skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 21M can absolutely be changed. It's not a law of physics, it's just a line of code that can be changed. If enough people agree to it, it can be changed, they can even change the number of coins you get for successfully mining a block.
Actually, it's just a 128-bit address space (so I was wrong about it being 64-bit, but this just makes the problem that much worse). Parts of this space are divvied up IP-address style into 96-bit-wide blocks (and some other parcel sizes as well), so that carves out a 32-bit sub-space. But no matter how you slice it, the fact remains that they are selling a digital asset at a valuation that exceeds the total economic output of the known universe by several orders of magnitude. If that's not a scam, I don't know what is.
There's probably a lot more warning than the video makes it look like. For example, the cables flaking significant chunks of paint could be a clue that the cable's changing geometry.

It seems fairly logical that it was being inspected precisely because this was anticipated. It's not like it was a surprise, it's exactly why they said they couldn't put manpower on it.
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle, which is against the site guidelines and not what this site is for. We've also banned a bunch of related accounts that were doing the same thing, including posting in the same thread. That's seriously abusive.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fortunately, there is Cloudflare (incidently, also behind the http/3 push) who'll be happy to proxy your old site using http/3
It’s an incredibly potent high and being loquacious and increasing heart rate is like saying a car speeds up travel just a little bit over walking.

For me it’s the incredibly short half life of the drug leading to a massive craving for more only ~20 minutes later. It turns people with addictive tendencies into annoying ass holes as they follow the friend who has more around the room constantly. Seeing how people act when they want to get more should be required media just so they can understand the behavioral changes everyone one misses when they are the one who is high.
This seems promising! One thing that confused me initially was that your video made it seem like a second monitor was necessary. Had to go to your FAQ to find out that you can share individual screens.

Will definitely give this a shot.
Lock-In is dead simple to avoid with AWS. Even with Lambda, which people tend to point to and say "lock-in!". Even now we've got lambdas running Docker containers.

It's a total boogeyman and I've never heard anyone care about it except on HN, where it comes up constantly.
Masters of Doom is a great book going in length about the personalities and talents of Carmack and others from the early days of id Software. If you're genuinely curious about it, I think you'll find the book a fascinating read.
On Effectiveness of Exceptions in OCaml
> But, will the cartels move their violence to shutting down the competition?

Maybe, but then the government resources that went into fighting the cartels with the goal of eradication can go into fighting the cartels with the goal of suppressing unauthorized violence, with the financial support (through taxation) of the drug profits from the law abiding competition. (If they aren't amnestied for past violence, that probably happens to the cartels anyway; if they are, they are faced with a choice of peace and trying to monopolize the market from an initially-advantaged position peacefully and waging war on the competition which inevitably becomes a return to war with the government, but now with the competition's profits funding the government effort rather than the competition facing the same suppression and dividing government resources.)
Seems like that would be more inline with the stripe connect platform.
Neonazis were used to intimidate immigrant workers at Amazon facilities in Germany a few years ago, so it's not exactly "history" for "old comrades.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-..."
It's useful and it has demand for its use. But most people buy it only to make a fortune. This makes it a Ponzi scheme. No contradiction here.
I’m sorry but you are emblematic of someone who has watched Narcos and thinks they understand 2020 Colombian politics and drug trade.

Which cartels in Colombia are more powerful than the government?

Also, at least get the spelling of the country right.
I have a project right now where I have to connect to a VPN, then remote-desktop to a "jumper PC" that's dual-homed via VNC to a segregated PC running Windows XP on a manufacturing tool we recently got out of mothball to backfill Covid supply chain gaps. On the plus side - the ancient version of Visual Studio on that tool is surprisingly snappy!
> work with any union that forms

Yes, because why the fuck would you side with the party that has power (the employer) over the side that usually doesn't (the employee)?
Correction: as pointed out, the sixth ball is picked from range 1-20, which more than halves the probability to less than one in 2 million.
Fresh meat and vegetables, however, should be buy-able in small portions. Otherwise, you either have to buy a giant freezer and eat frozen food all the time, or go to a diner on a daily basis.
How long before someone releases a multi-multi-cloud solution so that we don't have to lock ourselves into a particular vendor's multi-cloud solution?
It finally appears that we built the wrong monetization strategy for the Internet.

Ideally users would have the option of having some sort of digital bank associated with their web browsing. Micro transactions could pay to support the websites instead of advertisements.
This is just really basic old-style security, like you could do over a century ago.

Kuwait collects DNA.
Or Scotty in ST:IV "The One With The Wales": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVgRj2e5_s&t=172s
Pretty sure 90% of retail crypto investors are just FOMOing, but more and more people are excited by the technology and looking for creative applications. DeFi has been interesting to watch.
if you leverage your risk for a higher return you _also_ increase your risk
Once it goes over about twenty seconds for me, I'm switching tasks or checking my email (or worse, HN.)

Keeping that compile time down is critical to being productive.
I am not either. But I also would not want to make any moral claims that would make it harder for those who do want to follow some legacy.

And, honestly, my disconnection to my past and structures larger than myself is a source of unhappiness for me. I don't know if I would necessarily advocate for my own life choices. I think I made the best choices I could at the time based on what I knew then, but there are real downsides to building a life more or less from scratch.
@deadmilk3 and others

> Come on, really? Drug consumption is a victimless crime.

It is common practice to penalise the selling of drugs much heavier than the possession or usage. There you have the victim: the buyer and user of the drugs.
> I wish corporations were less psychopathic, too, but this is not the hill I'd die on. Or, I'd be damn sure ready to die if I redlined as a "nice to meet you" first act.

And what does Google (and most companies) do as a "nice to meet you" first act? Present you with adhesion contracts that you must sign with barely enough time to go over them. Nice.
Everyone should read your comment. YLC's initial reply was shockingly reductionist and myopic. How can supposedly smart people, software engineers who are used to thinking in systems and dependencies be so stupid? There is a blindspot in the tech community that is simply terrifying.
Ah no computer sales were already at black friday/holiday season levels for the last 4-5 months. Chip supply already couldn't meet the demand and then you got some big generational advances in gpus Amd/nvidia and cpus Amd add new generation consoles so the demand went through the roof. The annual production capacity is for 1000 but the demand now 1500-2000 so the shortages are here to stay for at least another 6 months to a year.
If you want to get into corporate market, no company would spend extra $100 on GPU if you can have it integrated. I'd say vast majority of consumers really do not want separate GPU. I personally am very happy with Intel HDs on all my computers.
Code, software, (arguably) middleware (not an accepted word yet).. are all uncountable [0][1]. Code itself is a bit of an aberration though.. even as a noun representing a set of rules (which dictionaries list as countable) it can be uncounted - 'code of conduct', 'penal code', 'code of the Samurai'.

I really hope it doesn't become another literally [2].. despite Archer's efforts [3]

[0]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/code
[1]: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/code
[2]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
[3]: https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Trademarks_and_Techniques#Use...
From the perspective of the people at the top of Google that team almost certainly exists for whitewashing purposes. However corporations are made up of people and that perspective may not be shared by the folks that actually work for and with the team.

For fields like AI research that are largely industry focused these corporate labs become the major location continuing research that has a large impact is possible for academics post-PhD.

Those facts combined with Google's tendency to try to hire the best of the best means they very often end up hiring people with strong personalities, opinions, and industry influence that don't lend well to being subsumed by the machine resulting in situations like this.

The internet and social media making it possible for knowledge about events like this to penetrate beyond just those inside the specific industry has also made it much more possible for individuals to point out bad behaviour and stand up to corporations to some degree.

All that to say I think the historical example of environmentalists and ecologists working inside oil companies cannot be directly applied to this situation or other modern ones like it.
I have worked on an application that heavily used sprocs for business logic. I would not wish it on anyone. It will seem fine (and actually it will seem better - faster and easier to manage) while your project is small.

In a few years when you need to make some major changes you will see why it was a bad idea, and it will be too late. Have fun modifying hundreds or thousands of sprocs when you need to make a large-scale change to the structure of your data, because SQL won't compose. Have fun modifying dozens of sprocs for each change in business logic, because SQL won't compose. I guarantee you will have mountains of duplicated code because SQL won't compose.
CSGO is CPU bound, I'd suspect maybe it has something to do with the CPU rather than the GPU.
Read it some 15 years ago.
SaaS Tenant Isolation Strategies [pdf]
Thanks! This makes sense, we could've definitely used it on a project a while ago (ended up using Connect but had to modify the product to accommodate).
As ex-game dev this is all right on the mark. Back when I was in gamedev the "code" checkout was ~160gb. The "art" checkout was ~500gb and the raw repo size was on the order of 3-4TB.

Last I kicked the tires proper on most SCM solutions Perforce was the only one that could handle repos like that and provide locking so that people won't blow away binary files.
> if you are trying to raise a large family on minimum wage, well then that's obviously a big problem, but it's highly likely to be a problem you created with your life choices.

This is true, but becoming less and less true. Today there are all sorts of jobs that used to provide a living wage, that don't anymore. With no college and limited training, you could hire on at an assembly plant and make enough to support yourself. These types of jobs are getting scarcer and scarcer.

It's not always bad life choices. Sometimes it's choices life has made for you. Meaning: you were born in the wrong ZIP code, with the wrong parent(s), and sent to the wrong school. Choices other people made for you, rather than decisions you took the wrong path on.

> on the other hand, if you are in high school or college, minimum wage is likely fine as it's just extra spending money. raising minimum wage significantly more than likely just kills these jobs in favor of a kiosk that can do the job just as well.

This is a really hard aspect to design for. I agree that we can't require that all jobs pay enough to support a single earner's ability to rent an apartment, feed themselves, pay for a car, auto insurance, healthcare, etc. If that were the case, I would never have found work in my teens and early 20s.

> if we want to make it so that everyone can live, that is a job for gov't with things like universal healthcare, universal basic income, social safety nets. forcing businesses to pay people more for a job than the job creates in value is not a solution. in the long term those jobs will just go away completely to a technology solution.

I could not agree more. The labor market become so much freer when these things are taken out of the employment equation. My employer should not be anywhere near my healthcare. The way we allowed ourselves to tie those 2 things together is one of the greatest drags on our economy, and for labor mobility and opportunity.

If we had a UBI along with healthcare, I could see minimum wage being thrown out altogether. Employers would offer what the job is worth, and workers would work for what they value their own time at.
I ask for numbers... And I get an anecdote, and a personal opinion.

You are doing a fantastic job of proving my point.
Truly remarkable service. I am sure this is not the intended use case, but am wondering if it would be possible to build an experimental stock (or alternative capital asset) exchange with Stripe Treasury? It seems as though all the pieces are included. Including interest rollover, and potentially margin trading accounts.
"Is there anyone who is completely drug free who supports total legalization? "

Weed is decriminalized to the point that it allmost does not matter. And this is the only drug I do occasionally. (and not at all since some time)

And I do support total legalization.

Out of the philosophical point of view, that adult people should own their own body and life. And what I do with my body, is my buisness and not anyone else.

How can I think of myself as free, when other people regulate what I am allowed to consume?

And from movies, literature and some people in real life, I know what coke and heroin does to people, so I have no intentions of consuming them. Same with alcohol btw.

But if other people think its beneficial to them - I would try to convince of the big risks not worth the effort. But ultimately I would (and did) it accept as their choice. Even if that means they destroy their life. It is their life, after all.
This usually does mean tragedy, I am painfully aware of that - but with the criminalization it means even bigger tragedy.
This seems to be the email she sent to the internal "Women and Allies" mailing list:

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

The most relevant parts (in terms of back story) should be this:

> A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar (this popped up at around 2pm). No one would tell you what the meeting was about in advance. Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells you “it has been decided” that you need to retract this paper by next week, Nov. 27, the week when almost everyone would be out (and a date which has nothing to do with the conference process). You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.

> Then, you ask for more information. What specific feedback exists? Who is it coming from? Why now? Why not before? Can you go back and forth with anyone? Can you understand what exactly is problematic and what can be changed?

> And you are told after a while, that your manager can read you a privileged and confidential document and you’re not supposed to even know who contributed to this document, who wrote this feedback, what process was followed or anything. You write a detailed document discussing whatever pieces of feedback you can find, asking for questions and clarifications, and it is completely ignored. And you’re met with, once again, an order to retract the paper with no engagement whatsoever.
The discussion shows that Gebru is a racist to the bone because she viewed everything from the racism angle. LeCunn could be wrong by attributing bias to statistical bias in data, but how is it bigotry without evidence? Yet, oh no, LeCunn is a racist in Gebru's eyes, and in this strange American culture, Gebru could just call anyone or any opinion she didn't like racist or racism.

I'd say she deserved to be fired for she is a racist who's damning to a normal society.
A Ponzi Scheme relies on a central authority, BTC has none. I think you just mean "scheme?"
I had thought it was Tim Chevalier, who was indeed fired in connection to events surrounding the Damore memo, but a quick Google shows I have a faulty memory. Apparently he was fired for anti-Damore social media posts rather than leaking the memo in the first place. I have amended my original comment.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/02/22/lawsuit-...
I went to your blog and listened to your post on "Interviewing Without Resources" and it feels like a non sequitur.

It felt like you see yourself as a victim. I've been out of work before, but I never saw myself as a victim or powerless. I knew what I was worth and yes, it does take a lot of work, but I found work based on my own skills and merits.

America is increasingly growing into a nation where we cloth ourselves in victimhood as virtue. We are literally in a space where no-body is in the office today. You could pick up a $130 ~ $160k job anywhere and move out to a suburb in Texas. All you need is half-decent Internet, and you'd basically be living as if you were making the $200k you had in The Valley.

Stand up for yourself. If you only see yourself as a victim, that is all you will ever be.
> Alcohol wrecks plenty of people's lives for sure even today, and yet...

What alcohol does have is widespread social understanding, it's deep in our culture. Your grandmother had a pretty decent idea of how this could go wrong, and of what non-dangerous use looks like. So does your priest. And your mother in law. And Shakespeare. Not a perfect defence mechanism, obviously, but not nothing.

Whereas for cocaine, almost nobody has a clue.
It's easy to create a fork of software.

It's hard to create a fork of firmware running in people's minds.
Oh yeah sorry - didn't intend as a criticism! I think the hn headline should be concise, what you have was perfect. _Maybe_ adding the word "benchmarks" could have clarified but you cover more than that in the post.
There really is no correct answer here. If you start with a database design, will you have a bad product? No answer can be given because there is so much other variables.
yes but that is a use. bitcoin is useful as a savings technology. that is how monetary technology should work, especially at first
What would be useful is an api like send in whole code as base64 and it responds with base64 png.
If my rideshare platform also lends or leases vehicles to its drivers, would Stripe Treasury permit the drivers to repay the loan or lease via the driver's treasury account where they get paid? Does regular Stripe support paying back loans or leases?

When I say permit, I mean from an acceptable use point of view, not an engineering point of view.
I do not need external GPU. I want integrated. So intels are better value to me, keeping in mind that intel MOBOs are alsos cheaper.
I wish it were more acceptable to simply bring your own packaging to the grocery store and let them do a tare-weight.

My wife and I tried this a few years ago for a few weeks, either bringing in our own Tupperware or Mason jars to do it, and each time the person working in the deli area had to get a manager involved, and one time they accused us of stealing their tupperware, since they sold that same container in the shop. We did this partly for environmental reasons, but mostly for "meat packaging gets really stinky in your garbage can after a few days in a small apartment" reasons. After awhile, we decided it wasn't worth the headache to us.

In NYC (and California too I think?), they're starting to encourage bringing your own bag instead of buying them at the register, so I might retry this experiment again.
The landing page was a last minute decision, but we're happy that we did it. No doubt there are a few broken links tying our old and new sites together.
> then checked against a blacklist

Unfortunately "enumerating the bad" is a strategy that never survives contact with the public.
Timnit conveniently lost access to the email that supposedly led to the firing. She previously sent her twitter mob out on LeCun for his stance on bias in machine learning models.

I do not respect that kind of person and will not take a stance on this. I am disappointed that the twitter crowd doesn't care about the email, but not surprised.

Just trying to keep in mind that the smart reasonable people tend to be silent.
I don't see how is it related, I guess the point is that the situation would exist being alcohol legal or illegal (hard to prove).

To me the thing is trying to imagine alcohol industry and alcoholics dealing with it if it was illegal.
I think it has 2 chances: Slim and none, but slim just left town.

Then again, it could have a snowball's chance in hell.

However, those all imply a > 0% chance which I honestly believe to be way too high.
There's something about this company's design and font/logo choice that makes it "feel" exactly like Robinhood.

Also, this feels really similar to another project that launched on HN this month, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25059133 (although Supabase focuses more on scalability, while Etebase focuses more on privacy?). Might be some interesting discussion there.
The article says that the proposed law wouldn't allow the selling of cocaine for recreational use, and it would only allow the sale for medicinal use.
Hah, 45 minutes in the car is VERY different than 45 minutes split between sitting on a bus/train and random waiting in between.
How is the title misleading? It's "My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub has My Stolen Code."

If a website, even one like GitHub that posts others' submissions, had something I felt was mine and I had to go through a complicated process to get them to remove it, an adversarial process no less, I would describe that as a "brush."

If I felt that the process was made more difficult because the other party was a large corporation instead of a small group, and if I felt that there was a movement in the web in that direction, I would think it's reasonable to label the party "the corporate Internet." This kind of metaphor is certainly very common, where a journalist might label a practice by a company like like Facebook or Twitter as being done by "social media" writ large in spite of the fact that neither company is "social media," per se, but more literally a single entity in the large area that goes by that name.

And the statement "GitHub has My Stolen Code" is a very literal bottom-line summary of the source of the writer's contention. Its presence in the headline has the redeeming quality of removing the metaphor from the first half of the headline for readers who might want more specifics before they read the article.
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