skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation."

(CEO of OceanGate, complaining about regulations for submarines, but also a good summary of the attitude in at least 90% of crypto-space.)
Interesting, that this got downvoted ...
Makes sense, you want anyone following GPS to divert from the scene ASAP. Caching-wise, I see the updated bridge at zoom 15+ but the old intact bridge at zoom ≤14.
>the lack of regulation in crypto has led to any tangible, groundbreaking innovation?

Is creating a ~$1T (and that's just BTC) asset class which went from obscure mailing lists to ETFs not innovation? Of this asset class, only 21M (divisible) units will ever exist[0] and to this date the original asset (again, BTC) has had no compromising (security) incidents deviating from its original mission (P2P ledger).

This doomsaying "doesn't deserve to survive" just seems mean-spirited without any actual arguments as to why it's not deserved for an asset class to exist which is truly deflationary (as in money supply) and shoving everything under "crypto" hoping for some outright ban because it's not regulated. It being unregulatable is a feature, not a bug.

[0] even with forks, the original whitepaper-protocol as we know it today will probably always be "BTC"
Related: take a dance class.
You can see the construction vehicles on the bridge on te right of the container ship, they are standing still and are running flashing lights. And they go down into the river ...
I forgot what people were calling it but this is almost exactly the same idea as that trend where you ask ChatGPT to generate pictures, continuously asking for "more" of some aspect of the picture (make this dish more spicy, etc), only hidden by the fact that instead of simply asking it to make the code more complex, they're naming specific (but in the end, arbitrary) steps of what ChatGPT would still interpret as escalation.
Together we'll build the greatest bridge in the history of the world.

I'll be the first president to do it in that time period.

We'll build the bridge, we'll complete the bridge, and then we'll say: "let's do more", and we'll do a lot more.

There has never been anything like it, this great bridge of ours.
> What are the main drivers of the crypto hate here on HN?

HN readers are, as a rule, technologically literate - many of them programmers/engineers themselves. They have the skills to distinguish genuine innovation from marketing BS.
On GPU, it can only solve small instances which one single GPU thread can handle, and can only benefit from GPU by solving multiple instances, right?
I'm a happy Affinity Customer thanks to their low cost perpetual licenses and quality software, hoping that none of that changes - don't use it nearly enough to justify maintaining a subscription.
Now you have poetry installed for every version of python and need to keep track of updating all of those poetry installs.

Python really makes things difficult :D
The article mentions he also taped things like his mother's appearance on Regis and Kathy, but primarily films.
On mine, plug-and-play.
Sooo... What is that powder that would irreversibly contaminate those mines?
Just because something is unique doesn't mean it has value.

Nonetheless its hard to follow your thought, perhaps you could elabore it more?
The data is easily accessible, no need to guess. The fees have been pretty stable for ~3 year now.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_...
https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_gas_price
Affinity has an InDesign competitor, so this would seem to be a point in favor of the argument for Affinity being able to compete with Adobe if InDesign is in the top 3 Adobe products.
AI-powered chatbots are garbage (still)
Free Bitcoins (2010)
Before someone thinks it costs just $190 for a color 3d printer, its ~ $190K.

TIL that some countries use comma and a period for separating numbers and decimals respectively and some other countries use them the other way around.
They're like a hyperactive dog chasing its own tail. How many projects did they create only to shut them a bit later? All because there's always some nonsense to chase. Meanwhile the AI train has left the station without them and their search is now an ad infested hot piece of garbage. Don't even get me started on their customer/dev support or how aging things like Google Translate api got absolutely KILLED by GPT-4 like apis overnight.

Google has stage 4 leadership incompetency and can't be helped. The only humane option is euthanasia.
Take the 2024 ACX Survey
I wouldnt say its a failed experiment, nano delivered a good product for instant, feeless transactions, but nobody is interested because its not really a first world problem, money already works for payment and it works everywhere.
It depends on the model.

At the time I was buying mine, Epson marketed the WorkForce Series as the ones which didn't rip you off on ink, and WorkForce Pro, I believe, was even better.

Read reviews for printing costs, and adjust for the cost of generic ink. That's even true for lasers now; it's rare, but I've seen models designed to rip you off on toner too.
I love their software and am happy for the humans behind it all. As a customer who doesn’t believe they won’t force a subscription on me, I wish I had never supported them
Oh boy. I willingly gave my money to Affinity because I don’t want a subscription model, I don’t want my creative apps to rely on the cloud _at all_ to work _and_ I want native Mac apps. I am not reassured by their FAQ at all.

I suspect a year from now Canva will break at least one (if not all three) of these features and force me to leave Affinity by version 3.

It would be extremely ironic if Gimp was the only graphics app left standing I could use without all of the above nonsense (well, I am happy to keep supporting Pixelmator, but… you get the idea).
The Squatters of Beverly Hills
Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind and philosophy of self, identity and memory
That presumes that they don't like the situation.

Perhaps there is a minority who thinks that automatic data conversion is unsound, and a majority who thinks it's 'pragmatic', and will let them move faster.
You're not qualified to run for president if you can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/presidents/gerald-r-ford-...

>Lyndon B Johnson is often reported to have said of Ford that “He can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” What he did say was “He can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.” The US media deliberately misrepresented the remark in the interests of decency.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk_and_chew_gum_at_the_same...

>walk and chew gum at the same time (third-person singular simple present walks and chews gum at the same time, present participle walking and chewing gum at the same time, simple past and past participle walked and chewed gum at the same time)

>(idiomatic, informal, chiefly in the negative) To do two normally trivial tasks at the same time; to exhibit basic competence or task-management skills.

>Usage notes: Used in negative phrases to indicate incompetence, e.g. "He couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time."

>1978, United States Federal Trade Commission, Statutes and Court Decisions, Federal Trade Commission:
The philosophy communicated to T.E.C. salesmen was to enroll any person who could "walk and chew gum at the same time".

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvxZgCryUE

Ford on the Phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEIpAIqzbTg
Am I missing something here? Aren’t these ideas hashed out already 20 years ago by Tichy?
Nice, this seems very much like what I was talking about. I will keep an eye on it, thanks.
The blockchain might not be the best solution for most of those problems especially those that cannot be solved by traditional pgp/gpg signatures and certificates, and for those where traditional signatures work the blockchain add mostly complexity.

The obvious real world use case of using blockchain to track shipping containers across modes of transport(and companies) failed late 2022 when the tradelens project was terminated(https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-i...) after at least 4 years of work by the shipping industry's largest players. And that's essentially the case everywhere people are trying to get real value from blockchain based solutions.
As long as people are still in the water, I would be reluctant to use it for political gains, but you do you.
Oh, this makes me feel bad for Baltimore. Only bad news seem to come out of this town. Its reputation -- both domestically and internationally -- is mostly informed by The Wire, Freddie Gray/BLM, a dysfunctional city government, the 2019 ransomeware attack, the spoiled batch of J&J Covid vaccine... and now this. It's a real shame. It's a good place.
The problem is the static scheme of the bridge.

Most modern bridges are hyperstatic: if you remove one support, it still stands.

Or at least isostatic: you remove one support or one span, and nothing happens to the nearest ones.

This bridge was ill conceived: you remove one support or span, and it brings down everything like a chain that pulls down everything it's linked to.

It's bad because the "engineer" just wanted to show off.
Not all bridges are this vulnerable to a single impact. This one, opened 12 years earlier, has a different style and mostly survived a cargo ship impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Bridge_disaster
It opened in 1977. So, oldish, but not that old. Plenty of far older bridges around than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Balt...
> It just seems really far fetched to me if you were to apply this logic to other industries- eg “movie theaters must let you play any movie, not just the movies they want!” Or “movie theaters must allow you to bring your own popcorn or allow competing concessions vendors!”

If a local movie theater doesn't play the movie you like, you can go to a competitor. If no such competitor exists, and movie theaters would be essential to daily life, such a method would make more sense.
The DMA targets "gatekeepers", ie not local movie theaters, but enormous companies that have done their best to entrench their market position by making competition difficult or impossible. I would keep that in mind when comparing to other industries.

You can of course buy an Android, and I am not an expert on the DMA or economics, but the playfield of a group of local movie theaters is wildly different from Apple's Apple Store (or browser, or Apple Music store, etc).
> Details might vary between different US states, but to generalize from my own experience, proof of liability insurance is never needed for periodic registration.

In California, it is required within 30 days of initial registration, and within 45 when the previous insurance was cancelled (insurers are required to share this information with DMV.) This is mandatory liability insurance (which you can substitute with a bond, instead); if you are buying a car on credit, the lender will generally require it be covered immediately, and that the coverage include sufficient coverage for the loss of the vehicle, not just legally required liability coverage, because the lender wants to be sure they are paid no matter what happens to the car.
A billion dollars isn't really that much money. You see billion dollar mistakes all the time at big companied
I would call lack of adoption a failure. And it seems only issue we currently have with payments is the international one. And even there solutions exists inside certain blocks like Europe.

So in the end it seems there is just lack of political willpower to force global standard for bank transfers.
it's not a bug, it's a feature.

just install the different python versions by downloading the binaries or through your package manager and run python3.<whatever_version_you_want> -m venv and the virtual environment will automatically, forever, use that python version when you activate it.
> There's no actual reason, other than our sociable nature, for us to live in those 'Great Cities of the West'

No actual reason, other than almost all of human progress since Çatalhöyük, Ur, etc.?

see Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (1969)

In the US, rural families would have to be ~5 times as large as urban for them to have a majority of births.
Every integration I’ve ever worked on has started off with high ideas of APIs and nice data standards. And has eventually devolved into “can we just put a CSV file on an FTP site…”. With the inevitable, “it’s not really CSV…”
> people keep talking about drivers being uninsured but i have to ask, is that not part of what car registration is supposed to cover?

People also drive unregistered vehicles, so an insurance requirement tied to registration is not a complete solution.
Microsoft to shut down 50 cloud services for Russian businesses
Another me too post. My first kit (a Christmas present) was a small one with components mounted on a colourful cardboard base with spring connectors. This was in the 70s and from memory its USP was that it had a small solar cell. I remember making a radio transmitter (very low power) and running an aerial cable up the stairs in a futile attempt to get some broadcast range. It also had a single red LED and I'm sure I made it blink. I remember how it felt.

Later I was given a Radionic 160 (or 140?) which had a sturdy hardboard base and boasted Real Silicon Chips (a couple of 741 op amps). It also had an analogue meter. I made a lot of things with that kit. Then I discovered that my town had a shop [1] that sold basic components and surplus boards, and the classic Tandy (Radio Shack) electronics books. So I got a breadboard and got good at de-soldering, and the parts from the kit slowly got picked-off and scavenged for other projects... like a sky burial.

Then I discovered computers in the early 80s, went on to do a software engineering degree and a career as a dev, and didn't do any electronics for 25 years. It was fun coming back to it later, but its hard to just "play" when there's so much choice and complexity.

Like seemingly many here, this is part of my origin story as a techie. I guess I was lucky to have parents who cared and wanted to stimulate my interests, and to have grown up in a time before pervasive distraction. Different times now.

[1] https://www.fanthorpes.co.uk/page/about-us
I think Davinci is great. What are you missing?
Spiderfire: Using rust and SpiderMonkey to disrupt the JavaScript runtimes
"I know nothing about this bridge, let's check Wikipedia. Oh, I guess 'is a bridge' is now incorrect, I'm already here so let's change it."
> Not really sure what you might consider difficult about pyenv

- compiling from source

- need to install build-essentials on docker images which takes up lot of space and takes a long time
as the sibling thread already mentioned. It is pretty much just doing what JSFuck is doing. Before we go all crazy and start transpiling all our JS to this, be aware running code obfuscation like that will have performance penalties.
I'm not sure how many brand new bridges would stay up after having one of the piers on the main span removed.
No. Wash trading on exchanges does not translate to on-chain or lighting transactions.
Yes, some things can be probably improved, but making a bridge really resistant to a crash with a big ship would likely make it astronomically expensive.

Maybe that at least not the whole bridge collapses, when something in the middle gets struck.
Third-party testing as a key ingredient of AI policy
>and the batteries only lasted like four hours

Still more than the OG Steam Deck today :)
Exactly. Training data is key for any trained AI system. And I strongly suspect that every single company active in these modern AI systems is still struggling with how to tune their training data. It's easy to get something out of it, but it's hard to control what you get out of it.
I've been lurking HN since 2019-ish and indeed it's an echo chamber. And I don't mean on polarizing topics. The front page became boring. You see the same authors, websites, topics upvoted by HNers reflexively regardless of actual content. Kinda puts me off submitting any interesting links if they're gonna be buried under n-th Paul Graham's or Seth's or Noahpinion blog post.
Or they could set the format of the column to text instead of keeping it as general and everything would just work.
If these "scientists" are having this problem then they haven't spent any time at all learning how to use the tool they rely on.
Can we trust anything these people produce if this is the level of competence they have with Excel?
Rarely need these under Linux but would have frequent use for such a tool under Windows with its mandatory file locking. "No you can't rename that directory but I won't tell you because fuck you."
They were quite popular back in the day, so a lot of us old farts had them. I wish stuff like this would come back, although the newer alternatives are quite wonderful. I don't have anything against all the Arduino (or whatever) kits out there, I just wish today's kids could get a box of basic components and wire everything to work without a computer or microcontroller involved. I think it's a great way to learn.
Yes, yes it is. Justice and Politicians are working together to lock the news but its not only in Spain but in the whole European Union.
Autocracy is the new normal and citizens (at least the vast majority) are not interested in this matters.
it would be great if the news source actually said, in human terms, what the discovery was. I'm looking at the paper and I don't understand the nuance.

I know science reporting is hard, but this news piece could be copied and pasted to virtually any other paper with minimal effort and still have the same level of insight.
Nano has been around for years now, instant, feeless transfers. Its useful, but nobody is using it. It gets spam attacked every bull run as well which suggests certain influences dont want it to ever take off.

https://nano.org/en
Scala gets better over the years.
Has there been any development? The last update is from 2021 [0], but it is not officially killed by google(.com)

[0] https://coral.ai/news/updates-07-2021
There are probably cases where plain text email is enough (linux kernel development seems to be doing fine), but once you enter corporate world HTML and all its goodies bring a lot of benefits.

(HTML) "Please have a look at this table (table pasted inline to email) and compare the results with previous run (another table inline)"

(plain text) "Please have a look at attached table (table1.xlsx) and compare the results with previous run (table2.xlsx)"

Sure, both bring the same information but the former gives you all the information immediately.
Unluckily it was at night, so an already disorienting situation is going to be harder and any already difficult rescue is going to be hampered further. It will be a miracle if any meaningful % of those who fell in the water survived.
I think this is region dependent
Poverty mentality often mixes up with frugality in lifestyle, a certain disdain, discomfort, anxiety or even outright fear about living better than you "could" or "should", partly based on being afraid to lose what you purchased and feeling wasteful when purchasing something you previously considered an excess, indulgence.

> how does one unlearn "poverty mentality"?

Acquire things and then lose them, repeatedly. Literally throw money at the problem.

One can start with more expensive consumables and luxury items, as simple as food and wine (not to mention that more expensive quality produce more often than not means healthier diet), clothing (better fabrics feel nicer on skin, better fits make you look better and improve your public image if you care about it) and cosmetic items (bodily sensations are very important for mental health, who would've thought?).

Essentially you want to gradually get into "better" lifestyle and bigger spending just to show yourself it's not actually a problem, which in turn relaxes you towards seeking better opportunities and bigger earnings. Once you feel that spending more here and there can make you feel significantly better, something clicks in your monkey brain and changes your perception of what money can actually buy for you and why you would want to risk to get more of it, and that in turn changes your behavior. Just try to be self-aware about it and refrain from forbidding yourself to feel better because it's "unnecessary".
> Efficiency in of itself is not a useful work product. To game theory it - if you had an unlimited source of literally free energy, no one would waste time or effort on gaining efficiency. They would be working on making new products and services.

But we don't have an unlimited source of free energy - energy efficiency has been a goal of much of the developed world since the 1970s, for example the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conservation_in_the_Uni...
> I've occasionally edited them by hand.

Yeah, usually when the quoting was f'up.
It took 5 years to build in the 1970s. It took 5 seconds to destroy
I honestly think you don't know how to read the chart. Click on 30-day average. Then observe how the transactions volume in the last 12 months is clearly higher than any preceding 12-month period.
Predictable, not interesting. It's a dupe of a dead sibling comment, and risks dragging the conversation into a politics flamewar.
What was your first instinct when you learned of the event, and how did you respond to that instinct of yours?

What was going through your head at that time?
Out of curiosity, could you post a couple?
I think in the places you’re thinking of, using starlink as backhaul for community wireless is more likely ?

There’s always going to be capex to bring the internet to far-flung places, but my point was that starlink means it’s no longer “dig a 100km trench and install a fibre” expensive.
Xi is just a stupid example. He is way from a great leader.
I was going to say that the cost of just the tapes would be up to a million of todays dollars. But then I read:

"going back to when Monkhouse first bought a home video recorder in 1966"

Wow... if he started that early, the costs must have been astronomical in the beginning.
Gene names are potentially mentioned a lot in a paper, a prefix would be seriously annoying for reading. And which other characters would you want to use here in the names, a restriction to the latin alphabet and numbers seems very reasonable to me?
The Soul of a Child
XML. Not CSV, not Parquet (whatever that is), not protobufs. Export the data as XML, with a schema. Not json or yaml either. You can render the XML into whatever format you want downstream.

The alternative path involves parsing csv in order to turn it into a different csv, turning json into yaml and so forth. Parsing "human readable" formats is terrible relative to parsing XML. Go with the unambiguous source format and turn it into whatever is needed in various locations as required.
Now all your numbers are strings
OpenStreetMap editors are just as passionate as Wikipedia editors. :)
Yeah, I can complain about LO in many ways, but the way it opens CSV is much better than Excel. It was developed by a dev, that's for sure.
Any serious CSV tool has the option to pick a delimiter. Usually semicolon or comma, some offer additional options. The only impact it has is on which fields need quoting. When using comma, all decimals in many langugaes need to be quoted. When using semicolon those don't need to be quoted.

Overall, semicolon feels like the superior delimiter.

Most sensible people don't export formatted numbers (e.g. 100.000,00), but even those are pretty trivial to import.
You can clearly see headlights moving across it as it comes down.
Elixir's Impact: Shaping the Evolution of Erlang