skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> European inhabitants fled the various forms of intolerance at home, and then declared and fought for their independence when the rulers tried to extend their intolerance into the new lands.

So what exactly was this "intolerance" that the UK tried to extend to the US? Does it still exist in the UK? What about in Canada, that waged no war for independence? What about the countries of the former Soviet union? Were they fighting against "intolerance" in WWII, and were beacons of tolerance after their victory? Heck, was the US? If I recall correctly, at the end of WWII, the US still had segregation and a whites-only immigration policy, which would not change until the Hart-Celler act 20 years later. Is that your idea of a tolerant society?

As long as you keep "tolerance" sufficiently vague, you can spin any tale you like.
Here's a goodly list of other benefits: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259912440_On_the_no...
I wouldn't be surprised if the decision was driven by Google's army of accountants.

Extending the life of an asset would affect the depreciation schedule, which would affect when depreciation is recognized / recorded on their books in a given tax year.
Umm, a pandemic is not good for business. Many of the ads are bought by real businesses.

"Alphabet has been viewed as a key beneficiary of the **reopening trade**, given it stands to gain from a pick-up in travel-related searches and advertising on Google Search." (** emphasis mine **)

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-google-reports-q3-20...
To detriment of players experience, because neither Web 3D APIs are a match to native hardware capabilities.
I was speaking globally:

> Taken together, the researchers found that excess deaths were estimated to be in the range of 3.4 million to 4.7 million - about 10 times higher than India's official Covid-19 death toll.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57888460
Drilling cost is usually estimated as ~depth^2.

So, a 1km geothermal well? Break even, and you are limited to only a few places in the world.

A 5km geothermal well (needed for broad power availability)? 25x the cost...

So, sure, if you can get a 25x cost reduction in an already cutthroat industry, all power to you (no pun intended).
Bitcoin failed that requirement. Expensive transactions ensure that nobody will attempt to move their coins in order to actually transact. The exchanges turned into banks instead.

Also, the risks associated with physically holding substantial wealth in bitcoin cannot be ignored. It's just like storing lots of cash at home. We should have the option to store it at a bank if we want to.
I don't think he's being either devilish or clueless.

Crypto is an asset class that has cultivated a tremendous amount of interest over the years. Banks want to support crypto in the same way they do other asset classes, but doing so is a minefield.

Offering regulatory clarity here is a good thing. This is not an attack on crypto, nor is it about control. Regulators are just providing a framework to allow banks to work with / hold crypto.
WebOS and "iPhone OS 1.0" share those traits.

I understand the desire to leverage the technologies and talent we've invested into the Web, but as a platform it still reeks of its roots as a tool to display remote hypertext documents, and I would personally prefer to write "native" apps in a more tailored and coherent API and runtime environment.
The Filesystem Routing part is like less than 1% of the code; it wouldn't be worth it to externalize it in a separate library.
While I'm unsure of the the reason the computers are lasting longer, I would bet this observation was originally triggered from the public company accounting firm that audits Alphabet's financials. The accounting firm likely asked Alphabet to prove out why they used a 3 year estimate and found out 4 years was more accurate (FYI 3 years is a standard useful life for computers for most companies - sometimes even shorter).
> "saying racist things" is still not the same thing as "being racist"

I think whether that assertion is true hinges on whether one is of the opinion that there is meaningful difference between one's actions and the content of one's character or whether "ye shall know them by their fruits," as it were.

But even if we use the duality approach of separating action from character: if one does a racist thing unintentionally, then given the opportunity to do so, does not apologize, I would be understanding of those who choose to believe that the action was a reflection of the content of the actor's heart.

Apologies are something we do when we've done wrong, after all. Whether the wrong was intended.
Larry da big OG
> If you’ve created a database before, you probably had to estimate how many servers to use based on the expected traffic.

The answer is "one". If you have less than 10k req/s you shouldn't even start to think about multiple DB servers or migrating from bog-standard MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres.

I will never understand this obsession with "scaling". Modern web dev seriously over-complicates so many things, it's not even funny anymore.
I'm much more bothered that it has obsoleted some relatively new-ish CPUs. Why was the i7-7700 left out, for example?
Announcing Vitess 12
Shelter can be used for this purpose if desired.

https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter
1) Banks owning some Bitcoin does not imply Bitcoin needs banks.

2) Banks need Bitcoin though, because long-term everything else is going towards zero in Bitcoin terms.
Was that the whole point? "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" is to me more germane. Not allowing the state to issue money at will is more of a core tenet.

I think the a lot of the dream from there is to make it possible to electronically transfer cash. This is currently impossible with conventional money -- the best we can do is transfer deposit records electronically. To make this work we treat deposit records as surrogate cash, and take on a huge amount of systemic risk into the monetary system, which we basically backstop with unlimited government guarantees.

With Bitcoin, at least in theory, we can offer an alternative system. That's not to say that a system can't arise of banks that hold bitcoin deposits and allow you to transfer these deposit record between banks, but the banks need to price in the risk of failure to meet their obligations, so hopefully we can have some mechanism of discounting bank-deposit-bitcoin vs. held-in-wallet-bitcoin. But I think this dream is dying -- there will come a day when you can only buy something with bitcoin, but only with bitcoin deposited in a bank, because it's "easier" and can be unwound, etc., because of correspondence arrangements, and then you'll have the Federal Reserve, that can basically artificially create new "bitcoin deposits", and banks will only let you withdraw 0.01BTC per week, so you'll never notice that they are insolvent, and we'll basically be right back where we started.
I'm told that Milwaukee School of Engineering began a nursing program to even out the male-female ratio. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6onyh6/til_th...>
In parallel:

7 year gap, during which Apple also experimented with the trashcan, the emoji touchbar, the shallow keyboard, the non-magsafe non-SD connectors. It was like a pause on personal computing.

7-year gap from 2013 to 2020 where social media became political machines, and all companies became cloud-first.
You see irony, I see a captured government.

Wealthy, envious of seeing their assets outcompeted by crypto are now hoping banks can allow them to further privatize the gains while socializing the losses.
> and check if account A has $1,000

It was a convoluted example for examples sake, but I'm pretty much referring to them missing this important check here.
I first encountered it via this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-to-Live-By-audiobook/dp/B0...

The wikipedia article also briefly mentions that it is observed in animals.
> There doesn't appear to be any inordinate lock-in or something of that sort.

> > For now. Perhaps they're on the "embrace" phase still.

I suspect I am missing something here. What exactly is the "threat model" here?

MobaXterm seems to be a product with a fairly old school model - you pay money and you get a perpetual license for that version of the product. It also throws in 12 months of updates. But, It is not a subscription service like a ton of SAAS products. The license appears clear as to what you are getting.

Are you worried that they will retroactively revoke your license in the future?
43N $5M Startup Competition in Semi-Finals ARE TOMORROW!
The solution to that is underground storage (root cellar):

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/store-wine-underground-inside-...
I don’t know if anyone has confirmed this explicitly, but it’s a likely assumption that Ignition! went back in to print after many years of unavailability precisely because of all the interest stirred up by this post.
Pricing link is at the bottom of the page. Not as clear as in the header, but still a fairly common place to see it.
This doesn't target N people. It targets wealth above a certain limit, and notably wealth that is typically in an asset class that makes it easy to avoid taxes. This is exactly what you describe -- a way of balancing the law so that the rich pay taxes. Maybe you don't agree with the implementation but you've expressed exactly the sentiment behind the law so...
It can only expose a subset of their capabilities.

Don't expect using mesh shaders on WebGPU for example.
The real world example is: when you’re in a retail store, that store can see which products you’re looking at and approach you accordingly. That’s not “tracking”, nor is presenting ads that are based on contextual information: such as how DuckDuckGo presents ads based on the search terms.

Tracking is so much more than people seem realise. From a simple facebook like/share button existing on a website or Google analytics script operating invisibly in the background, the user is followed around the web to identify their interests - that data is also combined with offline sources. Facebook/Google apps and services each also provide a wealth of complementary data. Advertisers then can bid directly on very specific groups of people, with that ad campaign being able to be metricised through to the individual sale.

Furthermore the privacy policies for Facebook and Google were both rewritten under the guise of simplicity - stating a laundry list services and metrics. This disguises which apps are gathering which metrics.
The new privacy labelling requirements under the apple’s app store provide some surprising insights. (Like how gmail gathers your purchase history and collects this as part of your profile.)

You’ll see apologists on here downplay the seriousness of this, or try to build a false equivalence to regular marketing activities.

However take a moment to recognise that companies like Google privately hold more information on you than you’d be comfortable with even your elected officials having access to - all without a hint of regulation to your personal privacy.
The main takeaway should be that being that far north is not a show stopper for going off grid with mostly solar, a bit of wind, and batteries in a very harsh climate with limited sun hours in the winter. Anything further south is probably a lot more effective and cheaper to run. But the point of the article is that people are doing this and are saving money doing it. Of course, that is indeed enabled by a monopolist really encouraging this by discouraging new customers with unreasonable fees. But that's the other point, being at the mercy of companies like that is not great financially and there's a point where it becomes simply not worth the money in.
Alternatively, people really do need to put a lot of thought into scaling, but only because they did something like write some core web service in an interpreted language framework that maxes out at 100 requests per second.
I highly recommend this hour-long video from a Call of Duty developer discussing not only methods they use to transmit game states between client and server, but also some interesting ways that they measure true perceived latency (like using high-speed cameras and LCD monitors to compare true input-to-display latencies between different builds).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtLHLfNpu84
Hey, I wrote that thing! Always a pleasant surprise and a weird feeling to open Hacker News (for the 14308560234th time today) and read my name like that :)
To deter using QuickServ in production, it runs on port 42069. Hopefully that makes everyone think twice before entering it into a reverse proxy or port forward config.

Ha! Smart thinking
I don't believe number one to be true at all (anecdotally). Every place I have worked, there's been cook-offs and engineering takes that challenge seriously.
Do you mean honey bees because those would be more like looking to cows or sheep population as a metric of general wild animal population.

My area of SoCal is HOA/office park “landscaped” with near zero variety of plants for miles around. There are very few flying insects in my yard. I did attract some caterpillars this year, but they are very particular about plants. The caterpillar on the native gooseberry stays there, the tomatoes get hornworms and the other plant gets budworms. Bugs can be very specific and the grass and office park shrub monoculture around is not supportive of a diverse insect population.
From the self harm angle: if you can provide meaningful evidence that use of [social media] results in negatives that far outweigh the positives in virtually every case (this is true of smoking), then this tax makes sense. This isn't easy, though, as millions of people have benefited massively from social media.

As for societal harm, I imagine going forward we'll settle on some countermeasure against entities like Facebook. If that's a per-byte transmission tax, then so be it.
In my view the prominent politicians and media personalities of both sides shamelessly practice this demagoguery and resort to any means of power to have their way, be it state authority or social pressure. I doubt most of them have any serious conviction in the positions they espouse. Pandering to the desires and prejudices of audiences is an effective tactic for gaining power or just earning a good living. The outcome for the cause du jour is of little importance. What counts is winning the election or growing & maintaining an audience.
Microsoft basically does what it wants up to the point where enough backlash starts occuring. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".
not sure if this is working yet for Serverless but... https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.1/migrate-from-mysql....
During the Google Plus days? Not so much.
EasyPost (YC S13) is default remote and hiring
That's all standard in a patent litigation and is by far the least expensive element of what you'd be paying an atty to do. That is to say, it's basically trivial to get an atty to say that you should contend invalidity via a counterclaim (especially in light of how §101 is treated lately). What costs is getting an atty to actually find the invalidating prior art, draft up the counterclaims, etc.
Biology is one of those weird degrees, like many of the sciences. A BS in anthropology, for example, is completely worthless except as a step on the way to a PhD in anthropology (at which point you get to do anthropology or archaeology, or whatever).

Biology is also a very special case: all of the bio majors I've ever met were pre-med. (Except for that one guy who wanted to go into genetics research.)
Modern monetary theory isn't doing fine and neither are the countries with fiat currencies. They're all in absolute crisis because their economies are built on ever-shifting quicksand.

The "gold standard" isn't a theory of economics, it's an observation. Money is a medium of exchange - a mechanism for judging the relative value of unlike goods. That is literally impossible if the thing used as money is non-economic, like fiat currency. The money must be itself a tradeable commodity. Commodities that are useful as money have all the traditional traits you learn in elementary school, and gold is the traditional and current best fit for those traits.

Belief in the viability of "monetary policy" and fiat currencies always comes from a belief that no one can really know how economics works, so whatever anyone does right now might not work in the future. Well, obviously that's going to be true of people who refuse to learn what economics as a field actually is.
Any newspaper available in my city are reliant upon advertising.
Let's not forget I pay for the newspaper subscription too, it's not free to sign up.

Unfortunately some newspapers also are heavily biased in favor of those who pay their bills. See The Washington Post on any Amazon/Bezos related news after he became the owner of Democracy's death in Darkness.
Study for programming interviews while at your current job in your terminal
This is probably less exciting than you imagine. It's hard to estimate HDD and CPU failure rates 5 years into the future, especially on new-generation hardware. 3 years was an informed guess.
Web 3D APIs are castrated, they will never be able to match native APIs.

Going for GL ES 3.0 subset, when devices do GL ES 3.2?

Going for a MVP 1.0 with minimum overlap across Metal, Vulkan and DX12 instead of using their full blown capabilities?

In both cases, having to use native GPU debugging tools anyway.

Rather give the 30%.
Lost with a working phone that you don't use to call is either a very good sign or a very bad one

In any case... wouldn't be easier to triangulate the phone position? They only need him to answer to save a rescue.
I would assume "no client side js" means "works fine in w3m". I'm guessing that's not the case?
"Monike" - (of an idea, idea, or person) not actually existing; unrealist

This was the 5th word it generated
Yes, there should be options. Not your keys, not your Bitcoin though!

You can outsource to an exchange/bank but that gives you an IOU only, and not Bitcoin. The IOU is permissioned, censored, and prone to seizure.
1) I don't know the answer to how much or how little FB censors, that's such a complicated thing and I'm not sure if anyone has a good sense of where FB is materially doing. Of course it's an impossible problem anyhow.

Either way - I believe voices on FB do have a lot of power.

I felt this viscerally when visiting with an older family member who listens to insane people on FB all day, who happen to be anti-vaxxers. This person is 'at risk' and has been strongly influenced by the nauseating, constant misinformation about vaccines and other things.

2) The argument over the term 'whistleblower' - and the material legality of the allegations matters a lot.

What Enron did was wrong, that's not an opinion.

The Facebook leaks don't point at legal wrongdoing, or rather, it would be an editorialisation to indicate that they are even doing anything wrong, legal or otherwise.

There's a world of difference between someone 'disagreeing' with Facebook vs. indicating that FB has done something very illegal, which I believe the term 'whistleblower' implies i.e. they're 'blowing the whistle' on some malfeasance.

When someone is a 'whistleblower' they are subject to all kinds of protections not afforded to someone merely 'disagreeing' with their company.

Ironically, what she did was probably very illegal.

And yes, she does have the right to be 'prepared' but it rather seems to me to be disingenuous as people are not going to be aware of the planned mechanations of the organized plot, and I think that matters as well.
"... by individuals and small communities" almost invariably means "by experienced developers who want a playground."

Slab vs cloud is a non-issue. The real issue is technocracy vs humanity.

Currently we have no human computing of any kind. Non-experts have two choices: being monitored in as many different ways as is practical in order to be carpet-bombed with targeted ads and (increasingly) fake news. Or being forced into endless tinkering with opaque systems that sort-of work some of the time, maybe, and require expert knowledge for installation and configuration.

That's it. There is nothing else on the table. It's one or the other - and often both.

So when I read a phrase like "Google's largesse" I'm not sure what the point of the article is.

There is no largesse. And there's also no real choice for most users.

The independent dev community could change this, but it seems permanently attached to the wrong end of the telescope, looking at computing from the comfort of its tool- and toy-making treadmill.

"Why should an ordinary user care about this?" isn't asked nearly as often as it should be. And "Don't you understand the tech is fun to play with?" is not the right answer.

Many of the biggest innovations in computing happened because someone asked that question. For some reason the entire industry seems to have stopped asking it.

Except when there's an obvious possibility an answer can be monetised. And while that's certainly a reason, it's not necessarily the best reason.
We have one guy with the Dell XPS in the office. This laptop keeps making noise…
I used to use a lawn service, and told them no pesticides or herbicides.
It's not easy to get in to these places if you are from the US. Less than the top 10% of students would qualify with their diploma.
I think you're referring to a different piece of software, Windows 11
I find it super bizarre that Huawei would sell expired patents. Is it really worth it?
This is unfortunate to hear. My least favorite thing about automatic cars is that the pedals don't increase and decrease the momentum of the car. Instead, the car slowly moves at all times unless the brakes are hit, and the "gas" is treated as more of a hint system for if the car should speed up or slow down.
Where are you getting your $2T number from?
Tons, the book "Algorithms to live by" go head first into this - https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...

It can sound a bit simple at first, but the human - algo stories are terrific.
There are a lot of things that eat ticks. eg: Chickens will turn ticks into eggs.
> The point stands: CPI inflation is the one that actually affects us.

If your only purpose in life is to be a "consumer", sure. But changes in relative purchasing power between people also distort you're ability to affect the world. Increasing purchasing power of a bank or home owner relative to a saver through policy decisions increases their power to affect the world relative to the saver. This ability to arbitrarily choose winners and losers is not what you want in a monetary system IMO.

Edit: ability to affect the world as well as freedom to act, since you can substitute money for your own time.
> Some banks have already begun dabbling in these areas without regulatory clarity. Earlier this month, U.S. Bancorp (USB.N) announced it was launching a cryptocurrency custody service for institutional investment managers.

This is fascinating. Within a mere 10 years, Bitcoin has gone from a toy to something now intersecting directly with the US banking system.

With each integration point, Bitcoin gets more difficult to legislate out of existence or destroy through capricious police action. Aside from Tether, this is one of the biggest risk factors cited by those who have studied Bitcoin in detail.
Robinhood Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
> Ranga Dias, an applied physicist at the University of Rochester […] rejects Hirsch’s allegations. He asserts that Hirsch isn’t an expert in high-pressure physics and that he has a history of claiming that the Nobel Prize–winning “BCS theory” underlying superconductivity is incorrect. Dias says Hirsch relentlessly badgers superconductivity researchers. “Hirsch is a troll,” Dias says. “We are not going to feed this troll” by providing the data.

What’s with the namecalling? Could have just left it at the facts.
The alternate site is particularly relevant to me; the first two words I "made up" were "cromulent" and "embiggen".

Well played.