skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
North Korea test flew the Hwangson-15 ICBM for the first time in January 2017, which has demonstrated the capability to put a few hundred kilograms essentially anywhere in the lower 48 United States. So the only possible question about North Korea's ability to hit any point in the lower 48 with a nuke is whether their devices are that small. And the main point of the famed "Disco Ball of Death" picture [1] is that North Korea almost certainly has nuclear weapons that can fit into that size range. So, North Korea, everyone loves to laugh at how backwards they are, but they almost certainly have the ability to put nuclear weapons anywhere into the continental United States- New York, Miami, everywhere. (Also France, the UK, and basically everywhere but parts of South America and the Caribbean.) Because of their conventional inferiority, North Korea has talked openly about how their doctrine is to preempt US and ROK attacks by launching their missiles first- they do not appear to believe that they have a guaranteed second strike between their small size and conventional military problems. The result is that the North Koreans seem to have a number of nuclear weapons and are convinced that their missiles have a large use-it-or-lose-it vulnerability, which is a very unstable situation. (2)

China, which has decades more experience with nuclear weapons, missiles, and a much larger and more vibrant economy, is talking about fancy things like FOBS and atmospheric maneuvering reentry vehicles (to guarantee defeat of the US ABM system in Alaska) while at the same time seem to be increasing their missile deployments(3). They don't seem to have a doctrine of 'go nuclear at the first opportunity' like the North Koreans do, and do seem to believe that they can have a guaranteed second strike, which at least brings us back to conventional MAD territory. But that's still pretty scary, we're back to 1964 again.

War involving the US with either country would be a very unpleasant day indeed for all of humanity.

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/21/470976577/...

2: As Jeffery Lewis, Arms Control Wonk, likes to point out, South Korea's doctrine also appears to be a preemptive first strike, because the only way they can foresee protecting Seoul- in artillery range of the DMZ- is to wipe out North Korea's command authority first. So North and South Korea are both committed to a doctrine of striking the other first. They can't both be right about that.

3: https://fas.org/publication/china-is-building-a-second-nucle...
Here is the obligatory "Chat with Pandoc" - GPT

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YX1CmSAA9-franz-enzenhofer-pando...

installs pandoc and then you can interact with it via chat interface.

sad that to PDF conversion does not work, as it would need pdflatex and I can't find a simple downloadable version (amd 64 linux) anywhere on the internet. If you have one on hand, please link it. I willl upload it, too. then PDF conversion will work.
I like this!

I guess the obvious missing features would be:

- Tailored to personal preferences in terms of language/country, topic, sentiment (eg. positive things happening in the world)
- Summary with the top X news of the day (in 1 line per entry)
- Links to source articles

And bonus points: detect and show fake news circulating on the internet
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to record a macro that joins a single paragraph together

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to then replay that macro <N> times
A Record $6T in Cash on the Sidelines
Are you suggesting Edison would have invented everything he did if he wasn't allowed to get rich? You chose an extremely funny example if that's what you're trying to say.

Edison was famous for caring about money more than other inventors. One of his most famous quotes was “Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.” The guy helped found some of the largest companies of his era and died as one of the richest men in the world.
Show HN: Enterprise-Grade Groundhog API
API for North America's predicting groundhogs at: https://groundhog-day.com/api

Example queries:

- Get all groundhogs: https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/groundhogs

- Get all predictions for 1 groundhog: https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/groundhogs/lucy-the-lobster

- Get all predictions for a year: https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/predictions?year=2024

This year’s models are still only capable of a binary result but I am looking into Groundhog Day Custom Assistants which may eventually be launched on the Groundhog Day Store for all manner of predictive needs. Big tech has been ~sleeping on~ hibernating on Groundhog assistants which is why I believe this is the moment to dig deep and make some bold predictions.

If you need an on-prem installation, I can accommodate that as well.
Yup. If it was possible to run it offline, then the recall would sound very traditional. Which is to say it’s unsafe to drive, it has be recalled until it is fixed. How the fix is implemented seems irrelevant.
Same here for physical "ideas"/ecommerce stuff. By constantly "failing", I've gotten very efficient at knowing whether an idea or product is worth attempting.

I will say there is a certain charm to being ignorant that I've seen bring people success (including myself). I've attempted ambitious SEO projects when I was less experienced and succeeded, and looking back in hindsight they were pretty crazy given the success odds.
As a fan of arcades, Vegas is better than most other cities.

The one rhythm place has all the Bemani stuff that I like and I can spend a day getting Drum Mania out of my system.

Then the other one has a 2 screen Darius, Bishi Bashi Champ and other goodies and then PHoF has me covered for the rest.

Maintaining old arcade machines is a pain in the ass and CRT (especially those that can sync down to 15Hz) days are numbered. 25 more years and you won't find any classic cabinets anywhere if I'm honest.
I'd like to have the option to show "remaining" mines. I've played https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ enough in "countdown mode" (i.e. where the numbers are the number of hidden mines) that I can't adjust to this....
I didn't say "ban the idea". I said "ban the ambition to control the lives of others".

The best counter to these jumped-up mini-Mao's is to spread the power far and wide; to have lots of little decision-makers rather than a few grand ones; to have those little decision-makers make tons of small but important decisions every day, rather than trusting everything to one election every few years.
It was ever thus, and probably not the fastest in history either. For instance, the wealth of the British empire, and by extension that of the Royal Family, grew at a rate far higher than what is presently seen. Earlier empires controlled even greater portions of the total wealth.
Philip Rosedale Reviews the Vision Pro
Interesting - tried it but it did not like me using decorators.
Yes. An attacker who is prepared to spend the same amount of money as all other network players earn combined can do various attacks.

The goal of the "halve every 4 years, plus transaction fees" model is to make sure the above is never possible for an attacker.
We should make a wealth shot clock. Nobody is allowed to hold an asset for more than a few seconds.
As someone who also makes these kinds of things all the time (sometimes it works, most of the time it does not) — let me just thank you for the "fake productivity" angle you highlighted. I am right in the middle of one of those, pushing the launch further out, yet again, and reading your article made that crisp and clear (in my case: changing from SQlite back to MySQL, from JWT via Auth Header to JWT via Cookies, etc.).

I also wanted to mention that clearly knowing the hypothesis to test for at the very beginning isn't all that easy, in my opinion. A lot of the time, you need to walk down the path, even walk it for a good long while, until you hit the right angle or context to truly see where the project could land. You (hopefully) start these things with a "good enough" reason, but it often needs a lot of shaping and refining to get it all back into the light, for a wider audience.

Curiosity in learning new things will (should) always be a good part of what fuels the effort, it's a safety net (for me as a developer anyway), shielding me a bit from ending up with purely wasted time once it's clear that it didn't lead anywhere. At least I learned something new along the way.
Productive wealth is a good thing. It's what made our current society possible. Unproductive wealth is the real devil, the hoarding of inelastic goods like land, gold, and oil.

I strongly prefer a society which permits the existence of Jeff Bezos over one which does not. Of course, more strongly than that, I prefer a society which taxes inelastic goods and negative externalities and returns that wealth to the public over one which does not.
I have never owned bitcoin but I suppose those who mine also have their happiness increased if they earn bitcoin by mining.

I don't believe in the concept of a "humanity". There are humans.
You mean Youth Services?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/12/the-at-...

Here's the problem with that. A few years ago the FBI announced that they had liberated 42 children from sex trafficking. What they neglected to mention: "the professionals who look after children" had lost ALL 42 children in 4 days.

Which of course means that in about 4 days every last of those children decided anything was better than "the professionals who look after children", and had run away. The idiots among those children who ran away to their home were ... well, idiots (for a child, that's a crime, ironically called "depriving a child of parental rights", yes, running away FROM youth services TO parents is called that). In other words they got arrested, and put in juvenile detention.

(this is a crime also somewhat famous because the police, on a regular basis, refuses orders from a judge to arrest)

The real change is elsewhere: in 1970, having child allowance for 3 children was essentially a living wage. In 1980s, it was over 5. Today ... 15? We effectively had professionals who look after children (almost exclusively mothers), paid but not employed by the state. Today we seem to have lots of professionals who don't seem to do half of what those mothers do, but spend more on them. We exchanged child allowance for a huge expansion of government. It didn't work, to put it mildly.

Of course, these days such a policy would tilt greatly towards immigrants, and it's probably a non-starter especially with Trump's numbers where they sadly are.

And the joke is: look at the population pyramid. Even if we decided to reinstitute that policy and it actually got fertility back up to 3 ... it's too late. I don't know how we're going to keep population, even in the US, at the level it currently is. In Europe ... "will the last person please turn out the lights?". Ironically China is actually the country arguably worst off. Hell, in 20 years we'll need a version of youth services that actually breeds children or something.

Of course, nobody is arguing that this needs to start happening, well, 20 years ago. "Too many people" you hear everywhere. But look at the numbers: there's WAY too few people.
I always wonder, what would happen if all objects of desire that come from systematic manufactured want suddenly become borring
> except that the demand for cooling a house is location and time sensitive

Not if someone paid me to do it. That's the point. If there was money in hauling ACs around the US and running them on the cheapest electricity the local market could provide, we'd have exactly the same false economy.

(Besides: the GP points out that Bitcoin appears to be sufficiently profitable on NYC electricity prices, which are not cheap. They also appear to be sufficiently profitable on "retiring coal plant" prices[1], which undermines any kind of unique incentivization of renewals argument.)

[1]: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2023/12/05/c...
Would you say that bitcoin mining is good for the environment?
Think of the environmental impact when creating 10M bottles of shampoo, the absolute mess when pouring it down the drain and the resulting plastic waste.
Energy is fungible anyway, so if it comes from renewables that means that renewable energy can no longer go towards other applications. The pollution is simply outsourced to other non-renewable applications
I had a Boinc instance on my home computer, I never understood why there weren’t/aren’t more opportunities to donate cpu time…
No, that's not my point. My point is that just because it's a terminal text gui, doesn't automatically make it a good expert system. It just has the look of one.
It’s not erasing scientists or history. The article notes that some birds are just named after benefactors or friends or whatever the namer-of-the-bird at the time was. Things that are inherently untreated to the bird species itself.

The move isn’t about rejecting our white supremacist history - it’s about giving things names that are informative and meaningful with regard to the bird itself. The article explains this pretty well with several examples.

The white supremacy angle comes from the consideration that a bird that was known very well across indigenous generations as one name was decidedly named something like “John Smith’s Warbler” because John Smith “discovered” the bird and that’s what has been codefied. Meanwhile native knowledge of the same species was deliberately wiped from history by way of forced assimilation and genocide. The white supremacy bit being that whatever the predominately white folks learned or knew of a species superseded what the people who’d lived there for generations had known about the species.
Your response highlights the exact thing I'm talking about, as it ascribes motives to me that are totally foreign to me, and takes the tone that flagging an article means that I think I want to "ensure nobody can discuss it."

I could respond to some of your other sentences, but you've exactly proven my point, so thank you.
If you mean the net worth of money, which is zero, yes it is fixed. For one person to have a dollar, another needs to be in debt.

Also, for one person to make profit, they need to spend more than they earn, which inherently means the rest of the economy is in debt. Now you might say the profit will be spent, but then it isn't profit anymore.

Oh and if you want to talk about the real economy, entropy always rises, so no free lunch there either. When the economy grows, all that happens is that the human domain expands and humanity exerts more authority over the processes that occur within its domain. This by definition results in a loss of agency of the non human domain.
The existing financial system uses roughly double what bitcoin does.
Proof of work is converted into proof of stake trivially all the time. You stake by buying lots of mining hardware and power. The more you spend (the richer you are) the more you gain. The work part is just a wasteful, unnecessary step.

It's even worse, because with $1k I can barely afford one miner locally. With $1M, I can afford to buy many (and better ones) and put them in an efficient location with a custom energy plan, etc. This means the actual PoS has linear gain, but PoW is closer to exponential. (The more you have the better the RoI % you can afford for yourself)
> 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".

Do you actually have a line? We can't make a law out of people saying "you know what i mean".
For now it's just promises from a failing giant, no?
What makes you think they will suddenly be able to innovate after decade long stagnation and being beaten by AMD and NVidia? It's not like you can change company culture with simple "but now we will try". Firing most of the management and substituting them with engineers would be a first step. Until then they will fall even further behind imo.
I question the math here... I suspect that miners are secretly using more effective hardware than exists on the open market, and therefore they probably get more hashes out of fewer watts.
Well compare that to Spotify which can only show videos full screen in one orientation and needs to be force stopped constantly because podcasts block a lot.

Also, I never encountered the problem you complain about.
I didn't know about that, thank you, and yes exactly. The difference between normal use and spam is so marked that any system of charges could be set such that no normal user was ever even aware of them.

And to be clear I'm not talking 'normal' as in 'median' I'm talking 'human using their thumbs'. Even if you spend all day every day hunting down craigslist bargains and coordinating swaps
This looks really cool! It's interesting that this compiler provides performance optimizations by looking for data diffs rather than diffs in the Virtual DOM. Is this intended to be an alternative to React Forget (still in development)?
As a long time, happy, paid user of Plex, this makes me worry that they're going to continue to make it a worse experience...
Is the existence of Bitcoin limiting BOINC? Did it limit its progress?
Unless you’re looking for Haskell nerds, in which case you should prioritize Comic Sans.
The fact that someone thinks its a good thing for them does not make it a good thing for society
We're not talking about the US judicial system here.

And your statement is nonsense, murdering someone is illegal whether it's proven or not.
I would want to make sure their purchase were taxed at a high enough rate to replace that gasoline with renewable energy, on top of the usual sales taxes. If that were the case, I would tell them to go for it, as their purchase would be a net benefit to society.

If the energy used by bitcoin mining is irreplaceable, that just means we're not taxing it enough to replace it properly with renewables. The solution is simple, just tax industrial energy use so that it's not underpriced relative to the externalities it creates. Spend that tax revenue on bulking up the grid with renewables. Then let people buy however much they want and do whatever they want with it, at the right price.
Do you mean the ratepayer?
Pinball is a community sport.

Most cities have at least one pinball bar with a weekly tournament. The same sorts of people go every week, and there are always beginners joining. If you're in a new place and need some social exposure, look for a pinball bar.

I've met people at pinball tournaments who have found the confidence to move because they knew they'd meet new friends at the pinball tournament in wherever they're moving to.
Just one note on using the incremental BLOB I/O API that you might want to consider (if you're not aware of it, I wasn't, found it unintuitive) is that blobs larger than page size are stored in linked lists of pages, and there is no true random access; accessing a large blob at a large offset touches all database pages til that offset.
I remember in university, our computers in the rec center had restrictions like this. Our email could be opened via web, I would email myself a link to search engine, open email, right click and open in the same frame. At that point you could go anywhere you could find a search result for. Good times.
I did the exact opposite when I had my son.

There were so many books saying do this, don't do that. Everyone had words of wisdom for me, like "children love routine" and so on.

Much advice seemed self serving to me, and much of it was contradictory.

I decided to ignore all advice, read nothing, and just find our own way. Seems to be fine. My kid is happy, doing well and we aren't beating ourselves up over whether we're "doing it right".
> This implies that only egg-based pasta can be made at home, which is not the case.

If there are eggs then weigh the eggs, etc.

Programmers!
The entire thing is just sad. Entire generations of people whose lives are so intimately defined by the corporate grind that they lose meaning when it is taken away. Imagine having the time, money and health to be with your loved ones, pursue your passions, travel the world, or really set any goal you want for the remaining decades of your life, but feeling empty because there are no meetings on your calendar, no OKRs to hit and no bosses to answer to. I have no doubt that such people exist in great numbers, especially in America, but it's about time we start to treat it not as an aspiration but rather a disease to be treated.
Look at each valuable item that you use often, now look up the salary of the leader of the company that made it.

Edit: You wouldn't have that item without that compensation. This should be more traumatic than people make it out to be. You wouldn't have your iphones, twitters, facebooks, vr goggles, steams, ikea tables, etc.
left+right click reveal works for me (linux + chrome 120). Middle click also does the same as left+right click.
Trying to decode LEV-1
You mean OpenOffice? Because it's not quite the same thing. It can cause some differences in appearance for docx (though that doesn't mean much, since M$FT Word also doesn't display their own doc format consistently either).
OpenBSD System-Call Pinning
It's the Economist. You should be exploited, or be exploiting someone until either you, or they die..
But even in your family hypothetical, the overall inequality is still much less than between billionaires and the middle-class (nothing said of the truly destitute).

> Or worse still, the super-rich will realise that they can spend many times the wealth cap per year consumable/disposable items (so long as they stay under the cap, or get back there by year-end), and become more wasteful. "Might as well spend a few million on a private jet, if I don't, I'll hit the wealth cap!".

This is a very interesting point! I'd worry less about rich folks spending to be below the cap (that money re-enters the economy), but rather evasion by sending money back and forth between a small set. Clearly evasion would need to be monitored.
Maybe I'm not so smart.. but why would USD stable coins command a premium over USD itself?

I totally get why the official exchange rate is probably bogus, but I would expect the black market rate to be the same for USD/USDT/USDC
The point of bitcoin is, that you would need to burn the same amount of energy to fake the blockchain.

Im not saying this is good, but its the way it works...
They do. Death stranding only works on the newest iphone. You're free to buy a non functional app but it happens as for ipad only.
I don't buy this argument (just like the point you are responding to is mostly wrong too). Yes it won't consume more and more but it won't consume less and less either. Miners are n't going to mine a loss it will always be SUM(rewards + fees). The network has to be secured or bitcoin loses all perceived value. Difficulty will have to creep upwards as technology improves. The question is will there be a way to mine more difficult problems using less power. That is the only way bitcoin power usages stops growing (slowly).
The best memories
No preemption makes this an organizer more than an RTOS.
> Furthermore, such initialization is thread safe so that one initialization happens despite multiple concurrent calls of the function.

IIRC, there are some popular compilers in which initialization of static variables inside functions is not thread safe (even though AFAIK the C++ standard said they should be).
Which is what they do with lock picks, no?
I mean the value leeches are also present.
Why buy from any of these sketchy Chinese platforms? I wouldn't feel safe giving them any of my credit/debit card information, let alone being installed on one of my devices.
Does scraping ever cause an app to stop working?
"Reality has a surprising amount of detail"
Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach
This doesn't bypass the lock screen...
I heard it was a bit of a compromise since the Germans were used to PR, but felt it had shown weaknesses in the Weimar period, but the US and UK preferred the familiar to them single winner district system.