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Discussed quite recently so the current post is probably a dupe.

Qutebrowser 2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940453 - Jan 2021 (128 comments)

Also, while at it:

Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18070367 - Sept 2018 (107 comments)

Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15458824 - Oct 2017 (91 comments)

Qutebrowser (vim-like web browser) Kickstarter: v1.0 and per-domain settings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202843 - April 2017 (3 comments)

Qutebrowswer: Browser with Vim-like UI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11634683 - May 2016 (4 comments)

Qutebrowser – a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebKit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8774609 - Dec 2014 (11 comments)
It's not a bandwidth issue.

Functional programming (especially, say, actor systems) is better for organizing mental models of concurrency when your concurrency is coupled with communication between the components. For hpc, you're typically optimizing for gustafson scaling (versus amdhal scaling) where you are running multiple copies of the same, computationally costly linearly organized code with no coupling between instances except statistical aggregation of results, so there is no particular benefit to functional-style concurrency.

(And some FPLs,like Julia, are perfectly good at hpc anyways)
Data locality is everything for computational throughput. Having all data private to a single core is extraordinarily efficient compared to sharing data, and particularly mutable data, across cores.

This creates a new problem: how do you balance load across cores? What if the workload is not evenly distributed across the data held by each core? Real workloads are like this! Fortunately, over the last decade, architectures and techniques for dynamic cross-core load shedding have become smooth and efficient while introducing negligible additional inter-core coordination. At this point, it is a mature way of designing extremely high throughput software.
Having high-quality insurance doesn't really fix the issues with US healthcare; you can still go broke with decent insurance, and the billing only gets screwier the more middlemen are involved. (Congresscritters' real insurance is that if their particular claims were denied, it would be newsworthy.) We know that our healthcare system is messed-up, but we're wary of socialized medicine because we've seen failures everywhere that Washington has been involved so far. The middle-class expects a result not like some well-run Nordic paradise, but more like what we already have, only with more forms and longer waits.
I firmly believe that RethinkDB could have been a huge player along with the likes of MongoDB and Elasticsearch if they could have gotten additional funding or focused more on business development. Note: both MongoDB and Elasticsearch are now hugely successful public companies.

- Changefeeds were so useful and still to this day not really matched in quality.
- Official client libraries were very high quality. I mainly used Node.js.
- Performance (reads and writes) was impressive.
- Setting up a highly available cluster with sharding was incredibly easy with a few clicks and types in the aforementioned web U/I.
- Their web U/I was the best to ship with a database at the time.

I still wear my RethinkDB shirt around, and it was a pleasure meeting one of the founders Michael Glukhovsky in San Francisco when they were still moving and grooving.

The best technology and product doesn't always win.
What miraculous timing. I will be very surprised if they don’t get her on something. She has a very Martin Shkrelli vibe.
Very much agree with this point but for a different reason -- reading The Economist might be nice to get your feet wet with business/markets/investment-oriented thinking, but the vast majority of the stories you read in there are just not going to be relevant. Cocoa tariffs in some far flung place that are influencing the price of hot chocolate just aren't going to be relevant to your database SaaS, though it's certainly an interesting article, and that's the kind of interesting but not really relevant article that the economist often has.

Also, generally the Financial Times is the better standard for strictly business related journalism AFAIK, maybe they're neck-in-neck.

Spending 30 minutes to learn from someone in your field about how to get your next lead or which part of the internet you should be advertising to is a much better use of your time.
The product looks very promising as someone who has been hosting flask projects on heroku I think its totally worth trying flashdrive and the pricing is just perfect in my opinion.

I'm just curious lets say you host a small service and pay $3/per month what if the usage of the app increases does that mean I'll be charged more than $3 dollars if I am on the dev plan
The difference is that a single bodyguard at a concert can quit or not, and likely won't (to pay rent). The Ethereum miners have unionized, however, so now you are negotiating with the miner unions to pay what they think is their "fair share."

These people are spending millions of dollars in electricity keeping things ticking away. If they stop, Ethereum's vested interest drops significantly. Since it is a fiat currency, less participants make it, unfortunately, less valuable.

Telling 60% of holders their currency (or income toward driving that currency) is not how you keep them on your side, just like old mining town scrip is only worthwhile if the mine works. The second the mine shuts down on a union strike, the scrip becomes paper.

On a personal note, I hope the miners get their due, because it was the initial philosophy of Ethereum. If they don't, I am curious to see how Ethereum moves w/r/t proof of stake vs proof of work guarantees. PoS seems at odds with the initial platform, and possibly long-term problematic for their "contracts-first" architecture.
If it sounds too powerful to be true, then it's probably false. That powerful fact is not true for CO2, it'd be physically impossible. It's only true for Sulphur and Nitrogen dioxide poisoning.
That hasn't been the case in my sample size of ~ 10 laptops. Batteries wear out, hard drives die, cpus get old, but screens pretty much work; unless the backlight cable breaks (I repaired that for a friend multiple times; maybe my soldering wasn't the best though)
The problem is the same as its always been: the batteries still aren't quite good enough. Batteries still need to become cheaper, safer, more energy dense, more durable, and faster charging.

But the good news is that batteries are improving year by year. Probably by 2025 there will be large scale production of EVs with solid-state batteries with better energy density, safety, and charging speeds.

It'll also be good to see cars start to make use of ultra-capacitor buffers to more efficiently recuperate braking energy. The more you can protect the main battery with a capacitor buffer, the longer it'll last.
Do you want to get the ills of a perfect body?
Not about this topic!
Yes, but to be a disorder it has to meet specific criteria.
Thankfully GEO is still a bit self cleaning as Sun and Moon influence makes it unstable - you can clearly see it in orbital debris models, there is a blurry plane shifted ring around the primary GEO stripe.

Still that will only prevent a dead sat in sitting in a valuable spot for ever, it migh still drift the wrong way and require active sats to do avoidance maneuvers, not to mention the chance of two inactive sats colliding.
The unspoken alternative in articles like this is that they don't know why they failed, or their view of the market is just not clear enough to form a judgement.

The industry is still in an awkward position where software deals in 'intellectual property', but the concept was never really developed with an understanding of whatever it is that software is. Something like PostgreSQL for example isn't exactly a product, a service or a novel idea. Most of its consumers don't use most of its features. It is almost a perspective on a problem and some codified good design ideas.

It isn't obvious if selling a perspective is profitable. There are a lot of winners in software that don't actually sell software. Eg, Facebook/Google sells eyeballs, Amazon sells infrastructure, Apple sells iPhones.

MongoDB.Inc probably doesn't sell 'a database' if the details of their customer relationships were open for inspection.
Ask HN: What would a car engine look like that was robot serviceable?
An ICE is a metal block containing a shaft and attached pistons, with various "peripherals."

What would an engine and its immediate surroundings look like to be totally robot serviceable, including diagnostics, adjustment, peripheral replacement, and total engine replacement.

Why don't we have that?
True, you can’t have a factory explosion [1] without factories.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...
All disorders are just labels trying to encompass the complexity of the entire human brain at every level. If you hear stories from people diagnosed with something and you're surprised by how much you relate to it, then you're surprised by how much you relate to it and can empathize on some level depending on how it impacted you and the person whose story you're comparing to. Or maybe you strongly relate but reject diagnosis for some reason. Maybe you feel you have a strong reason for this that isn't easy for others to understand, and maybe that's correct.
I am one of the maintainers of one of the main implementations of eth2 https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm, which runs a large portion of the current network. We are not affiliated with the Ethereum Foundation. Any ideas or changes need to be implemented into code and shipped to users. Development is decentralized, as there are 4 client implementations of eth2 today. Vitalik does not control our code, of course.
> ABI compatibility

Rust provides ABI compatibility against its C ABI, and if you want you can dynamically link against that. What Rust eschews is the insane fragile ABI compatibility of C++, which is a huge pain to deal with as a user:

https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issu...

I don't think we'll ever see as comprehensive an ABI out of Rust as we get out of C++, because exposing that much incidental complexity is a bad idea. Maybe we'll get some incremental improvements over time. Or maybe C ABIs are the sweet spot.
Bitcoin is five times the price of Etherium because it was the first cryptocurrency and everyone knows its name. It has nothing to do with the technical abilities of either.
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And it would be worth it. Never give an inch unless you want yards gone.
Nobody can guarantee anything beyond their own lifetime, and it would be a silly and unverifiable thing to guarantee anyway. Especially for data.
Imagine if you owned a billion dollars, and that allowed you to say if someone spent 10 dollars at the gas station.
Ironically, decades later this clone of the 8080 was itself reverse-engineered by someone in Ukraine: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/KR580VM80A-intel-i8080-verilog...
In the context of the original MIT Puzzle Hunt, there is a single word or phrase that comes out of solving the entire thing, but, yeah, would be interesting if it were all words!
Hah, yeah PST v.s. PDT does make this harder.

At that point I'd switch to using additional custom SQL functions. I wrote a plugin called datasette-dateutil https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-dateutil that exposes some extra functions, but it doesn't have anything useful for timezone calculations yet.

I've opened an issue: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-dateutil/issues/4
For anyone looking to research that, this[1] video aggregated some source studies. tl;dw: estimates are between 2-17 metric tons of CO2 emissions to produce a new car (SUVs are more). And during operation an average car emits 5.2 metric tons of CO2 per yer.

For a concrete example, a 2021 Toyota Camry Hybrid at 52mpg emits 170g/mile of CO2[2]. A 2000 Camry 4cl at 24mpg emits 340g/mile[3]. Assuming you drive an average 13,500 miles/year[4] the break-even point for CO2 is about 4.5 years.

If you have the 2000 V6 Camry at 20mpg then the break-even is closer to 2.5 years.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
[2] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=43307
[3] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=15965
[4] https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a32880477/average-mile...
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This is not true. I am one of the maintainers of https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm, one of the main client implementations of eth2 today. My team is unaffiliated with the Ethereum Foundation. There are also 3 other client implementations of the protocol that are very robust and done by independent teams in different parts of the world. We also can't force users to accept all our changes, and development on ETH's infrastructure has indeed been trending towards more decentralization. There are few blockchains out there today with more than 1, production-quality client implementation.
It’s truly difficult to offer anything useful or concrete in this exceedingly strange time. I would ask though, how is your physical health? Are you able to exercise outside at all?
Counterculture will never die, it always adapts. While it is hard to find there are aspects of counterculture ideas on mainstream platforms like Instagram but they are obstructed.

How do you define counterculture? It is outside the mainstream, yes, but it does not need to be hidden. There are still individuals and groups who are "against the grain" in our society and always will be.

In my experience these people are relatively private when it comes to their digital life (not absent!) but can be amazing storytellers in other mediums, through song, dance, writing, etc.

I think the biggest misconstruction is that the counterculture is a single shared idea or that it is freely accessible to the masses.
The thing that matters is how valuable the 32ETH stake the validators put up is as that is the amount of penalty for trying any attack. The theoretical attacks on Proof of Stake are well known and discussed but generally require 33% - 51% of all staked ETH for various annoying attacks on the blockchain but not actually killing it.

3,491,906 ETH is currently staked right now which is actually way lower than will eventually be staked when PoS goes live later this year. 33% of this is 1,152,329 ETH which at current prices of $1,776 puts a minor attack at over $2billion. This is without considering that after the attack the network could easily fork and remove the attacker's ETH from existence so it's hard to see economics working in the attackers favor.

A high price of ETH means it costs an increasingly astronomical amount to attack the network and pretty much no way to do it profitably.
Doesn't seem right. The US was hardly doomed by the great lengths it went to to copy British textile mills!
Anyone else find it amusing that apparently the worm logo is the iconic logo that needs to be brought back
I was really struck by a comment Jonathan Blow made on stream recently: he said he’s never written a parallel for loop in his whole career. I seem to recall the implication being that they’re often not really necessary for performant code. There’s also been some discussion lately about issues with asynchronous code both in Rust and Python. Point being that parallelism still had a ways to go before it’s proven it’s usefulness. However, I agree with you that it would be nice to see more language tootling to make it simpler since i work on some bits of code that I think could benefit from parallelization but the amount of work I’d have to put in mean it’s a very low priority given the savings.
HackerNews is wildly detached from reality
I bought such a card several years ago for a panel I took out of a junkyard laptop.

You can defineteley do it, but I still haven't found a good use case for my 15" LCD screen.

For that price (~30$) you can get a much bigger used monitor.
This has always perplexed me too. There's a nice Buffett quote on this (https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf):

"Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it
would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At
$1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400
million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most
profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would
have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying
binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

Beyond the staggering valuation given the existing stock of gold, current prices make today’s annual
production of gold command about $160 billion. Buyers – whether jewelry and industrial users,
frightened individuals, or speculators – must continually absorb this additional supply to merely
maintain an equilibrium at present prices.

A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn,
wheat, cotton, and other crops – and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the
currency may be. Exxon Mobil will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its
owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you get 16 Exxons). The
170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can
fondle the cube, but it will not respond.

Admittedly, when people a century from now are fearful, it’s likely many will still rush to gold. I’m
confident, however, that the $9.6 trillion current valuation of pile A will compound over the century at
a rate far inferior to that achieved by pile B."

I have noticed that people who advocate for this "store of value" idea have this tendency to insinuate that cash is the only alternative to gold or bitcoin or whatever it is. There has always been alternatives to letting your savings be eroded by inflation (stocks, bonds, etc) and part of the reason for inflation is to incentivize people to invest their money in these productive things.
Sorry for the late reply, I don't entirely agree but thank you for laying out your argument point by point, it has certainly given me a different way to look at things.

I do agree that the quality of art is roughly proportional to the size of the economy that "spins it off" so to speak. Obviously hunter gatherers are not going to produce great art without surplus goods or division of labor.

At base I think we can't just write off human pleasure because some of it varies based on the individual. Economists estimate things like this all the time. I enjoy my favorite music albums very much, much more than say a $10 album cost, but if it cost instead $300 and my choice was between an album or a bicycle you can bet I would buy fewer albums no matter how much I liked them, so we can at least bound my enjoyment at $10 - $300 and realistically much narrower.

I do admit most of my favorite poetry and literature was produced by great imperial powers, even if by relatively impoverished or humble members of that society. There is something to this- whether Rome, Song China or Colonial Britain lots of good art and luxury is created by conquest.
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I'm one of the maintainers of one of the implementations of eth2 live today (https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm) and can help offer more context on this. Ethereum proof of stake has been live since December 1st and it currently secures over 6 billion USD worth of value https://beaconcha.in/. Currently, this is a chain that lives in parallel to the proof of work chain we know as Ethereum today. The idea is that over this coming year, the entire state of Ethereum will be "merged" into this new chain that uses proof of stake consensus via a docking process. "Escalating the eth2 merge" means there is more expedited work from researchers and developers when it comes to performing this critical decision. Since eth2 consensus is already live and running correctly with a large set of validators, miners cannot censor this new chain and therefore cannot really stop the merge.
The EVM is TC in that you cannot determine if a snippet of code will halt, given sufficient gas. EVM code is undecidable, whereas Bitcoin script is not.
Tbf, the level of determination needed to use a vpn is much less now than it was 20 years ago.
Do all replies have to be a disagreement or can they just attempt to be informative?
You can not get UNLIMITED storage for $120/mo from google, it is simple as that.
54% supported Blake Neff being fired. Slightly more than supported unspecified social consequences.

Why is firing anyone for any reason acceptable if lost jobs mean dead kids?

Companies often say something about the fired employee not representing the company's values when they fire someone who offended members of the public. And seeing how many people even claim they were fired because of public pressure would establish an upper bound.

Canceling would need a consistent definition to say anything about it. But it shouldn't surprise you some people aren't inclined to restrict freedom of association and freedom of speech without compelling evidence.
There are some interesting parallels between the technological and cultural history of mechanical watches and smartphones... call it an iphone of its time, or apple watch of its time, and you're on to somthing.
In what way is process based parallelism strictly worse? On Linux a process and a thread in the kernel are both the same thing. The main difference between the two is that threads share memory by default whereas a process would need to explicitly mmap a chunk of memory to share with another process. This means that with threads you get to save RAM because of application code not having to take up more space (except memory is effectively deduplicated already because those are read only blocks) and with threads you have to explicitly guard against trampling over each others’ memory, whereas with processes it’s safety by default and you have to make an explicit choice to share memory, limiting the number of places you can forget to add or check a lock. I will grant you that languages where standard libraries by default shoehorn you into using sockets to communicate between processes do by default introduce more overhead than just using threads. But any serious language will have at least one queue implementation that’s based on very fast primitives over shared virtual memory. I say this as someone whose done projects using a number of different types of parallelism, including process and thread, and can find strengths for all these. I just think treatment of process based parallelism is undeserved: it can be very efficient if done well, and no worse than a lot of the other methods for a large number of use cases.
Corporate Gaslighting is correct. Fbook is a threat to society. It profits off social division and anger. Let the down votes rain down.
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If apple sends to me for free, I can make it. LOL
To the contrary, serif fonts irritate my eyes. This font was quite pleasant to read in. Which book on typography recommends serif fonts, and based on what studies?

As a general rule, I recommend eschewing one-size-fits-all rules with fonts. Let the users customize. Some dyslexic people find Comic Sans more readable than most other fonts.