skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a country with fairly high inflation. It's fine. Nothing bad will happen. Inflation rate is purposely engineered to maximize employment. You're supposed to invest those savings in high risk things.

A healthy startup grows 20x its size every year. Founders are the people who are well ahead of inflation. What founders should really do is raise money now and just make sure employees have decent raises.
I've been using Wikiwand for years, still love it.
In contrast to the other comments, this is a valid concern regarding whether or not they asked first. I assume legal cleared this blog post, which would likely infer that legal either (A) got permission to publish benchmarks, or (B) doesn't think that part of the TOS is enforceable/doesn't expect CF to actually do anything about it.

The TOS clause, for reference: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#:~:text=(f)%20perform%20or... (ctrl-f benchmark )
As someone who has voluntarily been vaccinated (and had almost all of them over the years) I find these mandates to be somewhat counterproductive and help breed all sort of conspiracy theories. In addition, healthcare choices and outcomes are a choice normally and we do many bad things normally like indulge in gluttonous foods like brownies. Should we make private sector companies fire obese workers?
In San Francisco it is mainly Blacks who are unvaccinated or vaccine hesitant if you want to be PC about it. There is strangely no uproar to isolating a minority group when it comes to vaccine mandates. Blacks are hesitant due to historical reasons like the government Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
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Yes, but you generally can't build a business on top of an illegal industry that's closely scrutinized by law enforcement.

Already law enforcement agencies are campaigning hard against ransomware, and central banks and tax agencies investigating how people are using cryptocurrencies to launder money.

It doesn't mean it doesn't have value; it's just that the real expected value can't be expected to have legitimate businesses on top.
I've been making desktop apps for two decades (proprietary closed source software).

My target audience is businesses, not HN users so I haven't ran into these open source zealots.

Some businesses do ask for open source (politely declined)

Some have also asked to place the source code into escrow for continuity in case the business folds (also politely declined but for some companies this a reasonable ask)

The thing is that people will ask for literally anything and the requests are asinine:

* Rewrite in java\python\ruby\c++\whatever language the IT guy read about last week (nah)

* We need a mac version for the one guy who somehow uses a mac (nope)

* Support oracle (fuck no)

* Support novel networking (lol)

* Make a webapp (lmao)

I'm also not afraid the "hacker" who is going to re-write my app. If theirs is truly better, I will just fork it and crush them :)

Don't let the bobble heads dissuade you. If you want to make a desktop app and if you think the desktop is the correct medium, do it.
Good points and whatever suits you is of course fine.

A suggestion: Try a tour on a bicycle. It's a very different experience: rather of watching from an isolated box, with somewhat limited view, and a bit distracted by the priority of driving, instead you are in it, with a 360 x 360 view, breathing the air, smelling the smells, hearing the sounds (with no engine noise). Also, it's much easier to stop and look, get up close, or go off-track.
People are actually using it.
Yes, we do.

Even if paris is probably the city with the least roundabout because it's the oldest, you can use google map and zoom to see the little circles:

https://0bin.net/paste/xL8ni-vJ#Sv-WUYiKnM2WuRDTCBX0iHfLCWDm...

We even have to giants ones on Nation, Arc de Triomphe, etc. The later is actually dangerous, since priority is reversed, and the cars entering the roundabout should be given way.
Are the speakers farther from the corner of the room in your new place? Proximity to the corners is an old trick for increasing bass output.
I'd also expect unrelated load to be a factor, especially if there's a mechanism which priorities paid customer traffic over the free tier. Given the complexities of loading and running JavaScript, I'd be especially interested in what memory contention looks like — it seems like it could be as simple as Rust needing far less memory than loading all of SpiderMonkey and thus being less likely to hit both low-level CPU cache and high-level runtime cache evictions.
> It’s worth considering what the value proposition of crypto looks like if you were to find yourself living under an illegitimate authority

The cables where communications pass through are protected by armies

If crypto eventually could pose a threat to those illegitimate authorities, they would give orders to cut the cables and games would be over.

they could also trace them back to your house.
Cool - this must be new?

When I owned one they only had some proprietary quality score and how it related to PM2.5 or AQI was not listed.
Its well known that COVID19 spreads more easily in the winter.

Because more people are getting sick with COVID19 at this time... it makes sense that more COVID19 samples will be found in wastewater.
> I also would way rather make large purchases with crypto (e.g. down payment on a house)

For a purchase that large, I would rather make it in person. With a check. Which is way more secure than crypto or a wire transfer.
totally agree about the soil health and (implied) biodiversity in regeneration. Unfortunately, some recent studies show that heavy herbicide applications improve the tree growth in the near (10 year) term. Lots of companies (Bayer/US/Planet) want to sell herbicides and genetically engineered solutions. (sad face)
In addition to tests, I wonder if anyone has thought about a risk pool where car manufacturers pay in (or are paid out) according to whether their vehicles cause more or fewer pedestrian & cyclist fatalities. That would give them a clean incentive to optimise for reducing risk to others...
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The sound is fine, the active noise cancellation is phenomenal. Transparency mode is also nice at times when you need to be aware of your surroundings.
I used linux on the desktop full-time until 20 years ago, and even back-then it was already going to be "year of the linux desktop". It's simply never going to get there, and I'm fine with that.
Right. If you can see it, you can catch it. If you push them further and further into obscurity, you're less likely to catch it. You're increasing the chances that it happens by censoring it, not reducing the chances.
> They make distinctions on paying for more bandwidth, not that they are giving you an inferior product performance wise.

I think this is a non-sequitur. Bandwidth is a fundamental property of the performance of a system, if you can "pay for more bandwidth" then you are literally getting an inferior product when you do not pay.

Consider the implementation for "paying for more bandwidth". I assume that it is the same copper cabling hitting the same switches for fee paying and non-fee paying customers so the only way to "offer more bandwidth" is to implement some kind of quality-of-service metric on the network. This is explicitly giving the non-fee paying customer an inferior product.
On Cloudflare, JavaScript is a JITted language, not strictly interpreted (it uses V8). Code that's seeing any amount of traffic gets lowered into native code pretty darn quick & V8's profile-guided optimizer is pretty impressive at removing JS overheads.

Rust is statically compiled but it runs under WASM. If I'm not mistaken, WASM is also typically interpreted & then JIT'ed to native code (at least it is on V8 IIRC). My guess would be that Fastly lowers it to native code AOT (or at least does a fair bit of optimization) but I'm not 100% sure.

The question is whether Rust WASM will beat CF JS and that part is less clear because the workloads you'd choose for JS vs Rust are so different. Also, these platforms aren't static so it'll be interesting to watch the competition play out as we both push the boundaries of Edge compute.

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare on R2. I think both teams do great technical work but I'm more excited about CF. I think our suite of Edge compute products built on top of Workers is stronger (cron triggers, unbound, durable objects & many other interesting things coming).
What makes you think they haven't?
This article is brutal to read. Does Softbank have a new Narcissist Fund? First WeWork and now Better. Crazy how this company was still able to go public throiugh a SPAC when it couldn't IPO through traditional processes because Morgan Stanley wouldn't do it due to lawsuits. Then you have an executive that gets options with no vesting schedule, a board that doesn't seem to have any oversight over its CEO, etc. You can't make this stuff up.
No i don't want every 2 minutes a reboot update ;)
You purge domains, not IPs.

And it's not like they need to hold on to any state to work. If you had access you could purge everything and have them start fresh from the root servers, and it would work fine. (As long as the load spike doesn't make it decide to do something dumb, of course.)
the linked article provides a tool for doing so.
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As a consumer it’s great that both companies are benchmarking. Even if Cloudflare’s was flawed. Maybe a case of, the best way to get the right answer is to post the wrong answer.

We’re at least moving towards objective comparisons, talking about numbers.

Cloudflare prohibiting benchmarking is not good, obviously.
Well, deletion is also prohibited as soon as anyone replies to the comment, so his username is set in stone even if he has the chance to edit it for a few hours.
Popcorn time ;) Let's wait for @jgrahamc to wake up

Simple solution is for Cloudflare to change TOS to allow benchmarking and for 3rd party to publish a reproducible benchmark suite.

However TBH benchmarking a distributed system like Cloudflare/Fastly is going to be REALLY HARD. There are 1000s of servers involved and reproducing the results might be impossible.
The title is linkbait: There is no cartel.

The word cartel implies collusion. There is no collusion.

Using the word "cartel" in this case is not only wrong, but also... insulting to all the hardworking individuals who have toiled away in obscurity to compile, clean-up, label, package, and publish influential datasets.

Despite the terrible title, the OP is worth a read. It summarizes a recent research paper, also worth a read, about the disproportionate popularity in ML research of a relatively small number of datasets sponsored by and produced at elite institutions (e.g., ImageNet for visual recognition):

https://openreview.net/forum?id=zNQBIBKJRkd

Surely we can find ways to address the winner-take-all dynamics of benchmark popularity without unfairly accusing anyone of running a cartel.
Whoops I stand corrected. Wish I could edit my old comment. Looks like Kreb's definitely talked to the guy now indicted in their March 30th article. That makes the complete lack of acknowledgement quite a bit more damning.
Ah, good point, memory consumption might indeed be a factor here. If that's the case I'd expect higher variance in the measurements perhaps - looking for that in the raw data could be interesting.
No. Have you visited cities in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, etc.? Most larger intersections have several crossings (1-2 on each side) that are signaled appropriately to allow pedestrians, cars, and often trams and/or bicycles simultaneous but separate right-of-way.

In my experience, it’s nearly always clear to everyone where they can go while moving traffic around quite efficiently. The UK system seems to either keep pedestrians entirely separate or throw them into the deep end with car-prioritized signaling.

(However, the latter may only be in the city I’m in at the moment, as I at least haven’t seen this in London.)
The title alone is worthy of upvotes.
> 1) What if we purge 8.8.8.8 at 8.8.8.8 ?

8.8.8.8 isn't a DNS name, it's an IP address. There's nothing to purge.
We are train to do it when passing the driving licence, so it's second nature. In fact, I can do it without thinking, which I can't do with a crossing: too many variables.

The hard part is the signaling (it has very specific rules), and you can see that the older drivers don't use their blinkers properly because they have never been taught to do so.

However, it can becomes dangerous if it's overused.

E.G: Nantes is a city famous for chaining roundabouts, to the point they sometimes have double-roundabouts, which are awkward even after years driving around them. I hate those with a passion.
Think of some online banking application written in C++ and compiled to the web. With js, they only have to worry about css exploits and similar. If they use C++, suddenly they also have to worry about all the C++ bugs, too.
Agreed; immediate analog feedback of a slider is important.

Thanks for the great article, the images you created are especially fantastic.

Edit: my friend just checked and Clip Studio Paint also has 0-100 with no decimal support. Crazy that it's ubiquitous.
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It’s basically forced savings. 20% of your monthly pay is taken and put into an account. You can only use that money for certain things.

It’s like social security in the US but imagine if it was a bank account instead that you could access for retirement.
Programs running natively on a computer have some security measures in place that wasm binaries lack, while wasm has other security measures in place that native programs lack. Quoting the "Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly" paper:

> Comparing the exploitability of WebAssembly binaries with native binaries, e.g., on x86, shows that WebAssembly re-enables several formerly defeated attacks because it lacks modern mitigations. One example are stack-based buffer overflows, which are effective again because WebAssembly binaries do not deploy stack canaries. Moreover, we find attacks not possible in this form in native binaries, such as overwriting string literals in supposedly constant memory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216764

https://www.unibw.de/patch/papers/usenixsecurity20-wasm.pdf
I think we are going to have to put more wood behind fewer arrowheads by concentrating human restoration effort on quality over quantity. More intensely restoring tree cover to smaller areas, strategically chosen not just for convenience (access) but also for how and where it can spread on its own. Trees together collaborate on building forest, especially if there are a few older trees to serve as figurative scaffolding.

If we don't know, we can study how far away an 'island' of trees can be from an intact stand and still draw mammals, birds, insects, pollen, spores, etc, across different terrains, watersheds, and seasonal winds. The animals bring plants with them, and we can 'hire' them just like plants do, if we set up the same kinds of incentives.

There was a video I watched years ago that I lament not making a bookmark for. In a restoration in SE Asia they factored bird services into the equation. They planted a handful of species of plants that the birds liked for forage, and then waited for the birds to bring in other fruits on their own. At the time I think they were looking at around 2x as many species as they had planted, and I believe they expected that to continue as the forage season was expanded by each new plant that arrived.
Spend hours finding "the right icon" only for no fucker to understand your opaque intent.
Don't need to monitor their every move. I'm a parent that uses life360. I have notifications setup to alert me when the kids reach school and when their school bus drops them off in front of our house. Those are two spots I have setup in life360 to raise an alert if and when they are reached by their devices. Anything beyond that I know something isn't normal.
I'll do it for $24k.

full disclosure: will probably outsource all the work to upwork or toptal

Now that I think of it, $24k is a year's salary for the average senior developer here. So I could actually stretch that out quite a lot.
Terrible scrolljacking interface.
Or just use onion services and don't worry about exit nodes
The Flight of Lawnchair Larry
I think WeWork stories are still more absurd like investing 13 million into the surfing tech company Wavegarden or smoking weed on the corporate jet with work colleagues in countries where it is illegal.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-ceo-adam-neumann-inve...
This applies to many excluded groups. People hire from networks; if you don't make any effort, your network will be the status quo, which last from generation to generation. With a little effort, you can expand your network to excluded groups. From even a purely self-interested perspective, access to more talent and a more diverse set of ideas and experiences is never a bad thing, and being exluded means there is more undiscovered talent.

One simple method is to tell the recruiter that you want at least N serious candidates from excluded groups for each job. This causes the recruiter to also expand their network.
Gentle reminder: That's
mostly because they acquired the team behind wasm. Which was already an opensource project at Mozilla.

Post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897641
It's not only you that can catch it. It's all other people too. Yes, you decrease your chance to shut down one individual perpetrator, but you also limit that one perpetrator's reach and they can't do as much harm.

It's the same thing as any other infectious disease, really. If you don't do any covid prevention and hang out with a bunch of unvaccinated people in close quarters, you're more likely to find out if somebody had covid, but at the cost of potentially infecting everyone.

This is about reducing harm by reducing infections.

Your argument boils down to "oh well, now there's CP forever accessible because its on this immutable data store, but at least we now know that somebody wanted to post CP".
Coronavirus typically has a spike that starts in December and lasts until February. There are many theories about why this happens, but reduced Vitamin D levels has substantial proof behind it.
How is this different than not requiring a license at all? It seems as an arbitrary line. Either people have a right to drive or they don't. If they don't it is their problem if they break the law and have their license taken away. If they do there's no need for a license.
what are you even talking about.
you mean the reference to kentonv? as stated, kenton is the tech lead for a major cloud project (as well as a respected open source developer). It's pretty clear from watching what he says that he is generally makes wise statements, while also providing some useful color (for which I am eternally grateful).
No. Use a WordPress theme. Pay $1000 for SEO. Call it a day.
A bookmarklet would have to be clicked every time you open a new wikipedia page. I think it would be more productive to just fix the main permission issue (can view entire browsing history - author says in a comment they'll be fixing it). Chrome also lets you keep the extension inactive - you can easily activate it on-demand from the toolbar. If you do that on a minimal-permission extension, you have the equivalent of a bookmarklet.
It would be a lot easier if websites and advertisers actually worked to naturally integrate ads in a way that wasn't obtrusive.

Massive banners at the top, auto playing videos, throwing off the page layout etc are all terrible ad experiences that dominate.
Have you written about your experiences developing this firmware and your involvement with the Telescope Array? I would be very interested to hear some of the stories (and lessons learned)!
>> New York City's mandate, Pestana and de Blasio point out, is coming from the health commissioner, who both say have a legal right to enact such orders when there is a significant threat, credibly perceived or otherwise, against public health. The around COVID and its ongoing spread illustrate that threat clearly, they say.

per https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/is-nyc-private-s...
Thanks to your link I found out about this,
https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...
I think one would have to assess how much worse the score would be without the goalkeeper before saying it is or isn't a silly award. I don't know anything about handball.

As far as Nobel Peace Prizes go, the point is to encourage people to make peace, so they're supposed to go to (granted, not only to) warmongers or combatants who do something significant to prevent war.

There are billions of people who are peaceful, but don't advance the cause of global peace.
One of the best hedges has been index puts. They are the bet that no-one wants, and they get cheaper and more effective as things get crazier. Vol has gone through the roof again so I wouldn't advocate holding them but if Vix gets down to high-teens, that can be a very effective hedge. Some single-stock puts are clearly ludicrous too, I don't have the funds to put on this trade properly but there are tons of stocks out there that are clearly going to collapse if things get dicey. And there are quite a few unfashionable companies on mid single digit P/E that are going to do well in that scenario too (which I do own).

For diversification, I would try to diversify geographically if you want to retain a 100% equities allocation. US is overvalued, lots of markets outside the US are cheap.
I'm talking about an immediate first-glance reaction, not an analytical 'stop and think about it for a minute' reaction.
Yes, your proportions are off, you're responding to uncertainty with absolutism. Neither of the people you have been discussing with in this thread are making an argument that blockchains are "immediately good". You are getting heated in a way that is out of step with the tenor of the responses to you. I would suggest considering whether your arguments would be more persuasive if they were presented more dispassionately.
>I worked around heavy machinery and I know that's not true. I'm talking dramatically large forklifts for picking up massive shipping containers. It is the job of both the operator and the person on the ground to coordinate their activity.

You've actually worked somewhere that it wasn't the forklift operators fault? Was it the military? Because this sounds way out of step from my experiences.

> there are rules and procedure for everyone's safety

No drivers are injured in pedestrian collisions.

>This blame-the-driver rhetoric is just odd.

It really isn't if you've spent most of your life as a pedestrian, walking or biking. If I'm an idiot, I'm likely to die, if the car driver is an idiot, I'm likely to die. Who do you think is more likely to be the idiot in that situation?
There's nothing "typical" about COVID19 yet.

But yes, there was a spike in December 2019, and another spike in December 2020. So we all are expecting a spike in December 2021.