skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe he just didn't recognize his face? Or might have recognized the name but lacked knowledge about his career? Remember Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Or, more politely and from a different angle, don't assume that the collection of facts that you happen to be aware of is obvious to everyone.
FYI this guy is the creator of Ethereum
We found streams to be a breakthrough feature for pub-sub type data on IoT devices. That it can both be low-latency pub-sub and a stateful, short-lived cache is quite powerful to improve performance for many queries to the types of data generated by cameras and high-frequency sensor devices.

http://atomdocs.io/
https://github.com/elementary-robotics/atom
China doesn't produce much natural gas domestically, and the last few years have been a lesson to them in how dangerous relying on other countries for manufacturing inputs is.
Colleges are addicted to insane tuition pricing (outpacing inflation for 40 years or more), enabled by excessive student loan debt.
> If you're sleeping on this it's like sleeping on the Bitcoin whitepaper. The dimensions for the future of computing are being hashed out in front of you.

I was certainly aware of Bitcoin by 2011, probably much earlier, and I have no regrets about not doing anything beyond learning about it. Should I?
Adding SSL to redis is feature creep so you recommend instead running it as a container with a proxy sidecar.
Where Can AR Have the Greatest Enterprise Impact?
I think you've got me wrong on this—the idea that I'm "relying" on "quick skims" and the POV of an "impartial reader," would imply that I'm somehow using these things against you. I literally am an impartial reader trying to understand this, who spent a little time reading a resource you pointed me at.

If I missed what you wanted me to discover in the resource, you could just highlight it here. But instead you've chosen to question my competence and make another series of ungrounded derogatory assertions about the tech.

Now including some mistakes, or at least overly uncharitable interpretations that are useless to an impartial reader:

> This is hilarious considering Nock is, in fact, esoteric.

It's esoteric sure, but it seems like his usage here refers to Esoteric Languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language) —which has a separate meaning (e.g. languages "as a proof of concept, as software art,"). That seems to be the whole point when he compares it to e.g. lambda calculus: he is maximizing practicality over mathematical elegance. So it makes perfect sense to point out that while it's esoteric it's not an Esoteric Language.

> This does not mean anything.

Again, if you take an uncharitable extreme, I agree: it's basically a meaningless thing to say. But if I wanted to be charitable I could come up with several ways of interpreting it.

> SK combinators are also very comparable to lambda calculus

Yes, I got the sense he was using them pretty much interchangeably here, using SK combinators as an example of an esoteric language, and in the next sentence he prefers "lambda calculus" because its a formal system in mathematical logic rather than a computational system, and the whole purpose of the sentence is to make a distinction between software foundations vs. mathematical foundations.

Unless you show an interest in exchanging ideas over rhetoric in your reply—don't expect any further responses from me.
Why cryptocurrencies are bad for development platforms
Agreed, and it's a crying shame, because over the past 23 years of trying and using Linux distros for work and play, I find Pop!_OS to be the best of the lot by a wide margin. I don't imagine I'll use another desktop distro on any of my systems unless System76 somehow screws up all the fantastic work they've done on it.
>>” SourceHut, only has six contributors with more than one commit”

And wasn’t antirez practically the only developer of Redis for years as well.

Why does the number of developers of a piece of software indicate it’s better?

Having a small development teams has worked for numerous successful projects. Take SQLite as another example.

So why the downvote?
Dell XPS 13 Developer edition is probably considered the best.

I would also recommend System76 out of Colorado. Quite an interesting, boutique company.
That’s why you put the asterisk first - that way, autocorrect doesn’t correct the word after it (at least for me)
How did you doxx me?
Sounds like a 2010 view of crypto when it was all new and exciting!

In reality there are a lot of practical problems that I don't think have been solved because they are baked in.

I feel they have been mentioned a thousand times on HN.

Just to pick on one, using cash which has a volatile value is not practical for the "unbanked". Whereas "IOU" cash based on $US is. Obviously $US is volatile too but a lot less than Bitcoin etc.

Stablecoins might solve this, but they are IOUs. And if they are not IOUs then they are untrustable not to crash to zero worth.

Crypto makes sense as a speculation, and also as an alternative to cash where you want to avoid government and private interference in transactions (but don't mind potentially losing privacy as all transactions are public).

For example Paypal can freeze your account or the Government can freeze your bank account, but "One does not simply confiscate bitcoin".
Firefox does a lot of phone home stuff too. (Not like chrome's built-in tracking)
What do you mean by text analysis?
I left the original word in place so people could see that I was corrected. How is that not fair?
The solution to this, or at least the first step, is simple. It's to recognize that Google is an illegal monopoly, contact your representatives and demand enforcement of the antitrust laws on the books.

This is already in process, 48 states are investigating Google today. Support it. Support lawmakers who support it.

More broadly a very large wave of antitrust reform is badly needed in the United States and this is a good place to start. The United States needs free and competitive markets that aren't controlled by illegal monopolies.

One of the benefits of free and competitive markets will be that there will be more companies promoting more platforms, but these companies will be less powerful. Then it won't be such a big deal if one of them decides to censor a certain type of content.

The answer is to support and elect representatives who will enforce the law against these lawbreaking companies.
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I’m sure I’ll get downvoted but why should it be? Stripe has thousands of items in the backlog across many areas, and in a larger company there’s prioritization at many different levels.

I’m happy that they addressed this but I often see on HN that folks expect that an email to support staff gets the same level of support/awareness as a highly viewed post on HN does.

As a Stripe customer, there are several things that I’d love to see improved or modified but I don’t expect all, if any, of them to make it into the roadmap immediately as they’re trying to scale & fix really big issues that have already been identified.

Do I wish it was possible for businesses to address every single customer/consumer complaint? Of course, but that’s not the reality we live in.

Also - I’m not letting any company off the hook with this statement, there’s plenty of companies out there that intentionally neglect glaring issues because they don’t want to deal with the noise that comes along with it but Stripe hasn’t really even been one of those companies.

Sometimes it is the best company policy to ignore items until they go away, and to deal with the ones that rise to the top naturally.
How to SSH into a Self-Driving Vehicle
So you’re saying SCP will tab complete through the control master socket? Neat.
As long as you don't use vendor specific tools, who cares? That's the point of kubernetes and to abstract away the whole "cloud" provider. Let it become a commodity and a race to the bottom.
Official TDP limits are almost irrelevant now. AFAIK, most consumer motherboards do not target the official TDP.

e.g. it's possible for a Intel chip to sustained turbo at levels unsupported by the nominal TDP.
I’ve been writing and speaking publicly about bitcoin since 2009, and I helped content-in-the-blockchain censorship resistant publishing altcoin Steem go from a tech prototype to an Alexa top 1000 website. I spoke with the then-solo founder of Coinbase on the phone the night before he applied to YC, warning him of the potential dangers of becoming large in that space (and highlighting the dangers of BSA as amended under PATRIOT). I’m glad Brian ignored my advice about the risk of turning into Liberty Reserve.

You’ll find few greater proponents of cryptocurrencies and censorship resistant p2p networks than I.

Note well, however, that when I say “crypto”, I am either using it as the greek prefix “kryptos” (i.e. hidden or concealed), or to mean cryptography.

I’ve never once met someone technically competent in the space who says “crypto” or “cryptos” to refer to cryptocurrencies or altcoins.

YC also doesn’t do that.

a16z does.

It’s a signal about the organization.
No. Average devs are average devs everywhere. Amazon's scale is different, but it's not like the scope of an individual dev's problems are inherently different at FAANG than not. Not everyone will work on the most intellectually intense pieces of code at FAANG companies; in fact most don't.
This isn't really true. Anyone can make comets, which are low-trust entities but still can use the network without any parent at all. Stars and planets can move between their parent galaxy/stars respectively. There's so many stars it's very unlikely planets will be unable to find a host they're OK with, and while there's fewer galaxies, they've been distributed reasonably widely, to the point that for sure not all are controlled by the original creators and there's at least plausibly variation in thought among the owners. Beyond that it seems like your view of how stars/planets interact with their parents is more restrictive than reality, the intention is more infrastructure providers than the form of moderation you see in a subreddit.

The thing I think is most problematic is actually the numbers involved, specifically the fact that there's only 4 billion planets (still).
Ah yes I had missed that. Thanks
Here[^1] is a discussion on an article entitled "What was it like to be an executioner in the Middle Ages?".

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20792442
I think that comes down to cost of work vs. fines at that point and which would cost more. If the fines are cheaper they may just opt for them.
It was only a matter of time before forign companies followed Google and Microsoft's lead and started slurping user data. Expecting any other outcome would be nothing short of delusional.

Screw Xiaomi and screw Google and Microsoft.
You are not the first to draw this analogy!
Plan is to get a million people to Mars within a few decades. You can only fly every other year when orbits sync up. Initially, I imagine many Starships will stay on Mars as shelter and raw material.

Then there is the idea of using Starships for very fast transport on earth. Fly from NYC to Sydney in half an hour. If that catches on, they may be replacing part of the airplane fleet.

Then there is lunar shuttle services, satellite transports and asteroid mining.

My guess is: a lot.
You are on your own on the kernels. I have been running 5.6 on my laptop with 19.10 and am kinda dreading upgrading to 20.04 and probably having to rebuild the kernel.
You’re talking about government-granted monopolies, like your electric company example. YouTube is merely limited in its ability to use its pricing power to squeeze its customers without attracting regulatory attention.

And we aren’t the customer — the advertisers are. I don’t think they’re bothered one bit by all this.
If someone proposed 32-bit IP addresses in the 21st century I would call that a scam.

I don't object to Urbit's addressing only because I think it has no chance of taking off.
Sorry, I should have clarified filesystem diff. I am thinking in real low level terms like what truly is the difference between these distributions.

ElementaryOS for example is a perfect case study.

> I say this as someone who installed i3 on Linux Mate, and when using Mate now, I see i3 notifications manager.

This is case and point why desktop linux sucks so bad. And it really bolsters my question: why are so many people reinventing the wheel for so many different things? Why do distributions need to have their own of everything? And if you do, hey that is great but why do you then need to wrap it into a different OS that is really just a popular one with a lot of tweaks?

I am coming from the perspective of someone who hates 'state' period ... or specifically determinism. So if I cannot reliably go from A to B to C (distributions) by just adding/removing packages and/or a kernel or two ... then the entire thing puts a bad taste in my mouth and makes me feel like the OS I am running is actually just a bunch of duct tape and garbage.

The irony is that under the hood linux is literally just plain old files on a disk. Yet if an XFCE Manjaro user asks somewhere publicly to switch to Gnome ... the solution ultimately tends to be "reinstall the Gnome ISO and copy your shit over"
Probably familiar to some of you, but a song you can actually listen to along the same vein, showed to me by Sussman: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=god+wrote+lisp&view=det...
The state of Rust MacOS bindings is pretty bad. Last I checked, a lot of crates are built on top of the `core-foundation` crate which is full of unsound abstractions. And a lot of them seem to be hard to fix, as the Core Foundation types are all equivalent to `Arc<Data>` with no synchronization of the inner data. This makes mutable collections very complicated to model, for instance.
It's great to see more historic hardware schematics, as well as runnable FPGA implementations of historic processors and systems.
Quite aware, though others probably aren’t so it’s worth mentioning. But in my case, I press a button and I get an AWS or DigitalOcean or GCP instance.

I like containers for my stuff. It’s silly, IMO, to doubly encapsulate my datastores.
1. Trying to solve important personal needs that might apply to a large number of other people.

2. Trying to solve obvious problems (e.g. death, disease, etc.).

Initial "marketing" (word-of-mouth) is key. Will there be a niche to start with?
Great reply, thank you. I feel like this filled the gap I was missing. Sounds like we're in regular expression territory, and the rest falls in to place in my mind.

I think I was expecting the error to be somehow more technical or down in the weeds somehow.
I would bet the vast majority of wealthy people have substantial debt. I mean, if you're going to buy a $10M home, why would you use your own money when the bank will load it to you for next to nothing?
You forgot to add that your choice is damaging the innocent content creators.
The “bank” is us. Almost all student loans are originated by the federal government. It’s a program the government offers to allow disadvantaged people to access higher education.
Ok I'll just leave this here for the curious. https://e-catworld.com/2020/04/04/all-revealed-the-safire-pr...
Well, just before it was selected stuff. Now it is the xml parser element node. That is a bit more than before. And the tooling changed like hell.
Presumably this is the Easter bump coming in from people who didn't take it seriously--it's been 3 weeks. Southern California has a lot more Catholics than the Bay Area.
Concur. That is a good read.
1. Document the things I'm doing in a wiki to save future time.

2. Research ways to optimize/automate the long-running task.
Exactly. I’m talking about how to orient yourself, PGMs are hard, sure but they don’t have to be outrageously hard. I would argue that if you do understand naive bayes (and it’s naivety) and you understand priors, then PGMs are just like rules to a game called “make a diagram of your posterior”. That’s not all there is obviously, and that’s kind of my point; you can do a lot with a little bit of knowledge, and then you can slowly climb that ladder for a long time and the more you learn, the more you can apply. Starting with an ad hoc approach (here are all of these classes in scikit learn with .fit() functions, lets just memorize their docstrings) isn’t “bad” per se, that knowledge is important, but it will not take you very deep, and you won’t be able to stray very far from those methods without being out of your depth and running into trouble.
Feudalism/Democracy/Socialism/Capitalism/etc. ceased to explain reality a long time ago.

Regardless of one’s ideological starting point, the complexities of the modern world will necessitate an org chart which is both very broad and very deep.

A better explanation of what we have—and will continue to have barring some cataclysm—is laid out in Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” and Michels’ “Iron Law of Oligarchy.”
That works for bastions, but not other use cases. One common one is pushing & pulling from git on a remote dev box. Or if you want to SCP something between remote machines without having to pull it down locally. Agent forwarding is the best way to do this (outside of possibly generating an ephemeral key pair and copying public keys around for a single use then destroying them... but ain’t nobody gonna do that).
I agree with you that it's terrible choice of wording for a general audience.
Would someone who is downvoting this be willing to explain why? Because I have the same impression (that many GDPR rules are simply being ignored because enforcement is lacking).
With apologies to Geoff Mack, here's a performance by Lucky Starr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpRvAnhHfmc
I've been an ML practioner since 2009. I've used every method imaginable or popular, I think. With the exception of non-linear SVMs. Linear SVM => All good, just the hingle loss optimization. Non-linear SVM, a bit of overkill with basis expansion. Just too slow, or too complex a model?

My impression: SVMs are more of theoretical interest than practical interest. Yeah, learn your statistics. Loss functions. Additive models. Neural nets. Linear models. Decision trees, kNNs etc. SVM is more of a special interest, imho.
Redis has RDB (snapshots) and AOF (append log) with configurable fsync policies. You can also use replication to avoid a single server failure.

https://redis.io/topics/persistence
They make a lot more than Arby’s employees. They’re also the main economic engine of some areas.
I love this anecdote.
Sounds like a cool project!

I prefer C++ to Java, but I think there’s absolutely a niche in the US educational market because the AP Computer Science A test uses Java. It could be pretty nice to have a Java-compatible MCU for the high school students I mentor because that’s the language they know, and it would make some cool hardware projects more accessible.
> Some self-proclaimed libertarians oppose socialism so furiously that they view right-wing dictatorship as being a better option. Personally, I'd say that people like that are not libertarians at all, but they continue to self-identify as libertarians nonetheless.

Wholeheartedly agree here. Libertarianism is by essence, anti-authoritarianism. You can't be a libertarian and at the same time, want an authority to dictate the rulebook.

For me, socialism and fascism are two sides of the same coin, that Horseshoe Theory is a real phenomenon. Of course, the two sides both vehemently disagree that they are alike (which is certainly the case if you specifically consider the ethno-nationalism of the Nazi's for instance), but the overall framework of both socialism and fascism is the centralized rule of a population through a dogmatic ideology with force or threat of force for noncompliance.

There's an interesting phenomena in reverse of the "authoritarian libertarian" too, which is the "restricted speech liberal" - those self-labelling as liberals who are opposed to free speech.
> The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning ...

I never fail to suppress a chuckle when I read that.
I fully accept I may be wildly out of touch with the common man, but I tend to be thinking of 8-10 years product life when I'm considering the TCO of a new vehicle.
Thanks! We've been talking about that on the team. I kind of want to expose any table automatically as a pandas dataframe so that you could transform it with python on the fly and we'd take care of the execution (and then sync the result back to the apps). Do you have something specific in mind?
I didn't downvote this, but I'll try to explain:

First, it is somewhat related to the post but not very related, so the comment adds more noise than information. Perhaps you can submit it as an independent post instead of a comment.

Nuclear fusion is full of promises, fraud and snake oil. There are some interesting project, but there are also a lot of bad projects.

> clean energy production

Prototype or it didn't happen. IIUC they are still researching that, so the commercialization to the trillion dollar market should wait.

> heating

This look easier, you don't need a self sustainable reaction (ignition). Anyway, it would be interesting to see the analysis of the cost of the equipment and how often it need replacement, and how much power it can process. I can believe they have something here, but I'd like to see the evidence.

> remediation of nuclear waste

I don't understand what they are talking about. (I actually can imagine something like that, but what I imagine seams too difficult. So it smells like a void promise to get money. But let's be optimistic and say that I don't understand what they are trying to do.)
This is the cycle with Intel, though. They innovate, blow out the market, and then stagnate until AMD or someone else comes out with an architecture that's a category improvement on whatever Intel's offering.

This looks like they're turning every nob to 11 on the current architecture to try to get something that they can sell until they can come up with whatever will succeed the Core line.
So nice to hear! That's precisely how we felt :-)
I had a similar idea wanting to play with the AWS / Google speech to text services.

I wanted to pipe in audio of various Youtube tech conference videos then apply some basic taxonomy/tagging and provide full text search so you can find a conference talk which contains some specific technology/subject you want to view.

I ran in to difficulty in technology / software conferences uses very specific acronyms and words that are not very general. Also being international there's many accents and levels of English. This means the AWS/Google API's struggled to translate videos which was also made difficult by using compressed audio streams you get from Youtube vs wavs.
I don’t participate because whether he left or not, there has been no statement about whether or not he’s still a shareholder.

The success of Urbit could still be enriching its racist founder sitting on a founder-sized set of tokens or equity, even if he never worked there.

I’d much rather just participate in other projects.

EDIT:

...as of last I looked, there had been no statement. I’d still simply rather involve myself in other projects and communities, as it sounds like he would still benefit from the growth of the system, and I don’t think I’d get along with his compatriots that are still working there.

I try not to work on things where doing a good job means that someone who wants my friends to not have human rights makes more money for their cause.
I didn't edit my comment, I was addressing my parent's comment (but didn't quote)

> Ad supported services are booming, the Facebooks, Googles, because we’re consuming more ads.