skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I colo at a local ISP. I've been with them for about a year and I'm happy. Selection was easy: I wanted a local shop and there's only one in town. I had worked with them before on other projects and figured we would get along well.

I manage the hardware myself, mostly remotely. Occasionally I'll go onsite to upgrade or repair something. I buy used servers and parts from a little over five years ago or so. A lot of folks buy new and replace every five years, so this is a sweet-spot for performance per dollar. Kinda like buying a car just off-lease.

Working a cycle behind has its own benefits. If you pick a very common model you'll get cheap and easy-to-find parts. I was able to get a full set of spares for far less than what a typical hardware maintenance contract would cost per year (and I have them on hand rather than in 2-4 hours). Drivers (especially open source drivers) will be better developed and less buggy and you can probably find someone else's notes about anything that usually goes wrong.

Of course if you need cutting-edge gear, this won't be a good option. But I don't, so I take advantage!

I think whether you'll save money depends a lot on how you do things. There are efficiencies of scale that big providers benefit from, but there are also efficiencies you can leverage if you're small and flexible (like tailoring hardware to your use-cases and not doing/supporting stuff you don't personally use).

I didn't make the move to save money, but to get more power and flexibility. So far, so good!

Good luck! If you decide to dive in, I hope you'll come back and let us know how it goes!
Now for the paper on NFT’s being used ONLY for money laundering. Then hopefully I won’t have to listen to someone talk about how much money other people are making. With NFT you can get any illegal income into the country. Keep your illegal funds outside. Go to your country and make an NFT thats “worth” 1 million dollars. Go out of your country and buy it. Congrats u just made art and washed 1 million. Yes a very simple example but still… No jpegs are not being sold for thousands of dollars for legitimate speculation.
Meteostat: Open Weather and Climate Data API
I wanted to include this in my initial comment but it felt too flippant, but since you asked- I have always outright dismissed the idea of US military action against China for their local human rights abuses until you made me consider the possibility that their global human rights abuses were worse and that you couldn't simultaneously pressure them on both fronts. Congrats, you have made me at least 5% more nihilistic today.

(No, I do not think the US should go to war with China. But if you think that China's climate abuse is an existential threat to humankind surely it has to be considered as a possible solution).
Oh yeah?

Ever tried to send funds to a family member on the other side of the world over a weekend?
It's hard to take takes like this seriously when they get the basic premise wrong. It's flowery and cute but its a lot of writing with very little substance.
For sure. I know plenty of ways to deliver solid estimates and hit dates. I think the problem is execs mostly prefer having estimates they like over accurate estimates.
Nope. An account with good reviews.
I think you might be conflating Wash Sale and Wash Trade:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/washtrading.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/washsalerule.asp
Scientific Advances That Will Make You Hopeful for the Future [slides]
DoD Picks Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for Project to Replace Jedi Cloud
As we all know, a decision tree without room for "Unknown Behavior" or error/failure modes (a.k.a. UFOs) is bound to result in a 2am page for a production outage very soon.
Michael Atiyah and the Beauty of Mathematics (2009)
Suppose you have 10 sources of entropy and you don't know which ones are good. If you pick one, and you pick the wrong one, you lose. If you use all of them with an algorithm that works as long as any one of them is good, and any one of them is good, you're good.
The article proposes prepayment options. Why not go to the "other, other obvious" solution, which is results-based payments? In healthcare, that's value-based care. In other industries w/ agent-principle problems, it's called "taking on risk". You're incentivizing results and outcomes, rather than whatever specific actions lead up to those results. It means that the focus is no longer on the activity provided by the agent, but on the desired outcomes from the principle. Pure alignment and it helps filter out those who are good at getting results from those who are good at doing the actions.
colo rather than stuffing it in a cabinet please. a decent colo provider should be able to handle the rest of the stuff for ya after you send them the hardware.
Competition cures greed. Instead of going to one doctor, go to three. Go with the doctor that has the best value (price/service). If the doctor gets greedy, shop around. Tell the doctor you found a lower price, and if he is not competitive, you will fire him, and find a new doctor.
The Classic II (and others newer than the earliest Macs) had bleeder resistors to discharge the CRT automatically

Was that why older/cheaper CRTs just turned off, but the more expensive and newer ones made kind of a "thunk" noise after the screen turned off?
Dedicated over cloud? Yeah, I am personally saving 40x on bandwidth alone.

Colo over renting? Savings seemed pretty small, and hassle was large...
> I was thinking maybe we could offload non-critical systems to our own colocated servers onsite

Definitely have a strategy for cooling the servers in place. If you put two dozen servers of a certain type in a room, how much are they going to warm the room up? How are you going to cool the room off in the summer (and other seasons), and what will the temperature of that room be in the summer on Saturday at 6 PM, and will anybody be around on Saturday at 6 PM, or Sunday at 4 AM if needed? If you have a ventless portable air conditioner in the server room (not that I am recommending it, but I have walked into many on-site server rooms with them), does condensation form in it? If it drops condensation into a bottle, who empties the bottle? What do you do if the condensation bottle fills up at 6 AM on a July Saturday and A/C goes off and then the temperature rises through the July day?

It's good you are thinking about this and planning this, because I have seen this happen in an unplanned manner many times. Two or three "non-critical" (until they crash) systems are put in a room on-site. Then without much planning, another server is added, and then another. Then it starts to get too hot and a ventless portable air conditioner is put in. Then the condensation bottle fills up and you suddenly have a meltdown in the room as one server after another overheats and goes on the fritz. I have seen this happen at small companies, I have seen this happen at Fortune 1000 companies.

So my advice - have heating fully planned out, and be aware that once you set a server room up on-site and its working, other divisions will start wanting to put servers in there, so pre-plan the rooms maximum capacity. I suppose electricity and racking and access and security and such need to be planned out as well. The main problem I have seen is overheating, as people, without planning, keep squeezing just one more server into the room.
I did something a little similar to this with Apps Script to deliver my non-urgent email (everything except from a few approved senders) once in the morning and once in the evening.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say that it has changed my life!

If anyone is interested I'll dig out the code and share.
nice try bot. I see your game...
> Anyone who says otherwise is part of the problem and should have no voice in this conversation.

This is the same intolerant gatekeeping that I loathe in the feminist camp. Everyone has a voice, anyone can participate, no one-person gets to define "the" problem, let alone label/dehumanize people as being problems.
In our system it implies a major piece of work that can almost always be split down into multiple tickets that can usually be worked on in parallel.

2nd Splitting it in smaller parts forces you to examine all the parts and inner workings. Sometimes you will realise entirely different solution is needed, sometimes that there is an api call that will incur costs… and some of these things definitely have to be communicated to stakeholder, ideally before you spend significant times in development.
Where do you buy used hardware?
They will have drivers and steering wheels.
People have been watching subtitled movies for decades.
The human mind's ability to incorrectly apply that foresight to others is equally ubiquitous, however.
That's nice, but it doesn't help the local collection network in the solar field. Using large separate electrolyzers driven by conventional PV lets you avoid that.
Thanks a lot!

> Can each msg have it's own pickup / delivery time?

That would really get into the realm of things like Boomerang, of which many already exist. Pony is more like "email if it was actually electronic mail." The post person comes and delivers new things and picks up anything you're sending. I think microconfigurability adds a lot to cognitive load, which I am trying to minimize.
These days you have to treat colocation as a fungible resource. It's good for batch processing and things like that where you can distribute the work.
also fees can be nonexistent for big customers, which are likely to engage in such things
Suggestion: share a ballpark of your VPS bill to get better advice. The best guidance will depend on whether your VPS bill is order of $500/mo, $5k/mo, $50k/mo, or higher.

It also might help to share some characteristics of your workload. Is it CPU or disk-intensive? What kind of uptime expectations do you have? How effectively do you expect to be able to predict your requirements in the future?
1Password recently did this with their $200MM Series A raise in 2019. Dave Teare talks about taking the majority of the money raised off the table when he spoke with DHH on an episode of the Rework podcast -https://www.rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david...
I see this hot take way too often and I take it that you didn't read any of your sources to see if they actually supported your claim. Because:

[1] Yes, Wikipedia confirms that affirmative action is a thing societies across the world engage in it to try to have a representative cross section of the population engaged in critical aspects of society. And yes, in America since the practice became enshrined in law that meant it has cut into the edge that white men have. But if in the future white men become under-represented for whatever reason, I would hope that it would work in the reverse to help give a boost. And in-fact this is already being seen in college admissions for white men vs. asian americans and females. Which leads to your second source:

[2] The article points out that white men are underrepresented in college but the reason given is not affirmative action, but rather cultural. Many young men just are not making the choice to go to college (for better or for worse). It even says in TFA that "The Wall Street Journal reports that many colleges are putting their fingers _on_ the scale for male applicants", which is a direct refutation of your point.

[3] I could file a lawsuit against the state that says politicians are colluding with martian men to keep taco prices down. That doesn't make it true.

[4] Well I have never seen anyone _cite_ an anecdote so...

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Take a deep dive into MEV (miner extractable value). Poorly named for what it is, but I think it is something that you're missing in this picture.
It is likely this was to stop people from buying masks in order to allow medical professionals to buy them.

Deliberate misleading may be worse than a mistake, but it probably wasn't because of the scientific method.
I interviewed a candidate in Manilla a month ago, he had purchased Axie pretty early on when it was a lot more affordable to get started. He has a great job in IT support, so he lends his Axies to his dad and brother and they work it like a full-time job. His dad plays pretty much all day and his brother plays all night. He said many of his friends similarly got in early and lend their tokens out to friends and family. If you think about it, your numbers make perfect sense--would you stake half your annual salary to quadruple it? I would!
https://aka.ms/win10rng
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/11/that-was-typo-t...

sourcing: https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/one-time-pubs/color-o...
It's quite common for people who take psychedelics regularly to get at least slightly detached from reality and pure reasoning.

I've seen a friend of mine going deeper and deeper into that hole.
> the signatures and the economic security of that signature taking place is valuable

Except, it isn't. What is the point in having a certificate of ownership of a resource so un-scare that it is practically free?

We have achieved post-scarcity of information, and people are desperately trying to cram scarcity-based economics back into it because that's all our society knows how to deal with. We should instead be working to remake society around the new reality, in my opinion.

> but in the words of satoshi “If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”

Yeah, that's what scam artists say. Tell everybody you have a miracle, instill some FOMO, and when people poke at the holes tell them you don't have time to explain it to them or it is too complicated, but trust me it's great.
This dude really pumps out the rambly anti-crypto takes. Too bad HN upvotes are not a cryptocurrency or he'd be rich
Marriot executives arrested for "corruption"
Marriot hotels closed for "environmental damage"

The Chinese government don't actually do these things, they don't really need to, this sounds more like options for the American government.
What do you mean by "IN"? Are dollars "IN" your bank account?

I'm not trying to make a tired argument about dollars being fake or something, I just don't see the distinction as far as wallets specifically are concerned.
Compared to cloud yes, but dedicated servers are cheaper than running colo, it takes a couple hardware failures to completely screw your budget up, in addition to the maintenance.

Unless you have specific impossible to rent hardware needs, it's never worth it.
Related: anyone figured out how we are supposed to have install an extension in only one workspace instead of installing it once and then do "disable in this workspace" in the other 6 workspaces?
From the article...

> Marlin acknowledges that affected GitHub users deserve some blame for failing to prevent their cookies.sqlite databases from being included when they committed code and pushed it to their public repositories. "But there are nearly 4.5k hits for this dork, so I think GitHub has a duty of care as well,"
I had never heard the spiral staircase/right-handed swordsmen legend before today, though it sounds similar to the description of button location on men's shirt's. Both sound silly, the shirt button location because it doesn't explain button location on womens' clothes and the spiral staircase handedness because if they actually had any interest in defense they would have used a counterbalance staircase that could easily be lifted completely denying access to upper levels.
The physics and chemistry aren't any easier. I'd say at-least Physics had the largest delta compared to SAT subject tests or even APs.

While the SAT was asking about basic kinetic motion in classical mechanics, JEE was asking about wave-particle duality and calculating uncertainty in motion of photon-electron collisions iirc.
The people who have come out with viewpoints that "gender X is under-represented vs. gender Y in position Z due to the objective superiority of gender Y wrt. quality W which is important in position Z" have ... had a hard time of it.
> How many societies that went down the totalitarian path that would do it again?

I'm not sure how this relates to my post saying that the ends may or may not justify the means for any given scenario depending on the ends, and the means, and the person rendering judgement.

For example, I judge the ends of "quenching my thirst" to justify the means of "getting something to drink". If the ends never justified the means, I'd die of dehydration.

Now, if you could respond to the part of my above post that occurred after the first sentence, too, it would be much appreciated.
It’s fundamentally because we are trying to tackle a systemic issue (a macro level issue) at the micro level (day to day human interaction). Most people are not going to be (or even are) racist/prejudiced to each other in the day to day. Similar to how most Americans won’t ever have someone build our phones and make our clothes for pennies on the dollar if it was up to us, truly. However, systemically, we will still buy all these things, that’s simply how the system is set up.

If you take something like prejudice toward a race with respect to crime, or prejudice toward a gender with respect to competence, these things are happening at a level that require systems-level thinking. If you beef up certain communities with respect to opportunities, or funnel more people toward certain industries much earlier in their life, the outcomes will appear at the macro level. Once that happens, the reduction in those biases will manifest.

But sitting everyone down and saying ‘let’s all sit down and do our own small little part’ will not actually solve anything. But, that is most likely the reason we (humans gonna human) are doing this. It’s a form of procrastination, let’s beat around the bush. Let’s organize our folders and sharpen our pencils, but not study for the test. Let’s buy new gym sneakers and gym outfit, and actually get a new gym membership, but never go to the gym.

Oddly, it’s almost like America only does the algos part of the software interview, but never the System design part. Micro vs Macro.
Would love to participate in a study just because I can't get regular access to mushrooms/cacti without growing it myself, and LSD is much harder to come across these days in my area.
The researchers sent out identical resumes for job applications. If the general stereotype “men have less emotional iq” is the argument, it is actually discrimination based on gender stereotypes. You didn’t offer any valid methodological rebuttal to the study.
If I can afford to pay for the better experience and I want it badly enough, I will. That's how markets work.
> I don't know about stealing but is it not the case that most sex offenders are men? That seems like an actual risk wherase the accusations at play in racism are just made up.

This conclusion seems to be quite controversial, because race is correlated with certain crimes in terms of "actual risk". It's likely because of social factors (because eg. black immigrants to US aren't significantly more likely to commit crimes than white immigrants to US, even after controlling for education), but it doesn't change "actual risk".

If you argue that "actual risk" means actually "choice between two identical people, with skin color being only variable, after ideal control for socioeconomic factors", you should prove that of "identical people, with gender being only variable, after ideal control for socioeconomic factors" man is more likely to commit sexual crime.

Personally I would argue that both race-crime and gender-crime statistics are largely or completely due to social factors.
>You're claiming there's no advantage to knowing your opponent's max bid?

If there is, why don't you state what it is, rather than asking me?
> Worldwide production of xenon in 1998 was estimated at 5,000–7,000 m3

O2 annual production is 1e11kg presumably from 5e11 of air (20% of air is O2.)

Xenon occurs 1:1e7 so that air should also yield 50,000kg by mass, or 8500m3 by volume. Sounds about right. I’m guessing then O2 buyers don’t care to subsidise the Xe market.
I think of blogging more as a way to illustrate to my potential future employers how I think, and approach solving problems. Consequently, it also helps me get better at articulating problems and talking about things in a clear and concise way, thus I become a better communicator with every post I write. Now if someone discovers my stuff via a search engine or social media, that's great! But, it's definitely not why I do it.
My guess is honestly just exchanges trying to get closer to the top of sites like coinmarketcap..
This may be an unpopular opinion:

> Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is far more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network.

Is tech really that different?

* When evaluating senior candidates one of the criteria that candidates are selected on is the prestige of their previous companies, which usually hire from prestigious universities.

* Much of what we look at is how many talks a senior candidate has done, their name recognition (aka brand), etc... all indicators of prestige, but not necessarily talent.

* When evaluating junior candidates with a lack of job experience the candidate pool is often selected on collegiate prestige.

* Hiring is often done by algorithm interviews which, if you went to a prestigious school, are what they spend more time teaching.

I've been programming my whole life, but I'm a drop out and spent a chunk of my formative years in the military. The only way I got into being a full time SWE was working as a SRE-SE first. I would've never gotten one of these kush internships had I not spent years putting out other peoples software fires first.
Uniswap data is more reliable because of gas fees, which are upwards of $50 per trade recently.
QuEra Computing launches 256-qubit quantum computer,
The trick to wash trading on CoinBase is (or was) to be on the inside:

> The order also finds that over a six-week period—August through September 2016—a former Coinbase employee used a manipulative or deceptive device by intentionally placing buy and sell orders in the Litecoin/Bitcoin trading pair on GDAX that matched each other as wash trades. This created the misleading appearance of liquidity and trading interest in Litecoin.

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21

I wouldn’t be surprised if the wash trading on these unregulated exchanges followed a similar pattern where insiders were largely using the system to their advantage and using their insider knowledge or connections to (try to) hide it.
You seem to think Proof of Work miners can do everything they want with the chain. Assuming the network isn't 51% attacked, that's not true.

When a miner finds a block, they can put transactions in it and submit it to the other miners, in order to acquire the transaction fees and the block reward for themselves.

These transactions are signed, miners can't impersonate participants. They are also incentivized to include actual transactions instead of their own thanks to the miner fee. If they try to censor a transaction, the next miner to find a block could include the transaction in the chain anyway, so they have little incentive to withhold transactions for non-economical reasons.

They can't rewrite the history, they can only push one block on top of it.

If I understand you correctly, the "centralization" you're talking about is the whole point of a consensus protocol: to get 'decentralized' participants to agree on a single 'centralized' state.
Any H.264 decoder that doesn’t produce bit identical output is non-conformant to the spec; this was one of the big lessons of MPEG4 part 2, that you really don’t want the drift that comes from repeatedly using “near enough” reconstruction as prediction in a loop.

Well, he could be including YUV -> RGB conversion, which while the conversion matrix is specified, the required precision and chroma upsampling method are outside the scope of the spec.