skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par with Humans
Blockchain and Crypto are fairly useless in areas with reliable currency. The Ruble is a garbage currency and so, it's entirely feasible that the stated advantages/benefits of something like BTC really do add up in a place like Russia. But I'm not sure BTC is the solution, or that there are really any solutions as of yet.

As for 'meaning something bad' and not being sure about it, why would you even respond? It's just a discussion board. Nothing we say here is important, it's not worth a glancing though to contemplate if someone somewhere on a comment section may or may not have meant something ill mannered towards someone else.

And in all self awareness, I have no clue on earth why I am downvoted, usually in retrospect it's obvious, but when discussing 'Bitcoin' one can never really tell (not that it matters).
The list includes Sweden, Norway, Argentina, the Netherlands, the UAE, the Philippines, Finland, Belgium, Pakistan, Austria, the Czech Republic, Israel, Switzerland, and Singapore, among (obviously) many others. I don't think that statistic was the mic drop you thought it was.

But sure, let's give them all 111TWh hydroelectric dams.
Another important thing to consider is data privacy aspect and how to generate revenue.
https://archive.ph/Wi0hm
The content moderation battle is a just a failure of innovation
This is an astonishingly limited view of what makes a “good company”.
If anything GME is outperforming and a vast majority of the market is getting absolutely stomped.

It feels like this is just telling a certain group of people what they want to hear to help them feel better about their portfolios getting demolished
Cool technical marketing blog story bro
Will you forgive me for not being impressed that you made more money in 10 years than the subjects of the article did in 1?
I've only played with some of the earlier codecs and studied them in detail, but I wonder what exactly makes it so slow? Is it basically doing a lot of bruteforcing to find the best way to compress each frame?
Also it's contributions to global warming?
Exactly. I went along to see Avatar because I hadn't seen a 3D movie and figured I'd go and watch the best version of the technology. I enjoyed the experience, and also didn't bother seeing any other 3D movies and haven't seen Avatar a second time.
Nice! I never thought about a solar powered model.

I may have to try one next time I am shopping.
I don't think the article is using a common definition, at least not in line with Pattern Day Trader rules.
luna is way down, but there's still a luna/usd market.
>Safer than what? How are current vaccines not safe?

Generally we consider medicines (and other things) to be "unsafe" until they are shown to be safe in studies. So a vaccine is "unsafe" if it contains stuff that has not been shown to be safe, in the way it is being used in the vaccine, in studies, or the studies that show something is safe are flawed in some ways. Like for example, vaccine uses it in one form, but the studies look at another variant and cites the results for safety of the vaccine.
I think the issue is even deeper.

I agree that education should be free, but not colleges. Colleges are involved in the business of credentialing and monopolising entry level jobs.

There is no use in education being free if there are credentialing businesses charging $320k (which I believe is going to increase as they teach more highschoolers why college debt is worth it) in order to use your skills in the job market.

Colleges who have a history of exploitative pricing have no place in the future of free education.
I’m too used to staring at 1 with Ada these days.
From CoinMarketCap

Top 10 Holders: 56.6%
Top 20 Holders: 67.05%
Top 50 Holders: 82.17%

So it looks like a few people can make huge decisions to swing $UST. Then you hope the algorithm either catches up or there's enough greater fools to buy in.
Yes, that's what I'm hoping for, differentiation in the IR signature based on the rotation, essentially a one bit scanner with very high sensitivity. Depending on how frequently it can take images you could get a pretty neat one-dimensional image of a planet across the axis of rotation, assuming a planet isn't tidally locked to the star.
This is not an accurate description of any recent MBA curriculum. To learn optimization, yes. Taught to treat workers as "tools", to ignore safety, to skip ethical guidelines in pursuit of profits? Not true. And anyway, so what? Don't you have independent agency? If you disagree with a professor, raise your hand and challenge him or her.
The government is not a charity. If they have deemed something to be non-taxable, it's because the government (and by extension, the people it represents) want to incentivize that particular activity, in this case investing in economically depressed areas.

If at some point we no longer want to incentivize that behavior, the government can simply remove the tax break. Moralizing about how people shouldn't engage in the behavior that the government is encouraging them to by offering tax incentives is beyond useless.
US State Department site deletes 'Taiwan is part of China'
"To the person receiving the pointy end of the stick, malice and stupidity look identical."
The Gary Cooper movie (that she wrote) was pretty funny, though.
That just means buy more.
Note Tether has not lost it's peg
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I wasn't even alive during the dotcom bubble but every account I've heard of it sounds similar to the cryptosphere. Insane valuations. People blindly jumping on the bandwagon. Money blindly being thrown around left, right, and centre towards anything 'web3'. Plagued with tremendous amounts of arrogance, greed, and hubris. People buying Lamborghinis and the like. Classic gold rush mania.
yes it is...? how is it any different? it can be consumed.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on countries that don't even have capital gains tax
TPU VMs are an incredible, incredible product. If you were put off by the previous TPU Node architecture, you should definitely come back and give this a shot. The dev/debug loop is just so much nicer now that the TPU is local to your VM.

That said, the one thing I'm missing on these is orchestration. GKE supports TPU Nodes but it does not support TPU VMs. It seems to me like this is a must-have feature so I'm sure it's on the roadmap.

If anyone from the team is here, do you have updates on this? And if anyone reading this has orchestration techniques they use and recommend for TPU VMs, please let me know what they are!
> ...glyphosate...

RoundUp. We are talking about RoundUp being sprayed onto foods. Not glyphosate. That is a tactic to avoid talking about the tests involving RoundUp.
What if Bob never gets the confirmation from Alice in step 5? Or if Bob doesn't need it, why did Alice even send it?
maybe not yet, unless a super early company, since no one is worth the round they raised in the last 6mo, which is what determines the strike price you'll get today. You're either looking for a down round, or a company that hasn't gone up yet.
Right and grifting only works if you don't get caught.
I was also confused by this. At a certain point, you are guaranteed that the other party got your original message.
This story has nothing to do with USDT
> “It’s wrong to force people into childbirth against their will” holds up well as a coherent, objective moral value statement.

Right. This is why rape is illegal.
AV1 is great, and I'm excited about it, but for my purposes I'm even more excited about avif. I hope apple adds support to their OSes soon (which in turn means safari supporting it)
Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor (2005) [pdf]
I'm a NET watcher/holder, I've read most of their earnings call transcripts and SEC docs since the S-1. IMO, they were way overvalued at their peak on fundamentals. With the recent slide, I think they're "far" undervalued, to an extent that varies based on how much value one attributes to present and future tailwinds that cannot be encoded on a balance sheet as future receivables.

Boiling it down, I think institutional investors do not fundamentally understand Cloudflare's technical raison d'etre.

As you implied, NET gets lumped in with its IPO class of "tech stocks", but is fundamentally different, for the reasons you gave. They have a legitimate moat, differentiated technical talent, and are fishing in a growing pond.

Similar to the Amazon story, it seems inevitable that a company shaped like NET is going to make oodles of money in the next ten years provided they have the right leadership and capital structures. NET has all that, and a several-years head start. On and up.
Duke Nukem Forever 2001 Leaked Footage
Well, since you said any lottery winner...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9678607
Huh. I see crypto as a problem looking for worse problems...and not really finding any.
Looks like reddit is leaking here lmao
That blows my mind.
No NFT's here! We're building a creative tool for professional artists and designers.

Seems like remote is almost a must these days. Thanks for the suggestions
The purpose of interest rate hikes is to dampen demand. The less demand there is for goods and services, the less need there is for workers to provide them.
I suspect he’s just alluding to the fact that at the time Dropbox was using S3 as their back end.
I agree with this take! I was trying to defend the Digital Markets Act, and was responding to someone who (as far as I could tell) appeared to be fundamentally against any or at least most government regulation.
The point isn’t how much would you want — it’s what could they possibly be doing on the other side of that debt instrument to yield more than that.
As far as I know, the only contraceptives conservatives want to outlaw are those that cause abortions -- namely those labeled as "plan B".

> It's not about fetuses, it's about sex.

You may have a point, but I could make the same argument in reverse. One could argue the only reason those on the left want to preserve the right to abortion is because they want to have sex divorced from its potential consequences.

> There are endless ways that conservatives dream about restricting our sex lives.

I'm a conservative (at least w.r.t. moral issues), and let me assure you I do not think (much less dream) about the sex lives of liberals.

What I do think, wish, and pray for is a country that is collectively characterized by knowing God, acknowledging him, giving thanks to him, and asking for his help when we need it -- something both the left and the right in Washington are sadly far from.
That's exactly right. Always assume something is a scam, because you'll be right 99% of the time.

MakerDAO is pretty self explanatory if you look at the code and the spec of how the protocol works. You overcollateralize based on the ratio set by the DAO, you get dollar pegged coins (which then, are undervalued, providing the stability) and the system keeps the amount of stablecoins in circulation always less than the value of collateral. It can break, it will break eventually, as all pegs do, but it is wildly more stable than these other obviously flawed schemes.

Skimming through that article, it looks like a frivolous attempt at a settlement. There's no misrepresentation whatsoever: open a CDP, if the value of collateral drops below the threshold, your CDP gets liquidated unless you can top it up. I'm not surprised the judge allowed it to go to arbitration. It also looks like a plaintiff tried to get a class action going but not a lot of people joined in.
This reminds me of this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01431-y
> There are valid criticisms of Anchor - anyone even remotely familiar with the protocol could and would speak about the yield reserve, how Anchor yields are generated from stake rewards of other tokens, the risks and failure scenarios of that design etc - but you clearly have no clue about any of this.

You have an unusually high level of confidence in understanding something (smart contract defi) that was invented, like, last week. I don't see why anyone should feel confident they understand how it works as opposed to how it's supposed to work.
Stock doing poorly -> public company CEOs want to please wall street by showing greater revenue -> layoff (employees are largest cost center for tech companies)
I consulted my network a bit but didn't push too hard because it almost feels exploitive but maybe I should revisit that
I wish I had enough karma to downvote you. We're watching modern disinformation tear society apart at the seams, this person is lamenting that somehow the "information age" has been entirely corrupted, holding up a great piece of progress as a foil to the latest news and its motivations... and you have to go make some absurd argument that "science will always win" even though we're definitively seeing that to be false. Misplaced faux-philosophy and a condescending tone to boot.
Yeah don't want to say "addiction" like "buy the dip" (as it continually went down)

I thought I was smart turning credit into cash but I also was losing money through fees.

Anyway after messing around with my own trading bots (at loss not using smart algos or anything) I'm not sure if it was worth it... fun project I guess/code practice. At least for that I was just messing around with small amounts eg. <$100 per account (about 10). But if you don't have money to do day trades crypto is cool for that.

oh yeah I'm currently poor so I'm definitely no financial genius
Was it more commercially successful that Transmeta Crusoe, which was, AFAICT, the pioneering attempt in this area?
The ffmpeg page for AV1[1] seems to recommend the SVT-AV1 encoder. Using the SVT-AV1 encoder and -crf 17 I was able to get an 8x encoding speed (about 250 FPS) with a very basic set of options similar to this:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:a copy -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 17 svtav1_test.mp4

Hopefully using the SVT-AV1 encoder helps speed up your encoding.

[1]: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AV1
More than any legitimate enterprise in that space could possibly provide.
System Level Programming Languages Panel
Using Rust in Prod at Oxide
Flevoland sounds like an Efteling style Dutch theme park dedicated to Guy Fieri
It is tough out here! Interesting point that the founder should inherently have a large network to pull from. As a younger and first time founder, that's one place I am lacking
So they want to replace the government backed USD with a government backed USD except it's on the blockchain because....?
Do try to remember that there are other countries than the USA.
If you have to ask there is no way I would want you to be able to use emojis!
You're so dismissive of something with the "I could do this in a weekend" attitude. These people did something and showed others what they did. You've instead posited that you "could do better for cheaper", but other than posting a few links and a bit of bravado about the topic, nothing of substance has been offered as accomplishing the same result. If questioning your idea as functional makes me a jerk then: “He doesn’t realize he’s dealing with sophisticated people here.”
My analog ones do have a push wheel that slips easily.
We are aiming to close in June so we will be fine. I could utilize our networks more throuoghly. Maybe it'll be a bit easier once we've raised out seed
Yes to all of that. Plus the url of the post itself (https://sive.rs/su) takes this to a perverse extreme.

I agree that URLs should be humane, but typeable from memory is not the primary objective. Having people beable to read the URL and understand something about where it will go is.
Also, unless you know your domain will only ever host one type of content, then having no hierarchy will lock you in. https://sive.rs/blog/on-short-urls is plenty short, but so much more valuable to any humans using the url.

If you don't agree that URLs need to be humane, then none of it matters and sure, use a UUID for every page.
Patents on XviD's underlying standard are also going to expire within a year:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_MPEG-4_...
>There is a continuous stream of bad ideas being implemented. And when a bad idea gets implemented, it is really hard to undo it and it tends to just create more chaos.

This describes all aspects of software development.
Most of us understand the concept of marginal tax rates just fine. We're arguing about the optimal shape of the curve. Everyone (with a few exceptions) seems to prefer that the curve should trend up sharply just past their own income level.
I wonder when "2005" for crypto will be. Like if we compare them by metrics like maturity of technology, developer attention, VC money, etc, how do "web2" and "web3" compare?
I didn't know 4v4v4v4 was possible,
we mostly did 8v8 CTFs.

I gave up on PS2 games because the first few I tried would say 2 or 4 or more players and too many times they meant "1 per PS2" without disclosing that ahead of time where xbox and GC reliably had splitscreen on pretty much any multiplayer game.
Everyone remembers every time people said "X is just a fad" after that "fad" caused a stock market collapse.
I'll let you take an educated guess on my position...
Not really. If you can’t handle a down turn, how are you a good company?
I am partial to litter box
What you are missing here is that Jimmy Carter was a man of the people. A guy who liked rock and roll and a cold beer. He was the ultimate Washington outsider. And buried in the article is an important note about how of course the record collection was whisked away when along came Reagan. So you might see this article not so much through the lens of being about a record collection, and more about a zeitgeist and how it was swept away.
Or...the government is corrupt and used by the wealthy to write loop holes that allow them to escape paying taxes.
Did you read the whole article? One of the desired attributes is “Developer-friendly, grandma-unfriendly.” In other words, the goal is not to help people who don’t know HTML. It’s to let people who do know HTML work faster and more visually. Which is especially helpful when you want to fine-the styling, something that was hardly even possible in 1999-2003 (unless your entire site was made of images).
I originally thought it might be too early to rely on recruiters, but I will look into it!
StableGains is just a thin layer on top of Anchor. See https://blog.stablegains.com/stablegains-earns-you-yield-by-...
Are the photons that land in between the instruments just lost? Why not make them cover more of the space?
It have colours. Which is too much of visual stimulation IMO. I am OK if they are black and white.
“ In 2-3 years we will be recovering.”

I’m not sure exactly what he meant, I read it as “we will be near the bottom in 2-3 years”. Recovering means something different than recovered.
There's an old joke - "When you owe the bank $1M and can't pay it's your problem, but when you owe them $1G it's theirs." (Like I said it's an old joke ;)

The US has a culture that likes to blame working folks when they screw up and to some extent it's good for everyone to have a culture of individual agency - you want people to feel that they have control over their fates and work toward better themselves and their families.

But if you twist your society sufficiently that enough average folks sink under the barrage of predatory kleptocratic institutional behavior, then it's no longer just their problem. You might find yourself no longer living in an "advanced mixed economy/democracy" but rather something much less fun.
It's helpful to hear anecdotes like this. My minimum time will be 6 months, but I have entertained up to a year depending on how these 6 months go. Thankfully I've saved enough to cover even more time if I really need it.

I hear you on the business burnout. That's the part I could see taking...a good while for myself.
Ask HN: What should I read next?
I just finished Weaving the Web by Tim BL.

Liked the tech history story-time vibe a lot more than I was expecting.

Looking for something similar or slightly more hacky ("hacky") whatever that might mean.
> It's not about fetuses, it's about sex. Some conservatives are already making noise about contraceptives, IVF

It’s about human life. Naturally that means sex has something to do with it on account of that’s where human life begins.

Here is the simple moral reasoning: Killing innocent human beings is wrong. Pre-born babies are innocent human beings. Therefore, killing pre-born babies is wrong.

IVF involves killing innocent human beings in virtually all cases, because undesired babies are “donated.”

> Also sex ed, and 100 other school sex issues

Yes, many parents object to schoolteachers grooming their children.

> dream about restricting our sex lives.

I can assure you that your sex life has never entered my dreams.
Do you also give all your information to a random caller that offers you a free cruise? I think you forgot that politicians are legally bribed to behave against the wishes and/or needs of the people.

You're right that moralizing is beyond useless. Instead let's define the bounds of our morality by our tax code. What can go wrong?
EFF Issues Report on Danger to Digital Rights in Ola Bini Trial
It is not just hobby people scribing lines. Just saying.
Geekologie has shut down.

Thank you to everybody.

Now go be happy.
But I think the pace of technology picked up. From the bust in 2001 we got the roots of web 2.0 in 2004.
When you have wealth VCs, who are flush with cash, taking a company public, you can know right then and there that the future of growth and revenue is lackluster, at least from the insider perspective. Obviously, sometimes they get it wrong and a company does better than expected after going public. But if the insiders thought the company was poised for extreme growth, why would they sell their shares to unsuspecting, small time investors?
As a concept, they are more like me selling a photograph of the deed to my house.

Thinking that they solved a problem that anyone has ever had is what's absurd.
Very successful is a stretch. It’s a transactional business for cryptocurrency. Their large margin depends completely on inflated crypto prices.
Executives at Netflix should have known their stock was overvalued and used it as leverage in acquiring other companies with 100% stock. $300 billion was a lot of money they could have used.

I was saying this 6 months ago on Twitter and was saying it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29787420

In hindsight stock performance was the biggest advantage they had over competitors, now they have to compete with companies with bigger catalogs and more cash flow (e.g. disney parks)
Can someone tell me if this is a good time to invest? Or would it go lower?

Just looking to invest in VTI, nothing else.
If you're nervous about this go visit the Delta works and the various storm barriers, then look at them when there is a really bad storm and check the margins. You'll be fine, unless you will live to be 300 or so, on those timescales anything could happen. But the next 100 years are definitely covered.

I would not buy anything in Venice though, they will likely be done for and we'll remember it like we remember Atlantis. Money + engineering are a pretty good combination, similar to how Japan manages to do quite well in spite of very bad and regular earthquakes.

I think the way the Dutch deal with water is probably best described as symbiotic, we don't force it but we guide it and when we really can't do it any other way we'll bring out the pumps.

Oh, that's another one for your list of stuff to visit: the pump cassettes next to IJmuiden's Northern most locks, those things are straight from a SF movie, 260 cubic meters per second.
It was not to pay furloughed employees, it was to avoid having to furlough or lay off more employees than they did anyway. Furloughed employees did not get paid, but retaining a certain percentage of pre-pandemic headcount was a requirement for the loan to eventually be forgiven.

Source: I was furloughed April 2020 while my employer at the time received over $2m in PPP. Furloughed employees were explicitly told to collect UI.