skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a higher order evaluation in play here.

There are content creators who make the occasional video that gets ratioed. And there are others who have a majority of their videos ratioed.

When people see that, they ask why?

And you look at big media, and government, and I think this removing dislikes doesn't make any sense from our point of view, but it does from theirs.
Well all this price action only happens in the databases of the exchanges, not on the blockchain. And on the exchanges only a miniscule share of all coins get traded. The "market cap" is then only extrapolated. E.g. Bitfinex, which seems to have the most volume, only saw 40k bitcoin traded, in sum, for today, which was less than $2B USD.
Thanks for taking my complaints in the spirit in which they were intended. The bidirectional sync is really cool and I can understand being excited to share. I'm looking forwards to seeing the open source core
In a way bitcoin is a socialist's dream since it allows tracking of all transactions and tracing of all assets so taxation and surveillance can be nearly perfect.
I hear that thrown around, but while it may be accurate, it sounds like retconning as Jim Cramer came up with the term, and I can assure you Jim Cramer does not give a damn about developer salaries. It was about fast growing tech stocks, not software engineers.

Even that goofball is now calling for FAAMG[0] (well, MAMAA) while (some) devs want to cling on to FAANG. Bit funny how Facebook's name change was apparently the trigger for him.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/cramer-new-acronym-to-replac...
yeah, but how can a HN discussion make a company lose $25B on a day?

wouldn't SEC be investigating already?
Inspired by this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29436562

I wanted to try out Svelte and see what I could come up in a couple of hours, it was quite ok, I'll expand on it later.

Here's the source, you can easily run it locally.

https://github.com/trufa/logger
No, by default it shows you processes for the current terminal.
The comment you're replying to has an example of using a specific DNS server.

As for reverse lookups, it's as simple as host <ip-address>
That comment aged poorly because that’s what early Bitcoin adopters did.
there is a fundamental problem here. You can guess if some longevity biomarker has a causal effect; but in the end they are only guesses. Suppose your desired endpoint is a human lifespan of 150 years. And you start experimenting on 50 year-olds, now. You cannot truly know if your intervention will work for another 100 years. At best we can start doing interventions on shorter lifespan animals (say, dogs) but there's still no guarantee that the causal factors for dog death match up with those for humans.
It didn't "go" anywhere. The price of a financial asset is just the price at which the last exchange took place. I could buy a Bitcoin for $100K right now, and that would be the price, at least until the next transaction. Likewise, someone could sell one for $10K and that would now be the price.

In a thick market, one with many buyers and sellers and lots of transactions happening all of the time, you can be reasonably confident that if you go to sell something you will receive something reasonably close to the current price. In a thin market you may get a very different price when you go to buy and sell.

A persistent criticism of crypto markets is that they APPEAR to be thick but that most of the trades happening are just bots buying and selling on behalf of a very small number of actual participants in order to give the appearance of high volumes and that people will be in for a rude awakening if they ever try to exit out of a substantial position (the price they receive may be a fraction of the current market price, assuming they are even able to find a buyer at all).
Yeah, looks like the underbody is beaching onto the snow. Higher wheel diameter, wider tire, and deeper treads would do the trick here.
A small number of extremists exist in any cause. I don't think cherry picking them out and redefining the whole thing with their extremist view is productive. By doing that you can just wholesale write off any idea or movement you want, it's intellectually dishonest in my opinion.
IIRC, Ballmer actually started many of the things that we saw happening early in Satya's tenure. So he deserves at least some credit for seeing the writing on the wall and trying to adapt to it. Perhaps he also figured that in order for the transformation to really happen he had to not be the one trying to lead it.
House of cards or not it's the only house left after moneyprinting destroyed the soundness of cash/bonds
Yeah, that's true. Analogous to using LMDB/BoltDB, directly instead of using Btrfs.

And I guess, as long as the BeTree library could understand the concept of a non-expandable database file, you could just point it directly at a raw block device as its "database file" and it would be happy.

The only concern I'd have in this case is that userspace database libraries usually don't worry about the possibility of interrupted partial-block writes, since they're usually writing to files on a filesystem, and the filesystem usually handles that possibility for them; while the filesystem itself — or a library working with a raw direct-write block device — does have to worry about partial-block writes.

I think, in the case of raw "everything is a tree" storage (B-tree or Be-tree), you'd only need to ensure that 1. there's a journal for root-node-page offsets, and that 2. there's a separate freelist for root-node pages, not hanging off of the root node, but rather attached to the journal; such that root-node pages are only freed for overwrite once the journal entry for the new page is guaranteed flushed to disk.

Of course, if you were lazy, you could get the semantics of a journal and rootnode-freelist, by making this database library write its root-node pages as regular sequence-numbered files in a directory backed by a real filesystem, relying on the real filesystem to declare those files fsync(2)'ed before it's willing to delete previous root-node-page files; and then considering the effective freelist to consist only of the intersection of the freelists from all currently-visible root-node-page files.
Ask HN: Where to begin learning how to generate procedural worlds?
I want to start writing 3d games, and have no clue where to begin.

Been watching some youtube videos about perlin noise and 3d world generation in three.js and I think I'm starting to grasp the concepts but it's overwhelming atm.

If you can suggest any tutorials or books to read I would greatly appreciate it.
Should I blame old people for inevitably getting old? No. We all get old, and the health system normally handles this load okay.

Should I blame someone unvaxed getting severe COVID-19, a well known and highly contagious disease with a free vax that greatly reduces the chance of severe infection? Absolutely.

COVID is particularly unique in its long ICU stays. Even for other conditions which could be blamed on poor patient decisions, 4 - 6 weeks in the ICU, and needing vents or ECMO, is not typical or widespread.

In the car analogy, we still have perfect biomarker tracking to determine exactly who, when and how long someone was infected and who exactly they infected. Perfect information. Obviously we don't have perfect information to hold people accountable, so we end up with tragedy of the commons. We need to protect the commons and the best option we have is through vaccination and limited access to the commons for those who refuse it.
That's a fascinating story, I appreciate your sharing this background.

Are there any associated patents that haven't expired?
Can it do 3dfx?
Because: <Market Cap> = <Number of Shares> * <Price per share>

Market cap can change a lot, using very little money, depending on how many units or shares there are.

For example: 1 million MC = 1 million shares * 1$ cost per share

If one person is suddenly able to sell 1 share at 2$, market cap immediately doubled to 2 Million, using only 2$.
It's early, but there have still been no reported Omicron deaths.

If this is that less lethal variant that we have all been waiting for, what's the call here? Should we be intentionally helping spread it to edge out Delta?
> Doo doo do do do.

MANAMA
The authors of the article mentioned his race, but did not mention the race of any of the other nine Twitter staff listed in the article. So the authors of the article found the juxtaposition of his race and the criticisms against him to be noteworthy. Davis was also the only person mentioned in a critical light in the article.

> But you only even thought to look for that because they mentioned he's black.

You obviously have zero evidence for that.
That's precisely what I did too about a decade or so ago when I decided to move away from Microsoft Word to write my CV. I used LaTeX. Back then I began using strictly free and open source software only, so I usually had texlive-latex-installed on my Debian GNU/Linux systems to compile my CV. These days, I just use BasicTeX on macOS.
If I start a bogus company, issue a million shares to myself and then sell a single share to my buddy for $1, then my company is "worth" $1M. The assumption is that the sale is a fair price and indicative of what other shares would sell for. If he then sells that share on for $50, the company is "worth" $50M. If that share is then sold for a penny, the company is now worth $10K. The $50M didn't "disappear", it didn't really exist in the first place.
Libxo – A Library for Generating Text, XML, JSON, and HTML Output
Is there a simple way to list all A, CNAME, TXT etc. records for all subdomains of a domain from the terminal? Like what you would see in the web interface for your domain registrar? There's lots of free and simple web services that do this to check if your DNS settings have propagated worldwide. I usually just use one of those because DNS changes and checks aren't something I do often enough to remember the terminal commands for.
> The stock performance over the past decade has been pretty meh compared to the others.

MSFT’s ten year total return (1482%) is better than AAPL’s (1256%) or GOOG’s (815%), but not as good as AMZN’s (1629%) or NFLX’s (6250%). FB hadn’t IPOed yet ten years ago.

This is per a site called finbox.
At this point the end of human civilization and the end of the chain of technologies that began with Bitcoin probably will be the same event.
We just had a big-tech surge. Maybe the massive surge will calm down to not-as-insane growth, but that doesn't feel like an era "ending" to me.
> Why not?

Food, clothing and shelter are all the products of people working. Maybe someday that can all be automated, but it isn't and anyone not working ends up exploiting others to obtain the fruits of the other person's labor, which is supposedly the exact opposite of what they advocate.
It's a MAANG market now, I guess. Can't wait for it to be the AANG market. Or perhaps the NAGA or NAAG market. Perhaps the GAAN market might be inappropriate.
nslookup has the distinction of being perhaps the worst command line / terminal experience the Unix environment has to offer.
> aging (by definition) doesn't impact a young, healthy, active population

There's actually a rare syndrome, progeria, that does cause aging in young people and this will likely provide insight toward solving aging https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/progeria/symp...

To your larger point, I would agree that self-medicators will be useful too. Can't that be true at the same time as the problems described in the article?
No, they have released a number of designs before - including the "Unleashed" [1] and "Hi Five" [2] which are both SoC designs as well. The Unleashed had an optional FPGA add-on, but it was not part of the main CPU.

My reading is that they are aiming for real hardware implementations and not just FPGA. They have also licensed their designs to various third parties. I'm not sure how many have been turned into "real" hardware though.

[1] https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unleashed
[2] https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive1-rev-b
Any experience with cold start times? I wrote a relatively simple lambda handler in Go, expecting it to be fast, but node seems to beat it. The Go version's memory usage is better, though.
> "to teach 5th graders how to use spreadsheets and generate graphs"

Given that we know how the sausage is made, pretty much the last thing on earth we as software professionals should want is to inculculate the public with an overreliance and blind trust of software.
> Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile and often plunge for mysterious reasons.

There is nothing mysterious about Alameda making money from it triggering margin cascades.
I don't know. And looking at the current state of fiat currencies, they don't know either.
Posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430790
With the incoming Evergrande fiasco and eventual explosion of omicron cases it's gonna be a good winter for bears.
It seems that "the white oppressor" narrative was coined considering the American Society __only__. People tend to neglect other forms of racism experienced in other places in the world.
> And yet wages have not been keeping up with inflation,

Hmm. Over the last year, real wages declined by about 1%, but that's the inevitable result of our covid policies. Look, you tell a bunch of people to stay home and not work, so that means there aren't going to be as many real goods and services produced. Now the government chose a (reasonable) policy of mailing out checks to people, which does keep them employed, but it just means prices will go up, since at the end of the day real wages do need to fall if people are not producing as much as they used to. There is no way getting around that. People complain about the inflation but they don't really understand the alternatives.

But I think the covid stuff is special, and you need to be careful of using the last two years in a benchmark when talking about long term trends. Long term, real wages have been increasing, and it's just false to say that they haven't:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

> because this is all in servitude to wasteful diversity in consumer goods, setting lower prices (that only in some categories offset inflation) and a lot of bullshit jobs.

These are some pretty bold claims that require some statistical evidence to support. Unfortunately everyone has a lot of strong opinions about the economy, but very few are willing to invest the time into testing their hypotheses, or even doing something like a basic cross country analysis.
A block of gold is worth $1k today, tomorrow it's $500. Where did that money go? It's just the price people are willing to pay. Maybe the seller found 100 more blocks of gold and is running out of storage.
Billionaires either have to volunteer to be the guinea pigs for radical experimental anti-ageing therapies or accept that by the time treatments are proved safe and somewhat effective it's probably going to be too late for them. And if it isn't going to save them, there's plenty of strong competition for their philanthropic dollars, some of it with impressive results.
In America 600 miles is a short road trip.
Hi, I saw textme uses html and imports js, but does this work in static .md (to be parsed by Github as README.md) ? I only saw .html example in the docs.
The point of technically-minded people switching away from these companies isn't that we expect everyone else to all follow our example at the same time. Instead, the goal is to support these alternative services financially; and with bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests; so that those alternative services become the easiest to use, at which point the rest of society will switch without having to be told.

That may seem unrealistic, since billions-scale companies have much greater resources to invest in user experience, but you have to think of this as asymmetric warfare, with their size being a liability rather than an asset.

For example, large services need to justify their expenses by maximising the amount of money they extract from users (just look at the latest controversial feature of Edge[0]). Also, keeping these alternative services running provides an existence proof to regulators about how services don't need to be exploitative, giving them cover to write rules that re-balance the playing field, such as requiring social media and messaging companies to make their services interoperable.[1]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59492429

[1] https://marketresearchtelecast.com/digital-markets-act-meps-...
eBay scammers turned Nespresso lovers into money mules
> How much does good documentation and designing models costs?

I agree. This is probably the most difficult part by a good margin for the Chinese companies to effectively copy. The documentation itself was surprisingly good (they basically copied the style of the Lego books), what they don't have are people who are the equal of the 'lego master model builder'. Someone who really knows how to engineer the model both for the final result as well as the process to make it.
This is called zone transfer and is generally not enabled for obvious reasons.

The protocol to look for is IXFR and I’m pretty sure dig does it.
`ps u` just changes the output format. It's not the same as `ps -u $(whoami)`
>> trying to posses our incorporeal souls...

I think this is driven by an addiction of big tech to being 'relevant' and engagement is the metric that gives them that sweet hit of relevancy. Heaven forbid they just turn out a useful product for a reasonable profit.
It's beyond time to retire the FAANG acronym. At one point it signaled a group of companies that were dynamic players that were (to various extents) disrupting the existing business landscape. Now these companies are incumbent behemoths asking to be taken down in the same manner.
Three scenarios might make it crash:

1. Big institutional investors (Tesla, Microstrategy) pull out or face crashing their stock as well - they bought Bitcoin directly or indirectly with borrowed money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3KJN_DzCg

2. Crypto community panics and claim their money en masse

3. "Satoshi" and other insiders secretly cash out

Since it is mainly a stakeholder manipulated market, regulation had not much impact so far...

As long as the narrative keeps perpetuating belief & demand, it will live.
If you want to try this at home, keep in mind that powerline is essentially the same thing - you don't necessarily need some DSLAM. Also these things spew so much RF they can frequently pair through thin air, just from radiated emissions.
Posted after seeing "We need a Chromium Foundation[1].

A good & worthwhile act of imagineering ways forward, a trying to understand how humanity can be a good steward to something core to us.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425284
You said that a $200 average transaction implies at least half of transactions are for goods or services. That doesnt follow, at all.
Money doesn't need to go anywhere. There could still be same amount of both dollars and bitcoins on accounts in exchange. Just the price of the trading pair moved. It is not like when you move either bitcoin or dollars to exchange you have to immediately trade with it or convert it to other.
I'd love to read an article from an ex-Netflix engineer explaining why their service is such garbage. I want money, but the reason I'd think about asking for that much is because I'd need to interface with massive irritations.
This is currently the top thread. https://reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8udf5/keep_spreading...

They want “free healthcare” by taxing 4%, I am not cherry picking anything, despite Obamacare existing for the poorest people. That post was at the top when I looked.
For what it’s worth, I worked for an insurance company 88-96 and was expert systems developer 001. Our expert system ran on PCs in our 30 branches then migrated to a mainframe. If you wanted serious reliability that was where it was at. Big blue. Anyway, I loved knowledge engineering, on call support and deep into it development (aionds). Captured $4 million in additional revenue as reported by the underwriting department. Ran for 6+ years total then I left) and then someone wanted “greater ROI”. They cut 1/3 of the underwriting staff. People I interviewed, took customer support calls from, learned about them as people, laughed with, etc. I didn’t feel so proud of my “accomplishments” afterwards. And anyone who thinks that rule-based expert systems, with all their flaws, were experimental-grade stuff, you haven’t taken a support call at 3am because YOUR hand crafted rule (about 1000 total) failed and it’s costing your employer money. Now we have deep neural nets that effectively are unexplainable (been there and feeling the pain).Consider the DARPA XAI retrospective report to back up my claim. What a long strange inference it’s been.
They could rewrite the protocol at-will if a cabal of miners holds a clear majority of the hash power.

If that cabal would require hundreds of groups with no common cause on every continent, then no problem. If it's just a handful of individuals who could make that call, that's a potential problem.

And we just don't know which end of that spectrum the current hash rate distribution actually looks like.

Admittedly, there's no reason a private investor would want to tank their holdings like that I can think of. But, if significant hash rate is being held by state actors as some have suggested, economic warfare comes into the picture.
The "only" thing left? Housing/land has long been the most durable store of value in history and that wont change. It's not as liquid as Crypto and requires laws to enforce private property. But if society collapses, we'll have bigger things to worry about and even Bitcoin can be "seized" via violence/coercion.
How to perform software composition analysis?
It's been a long time, but ~10ish years ago, I was doing something DNS-heavy in C, and ldns was a pleasure to use after being spoiled by Perl's Net::DNS. I think the ldns API was in fact built to resemble Net::DNS.

Either way, it was a pleasure to use. And if you know dig, drill will feel very familiar.
Sounds like this person hasn’t visited many websites.
No they won't because COVID spreads from vaccinated people too.

Also my point is there is no use to any vaccine if underlying health is not addressed in tandem.
Show HN: Optimizing brainfuck interpreter using only the C preprocessor
Monetary transfers aren’t what create the valuation in the first place, so it stands to reason the value can also fall without monetary transfers taking place.

If just a few parties trade one-trillionth of an asset at $1, then we say that asset is worth a trillion dollars because we extrapolated. If the next trillionth sells for $2, we’ve just doubled the valuation to two trillion dollars, but that amount never changed hands, and at worst only one person only ever valued the asset above a trillion dollars. If the next trillionth sells for $0.50 all of a sudden we’ve wiped $1.5 trillion in valuation off the face of the Earth but only two dollars and fifty cents has changed hands in this example. In broad terms, that example explains what is going on here.

The $300B that “evaporated” mostly never existed in the first place. The order books are not very deep and the valuation of Bitcoin looks great as long as everyone hodls and refuse to let the price go down- at the expense of trading volume. Once people get nervous and decide they want to try to turn their imaginary crypto gains into real money to cover losses in the slightly less imaginary stock market, the selling price tumbles because there aren’t that many bids at the previous price. So the price moves down without much volume being traded.