skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You so sure that the "someone else" actually existed? I've successfully called that bluff in the past.

It's like when you interview for a new job and ask you if you are interviewing with anyone else, why would you ever say no?
A standard web browser is a browser, which runs a website according to web standards. If an extension e.g. replaces every image in a webpage with the image of Bill Gates, it is not a standard browser in my opinion, and users should not report it to me as a bug in my website.
I can't decide whether this joke is marketing folly or strategic genius.

On the one hand, making light of how big an undertaking a _database engine migration_ would be makes you come off sounding like the "mongodb is web scale" guy. That's a pretty terrible look for a company proposing to take on critical production infrastructure.

On the other hand, adding postgresql support to vitess is probably a _massive_ undertaking. Sure, it might make sense for you to contribute to in the long run to open up that customer segment, but at your current stage postgresql customers are probably more of a product-distraction than anything. In that light, driving us away for now is probably the best policy.

I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. Well played, sir. Well played.

EDIT: nevermind, all your other comments so far in this thread are variations on "Yes, we can do that!". You're promising the moon, and that's fishy.

Bit of unsolicited advice (you know what they say about unsolicited advice, but here goes...): You'd be better off admitting some weaknesses and discussing tradeoffs. For examples, take a look at other HN threads where execs have hopped on. What qualities do you seen in posts that get the most positive responses? Now compare that to the confusion and skepticism in this thread. Your messaging has landed off-target.

You're proposing to take over a piece of people's critical production infrastructure. As a potential buyer considering an infrastructure provider, seeing "buy our product and we'll solve all your problems" just makes me skeptical. It makes you sound like a used car salesman. Your landing page delivers that basic message, and your comments in this thread reinforce the resulting impression.

Conversely, if in these comments you soberly acknowledged your limitations, transitioned to a detailed treatment about tradeoffs, and _then_ used that save to toot your horn some more, that would give the impression you've considered this problem deeply, help me figure out how closely your value prop is aligned to my goals, and make me more inclined to trust you, your company, and your product.

As it is...

I see your comment and it makes me think your company isn't ready to take on my infrastructure (this is my database we're talking about here... if you're not taking something as basic as migration costs seriously, what other nasty surprises are waiting for me down the line?).

Then, I take a look at your about page (maybe this guy's just an entry-level marketer in the people-pleaser phase), and I see that you, Sam Lambert, are the Chief Product Officer. That gives me some serious doubts about the future viability of your company, because now I'm worried the CPO is fundamentally out of touch with the userbase and can't grapple with difficult details.

You will not be touching my data any time soon, but I'll be watching for changes, and I honestly wish you luck. I like your vision, but your messaging execution needs work and your product execution is yet-unproven.

EDIT: kudos to lizztheblizz for giving more detailed answers that inspire confidence. You've significantly repaired my impressions of your company.
the current solutions do 'native fees' which means you pay the fee in whatever you are sending. This can't really last because I could create SPAM coin with 1B marketcap and overload the network with it.

IIRC they'll eventually create their own native token when their EVM compatible rollup is out.
The extra cost over the 3080 is probably not worth the minor increase in the hash rate for mining.
Nvidia can't make nvidia laptops run well on Linux but they sure can cripple all their drivers, huh. That's what they're good at.
Your machine is way more likely to get owned through some bug parsing a dumb string. Anything your browser displays ends up in the graphics driver, one way or another. WebGL is arguably a much smaller surface to deal with than all the code involved in rendering a web page efficiently.
You should always use global tables in DynamoDB now
I think the final outcome of this is that people will go to the next hot PoW coin and the eth "elites" will be left alone playing oligarch
Relative is a broad statement depending on where you live. In the US, Newegg has been going in-and-out of stock but mostly out.
Without looking at any pictures or researching, I have a strong feeling that this is a dude.
“Government” is not a monolith.... the group trying to punish for paying ransoms is not the same group paying out ransoms
Are you rejecting the notion that the CA Board of Education is seriously considering a revision of their math program? It seems like they linked to the "extraordinary evidence" in the first paragraph: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp
When I hear something like "network police", I start drawing parallels to the real world. In the physical world, you generally don't have anonymous people running around (or at least most cases you have a way of linking any actions/crimes committed to a real, permanent identity), disguises aren't allowed, and trespassing is not permitted.

So the Internet could be like this if it was more regulated. Anonymous traffic could be prohibited...no more TOR nodes, no hands-off proxying of traffic, no "it's an open access point, I totally don't know who was creating that torrent traffic".

Would these sorts of laws be accepted, or would they simply result in more attempts to anonymize traffic?

I imagine that this is sort of what things are like in more authoritarian places like China. Is it effective there?
Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) to get 100%-1000% faster
It is not a bill/legislation: it is an action of the executive branch.
This is somewhat true. Also, while human beings cannot hear a dog whistle per se, due to the way the human ear works they can hear the beats produced by the combination of that sound with another, straightforwardly audible-frequency sound. Per Nørgård exploits this in his Symphony No. 5. But examples of this actually affecting enjoyment or even an A/B test in practice are so few they shouldn't really guide one's encoding choices, CD audio is already sufficiently wide in practice and claims that we need more are audiophile wishful thinking.
How do you apply theology?
Thousands of visa holders stuck in India due to US Covid travel restriction
Interesting.

I wonder if there's any way for them to increase the bandwidth 10x or so. It would increase the use cases a ton.
This is neat. They’re essentially hollow bricks - albeit permeable so that they can drain - but more importantly they’re being approved for construction with general info for placement as well
I was a cyber operator in the USAF for years, and finished up my active duty in late 2019. This is completely accurate. Not only are the first-line officers generally uneducated in CS/IT/security, the people training them are equally uneducated. This is apparently by design.
The animated figure is excellent. Interesting to train on dialogue text to model: structure of statements and response, and a model for predicting good responses. I am not surprised that this works really well.

Getting data to train BERT is fairly simple: any text can be used to drop out words and predict them. The LaMDA training text must have been more difficult to curate.
It is legitimately difficult to get a 3080 right now and I suspect that Nvidia is actually eating a lot of bad PR for it now. That said, if society turns around and starts viewing mining as a significant climate change issue then building hardware to specifically support that market is likely going to be another PR disaster.

I suspect Nvidia's marketing team has grown too comfortable on consistently edging out AMD for ray tracing and isn't the sharpest bunch of tools in the shed.
companies are people too!
What if you're only mining with renewables?

And I'd actually like to see a study on the positive mental health benefit of gaming, because I'm skeptical.

Also the idea that you need a primo GPU in order to game is a bit silly. And if you're the kind of person that absolutely needs the best graphics in order to enjoy gaming, please see my point no. 2 about mental health.
It is better in the app, just usually not one of their creation...
this has been a mainstream opinion for the past 4000 years or so.

Its well documented in Thucydides Greek classical texts.
Do you mind expanding on why its problematic? We've built the kernel keyring integrations primarily to power the browser integration feature. In this case, "anything" ranges from users curious how it works to malware looking to steal credentials.

1Password puts in effort where possible to defend against attacks on your local system, so we need the keys currently used as part of the kernel keyring integration to be inaccessible to anything in userspace or otherwise some malware could steal credentials going back/forth to the browser.

The SUID binary helper is unfortunate, but you can blame Linux for that. Our integration makes extensive use of the KEYCTL_CHOWN and KEYCTL_SETPERM syscalls for the reasons stated above, but a process needs the `CAP_SYS_ADMIN` capability to call them (ctrl+f on the man page for capabilities). In the end, we decided that making it SUID was more transparent to users then giving it that capability on install since the former is more visible.
The neo-racist idea that rational thinking and scientific culture is an expression of "whiteness" creeps out of the woodwork again and again. Remember the infographics that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture published and later withdrew?

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...

My suspicion is that the woke know very well that their ideology is very brittle. Maybe it wasn't in the beginning, but by now it has been embellished by so many absurdities that even Titania McGrath cannot keep up.

And the only way how to avoid the explosion and crash of the brittle ideology is never to confront it with logic and critical thinking. Which you only can do by associating rationality with the worst possible label, racism. Some people will do anything not to be labeled racist.

Of course, if the woke can really get away with that, China will eat Western Civ alive. Without the scientific method, West is just a random bunch of mostly Indoeuropean-speaking territories. We were once the boring backwater of the world. We can return to that state again.
I was curious about this so I searched around a bit and found the data for girls names from 1980 to 2020 [1]. I've found 269 people with first name containing "Jolie". Then I took the census data [1], found that 45% of Quebec females are under 40. So extrapolating from the first number, I find 524 females with Jolie in their names in Quebec.

That means 1 in 7915 female in Quebec has Jolie in her name, compared to around 1 in 1 million for France. That explains (in part) how you know 3 and I don't know any I think.

[1]: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/banque-de-pre...

[2]: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/pr...
Be Decision-Driven Not Data-Driven
The trouble with this threads is they straddle a gaping chasm between complete delusion, or amazing trolling.

Just imagine if stuff was like this though and computing were more 'analogue' -- each of those 15 layers of JavaScript transpiling just degraded the quality of the end result slightly.
When you buy a product? No.

When you purchase a license agreement for software that the product depends on? Yes.
I'm curious whether https://proton.energy/ will pan out. They claim to be developing a process to extract hydrogen from natural gas wells, leaving the CO₂ underground. If that's possible, it would basically make hydrogen a fuel.
I love the relevance of an XKCD as much as the next guy, but a clever graph doesn’t compare to the admissions of the military and US government that these videos are not faked. They can’t explain these craft that seem to be propelled in ways that are entirely unfamiliar to airforce personnel who are themselves familiar with cutting edge earthling aircraft.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-mi...

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The whole discussion is not helpful or necessary actually. Who cares about your employer? We know nothing about him or the situation and no one cares. Yet this is the internet, you brouhgt it up and I opined. Lets meet here in 2 years to see what happened deal?
I find the prospect of being able to add more overhead and potential bugs into a product to remove a niche functionality in a move that reeks of PR marketing driven solution, too be of bad taste. Whilst the overhead will be so small I doubt it will be measurable, it still is not zero and only adds the possibility that some workloads of non crypto currency origins fall foul of this in ways that may not be easy to discern.
Network effects have to do with the amount of users, not with the choice between proof-of-waste and proof-of-stake.
This is not a well written article. The Python documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collectio...) is clearer.

TLDR from the docs: ChainMap groups multiple dicts or other mappings together to create a single, updateable view.
Yes, I suppose having a concentration of hydroxide is good to keep the carbonate from reacting and bursting the packaging.
Again, some civilization will be the first, that is a certainty. Now, you may ask 'why did civilization only arise X billion years in the universe' s history' perhaps, but not 'why are we the first and not someone else' (assuming we were, which I have no opinion on).
Given that they are struggling to ramp up production to meet demand this seems like a perfectly acceptable move when they are essentially unable to serve their most loyal customers.

The problem really is that cryptominers will happily scale their purchases arbitrarily high
Bitcoin consensus is achieved through miner majority, end of story. Any other narrative is pure make-belief.
There are, in my opinion, two ways to look at capital gains taxes, depending on where the relevant assets come from:

1. For assets that come from income you yourself earned, the tradeoff is basically whether you spend the money immediately or spend it later. If you're going to have a capital gains tax, that tends to penalize people who don't spend the money immediately. You can mitigate that by at the very least inflation-adjusting the basis, but the US currently does not; I can't speak for other countries. And that still ignores the time value of money and discount rates, of course. But inflation indexing of basis seems like a bare minimum requirement for claiming that capital gains income is like wage income; otherwise you are taxing nominal gains that are not real gains.

2. For assets that come from an inheritance, there is an argument to be made that now this is no longer you just deferring consumption. It's still deferred consumption in the sense that whoever you inherit money from deferred it, but the moral argument becomes a little more complicated, because now you start having the basic moral argument about whether inheritance should be a thing at all. There are also the complications around basis step-up (which is, I suspect, there for practical reasons that may be becoming less and less important in a world where the record-keeping is outsourced to brokerages and the like more and more).

More generally, it's not clear to me that "income" is even the right thing to be taxing. A progressive consumption tax might be a better idea if what you want to tax is consumption of resources in excess of "normal". Unfortunately even small moves in that direction (e.g. luxury taxes that used to exist) have largely gone away in the last few decades. In large part under the flag of "it's hurting jobs in our state's industry".
It doesn’t seem like a load of crock to me. I don’t know why they would even bother creating a separate line for miners unless they were worried about essentially telling the whole gaming market “too bad” indefinitely. That might be more lucrative in the short term because miners are willing to pay more than gamers for the same card, but nvidia probably don’t want to just burn their bridge to the gaming community.
Yeah I guess I just got lucky with the shape of my ears.

I can wear Apple earphones or Bose QC35 headphones all day with zero discomfort.

Ears aside, the rest of my body is far less cooperative.
> Protip: never psychoanalyze anyone! This likely applies even to psychoanalysts.

Beside your point, but wondering if you could expand on this.
I have a tendency to do this, and while it's fun, I'm starting to get the sense that it's a bad habit, possibly because I sense I'm overly confident on something that might be 100% wrong and it feels... invasive?