skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the hardware still working when it is discarded?

If it is only discarded because there is new hardware with a better calculations/energy ratio then it would be better to use a new POW algorithm, which does not benefit from single purpose ASICs.

Or are processors and memory broken beyond repair when they have been running at max speed for a few years?
A lot disparage this career for "you sit in front of a computer all day" but fail to realize that this is the way a lot of other work has gone towards.
Wasm is good for a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. Go is notorious for generating enormous wasm binaries, and, sure enough, the wasm blob for this page weighs in at 14MB.

I don't know how somebody keeps a straight face clainming their 14 meg page is SEO-friendly.
1) Native Bi temporal capabilities without hurting (too much) performance.

2) Distributed DB, like Spanner and CRDB.

3) Real time analysis of performance and then adapt the DB config accordingly, without requiring HUMAM intervention.

4) Multiple (joint?) storage types per table (Memory, Columnar or Rows, for example);

5) Native support for Copy On Write replicas (useful for ephemeral environments, Stage and development)

6) Serverless capabilities
and there is probably more censorship on HN (percentage-wise)
Even more amazing is that some people inject Botox into camels to make them look better… https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42802901
How about this.
May be this is a bad idea too.
Can we have like WSL3, where highly optimised Linux kernel runs on hypervisor. And Ubuntu/arch share the kernel using containerised approach.
And individual apps too can run using the same workflow?
That way we have benefits wrt overhead.
Something like electron but they all use the same ringtone instead of a new instance.
Again it may be a bad idea, just curious of the benefits.
Knowing myself as I do, I would stop working after the first couple of pay checks.
Interested in your thoughts on what would help? From your point of view?
As a user for many years, I can confirm it indeed is a nice product. They did however have minor downtimes compared to my previous CloudFront experience, but there are no charges for HTTP requests with Bunny, so it saves a substantial amount from the bill.
Plinko – A Fluent State Machine for Go
I'm not surprised by that but that's just private exploitation. I mean the industries that have grown like a cancer on state and federal government. They have found it is very profitable to medicalize, sexualize, indoctrinate, and otherwise commercialize children. The only thing standing in the way are those pesky parents who want to protect them. The obvious strategy is to use their power to promote laws that give the state more authority over children or to give impressionable children more autonomy from their parents. The state acting in loco parentis implements the marketplace these industries profit within.

To get back to your example, there is a disturbing overrepresentation if pedophiles aiding and abetting this process. I guess they are opportunistic and see only benefits for themselves.
They work just fine on iOS. Stadia does PWA as well.
I'm sorry but my brain will only let me read that as "Piece of Shit coins"
To be fair, I'd say those are "things this job doesn't provide" vs just harm.

Some people get their daily dose of excercise, social interaction and dopamine hits from their work. In our field, we don't, so we need to find complementary activities for that.
It wasn't just sanctions in that case, but also boycotts and divestment (via shareholder activism). Which is why Israel is so keen to get US state legislatures to ban speech in favor of the BDS movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
That loses the good of being their friend with the bad. On facebook I only have people I know personally, and so I want to see their family pictures.
Ben and Dan (MC) have publically turned down offers that would make them each actual billionaires (cash not stock)
Why is the picture of the linked article reminding me of this scene

[1] http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/...

from [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138 ?
Semantics and the Web: An Awkward History
I completely dislike his tone but I like these three words he wrote "Perception is reality".

Bank accounts, bonds, stocks, crypto are all in the perception category. The first three try to model a real world process but they are not the real world. The latter is perceived to be outside the bounds of the real world.

In fact, people try to abuse flaws in the simulation (the model). The real world decays but money does not. So during a recession people flood into the security of money, that money is supposed to be the perception of the real world, people are flooding into a perception of security that doesn't exist. Strangely enough, the real world keeps getting worse but its perception keeps getting better.
Also, camels are very smart, and bad-tempered: https://wiki.lspace.org/You_Bastard
> people falling prey to snake oil salesman and downright harmful products in the marketplace.

Just have institutions enforce labelling rather than banning.

If COVID vids had big banners put underneath them saying "disputed"/"unproven"/"speculative"/"known false"/"likely false" I'd be happy (as long as it includes a link to what standards they are using). Similarly, the FDA should be able to enforce accurate labelling stating what level of verification a treatment has had, not be able to ban it.

If people still want to buy the snake oil (maybe they like how it feels on their skin?) let them!
Google pulled out in 2010, of course their market share declined.
One bullet point says:
"On average Bitcoin generates 272 g of e-waste per transaction processed on the blockchain."

So transactions on exchanges are less wasteful?

A deposit from wallet to exchange generates the same pollution?

Or is it "only" mined transactions? Does the transaction size matter?
May i suggest trying it in a VM? Then you could check if all 32 channels actually record, latency can be disregarded in this case i think. Second idea would be buying another SSD, and install Ubuntu Studio on it to get better data. If you can free me from the predjudice Bitwig only runs on Ubuntu, please do. I would suggest switching off, or removing in case of a laptop, the Windows drive. This makes reverting easier if it should be nonsatisfactory.
> 3) General negativity and naysaying.

I am guilty of this, and I've never thought about it as a problem, just as how my mind is wired. That comment was a bit of an epiphany for me so thanks!
I suppose we all appear egotistical when we rant.
Home for Restoration Action
How I made $50K in 3 days with NFTs
Yeah, this place is staggeringly quickly heading towards reddit clone.

Marley suggesting something akin to planned obsolescence get hive mind downvoted. Yar har capitalism and apple.

Apple releases same product for years now, them having a strategy for x years forward is not outrageous claim
Is this any different than what Chinese manufacturers do today when they knock-off products?
You missed a semicolon at the end there.
If it has revenue and is growing then I would look to get a loan to double down on what is working.

Pay back the loan whilst increasing revenue and keep the entire company to yourself/team. The additional revenue can offset the expenses which were taken care of by the loan.
That's the whole problem isn't? The actions of any individual, or even the actions of everyone in a small-to-medium sized nation are just too small on their own to mark significant change.

Too many people aren't willing to accept this simple fact: the standard of living in the cushy societies of the Western middle class is completely and utterly unsustainable. And probably never will be. Avoiding environmental degradation is simply not possible without a major quality of life reduction.
You're thinking of oil. Coal is trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Formation
I searched like this all my life and always got expected results.

But just a week ago I found out that these "how", "what" questions give better and faster results on Google.
Yes, article is a bit all over the place.
Awesome thanks for sharing and I will check them out.
Yep, the retelling I heard from the David Karlin (I worked with him after Sinclair went bust) was the micro drives didn't meet the spec that he designed the gate array to.

The only real hardware bit that we could rib him about was the serial port design, but I can't even remember what was wrong with it now (handshaking?)

I do wish I'd snaffled the QDOS listing that got thrown away during an office move.
You could keep your exposure to the crypto. For instance you can sell 1 ether for 2500 DAI (haircut to the original value), move those DAI to a centralized exchange, sell for cash, do something with the cash, and eventually convert back to 2500 DAI and buy back your ether. Important thing is you kept exposure to the price of ether and didn't sell, just loaned it out. You can always buy it back at the price you collateralized it.

If the price went up since you took out the loan, you benefited. You're over collatralized so you'll always want to buy back, unless its below your collateralized value, in which case it would have been liquidated anyway
Based on his CV, probably Aida.de:

https://anonyfox.com/cv
Outstanding piece. Towards the end, Ken Shirrif has a good discussion around this:
"[...] Still others would allow these functions to be packaged in a few chips, which would collectively make up the microprocessor.[...]"

Along those lines, there was also a set of "bit-sliced" chips from AMD, which looked very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900

P.S. The "Mick & Brick" book: https://www.amazon.com/Bit-slice-microprocessor-design-John-...
As long as it continued to be profitable, obviously.
One thing that vendors have that internal teams don’t is million dollar marketing budgets. Selling the sizzle of successful internal projects is its own kind if work, but if neglected even the greatest of projects will succumb to the onslaught of vendors. Good technical leaders recognize this inherently and celebrate their teams creations, non-technical leaders don’t and take pride in buying from big brands and the fancy luncheons that come along with them.
Yup. Also nothing says the boids have to execute a single behavior all the time.

In a parallel comment, I described an idea where boids first start doing nothing except publishing a "depth" value that's a function of their neighbors "depth" value, waiting for the system to settle (as detected by neighboring values not changing by more than some fixed epsilon over some fixed Δt). They could then record their individual values and continue to a second algorithm (e.g. traditional "boids"), that uses this (now fixed) "depth" value as a parameter.

This is, in general, a pattern for individual unit to discover their role in the group, without ever knowing the whole group. I just realized this sounds like things the field of "distributed consensus" deals with - I'll add that to my research list.

I remember the voting games and "Twitch plays X" events. It's kind of a different situation (external controllers voting on control input to a single actor), but there might be some parallels.
Sweet, sound interesting. will look for it.
> Are there certain categories of people who CloudFlare refuses to have as customers?

As you mentioned, anyone on one of the various US sanction lists. Additionally, anything illegal under US law (particularly CSAM, warez and other kinds of piracy), as well as terrorist/violent content (as the "Islamic State", 8chan, Daily Stormer and a select few others found out the hard way).
I've heard that American Homicide is a good book on the history of homicide in the US too.
Camel? Or Star Wars walker machine? Inquiring minds want to know... :-)
Notice that with Shenandoah GC, weak references are handled concurrently since JDK 16, native roots like locks, classes, etc are handled concurrently since JDK 14. Therfore the first 3 problems that you mentioned are solved. Follow the links the OP article to find explanations for each of these improvements.

BTW, you can specify the number of GC threads that you like to use -XX:ConcGCThreads=X -XX:ParallelGCThreads=Y (X for concurrent GC, Y for STW pauses - which should no longer be very relevant).

Cheers!
Six modes of system resilience
I was genuinely asking you in which city you are because if you want to find a physical repair shop that's relasted to where you live and I can only help you in the search if I know that.
On those lines, a company I'm very much been keeping an eye on is framework

https://frame.work/

I've wanted something like this for years, a laptop that is actually repairable but isn't awful in specs or ergonomics. When they start selling in my region I'll be all over it.

If you care about these problems then vote with your wallet.
That is not correct. The magic is in IP maintenance. Source: I wrote the software.
Lift weights. It's that simple, you just have to find the discipline to do it.
If you find that going to the gym is too solitary, and it is, try to find a team sport, in a club near you and start practicing there.
Or get a running coach, specifically to prepare you to run those marathons.

>I mainly want become fit enough to run 5ks / half marathons by the end of this year

Things take time, and you need to set more attainable and smaller goals, otherwise by the end of the year, if you fail to run half a marathon it will be heavily demoralizing. Don't try to rush it.

It's hard to not spend time seated while we are working, but after work, just try to have a more active lifestyle.
During the week try to walk for 30 mins to 1h.
And during the weekends go hiking since you seem to enjoy it, it will be good for both your physical and mental health.
As a matter of principle, I'm opposed to attaching even more computers outside the user's control to supposedly "personal" computers.

In the pursuit of security (or just the excuse of it), more functionality is being given to opaque, locked systems (SSD firmware, management engines, etc.), instead of freedom-respecting solutions (there is no technical reason systems can't be fully open-source, with user-controlled cryptographic keys, and a tamper-evident mechanism as some smartphones already have - i.e. a "bootloader unlocked" warning message).

This moves power away from users and to the manufacturers, contributes to the jenga-tower of technical complexity, and eventually worsens security, once vulnerabilities in these systems are inevitably found:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Securi...
Exactly. Why should we care that China is "corrupting" the United States, when the United States is already a corrupt nation? China can't make us more evil than we already are.
Yes, in reference to a comment in the linked post, I asked myself whether advertising was in fact in any way beneficial to society and I confess I come up empty.
Good for them. I think it was a super overvalued buy because there isn't much defensible IP but smart to get out when you can, and moral analysis of legal business is futile and meaningless. You can aacrive meaning for your own self esteem but money doesn't care.
Don't forget the vehicles and fuel required to transport it and all the processes that go into creating physical money.
Can you sell the stock on a secondary market?
This comment made me sad, a little. 15 years ago practically everyone would know how to do this: download the installer from Microsoft and run it.
> Someone who defrauds you can always afford to pay more for advertising than someone who actually provides a service.

This is just demonstrably not true. Look at the biggest advertisers in the world - they're giant corporations that sell good/services.
I think there's work being done on value types in Java. Although this was the case 6+ years ago. I'm surprised they still didn't land into Java.
Probably because rich people do not spend enough of their money, not because they spend too much of it.
I think this is wrong, what changed was the offer price.
I always just think about the investors you get access to if you do YC, and the network of people. I think if you are on an exponential growth curve but want the YC experience I think it would be worth discussing that 7%, I believe it's not set in stone and exceptions can be made. Why wouldn't YC want a smaller percentage of something that was clearly already going to be huge...

And as for the 7% I'd say you might get that back with more funding for less equity if you're already one of the larger companies by demo day, lots of investors will throw money at you.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095715 - 200 comments
They wouldn't — and Mailchimp employees didn't. The market value of your labour is what you can get a company to pay you.

The hypothetical market value of employees in a world where Mailchimp did offer equity and employees stuck it out to reap that upside doesn't exist, so arguing the point makes no sense.
The thing is, we complain about the oil companies and at the same time we take the car to go to work, shopping, etc.

It's also the consumers who are using the oil, not only the oil companies, who are to blame at the end. If no one buys, no one will produce.

Sure, if it's cheap and readily available, people will use it no matter how bad it is.

That's why it's so important that the governments increase the taxes on oil, petrol and diesel.
No. We have permanent solutions already. We just need the policy to encourage their adoption and implementation. (And further research to advance the existing solutions)

CCS (carbon capture & sequestration) is still needed. Even if we stopped emitting GHG today we’ll be above the 1.5 degrees target, but CCS is not a technology that “buys us time” It’s something we use in conjunction with renewable energy resources. CCS isn’t even operating at a large enough scale yet to begin to mitigate or lessen the effects.

I don’t mean to harshly criticize. This idea that carbon capture is a time buying technology is often used as a greenwashing narrative to discourage the adoption or solutions we already have.
Texas is big enough of a market that it can effectively define textbook standards for the rest of the US, so yes.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/21/how-texas-inflic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/texas-history-1836-pro...
>Having recently switched most of our internal development from C# to Python and Powershell I get it.

How was the move from C# to Python?
I'm starting to get irate now with the hypocrisy of some who talk about how the Government need to be more green, but then follow up with Windows N+1, Android N+1 or iOS N+1.
Transactions on exchanges do not affect the blockchain's state so they require orders of magnitude less energy... Making a trade on a centralized exchange or performing an off-chain transaction on a centralized wallet doesn't use much more energy than posting a Tweet on Twitter.
> Big solutions to the big problems. Exactly what consultancies sell. It was obvious to them that having any inhouse-developers is the biggest business risk at all.

I will never, ever, ever, do in-house software development ever again. Non-software companies treat their inhouse developers like crap. They don't get it. I don't know when non-software businesses thought it was a good idea to move software developers in house. Most of the company don't want them there. Or deal with them begrudgingly. It's hard to quantify their revenue so they are treated as an expense not cost saving or revenue generating. And they are the first on the chopping block when things turn down.

In my experience, if you are recruited by a company that doesn't sell software or software services you should tread very carefully, ask lots of questions. Sometimes you'll find out a 100 year old furniture company only has a dev team because the grandson thought it was a good idea. And then you run very far away.
Yeah, who does he think he is, some kind of human being?
Reminded of a couple of projects:

1. I worked with a single internal guy to build a web-based ordering system, in the days where people faxed in orders. This replaced weeks of data entry, dozens of part time data entry people, and enabled a big change in materials ordering and production (orders were all in a database within a few hours, vs literally weeks of keyed-in faxes from before).

The one guy that was in charge of all this suddenly had a lot more power internally, and it pissed off a lot of other folks who suddenly had less influence.

2. More recently, worked with a team of external contractors, and internal folks were resistant to help any of us set up external dev systems. They all worked in the physical offices, and had no need for 'run a dev system on a laptop'. One of our guys spent a lot of time (and kept getting chastised by the client's mgt) for getting and documenting a build process for external contractors to use. The pandemic hits, office buildings are shut down, and internal folks have a much harder time figuring out... how to do anything from home.

In both cases, under-the-radar skunkworks projects ended up having large (and in one case transformative) impact and value, but were ignored or fought by those with entrenched power.
Hmm yeah. When you have distributed ownership, largely to funds with a duty to vote for whatever increases the stock price, you pretty much just distribute and dilute any ethical or societal obligations when looking at the broad voter population.
It's called word segmentation. There are libraries for it:

https://github.com/grantjenks/python-wordsegment
https://github.com/InstantDomain/instant-segment (rust)

I used the latter to process pdf plain text output quite successfully.
> Solve that problem first.

What’s “that problem”? It’s not clear from your post.

We always seem to go in circles with whataboutism when posts like this appear: “X is a bigger problem so let’s solve that”. We can do this for every problem — look at the data through the right lens and another problem is always bigger - and never solve anything.
We love AWS Lambda, but its concurrency handling with SQS is silly
Speaking as a meditation guy.

When you spend a lot of time concentrating your attention (as we do when solving our engineering puzzles) you tend to stay concentrated. It becomes a lifestyle.

And when you spend a lot of time concentrating on ideas, you tend to stay concentrated on ideas. Ideas are your world.

But ideas are not the world. The world is infinitely larger.

And concentration is brother to blindness. Which is to say, concentrating on X leads to ignoring Y, Z and Q.

Pardon me if this is vague.
Apple and Google cave to Russian state officials
This is a good topic and vastly underappreciated. It’s a career where you should closely listen to your body and have an active lifestyle due to the sedentary nature of this career. When it doesn’t feel right stop for the day and look after yourself. Do some sport, meet friends. If it doesn’t help, change jobs. Never let someone above abuse you. Otherwise your health will start to suffer in the years coming.
You’re missing key information on (2.)

Frere-Jones DID put up capital… intellectual capital. He transferred the rights to famous typefaces he had designed, including Whitney, to the company with the understanding that he would be full partner.

Hoefler shafted F-J so hard it’s unbelievable. The foundry’s reputation was built on Gotham which F-J designed. There’s no other way to see it.
Don't let ViewModel knew about framework level dependencies
I don't care about downvotes. If somebody is here for votes then they should reassess their life's choices.
MC paid me way above value. My friends moved to SF and still rent and live paycheck to paycheck.

MC paid off my house in 4 years, and I retired after another 4.