skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds a little hyperbolic and black and white to consider those two things as being mutually exclusive. It's possible (and maybe even common) for someone to be a good person to others in matters that don't pertain to money -- but, when the rubber hits the road with respect to money, they end up being making decisions that make sense given how much leverage they have. At the end of the day, VCs are subject to their LP stakeholders. They are also subject to their founder stakeholders, but the degree to which the various entities in that three legged interaction hold sway varies based on environment.

In a frothy environment like the present, founders really do have a lot of leverage because the demand for investable companies in many ways greatly outstrips supply; you see this in the SPAC craze. But in other environments, LPs and VCs have a lot more leverage over founders. When that is the case, it is only reasonable to expect them to behave according to their incentives. Now one could make the argument that it's still a poor long-term decision for VCs to sour community goodwill if they want to be in the game long-term. That may be the case, but it doesn't mean that a cunning VC cannot profit from exploitation in the medium term, enough to enrich themselves to the level where a poor reputation doesn't prevent them from continuing to operate.

It's important to not over-anthropomorphize the way that financial professionals operate as agents in a system with incentives. When they do something unsavory, it's generally not meant to be personal even if the result is incredibly unsavory.
"The wake up call of the Max was something that told them that all was not right."

What exactly was the nature of this ""The wake up call"?
That is the whole point of DST, although many people seem not to realize it. It allows us to wake up around sunrise all year long, which is our bodies' natural tendency.

Another thing nobody seems to realize is that we've already tried this experiment once before, and it was an utter failure. Quoting Wikipedia:

Permanent DST in the US was briefly enacted by President Nixon in 1974, in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The proposal was initially supported by an estimated 79% of the public; that support dropped to 42% after its first winter, owing to the harshness of dark winter mornings that permanent DST creates. An estimated six school children were also killed by motorists due to the new law. The new permanent DST law was retracted within the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...
Congrats to them!
Yes, it's long been known that it was a lie and excuse, it's sad that people on this site somehow aren't aware of this. Trump had two neo-nazis in his administration, this is just some of the fallout of that.
And don't forget:

- space exploration

- streaming videos

- grocery stores

- cars

- shipping containers full of fidget spinners

- building and maintaining zoos

- giant casinos in Las Vegas

- hospitals

And all the other things associated with the so-called "green" USD ecosystem.
If Wayland is throwing partially constructed buffers on-screen, it's the client's fault for submitting them unfinished.

In X, there isn't really a concept of what a completion boundary is. The client asks stuff to be drawn, the display server gets around to it when it gets around to it, and makes the changes visible willy-nilly, eventually becoming consistent with the client state.

If you look at the source for xcompmgr, the event loop is pretty simple and clearly schedules repainting the root window with all newly received damage updates whenever its X socket is drained of new events [0]. This is a pretty arbitrary boundary to perform redrawing on; process scheduling, socket buffer sizes/limits, it's not well controlled at all. The way this is done it will make visible whatever damage events managed to get into this timeslice. If that results in only part of a window being updated, with the rest of the damage part of that "frame" arriving in the next timeslice, POOF, there's a tear.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xcompmgr/-/blob/mast...
Thanks for sharing, that's a lot of logs but another good example of how linear scaling costs hurts. A lot cheaper than standard AWS CloudWatch which reckons it would be $200k+ a month.. but though 600GB an hr is not an easy problem to solve but that is a hell of a premium on both.
I don't think the design has any other choice. I have heard that since it is large and it is a 90 degree turn it could be worked out so you go from falling back first to sitting upon landing. I think that an escape system would be fitted to the passenger capsule as in Falcon 9 [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrkdHshb3E
Meta: the final word in the target page's title ("awesome") is missing from the submission title. It becomes a little hard to
Which JDBC implementation? I can write a crappy JDBC driver on top of text files and have it mangle your data in a myriad of ways. I doubt most of the people using JDBC have to deal with what you describe because they are using a mature driver for their particular database--most often developed by the database OEM.
It's so sad how people need to expose the issue publicly to actually get human help (sometimes!). Support at Google's scale takes a lot of human resources, I get it - but come on, how hard can it be?

P.S.: Best of luck in getting this issue resolved!

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Edit: I just noticed your OpenGraph URL points to https://next-tails.vercel.app when the URL is https://nextails.com. Maybe that's an issue? Maybe not OG itself but some meta tag or something similar?
The cladding was metal so very unlikely it contributed to the fire spreading.
Here's the list of coreutils pages for anybody else interested:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_by_project.html#coreuti...
>You aren’t forced to buy an iPhone if you don’t want this.

Other Android devices are also similarly bad to repair, with a locked Store and few have an supported way to actually root them. The mobile market is not as diverse like car market or say web/cloud hosting market. We can't give Apple or Samsung an exception from warranty laws because "the user should buy X that offers warranty" , free market only works only if all the free market assumptions hold true.
Or, dirty energy should be banned.
For some people, time is worth a lot of money, even enough money to make a trip across space worthwile. Not to mention selling the "experience" of no/low gravity, or the opportunity for extremely time critical transports (organs, spare parts for factories).
At first I didn't understand, but now I think I get
Bitcoin's true use case hasn't showed itself yet because it is uniquely suited to help us in case of a select few low probability and extreme scenarios, aka black swan events which we can't predict, but will probably happen.
Yeah, when it comes to policy, I think you're right. I'd prefer a tax on the externalities than an outright ban.
So you think those extra functions do account for all data center power consumption added up?
When I used to commute semi-regularly, part of it was along a highway (to use the term generously) that I swear was laid in a way to maximize the solar glare in some locations. One of those places is where it intersects with an interstate and semi-regularly you'd see cars that had been in accidents or the remnants of same at the side of the road.
Americans always love tying things back to attacking China.
States can already make standard time permanent if they want to. Obviously, not many do.

This change just allows states to make DST permanent.
Fuck all those people using Bitcoin to circumvent oppressive governments. Fuck your freedom. We need the gov to solve all our problems. We need to ban bit coin now!!! Muh climate change https://www.pinterest.com/pin/810859107894008357/
Yes, but it's so easy to bring up as an argument...
There are so many frustrated nocoiners here on HN, it’s crazy. It’s interesting that on a tech site people can be more negative towards new technology, than on youtube for example, where I don’t see so much hate....I just don’t understand why.
Let’s just pretend that all bitcoin mining was done in data centers.

That means that whatever practical good bitcoin provides, we’ve DOUBLED the energy usage of data centers.

Is that good worth having to build that much additional capacity?

What about the problem that bitcoin keeps increasing it’s energy usage?

And finally, is there no more efficient (in energy usage) way of doing the same thing?
>Think of complex numbers, for example: they are used extensively in quantum physics and electrical engineering, but that does not mean that you can see them, touch them or measure them.

yes, we use complex numbers there only because we have a very consistent mental map between their properties/behaviour in the math model and the physical reality. The physical reality doesn't obey the math model, it is a successful and useful math model which seems to consistently describe and predict the reality in some range of conditions. So when a new model is brought in you'd want it to have at least some partial consistent mapping to reality, and with refining of a model the mapping is expected to improve. If refining of a model turns instead into rounds and rounds of complexity growths without matching massive improve in the consistency of mapping to physical reality, you'd naturally start to question the model, and may be think, kind of VC style, about spending say a few percent of resources going into that massive complexity growth of the currently dominating, yet still far from working that good, model into exploring some alternative models.
Bitcoin is insurance for when the banks go bust.
You are getting downvoted because it's completely unclear why the term "broken english" is offensive or not fit for use. You also did not propose an alternative.

I promise my use of it was entirely descriptive and not at all a judgement of the person speaking it. I have the utmost respect for anyone who can communicate an idea in another language at any level. I see my self as deficient for not being able to do so and think of myself as lesser and a poor citizen of the world for only speaking english.
I agree with that as well. Supporting single parent families can be much cheaper in the long run.
Parler blocked on Apple's App Store after Capitol riot review
Um, if it was at 2008 levels, wouldn't somebody do a 51% attack?
It's great to see this kind of anthropological approach to money. It has been difficult to find a coherent way to talk about it.
Yeah, I forgot they also have the so you start brand. It's probably more expensive than the majority of what digital ocean sells, but there is some overlap for sure.
I found it to be surprisingly affordable. If you just want to connect two computers with Thunderbolt three ports, you need:

A switch like this ($143.15): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LFKGP1L/

two of these adapters ($129.98 total): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KFBFL16/

and then two of these adapters ($298.00 total): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K7SMF89/

Works out to $571.13 total. It might not be worth it to just connect two machines, but in my case it was worth it because I was building a 10-machine cluster.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/810859107894008357/
Bitcoin is set up to incentivise exactly the behaviour we're seeing right now, it's built into the structure of bitcoin combined with human psychology.

So yes bitcoin absolutely consumes energy, it goes hand it hand with bitcoin being a popular speculation vehicle.
Russia has a lot in common with China than any other country .. common theoretical basis of the past (communism) So they will perfectly find a common language. Russia and China have
strong American pressure, in the form of an embargo and so on. So they will try to minimize their dependence on the USA .. Considering the addition of the economic power and intelligence of the two countries .. Most likely, the USA is in a winning position now, and will start losing in the medium term.
Deformable Image Registration Using Deep Learning
There definitely was no shortage of online photography materials in 2006…
How is the internet allowed? I can easily find Nazi symbols after searching the web for a few seconds.
They had no pilot on board for most of the equivalent. Ariane had no pilot on board either for the whole program.

So no. That is not the reason. Try again.
It seems I'm the minority here, but I dont like OctoPrint. My main issues:

- Terribly slow startup and load times.

- no support for mobile devices just with some app.

- While it can do lots of things with plugins they tend to kill performance which might cause artifacts on the print.

- slow on updates, they ware on Python 2.x until this year.

I'm currently migrating to mainsail (https://github.com/meteyou/mainsail), which looks much better.
They read that Bitcoin uses more electric than Argentina and now they have their panties in a bunch because they believe the talking heads that say climate change will end the world.
Apparently hey are more like (temporary) extensions of the main building than separate DCs.
Marketing 101. (I once saw a brand whose product tiers started with "Premium" at the low end.)
Apparently they are more like (temporary) extensions of the main building than separate DCs.
World on course to exceed 2°C global warming by wide margin
Here are gruesome, firsthand details about production and management problems with the 737NG in a documentary from Al Jazeera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWdEtANi-0

The following summary is my own:

The whole story is shown in the first seconds: three aircraft encountering more force than a usual landing (such as a runway overrun). All three fuselages breaking into three parts in exactly the same two places! All three aircraft exactly eight years old.

Aluminum members called chords run the length of the fuselage and around the circumference to make up the fuselage structure. The chords are joined to each other and to reinforcing surrounds for large openings like doors.

Poorly fitting chords and bear plates around openings were redrilled when mounting holes were misplaced, reshaped and pounded with hammers in order to mate them. This weakened of the structure to below design margins. In addition excessive metal fatigue due to hand processing led to accelerated corrosion, likely causing structural failure in three eight-year-old NG aircraft that broke up on landing. The aircraft were engineered to survive an emergency landing intact and were designed for 30-year airframe life.

More to the story as the government colluded with Boeing to cover these deficiencies and frustrate the actions (eventually lawsuits) by a team of whistleblowers.

Basically, the subcontractor agreed to use computer controlled manufacturing processes, then did 90% of the work by hand. The resulting substandard parts were beaten into shape on Boeing's production line.

Watching this, I can better understand a recent story on local TV about developments in the US airline industry. They forecast that many companies will using the the opportunity of the pandemic to retire older aircraft.
Honestly my only non-internet clock doesn’t tick for few years, since I moved in and stopped it because silence. But yes, that is a valid con.
Are you equating consensual pornography between adults (presumably legal, free expression) with speech advocating violence?
The original element of the article is the perspective it's offering regarding _how much_ energy bitcoin consumes.

You can dismiss it each time it comes up, but the reality of the situation isn't changing.
The submitted title was "Zapier reached a $5B valuation without VC funding". We've changed it now.
> I would be ok with Bitcoin having had a 10% pre-mine if it also had a pre-sale, rather than limiting it to those technical enough to mine it on day one.

“On day one” it was possible to CPU mine Bitcoin on any ordinary Windows PC using a freely available open source GUI application.
The answer depends on what's more important to you. Do want to live in Montreal or make more money living in the US ? You cannot have it both unfortunately. I wouldn't worry about future issues though if changing countries. You can always negotiate a higher salary while moving back to US if you are worth it.

So for short term, if you want to be in Montreal, go for it. In the future if/when you want to move back to US, just look for a job and ask them for a salary that you think is a good match then. Don't sweat it right now.
That's way too high of a risk for anything commercial.
The equivalent to banning bitcoin mining would be banning personal vehicles, or banning pickup trucks/SUVs. Banning ICE vehicles would be closer to banning the use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining.
Cyclone wasn't backwards-compatible with C.

ATS is not just "a blend of ML and C", it has a powerful proof system on top.

You can't just say "well, these languages were derived from C in part, THEREFORE they must be easy to adopt at scale", that doesn't follow at all.

Yes, Cyclone and ATS were research projects, that's why they were never able to accumulate the real-world experience needed to demonstrate that their ideas work at scale.

Objective-C isn't memory safe.

By "GC" here I meant memory reclamation schemes that require runtime support and object layout changes ... which is the way most people use it. If you use the term "garbage collection" in a more expansive way, so that you say Rust "is a garbage collected language", then most people are going to misunderstand you.
Congratulations!

Exited to see what's brewing with this cash-boost.
For most people, if YouTube does not work in Firefox, they will not switch to a different video platform.
They will switch to Chrome.
read it

ps: people, it wasn't an order, just a metacomment about pruned suffixes
Since switching to universal UTC would not also change the Earth from an oblate spheroid to a flat Earth, it would not eliminate the need for timezones. At most, it would perhaps cause us to rename them to spacezones.
Have a look at cosmos.network for successful decentralized dPoS network. Also Binance chain is built using Cosmos SDK, one could argue it is not decentralized enough, but it is certainly secure enough.
Performance of those AWS instances comes nowhere close despite the specs.
OK, we've disambiguated that in the title above. (Submitted title was "Zapier reached a $5B valuation without VC funding".)
It's a trade-off. Which way do they gain more money? From showing the YouTube ads to Firefox users, or from getting users into the Chrome ecosystem for however that is monetized?
The space race of the 60s had plenty of unmanned tests before they started manning them. Humans were not the first Earth creatures in space. If Musk wanted to go back further than maybe the 70s or 80s, his issues would have been:

1. the science hadn't been fully developed ahead of time

2. he would have had a harder time getting other people on board with his idea -- he would have been labelled a complete crackpot

3. governments may have not have been so willing to allow him to do it
I've tried a couple of times to do polls but polls seem to not be popular / be penalized by the forum software, so skipped that this time.
Salesforce to cut even more SF real estate by subleasing part of 30-story tower
The website is blocked in europe so I can't read it. Why are these movies blocked for children?
Didn't click for me until I needed to work on a Pinebook Pro that didn't have the juice for VSCode. After a full day of working with Emacs I'm a convert. The hardest things to grok were minibuffers and how every named command run with M-x is just an Elisp subroutine. After that Emacs just feels like a huge library of text manipulation functions, ergo, Editor MACroS.
There's a certain type of person that applies this exact phrase to everything they ideologically oppose.

They're joyless and authoritarian.
and focus on internalizing carbon cost into energy prices, and that will help focus on lightning network for micro-transactions.
Keep Our Town Nuclear-Free
This smells like a sophisticated investor pump and dump: sell a small number of shares for a stupid amount to use the new valuation as the marker.

I would trust this number far less than a number one would arrive at a new VC round
> They can be tested at any time

Assuming that the various lockdown protocols allow it. Many countries have had (or still have) massive intra-country travel restrictions, some such as Italy had periods of complete curfew.

Also, laboratories were generally either ordered or "volunteered" to prioritise covid19 swabs over drug tests.
Then it wouldn't be at 2008 levels anymore. The problem is that miners have so much power today.
Light in the evening when you can use it, rather than during the day when you're stuck on conference calls.

Also, 'standard' offsets to GMT are fairly arbitrary anyway. We're not going to get employers to change operating hours, so it's paradoxically simpler to change the hours themselves.
when you install GNOME 3 these days, does it install both Xorg + Wayland packages, and then at runtime you pick which you want?

I would have guessed the GDM/login manager is X11/xorg?
I don't get the author's dislike of Confluence, when it is just a different representation of.a Wiki. I actually like the way Confluence implements draw.io so I can quickly scribble an architecture or A flow.

What am I missing here?
> These men (or women) have something akin to a Swyer syndrome of identity: Their chromosomal and anatomical gender is male (or female), but their chromosomal/anatomical state does not generate a synonymous signal in their brains. In rats, notably, such a syndrome can be caused by changing a single gene in the brains of female embryos or exposing embryos to a drug that blocks the signaling of “femaleness” to the brain. Female mice engineered with this altered gene or treated with this drug have all the anatomical and physiological features of femaleness, but perform the activities associated with male mice, including mounting females: these animals might be anatomically female, but they are behaviorally male.

This part seems lacking in detail. What is "the signaling of 'femaleness' to the brain"?
Emotional impact or not nautilus has a really high journalistic standards and plenty of masterpieces
California Reviewing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ After Tesla Clarifies Limits
It's a editorialized headline that only appears on HN. The submission itself (it's content) doesn't actually say anything like the title is (was? Seems title changed)
Mind sharing some details? I've been working on this myself and I don't have much JS ecosystem experience. I found the same issue around using tailwindcss as a postcss plugin (it basically tripled my build time), so would love to hear alternative solutions.
I've been dreaming of a full Lisp port of Emacs to get rid of all the baremetal C routines and GNU libraries. Just write the whole thing in Racket or something similar.
Are you saying grocery stores, cars, and hospitals only exist because of the "USD ecosystem", and would not exist if Bitcoin were dominant?
Accessibility is the one thing that can save us right now.

It really shows how batshit insane UI/UX zeitgeist has become, when the only way to have usable user interface is to use accessibility features.