skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it sounded expensive hearing that Tesla's high-powered superchargers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars[0], but apparently hydrogen stations can cost north of 2 million dollars[1].

0: https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/inside-teslas-supercharger...

1: https://www.wardsauto.com/technology/costs-check-growth-fuel...
Seems to be pretty widespread: All the usual ISPs (Cox, Comcast, Spectrum etc), Google itself, reddit, and even Twitter all seem to be showing the same spike. Wonder what's causing this one.

To be clear, Youtube isn't fully down (at least for me), but it's slow and unstable enough to effectively be unusable. I've been getting error codes in the middle of videos, something I haven't seen in months, if not years.
Amusingly the video doesn’t load for me... chrome browser, YouTube video, etc... just sits and spins
I very much share this concern, wrote about this semi-recently in http://kvark.github.io/web/platform/2020/09/30/platform-wars...
It's not easy but Firefox reader mode handles most sites, and very aggressive adblock settings also helps. In some cases (my local newspaper) I've written custom proxies to strip out the crap (makes the site load a heck of a lot faster, and uses far less mobile bandwidth).
I don't know who you think is asserting that lab origin is "proven"? The claim is that sufficient evidence exists that it should be investigated, not that investigation of all other possibilities should stop.

For a specific example, the WIV had a database of viral genomes, available on the public Internet. There was also a private, password-protected section. That entire database went offline in September 2019, and hasn't come back. The WIV has cited "hacking attempts" as the reason.

Do you find that reason credible? Do you believe that the contents of that database should be obtained and publicly disclosed, for open scientific review? If yes, then you share your desired policy action with the "baseless conspiracy folks". If no, then you share it with the CCP.

And since you say "priors": knowing that a pandemic emerged but nothing else, what's your prior that it emerged due to lab activity? I assume you're aware that the 1977 flu pandemic was probably a lab escape, and depending how you count we've had perhaps a dozen pandemics in the last fifty years; so I don't see how you can claim less than ~5%. That's far from negligible, so what evidence takes you from there to dismissing it as "baseless speculation"? It can't be the novelty of the pathogen, since a distinctive part of the WIV's research was specifically their collection of novel pathogens from nature (about 900 miles away, to be clear; Wuhan wasn't in an expected natural spillover zone).
I’m sure businesses that rely on dumping arsenic into the local lake don’t like having their livelihood threatened either. Property rights matter. Right now the market is broken.
Hyperinflation will ensue once the US dollar suddenly and completely loses its status as a global reserve currency. This is because the US is a heavily import-based country that has relied on the it strength of the dollar. When that dollar stops having foreign purchase power, there will be a huge scarcity in a variety of commodities (mainly manufactured goods), which would only recover once domestic manufacturing recovers to provide the supply (which takes quite some time, to rebuild all those factories and infrastructure that were gone due to deindustrialization)

That might possibly happen in the next few decades, but obviously this is quite far from what others have been talking about (money-printing and QE leading to hyperinflation)
> I think it's a real stretch to call this a moral issue.

After your little tribute to Niemöller there, I'm surprised you'd claim otherwise—but maybe you just find it a useful rhetorical device to use as a bludgeon in your quest for reduced spreads, added liquidity, and improved allocative efficiency. I suppose it wouldn't be the first time somebody's invoked the specter of Hitler and the Nazis in an argument with little or no regard for the awful human weight of the events they're alluding to.
Just checked for you and it's 27
system() in general is incorrect, there are much better ways to run other programs, like posix_spawn, fork+exec, libpipeline etc.
I've lost my purpose in life
My initial thought was it was my crappy internet again. Kept rebooting the modem/router until I realized other sites were fine.
Everyone is wondering how sleep serves life. Maybe it's the other way around: the purpose of being awake is to find nutrients and a safe place to enable sleeping.
This may be true for you, but not for me. I listen to many people who are not well known, and who are not rich, and who arae not startup founders. For instance, none of my friends are rich startup founders, neither is my partner, nor my therapist, nor my coworkers, yet I consider all their opinions valuable (more so than the rich "fierce nerds"). Most of the podcasts I listen to are not run by the rich and powerful, either.
Will this have an effect on compute outside of cryptocurrency?
Thanks so much for this! I've been trying lots of themes over the years and nothing seems to be exactly what I want, that one looks like it is.
Filebase’s S3-Compatible API Aims to Ease Decentralized Storage
I don't know if you are American, but it's common here to have 30 year fixed rate mortgages. I gather that's rare most other places. So I'm supposing a typical scenario where a person borrowed or refinanced recently to lock in very low inflation expectations.

That said, there are variable rate loans, but last year some lenders were actually offering such loans at a noticeable discount to prime (albeit with a floor that is above prime for now).
Devs anyone?
I had never heard of them before tonight, but the line graphs under each logo on their home page are well done.

"It's not just me. It's not just youtube. It's everything"

https://downdetector.com/
Google’s Android 12 Rips Off Most iOS Features
I was watching a great video about how Jeff Beck achieves his signature sound, now I'm stuck here with you lot
Kinda weird that the richest man in the world thought a convicted pedophile sex trafficker would have some pull with the Nobel Committee, isn't it?
What's the Matrix analog for Zulip? My understanding of Zulip is that you have an instance, streams in that instance, and topics in that stream.

Maybe in Matrix the hierarchy would be implemented by nested spaces? A space for the stream and one for each topic? That would probably work if not for the critical Zulip feature of being able to move messages between topics (and between streams?) to better organize the conversation.

Maybe one Zulip instance is a giant Matrix room and the threading model that's landing soon is used to implement the relationships? I know the upcoming threading model can dynamically change event relationships. But then maybe it would be better to avoid giving single rooms that much traffic.

There are probably lots of ways to implement that functionality. I'm curious as to what you were thinking.
This is exactly how tax laws (ridiculously) work, at least in the USA.

It uses the same “trick” billionaire CEOs use when they borrow against their shares to fund spending, instead of selling some shares and calling it “income”.
Er, as much as I love fun/interesting software things, the quality of these products are terrible for any real world use.
>Also not clear is the selection criteria.

It's using the data from the UK Biobank study, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Biobank

Also, part of their conclusion is "as with any observational study, we can not infer causality from associations." They are aware of what their study shows, it's the Guardian who oversells it.
Show HN: Roamer – See internet speed test data while you browse Airbnb
I vaguely remember an old story about a flight simulation program being used to train helicopter pilots for flying in the Australian outback.

One of the training requirements was not to try and buzz a troop of kangaroos.

Thing was, the software had been adapted from a military flight simulator, so during early testing when a trainee got too close the kangaroos, they would bounce behind a ridge and then launch a ground-to-air missile at the chopper.

Despite the "bug" in the software, it was effective as the pilots always steered clear of the roos.
Aave, Compound are both not Ponzi schemes and allow you to lock things like USDC and ETH (also not Ponzi schemes) for others to borrow, and earn interest. It's automated lending, I don't understand how people are not excited about this.
>The Echo Show is now pretty much constantly on video call for 14-16 hours a day in the living room of both houses and it has become an extension of the one another; a window into the other house. The audio and mics are good enough that at times you genuinely forget the other person is not in the same room. This has truly helped them, especially during Covid times.

>It's actually good enough that my parents have their morning tea together practically almost the same way they used to when they were physically together.

I don't understand why this sort of persistant 'portal' isn't more popular. But 10 inch screen is so small! A 55 inch TV is what, $300? Put it portrait mode and that's a life size portrait. The feeling of presence when the person's head is the correct size is so strong! I know Facebook sells something for the TV but can it be left on all day like that?

I want it feel like one half of living room is a shared space, at all times. Like the couch is split in half by a portal. Then it just cycles through a list of friends and family with the same setup to find someone else watching Netflix or whatever, and you can casually join them just like a real shared living space.

I don't need 8k or 3D tv. Just a 55 or 65 inch TV on the wall at the end of the couch!
By the way, portability was only a side effect of the Z-machine. The main purpose was code size. A text adventure compiled down to the Z-machine would take up less space than the same program compiled to machine code. They were written in the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL), which is similar to Lisp.
Finally, those downloaded videos on my phone are coming in handy.
Its not just a land conflict from the war though. This is different than the way you are painting it -- that some British officer threw up his hands and said "I don't know whose land this is, here you have it".

If you look at the history of this area, what happened was Jewish terrorist groups (haganah[2], lehi[3], Irgun[4]) started going around murdering Palestinian villagers[1]. When the Palestinian villagers ran the Zionists settled their lands.The land and property was stolen from the Palestinians. They were terrorized into fleeing their lands and were never allowed to return!

So somehow, in the modern day when we all know this as fact, we are supposed to just accept that these people and all their dependents are condemned to eternal refugee status? Thats not the worse part. While the Palestinians are condemned as refugees any random Jewish people born in Europe or America are allowed to emigrate to Israel to settle those lands. This is why Israel is an Apartheid state.

How is this not absurd and how is it moral?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun
Bitcoin’s Obstacles Mount Amid China Cryptocurrency Warning
Commander X16
Maybe something like turning up the exploration vs exploitation parameter for tree search AI algorithms.
The early adopters will be the ones who reap the rewards.
A recent post about that:

https://dustri.org/b/the-web-browser-im-dreaming-of.html

Gemini might be a good replacement for the web:

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Taking a photo with an iPad is somewhat surreal. Typically when you take photos with anything else you need to bring it back to your PC and open it in a large screen to realize it's slightly out of focus or everything is just too noisy. With the iPad especially post retina display you get an almost 1:1 relationship between what you preview and what you get finally. If you try to take it in that perspective an iPad is a better method to take a photo if camera quality is the same.
> …Take your pick.

That’s not an answer. Perhaps you really don’t know your own motivation.
The charts in the article go until 2019, consider that teenagers have suffered an enormous amount of stress during the last year because of remote learning and lack of real social contacts, poor teenagers are much less equipped to cope with social media induced shame and guilt. It might be that these sad figures will go through the roof in the very near future. I think parents really need to take measures in order to cut social media consumption of their kids, if states are unable to influence the addictiveness of these platforms (how could one regulate something like this?)
You should follow my Instagram.

Its horribly taken pictures of kinda boring moments
Do you mind sharing some examples of these Google Docs and what their contents are? My current workplace seems to be running on the mantra of "do first, document later... make that never" and I'm trying to change it by stressting high-quality documentations and clearly documented requirements.
"Stable money" isn't an exact policy. But in U.S. most money is created through real estate mortgages, so stable money could mean credit guidance, and countries such as China have used window guidance to avoid excessive real estate bubbles in order to maintain an industrial base.

Ideally federally backed mortgages would be issued on security of the minimum replacement cost of fixed capital rather than on comparable sales price. If it costs $150,000 in labor and materials to replace a small house and fixtures with a new home of equal utility, but comparable sales price is appraised at $400,000, creating money through federally backed mortgages to sustain the valuation does not really create more money for private sector innovation, it creates asset gains for passive investors which are making money without innovating.

Requiring federally backed mortgages and equity loans to be issued on at least half security of fixed capital whenever the comparable sales price exceeds 200% of the replacement cost would not starve the private sector of money, it would simply encourage investors not to throw away the industrial base economy the innovation economy was built on, or to at least fudge asset valuations higher by writing up the labor replacement cost rather than the intangible benefits so wages tracked productivity gains more closely.
BlockFi issued BTC instead of USD, a 45,000x mistake
They were right about some of that. QE didn't have any noticeable impact on employment, and although general inflation didn't see much impact (if any), asset inflation went through the roof. Housing prices, stocks, etc. all point to insane asset inflation. One could also make the argument that the skyrocketing cost of college is due in part to the lower interest rates caused by QE (along with government guarantees on student loans and the inability to shed them in bankruptcy). The currency didn't depreciate relative to other currencies, but is that because it held its value or because other currencies were also QEing their way out of the recession?
How to Send Fax from Google Voice, Gmail and Google Drive?
Naw. They're trying to recognize the pain of their consumers. And trying to do something to address it.

Better than nothing.
This phenomena where two nouns are placed side by side is called apposition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apposition#Restrictive_versus_...

So the source of the confusion is that, in English, non-restrictive appositives typically are indicated with commas, but so are lists of conjuncts.
Apple copies Google. Google copies Apple. Repeat.
>currently I don't have stereoscopic vision

>my brain CAN do it, if I had the correct images sent to my eyes somehow.

>when I watched Avatar, an actually well made 3D movie, it literally felt more real than reality

Buy an Oculus Quest 2. (Or any VR headset, but that's the best value at the moment.) It sends seperate images to each eye. You should get that same 'more real than reality' feeling. It may even train your eye muscles to see in 3D, I know I've seen some research into that area. (https://www.seevividly.com/ comes up on a Google search, though it seems to be prescription only)
There are lots of different things you can do with Spaces. But yes, you can build your own Space out of arbitrary rooms you don't own without anyone's permission.

Then there are what you might call "canonical" spaces, where space A labels space B as its child, and B labels A as its parent. Then you know that the relationship between the two is mutual, and clients can take that into account.

But you're free to create your own Spaces that are the parents of other rooms, where those rooms/spaces are unaware of the Space you created.
Haha I now wish there were stats for “25 people immediately closed the window so we got 0 information”
So given the graphs of basically everything spiking on the downdetector home page, are we saying it's basically a majority of internet hiccuping?
Total speculation, but it kind of feels like a BGP thing
You jest, but a lot of the friendly niche stuff on Youtube has been a bright spot for me for several years now, even more once the pandemic happened. I'll watch cool, quiet videos of a train plowing its way across snow-covered country in Switzerland to chill out, friendly low-key gaming streams to hang out in chat, long form documentaries on all kinds of cool stuff when I'm more awake, and on and on. Youtube is one of the few places left online with SOME content that's just chill and friendly.

Hopefully it comes back soon.
My pet theory is a bit similar to the article but in a more computer-architecture way. I tend to think that sleep is our brain performing "GC" our experiences, i.e. choosing what information to retain and what to discard. Since we don't have a separate circuit to do that, we basically reuse the same one (processor and its "bus") for a different purpose, by redirecting its output to /dev/null, and that's a dream. This kinda explains why we don't remember much of it because the result is meant to be discarded. There's no scientific evidence to this but it's quite fun to think this way.

edit: the GC theory also explains why we have a better memory after sleep!
I think I'd agree with most of what you said there. I would only reiterate that the expected blast radius of leaking a single plaintext email is likely to be less than that of leaking a password/session over HTTP (assuming the user is in possession of comparably sensitive information in the two scenarios).

Of course, on the modern web, the latter failure is much less likely to happen, and I accept your point that PGP encrypted email is uniquely burdened by the risks of backwards incompatibility, at least in the world of secure messaging services. It may not be a perfect comparison for me to bring up HTTPS, but I think that the incremental nature of that technological upgrade provides some helpful perspective.

Also, I appreciate your restraint about what I assume is the other subject that would be a source of disagreement. There's no need to complicate matters by introducing that extra topic, and I apologise if mentioning MTA-STS was unhelpful for that reason.
I used the small version of fb portal with my parents for a while and it was great, but I wish it would have been bigger. I’ve been thinking about buying a larger portal, but I might want to wait for this starline thing (although I have a feeling it’ll be very expensive).
Yeah, I think that's David Eagleman's idea.
So will Santa Barbara turn into Quantum Valley?
Lots of reserved identifiers in that header. In C, identifiers starting with two underscores, or an underscore and a capital letter, are reserved.

So the only safe place to use this is if you're developing a libc and/or a C compiler, or an OS including those.
If it's this many unrelated services, it might be a BGP hijack
Well, at least they take the cake when it comes to running CMS with the largest heap size?

It is also quite ironic that they paid for Zing C4, and then came up with "P90 average RPC queue time" as the metric, ignoring Gil Tene's wisdom that you should never average percentiles.

Another problematic statement is this:

> which in turn decreases request latency and increases throughput

Gil Tene wants you to measure p99.99 or pmax, so that you will pay for Zing C4 to get lower tail latency, while sacrificing some throughput. If you end up getting both lower tail latency and more throughput, then something is already very wrong with the existing setup (i.e. the full GC).
Helpful explanation. I think a lot of the trouble for me in understanding GADTs is the Haskell syntax used in a lot of examples.

My static typing experience is limited to TypeScript and Rust, so I'm curious what a GADT would look like if they were added to those languages.
Describing cryptocurrencies as a transaction layer does not describe the value. Communicating “Adam paid Bob X coins” is not hard.

What’s hard is having everyone agree on the same history of transactions. That’s what cryptocurrencies provide. There is an enormous amount of accounting and verification work that goes on within banking systems to solve the verification problem.

My argument was not that every human role has a cost that needs to be factored in, but that any human role has a high cost, and a large number of human roles require very large amounts of energy to support.

A fair bit of what you describe also can in fact be done with just smart contracts where the contract and those who sign it (the human customers) makes the decision without any middleman (without a human escrow agent).
My understanding was that an illicit fund withdrawing was possible because of a bug in the contract code (more specifically a recursive call loophole), and the community executed a hard fork to return those funds to their original owners. I’m curious as to what I’m misunderstanding here.
Better than what we have now
OCaml already does. Some good examples -

JSON GADT : https://github.com/OCamlPro/ocplib-json-typed/blob/0d9e9cde7...

Mirage/repr, uses GADT's for representing OCaml types as runtime values which are used for implementing dynamic polymorphism - https://github.com/mirage/repr/blob/main/src/repr/type.ml
That would be my amateur guess, but who knows. Way back in the day (2003 maybe?) there used to be a site called "Internet Health Report" or something similar where you could check all the interconnects between the major backbone networks when something like this happened. Sadly that's long gone, and I haven't seen anything similar since.

EDIT: This seems to be the best we've got now: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm. Lot of 0s on there ATM.
I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages
This is a lot like Winscape, from 2012.[1] That's a display hooked to a Kinect head tracking system, so, as you move, the display is adjusted for your point of view. Winscape just used it as a window to the outside world. Same concept as VR headgear, without the headgear.

The illusion only works for one viewer at a time, because the image is POV-dependent.

Google is apparently using this with a 3D TV. Can you still get those?
The main problem with doing this now is getting all the retro technology you need - a 3D TV and the good Kinect. Any good current GPU should be enough engine for this.

[1] https://youtu.be/V2hxaijuZ6w
The proofs in [Gödel 1931] are incorrect for foundational

theories because the proposition I'mUnprovable does not

exist.

It is very fortunate that I'mUnprovable does not exist

because otherwise foundational theories would be inconsistent.

See the following for an explanation:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
I see it all as "magic tricks" to varying degrees.

The "reveal" may look cool, but what they did and how much time/effort/money it took to get the result is hidden from you.
The 24-Inch M1 iMac