skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR I think Bumble is the better dating app company but that won’t matter if the stock is overpriced or isn’t shareholder friendly.

It’s still too hard to tell whether this will be a good investment or not until the boxes left blank are filled in on the S1. What I’m going to be looking for 2 things:

1) Good/fair voting rights for shareholders. Voting rights should be as good as Netflix/Amazon/Tesla/Peloton’s and not like useless like Snapchat/Facebook/Google’s. (Management shouldn’t fear voting rights because shareholders generally vote in agreement with everything management says but it should have language to prevent short sellers from borrowing shares to vote which is known as a “poison pill” to protect the company from bad actors.)

2) A lower market cap to user ratio than Match Group. When Snapchat IPO’d it had the opposite: a higher market cap to user ratio than Facebook so it dropped from $25 to $5 and overall lagged behind it’s competitor.

Optional moonshot 3: An in-app benefit or perks system for directly having a share of stock. The uniqueness and demand generation of this would send the stock soaring in the same way Ethereum flew from $350 to $1250 after the transition to Ethereum 2.0 which primarily requires you to possess 32 Ethereum to be a miner — something that hasn’t even been rolled out to Coinbase yet and will likely appreciate much further once it does.

Bumble’s “designed by women for women” approach has caused Bumble to do a better job at attracting women to their platform than Tinder or Hinge. More women naturally attract more me. In my area the women on Bumble are noticeably much higher quality in terms of looks, education, and profile description than Hinge’s while on Tinder women are flooded with 100+ matches after a day or two now even if their first photo is just a picture of a floor* while men get magnitudes less attention due to the massive gender disparity.

In summary, I think Bumble is the better dating app company but that won’t matter if the stock is overpriced or isn’t shareholder friendly.

Short Tinder video of a male vs. a female with a floor photo on TikTok:
https://m.tiktok.com/v/6912611072226741509.html

*Disclosure, I already hold Match Group shares (which are pretty good shares to hold) and expect Match to try and at least bid on Bumble by diluting their shares again. Whether that’s an outcome everyone wants is a totally different topic..
Actually according to Google own statistics, most of Android Studio users are on Windows.
You can't drive up the cost of "waste", all you can do is use it such that the waste is decreased. If people want to make hydrogen with it they should do so. As I said, the Bitcoin network is not capable of bidding for energy at higher prices.

Your argument boils down to: why aren't people doing this uneconomically viable thing that I think is better than this other economically viable thing.
>The whole point of the First Amendment is to prevent the state from hauling you to court just for making some utterance

And the whole point of the legislature and judiciary is to prevent passage of laws which would allow the executive branch to haul you to court for just "some utterance" - but speech is not in itself always just "an utterance".

>That doesn't only threaten your own freedom, but democracy itself.

Arguably, democracy is undermined through some uses of free speech which in the U.S. in particular cannot be legislated. the OP article has a whole section on this as it relates to porn or hate speech, and the arguments made therein.

>is that the only way we can possibly find the truth, is by allowing ideas to compete freely

This may be true of "ideas" as abstract entities, but ideas take concrete form in particular acts of speech and modes of expression - the real picture isn't a heavenly battle of ideas, it's the real effects of speech - only some of which carry an idea. Child porn or threats both carry 'ideas', or they can be imbued with the intention to carry an idea. This does not mean they should not be censored.

>as much freedom of speech as possible, because if we don't, then lies will prevail.

Is there empirical evidence confirming this in the context of the modern populace in the information age?
According to the article in the Tampa Bay Times, Jones' official title was:

Geographic information system manager for the Florida Department of Health's Division of Disease Control and Health Protection
It's actually like that with gold also: the amount it costs to mine/refine an ounce of gold is always almost the same as the value of an ounce of gold, because whether or not it is worth exploiting a marginal deposit depends on the value of gold.
> Energy that could supply other uses is now not available

Could, but often isn't. I don't have a good source other than an obviously biased one (https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...), but this does sound sensible:

> Sichuan, second only in the hashpower rankings to Xinjiang, is a province characterized by a massive overbuild of hydroelectric power in the last decade. Sichuan’s installed hydro capacity is double what its power grid can support, leading to lots of “curtailment” (or waste). Dams can only store so much potential energy in the form of water before they must let it out. It’s an open secret that this otherwise-wasted energy has been put to use mining Bitcoin
VSCode has an extension for that too, edamagit[0] :)

One of the big appeals of VSCode for me is the huge community around it, and the range of plugins available.

[0] https://github.com/kahole/edamagit
I was under the impression that casino's operated with either continuous shuffling, or enough packs of cards to effectively negate the benefits of card counting these days
Yup. And if you are to compare desktop-class applications from the time where desktop apps weren't just embedded webviews with what typical web SPA does (how complex is it, how much actual content), then the first thing to remember is that this scale of desktop software had its executable size measured in dozens to hundreds of kilobytes.
The capital expenditure is sufficient that it still makes sense to run the miners 24/7 and not try to take advantage of cheap electricity - although that does matter somewhat when deciding where to place the data center.

This is true of pretty much every industrial process. The idea of running production only when the sun is shining to absorb excess solar seems like a universally poor idea.
This kind of "human at a particular level" play is something I've personally wished for many times. I find playing against programs very frustrating, because as you tweak the controls they tend to go very quickly from obviously brain-damaged to utterly inscrutable. Win by a mile or lose by a mile, don't learn much either way. Sometimes there's a very thin band in between that's the worst of both worlds: generally way above my own level, but every once in a while they'll just throw away a piece in the most obvious possible way. If a human did that I'd interpret it as toying with me, or taunting.

This kind of program seems like it would be much more satisfying to play just for fun, and perhaps (with a bit more analysis support) better still as a coaching tool.
Loyalty can only work when it's a reciprocal relationship. You can't have "one way" loyalty; that's devotion, or allegiance, or even servitude. That means for a person to be loyal to a business the business would also need to be loyal in return. Unfortunately that never stands the test of time; as soon as anything bad happens where the owners have to choose between the employee and something bad (making a loss, going bankrupt, favoring some other employee) the business owners will inevitably pick what's best for the business.

So no, employees shouldn't be loyal, because the reciprocity of a loyal relation is rarely there. That doesn't mean the employees should be &$%£s though.
They had 8m preorders. 13m in 10 days takes into account refunds and returns. They are sitting at >10 million copies on Steam alone right now. Its quite possible they made their 2021 goal of selling 20 million copies at this point, less than a month after release.

Where was Sony and Microsoft when Remedy released Control running at 10fps on PS4 and Xbox One?
This seems to be the opposite of what the article says:

>This technology is not going to be employed for digital signage, but instead will be marketed towards e-reader companies who want a high resolution alternative to E INK Kaleido 2.
The obvious solution here is to use resulting heat for heating. Humans live in a lot of places where you need heating to survive anyway. Currently we use 'dumb' heating, where heat is generated without any useful computation. This can be painlessly replaced with 'smart' heating, when heat is a result of mining. Any home appliance like iron or heater can do some useful work (and even earn some spare change while at it).
That’s a terrible response.
I can still see some local businesses -- albeit with the full page modal popping up as I scroll. Can people post examples of pages which are no longer accessible? Maybe this is being A/B tested, or only applies under certain circumstances?
This should have a (2018) in the title.

As I understand it, Bitcoin mining rewards are now so low that it's unprofitable to use fossil fuels to mine -- you will pay more for the electricity than you receive through the reward. Hence a lot of people moving their miners to somewhere in the world with unused excess renewable (e.g. hydroelectric) power and setting up there.
On second thought, never mind.
I recently bought the Onyx Boox Poke 2 Color. [0]

I love the little guy. Lighter than any paperback I've ever owned. Fits in a large pocket. Displays in color! Which lets me highlight in color! And runs Android 9.0 with Google Play Services (though activating this is a bit hacky). Can install whatever Android browser you want. It's the "Gameboy Color" stage of color vibrancy, but it's color.

Problem is, to my knowledge, this was a limited run. I got mine from Good eReader, but they sold out of this model, and I don't know when or if there will be more.

I haven't tested, but I think the Onyx Boox Poke 3 (not color) might be able to install GPS too.

[0] https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hands-on-review-of-the-...

ETA: Note about quality of colors.
LWN is my favorite paid subscription of all time. It feels as if you are making the world a better place when you type in the credit card number to renew.

I paid for another year just this morning, so the sensation is fresh.
aren't most fiat currencies in the developed world basically imaginary points now too?
Point of order - there are a fair number of us in the US that do in fact own tanks.

If you expand the definition of “tanks” to the commonly used one of “armored vehicles”... then there are a lot more than you’d likely expect.
My Clojure Post-Mortem
People have gotten fired for saying "We need to filter bad words like n***". When you have zero tolerance policy context doesn't matter.
I'm sorry, I wish there were! Unfortunately only Yahoo offers an API that lets my service directly interact with your team. Out of curiosity, which fantasy provider do you use? I think I can find a way to support ESPN but it will take some time.
Report author here. We have no bias towards nor stake in any of the three cloud providers. We partnered with all three clouds to develop the testing methodology and benchmark set. Our bias is towards providing as much information as possible to our own customers as they select their clouds and machines.

Reproduction are available on github: https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cloud-report-2021
You realize those humans are doing other things besides manually calculating electronic transactions, right?
That assumption is wrong. Take it as a single data point about the reliability of their peer review process. EDIT: I really mean that is a single data point. A usually reputable publisher can make mistake sometimes.
That's not the situation we're in though. It may be fairly abundant, but neither cheap nor clean on average. And we're still decades away from closing the most polluting sources.
Note that Apple was able to use their slide to unlock design patent and that Apple in the linked curt case tired to "get patent-like protection for the idea of a graphical user interface [..]".

In this case it's not about the idea about a GUI but the very specific way the GUI was made wrt. non-functional aspects of the GUI.

And even if there is no enforceable design patent there is still copyright and trademark protection. E.g. look at the settings icon which is basically screams "lets change the settings icons just enough to not be a copyright infringement". That icon is trademarked by Apple and the JingOs variant has still
quite many of the points which define the Apple trademark, enough to open potential for a case. (They have 3 connection from the gear ring to the center at the exact same position, a "dot" at the center, a inner ring (but just one color instead of an gear) and the gear background color doesn't stretch to the sides of the icon (I have no idea why they didn't change that, it would be more different and look better), they also replaced light silver with white. Anyway I would guess a trademark case for this detail has a good chance, especially given that this icon looks different enough to the other icons to not fit in, making it super clear that they somewhat forcefully wanted to make it look as much like Apple as possible. Instead of just using similar visual clues).
> But these Windows jockeys I dunno I get the feeling they don't necessarily love computing?

When I was younger, I wanted to work in places that had a passion for these types of things.

Older me realized that was a bad idea. It inevitably seeps into things unrelated to doing the actual work (even performance reviews via 360 feedback). People are paid to do a job, and I've found that whether they love computing or not is mostly orthogonal. Sure, there are some that are wiz's because of it, but they're usually neutralized by those who become ideological and inflexible because of it.

Tangentially related: I'm a Linux guy - it's been my primary OS for almost 20 years now. However, at my current company, I prefer roles that don't involve Linux. The reason is they typically will not give me my own machine - I'll merely get an account on some server, with a poor window manager, and missing a lot of the nicer tools I use on my home machine, and no superuser privileges. In the last job I had, their provided Emacs was a little too old for some of the features I used, and I had to compile my own Emacs from scratch (along with tens of other dependent packages). This was time wasted for me and the company. At least on my Windows machine at work, I have Admin privileges and can make things nicer.

Paradoxically, it is because I'm a "hard core" Linux user that I prefer Windows for work. I've optimized my Linux workflow, and if my work cannot provide me my preferred tools/window managers, I might as well just use Windows.

I don't even use WSL. I use xonsh, which works fairly well on Windows. I have multiple desktops on Windows. And most importantly, I live in Emacs which for the most part works just as it would in Linux :-)

(And no, using/installing Emacs on Windows is not a pain, despite what you often hear - the last time I did it some months ago, it was literally "Download and unzip into directory and you're good to go.")
Understanding Bitcoin ₿
Yup, I'm aware they do a lot of work on this, and hired up half the Haskell and PLT researchers in the world, and have a bunch of projects on it scattered across their web properties.

And maybe some of it is trickling down into parts of Windows or .NET, like F# and others, but I wish they'd develop an entire ecosystem around it and make stronger push to commercialize it.

With all the aforementioned resources MS has at their disposal, by now they should have their own version of SEL4, comprehensive tooling for secure-by-design and correct-by-construction application development, and optionally secure sandboxed containers for backward compatibility with legacy apps. Though ideally MS funds a Manhattan project for rewriting the most popular apps using their SxD and CxC tooling.

Singularity was on the right track, but they let it languish and die for some reason, when instead they could be rebuilding an entire secure/correct ecosystem with Singularity as the focal point, and commercializing it with enterprise support, and selling it to governments and large enterprises with significant security concerns.

I wonder why this hasn't happened yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_by_design

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/bsi/articles/knowledge/sdlc-process...
Sure we will all die, assuming humanity was alive at the end. To be specific about my objection, you said that this event will not repeat and I'm saying, I'm not sure and neither are certain others. An eternal recurrence is not ruled out. Nothing would survive a reboot though, sure.

To be clear, assuming there was an infinite reboot sequence I'm not saying that there would be life again, let alone intelligent life. I'm just making a statement on the fate of the universe.
Sudden nose down (as MCAS does) is an upset and thus would probably be best practiced in worst case. Not best. When I go practice emergencies with my CFI (every 3 months) I ask him to make it as hard as possible, not as easy.
Yeah, but ask yourself: why are you reading this _now_?

The article is 2 years old. Bitcoin and the overall cryptocurrency ecosystem are near all-time high values. Shining a light into this article is probably a maneuver made by someone interested in decreasing the value of Bitcoin. It's possible that this person is a concerned environmentalist, but Occam's razor suggests that this person is someone that wants to buy Bitcoin at lower prices, or that shorted its value in an exchange and wants to increase the benefits before executing the options.
another crypto hit piece promoted by hackernews
Twitter's goal is explicitly to have a single codebase that works everywhere: desktop website, mobile website, and mobile apps. (Sorry I can't find a source for this, any search with the "twitter" keyword is flooded with irrelevant results...)

It makes sense in that context; but I agree it's a shame they won't keep a small alternative frontend just to view tweets.
He's not a scumbag but he is part of that "left coast" subset of people that find it agregious people work for lower wages than people do in SF. The kind where the "the hand that feeds" is all low income people who willingly move to high cost of living cities and demand californianism to dominate policy.

I wish games and tech press didn't have to even acknowledge this stuff. It's just ridiculous I already know all political affiliations of people in tech journalism just by reading one page of their twitter. I just want the days of independent and intelligent journalism again.
It's not like excess hydro power in China is stored anywhere. It's literally wasted.. why do you care if people use it to mine bitcoin? How is it cutting in to the energy that other people can use?
Are you suggesting that most of the existing Windows SW out there could be developed on Linux and would just run fine on Windows? Can MS reasonably develop MS Office on Linux? Can Adobe develop Lightroom on Linux and it'll just work on Windows?

For most Windows SW, the answer is no. So the analogy with Android doesn't make much sense.
Eight MegAbytes of Continuous Swap.
Yes, see, here we have respect for science only if a) it is our specific field, or b) fits average tech bro sensibilities. Obviously, we are completely objective and not emotional or biased, because we know JavaScript.
I'm the citation, I've done large scale mining.

Storage exceeds the value of the energy now and for the foreseeable future.

The energy being used is largely not wasted, it's simply excess.
the whole thing is so bizarre as an outsider:

1. the entire economy is structured so you basically need a "job with benefits" to not be regularly ruined by healthcare costs or to at least live with the constant stress of such

2. the economy is also structured so tons of people have precarious work situations and precarious financial situations

3. megacorps like Uber and Lyft classify their drivers as
"independent contractors" to ensure that the moral and economic responsibility of things like healthcare are not theirs (see 1) but also so their driver pool is huge enough to keep wages down (see 2) and also don't pay for any wait time

4. there's rising pressure for them to cut the crap and accept that if someone is sitting a in car on behalf of $somecompany all day waiting to drive people to enrich $somecompany with a preposterous cut for $somecompany's "app" and "platform", they're an employee with the meager yet critical benefits that might imply

5. so instead of fixing any of the above issues, some rich companies (that are still shovelling VC money into a furnace) lobby the *people of California* to pass a measure to to help "app based transportation companies" out, with an additional requirement of a 7/8ths majority of the state parliament to ever change it even if it becomes neccessary to fix any of the above problems

I don't understand why people aren't more deeply skeptical of anything that Uber and Lyft and Doordash think is worth spending $205 million to achieve in public and permanently embed in law in California.
> I think they do that mostly because for the users who’ll have to download the header 100 times for each action they’ll do.

If only they weren't deploying some changes every other day, pretty much eliminating any benefit from caching...
Well, yes, but that completely misses the point. Bitcoin is currency, and you can reason that all currencies solely have imaginary value. We only value dollar bills because of an intricate system of promises that assures us we can exchange them for things. Bitcoin is no different.
You can get 7" e paper displays for about the same cost as an rpi from waveshare and similar.
From their photos, this looks mighty impressive!

https://goodereader.com/blog/uploads/images/2021/01/1-75sD-q...

Still not as good as printed ink but this is good enough for many applications.
> If the application has a manifest, then any .local files are ignored.

I suppose this does not hold true for the .local folder named that, apparently? I had not seen it documented before that it looks in that specially crafted dll subfolder (presumably using information from the manifest) to load a dll that is specified in one.
Not only is peer review not some omniscient god, Nature isn't exactly flawless either. Plenty of top tier journals fuck up all the time.
They assert that without making any attempt to analyze the energy mix of the miners.

They just assume that they're running on the world average energy mix, which they most definitely are not.
Usefulness is quite relative. Do we really need jewelry to signal out social status to others ? I personally don't think so. (Industry only uses small amounts of gold)
So “no”.
PrimeTel Communications controls 1.7 million 800 numbers
In bitcoins case the incentives are such that it’s power consumption that’s essentially being measured.

Now let’s say that someone would make a chip that would use only 10% of the power of the current ones. What do you think would happen: People would keep current hashrates and just consume 10% of energy.

Or:
People would scramble to get these chips and keep on burning the same amount. As your rewards are basically due to your ratio of the total hashrate. Not any absolute amount.
I wish we would be able to repurpose such closed down devices to run free software.
Rarely industrial process can switch on and off randomly and still scale revenue linearly.

The capital expenditure argument makes sense when mining is the primary business. Using old and otherwise unprofitable (but cheap) hardware makes sense where there is intermittent excess energy.
Bitcoin mining doesn't have emissions. Producing energy does. And emission producing energy is on it's way out. So, fuck right off.