skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Its invested" can mean a lot of things. And in general (as another user notes) the velocity of "invested" money is lower than the velocity of money spent. In other words, the 1T spent on jets is actually better for the economy.

Invested money is usually in things like the stock market, which doesn't directly support a company (buying a share of AMZN doesn't put money in Amazon's pocket, although it does, amusingly, make Bezos wealthier on paper). Angel investing might actually be better here from a velocity perspective, I don't actually know for sure.
And yet all we have documenting those are a few (anonymous) blog posts.
Will be interesting to see the resources that AWS will throw at this. You can get a sense of the resource that elastic.co is throwing at elasticsearch at

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith...

I'm currently indexing the fork, so in about an hour or two, I'll provide the insights for the fork as well.
Can you elaborate on why a "liquidity-squeeze" is bad for bitcoin? It's subdivisible to 8 decimal places, so it's not like reducing the supply would make it harder to transact or anything.
I'm glad they changed the name. Although it's probably too much to ask that the AWS service be renamed to OpenSearch Service as well.
I've seen things like this a lot, and it's a bit confusing. If parts of the M1's performance are due to throwing compute at the problem, why hasn't Intel been doing that for years? What about ARM, or the M1, allowed this to happen?
Unpopular opinion: this is similar to Stephen Hawking's gloomy predictions for AI
That's true, but technically, the company that is named "Nuance" today was originally named "ScanSoft". They bought the original Nuance and assumed its name.

It's a bit like Symantec, which bought everything, including its name.
The question is that if trains are so good, why are people still preferring flights?
Great, yeah a lot of crypto builders thrive in power vacuums. So the Trump administration was convenient for the 2017 bubble, as a debilitated SEC was necessary for the token launches that made issuers millions (and billions). And a paralyzed Congress was necessary to get non-establishment people confirmed who will last many administrations. All of that lost its utility by 2020 as the outcomes were mostly solidified and favorable.

I would say it is slightly more than moderately successful.

The SEC still hasn't approved a digital commodity trust yet ("bitcoin ETF") but enough wealthy people are involved now that have created surrogates that it isn't as important.

Maybe some college kid in the late 2020s will make some Netflix conspiracy documentary about the "revolving door in crypto", I would call that success.
This part really disturbed me
The USG could kill it by using a 51 percent attack; the NSA must have rows upon rows of servers that could be repurposed for a week or two to destroy the market. Split the blockchain every couple of hours into several different versions, eventually there would be little chance to reconcile things.
Well of course for everyone, but selfishly, I was asking for me alone here
Like you, I'm struggling to see how this is substantially different from proof of work, besides trading one limited resource (GPUs and power) for another (disks). It surely still comes down to real-world money - whoever can afford to buy the most disks can mine the most crypto.
Strangely, an explanation for the increased number of wealths coming from new, tech companies and investments that is ignored in his post is the disturbing fact it was taken from the average employee cut of the profits.

See this:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/16/ceo-versus-...

I quote:
"The 2017 CEO-to-worker compensation ratio of 312-to-1 was far greater than the 20-to-1 ratio in 1965, and more than five times greater than the 58-to-1 ratio in 1989"
Pretty much an essay aimed at gullible 20 year olds.
The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA
"You are saying exactly that"

I said what I said, not what you are saying. There is a lot of context and nuance that you simply want to misrepresent my statements and label people as stupid.

You still didnt define what you mean by struggle. How can we communicate, if you're not communicating? You have to at least define the problem and explain what you are talking about rather than assuming I'm a mind reader. Nothing personal, but I'm starting to think you are a troll.
The heart defect thing definitely puts me in a weird psychological bucket when it comes to underlying drive/motivation. I've only met one adult that had similar feelings/views and they had childhood multiple recurrence leukemia.

I have some concepts that I want to try to bring into the world.

One is a first principles notes/app platform I've been using for personal use that upends how apps and data relate. The goal is to reduce context switching costs to nearly 0 and reduce cognitive overhead for 80% of "life things".

One is a social software approach to ending involuntary homelessness that is invasive enough that it needs tons of homelessness education for the general public and buy in from existing homelessness resources. I want to upend charitable giving by combatting the learned helplessness society inculcates from childhood.. because we perceive it as an intractable problem.

Another is a platform for developers to "never" interview again and for high signal employed developers to capture 50/60% of profits going towards recruiters (piggy backing off my work with speaking talent and how speaker bureaus work.)

I'd like to take an honest, well funded stab at those three things before I die, the notes app is the first on the docket because it's the easiest and I'm working my way there via bootstrapping atm because I'm weak at fundraising. Succeed or fail I want to birth these things into the world you know? Do my damndest before I die, that's really it.
I don't think that's a controversial opinion. Start-ups are high risk high reward. You probably won't truly make it, but if you do you have more money than you know what to do with.
I know a tautology when I see one.
You know you're greedy when Oracle is cheaper
It's interesting, but I can't decide if it's an anti-pattern or not. You're abusing a construct to achieve a slight improvement in brevity/readability, with the downside of JS's lack of block-scoping for case statements which means variables in one case can conflict with variables in other cases

All in all: I probably won't be using it
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>At some point you need to convert your crypto gains back to fiat to actually use it

Except you don't. It's a currency. Just because it's hot right now and people are treating it like an investment doesn't change the fact that it's a currency itself. You don't need to convert it to anything. It was literally built to be a currency free from bank/government control. That was the whole point.

The sole criterion for the viability of a currency is acceptance in trade. It doesn't require government, bank, or sign off by any authority. If people accept it in trade, it's a currency and it's viable. Just because other, older fiats are more mainstream currently doesn't change that fact one iota.
"Third party" means a third party provided it: not yourself, and not the Python distribution, but someone else.

"os" is a second-party library. You didn't write it; it was included in the Python distribution for you.

What you're asking, I think is why the "os" functions are not, in Python terminology, "builtins." The builtins are functions that are available without any kind of import: like len(), max(), sorted(), etc.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html

Why do you have to "import os"? Python was designed that way, that's all. So were the majority of other languages that come with standard libraries. (JavaScript is one exception that comes to mind, but there aren't many such exceptions.)

The discussion above relates to "virtual environments", which are ways to manage third-party dependencies. My claim is that virtualenvs, while handy for general-purpose development, are basically pointless for replacing shell scripts. You don't need them -- the core language and its standard library are sufficient for most shell scripting purposes. I'm basing this opinion on my ~20 years of using Python for this kind of work.
> repeating the same tired line that APIs, data standards, and personal control of information are fundamentally at odds with privacy.

It’s not in general but it is if you share information with your relatives and they don’t understand the consequence of their actions. That unique property of social data is something that creates that contradiction and something that privacy advocate keep missing.

> But my goodness if Facebook isn't engaged in exactly the same kind of propaganda, constantly encouraging the exact same confusion between scraping and leaking, between consenusual data-sharing and hacking, whenever it fits their purposes and whenever it gives them an excuse to tighten the moat around their product.

There’s a lot of people at Facebook, me first, who would love to have a different communication, but we know from experience that we’ll get pummelled if we try to introduce nuances like that in the public debate. I always find that frustrating until someone reminded me the trope about having two wolves inside of you. The story is corny but it explains the problem with coverage of Facebook really well: the misguided critics make it so that only spin-doctors manage are the only ones who can have a positive impact on the company’s image.
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All you have to do is live beyond your means. Buy that $4M house in the cozy neighborhood, add in some private schooling for your kids, throw in a half dozen vacations, and add a few expensive cars that you buy new every year.

Sorry, describing an old boss.
I think it depends on what the opinions are.

I used to be a vegetarian and had friends who would be upset and hurt when people ate meat. I don’t think meat eaters should apologize.

There’s lots of situations where someone says something reasonable, and someone gets upset and no apology is necessary.

Your claim that absolutely if opinions hurt people then the opinion haver should apologize , is wrong I think. And will lead to less discussion and a net negative to society.
But won't you also increase the mining activity if the price shoots up? I'd like to hear more detail on this "liquidity-squeeze" plan.
What matters far more than dollars paid is having his name attached to it. I recall Scott Alexander getting the forum started around his community to remove any associations to him because of things people were saying were happening “under his watch.”
The existing crypto lobbying groups were able to get bi-partisan support and co-sponsors for their bills but couldn't get Congress to focus enough to pass things. They got Wyoming and some western states to pass favorable state-level laws though.

Let's see how this one does.
> This is not so much the case in my experience (Europe). People here do not start new companies that frequently (as is the culture in the US, I think).

In Europe? No. European founders? There are so many in the Bay Area. For some reasons they don't seem to stay in Europe.
It's not that they don't deserve it, it's that it's ironic.
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Hooray to the next woke “mission” trying to “save” the “doomed” continent!
Crackdown on current state of crypto can only help it in the long run, if you actually really believe it.

Right now it’s market mostly dedicated to get rich quick schemes. While it works great if you’re on top of the pyramid, it’s only hurting crypto case for the future.
I think if you want to be a successful hedgefund manager, then you need to beat the market. This means if the market grows by 5%, then the funds capitalization needs to grow by more than 5%.

What you are describing is how a bank or more conservative financial investment management firms work. These are the firms that manage mutual funds or sell life insurance.
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I found a quote from Goldbard in the article: "To be frank, there's a moral imperative to do so, because Signal has to offer payments in order to remain competitive with the world's top messaging apps."

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messa...
awesome! arewefastyet.rs is a lovely resource, thanks for building it.

> Lastly I wanted to share this feedback during the beta program, but I couldn't find a way other than creating a twitter account and hitting up the PM.

If you're on Discord, joining our channel is a great way to share feedback: https://discord.gg/HcwPdhDf
You’re describing monetization, not a pyramid scheme.
> ~35 billion, or half his income this year

Thanks to $AMZN going up. There's no way he can spend that much per year for prolonged periods of time.
Welp. Africa is doomed now.
There is also an MIT-0 license that is OSI approved now. It doesn't have the questionable patent language that caused CC0 to eventually be withdrawn from OSI consideration.

Of possibly historical interest, the MIT license was created in the first place because there were issues with just putting X Windows into the public domain.
They didn't even create firecracker themselves. It's a fork of Googles crossvm.
Chances are, the content creator blacklisted you on his channel. That way your comments are shadow banned forever. You can type all you like, noone will see it.

This is a feature, not a bug.
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Great buy for MSFT. Voice is the future of healthcare and they just bought the best player in the game.
How much of that performance is on-chip memory and how usable/scalable is that? An Xserve that is limited to one CPU and can't have more RAM would pretty mediocre.
IoT smart spoons.
So, because other people are unwilling to do the work themselves and want to consume the work of the FSF for free, that gives them power of the FSF to demand how they behave because of some nebulous idea of 'leadership?'

The FSF doesn't owe you anything, and they're only your leader if you choose to follow them.

The companies that have spoken out against Stallman represent 100's of billions of dollars in capital. It's pretty pathetic when you think about it.
Did you compare them to others in this space, like FastSpring? Would be really interested to see how it stacks up.
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US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show (2018)
And ex-US?
Somethings don’t log correctly if you use the built in interpolation without using JSON.stringify. And if you use stringify it’ll actually “freeze” it and it will not be interactive.
Now do that with the rest of the compilation in one pass, without an AST.
To be fair though mid-career engineers and PMs are now making incredible amounts of money even outside of FAANG. Equity has been a huge part of upside for high growth companies, and has motivated a lot of smart people to work at larger companies.

No FAANG company even made the list for Entry Level on the Levels.fyi 2020 list: https://levels.fyi/2020/
Graphene -- generally has a bunch of uses that are not fully explored and I think it has a lot of potential.

Example company creating anti-COVID solutions with it:
https://www.zengraphene.com/
The time when Apache or MySQL started out was very different. Imagine where the internet would be if cloud computing itself didn't take off.

Do you remember a time when there were hundreds of hosting providers? Do you remember WebHostingTalk where admins would go to check hosting offers from suppliers around the world?

The monopolies finished that era. So I don't think that software companies trying to adapt now can be seen through the lens of what was 15 years ago.
Much less. x86 instruction decoding is complicated by the fact that instructions are variable-width and are byte-aligned (i.e. any instruction can begin at any address). This makes decoding more than one instruction per clock cycle complicated -- I believe the silicon has to try decoding instructions at every possible offset within the decode buffer, then mask out the instructions which are actually inside another instruction.

ARM A32/A64 instruction decoding is dramatically simpler -- all instructions are 32 bits wide and word-aligned, so decoding them in parallel is trivial. T32 ("Thumb") is a bit more complex, but still easier than x86.
1. GNU Name System to replace the DNS in a backwards-compatible manner, with delegation to cryptographic public keys (instead of IP addresses) and with strong guarantees against known attacks against the DNS (DNSSEC doesn't solve everything). https://gnunet.org/en/gns.html

2. Semantic sysadmin to declare your intent in regards to your infrastructure no matter how it is implemented (i.e. with a standard specification, interoperability/migration becomes possible) https://ttm.sh/dVy.md

3. GUI/WebUI CMS for contributing to a shared versioned repository. Sort of what netlify is doing, but using a standard so you can use the client of your choice and we tech folks can hold onto our CLI while our less-techie friends can enjoy a great UI/UX for publishing articles to collective websites.

4. Structured shell for the masses. Powershell isn't the worst, but in my view nushell has a bright future ahead. For the people who don't need portability, it may well entirely replace bash, Python and perl for writing more maintainable and user-friendly shell scripts. https://nushell.sh/

5. A desktop environment toolkit that focuses on empowering to build more opinionated desktops while mutualizing the burden of maintenance of core components. Most desktop environments should have a common base/library (freedesktop?) where features/bugs can be dealt with once and for all and we don't have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Last week i learnt some DE folks want to fork the whole of GTK because it's becoming too opinionated for their usage, and GNOME is nowadays really bloated and buggy thanks to javascript hell. Can't we have a user-friendly desktop with solid foundations and customizability?
When I say "worth it", I'm not simply talking about finances.

He's a drain on the organization's reputation. People don't join the FSF because of the great working hours and phenomenal pay, they mostly join it for ideological reasons. We're not talking about retiring a beloved mascot because people don't like it anymore, we're talking about removing an individual holding a position of power who's actively keeping people away by being a sex pest.
>It's the promotion of free software.

Don't you think Free Software is best promoted by a guy who doesn't give women the creeps, and who has a modicum of social graces?

Politics is an inherently social arena; perhaps if the FSF wants to stop being a joke and actually succeed in its outreach they should pick someone who doesn't eat his toejam on live camera.
Definitely curious about the .NET Development experience in Linux. My past includes a lot of Visual Studio + SQL Server Management Studio, and I'll be working on some Azure data stuff in the future. For now I'll rely on Windows for that, but I'll still hold a small piece of my brain in curiosity mode.
>On technical matters, you are correct; on moral matters it's a different story.

They are intertwined. His moral positions have done incredible damage to GCC at a technical level, and lost huge amounts of marketshare to LLVM as a direct result.

(Stallman thought that making the compiler more modular and extensible was totally unacceptable because it might be possible in theory to write proprietary tools that used GCC to dump intermediate representations. Thus preventing any FOSS tools from using GCC, also).