skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no more than PoW. they're both essentially lotteries that hand out share/influence based on capital investment.

PoS, done right, simply emulates PoW.

what does PoS done right look like?

"miners" lock up funds for 1-2 years. the amount of funds they lock up determines how likely they are to win the block lottery. the block lottery, and locking up funds for entries within it, remain decentralized.

the challenge is running a decentralized lottery with distributed consensus. this is hard, but i don't think impossible.
But my comment is about whitelisting, not blacklisting. The ability to be anonymous won't stop whitelisting.
Once you have achieved significant status and money you no longer need to be fierce since people listen anyway. But most people worth listening to doesn't have significant status and money, instead we wait until they found their own companies and become rich before we listen to them.
Plants also have nyctinasty which isn't sleep but is interesting: https://www.livescience.com/34569-why-flowers-close-at-night...
Blame Elon for that. But you know what's dumber than Dogecoin? Trust that central banks act in your financial interests. The bursting of that bubble is what spawned all of this, and it hasn't fully sunk in yet because most people kept their jobs without paying a significant price, but the bill is about to come due.
Except we're still waiting for an official Linux client since Google promised it was "coming soon" in 2012

https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...

Of course there are alternatives now, but I like to plug this page whenever I can.
What alternative definition of "national security" do you propose?
M1: QoS of macOS task is what makes it snap
This already happens (but less targeted). I think that's why Australia banned pharmaceutical ads. https://theconversation.com/drug-ads-only-help-big-pharmas-b...
One of the traits of top footballers in the modern game is that their teammates are pretty much - and keep in mind these are already some of the best players in the world by a long way - in disbelief of how hard and how efficiently they train. That's how Cristiano Ronaldo is as good as he is at an age when many have already retired.
Google I/O 2021: Being helpful in moments that matter
> If you have one or two solid long term clients, the running a company is minimal once you're setup.

In many countries, big consultancies lobby governments to treat such business as disguised employment. Here in the UK from this year, you may likely be caught by these new rules and have to pay employer and employee tax on the entire revenue - which essentially means you pay more tax than an employee, you don't have any employment rights and you still have business running costs that you cannot claim any tax relief from.
I can't find it right now, but I saw this infographic the other day showing how the ideology/goals of cryptocurrency have shifted over time. Something along going from a literal currency to replace the dollar to going toward its present definition as some mix of speculative asset and inflation hedge.
Tim Cook?
I did some work optimizing a similar problem, but simpler and on another OS[1]. The basic concept that worked was Receive Side Scaling (RSS), which was developed by Microsoft, for Windows Server. Did you come accross that? It needs support in the NIC and the driver, but intel gigE cards do it, so you don't need the really fancy cards. I don't know what the interface is like for Windows, but inbound RSS for FreeBSD is pretty easy, and skimming Windows docs, it seemed like you could do more advanced things there.

The harder part was aligning the outgoing connections; for max performance, you want all of the related connections pinned to the same CPU, so that there's no inter CPU messaging; for me that meant a frontend connection needs to hash to the same NIC queue as the backend connection; for you, that needs to be all of the demultiplexed connections on the same queue as the multiplexed connection. Windows may have an API to make connections that will hash properly, FreeBSD didn't (doesn't?), so my code had to manage the local source ip and port when connecting to remote servers so that the connection would hash as needed. Assuming a lot of connections, you end up needing to self-manage source ip and port anyway, and at least HAProxy has code for that already, but running the rss hash to qualify ports was new development, and a bit tricky because bulk calculating it gets costly.

Once I got everything setup well with respect to CPUs, things got a lot better; still had some kernel bottlenecks though, I wouldn't know how to resolve that for Windows, but there were some easy wins for FreeBSD.

Low core count is the right way to go though; I think the NICs I used could only do 16 way RSS hashing, so my dual 14 core xeon (2690v4) weren't a great fit; 12 cores were 100% idle all the time; something power of two would be best.

Email in profile if you want to continue the discussion off HN (or after it fizzles out here).

[1] Load balancing/proxying, but no TLS and no multiplexing, on FreeBSD.
Originally anarchist anti-government folks needed some medium of exchange for their future plans and bitcoins could theoretically fill that niche, being trustless. We could argue that anarchy ideology is not good, but at least it was some ideology and tool fit the purpose. Now crypto is 99.99% occupied by get-rich-quick folks with zero principles.
Lean and mean!
You don't actually "need evidence of bias". You can let someone go if they are not an asset to the company. This guy certainly wasn't once the amount of annoyance and upset his words had caused others in the company was pointed out to management.
Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen
In a sense, we could say “lack of CO2 in the atmosphere” is the scarce resource which is being depleted.

( Maybe kind of like how you can think of something which can burn by absorbing oxygen, as releasing phlogiston (which is just a lack of oxygen, in a certain sense)? )
The guys have split the traditional UI thread and the background thread down to the silicon.

Who knows, maybe the UI thread only needs access to the graphics card, and the background thread only access to network. It would save a lot of interrupt loops.
Maybe I (and any potential customer) am misreading the website. I'm seeing $6/month for IG shopping integration

What is your definition of "selling for free on Instagram" - does it mean not being able to sell tagged products?
The concept predates black mirror by decades. ELIZA was an "AI" used for therapy in the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Learned about it in the documentary Century of the Self, an outstanding work.
Somehow this reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netochka_Nezvanova_(novel)
When Covid hit, I quit my cushy job to create a video game. It was awesome, and given the time and resources I am confident it would have sold a few thousand copies.

But c'mon, I quit my job to get away from working for a living for a year. I put in 4-6 hours a day in earnest, but it was pretty obvious from the beginning that I wasn't gonna finish and coding the game was just an opportunity to be more creative than I am as a manager.

No way would I have ever entertained this idea without knowing I could walk back in to a high-paid job a month after starting to look, which I did.
Also don't call them normals.
The problem with defining clear goals for Quantum AI is that if you try to measure them then they will change.
Cruise ships are hideously wasteful, but I don't see anybody complaining that they have some sort of gas shortage because of cruise ships specifically. Gas prices are what they are, and consumers complain in very general terms because they don't have good visibility into the global oil markets.

For all I know off the top of my head (where this comment is coming from), cruise ships aren't a significant driver of oil prices. I'd expect the scale of the shipping market to dwarf their effect, and I'd expect production to rise to meet their relatively steady demand, though I could be wrong about either or both. None of that (whatever the answers may be) means they aren't hideously wasteful in absolute and very meaningful terms.
I have some issue with the headline - the article discusses "facilitating" so it may in fact target money-transfer firms and banks.

That said, if these laws can target the victims of ransomware, this sounds self-defeating. Not only will companies continue to get hacked (as nowhere do I see any meaningful help in preventing "cybercrimes" or shoring up cybersecurity), but now there will be incentive to not report that a crime took place at all.

Put another way, if I have been a victim of ransomware and the only way to recover the data is to pay the ransom - should I :

A) report the crime and hope I can recover the data some other way?

B) pay the ransom, and report the crime and then suffer more fines

C) pay the ransom and tell nobody, allowing the crime to go unreported, but forgoing the risk of further punishment from the government

There is probably a way to help companies and maybe a national cybersecurity initiative may be of use here, but blaming/punishing then victim is not the way. Maybe preventing the payments is reasonable, but even then, it seems that prevention of the crime itself is the best medicine (as it is in most cases).
Show HN: Yet another (audio bites) NTF feed
I apologize, I realized too late that it wasn't PG's article that mentioned Asperger, it was another HN comment.
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FWIW, this isn't my experience at all. There's a difference between being an asshole and the contrarian bent+ relatively-minor rough edges Graham describes. The essay touches on this, by saying that it's become a lot easier to thrive as this sort of person than it used to be. In particular, you need to find your way to a field and role where results matter more than glad-handing and ego-stroking, and where the subjectivity and discretion of measuring those results is minimized. This used to be vanishingly rare, but in my perception (and experience), it no longer is.

In my case, my fatal flaw career-wise wasn't abrasiveness or asshole-ish behavior, but a strong aversion to promoting my work or any of the other non-goal tasks required to advance in an organization. I hate every minute I have to spend making it clear that I'm productive instead of just _being_ productive.

However, this is almost unavoidable in most organizations that aren't tiny. You either have to "manage your brand" and play politics, or you have to make sure that you're fitting a squishy, inherently-subjective rubric. At a bare minimum, you need to craft a presentation of your output at performance review time, and hope your interpretation of the rubric matches the decision-makers'.

My solution was to find a company with fairly objective and well-defined measures of output[1], where there's more than enough impact to go around. You can't avoid having people skills to get things done, but I don't mind using my people skills in service of getting shit done instead of internal organizational BS.

[1] This does not mean that we're tolerant of assholes. We've fired people for being pathological "brilliant jerks", though everyone I've come into close personal contact with is well above the jerk bar. What this does is separate "are you toxic in a way that hurts your coworkers or the company" from "what is your output", allowing people who are awkward and well-intentioned to thrive on one axis and grow on the other. This is in contrast to the usual case, where measuring output is polluted by interpersonal skills that are not related to output, and being awkward means your work isn't recognized either.
Remakes/reboots/sequels keep the brand fresh (add new copyrighted elements) and keep trademarkable items relevant and trademarked, so even if copyright terms were shrunk again, it wouldn't mean fewer remakes/reboots/sequels, nor would it reduce "exclusivity" of them, given the trademark moat. It would probably mean more remakes/reboots/sequels at standard intervals to "refresh" copyright/trademarks and keep the moat full.

(Even Disney has publicly recognized to their shareholders their mistake in backing the previous copyright extension act and have no further reason to back more extensions because they've proven the trademark and trade dress moat is plenty sufficient. Seriously, try to make a commercial Steamboat Willy derivative all you want without using Mickey characters or concepts from later shorts/movies/pop culture. Try to do it without violating Disney's long held trademark on Mickey's general head shape. Or to use a different huge empire's with a giant moat of properties, some of the earliest Batman stories just finally entered the public domain, but there's almost no way to commercially create a new Batman story without accidentally using later still copyrighted ideas/characters [early Batman used a gun, feels sometimes unrecognizable to modern expectations; most of his favorite rogues didn't show up for decades later] and without violating extensive trademarks on Bat emblems and the cowl shape, etc.)
Naive question: what's wrong with plywood? I know it's not very attractive compared to old beams that can be exposed, but in terms of structure I had the impression that it was basically fairly strong in the dimensions that it's designed to be strong. (Not that it's strong enough to compensate for a badly built foundation, but nothing is.)
Who the hell cares.
The Biggest Week in American Birding Was a Success
Great question! From what we've heard from our initial sellers, they really like the social features of Instagram that allow them to build a personalized brand and connect with their customers on a deeper level. With Depop specifically, sellers have to pay a 12% fee per transaction, have to upload all their product listings individually, and buyers have to create a Depop account before they can purchase through their bio link which isn't ideal. We noticed most of these thrift accounts post pictures of the items they're selling so we figured why don't we make those shoppable - this way they don't have to upload their products again to a site like Depop, especially when a large chunk of their purchases on Depop may come through Instagram (this varies depending on the seller)
Flux and MobX are good if you don't want to fetch the server on every action or if you have a lot of cross references inside the data layer.
These Are the World’s Largest Data Center Colocation Providers
I find this ironic coming out of Jeff Bezos. There are plenty of examples of people that are exactly opposite of what you describe as. Steve Jobs - massive jerk, but demanded and commanded excellence. I don't personally condone this type of personalities but they exist. Linus Torvalds is another example. There is much more to it.
Worth mentioning: LaTeX (and TeX) support "slanted" fonts that are different from "italic". Example image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern#/media/File:CM...
Everything is pristine. There's no dust. It happens anyway.
The hardware side has been up there for a long time, and the theoretical side of the team has been in the Venice office. I guess they got a new building in Santa Barbara and wanted an announcement. I wonder if they are forcing the theorists to move up north?
I work for an Elixir shop right now, and am very fresh (started a few months ago) and this is my first Elixir job.

My first impressions are that Elixir is different, but not necessarily better. Having come from Go, which is a very manual process, Elixir comes with a lot baked in.

With any niche language (which I consider Elixir to be) the benefits don't really kick in until the last 20% of adoption. The first 80% can be done by any language, with very little deviation from the other.

That last 20% is ETS, OTP, and other Elixir/Erlang-esque features, and I don't think 90% of the companies that adopt a language really gets into that level. Kubernetes, Caching, Horizontal Scaling is now so much easier and cheaper to bring in than an expert or the investment into the language that niche languages don't provide all that much value at this point.
For me, Halide lets me shoot regular RAWs, whereas the stock camera doesn't — I don't like working with ProRAW because it renders buggily in Photos and Lightroom and I don't find it worth the file size.
is it not funny that something with a word "scale" in it disabled creation of databases because of being under load?
wgpu is work in progress, we don't have all the validation in place yet. Also, it's not a Mozilla project, it's a part of gfx-rs work by Rust community.
I'm kind of on the fence here. I see the logic behind it but in many cases incidents will simply be swept under the rug and users will never find out that their data has been compromised.
Good. Paying off a ransomware hacker should be illegal.
Imagine the city you live en being bombed daily by an enemy airforce. Then you discover (after losing your house) that the neighbour paid the attacking airforce to avoid his house.
It might do for you, and I'd say it does for me a little too (i.e. If I get the answer in less than one google search I need to take a breather because I'll get annoyed), but I have come across people who are just as clever/nerdy/knowledgeable (take your pick) who really derive pleasure from teaching and explaining things in the best way they can - so I wouldn't assume.
Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
Facebook actively makes the world a worse place in every way -- be it be providing a captive audience for authoritarian governments to push their propaganda, for surveillance states to collect and build models to control humanity, or trying to control the flow of money and implement economic censorship on Earth via Diem.
Conceptual Understanding of Deep Learning Workshop at Google
You can't have proof of stake drugs. (or other better analogies for really really near substitutes)

It turns out laws do sometimes have effects.
Video of Project Starline: https://youtu.be/Q13CishCKXY
That's also what I understood, but I'm asking if that's really an argument in favor of H2 vehicles: with electrical vehicles we can also store excess power as H2.

Of course we then need to burn it in power plants to convert back to electricity. But which is more efficient?

Electricity -> H2 -> electricity -> electrical motor with 80% efficiency

vs

Electricity -> H2 -> hydrogen motor with 30% efficiency

My guess is that "H2 -> electricity" is a bit more efficient than "H2 -> hydrogen motor". So using H2 as excess power storage for hydrogen engines is only marginally better than doing the same for electrical engines.

And that's for excess power storage. For "normal" production/consumption the electrical engine is way more efficient.
I agree with most everything you just wrote. But, note that the problem with Proof of Stake, in this thinking, is that you won't be able to buy tokens from your local energy company, when the regulators shut your blockchain down.
No store owners I know manage their store through camera feed.
Suggestion from someone who hates selling, comes from software (though PM, not dev) and who left tech to start a dog treat company.

Try DTC via Facebook ads. To me, one of the nice things about selling a consumer product compared to my previous career (primarily enterprise software) is you don't have to go personally sell stuff. I have one Facebook ad that's working really well, and I'm doing 20k/month in sales on that alone (and that number is artificially low due to production constraints... I'm about to sign a production agreement with a manufacturer, at which point I'm gonna see how far I can push the FB ads profitably).

You've got what appears to be a fairly high-end product that lends itself to great visuals. I'd seriously get some good video (honestly half of it could just be stock video of climbers with your product spliced in... you can get those done for a reasonable amount on Upwork and the like) and just test a lot of FB ads.

Happy to chat about this if you'd like. In general, though, one of the nice things about starting a business is you can orient it to your strengths, especially in the beginning. If you hate selling to people, going DTC with ads rather than walking into gyms to try to get it on shelves is gonna be way more pleasant.

Happy to chat if you'd like, and congrats on creating something new during COVID.
What is FooBarBaz.NET supposed to represent? The LinkedIn breach affected LinkedIn for example.
This is a pretty zero-sum way to look at VC/investment/startups. In reality, GPs have to hustle to get LPs to invest in their fund. Then, they're able to take that money and create a portfolio out of it by investing in big opportunities. They really only want to invest in businesses that can exceed a $1B valuation (sometimes $10B these days). The very best VCs have a track record of identifying $1B+ opportunities and helping those companies get there.

As a founder, if your business doesn't fit that mold you probably shouldn't raise from VCs. There are angels out there with a higher risk tolerance who write fewer checks and are more interested in contributing directly to a company's success outside of capital.

The idea that workers are diluted by the VCs is usually bogus. In an upside scenario, everyone wins. In a neutral exit scenario, the employees get to keep their wages, the investors get their money paid out first (if there's any left) and the founders/employees get hosed. In a downside scenario, everyone loses, except employees still get to keep their wages earned.

It seems like you're conflating wage workers vs VC vs founder. Each of these roles has a wildly different risk profile when it comes to a startup.
The ransomers seem to perform this function rather effectively.
> He tells Bill Burr that he had followed Roy around for a full day, going to all his restaurants and food trucks, and not once did Roy raise his voice to his staff.

Sorry what are you trying to say here? It's admirable or difficult not to yell at your employees?
> The concept predates Black Mirror by decades.

Black Mirror was mentioned not because it pioneered this idea but because each episode shows a possible dystopian future associated with various technological advances.
Will it solve the problem?
As I understand the same GC tuning will need to take place.
> What's the password recovery process like with 1Password for family accounts?

Short answer:

When 1Password creates an encrypted vault, it will make a copy of the key, encrypt it with the public key of another family member (e.g. you) and hold the encrypted result in escrow on 1Password’s servers.

If your wife forgets her master password and chooses to request recovery, a special procedure starts. First, 1Password asks you to confirm that the request is legit. If you confirm, the server will delete and re-create your wife’s account, then send you her new public key and the encrypted escrow key. Your app uses your private key to decrypt it. (Now your app has your wife’s vault key.) Your app re-encrypts it with her new public key, uploads the result and forgets the key.
Finally, the server sends your wife her encrypted vault together with the thing your app just did. Now your wife can access her vault again.

Long answer: see 1Password’s security white paper [1].

[1]: https://1password.com/files/1Password-White-Paper.pdf
If unsubscribe/resubscribe became an issue, what I expect would happen is that they might go to annual plans only or at least make annual a lot more attractive relative monthly. (That said, I expect that most people don't really optimize their monthly subscriptions that way. I will drop things I'm not really using at the moment, but it's usually in the vein of "Hmm. I haven't watched HBO for a couple months."
> AWS's formal tools for code-level security

what tools?
Uses Google Lighthouse. Takes average of last 3 days worth of tests. Each site usually tested 1-2 times per day.

All the data is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGKmbnW74u9r1GOzAQcI...