skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that LPDDR is recently faster than DDR of the same 'generation'? I thought LPDDR is purely a lower voltage version of DDR, so I naively would have expected worse performance. Is it because it's typically closer (physically) to the CPU?
"Like us on Facebook and get this 10 cent coupon or even the chance of winning something real!"

Works suprisingly well already, sadly. So yes - at some point companies would pay people to vote for them.

But I still would prefer that system (with some differences) over the default. Because the people I would trust, would not fall for the common scams.
One way for Facebook to cut costs: offer to not call people that in exchange for pay cuts.
Instantly reminded me of a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1137/
I mean, of course they will?

A large fraction of facebook content is MLMs and mobile game ads from one's own contacts.
Exactly. The fundamental difference in advertising today compared to 30 years ago is that for the entire of history until the last 2 decades, it was expensive to target individuals. Ads on TV and newspapers have to adhere to standards established by organizations like the Advertising Standards Council. Malicious ads or propaganda that target individuals with misinformation or malware or phishing can be bought on modern platforms for pennies or mere fractions of a penny. Nobody is being held to account for the damage they are doing to our society. In the past at least the cost of postage was a barrier to entry, but today? This desperately needs to be fixed.
It feels like Google has transitioned the same way as news has transitioned to entertainment, just 20 - 30 years later.

They found, just like TV executives, that there's more money in shoveling drivel to masses, than actual information to a few.
> Since then, bitcoin has thrived, and so has cryptocurrency in general. BTC is up 100x since Peter posted his original article.

This kind of argument shows up a lot, but is a classic example of "appeal to popularity". Whether bitcoin goes to $0 or $1,000,000 is mostly irrelevant when discussing technological and practical merits of bitcoin.

Where the price of bitcoin is relevant is when discussing it as a speculative investment. So what tends to happen is a conversation that was supposed to be about blockchain technology turns into one about blockchain speculative investing. This and appeals to greed/FOMO ("have fun staying poor") tend to drive me nuts about a lot of blockchain discussions.

> A lot of anti-bitcoin crowd gets ego invested in their opposition, and the result is articles like this, which misunderstand the fundamentals of bitcoin.

If a "no-coiner" has high ego investment in their position, what level of ego investment does someone holding cryptocurrency have? And what specifically does this article misunderstand about the fundamentals of bitcoin? Just stating that the article misunderstands something is not a very strong argument or rebuttal.
> The gas supplied to the pilot project, owned and managed by a third party, would otherwise be burned into the atmosphere

Bitcoin mining is offering a climate solution by reducing emissions, in this case.

Do note that this mining operation will add to the amount of energy being used by bitcoin mining. This means that simply focusing on the amount of energy is intentionally meant to cause consternation, when the source of power is more important to understand the actual environment impact compared to prior use of the energy.
sad but I do this too
I don't think competition for shelf space is the right analogy here. Perhaps for Apps within the App Store you could argue that. But when there are only two mobile operating systems with meaningful market share, and when they make it impossible to change to a new search engine at all, and the results all come from only two sources (Google or Bing) that's a straight monopoly over distribution.

It's a similar situation with the App Stores also. They are monopolies. We've gone from a world of personal computing where software was a free market with open choices, to a closed and proprietary world where there is only one available source of software.
Reddit has peaked, at the time PG wrote that tweet you could see some volatility with still some isolated peaks, but if you look at it now it's more clear that the general trend is downwards https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=reddit
Interesting, can you expand on why Hey 'owned' your email? I guess no access outside their app?
GitHub leaked names of private repositories
I just received the following email:

Hi [username],

We're writing to let you know that between January 2021 and September 2021, the following information about your repository was inadvertently made publicly viewable after being sent to a third-party vendor as part of metadata analysis of GitHub Pages sites; the name of the private repository and the GitHub username with ownership of the repository. No repository content or other private data was exposed as part of this incident.

User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach as a result of this event, nor did unauthorized users gain access to repositories. Read on for more information.

* What happened? *

GitHub learned from an internal discovery by a GitHub employee, that GitHub Pages sites published from private repositories on GitHub were being sent to urlscan.io for metadata analysis as part of an automated process. This internal process was implemented before the private GitHub Pages feature was released and provides metadata that is used during human review of potentially malicious or abusive GitHub Pages sites.

To view the name of the private repository on urlscan.io, you would need to have been looking at the front page of urlscan.io within approximately 30 seconds of the analysis being performed or have specifically searched using a query that would return the analysis in the search results.

* What information was involved? *

The following URLs, but no content, were made publicly viewable:

GitHub Pages URLs
[link containing username and name of private GH repository]

* What GitHub is doing *

GitHub immediately began work on fixing the automated process that sends GitHub Pages sites for metadata analysis so that only public GitHub Pages sites are sent for analysis. Future analysis of public GitHub Pages sites will be unlisted from public view as an additional protection.

We also worked with the third-party vendor, urlscan.io, to delete all existing public records of private GitHub Pages sites generated from this situation.

* What you can do *

No action is required on your end; we have updated our systems and worked with our third-party vendor to ensure this data is no longer publicly viewable.

Please feel free to reach out to us with any additional questions or concerns through the following contact form:
doesn't it have ipad/iphone in the UA string?
>Dead Internet Theory

Reminds me of the "birds aren't real" theory. Its almost more social commentary than a serious theory
The thrust to weight ratio of a cluster of rocket engines is not a linear relationship. Adding one more engine might add N+1 thrust but it also adds at least N+1 mass. So you have more thrust but now more mass to lift and a worse mass ratio (the ratio of fuel to non-fuel).

To scale your engine cluster you want to add an engine worth of thrust but not an engine worth of mass. To that end you reduce the mass of your piping or use one pump for multiple engines. All those changes require engineering and testing because the dynamics of the system have changed. For instance a fuel pipe of X thickness and Y material may have some weird failure mode if you make it just a little thinner to save mass.
I just checked again. Here's what I get:

- no results with or without quotes:

No results containing all your search terms were found.

- few results with quotes, not more without quotes:

Your search did not match any documents.

It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search
Tip: Try using words that might appear on the page you’re looking
for. For example, "cake recipes" instead of "how to make a cake."

- no results with quotes, but results without quotes: Google says that the search with quotes didn't find anything, and that they searched without quotes instead.

I have yet to find any instance where Google corrects the inside of quotes without any warning.
It's for background running tasks. In my company we have functions that process tons of medical records. We call this HTTP function from a cloud task queue, the previous 9 min limit was annoying.

This will make our team happy.
And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode!

I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.
I've been wanting[0] more or less the same for a long time now. Ideally the dataset should be public (and distributed) so that you could find bad actors and eliminate them from your network (i.e. when you see a bad result, you can figure out where it came from into your feed), as well as run your own tweaked algorithms. WoT alone is great, but it gets better still when you can tweak the algorithm.

At that point, it doesn't need to be people you know personally; it just needs to be identities with a proven track record. If you can manage multiple identities, you could make ones e.g. for the explicit purpose of presenting a blacklist of bad sites you've found, or for providing a "front page" to a certain subject. Anyone is free to trust your identity or not, and choose exactly how to rank its actions.

This whole thing could be expanded to tagging and other metadata as well as comments, and so on.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691303
Thanks! Very interesting.

Link here for others: https://octavian.julialinearalgebra.org/stable/
The death of the authentic web really chimes with me. I have an almost physical reaction when I occasionally come across a page that isn’t trying to sell me something, that is a labour of love.

A month or so ago, I was trying to help someone retrieve some very old Wordpress for Mac files. I found http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos and was so touched, I sent the author a few dollars for a coffee
Yep. This is why Thailand and Philippines are still on my list of back-up retirement plans.
I feel like this is how the lobbying and decision making about the legalization is going as well.
>There’s a lot of furries too.

Wrong part of the internet.
Maybe a different kind of terror than Dead Internet Theory: the Internet is "alive", but it acts as if it was dead.
We haven't even started to see the potential for using the body to manufacture the drugs needed to fix all kinds of ailments. It's going to be a very interesting time that COVID has brought forward dramatically I'm guessing.
Saying that someone's comment is "silly," "such a stupid way," and "completely wrong" is also, as you put it, "not constructive to the discussion."
Hey that's new to me, I'll use this, thanks.
Yes gnatstack is neat, but, last time I tried (which was some time ago, I'll admit) there were some quite big limits and caveats with gnatstack analysis. The un precise analysis on second-stack, dynamic-sized object return, pointer-access calls (the last one being forbidden in spark?), and some others were quite blocking for my use cases.
You have a point but shelf space is physically limited. Online real estate is not so limited. In my country there is reasonably healthy competition between supermarkets. Supermarkets do have self-branded products but they don't cross-sell competitors self-branded products.

Here we have Apple with Google and Bing on their shelves. Microsoft have Bing and Google on their shelves. And Google have Goggle or Bing. Is that healthy or an oligopoly?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

Death by Neutrino
Downvoting - I don't support the idea that the criminal justice system should extend to the opportunity to be cured from certain diseases, particularly so long after the fact. It's a dangerous precedent.
Most of the games of that era employed memorization as part of the game play because it was an easy way to prolong the life of the game given the hardware limitations of the day. Take your example:

> Whereas in a mario game you can generally improv your way through a level on skill alone.

The NES Mario's are notorious for being evil to those who haven't learned the levels. There's literal dead ends that will kill you if you chose the wrong path. Even the later SNES titles will have hidden stages that cannot be reached via improv alone.
> I see you all over this thread accusing Marc Andressen of engaging in massive fraud, so I don't feel like you are debating in good faith.

If:

i. We know that consumer electronics depreciate rapidly over time eventually to become obsolete

ii. I were you tell you that "Assets gain value over time so I will sell you this CD player from Walmart today for $10 that you will be able to sell for $100 in the future" and you said "No, it's untrue that a CD player is an asset likely to gain value over time, so you wont even get $10 leave alone $100 in the future", than you arn't debating in bad faith.

What you are doing is using the system and logic and inferences. High school stuff

> https://www.lofty.ai/

Do you have any stake in this venture (or exclusively a fee paying user)?

Here are 3 red flags about https://www.lofty.ai/ right off their homepage:

> Investing in real estate is now easier than buying stocks

> Become a direct owner of A.I. vetted real estate in 5 minutes and sell anytime.

> Invest in tokenized real estate for only $50

This company will make a lot of people loose money. I am glad to see you're making 9% in a market that's currently averaging ~15+% Net IRR.

Using deep neural networks in real estate? Wasn't Zillow's iBuying massacre enough educational experience?

You have been around a long time to form an quality opinion: you think this is a good solution to a hyperlocalized, human scale problem?

No actual RE investor in the real world gives a hoot about $10 avocado toasts and Tesla charging stations as prominently shown on the website. It's all about cashflow, tenant rolls and contracts.

Anyways, I wish you and the current users there, luck. We need even more ~speculation~ investors in RE in the U.S.

> Of course not, I specifically said that they represent ownership in an LLC, which participates in the normal real estate market in the normal way.

So instead of NFTs, you could have used a shared, versioned, auditable Excel spreadsheet/AirTable to get the exact same effect without losing any functionality?

What additional gain does NFTs bring over this AirTable solution (and I am aware of the DropBox comment)?

What am I missing?
I have a similar habit, I often search "[topic] forum" - I'm not fond of Reddit specifically due to accessibility issues although in some cases I still go there because it's the only good source.
well, if some protestors are causing 50 million in lost business per day, its a cause for concern. US keeps their stuff local, built in USA, and Canadas economy and trade relations become weaker with its neighbour to the south
This has been happening a lot with StackOverflow and GitHub pages lately. A lot of the times, the actual GitHub or SO link won't even be on the first page.

I'm surprised they haven't done some kind of manual pruning of junk like that, or maybe they have and it's not working... but on the surface it totally seems like they could implement something that says "GitHub has content X, and these other 10 sites are 99% the same, but we've flagged GitHub as an authoritative source so they'll always outrank the clones".

Maybe it's a fear of appearing unfair. Or maybe they secretly want to hurt Microsoft by turning a blind eye. Or maybe this is actually a much harder problem. If I had to guess it's probably #3. But as a user of search it's frustrating to find the clones ranked above the real stuff.
The author does not have their own game and isn't promoting anything. Except that LocalStorage makes the author very sad.
I use my own server for search. I just had to add an OpenSearch xml file.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch
The page said only 15 people donated, I think some people may have been put off by the requirement of providing an email. I nearly was.

on edit: 15 out of a larger amount downloading I mean
Super excited about this one. We've been struggling with deployment times and timeouts for long running tasks.

The function versioning seems interesting for rollouts.
Right, also how does crime prevention make sense? I mean someone is innocent until he commits crime right? So it would mean arresting innocent people because "they were going to commit a crime".

This is a slippery slope, I can see it being abused real quick. So I tend to think that police isn’t meant to directly prevent me from getting killed. Police is meant for arresting the culprits, and that would indirectly prevent me from getting killed because it’s not worth the risk.
I've just had the deja Vu reading this post! Took me a minute to realise, I did actually come across this post and your blog some time ago, and really enjoyed reading all the posts then and now again! Hoping to read more from you!
> There’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up recently called the Dead Internet Theory

I think we're well on the way ...

Was recently pretty shocked, searched for "gas heating repair" and got back at the top some sites with my suburb name in the title. Naturally I thought, wow, if there is a local place I should go there. Clicking into it, it has everything about my suburb - a picture of the local park, and whole paragraphs of random text containing bits and pieces about the local area interspersed with odd sentences about gas heating ("Cold mornings in XXX can be confronting without effective heating" etc). The text kind of makes sense but also reads like it was generated by GPT3.

Of course, then I realise, this is all SEO. They have generated a page like this for every suburb in my city. There are tens of thousands of such pages they are hosting. The most shocking thing is this is a small time gas repair dealer. They clearly don't know how to do this, they've gone with a low budget to an SEO firm who has effectively generated a giant plume of toxic content into the web atmosphere, all to create a marginal benefit for this one small company.

If a small time low budget unsophisticated company can do this, then I have to assume it's happening everywhere. On a mass scale we have giant smoke stacks all over the internet spewing toxic plumes into the atmosphere. And the humans are gasping trying to find the small bits of remaining breathable air.
Also, excessive focus on proportions of crimes solved results in the worst sort of policing, where they push clearance rates by trying to pin lots of charges on one weak individual, decline to record minor crimes that probably won't be solved, and boost their overall clearance rates with easy charges for drug possession.
> I think all it would mean is that the human brain is non-deterministic.

Chaotic systems are still deterministic. They're just extremely sensitive to their initial conditions/inputs.
It's called UNIX scripts, GNU is Not Unix.
And some of us don't even get what this is about. Should I be seeing DDG doing something particular here?
Source on the ‘pays millions’?
Routine maintenance: Embracing habit in an automated world
Are there any lists of unicode characters (like the OWASP one) that should be blacklisted from most apps (not just for XSS, but even for desktop apps)?

Are there any good security guides/best practices for unicode sanitation?
Because a newborn needs another 18 years or so of nurturing and education to become useful, this costs so much that quite a few countries see no qualms in saddling these new humans with the debt of their education.
I don't think it's dying - it thrives in Global South (Africa, S. America) The biggest undoing for Roman church was to succumb to theological innovations. It started a while ago and probably irreversible (see Vatican 2). I see many Catholics and protestants coming to Orthodox Church for the reason of "immutability" - the Ancient Church with Tradition that spans over almost two millennia and theology that did not change and will not change.
> "how is this different from ABC?".

What's your answer to this? I'd expect a pretty good range is possible without any changes to product, from "you get support direct from the engineer and CEO?" to "Can ABC do this...?"

Related to the pitching or communications aspect, is it really a clone, or is it a clone-if-you-ignore-the-various-details? Those are way different.

Do you support charities, do you have a cuter mascot, do you regularly integrate direct client feedback, do you send out a mixtape every year?

Hang in there, define your goals, it really sounds to me like you are already done being awesome and are poking at legendary, wondering where the back door is. Could be really great from here, or it could be that this is more like a side gig to support your full set of life interests...
> The data still do not rule out the possibility that the mass is zero, says KATRIN member Magnus Schlösser, a particle physicist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. But other lines of evidence, in particular from cosmological observations, show that the neutrino cannot be massless.

I would love if neutrinos were massless, just because it would be so interesting. The only way they would interact with gravity would be through the shape of spacetime itself, which for some reason is a fascinating to me.
This article is a brilliant example of one of my favorite phrases: "Perfect is the enemy of good."

No doubt localStorage has a few issues and drawbacks, but none of them really matter to the majority of users. No one expects persisted statistics across devices without logging in. No users care about the technical issues moving to a new domain. Using it for Wordle got the job done well and sold for a million bucks. Obviously localStorage was good enough for that, and probably for most other cases people use it for.
It's accidental, because other characters are also displayed: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=u20aa
video rendering wasn't working in chrome/firefox a second ago, I just fixed it!
Really happy for Linode. I cannot say enough good things about the quality of their products and support.

As a customer who's built significant value on their infrastructure, I'm a little bit worried about the impact this acquisition will have on their operations. I really hope it gives them the resources to improve on the same mission, and not the beginning of significant change!
I’ve been there too. The sad thing was that the people I worked with were genuinely great and smart people but you’re spot on about the actual state of the environment being a depressing and soul draining thing. I quit that job on moral grounds, I just couldn’t be a part of that any more.
> There is nothing fundamentally different between say ... bitcoin ... and ... cash ...

Agreed.

> That's a trade off of convenience vs. risk, but doesn't change the fundamentals.

There is. The ones that rely on court mechanisms aren't the payment mechanism being reversible, it's something else (the storage) that gives first.

It's true that if you keep it in your bank account, all transactions are reversible. But that's a statement about property rights, not about finality. If I have a solid means of "storing" my money, such as by burying it in my back yard, then the payment itself is irreversible. That's not true for cards, which are reversible even if your storage is 100% robust.
a) Information complexity is a measurable physical quantity.

b) Unlike matter and energy, information complexity does not obey laws of conservation. (Demonstrably so.)

c) Ergo, an information complexity singularity can exist, and if it does - we would be reasonably correct in calling it "free will".