skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The figures for the bitcoin blockchain are public and monitored by most exchanges. They are at about 11000 transactions/hour[0] - ~3 transactions/second for the entire world.

The lightning network is a separate system for transactions denominated in bitcoin. It does nothing to modify the capacity of the bitcoin network, it creates a way to do transactions WITHOUT using the bitcoin network (except occasionally).

[0] https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
I really miss video arcades. Walking in and being accosted by the lights and sounds and darkness was a great experience. Maybe this development will make arcades a thing again. I can see this being gamified by Stern; "Play pinball in 100 venues to get a silver coin", "Play 1,000 games to win a gold coin", etc.

Back in the day (late 90's?) SNK (I think) allowed some sort of game save on a card. I also remember being able to use a code on some games (Hydro Thunder?) which gave you a profile of sorts. But I think it was limited to that single machine and not networked.
There's a ton of countries that just trusts its people to quarantine without the government checking on them.
In the Spectrum maybe it was JetPack. That I started using when I was about 8 yo. I came from a TI99/4A btw. Then at about 11 I switched from ZX Spectrum to an MS-DOS computer.
This is really great! There's an API to save images locally on most platforms, including mobile (Save To Camera Roll).

If the image gets recompressed during sharing, is it still possible to decode the website from it?

One of the problems I had when trying to build something like this in the past is that saving & sharing images was very lossy at the time. So I ended up using iCalendar and PDF attachments.
Years ago, I've made a program turning Pocketbook e-ink readers into computer monitors with some extra features: https://github.com/borzunov/remoteink

The update speed is quite good (comfortable for writing texts and browsing most websites) even when connecting via Wi-Fi.
please write me at antirez - gmail, so I can give you all the info and change the order if you want a different thing. There are the sets that are ways cheaper.
> k8s cluster exists solely to handle their monitoring and logging

Does image processing, runs our analytics, runs our Sentry, runs our gitlab-ci runners, and quite a few other things not mentioned expressly

> which would be extreme overkill

That's an interesting argument against k8s ; if anything I find it much easier to work with -- once accustomed to its idioms, ofc -- than alternatives like dedicated VMs, Docker Swarm etc

Getting HA and auto-healing for free is possible without it, of course, but does require much more work, especially if you aim for a somewhat minimised amount of statefulness (as in deviation from the template of your system)

Also S3-compatible storage backends are really aplenty, from commercial offering to simpler ones like MinIO. Ceph just happens to be a bit higher of a deployment investment with the benefit of fantastic performance, flexibility and resiliency. Somewhat like k8s itself, it's a bit daunting at first but does actually make things simpler in the long run (imo)

> 18k metrics/samples [...] are nothing

Well yes and no, the number of metrics isn't relevant per se, but its cardinality is very relevant, and managing that in a single prometheus instance will quickly require some serious vertical scaling, especially if you want to look at data on longer ranges (which, in contrary to logs, we are interested in)

> 7k logs per second [...] are nothing

That's an interesting take . Surely this isn't a world-record-shattering amount indeed, but no one seems to have such a great non-SaaS-or-cheap solution to storing, sorting and querying this amount of logs either (at the resource efficiency of Loki anyway), so maybe we just have a different set of expectations for log management

> If you don't like a pull-based architecture [...] why use one at all!? There are many more push-based setups out there that are simpler to set up and less complex.

Are there really?
That is non-SaaS and with as widespread 3rd-party software support as Prometheus does? ie great integration with essentially any database, webserver, runtime, OS, etc?

Because if we talk only about node metrics like CPU etc then yeah, sure there are plenty of options. But (maybe not so) obviously the diagram showing only node exporter doesn't mean that this is the only integration we use -- we collect prometheus metrics for MySQL, PHP-FPM, Varnish, Nginx, HAProxy, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ etc (essentially every single piece of software we use).

Fwiw I found very little in the way of open-source solutions to that problem that ticked as many boxes as Prometheus.

As for "simpler to set up and less complex", both Cortex and Loki would be really annoying to manage outside of Kubernetes, I'll happily give you that.
But... being able to easily deploy and manage such systems once you have Kubernetes is precisely one of the reasons to use it. You can't say it's complex to deploy itself but then ignore the fact that it largely outweighs this by making reliable operation of complex-but-powerful software on top it, that is precisely one of the upsides of using it in the first place :)
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Does it use the click on the pill as intent to then maximise the video (iOS safari experience)
> makes you oblivious to suffering, incidentally including your own

Sounds like the definition of alcohol from "The Devil's Dictionary"!
Yeah, it's funny how he actually ended up as a "ray smith" for a living. And even the "Alvy" part means something graphics related in some obscure language iirc. He wrote about that on his homepage, but I can't find it now - his homepage (at http://alvyray.com) is a bit... special.
Apparently the earlier builds used an actual database alongside the filesystem but it was hard to keep them consistent with each other so they altered it.
People that are in the web since forever and understand how it works and complain about JS are the weirdest form of tech ludites there are. Such a weird line in the sand.
I get the sense that implementation efficiency was considered as part of the spec: if it wasn’t efficient, vendors with existing FP hardware would have less incentive to switch. Allowing operations to happen via simple bit twiddling (in software or hardware) would be part of that.
Browser without extensions is like bike without wheels.
All those ads and javascripts...
They are deliberately lying. You can see on their Twitter feed where people have made the same argument to them, which they ignore.
> "capital is not in theory at risk. So it's more like a savings account than an investment account."

But I guess if you want to offer a "savings account" then you need to be a licensed bank and meet all the requirements and regulations that come with that?
He wrote the book, "A Biography of the Pixel" [1], which should be an interesting read and is mentioned in the article.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/biography-pixel
That isn't always true, for longer wavelength in particular it's very feasible to use many smaller telescopes with interferometry to reach effective aperture sizes we could never reach with a single telescope.

However in regards to JWT I expect that a lot of its missions will collect miniscule amounts of light, making interferometry infeasible.
I would hesitate to put all of computer engineering into the same bucket.

Continuing the analogy, Some mechanical engineers were better at learning from their exploded boilers than others were.

A few (many?) of us in the industry have been quietly watching and learning from the explosions occurring across the street. About once a week you find some wreckage strewn across the way and you find familiar stories in the tangled mess - "Too much webscale", "didnt care about the business", "meme language crippled productivity", etc. Usually doesn't take a forensic mastermind to determine why a software product exploded - at least in strategic terms.

> Does this mean we need more stringent regulatory and certification regimes for IT and computer security?

No. We do not need any more arbitrary regulatory & certification processes in our lives. If you have a specific business application that requires additional scrutiny (i.e. nuclear reactor scram control system), then the appropriate domain-specific regulations & certifications should be applied. It makes absolutely no sense to impose these constraints upon the field at large.
The new metrics for server performance is "unique buzzwords per paragraph". If you don't write a 4 page blog post with at least 4-5 ubpp then it is shit.
When a startup says anything, you should hear "we plan to use this to get hella rich".

There is no such thing as a startup with altruistic intent.
> For development, we had a ?queries=1 query parameter you could add to the URL to show the number of SQL queries and their total time at the bottom of the page. Very helpful when trying to optimize this stuff. "Why is this page doing 350 queries totalling 5 seconds? Oops, I must have an N+1 query issue!"

I'm so glad Symfony (PHP framework) has a built-in profiler and analysis tooling there...
>This talk about "Draconian" lockdown in Australia needs to stop.

I haven't been following the lockdown laws interstate, but here in Victoria there have definitely been some restrictions that seemed to be extremely harsh and soul-crushing in comparison to their effectiveness at stopping the virus.

The 5km radius and curfew both spring to mind. I (legally) haven't been able to see a single friend or family member for almost 2 months now, even if socially distanced, wearing a mask, vaccinated and outdoors. They're all outside my 5km.

Yet at the same time a 10 year old kid can go into Woolies with 200 other people and not even need to wear a mask.
Big corporations already been doing this to a certain extent with China - it's amazing how gay characters just vanish from works like movies they want to sell there.
It's android. Are you disabling the "Whiten Apps Background" optimization? It's on by default and it makes it harder to use apps I find because controls and buttons end up hidden. Turn it off and it's fine.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622
Thank you. And yes, it's incredible the morally bankrupt things you see under color of law if you try getting into that business. Side story, I was once invited to be a guest of the now deposed dictator of Ghana when I casually floated to his lawyer who I met in a casino in Prague the idea of making them the next offshore gambling capital of the world. I did a little research on the country and then respectfully declined. In my view, I never broke a law or did anything immoral (since I was extremely transparent about the odds of every game and I made sure to only take adults from countries where gaming online was legal... who wanted to play, and knew the rules). And not conflating morality with legality -- while respectfully considering both -- is just a precondition to being an individual in a complicated world.
exercise for the reader: the shortest program / keystrokes that would convert:

"democratize X" -> "capitalize on X hype"

NB: the challenge is that X can be any important sounding combination of words
Governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media
geohotz had interesting perspective that Apple car might have hard time reaching mass luxury market that they are know of. I think they might go for AR instead.
I doubt most of the money comes from ad revenues. More likely, they get more cash from invisible PR campaigns, it's the same goal as ads, but more efficient since imgur user base think the content they see is 100% organic. And so probably sells for a lot more to bigger players.
Video conferencing already does massive audio compression (>2x speedup) to compensate for temporarily dropped connections. 30.5s of audio delivered over 30s isn't noticeable if you keep the frequencies the same, which is more than adequate for multiple people watching a movie together.
The "biased" exponent has a constant 127 added to it, so for example if the bits are 00000000 the exponent is actually 0-127=-127, if the bits are 10000111 the exponent is 135-127=8, and so forth.
> There's no cosmic significance to ten or ten million.

Cosmic? No. But social? For sure. 99.99% of math the layman will encounter is in base 10.
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They could always do that: once they have a warrant, they can search your house and pretend to find physical evidences in it.
> the capital is not in theory at risk.

"In theory", and in practice, all investments are at risk.

How anyone can look at this gimcrack investment and think it's riskless is beyond me.

If Bitcoin were to drop to 1000 - and given it has no fundamentals and offers no actual services beyond a very volatile value store, why not? - then all of these companies would collapse like a house of cards and all these savings accounts would be worthless.

> So it's more like a savings account than an investment account.

If you recall, plenty of people lost everything they had in their savings account in bank crashes before FDIC insurance existed.
To be fair the lawyers are mad at us engineers for automating away many of their jobs. I think they’re jealous their profession isn’t top tier anymore.
Being an ex-googler still a thing nowadays ?
Combine public domain growth with Sturgeon’s Law, and you need 10x lifetimes of material in order to have a full lifetime’s worth of good material. Increase that to 100x to have a full lifetime’s worth of great material.

Working against this is the “sliding window” effect of older materials becoming less relevant to modern audiences, and hence “less good”.

Counter this with longer cultural continuity that turns the sliding window into a stretching window.
> The maximum price in OUCH 4.2 is $199,999.9900

For NASDAQ it seems to have been something around 430k / share... Buffett's BRK shares threatened to hit that limit a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044044
I’m going to assume they meant compute from now on as the body heat thing is too annoying
Americans like to say that they are "free" but there are so many religious crazies.

Ultimately I can't live in a country where people are religious so that leaves only North Europe and the Netherlands is the most antichrist of them all.
Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
Treading carefully because a sibling comment has already been banned, but I'm reminded of the QAnon-as-ARG view:

https://mssv.net/2020/08/02/what-args-can-teach-us-about-qan...

https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...

It contains many of the familiar "satanic panic" elements such as wild allegations of child abuse.
It’s quarantine as a service. The Stripe of quarantine, if you will.
Looks like it does work, but it takes a lot longer to load the first piece of music compared to the PushPlay.html version.
How is it weird? You literally go from

> viewing text/parsing XML

to

> allowing remote sites to execute code on your machine, immediately when you load a site.

That's quite a big jump, regardless of all the browser sandboxing.
Featureflag.com :)
My guess is you didn't read there are three options. In most countries of the world (including mine) you get only two options, yet in Australia three. Two of them being free of cost: at home with human checks, or at home with app checks. Please take down your costs strawman, it's not helping the debate.
> This has all its place on hacker news because it is a fun hack, but it's not at all practical.

No shit.
Indeed, there are countries that have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people with their policies. But I can't think of a country off the top of my head that has applied laissez-faire Covid controls but also recorded very low numbers of deaths.
You’d be amazed at how cheap it is. You can usually get an MP to do your bidding or say your piece in Parliament for a donation of £10k or less. I’ve never heard of anyone paying more.
> Honestly, I almost prefer to start with a blank slate these days

This is about Technical Support training (not programming) and is from my recent experience.

When I was running a small customer service team on a Linux based product, and needed new staff, I thought that the best idea was to get people who had 'significant' experience in Linux.

That was until I discovered (from a bad hire) that people lied about their experience (resumes) and motivation (interview).
This was an older guy - he wasn't motivated at all and treated me like a babysitter..
It wasn't about his age - he was just useless - and he had managed to fool me.
That hire was my fault..

And although I utterly hate ageism (being 50+), I was turned off by this experience..

The next two I hired were younger guys (sorry ladies, no resumes submitted).
Those two (somehow??) took to my particular style of training really well - and were able to take over all but the most advanced cases after 3-6 months of training on a bespoke php application.
- one loved all the SQL I could throw at him
- another loved getting deep into networking issues and how to solve them

Between us we were able to work through a ~200+ case backlog down to 0 by the time I left the company.

I am very proud of what these two guys put into their work (bash/shell/vi remote primary tools - all mostly alien to them to start with).

Not sure that I could do the same with training a programming role..

Staff (personal) motivation is the key I think..
Although we are conducting a perverted form of nature, there is nothing wrong with eating animals. The problem is the poor treatment of the animals and eating too much meat in general.

When you abuse animals for nothing then you are basically killing for sport.
"Those who would give up ..." oh forget it, old-fashioned ideas
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Thanks, this is fascinating. Would you be up for a quick chat? If you're interested, please drop me a line at rick@cogram.ai
I'd argue McCarthyism ended not because the US has "progressed" socially, but because the US had won the Cold War and there has not been a "worthy adversary" for the US until the rise of China.

I wouldn't be surprised if the US start to make the life of China sympathizers difficult in near future if China becomes more competitive.
You do realize those people you call weird mainly refuse to enable js by default because of the amount of tracking it imposes right? Not to mention those “designed” articles (the verge style) that load like 3 megs at least of a god awful amount of crappy slider libraries and crappy stuff?

This is such a basic thing to refuse that what’s actually weird is that you find it weird.
And yet government agents shooting unsuspecting non-criminals in their own home, after mistaking the address or responding to a malicious fake emergency call, is a line that is only crossed in the country with the Second Amendment.
It's also on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LADLv1803Vw

The same actors previously played in a series about an RPG world. The video is hilarious while technically not a parody: it was enough for them to stick to the plot.
I'm in Western Australia. I'm delighted with prevention of interstate Covid. The freedom to do whatever you want is pretty enjoyable to be honest, and not worrying that family members will die of Covid is even better.
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Well, I assumed it would work because it makes sense that we don't want to impose different build interfaces to people who are just users and want to try out code. To the user, it shouldn't matter what language/tools were used to develop the software.

This gets worse when software depends on other software which may be built using yet different tools. Chasing dependency chains is already painful as it stands.
I never had issue with 2nd one it was pretty good when I watched it in cinema.

Anyhow I have rewatched all 3 a month ago. I was surprised how good 3rd one actually is. Now I am of opinion that all 3 are good.

Don't know what it is, probably I watching it through the prism of philosophical questions, the free will and whatnot. And also lore of the world. There are many details and hints in dialogues that you might missed, but explain quite a bit.

That said, nobody asked for Matrix 4, self contained story + neo and trinity dead. I am very sceptical about it. Ill watch it only if reviews are ok.
Every election in Latvia if you check the Russian oriented ballots you will find some familiar last names in unexpected fringe parties.

Unused ballots are good for bathroom reading :)

When I say fringe these parties get less than 1% and are rarely in the news. So the tactic is not working.

Here is just one example from 2010 elections.
https://www.cvk.lv/cgi-bin/wdbcgiw/base/komisijas2010.CVKAND...

Obviously that guy is not the Russian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Galkin

It would be an interesting analysis to see if notable names appear more often as candidates and do they draw more plus(FOR) signs than regular candidates.
Haha, I see this even on some people's dating profiles
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> In this context, his job is to assess the legality of it before they create the product.

No, in this cass (that is, the case of the article under discussion) his job is to act as a PR representative of the company in the course of action it has chosen which is leading to imminent legal conflict with the SEC.

It’s true that he also had the job you discuss, but this article isn't the output of that job; that would be found in confidential internal advisory memos to the board and other executives.
Thank you for the reply.
It's not at all MLM or a pyramid scheme with levels.
This is kind of bringing the online affiliate marketing into the local grocery stores.

We believe, faster deliveries and higher discounts are the future of retail. And with our solution, we help our customers to get that.

We do this by creating dark stores between 10 kilometers, so that we can deliver every order in less than 30 minutes, by optimizing the operations inside the ware house. That, also increases our purchase power, so we can provide more discounts to the customers.

Also the inbuilt invitation system help customers to get up to 100% discount. It's like the normal invite in every grocery delivery solutions like instacart (nothing grey here).
But the difference is they only provide you the incentive just one time. But through us you get the incentive whenever your referral buys through us.

Innovations not just happens in the tech side, but also in the operation side of businesses too.
If you chose to flat out disable JS in 2021 (by all means, go for it), understand that you are the Amish of the Internet -- so, please, behave like the Amish of the Internet. Be cool with the consequences of your deliberate choice. Do not expect other people to work around you or, worse, resent them for not doing so.

This is not to say that JS isn't being abused a lot -- but then again, it's soft tech, it's the internet and the abuse comes at little cost (compared to most industries). I always thought it's a huge part of what makes it fun and speeds all progress along like crazy.
Great job, congratulations!

I just played around with it and it's a really fun way to develop endpoints. I probably never had that fast of a feedback loop.

Working in the browser and using the browser's dev tools is also enjoyable. Maybe it's just me but if I have to juggle to many open windows I get confused and lost easily, so that's not an issue here.

What are your future plans with it?