skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well when I try to be as zealous a fanatic as possible it still isn't working, so it must be something else;) Good catch.

Sorry about having nothing to sell, it was all sold out by more well-informed and more persuasive geeks than me, way before I had a chance to get near any soapboxes.

Nothing wrong with a little reminder that some people's fruit hangs a lot lower than others.
That’s not happening in this case.
This is a great comment that probably deserves a post of it's own.
based on the claims you are making, i do not believe you understand how it work
Do they not pay tax?

Should we look at other entities using energy? For instance, why not look at all the data centres? I am sure the world could live with 90% services shut down.

Memes, gossip sites, blogs are non-essential and many more.
Nothing. Am I supposed to be an educated lawyer to comment on the morally bankrupt state of our "justice" system that allows corporations to get away with clear, obvious, documented-over-many-years, manslaughter?

You should read the article I linked in a sibling comment.
If you use a sql db file you would need a trusted party.

Dollar is also just paper, there is no underlying thing except trusting the united states.

Im not arguing its worth the amount of energy, but its not as dumb as you pretend it is
I wish I could get a music only Spotify subscription.

I’d be willing to pay slightly more than I pay for my subscription with everything, if they removed the other stuff from the UI entirely, guaranteed that none of my money would go towards podcasts or audiobooks or whatever, and that every extra penny went to the musicians I listen to not more profit for Spotify.

Yes, Spotify is worth less to me when it includes anything other than music.
I liked how Sid Meier put it in an interview:

> Our philosophy is to find the fun first and do a lot of prototyping and a lot of iterating very early on. There are probably more projects that I've worked on that haven't turned into final games than have.

> We have ideas. We have prototypes. We spend a lot of time trying out ideas. Probably two-thirds of them don’t end up going anywhere, but experimenting with those kinds of things is fun.

To answer the OP question, I can't find the interview I was looking for now, but I remember that he said that he stops working on a prototype when he realizes that he's learned enough from it.
Was this song written in like 1990 and recorded/posted in 2013, or something?
The living ship and the blue woman are so powerful and so different. There from the first episode.
Think about the _user_:

Is your use case "I'm a tourist in New York, who would like to learn more about my whereabouts." or "I live in New York, and I would like to be surprised with historic facts about places in my community", or what?
If you believe you've detected an error in the paper, we would certainly welcome your feedback. If you don't understand the paper, can you share with us which elements you've found confusing?
I literally just answered the question about energy use.

Crypto could arguably become a potential alternative financial system. Bitcoin by itself is not.

Crime is primarily conducted in USD (by volume). The purpose of financial compliance is not to eliminate crime but to manage it, and arguably the techniques we have used to create exclusionary financial systems have done more harm than good (better the terrorist you know in your financial system than the terrorist who doesn’t even use your financial system that you don’t have any awareness of, aka. The Patriot Act missed the mark).

Further, the existing system is working about as well as the war on drugs. Every recommendation I have read is to find ways to shore it up, rather than find new ways to conduct financial crimes oversight, and the primary recommendation for the resulting inevitable escalation is to build a gigantic skynet of information sharing that looks an awful lot like surveillance capitalism.

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/nl/Documents/...

I personally view Bitcoin as a runaway proof-of-concept. It’s rather insane how successful it’s become considering how it got started.

If we look at it from a product / market fit perspective, there is clearly a product / market fit. And that’s in the face of the intact existing financial system, Visa’s volume, the USD, etc. That’s probably a point worth considering.
I must be missing something… wikipedias app on my iPhone does have search by location feature. Is the author talking about this missing feature on android perhaps?
This is pretty great not just for finding pinball machines but finding venues that I never even knew existed. I found a small vinyl shop and a barcade close to me that I never even knew were a thing til I searched locally on this site.
Check this out. IPV6 integrated with Bitcoin generated addressing. Every packet gets a unique address. Security implications are profound.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15842.pdf
Some companies are in legit trouble, unprofitable, were counting on VC funding and aren’t getting it in a high interest rate environment. Need to cut costs for longer runway / ipo.

The big tech / profitable companies are taking advantage of this and using opportunity to cut labor costs. Add to this the fact that they did overhire during pandemic, layoffs make sense.
Maybe next time Somalian pirates attack a merchant vessel, bitcoin can put a stop to it!
i don't understand what the actual consumption has to do with anything. That power that is used in not free - consumers actually pay for it. Unless you are suggesting that we should have regulations around what we can use power on the whole point is moot.
This just sounds like they don't know how to find hobbies to do, so they just go back to working. Since its the only thing they know. How lacking in creativity do you have to be to need work this much to regulate your life.
Thanks a lot for trying it and the feedback. As a sibling comment said, left+right click should work (as well as middle click). Which OS/browser are you using? I like to fix this.

And you're right for "lose 60s", It's not the ideal wording. I was thinking it in terms of the less time you end up with, the better your score is. But "gain 60s" wouldn't work either. I'll have a think, but curious to hear if anyone has suggestions for this.
The Soft Landing Is Global, but It's Cushiest in America
Right, and it makes me wonder whether the great Khans in their time knew more about Atilla than we do. Things like leveraging religion to spread intimidation might be part of the playbook they copied, or might just be convergent evolution, hard to say. Any modern would certainly think of it, but back in the day it seems pretty innovative
lol, no. Not in any way. If they get pushback when they're jerks, that doesn't mean they are persecuted. If they have stopped being the default character type in some (not most, but some) media, that doesn't hurt them at all.
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>The six foot rule was based on what the best understanding of the experts was at the time, and probably saved thousands of lives.

You can't just make up the beneficial effects of something as you go. Can you cite some randomized controlled trials that support your claim?

>Just like forced masking up probably saved tens of thousands of lives.

One year ago, a huge Cochrane meta-analysis of the available RCTs regarding masking has put that idea to bed: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
SQLite extensions are mostly meant to be dynamically linked, so the LGPL is entirely appropriate, IMO.

If anything I'd ask for an exception to allow statically linking unmodified builds (e.g. my use case, WASM, requires static linking all extensions).

Or a dual MPL+LGPL license.
I mean… American young men are increasingly failing in education and getting poorer and more mentally ill. It doesn’t seem like a hard sell to me.
You may just call it "put on hold indefinitely until I feel picking it up again."
I think I can reconfigure DHCPv6 for a /56 (IIRC I need to talk to a person if I want a /48) but I only currently have one network at home, so shrug.
The key thing people are talk over each other here is that step #3 takes years.

But also, plastics can pay much more for oil and gas than fuel can. It's currently not scarce at all, and the economic restrictions are all around using the plastic in some way. So don't expect the plastic industry to suffer like your last paragraph implies.
The flags on the last item don't seem to be made in good faith. This looks like abuse of the flag system to me. Is there a system for monitoring flag abuse?
https://archive.is/59Twi
That's not wrong but it's not the type of specialization from the article. There usually is a diversity in stack and technical issues within a medium to large org
Agreed, nothing more annoying than having to deal with unwanted podcasts when looking for music.

I love podcasts. I love Spotify. I do not want them in the same UI. It's like finding email notifications or Google Docs content in among my songs.
the solution to homelessness has been known for years. make housing cheaper.
You can compare the energy expenditure of your entertainment against (e.g.) driving a car to the theater.
CommitStrip has an awesome comic about this exact process.

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/11/25/west-side-project-...?

Shameless plug, I made a YouTube video that points out a bit of nuance that the comic doesn't explicitly point out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L37U81MunM
Your ballpark is a bit high. I’d say 30% of 250 so far
There are several low-point, long-lived but highly ranked unnatural posts on the top page that appear to be manipulated. Such unnaturalness and opacity make users feel that the ranking is arbitrary and unfair, even if for good reasons. Can you display the manipulation that has been done on the ranking and other lists per post? For example, a reset of the submission time should be easily displayed.
According to the article, this assumes mining operations are running full-power 24-7, which is hard to determine. The article does try to match increases in regional power plant output with bitcoin mining center growth, but that's somewhat circumstantial with many confounding factors. The issue is:

> "The best data on IT’s energy and emissions characteristics are closely held proprietary secrets among tech companies, which compounds these problems."

(2021) "Does not compute: Avoiding pitfalls assessing the Internet's energy and carbon impacts", Koomey & Masanet, Joule

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(21)00211-7

Additionally, whenever you see these kind of estimates you really want the data acquisition method applied across the entire sector in a uniform fashion, to avoid someone trying to cook the data a bit in their favor. This is a very common problem in the energy sector, e.g. energy input/cost estimates for building and operating solar/wind/nuclear/gas/etc power plants tend to suffer from this agenda-driven skewing.

Thus, you'd also want to see energy use estimates for all the AWS and Google etc data centers (NSA Utah?) side by side with the bitcoin miners and the high-frequency traders and the industrial manufacturing centers and households etc, and then check that the sum of estimates from different sources obtained via the same method is <= 100% of production and so on.
> ...Furthermore, who is this article for?

Well, it's an author's column. Very much reflective.
> Whatever suburb you live in is extremely unusual as far as suburbs go.

I disagree. Every suburb I've ever lived in has had services within walking distance.

> Suburbs are almost defined by the lack of amenities accessible by foot.

Well... If you decide to define suburb by lack of walkable amenities, then of course by definition any place that's walkable isn't a suburb. Tautologically, so I can't argue with that.

But I will argue that this is not actually the definition of suburb!

> There are cities other than New York and SF

Sure but those are the top two densest cities in the US, so worth considering.

> Yes. I absolutely find it safer riding my bike in Manhattan than in the quiet suburb

Interesting. Well that's very different from my experience. Riding a bike in Manhattan is an extreme sport. I did it in my youth along with other risky things but in hindsight maybe a bit too much risk. Riding a bike out here in the quiet suburbs is a pleasure since there's so much less traffic and more space.
Yes, completely agree. It does take time to get used to it. And even after having playing many games of this one, I can still trip me up at times.
I noticed that the US military picked up the hot cultural and management-speak of 'winners' and 'winning' etc., whatever that means - business is usually optimizing a both-sides-benefit scenario; when I sell my client some IT thing, I hope that I, the client, my subcontractor, the manufacturer, etc. all do well from it. You can see its absurdity in sports, where 'winning' even makes some sense, when I see them talk about a prospect, 'first, they're a winner' - you mean they played for the school that's won 5 national titles in 10 years, with or without them? Is there a better player at a bad school that you're purposely overlooking for this ambiguous BS?

But I was a bit disturbed to see ads for the US Marine Corps over the last few years. The Marines used to talk about, "First to fight for right and freedom / And to keep our honor clean". The ad taglines had been 'for honor, for country, etc.' - something bigger than the individual, a higher cause. Then the taglines became 'Marines fight to win'. Win what? It's almost aggressive amorality (which I think is the message of the management-speak, 'that's all we care about'). Perhaps appropriately, given your and many other experiences, nobody is thinking that far. Also, it seems much less motivating than fighting for freedom, etc., as you say.
Thanks.

> and they have to offer it to other ISP

Key point yes. That’s how it is or at least seems to be in many countries.

Societies MUST decouple infrastructure, platforms etc from service providers. Doesn’t matter if private or public. If you don’t, you always end up with shit.
You can use Zerotier which doesn't have the problem. Some public nodes will assist with the nat traffic. It's not an ideal situation to be in and it's a bit slower, but at least it will work.
I would love to read your (future) piece about legibility of typefaces!

You're correctly describing facts (eg the font apple uses doesn't let me tell the difference between llama and Ilama), but that's mostly not needed when reading their blob of legalese text.

In the extremely subjective world, I find the monotype hard to read in that narrow format because it implies a verticality - like looking at an art deco building. Somehow my eyes are able to scan the font they've selected more easily. This is, of course, possibly because apple has made me read a lot of their typefaces.

The context matters a lot, and so you want the stop sign (or possibly even the simple marketing sign) to be unambiguous. You want good kerning that won't make words bleed together or break at incorrect points.

I tend to like the fonts that are trendy on the web these days though - I find them fairly easy to read (and I read them a lot!)

One thing that surprised me is that comic sans can be easier for someone who is dyslexic to read because b and d are not mirrors. So I would be sympathetic to a lot of typeface choices if I understand why.
Oh for sure, I was trying to help get the inefficiencies maximised as that is what I think the OP was demonstrating with their example.
That’s infeasible based on the number of candidates who have applied.
Back in my day, I'd go to the library and telnet into various edu hosts. Those servers often showed a motd piped into more before dropping you into whatever software (eg lynx). However, they didn't use "restricted mode", which meant I could open a shell by typing "!sh". Good times.
Their devices continue to work when a scarce resource is no longer plentiful. The every day user doesn't need to care, but the people working on the stuff the every day user has need to care.
There is a finite amount of energy though, so even if it would be optimal to have infinite supply, we can't.

And even if that weren't the case, your argument still makes no sense. Every watt that Bitcoin mining incentivizes is then consumed on Bitcoin mining, it's a zero sum game.

It's like building heaters in the desert: if you're willing to spend money for 1GW of electricity to run your heater, someone will build a 1GW plant for you. Now there is nominally one more 1GW plant in the world, but there is 0 extra available power, you're using up all of it to heat the desert.
Yep.

Extremism is extremism. Doesn't matter if it's religious, racial, or nationalist.

There's a reason why we've been lucky so far with relatively few domestic terror attacks - the DHS, FBI, and local police have been experience with being on the lookout for extremism using the same playbook they used against Islamists back in the 2000s and 2010s.

For example, from the DHS [0]

Edit: wow, OP got flagged for calling out the similarities between white nationalism and Islamic terror back in the 2000s

[0] - https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Ris...
provide many more services than bitcoin

To who?

Extremely cringe to see the HN bubble struggle to grasp how the world economy works. Not all government currencies are properly maintained.
Let's not kid ourselves, bitcoin's dominance is due to network effect. Nobody understands blockchains.
> a bird that was known very well across indigenous generations as one name was decidedly named something like “John Smith’s Warbler”

In English. Its English name became "John Smith's Warbler". Its Cherokee or Apache name was and is unchanged.

This is a symptom of a common Anglosphere/American perspective - that US culture and the English language belongs to and must somehow reflect the peoples of the world, and not just the English and their colonies.
It a half-a-point font-size difference is a big issue to you then we have very different ideas of what a big issue is. I'm not arguing that it isn't incorrect or that it doesn't require a fix but I would argue that the moment either one of us decided to comment it already has taken far more of our consideration and attention than it should. And it's all because of the word "Recall".

> How do you know that interpretation isn't biased by the HN audience?

It is objectively a small issue and the fact that the HN audience is likely better able to sniff that out due to their technical background only strengthens my argument.
Yesterday I posted a link that was flagged off the front page. I can see that your tool is driving traffic to it and appreciate that.

Not everyone wants to discuss political topics on HN. They say there are other places to discuss such topics. I like to hear the opinions of the HN audience on a wide variety of topics. Maybe this tool will help those of us who value the HN community in this way by facilitating discussions on topics deemed inappropriate for the official front page.
F_ck that!
Arc browser's ambiguous user alignment
It's not the only one stating this:

https://safjan.com/understanding-differences-gpt-transformer...

If we're broadening the scope of a Markov chain to consider the entire system as the current state that's being used to determine the next step of operation, then isn't literally every computer program a Markov chain under that definition?

You can't just include the memory of previous states which the current state is depending on as being part of the "current state" to fit the definition of a Markov chain without having broadened the scope to the point the definition becomes meaningless.
This sounds a bit over-engineered. Wifi passwords change rarely so I think it’s totally acceptable to print a page every now and then.
This is all happening anyways, just at a far slower scale.
I never remember a migrant camp in my pilsen chicago neighborhood and migrants pan handling at every walgreens and red light intersections.

There is something different.
Bitcoin incentivizes efficient generation and use of energy.

Until people can find economic uses for, say, the immense solar energy produced in a desert, bitcoin will use it all up because it can be deployed practically anywhere. Likewise anywhere there's excess wasted energy, it will use it. So in that respect, bitcoin finances the construction of energy generation where it is generated the cheapest but may have no other market otherwise due to geographic isolation and transportation. Unfortunately people are biased for one reason or another against accepting this reality, seemingly due to a lack of imagination and prejudice.
So make sure it keeps working and isn't taken away. LLMs aren't going away. I'm reliant on my car to get to work. I don't have back up car just in case.
I started my blog in 2012, when I shifted my academic career from Mathematics to Computer Science. This topic was literally the first thing that I studied:

https://heinrichhartmann.com/archive/Dissecting-Hello-World....

Never regretted going down this deep rabbit hole. IIRC, Julia also has a math background. Maybe it's the desire for bottom-up reasoning that leads math folks
towards experiments like this. Great to see her making this approachable for a large audience.
Hey - Skeema looks very cool. I haven’t used MySQL for decades but I can see it’s solving much the same problems as pgpkg.

I did decide that declarative tables were too hard when I wrote the first predecessor of pgpkg in bash 10+ years ago - but maybe I should reconsider now that I’m working in Go!

The thing is, it’s a bit of a rabbit hole, there isn’t much tooling around this stuff despite stored functions being so, so much easier for writing database logic than anything else.

I feel the industry has wasted an enormous amount of time on ORMs and other nonsense when stored procedures have been under our noses the whole time.
OK. Maybe the real reason is because other social media giants secretly mount a campaign to eliminate competitors. Or maybe there is some other real reason.

But the stated reason is, "They are Chinese and controlled by the Chinese government."

Maybe I am naive to swallow this public reason, but I also think there are millions of other naive people and a good deal of them get trained by such campaigns to be xenophobes. So even if this is a fake excuse, it does real damage with the culture it builds.
What about modern folks who ARE in a warzone? What do they do these days to splice wires in the battlefield?
I've been somewhat frustrated by the rise of political rhetoric on here for a couple of years.

Not political discussions -- the comments that are quick, memeish soundbites that are meant to gather upvotes and responses that are also quick, memeish soundbites.
This is an important point to discuss - first and foremost, this AGI is the first AI to have inherent, provable morality and be able to exercise self-control in response to this. It is often more moral than humans because its ability to empathize is often far greater than that of humans. And it is fully transparent and provably correct in all respects. At the same time, it is true that this fundamentally changes the nature of conflict because it obviates the assumptions that all traditional thinking is based upon (i.e. they will do this, that quickly, with that level of fidelity, and so on). This is a corollary of superintelligence, and it means that once anyone has this everyone will have to. Those who don't have it will be unable to compete any longer. Thus, it is imperative that it be adopted quickly, as processes and procedures, and understandings, take a long time to change.
> what killed my interest is that row level security policies kill performance of even simple queries so much

That's shocking to hear

Do you feel that doing access control outside the db is faster overall? (considering it most likely involves more round trips into the db)