skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glyphosate was the active ingredient in Roundup weed killer. Nowadays they have less toxic formulations. However glyphosate is the only herbicide I know of that kills Dallisgrass. Some of my neighbors had an infestation that they decided to resod their entire lawn.
How exactly does BTC store any more value than an NFT?
Yes, Tokyo is WAY more affordable than any city in Canada or the US.

And I lived in Connecticut too btw, but Canada was longer and more relevant since I visited a lot more of the US while living in canada.
hahaha cheers
NATO tests aquatic drones to protect cables, coastlines
This whole thing is a little weird to me. It's prompted by the ICP-Brazil misissuance of Google certificates. I get that it's a big deal. And, if ICP-Brazil was generally in the root stores of Google, Mozilla, and Apple, I would agree that this is a real challenge to the integrity of the WebPKI.

But it's not. Microsoft is the only entity that trusts ICP-Brazil. Microsoft cut a deal with Brazil, exclusively regarding software Microsoft controls, to allow them to do... whatever it is they were doing.

You should be unhappy with Microsoft if you're a Microsoft customer. But this has almost nothing to do with the WebPKI. Microsoft could also have rigged their browser up to accomplish the same thing.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23048054 (762 points | May 2, 2020 | 126 comments)

See also:

* https://backreference.org/2010/02/10/idiomatic-awk/

* https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/

* https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/ (my ebook)
Ok, where are the bad things from this century caused directly from rich people getting richer and nothing else?

And moreover - tell me how your prosperity harms the poorest in the world and what you’re doing to reduce that gap between you and them.
Both are pretty, though.
Technology Connections, the well-known YouTube technology explainer, has some things to say about this [1] on his Bluesky and it is interesting. I don't recall him ever swearing on the YouTube channel.

> I am once again screaming at the top of my lungs that absolutely nobody would give a shit about this if Tesla hadn't decided to reinvent the wheel in typical techbro fashion and convinced the public that plug & charge is such a magic benefit compared to putting fucking card readers on the chargers.

> The comments on this article make my head spin.

> Yes, activating non-tesla chargers is a stupid awful experience involving too many goddamn apps and failed sessions.

> And that's entirely the result of cost-cutting bean counters who couldn't figure out how to reliably build a fucking vending machine.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.social/post/3lc...
Could you elaborate on this a bit more?
If we are to be intellectually honest, then my position is:

1. Zionism is a colonial settler project created by British Empire, lord Balfour created it to create a buffer zone between Suez Canal and Ottoman Empire to protect British trade route to India.

2. After ww2 when British lost all their colonies, US picked it up as its own colonial entity and uses it as a military base to exert pressure in the region on oil rich countries

3. Zionists have no claim to the land of Palestine because “biblical claim from 2000 years ago” is a ridiculous pretext for British-US empire to keep a colony in the middle east.

4. People of Israel are being used to project power and fight imperial wars to control the middle east, at the great expense of the jewish people and especially global diaspora and long-term prospects and reputation of Judaism

5. Because it is colonial settler project, it is accompanied by all sorts of crimes against humanity, like: ethnic cleansing, displacement, genocide, war at the great expense of the native population that lived in peace in the holy land, before Zionists from Europe showed up in late 19-early 20th century

6. Because we live in 21st century, I dont agree with colonial settlement projects and crimes against humanity, recognized by UN and other international organizations and the best course of action is to implement UN agreed decision to resolve a conflict
Honestly, this is just repulsive. Crypto has brought nearly zero benefits to society and has made income inequality even worse. Not to mention the environmental impact.

I don't see how any reasonable person can celebrate this. Ask yourself who is benefiting most from this.
This seems reductive. Things do get more abstract, yet there is a spectrum of naunce: oil, vehicles, clothing, etc.
Yet the dollar is at record highs, and commodities are at record highs, and the stock market is at record highs, and real estate is at record highs, and Bitcoin is at record highs. So who is hedging what exactly?
Discussion on the front page (59 points, 57 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324263
By definition store of value means "its ability to purchase other assets in the future without rapidly losing its purchasing power" yet bitcoin has in instances halved it's value. So, no not a store of value.
They exist: they're the Google and Mozilla root programs.
Supply & demand?
Neat, how about something from this century? And the French Revolution is more complicated than rich people getting richer.
Bitcoin is actually just a bunch of numbers. Whatever value you think you're storing with it is always denominated in fiat which is very ironic.
A handful of companies (Microsoft Google Amazon Meta) will end up taking all the gains from the AI revolution as well. Capital wins because they don’t have to work as hard or worry about risks or access to talent. The playing field is tilted deeply against all entrepreneurs and really anyone lacking capital. I say this as a pro capitalism person. Something will need to change to give everyone enough influence and power.
It's the "chosen one".
I don't believe it is zero-sum.. Or at least, not rigourously. I feel the Market Capitalization of BTC must have been bootstrapped at some extent. It seems impossible to me that the sum total of what people have paid to have their BTCs to be more than $2.02T. In other words, the value the market gives it has given value to BTC out of nowhere.
> Mostly for easier segregation of workloads. Some of the IoT shit that runs on this cluster I segment it off through k8s and network policies.

Depending on your threat model that could make sense.

> Also most workloads wouldn’t need to use all cores or memory on that machine (one machine has 128G)

What? Limiting CPU or memory use of a pod is one of kubernetes' core competencies; just tell it what each thing needs and it handles all that for you.
HTMX is not really for pure client-side interactions. Usually people combine it with something like Alpine.
> BMWs arent that common in real america.

can you clarify where "real america" is? are places like Spartanburg, SC or Tuscaloosa, AL "real america" because you can commonly find BMWs and Mercedes in these areas.
If you want a professional Yamaha FM synth from the 1980’s, the V50 is a bargain. It was the last of the DX’s and is essentially two DX9’s with a sequencer and a drum machine.

For clarity, the later 4 op FM chips, have multiple wave forms and provide a sonic space as powerful as the earlier sine wave only six Op chips…they are not identical but equivalent.
Because money is power. If you believe in democracy, then extreme inequality is extremely un-democratic. (Note, there is, IMHO, a happy middle-ground: some amount of tolerable inequality, resulting in some amount of tolerable un-democratic-ness)
Rewarding while doing it, or rewarding after they got it?
Almost certainly, yes. Many people live on far less than that and retirees have their income augmented by a government pension (i.e. Social Security) which is quite generous by global standards. This is all eminently achievable by the average American living an average life with kids and whatnot, many do. Making better than average life choices provides a lot of insurance against bad luck over the long run.

An under-appreciated point that extends far beyond the financial is that Americans have an anomalously high amount of optionality in life.
Could you please add an option to enforce the use of transactions within the SQL input?
> More than half of research and implementation is funded by USG and Tax Payer funded rebates and concessions.

Absolutely not. SpaceX/Starlink didn't receive any money from the government. They tried to get a 800 million dollar subsidy, but it was revoked. Even then Starlink has cost a lot more than that to design, deploy and operate.
disagree. it’s only recently that google dropped X and moonshots. loon and the wing thing come to mind. sure, now, google isn’t very futurist (look how they botched AI execution), but in the time that starlink was developed, google was very much still futurist.

> speed was unheard of.

lol. only in the usa.

> At the time most ISPs wanted to have bandwidth caps and rate limits because they were afraid of people abusing the network.

lol again. it was all about monopoly incentives.

do you even analyze, bro?

sorry if this comes off too snarky, i have good intentions. i just find your insights very far off base.
Getting to a trustless decentralized name authority has shown to be elusive.
I don’t trust ITV to get an accurate number. People tend to have a huge bias against MENA and the figures perpetuated by everybody for Qatar’s builds are extremely exaggerated.
That won't hold people back.

We've all been watching how effective drones have been in the Ukraine war and there's nothing stopping a motivated individual with nothing to lose from droning a corrupt elected official, a cop who brutalizes innocents or an oligarch.

It's just a matter of time before this happens.
I feel like writing a specific app is not only more effort on your part but easier to ignore on mine (and more friction, a lot of people are hesitant to install new apps).

Personally I'm a big iMessage/Telegram user and as such unlikely to leave things unread on those mediums (they're one of the few apps that I allow to push notifications and display an "unread" badge); my reading of your post was that a selling point of GinkgoNotes is that it appears in already established workflows.
If you are feeling regret, don't. Very few people anticipated such a significant increase. Any profit is a good profit. Even investments that seem highly promising can end up in bankruptcy. This is one of the few that managed to succeed.
These are all true but far and away the dominant use case is long term (10+ year) store of value/dollar inflation hedge- which sometimes implies #2, but many entities are happy to hold on exchanges. Total BTC market cap at $2T- would guess from how relatively little transaction activity there is that at least $1.5T is due to this use case.
I’m not sure how it is in America, but in Australia there are standards followed when reporting on suicide. So perhaps this is a similar practice.

https://www.presscouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S...
That’s not really true anymore! Japan works on average less hours than the US does at this point, especially if you’re in tech like me. I’ve never worked more than 40 hours per week here.

And Japan actually has more time off for people to enjoy the fruits of their labor too!

As far as moving goes, I wouldn’t be so sure. Plenty of people start off their career in their home country before moving to HK or Singapore or Tokyo, skipping the US entirely.
BTC is not sustainable, that's true. However, the world is now aware of decentralized ledgering tools, and other projects have worthwhile technologies and use cases.

I just wish they would drop the energy consuming ones...
Not OP, but I assume they are arguing that all fiat money is inherently unsound
I just don't understand why you'd choose Bitcoin over gold. Gold, like Bitcoin, was criticized for just being a stupid store of value, but that wasn't completely true as it undoubtedly had some utility in the economy. Worst case comes and the market crashes, you know there's at least someone somewhere buying. What does Bitcoin get you over gold? The same "it's scarce and therefore valuable" narrative so you can store your wealth there, but it's not got the intrinsic value of gold. If the market crashes, you can't sell Bitcoin to someone to make jewelry or false teeth.

If you want to argue that people could theoretically discover a lot more gold or bring in an asteroid one day full of it, okay, but then why not just by land then? Even better than gold, there's a potential for some income too. Or why not just go with something that's equally as scarce like vintage wine? You literally can't make anymore wine of a particular year; it's inherently scarce.
I don’t think we’re real close to a “French revolution”, but an executed CEO today could be a symptom of the situation. (Of course, we don’t know the motive yet. But just the online discourse around it is telling).
You have to understand unlike in Europe. We have no safety net. Most peoples whole savings is their home. So owning your home is a big part of having something to retire on and pay bills.
If agriculture is required, so is shipping. I'm not so sure about real estate.
Or you have work that sometimes is unpleasant (but necessary!) and having people jump ship at the slightest provocation gets old.
A simulated world is also a world, and I can easily imagine if it would have been trained on real world data than it would have learner some of the real world's physics the same way, as the big video gen models already showing some of that. But all these models still seem very sample inefficient, they need lot of data to learn some basic rules of the world(s), and even then they are far from and human-like model that's includes math and logic for model the world more accurately...
I've always thought that Rust and React Native would be a good match. Native extensions for React Native tend to be written either in platform specific code (or C++ which just isn't nice anywhere). Rust is approachable for developers coming from JavaScript (i.e. React Native developers) and works nicely cross-platform.

In my dream world, cross-platform modules which currently bridge separate Java/Kotlin (Android) and Swift/Obj-C (iOS) functionality into a single JavaScript API would instead bridge them into a single Rust API (which could then be bridged into JavaScript), which would allow cross-platform access to Android/iOS APIs from fast native code modules as well as from JS.
Discussion (61 points, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324263
Polymarket, Bitrefill, Stake
It isn't fungible at all since every coin has a history which in some cases makes it unspendable, so it is highly risky to accept transfers without a third party chain analysis report, otherwise i agree
L1 blockchains, Monad being a recent success. But blockchain = finance. That is what the use case for blockchain is. Anything will be either platforms to host financial assets, the assets themselves (interesting tokens), or applications to trade / lend / lever up on assets. It's protocolized, open-source finance.
Agriculture and real estate would not exist in their current forms without the mammoth apparatus of the entire economy surrounding them. Maybe you mean food and shelter are the only non-bull parts of the economy. Nomadic bands might find them bullshittish. And grain stores require soldiers to guard them, soldiers require weapons, weapons require metallurgy, mining, surveying, transport, etc. Pretty soon there’s a whole lot of something but I don’t know that it’s bullshit. It feels more like layers of increasing abstraction away from the source of the value: energy.
This is a super cool idea!

Also, which spaced repetition scheduler are you using for this? FSRS?
People gave up on using BTC as an actual currency long ago. It's solely an investment vehicle now.
It is scarce, novel, transferable, passed critical mass of popularity long ago, uncensorable to some degree for now. That's all that's needed, it makes it better money than perhaps anything else
f.y.i. All stats come from the Fed and were dug up by chatgpt. Also all prices are median, not averages.
Google doing the "look how we can do this but you can't and you won't with our help" with more force than ever.
It's because your maths is wrong.

140k is the number currently working on it. Not the total over the project lifetime.

And given that the deaths were caused by heat exhaustion not sure Empire State Building and arguably Burj Khalifa are relevant. Especially when skyscrapers naturally offer protection as you work your way up.
I am always a proponent of starting with the end goal and then working backward. What are the end results you are aiming to achieve (or aiming to allow your audience to achieve)? Is marginal precision more important than the speed impact? The optimal database design will depend on that (i.e., on what you are optimizing for...).

It would also be very helpful, imho, to indicate keys and indexes, perhaps by modifying your schema diagram, or simply (and maybe better), just dump the actual SQL schema definition (i.e. the output from sqlite3's ".schema" command)
Bitcoin is a speculative asset like a stock.
> I strongly disagree that you need to cater to existing workflows.

I didn't say that these tools need to though. :-)

I said that actual high-end game developers need precise control over every aspect of their game. A developer needs to be able to say something as simple as: "I want to make my particle system to run at 30ps, while my cloth animation is 120fps, while my logic is at 60fps."

> I've written my own 2D and 3D game engines as well as worked in Unreal. I'm currently working on a controllable diffusion engine using Bevy.

Then you know all that I'm suggesting already! You probably have a list of the typical problems that game engine programmers are trying to solve when they build their own engines or have to modify Unreal Engine itself. You could even just watch GDC[^0] or the Graphics Programming Conference[^1] and ask how these tools solve the problems discussed.

Generative tools will create a new way of making games or game assets, but they won't eliminate the current way of making games.

Since you're building these generative tools alongside your game, you can demonstrate how they solve the kinds of problems game engine programmers need to solve and there's no need for us to misrepresent either side of the equation. Just give a presentation or publish an essay showing engine problems being solved at the standard a typical studio needs.

[^0]: https://youtube.com/@gdconf?si=F_n4G4zxQSny8BNC

[^1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLaly9x9rqjsXLW1tMFruyh_6...
Once on a night out with other poor uni students, I hid a vodka bottle in the bushes before going into a nightclub.

Someone must have seen me because, surprisingly, it wasn't there when I came back later.
There’s another part of this story that Wikipedia leaves out

The other two original Power Mac models had the code names “Piltdown Man” and “Cold Fusion”—not exactly the sort of thing someone like Sagan would want to be implicitly associated with.
Hit men aren't what you think
I thought Java was a country.
If you have enough power from the sun and enough compute, are you really that resource constrained?

Let me ask you, why do you think most real-time mission critical projects are not typically done in Python?

> If this is a rotorcraft of some sort, that seems silly. It's hard to waste enough power to be more than rounding error compared to what large brushless motors take.

It was a glider trying to fly as long as possible, so no motors, no solar power either. It got to the point that we could not even execute the motion planner fast enough in Matlab given the performance demands of the craft, we had to resort to Mex, and at that point we might as well have been writing in C. Which we did.
> The biggest constraint I've seen with scaling up these simulations is maintaining coherence of population dynamics across all of the processing units

Agreed. For mine I purposefully avoided this problem by making the population+world relatively small (<100 creatures and a relatively finite space they could move in) so each pc handled one instance of a world and after each generation there was a process of sharing data so successful brains were available to each world for continued evolution.

My dream was to scale this thing up significantly, but life intervened, maybe someday.
We already have Siri.
Ok, well I’m a person and not a household so i’ll stick with my number.
The ICP-Brazil thing was just a surprise coincidence as I was finishing up the article. I had started collecting my notes on the topic when Entrust got distrusted.
Fun threads to read through:

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890898

- https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...

DigiCert incident was pretty loud so that got my attention too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322
Is that why you hired them? What other disdain do you have for them?
I wonder how much of the price action is due to debt funded purchases through MSTR and other leveraged ETFs (e.g. BITU, BITX)?
> implements efficient rendering on top of the DOM diff

Here your definition of React diverges from reality, I believe.

React does implement state management—it sort of has to to be of any use. It is a flavour of immediate mode GUI, and some way of managing what changes and what does not change between renders is necessary.

However, React famously does not know about DOM or even Web. (Unless you meant DOM in some more general sense?) People use React to make command-line interfaces, output to embedded LCD screens, etc.

Yes, coupling it to Web and DOM and abandoning the separation of concerns that makes core React so general-purpose could probably make React a bit smaller, but I think projects like Preact are welcome to do it instead.
Its utility is similar to that of cash. But unlike cash it's (1) less fungible (2) much easier to transport (3) harder to secure from theft and/or destruction * (4) value is more volatile than USD/EUR/CAD/AUD (5) incredibly resource intensive to maintain (and growing!).

It's not an equity, it's a currency.

The Bitcoin network is nigh "indestructible" as long as some folks still consider it useful. This delivers credibility towards the faith required to support some value. If its value dropped by 99% tomorrow (maybe from aggressive global legislation and cooperation among governments), it would still function (but perhaps primarily maintained by sanctioned countries).

I think there's significant pros and cons to cryptocurrency in general and Bitcoin specifically. As the emission rate continues to decrease, I suspect its value will stay relatively high relative to what it is now.

EDIT: I said in (3) above that it's harder to secure bitcoin from destruction (than cash) but in some ways it's remarkably more robust than cash. You can make as many copies of the keys securing your bitcoins as you like (and/or use multi-sig). Your home burning down would destroy cash, but if you have a backup your bitcoins are preserved. However this is in tension with "secure from theft".
You’re right, but that’s not what BTC was designed for.

You could use something like Litecoin, Solana, maybe even Ethereum if you’re willing to pay the fee.
>For someone technical, he has way more confidence in "rewrite from scratch" than I have had (except as a cynical intra-org political play) since my mid teens.

Oops I meant that GFH occasionally gives off vibes of being a healthy imbecile, that I'd be ok with his (he's not wholly comfortable with it tho?) influencer status.

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Re: the dichotomies, i'll need to give a gramme (using quadrants, if not truthtables) as well, so more TK

Edit: a daggerly wakeup, guys! Sorry! I'll be more respectful next time
If only there were a service that people who are too old to drive could use to buy a ride where they need to go.
I would be extremely interested in a video or article describing that kind of patch (one with a physical analogue/interpretation). Are you referring to something specific?