skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this a lot about Adobe lately, specifically. I've been getting into video editing as a hobby, and the fact that I could use Premier for $20/month rather than the single time purchase of $800 or whatever it used to be is the difference between me being able to use it or not. And yeah, maybe in 40 months I would be spending more money, but there's no guarantee I wouldn't be spending money to upgrade at that point... and then once I started wanting to add in After Effects, Audition and Photoshop, $60/month for literally every Adobe product compared to what, like, $2400 for those four? And if I use any more things from the suite, it's still the same price. I was talking about this with someone the other day, and was like "Imagine telling 12 year old me that I would own a legal license of Photoshop because of how inexpensive it is."

(I am also a happily paying customer of 1password; I strongly prefer the cloud offering...)

And that's beyond the fact that, in some sense, this aligns the business needs closer to mine. It is easier and in some sense, more fair, for me to pay for the software while I use it, and not when I don't. On the business side, it's nicer too. It pretty much feels like a win-win all around, except for certain circumstances. But in the happy path, it's basically almost entirely strictly better.

I feel weird being on this side of this argument these days, but it is what it is.
This is not surprising, for consciousness to awaken, it has to be asleep first !
Exactly, moreover they speak about WIFI band, but in the experiment they didn't use an Access Point but a signal generator with the test device at * 2.5cm (0.9 inch) * from the antenna, if I've understood: "For the energy harvesting, we used the 2.45 GHz resonant patch antenna with a return loss of more than −35 dB at 2.45 GHz and a gain of 7 dBi. The antenna is fed by the signal generator at 0 dBm. The antenna is placed at ~2.5 cm away from the MTJ array". Let's try to measure at 2.5 meters. That is a laboratory experiment not intended to prove that you can give power to something moving around. They speak about neuromorphic computing: I know there are devices implanted int the brain of blind people receiving power from a radio device installed very not inside the cranium but at the outside, on the skin. That kind of application is more credible.
This is good for Bitcoin! And justice all around

BTC solves divorce-rape.
If you control mining you do control how transactions work. You are running the code that handles transactions and you can change that code to handle transactions in any way you want. There is a history of this happening too but thus far with little effect on the entire network but worst case you could create a hardfork.
I think they are complementary, since one is about browser site isolation, and one is about process isolation on the computer.

Using temporary containers, multi-account containers, site isolation, along with a number of other privacy/security addons such as Umatrix, LocalCDN, and many others, I have not noticed any slowdown.

This on an older broadwell i7 with 32GB of ram.
> I wrote off Bitcoin as a payment mechanism a long time ago because of this (although it seems BTC tx costs are now lower than ETH?), is this the direction tx costs for all crypto coins go?

No. There are developers who actually prioritize on-chain scaling. For instance Bitcoin Cash and Monero have very cheap fees, and they will stay cheap for the foreseeable future.
Always 2 there are: The not ready yet, and the deprecated.
I'm not surprised no one changed their minds. First fake data is presented as real and the revealed to be fake. At that point, if real data had been presented then some might changed their mind. But without any real data at all why would anyone consider changing their minds?
That comparison would fit even better if we acquired Cu/Ni/Zn at the same rate no matter how much energy we spent on mining it.
This is not what happened with the DAO. This is well documented and I suggest you read up on. TLDR, the hacker tried to withdraw the funds and there was a 30 day lockup period so the contract was updated to stop this.
I lead with the paragraph about what kind of job I am looking for. Then I list skills in a box, with the ones I like best first, or want to work in. Then I go for the history portion. Each job describe the position, with bullet points about major accomplishments. Make sure I mention each of the skills at least once. Followed by education.

For a given job I might reorder the skills or change the opening paragraph. When I am actively searching I typically have 4 or 5 primary versions.
looks like it's a ways off... planetscale says they're built on vitess, and vitess has postgres compatibility at the bottom of their "Medium Term" roadmap: https://vitess.io/docs/resources/roadmap/
> Edit: should mention Google's DriveFS can reach max speed too, but it's not available for my personal account (which uses the "Backup and sync for Google" app).

That thing is far too aggressive about network bandwidth. It will upload 20 files at the same time and the speed limit setting doesn't work.
True, this is why I offered that caveat at the end. None of what I said is true in an absolute sense.

Whether or not they pay dividends or buy back stock, the average net is large. That's why they've accumulated these record busting sums.
thanks for the explanation. interesting read; don't really get it, but worth looking into more.
Each to their own but magsafe saves my laptop frequently, it’s nice to not have to worry about it being yanked off a table. I have a ton of usb a stuff that doesnt have a usb c counterpart, and likely never will. I tried to use a USB drive to move stuff between two computers and we ran into a “one is usb a only one is USB c only” problem
How does this hypothetical driver know that your GPU-compute is cryptocoin mining vs say... Blender rendering? Or any other CUDA program for that matter?
GiveTrack: A Bitcoin Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofits
Can someone please explain how Vitess works, in plain English? How does it magically make MySQL scale?

And then what does PlanetScale add on top of Vitess hosted anywhere else?

Sorry, the linked blog post is both very abstract and assumes a high level of preexisting knowledge about database scaling.
PG also recently came to the defense of Antonio García Martínez:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1392756490138791937

It appears he sees himself as the shop steward for the Silicon Valley Asshole Union.
Starting a startup is starting a company. Starting a company is a business thing, not an engineering thing. Think of it as being able to sell a product, before you even have a product to sell. You cannot really operate 'as a company' without having an actual licensed company. You may need to do a bit more leg work before you start this venture in earnest.

Then reach out to the enterprise. You have to know exactly who to route your request to in the company; you can't just talk to "sales" or "customer support" as those people have no idea how to talk to their own engineering groups. You'll need to know the language that the particular group in an enterprise speaks, so they will actually consider your message, prioritize it, and do some work on it. Cold-calling generally doesn't work unless you are very good at sales. You will probably need to engage with someone at the enterprise on a different pretext, and slowly shift the focus over to the thing you actually want, and hope whoever you're talking to will do some leg work for you to get you to the right group.

Try to position your request as an offer to do something for them. I am building a product that delivers your product more customers, I am building a product that supports all of your competitors and figured you might want to be supported too, I want my development team to work with your API and give you feedback about how well it works for us and report bugs to you. But don't make it sound like a sales call. Make it sound like somebody in the company already expects this and you're just trying to coordinate with them on something they already want to do.

But if they actually don't want a lot of use cases right now, you may have to position it as a test case that isn't being released to new customers, so they don't have to worry about building out their production support infrastructure and being on the hook for it going down. SLAs and EULAs are also a concern. Then of course there's data privacy, regulations, etc to consider. In many cases you may need to establish a legal contract in order for both parties to be covered.
> It's actually worse than that, since I'm not really mechanically inclined at all.

... proceeds to walk out to workshop and mill a custom machine.

Dude, you're really selling yourself short if you believe that — this is amazing!
If they have seized enough wallets, can they conduct flow analysis to infer where money is going anyway?
Good to know! Definitely will try it later, but I currently have a backup job (one-way photo backup, not sync GD) set up on my second GDrive account which I don't want to touch.. yet.
You would know that eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes.

So, the interesting point of the question is whether sleep is something that occurs at the cellular level or the organism level.

See the article linked to in the comment above, about cyanobacteria.

> Cyanobacteria maintain their circadian rhythms even when isolated from the naturally occurring daily light-dark cycles of the sun, just as humans do. The researchers found that under conditions of moderate constant light, the cyanobacteria undergo cell division about once per day, and the divisions take place mostly at the midpoint of the 24-hour cycle.
My wife was spoked that all my passwords were in the cloud and asked me to start using a local PW manager.
1. No they are not

2. The core problem is still that you need to be able to communicate with others, for which you need to identify yourself. Where a site is served from doesn't change that.
There ought to be some good ones over at the Internet Archive. But I don’t know any specific ones.

https://archive.org/details/manuals
Just watch this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Curve
In htop I can see and kill the process tree, I think processhacker2 can achieve the same on Windows.
That custom lightning cable is 3.5mm on the other end, so it’s not surprising that it’s analog-only. What is apparently surprising to some people is that the headphones re-digitize the analog signal before processing the signal (and eventually converting back to analog for the actual headphone drivers). Personally, that isn’t too surprising to me for noise-cancelling headphones, although I have no idea if it’s the case with other noise-canceling headphones that accept analog input.
How does that work? I would like to see an example.
It doesn't exist within its own ecosystem, as I mentioned. Stake is derived from work and work itself is a security, ie, your work is secured by prior works. Everything that built it needed prior work and everything to secure it needs prior security, up the ladder you'd have yourself to secure and work for the currency, your community along with its own governance to state level and on and on up the ladder. PoW and PoS both exist within the same ecosystem.
> but move on with the times

IRC is alive and kicking. It's also the better option over the likes of Discord, Slack, and other spyware masquerading as chat apps.
The image here

https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/21/apple-ransomware-leak-new-mac...

looks like it has physical keys.

I think that's the right side of the laptop, so from the bottom up, it is shift, return, \, delete, and the connectors for the fingerprint sensor.

hallelujah
If you go to that page, it is a good read. Then you hit the back button to get back here, and it just reloads the page.

Why?

Because slashdot are assholes.
Someone with the correct competencies will get the job instead. Or better yet executives the world over will start taking security seriously.
Its the other way round -- nothing forces nodes to accept bad blocks from miners. An honest node would simply ignore the bad data. The exchanges run nodes, so I would rather be generating or receiving transactions on a chain (or fork) that its users are engaging with. Nodes accept blocks from miners, miners don't accept blocks from nodes.
The current implementations are heavy WIP and incomplete. The fact that you managed to screw them up is not a big surprise. Once all of the safety and validation work is done, we'll need to check again and see.
Curious about this too. Anything more than 16 GPU cores seems like it'd too big to fit on die (share with CPU cores and everything else), so may need to be a discrete solution.

Would Apple then make discrete GPU solutions using PCIe5? Makes sense for the Mac Pro given the edge cases for requiring multi-GPU solutions.
Is that actually the case? Couldn't a new player with the money to spend become a stakeholder overnight by purchasing large amounts of ETH on the open market and staking it?

Versus taking that money and taking months to invest it into mining. Purchasing compute power is harder than purchasing ETH no matter how you slice it
It feels like this is something a "Web-" prefixed API should protect us from.

I'm curious if such catastrophic behaviour is inherent to the WebGPU API as specified, or of the current implementation is failing to provide the level of safety that it should according to the spec?
It's not like cryptocurrencies achieved any of their goals so far anyway. If it's about facilitating pyramid schemes and creating a worldwide casino we might as well do it efficiently and without wasting insane amounts of resources.

I'm personally very happy for PoS and hope that it'll be successful, I would be a lot less annoyed with cryptocurrency bullshit if it wasn't so wasteful. With proof-of-stakes it basically joins the ranks of essential oils and other MLM scams, I'm fine with that.
Amazon could pay and treat their employees better. That would be an investment that would make me consider using their service again.
This does happen. Here's an article on an attempt made towards Tesla: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-ransomware-insider-hack-at...
* Your title is sell via Instagram, but your "free" product does not include selling via Instagram

* Yes, Stripe take a fee and that sucks, but you don't have to. Shopify had $0 monthly costs at launch. Obviously now they can charge what ever they want

* You just launched, putting some fake discount on seller fees just seems spammy. Like a 30$ product with a $60 + 50% off label. Seller fees were never 3.9%, there is no discount.

I think this is a great area to focus us. And you, or someone else will end up taking over the market. But I think whoever it is will give their product for free, or at a loss, for at least 6-12 months.

Before you figure out why people are/aren't signing up, why not see if price is the issue? Once people are locked in/love your product, raise the price as much as you'd like
The Federal Reserve Act from 1913 incentivizes banks to join the Federal Reserve payments network. Let me update this to 2020s lingo: The Federal Reserve System is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that pays its stakers 6% annually. It has operated for over 100 years flawlessly. The stakers gain access to a market leading depository and credit system, and have the ability to voice opinions on some variables but the shares itself are non-voting. Like many kinds of entities such as trusts and foundations, there are no owners, only trustees.

The human interface to the system is a separate public agency called the Board of Governors, which simply tells the public what the Federal Reserve has done, and also communicates any changes to the Federal Reserve's charter (any legislative updates) to the DAO.
Be careful with this advice since it does not apply generally or all the time for most people. Being self-employed can have a significant financial upside, but it also has significant costs and risks. I switched to 1099 work several years ago and in comparison to what I could be bringing home in total compensation with a big tech company, I make anywhere from 0.75 to 1.5 times as much. The situation is similar for friends who made the same switch - some years it's substantially better, some years it's worse, on average you trade different kinds of stress for a little bit more money.

It's important to keep in mind that running a business, even one where you're the only employee, is a pain in the ass in America (and especially in California). In addition to all the compensation things you don't get through an employer (health insurance, 401k matching, subsidized meals, paid vacation days, etc.) you also have added overhead in self employment tax, professional insurance, compliance/service fees, etc. And then you have the added headache of a small mountain of paperwork, both to get started and at tax time every year, in addition to having to keep your accounting straight and sometimes having to chase down payments. Also keep in mind that the line items you listed have caveats. QBI phases out at certain income levels and for certain professions (I get $0 from it), PPP is a one-time deal, IRAs are not equivalent to getting free matching money from an employer 401k, etc.

As others in here have mentioned, you also have to maintain your client pipeline and even then there's no guarantee things will work out. For example, last year when the pandemic started my primary client paid the early termination fee, cut my contract 4 months short, and left me to twiddle my thumbs while my W2 friends happily plugged away at their normal jobs with no income interruption. That's the kind of risk you take and over time it absolutely will impact your total earnings. In general, self-employment is most definitely not for everyone - I usually only recommend it for a limited subset of people.
That's only possible once - from asic PoW to a gpu/cpu PoW.

After that, if the fork becomes popular, the attacker moves and attacks it again. Are people supposed to fork once per week? At that point it's not PoW consensus anymore, because the interventions move from emergency to normal, and you're under something else.
to play devils advocate How much is this Amazon or its just the way all warehouse US workers are treated?

I have heard far worse things about non amazon warehouse workers in the UK Sports Direct for example.
Some of those systems do. Not all.

" It is an Inertial Guidance System with an additional Star-Sighting system (this combination is known as astro-inertial guidance), which is used to correct small position and velocity errors that result from launch condition uncertainties due to errors in the submarine navigation system and errors that may have accumulated in the guidance system during the flight due to imperfect instrument calibration. GPS has been used on some test flights but is assumed not to be available for a real mission. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile)

Tomahawk missiles are also fed a navigation package before launch which allows them to navigate without additional signals (I'm sure accuracy goes up if they do have GPS available). I believe it's something akin to terrain maps that it can use to navigate to it's target.

I would argue that any nation that is reliant on those public networks to be effective are going to lose within minutes of an actual conflict.

I believe it's already established that the Russians are capable of completely blocking out GPS signals.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/russia-spoofing-...

So no, I don't think we'd be facing mutually assured destruction.

Now the impact on civilian life if some nation decided to start the space wars? Catastrophic. We'd basically block off space for the next 100 years because of deadly debris in orbit :/
proof of work is a massive waste, it's true, but it does serve a one time valuable purpose: it bootstraps the value of the tokens by having people make real investments with existing currency and hardware in their creation. beyond that, it's literally insane, it only works when there's a very competitive race to burn as much energy as possible.

however, once the value of those tokens is established (as is true for most of the big cryptocurrencies today), there is really no compelling reason not to emulate the proof of work block lottery with a proof of stake block lottery. there is absolutely no reason why people can't lock up digital currency funds long term in exchange for share in a 10 minute lottery rather than lock up funds in hardware mining investments and associated power supplies for them.

i've been watching ethereum's progress on this with interest, and fully expect with time that bitcoin will follow.
> free forever

or as long as a free tier exists ;-)
[1] To be a nerd is to be socially awkward, and there are two distinct ways to do that: to be playing the same game as everyone else, but badly, and to be playing a different game. The smart nerds are the latter type.

PG probably agrees with you, as that's the first footnote from his article above.
What coin does zk-rollup use? or just base Ethereum?
Free until you decide it isn't free anymore.
Technically that'd be a cost, not an investment.
No. Generational reclamation of words is fairly common. The best examples aren't actually race (comparing how "nerd" and the n-word are reclaimed doesn't really work, for reasons that should be obvious in that I'm censoring one).

On the other hand, within the LGBT community, tons of terms have been fully or partially reclaimed. Most notably "queer". That also isn't without controversy (and queer has been in the process of reclamation for longer than "nerd" has been an insult in its current context), but almost no one seems to think that by self-identifying as something (in good faith) you're bullying someone else.
I wish we could have proof of work but the work would be something like , doing an actual workout.
I learned this lesson from the school of hard knocks; moved into an apartment I didn't really want because the price was only good for that day.

Now I permanently associate exploding offers with long-term dissatisfaction of the product.
You hate the Touch Bar so much that if Apple's next round of laptops includes one you'll stop using macOS and start using Linux (or Windows) on your laptop instead?
ETH is so cool. But only really if you are into that kind of thing.

Smart contracts, and all the other buzz words turn regular folk away. I'm hedging my bets on the coin with a dog on it for mass adoption. Even the word "Ethereum" (and "Eth") is less user-friendly to "Doge".

For me, all this ETH stuff is just hype (very few ETH owners actually care about the currency side of things and its already gone too far into pyramid scheme territory to ever recover imo). The dog coin works just great as it is right now for the amount of users it has. Any upgrades should be manageable before they are ever necessary.
https://github.com/johanberntsson/ozmoo
> It seems that US defense forces are not up to the task of repelling these invaders — yet we're expecting individual companies to go up against them??

They aren't? Has NORAD control been hacked? Any battleships or predator drones?

I admit it's a bad look when, for instance, a VA database is compromised and private information for millions of government employees are exposed, but I'd also be SHOCKED if the NSA were dedicating resources to protecting that data.

Outside of Snowden, what leaks of stuff "the US defense forces" are actually attempting to protect have been captured?

>yet we're expecting individual companies to go up against them?

The companies in question appear to not even be doing basic things like taking backups and making them immutable. I don't think anybody is expecting them to have perfect security, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to backup to a tape and stick it in iron mountain for 2 years, it just takes money.
Is TCP the best choice?
Why not UDP?