skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholeheartedly agree, I wrote a more detailed analysis of the different sources of centralization and how both algorithms measure against them that I think is relevant so I will copy paste it here.

I see multiple factors that hamper decentralization:

- Fixed costs that act as barrier of entry

- Economies of scale that lead to centralization

- Geographic factors (operation costs being different in different parts of the world, regulation/taxation, supply chain...)

This is how I see each factor playing out in both scenarios:

- Fixed costs: PoS runs on consumer-grade hardware, while PoW requires specific HW (ASICs or high-grade GPUs). PoS requires a minimum amount of stake but there are decentralized pooling solutions (e.g., Rocketpool), which effectively make this minimum non existent. All in all PoS is at advantage here, unless you want to insist on solo staking in which case PoW is at advantage.

Analogy: This would be equivalent to flat fees to open a savings account or a minimum amount balance required to open it.

- Economies of scale: In PoS they are almost non-existent. You don't stake more efficiently by having a more powerful machine. You just get to reuse the same HW for more nodes but since fixed costs are low this has a very small impact. In PoW there are economies of scale, though, better/more expensive ASICs can mine more efficiently than smaller/cheaper ones. Same with GPUs. Someone with more initial capital can get ahead faster in PoW, while in PoS earns at a same rate as everyone else.

Analogy: This would be equivalent to the interest rate you get in your savings account being dependent on how much money you have. In PoW, the richer you are the higher interest rate you get from your bank, in PoS everyone gets the same.

- Geographic factors: Cheap access to energy has a large impact on PoW as it dictates most of your OpEx. In PoS this is largely irrelevant (PoS is 99.95% more energy efficient than PoW). Taxation/regulation would need its own analysis but I imagine is equally spread across both alternatives. Supply chain is again in favor of PoS as it can run on general-purpose HW, while ASICs are heavily centralized around a single manufacturer.

Analogy: This would be equivalent to different geographic locations resulting in different conditions for maintaining open your bank account or taxing your accrued interest.
Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
I assume the end goal of this is rendering photo-realistic movies of humans without filming actors. Neural voice generation is also quite good at this point. Quite interesting where this could lead to.
No, but then, you loose the ‘physical’ layout. My “that word icon with a blue label in the top row” would be your “last document in the list”.

That’s not how real world objects behave.
Wikipedia, at least, doesn't favor your interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_s...

The original quote is about persuasion being better than violence.
I'm much more concerned about the use of ML algos in law enforcement and day-to-day back-end systems used by the govt. I am not convinced humanity has the tools to inspect and understand a decisions made by a learning system, e.g. tasked with intuitive select. So, no mitigation from ethical risks. It's not far from killing if it's getting people locked up or barred from heath and security.
Your interpretation doesn't line up with the original quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_s...

The original quote is about persuasion being better than violence.
No

NFTs offer marginal benefits. You can trade a legal contract permissionlessly. It really doesn't change much of anything.

Copyright is about using the violence of the state to enforce rights of a creator. Copyright requires the state
No. It isn’t up to par. But that’s AMD’s problem.

No standard spec would solve a lack of software development investment of a hardware vendor, especially for a device as complex as a GPU.

(meanwhile, on the Intel side, oneAPI looks to be very serviceable, but has a problem for now: where is the fast hardware to run it on?)
I don't think integrity fits into any of the metrics that you have to report to YC.
Ask HN: What are the pros and cons of C++ and Rust?
What are the pros and cons of these two languages from both novice and experienced developer point of view?
> high cost

The article suggests it will be less than monoclonal antibody treatments («monoclonal antibody treatments, which are effective in preventing severe disease in high-risk patients. But they are expensive and require intravenous infusion or subcutaneous injection, and health-care providers must monitor their administration closely» - "expensive" even before medical assistance in their administration).
Exactly. What you've described isn't evil. What would be evil is creating a society for those people where all truth is suppressed, all irrationality is praised, good deeds are punished and amoral behavior is rewarded. Basically, making that society as backwards as possible. And if in a few generations people there will embrace that order, because they don't know any better, and start descending into animalism, that would be an example of evil. In other words, evil operates at the soul level, so if you reject the idea of soul, you won't be able to come up with evil or good plans: all acts will be superficial.
Strange, the more un-uncanny the more uncanny it feels. For example, the way the eyes are oriented seems a bit off when compared to the posture of the muscles around the eyes: the eyes seems to look in one direction while these muscles seem to look to another. Is it just me ?
Static websites are great! I would love for them to be more popular. But a lot of people are locked out by the technical hurdle. "Just use <SSG> and host on <github/netlify/whatever>" does not work for your aunt, parent or SO.

I've tried and went into a different direction and created a desktop app [1] for creating a basic website. Yes it's electron and yes it currently only uploads to Vercel for hosting. But those are things my dad does not care about. I can send him a pre-configured "project" file, so he does not even have to enter any API keys.

EDIT: I've re-read this and this sounds like I'm ranting on your project. Not my intention, I love the bloat free sites md2blog generates. Keep it up!

[1]: https://www.project-daily.com
If your website has janky scrolling I'm not using your JS library. No exceptions.
The Monday Media Diet with James Cham
What do you do differently nowadays? How do you stop this happening
What useful function can they perform apart from reproducing? Can they move towards designated target? Can they carry microscopic load?
Yes :)
Not that I post very often/frequently, but that's the first time anyone ever asked about or referenced my username.
you're supposed to be able to build an amazing team with an amazing funnel.

I think it would be hard to scale a business to the size of Stripe without those things. It's fair to say that, no matter what else you might believe, pc has managed to do that. Ergo, by your own logic, he has earned his comp.
I do not find it more simple, parse has very simple to use, time-saving, client side libraries. PostgREST does not seem to have anything close to that. There seem to be 3rd party client side libraries, but mostly abandon-ware.
postgREST is the bomb and, together with svelte, changed my life, productivity wise - no less.

here's a short video explaining how this project can allow a front-end developer unleash PostgreSQL's power without having to write backend code.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ncp00Mb7L3TO9TIRgNEF6pRdt-b...
Extinct swordfish-shaped marine reptile discovered
> Fair use is a defence to use in a lawsuit, after all, not a right

The statutory fair use defense codifies a Constitutional (First Amendment) limit on the copyright power found by the courts prior to the existence of the statutory defense, so it is both a defense and a right, specifically, the Constitutional right of free speech.

Lawsuit defenses, more generally, are assertions of rights, whether statutory, common law, or Constitutional.
Just seeing this…

> FP implies immutability and heavily shared structures

FP does imply immutability, but not sure what you mean by “heavily shared structures.”

If you’re referring to a type system like Haskell’s then that’s what I meant by “FP-adjacent.”

> Rust is very far from having anything to do with FP

This thread has a pretty deep rust vs haskell discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4jh8hv/question_about... Clearly, there are some similarities.

> You have to jump through some massive hoops to get the same benefits of shared data structures in Rust.

Again, not sure what you mean by “shared data structures.” Functional styles work well in rust. You could use only immutable variables with clone/copy sprinkled throughout and the borrow checker won’t complain.
1.2% pay raise could wipe out 100% of the profits depending on the profit margins the company is operating.
Reading through the comments and as an assembly programmer, I think this whole topic is completely bonkers.
20,000 employees walked out in 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_walkouts
It's not something I'd grab quickly, but at the same time, it looks great for doing 'pure' CRUD applications. You'll probably need serious database administration skills though, I've yet to see anyone do anything with database account and permission systems that isn't straight root access from an application.
I’m the opposite: I trust others to do it better than I can.
Usage varies, there are a few notations for specifying whether the set of natural numbers/positive integers includes zero when it matters.

'Always round up' sounds more like the ceiling function (or ceil•abs) - usually rounding means to the nearest integer, or whatever we're rounding to.
The examples have a distinct "police mugshot" look to them.
Making children wear masks and vaccinating them against the virus that mostly doesn't affect them seems like a sacrifice on the altar of "hours lost". I'm not from the USA, and I am not following USA's political scene, so I can't answer your second question.
No, copyright isn't forfeited like that, only trademarks are.

It fails this part of fair use: 'The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
Courts typically focus on whether the use is “transformative.” That is, whether it adds new expression or meaning to the original, or whether it merely copies from the original.'
I think this tech is still only for faces mostly. Aren't any cgi'd actor have someone else playing the role and their face edited?
As an enthusiastic Clojure/Script user, the new tech stack absolutely makes sense for this application.

For the decrease in size, I expect most of the gain to come from dropping ClojureScript. For the speed increase, though, I expect most of the gain to come from WASM. JS and ClojureScript are within the same margin of error compared to the performance that can be achieved with WASM.
> but the ghosting part

This is a huge personal pet peeve. Being ghosted after being made a verbal offer, or for that matter even just after making it through multiple rounds of interviews, is just flat out rude. I keep a list of companies that behave this way towards me, so that if I am ever contacted by them in the future, I can point to their previous conduct as an explainer for why I will not be wasting my time with them a second time.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

> I don't know of any man in my family, friend, coworker, or acquaintance circles who would be interested either

For another perspective, I personally have been thinking of suicide for quite some time now. I would absolutely love to talk about it with people, but I know that I can't for many reasons.

The point is, I am extremely selective of who I let even a small part of that side of me see. Everyone else I know is (hopefully) completely unaware. When I do talk about it with someone, it's because I trust them and they "feel" like they will be understanding of this. Maybe, with no disrespect, you don't fit this criteria for them. I know most of my friends don't.
I'm sorry, but if I'm (not OP) in the hospital for something serious requiring operations and a multi-week stay, responding to emails is somewhere around last on my todo list.
Not if you didn't know what toilet paper is used for.
> open themselves up to lots of questions about what else they are doing

Is there a name for this pattern?

1. Observe that a human is taking some action to more effectively do their jobs… but in a way that has some risk of being unevenly applied or also self-beneficial.

2. Conclude that this action is itself malfeasance.

3. Conclude that this person merits generalized distrust.

I see this all the time in comments on (for example) youtube. I struggle to see how social cohesion could survive in a world where more people do this: If you lose trust by doing your job well, then its harder to motivate yourself to maintain others’ trust that you’ll do your job.
Once they open that door there is no going back. They would need to act at a moment where the US is extremely weak. It might happen if(most likely when) Trump gets elected again. Man I don't even wanna think what happens if that Pandora's box is opened.
Why add it as a concern to a database engine when it's down to the individual use case? I mean, there's hundreds of database migration tools out there, all you need to do - as a developer, that's your job - is to add some automation to your git repository and database server's master to run a migration. Set up a cron job to pull every X minutes, set up a post-merge hook to run those migrations. Simples. Just use straight SQL files for these migrations.
100%

Think of yourself as a business of one
It's a fair question. Pre React Hooks I expected the proxy plain object approach to be more common. We definitely want consistency regardless if component consumer passes signal or literal, so I went that way. There are cases like with spreads where they are actual proxies too. But probably could have made all props are functions work and have them work with combination of proxies as well things just didn't play out that way.
Several top ranking people were fired, which indicates that this is not just speech.

Generally, this fits into Musk's repeated claims that the hard thing about Starship isn't to build a prototype or two, but to make a rocket factory, capable of churning hundreds of launchers a year.

Raptors being the bottlenecks isn't that surprising. They have been developed fairly recently, do not contain many off-the-shelf components (if any) and given that there are ~ 30 of them on the booster alone, they should be manufactured by the hundreds too.

Compared to the Raptors, the other technological learning curves that must be overcome before Starship flies regularly are much less steep. Steel welding, flight software, heat shields - all of these scale reasonably well from the (already flown) prototypes and build upon a long technological tradition.
The Metaverse, Latency, and Metalatency
>Both tools can solve the age-old problem of "it works on my machine".

But Docker does much more than that. People use it especially to isolate runing software and deploy microservices.
> have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and all that... Can you list this 'huge amount of reporters' that Stripe has 'under their control'?
Apparently I'm not the target audience, being rather happy with the Emacs info viewer and the texinfo-generated HTML, but I noticed that some sections aren't clickable, possibly requiring JS (but not mentioning it); apparently it's the ones with ">", but that is not visible when global CSS is used (disabling background images, among other things). Search doesn't work (at least without JS) either. Perhaps it should degrade more gracefully.

But generally looks like a potentially useful addition to other documentation output formats: they are supposed to be usable with different setups and under different conditions, and covering different preferences seems useful too. Even the Emacs web page [1] is in that "modern" style now, after all.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
‘I’m blind but technology helps me animate’
Counterexample:

"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction."
Material inspired by blood vessels can extract uranium from seawater
I think static image canny is getting good. "This(x)doesn't exist.com" proves a lot of realism is down the rabbit hole. Those faces are believable.

But I think moving image uncanny Valley is alive and well. Probably I'm setting myself up to be proved wrong.
For actors that seem to play the same character in every movie, it’d be kind of funny to create a stock footage of actors, and just use that to make movies. Tom Cruise running! The Rock punching someone through a wall! And so on.
Something feels really uncanny with them. Especially the nose.
Crazee Rider (BBC Micro)
I'd rather say that there are "hundreds of schema upgraders" because there are hundreds of ORMs instead: it's usually a database migration tool (or two) per ORM.

SQL DBMS come with an obvious text-only schema management tool called SQL-in-text-files. If you don't need anything esoteric, number them in order of application (001-base.sql, 002-add-customer-model.sql, 003-trigger-on-name-update.sql...), and you are good to go. Any VCS can deal with those properly.

I've used plenty of saner version control systems than Git, and I wouldn't want a database to restrict me to it (even though I am usually "forced" to use Git nowadays).
It looks like it may have reached a plateau. I would be surprised it it reversed, especially with the anti-immigration sentiment that seems so common in the developed world right now.

https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1421115868117979137
Makes me wonder if perhaps one day there could come an irreversible fashion of, well, illustrating the illustrative nature of stock photos like that by uniformly pushing them through your publication's style-GAN. Almost surprises me that this hasn't happened yet.
The issue wasn't really lacking deliberateness or care but rather that they had adopted a culture of over automation. Why are they using Terraform to make changes that are rare and critical instead of the GUI? The whole point of a GUI is to make computers easier and safer to use, but if you insist on accepting everything then you lose that.
> His answer: "don't come. It's a mess and a revolving door of people"

What isn't? I see trying to deliver value in spite of an dysfunctional organization a part of my job description.
Landlords are less likely to reply to applicants with Black and Latino names
> Due to ClojureScript’s immutable data structures, there’s a lot of objects created and garbage collected all the time

^ From the article, sounds like a plausible cause for the speed difference.
I get the pattern you're highlighting, but I don't think the example with bonds is very good. A lot of other factors going on.
Lobster-man's various videos were huge revelation. Becoming a loser at early adulthood is a built-in mechanism and thereafter chemically enforced. Makes total sense, once you have established hierarchy by some means, right or wrong, it is wasteful to do same battles again and again.
I've been a member of a "mens round table" [1]. The organizer was a friend of mine and wanted to include me because (from his point of view) I was doing alright in life [2].

While not the target audience the group comprised mostly young 20-30 yo men, who were searching for their place in life. Bluntly generalizing their problems revolved around insecurity and not finding a partner. Actually most of them dropped out after eventually finding somebody.

Surprisingly (to me), another major issue that was discussed was problems with parents. This expressed in different ways, but was mostly "why don't you have a job/wife/family/house/etc yet?".

[1] "We are not a support group!"
[2] Surprise ... I am not :-)
> Maybe NASA can pick it up for pennies on the dollar

More likely, Boeing.
Fair enough.

Maybe I just lucked into the right niche in the right locale at the right time because I definitely don't have some kind of amazing deal-building skills.
this & https://interestingengineering.com/squeezed-light-can-give-n...

cooperate each other to improve the innovation
> Corporations are basically form of social welfare for most people. In past there were less unproductive people attached.

Very true! Unfortunately, those people were almost literally left in the dirt, so of course we wanted society to provide them welfare... and we have all the issues of socialism and free riders. We need to separate welfare of people (which is natural to have free riders, but also necessary cost of a society to maintain itself) and employment/corps who shouldn't be filling the job of welfare providers.
I love seeing these, they take me back to a very specific time in my life.

Personal favourite would be MacDraw. :)

These are prettier but back in the day I used to prefer the About Boxes on Acorn RiscOS[1] because they had to contain a summary of what any given application did as part of the OS UI rules.

That's not really important for something big like Aldus PageMaker as you've probably already heard of it but for obscure utilities and the like it was really handy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS
Parent post reads as very sarcastic to me
What are central bank digital currencies?
In 2030 I'll type in "movie about XYZ", GPT-7 comes up with the script, it crunches in the Disney+ cloud for a few hours, and later I sign on to watch the full generated movie?
At this point, SpaceX is an important strategic asset to the US govt.

Would they let it go under?
I've been keeping an eye on your work for a long time now. We're a mobx shop so I was hoping to see you explore the ideas you had around that a little more (https://github.com/ryansolid/mobx-jsx).

I like and know where I'm at with React, but bringing a beginner through it recently definitely made me re-appreciate how nuanced it is. Also, you have to do a bit of voodoo to get good performance, and when you do the intention of the code vanishes pretty quickly.

For someone using React on top and mobx stores in the background (say 50k LOC all in), how big of a task would you say it is to move to something like Solid?
“Each user gets a different view” is breaking the resemblance with reality. I can’t have a file folder (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_folder#Tabbed_file_fold...) that has items sorted by name that, to you, sorts them by age, for example.

I also think disclosure triangles were (¿one of?) the first thing(s) that broke the spatial finder.

At least, I don’t remember ever such a triangle being disabled because a window on the folder already was open, or having one or more windows for a folder close automatically when opening up a disclosure triangle.

They were extremely nice, but IMO also indicators that the spatial Finder doesn’t work well with the deep hierarchies you get when you have millions of files (but to be honest, the current system doesn’t work well, either)
Sounds like some spin to take a larger share of the credit and get even more overtime out of his gnomes. But hey could well also be true
So, can we have Twitter with its content transition over to a "public good" and "public service", anytime soon?

I am biased here because it's the only place I have any sort of social 'presence or interaction', and care about it more than Facebook, which I don't use, or any other service that stores people's data.

I know it's technically possible to "download my content", but that's a poor substitute for a more transparent Twitter, with _easy_ and _open_ API access.
Another tip: lock your bike close to more expensive ones.
> They share borders with two nuclear armed countries...

I thought China shared borders with the following nuclear-armed nations:

Pakistan

India

North Korea

Russia