skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds cool, and it’s nice that someone is disproving the myth. I use Qutebrowser daily, these projects are great, but not without their pain points: once you start using them in anger you’ll quickly realise lots of basic features are missing.
It would be really nice if the more common oss libs had more work done on them to unbloat them
> US is a frail aging empire that just cannot handle the peaceful rise of China

Not seeing that by the numbers

1.) The heavy market losses in 2024 come hot on the heels of a bruising run last year, when the CSI 300 index, comprising 300 major stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen, fell more than 11%. By contrast, the United States’ benchmark S&P 500 index climbed 24% in 2023, while Europe’s grew almost 13%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 soared 28% last year and is still going strong, notching gains of nearly 10% so far this month. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/business/china-stock-market-f...

2.) China suffers from deflation, while the rest of the world combats inflation. Not only does deflation signal a stagnating economy, it can lead to high unemployment, unaffordable debt repayment, and dismal outcomes for businesses. In the worst cases, deflation can lead an economy into a recession, or even a depression. https://www.wsj.com/world/china/deflation-worries-deepen-in-...

3.) Crushing debt. Going back further, China accounts for over half of the entire world’s total debt-to-GDP increases since 2008. https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/backgrounder-china-econo... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-01-06/bloomb...

4.) China’s youth unemployment rate hit consecutive record highs in recent months. From April to June, the jobless rate for 16- to 24-year-olds reached 20.4%, 20.8% and 21.3% respectively. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/economy/china-economy-july-sl.... For reference, G7 countries is at 10%, US is at 8% https://data.oecd.org/unemp/youth-unemployment-rate.htm
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Yeah, and the 7kwh should cost ~$1k. So if the manufacturer wants to maximize the number of $7,500 rebates, PHEV is the way to go. 11 PHEVs == one 300 mile compact crossover.

They don't even have to be good PHEVs. I agree that there should have been a range requirement.
This outcome is unsurprising given the industry climate. BC gets the vast majority of its power from hydroelectric dams and power is historically very cheap here. But last year's drought forced BC to import record amounts of electricity from surrounding provinces and states to cover the gaps between supply and demand.

Meanwhile the province right beside us, Alberta, was issuing emergency alerts to the population last month asking the public to reduce power consumption in order to avoid rolling blackouts.

It's not the ideal time to be trying to force the gov to give you electricity to use on hashing.
Our team tends to drilling on code more than writing. I know it is not a strategic good way though. Any idea what do you expect to see on the blog?
I guess that's a misunderstanding of protocols on my part, because the subtitle began with 'or', I assumed 'A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer' was an alternate title and an alternate way to refer to it.
The need to preserve food and feed a planet of people has existed for as long as humans have. The technical ability and knowledge of the micro biome of the gut is extraordinarily new areas of research. We barely know anything about it still.

In modern times additive safety to food is a pretty new concept. Safety means observable effects. We don’t look exclusively at the benefits of something (although I don’t know why we wouldn’t look first at our objective before discerning side effects) before approving it as a food additive, there’s actually quite a lot of regulation and research that goes into declaring something safe to add to food.

But thus is the way of knowledge. Until you understand something you can’t assert requirements around it. It’ll be easy to look back with new knowledge and second guess old knowledge, but it’s ill informed to say we don’t regulate food additives on any measure other than benefit.
>having a different opinion is "aggravating"

Why did you post this when it is clearly non-productive at best and an obvious terms violation?
> I highly doubt the son of the owner of Henrysburg Chevrolet in Henrysburg, Georgia is going to bring anything to the table that a startup in San Francisco needs

And what is it that you think this hypothetical startup actually needs? The most motivated janitor money can buy?

> You have no idea if dad knows anything about business.

A magnate that knows nothing about business? That doesn't make any sense. A magnate is literally characterized by their involvement in business. Perhaps you mean that mom could be the magnate instead of dad? There was nothing to suggest that she isn't the magnate. It was never specified.

> And if he does, you have no idea if dad taught any of it to kid.

And? You're not hiring the kid for his business acumen. You are hiring the kid for their mediocre capabilities in whatever work you need done and using them as a connection to get in touch with the magnate of the family.

A slightly better worker isn't significant like you make it out to be. In fact, even if you do find the 'magical rockstar', chances are they'll quickly move on to the next job anyway, and then you're back to dealing with mediocre. May as well design the company around mediocre from the start. Let's be real: Startups are generally not attractive places to work as compared to the alternatives the best of the best have in front of them. If the 'rockstar' really, truly, wants to live the startup life, they are going to start their own and eat your lunch in the process.

> And if he did, you have no idea if any of it is relevant to developing biotech software.

But the advice of a welfare parent is? There are no guarantees in life, but when playing the odds that is who you are choosing?

> Nobody in the company is going to care about dad's connections to the dude that runs Henrysburg Laundromat.

Except for the person who actually has to make the business a success, not just collect a paycheck and get a new job if the business fails. They don't get to sit around writing code all day. They have to actually get out there and meet people who will move things forward.

I get it, Field of Dreams is a fun concept... for a movie. But that's not how things work in the real world. Simply building it is not enough. Business is, at the end of the day, about people.
Context: Kraken is the only US-based cryptocurrency exchange which supports Monero, the top untraceable privacy coin of today.

Binance, the world's largest exchange by volume, yesterday announced the de-listing of Monero, triggering a price crash of 38%.

Kraken's post is in response to a Monero tweet. Privacy coins are akin to cash and legal in most jurisdictions, but are facing aggressive de-listing by exchanges with low regulatory risk tolerances. Kraken stands strong following explicit US laws rather than the extra-judicial whims of compliance teams.
No. People were sent to the future as a method of effectively murder, but most of them were voluntary travelers.

The one time it was used as a punishment it was not sending them to the end of time, but leaving them in the now while everyone else jumped ahead.
I don't know if there's currently a solution for spas that incorporates a heat pump - Purdue has a paper on it [1] - my point was more that incorporating a false economic signal allows maintaining the status quo instead of leading to improvement in efficiency. [1]

> I don't think it was a gimmick anyways - they were doing this for a long time non-publicly before it came out and when it did a lot of people said they no longer wanted to be customers.

Seems plausible.

[1] https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2932...
As far as I can tell Jakt's reference counting is not optional. So it may be closer to Swift.

That being said I've seen a few people here suggest it's easier to use rust's Rc and Box for everything and treat it like Haskell or Scala. So it might not be so different in practice.
Let me summarize the web for you. You have static websites and dynamic ones. It's a UI for the filesystems of every computer with a domain (abstracted ofc so people can make sense of it). Lately, there is this trend where you have a way to interact with dynamic websites (usually a database, [still a file]) using forms tables and routing (links).
Code?! Still files. The end.
kraken getting hit by the SEC?
There isn't in the case of Ukraine either, but NATO has mostly stepped up anyway. Sure we are not putting troops on the ground (yet???) but NATO has provided a lot of support.

Countries like South Korea, Japan, Philippians, and Australia are likely to get scared if China does too much and send some form of help.
Anglo societies absolutely have a problem with committee veto. I get that you're proud that there is low corruption, but that doesn't mean other problems don't exist.
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What I tried to say is, a mainframe might answer late, but rarely, and very slightly. a RTOS doesn't deviate from that number in either direction. It's neither early nor late.

Some RTOS even doesn't consider late answers as acceptable.
Ah, I didn’t know that membership in MUC was persistent in XMPP! Reading the XEP I got the idea that presence (definitely transient) and membership were the same thing in the scope of MUC.

Given those two things, it seems like MUC really does support a Slack-like experience these days. That’s great – it definitely didn’t when I last used XMPP extensively!

(Rest in peace, Google Talk XMPP federation – for a while, I could talk to all my friends on Jabber between that and MSN/ICQ bridges.)
The difference is that the US is not an empire. It's an economic hegemony (if you're looking at it from a relative power perspective).

Its power stems from sovereign, contiguous territory with resources, or a network of global treaties both economic and military.

In contrast, Britain was a globe-spanning empire, which disintegrated with national independence movements.

The equivalent would be if California and Texas decided to split from the United States.

And as the quip goes... the next few largest economies, including China, are pretty incentivized to keep the global economy rules as-is, because they benefit.

De-dollarization is happening, but is going to be a slow shift, with an uncertain outcome.
Good post, I basically agree - hence the current policy Israel and America have cooked up of isolation and embargo.

Regarding ethnic cleansing, while you speculate, the Gazans suffer under it in reality.

I'd give Iran the implicit moral highground because they are pretty peaceful and haven't attempted to ethnically cleanse anyone, unlike Israel in both aspects.

Just on the basis of what has actually happened, Israel is an egregiously immoral state. Rich man, eye of a needle and all that.

Now, as for whether or not they would... I think they probably would. But that's speculation, not reality.
I can never trust a meditation app for exactly this reason. I know there are too many trolls out there. This also reminds me of this skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZJxjCOplc
> If they can produce a superior product their brand will let them dominate those markets whenever they decide to release.

I anticipate that Apple's Pro devices (iPhone, MacBooks) will have beefier hardware designed specifically for this use case. My guess is they will sell a much higher proportion of Pro iPhones as a result. They'll probably also sell a lot more new devices overall, contra the trend toward slower upgrade cycles.

At the same time, I think third-party companies will find a way to do pretty decent on-device (and very good cloud-based) AI, so it will be a tradeoff in terms of speed and privacy. If you want the best speed and no data being shared with a cloud-based AI provider, the Pro devices will be aimed at you.
This particular project demands half the production of a new major dam. The dam has cost $16 billion so far and they want half of its production.

It isn't feasible to just have a permissive attitude about that level of power consumption as it requires decades of prior planning.
I am not in the chip industry at all, but I understand that chips offload so much heat in part due to cramming as much as performance as possible into a small 2D space. If you increase the number of layers by 10-20x you now have much more "surface area" to work with. Could we see chip designs that operate at a much lower voltage (thus minimizing heat) and are "slower" as measured by chip frequency, but have greater overall bandwidth? Maybe a chip for servers that has 256 cores on it, each with their own caches?

From a Moore's law perspective this would continue the transistor count doubling trend too.
The way I understand it, you can legally ask the questions, you just can't consider protected status for hiring purposes. The interview guidelines prohibit asking because "we didn't ask" is a stronger defense than "our interviewers have mental firewalls".

This case is strictly worse because the questions are explicitly being asked to evaluate eligibility for hiring.
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Apple is the master of the second mover advantage. Let the existing companies burn money in R&D, but closely monitor how customers perceive their products. What pain points exist that the current companies haven't addressed? What are the pitfalls?

The first mover advantage gives you a chance to get most of the market share, but with Apple's walled garden, they don't need the first mover advantage to do that.
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What happened to scaling the offer based on (future) demand? That is what a government who wants growth should focus on... instead of telling their citizens which use cases are acceptable or not.

See in Texas how the Bitcoin mining industry negotiated agreements for curtailing and greatly help scaling the grid better... this seems like a way more efficient approach to these offer/demand and scaling issues than "we can't let you buy our product because other people want to buy it".
Agreed. There is a _lot_ of naivety around how these frameworks are perceived, from people who have never used them, or who come from different programming backgrounds (i.e. not frontend). It's amusing.
Interesting read, but then suddenly there's this passive aggressive paragraph:

Apple stock has taken a beating as of late, in part because analysts have loudly proclaimed that the company is behind Meta, Google, and Microsoft in generative AI implementation. It's not clear why this wasn't a problem when it wasn't first to a mobile phone, a tablet, a smartwatch, or a VR headset, but is with generative AI.

somebody is hurting
In some sense, the introductions of scientific papers are supposed to be / are the original 'verification blockchain' albeit one done with human minds and messy research projects.
Haha, that's a fair point. Cries in dynamic languages

I've definitely had code with typos consistently replicated due to auto completion, then had to fix it all later on, haha.
"Usable" as a term is a bit of a wash in the browser world. Some people will argue Firefox or Chrome are unusable due to some minor annoyance and others will say filling is still usable. Trying to give an answer though I'd say most will say it works with most sites in a few years time but most would also not recommend it due to security concerns. It's not that they haven't thought about security, sometimes they even try newer more segmented approaches than current major browsers use, just that everything has been done from scratch and the work to make the code safe and battle tested as other browsers would be more than the work to make the browser to that point.
Apple's real SOP is to make white males believe in the inevitability of Apple cultural dominance so they feel inclined to buy anything with the logo on it as a signal

i.e. you convinced yourself Vision Pro was great before ever using it
I stopped reading when I saw the suggestion to avoid hiring people that are insecure. Some of the best software engineers I’ve ever hired lacked self-confidence and struggled with insecurity. In my experience, those folks tended to have extremely high standards for themselves, and did great work.

Conversely, some of the worst software engineers I’ve ever hired were extraordinarily adept at projecting a high level of confidence without appearing to be overconfident.
There were plenty of component shortages in very recent memory (eg, FPGAs), but those were all down to the pandemic.
If you think this is bad, wait until AI compute becomes mainstream.
I think this is due to the operating system being replaced by a combination of (1) the web browser; and (2) Steam. Nobody cares what the OS itself is doing, because they aren't using it.
Basically none that actually work.

The computations done in bitcoin aren't just to waste energy, they are meant to prove you have the ability to waste energy.

That means you need a problem where: there are infinite instances, the hardness of an individual instance can be dynamically tuned, there is no central authority needed to give out problem instances, there are no shortcuts or ways to collude to make solving a specific instance easier.

Nobody has come up with a useful problem that meets this criteria. It seems hard to imagine anyone will.

If you want crypto enviro friendly, proof of stake (like eth) seems like a much more viable path forward. Even better would be to stop using fake money altogether.
One of the CPUs of all times

Edit: the title now has been fixed
Not often do you see such a pro consumer move from a big corp like this. Hopefully this will apply pressure on the other car manufactures who signed deals with Tesla to do the same.
Thank you, sir.

Now I only need about five minutes of material that good.
The hivemind has found you lacking in faith into the community driven machine spirits.
Wow, for once a PayPal story where someone didn't get screwed.
Everybody wants a deal like Texas gave out:

https://www.tpr.org/technology-entrepreneurship/2023-09-06/t...

Please sir here's millions of dollars so you won't tank our grid. These things should require co-gen facilities instead of my power bill suffering so they can print money.
> Meanwhile the province right beside us, Alberta, was issuing emergency alerts to the population last month asking the public to reduce power consumption in order to avoid rolling blackouts.

This is why having constant prices for power is dumb.
Genuine question, how do you find a trusted mechanic? I know close to nothing about cars. Just the basic things I need to do to maintain it really. I find the space intimidating because I don’t have the ability to sus out the people I’m interacting with, and my impression of the field is that it’s kinda “get all you can” out of a customer. Ultimately I end up leasing so I get the two years free maintenance and oil changes and never have a vehicle long enough to have to deal with real issues. I have good credit so I don’t feel too bad about the trade off just for the sake of not having to worry about cars. I basically have the feeling I imagine tech illiterate people get when they talk to Best Buy geek squad employees but for me it’s with cars.
It's at least a form of _casual_ zealotry. "You may have different ethical standards" is clearly the author's passive-aggressive way of saying "your ethics might not be as righteous as mine", as opposed to "reasonable minds may disagree".
It should be possibly to speculatively execute code that's accessing resources and only allowing transactions on system resources to commit successfully if other transactions haven't invalidated them.

Meaning a process could start loading and reading while queuing writes and only writes would block while another process is locking access to the executable to scan it. If the scan succeeds the writes are committed and if it fails it could revoke execution privileges and all the work is undone.

Lot of hand waving there, but when you're not committed to existing file system semantics there is a lot of room for innovation.
Constantly evolving language and job titles. I consider myself a programmer. I market myself as a software engineer in LinkedIn. I am a generalist who uses mostly python / Django. I like SQL and feel that the database should be leveraged to do the heavy lifting. But software engineers plug APIs together these days.
So like this joke error message from a certain 00s game?

"APPLICATION ERROR. SAVE YOUR WORK AND QUIT. YOU LOST EVERYTHING. WAY TO GO, GENIUS."
All money is fake. I am not at all a crypto evangelist, but it has its uses - especially outside of the West and in remittances.
we have indecency laws that make it a crime to not avail oneself of a private location when particular human behaviours must occur.

its also a crime to invade the sanctity of such things.

its also psychologicaly damaging to be under conitions of constant surviellance.

anyone who thinks its desireable to eliminate privacy must recon with the above.
HN automatically filters words from titles that they think are clickbaity. "Fascinating" is probably in that list.
> See in Texas how the Bitcoin mining industry negotiated agreements for curtailing and greatly help scaling the grid better...

They get paid not to use power to prevent the grid from collapsing. That's not what I want my tax dollars spent on, and such silliness is why I tend not to look at Texas for good governance.
One of the most surprising things (from a modern perspective) about reading that daringfireball article is that a game could be successful on the App Store at a $5 price point ($7 in 2024 dollars).
No... but functional currencies aren't free either.

If a miner could run a heat pump via a Stirling engine it'd be even better.
> that doesn't mean other problems don't exist.

That really isn't a gotcha: everybody's got problems. Another cool thing about Canada is that we're allowed to talk about the problems that do exist.
The reality is probably that they're distributing enormous bonuses to higher ups. Why care about the profitability, when you're getting paid anyways?
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Why would they need to be convinced or forced? Birth rates are declining around the world, in almost every culture. Having fewer children appears to be a choice that people are happy to make for themselves.
Sorry for being daft, but doesn't this imply that TLB is now shared between all processes? Which means that the cost of flushing the TLB is amortized across context switches? Processes are gonna evict TLB entries from other processes at unpredictable intervals.

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly.
My question was answered below:

> buildbuildbuild 3 minutes ago

> Context: Kraken is the only US-based cryptocurrency exchange which supports Monero, the top untraceable privacy coin of today.

> Binance, the world's largest exchange by volume, yesterday announced the de-listing of Monero, triggering a price crash of 38%.
Surprisingly sub-$200