skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like RDS for the same reason, but I wonder if there's a way you could run Postgres locally, as you suggest, while still using RDS for all the replication/backup side of things? That way the local Postgres management could be pretty minimal and outsource the "annoying bits" to RDS as before. I need to look into the best way to set up something like that.. perhaps pgPool-II.
Almost disposable dresses can be bought on Aliexpress for a few dollars.
This is a massive and common misunderstanding. Publishing a block is NOT voting on its validity. Every node, regardless of stake accrued 'votes' (the correct word is 'chooses') independently of the validity of blocks just like in Bitcoin.

Blockchains that allow protocol changes via votes are an option, and how you quantify votes is a parameter, but PoS is not tied to being a government token, and 'votes' on forks (its really not a vote as both protocols exist after a fork) are made by large and small holders alike. It has nothing to do with amount of currency owned.
oops fixed.
And? Most things we do are probably bad for the planet.
Does IMAP clients handle Gmail labels well? Last time I tried to use an IMAP client it treated all the labels as separate folders.
i agree i live in a 40 million country whit less energy consumption(argentina), to solve a volatility and dependency problem whit an asset which is more volatile and ASS controlled (china's bans bitcon and the buy, the jpm is bad then buy it, regulation from eu and other), and isn't anonymous, we have billion dollars companies focus on tracks bitcoin transactions, and regular stock wallets tracks u.
Isnt food prices soaring the definition of inflation... haha
We tend to design API calls over the net as stateless. It's more efficient to implement in a server and prevents abuse (keeping client states on servers for unknown amount of time lead to DoS attacks).

A flow based system would require more flow on the other (server) side. Imagine each sentence to be a request in the following, and how many avenues of potential service abuse it could bring. That's why we avoid designs like this today.

Here lets's begin a new (cloud?) server definition. Inside this server definition let's begin network specification. Inside this network specification let's begin open ports specification. Here, there's a batch of ports we computed we need. Here, there's another batch of ports we need. End network specification. [...] Let's get back to that port spec, because of something emergent. [...]
Many of the people doing the best work in podcasting are journalists, make no mistake! Many who either are currently or formerly were at NPR, rotating long time contributors to This American Life, etc.

For the most part, podcast reporting is closer to magazine reporting than newspapers. ('Democracy Now' is maybe the exception that proves the rule?) But given the survival rate of magazines at this point in history, it's obvious that podcasts are where you're going to see more innovation.
Excel, and more importantly, the spreadsheet is the best way to build intuition for a dataset, hands down. The alternatives, especially when it comes to Python and the default pandas output in a Jupyter Notebook are horrendous.

Where Excel falls short, is data size limitations + auditability. Putting more than 1M rows of data into Excel is not possible, and once you get into the low 100K's, it becomes almost unbearable. And handing off an Excel workbooks to a colleague is handing them hours of cell dependency tracing. On the other hand, data size + auditability are the super powers of Python data analysis.

I've been building a Python package, Mito (https://trymito.io/), its an interactive spreadsheet that automatically converts your spreadsheet analysis to the equivalent pandas code. You can write spreadsheet formulas, merge datasets, create pivot tables, etc. And because its implemented in Python, you can manipulate datasets with 10M rows of data with no problem. Our goal is to bring the intuitiveness of Excel data manipulation to Pandas.
I'm having trouble seeing how you could have offline transactions that prevent doublespending. Could you expand on "nice physical gauge theory (allowing offline transactions)?"

If you have a good idea here, it might be possible to implement as a second layer on a chain with smart contracts.
"What is striking about this architectural drawing is its compact nature, largely because SpaceX has limited land to work with at the facility and must include stormwater ponds to mitigate against flooding."
Sheets is awesome and has a lot of power, but it’s constrained in the browser and is defined by its competitor.

The other issue is that you don’t see as many power users of Google Docs and Google doesn’t have a clear strategy. For example, they could easily make a power bi type tool on top of Sheets and Slides.
They can't all be fans of Spinal Tap.

Those lead to mispronunciation of the words, in the examples you cite.

edit: ah... because they're not umlauts, they're diaeresis. Still, unneeded.
If there is less mining, the difficulty goes down.

In a bad case scenario, the block reward doesn't keep a large fraction of available hardware online.
It seems that if you use more than 2 commas in a sentence it is considered bad writing.
I meant that "Linux is cancer" seems just to be purely an opinion meanwhile behind claim that "BTC is bad for planet" stands some convincing things like energy usage and stuff.
Fight. Fight like hell. Build your own way.

I was just reading about how some youtubers who are doing quite well (like Linus Sebastian) are starting their own platforms which will get their content first, and then only later give it to YouTube

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55349255

Here is his new project: https://www.floatplane.com/discover
Who exactly forced the NYT to support the Bush administrations preposterous claims about WMD?

If journalists want to be lionized instead of demonized they should perhaps stand up to power, and not only when their friends don't like the people in power.

News is dying because they whored themselves out decades ago. Facebook and google are excuses for the final stages of the decline, but they weren't there in the 90s when quality started to slide and papers were being bought out.
its the most logical translation into english language of the government-mandated action that closes bank depositor windows at the start... or during a bank run... prior to a major currency devaluation.

This is true at least in french, portuguese, and spanish.

I understand the problem that a "bank holiday" in the US is actually used to identify a federal holiday.

I don't think this expression has been used a lot in recent times (in anglo nations) since there hasn't been hyperinflation in US, UK...but there is a record of such expression :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(...
I don't understand the claim that replacing "polymorphism and dependency injection" with "static fields and service locators" reduces allocations.

I would expect that getting rid of dependency injection would allow you to convert a virtual method call to a direct method call, and replace a constructor argument with a static field reference, but I don't see the connection to allocation.

Anybody understand this?
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Instead, it shows your lack of knowledge on safety and security of a Proof of Work blockchain with the network effect behind it, vs Proof of Stake which is flawed and insecure all in general.
Here is the Techcrunch article after the latest earnings

"Google Cloud lost $5.6 billion in Google’s fiscal year 2020, which ended December 31. That’s on $13 billion of revenue"

"On the one hand, losses are mounting, up from $4.3 billion in 2018 and $4.6 billion in 2019, but revenue is also seeing strong growth, up from $5.8 billion in 2018 and $8.9 billion in 2019. What we’re seeing here, more than anything else, is Google investing heavily in its cloud business"

"includes all of its cloud infrastructure and platform services, as well as Google Workspace (which you probably still refer to as G Suite). And that’s exactly where Google is making a lot of investments right now. Data centers, after all, don’t come cheap, and Google Cloud launched four new regions in 2020 and started work on others. That’s on top of its investment in its core services and a number of acquisitions."

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/02/google-cloud-lost-5-6b-in-...
I also sense that newspapers are retaining the old guard talent at the expense of younger, more fresh voices. For instance the New York times constantly puts peices up by Paul Krugman and he almost never writes anything insightful. Given his credentials, I assume he commands a high price for his commentary. I assume the business side thinks name recognition is more important than taking risks on new writers.
Reference Article:

> But her friend and editor, Claire Banse, also 23, had told her the paper had already hit its quota on the word “retarded” and she’d objected. (What else rhymes with “departed”?)

Author of post:

> Wait, what does it mean to have a quota on a word? Are they not using that word enough or are using it too much?

Can someone explain how "already hit its quota on the word" could mean they are not using that word enough?

And even past that, how could you think when taking into account the context of "retarded" make you think "hit its quota" means there was desire for more use of "retarded" in an article?

I am confused on how this person is confused
But that's rare for the vast majority of users. How many people need to really calculate with 1 million rows of data? That may be common in some fields, but when you hit that level of data, you know that you should be using other tools. Excel hits a solid sweet spot for a large percentage of the computing public.
Wait, people actually read the text under the headlines? /s
Most print and TV reporters aren't serious writers, just communication majors and glorified bloggers.
You're right. But security today does not guarantee security tomorrow in a landscape where mining incentivizes economies of scale. The more mining power converges (as it is already doing), the more likely for a fewer entities to collude. While it may not be in their interest given their investment in the project, who says that a government or malicious actor might not?
It appears to be up now, if you're interested in checking it out.
I've been thinking about trying to create my own open source spreadsheet. I can't decide if they're simple or complicated.

The simple view is that all you need is: (1) One main UI component, "the cell" (2) a domain specific formula / programming language (3) the underlying reactive system that tracks cell dependencies and updates them, etc.
>The consumer price index is a series of numbers designed to help people understand what dollar-denominated figures mean to ordinary people going about their lives, spending those dollars.

It's done an absolutely terrible job for the past 15 years, for my lifestyle and where I live. I suspect it hasn't reflect many other people's budgets either, hence the common argument of official CPI figures being nonsense.

I don't even have to look at anything other than the changing health insurance premiums/deductibles/co pays/out of pocket maximums to prove it, not to mention real estate, childcare, taxes, and education. It eviscerates any downward effect tech products and grocery prices might have.
> allow wide sharing of the total European hydro power resource, which is about 6 weeks of full load European output

I'm surprised it's this big. This sounds like enough grid scale storage/dispatch to do 100% renewables. Particularly if some of this hydro can be converted to also pumped storage in summer just to shift energy during the day.

I'm in Portugal and was surprised to find out our grid is a net exporter in winter (wind+hydro) and net importer in summer (a lot of fossil and very little solar yet)[1]. Getting to 100% renewables should be easy for us. Solar works very well here and is being ramped up fast and the hydro solves the grid scale storage/dispatch problem. Our total hydro is 14 weeks of full load, which is 2x but I was expecting it to be a much bigger difference.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UTUjhrBF04MP38b4WlQx...
I prefer ray-tracers (or other rendering or physics engines), maybe because I'm old or have nothing to blog about.
Interesting, thank you for sharing this! Spasibo!
> the human brain is severely impacted by lag

The brain can compensate for lag/latency up to a point. Church organ players often have to deal with >100ms of delay between pressing a key and hearing the note produced through those big pipes.

If you have an app which produces a sound when you tap on the screen, and there's a delay of say 70ms between tapping and sound being produced, it's easily possible to play in time with an external clock source, like a metronome, as long as the delay is fixed.

In the 1968 paper "Response time in man-computer conversational transactions" actions which occurred within 100ms the human input were perceived as instantaneous. In my experience this holds true with musical instrument apps, although one must first learn how much latency is present in order to compensate for it when synchronising with other clock sources.
Lack of will to disrupt the status quo is also the reason why many new builds in Indian cities like Bangalore/Hyderabad are forced to rely on the water tanker cartels instead of getting reliable piped water supply from the local municipal corporations.

The icing on the cake is that water tanker cartels steal from the municipal water supply in the first place.
also what Linux and Bitcoin have in common that Bill Gates always will try to ignore is open-source software.
It's inevitable, environmentalists can try killing Bitcoin - go for it. No one is stopping you.
> but it's hard to argue that Bitcoin isn't the best on many of those measures

Seems pretty easy to me. What is Bitcoin best at apart from having the largest market cap?
Or maybe they should just adapt to the times? Just get to the point, don’t write thousand word articles just because that’s tradition?
Argument:
PoW is a security model that depends on energy usage and mathematics.
PoS is a security model that depends on human behavior.

I trust physics over human behavior any day. Human psychology is the weak link in any system.

In the next year, we will see a further consolidation of funds towards traditional finance (they have the capital to acquire the floating btc). We do not want tradfi in charge of coin emission. Proof of Stake is reinventing existing power structures. Bitcoin as PoW prevents this hostile takeover by legacy forces.
If tradfi and governments want a say in how coins are transacted/emitted, they better get mining!
> Defense contractors, surely, not the US military?

Both. We get allied assets in the region. We also get purchasing volume for military hardware, which feeds R&D budgets for things we want.
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> I was even madder when I found the data science interns hired in a parallel recruitment process had been submitted to technical challenges.

That's the miracle of "affirmative action" or whatever you want to call it.

When looking at candidates internally, if a company decides to do affirmative action there are those that you know are there because of their skills (non-diverse individuals) and there are the other ones. Are they there because of skills? Could be, could also be HR wanting to push diversity? Also possible.

Some places I've even seen a "diversity quota" for tech recruiters that's tied to a bonus. So at every "diverse" hire you encounter you have to ask yourself: are they here because of skills or because someone was one hire short of cashing out their bonus?
It could, but it also could be social graph analysis, and that would issue a request for each of the profiles.
Majority opinions seem to lean towards Bitcoin being a net detriment to society but HN will attract a really loud minority of Bitcoin diehards, for tech or profit.

Or so I thought, the amount of people taking offense at Bill Gates saying the uncontroversial is impressive.
Right now it has >$5 billion staked and >100,000 validators on the PoS network. What remains is to transition the rest of the network and eliminate miners, which is a relatively simple process.
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Article uses "accessive" instead of excessive near the beginning
Why do you feel that a dollar bill needs to buy exactly the same amount of real-world stuff in a decade's time? Cash is not an investment, so why do you expect it to be one?
Billionaires have a far worse impact on the environment than normal people.

* https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/how-bad-are-billionair...

* https://www.gq.com/story/billionaires-climate-change
I started reading about 10 years ago so don't have a great reference for earlier writing.

But just looking at some of ones from this year highlighted on longform, there was some great stuff here: https://longform.org/archive/publications/new-yorker

For instance "Trolling the Great Outdoors", "Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others?", and "Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What’s the Cost for Locals?".

And its TV criticism under Emily Nussbaum (who hasn't written an article since 2019 for reasons I haven't been able to figure out) was consistently excellent.
> Sennerburm

Google returned zero results– did you misspell it? Google usually can't find documents for misspelled rare words
> Home prices are not captured in CPI, only rents.

Yes, because CPI measures cost of buying service of housing. Usually, if housing prices rise, so do rents, pretty much in accord, so monitoring rents already gives you a good view on housing affordability. The extent to which cost of renting is decoupled from house prices is largely explained by changes in interest rates: lower interest rates make mortgages more affordable, which allows more bidding for houses and pushes prices up. However, this on net doesn’t do much to actual affordability of said house: at low rates, the sticker price on a house might be high, but the mortgage payments will still be low. Conversely, in the 70s and 80s, boomers saw many cheap houses on the market, but at mortgage rates of 10-12+%, these were even less affordable than houses are today.

That’s why CPI only includes rents, to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
Text had no special claims in truth, I'm afraid. And many of the best podcasters are in fact journalists. Greg Warner, Sarah Koenig, even Alex Blumberg...
I see some ideas maybe having real usefulness. Large scale inventory/tracking/monitoring (part production, transport, etc) could lubricate a big portion of the world. A big secure unified store of tracking in a way. Am I the only one thinking this ?
They work under the same assumption as PoW - that the majority of those participating in consensus will be honest.

PoS also offers something PoW does not: absolute finality, https://medium.com/mechanism-labs/finality-in-blockchain-con...

Additionally, PoS attackers can have their stake slashed, so they may never attack again. However, you can't slash PoW attackers, once attacked, they will just keep on coming back (no matter how many times you change the hashing algorithm)
Might also want to research Nano as a pure P2P currency. Cardano and Dot are more focused around smart contracts.
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They’re written by believers for believers.

Yes. They start with an assumption --- and then work to justify it --- ignoring anything that deviates --- like an unjust god that punishes ignorance and rewards deception.

I'm glad you had a good time in Christian day school.
I don't think it will eliminate the need for the military or police force entirely. I have seen a lot of bold bitcoin claims but I don't think anyone really does.

My post was referring to how the US has killed lots of people to keep strong dollar. I think its feasible that a true global currency (possibly bitcoin) could prevent violence like this.
> what, exactly, is OP supposed to do about it?

Don't do it twice.

> What leverage do they have in the world to change the way things are?

Provide platform agnostic services.

I'm no friend or supporter of the massive FAANG companies, but the parent company of Instagram helped popularize the phrase, "move fast and break things." I would never start a business based on another business that espoused that motto.
It's not just about a currency usage network effect but also about speculative investments and alternative ways to "store" money. Depending on this you can compare it more with stocks without a company behind the stock or gold which for arbitrary reasons can't be used in manufacturing.

Without this and usage for criminal purposes bitcoin would be worth a fraction of it's current worth and as such likely not worth mining for.

This also means IMHO that Bitcoin as currency not just already failed, but did so pretty hard.

As a non currency speculative investment/mony parking product it didn't fail. But it wasn't meant to be such a think.

Furthermore the massive environmental problems it introduce by having a high such a absurd high need of energy and other economical problems (drain of currently limited chips without producing "general" economic benefits, usage for criminal activities if combined with mixers etc.) makes it a highly flawed product.

It should be noted that this is Bitcoin specific. Other cryptocurrencies have this problem much less by neither having absurd high energy costs, nor having absurd high purely speculation/money parking based prices.

Sure there will always be some drain of energy and some drain of chips and some usage for criminal activity. It's just that for Bitcoin thinks have gotten out of balance and besides availability through the network effect there is no reason to use Bitcoins for normal (legal) payments. It's just too costly, slow and price unstable (due to speculative investments always forming a bubble) to be used for normal payments IMHO.

Exceptions can be countries with a "broken" economy, but even then other crypto currencies would be normally preferable as far as I know.
What is your argument for Bill Gates having a negative overall influence on the world?
No, it has in fact been proven many times over in many research white papers to be fatally flawed and that's why no serious cryptocurrency would implement proof of stake.
Your timeline is off... most organizations were exploited long before the patch went out.
>Android allows app to read gps status, do background stuff that is impossible on iPhone:

You are very much behind the times here. The newer Android (since 10 I think?) behavior for the last 2 years are permission prompts just like Apple. In fact many apps are not allowed to request background location updates anymore either.
Monogamy increases sexual scarcity for the highest value males, while decreasing it for almost everyone else. I would argue that's actually an ideal situation for everyone, a progressive tax.
This is actually something that Bjarne Stroustrup addressed when talking about C++:

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

In the case of cryptocurrencies, as soon as a cryptocurrency has any important percentage of use, these transactions are not confirmed in seconds anymore, and transaction fees starts to grow up. No one is really using PoS right now, so let's wait and see if this solution actually works when Ethereum officially switches.