skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my view, a balanced discussion of the pros and cons of crypto often seems to elude the HN community.

No. It eludes the crypto community. For every well-researched article pointing out flaws, there are exactly zero articles addressing any points in those articles. There's no end to "just join the discords and read up" though.

> At the root of crypto are two technologies, 1) programmatic public chains that are inexpensive to run

Those chains are extremely expensive to run as evidenced by the absolutely dominant one.

> 2) zero-knowledge proofs.

These are not at the "root fo crypto". This is something tacked on to try and solve the 0.00001% of crypto's problems.

> By combining public chains and zero-knowledge proofs, we get an inherently global market, with p2p transactions that scale to all of humanity

No, no we don't.

> it's also unfair to omit discussion of the fundamental innovation, and those who do so will end up on the wrong side of history.

The proof is in the pudding as it were. There's literally nothing in this "fundamental innovation" that can't be done better, faster, cheaper, and on a bigger scale with literally anything else.

- Blockchains are distributed immutable ledgers, and there are very few (if any) useful applications for them

- "programmatic chains" are the worlds slowest, most ineffecient and expensive VM that gets exploited every day because even people programming it don't understand the rules they are writing
> Your strawman arguments are quite poor.

I found those arguments informative.

> Cities aren't loud, cars are

And. Bay Area neighborhoods will still be full of cars because public transportation is not going to materialize overnight.

> Cars go into underground parking garages

Then we add a restriction that any multi-family unit should come with an underground parking garage. Good luck seeing that through.

> There, done.

Not done, really.

> but NIMBYs really are selfish and shallow people.

In this thread, your arguments seem shallow to me without addressing any real concerns of the bay area homeowners. You seem to be selfishly imposing your political ideology without considering all the costs which you won't be incurring anyway.
You can write the code to do 1000 schema migrations, but the problem is if you've migrated 40% of them and hit an issue. What do?
If this was for news articles, my comprehension would be off the charts.
It being eth would seem to match their narrative he was an expert. Maybe it was eth hence their narrative or maybe they redacted it for not being eth.
Barry Ickes, quoted in the article, has two 2014 articles on the Ukraine-Russia-Nato situation which may be illuminating:

Ukraine, NATO Enlargement, and the Geithner Doctrine

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ukraine-nato-enlargement-...

Ukraine: A Prize Neither Russia Nor the West Can Afford to Win

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ukraine-a-prize-neither-r...

Both part of a longer Brookings report: "Beyond the Sanctions: Russia, the West, and Ukraine." (2014) http://econ.la.psu.edu/~bickes/beyondsan.pdf (PDF)
It depends. I've only bought more gear when I had an exact need. My first camera was a D40, and I used it for years until it simply stopped working. My next camera was a D7100 that added features I knew I wanted after using the D40 for years. I still use this camera. Recently I bought a Z5 because I wanted FF and to move to mirrorless. My lenses followed similar trajectories - want to take bird pictures, need a zoom.

All the time I also mostly had the latest iPhone.

The iPhone takes great pictures with little work in many (most?) situations.

Is it worth buying a non-phone camera in 2022? I think if you really like taking pictures and are bumping into phone limitations, sure. But, if I started today, I would get a flagship phone first and grow from there.
Do they hate their state's residents?
In Bloomsbury they were in and out of each other's lives, beds, and
books. Those modern disclaimers saying "All characters and events are
entirely fictional." make me laugh. It absolutely goes without saying
that novelists, especially satirists draw on all their friends, family
and work colleagues. If you're (un)lucky enough to be in or near that
circle, even as the local bartender or random person they once met,
the only question is where you feature.
I made myself a Chrome extension called Headlamp that puts a red dot by each link, button, text box, etc., and clears them as I click or type while I’m testing a web app.

When I hand off a build to a client, if all the red dots are gone, I know I’ve at least TOUCHED everything.

If I’m working with another engineer, we can both see the dots in our browser and collaborate to clear them all while we test.
Wouldn't you love to see the Atlassian internal JIRA epic for this outage?
Node.js based modular CIDR Scanner
Several months ago I found a really interesting article by @avi_lum about the misconfigured services across the globe. https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-op...

Then I got super curious to use the same strategy and build a pluggable NodeJS script that scans multiple ports in many CIDR blocks.

You can find it from these links;

https://github.com/tugkan/sk4ll
https://www.npmjs.com/package/sk4ll
I had been accruing bookmarks in Google Bookmarks since 2008, then saw it was going to be shut down[0]. I liked the workflow and the core features seemed simple enough, so I made a cheap clone - Strudel Bookmarks [1] (I was planning a move to Austria at the time). The code is terrible so I never open sourced it. Took it as an opportunity to try a couple of pieces of tech out... much respect to Hasura[2].

[0]: https://9to5google.com/2021/07/20/google-bookmarks-closure-m...

[1]: https://i.redd.it/uvrv7qsqtct81.png

[2]: https://hasura.io/
If someone complains a lot and often and typically about same set of thing, it is pretty easy to guess they are annoyed about that set of things. They feelings are no mystery, they feel bad about thing they complain about.

The unpredictable thing here were consequences - that she will act at her feelings eventually instead of just experiencing them. And it basically what he writes about in the article, that she eventually figured out her feelings don't matter to him and interpreted situation as such. And then it was too late to fix anything.
More tax dollars won't change anything. The state government already has more money than it needs. It just doesn't spend it well. If we give the government more money, it won't spend that money well either.
They are (and in going to look that up I see that they're being pitched as more of a backup solution than they were previously) but given they're incremental and based on the existing EBS volume, I'd still recommend using something without dependencies.

I'm curious now as to how the EBS Snapshot was lost. If I had to guess, I suspect it had something to with that linkage back to the original volume. I maintain that the best backup has no dependencies on another resource existing.
If that's the case, would the tungsten flask heat up to 2000C and give off the photons that are absorbed by the TPV? I still don't understand how they will control transmission of the heat at those temperatures.
She's providing for the household by taking care of everything in their lives outside of his specific business functions.

He should be making every reasonable effort to support her.
For image retrieval, have you tried using a model trained with contrastive learning (e.g. SimCLR)? This could produce better embeddings for retrieval since the model is trained to explicitly minimize euclidean distance between similar pairs.

Thanks for the reference! Nice outline of various ANN approaches.
It's also important to remember that business is far less important than other aspects of life.
> my neighborhood is quiet

I have lived in areas with only single family dwellings(Tempe AZ, density 5,203 people per square mile.) and in areas with high rises(Hoboken NJ, density 41,038 people per square mile) and I can attest that most noise is from the cars on the main roads of the city, which largely depends on urban design, e.g. Hoboken has only 2 main arterial roads(Washington Street and Observer Highway) which excludes most of the noise from the interiors.

> not crowded

By what metric? I can walk my dog outside easily, travel easily in the train to manhattan, and get reservations to any restaurant on the day in Hoboken. I don't think most places are as crazy crowded as Manhattan (Brooklyn, Queen and Bronx are much lower density) where the dynamics are different because work and tourism.

Are most single family zoned places in California work building heavy areas and touristy destinations?

> easy parking.

I can find parking for ~200$ per month here. So it is kind of expensive, i'll give you that.
Not discrediting Rust, but I've noticed you rarely hear "we improved performance" by rewriting our implementation using the same language... Although this, too, can yield similar performance improvements.
> how is it Zoom has any business at all?

Zoom was the first videoconferencing software I experienced where the first 15 minutes of the meeting was not spent with "can you see me," "can you hear me," some people falling back to dialing in to a speakerphone, and one or more out-of-band calls to various participants to troubleshoot problems.

Zoom was click a link. And it worked. Nobody cared much about anything else beyond that.
Yeah like I said, if you like him that’s great! If you like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones I will happily listen with you!
Because that’s just taste and I think in general most people make pretty good music. It’s all these really weird arguments that have to tell me “no, it’s not doodling on the sax it’s something else!”. When again I feel like you’re extracting patterns to justify the doodling rather than justifying the sound or melody. (Often, people like that don’t care about melody)
> Then those people should buy a single family home and the single family homes around them and keep them that way.

That's what we did. Now people like you are saying me and my neighbors are NIBMYs and want us to change.
Hetzner has been doing emergency maintenance on their backup drive systems (BX-XX) lately. Both of mine on separate accounts have had the notifications.
The point of my comment was that, if [actor] is not using any pseudonym but is instead nameless, then there is almost no active way to pursue that actor, aside from its adversary running malware on every machine in the world and scanning the disk/memory for relevant data- and even then, the machine can be encrypted/wiped and airgapped. An action can be taken and then once completed, as long as it was properly anonymized on a technical level (easier) and social level (harder) against a given adversary, there is no more heat.

The actor never needs to interface with anything related to their activity ever again in any way, and can only screw themselves if they deliberately tell people what they did. And even if a nameless actor does 1000 things and gets caught for only 1, because they had no name/common set of characteristics, those 1000 things cannot be tied together. They're just caught for the one thing.

So opsec is hard... if you have a big huge ego or want to maintain some kind of central infrastructure.
You have to trust yourself to not spin up 20 big servers and leave them running.

Back when my AWS operations were complex I had a script that sent me an email every morning about my spend from the day before.
Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
It’s even more simple:
I don’t care about being appealing to you.

Edit: also you saying something like “you’re wrong” and then not giving reasons is actually what trolling is. Go look in the mirror my friend.
This is the first of its kind to reach this efficiency, correct?

I assume that means there could be room to significantly improve its efficiency or operating requirements with more investment and research.

Having one example, even if 'useless' or elementary, is key to developing new technology.
Thanks for responding!

I have the same issue with having multiple brokerage accounts. I haven’t signed up for Personal Capital because I read that they try to upsell you on wealth management services by phone periodically, plus I am uncomfortable giving my brokerage login credentials to them (or any other third-party service). So I was wondering if you were in the same boat!
It's ironic to me when men marry for any reason besides wanting a docile helpmeet and then complain that their partners have real ambitions, opinions, and goals.
Like most fields of endeavour, programming has gotten infested with "smart" speak and too much terminology (let's talk the rest of Design Patterns next :D), and this same terminology changes even between different teams and not just different companies or technologies. Basically, people have a tendency to want to name pretty simple things names just so they are something special, even if they need to re-explain it every single time (there is no value in such a name, imho).

The fact that most of that terminology is misunderstood simply supports that claim above. The fact that interviews are also generally silly is besides the point too. :)

Still, none of that should be a benchmark for what something is. Dependency injection is simply about injecting a dependency instead of using it as a side-effect. You can achieve that in many ways, and the simplest is just to pass it in.
Looks like they're still hiring for it: https://www.google.com/search?q=rust+site%3Adiscord.com%2Fjo...
Sabotaging your own military's weapons still sounds an awful lot like treason
A lot of reptiles, fishes and insects are in vivariums that already provide a good light source. For wild animals, you are fine without a light since they are mostly outdoor and unless you're planning for it chances are that you'll stumble on them during daylight.

Personally, I have a lot of ring lights because beauty and makeup brands give them for free with a lot of products.

But even without all of this, you can get great footage and photos.

Take a look at this spider that was walking around my sink for example.

The phone (pixel 3, already quite aged) did not have a lot of trouble to focus on it even if we are talking about a small spider that is only a few milimiter in size.

It's a video so focus comes and goes but the parts where the focus is set on the spider are quite clear (ignoring the upload compression).

I am no artist and was focusing more on the spider's behavior. Someone who is an artist could have snapped great macros at that moment.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/z2RALoGeXiAo6uHG6

Another example is this queen ant when it was in it's founding stage. The nanitics (first workers) are small even when it comes to ant scale. You can see them in great details and can even see the translucent parts of their gaster with the sugar water inside.

Again, I focused on the behavior more than the art. But an artist could have taken a photo instead of a video with great results.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dmzMXLqG5v1cfFKx9

Both of those were candid moments that I happened to snap because I had my phone in my pocket while my 4k camera and my canon reflex were in their box in my desk.
Bearing in mind the licence fees of Workday, the costs of separate databases pale in comparison!
Yes we are using rust in a big way. We have multiple teams now full time working on Rust. It is being used on both the client and server, as native modules, web assembly, and also native rust services and NIFs that embed themselves in our elixir services.

It has been an incredible success. I plan to blog more about it in the coming months. Our usage of Rust is continuing to grow, and if you check out our jobs page, you might notice all backend / infra jobs list Rust in them now :)

I think probably 40% of requests are handled directly by rust services now, with the rest involving one or more rust service called from our Python API layer.
Yes, nothing can go wrong sharing the confidential details of your mental state with a tech agency that is motivated to create a profile of your traits and weaknesses that can be sold to the highest bidder, if it doesn’t get pilfered by hackers first.
> ....and I don't believe Zoom (or anyone else) is interested in whether or not I'm eating while muted.

But the detectives with a search warrant are pleased to be able to listen to your private conversations.

The secret police who do not need a warrant (or legality) are glad to be able to listen too.

The staff at Zoom are happy to spy on you, probably, for a small reward.

A proper mute removes those concerns. A mute that does not mute is inviting a lawsuit
Lies! Lies! Everyone knows the Moon is made of cheese.
Little detail that should be considered by US tech workers moving to another state: non-compete enforceability. This [0] is from 2016, but you get the idea.

[0]: https://beckreedriden.com/50-state-noncompete-chart-2/
All the ones signed up here for a start https://peoplescdc.org/ They recently had an opinion run in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/03/people...
The bug we are mitigating was also just an automation issue.
One of the actual major tax problems in CA is that property taxes are not equally applied. I bought my house in 2017 and pay well in excess of $10,000 a year in property taxes. But guess what? My neighbors who bought their houses in the 90s pay far less than half of that despite their houses being twice the size and worth far more than my home. Prop 13 has been a terrible thing for California over the long run and has served to inflate housing prices while trapping people in their current home because selling it and moving would force them to immediately increase their tax burden by a significant amount.
Oh hai chepstow hn posse :-)
Great!

So many people not only think we have to give them free resources so they can publish harmful content but even think they deserve to be paid to do it. It's like that alleged NFT casino in decentraland where you can make money by "gambling." Nice to see that Google is doing something about it.

Ask the relatives of these people what they think about your Youtube channel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukrainian-fa...
There is no reason to rely on "triple replication" for data integrity. This has long been a solved problem. An appropriate erasure encoding can reduce the probability of loss ~ten-fold while consuming physically less space (i.e. 2x worth of replication). Companies forego this technology because they feel confident in their operational ability to address failures quickly and competently. That's what we're relying on for data integrity, not the math.
No, it was not debunked. These things actually happened and the reasoning for closure was as stated. A fair number of progressive people were unhappy about that and tried to write rebuttals, but they were wrong.
"Yes, that's an important time efficiency. Expending more effort on the same results is not a virtue."

It's not the same result though. One costs a lot of money, the other costs only a little. Your statement only makes sense if someone has a bunch of spare money laying around.

"Yes, but possibly less significant than the other benefits you could bring the partnership by not spending time on that."

That's a moot point since my wife works during most of my off-hours. But I'm curious, what are these other benefits?
integral{from t=0, to t=x} t^{-1+0} dx

but you calculate instead

f(x) = lim_{ε->0} [ integral{from t=0, to t=x} t^{-1+ε} dx ]

that is just

= lim_{ε->0} [ (t^ε - 1) / ε ]

replacing t^ε

= lim_{ε->0} [ (e^(ln(t)ε) - 1) / ε ]

by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27H%C3%B4pital%27s_rule

= lim_{ε->0} [ ln(t)e^(ln(t)ε) / 1 ]

that is easy to calculate

= ln(t)e^(ln(t)0) / 1

= ln(t)1 / 1

= ln(t)

So f(t)=ln(t)

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Then Atlassian's description of why the restore took so long makes no sense to me.
This reminds me of a quote from Dune.

"My son displays a general garment and you claim it's cut to your fit. What a fascinating revelation."

The column contains dozens upon dozens of hard numbers, most with links to sites that can back them up. Maybe you don't like the political implications, but - as my daughter might say - that's a you problem. It doesn't mean the column is any less factual or more political than it should be.
Fogbugz was on the downhill as early as 2010. I always assumed that when Fogcreek started working on Trello they pulled the A team off Fogbugz.
I've wondered whether you could pump heat from a solar panel into a swimming pool.

I've seen systems where heat from A/C is used to heat swimming pools. Mostly just needs an extra exchanger on the A/C coolant line that transfers the heat to the pool water. You generally run both system at the same time when it's hot out. (assuming you are fortunate enough to have a pool)
He should accept the offer, it’s probably $280 more than the NFT is worth.
Maids are cheaper than dishwashers in India.
Did you decide to pay £5 or £6?
HN site listing is also useless because they host the blog on the same domain as everything else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=discord.com
Linus has integrated more than a few questionable things into the kernel so that’s not a ringing endorsement for me. Perhaps it’s a good implementation for the new standard, perhaps not.
Regardless, I want to say to you that I appreciate your comment and I’m going to go off and do some further research before I begin to have an opinion.
I think the sheer size would make it interesting. The heat energy potential of acres full of graphite is enormous and presumably much cheaper to construct than an energy equivalent battery. Now I wonder how it holds up to other methods of storing energy.
> Unlike BERT, GPT models are unidirectional, and their main advantage is the magnitude of data they were pretrained on: GPT-3, the third-generation GPT model, was trained on 175 billion parameters, about 10 times the size of previous models.

Although the number of parameters of a Transformer correlates with the amount of training data, this statement is misleasing. Precisely, the model wasn't trained on parameters but its parameters were trained on data.
I wish this sentiment was more common. It's one thing to know how to build something, it's totally different to know how to maintain it and what to do in an emergency.
USA generally has lower tax burden than other nations, but I don't think taxes on the bottom 90% need to change so much, the issue is in the massive surplus of those earning capital gains.

Surplus in California is not generated via income. It's capital gains - I think we need to rethink that.

i.e. what Picketty has been saying for a decade.

... and real estate in particular due to historically low interest rates.
I've always been a bit skeptical of published numbers. I usually just chalk it up to vastly different operating conditions and scale.

On my home server w/ ECC you can check the corrected and uncorrected (multibit) errors. Assuming my Ryzen is correctly reporting them to Linux, I have 0 errors corrected and 0 uncorrected with a 80 day uptime. I've checked a few other times and never seen an error. Others with ECC often report the same.

My understanding of modern RAM is that it has checks built in to the modules which are somewhat equivalent to ECC already (the correcting part, not the reporting part). Which is a necessity in order to hit the density we are at today.
How illuminating. From CloudFlare posts, I had been under the impression that Go's gc was incredibly unintrusive, near-real time performance for applications operating in increments of a few hundred milliseconds. For example, CloudFlare uses Go to analyze network traffic.

Yes, Rust provides a more predictable, faster memory management model than Go. At the expense of unpredictable, expensive memory leaks triggering application termination.

Curious how much time and effort was dedicated to improving gc, which is a useful endeavor in its own right.
They have great practices; they even published them. They just didn't follow them here.