skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, how can we avoid the potential for unintended consequences where this tech makes Google "greener" while GCP users become less green?

If a data center has (roughly, to a first-order approximation) fixed compute capacity at any point in time, and we assume that any capacity not being used by Google themselves is made available to GCP, then wouldn't Google reserving the "green" hours for themselves drive the remaining "dirty" hours onto the GCP spot markets?

Is there a cloud market design that addresses this tension between maximizing utilization and having desirable or 'premium' compute hours?
Hey HN,

We’re excited to share Inverse, a Chrome extension that enables groups and teams to have conversations and share knowledge on any webpage. Unlike email or chat apps like Slack or Teams, where information is siloed inside each app, Inverse lives alongside you in the browser so you can view and take part in discussions without leaving your current tab. These discussions are tied to specific URLs, so you can create a common thread that connects related pages, like a document, ticket, design, or dashboard. You can find discussions by revisiting relevant pages and opening Inverse.

We started building Inverse after realizing how much time and energy we were wasting looking for things just to get our jobs done. It was always the same thing: copy and paste links back and forth, have discussions around them, and then lose track of it all over time. So we built Inverse as a way to help teams instantly capture and share information across all their tools without having to decide where or how to do it.

This is just the start. We’ve got a lot more on the way. Soon you’ll be able to link threads to multiple pages, mention members in threads and send them notifications, and a whole lot more.

We’d love to hear what you think! How do you currently collaborate across tools? What is one thing you could change about the way you and your team communicate/share information?

- Haris and Sunil
> written in Go

I am not sure what this line is adding. It is supposed to add "runtime support". Is this doing some language specific libraries? But then they do support various other languages! Why is Go special? or that all language support is somehow made in Go? Binaries made in Go? May be that should have been left out for clarity. This is very confusing for me.
If a business were to go and get one of these "nearly negative" loans from a bank, what would they pay in fees?

Do you know?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJn7T4D-6k

Maybe of interest
Swapping out database platforms is pretty deep into YAGNI territory for most. Unless you know you are selling an on-prem software product to some customers who will demand MSSQL and others who will demand Oracle, or whatever, this "swap databases" justification for scrupulously using an ORM is not well grounded in reality.
Will be surprised to see someone would even buy them with 1B...They are basically worthless at this moment.

And what good has this inspiration brings to the economy then? It is funny to even call it an inspiration since for a very long period of time it is just rendered CG for marketing.
Regardless of if it was a drop in the bucket to their revenue, their probable acts of tortious interference could cause material arbitration costs to them for deplatformed creators that chose to open arbitration cases against them: https://www.cernovich.com/patreon-mandatory-arbitration/
The update to migrate the filesystem took way longer than the docs said, I ended up just letting it run and came back a few hours later. And it wasn't like I had much in there. Otherwise it was straightforward.

I switched to windows insider to get it, but WSL2 should hit GA in the next month or two.
"There are still people thinking it's not a big deal, I wonder what the threshold really is for changing that idea."

username does not check out.

But did you notice it doesn't really matter how people read what I wrote when

> It is now undisputed that Covid-19 should be taken seriously as a serious illness.

that's the point I was bringing attention to? That it is not undisputed because a non-negligible amount of people think differently?
Legal isn’t a subset of good. Illegal isn’t a subset of bad. You can be legal and morally bankrupt at the same time.

Facebook could be ethical and have half a billion less dollars or do what they did. Interesting choice that I’m sure isn’t on a slippery slope at all.
They didn't do it to follow Vietnam's laws, they did it because Vietnam was throttling their site.
I think people are way too hard on rustc. That linked issue is pretty esoteric and is a good example of the low-hanging fruit being picked. I doubt it'll move the needle much.
Magic Leap is really cool to use. That doesn't mean it's a feasible product for the mainstream.
> My guess is Stripe is more concerned about the action patterns than the specific keys that a being pressed.

Don't they still need to process the data server-side to derive that pattern to make a decision on it?
It may just be a change in the way that we work. This paper may just as well be titled "Are institutions getting less effective?" or "Are research institutions getting less effective?". Hell, it might even be that our smartest people aren't researching and the amount of brainpower we throw at research problems has actually decreased even though the effort/money we throw at research problems has increased.
Code gets optimized out of existence all the time and isn't a problem for exception handling code and debugging tools, I don't see why this would be any different.

http://cesquivias.github.io/blog/2015/01/15/writing-a-langua...
> I don't think there is a distance limit between AZs but instead a latency limit

Ok, fleshing that out via google:

"The connection between AZs is expected to typically achieve low single-digit millisecond latency between them on average."

https://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/expected...

and

1 light-millisecond = 299792.458 meters, so nearly 300 km / 186 miles.

https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/en-US/length/...

So in 2 milliseconds, light travels 599km or 372 miles.

That's a _hard_ limit. IIRC, modern communications is at a fraction of lightspeed, which would lower it.

There's no reason _not_ to have the AZs for a region in the same metro area, so separated by 10s of km, tops.

10km = 0.0333 light-milliseconds.
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This is correct. I worked in real estate prior to the collapse. By 2006, Bank of America and others had already moved to an entirely automated appraisal process and people were able to get loans in excess of 35% of their monthly income no problem.
I was a Rails user for almost a decade. I switched to Phoenix/Elixir 3 years ago. Elixir is a super simple language. It has no OO concepts and everything is functions first. In fact, it's so good that I started teaching it for universities. All my production web applications are now fully on Elixir.

Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment. When I say perfect, I mean, there has been never once in my career where I hit a roadblock due to the language's limitation or complexity or flawed assumption. I faced this with other languages, but not Elixir.

I'm currently a full time consultant writing, teaching and deploying production apps for clients in Elixir. Most of my apps have served my clients well beyond my contractual agreement. It's almost deploy and forget because of Phoenix. It also scales amazingly well. It's extremely performant.

I just re-wrote the entire crappy mess Wordpress core in Elixir and enjoyed the process. In any other language, I wouldn't be saying the same. It's really an enjoyable language that forces you to rethink the way you write code. Don't be put off by this statement, I mean that in a really good way. And once you start thinking interms of functions, you just won't touch any of those terrible OO programming paradigms (Eg. writing for loops, nesting conditionals, etc.). You will start writing maintainable, beautiful code.

You will appreciate Elixir a lot especially if you have a background in horrible programming languages like Javascript. You will literally start finding ways to use Elixir in your entire stack like I am. It's that good.

Enough said. Give it a shot.
You outline the problem very well. The banking sector has an ENORMOUS amount of power over the economy/society in a way that no other industry does because it literally has the ability to create money out of thin air (by loaning it into existence). The banking industry is the arbiter and credit in our society and decides where money get allocated.

This would be fine if it were their own money, but it's not - it's our bank accounts (ie. fractional reserve banking). Unfortunately individuals can't opt out of this because unlike private banks, individuals aren't allowed to open a bank account directly with the government (though these replies show that this is possible in countries like France).

The finance industry does not generate real wealth, it is a wealth extracting industry that profits off the spread between the interest rate decided by the central bank and the interest rates and fees it charges consumers. Banks do not create goods or services, they just decide who gets the money to do so, with money that's not theirs. 80% of bank credit goes to mortgage loans (driving up housing prices and saddling homeowners in debt). Banks have gone from 2% of the U.S. economy in the 1950s to 8% by 2008, and 1.5% of the British economy in 1978 to 15% by 2008.

The first step to fixing this is to give citizens the ability to opt out of private banks and bank directly with the central bank. Private banks should not be the only ones with this privilege.
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I will be very glad if you actually answer these questions, in a separate comment. I'm driven to write this by nothing but the desire to know.
I miss Grooveshark, it's radio feature brought me so much amazing music.

Surprisingly, Youtube Music has pretty decent music discovery in the form of it's radio feature, sort of like Grooveshark.

I wish they would combine Google Music's functionality and organization with Youtube Music's discover-ability and expanded library.
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well.. we could occupy zuccotti park again, except now it's illegal to have more than 100 people in the same place together.

sincerely,

"the civil liberties lobby"
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Just Wikipedia rentier capitalism. Banks are a scam. News at 11
Magic Leap is like the story of overhyped, over-priced tech vaporware investments in the 2010s all embodied in one company.
I suspect that, as a synergistic, beneficial effect, HTML and CSS would be gone by now. The web could not work with Lisp for nearly a quarter century without getting a clue and jettisoning the obvious garbage. At first, pages would be written in a Lisp notation that expands to HTML (or directlyto the dom) and CSS client side. Then that would become built-in, allowing static pages to be written that way.
The ecosystem has been quite mature for a while. The language reached v1.0 almost 6 years ago and Phoenix v1.0 was released almost 5 years ago. The community has built a lot on top of them since then.

The deployment topic is wide, so the answer will depend on your favorite ways to deploy. If you are using Heroku or another PaaS, it has been very straight-forward since ever. If you want to ship a self-contained executable or a Docker image, the language has standardized on the tooling for assembling those in the last year or so (they are called releases). It was always possible before, just not standardized at the language level.

It runs its own http server but you can easily put it behind nginx, websockets included, by using the reverse-proxy settings. Here is an example article: https://dennisreimann.de/articles/phoenix-nginx-config.html
NB: the title is misleading. this is not about pure ideas, this is about economic growth, which to be measurable (significant) needs to be exponential.

no doubt, there are more ideas now than ever. technology is a great enabler. but finding economically impactful ideas ... that does seem to be getting harder, from my armchair view.
When independents team up for long enough, because they have enough in common, you get a party as well, with all the attendant features. Groupthink doesn't stem from formal affiliation - after all, most people in US who fall into it are not formally members of either party.
But why it's burning hole in the finances? AirBnB is all marketing. Scale down your cloud instances and don't spend on ads? What exactly burning money at the rate of 1B per month? It's not clear from the article at all.
Thanks you sir, and would you know about surreal numbers?
The Corona virus situation is shining a lot of light into the dark corners of our society and the way things currently function, and it's not flattering.

I saw a tweet that summed it up perfectly.
"Corona virus is a black light and our current world is a c*m-stained hotel room".

Given so many people are out of work, and this need for social distancing may continue for years, it's the perfect time to discuss improving society.
> I just re-wrote the entire crappy mess Wordpress core in Elixir and enjoyed the process.

That sounds useful. Do you plan to make a product out of that?
> I think people all seek a permanent legacy of some sort. I don't think our digital junk really fits. There are IRL costs to hoarding junk; I'm really not sure any benefits - of keeping _all_ someone's digital miscellany - justify those costs?

I think with a lot of things there's a J shaped value curve. Over long periods of time, things of small value (including literal garbage) become historical and archeological treasure.

Also this doesn't seems like it's really mean to be storage for random "junk":

> Permanent.org isn't just another digital box or drive. It's a digital archive.

> Upload your most important digital materials to your archive and customize the archive profile to represent you. Create multiple archives for other people and organizations. Then establish relationships to share materials between them and create everlasting connections. Collaborate with your community by adding members to any archive to curate a shared history.

That implies there's a certain level of curation that's supposed to go into the archive, so more diaries and important records than your "Downloads" folder.
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Yeah, Georgia has way better artifacts than Armenia, for example: Vani, Mtskheta, Kutaisi, etc. For some reason Poti is missing from the list too.
Fairchild Symbol Computer (2008) [pdf]
I actually think you need to flip that around a bit.

Instead of
>the biggest issue here is not that some companies that probably shouldn't have received the funds did. It's that a lot that should have didn't.
Try
>the biggest issue here is that some companies that probably shouldn't have attempted to receive the funds did; causing a lot that should have to not.

There was a clear prioritization screw up in this whole boondoggle.
See also: Apple Newton versus iPhone.
Not with its playing-card-sized FOV it isn't
I sure hope so as well, but usually iOS versions with actual beta builds (that is, not a 0.0.1 "hotfix" release) come about 4-10 weeks apart. There is a chance that this "0.0.5" release is meant to be fast-tracked through the release process, but this kind of thing is rare anyways so I can't say much about it. As of today we are on developer beta 2 of iOS 13.4.5.
Thanks. I was writing on mobile, and autocorrect corrected “mem” as in memory to men without me noticing.... sorry.
The purpose of processing the individual mouse positions over time may be exactly that, but I'm not sure that the intent matters. For example, a website asking for my social security number for the sole purpose of verifying whether it matches the checksum (Dutch SSNs contain a checksum) would still be processing my SSN, no? I'd be interested if I'm wrong, though.
Thank you, I'll look into this but I find Haskell very hard for my C-family lineage head to wrap its brain around.
I'm pretty sure I would be good at SQL if I devoted time to it, because I've worked in other declarative DSLs and generally outperformed other programmers using them, but basically every place I've ever worked at that used SQL extensively had already employed SQL experts that just handled the problems on that level so that it didn't seem worthwhile bothering with it.
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Worth noting that a lot of niche industries only work today because we have better automation to support oddball things that aren't truly "mass produced." More and better automation will enable even more of these segments to exist.

Mechanical keyboards are a good example. There's a wide variety of plates, cases, and circuit boards available today that would be infeasible to make by hand, and were not cost effective to make just a few years ago. But here we are today with an appreciable hobby and market that wouldn't exist if not for improvements in manufacturing efficiency.
We will, but the balance is much more against coal now. We will have it consumed before it is replaced.
I keep reading about this and that new system feature which is supposed to make X class of bugs impossible. What silver bullet would prevent this kind of exploit?
Bingo. There was a awful lot of screening at MEPS -- where you go to process for the US Military, regardless of Marines/Army/Navy/Airforce -- for medical stuff. Lots of implied "do you secretly have a medical issue?" questions, as the military is responsible for paying for your healthcare.

I served with a dude who entered to be a diesel mechanic (even though he had no background/interest in it) because he got his GF pregnant and didn't have a way to take care of a kid at 19.

These are less of an issue in Canada, the UK, etc. where they have universal healthcare and better safety nets.
The sheer volume of cash and talent thrown into something that hadn't yet found a market is sort of amazing / seemed like a huge amount of cart before the horse.

It seems generally like they decided to do X, Y, Z but needed to invent A, B, C before they could get there, let alone know if anyone wanted X, Y, Z.....
Criticisms of bureaucracies are valid in that decisions by groups are difficult. The more consensus required the slower the process.

Isn't this just the human manifestation of the CAP theorem? Bureaucracy is a democratically managed database.

Anyways. All that to say, it seems valid to work on the system and within. You list local, city, county etc, and to the detriment of the system those are global write locks.

> The government is us, and it’s huge and slow and careful and conservative and complex. But it needs us inside to change.

I'd like you to consider the government is slow and huge not because of any bad will or conspiracy, but it exists that way due to technical limitations of human organization and achieving consensus.

Our government is Encyclopedia Britannica and we're expecting Wikipedia levels of quality and availability. The underlying organizational structure simply cannot support our expectations. I believe a more participatory form of democracy would be for us not to vote for editors, but a protocol that allows agreeable edits to be socially accepted and contentious edits to be ignored.
For unknown reasons, the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture used to burn down their settlements every 75-80 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_house_horizon
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> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull.

This is my perspective. For me it's like watching people enjoy chewing glass. I am genuinely baffled that the experience isn't horribly painful for them.
Regular attendees of CCC will know that tamagotchis are famous in the hacker community...
Do you know how many more financial abstractions exist today than 40 years ago? That being said, I fully support moving 90+% of financial activity to smart contracts.
I still like exploring “new” music, but new music that I’ve fallen in love with over the past year is Elvis, Judy Collins, James Taylor, and Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions. It’s hard for me to justify giving modern music a chance when I haven’t even given the established greats a chance. The modern music will still be around in 10 years. Hopefully by then it will be more clear what’s standing the test of time, at which point I’ll give it a listen.

Same thing happened with Kanye by the way. In the 00s I (mostly) wouldn’t touch it, but it’s now clear it was highly influential, important music and I’ve begun to revisit it.
Question to the former Rails devs out there:

We mostly see threads fawn over Elixir and Phoenix, have you experienced any downsides to switching? Anything you miss from Rails?

I'm convinced to give it a try after that demo!
They do. And language designers seek to smooth the edges and develop ways to encourage devs to write clear and intuitive code. When a language says "well, these are hairy questions that you should just figure out" we tend to criticize those languages unless they have clear reasons for that decision. It should be obvious that something is thread-compatible. "Well, if you model it in pi-calculus it is easy" is a crappy way of handling criticism.

"Its easy if you think about it mathematically" is not enough.
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“I'm the nurse who switches off the ventilator”
People have stopped being able to get things, but is there any evidence that (a significant number of) people have stopped wanting things (long term)?
"At the expense of extra hardware, the Symbol computer removed ‘‘artifacts’’—introduced to improve execution speed— of conventional computing languages. Undesirable programming artifacts, for example, included static data types and type declaration."

:-)

"Fairchild’s Symbol computer had both the compiler and operating system built with hardware, not software."

8-)

"The translator hardware (compiler) operated at disk transfer speeds and was so fast there was no need to keep and store object code, since it could be quickly regenerated on-the-fly."
> High level synthesis works perfectly fine, just not from C

What other HLS languages have you used? I'm not aware of any apart from C (and a limited subset of C++).
Yes, that's what I'm referring to.

You can see it in Fork's screenshot: https://git-fork.com/images/diffViewer.jpg

But if you look at Guitar's, you'll see the lack of word diffing, and that makes it take significantly longer to see exactly what changed: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3c6c338ece93afda723cef575...
Encouraging and incentivizing compute/electricity demand to be time flexible provides the opportunity for cost savings and emissions reductions.

The greater the flexibility, the greater the savings when demand can be smoothed out to better allocate resources and allow easier forecasting.

If compute jobs that are run on demand can be deferred a few hours and run during a time period, that allows resources to better utilized. Like charging an EV overnight, but better.