skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of cheap VPS servers we have tried getting dedicated servers at larger European hosters like OVH, Hetzner, ihor and NFOrce. The idea is that we have exclusive resources, so the chances of us impacting other customers is lower, and thus we won’t get nullrouted so easily. Largely this works, but the available network bandwidth (usually 1-10 Gbit/s) as well as CPU usage become the limit.
That is arguably tending towards centralisation, as there will then be a market of brokers that know which contracts to suggest, and then there will be other places that will only accept contracts from a known broker.

There will, of course, be the more expensive brokers that can exploit loopholes, but even as a stretch this isn't vastly different to a bank account in the Caymans.

Of course, you don't have to participate - you can hold the 'cash' equivalent or concoct your own scheme, but you're not as protected from loss as you otherwise might be (provided there's an insurance package of sorts, in the absence of regulation).
> Kik? The teen messaging app from like 2010 that no one uses anymore?

I use to think the same thing, until I listened to this episode of Darknet Diaries:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/
> It's not the same as inline styles because it expresses things that inline styles fundamentally cannot. Inline styles don't have media queries or selectors.

Okay, it's as if you added media queries and selectors to inline styles. It's still a nightmare to read like inline styles. It's terse, but as a result it's also more cryptic. It leads to long strings of near gibberish until you carefully read it out.

> WTF? Is any other HTML class string typesafe?

My point is a className string is not typesafe, my styles are fully typed, because it's normal TypeScript. Shoving styles into a string would remove that feature.

I get autocomplete and type checking for the component styles, for example, if it's a view component then it only gets view styles, trying to apply "color" will result in a error.

It's incredibly useful to have autocomplete and type checking for your styles because there are so many combinations of properties. You don't want to supply a number when a string is expected for a font weight, you don't want to supply a value that isn't supported, you don't want to apply a text property that will have no effect on a view element.

Example: https://codesandbox.io/s/dazzling-leaf-rjv7v?file=/src/app/u...
Carson McCullers?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter to start
what about declaration for operation?
My guess is Integer VS Float.

Take a typical $23 transaction fee, which comes out to ~0.00775756 ETH

Of course, everyone knows you don't want to do math as floating point, you want to use an integer representation. 1 ETH can be divided into 1e18 "Wei" or 1e9 "GigaWei".

So that 23 USD could be expressed an an integer "7757560", with the expectation that the decimal point would get moved 9 points <- thataway to become 0.00775756 ETH

If somewhere in your code you do some kind of money formatting that turns 7757560 GWEI into 7757.56 ETH, you've got your $23,000,000 USD mining fee.
watch they weren't even hosting the files, it just backpages to twitter posts
If you know roughly what area someone lives in, county auditor websites have a lot of information.
Sounds like modern-day “protection rackets.”

I know that, if you own a gambling site, you can look forward to meeting exciting slavs. I didn’t realize they were taking it to other types of games, but I guess that makes sense. Wiseguys coerce Grandma’s Bake Shop, just as they do Moneybags National Bank.
I thought exactly the same.

It doesn't bode well for Imgur future. They don't care about their acquisition. It's to wonder why are they doing it in the first place.

The company doesn't have any public information either.
All I can find is a LONG list of job openings:
https://jobs.lever.co/medialab

Weird list if they are just "investors".
100G per wavelength has been standard fare for some time now.

The confusion is probably due to the fact that you can also run the 100G using multiple lanes at lower speeds.

It all depends on what optics you use.

You also don’t need 10U worth of rack space to switch 1 Tbps. You can do that with a single 1U switch.
Its been years since competing blockchains projects added fee limits at least in the front ends if the protocol cant allow it so that this does not happen.
It happened many times on ETH and it will happen again because the devs simply dont care.

BTW the money laundering idea is complete nonsense. You dont do that by making large transactions so that mainstream media writes about it and investigations are triggered.
This is just the usual HN crypto bias that seeks for confirmation that everything cryoto is illegitimate.
In fact they reacted before.

With spies inside Project Manhattan. Both the UK and USSR reacted with what they could, meaning their intelligence and espionage.

It's kind of a selection bias considering that the only country capable of building the Atomic Bomb was the US.
Kik's the website that had a serious child porn and child sexual solicitation problem. I think they've tried to do something about that in the last couple of years but from a quick Google search it's not clear it's really worked.
Paste: Merge Lines of Files
CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange
I remember back around 2009(?) ish I had a chance to talk to some folks at Justin.tv (now twitch) and they said one ad on the stream every few hours more than covers all the costs. What changed?

I guess the videos are much more high resolution now than the webcam size 320x240 videos back then but has cost gone up that much?
I don't think OVH is viable in this case, they do mitigate the attack but in my personal experience they also mitigate legit traffic during the attack.

Mind you, this is a process using a single port, with only around 100 active connections. You'll easily see half if not more lose connection during a DDoS attack.
It's been a while since I ran through the napkin math, and I'm on mobile and can't pull up the backing links, unfortunately, but I believe we are just barely on track to replace all energy use with renewables in 15-20 years. After which we should have spare production capacity, assuming there is wind/solar close enough to the carbon sequestration points.

The gist is that if you look at the exponential curves of growth of both wind and solar deployments, and assume that we don't back off from those, you get X amount of TWh/year in 2040. Combine that with conversion of heating and transport to electrification, which provides huge efficiency boosts and requires only 1/3 to 1/4 the energy (most fossil fuel energy is just wasted). Then add in all the parts of the developing world which will increase their energy use to EU/China standards, and we are just barely there.

However I think we are likely to see big gains in production capacity as the developing world ups their game. They will be consuming more electricity, but also be immensely more productive.
I just don't see a basis for calling them categorically underfunded.

For example, New York State has the highest spending per student $24,040 and is ranked 14th in this survey[0] while Virginia is ranked fourth and only spends $12,216. Massachusetts spends $17,058 and tops the list.

A honest look at the school system may reveal that some parts of it are underfunded, but it will likely also reveal parts that are overfunded. I suspect a lot of progress can be made by being better stewards of the money they currently have, and therefore suggest starting there. Ultimately any taxes come from the wallets of families supporting the children we are trying to help here, making them poorer needs to show benefit to be justified.

[0]https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/533...
I wonder if one day as a society we'll be able to accept again that humans are flawed, and often the most popular are the most flawed. That's not to excuse what he's done or anything like that, but we can still find some interesting things or a bit of peace in his words. The "huge caveat" you talk about applies to pretty much everyone.
First comment:

> Generally speaking, people should become more and more wary of memes.

I suppose memes which explicitly attack other memes had to emerge at some point.
> The world really needs "one ring to rule them all". (e.g. something that sucks in content from all those places and makes them organizable if not findable)

We have those, we call it filesystem or fileserver.
They should have sold to Reddit when that option was on the table. The founders didn’t want to because they thought they had options beyond Reddit, but that was never really true.

Congrats on any exit, but this one has to be a letdown and I’m sure it didn’t work out for any of the non-founders with options that are now assuredly worthless, but congrats on an exit nonetheless.
Truly, you never really know which pair of particles came from a specific decay, and which come from some other processes and just happen to line up with the mass/energy you're looking at. Fortunately, for most particles, the combinatorial background signal follows a smooth curve around the energies you're looking at, so you can fit a curve to that background signal and then attribute the rest of the signal to the particle production. For an example, see the main plot on the Upsilon page in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsilon_meson). You can see there is a linear decline (in log space) of the background signal but then there's another peak around 9.5 GeV which is the additional signal from the Upsilon decay.

The point is, we cannot tell which pair of electrons/muons come from the decay of a specific particle, but we can tell how many extra occurred beyond what we would expect from all other known processes.
I'm guessing you're also getting downvoted because sarcasm and rhetorical questions and not great ways of starting meaningful discussions.
Not sure if this is helpful, but I remember reading about the tribes network protocol years ago. IIRC it also UDP based and essentially had a mechanism to request a proof of work depending on server load before accepting any complex packets from a client. You could probably require some proof for their source IP utilizing the HTTPS request already used during server browsing.

Edit: Found it. http://opentnl.sourceforge.net/doxydocs/history.html (the „puzzles“)
Does anyone have anything besides doom-and-gloom predictions wrt to housing? I'm sincerely curious because I don't - that is, I don't see how all this plays out well for anyone other than big investment firms. Well, I guess that's the bright side: earning steady 15% returns from a property rental fund while society crumbles. :o
Indeed. And to flesh out in more detail, we caused:

- lack of sleep/exercise (which destroys the body's immunoregulatory capacities, leading to either a sort of acute immunosenescence like you said wrt fear, or alternatively leading to an overreactive immune system that kills via cytokine storm)

- decline in social interaction

- more time spent inside (which apart from the other correlates, very obviously leads to less sunlight). sunlight => vitamin d + nitric oxide; vitamin d is critical for respiratory pathology specifically, as well as just general health, and nitric oxide is very important as an immunoregulatory compound and as a preventer of strokes

- the general environment of fear/stress/anxiety (again, going to screw up the immunoregulatory balance of the body)
I'm not sure that anything in this piece was gender influenced. The author could have a female name and I wouldn't have been surprised.
> You should be able to pull anybody off the street and show them a lockdown state vs a non-lockdown state

Keep in mind that the constitution protects free travel between states, so such an analysis only shows what results a mixed response gives.

If you compare Australia to the US, you can see that lockdowns very clearly do work: 1K vs 600K deaths. Even accounting for relative size, that suggests lockdowns produced a 50x effect.

(of course, if the question is "should California be draconian" then this is still very useful information! I'm just saying the answer changes depending on whether California is doing this while still being forced to have open borders with states that aren't locking down, or if the entire country coordinate a federal lockdown)
My guess is PR.

Regularly, on imgur, you see a pic in interest for a celebrity, a rich person, a movie. It looks organic, but if you look closely, there are plenty of weird things about it. Then it disappears as suddenly as it arrived.

I believe that they sell the front page to PR firms that need to promote something in a way the people think themself came up with the hype.

It's probably the same for a lot of communities with a strong influence on trends, like popular sub reddits or hacker news.

There is no better ads than the one you don't see. There is no better slogan than the one you repeat to your friends as a catchphrase. And there is no better propaganda than the one based on ideas you thought you had by yourself.
Where have you had success with hosting outside the usual aws/gap/etc? It seems like digital ocean has a bit cheaper bandwidth, but curious if you have a better recommendation!
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This model of development also meant cross-platform ports were practically rewrites.

In practice it wasn't really possible to reuse code unless the target platform had the same CPU and at least equal graphics features (as was the case with e.g. porting from Atari ST to Amiga). So every port started from scratch.
It's possible to set this up in a way that gives them plausible deniability (by broadcasting the transaction publicly after the colluding miner confirmed it has a block), so this could have been a way to repay debts with funds that aren't legally/technically allowed to be used in this way.

I do doubt that explanation though, as $23 millions is nothing for Bitfinex and any of their execs could get this amount from personal funds if it was really needed.
What Makes a Good Hash Function?
Agreed. I've actively taken steps to combat it, only use my phone in black and white mode, and removed all apps. Stick to my PC for general browsing and my phone use as gone down to 30 minutes a day (mostly calls, messages with the wife, and email).
Stablecoins in Spotlight as US Begins to Lay Ground for Rules on Cryptocurrency
I read your whole comment expecting you to get to the evidence where bitfinex and the miner are associated...
Is the competitor good? Is it bad?
Ads are worth a magnitude less today than they were in 2009.
It's basically the modern version of laissez-faire capitalism, for the last 40 years or so. "Liberal" still means something closer to "libertarian" in Europe and Canada.

The term is used pretty much solely by people who think it's bad. They cite basically all of the downsides to capitalism: shrinking safety nets, loss of jobs and job security from globalization, financial panics like 2007, increasing wealth concentration, etc.
Not 5G. The reason why Huawei became a leader in 5G is that they created all their technology around the discoveries of Erdal Arikan and bet the whole farm on it:

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-break...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdal_Ar%C4%B1kan
I gave all my numbers making it trivial to check that I am using the us gallon and. Perhaps a site for kids that you cited isn’t using more than one sig fig?
Your virtue signalling is nothing but repugnant.

Any mask under a dollar doesn't work.
Putting transactions on a verifiable public ledger might be a start.
We've had several servers with OVH, including their kimisufi line, So You Start GAME line, their standard GAME line and their standard servers. While I'm sure these are great for common games their DDoS protection seems to get confused by our very non-standard protocol, ending up blocking most if not all traffic from non-connected players.
I feel this is just an example of "worse is better" and whole proposition as interesting but totally not practical and I would not like for GIT to go anywhere near that idea.
> the gulf between spreadsheets and programming languages

There is no gulf. Spreadsheets just are programming languages. You've certainly identified problems or at least quirks of spreadsheets as a 'language', but I think people do a huge disservice to their own ability to understand programming as a field when they try to carve out exclusions for languages and environments on the basis of who uses them. Lots of things no one would ever argue aren't a programming language have all these flaws and more.

When people make a big ass complicated spreadsheet, they are programming. They are doing so whether they're a seasoned professional or an accountant or a lawyer or a homemaker.
If anyone sues, I would think it would be Goldman as they were the firm they attempted to defraud here, and they must know how to prosecute fraud like this very well.

But, if they are holding a lot of equity in this company, they are also incentivized to brush it under the rug until they can offload their position. It wasn't clear to me if they had invested yet and were looking to invest more, or if they have no stake yet.

If they don't have a stake they probably just won't take one after this due diligence revealed even more than they bargained about the company.
I do not think that they are. However, whenever this topic comes up, there are people who immediately jump out and state that is basically is, simply because we don't know enough about the underlying science yet. Which is strange, as studying the underlying science to understand the situation is exactly what we should be doing... It's just so backwards, and it confuses me.
They will surely return it to management as bonuses and stock buybacks for shareholders.

The Intel model of stimulus. Now TSMC runs the show in high end semiconductors.
As long as there are survivors, there are enemies. With hindsight it's clear it would have been a poor choice.
> In practice, my problem with these is reliability. They can have noticeable issues with maintaining an uninterrupted, low latency connection

True,especially when a microwave, washing machine or other motor starts sending noise down the power line...
The only clarification I want to make here is that Cassandra is focused on horizontal scalability, which Scylla can match. However, Cassandra isn't (now, or yet) focused on vertical scalability, such as using it in current instances that have dozens of vCPUs. This was shown in the "4 vs. 40" test of Scylla vs. Cassandra, where 4 boxes of a vertically scaled Scylla (72 vCPU each; 288 vCPUs total) were able to perform the same or better as 40 boxes of Cassandra (with 16 vCPU; 640 vCPU total).

Definitely newer JVMs are improving things such as latency, and there are now some that are NUMA-aware, but in a JVM you are literally straight-jacketed from seeing the raw hardware you are running on. And that will impact to greater or lesser degrees your ability to take advantage of it.
Hetzner or OVH.
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While I fully agree on substance the market mechanisms mean that if oil and gas are pricey all prices go up. So in a country like Spain or Romania they are already seeing a risk of 'energy poverty' for winter heating. Not to mention all the far more numerous poor people who won't be able to go to work, drive the bus that earns their living, etc.
>Had to look a bit harder to even find their website (https://www.medialab.la/) - 'a holding company of consumer internet brands' heh, sheesh, yeah that's not sketchy.

I find it curious that there's no page about who owns/runs MediaLab. Not even a single blurb about their executives/management!
I still have the habit of adding !g into my queries when the results are bad.

There have been years since the last time I remember Google actually giving me better results than DDG (except when I only want product sellers, on this case there has been around an year).

Yes, maybe if I let Google see even more of my life, they would be able to get me better results. But they have access to much more than I'm comfortable with already, and the results aren't there.
I think what makes me the saddest is that the pro-lockdown pro-school-closures pro-vaccine-passport-to-engage-in-society people never seem to think that the onus is on them to prove anything.

They don't need to prove that school closures aren't deleterious.

They don't need to prove that the supposed epidemic of long COVID is actually real.

They don't need to prove that the missed medical appointments and missed routine non-COVID vaccinations aren't going to outpace the supposed benefits of doing the epidemiological equivalent of hiding in your closet from the monster (SARS-2).

They don't need to account for second-order effects, such as the fact that "avoiding" COVID for a month or two is really just postponing it and that we exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium with the countless pathogens we're surrounded by.

No, they just get to assume that their intervention de jur is without harm, and conversely that COVID is the worst thing ever and that SARS-2 is 10 times as deadly as all the other shit we don't spend an excessive amount of time worrying about (Influenza, OC43, noravirus, rhinovirus, you name it)
It's not even vacations abroad. I worked at a poorer district, and it's really parents just not caring. They go when they can get off or get good deals and pull the kid with them. Sadly enough, they can often get it excused as a "learning excursion", even if the teachers don't sign off on it. There's no value being seen in education; it's seen simply as babysitting, and it shows in the students' attitudes as well.
I did notice that a few years back, but now when the filter activate I no longer see any drop in bandwidth usage or any customer complaints. How long ago did you experimented with their filter?
Thanks for writing this out. Excellent plan.
While the overall death rate isn't up that much, I've heard that it's clustering a lot more, which means various systems are overwhelmed: We can process X bodies per day but we have a couple weeks where we're getting 1.5X bodies, and so for a while we have a few bodies in refrigerated trucks or other overflow systems.

So... it's sort of true, but it's more of a congestion issue (like rush hour traffic), not a sign of systemic collapse.
In the US, Cogent offered $900 per month promotion for 10G commit on a 100G burstable circuit. If you rent several rack units and put a used Juniper hardware firewall from eBay in front, that may be one of the cheapest solutions to absorb 100Gbps attacks
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Try OVH
> I don't think this is a good thing.

The CCP has been at war with the US since 1947, but you don't think it's a good thing?
29% gas from netherlands is Liquified Gas, which might as well be from the US or Qatar.
If you received anyone asking whether you need services that defend against DDOS, and if you refused, those are probably the guys who initiated the DDOS attack.
I think it’s still too early to judge the SO purchase, but I agree that it hasn’t been a problem so far.
Fun facts:

- I pay for mail service from Google.

- I don't depend on whatsapp. I have multiple alternatives, including SMS.

- I still have Facebook and LinkedIn accounts that I never actually use.

- I have multiple fire extinguishers, because I don't depend on fire fighters to arrive on time, they're a last resort.

My biggest dependency, by far, is the power grid. I really need to look into battery storage for my solar. Because my life literally depends on that... Ooh. And the supply chain for groceries I guess.
Do you honestly belive we can build something to keep radioactive and toxic stuff sealed for tenthousand years?

By the time it's still bad for carbon based lifeforms it's as old as todays archaeology!
Unless you just get the devs to write it out of existence and fork the chain.