skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been kicking around the idea of writing a CRDT-based editor using this model.

I got around to creating a data layer (p2p, browser-based, CRDT-backed) for something like this:

https://github.com/hyperhyperspace/hyperhyperspace-core

I'd be interested in collaborating on your editor
I thing things get bloated and bloated until there’s a rewrite. This is what happened for the facebook app, and google maps is very close to that point. I’ve started using apple maps more and more and I like it. I’m semi joking when I say that I upgraded to the latest iphone just to use gmaps.
This is the first time I'm seeing the word 'pox' being used by someone! Till now I've only seen it being used in books!
Google employees call for company to terminate IDF contracts
In a previous iteration of Notion used a kind of model kinda like ECS, where each block was represented by multiple records called "reference" and "composite", so a block could have different type depending on context. From an internal doc on history:

> We later decided this wasn't useful or necessary and collapsed them into one thing. WTF was I thinking??
Anything bound by epoxy (or any polymer?) surely will have a comparably short lifespan...
The letter:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSck0yb4OgXJlf5N2Ap2...

edit: I am not trying to break any rules here. I checked if this was posted before and I could not find it. Why was this post flagged? Honest question. Sorry if this edit breaks a rule
Ah yes, I know about c4ss. They are a major force in left market anarchists in the anglophone world, but looking through their website a lot of of Bitcoin content is written by agorists.

C4SS style anarchists and agorists are definitely on the economic right of even free market anarchists (mainly mutualists, decentral planners that admit a free market, etc, anarcho-syndicalists, mixed-economy libsocs, Bakuninists, etc...) in that they consider the state a far greater issue than capitalism. Most anarchists that like markets (which is most of them in some way) see capitalism as an equal or greater threat than the State as at least the State may share some power with the people in some cases.
Interesting, in any case I don’t think any decision was made to ease the transition at the time.
The main issue with this post is that it talks about underlying "monetary inflation" which underpins the other types of inflation including consumer inflation.

The consumer inflation we have currently is due to increase in prices of raw materials and not necessarily due to printing money but due to labor issues.

Japan had QE with money printing for close to 40 years now and stagnation, not inflation is their problem.

Major currencies, including USD, are no longer pegged to gold since the 80s so all studies prior to that are no longer relevant for inflation. And currencies like USD have virtually unlimited appetite. If the central bank prints out one trillion dollars it will be taken up by couple of Bezos & Zuckerbergs.

if anything, the whole pandemic is a good case study for Universal Basic Income.
That would turn Google (your confident) into a good creator, above all.
I unequivocally disagree with this statement - "happiness" achieved by video games is superficial, without real meaning. They are thrilling endeavors and fill time effectively, but they are absolutely secondary to the absolute positive of actually deriving income. I seriously can't believe that anyone would seriously argue a distraction is worth more than actual income.
I was watching a guy construct ever more elaborate versions of Ninja Warrior courses for his backyard squirrels.
I heard YouTube migrated away from Vitess to Spanner. Does anyone know why?
Speaking of technicalities someone could argue that when measured by protocol usage statistics, the web is (almost) equivalent to the internet.

When following where DNS is heading and why DNS over HTTPS is preferred over DNS over TLS to avoid censorship and manipulation, this kind of reinforces the point.

Most areas of the internet, and most clients on the internet these days use HTTP/S as a network protocol. Something like an IRC client on mobile is not really an IRC client.

(I'm purposefully ignoring sstp, snmp and dgram sockets in the gaming sector here, because they are actually marginally small compared to "all of the internet". I also think routing layers can be ignored, because a consumer's layer 1 is their layer 6 anyways; and someone could argue that it's infrastructure and not a usable internet by itself.)

Even when arguing that smtp and imap play a huge role...lately even Microsoft pushes cloud based office suites, so I'd argue that is also not the case anymore.
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Especially true if you are holding evidence that you knew it caused medical problems, but ignored that evidence and continued doing stuff that made it worse because it makes more money. At that point you pretty much have to start bribing people to look away, like the cigarette industry is notorious for.

Facebook has practically zero incentive to research damages they might be causing. Sure, they could do the ethically responsible thing and try to discover and mitigate issues... but if they were doing that, we wouldn't be at this state, would we?
This happened immediately after the YouTube app on my Apple TV self-updated so for a short while I believed it was the new app that was broken.

Every time Google changes the Apple TV app it gets worse. The very first version was a native app, since then they've all been various horrible HTML apps.
Most microservice architecture
As long as it's taking a year to pay for itself, have a look at bitcoin's change in value over any recent 12 month period.

I'm not really a crypto guy but mining in your downtime on a decent gpu is a pretty good gamble.
> By the logic of that article asymmetric cryptography doesn't, because the value equal to what's protected by the key is magically wasted somewhere. Of course, that isn't true, because it's not possible to break asymmetric cryptography by brute force with expenditure equal to whatever is protected. Same applies to PoS.

Not quite. He's arguing that MC = MR implies that PoS is really PoW through obscure means. There's more to securing PoS than asymmetric cryptography -- namely, you have to convince everyone that your keys (and the coins attached to them) are legitimate, and not the next guy's keys and coins on a fork. Convincing people of this isn't a cost-free task, especially if there's wealth to be accumulated through convincing more and more people that your coins are legitimate, and everyone else's conflicting coins on different forks are not.

This game of convincing people that your fork is the true fork is exactly what stake-grinding is. Given a choice, and no a priori knowledge, which history of the PoS chain is the true history? What would convince you that one is legitimate, and the other is not? The article argues that the act of convincing you is, itself, a form of PoW. After all, without PoW, looking at the chainstate isn't convincing -- if you have staked coins today, you could easily create a fork of the chain history where everyone else stopped spending except for you. Without no 3rd party way to verify if that actually happened, you could go around trying to bribe people to accept that your subsequent transactions on this fork are the chain's "true" transactions. There's many tactics for doing this -- you could go on Twitter and spam everyone; you could organize events and rallies; you could even take malicious actions and disable your rivals. You and everyone trying to do the same thing would be in competition to convince everyone else that your fork is the "true" fork.
But regardless of the tactics, all of them require expenditures on your part in the forms of time, energy, health, stress, etc. Hence the "PoW by obscurity" argument. But at the end of the day, you'd be unwise spend any more than you'd expect to receive in return because of MC = MR.

Here's a concrete example. The reason you can tell that there's a lot more belief that ETH is the true Ethereum fork, and not ETC, is because ETH has a much higher PoW score than ETC. Miners can choose between ETH and ETC to mine, and they mine the one whose tokens are worth more. ETH is worth more because more people value it. Therefore, PoW is a proxy measurement of the social consensus -- more people believe in ETH than ETC.

If ETH were PoS at the time of the split, it would be a lot less obvious from the chainstate which one people would choose to use. Both chains' participants would try to make it look like their chains had more users by some other means. But the point in the article is that those "other means" are not only costly actions, but also the marginal cost each fork can afford for these actions is, in equilibrium, equal to their respective marginal revenues.
Does this include foreign investors? I think that should matter too. I'm not saying this for a racist reason, but it seems we allow rich people from other countries to buy up land/real estate, which drives up costs, and de-stabilizes our ability to support our poorest.

Personally, I think land should be considered owned by all and have a land-value tax, which would pay for universal basic income and healthcare.
Everybody will tell you what you are doing is stupid without knowing the details...I had an idea which may also be stupid, but again, seems to be working recently and seems like simulated super high interest (but not not not investing advice). Thinking about crypto as "digital gold" gave me the idea.

What if you deposit your cash in a regular brokerage account and every week sell an equal amount (that is, one contract for every 100 shares you can afford to buy) of at-the-money puts on GLD? This is literally digital gold.

If the probability of gold going to zero (or GLD) is essentially nothing, and inflation is inevitably going to pick up, then this feels plausibly "risk free". The worst that can happen is you are assigned some shares, which you can sell or sell calls on. In any case, people are apparently willing to pay a surprising amount for short term volatility on it.

Even better, you can buy the cheapest longest dated out-of-the-money put to lay off some risk at minimal cost.

You may be able to do this on Robinhood, I haven't tried.

Just an idea...of course analyzing how this could hide large risks would be interesting.
He bought it for Flight Sim it sounds like, the mining is just a bonus.

And Flight Simulator 2020 needs crazy specs if you want the pretty graphics at decent frame rates. I was planning on doing the mining on the side just to reduce how much it cost, but I'm mainly getting it for the pretty Flight Sim graphics.
Chads... collect their own garbage?
Sorry, I wasn't clear about what I was referring to: GPU resales are not a moral issue. Restrictions on computation very much are.

Maybe I misunderstood what you were calling a moral issue. If you were referring to the restrictions on computation, then I agree.
True, but if you invented writing today and decided to record a 500 year old story, in that scenario are you really likely to be able to discern what the term flood meant back then, or if the word flood was even in the original story? Hundreds of years later people who weren't there are going to get lazy with the details.
I was watching a live camera overlooking a railway line in Tokyo and now I have no idea if it's still raining there or not.
Seems to be back!
That always seems to happen on downdetector but all of the other services listed as having problems seem to be working fine for me. Except YouTube.
Google brought this upon themselves.

"Bring your whole self to work" was one of the dumbest things to promote, especially in the Bay Area.
>I think this is cool tech, and valuable. I'm just not sure that it offers a communication benefit over well-lit, well-miced, wired, low latency, 8K videoconferencing.

>Maybe there's some 3D emotional perception face processing stuff that we have deep in our brains that can immensely benefit from this, but I'm skeptical.

>I think simply doing 4k or 8k low latency high quality videoconferencing might be a 90 or 95% solution without needing special cameras/displays.

From my experience, 4k or 8k doesn't matter. Sound quality actually matters most, really clear low latency audio alone will give you a surprisingly strong sense of presence.

Video quality is important but 1080p is enough, beyond that the lighting and latency matter more.

Equally important from my personal POV is video size - physical size. Take a cheap 65 inch TV, turn it vertically, and talk to someone on that. When your talking to someone that is actually life size the sense of presence is vastly improved, even at the exact same video quality. And TVs are so cheap this doesn't seem like much of a techical barrier.

If you just screen share from your cell phone to your 65 inch TV and video chat -- holding everything else equal for audio and video quality -- it's SO MUCH BETTER.
I dislike HSTS and the remote reporting features. So, I would not want to implement them in a new web browser (if there is any report, it can be viewed by the end user (perhaps in the web developer console, with an indicator in the status line to indicate if any reports are available), who can then save it or do whatever else is wanted with it).

I also dislike "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff"; the browser should never try to guess the MIME type, and should always use the Content-Type header unless it is overridden by the user. Of course, it is harmless for the web site operator to include such a header, since it will be ignored by clients that do not understand it. I merely say that the effect of "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" would be implied in any browser that I would want to write.

The other headers can be useful.

One of the features that I would want to include in a new web browser is user-defined header rewriting (both requests and responses) (which is the only way to set language preferences and Do-Not-Track, among other things); the headers described in the linked document (both old and new) can then be useful as a standardized way for the end user to configure several other options too. (Independently of this, there are many other things I would change too (e.g. changing the way deice handling works entirely), but that is beyond the scope of the current topic.)

Also, in my opinion, scripts should never be executed for <img>; if you need scripts, other commands such as <object> or <iframe> should be used instead. (Although, scripts should usually be avoided when not needed anyways.)

It is also necessary to ensure that <meta http-equiv> is implemented securely. It should never add permissions which have been denied, nor conflict with anything that has already been loaded (e.g. you can't override the MIME type in a <meta>, since it is already HTML if the <meta> is to be parsed at all).
I have no idea how to explain my model other than my very cozy rats nest that I’ve blown up 5 times and rebuilt —

And after reading this article, I realize it’s a lot like blocks... I guess the way I’d explain it is that I add a template element to the blocks so that untemplated versions with live data are like a black box to other ‘pages’, only when a user says ‘I want this visible again elsewhere’ aka templates do I extract out the non-sensitive bits (user identifies sensitive info) to be used again in other pages.
That sounds awesome—what's the channel name?
Routing protocols or some supporting protocols are about all I can think of that would have that kind of potential.
I think the most interesting thing about this is the "other architectures" section, where it shows how this technique is applicable to any architecture with nothing more than "mov reg, [reg+const]" (where const can be 0) and "mov [reg+const], reg" --- making it usable on all the major "big" ISAs like x86, ARM (32 and 64-bit), MIPS/RISC-V, etc. as well as some microcontrollers like the Z80.
That perspective would be more believable if it hadn't happened with GME. Once you know there is zero price elasticity of demand, the price ought to fly extremely high and therein lies the problem. It is totally antithetical to the concept of an orderly market.

When you find an edge case, the solution is to mitigate it, not to say "well it's an edge case so it will probably never come to fruition."
Edit: I think I was being snarky, my apologies
Sounds like Mark Rober to me.
> Heat is their enemy

Sometimes literally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8bp8a2QS4

"A Bitcoin Miner Heatstroked In His Sleep. This Is What Happened To His Organs."
Why would a gamer not buy a second hand card from a miner?
It is. Source: asked my colleagues who are in Tokyo.
Google owns one of the major consumer operating systems (Android) and a lot of videoconferencing goes via Chrome. They could absolutely be doing things like offering better connection quality metrics - look at how everyone currently ends up using a random shady "speed test" site.
* Perhaps, humility from knowing how much you don't know. The older I get, the bigger the circle of what I don't know grows. I now know that there is no way in my lifetime I will be able to learn even a tiny percentage of all that I would like to learn. It is humbling to learn how little you really know, no matter how quickly you acquire new knowledge.
An ORM/migration system like ActiveRecord makes schema changes pretty simple.... hardly outside the domain of "mere mortal" engineer
I'm wondering ... so when a user requests a page which will have a full hierarchy of blocks, how are the db queries done.

Do you first query the root to see it's content blocks, then make additional queries to load the root's children block, then make additional queries to get those blocks children blocks (ie. recursively) until there are no more children?

Does that result in too many database queries? Or do you have other ways to optimize it?
> My electricity costs $0.0816 per kWh.

I agree that the statement "you can't make a profit any more" is just incorrect because of the subjectivity of "you", but it's also worth noting that this is extremely variable - my electricity costs $0.38/kWh off-peak and $0.54/kWh on-peak.

Whether or not mining on existing hardware is profitable depends entirely on where you live, and since we're explicitly talking about the effects of an increased demand on GPUs due to mining, people are clearly not just using existing hardware.
2080ti's don't cost $2500.

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The article is full of citations, actually. Perhaps your hyperlinks are difficult to see. Or are you saying all the citations are worthless?
> This is because the US is a heavily import-based country

Is it really? It is probably one of the countries that rely less per % of GDP on imports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_trade-to-...
Imagine writing a technical blogpost like this only to have people in the comments wanting to discuss your gender. It's insulting and off-topic.
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Bittorrent alone probably accounts for a huge chunk of internet traffic, and it's not http. SMTP and NNTP probably also account for large fractions because the MTAs still speak SMTP, not HTTPS and Usenet itself is something like 100 TB per day.

Either way, arguing that the web == the internet based on protocol usage is to me a bit like arguing TCP == HTTP/S. They're different things at a conceptual level and the semantics are an important distinction to a lot of applications.
That just doesn't sound good.
the mining-only cards don't have video outputs
AFAIK, Tesla uses the same range estimate for all trim levels of the Model 3 (or did in 2019, at least). The problem is that the Performance trim has 20 inch non-aero wheels and sticky tires. I got 325+ Wh/mi steady state cruise on the highway using AP to do the driving (in good weather; was 350+ when colder).

There have been some independent tests and IIRC the consensus is that the standard range Model 3 was rated pretty accurately, and the Performance trim was rated something like 25-30 miles too high compared to reality.
Sellers can already sell on instagram shops. What is the advantage for another service?
If you have rudimentary Japanese skills, you could try dialing a random payphone in the area? Maybe someone will pick up and let you know, or even describe the weather.
Yugabyte uses actual Postgres code for the query layer, on top of data persistence (distribution/replication) handled by DocDB document store, which itself is a layer on top of RocksDB: https://blog.yugabyte.com/how-we-built-a-high-performance-do...

CockroachDB (aka CRDB) is completely custom and compatible with Postgres wire/datatype protocols, which operates directly on its own key/value store called Pebble (but originally was also RocksDB): https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/distributed-sql-key-value...

Both systems are foundationally the same SQL-on-KV but implement it very differently.
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I first learned about this prism business when I read this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/19/stereo-sue

Back then people even were saying it was pseudoscience or a scam, but seemly there is ongoing research that shows that the article wasn't lying.
Could be that packet loss and retransmission might be more noticeable when you have large data streams?
> we have a deflationary currency

I've never understood why this is an explicit goal of any currency. Money is a way of keeping score of economic value produced. The economy is expected to create more value over time. That means you need more points, aka money, to represent that value.
That exists now. If you Google search ‘speed test’ (on mobile at least) the first result is now a simple speed test provided by Google.
That makes sense but I think it should be possible to tell that a "state" refers to another country, not a US subfederal unit.
Private mentoring is a better use of money than private school, IMO, as Bay Area public schools are pretty decent and will send a good amount of kids to elite colleges.
Developing Live-Streaming App with Gesture-Controlled Virtual Backgrounds
As a college student, 1. is the one that worries the most. Automatic filtering is scary, and there's no way to test how these ATS systems are viewing my resume.
The GitHub acquisition likely the single catalyst that showed me Microsoft has actually pivoted how they're approaching business, and are at least putting good faith efforts to do better.

With literally 0 actual knowledge to reference on how GitHub has felt since then, outwardly it feels like MSFT has played to all of their strengths (money, infrastructure, money, "developers, "developers", "developers" memes) and amplified what GitHub had been pushing for.

I only hope it stays going well, because it's certainly keeping me engaged in trying more MSFT products and services than I likely would've otherwise even glanced at.
Why is the price of BTC given in US dollars? Is it really that independent of "major government currencies"?
Actually, isn't downdetector.ca a user-reported thing? So I imagine a ton of people were having issues with YouTube and thought it was their ISP (I know I did, I first checked speedtest-cli and the downdetector for Rogers)