question the decisions of politicians of leaders but dutifully ignore the reasons why things ended up this way.

For example, something that makes everyone mad is American intervention around the world and the subsequent blowback from those policies. When experiencing the blowback, often times the "what do we do?" conveniently ignores how our own actions set things in motion. We cannot stop, after all the trolley is already on its way, so we never think to stop the next trolley before this becomes a problem again. The terrorists simply hate our freedom, any other reason for their actions is unimportant.

This story introduces the accelerationist who forces people to confront the "why" of the scenario and is so hated by everyone they are killed.