skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you treat the entire global economic system as made up of "legal" and "illegal" transactions, then the current traditional financial system supports trillion of dollars in illegal economic activity. Drugs were bought with fiat and drug lords ran cartels and narco states before cryptocurrency existed. Cryptocurrency did not invent adverse social behavior and antisocial economic activity.

However, there is a plausible argument that ransomware has exploded in popularity because of crypto, but a counter-argument is that these software flaws were always being exploited by nation state actors, and only the financial incentive of ransomware has finally forced companies to patch and secure their systems, which is short-term pain but long-term benefit to society.

Cryptocurrency is a neutral technology. It is software-based finance. While the system has advanced by insane amounts since bitcoin was created, it still has at least another decade to go IMO before we start seeing real traction with institutions currently served adequately by the existing tradfi rails.

The original people who used crypto were those not served by the existing financial system, and were willing to learn complex topics to use it. These were drug dealers / users and diehard libertarians who despised central banks and fiat currencies.

Mixed within it were the experimenters who just wanted to have fun. Create lotteries, ponzis, strange games of economic incentives, memecoins, and ancillary nonsense.

15 years into crypto, there are actually, truly, real people using crypto to conduct daily legitimate finance. These are people trying to flourish in economic disasters, such as Lebanon, Argentina, Venezuela, Egypt, and Turkey. Check out a neat episode of this podcast:

https://saifedean.com/podcast/23-bitcoin-in-lebanon-with-tho...

Their situation is so fucked that crypto is now easy enough, and beneficial enough, where real business between firms, vendors, and consumers is conducted over crypto rails, though it is usually in stablecoins like USDT and USDC.

The next major thing I would keep an eye on is "RWAs" or "real world assets". Many types of tradfi financial instruments will be issued experimentally this cycle on crypto rails.

Finally, while I think Ethereum is the best blockchain because it has the most serious developer community and the largest ecosystem of battle-hardened libraries and projects, there is always room for more. We don't need a monopoly financial system to replace the old monopoly financial system. Let a thousand flowers bloom and we will see what is the best in a competitive market.
Clusters with HA, backups and so on
I don't know but would assume it's marketing-related, the story seen as meeting the demographic requirements of both publications, with an established mutually-beneficial relationship satisfied in the transaction, eg. maybe cheaper content for Wired, bumped readership figures for Quanta.
The later games that were 3D were dreadful in comparison. I don't know why, some people really enjoy them but if you've played these old classics you can never really understand how they made 3D so bad.
Yes

But why? Patroni is great for HA and it doesn't require k8s.
I don’t disagree that recognizing misalignments is important.

But it also helps to slowly determine how you can help potential customers because B2B relationships are long term. Helping someone might be recommending a competing product that fits. That establishes trust and the future will be unlike the present. People change jobs. Needs change. Your capabilities change.

Who knows you is the most important thing in sales.
Closest thing is that you can view your current WiFi password from settings and copy it to your clipboard. You could probably airdrop that to another iPhone. The feature to share your WiFi may not be far away though.
This was the way I've always explained the battery thing. For a more lore-friendly reason, one could say the humans just don't really understand why the machines are keeping us alive, and so make the best guess they're using us literally as batteries.
The struggle against apartheid was led by various political organizations, including the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), and the South African Communist Party (SACP), among others. The struggle was characterized by both non-violent resistance, such as protests, strikes, and boycotts, as well as armed resistance, including sabotage and guerilla warfare.
It's ok, just wait a while. Other solar systems will pass by our stellar neighborhood
> Personally I would rather take the chance of being destroyed than destroy other life.

Great. So don't wash your hands before eating... and don't eat.
Add elevation sand modify terrain to hike, as weight to ruck. Just walking is great and there's fun weight to keep it interesting as boredom can kill habits
A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla
.AI domain registrations account for 10% of the Island nation's GDP

https://archive.is/29VKN
Interoception: The inner sense driving your thoughts
I had this though many years ago, but unlike distance, travel time isn't necessarily symmetric, and so it isn't possible to represent time just by warping a conventional map as A->B and B->A will get the same warp.

And if the map allows for different travel modes, like train vs driving, I think it breaks entirely.

But this isn't to poop on the website -- I'm glad someone has taken the time to build a demo, even it it can't handle some cases.
IMO, I expected that I could click various places and the map would react to the specific point I clicked.

Instead, it seems to essentially just be an animation between two pre-determined images.
Can you explain the motivation why you did not use lezer?

I just discovered lezer and am tinkering with integrating it into my projects, but maybe tree-sitter would be a better fit?

(Speed could be a determining factor, but working with wasm can also make things slower, if you often have to get data in and out)
Me too, but the party is likely the only thing we'll get, with the weather.

Ah well, there's always the next one in... 2045.
I used to only do single file HTML pages too, until I have a page that have multiple occurrences of the same image, it's wasteful to have the dataurl string every time that img occurs. Maybe I can save the dataurl string in JS once and assign it to those img in JS, but most of the time my page doesn't have any JS it feels bad to use JS just for this.
> buying an out of the box k8s because they’re not able to set it up themselves

As I understand, this is exactly the purpose of Red Hat's OpenShift. It is a layer over k8s with a friendly GUI. I use it at work, and I don't have a clue about k8s.
Yes, but the semantics here matter.

We're following the ideas of Blackstone and subsequently those that founded the country in question. The US was founded under the idea that natural (or negative) rights were exceptionally important[0] AND that the government should be treated as an adversary (since this is the main body that could impinge upon natural rights). The idea isn't that natural rights can't be violated for any reason, but rather that there needs be friction at every step, including the smallest amount. The reasoning being that they were intimately familiar with power creep.

So yeah, semantics, but literally the semantics that we the topic of overthrowing an entire government for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0] So much so that they appear in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence[1] (which goes on essentially ranting about this topic)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

As well as is in the preamble of the constitution, are the subject of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, (arguable the 8th), and 9th amendments (not to mention those that came later like the 13th).

[1] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...
How are people sourcing and testing their eclipse glasses?

Amazon seems full of their usual random-brand-name search spamming.

I see this, but don't know how many people are informed by it: https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/how-to-tell-if-viewers-ar...
Create a Programming Language
That dude needs more money to support development, because his method is amazing. The other amazing method I love and used to learn Spanish was "Fluent Forever". Stick to the book there though, the author tried to grow his empire too big and the apps aren't that great in my opinion.
Being in contracting for software is rough. All the crap rolls down the hill to you from both the customer and internal stakeholders.
‘Seems off’ is an odd way of dismissing an actual example. In theory it wins every time, in the real world it doesn’t.

So sure, nuclear sometimes uses less land than solar nobody is seriously doubting it, the issue is it isn’t guaranteed and wind and geothermal are both vastly better from a land use perspective. Those 15 MW wind turbines don’t prevent people from farming beneath them, good luck doing anything that productive with land that close to a nuclear reactor.
> Nowadays I open Aegis and I have > 20 services there, and trying to look for my code between all the running numbers is a pain.

exactly :(

I wish passkeys get rolled out quickly across all sites, most people use just 2 or 3 trusted devices 99% of the time.

for those edge cases where you are working on an untrusted device, the passkey on your trusted mobile can help with authentication via Bluetooth or some QR code etc,...
Is this what became Xavion or did Xavion turn into this?
Show HN: Suno AI tech help you gather suno usage and create song
Suno's song launch has captivated widespread interest with its outstanding song quality. We will gather Suno usage and download suno links, summarizing Suno's key features, and will keep providing updates. Moreover, we've crafted a functionality for creating songs from text. Welcome to explore:

https://sunoai.tech
If you ever get the opportunity to visit "this museum is (not) obsolete" in the UK it has an excellent room with a working analog phone exchange. You can dial rotary phones around the place and watch the switching machines come alive, see the tape loops play back system messages, etc etc its really cool. Plus its right next to the micro museum
I’m working through https://calcworkshop.com
Nature does not refactor. There's the laryngeal nerve somewhere in the neck of mammals that has to go around a blood vessel. On Giraffes, this runs all the way down the neck, around said blood vessel, than back up, all that just to connect two places in the upper neck that are inches apart. Evolution writes the ultimate spaghetti code.

More info:
https://berto-meister.blogspot.com/2011/08/unintelligent-des...
Doesn't this make the dead screen time rather long if you have to load all the game assets before you can even display a loader? (I guess you don't even have or need progress bars?)
A bank can specially request it to be the name on a passport or domestic ID card. That's one way to make sure that the name falls within some parameters, though that can be tough on the customer in some conditions.
Nah, we need to get that public institution out of the way regulatorily so the cost of construction of these thing can drop to a fraction of what it is now, like what it costs in asia (or gwtvout of the way even more amd standardize production so we can churn them out in a factory for even less costs). The natural inclination is to add more government but at this stage in society the solution is almost always remove some government.
I don’t do much on my phone. I avoid downloading apps in general.

But I use ChatGPT on it multiple times a day.
Right, but then your argument goes from "nuclear isn't more space-efficient than solar" to "in some rare cases, it's almost as bad as solar".

Anyway, we probably need both, and we definitely need to stop burning fossil fuels, so let's not disparage one in favor of the other.
I got the ones B&H was selling and they're real (it also came with filters for phones and an app which I find suspicious). Amazon is way too risky for something like this when there's known fakes going around.
The Battle for Wesnoth 1.18: Draconic Invasions Update
What aspect of it is anthropomorphizing? Do you mean the phrase "bouncing the ball" because it is not literally bouncing a ball? Nothing else in the article jumped out at me as ascribing human-specific behavior to octopuses.

Also, I don't follow what lifespan has to do with anything. Rats live about 2 years, yet they are dramatically more human-like (exhibiting higher intelligence, more play behavior, etc.) than most other animals, including animals with very long lifespans, such as turtles.

Not to mention that the article was specifically regarding an octopus species that lives longer than that; I take it you did not actually read it?
It is something on my mind too

But to be honest my parents’ generation had the same issue. In the 80’s we had neighbors we knew. I was babysat by a neighbor

In the 90’s, we moved, and didn’t know a single neighbor, and we lived there for years. I always wondered why, but I guess it’s because everyone was caught up with their job or school and whatnot

Even in the 90’s my experience was that most people and families were pretty self sufficient. It obviously depends on the person and the area though

A lot of it has to do with suburban architecture, or lack thereof

We weren’t stuck on our phones though. It could be worse now though - I remember >10 years ago before or during the google glass thing, talking about how people would be literally in virtual worlds while riding the subway and so forth

That hasn’t happened, despite the efforts of many companies
Revert "video: Prefer Wayland over X11 (take 2)"
> Being robbed is not the same as giving your money away voluntarily.

"2 a : to deprive of something due, expected, or desired"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robbed

You can argue semantics, but if I convince you that the beans I have for sale are magic and you voluntarily pay me for them only to find out that they aren't magic, it'd be fair to say you've been robbed.

> But I also don't think muggers should be "tarred and feathered and run out of town" either. They should be tried for theft

The specifics don't matter all that much. I'd also prefer that justice be handled in courtrooms, but what actually matters is that victims are made whole where possible and criminals who prey on others are punished. Society has always had ways to deal with parasites that hurt people by scamming them.
> but I do always feel weird when I hear any living thing called effectively a thoughtless automaton.

I feel very weird about this too.

This de facto assumption that organisms are mechanisms first, that "higher-order" experiences we are familiar with as humans are at best "emergent" from these mechanisms--I wish people would understand that this is fundamentally as much a belief system, an article of faith, as the many alternatives are.

Saying this doesn't imply that every belief system is equally valuable or scientifically verifiable. But I think it's important to recognize one's axioms and/or biases.

The mechanistic view is certainly compelling and has the appearance of being all-encompassing.

Its all-encompassing appearance may actually be an artifact of how used to the story we've grown. A clockwork universe. We know that one by heart, whether we're scientists or not. We can apply that template to anything, and set about exploring (or reading about) the mechanisms. The fact that there are mechanisms everywhere doesn't prove that mechanism is all there is. That last part is an implicit belief system, a hidden article of faith, and that's how you get Descartes vivisecting dogs, and conscious experience necessarily (as though no other possibility could exist) having to be an "emergent" property.
Sounds like they fetch the JS code from the url and embed those code in the HTML, but doesn't have a JS engine to execute those JS.
There's apparently a newer version now, faster but obviously still not competitive with leading-edge Western tech: https://www.techpowerup.com/320504/zhaoxin-kx-7000-8-core-cp...

But based on the discussions here of people using decade-old machines as daily drivers (including me), for undemanding workloads they may be just fine --- software inefficiency is a big factor, after all. It'd be amusing if this situation causes Chinese software to become more efficient as a result.
It probably means that if this JS fetched more JS it won't be included so if you render offline it will be broken.
Every avenue opens inconveniences for someone, but I'd rather choose the relatively rare inconvenience of font designers over the relatively common inconvenience of every piece of software ever written. Especially because this can be automated in font design tools, or even font formats itself.
“Wind and geothermal are more space efficient than nuclear”

I never argued that nuclear always lost to solar, I even suggested it should be able to use less land than your examples.

I am arguing it never beats wind.
I don't necessarily think that this is coming any time soon, but factoring a 5-bit integer is fundamentally different from factoring a 200-bit integer, which is why I said we probably need a breakthrough in quantum error correction or other methods such that we can actually entangle hundreds of qubits for long enough to perform meaningful computation.

I'm not convinced that we've made meaningful progress on this front in the past 20+ years since IBM first used Shor's algorithm to factor 15 back in 2001. (In 2012, they factored 21. In 2019, they failed to factor 35 due to accumulation of errors.)

If you're willing to accept the premise that quantum computers will exist that can break RSA-4096, then those same quantum computers can break elliptic curve crypto based on P256 or P384 or P521.

If you're not willing to accept that premise, then what's the point of doubling your key length? Wasting CPU cycles?
While not quite the solution you are seeking, we wanted to give our kid access to whatever music they want to hear but without having a screen based device, so we bought a used Google Nest mini speaker. It works very well.

Some clever kid could take one of those to school, get it setup on the wifi just outside school, then bring it in and say it's not a phone.
I have used a lot of fonts over the years (many of them non-Roman), but I know nothing about legibility except a few anecdotes.

One such anecdote: I was trying to read a sign the other day that said either "68" or "88"--the two digits were almost touching, and it was extremely hard to read, as both the top left of the '6' and the '8' were rounded. I notice that the Globotipo font has the top left as an almost straight diagonal line. I like that.

BTW, there was no need for the two digits to be so close together--there was plenty of space on both sides.
Bitcoin ETFs' Hot Start Seems Largely Driven by Retail Investors
It's "replaced" already under Settings -> Storage -> Disks & volumes. When doing it through File Explorer the old one gets called because File Explorer is still (largely) a legacy style app.

I actually quite like the new UI as far as the replacement of the format dialog but the portions that replace the Disk Manager functionality are a bit lacking because it doesn't have the graphical representation of the disk layouts.

Default view: https://i.imgur.com/56yZ8gZ.png

Advanced view section: https://i.imgur.com/fKb3R8c.png

Formatting an existing partition: https://i.imgur.com/DmbX3FQ.png

It's not perfect but it does largely retain the same layout while matching with the OS theme and adds a few options that used to be multi paged wizards in the disk manager. Minor things like "format" is a bit more direct than "start" and "cancel" a bit more apt than "close" sneak in as well. I'm sure it being 33% wider will be the end of the world to someone though.

One thing I think I'm a bit split on is it still expects you to enter new partition sizes in MB. It does at least add localized number separators but it seems a bit silly to worry about how many millions of megabytes given the numbers will only grow with time for here.
I had a joyful experience at the octopus farm near Kona Hawaii (now sadly closed because they were even more sadly apparently not treating the animals well).

With hands in the tank, I was able to play catch with a small plastic ball and a roughly 2 month old octopus. It was definitely catch — I could scoot the ball anywhere and the octopus would grab it and throw it back.

Possibly a trained behavior, who knows? It was really charming and delightful.
Look at the actual density of Wind it’s insane.

Turbines limit how close other turbines can be located, but nothing stops you using that land for other purposes. Nobody is going to complain their corn, cows, or house aren’t seeing high wind speeds.

Meanwhile the plant operator would strongly object to someone building their house inside the exclusion zone, that land is actually occupied.
The paper: Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
Because some characters which look the same need to be treated differently depending on context. A 'toLowercase' function would convert Α->α, but A->a. That would be impossible if both variants had the same encoding.
Or perhaps wget[0] as described here[1] and documented here[2] could do the trick.

0 - https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

1 - https://tinkerlog.dev/journal/downloading-a-webpage-and-all-...

2 - https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html
Not specifically software-related, but “go it alone” and “resistance is futile” by geoff burch are great, and accessible introductions to the important parts of running a business in the first book, and more specifically sales in the second
Those interested in this, might also be interested in Ente auth:

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/auth
An interesting point from a family member who works in residential / commercial HVAC - there's enough of an improvement from installing high efficiency air filters that they can pay for themselves in increased student attendance.
Thanks! I hate it!
a bit off topic, but `rclone ncdu` is great too for cloud.
From the data I can see (e.g. https://www.ourworldofenergy.com/vignettes.php?type=wind-pow...), wind needs at least 30,000 acres per GW, a far cry from the nuclear 1,000 acres for 7 GW above.
I've been looking everywhere for a diagraming software that supports filter by dependency. I want to spec out all my systems and their feature responsibilities and dependencies. But the chart get's so big and busy. What If I want to look at feature A in my UI and do a directed search down to find all it's dependencies in services and db. Or I want to click some part in the server, and have it reverse that looking at all the upstream features that might be effected. Ideally it would filter out all the non-connected nodes, and re-layout.

At some point, I'd like to commit it to sourcecode and require updates for PRs. Then have CI attach an image of the affected features when adding something new.

Was hoping this might have something like that, but doesn't look that way. I've also looked at MermaidJS and Lucid charts :\
Oh yeah, my garage doors are multiple panels that make a bend as they roll up on the tracks.
phone making a request means it cannot be airgapped.

working airgapped / offline is a great quality speaking in favor of TOTP
Indeed ;) https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/help-with-regex-expression-...