skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're comparing apples to oranges.

Decentralized systems by nature suffer for slow adoption (just look at decentralized networks like Mastodon which are objectively better than alternatives yet lag behind in adoption). Finally, bitcoin is a financial product, I really don't know any other financial systems that we're adopted quickly other than maybe payment processors. We still struggle to adopt centralized systems that come pre-enabled on our phones!

Crypto is just too big to be adopted quickly and one might argue that's actually a good thing.
You have indeed raised this idea before. The replies in other threads, among people familiar with this design space, will be the same here, as they were before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29855830).

Namely:

These devices are one of a kind items, fabricated, integrated, and tested manually, not on some kind of assembly line. There isn’t an economy of scale.

Your conjecture is just not correct. It’s remarkably hubristic to think the people who design these space telescopes have continued to do it wrong because making duplicates has not occurred to them.
I find DDG is well optimised for software folks and geeks, because it's the main demographic that uses it. It's hard for me to recommend it to my friends though since often basic queries fail compared to Google, especially with relation to country specific queries like that I'd make here in Australia.
A reminder that just because WFH is in an employee’s interest doesn’t mean it’s it in an employer’s interest and that the dynamics of this will be much like “employees want more money” — people with leverage will get it and people without it will not.
google search often returns wrong, unrelated, or no result. i have been in that situation many times before and moved on to change my query.

i am (and most of us are) trying to solve my own issue. not google's.

that's why you get vague answers to your questions. it's not because it doesn't happen. it's because at that moment we care much more about solving our problem. that's what brought us to google search in the first place.
Lexical closure of syntactic lambdas, with escape analysis as an implementation optimization.
Do you mean Firebase or Firestore?

If you mean Firestore, what about minio? It's incredibly scriptable and awesome.

If you mean Firebase, use rxdb and connect over graphql (hasura is fantastic) to your postgres database. It can be a little work to understand how the models all map into the database, but once you get it, it's magical.

Both are easy to self host. I run my entire stack of all components on dokku, so I get easy logging, backup, and can migrate to a new host in a few standard commands.
Great stuff of course.

> Last Updated: 29-Jul-2020
Moreover, Ukraine did not invade its neighbors decades ago. It gave up wmds rather than accumulate them. Saddam did have and use wmds, and professed to seeking more. Dissenting voices had to ask us to trust Saddam Hussein.
downvotes to ask a question? what has HN become?
Why not do something like:

1) Fetch the list of comments

2) Add a listener on the public user info for each comment poster

3) Render the comments immediately. When the user info is available, re-render with the avatar information.

The nice thing about this is that the avatar information will immediately update in real-time as soon as someone updates their avatar. Yes, with a KV-store, you need to do more reads because you can't join data (which implicitly will do a read btw), but it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. Immediately reflecting changes to the public user state seems nicer than the convenience of a join.
What makes you think that the scientists didn't consider the possibility that poor sleep at night was the actual causative factor driving the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's dementia?

From the paper:

>Nighttime sleep disturbances are known risk factors for developing cognitive impairment or dementia. We found that the association between excessive daytime napping and incident Alzheimer's dementia remained with similar effect sizes after adjustment of covariates for nighttime sleep quantity and quality including sleep duration, sleep fragmentation, and WASO, implying a role of daytime napping independent from changes in these nighttime sleep-related characteristics. We further note that we did not observe direct associations between these nighttime sleep measures and incident Alzheimer's dementia. Therefore, it is unlikely that the increased duration and frequency of daytime napping were simply to compensate nighttime sleep loss; there might be other underlying disorders that affect, for example, the wake-promoting network that leads to lengthened sleep during both daytime and nighttime.
The passing play is now in favor of WFH. In other words if you think the choices are fully onsite, fully remote, or mixed - mixed is not a terminal state. It's an interim state which drifts toward fully remote.

Say you have a mixed workforce where they have to be in 3 days a week. They are going to commute to work, sit at a desk, and spend all day on zoom anyway to accommodate the 40% of workers having a WFH day.

Also consider the companies that allowed a subset of workers to go permanent remote. If you work directly with even one of those ppl, all your meetings are now zoom meetings.

In both cases the person in the office is penalized. They have a WFH experience but they have to needlessly commute to get it. Is the salary boost worth the commute costs and time lost?

There's a thousand other ways for us to solve quote unquote mental health issues related to WFH. The lockdowns are over. You can join a club. You've got 2 extra hours in your day from no commute to tend a community garden, join a rec league, go to the local pub. You don't need coworkers or employers for these things.
was my first thought in seeing this.
> The elite was already corrupt, they just came to avail themselves of this corruption.

The wealthy of all civilizations at all times in history have been corrupt. There is nothing interesting about that.

What is interesting about this situation is that London is incidentally a good place for Russian money. No one is trying to argue that London would be a magical, affordable Utopia without them.

It's just interesting that the conditions in London were most suitable for so many of these people exfiltrating money from their home country.
It's less about paid placement taking priority (as in intentionally degrading results) but more that there's no incentive to spend money improving organic search results where at best it'll do nothing and at worst decrease the profitability of paid results (people are less likely to click on them if the organic results are good), not to mention that crap organic results also benefit Google as these websites often have Google Ads or Analytics.
Haven't tried Brave, but I'd say DDG results are much better than Google Search.

I think it's down to personal preference or something.
Indian IT companies famously use all sorts of arrangements to claim large chunks of premium land in big cities. A large portion of their profits are banked in land and commercial real estate yielding them tax benefits and holidays for "infrastructure investments."
bitcoin is not going to pos. it'll either become too big to fail via lobbying or it will run into significant headwinds.

maybe it will require pow regulation to change the risk-reward calculation for eth to finalize its transition to pos.
> There have been dozens of variations of FOSS licenses over the years that prohibit things like use for nuclear facilities, use in weapon systems, use in genocide, etc.

I'm not aware of any FOSS license that states things like that. I think you're wrong.

> A hypothetical license that said "You can do anything with this software except launching missiles at kittens" is pretty damn in line with the spirit of FOSS

No, it's not in line with the spirit of FOSS, but rather against it.

I understand that you have this vision about a kind of license you would like for software. I cannot argue with that -- it's your vision and it's your right to have it. The problem is that it's not any kind of FOSS license that is recognized as such (i.e. as FOSS) by the wider community. You can call it FOSS but nobody else will.
Precision vs. accuracy of what measurement?

For GPS to work at all, you need very accurate knowledge of the offset between each satellite's signal.

The only way I can think of to have precision but not accuracy is if you design a system where there's a buffer between the antenna and the signal processing and you don't know how long the buffer is. Is a design like that a practical concern?
And thanks to the nature of open-source it's possible to audit and verify that. (I'm not saying that's necessary in this case)
One bit of clarification:

> it returns the unix timestamp in UTC time

Unix timestamp is ALWAYS the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. It cannot be in any timezone.
The EU created and deployed instant zero-cost 24/7 bank transfers while crypto was twiddling its thumbs talking about “early days” and puffing out PoW carbon.

If even the European Union moves faster than your cutting-edge decentralized system, maybe you have a problem.
One way to look at credit card fees is as a form of insurance. They're a bit annoying, and most of the time you'd rather not pay them, but as with most insurances if you ever need to use it you'll be very glad you had it.

The benefit to society is that it lowers the risk of making transactions, so people actually spend their money. The inherent risk in crypto transactions has a (very slight) chilling effect on people's willingness to buy things with it. Why would you pay for something with BTC when you can use a safer payment method?

Also, let's not ignore the fact that crypto has fees too, and few people are paying taxes on the money they make from them, so there's little difference on that side of things except the benefit to the consumer is missing.
At this point, I think the "will it or won't it?" questions of crypto are meaningless. There's simply so much mindshare wrapped up in crypto that even if it stops being exchangable for dollars people will keep doing things with it. It's also decentralized enough that removing the actual infrastructure would be difficult.

It may or not end up looking exactly like traditional money, but it'll look like something.
A radio telescope would perform best if it was shielded by the moon.
Is the US an optimal currency area?
But it also gives the credit card companies an incentive to catch fraudulent behavior as soon as possible, and prevent it where possible.
IEEE 1588 (Precision Time Protocol) has already solved this problem for every use case that matters and offers microsecond precision.

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ptp.html

PTP takes advantage of special Ethernet switches and other devices which can decode or manipulate the time tags in hardware because yes your switches add latency.

This just sounds like more horseshit out of SV. I applaud them for convincing someone to give them money for this snake oil.
If you put more effort into prevention, thieves are going to put more effort into circumventing said protection. Without some kind of safety net, people are going to be stolen from and really get hurt.

As for net benefit to society, it's not the first thing I'm thinking of when I've had my credit card skimmed. What I'm thinking is, thank goodness there's some modicum of protection for me and I haven't been wiped out with no recourse, which could be the case with crypto.

Is it good for the consumer to have these protections? I think people would much rather have the safety net of the financial institution and maybe need to pay a passed on fee at a merchant than not pay a fee and risk being completely drained of funds.

Is it good for banks? Not really, I think? Regardless of whether they're writing it off on taxes, it's still money that's leaving their hands. That does leave the point about them being able to dodge taxes, but, if there's one thing corporations are good at, it's dodging taxes.

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Considering these 'deep space' images that capture these myriad of little galaxies so far away.... The number of galaxies that must be out there is inconceivable to me.

Spitballing.

Might there be some space/time mechanism at play whereby we're actually seeing the same handful or so of galaxies? Like maybe some lensing thing.

Or weirder, we're actually seeing right around the universe itself — as though seeing the back of your head in a mirror if you look far enough. Not a topologist, but seems a toroidal universe would have a property like this: look far enough and you see the back of your head. So perhaps the same galaxies seen from multiple angles at the same time appear to be a greater number of galaxies than there actually are.
So your alternative of the fraud insurance we currently have is to just end fraud?

You sound like Gov. Abbott. Don't worry about abortion in the case of rape, we'll just get rid of rape.

Why didn't we just think of that before? Just get rid of crime, and there won't be any problems!
So if the company let’s you work from home, how much of that savings should they capture or do you think you should get it all?
The wild fluctuations in price, even if the average stays the same, is what enables returns here, not the rise of value over time. I have a bot that trade on the highs and lows of the day, and it can make an absurd amount of money.

Also, buying very large quantities of fringe alt coins at millionths of a dollar each can pay off if the coin ends up rising in popularity and price. I do a few moon shots each year and cash out in November when crypto rallies. I’ll put $500 in 10 coins and usually one or two of them 100x at some point. I have my notifier send me a text message when it’s time to sell.

Not saying this stuff is useful, because it totally isn’t at this point. Well, except perhaps to make some random people a lot of money from nothing.
Google can trivially reduce the amount of spam by using the amount of ads, analytics, affiliate links, etc as a negative ranking signal.

Instead of targeting SEO per-se (as it's difficult to determine a good website with SEO vs a spam website with SEO), target how they're making money.

They're not doing so exactly because they have no incentive.
A lot of the cherry trees planted in Japan are clones, which causes synchronicity - the cherry trees in an area are grafted from a single, best tree found there, and thus bloom at the same time for the same duration, more or less. (At least that's how it's commonly understood, I don't know about the exact science into that.) That, I think, makes the blossom feel more short-lived than a non-synchronized blossom.
Credit card companies often actually get the money back. They do a clawback/charge back. Which btw, some cryptocurrencies offer this too and there's also credit card like functionality, just not widely adopted because there's few places that accept cryptocurriencies.

But yeah, I do think clawbacks are a good thing.
Nothing in here that hasn't been said in the last 10 year. It's tempting to dismiss it as a bubble. But; most bubbles don't get 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th... etc. chances. Every time bitcoin crashes people say "this one is different, this time it's dead for real", then it bounces back. It's proving to be far more cockroach like than anyone anticipated.

In the more distant future, if bitcoin survives, its utility will just be one thing, it will be regarded as a unit of measuring transaction value independent of any government. It will not be a replacement for any sovereign currency. Just this extra tool out there in the ether of finance. Notions of store of value, blockchain, proof of work etc. will be regarded as implementation details of achieving a global unit of account. Think of it like the SI unit of value, kilogram, meter, bitcoin. It's still far too illiquid to serve that purpose now; but, once it has at least an order of magnitude larger market cap it may.
Kagi is listening. Sign up and give it a shot. I've tried them all (Neeva, Brave, Bing, Yandex, etc.) and I like Kagi the best. They are planning to make it a paid service when it gets out of beta.
Sadly, that's not realistic. You can get a subset of users to pay, but it's vanishingly small compared to everyone who thinks they are perfectly happy with the "free" status quo. Even a dollar a month, it is infinitely more than zero. I just had this conversation with members of my extended family and almost all of them were of the "I don't care if I'm tracked, I've got nothing interesting to hide" mindset, along with "not a chance in hell I'm going to pay for this, or email, when I get them from Google for free."
If one mirror's actuators fail, it's over.

I hope they have long life.

"The Webb telescope will use 132 small motors (called actuators) to position and occasionally adjust the optics as there are few environmental disturbances of a telescope in space."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
Santa allows you to disable them, however.
I was in Japan visiting some friends many years ago. I happened to schedule a trip to Kyoto. It was April.

I wondered why all the cheap hostel rooms were taken, but sprang for a room at a nice local traditional hotel.

Then I explored Kyoto for a couple of days, wandering around canals and streets, visiting temples. It was so beautiful.

I had arrived during the cherry blossom season by pure, dumb, luck.
You're comparing a centralized approach with the force of law to a decentralized approach which requires buy-in by the masses without any coercion.

Of course the two approaches will be different.
Somehow I'm not convinced that a technology that makes the global transaction log public and immutable for eternity makes government oversight "irrelevant".
Reading about the state of consumer computing in North Korea is interesting and scary. A quote comes to mind, "Industrial society and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race"
That Ivermectin is somewhat a scares resource is nonsense, there were rather large countries that gave it out like candy with no problems. I can not overstate how cheap and easy to produce it is, quite different from masks. I would also be very doubtful many people would use an obvious placebo.

Its also far from a nonsensical argument. This isnt about vocalizing your opinion and communicating facts but forcing the behavior of other people without an actual harm at stake. Those are two very different things. You also shouldnt force flat earthers on ship trips around the world just because they annoy you. As they will interpret that as a hostile action on your part and react in kind.

Lets make the argument practical. Even with zero effect, I believe given enough motivation i could convince myself that Ivermectin has some sort of effect. Which would very likely induce a placebo effect. For something where there is zero home treatment options which makes it the best option available to me since i wont be able to convince myself of the benefits of homeopathics. All with neglect-able personal risk and societal impact. Differently put, a lot of what i do has higher risk and higher negative societal impact for zero upside as well.

A placebo you however want to prevent me from acquiring because it annoys you. I do believe we can get most problems solved through a reasonable discussion, impact analysis, cost benefit analysis and last but not least cooperation. But you seem to think your feelings allow you to force me to do stuff that leaves me at a disadvantage (lack of a placebo) for no reason what so ever.

This leaves me with the realization, that you are not interested in cooperation. Game theory tells me to stop cooperating immediately till you learned your lesson. Why shouldnt i? Because you get angry and start fantasying about more force?

Unrelated how right you feel on this, i do not believe that we can get anywhere as a species if everyone acted as you do. At the end of the day, forcing people has a cost and creates a reaction. Or differently put, you cant fix stupidity by force. Especially since you might overestimate your ability to identify stupid.
The biggest source of particulate in my neighborhood as in most is recreational wood fires, where they allowed. The diesel schoolbus is nothing by comparison. Actually the fires are not allowed but people do it anyway and you need a drone to find them.
its easy to lose money if you're buying at retail and then selling at retail... there is really no money to be made in that scenario. I buy and remodel and either sell or rent the houses I aquire, but I do this at drastically reduced rates below retail. IMHO its the only way to buy. Every property I invest in has a problem, which is why the price is so low, alot of times its 10x below retail because of this. The top reasons why a house might have a problem is 1) the owners died and taxes were never paid, 2) the bank (or an individual) foreclosed on it reducing the price, 3) there are leins from the county or federal government that are making the house not sellable or worth nothing as a result, 4) the house has permit or code enforcement issues that the owner cannot resolve on their own ... Anyway, the best way to buy property is this way, and one rule I learned from attending auctions in person along time ago (its mostly online now) was that once the bidding goes above a third of its retail value, I'm out... Because sometimes you may have to invest 10-40k to make a house back to normal, and so paying even half its retail value just makes no sense.
I think there's also some inertia. I know how to tweak google.

I have also used some competitors. They are fine for most things (finding the hours of a local store, a restaurant's menu).

However, when the going gets tough (troubleshooting a technical issue, looking for a recommendation) I fall back to google.
Are there other references on using DNS with wireguard? Wireguard is so easy to setup but I don't feel like I've got the equivalent ease for a local DNS system. I end up putting lots of names inside cloudflare DNS which seems totally wrong. What are other people doing, no one can be running their own BIND servers, right? Is there a good complementary docker image for DNS with wireguard?
You get to choose between out-sourcing the liability or naked-running. You can even linearly-interpolate between the two extremes. In case of banking, you already payed the hidden fee (banks get bailout using government money, aka your money)
Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the point of getting this accurate in the datacenter (outside of scientific research and measurements I'd imagine)?

Wouldn't it be easier to just make distributed servers deal with large 'packets' or large individual tasks on their own?
> Anyone with money who can't pass the stricter bar for US immigration and investment tries to hide it there.

I believe a few years ago Canada eliminated the immigration category that lets you move there just based on wealth.
What about people for whom WFH means less, or no, productivity? Lots of my colleagues are willing to brave the commute in order to be in an environment that is focused on the business at hand.
If this were true, wouldn't Google display all million pages that are vaguely relevant to my query on the first screen?

Their only job is to stack order the internet. Down ranking a site to the 1,000,000th result is the same as banning them. They necessarily do this all the time (like for every search with more than 10 potential hits).
That will depend on how many teachers/students you plan on hosting at once. Since there is no database needed, the requirements are actually relatively low. You could easily host dozens of concurrent students/teachers on a free Heroku tier.
Investors don't have a voice locally. They don't write letters to the editor or post on Nextdoor. Pretty much all they have to do is sit back and reap the benefits of angry neighbors doing all the dirty work of preventing homes from being built. It's a pretty sweet gig. They even say this stuff straight up in their SEC filings.