skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure why you think this is their fault, or why you think the enterprisey-ness of a feature determines whether it should be behind a paywall. Clearly it was valuable enough for you to want it. People should pay for value. Especially if they want companies to stick around for the long haul to support the technology.
> Once simulation technology is good enough, these simulated environments may even be occupied by simulated people, with simulated brains and bodies, who will undergo the whole process of birth, development, aging, and death. Like the nonplayer characters that one encounters in many video games, simulated people will be creatures of the simulation. Some worlds will be simulations set up for research or to make predictions about the future. For instance, a dating app (as seen on the TV series Black Mirror) could simulate many futures for a couple in order to see whether they are compatible.

> A historian might study what would have happened if Hitler had chosen not to start a war with the Soviet Union. Scientists might simulate whole universes from the Big Bang onward, with small variations to study the range of outcomes: How often does life develop? How often is there intelligence? How often is there a galactic civilization?

Uh huh.
Don't want to bother getting into a fight strangers on the internet. The reasons are obvious and well know. Just look at any country in South America that is suffering and it is always the same reason - socialism.
I want one. What’s it done to your electricity bill, though?
> than it ever should have been

Is there some mystical oracle of house prices? Or, like all markets, are things priced according to what buyers will pay intersected with what sellers will sell for?

The price "should have been" whatever a homeowner could get for selling his house. It was his asset to do with as he pleases. It is not the asset of a whiny buyer to cry about not getting the price he wanted, especially at a cost to the seller.

Also Zillow bought a small fraction of all house sales, so paid market rates. They weren't paying 50k more for a house than a neighboring house sold to a person for. The evidence you imply isn't there. Zillow and individuals were paying the same rates, i.e., what the market would bear, i.e., the actual price.
I'm so in on 3rd parties... I'll vote green or libertarian rather than democrat if I have a choice. TBF I'm a leftist libertarian, but can't stand the AnCap right libs, but I mean, if I had to choose between them and someone like Manchin or Sinema it's a no brainer... or even Pelosi. I'd definitely support people like Bernie, and AOC but they are far and few between...
So everyone's invented their own cryptography. Great! I'll just buffer-overflow the TCP stack and let myself in; then I can read all their messages after they've decrypted them.

Rock, meet paper.
I'm surprised they use tumblr for their status page. I couldn't figure out what I was looking at because dates aren't displayed on mobile.
For whatever reason you can still today choose the legacy "root:calvin" password when you order new Dell servers, probably does more harm than good: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/lp/hmc-idrac-password-14g
> Casual web visitors to the public-facing portion aren't exposed to the majority of the product, and have a sub-par experience as a result.

No, their experiences are perfectly fine.

Maybe the company believes that monetization is worse when account-free users read the site, but being account-free is an ideal experience for the majority of users. Companies love to lie about this, both externally and internally.
That train left the station when they chose to create a book for adults that shows a prepubescent child in a minidress
Where are they going to park? It's going to be chaos! I guess that is the point. Justin doesn't really have any options but to surrender, or Stoke violence and hatred to shut it down on safety concerns.

Clearly the truckers win, except if they fall for the trap of taking bate from angry people.

We will definitely see amplified any violence, no matter how small or inconsequential, and no matter who is at fault. The question is whether the public will fall for the rouse. The media is 100% owned by the government and leftists and people that still want more lockdowns and vaccine passports.
Pre-auth ssh vulnerabilities are pretty rare, seems likely to be ok unless the BMC software has surprise extra accounts.
I took things a different direction:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/07/chronicle-will-make-you-q...
See also: https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss

> Queueing jobs in Node.js using PostgreSQL like a boss

You can scale much higher in Postgres 14 if you use partitioned tables, both horizontally and in terms of day-to-day stability because old partitions can be dropped in O(1) time, taking all table bloat with them. Obviously more work to set up, though.
You seem awfully invested in this. I don’t recall using the phrase “triggered“. I believe I said “a bit queasy“.
Yes, there was a massive building material shortage and labor shortage, both driving costs up.

The complaints about housing prices predates this by well over a decade.
To be very clear, fully collateralised loans are not really lending per se. They are repurchase agreements. I am not even sure what use such 'loans' have when you need to have $2 to take a loan of $1. They certainly solve some issues that Cryptocurrencies introduce for themselves but outside of that world they are useless
I was a great UNIX/IRIX/Linux sysadmin. Fantastic. Until I got to a corporation with a structure so large that I wasn't even allowed near the VMware vSphere or the physical hardware itself ((servers locked in the basement)), I was only allowed to install RHEL from images onto other images and keep them patched with Satellite and Ansible. But, disconnected from the front end (vmware) and the real tangible back end (physical hardware), I found myself hating the work and I stopped doing it. I found it quite insulting, to be "just the LINUX guy" cog in the machine.
There’s plenty of life in the arctic (and Antarctic) sea. On land it’s a desert. It’s about as hospitable as the Sahara.
Reactance (Psychology)
It's a pun: mementos + memento mori
Wolves manage to cooperate fine, communicating with both howls and non-verbal cues.

What's more impressive (be it humans playing sports or pack predators hunting): a team calling an audible play while on the attack, or the team that is so well knit that it can accomplish the same without yelling it out loud?

>Wolves don't do anything like that.

Wolves will both silently stalk and drive/funnel prey to a waiting ambush. And they do vocally call for others to rejoin them when out of sight.

I'm not sure what better analog you might expect, given that wolves aren't pursuing above surface prey from underwater.

But would you discredit orcas for not climbing out of the water and chasing seals on the ice?
Honestly it annoys me that someone would throw out a specific number like that for something they have literally no possible basis for.
> the entire scope of these technologies is promoting fraud, scams, and Greater Fool schemes

With this statement the author shows bias and a lack of serious interest in discussion.

Indeed most cryptocurrency projects are frankly illegitimate, but certainly not all.
Thanks, this is helpful
Nice idea. How did you go about marketing the book/getting reviews?
Many molds are everywhere, in soil all over the planet. Most likely you are never going to eradicate such things.
I listened to everything by the Beatles that I could get my hands on to make a playlist for my wife. The theme was "Beatles-adjacent but as good or better". The Beatles finally clicked for me.

I still ultimately prefer The Monkees.
Citation needed that obesity promotes spread. It may increase symptoms, but places like India have millions of cases, many likely undocumented, and low levels of obesity.
Again you're conflating a bunch of unrelated concepts.

Equities may trade above a fair valuation - individually, or as a group. That doesn't mean they're not as a group positive-sum instruments. You may lose money on a positive-sum instrument. They're also not money, and never claimed to be.

You're forcing a narrative around short timeframes. Equity markets are tied to the performance of the business in the full course of time which is tied to labor.

Crypto like futures and options are zero-sum or negative-sum instruments if you include the rake. Every dollar in appreciation comes from a new investor. Every, single, one. That's the difference. It's just trading bags of air back and forth.
Maybe people need to move where housing is cheap if they want cheap housing.
Eh, it took a few cumulative minutes to build a nice whitelist and I don't ever notice it. I do notice it, however, when I visit a news site and I'm not inundated by confirmation dialogs, ads and two auto-playing videos at once.
Function tracing in Linux works like this - only functions that you want to trace are modified at runtime to redirect execution, to keep it otherwise (almost) zero cost. They also have "static keys" to allow for seldom used features in performance critical code to be toggled on and off (through runtime code modification) that are used all over:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux...
> And two, we lost a couple of deals last quarter due to engineering challenges I can help solve in weeks but would take my team months on their own. Some of these problems wouldn’t get solved without my help.

Those were not my words. Those were the literal words used by my Engineering manager out of desperation to convey to me that the team needs my help in solving these problems.

I'm not sure why you would take these as "throwing the team under the bus." This is actually expected -- given I wrote a lot of that code, and was the most senior engineer in the whole company.

This was the result of that effort, btw:

https://dgraph.io/blog/post/manual-memory-management-golang-...

And we had the best team we could build with the resources we had access to. 4 of my team members have created 3 companies -- one is YC, one has a wild acquisition offer, and one is Sequoia-backed. And they all seem to like me a lot.

https://twitter.com/poonai_/status/1487090519616356352
I ride a bike as my daily driver and have owned and operated motorcycles extensively in the past.

Motorcycles should never ride as close to the edge of the road as bikes do. They're faster, bigger and more noticeable. They are given a wider berth compared to bicyclists in my experience since you can take up the middle of the lane without holding up traffic.

Riding a bike deeper into (relatively) high speed lanes is more dangerous. Impatient 4+ wheeled beings tend to drive past you putting the bike very close a lot of moving mass.
Since when did making profits become unethical? What is unethical is giving away traceable customer information like phone numbers or locations of the texts. I certainly hope all that data is stripped. Otherwise then yeah it's unethical
As a crypto critic, monero is basically the only useful innovation to come out of crypto. Unfortunately, most people buy crypto on exchanges so the idea of decentralised, uncensorable etc are really oversold
It looks like a punt, but maybe it has some specific regional features.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_(boat)
On the exterior, peer powers like the Parthian and Sassanid Empire in the East. On the interior, successful military leaders who tried to become emperor, weakening the Empire from within, which then allowed foreign powers to invade (though some of them were invited as foederati)

The author also talked about that in another post [1], though it's not the focus of it (mostly in the 'Kicking, Gouging and Screaming' part).

[1] https://acoup.blog/2021/07/30/collections-the-queens-latin-o...
> perhaps the largest ethnic cleansing in human history (virtual entirety of the North American continent)

We're measuring by geographical area? If we are, very few people lived (or has ever lived) in most of the continent.

To suggest that the worst of someone is all there is, is just an old means to tear down the best, and to demoralize. I'm sure you can find much more.
Mildly comedic piece. I feel sorry for the eco-ass, but when you start a social media post with “Fuck Chick-fil-A, fuck Charlotte City Council, and fuck, and I can’t stress this enough, them cars....."

Well, you is gonna get fired, and you deserve it.
>> so to afford the AVERAGE home in America

You're assuming they have no equity. Close to 40% of homeowners have their houses paid off. If they want to move up to a more expensive house, the 68K income needs to finance the difference in price between their current house and the new one, not the entire amount.

If you're buying your first home on 68K income, you are not going to be buying a 400K house. You're going to be buying a "starter home" with a 5% down payment. Or even 3%.
Then become the VMWare guy (or whatever tech you see coming at you to take over your world). This industry changes quickly, expecting to be a skilled sysadmin on the same platform for more than a decade is a career killer.
Dolphins, which obviously include orcas, actually have more complex brains than ours, including the folds, which makes the surface area of the brain larger for its overall volume. It's not just about "opposite opinions of ... the internet". It's an ongoing scientific discussion, and the trend is usually "they're smarter than we thought".

> they don't have the ability for substantial transfer of information from generation to generation

They have to do so vocally. Technology development doesn't necessarily correlate, positively or negatively, with intelligence. Orcas and whales at large are highly limited by their appendages and environments in terms of technology development.

> complexity of communication in even the cleverest animals is very low compared to human language

Are you able to understand orca what orcas "say"? That seems to be a very strong statement when we know quite little about what they're able to communicate. Furthermore, whales having echolocation have built-in transmitters and receivers that are in addition to their normal vocalizations and hearing. It seems weird to make claims about how they experience the world given no one really knows. But we can surmise the possibility based upon scientific facts.

> I'd be really surprised to learn there was a single lifeform on earth with anything approaching human level intelligence.

If you put a human brain in an orca body (accepting the hypothetical), what could that brain do in that body and environment? Very little with regards to technology development (writing, tool use, etc.).
Hmm, I'm not sure we've done this whole "flame war" thing properly. Well, there's always next time.
Forks of firefox from before it removed XUL. Seamonkey and Palemoon and the like.
We're generally in agreement, and at the risk of exposing my biases... nevermind, my biases are already exposed -- I discovered that wrapping the aliases inside a shell.nix expression to be activated by running `nix-shell` has the added benefit of locking down the execution environment down to the compiler version.

The most illuminating experience for me was doing this for a Python 2.7 project, cloning the repo, running nix-shell, and it Just Worked. I was shocked (in a good way)
The Earth had a faster rotation speed so its thermal equilibrium average temperature was higher (compared to if it spun like it does today). Look at the quartic term in the Stefan Boltzmann law and think about how that interacts with the Jensen inequality.
Like.. a wiki?
ouch. I once tried to grab a password file remotely that made the whole computer network crash for some reason. They found out it was me and they said, "please don't do that again." I was really lucky.
Thanks, I was wondering what kind of baloney is that. Its the cancer giving type.
All of those problems existed before Bitcoin, so Bitcoin evidently did not "bring them to the table"

And if Bitcoin is not a store of value, why are the Bitcoin I own seemingly maintaining (and increasing) their original value?
McCarthy was targeting people whose ideology he didn't like, and using communism as a justification.
https://www.nsa.gov/about/
> there WERE a lot of Soviet spies in the State Department. It desperately needed to be addressed.

Where can I find some serious research on that?
> Most people in crypto are aware of why Tether is bad. In fact a huge portion of stable-coins are handled algorithmically and backed by their network asset. You are building strawmen, likely out of ignorance.

haha, I strongly suspect I know much more about this space than your average coiner. Simply because you disagree doesn't make my positions wrong. You haven't actually indicated anything wrong with my position other than your frustration and a few ad hominem attacks.

Algorithmic stablecoins are (a) a tiny fraction of the stablecoin space and (b) pegs. Pegs are honey pots for attackers. This is true in classical finance too - and attacking the peg can be extremely lucrative. Just yesterday MIM and UST got knocked off their pegs. I'm led to believe this isn't the first time UST got knocked off its peg and required airdropping hundreds of millions onto it. And knocking the GBP off its peg is how Soros made his money.

Fractionally reserved stablecoins that never lose their peg are a perpetual motion machine. [1]

[1] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/07/27/my-second-appearance-o...
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i hope we find each other in our versions of the internet
While I disagreed with the author's reaction to Mozilla's apology and what seems to be their good faith response to criticism, her argument against crypto on moral grounds changed my thinking about cryptocurrencies. It was the first time I'd heard such a strong argument against cryptocurrency on moral grounds that it is a waste of resources. I've heard some strong arguments for how in some places it may be subsidizing the developement of renewable energy production by buying up electricity at surge times, and that many crypto currencies are moving towards less energy intensive methods. Still, it seems that on the whole the constant use of resources to produce evidence that one has used resources as a proxy for storing value is absurd and wasteful.
European costs vary by well over a factor of 10 across countries, especially urban to rural.

I don't see evidence across all of Europe any data for much difference than in the US. Dense places cost more, sparse places are amazingly cheap. Poorer countries, like poor states, have even cheaper housing.
One is a poison, the other is not.

Sitting, alone doesn't kill you. The studies that mention that include unhealthy habits coupled with sitting.

Alcohol defenders like you should just embrace the poison and stop trying to compare it to anything else unless that other thing is literally another poison.

You are ridiculing yourself.
Because you need another email and phone number?

The obvious solution is still for Twitter to not suck.
The US Preventative Services Task Force has recently reviewed the vitamin D literatue, it is summarized here:

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...

Primary care is largely concerned with preventative care. It's not that we don't want to help, it's just that in many ways we are impotent. We generally do not change practice based on single studies. But since this post is about a single study, I'll share a recent RCT in The Lancet which showed no change in mortality and signals of increased cancer with vitamin D supplementation: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8... .
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> When I worked in DoD intel in the past, I had to travel to multiple nations with extremely high rates of dangerous tropical disease. I took multiple vaccines for this purpose. At no point do I ever recall worrying about whether the local populations I was dealing with were vaccinated at all.

Yeah the tropical diseases are an interesting parallel for me too. In a place where malaria or dengue are prevalent I don’t blame others for being vectors of the disease, I assess my own risk and behave accordingly. And the mere fact that they’re spread via mosquitoes instead of air/surfaces doesn’t change the necessity of congregating people to spread. But these diseases are not universally dangerous, so people should not be universally pressured to take any measure to avoid them.

I’m not sure I fully agree with the tyrannical impulse premise, but I’d subscribe more readily to a tribal “badge of honor” premise, which in this (and indeed most cases) happens to be tyrannical. I think generally the masses don’t intend tyranny, rather they virtue signal to coerce and thus become tyrannical as a result.
I thought Bernie was apparently more popular and gonna change things I was naive...lately I've discovered a wealth of anarchist ideas that basically hinge on the idea of creating dual power.

Create a co-op, the co-op builds companies that compete w/ brick and mortar companies. Consumers and Employees who use the companies get shares for keeping them going. Those shares are good towards qualifying for healthcare and dividend payments, so you have like 30% towards healthcare, 30% towards growth/salaries, 30% towards dividends...

Eventually you buy up hospital/pharmacy businesses and eventually you control the prices that insurers pay while being your own insurer for those who don't have other options but at least spend all their extra money at your Krogers, or Fast food joints, etc....

Essentially a bunch of union/co-op businesses that say FU to the govt we don't need you, we've figured out an alternate way to get healthcare and feed the masses that's self-sustaining. Being worker/democractically owned by the workers and consumers who get to vote on how things change, etc... you can still have inspirational/thought leaders leading the charge but you have people deciding to trust you or not, and you can't just stab them in the back for a buck.

Eventually we could be the Medicaid provider for states, and eventually lobby congress to get tax payer dollars to basically be a privatized (albeit partially public) medicare/medicaid alternative that techinically isn't socialized healthcare at the govt level because we're a 3rd party managing it all...

or tldr: Do what Kaiser Health does but remove the profit motives and add basically every profitable business you can that average people buy from normally to get people supporting it through their normal economic output. Be nice to eventually also create a total Amazon competitor that really threatens them.
There isn’t one. I’ll say it again, he isn’t doubting QM. That isn’t what this is about.
Can you explain that more? I'm not familiar with Monero. What apps couldn't be made without it?
I used to live two blocks from this bridge. At evening rush hour it’s bumper to bumper traffic

Not as bad as like the fort Pitt bridge collapsing or something, but still a big deal
I dislike this kind of consensus-building rhetoric and I don't like seeing it on the front page of HN. By all means present critiques of crypto/web3, but don't make false claims along the lines of "all right-thinking people agree that X is a scourge upon the earth".

It's equivalent to starting a conversation off with a loaded question - a useful tactic if you're trying to score points, but not likely to lead to anyone learning anything.