skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much, appreciate it!
It sounds like the database branch has copy of the production schema, but what about the data itself? We've been using AWS Aurora clones to quickly give developers copies of production, can zero-copy clones be made as part of the branch?
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I just upgraded from a Pixel 2 to the 4a, and I love having a 3.5 back so much. I really hope the removal of them is a temporary blip in tech history
> Compare this to PoW, where only 51% of hashrate needs to be participating/complicit to censor certain transactions, the other 49% have no way of fighting back, and the only tool the community has to fork away is to change the PoW algorithm.

This is just such a small part of the whole equation.

1. They can't continuously attack with this, as you need to expend energy as long as you want to continue with the attack.

2. Even if you have majority hash-rate, you can't change the rules of the system (this has already happened)
> given economies of scale and/or network effects.

Other than competition, easily bought out when you're working with a $600 billion valuation of Amazon, or loss of consumer interest, what incentive does a for profit company have to shift any gains from economies of scale/etc to consumers? Why not make your product for 10% less, charge the same, and pass on the difference to shareholders?

Apple is a great example. If they buy out the group making the M1 to reduce cost and improve supply chain efficiency, what incentive is there to lower prices especially for a company whose marketed image is all about premium? That money is going right into ongoing costs or to recoup the initial merger costs.

Any improvement to consumers are either hypothetical, relate directly to fending off competition, listed as bullets on a PowerPoint slide between VPs, or carefully constructed to pass regulatory questions, not to help their customers save money.
Really cool. Do you think the term "super filter" applies?
Ok, you can say that the sample size is the number of planets, but there’s only 1 trial.

EDIT:

If you go through the factors, only the first three even make sense to talk about. And the third, about "number of planets per star that can potentially support life" can only be discussed in terms of our particular form of life. We have no idea at all what other types of life there could be, much less under what conditions that might happen.

The others are completely unknowable. For example:

f_i: The fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations)"

I'm embarrassed even writing it out. How can anyone even start to think that they could come even with 10 orders of magnitude of the right answer, if it's even a well defined probability, which I doubt.

We know of exactly one planet with life, and it has intelligent life that emits radio waves. Is that an inevitability, or a one in a trillion fluke?

But what bother me the most is how you even think you can talk about probabilities when there's only one trial, and for the later factors, the sample size is most definitely 1. It's just inane.
The argument is the sanctions are extremely lax and symbolical. They did nothing to improve the situation and appear to do more to appease the own population than put the CCP under pressure.

"We're getting tough on Xi's regime", but in reality we aren't. Whatever happened to Never Again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_again
The exchanges have no reason not to support both sides of a fork, for example the BTC/BCH split. Then the owners of the tokens ultimately decide which one is more valuable by selling their tokens on the chain they don't prefer and buying tokens on the chain they do prefer.
It won't be broken if they're smart about it, one does not simply bypass certificate verification.
Bulk data transfer is TCP's bread and butter. This is the protocol living the dream.
I agree about iPhone and non-pro iPads. They should 100% be on USB-C at this point.
No, it's certainly hard to write a multithreaded program that scales up to 32 cores. But it's also hard to write a multithreaded program that scales up to 8 cores. I'm saying that if we exclude the multithreaded programs that don't scale to 8 cores, most of them can be made to scale to 32 cores with reasonable effort.
How does this solve anything?
They're still making "CMPs" for mining. The silicon is still the same. The card still needs to be produced the same way.

They're only saving a few dollars off the BOM on the HDMI/DisplayPort connectors.
Location isn’t the legal standard…it would essentially be like saying customers can watch all Studio A movies at Theater A and then watch all Studio B movies at Theater B.

Sure it’s more convenient online, competition being 1 click away, but antitrust still applies to online content creators/distribution businesses.

So it’s more important to ask if you wanted to watch Netflix created content can you watch it outside Netflix? It’s not a simple yes or no, black/white kind of analysis though. You also have to look at the whole of the industry and when you do you will begin to see how the sausage is made and the antitrust nastiness.

Say you want to create a movie/show you contact film company A, Director B, actor C. Turns out you can’t hire any of them because they have contracts with Netflix. New content creators can no longer compete or even enter the market to compete and new distributors will not have any content to distribute so they won’t be able to compete or enter the market.

Even if it results in more/cheaper content, which may or may not be something to brag about, ultimately a competition is harmed and lack of competition is what harms the consumer.
Why would a company pay the same tax rate as a person? A company pays a tax rate of x% because that income is also taxed when they distribute it to individuals. Thus we've built a system that incentivizes them to invest it back in the company (doesn't always work - but that was the intent).

So 21% + 15% to 20% capex on individuals = a tax rate around the same.

Now, if you really want to look at the big picture, look at a company's tax rate of 21% on profits, but they also pay taxes on employees of ~21% of salary in the USA not to mention health care (which in europe would be included as taxes so maybe in Europe 46% to 50%). So if payroll is 40% of your costs that is another 8.4% of taxes added in there. And, you can probably add health care as a tax as well.

Legal tax avoidance is legal. I hate when people bitch about companies doing legal maneuvers. It is very easy to stop that, apply a tax on gross receipts for all income created in the country.

Washington State does that for example if you have a company operating in their state.
If it is MySQL compatible it's not vendor lock in.

It's more like a clever trap, first hit is free etc.

Will be interesting to follow this. I'm not db savvy so I don't mind leaving that job to someone else.
Although without sunlight, they have no choice but to stop photosynthesizing.

Then we have plants like the dracaena fragans, whose flowers remain closed at day, but open and release their delicious fragrance all night. I'm not sure how sleep would work for her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_fragrans
Now this is my favorite new cryptocurrency idea!
If you are a miner and you get a block reward for mining a block in Ethereum, you are not forging currency; this is the structurally correct way for Ethereum to be created.

Similarly only the Fed has the ability to make new dollars; although technically the US Treasury has this ability in a narrow sense. There's a lot of mummery around how the Fed goes about doing it, but that is the structurally correct way for dollars to be created. Calling it forgery or "theft by inflation" or whatever are political talking points.

Forgery is specifically when any other party in the world decides that they can mint coins or print bills.

Other parties can create dollars in other ways, like by committing fraud or by taking advantage of the fact that certain forms of IOUs are so liquid that they are considered cash equivalents. In the US this is a little locked down (although the overnight lending market is a particularly insidious form of shadow banking) but internationally the Eurodollar market is the wild west where anything goes. Anything, that is, except actually forging coins or bills.
Are the smart contracts not out in the open? Can you not just copy over the good/useful smart contracts as well?
The pricing gives me anxiety.

$1.25/mo per 10GB storage

$15/mo per 100 Million rows read

$15/mo per 10 Million rows written

But I won't lie, super excited to give this a try.
My waking times definitely skew, but for me I think it happens because my bed time pushes it later and later until my night owl habits and my guilt over sleeping late reach an equilibrium.

When I was in college I'd pretty quickly drift to a 4:00AM to noon sleep schedule on holidays. Even today (in my mid 20's) I find I'm happiest sleeping from roughly 2:00AM to 10:00AM.
Apple’s goal is to have every portable computer work like an iPhone: you charge it overnight, then unplug it and use it unwired for a full day. This is why the charging port on the mouse is on the bottom, for instance.

They never quite got their Intel laptops there, though. (Especially running MS Teams, Slack, and Chrome!)

It’s kind of funny that, now that they can make a laptop that really does last all day on one charge (according to tests of M1), they’re switching back to MagSafe.
> It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned/possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment.

Unfortunately, the marketplace -- at least certain segments of it -- are far beyond .mil/.gov in terms of capacity and sophistication. E.g., AWS's formal tools for code-level security is what DARPA's been yelling about doing for decades, but gov't contractors and the branches/agencies are unable/unwilling to catch.

I'm not sure how to fix gov or mil, but a good starting point within mil is to stop making career officers with theology and polisci degrees but zero CS training the first-line managers of cyber commands.
There's nothing to clean. Everything is pristine. The problem has even persisted across replacement cables and a full top case replacement (the keyboard, of course) where Apple scrubs the whole thing down before they give it back. Maybe I should superstitiously blow on it like it's an NES cartridge. It won't help, but maybe I'll feel like I have some agency.
If Bezos doesn't want to be the next Bond villain,[1] buying MGM is the best way to avoid being depicted as such.

[1] Not him specifically, but a bald man described as an "Internet mogul" who is "one of the richest people on Earth" with "tentacles in every aspect of daily life", including "smart speakers in everyone's home"
I just switched to 1Password from LastPass after LastPass recently restructured their pricing, and it was very smooth. Just imported by passwords and they all worked.
I knew there was a reason I was still slogging through these comments. Well commented sir.
If you're trying to buy from me, who you are is literally my business.
Is 20 files some kind of hyperbole? If not, how do you get it to do that?

I've never seen it transfer more than five files at a time, which sometimes drives me crazy when there are a lot of small files to sync.
So far it seems to work fine for me too. Can you share you list of security/privacy addons? I've used Umatrix but never heard of LocalCDN. Was wondering what other gems you may have found.
Plus, the US has in the past busted vertical integration/monopolies, in this very industry. The "Paramount decision" may be almost forgotten today, and recent court decisions have argued it has "expired", but it absolutely set the precedent that there is a very public concern especially with entertainment media when the distributors are the producers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
Nitpicking: "stop photosynthesizing" is just a direct consequence of the lack of ambient light. People stop getting sunburn at night, that's not part of "sleeping".

Other than that: +1.
For me, one of three things, given the amount of noise. Maybe being too restrictive but:

1.) Major peer reviewed publication (Nature, Scientific American, etc) publishes an article about this

2.) Several skeptical science communicators (Michael Shermer, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bob Novella, etc) publicly announce it

3.) The heads of 3 G7 countries make a public announcement.

If these happen, I'll believe. Too strict?
> Application state is a trivial problem to solve.

This is very interesting. Can you show example which you believe trivially solves state?
As somewhat of a forced entrepreneur myself, I disagree. Didn't finish high-school and have never held down a job for more than a few months, but don't feel at risk of 'great personal consequences'. If the market changes and my current ventures go to shit, I will just develop a new product much like an employed person would find a new job.
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@Uber - have you considered GraalVM ?
Thank you for bringing up Cialdini. The scarcity tactic is documented in Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion. In the scarcity chapter he ties it to the “loss aversion” cognitive bias, although he doesn’t label it as such.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815.Influence

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/loss-aversion/
Yep if you have a hydrogen pump nearby it will probably fill faster than a charger. Not sure if they need attendants like a propane fill.

If you have a plug at home though thats much more convient at least to me when going to work.
So a hacker has your data, and demands money.

The government's proposal:

1. If you pay the hacker, we want money because you paid a hacker.

2. If you don't pay the hacker, we want money because you leaked your users' data.

The bottom-line is that if you're a victim of ransomware, the government joins the hacker, both of them kicking you while you're down and demanding money.
Low-end non-Apple laptops, yes, but as far as high-end laptops go, Apple was very late to the party in minimizing bezels.
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One of the challenges (I won't say problems) with the Drake Equation is we have some sense for some numbers and they're very very large. Which encourages people to use formulations for some of the other terms like "even if we assume this is one in a billion" and this is "one in a million," you still come up with a significant number of civilizations. When, in fact, some other term may be so vanishingly small that it's only happened once. (Or there may be something else, e.g. a great barrier, that's not being taken into account.)

But, as others have written, it's not really intended to be used that way.
Well this is how most marriages end I guess. Desperate money grubbing.
I always thought it was a bit of a lark. You multiply a whole bunch of unknowns with huge errors bars together to get a totally new unknown with universe sized error bars.
There are a few distinctions:
1. In PoS you actually never know who mined a given block with certainty. You can mine anonymously making censorship pretty difficult. This is not the case in PoS.
2. In PoW miners risk losing money by not building off the block found by a miner they're trying to censor. There is a cost to losing. This isn't the case in PoS (for the most part), as long as they don't double stake.
3. Additionally, the key distinguisher is that miners and custodians (almost all US based and controlled by VC funds) are two very distinct groups in Bitcoin. In a PoS currency they are the same group. That results in a power consolidation that effectively makes a PoS currency completely controlled by a few silicon valley insiders and eventually the US government.
Yeah, given that we're talking about the guy who wrote "On Lisp" I think it's fair to say he has technical credibility.

He may be a dealmaker these days, but that doesn't take away that he is a luminary in the nerd community.
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> I'm not sure what gave me the impression but, in my mind "process-per-tab" and "Electrolysis" were linked

This always was a long term goal I think. It's per site not per tab though.
These get an instant "no" from me. I don't care how good the offer is. If you try to keep me from thinking about my options, I'm not inclined to do business with you. Salespeople take me from "maybe today" to "absolutely not today" with this tactic, though I must be in the minority, since they keep doing it.

Plus if I reflect and later decide I do want what you're offering, then I know your "full" price is bullshit and your "special" rate probably is too, so I'll come in negotiating hard, both because I've learned something about your prices and because now I kinda don't like you.
This paragraph is strange; it’s an attempt at a compare but nothing is really held constant:

> Training took 1.82 minutes with 256 fourth-gen TPUs, only slightly slower than the 0.39 minutes it took with 4,096 third-gen TPUs. Meanwhile, achieving a 0.81-minute training time with Nvidia hardware required 2,048 A100 cards and 512 AMD Epyc 7742 CPU cores.

And “0.81 minutes” is one of the stranger things I’ve read today.
Quick environment per pull request is available with SQLite now :)
Strange. Dropbox has no problem hitting mid-50s MiB/s if not more on my gigabit connection. I wonder if it's a routing issue and your path to their datacenters is bad?
Security almost always gets attention only after the fact.
Mine shows the double-story circular loop in the input box, but the single-story opentail after clicking <reply>.

Having said that, you prompted me to search for "double-story a" and sure enough, it's the same thing as with the g.
I'm all for fixing hunger and reducing pollution but stop insulting our intelligence we are not stupid:

1. CO2 is not a problem and is in fact essential for life.

In other words, there is NO climate change problem and supporting this is the fact that all previous climate change predictions have been wrong.

2. There is no real virus emergency as proven by statistics which show there was no increase in deaths after 2020.

It was all a big lie used to usher in drastic and unwanted changes in society.
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I'd be a little surprised if Apple release _any_ new Intel machine. I'd be _amazed_ if they release an Intel laptop. It would be generally slower than the 13" M1 (Anandtech has Tiger Lake H _just_ beating the M1 in for multithreaded workloads in short synthetic tests, but given the throttling shown (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16680/tiger-lake-h-performanc...) even in a presumably friendly reference laptop it wouldn't be competitive in the real world) and have far worse battery life, and be replaced in under a year; what would be the point?
Funny how everyone complains it's wasteful yet I see absolutely nobody complaining that they have some sort of electricity shortage because of Bitcoin miners.
Doesn't POS incentivize oligarchal collusion?
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Google does all that in the background on the Google SERP page, so users don't feel that slowness at all.
In any case, it doesn't make much sense to advertise that you purposely ignore user complaints. If you do that, then that's bad, but why wear it as a badge of honor?

Maybe he's just so sick of hearing about errors or bugs from thousands of users, he's sabotaging his own product in hopes it will just die and he can move on.
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As I understand it, Vitess is basically a really powerful sharding system, which goes a step further than typical sharding solutions by basically making the shards one or more unique databases. In the case of someone like slack, because your tenant (e.g your company slack), is completely isolated from other tenants, you can treat that basically as its own database, and have a master for just that DB, allowing much better scaling. The big limitation on Vitess is cross-shard transactions, and the fact you have to make sure your schema has a clear cut sharding key (like your tenant ID) that works nicely with your application needs. The alternative for scaling transactional SQL DBs in a multi-master fashion are the "NewSQL" DBs like yugabyte and cockroachdb which are basically document DBs with a partially implemented postgres frontend, so don't have the full feature set of your SQL engine like Vitesse does but don't require so much attention to sharding. These are oversimplifications of the actual mechanisms, but give a basic overview of the tradeoffs involved, please feel free to correct me on any inaccuracies as I'm not an expert in DBs.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

I may be running afoul of Poe's law here, but I'm going to take this essay at face value. The premise of the essay, from what I can tell, is that games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons are played by men and women who are fantasizing about being a little dictator over their own island which they control completely, because deep down they feel powerless and they can take their feelings of impotence out on the inhabitants of a virtual world. Or at least that these ideas are inextricably linked to such games.

To me, this is like saying that people who make paintings of landscapes that don't exist are repressed miniature autocrats, because, unsatisfied with the world as it is, they have the neocolonialist compulsion to bend the world around them to their wills, and they express this in art. It's also akin to saying that people play first-person shooters like Counter Strike because they fantasize about joining the army and conquering foreign lands to take them as their own. I'm sure Minecraft is probably political to people like this as well, because apparently "there is no such thing as an apolitical video game".

Stripped to their essentials, games like Animal Crossing are fundamentally about building. Humans like to build. There's nothing wrong with building things per se. I wonder at the unwillingness of some people to contemplate creativity without seeing politics, neocolonialism and oppression everywhere, _especially_ in virtual spaces where these real-world externalities specifically do not exist. You can shape an island without murdering and evicting indigenous peoples! You can build machines without having to think about whether you're destroying the planet, because you're not! Shouldn't these be what we strive to enjoy, instead of demonizing as neocolonialist and regressive? To say that "because others have destroyed to build means that portraying building _without_ also portraying destroying is bad" is patronizing and infantilizing, and belies a view of our fellow humans as being incapable of handling even slight nuance and complexity.

To be clear, I can see the value in comparing and contrasting something like Animal Crossing to real life, where, for example, they really did commit genocide to build the "New World". But saying that a work of art is infected by all the evil that anyone has ever done, or that independent concepts, like the history of colonialism and building a house on an island, cannot be separated is a road that leads to madness in my opinion.

To be sure, there probably really are, as the article describes, Riordanesque people who play these games, but saying that these messages are baked in to the media themselves is Quixotic. There are no enemies here to fight.

The author pretending like they can peer into the mind of the Platonic ideal Animal Crossing gamer to reveal their neocolonialist tendencies is, to be kind, an unsupportable line of thinking. As a person who has played these games myself, what else can I say but "No"?