skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a slightly counter-intuitive thing with H.264 and H.265 encoding: for any given bit-rate, you'll get better quality if you encode at 10-bits instead of 8-bits, even if the source clip was 8-bit.

The reason for this is the DCT transform results in 16-bit numbers for every pixel. The reason that doesn't make things worse is (partly) because it only sends the non zero values.

There's too many more reasons why, but that's the quick summary.
This is when you wish the crypto market closed at the end of the day until the morning.

Say what you will, but a cooling off period during a period panic does seem to help the market after bad Friday's or bad earnings at the end of the day.
Now I wonder how we allow companies to try to squeeze every drop of profit from life saving devices. Smoke detectors cost a good few tens of bucks here in US, and they still feel the need to use ionization instead of photoelectric? I've taken a few photoelectric smoke alarms apart, and it's literally just an LED, a photodiode, some cleverly shaped black plastic, and a few integrated circuits. I imagine doing reliable averaging/signal conditioning wont be super trivial, but surely it's something that can be all integrated into a single IC for cheap. All of that should seriously cost no more than half a dollar to produce at large scale.
What is dual use technology?
(Disclaimer that I own some NET so I don't necessarily believe this is the case for them but also am probably biased). You can't really know it's a downturn until it ends and pops back up. Otherwise it's just their downfall. If a stock is going to just drop and continue dropping until bankruptcy, or plateau forever at a low point, then cutting your losses early would be better. But no one can really be sure which way a stock is going to go in the long-term. If you believe the dip is just a temporary thing and end up being correct then yeah it's a good play. If you end up being wrong it's just a slow way to lose money.
FWIW, in NY generally the tax assessed value of properties is far below the market price (20-30%, sometimes more).

NY could afford for the "market price" to fall quite considerably before it would significantly affect tax revenues.
>Emacs is not so much an editor as it is a tool well-suited for writing custom editors.

I hate this meme and wish it would die.

Emacs is a perfectly suitable editor that happens to have really bad defaults because the developers are mostly out of touch grognards.

With a modest amount of effort, emacs could be made to have appealing aesthetics and sane defaults, but because eMaCs Is An OpErAtInG sYsTeM it stays bad.
I don't think I understand how the transition from non-union to union is supposed to work. Can't Amazon just fire everyone that doesn't show up to work and hire replacements? Or is that only possible in at-will employment states?
As long as it's backed by the USD it's not safe

Stablecoins are even more of a mistake than fiat currency is
Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
I bought at the peak for cloudflare and had a similar thought process.

After losing 15-20%, I decided to sell. Figured I'd buy again after it dropped further. Guessing when it's 80-90% down from peak I'll end up repurchasing.
Is netflix really aiming to “replace basic cable”? Seems more like replace hbo and a couple of random other channels. The price is outrageous, but I feel like we are getting to the point where market penetration involves business deals where a fraction of the sub is covered by someone else (carrier, credit card, etc).
Interesting seeing the right losing their collective minds over this Hunter Biden laptop story but completely dismissing all of Trump’s kids getting in trouble with the law. Trump’s kids, who were all given cushy government jobs.
It seems it turned out the opposite earlier this year, didnt it? [1]

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/18/terra-ceo-do-kw...
That's a great explanation, thanks!
This is my point - here is a clear example where equality of opportunity not resulting in equality of outcome, which should imply that inequality of outcome does not necessarily mean unequal opportunity.
I remember the "dotcom crash" of 2000, after which all of the scuttlebutt was about how the internet was a fad and all the related investments were just a giant bubble. The rhetoric I'm hearing today about crypto is strangely reminiscent. How it will turn out, nobody knows, but humility is warranted if history is any guide.
Technical analysis is neither technical or analysis
They make money from people transacting. Every buy or sell on their platform nets them a commission so their total revenue is directly proportional to how frothy the market is feeling.

A major crash like we’ve been seeing in both the traditional market and crypto space means there is less money coming in, less money moving around, and less fees for Coinbase. And with a persistent recession you’re not going to see people coming back in for a while.
And? That’s not solace to anyone who owns COIN and could’ve bought GOOG instead.
Is it really that hard to defend a peg? As long as you don’t spend the money people give you, you’ll have 1:1 dollars to stable coin. Then you can earn interest on the dollars.
I don't know why we would have debates on whether we should "laud" things or not. How about regulating things, rather than having debates about who or what should be praised? Companies aren't dogs or children. I personally get very little from either the praise or condemnation of anonymous strangers.

Not really directed at you, I'm just sick of the idea that if we all get together and declare things good or bad, that's some sort of accomplishment. People who do well do well through ignoring the irrelevant and immaterial comments of busybodies and bikeshedders.
Look at the number of shows they produce compared to other services. On mobile so not going to link, but easy enough to find. Pretty clear to me that their strategy is to have a show for everyone’s favorite niche. Compare that to HBO where the strategy is to create shows that are actually good. 90% of Netflix is crap, and that’s not to say they don’t make good shows, they just make so many bad ones.
eToys sold physical products with gross margins that are hilariously very different from Cloudflare's.

https://a16z.com/2015/05/15/a16z-podcast-why-saas-revenue-is...
A tutorial implementation of a dependently typed lambda calculus (2001) [pdf]
A lot of these are probably margin calls, not a reasoned investing decision.
> their own execs all getting their own bonuses, etc

While we love to critique big insurance, and some of it may be earned, that industry is not known for the skyhigh profits OR margins like IT is.

Here is an HMO for ya

> OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and their respective subsidiaries (KFHP/H) reported 2021 annual financial results. Total operating revenues for 2021 were $93.1 billion compared to $88.7 billion in 2020. Total operating expenses were $92.5 billion compared to $86.5 billion in the prior year. Operating income was $611 million, or 0.7% of operating revenues, compared to $2.2 billion in 2020. Increased care delivery expenses due to COVID-19 surges contributed to the decline in operating income.

> “After almost 2 years, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Kaiser Permanente just as it does our daily lives,” said chair and chief executive officer Greg A. Adams. “We rapidly rolled out vaccines, and now boosters, and administered more than 9 million COVID-19 tests while managing new and unpredictable variants like delta and omicron as they surfaced. Throughout this crisis, gratitude goes to our dedicated employees and physicians who have remained focused on providing care and strong support for members and communities.”

> Like other organizations, Kaiser Permanente benefited from strong investment performance due to robust financial markets during the year, resulting in total other income and expense of $7.5 billion compared to $4.1 billion in 2020. This sharp increase in investment performance more than offset the $1.6 billion decrease in operating income, resulting in 2021 net income of $8.1 billion compared to net income of $6.4 billion in 2020.

> Capital spending totaled $3.5 billion compared to $4.0 billion the year prior. During 2021 Kaiser Permanente opened 11 medical offices. Kaiser Permanente now includes 734 medical offices, 39 owned and operated hospitals, and 58 retail and worksite clinics.

and regular insurance

> United Healthgroup Profit as % of Revenues 6%, Profits as % of Assets 7.8%, Profits as % of Stockholder Equity 23.5% for CY2021
> Checkpoint and restore have seen a major improvement with the ability to store checkpoints as OCI images, allowing them to be distributed via container registries.

Like, checkpointed processes???! That'd be so neat. I suspect probably just fs images though.
Worth recalling there are >5 rate hikes priced in for the remainder of the year, and that the problem with CloudFlare isn't just the speculation, but for their legitimate business, the credit fuelling many of their customers, which are significantly concentrated in the tech sector. The coming tightening of hiring will also inevitably mean the tightening of infrastructure budgets. What built CloudFlare's excellent sales pipeline can just as easily obliterate it, but in any case will certainly leave at least a major dent.

It's probably a great time to be getting into finops, and I don't think CloudFlare's fair value is anywhere remotely near $18bn.

I think we'll discover before the end of this year just how many of the tech darlings were largely side effects of the poisonous sandbox constructed by the US fed.
>>> UST loses peg

>> There's a certain delight [1] in watching increased market volatility exposing how understanding merkle trees and consensus protocols doesn't make you an expert on what the financial system is, how it works and why it is the way it is.

> These comments don't seem very relevant to stablecoins such as this one, which are algorithmic rather than backed

Just... muah. Perfecto.
I really appreciate frozen broccoli for this reason and it's nice to put it on top of masoor dal while it cooks.
They were very controversial before reunification and the integration of the eurozone. There are also de-facto cards, and de-jure cards, and they are different. It's not about having some ID, it's there being a multi-use, single ID that is controversial. Sure, we can have tons of different ones, but a linked identity that gets used across multiple services is not common.

The difference is whether the ID is for a specific service and purpose, or a single identity with a general ID regime to be used at the discretion of police and other institutions. It's a significant legal difference.

What you refer to as a peculiar anglo-saxon no-id-card thing is also what we typically call freedom. The nordic countries have had ID cards forever as well, but also public salaries and other socialist policies that worked for them very well, so aversion to them is not necessarily a "white"/west thing. Freedom is not a value unique to any one culture. What's happening today is technology changes are being used as a pretext for pushing in more radical state controls just using the tech, but without legislative discussion about whether it's desirable.
Yes, the fairly obvious limit of going somewhere the US doesn't have an extradition treaty with. In Snowden's case: Russia. Which I personally wouldn't be thrilled to do, but the options are limited.

Here's the countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...

It's not hard, in theory, but it does rather limit your movements going forward.
> The price went up to over $300,

Initially it was 'reported' and estimated at $200 - $250 for the IPO price, but actually started trading at over $400 a share [0], which is the near top where the majority of retail entered and bought in at those prices.

After the first day of trading, it went down to $328.28 a share. [0]

So my warning was correct to not buy on IPO day or even anywhere near those prices.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coinbase-direct-listing-100-bil...
Small consolation for all of those people with big equity packages on recent prices.
In the short term? Sure. That's why it's 75% off the peak. If you think the entire crypto market is going to go under then (again) yes. But as ridiculous as I think crypto generally is, I don't think it's going anywhere. YMMV.
I bought a Yamaha FX-500 processor in 1989. 29 years later, I did a mod to convert it to a batteryless NVRAM chip. The original button cell battery was still good; settings I last touched in 1990 were still being held.

Garage door openers can last 10-15 years too; those use the battery to transmit a signal, not just to hold a piece of SRAM alive.

The bathroom scale is just a poor electronic design.
You can see nVidia's hardware support here: https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-sup...

The take-away is that nVidia only has hardware support for AV1 on the RTX 3000 Ampere series cards.

Intel supported AV-1 decoding in its Xe-LP GPUs in 2020.

Intel also reached v1.0.0 of its open-source codec 2 weeks ago, here: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1

I am not aware of any other CPU or GPU that has an AV-1 codec built in.
Project Denver held so much promise at Nvidia as a vehicle for CPU sales into the PC market. What is a modern day project denver inside other companies?
Use lsp-mode and company-mode for language completion. The lsp-mode connects to the language server on the language I'm developing for language specific semantic rules and syntax. Company-mode does the completion. It is a generic completion framework, which lsp-mode hooks into to provide language specific completion.

The best is that I can use the standard Emacs commands I'm familiar with to use LSP. E.g. Per your example, I can use the describe-thing-at-point command, which is in Emacs for the longest time, to show the inferred type of the variable at the cursor. I can use the same command to show the signature of a function. Lsp-mode hooks into the old command to do the magic based on language context.

Same with the company-mode. Since it's a generic completion framework, I'm already familiar with its commands and key bindings. It works the same for all languages and other editing mode. E.g. in writing English, the completion command would pop up a list of word choice.
Thus the mention of extradition treaties, which mean (to a loose approximation) that other countries agree to let some US rules get enforced on people in their borders.

In Terraform's case, it looks like they're in Singapore. Which the US does indeed have an extradition treaty with.
> But replacing spruce, plaintaint and ornamental chestnut with cherry trees, walnuts and edible chestnut. Instead of having fireball, rhododendron or snowball hedges planting black berries, currants and maybe elderberries.

Sounds great to the uncritical hearer, but it's a recipe for a rodent and/or bird plague and lots of disease outbreaks. Unless someone is employed to deal with all of the rejected part of the crop. And that's not easy with tree and bush crops.
All of crypto barely uses more power (120 TWh) than a single hydroelectric dam produces (111 TWh.) The "bad for the environment" is a meaningless talking point used by people that are jealous they didn't "get in on it" early enough.
You're basically gambling on monetary policy at the end of the day. If QT is steadfast, this market is at best going to be L shaped and volume will shrink for Coinbase. If QE remains, might see a reflation of the bubble.
> Did this one just lift the title for a different piece on the same topic?

I suspect it lifted more than the title. There's a significant overlap between the articles.

Harper's:

> by age twelve was digesting his father’s college chemistry textbooks without difficulty. When he spent the night at Golf Manor, his mother would often wake to find him asleep on the living room floor surrounded by open volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. [...] By fourteen, an age at which most boys with a penchant for chemistry are conducting rudimentary gunpowder experiments, David had fabricated nitroglycerine.

> David’s parents admired his interest in science but were alarmed by the chemical spills and blasts that became a regular event at the Hahn household. After David destroyed his bedroom—the walls were badly pocked, and the carpet was so stained that it had to be ripped out—Ken and Kathy banished his experiments to the basement.[...]

> Not even his scout troop was spared David’s scientific enthusiasm. He once appeared at a scout meeting with a bright orange face caused by an overdose of canthaxanthin, which he was taking to test methods of artificial tanning. One summer at scout camp, David’s fellow campers blew a hole in the communal tent when they accidentally ignited the stockpile of powdered magnesium he had brought to make fireworks.[...]

> David was not deterred. One night as Ken and Kathy were sitting in the living room watching TV, the house was rocked by an explosion in the basement. There they found David lying semiconscious on the floor, his eyebrows smoking. Unaware that red phosphorus is pyrophoric, David had been pounding it with a screwdriver and ignited it.

Tales from the Nuclear Age:

> By age 12, he was easily reading college level chemistry text books. At Patty’s house in Golf Manor, she often found him in the morning asleep on the floor surrounded by encyclopedias and chemistry books. At age 14, he did the typical teenage synthesis of gunpowder, but quite atypically, moved on to synthesize nitroglycerine.

> Explosions and chemical messes became rather routine at the Hahn’s house. When one explosion pock-marked the walls of his room and destroyed the rug, Ken and Kathy insisted he remove his experiments to the basement.[...]

> David’s adventures with the Boy scouts included his penchant for experimentation. He appeared at one scout meeting with a distinctly orange face. He had ingested a “tanning” chemical, to investigate artificial methods of sun tanning. At one summer camp, a group of scouts blew a hole in the main tent when David’s powdered Magnesium exploded. He had brought it along to make some fireworks.[...]

> There were other problems. One evening Ken and Kathy were in the living room watching TV, when a large explosion shook the walls and floor of the house. Rushing down to the basement, they found David lying on the floor unconscious with his eyebrows smoking, and the basement strewn with broken equipment. David had been pounding a pyrophoric chemical with a screwdriver when it ignited spontaneously…
Productivity matters, so yes, that's why I chose Nim.
It also relies an a healthy USD-LUNA market. If there aren't any buyers on the LUNA side it doesn't matter how man LUNA you can mint from your UST because you can't exit the LUNA side anyway.

It's the same problem for basically any stablecoin: they exist because the paths between traditional finance and crypto are narrow and tricky. But this in turn limits the ability of a stablecoin to actually peg to a value from traditional finance. If there are mass net outflows from the cryptocurrency ecosystem back into traditional finance it will be impossible for these stablecoins to maintain their value. They are essentially a bet on the downside of crypto (if everything goes to custard you won't be able to exit) with none of the upside of crazy returns found in non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies.
Signals still carry poorly underwater (submarines).

Kessler syndrome is more likely than ever to knock out satellite service + space launches.

Thousands of satellites in orbit with the exact same OS increases the risk of a botnet forming.
You can think they are a good company while also being fearful they won't survive the macro.
NFTs are a concept no different than Rai stones used by Micronesians for centuries, or any other property deeds style exchange. Hating on them is absurd - it's just another concept/financial construct.
Yup.

I think the big issue is x264 was very obviously a labor of love from some very talented developers. I just haven't seen that sort of love dumped into other encoders.

Newer codecs have been relying on the format to provide more obvious tools for compression (and mostly giving benefits for HD+ resolutions).
Isn't the whole point of microservices is that it does not need a neat, well organized architecture.

Not saying it's true, but when you cut through the marketing bs that's the claim.
> I'm not exactly sure what are you trying to communicate.

When I read your response to my post, my Spidey Sense warned me that you might be trying to use the excuse for not helping the disadvantaged that is always trotted out... that we can't afford it. I tried to point out that the opposite is the case, that we can't afford not to help, and your mention of inflation is a red herring.

> more people needed to work helping disadvantaged people and less everywhere else to avoid inflation.

Don't need to hire people. Just send money on the magic castle's flying carpet. Extra credit: see Affordable Care Act, whose opponents swore would trigger massive inflation

> There was already a pretty serious inflation in many places that did pretty serious lockdowns

Pandemic response was a multidimensional challenge that went beyond lockdowns, and was botched in many of those dimensions.

> the shift of spending from services to products

Dunno about this, seems to me that much of product inflation was due to

> overloaded... logistics networks

Botched pandemic response

> unexpectedly large stimulus bills

Size was not the problem, but distribution. Botched pandemic response

> not enough people getting the vaccine

Botched pandemic response.
I actually just turned down a job offer, albeit a w2-contractor role, as a PD at Apple, for this reason alone. Even though it had the possibility to become full time at Apple, I’d rather be fully remote at my current company.
Because Bitcoin & Co can go sideways in a range for years while Coinbase prints an operating profit from the market-leading service they provide.

Bitcoin doesn't produce anything, Coinbase does.

What you're describing is speculating / gambling, betting on some kind of soaring event happening.
P/Es are irrelevant here I think. $COIN is a transaction-based business. Transactions are correlated with the price of BTCUSD. BTCUSD is down 50% in 6 months. The r/wsb crowd and others just wont be as enthused to trade something that isn't going to the moon.

Thus, transactions will continue to trend down and $COIN will suffer.
Keypads should be simple and easy to use, but they often are not. The buttons are inconsistently responsive and there’s always at least one other key you have to press, often two. And those other two are named whatever the designers decided and placed wherever the thought would be most confusing.

“Okay, I want to cook for 3 minutes.”

‘300’

”Ok, the numbers don’t work until I press something else. Hmmm”

‘Time Cook’ ‘400’

“Shit. I hit the 4. Where’s the cancel?

‘Cancel’ ‘Time Cook’ ‘300’

“Where’s the start?”

‘Start’
Quantifying Spatial Homogeneity of Urban Road Networks via Graph Neural Networks
https://www.smartcapitalmind.com/what-does-it-mean-to-catch-...
What’s the forward P/E? Nobody has any idea because their profits depend on so many fickle variables: crypto prices, crypto trader enthusiasm, and competing exchanges not entering a race to the bottom that would put pressure on their margins.
It’s across the board. Everything that isn’t completely entrenched is taking a beating.

Hoping to take advantage of the dip to buy into some other great companies that I missed and buy more Cloudflare too.
I think a more relevant front page link/summary would be that the open-source AV-1 codec has reached the v1.0.0 milestone (18 days ago).

https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/releases/tag/v1.0.0