skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno. The cost of mining approaches market price. The hypothesis is: will the inverse be true?
You put more effort into this comment than in the article
It seems more likely that the brain has some kind of retention filter on dreams to try to sort the random useless signals from, for example when you deduce the structure of the benzene molecule. Probably all humans dream every night, unless there's some major issue with sleep, but only dreams passing the filter are remembered. Those on the threshold are "remembered as existing" but not the content.
What Happened to Xip.io?
Besides the recent fallout and drama at Basecamp (aka 37signals), anyone hear any official word on what is going on with the xip.io wildcard dns resolver?

Anyone know of a good alternatives? (yes, it's for rails development)
AIB partners are selling a significant number of GPUs directly to miners, bypassing the distribution chain, without warranty, at about 30% higher prices than the distributors pay.

So just FYI this largely comes down to your vendor making a decision that they'd rather sell a card to a miner than service your warranty request. They have cards, just not for you.

https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-gpu-miners-are-now-bulk-...

> We have heard many stories where miners in China are queuing up to NVIDIA board partner factories in hopes to buy graphics cards in bulk. Some AIBs agree to sell cards directly to them because those clients pay more (usually 1/3 more than any distributor) and they get limited or no warranty at all.
This doesn’t come off as an honest inquiry.
Sorry, I should've clarified my thinking. Mostly I'm concerned with things like waste from fracking, water misuse or pollution, and soil depletion.

On the government side it amazes me we can't get / keep lead, mercury, and other toxins out of land and resources we collectively own. Dilution also looks like a very expensive and increasingly ineffective answer to the pollution problem.
Companies are allowed to provide dangerous products. It's just that they can't do so without warning people and (potentially) without changing designs or taking other measures to protect people from the harm, unless the danger is already common knowledge.
I'll take all the laughs I can get! No smarm intended.
"It doesn’t solve the N+1 queries problem in a generic way."

IMHO, this isn't trying to solve people looping queries. The fastest way to solve this is to not loop queries.

This solves auto-sharding (well vitness did). See slack architects comment below.
Any OS X users work professionally in C#? What tools do you use?
Currently that Wikipedia page has an inexplicable (hillarious?) image of a bush turkey on it, can't really see the connection.. but didn't try to find out how it got there either.
"Hard tech" often only matures after several hype cycles. Sometimes cool tech demos can be produced a century or more beforehand. If you were in the 1980s and people were talking about video calls being the next big thing, you might point out that people have been working on video calls since the 1930s[0], and it hasn't caught on in every one of the hype cycles that have followed, so that's an indication that it won't catch on in the future. Video calls have caught on now though - especially as they've reached mobile devices instead of requiring a literal booth in your house, as with AT&T's initial "Picturephone" tech in the 70s.

I will say though that people tend to assume that each new technology will replace the preceding technology (text->audio->video->VR/light-field->...), but in fact it tends to end up just supplementing the existing tech.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony
Sure - but none of this implies that changes are required to math education itself, or that there is anything racist about how math is taught. It just means missing resources should be provided.
Has there been any further detail on what about social media is linked to depression?

For instance, with Facebook, is it more because of the ads?

Or is it more because of the engagement algorithms?

Or, would it happen even if Facebook were just a reverse-chronological feed, populated only by your chosen friends, with zero advertising?
Working through her toolchain, step by step, looks like it might be a gentle way for me to finally wean myself off the Arduino platform.
> it's really reassuring that it is possible to do something like this in "solo" mode

I'm very new to the hardware world but sometimes it feels like you need a big team to do it.

Great product!

> We hear a tone of people doing it in the SaaS work, but not so much in hardware - if anybody here knows other similar examples, I'd love to hear about it!

Also would love to hear!
I'm not really sure what you're arguing here. If you're trying to claim that piracy has no value proposition, then you're missing a market of people who maintain these torrents/sites with the hopes of archiving them for the future.

> Nintendo's anti-piracy efforts are so incredibly misguided - the hardware is the majority cost expenditure for most users and you've already collected that cost so why not try and make your platform not annoying.

Because they don't make money on the Switch. In fact, in the first few months of selling it, they were losing about $30 on every unit sold because of how expensive shipping was. Even today, the Switch runs a pretty thin profit margin, if any. Same goes for the PS5 and Xbox Series X, which gives you a pretty good idea of why these companies are so keen to keep an iron grip on software distribution.
I would love to see you use Jitsi and contribute back, where possible.

Also, if you move on for reasons that aren't bike-shedding then I'd love to know what the architectural/technical reasoning is.
Have a URL?
It's not like the government and its numberless agencies care about warrants when it comes to violating people's digital privacy. They just take whatever they want and ask questions later. Cryptography is essentially digital self-defense and is absolutely necessary.

If the authorities want data they should have to physically seize the device containing it and hope it's not encrypted.
Don't underestimate how much lay consumers value colors and personalization.
The closest actual maps of the Internet I know of are the ones from CAIDA: https://www.caida.org/projects/cartography/as-core/2020/

Link to PNG file: https://www.caida.org/projects/cartography/as-core/pics/2020...
Does anyone else get ANNOYED by the UI of Mozilla's blog on mobile?

Looking at the navbar, the horizontal and vertical alignment is all over the place, the search input has no placeholder or label, background colors are inconsistent, and paddings are just bizarre.
This is 100% the argument that pro-encryption people should be making everywhere.

Think of the children. Encrypt their data!
12+ years of massive scale production use for Vitess and 26+ years of hardening for MySQL and InnoDB. PlanetScale adds some (imho) great features on top of that, but it's standing on the shoulders of giants that have proven themselves over and over.

... Also, I guess it's MySQL-compatible rather than Postgres-compatible? :)
Salesforce and JIRA both did something similar: their underlying database schema is very generic, basically keys and values, allowing arbitrary logical schemas to be defined at runtime. Yet in both cases, they ended up not really taking advantage of this flexibility. The logical schema of both systems is a very ordinary relational schema that could have been implemented directly on the database, with much better performance. I wonder if the Notion developers made a serious attempt to build on top of a more conventional structured schema, and found it really was unworkable?
In a PoW chain, Vitalik Buterin can talk, propose, and make patches to an Etherum client, but it means nothing unless miners approve the changes by running the updated client. He is the most important voice in that coin's ecosystem, but miners are the ones who decided to approve the fork.

Switching consensus to a different set of rules is entirely within the scope of a PoW system, and it's based on the same mechanism that gives legitimacy to the rest of the blockchain. The original Bitcoin paper explains this perfectly, so I won't replicate it here.
I guess not even all the exaflops in the world can detect typos.
Should procreation be curbed to combat child abuse?
Great point on embedded dependencies - In theory they can be a time saver, but in Rust land, they're often too.. abstract, and full of missing features and bugs. Easier to open the datasheets, and send a few bytes down the SPI/I2C etc lines. I haven't been able to use any deps without forking. In Rust, popular abstractions tend to get in the way too, ie if a rust peripheral struct is trying to own a shared bus.

Another good point, re HALs. She skipped the official HAL after finding it to be too much trouble. I've found that a good peripheral access library generated from SVD files is all you need, and is easier to work with than a HAL that's not carefully made. Ie an API that provides named register blocks, registers, and fields, and knows how many bits go in each, which you can read from etc. (Is this what the CMSIS lib she mentioned is?)

Related to the last point: "I write very small, usually project-specific, abstractions over that" - If you decide a popular or official HAL isn't helping you, you end up writing your own HAL!

> I've chosen to avoid using the Node.js ecosystem in favor of just plain JavaScript

Also a choice I agree with.
> Or, would it happen even if Facebook were just a reverse-chronological feed, populated only by your chosen friends, with zero advertising?

We never heard about RSS feed readers causing depression, except when Google cancelled the most popular one.

It's possible that having all of your friendship interactions being quietly censored and reorganized to financially benefit a giant multinational is actually the depressing thing.

Delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts. If you think these systems are bad (and you're right if you do), stop donating content to them to make them more attractive to your friends and family. It's rude and antisocial to push your loved ones toward these abusive systems.
Too little, too late. Cardano (ADA) is going to beat them to it and eat their lunch.
Many of them can work for someone else, but it would be incredibly difficult. Imagine being founding engineer at a small startup that fails, then joining a large company and having to deal with tons of bureaucracy, slow processes, and red tape. Sure, you can "do" it. You can do the work. You can follow the processes. The money is nice. But it's frustrating.
> network traffic is single threaded in the kernel

Hmm. It definitely was not years ago. Perhaps something to do with a specific NIC driver? Or perhaps Cutler retired?
Build a Firewall on iOS
Did cryptocurrency acolytes ever promise their messiah was "unhackable?" I don't recall such a promise. The premise was about changing the locus of control, away from banks and governments and toward the general public. Obviously it can still be stolen, like anything that can be owned, but "hacking" implies exploiting the system itself rather than stealing via social engineering.

As other commenters have said though, this is just reporting on the 51% attack again, in what reads like a lazy hitpiece. And this from a crypto critic: I think distributed currencies and public ledgers are a great idea that may evolve into something workable eventually, but they're clearly not there yet, and Bitcoin especially has no future beyond speculation. Even so, let's stick to real criticisms rather than this lazy nonsense.
I can't tell if you are disagreeing with me. Everything you said is what was implied by what I wrote.
>I just don't understand the hate around concert photos/videos.

A quick snap and the phone going back to your pocket, sure.

Photos/videos with hands help up to shoot throughtout whole concert/or several songs? For these, the hate is easily understand.

(a) Watch the fucking concert you're present at - don't be a subpar cameraman for it.

(b) Don't obstruct the others' view.

(c) Most likely you ain't gonna watch it again anyway. You barely watched it when it was actually live in front of you (instead you were concerned with taking video).

(d) There are video/photo pros in the concert + at least 100 other regular fans who will post their photos/videos anyway. Why exactly do you need yours? Because 20+ rows back from the stage is such a great position to be filming in the dark with a mobile phone that it shouldn't be mished?

>If I'm on stage and everyone's pulling out their phones to record at a certain moment, that's when I know I'm making magic and we're all sharing it. People are appreciating it so much it's worth saving.

OTOH, it tells me people don't care for the show, they just want to post that they were there too.

Absolutely reverant held silence or heavy dancing / headbanging (depending on the genre) are the things that would make me actually feel like people actually feel they're listening to magic.
> > "Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?" -Jeff Bezos

> I struggle to square what Bezos is saying with what Amazon has become. He is clearly incredibly clever but appears devoid of any kindness toward his low level employees.

That seems perfectly consistent - he chose option A.
The switch contains a lot of hardware fuses, with an instruction to blow one.

IIRC it's used (among other things) to set a minimum firmware revision - after upgrading to a new (signed) firmware it blows a fuse so you can no longer run an older signed firmware, which stops you rolling back to when a vulnerability still existed.
1. I think it depends on what you put in «time sink».

Some MMOs can be a real slog to level throug and you would loose interest quickly, but removing the concept entirely would take away from the sense of progression, maby you could move most of the progression to be server / community based? Something akin to what Ashes of Creation promises?

I remember Peter Molyneux`s game «Curiosity»[0]. It was sort of an MMO, where the entire point was to collectively tap away to «mine» chunks to reveal what was inside. In the end only one person would mine the last chunk and actually get the «price»
This «MMO» was all grind / time sink and people went crazy about it. (Or maby it was just the lottery ticket feeling of «It might be me that mines the last chunk!».)

2. This is a really interesting problem, and I am a bit suprised I haven`t heard more people talk about it.

It would be interesting to see some kind of integration with crypto currencies or smart contracts, but I do find it a bit scary to link real world economics and game economics so clearly, even thoug it already has happened(Sometimes intentionally as well).

Just look at the what happened with Venezuela and RuneScape last year. [1]

Now, on a slightly unrelated note, I am not sure an MMO in the traditional sense ever could be the «WOW killer» so many have been waiting for,

Not because I don`t think a tradtional MMO could beat WOW, but that i think the next «big thing» would be more of a platform than a singular game,

think; Mastodon meets Oasis from Ready Player One.

A decentralized community driven social playground.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity:_What%27s_Inside_the...
[1] https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/5/27/21265613/runescap...
> As many know, over the years we've experimented with how to let users locate and curate sets of users and rooms in Matrix. Back in Nov 2017 we added 'groups' (aka 'communities') as a custom mechanism for this - introducing identifiers beginning with a + symbol to represent sets of rooms and users, like +matrix:matrix.org.

We already have a universal notation for identifying resources on the Web. Why not use that?
> Yeah, I honestly hate how much Zoom has won

Zoom has won in the sense that MySpace had won, or perhaps in the sense that Facebook has won.

This too shall pass.
Alcohol labels don't warn people about increased odds of colorectal, liver, or esophageal cancer....at least any of the labels I've read. All they say is don't operate machinery and don't drink it while pregnant.
Alternative narrative: Online services are a winner take all market, so early players who survived the dot com crash due to great product leveraged that to gain monopoly share. Without government intervention they will dominate these markets to the detriment of the consumer (and the abuse of their data/privacy)
and business kickbacks and shared drinks at the hotel bar
no, the question doesn't even make sense, these governments are nazis
No, the parent is just making a standard ad-hominem which adds no value to discussion of the content.
Can you import glasses? Or, say, receive a box that someone accidentally dropped a pair of glasses into, along with the item you ordered?
I wrote a C Ruby binding for a database a long time ago and found it incredibly easy and intuitive to program. I wish I had this manual back then but admittedly, referencing other existing C Ruby bindings got me through it. Definitely a notable improvement in performance.
Nerdiness is an expression of trauma. Pain in our lives leads us to recede into areas of interest. These can be things that "fix" us or things that we are naturally good at or become good at. Its all therapy to feel better about ourselves. Everyone has trauma and everyone is a nerd in some area. Aggression is projection. When lashing out we chose areas of safety from which to do it. Thus people who have been hurt chose to be aggressive in their areas of expertise. Boom fierce nerds.
Though there is room for fierceness as an engine for motivation, generally kindness/understanding over bluntness/abrasiveness is the way to go for meaningful long term impact. There’s a reason, for example, why Sundar Pichai became CEO instead of anyone else. This is also an argument against Paul’s proclamation of “fierce” leaders being required for successful businesses.

Overall though, I agree with the general sentiment of the post. The end paragraph was a nice touch:

> There has never been a better time to be a nerd. In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent — and I don't see anything on the horizon that will end it. At least not till the nerds end it themselves by bringing about the singularity.
Google showed off its next-gen AI by talking to Pluto and a paper airplane
My father-in-law has run into exactly this problem - documents he started working on in an earlier version of Word with Adobe Caslon are now no longer editable or printable because the new Caslon doesn't have the private codepage ligatures that he used. He's working on transcribing original prints from more than 100 years ago which used ligatures throughout.

It's very frustrating to have to go back and fix things that were done the correct idiomatic way at the time.
...because it's a different protocol with different needs that are satisfied by its own notation?

Edit: Just read Arathorn's comment above, very cool - I hadn't seen that one before.
Unfortunately, I don’t think this move will compact the overall size of my local Adobe Acrobat installation...which currently stands at 12GB.
Connecticut tells controversial info to health care workers about Covid vaccines [pdf]
Connecticut tells controversial info health care workers about covid vaccines
Whether it's a single company (or product) or multiple is beside the point. If a technology is only available to (say) 1% of the population, I don't think that qualifies as being widely available.

I will also note that my original comment was in response to someone who is "more interested in tech for the other 95%".
Or a spaced hyphen ( - ), if you want to stick with ASCII/keyboard characters.

> there's one other person - a production assistant - and two cats.
Why isn't the meme the other way around? Because male virginity is stigmatized. Even within the scope of the meme.
> end-to-end encryption is crucial for protecting children.

A brazenly shameless plug for something that I'm trying to build to do exactly that:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cvwright/circles-a-secu...
I lead the Windows TCP team. We blogged about recent TCP advancements which is very relevant: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/algor...
Wait what? DeFi pretty much started booming from last summer.. it hasn't existed for a decade. Do you not know Uniswap? It's existed since around 2017. Sushiswap? even Pancakeswap?

There's $80 billion locked in DeFi right now. https://defipulse.com/

Uniswap has more transaction fees than the Bitcoin network https://cryptofees.info/history/2021-05-16

Institutions are even starting to get in
https://twitter.com/stanikulechov/status/1394390461968633859
I was exactly the same, a lot of reading about sleep and strict sleep hygiene fixed it. There are lots you can do but briefly just go out for a jog when you wake up. You need the exposure to blue light to help set your circadian rhythm. The exercise increases body temp which helps bring forward your circadian rhythm.
Basically your habits are probably shifting your circadian rhythm back 30min a day, and if not you can have habits which bring forward your circadian rythm
The state won't blanket ban encryption because it's useful to the operation of companies. The way I see it going down is by asking these questions:

Who will have access to encryption (the privilege of security)?

and

Who gets to decide who has access to encryption?

The state can take away voting rights, gun rights, right to movement, right to serve on a jury, right to public benefits, and the right to parental benefits. Why shouldn't the state also assume it has the ability to decide who has access to the right of security through encryption? If actual momentum builds toward reducing encryption access, expect to see ex-felons being forbade security. Who will object?
At Atlassian, they built a Portal inspired portal that connects the Sydney and SF office during one hackathon. Basically a camera behind a 2way mirror (and decorated with blue/orange LEDs in an oval frame). Tonari looks a lot more like that than Starline.
Nope you can directly use Bitcoin Cash with subcent transaction fees without any other layers. A place near me sells Kava for BCH (supposedly, I have not been to a bar in a loooonnnnggg time).
I hope this is more successful than the last attempt (3060 Ti) where the "crippling" was just software and it was quickly circumvented, partly through NVidia's own screw up (they released a beta driver that didn't have that limitation).

It's almost impossible to buy a GPU now. Anywhere you can occasionally buy them is heavily botted. Some sellers try and mitigate this eg Zotac has a queue system of questionable effect. Others do absolutely nothing (eg Amazon).

You might say that's just supply and demand but it's not in NVidia's long term interest for crypto-miners to buy every GPU. Why? It kills the market for ML and gaming.

What happens is as soon as the crypto market next crashes, those GPUs get offloaded and flood the market.

I absolutely support NVidia in this, for several reasons. First, I'd actually like to buy a GPU for personal use. Second, there are real ethical questions around crypto, especially PoW. That will offend some people but it's true. Apologists will point to most crypto-mining using renewable energy. Yes, because hydro is the cheapest power. But all the hydro power use can actually limit the power and/or make it more expensive for everyone else.

Wouldn't it be funny if crypto-mining is the solution to the Fermi Paradox where civilizations ultimately ended up cooking themselves in crypto-mining waste heat?
Strong ARMing with macOS: Adventures in Cross-Platform Emulation
It was a media sensation because it was Tesla doing it, not because of what was being done.

Tesla and Musk are attention-sponges and it's a large part of how they're still operating.
Venture Company Exit Options
>Give it another 2-5 years for implementations and integrations.

This is what I heard when Lightning went live.