skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Part of the problem, the Blackstone (BX) billionaire said, is that it's getting harder and harder for fossil fuel companies to borrow money to fund their expensive production activities, especially in the United States.

>"Short-term policies related to environmentalism in terms of restricting supply of hydrocarbons has created energy inflation, and we're going to be living with that for some time,"
Usually the font you have for the login and other places is used for things like Back To School supplies, and whatnot. If your audience is who I think they would be, I can't imagine them associating themselves to that font.

Also, while ratskellers are often basement (cellar) restaurants, the word literally means "council chamber." They pretty much always are associated to alcohol one way or other. Although that'll be great if you add in wine pairings.

So, there's a lot of mixed theming going on.

You know what a German ratskeller looks like. I wouldn't venture so far away from that theme with a name like that. There's a reason all brit pubs around the world pretty much look the same - like actual brit pubs!
> Its not exactly hard to comply with the AGPL. Just choose either to not modify the software

Unfortunately, the GPL and AGPL suffer from the same flaw: they don't rigorously define what a derivative work is. The way the licences are written they make the definition seem self evident, but it's self evident the way porn is self evident - everyone knows it when they see it.

For example, from the way the GPL is written, dynamic linking to something makes it a derivative work, but invoking services from a http server is not. So how about I circumvent your GPL licence by putting an RPC shim layer than talks over http?

Some projects have solved the problem by drawing their strict demarcation lines. For example, Linus has publicly stated on numerous occasions that using the kernel user user space API does not make a user space program a derivative work of the Linux kernel. Somewhat more dubiously, they seem to tolerate kernel modules that use GPL kernel symbols only. I've convinced myself that strong, clear demarcation is fundamental to Linux being accepted everywhere.

The reason this is important is when you say "choose to not modify the software", the software in question is the original software or any derivative work. The problem is there is no clear definition of when your code becomes a derivative work. If you give a lawyer that much wriggle room and put enough money up as the prize, and you end up spending 10's of millions defending lawsuits from Oracle's lawyers trying to wriggle through an "API is copyrightable" loophole.

A GPLv4 that insisted the licence holder clearly define what they consider to be a derivative work would IMO be a big step forward in copyleft licences. Oh and get rid of the "Installation Information" requirement, or at least make it compatible with code signing. A device defending itself by insisting any binary it runs is signed by a trusted source is not compatible with defining the private keys securing the signature are "Installation Information".
But won't herd immunity become a thing with covid-19 ?
The government prints very little money. 90% of USD doesn't physically exist according to the fed itself. Inflation comes from banks creating money by fractional reserve lending.
I agree, like a warmed up mousetrap gets the mice in and then the bait...
Energy use by traditional banking is not at all comparable. Banks have none of the properties Bitcoin was envisioned to provide. Fundamentally, bitcoin is not even a bank, it's more like cash. It makes no sense to compare the two.

That energy usage is supposed to buy us a monetary system that's completely independent of government. Uncensorable, untraceable, unsanctionable, anonymous, the works. It literally doesn't matter how much energy it uses, as long as those properties are achieved. The problem is BTC failed at all of them. It really is a waste to spend all this energy mining BTC when better projects like Monero exist.
Eh, Rome had widespread use of abortifacients, only falling after they had harvested those plants into extinction.
Ouch. Your arguments… are like from early 2020?

Except the live in the remote town, your other points have been refuted and are easily disproven with some basic research skills.

My home country with silly low vaccination rates just introduced 8pm curfew last week, a neighboring country is sending additional ventilators, routine healthcare and surgeries have been stopped, government is making plans of sending patients abroad if the infection and hospitalization rates don’t change and they’re now talking about targeted mobilization to help healthcare staff, who are crunching insane hours to save people lives.

But hey ho, “Honey, come look! I’ve found some information all the world’s scientists and doctors have missed.”, said an HN commenter.

Just makes me sad.

If you think you’re the smartest person in the world, you need to look in the mirror twice.
> Once people install ad blockers, they don't typically remove them. And ad-blockers keep growing

> don't fundamentally understand why people allow ads on their devices when they can prevent it

The market share of iOS also has increased a bit, and iOS does not allow ad blocking very easily. You have to configure some sorta DNS-based ad blocking, which is harder than the traditional desktop firefox/chrome adblockers to install.

Usage of computers has also shifted towards phone/tablet apps, away from desktop browsers... And ad-blocking in apps is hard to impossible compared to on desktops.

I'm not surprised people continue to see a lot of ads as we move from the web, where mature ad-blockers exist, to apps, where ad-blocking is harder and less mature.

Even very technical people usually don't bother with pi-hole and see ads in free android apps.

Oh, and also, there are occasionally cases of an ad-blocker removing itself somewhat, i.e. adblock plus used to be the go to recommendation for ad-blocking, but they started allowing google ads through in an update (https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads)... so maybe someone installed adblock plus because that's what they remembered from 10 years ago (and adblock plus has better SEO than ublock origin too), and thus still gets google ads now.
Hey this is a really good question. And I agree with you 100%! We have only explored a tiny corner of the design space.

Since you asked for links, I think you'd like this talk I gave at Berkman a little while ago: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/governing-social-media-city

It's about: if we think of social media as a new city, what are the alternatives to hiring tons of cops/censors? What about urban planning, bike lanes, etc?

As for healthy engagement: I think there are a few people in this space. I honestly don't know as many as I'd like. This will be a learning experience for everyone. I think New Public might be doing good work, but I'm not sure!

https://newpublic.org/

Hope that helps!
(robot voice) Does /dev/null support sharding? Sharding is the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce.
Is that really a bad thing though?

For the 1/10 times at work where the person in power ends up having a meaningful relationship with an underling that you lose, you also have the 9/10 cases of sexual harassment that you lose too.
Can you expand on why you think it is wrong or problematic?
It's still out there, especially when you find webrings that are still alive and kicking. I have a links page on my art/personal site that links to easily 200+ other artists, organizations, webrings, and interesting finds. May you find something fascinating enough to click on. :)

http://www.kradeelav.com/link.html
And then we would be reading an article about people going off grid because their power cost is 4x average.
Interesting data.

Rating rises sharply when you spend time studying the game and then remains mostly flat after reaching the next stage of mastery. If you play tricks, which catapults your ratings, you will eventually stabilize at a level where those tricks are less effective.

It helps to play many games to fully understand theory and make it part of your own playstyle. What can be truly fascinating, and that's what I am thinking of datamining thanks to this code, is which openings the person who improved gravitated towards and what they gave up. I have a hypothesis those with 100+ Elo gains eventually settled on a few openings and studied their theory.

This code can be adapted for better tournament prep. For example, it should be possible to determine which tactics
are most effective against that player. :)
World GDP is $80T. Google's run-rate is $240B revenue and Facebook's is $116B. That's $356B / $80T => 0.445%. Close enough for internet math.
> They are also a car manufacturing supply chain, having brought much of their component production in house. They are also an energy company, both generation and storage, but also distribution, like gas stations.

So basically a car company. GM makes their cars in-house. They own their own parts supplier (acdelco) and charging/distribution network (Ultium Charge 360). Ford and Stellantis are working on the same.
People are begging to buy shares in private companies right now BTW.
AFAICT, O'Reilly's first Ruby book was "Ruby on Rails", published 2006. O'Reilly's "The Ruby Programming Language" wasn't published until 2008.

O'Reilly published Matz's Ruby in a Nutshell in 2001, but it didn't sell very well. When I worked there, I encouraged more Ruby publishing but only after I published the "Rolling with Ruby on Rails" articles (January 2005) did that argument get much traction.

The Pragmatic Programmers released their first Ruby programming book in 2000, by way of comparison (and Dave introduced me to DHH in 2004, which is how I decided to seek out the Rails articles).
This article is dated September 30, 2021.

On that date Denmark reported a 7-day average of 407 new cases or about 6.9/100K, and it was already rising, from a low of 310 on the 22nd. As of October 25th, the 7-day average has tripled, to 1,203, roughly 20/100K.[1]

The reproductive rate of the virus, known as the R rate, is now 1.2, up from 1 a week ago, which means the virus is spreading, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke tweeted on Tuesday.[2]

1 https://www.google.com/search?q=denmark+covid

2
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/danish-co...
> I’ve heard that some public high schools in California will require a vaccination card!, which, in my opinion, is quite extreme.

Do you have children? Public schools have had vaccination requirements going back to the middle of the 19th Century. If you live in California, starting before kindegarten students are required to be vaccinated against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, varicella, Haemophilus influenzae, measles, mumps, and rubella. They also recommend Hep B and meningococcal vaccines but the latter are only required for college students.

https://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/

This is true in most of the civilized world because vaccines have changed those diseases from something my parents' generation knew as the reason why the neighbor kid died or was crippled for life to something you learn about in history class.
I'm firmly in the "wait and see" group with my kids for two reasons.

The FDA says that the side effects in children are comparable with the "16 to 25 years" age group, which is the age group that has the highest incidents of myocarditis with both mRNA vaccines.

The sample size was too small to detect myocarditis according to the FDA, so people who are eager to vaccinate their children can provide that data set pretty quickly.

Also the “Long-term safety of COVID-19 vaccine in participants 5 to <12 years of age will be studied in 5 post-authorization safety studies.” Again, I'm choosing not allow my children to be a data point in that study.
16 CFR § 1028.116 is specific to research subjects, and would not apply here.
> No, it exists in math, with addition and subtraction.

I’m sure you can imagine a formula. If you’d like to share a particular formula that works for determining the “intrinsic value” of any arbitrary asset I can explain why it’s wrong or meaningless.

> This does not follow

EUR literally floats wrt USD. There is no coherent way to disagree with this.

> Currencies do not float with respect to other currencies because they are not priced in terms of each other.

Yes they are, any time someone does an FX trade.

> Ok let's talk about real estate.

Typo, meant 3.5/5. Durable - yes, it persists better over arbitrary timescales than the dollar, especially raw land. Scarce - yes. Fungible - 0.5. Liquid - long settlement times don’t mean illiquid (although I probably should apply a penalty here) - yes. Portable - 0. I think you meant “1” since you didn’t disagree with scarcity.

> Try bringing your deed to the Apple store to buy a MacBook… Try bringing a gold brick to the Apple store and see if you can buy an iPhone

Try bringing EUR to a US Apple store.

> we replaced it because it was bad at being money

Do you really think that’s why Nixon suspended gold convertibility? That’s a… very charitable explanation
Huh. I wasn't aware of this. I tried for quite a long time to compile it myself a while ago and failed, I'll give it another go, thank you!
The whole point of cryptocurrencies is to scam poor, desperate people, and fuck the planet, for the sake of personal wealth.

Fuck off and die you soulless cretin.
You just proved I'm right. In your other comment, you said "is 6 more months fine?"

And I said that they'll always find reasons to extend their magical new powers. And yet here we are, someone doing that for them by buying into the strain fear-mongering DESPITE the fact that the antibodies from past covid or from vaccination are effective against Delta. Source again:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

And with both populations having antibodies (from any source) in large excess of Fauci's 60-70 percent estimate, pegged as of May 2021 at over 80% of the population...it's time to end the mandates. Source again:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704...

I'm not going to mince words over which Western European country may be more polite than Australia as if that detracts from my arguments about what's happening. Australia is turning into a dictatorship at this rate. That is not hyperbole. Look at the links I shared more closely. This is in a western democracy, and we have no shortage of "useful fools" who will gladly parrot the same rhetoric in America or Canada or Europe if they can.
I once dated a lovely beautiful nerdy funny intelligent successful software engineer.

Our first five dates were awesome. So much agreement and joy and commonality. Instant connection and camaraderie.

Further on we realized we didn't bring enough to relationship. We didn't want the"gender I'm attracted version of myself". We each wanted somebody to bring new perspectives, challenge us in ways that work and nerdy friends don't, to talk about not work after work, or at least different work, etc. Ultimately even somebody to disagree with us.

After a few similar experiences, it's not that I ever actively avoided a software engineer partner, it's just that they never seemed to last long. Love of my life is English major with career in retail and home depot / Canadian tire store manager. She brings softer , more emotionally intelligent, people oriented side to our family. I'm the annoying pedantic literal obsessive nerdy one :-D. Works well!

Edit : All of my close developer friends are similarly married to arts major types. Interestingly, I now realize, great many of my acquaintance developer friends have nerdy or techu partners. Wonder what variables are at place but definitely to each their own!
No.

Google Cloud Revenue went up from $3.4 billion for Q3 2020 to $4.9 billion for Q3 2021

Google Cloud operating losses went down from $1.1 billion in Q3 2020 to $640 million in Q3 2021. (Though it looks like this change is almost exactly accounted for by a change in depreciation expense due to revised estimate of the useful life of servers.)

So they are bringing in significantly more money through the front door with Cloud, though they are still losing money (either about the same or half as much, depending on how you look at it) on Cloud.
I manage near 1M$ in Google Ads per year and can tell you CPC is going up while impressions are stable.
> Here’s the crucial step. Since the server gets all the input with timestamps, it can authoritatively reconstruct the world at any instant in the past. In particular, it can reconstruct the world exactly as it looked like to any client at any point in time.

Isn't there a really obvious exploit here? The client could lie about the timestamps and use that to take advantage of future information in making its decisions. For example, in a simplified fighting game where you have two attacks (top and bottom) and two blocks, it could always choose the perfect block to apply before the opponent attacks—simply by seeing the incoming attack packet, and then immediately sending a block packet with an "older" timestamp. This doesn't entirely break the concept of an authoritative server, but it seems to diminish it significantly. I know lots of fighting games use this "rollback-type" netcode, maybe they've developed workarounds for this?
Yeah, perhaps to those not creating value.
You have to be a 'Computer Systems Analyst' to be eligible for TN status.
So that's true, but also we don't need new small farms.
They can adjust Quality Score parameters or bid floors to increase the CPC and/or make ads look more like organic results to increase the ad CTR. Both will increase their earnings per pageview.

More auction participants mean higher bids.

Removing match types such as phrase, while automatically shifting phrase to broad modified helps increase their fill rate & number of participants per auction.

Eliminating second price proxy auctions in display ads (search likely soon to follow?) will likely yield measurable increases in CPC.

A few years back they went from up to 10 ads to 7 on most-- they have that dial to adjust if necessary.

Products like Google Shopping take up more and more space on the SERPs and are typically pay to play. They have higher CTR due to carousel images & once you click into that ecosystem, nearly every click yields ad revenue.

Chrome behavior with URLs is conditioning users to search for brands (versus typing in the full domain name), who then have to pay to defend their brand terms from brand poachers.
1. More people are getting on the internet all the time, especially new markets like India (who likely don't use ad blockers).

2. We're still early internet, and people rely on the internet more and more (and therefore search more). E.g. in Covid, people are likely transitioning more of their life online, which is good for Google.

3. As companies and the broader economy do better, companies will invest more in growing themselves, often by buying more ads. Companies are doing very well right now (see stock market), so there are more ads being bought AND the price per ad will likely go up because there is more competition.

4. There is still plenty of untapped ad real estate for Google to monetize as well (searches that could generate ad revenue, and web pages that can surface better ads).

This combination is great for Google.
Stupid question, what is a high-end salon?
Sure, but I’m talking about the control you have over the car when in the car. During the start of this battle pass season there was immense server issues, which I guessed was the tick rate dropping to super low values due to some bad code. During a few games where the servers degraded in this way, moving would be extremely slow on the ground as it kept pushing you back (since the server isn’t processing your ‘move forward’ commands as often) but getting in a car gave back free movement since I assume it’s a direct broadcast that doesn’t hit the game loop and doesn’t have any position-correcting sanity checks running.
My 85y old grandma got lyme this year and she hasn't left the city in more than 5 years. Birds can transfer ticks from thousands of kilometers away. Her garden is very nice though with the long grass and all that.
Synctera launches t-minus10, solving testing for unbanked fintech founders
Kernel receives FDA auth to measure ketamine’s psychedelic effect on the brain
It's not that much about caring, it's more about how to allocate time. If I have one hour to spare, do I want to spend it arguing with users over closed issues, or do I want to spend it to improve some feature or fix a bug?
At least on the income tax side too, you're allowed to file seperately even if you're married.
1. There's a sizable amount of budget in a process of migrating away from offline advertising market, partially thanks to COVID. This increases auction competition.

2. Online advertising still have a room for better optimization in many ways. You'll be surprised on how primitive bidding systems are for a large fraction of advertisers. Better bidding means ads more likely to convert.

Also note that HN readers are extreme outliers compared to usual people who actually spend money on ads. My gut feeling is that perhaps >90% of people don't care much about whether it's ads or not if it seems relevant enough for them.
Incorrect. Those are literally two different entities with no relationship whatsoever.

https://www.sequoiafund.com/home -> is run by people who have nothing to do with Sequouia Venture Capital or the newly minted "The Sequoia Fund". As you can see this is a mutual fund that invests in public equities: https://www.sequoiafund.com/Performance

EDIT: here it is:
https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/81741...
Wow, I did not know that. I honestly don't know how to make a counterargument to this.
I'm guessing there's a more general name for the concept, but drawing a blank.

This is essentially the reason advertisers tend to target the young - those over a certain age are more set in their ways and not looking for new options.
Vitess is amazing. It lets you horizontally scale a mysql database at the database level and not the application level.

With vanilla MySQL there are limits to how big a database can get. If your application/dataset is continually growing, eventually you will need to shard the database. With Vanilla MySQL that entails spinning up a second primary db and teaching the application which db to route queries too. Or putting it another way, the sharding logic lives in the application.

With vitess the sharding logic lives “in the database” so your application doesn’t need to be updated.

It comes with the overhead of some middle ware but in my experience that overhead is well worth keeping the sharding complexity out of the application.

Keep in mind I’m not talking about a database with hundreds of tables getting too big but rather a small set of tables that are large enough and have enough traffic that scaling the underlying instance becomes problematic.
Thanks for that link. Seems Delta and P681 are the "winners" in this environment (but it seems on further research P681 is itself a variant of Delta).
>If you want to expand your habitable footprint as a state

Why is this desirable? You basically just expand every single cost without much benefit and reducing the quality of facilities provided to everyone. The general trend of populations globally is centralization which provides massive benefits.
I automatically got candy crush from win 10. not sure if I should laugh or cry