skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On one hand, Dropbox Desktop Client has just a few settings. On the other, behind this simple UI lies some pretty sophisticated Rust code with multi-threaded compression, chunking, and hashing. On the lowest layers, it is backed up by HTTP/2 and TLS stacks.

And I found another Dropbox blog post about rewriting their sync engine from Python to Rust: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

But it isn't clear whether the outer shell of the app might still be Python.
Another example of this (at least where I'm from) is kitchen salesmen. "I can only offer you this discount today." or "It so happens my district manager is in today, I can maybe arrange a discount if you are willing to sign now.". Stores that try to pull this trick are an instant no for me as I won't trust their aftersales if I can't even trust their sales tactics.
I think you are right. Blast it. Thanks!
Wrong. NODEs (individual network participants) enforce the rules, not miners.
They know more than you about it though.
It's very relevant. Mining is very easy to geographically diversify. PoS coins will almost all be controlled by US based custodians subject to US regulations. PoS coins will be controlled by the US financial industry at the end of the day
Can serverless solutions e.g. AWS Lamba or Google Cloud Run connect to this?
I wonder what the latency would be to have a heroku insurance pointed at a PlanetScale instance.

Doesn’t look like there’s Postgres compatibility.
backups are a one-way hash unless you've tested your restoration
Perhaps, and there seems to be more movement in the direction of late. Makes sense, considering how much trouble they've had "putting money to work."

That said, Apple have a hell of job turning $200bn into factories.

The scale of money, currently... is quite something to live up to.
~$53,000 USD for the tower for those wondering

(~$54,000 USD with wheels)
Looks like they are a lobbying group. I thought at first (because of the initial "I" in their name) that they were an international body. Edible oils are an important source of calories in most developing countries.
Don't trust it? Don't run it.

Run it in a sandbox all you want manually, you'll still have no idea what it's really doing. It could be the safest looking thing ever, that's not really going to tell you much.
> Does nothing for humanity

Really? If that energy consumption problem wasn't there, what advantages does Ethereum have over Bitcoin? Would it even exist, since it offers many of the same features?
"Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?" -Jeff Bezos

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/30/2010-baccalaureate...

"Fierce nerds" can be valuable. Sure. But the folks who truly stand out in my mind are a level higher. They're the ones at the top of their game, who know how to demand & command excellence, without being jerks about it.

I'm reminded of this episode of "The Chef Show" where Jon Favreau compliments Roy Choi behind his back. 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. It's pretty cool to see how much admiration one artist/leader has for the other, not because of their technical skills but because they choose to be kind.

I don't think we need to settle for being "fierce nerds".
The network majority decides everything, including how transactions work, how many coins there are, what the block size is...

The prospect that there's only ever going to be 21 million Bitcoin is ensured by nothing except majority opinion. It's not inconceivable that this will be relaxed in the future and Bitcoin will have a "Bitcoin Classic" fork where old rules are enforced. This could happen if, for instance, transaction fees don't make up for miner majority rewards.
Wondering will we see something like this for Postgres?

I like the cool things but I can’t migrate to MySQL just because of this.
Agreed completely, Google seems to be totally lacking any resemblance of vision or direction. Hard to overcome the chicken/egg problem with that...
They won't be punished because relevance is still vastly more important. A news startup isn't going to eat the New York Times' lunch by beating them with performance. Maybe you'll see a little competition at the top, but I'm skeptical... there's not much incentive to do so.
Sounds interesting but there is not enough information for me to get a picture of what this actually means. Thought I was gonna be clever and install it, run it and see what it is all about but I can't figure out how to get it. One link is "sign up" and the other is "contact sales" but I'm not interested in either, I'm interested in "Download" but I cannot find it anywhere.

Am I stupid or misunderstanding something fundamentally here? Is just a hosted DB or something like that?
It's interesting how often on Amazon Prime I'll add one relatively obscure product to my basket on the promise it'll be delivered tomorrow, then add one more of the same and the delivery goes out for a day (or more).

On common products though, the whole FOMO "Only X left in stock!" is just a big ignore for the sales tactic it is.
Do you know whether it's a single thread for all network devices, or just per device? It would be interesting if this ended up being a driver level constraint or something that can be fixed by having multiple NICs in the machine.
Germany...a country with one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the world (roughly equal to the US). With median net household wealth below Greece, and one of the highest proportion of billionaires in the world. Endemic corporate corruption, low competition, non-existent regulation, weak unions...people in glass houses.

Also, the US has one of the largest public healthcare systems in the world. Comparisons are slightly complicated but, as a % of GDP, it is roughly the same size as Germany (on a tax base a fraction of the size). The only nation in Europe that actually has a larger public health sector than the US is Sweden.

Work is the only way to lift people out of poverty. Germany is a self-evident example of this: the economy revolves around large corporations who are heavily protected by competition from govt. I would bet on the competitive American model that can renew itself every time over the corporatist model that protects wealthy industrialists in exchange for meagre handouts to the poors. The US tax system is a great example of the potential of redistribution (particularly, property taxes...an area of notable weakness in Germany).
If you want to use microlayments, payment processing checkout the btcpayserver and Bitcoin lightning Network.
PoS will be controlled by US-based custodians, which certainly have a tremendous incentive to siphon as much value from the currency as possible.

PoW has a much more diversified set of actors with competing interests, which makes it much more difficult to change the rules. This is a feature not a bug.
But the rich and middle class already do that in the form of paying taxes and government transferring part of that taxes to the poor. The only difference will be that poor will know exactly who is helping them, instead of thanking government and politicians, and half of the transferred money will not get wasted on politicians and bureaucracy.
Yes, I would not read much into it. In the end, writing "We were sort of working on it at a reasonable pace, you know, work life balance is more important to our developers than finishing a month earlier" just doesn't have the same ring to it :)
The title of this article was changed, by the administrators I guess, I think it's good in times where someone think opinions are more relevant then science.
I have been in that zone for two or three day stretches, but never beyond, and never in sync with a full team. I have experienced two forms of team wide over-time in my career. The first lasted (for me) about seven months, then I quit. I couldn't take in anymore and the project (large team, 150 people) was on fire. That was completely unsustainable. The second form was a periodic event that happened every two years when we released a new silicon design (chip vendor). The day that the first silicon was mounted onto boards began a cycle of ten to twelve days, 14 hours a day, lunch and dinner being one hour status briefings. All hands on deck. At the end of those ten or twelve days, either the silicon was fully validated, or all its known flaws were identified. And everybody on the team took a couple days off to breath. That was sustainable because it was infrequent, planned, and closed ended. I went through four of those cycles. They were exhausting and thrilling at the same time. And thankfully, infrequent and closed ended. There was always a light at the end of the tunnel.
I think the widget that was used is simply a really bad choice for selling anything. The obviosly correct solution would be to show the full image next to the textual description including price or maybe text as a subtitle, if there are multiple columns.

This kind of widget might be nice for sliding through things that are represented by some abstract image where details don't matter. But when buying a product, I want to see the whole thing, ideally from multiple perspectives.
See Gemini and Gopher.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424
> must address all the fucking edge cases or be called out by the immediate first child comment about failing to do so.

Because it is an incredibly common fallacy to ignore boundary conditions and unintentional consequences when proposing a pie-in-the-sky regulation that is supposed to just fix things.

Any regulatory mechanism is essentially a machine that will need to work with every input and minimize some class of error, be it precision or coverage or some other system level metric. Turns out the most interesting part of such a system is indeed around the edge cases, and the difficulty of handling such cases is essentially the bulk of the difficulty of building such a system to begin with.

It is like saying "why don't we build a system that punishes criminals", which sounds very agreeable and popular at that level of construal, but is incredibly complex and sophisticated at the actual implementation level; e.g. to have a process to minimize false positive convictions rather than maximize conviction rates.

> It's SO trite, predictable, wearisome and boring

Not to sound harsh but HN does not owe anyone their favorite type of entertainment and honestly criticisms on those metrics are more trite, predictable, wearisome and boring themselves than anything else. Many find intellectual stimulation and systemic thinking entertaining and thus those comments enjoyable.
Is that (motivated reasoning) not a textbook failure of epistemic ability though?

I mean, I suppose from a pragmatic standpoint (the world as it is) it's starting to get into the realm of enlightenment, but if friggin' scientists can't think clearly, then perhaps their new found "five star", god-tier status in society should be knocked down to four or four and a half stars.
Very interesting and made me chuckle. Thank you.
Oh, my bad! Last time I checked, Lighthouse in Chromium used (by default) a Moto G4 on a mobile network simulation.
I've had site isolation on for more than a year. Never had any issues with it.
This looks like direct subsidies only. The big dollars are in the subsidies paid directly to employees (i.e. welfare) so that Amazon can pay them low wages.

Walmart, McDonalds etc are also major indirect recipients of this subsidy.
I'm pretty sure they will make all the stablecoins illegal as well. The fact that they cant really enforce it .. thats something else.
This is wonderful. I've been developing with relational databases for 12 years and couldn't be more excited about this.

Scaling down to 0 opens up a world of opportunities when it comes to team development workflows. The idea of quick environments per pull request is within reach.

Not to mention that it scales with you.

The one thing I'm curious about is how it compares with CockroachDB
The sad part of all these "automated systems" is, even when they are wrong, the support is most unhelpful, unless by luck you have a good online following and can raise enough stink.

If you are joe-random, you get lost in "we are so sorry but this decision is final, we can't help" or "yeah, we are too lazy to do anything as you can't retaliate, so please suffer for our negligiance". :(

Sometimes, I am too afraid to be too online privacy practicing, as getting caught into one of these "automated system" means I will lose access to value/time/information/communication.
Trying to help others just makes you more bitter.
This is a different dynamic than traditional organization. It's decentralized with contributors around the world. You have no idea how much others are working and many are contributing because it's something they're passionate about.
Of course it gets flagged
Some people view any trade where the other side wins to any degree as exploitative. Regardless of whether they gain themselves. It is an interesting thought pattern.
And force them into it - even when they don't want to do it or have no aptitude.

The only time in a fairly long career I have seen some one really unsuited to working in tech was case of this.
The Windows client I have installed appears to be a native app using QT 5 and QT5WebEngine (embedded chromium) with an absolutely bonkers number of threads (240). It's possible there's still python in there but I suspect not, their UI has been completely overhauled since the python days.
Fantasy. Nothing forces miners to accept transactions sent by nodes attempting to enforce some rule.
I'm aware of the ETC attacks. I don't think ETC can really be compared to BTC though. The ETC network is composed of the idealistic (or maybe stubborn) folks who didn't want to switch over to the new ETH chain after the DAO hack. I'm not saying ETC has no merit, but it didn't have the same network resilience due to the split.

Seems like you know a lot about PoS, would you be willing to check out my other comments on this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=swensel)? I've covered some concerns / questions that I have about PoS that maybe you can answer in more detail.
Am I the only one that sees stuff like this and thinks "yeah sure you do". It's a blatant high pressure sales tactic. But yes Thomas McKinlay is correct, it isn't helping your company at all.
Right. I have a question mark on the schedule C bit. This will be a question I will leave for the tax pros.

What I know is that Coinbase reported a 1099k with an income of $99,xxx.00

In addition to the income reassessment, the IRS also pegged on:

Total Self Employment Tax: $2,6xx.00

And no, I did not mine or stake.
In the specific case of proof-of-work cryptocurrency, I don’t think a carbon tax is directly useful: If it’s unilateral then mining trivially shifts across borders; if it’s global then it’s an inflationary pressure on the coin price which offsets the reduction in mining you might otherwise expect.
Go somewhere in person and there's probably orders of magnitude more data being collected on your activities.
Thanks for raising that point. I'm only now realizing that the term "woke" means different things to different people. I'm grateful for your correction.
Higher Order Components work well for what's described. But they were thrown out of the window.

And yeah, all the rage is hooks which also will soon be thrown out the window.
One thing that stood out to me was the aspect of having a strong culture of writing. Could anyone talk about how Stripe's culture of writing works a bit more? How does this manifest in things like product decisions/direction, setting technical direction, designing systems/APIs, etc?
Check out “the human element” which is the basis for firo-b.

It actually has international data to support its model.
> in case you're implying that the other processors will "catch up" if they have longer to get up to speed... why would they?

I never implied that x86 would catch up or even surpass the M1. I was suggesting that x86 might have some sort of delayed start but that actual compilation might occur at a similar pace to the M1.

The OP had a single data point based on a sub 60 second execution of a small project and extrapolated it out to a 30+ minute compilation of a larger project for comparison. He suggested that on a graph of Compile Time based on Project Size the divergence in performance might be linear.

I was merely suggesting there might be something else at play causing a delayed start of compilation on the x86 side. You came in and authoritative shut me down and then tried to suggest that we were being vague with our use of the term linear.

Imagine two runners that can keep similar pace but one always starts the race with his shoes untied and has to lace up as part of the race. Once he's laced up he can start running and will keep pace with the other runner, who has a head start, but will always be behind. That's what I was suggesting. In this analogy the length of the race is irrelevant.
I think (hope?) the Drake equation was never intended as a tool for making realistic estimations, I always thought it was more of a first approximation of how one might go about thinking about modeling when all you have is a sample of one.

Specifically the rate of star formation has always been dubious, because there is such an enormous lag between star formation and the emergence of intelligent life (even if we turn out to be an extremely slow outlier), making it unsuitable for estimating the amount of civilizations active at a specific point in time.

My personal drake equation would include only factors that are based on the current state of the galaxy. But that's the Drake equation doing its job: making people think about cosmic odds. It doesn't need an update, because I argue it shouldn't be taken literally in the first place.

A few times a year, authors put out "new" estimations of the number of galactic civilizations, and to do that there is really not much alternative to chaining together these kinds of probabilities. While they sometimes may or more often may not use the actual Drake equation to do it, its value lies in the basic structure, not in its specific implementation.
It doesn't seem like too far of a stretch to guess that the earliest life forms would have been pretty passive, absorbing nutrients directly from their "primordial soup" and somehow replicating whenever they've stored up enough. I imagine "life" would have gone on for quite some time before "waking up" and evolving the ability respond to their environment by doing things like relocating to a more nutrient rich area or away from danger.
Darwin’s Arch, a Famed Rock Formation in the Galápagos, Collapses
> Eth's attempted solution on this front is sharding

sharding + L2 rollups*
General solutions are great, but when there's a noticeable log_10 distinction between two examples given, why can't we start at dealing with specific solutions to the biggest problem first and worry about the general approach later? It's a 99%/1% problem: we'd potentially get a huge savings if we dealt with the 99% of cases first and worried about the 1% later.

The raw statistics already tell a story that the difference between "BTC" and "Facebook" is greatly exponential. Wanting to focus first on the (much) bigger exponent isn't necessarily a sign that people's real motivation is "conspiratorial" against crypto.
Well done analytics can give the tracker a lot of information about if the user got there from marketting or other outreach, what they did on the site, and if they took some action that's important to the site operator (buying something, creating an account, posting, logging in, whatever), and what page was the last thing they did before they left.

If you're selling stuff, and you notice a lot of people going partway through your checkout process and leaving, it might be a sign that something in the process isn't user friendly and improvement could benefit you. Especially if the behavior has changed recently.

You might see that people come in from a marketting link where you thought they'd like to buy A, but they rarely buy A, and if they do buy something, they buy B; maybe it would make sense to use that link to go to the sales page for B instead, etc.

You could even notice that people who don't run your javascript analytics still add things to the cart, and start the checkout, but never finish, and take that as something to investigate.

This isn't a defense of Google Analytics in specific, or javascript analytics in general, this could be done serverside with just a cookie to corellate across multiple visits, or a session cookie within the same visit, or instrumenting all the links and correlating that way. Javascript could be used to remove tracking tags for copying links, but have it when clicked; great if it works, not the end of the world if it doesn't.
"Your site can be faster than AMP without using AMP"

That isn't true. Google is able to cache AMP pages in their CDN and preload and pre-render them in the browser or in Google News. You can't beat that with even the most optimized site.

AMP, especially on iOS, is awkward for many reasons and having to support two formats by publishers isn't great, but it is unquestionably fast when rendered within a container that supports AMP.
> many variations of these ingredients and permutations exist on Earth alone.

Apart from cells, what are you referring to here? Especially, is there anything that can be considered "somewhat living" that is not a by-product of regular life, which as far as we know has only ever appeared (or thrived) once Earth's history?
So does it mean I should wait for the newer mac to come out

As I was thinking to buy M1 mac
Is hydrogen escaping into space something we should be legitimately concerned about if it became mainstream?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion-limited_escape
Those who got that stake by purchasing massive compute power.

PoS just solidifies current stakeholders so that they no longer have to worry about competition from new players.
Managing neural networks based on qualifications and results
It takes a lot to scale a GPU up that far. Memory throughput requirements (the actually expensive part) increase linearly with number of cores. It will either cost a large fortune and use a Lot of power or be memory throughput starved (and cost a small fortune).
It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me.

[EDIT] on reading further in their docs, my suspicion is that their "branching" concept is a hell of a lot more limited than I believed at first. I initially took it to mean you could have multiple active schemas working on your data at once—instead, I think it's more like exporting just the schema of your DB and importing it to a fresh DB, which is nothing new and doesn't run into all kinds of operational and security issues the other workflow would. I'm fairly sure all the actual magic is in the schema diffing, and the docs make me think even that isn't as fully-magical as one might hope.
You can have a good career and a good life without being a macho asshole bully. Grow up.