skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the “pace of technology” really picked up in the last 10 years though?

In 2012:

- Apple and Google were the dominant mobile platforms

- Microsoft was dominant on the desktop

- Amazon was the dominant retailer and the dominant (but nascent cloud provider)

- Google was the dominant search engine and YouTube was dominant

- Facebook was the dominant social network

-Microsoft has been one of the top five companies by market cap since 2000 and Apple has been in the top 5 since 2011.

- Intel is still the top PC processor manufacturer.

If you saw a modern smart phone in 2022, would you really be impressed with the iPhone 12 ProMax compared to the iPhone 5s?

I was using a 2 year old Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz Dell with 8GB RAM, gigabit Ethernet and a 1920x1200 (not a typo) screen. That computer can still run the latest version of Office and Chrome today.

In other words, the landscape hasn’t changed that much.

Now compare 2012-2002.

Have there been any new widely successful tech companies emerging since Facebook in 2009?
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shirer.
> I feel absolutely no sympathy
Going to Mars might be overkill, but I did feel like it was a little bit of a mindfuck the first time I went. Especially when we left Hitec City and visited Charminar. I can totally see how that would seem really exotic to someone who's spent their entire life in a western European nation.
This is very accurate. Hopefully everyone is chill and explains their reasoning.
as always, context is key. "super good quality" refers to the comparison of the Spitzer and Webb images. it's clear that whever the alignment process is currently (as in, not finished yet), it is far far better resolution and results than the Spitzer was ever able to achieve. this is what has everyone excited. not that there's some artifacts in the image, but that even at this stage of the game it is already much much better and there's still room for improving during further alignment and other software tweaking.
Thanks, Elon!
Can you remove Argentina from the list? :)

I'll copy an old comment by me, and the 2 parents comments for context. It was posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420667 (8 months ago)

>>> So let's use the article's figure of 140 TWh of power used per year. Let's compare that to domestic energy usage by country https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/electricity-domest.... That's more than Argentina and about half of what the UK uses.

>> From https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ .

>> Bitcoin would be the 27th most energy using country: ahead of Argentina (30), Sweden (29), and Ukraine (28); just below and about to overtake Malaysia (26), and below Egypt (25) and Poland (24).

> A big chunk of our economy in Argentina is transforming sunlight into soybeans. So we should add it. Just imagine that we covered all the Pampa with solar panels and then use that energy to ... illuminate hydroponic soy.

> From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Argentina#Produ... the cultivated area is 250.000km^2 . Let's assume 1000W/m^2 and a 10% of efficiency, 12 hours of sun per day, and 1/3 of the year of grow of the plants. Then I get 36.5TWh https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=250.000km%5E2+*1000W%2... (I had to guess a lot of things. I'd love to see a more accurate calculation.)

> So with an additional energy of 36.5TWh, we jump from 132.7TWh to 169.2TWh that is more than the value of Poland 168.8TWh. (But other countries may want to add their solar->plants power too.)
What confuses me about this architecture I guess is: why have a SQL database at all? This sounds like a local cache. Which sure, of course those are super fast. But why does it need to be relational if all the data fits on the edge?
1. Alice sends “Bob attack on Friday. I will send this continously until I receive a message”

2. Bob sends “Got it. Do not send another message.”

3. Alice receives it and then stops sending messages.

4. Bob now knows Alice received the message as she has stopped sending messages.

Ends.

What am I missing?
That's not really fair, America is just like any other part of the world -- some places have good ingredients, some not so much. I had great food in India, but I also had some that gave me a major case of the runs. I've had plenty of really great food in America, but I'll grant that if Pizza Hut is your thing, then you're after something different from me.

Also, the woman in question was coming from the UK, as I recall, so alleged food quality in America wouldn't be terribly important to her.
My sister was in oil & gas for about 15 years, up until a couple years ago.

The majors varied pretty dramatically in regards to safety. XOM, COP, and Shell were excellent. Chevron pretty good. BP was terrible - all safety theater without a whole lot of safety.

My sister was working at a competitor around the time Deepwater Horizon went down, and had previously worked at BP. She was not at all surprised that it happened to BP, and had complained to us around 2005 that BP was a disaster waiting to happen.
Rather than trust some internet stranger, I'll just assume it's a scam. It looks like a scam. Your defense of it is sufficiently technical to be well outside the understanding of basically everyone. Further, it doesn't really matter "how it works" according to the creators. You would have to independently vet and verify all the code and fine print to be sure, meaning you should probably just invest in something a little less fucking needlessly complicated.

Thanks for skimming the article before dismissing it though, I guess.
Maybe because the level system is stupid and doesn't reflect how people actually want to use their cars? i.e. They think they can skip L3 entirely and just go directly to L4, no point in having to get "certified" for one if you think you can get to the other soon.

I put certified in quotes because AFAIK there is no straightforward process to "apply for a level 3 certification" in the US, where Tesla is based. You don't just pay some application fee, have your vehicle / software vetted, and now your car is allowed to drive itself in all 50 states.

Whereas the OC is about Germany, where they have the Autonomous Driving Act that is actually explicit about certifying cars based on the standard levelling system (which again, is terrible).
> > We're watching modern disinformation tear society apart at the seams

> If this is what you call being torn apart at the seams, I can’t imagine what you’d make of most of the past few centuries of human history.

Your counterargument to my point is just as stupid as your last one. "Oh, you think society is going backwards? Imagine if you lived even further in the past, it would be even worse!!"

Have you watched the news recently? Seen what is happening in the USA and across the world with right-wing extremism and authoritarianism uprisings? Elites have coopted connectivity in order to control massive amounts of the populace through extensive propaganda networks. The world was on a genuine upswing for a long time, and now religious fanaticism is tearing down those pillars of progress. That's pretty thoroughly corrupted

> If anything, your rant convinces me that you’re the victim of a great deal of targeted disinformation.

This doesn't even mean anything, if you had a point for every trite aphorism you spew you might be interesting to talk to

> I made the argument that science is dispassionate

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the human populace is largely forgoing the construct in favor of propagandized pop culture. Which is why I said you are out here flapping your fingers in an entirely pointless, dissatisfying fashion, designed only to make yourself smile at how pretty a picture your words paint, conversation be damned
Quick and Dirty Image Dithering
There's absolutely nothing wrong with tables when properly used for data.

The problem being described is that, in the early 00's, there was no easy way to make column layouts with CSS due to IE6 and CSS's own lack of good column handling rules, other than float: left and (later) display: inline-block. This led to most people in web development to produce their page layouts by stacking tables within tables within tables because the end result would visually work properly in every browser. This was, however, an awful way to produce semantic content not to mention the inherit accessibility issues.

Thankfully, by 2006, nearly everyone had already been exposed to the likes of CSS Zen Garden and learned how to workaround with CSS issues to make layout with block elements instead of tables within tables.
Nope, this is on the net sale of the asset not gross income.

In terms of gross, you need at least 50% gross income in the qualified opportunity zone.
It must be understood that making them dischargeable would make student loans unfeasible - the lending rate to adjust for the risk would be so high that unless it were subsidized it would be impossible to pay.

It would give the people a way out today - a few years of bad credit sure, but worth it if you are really underwater with them.
Those successful youtubers grew their audience publishing regularly and then switched to publishing irregularly after.
There are relatively few people in America who don't listen to music, and almost zero black people who don't listen to music. I'm sure whatever is on his "favorites" list is a political calculation, but the idea that he doesn't enjoy music is an extraordinary claim that would need extraordinary evidence.
Coronavirus is getting closer to flu
If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters
Anyone who unironically invested in an NFT project solo was a mark. NFTs are a simple scam: To plan this game you loan crypto to your friends, you all "buy" the same NFT from each other multiple times so that the price appears to go up astronomically, then you wait for a sucker to buy it from you or any one of your friends. When that happens you all laugh, split the money, and start the grift again with the next NFT. Nobody risked their money, and if you don't get a bite at the "top" price everyone just returns the money back to the original friend and nobody gets hurt.

You just keep the NFT that is still "worth" whatever you last paid for it, but it's basically free to you. So what do you do? Loan it to a celebrity and announce it as if it's a sale! This generates news articles about celebrity adoption, they get your bored ape that you couldn't sell, and suddenly a new wave of suckers floods into the market.

The fact that it's so simple to do this and scam people makes NFTs a great scam vehicle. Add in the fact that crypto tends to attract true believers (aka fantastic marks) and you elevate the grift from great to all-time.

If anyone from a VC fund is reading this, yes this is actually what's happening with your Web3/crypto investments lmao.
I consider community control and privacy to be features. I think the author is talking about more technical features that are often in conflict with these. I like KISS in my social media and news media which of course is why I am here and in the fediverse.
Commodore 128 power supplies don’t catastrophically fail like Commodore 64 power supplies do.
There has to be no federal student debt forward. If there is an admission that they dont work, stop doing them!
They have a right to form a union. Amazon has the right to fire them at will. Unions create an antagonistic relationship between member employees and the company that employs them.
They're typographically awful and they're unprofessional.
Sure, but then you don't get to build a giant rube-goldberg machine with multiple tokens and exciting 20% interest advertising and claim to be the smartest guy in the room!
I have no idea. That sounds cheaper than trace radioactives to me, but the photoelectric ones are reliably more expensive than ionization, at least around here. And a lot harder to find, too.

I'm pretty well annoyed that ionization types are still allowed and the default, if it doesn't show. "YOU LIT THE KITCHEN ON FIRE!" alarms are nice, but radically less useful than "Hey, something's smoking and has been doing so for a while and you're all asleep," based on empirical evidence from the studies on fire deaths. Fires while someone's awake and (often enough) involved in the process are important to warn about, but if one has to pick between that and the stuff that kills people at night, I'd bias towards the ones that (a) meet the requirements they're supposed to meet and (b) provably save lives.

I suppose I ask too much... :/
What did they invest in?
And nothing in cryptocurrency is remotely in that same league or that systemically risky… yet.

I do worry about down the road, and hope all that hair-brained stablecoin and Ponzi schemes get broken and discredited before then.
I'm pretty sure they're writing s-expressions to disk but maybe things have evolved since I last looked.
I have a working assumption that most minorities I interact with would prefer just to be treated like any other human, not badly, not special, just normal. So that's how I approach it. So far so good, the only time I've ever met anyone that seemed oversensitive, it was a white woman. Because of course it was.
This mistake literally killed TITAN / IRON a few months ago.

Did nobody learn from that?
these are test prints. they are still tweaking everything about it. you take a picture to see where you are. you analyze it, make adjustments, and take a new picture. lather, rinse, repeat. the fact that these pictures are so much clearer than the best the previous gen platform could do is worth letting everyone know this isn't suffering from the same issues as Hubble. it's working this well without being fully calibrated, so everything is nominal.
I assume Amazon will happily destroy as many lives as it needs to in order to avoid treating its employees well.

The obvious one would be to decide that that particular warehouse is no longer well situated, and shut it down completely and build a new warehouse down the road.
> the idea that he doesn't enjoy music is an extraordinary claim that would need extraordinary evidence.

If that were what was being claimed, sure…
There are a good number of grey countries on that map I suspect they would just rendition you from.
In 4, Bob only knows that he has stopped receiving messages. Alice may still be sending messages, but a mysterious fissure has appeared between their camps, and their couriers keep falling in.
Apologies here, but could someone ELI5: what's the appeal of a stablecoin? If I want to hold something in an asset pegged to the dollar, why not just hold dollars?
There is still 1.8T sitting in banks (based on reverse repo rate) with absolutely no purpose. It will be interesting to see what happens to this money.
> For example, there will be more posts about how they mimicked most of the functionality of VSCode or a Jetbrains IDE than about any actual code they wrote (other than elisp).

Are we reading the same articles at all? Most of the Emacs posts I see are about extending features that lesser editors could only dream of supporting (using it as a window manager, media center, GUI etc.).

I always find it suprising how far anti-Emacs zealots will go to try and cast GNU+Emacs is a bad light. Somehow the fact that the GNU+Emacs community cares enough to share their configuration tips is a "bad" thing, rather than just being indicative of a supportive and friendly user community.

I guess if you are stuck in proprietary, telemetry-ridden editors like M$ vs-code, or sublime text, somehow you have to convince yourself that the grass truly isn't greener on the other side, and this is just one such coping mechanism.
Show HN: A CLI to kick-start any language
I'm working on a CLI that helps you create the boilerplate of your project in multiple languages and frameworks.

In case of front-end frameworks/libraries, with cli you'll be able to create the project, set up git on your local, add the UI-framework, testing framework, and linting, and in the future releases you'll be able to even add pre-designed components.

The CLI currently supports React, Angular, Vue, Svelte and Node.js will be released today.
Also soon, you'll be able to deploy your applications to AWS with a single command.

Appreciate your feedbacks and all the contributions are welcome.

https://github.com/utopiops/utopiops
Its surprising to see companies like CF being down. Like, they are the foundation on which apps and services are built. They are like the water supply, to the restaurant.

Is it a correction to true value or an over-reaction to market sentiment?
How? Does Coinbase not make most of their money on the spread?
Frankly, I think your rants prove my point about the religious nature of “sciencism” better than anything else I could possibly say in reply, and so I’ll take my leave here.
A tale of 2 friends with breast cancer (2018)
What I really want to see are interactive layerings showing Hubble and Webb data overlayed. Here's the stuff lit up by <clicks layer button> this light source obscured by these <clicks layer button again> dust clouds.
I would say it is really a good decision, keeping in mind how Amazon and other big techs are almost 100% remote
Wrong link btw
Back to on prem: https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-o...

Battle of cloud is intensifying: https://www.economist.com/business/the-battle-of-the-computi...

HIGHLY recommend looking at Stackoverflow architecture: https://stackexchange.com/performance

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/03/stack-overflow-a-tech...

Technology and society has ways to build up layers of abstraction. It takes some realization, hindsight, genius and humbleness to cut down the overgrowth and pick the fruits, plant new seeds.
Great idea! Thanks for making it!
I'm not OP, but the money has to come from somewhere, because people want dollars, not some $shitcoin which may drop 90% in value overnight.

A credit card typically maybe has 15-19% interest. So I'd be surprised if the average credit card gets 10% profit per year from interest payments minus defaults. But somehow you're going to get a guaranteed 15% rate from algorithms? Smart contracts?
Ok genius .. so now where will the money flow to? What .. you cannot think of anything? Well get ready for bull run again.
I'm not sure I'd feel better with the explanation "No, we won't pay to cure your cancer, but hey, if you were in the US there is a chance they won't pay for it either!"

Pretty sure I'd prefer even a 5% chance versus a guaranteed 0%.
Yes, TPU VMs dramatically improve the Cloud TPU user experience. You now have direct access to the VM on each TPU host whether you are using JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow, which provides a lot more flexibility and control and can often improve performance.
You can run HF on sagemaker, they're not necessarily competing
Because we'd like to keep hacker news from slowly devolving into its lesser gifted cousin Reddit.
You might be thinking of "I've got something for you," which is a false friend here.
Which Gods are you agnostic about?
I don't know why you're being downvoted. While I would commonly understand people want to avoid taxes, I think there's a real question in there:

Why don't people want to contribute back to an environment that enabled their success?

I have too many family members that will avoid acknowledging anything the government does for them.

"The social contract."
>...and we likely would have seen obvious health problems directly attributable to it by now...

By the way, we did see health problems. Farmers and farmhands successfully sued Monsanto for health problems caused by RoundUp.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4495123
These are two different problems, actually! The Byzantine Generals problem is concerned with arbitrary failure: a node may not simply fall offline, but may start sending garbage or otherwise act non-cooperatively. The Two Generals problem is concerned with network reliability and common knowledge: both parties cannot agree on the state of all messages in a system (because you must send one to inform the other party about the status of an older message).
Stock doing well -> public company CEOs want to justify by showing greater growth -> hiring
This was a fairer take when there weren't elected officials and sports stars hyping crypto.
This weekend's Xbox outage put Microsoft's DRM back in the spotlight
> railroads were always hyper-focused on increasing throughput.

Throughput optimization destroying latency- sounds like bufferbloat!
Nginx free e-book: Designing and Deploying Microservices
Young earth creationists argue against religious thinking?

That seems unlikely to me, but I’m totally unfamiliar with their rhetoric and will have to take your word for it.
It's a shame that we don't have more people in scientific and engineering administration like Vannevar Bush these days. He was an exceptional person both technically and administratively and during WWII he was in the right place at the right time to make a huge difference and he did.

Vannevar Bush was instrumental in aiding key scientific war projects such the the Manhattan project, MIT's radio lab/RADAR etc.

It's also a shame his name isn't better known in technical circles today.
> The regulations provide three safe harbors that a business may use to meet this test. These safe harbors take into account any of the following:

> - Whether at least half of the aggregate hours of services received by the business were performed in a QOZ;

> - Whether at least half of the aggregate amounts that the business paid for services were for services performed in a QOZ; or

> - Whether necessary tangible property and necessary business functions to earn the income were located in a QOZ.

So "in" is flexible.
Congrats on the product.

Have you considered supporting Python-based web frameworks? Ie flask, Django, flask api?
Stock price, not necessarily revenue/profits.
Here's a quick overview of TPUs from last year's Google I/O keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFFrahd05OM&t=1565s
90-100% of your complaints are going to be due to misconfiguration by the administrators of the system, I bet. and architectural differences of the EXT4 filesystem compared to NTFS and the nature of locking files on Linux.

you probably want to head over to Slashdot if you want to rant, as well. plenty of MS bashing here, but complaint for complaint's sake isn't really the style here like it is in other places. or maybe it is, I don't know. I could be reading everything wrong.
This is an argument for either flat tax or a tax system without deductions, otherwise we will always have loopholes like this. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
> If you want to continue the sandbox metaphor, which I do like, "playing in the Fed's sandbox until the bottom fell out" might work. Or even "toxic sandbox".

All toxic substances are poisonous. A toxin is a poison produced by a living cell or organism.

Poisonous Sandbox was elegantly simple, pithy even, and quite appropriate.
>We were supposed to have flying cars,

We were supposed to have something that would have sounded really cool to an 11 year old boy, but was actually a profoundly stupid mode of transportation and an especially unimaginative extrapolation of 1950s American life.
I'm struggling with this personally as I decide whether or not to work for unethical companies in exchange for life-changing compensation.

Overall I think my suffering-footprint is tiny compared to most so maybe I'm okay with being a bit more unethical in some areas of my life. But I'm unsure.
Won’t expectations for startup equity be even worse then? Hard to see any IPOs or good exits in this environment
agnostic, n. a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena

All of them. None of them.

What answer were you hoping for?
Would love to hear the music that was produced using this.