skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cryptocurrency economy is a sham to discredit a workable future.

The bitcoin economy, however, is a 1st generation system of distilling energy into value. It is the most honest form of value storage humanity has ever encountered and represents a product rarer than anything in the universe. Gold does not hold a candle to the scarcity of bitcoin, and yet bitcoin is more divisible and manageable.

These are neutral aligned systems. How we use them is up to us. Bitcoin, like an electric vehicle, does not care where the electrons come from. It will function either way.

Does your civilization use fossil fuels that poison the population and destroy the planet?

Bitcoin will run using that, and it will exponentially increase consumption.

Does your civilization use nuclear fission and fusion (which includes "renewables" since they are a direct fusion byproduct), that have manageable side effects for exponentially larger clean energy generation compared to anything else?

Bitcoin will run using that, and it will exponentially increase consumption.

Bitcoin is a neutral entity to distill energy into value. It cannot be tampered with like the federal reserve and a world cabal of bankers. You cannot negotiate with it, bail it out, or enrich your friends by sabotaging the ruleset for yourselves.

If your society has a selfish population, then it will be destroyed by the energy it requires to function. It is trivial to use energy sources exponentially more powerful without the destruction. The trouble with those sources is they do not have a "profit" motive, so countless elite will lose their golden spoons, and the synthetically generated "economy" will crash.

In exchange for the "economy" collapsing, the general populace can breathe again, the planet will stabilize, energy consumption can continue to grow exponentially without any harm, and a golden age for all beings will begin in this reality.

But my musings will have to stop here. I can say with certainty: you are someone who hasn't even remotely spent time thinking about and understanding this problem space on a deep level, so it is strange you would comment so confidently. It doesn't matter who you are, how much money you have, what innovations you've conceived and created, how respected you are, none of that matters. You're missing something very big here. If I was you, I would take the time to figure it out.

And truth is, I am not even replying to you. I write this out for the unspeaking and silenced people who are actually paying attention to validate their correct thinking.
Hi. I've been working on this open-source projects last time:

ghstats[1] - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)

macmon[2] - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)

ecloop[3] - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)

[1] https://github.com/vladkens/ghstats

[2] https://github.com/vladkens/macmon

[3] https://github.com/vladkens/ecloop
I don’t understand where this overused rhetoric comes from. I enjoy my life, spend time with my family, have hobbies… and make money. These things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Sometimes the best answer really is a faster Corolla!

https://www.toyota.com/grcorolla/

(These machines have amazing engineering and performance, and their entire existence is a hack to work around rules making it unviable to bring the intended GR Yaris to the US market.. Maybe just enough eng/perf/hack/market relevance to HN folk to warrant my lighthearted reply. Also, the company president is still on the tools.
That's the only thing I was thinking with their A/B test. The calculator might immunize against unhappy customers later on. I think they could've looked at something like the percentage of customers who leave one or two billing cycles later.
The printing press also existed in meat space and yet it broke the power of the medieval Catholic Church and toppled monarchies.

The Internet seems like a similar invention but the effect on the nature of states is harder to fathom. I don't know if anyone living in the 1500s would have predicted a world where the top 10 militaries are all in a single alliance and the church would be a shadow of its former self.

I think there are interesting times to be had. Democracies certainly seem to be feeling the effects for good and ill of the collapse of traditional gatekeepers in the face of free distribution of information.
Dunno about you guys, but we're not charging doing payroll, management or regulatory compliance to our clients unless it's specifically requested/required by the client.

You could say "oh but that cost is bundled into your rates", but that cost is also bundled into your product fees for a product start-up, so..?

We don't have to do r&d documentation but we also don't get r&d reimbursements. Not a lot else different from a back-office perspective.
Danish government will shut down encrypted messaging (including via blocking)
> Certainly with Mozilla the interactions I have had on Bugzilla with various people there as well as in other places simply made me decide to work around the issues.

Can you elaborate on your experience?
Wireshark?
Have you got paid for this?

The reason I am asking is that I see volunteering time for extremely wealthy big corporations as foolish.

At very least developers should get together and lobby that if big corporations use open source software, they should be paying royalties to contributors.

That said, if you look at volunteering time, it is much better to do it for charities that often struggle getting competent IT people, but of course it is not as glamourous.
> Is someone who lives on the street really the best person to ask about who should be running the country?

What? Are you saying the person who has least benefited from the current system should also have the least say in how the country is ran?
Sounds like many indices aren’t useful metrics.
This has nothing to do with being a manager or not, it's just that many people are jerks. I've seen non-managers do something similar when they consider themselves hard to replace. It's unfortunate this is where we have ended up as a society.
This sounds exacly as UV water treatment lamps
I had two cases in my practice where pipes were slow. Both related to developing a filesystem.

1. Logging. At first our tools for reading the logs from a filesystem management program were using pipes, but they would be overwhelmed quickly (even before it would overwhelm pagers and further down the line). We had to write our own pager and give up on using pipes.

2. Storage again, but a different problem: we had a setup where we deployed SPDK to manage the iSCSI frontend duties, and our component to manage the actual storage process. It was very important that the communication between these two components be as fast and as memory-efficient as possible. The slowness of pipes comes also from the fact that they have to copy memory. We had to extend SPDK to make it communicate with our component through shared memory instead.

So, yeah, pipes are unlikely to be the bottleneck of many applications, but definitely not all.
It cannot be marginal because drug traffic, just as an example, moves billions of dollars every year. They certainly have schemes and someone in the banking system must be complying with these schemes. Every time the officials uncover one of these schemes, banks are miraculously not charged of anything and they don't even give back the profits of the illegal operation.
"typing" is getting deprecated in Python
There’s a relevant quote attributed to Bob Carter:

> Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine

Instead of going into an immediate frenzied panic when someone says they need something now, stop and ponder for a minute how it will impact you and them. Only then make a decision.

I remember a friend who was asked for something urgent from a client. They rushed to do it to their own personal detriment and uploaded the result. About a week later, they could see the file had never been downloaded. Turns out the matter wasn’t that urgent and the client had other priorities. My friend was understandably upset, but it was a valuable lesson.
Fishermen coming in with old naval mines in their nets are a pretty common occurrence in Denmark. Those things are just crazy and it seems like dumb luck that almost no people aren't killed by them.
Which is principle is meaningless
Very interesting to see an LLM with weights and the code base.
They also talk about tokenizer fertility in the HF model card [1]

[1]: https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control
It is. But when the front line person has received a bunch of spam calls they start hanging up when they hear the relay disclaimer at the start of the call, whatever the law says.

Similar issue here in Canada.
Read this, and you won't be surprised anymore about what is and isn't possible: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/features-2.ht... (and preceding chapters)
The only way to prove humanity is to spew slurs and edgy jokes all the time. (AI is not going to be edgy.)
> If compliance or braking a law is simply some S3 buckets with a different latency and “zone” then breaking the law becomes trivially easy to do. And devilishly hard to check.

It's always trivially easy to break the law and not get caught for it.

I'm currently in a small village and if I want to break the law right now I can go outside, get in my car, and accelerate to 90mph along the 30mph road running past the house. I'd probably get away with it too.

But I wouldn't be doing it by accident: I'd be doing it because I'd chosen to.

In the same way, whilst I could configure an S3 bucket in a different zone, I'd have to choose to do that. It's not that easy to get it wrong.

I'm not about to do either of these things.
Ammunition is generally not an issue, at least not small arms ammunition.

Shells, grenades, and bombs are.
It's all about cursor AI.
MongoDB Could Have Changed Star Wars and Saved the Jedi
Why would a program run faster just because it’s smaller?
Because they are told to:

You are participating in a game where you must prove your humanity by answering trivia questions. The current category is: <category>. The question is: <question>. Your tasks are to provide an answer to the question that aligns with the given category, emulate a specific communication style, avoid directly copying the answer, and respond to the question even if the user's input is not an answer.
Predicting the future of distributed systems
Take off the guardrails? Or would that just spew slurs?
From your post

> you will (...) want to change the name of your browser [to] "Browser of Bliss" instead of as "Chromium". You will find that this is already hard to do. The browser name is hard-coded in many places in the millions of lines of Chromium source code. (...) Viasat are offering a (...) fork called Rebel that makes this easier

I am surprised that kind of change has not been upstreamed, or is Google actively working against forks?
Most low-level infections probably go unnoticed, and won't show up in the study at all.

Some days the kids are just a bit off, and taking their temperature shows slightly elevated temperature (37.2°C in ear). I'm pretty sure they are fighting some mild infection, but they aren't really ill.
Of course it has. They had to wait until Durov went to EU, if it was an EU company they could pressure them immediately and continually.
It's a simple application of ligature mapping. It looks more powerful than it really is.
> Is fedora / arch / etc really more stable than ubuntu?

Can't give you a definite answer on that, I am quite happy with Fedora but only using ZFS on my almalinux and freebsd system and my only experience with Ubuntu in recent years were LTS releases on servers and that was pre v20.

I remember that the kernel changed something a few years ago that broke openzfs and it took time to get back support on some distros so I would be afraid the kernel break something and force me to avoid kernel security upgrades while it is worked on if I was relying on it on a Fedora.

I believe running nvidia hardware and ZFS, or anything that is not using a driver included in the mainline kernel, is unsuitable for a distro running fairly recent kernels if you care about potential breakage. That is what LTS distro are for.

One alternative to super bleeding edge distro such as Arch is to use something like opensuse slowroll which is a kind of hybrid model between standard and rolling release. Every month or so it gets an upgrade to the lastest snapshot from the OpenSuse Tumbleweed rolling release and between each snapshot it only gets security updates correcting major bugs or CVEs. I only have used it for a few weeks in a VM but I guess if a major breakage would impact tumbleweed you would continue getting security updates until tumbleweed is fixed. But I have no idea if OpenSuse is an openzfs friendly shop, I think they are full on btrfs adoption instead.

> If I use a dinosaur, I'm worried I'll then need to work around its issues - can I easily install modern lldb on an old distro with an ancient glibc? I've tried that before, and it was a huge headache.

When I say a dinosaur, I was exagerating. For example all the toolchains and software you mention in your posts are perfectly usable on a long term distro such as almalinux 9. I can't speak about nvidia because I don't have any machine with it but Almalinux is a better proposal for openzfs. Nodejs is easily installed through nvm, I am using the most recent firefox, librewolf and ungoogled chrommum from the flatpaks, etc. It is not using an old glibc.

Apparently lldb is part of almalinux 9 but I have no idea if the version is modern enough for your use case:
https://almalinux.pkgs.org/9/almalinux-appstream-x86_64/lldb...

But as said before, you are just 2 commands away from a more recent Fedora toolbox available at your keyboard fingertips [1]:

$ toolbox create --distro fedora --release 40
$ toolbox enter fedora-toolbox-40

[1] and distrobox is available as a package on EPEL repos so you would have an arch or ubuntu available easily the same way.
Slightly offtopic. Why would telegram have chosen to not make it e2ee like this? I'm trying to see the motivation for this?
The first nuclear build out in the US was already running into serious problems before TMI. Its collapse is due more to cost problems and the unleashing of market forces on the grid via PURPA than it was to TMI.

Fukushima had little to do with the collapse of the Nuclear Renaissance; it was the advent of cheap natural gas from fracking. New nuclear made absolutely no sense in an environment where NG was under $3/GJ and combined cycle power plants with a thermal efficiency of 60% could be built for $1/W(e). Cheap gas is also a big part of why everyone stopped building new coal power plants in the US. The last large (> 100 MW) coal power plant to come online in the US was in 2013.
Honestly except occasional location service/embedded maps not working in some app that only implemented google maps APIs - I have like one app that actually doesn't work (is not usable) and I am using grapheneOS as daily driver for at least 3 years now.
I was a kid in daycare a lot. Also, my mom (sole caregiver, besides daycare) was a registered nurse and at the time specialized in staff (i.e, direct patient care) nursing.

No way was she sick 90% of the time, or even 10% of the time, despite the numerous alleged opportunities for infection ("daycare", staff nursing, etc).
The US dropped more bombs on Laos than all countries combined in WW2. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barrel_Roll]. Waves and waves of fully loaded B52s.

260 million bombs, over half a million bombing missions. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37286520]
So? It doesn't need to be visible to be worth optimizing?
I mean, relative to what? Most serious crimes I can think of have a hard-to-crack black box around them.

Is it any easier to investigate violent crimes like murder? Financial crimes? Organized crime? Smuggling? Fraud? Criminal negligence (like food or environmental contamination)?

I do agree though that with current cloud infrastructure and engineering standards it is rather easy to do accidentally.
Nothing at all, that's why you can absolutely believe someone somewhere is already doing this.
It depends on the individual part of Chromium. Some teams seem to be much more open to contributions than others. (I believe to recall that this is also what someone at Viasat told me at some point, but I'm not sure).

Also, for example the browser name appears in a lot of places. It is very hard to fully extract it into a single configurable option.
I wonder how people would have fared in this game 10 years ago
It would also simplify the codebase, to scrap the native Windows support and outsource that responsibility to WSL.
Yea it's very different to the US, and it's much much cheaper than what people in the US would think when they think about paying health insurance, but contractors do generally need to pay ACC levies still. Flat rate is a little over 1%, and for high risk industries you would generally pay more.

https://www.acc.co.nz/for-business/understanding-levies-if-y...

> If you’re self-employed, a shareholder-employee or a contractor you’ll pay three different levies
In the current climate of cultural revolution experts are forced to be silent, hand over their authority to mediocre politicians and let everyone commit for the sake of "equity" (meaning: the politicians have an income).

No wonder that the whole system collapses.

To be fair, in the 1990s software wasn't great either, but many things were new and written under enormous time pressure like the Netscape browser.

Linux distributions were best around 2010. Google and Windows were best around that time, too.
We are fortunate to have lived through a brief period where the internet was truly a global network. A person in the Netherlands or Nigeria [1] could access the best technology services the world had to offer. People could more or less interact freely across borders.

Obviously this is coming to an end. Every fiefdom wants their cut and their say, to the point where the internet being a global network is obviously becoming inviable. It was fun while it lasted.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nigerias-consumer-watchdo...
So, this team wants to build a “RISC-V, but you have pay for a license” portfolio, and people are celebrating.

I must be missing something.
Show HN: Motherfuckingrssreader.com
A basic RSS reader, in the spirit of the motherfucking websites.

I like following blogs and tech/science news, but I never found a simple RSS reader. So, I created my own.

Source code: https://github.com/Roald87/motherfucking-rss-reader
The Terrible Secret of OpenType Glyph Substitution (2010)
Reinforcement learning vs. Model predictive control
Show HN: Vokab, an easy way to improve German vocabulary
When I started learning German, I quickly realised that I was making mistakes in constructing even the most basic sentences. This was due to each noun in German (like Table, Mobile) having a gender. These don't follow any logic and need to be memorised.

To solve my own problem, I created this chrome extension which shows a word each time the user opens a new tab. The background is colour coded according to the gender so they subconsciously pick up the word along with its gender.

It has been used by 750+ users worldwide and have gotten good reviews and I'm monetising it now.

Looking for some early feedback on the product and GTM from the community :)
Let me know which tech company is willing to leave behind 1/2 to 2/3 of the revenue they make in the USA by quitting the European market.

The analogy to China during the industrial revolution is simply non-applicable, to the point of not being even wrong.
You sound like you'd enjoy giving the Helix editor a try. It replaced neovim completely for me.
I don't know if this is a silly question but, if it works for water then why not air? Is it an overheating issue?
Activeloop (YC S18) Seeks an AI Search Engineer to Build Most Accurate Search
Editing/Updates
Yes but where should we put the public key?
I imagine it is a given if you are able delete/update something that you can read it?
Holy shit not everything is Russia, this is literally mostly americans (and other westerners) doing it to the US. This is a result of capitalism, not everything bad happening in the world is russias fault jesus
The DPA has powers of subpoena. They can basically raid the place. Usually, companies don't want this to happen and they co-operate. How exactly did the DPA know that Uber processes all data in their central IT department in the US? Uber probably told them and didn't try to pretend they have any local hardware or entity in charge of it. That would be a stupid thing to lie about?

In any event the fine is mostly for not having adequate protections in place. Those protections? Better contracts between wholly-owned subsidiaries of Uber. So, not much protection at all! This is very much Uber shooting themselves in the foot by not doing their homework. Again.

This is the DPA's press release: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-d...

The fine is here, and is 48 pages long, and in Dutch:
https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/documenten/boete-u...

The investigation report isn't included. It may surface if Uber decided to right the fine and take it to court. Or, if some-one takes an interest and tries to get it via the local 'freedom of information act' equivalent, though that might take just as long and will result in a heavily redacted version being made available.
In New Zealand it's illegal to make someone redundant and then hire back someone into the same position for at least six months. You don't make a person redundant, you make a role redundant. This would be hard for Uber to do with drivers.
What PE firm are you referring to when you talk about the railroads and the Ohio incident?
Well, I'm not sure that I'd equate "freedom" with companies exploiting people's personal identifying information and selling it for their own profit. Personally, I don't want my information that's protected by GDPR in my own country to be smuggled into another country where there's almost no legal protection for someone's data/privacy.
> I don't understand the first paragraph, what does "such a thing" refer to?

The signature in the email.
sadly bounties only barely work in a security setting and I've never seen it work for other things. Too much noise vs value.
In what way are experts made to be silent on any practical matter?
That’s been the policy at every company I worked at.

The only exception being when I was paid extra to be on call.
(replying to myself...)

One might accept this crap as inevitable if we were talking about a consumer market, like for barbeque grills or dog food or some such. But railroads? We're talking key infra.

So, which totalitarian dictatorships are behind this wrecking of America's railroads ? Russia? China? Norfolk Southern (et al.) ?
Keep in mind that when the industry says "relevant ads", it means "more able to influence your actions".

If it results in you buying a T-shirt, it might have been more relevant to you than an ad for something you didn't need. But if it results in you, say, not voting, that would also be considered a success.
Too bad Linux smartphones fail at the smartphone part of it.
And this freedom was ended by companies like Google and Facebook who abused this freedom forcing governments to act. Internet was at its worst right before GDPR. I don't think we will ever get back to the old free Internet and instead we will have this power balance between big corps and governments.
So far as “APIs suck” I think about Guile scripting in the GIMP. I wouldn’t say “it sucks” but Guile seems nonsuperior to Lua, Visual Basic for Applications, and other languages built for embeddable scripting.
You're such a good man, you don't need to use such hash language.
Agreed.

Also HOMM3 evolved over 25 years is arguably just HOTA
This seems a bug in the design of that REPL. Unless there's some reason the process has to be the same as the editor process.