skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edge networking should work for SaaS, especially if your tenants tend to be geographically clustered. Stand up stateless front end web servers in half a dozen regions, and have them talk back to a more central region, with caches and circuit breakers to control the amount of cross-region traffic. That geographical separation will also make diurnal traffic patterns more obvious because you need more servers later in the day in PST than in EST.

You don’t have to distribute everything to scale pretty high.
I don't like how the extreme hatred toward Web3 has spiraled into "I see no practical application for decentralization". Crypto and blockchain aside, how can you not see the utility in an open firehose database/API without gate keepers?

Don't conflate decentralization with blockchain.
> It is my understanding that something about not having to take a network hop and being able to directly invoke the database methods makes a huge difference. Are you able to execute queries and reliably receive results within microseconds with your current database setup?

with SQL Server you can get a very fast local connection by specify "server=(local)" in the connection string - this uses shared memory protocol bypassing the net stack.
I don't think Tom Snyder or Larry King were intended to "mobilize the historically politically-inactive." The revocation of the fairness doctrine[1] is what made talk radio what it became.

It had been weaponized by Democrats against Republican-leaning media, so it was no surprise that Reagan stopped it. The perhaps unexpected result of that is that the fourth estate was divided by the two major parties and we have our choice of political propaganda or political propaganda with no objectivity or government oversight.

One possible solution is to consider another fairness doctrine. One with standards set so as to not be controlled by the two party political system.

If we don't moderate content creation, we'd have to moderate content consumption or deeper incentives (ad money). Solutions to those seem more abusive of freedoms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Snopes exists in large part because idiots can't discern joke/fake from fact. This isn't really Snope's fault. Some people genuinely don't understand satire. We hear about people sharing Onion articles legitimately still.
Amazingly cool! Love it.

Note that if there are others like me who have never set foot into game dev and are curious, there is the CS50G Introduction to Game Development at [1].

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-game-develo...
I'd like to point out that while Ruby does support the

puts("This was true.") if true

syntax, that isn't how most people write if statements in Ruby, in my experience. Ruby also supports the common

if true
puts("This was true.")
end

format, which is how I typically see if statements formatted in Ruby code.

I wish the article had made that clear.
How could that work? If I sell you a private key, then you get the private key, and I get the money... and the private key. You either move them right away or risk me moving them (or me selling the private key again to another guy)
I’d be interested in the name too because it seems to happen to me a lot
I currently work at Microsoft, and all I can say is that I actually have so much respect for CEOs lately. It takes a huge amount of foresight and understanding of human nature to move a company this size in the right direction, because you’re trying to incentivize all these divisions to behave the way you intend. As I’ve become more experienced I’ve learned that company culture is way more important than I thought when I first graduated college.
My first thought was “I could stake my life that I’ll see some ASCII penises on this”. Was amused to see just how right that assumption was.
Indentation makes copy/paste bugs too hard. It’s difficult to copy/paste when the source and destination are at different indentation levels.

I strongly prefer braces. But I also increasingly languages with a standard style and formatter. Go and Rust both do this well.
I don't mind indented code when writing or reading code. However I think indentation often becomes a pain when copying code from e.g. StackOverflow - the indentation is never quite right.
You're right, there is also Twitter
The hyperbolic part is assuming that each of their 100K employees, and just as many vendors, are complicit in and guilty for whatever bug has allegedly affected OP's mom's computer.

"Seriously if any MS folks are reading this- you really have pretty much erased any goodwill I had towards you"
Could be, but my point is just that he’s uncorrelated with other people.
Typo in posted link, this appears to work:

https://thomasvds.com/did-zarathustra-love-emojis/
How does that fit in with .emacs? I'll dive on documentation tonight. Could use some cleaning of my files.
It's easy to get a lawyer on contingency for this. Don't talk to the insurance company beyond: "I'll settle for $20k now", "Can't do that." Hang up and start calling lawyers (price just went up). They are going to want to hang injuries over them...so start getting massages and feedback from a chiropractor.

You have to play the game to get compensated unfortunately. The lawyers and chiropractor know how to do the dance. Most people just get discouraged by the offending insurance compay and take it in the ass. You should be paid for your time talking to lawyers and going to get massages and dealing with all the logistics of repair, inconvenience of the accident etc.

"They can" because you let them... most people don't value their time and do the the same. Great business, insurance.

Another way of looking at it is that you could recover all of the money you have ever paid out for auto insurance in one settlement--zeroing out your contribution to the scam.

Grind them into dust for every last penny you can pry out of their hands because they do the same to you and all of us. Forget the propaganda about "raising everyone else's rates." That's a joke. This is an industry that punishes loyal customers by raising rates every year until you notice. Then they hope you leave. They are very sensitive about people shopping around each year and always talk about discounts for people who were at their last insurance company for x consecutive years. Scam indeed.
Principles of load-shedding mechanisms in large-scale services at Google
Was this the same kind of true in 2017? Because that's not how it was portrayed to the person getting the offer. Also going out of my way not to give away too much information unless you vindictive little s___s retaliate against the person in question.

I also know that you didn't contradict my $3M figure. Hmmm...
Streisand effect is a real thing.
What else can you do? Really? How can you trust or distrust expert advice without the technical knowledge?

Most of the reasons for distrust I've seen have basically boiled down to "I don't like what the expert is saying" or "They were wrong once, obviously all experts are wrong about everything".
Update: To reiterate, we have no indication that LastPass was breached
The tracks are amazingly cool.
> Why do Elon Musk's speculations have any credibility here? It's not his field, and even in his field he has a track record of making confident public statements that turn out to be wildly wrong.

Actually it's very much his field. Elon Musk was one of the founders of X.com which eventually merged to become PayPal. He was interested in digital currency since the '90s and has been active in the cryptocurrency space as well.
In many cases you don't even need to modify it. Ownership of an NFT often does not provide copyright on the original image (https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2021/04/article_0007.h... has some interesting details on what you do and don't get with an NFT). So if you made the original image, you can just mint a new NFT of that image and sell it.

Heck you can mint as many NFTs as you like of any image you own the copyright of :)
My APCS class was the worst experience ever. The teacher acted like a baby sitter, watched basketball videos all day, and knew less than the students. Yet, even with this, he got all of his tests from some test-bank that were literally insane. Seriously, if people are going to teach CS in highschool make it a good experience, otherwise really smart kids will never pursue it.
Are you implying that salt does not raise blood pressure? Because I am pretty sure you are wrong. But be free to share RCT's showing it is indeed a false association.
Same here! I’m pretty sure this is because listening to an audiobook is more a passive discipline (and I often do something else at the same time, like walking in the street) where reading is more an active one.

I still remember enough (at least I think I do), and it is not rare when I really enjoyed an audiobook that I buy the paper version afterwards.
It was less divided, but that was at least in part because "Web 2.0" was about the web. This usage of "web3" to mean crypto/blockchain has nothing to do with the web, and therefore feels completely absurd to me.
> remains pseudonymous under the extreme pressure of thousands trying to de-anonymize him, that’s the only way we can really be sure that anonymization is still possible in the modern age.

Other unwilling human beings aren't appropriate test subjects for your conjectures about security and privacy. If you'd like to test a security hypothesis, offer up yourself or your family for attack-- don't nominate other people.
For the past two years Ive been needing to clear my ios voicemails every few months because they are full of bounced calls that left a voicemail

There is also a deleted messages section, automatically made for some bounced callers, that needs to be cleared

Non solution offered here
Barely significant? What is that supposed to mean?

The evidence is clear - mask wearing reduces infections. You seem to be arguing something else.
With WAL, writes for something like a ToDo app finish in a small fraction of a millisecond so unless your todo webapp is writing to the DB at a rate exceeding 20k writes per second, the fact that writes are not concurrent becomes largely irrelevant.
Yup:

Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115372 - May 2021 (112 comments)

Also related:

SpaceX Software Team AMA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444738 - June 2020 (6 comments)

We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432996 - June 2020 (28 comments)

Software Engineering Within SpaceX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23403800 - June 2020 (313 comments)

We Are SpaceX Software Engineers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13705762 - Feb 2017 (6 comments)
I call this trend "tech hipster"-ism. Part of the motivation is just to do something different just for the sake of being different. Maybe part of it is a perception that Postgres or Linux are oh-so-scary and difficult things or that using the same technology that Amazon uses makes you evil. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Oh you're thinking that centralized apps would always produce better UX for some reason?
I think centralized apps are making UX necessarily worse, because they implement dark patterns in order to milk their users, while in a decentralized ones you can just make your own. For example, matrix vs discord, one I can customize and interact with however I want the other is garbage and if I change anything I will get banned.
Same thing with Bill Gates: they pay for advisory.

Nick is Satoshi. It pains me to type that out.

We were always supposed to look for Satoshi, never to find him.
Buy more keys, configure them as dupes and store somewhere secure but accessible given a day or so?
I get the ones where the robot breathes in and out, at the beginning of sentences, and sighs to sound more human
Uhh, clearly it's not just for Tensorflow; https://circt.llvm.org/
They should change bug priority to "low", add a label cheap-bastards, and go on with their day.
He was one of the creators of PayPal, so digital money is his field. If you read the quote carefully, he is also not speculating on Nakamoto. Elon instead states that Nick Szabo contributed to the ideas behind cryptocurrencies. This generally is not disputed.
The problem with those private keys being sold off-net is that the buyer can never be sure the seller deleted every copy. Who would take that risk? And who would buy it and not use any of it?

Even if the value tanks it'll still be a ton of money.
I used to love playing Tetranet - this brings back those vibes.
In visiting other countries, I realized how little I interact with the people around me because of the language barrier. I know there are places its worse and some where its better. Still, made me reconsider to another country.
Are you me?

I spent much of my childhood working on a tabletop RPG with my brother. Then decades later working on and off on various gamedev projects.

I used to beat myself up for never finishing anything. Only with therapy over the past couple of years did it finally click for me that many times these projects were escapes. The point was not to finish them so that the were a safe place I could retreat to when my life felt uncontrolled and chaotic.

I was absolutely using it unknowingly to self-medicate. I still do so—I literally just took a break from hacking on my fantasy console project to check HN—but I'm a lot more mindful of my motivations now. It's OK to want some escapism now and then. Certainly with the pandemic, it's entirely reasonably to want a space where one feels they have some control because we sure as shit don't have control over COVID.

But I try to make sure I'm not using it as an unhealthy way to avoid chaos that I should be tackling.
> financial applications have been built on top of Ethereum that all share the same database and users can move from application to application, keeping their data (and their login credentials stored in their wallet) as they go.

Does anyone have examples of this in the wild? I often hear data portability listed as one of the great benefits, but I don’t have a grasp on what that actually means.

In my mind, the data needs to be structured to be useful, otherwise other DAPs wouldn’t be able to act on it. Who defines the structure? And who manages changes?
Come on. You can't believe ASICS pull more power than mining operations. Aluminum smelters are not cheap
MSFT was already xandr's biggest customer. they ran dedicated hardware just for MSFT, and already handled most of their ads for msn and Xbox. they were already deeply linked companies.
I think the point parent is trying to make is that the majority of postdocs will move to an industry job simply because that's where most of the jobs are, even if they'd prefer to remain in academia.

While postdoctoral jobs aren't age limited, they are defined in the US as a temporary training position, and it's not possible to remain a postdoc for very long. The vast majority of postdocs in the US are foreign nationals, on a visa scheme that limits their stay to a theoretical maximum of 5 years. The salary is low enough that it dissuades postdocs from remaining in these positions for very long anyway. Some institutions may support transitioning senior postdocs to a more semi-permanent "associate" position, but that's not usually the case. The visa scheme also disallows postdocs from applying for a green card (while maintaining status), which complicates matters further.
Nice, but how is anyone to not leave children alone with an always-on device?

The solution is simple.

If the system is not yet designed, built,& tested to a sufficiently high standard that crap like this will not happen, then you pull it from the market. Period.

It is not like this feature is critical, or even a rounding error on any Amazon data sheet. They have no right to run such an inherently dangerous POS into customers' houses.

And, perhaps vendors will decide to stop using the unfiltered cesspool of the Internet as a free data source to productize. It is a stupid short-cut.
Imagine if nobody ever used or knew about traditional phones, and then someone came up with the "Phone app":

"Yea, so here is an app you will love! Install it, and it allows anyone, anywhere, anytime, to interrupt whatever you are doing on your device, background whatever app you are running, cause it to ring, buzz, and notify! Further, if you press the green button, it will allow that random person to start talking to you."

Even if it managed to get past either of the app stores' rules, who would install such an intrusive app?

Yet, every smartphone sold today has that exact annoying app pre-installed!
I recall buying $50-60k worth of hardware at one of my previous employers, with only 2 signatures required, both of which I was able to obtain within the space of an afternoon.
You can send two of those assignment signatures to two different parties simultaneously.

Is there a way in your system to avoid the double send?
I suspect (or at least hope) it’s not Szabo given he seems, to put it nicely, a little unhinged about politics on Twitter.

Although I suppose he’s but one of many ostensibly smart and decent people who seem to devolve into terrible people after being on Twitter too long with a large following.
To place some Bayesian value on this we first need to have all the "I know where Satoshi lives" stories on the table.
Adventures in BGP: routing my own public IPv4 address space
I'm flabbergasted over the web3 term, and that anyone is using it unironical. The web2.0 term, went from something that was a bit awkward but ok in the beginning, to something that you want to laugh at people using. Then someone takes that, adds one to it, and thinks it's a good name for their tech?
I can think of plenty of services that an occasional (once a year? less?) outage is okay. Heck, anything relying on AWS us-east-1 is going to have outages that frequently based on the last few months. Meanwhile, almost any service is better off when its response times are cut drastically. I’ve seen many instances where a service’s response times are more than half waiting for a db to respond.
Even if that is true there is no guarantee it will stay like that:

Bitcoin has amassed a $1T valuation in like what, 10 years?, of existing.

Who knows how popular it will be in another 10 years, 20 years? Could be gone. Or could have replaced the dollar.

If you de-anonymize the person now, they will be affected by that forever, not just now.
Cool work.

I wonder if contemporary proof assistants have enough primitives to implement this.
In that case, it sucks to be the customer.
Show HN: Whirrel – The Predictive Crypto Price Index
Thanks for the link.

In reading about neurodiversity I’ve encountered several groups of people who struggle with relevance theory. Not understanding how this works can drive a pretty big wedge between you and the people you’re trying to bond with, especially if you don’t know you’re doing it.
What makes you say that an amoeba doesn't have intelligence?
Hi,

To compensate for my lack of trading skills I started some time ago developing an algorithm for spotting changes and trends in crypto prices. The project started as an internal experiment but I made a decision of publishing one of the approaches I have been now using mostly.

The project is called "The Whirrel Index" which is a combination of price predictions squeezed into a single number that ranges from -100% (price likely to dip steeply) to 100% (price likely to rally high).

The prediction model consists of multiple neural networks that have been trained with technical indicators and price data. Each of these neural networks predicts trends and changes in future average prices in timeframes ranging from 1h to 24 hours. The Whirrel Index number is a single and simplified indicator that combines all these predictions into one number that speculates whether the price will drop up go up.

The data is updated hourly and the accuracy of the prediction models are tested by backtesting them with historic data. Currently the accuracy varies between 60% - 80% depending on the prediction model.

Imo fine tuning the algo is crucial but I'm also now working to find the most optimal strategy. The algo has not made me rich yet but has already helped me to avoid some losses and even make some small profit by knowing when to hold, sell or buy.

It's still in early stage, and as I'm not a professional trader, it would be super helpful to hear feedback especially from people who are more experienced with cryptos, trading etc.
I am glad Obama gave Nick SS protection.
A Roadmap for Molecular Thermoelectricity
Yeah but my point was the claim that "wearing masks is highly effective" needs more qualifiers.

There are many kinds of masks and many different communicable diseases. A cloth mask will not block covid aerosol transmission at all, and covid is known to transmit via aerosol. A cloth mask may prevent some spread via droplets, but it's unclear if it's "highly effective" or just "marginally effective" or even "ineffective" given how often people touch and adjust cloth masks and how rarely people wash them.
As someone who worked for appnexus/xandr for years, this move makes sense.
MSFT was already xandr's largest customer, and handled most of their MSN and Xbox supply.
I'm happy for Everyone still there. this is a much better home than AT&T.
Recent and related:

What will enter the public domain in 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420667 - Dec 2021 (230 comments)

All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473177 - Dec 2021 (228 comments)
You deeply misunderstand employment law if you think it prohibits people at the same level from being paid different amounts.

It's illegal to pay differently on the basis of sex, race, or other protected classes. It's perfectly legal to pay differently on the basis of performance or anything that isn't a protected class.

The vast, vast majority of workplaces in America pay people at the same level different amounts.
Is it really that common to write your own load generation framework?
This is true - The counterpoint is that now you have this leviathan that is the SQL Server process(es) running on the same machine as the application.

If I am constraining my SQL Server usage to fit on 1 box, I might as well use SQLite (assuming no future plans for horizontal scaling).
> The main idea IMO is just relying on people to be willing to buy into whatever new thing has a lot of marketing and hype behind it. They consistently do. Even if web3 is a truly open system, people will remain too apathetic to learn how that system works - they will just go to the most popular platform and pay the fee

Then why not do it on web2? Web2, as it relies on trusted authorities, is fundamentally cheaper to run than web3.

> It is possible to replicate an ETF with relatively low effort by just looking up their holdings every month and rebalancing, yet most people pay the ETF fees.

ETFs rebalance without incurring capital gains, which is a massive advantage.
marcan seems to be part of a new breed of hacker, less interested in the "why" we do it and more interested in the "how" of it. Works pretty well for tackling a challenge like blindly picking at a black-box ISA/SIP, but I don't think his project has the kind of ideological understanding that keeps the libre desktop alive. Getting it to work is one thing; building a community to maintain your work is another.

Unfortunately, that's going to constitute a lot of the people you encounter these days. Half-measures are better than no-measures, but I really do miss the days of vigilant software development instead of cleaning up Apple's scraps.
Following "Click here to resolve the DOI without the slash." works
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1935-3
preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.13705.pdf
If Python had left the tab character out of the grammar, we wouldn’t still be having this argument checks notes thirty years later.

Vi and emacs had ways to do soft tabs. It’s not like it was an editor problem.