skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, as much as I am competitive, I feel like it only drives me when the odds of what I am competing for feel somewhat fair.

To give an example, a lot of my friends have been into Magic the Gathering for many years, and I recently tried to get into it myself, but the asymmetric gaps were too large for me to enjoy it -- they had way more knowledge, more cards, had spent more money, and had more time to spend playing outside of work hours, resulting in me getting crushed again and again.

There was two options I could take: 1) Try to catch up on years of accumulated knowledge, or 2) Change tactics, and see if instead I could play a game we all were more similarly matched with. I chose the latter.

In entrepreneurship, I feel like it's no different. For me, fighting a large startup on common ground is a losing game -- they have the money, the manpower, the knowledge, the social proof, and more. As competitive as I am, and as hard as I push, it's not going to be a fair fight to begin with. So instead, it's about me finding a battlefield where the odds change more in my favor -- perhaps something that doesn't scale, something I have innate knowledge in, etc.

Not sure if that lines up perfectly with what PG is saying here, but it's worked well for me.
Rosie the Robot: ChatOps for Incident Response
> Members earn 6% dividends for the last 100 years, and this was to entice them to join the system at all.

Can you tell more about this? Specially the "and this was to entice them to join the system at all." part.
I use the same add-ons. I just enabled site isolation. I'll let you know how it goes.
I had this experience with a language learning app recently. The premium content (which I was interested in) was $30. But for the first half hour after app install the price was $20. There was a banner with a countdown timer for that 30 minutes. And lo and behold, the same banner popped up again a few days later. I don't know whether or not the technique is effective, but it sure annoys me.
I agree, but...

2021 Amazon has AWS, which is hugely cash generative... hence the growing cash balance. They can't invest faster than it accumulates. Financially, they're like Apple, Google, Etc. now.

Also, "capital intensive" is relative. Warehouse's investment numbers tend to be publicized, because politics. A big one is $200m, and that's a "media story" number which may be higher than the real, "capital investment" amount.

Company valuations are one thing, but $10bn is a lot of capital. It's hard to actually invest that much. That's why the big software companies have so much of the damn stuff.
I disagree about the priority, they literally didn't know what they were doing or how to do it just yet. The security demands this community wants are and were completely science fiction as there is no proof of stake network that has met the goals they are aiming for, and they are simply much closer to reality now.

There was poor governance and management that debilitated their ability to function during the 3 year bear market. And they got their act together. In the mean time, more product market fit was made apparent and upgrades to the instruction set for arbitrary execution was done to the network and continues to this day.

The Ethereum network consists of many-to-many relationships for approval transactions for ERC20 tokens to interact with other smart contracts. This wasn't even foreseeable 18 months ago, and 18 months before that the ERC20 protocol wasn't even ratified.
Why is it called Quantum AI? What does that mean?
Tile based deferred renders help with memory bandwidth requirement (partly why UMA mobile GPUs and the M1 use it). The M1 has 16mb of cache coherent with CPU and GPU and then there is tile memory in each core.
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This is the most weird and interesting hypothesis I've heard in a LONG time !
I self-host using docker. It is very reliable including updates.

Transition is as easy as exporting your 1P database and importing it into BW.

Integration in IOS is very similar as 1P.

Overall, 1P's apps are more polished than BW. You notice it when you migrate over and after a while you forget about it.

There's one caveat and that is you've to pay BW $10 per year to get TOTP/2F AUTH support and offline support in the apps.
Does anyone know of an estimate of how many individuals actually hold ETH?

The transaction fees are absolutely ludicrous. I can’t imagine the dispersion is actually as high as some people seem to think it is.
There are some sites where I've tried fully whitelisting them on uMatrix, and that's enough--so I give them a dedicated Container Tab and use it that way. But there are others where even with uB0 and uM completely disabled, the site still refuses to let me sign in. I'm not sure if it's some combination of Firefox's built-in tracking protection, or the fact that I'm coming in through a VPN, or what: but at some point, rather than spending a half hour fighting with it, just signing in on my phone was easier.
> The equivalent in the real world is a bunch of aircraft carriers and planes and bombs and people with big guns, which gives the ability to say (credibly) that it is a crime to forge dollars no matter who you are or where you live.

Largely funded by forging dollars.
This is monthly. :)
Yes, don't let them write a long message if you are not going to read it. At least tell people that they need to try the website without any extension before reporting any issue.

Anyway, ad blockers are standard now and they usually share the blocking lists. Supporting them is just a matter of installing uBlock Origin in the browser you use to develop.
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The Drake equation is an example of a more general issue in science: what are we going to spend money on?

The Drake equation is treated as fodder for late-night Cheetos-driven college sophomore discussions. But we use it, and siblings, to estimate the inestimable: how much value do we get out of a dollar put towards actually investigating this?

No matter what the field, it's always all over the map. Do we want to spend gigabucks on an LHC successor in the hopes of a vast payoff? Do we want to spend megabucks on this specific line of cancer research? Or should we spend the same money on thousands of kilobuck experiments in everything from economics to psychology to polymer chemistry?

It's even harder when there isn't actually a dollar value attached. Even if we discover alien life, what's the merit of that? Economically, perhaps nothing, other than sales of "I wanted to believe/and I was right" tee shirts. But in terms of satisfaction, perhaps more than all of the movies and video games ever made put together.

That's why we spend so much effort trying to estimate priors that we know are too wild to be of actual value in that calculation. Playing with the Drake equation is fun. That's all. But it does also ultimately inform the expenditure of some resources, even if we don't actually do the math.
While it's always good to state the importance of testing your backups the fear that HN seems to have surrounding backups seems really out-of-touch. You would believe that everyone's backups are teetering on the edge of failure constantly. If your backup process is so brittle and complex that you assume that it will be broken when you need it you should probably do something about that. It's not that hard to have the things that store your data spit it out on a schedule to be transferred somewhere write-only and durable.
Forget? No, but that's ultimately up to the property owner to fix it. It is certainly no more onerous than a lot of amenities that they already provide. We have several here that have pretty good charging setups, and that will only improve.

But ultimately you can't please everyone. Hydrogen would have similar issues as you can't deploy it everywhere at once, it would take years.
There's a whole book written about the history of this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57429394-the-blocksize-w...

"Roughly 90% of the hash power once threatened to change the rules of #Bitcoin believing the users didn’t matter in the decision. The users spun up 10s of thousands of full nodes & told them to go f*ck themselves." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/TheCryptoconomy/status/13940065488763084...
I still prefer a global store and keeping functions as pure as possible. I just make a distinction between application state and ephemeral (i.e. local state such as drag / drop tracking, forms, etc).

There are a number of advantages to centralizing your event handling pipeline and using middleware functions to perform many of the more important side effect producing behaviors (i.e. analytics events, etc.).

YMMV though, and I now that I am working on an app that makes extensive use of hooks and useContext, I cant say that the world has ended (even if it is quite a bit more confusing).
1) >>> Stripe runs on written long-form documents in a way that I haven’t seen before. <<<

2) >>> The product shaping document will come at it from the perspective of a user. <<<

When you combine bullets 1 & 2, it makes for very good documentation. It was one of the things I loved about Stripe when I first tried to use them (plus the simplicity of the product at that time).

However, my latest experience with Stripe is that their documentation is becoming similar to Google documentation i.e. multiple pieces of documentation describing the same thing but the different documentation is not consistent especially when they are using the same scenario. For example, you might see 2 different documents (from Stripe) that talk about embedding an online payment form and those 2 would have the same example but one would give the impression that you only need to deal with X attributes while the other one will show you that you actually need Y attributes. Some of the attributes could also be named differently (the name has probably changed and one document has not been updated while the other has or was written after the attribute was changed).
Dropbox always publishes such good technical blog posts. And as a user, it's reassuring to see how much they still care about technical excellence.
Huge yes. Huge relative to amzn & apple is a different matter.
There is still value in proprietary solutions that offer significant time/money savings vs open source. Not all of us have infinite resources to develop and maintain every solution in-house, whether that's an auto-scaling database or email or Google Docs or whatever.

For small/medium businesses, sometimes it's better just to let the experts do their thing and build on top of it...
I personally hated amp, because then I got version of page without dark mode and with limited content instead of real one.

I am actually fine waiting 200ms longer to get those.
You may be thinking of proof-of-SPACE cryptocurrency, where the more hard drive space you dedicate, the more rewards you get.

Proof of STAKE is where you dedicate your cryptocurrency and are rewarded based on that. Since owning cryptocurrency doesn't take any physical resource, the only expenditure is keeping your staking node (a computer) online so that it can participate in validation.
Your government controls which coins you are able to use.

It doesn't matter if the coin becomes run by another geographic area if it's illegal for you to trade in them
I still like my idea of keeping it legal to pay the ransom, but you have to pay an equal amount as a fine/fee to the government. Deter the bad guys by driving the market price up (so in effect, the bad guys will collect less money because they can't ask for as much), and incentivize prevention (i.e. making systems more secure) by making it more costly to address after the fact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659729
In the Bay Area, I'm going to guess something like 99% or higher. If it was even a single percent, our streets would be wall to wall garbage.
At this point, destroying the positioning network/s would be mutually assured destruction. Pretty much every country relies on those networks equally for controlling their own vehicles and weaponry.
That is precisely what I meant by provocative.
"China already has operational ground-based missiles that can hit satellites in low-Earth orbit and “probably intends to pursue additional ASAT weapons capable of destroying satellites up to geosynchronous Earth orbit,” says the Defense Department’s annual report to Congress on China’s military capabilities."

The problem with defending a satellite is the missile really only needs to get kinda close. And yeah, relativistic speeds and distances in space are huge, but I would find it hard to believe we could defend our satellites in any meaningful way against a nation-state level threat.
I made a LaTeX template for Pandoc: https://github.com/john-bokma/resume-pandoc/
http://archive.is/LmABX
I fell for it on Udemy a couple times when I was new to the site. I bought courses just in case the discount was not available when I needed it. Worked on me.
If you want a freely available system that attacks this problem then Blenderbot is a good choice (made by Facebook)[1] . It is also freely available and integrated with Huggingface.

[1] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch...
[2] https://huggingface.co/facebook/blenderbot-3B
you can easily beat downloading hundreds of kilobytes of amp JS stuff from supa-fast and mega-optimized google CDN by not downloading JS at all or using js very conservatively
Haven’t tried it myself but I believe that some video hosting services provide such functionality.

See e.g. https://mux.com/features/#signed-urls
That "friction" is a feature, not a bug. The "friction" generates second-order benefits for society.
Google are migrating Backup and Sync to DriveFS soon [0], but you can upgrade right now. Now, I don't remember how I did it, but I do have Drive FS on my personal account.

[0]: https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/10309431#zippy=
The virtual office is here to stay
WebGL has been part of browsers for many years now and the security track record is public. This fear has not proven true in reality. Overall, WebGL has not had more or worse security problems than other components of the browser. Great care has been taken to properly isolate and sandbox WebGL, far in excess of what any other graphics API has ever had in terms of security. WebGPU in browsers will have the same level of protection.
Google Drive is a gem. I hope it lasts forever cause no one is competing with them.
Fair enough, I think there are a lot of protestors (in real life as well as on Twitter) that have entirely unrealistic goals, hoping for an ideal situation but not really thinking through what the ramifications of their plan would be. I've seen this among "Greater Israel" Israelis as well - I once had a long chat with a settler in the Jordan Valley region about how he envisions annexation working out, the best he could come up with was "all the Palestinians will voluntarily move to Canada, which will take them in because Trump is going to broker a deal". Not exactly the strongest answer to accusations of ethnic cleansing.

To be clear, anyone hoping for "from the river to the sea" is not in touch with the reality in the region. The only way that could happen is with a terrible war that would make the current war look like a small scuffle. I'm pretty sure there's no diplomatic path from where we are today to a one state solution of any kind that doesn't take several generations, and we're not moving in the right direction.
Ethereum natively supports smart contracts. Bitcoin doesn't support them natively; any attempt to add them has to be a separate layer on top.

That's why the past few years have seen a rise in fungible and non-fungible tokens (average merit of those aside for the sake of argument, since this is just answering the question "it offers many of the same features"), pretty much all of which are hosted on Ethereum or Ethereum code forks like Binance Smart Chain.
> non-compliant extensions

Compliant to who/what exactly ? Extensions are executed in a user agent, ie a software acting on behalf of a user based on the settings they prefer. If anything it's the website that's non-compliant with the user's choice.
Swagger to Postman
As a standalone license customer for almost 10 years now, the constant responses like this and the deliberate non-answers on the forums really make me wonder how long I will continue to use 1password. I love 1password but I will not put my passwords in someone else's cloud.

It's honestly pretty insulting that every time this comes up, someone from 1password pops in to talk down to your customers and push subscriptions.

I understand the business reasons of why you want subscription revenue, but pretending that you're pushing subscriptions for the good of your customer is just so transparently false. It's good for your bottom line, just own it.
API Monitor is really useful, but unfortunately is closed-source and hasn't been updated in a few years.
I have been writing Elixir full time for over 4 years now and I could not be happier with the language and surrounding community! With an incredibly small team (just myself and one colleague working on the backend), we are able to develop and operate very high throughput applications that reliably handle over 100k requests/s (2 main web facing apps, plus a handful of supporting services). We generate millions of dollars of revenue for our customers each week, and sleep very well at night.
Interesting! I honestly hadn't seen the perspective that we were pushing 1Password in the browser _over_ the apps. We may need to look at our messaging on that. Personally I think the best experience comes from using both in conjunction, especially with the new mutual unlock feature.

> I don't like telling my less-technical family that this extension is okay, but absolutely don't trust any other extensions.

I do understand this dilemma, but I'm curious how you reconcile that against things like the benefits of filling from the extension avoiding the system clipboard & key loggers, the inherent phishing protection that comes from 1Password only suggesting credentials on sites where the URL matches your items, etc.

Telling folks the 1Password extension is okay and others are not is the approach we take internally.

- Ben, 1Password
That follows. I remember a hard-sell gym years and years ago. I was going to join anyway so I sort of ignored the "this offer is only good today" thing. But quitting when I moved away involved a bunch of nonsense like writing a letter to their main office.
Not really. And this is why analogies can be bad.

A better analogy would be that this is like someone's business getting robbed, and being punished for paying the robber who flew overseas to ship it back to you. But still, this is different, more complex, and more nuanced.
Reading a recent article in Quanta Magazine about (co)homology, I had to ask myself a similar question: Why would you assume that anyone who is reading this does not know what algebra (the subject) is? (Also similarly, I remember some SciAm pieces on the Standard Model assumed that the reader might not have any idea about atoms.)
ETC is PoW, it's a different dynamic than PoS which was the topic of discussion
How to Reduce .NET Core App Size
I bought a 10-core iMac Pro, and it's a screamer - super-fast and super-reliable even after 16+ hours of use a day. So I don't regret that choice, even if it was the most expensive computer I've ever bought.

A 32+8 core M1 for a less insane price sounds like an easy upgrade choice. The lingering question is memory. 16GB won't be enough.
it was LACP'd... buuuuuuut; it was only one PCIe card.

Otherwise you can't easily do LACP because it can't be offloaded to the card.

We tried without LACP, but again, only one PCIe card.
And really it only takes a bad actor inside a company to circumvent most of the security on-site anyway. Until companies treat every accessor to the network as malicious, this will continue to go round in circles. Most businesses just don't have the budget to deal with security this way.
How does analytics factor into the functionality of the checkout? That's the only question that matters here. The answer is it doesn't, so regardless of if it loads, is buggy, or has weird data, it shouldn't stop the checkout process.
Very interesting how Github comes with more and more interesting 'actions' to turn repos into 'platforms' and moves us closer to serverless future.

@idan how does it scale with the size (including storage)? Is 'a billion rows' a goal or an actual tested use case?
I once encountered a shopping cart with a 5 minute timer. Didn't matter what you added, once you put something in your cart a banner with a clock showed up and started ticking. I was going to spend more on accessories than the base item, but once I saw what they were doing I paid a few % more elsewhere.
currently, one single bitcoin transaction "costs" 132 kg of CO2.
A very good way to put it: FUD in action.

We may put you in jail for paying sanctioned criminals, but we will not tell you explicitly what constitutes a sanctioned crime, who those criminals are, or we can pull it right out of thin air

This way they evade the need to go to the legislature to institute a new class of ban list for them to run.

As an any "pull out of thin air" type privilege, it's a bad thing
i saw a great documentary about this on hulu
"I'm less sure why fierce nerds are impatient, but most seem to be. You notice it first in conversation, where they tend to interrupt you."

The answer is pretty obviously ADHD. Interrupting and "impatience" are very common traits in people with ADHD.
Suggesting that this is a government problem to solve, or an invasion, leads to a type of framing that harms you and everyone else in your country that has or uses computers.

It's also not really a national security issue. The USA will continue to exist and function as the USA even without gas pipelines and power generation.

"National security" isn't some blanket term to mean "large infrastructure required for major industries", it has a specific, defined meaning. Just because the feds use it as a blanket justification for a bunch of stuff doesn't mean we should embrace that usage, otherwise when everything is a matter of "national security" than nothing is. It's just like the overuse of the term "terrorism" to mean "any big crime".
Yes, at least a few weeks until WWDC 2021. But it also depends on your use case.

Seems from this article that
1) New Macbook Pro 16 and 14 likely announced at WWDC in June with a "M1X" SOC
2) New Macbook Air and Mini refresh in the fall with an "M2" SOC

M1X > M2 > M1 in terms of pure performance. So if you need high performance, then at least wait for WWDC. If not, then can probably get the M1 now or wait until the expected sales post WWDC.
At least with privacy coins censoring transactions shouldn't be possible.

Also with Monero anyone can cpu mine it, and transaction participants are obfuscated.

With ARRR, miners don't know the identity of transaction participants.
Ask HN: Anyone using FaunaDB in production? If so what's your experience
This article assumes alternatives exist.

Obviously, if you're selling a commodity product with readily available alternatives, your customers are simply going to order the alternative.

However, scarcity tactics work extraordinarily well for a subset of customers. Entire markets have been built around artificial scarcity. A valuable pokemon card or baseball card isn't valuable because it's hard to print colored squares on to card stock. It's valuable because someone in an office somewhere decided that only 1000 of those cards should be printed, and all of their customers decided that the 1000 card limit makes it valuable. The majority of the population rolls their eyes and moves on, but it doesn't matter because their core audience believes in the artificial scarcity.
Not when the headphones re-digitize the analog signal, which I suspect is how they are designed to support the signal processing and noise cancellation features.