skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same mistake Lawrence Van Dough makes in Richie Rich. He assumes the massive vault must be full of gold bars and diamonds, the wealth of the family. But it's not. It's invested in banks and stocks etc. The money is not just sitting there, it's producing other activity in the economy.
'If Instagram didn't exist, it wouldn't have happened'
David Kahn, historian who cracked the code of cryptology, dies at 93
Just did this two weeks ago. I finally got an offer after 3 works of prototyping for free...no cash. I said "sorry, I need to be paid cash to work on this".

That was the end of that.
Pay your employees more, or be taxed near 100% on the excess gains?
The best interest rate policy is zero, which is the natural rate of interested in a floating exchange rate economy.

Fiscal policy is the only tool through which equity can be managed. Monetary policy is pointless.
Misconfigured MySQL database on site backend, nothing to do with your client.
In the mid term not all energy will be produced green. So more energy usage means more CO2.

Putting a fair price on CO2 would solve the problem for bitcoin (and many others).

That sadly will never happen, unless the world somehow gets a unified government (imo).
The name of 'Git' (the source control system) is literally a derogatory term. I think you overestimate the value or prevalence of decorum. you should also google the relationship between the number of uses of the word "fuck" in code comments with code quality. There's been several papers on it.

EDIT: Here: https://cme.h-its.org/exelixis/pubs/JanThesis.pdf
This of course is not the NORMAL perspective.
Not always. Sometimes you talk between different providers, or to private endpoints on other services. Or its simpler use IPv6 between two networks rather than keep a global list of ipv4 ranges to make sure they don't collide.
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Nunito is a great font, happy to see it getting love and attention. I use it on my personal website with pride.

“Super Nunito” put a smile on my face.
One use case for NAT is lambdas calling out of their VPC to the internet. Not everything is v6 friendly yet.

I'll try and deploy this. Our NAT costs aren't that high, but reducing spend is worth an hour or two. I might leave this as something for the new guy, just so we can see if he can do it without taking down the environment.
They’re heavy, awkward to move, and take up a lot of floor space. They’re loud and require ongoing maintenance.

They’re also a lot of fun! I really enjoy both playing and working on mine.
Completely agree. It's one of the most useful features unique to Google.
Back of the envelope calculation based on the needed size(1 million square miles) and the proposed cost of a pilot project(10-20 million USD for 100square feet) suggests a total price(~3e18 USD) 4 orders of magnitude more than world GDP(~1e14 USD).

Now to be fair, that's without factoring in economies of scale or anything, but we also have to factor in the fact that literally all of world GDP can't go into just one project.
Things for Apple Vision Pro
> In my mind, retirement isn't where I just stop working, it's more about being able to stop working any job that I don't like.

This is usually called financial independence, not retirement.
Communism fails because it’s just a different - and more difficult - kind of propaganda for politicians to make off with the loot.
https://hyperdbg.org and m1n1 (Apple Silicon) spring to mind as modern supervisor/hypervisor debuggers.

There's nothing modern I'm aware of that lets you press a key combination to get into a hypervisor debug UI like softICE was known for, though. It's all shifted to host-and-target debugging. You'd use a "normal" debugger on one machine (lldb/gdb, WinDbg, IDA, etc.) and either supervised host-to-target connection (network-to-kernel/hypervisor on x86, OCD like JTAG/SWD/CoreSight on embedded) or emulation (for pretty much everything but device driver development).
I just wrote about this in for my Substack "For Starters".

https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-14-when-do-w...

TLDR; If you're asking the question - you should probably stop. If you're still unsure, set some specific, short-term measures of success and stop immediately when you don't achieve them.
ah yes, it's a nasty one. I can't see an obvious way to progress without luck either.
Social media has - in my eyes - peaked and is in a continuous cycle of enshittification. Youtube, Tiktok, Reddit et al. are built on inducing compulsive behavior in people to feed their business models.

While Bitcoin arguably parasitises energy, social media parasitises human time and attention (which is a much scarcer resource), all while breaking down political institutions and societal cohesion and being a tool for foreign actors to manipulate people on never before seen scales. Social media is "move fast and break things" on a societal scale.

Bitcoin is at worst a speculative asset (no worse than most financial assets) at best a new monetary system in its infancy (unlikely but possible). It is clear to me which technology has more of a raison d'être.

I guess social media pays the salaries of most people on this forum, so the old adage "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" applies.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong. It's happened before. The future will show who is right.
I use Google API. Yes, I do cache Google results into a database. And build own index! (The index is independent of Google results)
Thats insane....1 would be enough for me lol
You made quite a few significant leaps there.
software manufacturing?
Surely Linux isos are among the least nefarious things to torrent ha
Yes.

This article gives an estimate of about 2% of all electricity usage going to bitcoin mining. All data centers in the country combine to a similar ballpark in energy usage (another comment states 1-3%). Finance accounts for 20% of US GDP, so we'll be charitable, round up its usage of datacenters to 50%, to get about 1% of electricity from financial data centers.

There are about 6.7 million employees in the financial sector [1]. Assume everyone has a computer with a 600W power supply at full bore for 12 hours a day [2]. That comes out to about 18 billion kWh of electricity a year, which is (checks math) 0.425% of US electricity consumption [3]. Sure, I'm not accounting for all the PoS systems at every retail location in the country, but they're going to use far less energy than even the overspecced numbers I'm using.

So overall, this comes out to about 1.5-2% of US electricity usage going to the financial sector, less than Bitcoin mining. Also remember that magically switching everything over to Bitcoin would still require all those PoS systems, not to mention large fractions of Wall Street and bank branches and whatnot, so this isn't really a fair comparison overall. And some amount of the financial sector includes cryptocurrency companies already.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag52.htm

[2] This basically comes out to a decently powerful computer being used at max spec for an 84 hour work week. A generous overestimate, I'd hope you agree.

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
Proof-of-Concept Multithreaded Python Without the GIL
Until this service offers an SLA with guaranteed uptime I'm going to have to pass and wait for Atlassian's offering.
I mean realistically that would be an improvement over many priest's homiletics.
Looks like good moderators sitting and managing
US launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria
Apple Vision Pro arrives in Apple Store locations across the U.S.
im referring to https://app.highlight.io
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Right, but lower trending demand would also put more power into the hands of OPEC to crater prices and prop up demand any time alternatives start to threaten oil's dominance. They're not going to go out without a fight to the end because those economies depend on oil. I'm sure it will go on long after I'm gone from this world.
No. Evidence and research regarding childcare is absolutely better than what parents "naturally know", and when there is clear and compelling evidence it should be taught. Furthermore the idea that we should shy away from the word 'taught' itself is nonsense. Consider the modern guidance that newborns should sleep on their back. Prior to the 90s people were told newborns should sleep on their stomach. When this guidance was reversed it resulted in a 50% reduction in SIDS[1]. As in other areas, science is a trustworthy and reliable means of improving our knowledge about parenting, and parents should approach their duty with humility to learn not over-confidence in their "instincts".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_to_Sleep
US starts 'emergency' checks on crypto$ power use, citing winter power demands
> I strongly prefer a society which permits the existence of Jeff Bezos over one which does not.

Can you expand? What did Bezos contribute to society?
> its usually just a notch above their own (well within their social class status).

I'm a tech worker in the public sector.

To be blunt: tax me more, please.
I thought Chicago was the pinball capital of the world, given every pinball manufacturer basically ever was based there.
It irritates to no end when US presidents are not only falsely attributed to government actions but falsely portrayed, even thinly, as masterminding those related plans. Over the course of news cycles it paints the picture of a superman not unlike the absurd hyperbole in descriptions of North Korea’s Dear Leader. In the US, I am not sure whether it can be attributed to laziness or to the calculus of the news establishment, but regardless it is poor journalism.
It just happens that the latter (and its American equivalents: Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Youtube, et al.) pays the salaries of many people here.
I don't have a problem with someone being a billionaire per se. Assuming, of course, the wealth was earned without worker exploitation.

However, I do take strong offense to politico-economic systems where the billionaire has more political power than a poor person. In the current system in almost every country, both individual super rich people and collectively the top 1-5% have enormously more political power than the remaining people. The system much be changed.
> But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change.

This is exactly why I don't really care how rich Elon, Gates, Bezos, Buffett are. If they have money, great... If they don't... oh well. Doesn't change my life. It's also the reason why you shouldn't care and why this book is likely a load of crock.
btw, i happened to notice that my karma was 666 (around the time of posting), that's why i googled the number and then posted about it, knowing that many numbers have interesting properties.

go figure (pun intended).
As someone who used to knit regularly, I see it the other way around. It was just something to keep my hands busy.
What age were you forced retiring? I'm highly concerned because as a millennial, retiring safely seems to be something that can be achieved at 65
> programming with wet noodles

Very balanced mature technical argument.
they offered me 12% which easily needed 1-2M dollar budget.
Never heard of this, sounds super cool! Gratz on the milestone!

Theoretically, could this be merged in the main React project or would this break something?
They did make up a sexual assault.
"A global billionaire tax could generate $250 billion annually" - https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/a-global...
Good story and analysis
At what point was labor communally owning industry in the Soviet Union or DPRK? Did Stalin or Kim ever ask a laborer for their opinion on how a factory should be run? Or give them a penny of the work they were doing?

The Soviet block and DPRK was exactly as close to socialism as it was to democracy: 100% in their propaganda, 0% in reality. Or would you say democracy doesn't work because the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a shit show country despite being "democratic"?
Sure, it's not arbitrary code execution, but it's certainly privilege escalation.
Per GPT4:

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The death of Jeffrey Epstein, a financier arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors, occurred on August 10, 2019, in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City. Epstein's death was ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York City Medical Examiner's office. However, the circumstances surrounding his death have led to widespread speculation and theories suggesting foul play or negligence. Here are the most pertinent facts, including those that have fueled skepticism about the official suicide ruling:

1. *High-profile Connections*: Epstein had connections to powerful figures internationally, including politicians, celebrities, and royalty. This raised questions about potential motives for wanting him silenced.

2. *Previous Suicide Attempt or Assault*: Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after being found injured in his cell in July 2019, weeks before his death. However, he was taken off suicide watch at the end of July, under circumstances that have been questioned.

3. *Violations of Jail Protocol*: On the night of his death, several standard jail protocols were reportedly violated. For example:
- Epstein's cellmate had been transferred, leaving him alone.
- Guards failed to check on him every 30 minutes, as required.
- Two guards who were supposed to monitor him fell asleep and later falsified records to cover up their negligence.

4. *Malfunctioning Surveillance Cameras*: It was reported that surveillance cameras in the area of Epstein's cell were not functioning properly at the time of his death, leading to a lack of video evidence.

5. *Autopsy Controversies*: The autopsy findings were a focal point of contention. Notably, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein's brother to observe the autopsy challenged the official suicide ruling, citing injuries that were more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicide.

6. *Expert Opinions*: Some medical experts have pointed to the broken hyoid bone in Epstein's neck as more typical in cases of strangulation than hanging, though it can occur in both.

7. *Inadequate Staffing and Facility Issues*: Reports highlighted that the MCC was suffering from staffing shortages and other logistical challenges, contributing to a failure in maintaining appropriate surveillance and safety measures.

8. *Legal and Financial Matters*: At the time of his death, Epstein was awaiting trial, and significant attention was on his vast wealth and the potential revelation of more individuals involved in his crimes. His death prevented any possibility of him testifying or cooperating with authorities.

These facts have led to a multitude of theories and calls for further investigation, with critics arguing that the negligence and irregularities point to a possible cover-up or failure to prevent Epstein's death, whether it was suicide or foul play. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI launched investigations into the circumstances of Epstein's death, reflecting the high level of public and official concern surrounding the case.
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The Thai Monarchy: Asia's Great Survivors
You people? I have 4! :P

They require enough maintenance that you'll need a back up ;)
Lol this kept me entertained for a bit. Found it a couple of weeks ago.

Hoping my number 1 ranking on Intermediate stays up a while.

I’ll need to see if I can crack that Expert high list.

Cheers
The good news is banks continuously print money to make sure that there's more than enough cash to go around.
There are modern debuggers around, it depends on what you're trying to do.

For example, x64dbg is a Windows program that can debug x86 and x64 Windows programs without any source code or debug symbols.

WinDbg lets you debug the Windows kernel even on a remote machine. If you use an emulator like VirtualBox, the remote machine can even be on the same physical computer. Useful if you're developing drivers.
> You wouldn't have your iphones, twitters, facebooks, vr googles, steams, ikea tables, etc.

God, don't threaten me with a good time.
Exciting and valuable work. Let’s hope it does become commercially viable in the near future.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
Or as I do it: "This is now part of my uber-mega-big catch-all project"

Which is the same thing really, but now my uber-mega-big catch all project has more junk to sift through when I do eventually get to revisiting that sector.
I agree with you, but I think what most people fail at is applying higher-order logic. Yes it is nice that private citizens have Jeff Bezos levels of wealth instead of monarchies or plutocrats, but at what cost? Most people are just unwilling to keep thinking about opportunity costs beyond the obvious.
Sir Martyn Poliakoff had these on "Periodic Videos" some years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXZscASelkc&t=165s
Dawless jams
Did they though? The article says that the final text mitigated "pretty much all" of the issues. What wasn't mitigated?
You are confusing deadlock with scheduling. Sure, deadlock can happen in the absence of "cooperation". And lack of on-time scheduling can happen in a cooperatively scheduled system in the absence of the appropriate cooperation.

But scheduling has been considered by most kernel designers to be the responsible of the kernel, not the participants (i.e. preemptively scheduled threads not cooperatively).

Even if a thread is going to deadlock as soon as it starts running (again), there is a huge difference between that thread being scheduled at the right time and it not being scheduled. You can fix the former (deadlock) with better coding. You cannot fix the latter without fixing the kernel.
I don't think the artists get 3c per listen either.
> 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.

Okay, how many Bitcoin miners are using immense solar energy produced in a desert?

Do note that the article mentions that the largest clusters are in, um, Texas and the Appalachians, and their providers of electricity seem to largely be, uh, natural gas and coal power, respectively.
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The description misleads already in the second paragraph: "We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow."

This is just not true: the share and absolute number of poor people has been decreasing for a long time. See https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief.

Socialist/communist countries that tried to limit the ability of people to get rich made all of their citizens poor.
> If no one was a millionaire, a small house in California wouldn't cost that much.

It depends how this is structured. If the limit is you can't save, this actually puts pressure on housing prices as people are looking at ways to 'productively' spend the money.
As a side note, there is also a push to change the name of an important knitting technique, Kitchener stitch, which was named in honor of the General.
Ask HN: How Are You Leveraging AI to Stay Competitive in 2024?
From practical applications of AI in various industries to ethical considerations and challenges.
> Are you suggesting Edison would have invented everything he did if he wasn't allowed to get rich?

Who said anything about not being allowed to get rich? 10s of millions of dollars is rich by any measure.
And nobody said that. People are lamenting that having 9 shares gives you less say in anything
I agree. We had 3 years of narrative shaping and statistics.
Were they funded before you joined? This company hasn't even raised money yet, but at the same time they say they're actively collecting checks so I have no idea what to believe.. they sound incredibly desperate, sounds like not a lot of AI talent is present in Austin (where they're based out of) but it also could be that everyone they might've approached is thinking what Im thinking lol
Just transform your project to something new and better good luck
You might skip this article if you reject any of these key assumptions:

1. You "live to work" rather than "work to live." Your personal fulfillment is derived from your utility as a workplace tool.

2. Your job doesn't damage your mental health and finances every need (e.g. food, shelter, utilities, healthcare, savings, furnishings, vehicle, debt repayment, etc).

3. You have sufficient leisure time to satisfy personal desires & obligations (i.e. connecting with your partner/friends, hobbies, caring for family members, chores, parenting, etc).

Unfortunately, for myself and everyone I know, these premises are deranged. But if they resonate with you, then work until you die! Live your best life!
Well said.
I'm reminded of Professor Lawrence Lessig (of "Creative Commons" fame), whose staunch belief is that in the U.S., in order to make progress on any of the big-ticket problems we all face, we have to Fix Congress First. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_Congress

Reducing the influence of $ in politics is at the heart of the matter.
If you’ve ever worked in human factors engineering, seemingly small things can make a big difference. But your comment is missing the forest for the trees IMO. The “big issue” is that Tesla missed well-established and regulated standards. It brings into question what other standardized issues fall through process gaps.
Ah yes, 1907 a time of great monetary equity
'Existential' avian flu outbreak forces US egg farmers to kill entire flocks
This methods only works for a two-party electoral system...
Flash photography used to be pretty wild [video]
Would be cool to see some other data like that for sure. I'll drop it in the suggestion box haahha
If you are referring to https://codeberg.org/JojoYou/PriEco/src/branch/master/api/go...
It is SQL call to check if google results for that query are cached, or if it needs to call Google API