skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The universe is expanding"..I would ad "faster than the speed of light". And that some galaxies that we see today we will not see in the future, as the space between us will be traveling faster than the light they emit can travel.
We've run in both of these configurations connecting to Aurora:

1) Run a pgbouncer ASG with a load balancer in front for applications to connect to.
2) Run pgbouncer on all our hosts and application connect to localhost.

(2) was significantly cheaper once we switched over. All our hosts are 24xlarge so there was plenty of application traffic to make pgbouncer meaningful on the same host.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10507452B2/en
Coronavirus FAQ: I just got a booster
The article cites three extremely common criticisms of Bitcoin. In this sense, they add nothing to the conversation.

All Zulip has to do is consult their own home page. There at the top in large font is this:

> Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.

https://zulip.com

Where in that statement does something like "crypto assets" management fit in? Exactly nowhere. Crypto assets are not conversations. Nor can they help anyone catch up on important conversations. The Zulip team will not degrade its efforts to focus teams on communication by distracting them with useless fluff they can get elsewhere. End of story.
ETH is transitioning. Multiple billions are staked on ETH2 already. It's not a hard switch all at once, don't suggest that.

I believe GP is correct that the majority market cap of crypto is more on PoS vs PoW, but I don't have a source readily available.

You only listed two coins, one you were wrong on as it's both PoS and PoW currently. Remember that most ETH competitors have billions in market cap and are pure PoS. Algorand, Cardano, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot, etc.
Squeak or Pharo if you want the full image-based experience. Some distros come with Squeak but the packaging can be confused and the versions are often old. A slow and slightly janky but surprisingly useable Squeak experience can be had in a web browser at https://squeak.js.org/run/ . Older Squeak versions tend to run faster in SqueakJS.

There are tutorials all over the place however as Smalltalk is a system that, like Lisp, has dialects, they tend to be system specific. Lots of material at http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html .
You mean highlighting? It's still hard to read. And copying pasting is too much work. It all ends up being a form of censorship, for better or worse.
Or, in Python 3.3 and above:

class Stuff:
def __init__(self):
self.a_list = [1,2,3,4]
def __iter__(self):
yield from self.a_list
Only things I see are underserved markets. Which are either illegal or probably not big enough or there isn't enough pressure to make them work on global scale. Then again world is complex place and financial transactions between different regulatory environments are especially so.
> (such as looping through large arrays, only doing one simple calculation to each index, then doing that on many cores).

...which perfectly describes a parallelized mat-vec-mult. Yes, that's not common in most applications, but I'd have a hard time naming a more basic operation in scientific (and related) computations.
> People keep saying it's the future but I can't really figure out how regular banking, accounting, or general software applications can't do the same basic task as one on the blockchain - but quicker and at a lower cost.

There isn't.

I think a lot of people falsely think that Web3 is going to consume Web2 and everything will go on the blockchain and be decentralized.

It just won't... we will still have centralized products, much like we still have "read-only websites" but, we are going to see a large increase in decentralization.

I feel that we are the "early 1990's internet" stage of decentralization. There were (apparently) article after article, denouncing the internet as a fad, that it will be dead any day, just for <x>, just for <y>, "The internet is tearing apart the fabric of society"...

Decentralization, in my opinion, is an inevitability. If the human race becomes multi-planetary and space-faring, we will need to be able to run independent nodes of services while keeping individual nodes honest and accurate.

Do I believe BTC or ETH will be the winner? Probably not. But the huge explosion in decentralized tech and allowing technical individuals to sharpen their sticks for it will definitely lead the way for a better, healthier world. I believe the same for Hyperloop; it might fail but ultimately we will win because we have excited a huge number of people about high-speed travel along with having knowledge about what worked.

And the multi-planetary argument is just one argument. We are on the cusp of a huge upheaval in government and society imo. We are at all-time peak of distrust among individuals, corporations and the gov't. The only way forward is going to be trust-less systems where everyone can inspect why and how things are working.

I don't think that 2031 will look anything like 2021, just like 2011 didn't look like 2001.
Among the most insidious aspects of such sites is when somebody is wrong on the Internet.

As in the comment above.

https://xkcd.com/386/
For small amounts, the "lore" is that people response especially well to food. That is, more people will fill out a survey for a Snicker's Bar than if offered the equivalent amount of cash (e.g., $2).
Mix in some signals and you are on the fast track to debugging purgatory.
Static, Shared Dynamic and Loadable Linux Libraries
Don’t high velocity neutrons irradiate the materials they go through? I would imagine this could lead to interference in long lived installations. Also how would this be safe in a maritime environment?
Pop me a connection request on LinkedIn, it would be good to chat. I’m UK based too & am heavily involved in this space.
> Source? I haven’t added up the long tail but this seems dubious given the dominance of bitcoin/ethereum.

I'm skeptical that such a calculation could even be meaningfully performed. The long tail of cryptocurrencies includes a great many whose volumes are so low that "market cap" becomes a nebulous concept.
The mining is migrating — as in the production of new blocks. The actual blockchain is free open and available to everyone in the world, with a computer and internet connection. It is not an exclusive technology for rich nations.
Appreciate the response, we are in the process of getting an attorney now.
I think you are referring to ethereum fees. Bitcoin is much better, and many others are even better. So, no, there isn't anything better than crypto for the purpose of efficiently transferring value across the globe.
Good decision but the reasons are not, imo. Current implementations are a scam, period. That's a reason not to get involved. Other concerns, they can be dismissed as growing pains, "this will end with proof of stake", and just because criminals use something does not make it bad, see torrents or the internet generally. Bottom line, why be an early adopter of a ponzi scheme. That is why they shouldn't get "on the bandwagon"
Just a question - are you a developer of any kind?

I’m sure if you are / have been / you’ll obviously understand why this is impractical as all hell; if not impossible, right?

When everyone updates to iOS x.x, Apple knows every user has all of those fixes who have upgraded.

This would result in the support team needing to support potentially dozens more configurations, offers dozens more potential points of failure, fragments the dev team, and complicates the hell out of everything in general.

This is not…something you can realistically expect. And part of me thinks you do know that.
Not to mention that storage space is also an environmental impact. I think when thinking about environmental impact we're often too focused on emissions during usage and not looking at the environmental impact of manufacturing and recycling the objects themselves.

Solar panels, for example, look a lot less eco-friendly when you realize their lifespans are about 20 years and our recycling solution is to... not recycle them. Not to mention precious metals like lithium are getting harder and harder to mine, meaning more and more emissions are required to acquire those materials in the first place. It's estimated that around 46% of an EV battery's carbon footprint is in the factory itself before it's even travelled a single mile. Which is part of why total lifetime GHG emissions for EVs are still around 65% that of gasoline powered cars.[0] and only 5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled in the US (compared to 99% of lead-iron batteries).

Sorry I'm rambling. I think my point was that we need to think more about where the materials come from and what happens to them afterwards if we want a more complete picture of the environmental impacts of a technology

[0] https://theicct.org/publications/global-LCA-passenger-cars-j...
It just doesn’t come up that often though.

In most cases it’s not hard to narrow down which aspects of state are relevant; you really only need to preserve everything for rare exceedingly subtle/deep bugs, which is a special case not a general usage kinda thing—and yet this feature is often discussed as revolutionary for programming in general.
PoS is winning on almost every metric.

https://money-movers.info/
https://cryptofees.info/
I've looked at that bike now. It's a regular e-bike, not an s-pedelec so quite a bit slower, also the range is very small. I like the looks though, very elegant. But like I wrote in the article, I'm probably faster on my old non assisted racer than I would be on that bike even though it would give me more range because it's assisted. The battery on my bike is more than four times as large, and will do 180 km at maximum assist, far faster than that Vado SL bike will go, and it's a different class of bike entirely (pedelec vs s-pedelec).
> we don't live in a police state...

Shocking statement that demonstrates more attempt to spin than inform.

Supposing we take the webster dictionary definition of police state: "political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures"

Considering this effects up to 40% of the population according to the article it checks quite a few boxes:

1. Arbitrary: No precedent, first in the world to do so, with no evidence this will solve the problem in total (controlling covid completely).

2. Repressive government control: There's no argument this fits the strictest definition of repressive.

3. Exercise of power by the police: There's no statement they'll use "secret police" but certainly the enforcement will be aggressive and severe to keep 40% of the population locked down. It's not like watching one person's house. That's a lot of people.

For the record, I am not against vaccines. I am however pro bodily autonomy at any cost, for whatever reason, in any condition. The "price to pay in society" isn't to violate your bodily autonomy, and therefore the non-aggression principle, but make a personal decision to avoid or interact with people you disagree with.

It turns out that all it took to test the waters of liberty and free will was deciding what you want to, and what you dont want to, put in your body. You would even think this would be a cut and dry case considering the alleged "libertarian" leanings of HN, but to my surprise it seems many people are willing to sacrifice this fundamental liberty for ephemeral (possibly even negative) gain. We're 2 years into 15 days to flatten the curve. We have all the evidence to show this won't fix anything unless these people are locked down permanently. At that point they may as well be thrown in prisons, or camps, or whatever the dictator says to do. Democracies can't simply hold you down and inject you with chemicals but coercing these people with objectively police state style tactics is the way tyrants dressed as democratic leaders effectively accomplish the same thing.
Can they do Jews next? /s
There are Fortran II program that I wrote decades ago that I would totally struggle to remember what was going on.

I have had the same experience with C++ that I wrote years ago.
Knowing said teacher ;) I wonder if he’d still say the same thing now… It’s good practice to have to use single precision (or even half-precision!) now and then in order to be forced to deal with precision issues. Yes, use doubles if you really need them and aren’t trying to learn. But they’re often a lot more than 2x more expensive, and they might not be necessary at all. I’ve heard people who develop commercial rendering software for movies you’ve probably seen say out loud that you never need doubles, you just need to understand how to use floats.
"web3" is Ethereum's term for the API that lets web pages do things with your Ethereum client. It's also a vague marketing idea for some kind of a future web that also involves hosting pages on IPFS and registering domains with Ethereum, and still letting these pages do Ethereum things.

It's all pretty stupid.
I'm really curious, because I'm often much more cautious and qualified in how I speak, why do you seem to be 100% certain that Ethereum is solving and has it in the bag?

Do you have zero doubt? Do you have a lot of doubt and speak so certainly to mask your own self-doubt? Do you have a lot of money riding on it being successful therefore afraid Ethereum won't solve the problem? Maybe none of those things or a combo?

I really really struggle to know why people speak about such things with near certainty and maybe you won't answer but I hope you do and help me see what may contribute to you expressing such certainty.
EULA says it

If you are at AWS scale, NVIDIA would definitely sue you ...
Yes, I learned that the hard way that day.
If I lose my crypto keys I lose my money. If I lose my credit card, or even forget my account number I can just walk to bank or use some other strong online ID system and sort it out.

And online wallets/exchanges, I trust those even less than paypal... At least banks are regulated.
This reminds me of an interesting problem. In oral speech, I frequently say "wouldn't've" and "couldn't've", but in text form both look completely asinine and aren't generally even recognized by spellcheckers.
National Guard activated ahead of Rittenhouse verdict
My unfiltered additions:

* SpaceX. I have lots of reservations about the company but the fact that they are consistently doing things previously thought impossible is very important for humanity in general.

* The new Dune movie was downright amazing. The CGI was believable and an important part of the story.

* AI-generated art. Fascinating.

* Wikipedia. Wow.

* I can invest in lots of different assets relatively easily.

* Playwright and Puppeteer. I have automated a lot of workflows thanks to those projects. Pressing a button and watching those workflows run is an empowering experience.

* Raspberry Pi and Arduino. A month back I built little hack projects for the pure joy of exploring. Very rejuvenating experience.

* Electric cars. I'm particularly excited about the F-150 Lightning. They really leaned into the whole electric thing and tried to find some compelling use cases e.g. the generator and the massive front storage (Disclosure: I have some Ford stock, less than 1% of my overall portfolio). The prospect of cities with much less air pollution is wonderful.

* Wind + solar + nuclear energy. And a nod to geothermal and hydroelectric. Our civilization will make the transition. It will be messy and could have been much less painful but we will do it.
The vaccines don't stop people from spreading it though...?
Isn't it rebelling against a naturalistic fallacy? I think the naturalistic fallacy here is the assumption that hierarchies are natural. The point being made is that hierarchies are manmade and must be enforced by people to uphold. It's NOT just a natural consequence of growth
I have a family member who has rejected COVID vaccinations and I have a difficult time dealing with the lack of rationality on their part. Every explanation or assertion is countered with increasingly extreme ideas, and I’m in an awkward position of figuring out how my young child can spend time with them in a safe manner.

I had previously not understood how people could get themselves so deep into conspiracy theories. Now it’s obvious.

The next step with this sort of thing is of course that someone starts selling a “cure” for the vaccine that is harmless, but is fraudulent and scamming people.
uBlacklist fully supports blocking results from Google, Bing and DDG, and partially from Startpage and Ecosia [1]. It's been available for Firefox and Chromium derivatives for a while, and there seems to be a third-party Safari port as well [2][3].

There's a bunch of language-specific blocklists on GitHub focused on StackOverflow/GitHub mirrors and wonky machine translations, but I don't know of any mature curation effort yet.

[1] https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist#supported-search-engine...

[2] https://github.com/HoneyLuka/uBlacklist/tree/safari-port/saf...

[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublacklist-for-safari/id154791...
Peace Please
I agree that it's bad for the planet.

Can we make a list of all the sectors that are consuming energy and determine which are providing the most benefit? Then we can focus on making reductions in the most harmful and the least important energy consumers.

Crypto is a big energy consumer, but I would prefer not to attack it just because it's new. It can provide some awesome things for humanity. I'd rather live in a world with crypto than one with massive military spending, for example.
Criminal behaviour is the only value add worth anything in cryptocurrency.
You should try writing a smart contract. I didn’t believe in the utility until I did that. You can think of a blockchain like Ethereum as a really shitty global computer. It’s so weak that all it can do is transactionally change a few bytes of data associated with a key. Using this shitty computer, you can implement a currency or some type of token system. The important bit is that it’s a shitty computer _now_, but maybe it won’t be so bad in the future. When you implement a smart contract, you realize it’d be pretty nice if you could run complicated programs on a global computer and not need to worry about running your own infra like a DB or hosting.
edit: Sorry for the rambling, I've just had too much gin, but this stuff has been bothering me lately.

Agree across the board. Given that internet dialogue hugely influences our thoughts today, I think the importance of the tools, platforms and/or form used to discuss things is an underrated consideration. Especially with 'misinformation' or truth wars taking place today. I think that's gonna be one of the biggest problems that needs to be solved but no ones talking about it.

I would love to somehow live in a world where the information delivered to me and others was true and not misleading, only trying to accurately convey the info at hand, and not cherrypicking or manipulating. Essentially life without propaganda or lies. I don't want to spend life either sorting through propaganda to find obfuscated truth or simply accepting the dominant consensus. Sadly I don't know how someone could ever solve this without deciding who the (corruptible) arbiters of truth are. I wish we lived in a world where our individual incentives aligned with what brings out the best both ourselves and others. I have been getting sad lately feeling like there will always be a monopoly on truth and violence, a monopoly on reality, and it will never have our best interest at the center of its heart.

'Science' is seen as the answer, the ultimate objective arbiter of truth but sadly it's an abused buzzword and has become an authority figure with followers that obey its consensus. The scientific process is diametrically opposed to accepting consensus and is about falsifying hypothesis. Today studies are sponsored by corporations that have already defined what they want to conclude and this is accepted in the public sphere as a source of truth, despite the infamous 'replication crisis' also being known in the public sphere. How do you trust experts that don't trust themselves, or have incentives that work against you?

I just feel like I've lost all hope until I see a reasonable solution on the horizon.

>inb4 just buy chainlink
Maybe it's next to impossible to write C code that isn't badly written
This is an interesting project, but if I needed long range transportation and didn't want a car, I'd get an electric scooter (the Vespa kind, not the Razor kind), or an electric motorcycle. It's built to handle higher speeds and can coexist with cars more safely.
How can members of a legislative body simply vote that others they disagree with can no longer vote anymore? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of having a legislative body in the first place?
"-fno-math-errno" and "-fno-signed-zeros" can be turned on without any problems.

I got a four times speedup on <cmath> functions with no loss in accuracy.
I really enjoy modern translations like "night-club" -> "taberna nocturna".
True - when car is driving itself, it's relatively easy to override automatic steering and disengage.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House whistleblower has said the Trump administration overruled security experts to give questionable security clearances to more than two dozen people, including the president’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-clearances/whis...
Non sequitur - Step 1 with a new Word install should be to uncheck the “Ignore All-Caps Words” in the spellcheck settings. Works well in minimizing section heading faux pas.
Once I did that, cause the survey was sooo naggy. Then the sales rep for the app called me two days later asking me to change it because it reflects on their sales performance too and their manager wanted to know why.

So naturally, I asked to speak to that manager to explain how App review and Employee review are different. Then informed them how intelligent I thought their method was. Then cancelled the service (insurance)
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Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccines over time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29137659
We are saying the same thing here, though I think you are missing the point that this is all a response to someone asking if SMT is useful anymore since there are many cores in almost every CPU.

The answer is that it is absolutely still useful since your example is niche and most software/systems can still benefit from being able to work around memory latency with more threads.
The harder you work, the luckier you get
Stablecoins like Tether imploding will destroy the whole shitcoin economy though. We just don't know when, but someday it will happen. They're all clearly criminal fraudulent operations printing fake dollars not backed by anything. You can't do that endlessly.
Well, if they run it, there is something they can do about it. That sort of summarizes the whole thing. Either they actually develop a protocol that lets people engage on their own terms in a VR world, or the just build a Facebook second life where you can go and do approved things and maybe submit an app for approval of facebook that let's you do some approved extra thing, maybe line dancing or something. It's pretty clear from the comments that what they're doing is the latter thing, so as I said earlier, why would anyone use this?
However, if you have a legitimate product that can actually be enhanced by the blockchain, why would that stop you?

I'd like to see a few. We're not even seeing code signing of major software or Docker containers on a blockchain, which would actually be useful.
But we already have gravity wave generators. E.g. I’ve just generated some by waving my arm!
Burrow: Static Site Generator for Gopher