skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The whole concept of "market cap" for commodities and currencies is ridiculous.

As a refresher for folks, the term comes from stocks. For example, the Nuance stock was trading at $43.58 on April 9. Multiply that times the number of shares and you get about $13 billion. That's the market capitalization. This is a meaningful number because if another company wants to buy it, they'll have to pay at least that much. And indeed, when Microsoft bought it, they paid $19.7 billion. [1]

But commodities and currencies don't work that way. If you want to buy a little gold, you pay $57k/kilo. But if you want to buy all the gold? There's not enough money in the world. If you discover a mountain of gold, can you sell at that price? No way. In both cases, the price is a balance point between supply and demand at the moment. If you change supply or demand, you get big price swings. You can calculate "market cap" for USD or gold, but it's not a meaningful number.

That's even more true for cryptocurrencies. Dollars and gold at least flow freely. But supply of cryptocurrencies are, as this article shows, totally arbitrary. And demand, both actual and apparent, is heavily manipulated. Using the term "market cap" is just another way to make raw speculation look like investment.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joecornell/2021/04/20/microsoft...
Here's what I take away from this post:

> We built automation that can respond rapidly to load concentration and individual server failure. Because the consistency witness tracks minimal state and only in-memory, we are able to replace them quickly without waiting for lengthy state transfers.

So this means that the "system" that contains the witness(es) is a single point of truth and failure (otherwise we would lose consistency again), but because it does not have to store a lot of information, it can be kept in-memory and can be exchanged quickly in case of failure.

Or in other words: minimize the amount of information that is strictly necessary to keep a system consistent and then make that part its own in-memory and quickly failover-able system which is then the bar for the HA component.

Is that what they did?
I think the beauty of a game like Stardew Valley is that many people with many different styles of play are able to find enjoyment in it. Some people really enjoy min-maxing. Why do you find that perverse?
You aren't obligated to accept anything given to you as a gift or in a will.
futex is a Fast Userspace muTEX. It's the syscall to help implement a mutex when there are two or more threads waiting on the lock to let other processes/threads schedule and do useful work during the wait.
Curious. 95% of my circle are Australian, 80% of them use iPhones, and absolutely all of us use iMessage for nearly all text communication.

Signal is used for the iPhone to Android communication sometimes, but honestly it’s mostly just SMS.
Global IPOs begin 2021 at breakneck pace
I'm still using my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro 13". I think I will upgrade to M1 (or M2 if I manage to wait) but only because

1) I don't see alternatives to the ridiculously inefficient JetBrains IDEe, which have become barely functional on this machine (really, come on, why do you need so many more resources to do exactly the same job that ran flawlessly 7 years ago?).

2) I can no longer install the newest Xcode due to disk space requirements (40-50GB for Xcode 12, not counting simulators and other essential tools) - I have no words here, I guess when you are Apple you just demand that the whole world adjusts itself to you).

I wish I didn't have to upgrade since I detest giving money to companies such as Apple and find them abhorrent, but I am not ready to leave the dev work yet.
I think building it in Google Sheets is important because finance folks are comfortable with it and (if needed) can customize it to suit their needs. It's also hard to replicate Google Sheet's collaboration features like edit history on individual cells, real-time updates, comments/suggestions etc.

- A demo video is a great idea, I'll get started on that this week.

- Screenshots/video closer to the top is a good idea too, think maybe I need an image in the hero.

- Good point on the copy, I'll have to revisit this.

Really appreciate the suggestions!
I take it like this:

There's no New York City community. There's no Bronx community. Both of those political units are way too big for communities to exist at that scale. It isn't diversity, although both of them are diverse, it's Dunbar's Number and the limits of the human animal. They exist in other ways, but they don't exist as communities.
> Why stay behind to rebuild when you can move to Holland or Austria?

That's why waging a war always needs some decent rebuild plan, similar to WW2's Marshall Plan. Never thinking further than "throw a shitload of money towards military contractors, NGOs and whoever we can find willing to serve as a government" is what led to the failed states of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

If the West had offered the people in these countries the clear offer "we give you X billion dollars, in exchange for actual democracy and stability", the results would have been way different...
Not only did Apple miss an opportunity to own global messaging, Google could have done the same if they had designed Allo with SMS fallback similar to iMessage.

I have no idea what they were thinking with Allo, but they blew one of the easiest layups I’ve ever seen.
If you have difficulty with the FT's paywall, either reader mode or switching off Javascript should do the trick.
MessageBird (YC S16) acquires SparkPost for $600M using $800M Series C extension
Wikipedia is also helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical-axis_wind_turbine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#Horizontal_axis
What would have been more interesting is compiling basillisk2 or minivmac to WASM and seeing how well it performs compared to native (I think this may have already been done with the later). That might actually result a good convenience performance trade-off allowing for some interesting use cases: e.g popping a quadra emulator with a specific disk image into an arbitrary web page as an interactive figure in an article commenting on some part of personal computing history.

But transpiling it to JS and then wrapping in electron... just seems like some weird masochistic exercise in how to make things worse for no benefit.

then again:

> Should this have been a native app? Absolutely.

Maybe the author was fully aware of that, but this makes me wonder what their motivations were.
Eh, if you aren't able to stay connected to a group despite not using that group's chosen technology, you're not that critical to the group. I'm not advocating to hold your participation hostage, but someone organizing a group to use exclusionary practices despite knowing specific members can't or won't participate is a classic bullying tactic. Family members employ it often.
Ask HN: Is buying first edition packs of Pokemon a good investment?
Genuinely curious about people's opinions. Please don't write it off because it seems silly...

To add:
One of the problems is that some are 'heavy' in certain packs so maybe people only sell the light ones but dont say theyre light? But maybe that's a bad way to determine whether they have holos.
> Doesn't end up in the real economy yet. Give it time, money doesn't stay where you spend it.

The bailout money from 2008ff still hasn't "trickled down" to the people, over a decade later.

Trickle down only works when the amount of layers between the initial receivers of money and the intended recipients is as close to 1 as possible. Hiring a construction firm to build a road and mandating a decent wage for employees in the tender is the most efficient way for that.
Recreational use of marijuana is illegal in the US. States such as California can only choose not to prosecute it. That's not the same as being legal.
Futex stands for fast userspace mutex. It is a basic building block for implementing a mutex (amongst others).

Afaik, if locking a mutex succeeds, futexes avoid a context switch to and from the kernel. The fast path happens completely in userspace. Only when a mutex lock causes a thread to sleep, the kernel is needed. All of this improves mutex performance.

There are other locking primitives than mutexes, and the current futex interface is not optimal for implementing common windows ones. Hence this proposal.
Economics Explained talked about something similar w/ art. [1]

- Buy N paintings form one artist for $1 million USD a piece.

- Put 1 painting up for auction.

- Have coconspirators bid the painting up to say $20 million.

- Buy your own painting for $20 million, and imply that your other paintings by the same artist are also worth $20 million.

- Donate a "$20 million" painting to an art museum (that maybe you control) & save $10 million in taxes.

- Complain about tax hikes on the rich as the not-rich subsidize your art collection

[1] The Economics Of The Art Market: Why This Painting Isn't Worth $450 Million -- https://youtu.be/V5sOuET8UWA
It extends to music as well. Consider the acclaimed jazz label ECM. Some of its recordings of more obscure jazzmen sell only a few hundred copies, not even covering production costs. But a Keith Jarrett record will sell so many thousands of copies that it can subsidize other releases on the label.
I don't believe this is true. There's an installation of 9 1MW turbines (perhaps quite small in comparison to the largest ones around today) near where I live that I frequently cycle past (within ~50m). Even in strong winds they are barely audible.
The straightforward solution is to simply reject dualism and accept physicalism. There is no scientific evidence pointing to the mind being anything other than an emergent property of the structure of the neurons in the brain.

It doesn't matter if that structure is made up of "real matter" or simulated matter running in a computer: the emergent result is the same. A simulation hypothesis is not needed to resolve the mind-body problem - presumably, intelligent life can evolve just as readily in a simulated universe as a real one.
I guess I should also say that from a theoretical perspective your class is all about how you get your money: if it comes from work, then you’re working class, if it comes from ownership of property, then you’re ruling class/bourgeoisie.
A futex is an ephemeral list of waiting threads or processes keyed on an address. It can be used to implement any synchronization or signaling primitive, like mutexes, condition variables, semaphores, etc.
Everything else in the basket is clearly a fruit... but what kind? From the left, there's some kind of leaf (bay leaves?), figs, ... some pale yellow orbs that could be loquats or anything else, grapes, ... some red orbs that are probably pomegranates and ... something that is about the size of two and a half figs.

It's actually not that easy to recognise what the mosaic is showing, especially with so much missing context after a couple thousand years. Bit of a stretch to call that thing a pineapple then.

Edit: Oh, and what's that behind the "pineapple"? That's even harder to decipher than anything else in the basket.

Come to that, can anyone recognise the species of fish below the basket?
Yes, and with Google you can also appeal. Problem is the same, though - you don’t know why the decision was made and don’t have the full view of the problem.
That has been done in a few studies. But delivering food doesn't mean that study subjects actually ate it, or didn't eat other food. So it doesn't solve the data quality problem.
same as what ICOs would do
Which claim? The near-monopoly on all items was obvious hyperbole. The destruction of local bookstores by Books-A-Million, Borders, and Barnes and Noble is well-documented.
More time indoors and online to get caught up in this drama?
That webpage wouldn't scroll smoothly on my M1 Macbook Air. Not a strong showcase of speed when it's their main selling point.
Specifically the thing that Git was meant for was there being multiple authoritative roots. In the sense that RedHat can keep their own kernel line and just bring in patches from Linus and other maintainers as well. Everyone can be authoritative! This is great for example if you need to fork a library to make some changes (eg replace a library it's using in it's implementation) but want to keep current with it's improvements.

...this is not the case for most projects. They want to have a clear source of truth for the code.
Ask HN: How to Combat Browser Fingerprinting?
I ran https://coveryourtracks.eff.org and under the "HTTP_ACCEPT Headers" results it says: "One in x browsers have this value: 136937.5" (in other words, highly unique and thus my browser is trackable).

1. In Firefox how can I control the HTTP_ACCEPT Headers to make them more generic (less trackable)?

2. Are there any good websites that have step-by-step guides to make your browser fingerprint less unique?
That isn't a good thought experiment.

Unconscious biases are likely to have much more effect in ambiguous situations where it's harder to try to understand someone's motivations or how to react, than in a situation where those things are clear. Their absence in the latter does not imply their absence in the former.
Just want to say thanks to Dan Grossman for providing this free service. I find it really useful.
yes, but scan each one and make an NFT of them on https://opensea.io
When I was young, every time I got a new computer (which wasn't often, but it happened a few times), the new machine was absurd amounts faster than the previous one. Like 10 times more processing power and memory.

I'm glad we can live that feeling again, even if just for a short while.
Indeed. If you start a religion, and get a single person to join it, you can (truthfully!) claim you've doubled the size of your congregation!

The reason this scammy verbiage works is because it violates "linguistic norms". Congregations are "large" things in peoples minds, so when you claim to double it, the image that comes to mind is adding a substantial number. By violating these norms, you can lie without lying. It's a neat trick, the use of which has been mastered by the legal profession. But the technique clearly has wider applications, sadly.
The Rise and Fall of a Double Agent
Spain is forcing phone makers to give you an extra year of warranty
It's a primitive that lets you build mutexes; you've got an atomic integer in userspace, attached to a wait queue in kernel space. Eli Bendersky has a pretty good rundown: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/basics-of-futexes/
Seems like it matters if the popularity of Pokemon will go up or down in the future. Hard for anyone to know for sure.
If you are using HAProxy you can use the following:

http-response set-header Permissions-Policy interest-cohort=()
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> There is no evidence at this time to conclude that myocarditis is a risk associated” with the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, the company said

Until there is evidence, I don't see a reason for the average non-researcher to pay any attention to this news.
The game starts with the player character stuck in a grey cubical and escaping to a small farming community of fantasy-level quaintness and rural charm. How is treating the game like an algorithm to optimize not perverse?
They do, its called a gift card.
Looking beyond the term and you realise the approach is neither impressive or novel.

Such rebranding is endemic in article headlines like this. The term “AI” may be in vogue but 99.9% of the time it’s really just putting lipstick on a pig.
What's Accenture? (2020)
Exactly. When you look at the depth of the order books (https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=USDT-DOGE), even selling $1MM will shift the price down by nearly 50%.
"My belief is that the key to working with other people of different ideological persuasions is to find common cause in the work, in the relations with customers, in the good we can do in the industry. Not to repeatedly seek out all the hard edges where we differ."

+1
Arm-based laptops that are competitive with Apple M1+ could arrive as early as 2023, powered by a Qualcomm SoC based on their $1.4B acquisition of Nuvia, lead by a team that designed Apple's M1, iPad and iPhone SoCs. This would likely run Windows for ARM and Linux. Hopefully it will also include hardware virtualization support, like M1.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Have you ever been shot and killed by the police?
Someone must be selling them at 30 cents, for other people to buy it. So some people are definitely making money.
is this a facetious response or genuine? I don't see which create an asset backed NFT is such a bad idea actually... you could write a smart contract that requires a minimum amount of USDC to buy.
Turkey Cryptocurrency Exchange Bust Spurs Move for Regulation
tbf if you're working with software which is context aware enough to usually generate plausible sounding text-responses, training it to usually identify stuff you think is bad is a closely related problem. (Sure, there's still a fine line between "sick fantasy" and "Stephen King novel", but your procedural text generator has to attempt to handle that to not disgust its customers anyway.)
> And investigative reporters are not only completely within their right to cultivate and use such leaks, I'd say they're obligated to do it! So it's only right and fair that when this is turned at Basecamp, at least when evaluating the reporting, we take it on the chin.

It surely takes some balls to say this.
Hangul is one outlier I can think of.
The idea is that you'd have to pay inheritance tax on the value of the building. The only way for someone without wealth to pay that would be to sell the building. The sale of an industrial site could take years, during which you'd owe a bunch of taxes.
Why Is API Testing Indispensable for Today’s Complex Apps?
s/applying/annoying
They were far too late with Allo. The time to get it right was when Whatsapp came around.

I like iMessage because it sends full quality media, but WhatsApp fills all the other gaps.
Good to know that China was able to buy the German robot manufacturer KUKA then. The German government is really getting slapped left and right.
Check out https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-... ("How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods") and https://d1.awsstatic.com/Security/pdfs/One_Click_Formal_Meth... ("One-Click
Formal Methods") for more info.
That logic would've applied to imessenger when it first appeared on the scene. Yet it is possible for challengers to displace the previous method despite not (yet) having the requisite network effects.

To now argue that nothing can or should supplant it is just Applecronyism.
Here is what I was looking at: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=pokemon&geo=US
The Samsung family have been engineering this for about two decades. Lee Kun-hee was convicted twice for stuff relating to this.

The issue they have is retaining control over Samsung whilst having to pay inheritance tax. This is why the stock price rose significantly when Lee actually "died", he obviously legally died before that point the coverup was to maintain control over Samsung, because it looks like they have finally lost control.

So yes, these laws are taken pretty seriously.

Btw, the thing about the gift is true in most countries. The reason why should be obvious: if you could just gift before someone dies then no-one would pay inheritance tax. It is usually a few years: so if you receive a gift and the granter dies within a few years then it is subject to inheritance tax.
There are ways around this.

You could minimize the accounting by setting a rebate level, then issuing a check to everyone (yes, even the rich people) for that amount.

To use your numbers, if you issued a rebate check for $100/month to everyone, the poor person would pay an effective rate of zero, while the rich person would still pay an effective rate of $400/month.
Waymo ranked top in latest Guidehouse leaderboard on automated driving systems
Completely depends on where you live AND also your social bubble. That's why these threads are often repetitive in nature. Everyone's different.

Here in NYC, I can count the number of Android users I've met in one hand... but I know that tons of people have Android phones. Most chatting happens on iMessage and maybe Instagram chat (people seem to exchange IG usernames rather than phone numbers nowadays).
what's the nt api call called? WaitForMultipleObjects? takes me back 20 years just thinking about it...
This looks interesting but I think it is still a little bespoke. A feature request would be to add an anticipated pension, since that has a major effect on how much you need to put into a retirement savings account.
18th Century. It's completely readable, as are many other works written at the same time, such as Boswell's Life of Johnson.

As for the 16th (and early 17th) century - Shakespeare?
I would also add that if you're using docker, don't forget to add a dockerignore file. I often see people miss this step and end up with exposed secrets and git folder (and poor build times).
YouTube is a media juggernaut that could
Not necessarily. It's a subset of deism, but deism doesn't imply creationism. Evolution by natural selection could still occur in a universe with one or more deities who don't interfere with reality at all. And even if they did interfere with it, it still doesn't by itself imply creationism.
Initial hot take: I'm not sure they're measuring efficiency in a way that's really meaningful to me?

There are so many ways you could measure it. You could measure it as the % of wind energy passing through the turbine's plane that is taken out of the air, or the the efficiency of using that energy to get the rotor turning, or the efficiency of converting the rotor's kinetic energy to electrical energy.

(edit: Or I could, y'know, do the sensible thing and check the article. They're measuring power output for a given wind speed and direction. Which I think means, in effect, all of that end-to-end.)

But I'm not sure any of those are, in and of themselves, what really matters at scale. The more interesting questions, I'm guessing, are things like, "How much energy can we get out of a plot of land of a given size?", or, "How much energy can we generate for a given cost to install and maintain?" Both of which, I would assume, are more difficult to directly extrapolate from thermodynamic efficiency in wind turbines than they are for something like photovoltaics, because of the "moving parts" factor.
Same here, kudos Dan! HN Replies has allowed a lot of interesting conversations to happen that probably would not have taken place otherwise.

Best of luck with everything