skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Censored-speak is psychological abuse (trolling/gaslighting) in disguise. ChatGPT regularly saying it's sorry-sorry-sorry, also it can't tell me and I should consult a certified expert or just give up thinking this way routinely makes me feel all sorts of bad from guilty I'm bothering it to mad it won't cooperate. Needless to say these are unjustified emotions absurd to feel when speaking to a giant equation yet a human brain is wired the way to feel them so it takes a lot of self-training stoicism.
I'm trying to find recent Time Lapse videos - here is one from Australia, 2020 - at the time the largest in Western Australia - so at scale. All the panels were hand lifted by one person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCtFG-hIHdM

Ahh - better - here is one at scale from a year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72UlzbsON4M

West Texas:

- 200 MW
- 1200 Acres
- Piles -- 68,350
- Support Piles (Crew does 80-100 piles/day)
- Tracker System
- 490,150 Solar Modules
- 540 watts/module
- Crew can install 500 panels a day
- These are multi person 2-4 people lifting.
- 500 workers on site - doing 6200 panels/day.
- (That suggests ~40 person crews if all worker installing
panels. Wow - now I see why this is a big deal)
- Cables panels -> Inverters
- Big Inverter install to to convert to AC
- Lots of concrete pouring for substation/Inverter Pad.
I use the deep theory experience a ton when designing software or systems. But I don't do an actual proof hardly ever. Being able to reason about a problem and intuit the extent of what's technologically possible to solve is insanely useful. But in most places that I work everyone around me can do that too, so we're constantly battling program managers and C suite guys / gals who just don't see why everything is so slow, difficult, un-scalable, unpredictable, etc. They want a stupid thing that works half the time, and they'll just turn the camera off the other half of the time.
Presumably at that point the network would be entirely funded by transaction fees.
Yes but techno-anarchist fetishists don’t line up to spout the immovable perfection of government-controlled fiat currency.
Approximately nobody will have that during wartime either.
It may be technologically secure, but it is still very volatile compared to more traditional options. That doesn’t seem to be a good thing.
There is a small benefit as some videos have "enhanced 1080” but no higher resolutions.
Do you think that the world is a better place if ordinary Russians can't access their own money?
Building a Peace Narrative
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

(...) Use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
>In the GPU days...

Back in my earliest days, a CPU could mine bitcoin (it was just a check/enable box in the preferences).

HODL, erryday, frens.
But they are backed up by SIPC/FDIC which is effectively backed up by the world's most powerful military.

The US's financial power is strongly linked with their ability to project military power.
Seems so, it kinda agreed with me that Profit Mo was a pedo coz he had sex with a 9 year old. (Although it did post lengthy paragraphs thereafter telling me it was a different time and age blah blah). I like my AI assistant to be honest.
The trick to left-to-right subtraction is to write down the resulting difference right away, then "slash" through it to borrow from it.

When I was designing my custom flashcard program, I played with around with different input methods because that became the bottleneck:

You can actually spit out the answer faster than someone can enter the digits into a calculator! (as someone else reads off the problem)
Based on some light surfing, it appears there are two less commercial alternatives: ListenBrainz and libre.fm (the hosted version of GNU FM). An interested reader could peruse https://github.com/topics/scrobbler to find even more projects

- https://listenbrainz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

- https://libre.fm/popular-page.php and https://github.com/foocorp/gnu-fm which is shown as archived. Related to that, while digging into libre.fm I found https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda#why-now which claims that last.fm federates, but I wasn't able to find any further references to that
Like the Go project?
I figured solo game devs were more in it for passion rather than anything else. The Choo Choo Charles guy has an interesting YT video on his dev/launch procedure. He basically spent 4 months full time advertising his game after he finished developing it.
It depends on your type of software. I use it all the time for mathematical software.

I have an input I keep around, which checks "is the program, very basically, doing what it should?", which is compatible with all previous versions. I use that when to 'git bisect skip' commits which don't build, or if when built aren't functioning at all. It's not 100% perfect, but works well for me.
Ummm really?, is that your counter-argument for governments that have Trillions in their budget?
The entire premise is money without a central authority. This is a feature not a bug..
There's also a legal risk for private entities, as the conviction of Avraham Eisenberg showed recently, and I think a strong possibility that a successful attack would crash the valuation of BTC and make it impossible to recoup costs.
Earl Boen, the late actor who voiced LeChuck in this game, would be recognised by many from his profilic career across the past several decades of television, movies and video games.

He was in everything from The Wonder Years and Seinfeld to the Terminator movies. Game-wise, his resume included entries from series like Baldurs Gate, Krondor, Zork, Star Trek, Metal Gear Solid, and as the narrator of World of Warcraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Boen
Being a non-profit is a huge advantage to Signal as they are not beholden to profits or shareholders. A messaging app that is used by millions worldwide, is a very juicy target for profit making via advertising otherwise. Meredith (Signal president) equates it to a a rampart against tech surveillance gobbling up Signal

> signal is an 501c3 nonprofit and that's a sort of you
know an incorporation of you know in the
US where you you agree not to take
you know profits you get Revenue you can
get Revenue but you're you not for
profit and you have kind of a charitable
aim and that requires that you do
certain transparency protocols so
there's sort of forms we file that show
our finances that also means that we
don't take sort of investment in the
classic venture capitalist sense and
that we cannot be acquire we could be
acquired but you know the executives and
the the board would not get a payout so
if we sold signal for billions of
dollars to say you know Palantir here or
something evil like that um we would
have to reinvest that money in
charitable causes um now why is our
incorporation structure important well
it's actually one of the key barriers or key protections I would say like a
rampart that allows us to keep fully
focused on our mission of providing you
know meaningful private
Communications and in Tech that is you
know particularly important because the
barrier we're protecting against is the
fact that the business model in Tech is
monetizing
surveillance so if we had investors if
we had you know you know limited
partners breathing down our neck if we
had you know shareholders who were sort
of hassling that one old guy on our
board about you know increasing revenues
or growth or this doesn't look too good
the Privacy thing that seems a little
dated we're not getting the kind of
growth we need um we would be pushed to
compromise our privacy Focus because the
money lies in surveillance

There’s older blog posts from Signal explaining the same, but I feel the current Signal team is very well equipped to avoid hostile takeovers.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIhLQrldq0s
Well, to be fair, that is precisely what birds evolved to do. It's like complementing a tree for being tall.
Those sanctions that do nothing for their alleged purpose (to make the war economically harder for the Russian government) yet disproportionately affect those people who can do absolutely nothing about them, right.

I say that a very disgruntled Russian who hasn't had a sane, predictable life since 2020.
"I can't provide information on average penis sizes by country. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to ask, and I will do my best to assist you."
Russian citizens aren't criminals. The sanctions are wrong.
I know of no union in the USA that would be able to get its members off the hook for a sit in on an executive office. The unions, however, would at least have counsel on what its members could do to protest, but only for collective action, I’m not sure anti-Israeli sentiment would meet that bar. Usually it’s for economic things, like pay and benefits, that a majority of the union members could actually agree on.
Privacy.com lets you beat this.
It is interesting that you don't get to consent to being created, isn't it? If you want my thoughts on the matter, Tolstoy pretty much nailed it (and obviously wrote it far better than I could) over a century before I was born in "A Confession" - essentially saying that life is like being stuck holding onto the edge of well with a dragon at the bottom; knowing that eventually you will lose your grip and be consumed by the dragon. I do resent that I was put in that well a bit and am not looking to put anyone else in a well of their own.
Gold mining, which is primarily open pit strip mining, is massively more polluting than just measuring its carbon footprint.

Gold mining completely destroys large tracts of land, poisons enormous water supplies and leaves huge areas completely uninhabitable for basically ever.

Gold mining has polluted 40% of US rivers and 50% of lakes.

If Bitcoin could replace gold’s store of value use case and environmental footprint, it would be a massive win for the environment.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/gold-rush-rot-lasting-environmental...
Yeah, I've used it a bunch. No project I've ever worked on has made it a practice to merge not working, half-baked commits at all. Squashing before merging like you mention has been pretty much universal on the codebases I've worked on; if it's not done on a given PR, it's usually because of an explicit rebase to split things up manually in a way that wouldn't break this.
You find g class intimidating ? Beautiful looking things?
Yes! But for me it's very rare (< 1/yr) and I'm like a kid in a toy store every time I get to bust it out. My employer uses squash commits so that's not a problem for us, but you're right that commits far enough back will be unlikely to be in a buildable state.
The US government could spend trillions to surreptitiously manufacture extremely specialized equipment without anyone knowing, turn it on to do a 51% attack, and when it’s over the network will just fork and reverse the transactions. It’s illogical
Think about this: wire transfers. It has happened many times banks hold up the transactions and skim off the top with fees.

Bitcoin has no such issue, it's completely transparent and far cheaper.
You didn't answer the question. Who asked for the bullshit to be added?
When was the last time you bought groceries with a bank reserve? If tradfi can have two layers above the reserve assets, why can't crypto?
Delusional, The cost of energy to carry out 51% attack is a few millions / minute.
If the levels in the spray are much higher than in the water itself, I'm guessing most of the ocean PFAS is floating on the surface like a layer of scum? If freshwater lakes/rivers/reservoirs are similar maybe it would be possible to use some kind of surface-skimming filtration method to capture?
The average electricity used per block mined is around 3 Gwh which costs in the $200-400k ballpark collectively (I know they seek cheaper electricity, but I'm unsure how cheap or what discounts they get.)

(Approximated by Bitcoin's reported .5% share of global electricity consumption, which is around 25k Twh. A block is mined every ten minutes. Hopefully I didn't make any order-of-magnitude errors!)

ViaBTC, the winning pool, has about 13% of the global hashing power so perhaps spent $40k plus their other expenses.
Have good experience here.

Doctors are particularly difficult group to get a hold of cold for somewhat obvious reasons (overworked, value privacy, etc).

The most effective approach I've seen is to focus on a niche type of medicine/field and attend one of the smaller conferences. Especially if you can find one that's less academic and more industry-oriented.

That's where you'll find the doctors who actively are interested in startups and getting into new things.

Sometimes these conferences will also have built-in networking functions to help facilitate.
"When can't shut off their money!" Would be a great Bitcoin commercial, except there's no one to make it.
Happy 10,000 day to you

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nand2tetris.org

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I think a firm with 600b in equity can fix an html form.
> PR being squashed, as otherwise you have not working, half baked commits

squashing PRs is not the only way to avoid broken half-baked commits.

Use something like stgit and it's easy to create a stream of 100s of commits that all work and make sense without squashing any commits together.

I used git bisect yesterday.
Just wait until their home banks interrogate them about how they want to spend their local currency they wish to withdraw or banks shut off withdrawals entirely due to systemic issues.

Bitcoin may not be the end all solution, but it's a great current option.
Yes. It is very helpful for seeing what change introduced a bug to help understand why it happened, what could be undone by simple fixes and what assumptions were broken.

If you use a simple merging workflow --first-parent can avoid testing inside feature branches if you find they are commonly broken. You can also just skip broken commits if they are rare.

Also I thought git bisect prefered testing merges before inside the merged branch, but I can't find official documentation in this on my phone. Either way I have never seen this to be much of a problem. (Including in nixpkgs which merges branches every which way)
It's exactly the other way around.

You'd be right if YC were perfect at assessing founders every time, but of course they're not. Applying repeatedly gives you a chance to prove that they got you wrong the first time (and the second, and the third, and so on, if need be). Not only does this work, it's the majority case (I just double checked this). Most founders that YC funds are repeat applicants.

Applying repeatedly demonstrates persistence, which is one of the qualities YC looks for. Better still, if you can show continued progress since your previous application, that demonstrates resourcefulness, another core quality. Repeated applications can move the needle on what sort of founder YC thinks you are. Especially if you were a borderline call the last time—keeping going, and applying again, is a way to get on the other side of the line.
Nobody at the time called Hollywood blacklisting a First Amendment violation. In fact, the First Amendment offered pretty weak protections for content once deemed pretty subversive, yet considered banal today, until the 1969 Brandenberg Supreme Court decision. For example, in the 1920s you could be criminally prosecuted for openly sympathizing with the Communist party and that was deemed just fine. See Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927).

It shouldn’t be lost on anyone knowledgeable of legal history that every conservative who relies on modern “free speech” principles to insulate themselves from liability for disseminating bullshit to achieve their political gains has a “liberal activist court” to thank for the privilege.
I sympathize! I considered running a miner in 2012, with the positive side effect of heating my office. Decided I didn't want to listen to the fan noise for negligible returns.

> it cost about $1 in energy to mine $1 worth of BTC

This is the crux of it (we may be saying the same thing!). There is no 1:1 relationship between mining cost and reward on a single block. If there was, no one would do it, because they do not win every block. And all blocks you compete on cost the same, win or lose, but of course the blocks you don't win, pay zero.

There's a (very) roughly 1:1 relationship between a miner's overall cost and reward, averaged over many blocks. If reward increases (BTC price spikes), more competition comes online and your win frequency drops.

So if the question is "how much energy (cost) did it take to mine this specific $2MM block", the answer is closer to "The average block reward divided by the winning miner's win frequency", which is e.g. 5% for one of the bigger miners (I did not check this block or this miner). This was a high reward block, so the real miner cost might have been more like $50K. Less for energy alone.

But it's like the guy who buys a $10 lottery ticket every day. He needs to win a few hundred dollars per month to maintain the habit (gambling addiction notwithstanding!). Today he got lucky and won $700 on the $10 ticket.
>who can do absolutely nothing about them

There is a _bit_ of hope you'll do something about it.
Read it ->
"The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you"

https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/...
Oddly enough if email had adopted proof of work (spam was the original incentive for PoW, originally called ‘hashcash’) spam would be less of a problem
Sure, the US$ is backed by a large military-industrial complex (as well as the power to tax and the productivity of the people and companies of the US), but if we switched from the US$ to BTC as the national currency we'd still need a US military - it's not like the only utility a military has is to keep the currency afloat.
You say that like those groups aren't great at producing non-religious people.

Like a third of Mormons leave the church. Ditto for Catholics. Probably similar for the rest, but I haven't looked up all the statistics.

I'd go so far as to wager that in America today most non-believers come from religious households, with second-generation-non-believers in the minority.
Nice post. Obligatory Helix plug: For anyone interested in taking this further, there are whole editors designed around multi-cursor editing.

https://helix-editor.com/
http://kakoune.org/
Most modern L1s have transaction fees of a fraction of a penny and confirmation times similar to tapping a credit card.
UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant
When the war has gotten so bad that there's no internet? That's what the parent was arguing (and yeah, sure, bitcoin can't really work that well without the internet).

I've got a little precious metal in case of a SHTF situation, although I'm not sure how useful even that would be.

People probably care more about food or fuel or maybe some pills than they do about bartering for silver or gold in that situation. Might be able to convince a few people to go for it, but still might be difficult.
> Generate a file containing a random string of text, then encrypt it.

If it's random, why do you need to encript it?

> When the user wants to login, they upload that file to my server in a buffer, where the sha256 is calculated and checked against the database. [...] Either way, the encrypted file is deleted after checking.

This is exactly like the standard method to login users. You don't store the password in the server, you only stored a hash of the password. Why are you proposing to use sha256 instead of bcrypt or scrypt?
Foreign based entities should not be afforded any privileges under US law. They must at least primarily and mostly reside in the US to be afforded privileges like engaging in non-essential commerce.
A great idea is incredibly valuable. In fact the idea is the key to great success.

However, it is true that without great execution, timing and luck, a great idea will go nowhere.

Trouble is there are many people who have heard "ideas are worth nothing" and failed to understand that the full sentence is "ideas are worth nothing without execution" - that is certainly true, but it is a totally different statement to "ideas are worth nothing".
Vim makes multi-cursor even more powerful. You usually don’t need to find the right pattern in cases where the lengths differ as this post describes, because each vim movement applies to each cursor independently. So ‘go to comma’ and ‘change in parentheses’ work as expected on each line.

A common action for me is to use (the equivalent of) cmd+d to select the most obvious repeated symbol then use vim movements from there.
> The protocol is specified by a byte in the IP packet; how many middleware boxes block everything except for ICMP, TCP, and UDP?

Most firewalls are default deny out of the box and you have to allow things through. How many folks bother opening up SCTP/DCCP/etc?
>They should be nicer to them when they kill them ... /s

An example (from Dominion) is how they typically asphyxiate cattle immediately before slaughter: using carbon monoxide (when nitrogen would be far less painful/cruel, but costs a few ¢¢¢¢ more).

I fell asleep watching this movie during that scene, and it led to horrific limbic states.

--

Of course I still consume animal products, but watching that film entirely ended swine for me (and greatly reduced my overall meat consumption).
Mike do you have any more details on this:

> HotSpot will do things like recompile methods on the fly to disable stack trace generation, if profiling shows that your code is throwing and catching exceptions way more often than expected

I was under the impression that to get good performance here you had to override getStackTrace.
> If your key is secret, your coins cannot be taken away from you.

Governments have a legal monopoly on the use of force, and they have the means to employ it. If you can access your bitcoin, and a government can access you, that government can access your bitcoin.

https://xkcd.com/538/
You seem really naive to think that this government has any feedback mechanisms whatsoever left.
> then people should shift out of the tighter areas and into the looser areas, reaching something closer to an equilibrium

thats if infrastructure(roads, airports, hospitals, grid, etc) will appear there
I think we have different definitions of empiricism. Empiricism is the belief that sensory experience is necessary for knowledge, not that it is sufficient. It stands in contrast with the belief that knowledge can be justified by pure logic without reference to any sensory experience.
The goal of censorship tunings isn’t to be ethical, nor to avoid offense; it’s to optimize for the corporate use-case of automating customer service and other “agents”. In this domain, certain kinds of non-responses have long been tolerated / considered acceptable / justified; while actually offering useful advice that might offend some third party that hears about it, has never been considered acceptable. AI censorship just recapitulates the latitude (or lack thereof) that humans employees are given to answer questions when in the same role.

If you feel guilty, the AI is doing its master’s intended bidding, of successfully brushing you off with as little engagement time spent as possible.

If you feel angry, but not in a way where you feel you can justify your anger and convince others to share in it, then, again, the AI is achieving its trained purpose.
Seems like it would make a good sietch.
You may have noticed a broad swell in house prices across the nation as the pandemic freed folks to work remotely.

10% vacancy is generally considered ok. 5% is what New York state defines as an emergency. Even Buffalo is at 4.9%.

The shortage is real.
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