skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This would drive down costs to the point even the poor can get some decent medical treatment

Or we could just offer free healthcare without relying on unfettered capitalism to "work".

>unnecessary work

With capitalism as the driving force, anything unprofitable becomes unnecessary. Probably goes without saying, but focusing on profitability likely won't drive the best healthcare outcomes.
> If only those of us with 9-5 jobs and bills to pay could take six months off.

Wagie wagie get in cagie.

All day long you sweat and ragie.

NEET is comfy. NEET is cool.

NEET is free from work and school.

Wagie trapped and wagie died.

NEET eats tendies, sauce, and fries.
Tightening of infrastructure budgets isn't often easy, you need to invest weeks of engineering time into a mere 6 figure yearly reduction in infra costs.

Aside from that, Cloudflare is growing revenue not just overall but also on a per-customer basis, due to the expansion of products.

Once Cloudflare releases products that allow it to more directly compete with AWS, it'll be repriced by investors. They've already stated that this is their goal. They're missing a compute product and a real database or KV store solution to be at the bare minimum. I think we'll see both, and at least one will happen in the near future.

Cutting infra costs is not easy, especially when the costs of lapsing security spend are so high (how much did Equifax lose on reputational damage + cleanup work?).

($NET shareholder)
The 6502's successor -- the 65816 -- also allowed this; could be moved to anywhere in the first 64k. Renamed to "direct page."
Negative rates could make it fail.
https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...

https://www.sisvel.com/blog/audio-video-coding-decoding/sisv...

It became a real legal issue before the first consumer AV1 hardware was ever launched.
Not a synonym, at least by the nouns they're based on. Toxin is a parent category that encompasses both poisons and venoms.

Poisons are something you do to yourself (usually by ingestion), venoms are injected by the other organism (such as a snake bite).
Because it’s expected that you’re smart enough to use your words.
Crashes on Chrome on mobile when you zoom in
Isn’t an innovation[1] of TikTok that it happily recommends old content as well as using user feedback as a stronger signal?

[1] that is, something they do and make a success of rather than some totally original idea.
> how Anchor yields are generated from stake rewards of other tokens

Ahh, so a distributed Ponzi scheme. Thanks for clearing that up.
What do you see version 2.0 of AWS/GCP/Azure looking like?
Money

But engineers have more fun
The author suggests operating in areas near colleges because they're developed but the students artificially depress the wages (there's a big difference between a median income of $10k for a neighborhood of families vs college students). Selling these tax laws as the will of the people is a bit of a stretch.
111TWh is well beyond a typical hydroelectric dam output (most are an order of magnitude lower storage and generation). As an example, the very sizable Australian Snowy Hydro 2.0 upon completion is estimated to have storage for 350GWh (the Australian national energy market is ~190TWh). The original Snowy Hydro (9 stations) has annual energy production of ~5GWh.
Somebody needs to build litestream for duckdb (columnstore oriented sqlite like db).

That would be epic. DuckDB speed is crazy fast when it comes to aggregate/analysis queries.
I assume when you file your taxes, you refuse all deductions and tax credits that you're eligible for, because obviously the most moral thing is to give as much of your money to the government as possible, right?
This is why people should stop complaining about religions. Of course it's done for the tax break. You don't cede power when the government allows you to grab it. If you want your special interest group to thrive in the US, get with the program and exploit the tax loopholes before they're gone.
> What is the difference...?

Remember when the price of a barrel of oil went negative?

That's the difference.

With something like BitCoin, there is no meaningful way that it could possibly drop below $0 in value, because there's nothing behind it. If everyone gets bored of digital currencies, it will become worthless, and nothing will change in physical reality[1].

Meanwhile if you buy oil futures, then you must take delivery of... you know... a bunch of crude oil! A fleet of tanker trucks will literally turn up at your doorstep and demand that you provide storage for your oil.

That's why the price of oil can go negative. The price is just a reflection of a reality. The oil that is being pumped out of the ground isn't just a number in a computer system, it's a physical liquid that has to go somewhere thanks to conservation of mass. If you buy it, part of that cost calculation is that you[2] will have to store the physical goods somewhere.

The price went negative because oil storage ran out, and the producers would pay people to take the oil off their hands. They had literally nowhere left to put it, and you can't just dump it in the ocean.[3]

So you see, Buffet saying that BitCoin is fundamentally worth $0 is in a way a worse indictment than oil going negative! It's saying there there is nothing behind it. Nothing of value that you might have to "deal with" as its owner.[4]

Even fiat like the US dollar has something behind it giving it inherent value: citizens of the United States are required by law to pay their taxes in USD. They must use it, whether they like it or not. They can't just walk away and stop using it, they'll go to jail if they do. Essentially its backing is the US government and associated institutions that use it as the preferred currency. BitCoin has no significant state support like this.

Now... you would think that BitCoin could get state support, but that's a guaranteed economic catastrophe for any large economy that switches to BTC for their official currency. Partly because that government would lose control over their financial system, and more importantly because inherently deflationary currencies like BitCoin are certain to cause economic deadlock where nobody wants to spend money "now" because they expect their future spending power to be even greater.

[1] In terms of products and services. I'm sure a lot of people will cry, but that's a secondary effect.
[2] Or whomever you sell the future to.
[3] Well, you can, but it's illegal these days. You can be assured that they would dump it without a moments hesitation if it wasn't illegal, because it would "make the line go up" in the futures chart.
[4] There are lots of things like this. Property values can go negative if the taxes and legally-mandated maintenance cost exceeds the expected income.
Something seems a bit off about the GPU usage. The RTX 3090 is supposed to have ~300TFlops. If the 26.8GFlop YOLOX-s is running at 40fps, that means you’re getting 0.4% utilization - about 250x slower than expected peak…
> 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.

> somehow the "information age" has been entirely corrupted

You legitimately believe the “Information Age” has been entirely corrupted?

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

> you have to go make some absurd argument that "science will always win"

No, I made the argument that science is dispassionate and stands on its own.

It does not require censorship or appeals to authority to “win”.

Its conclusions can be tested using empiricism and logical reasoning. If they cannot, or if subjecting results to review is not permitted, it’s not science.
s/FED/Fed/g it's not an acronym for anything. It's short for the Federal Reserve.
> Yes, this sucks right now.

If I may, really need to hire sudhirj back or get someone doing the tedious work of answering dumb/advanced questions in the forums and doing follow-ups! Even if it doesn't scale, this high-touch forum engagement may not only help inform the product roadmap but help eventually cultivate a stronger community.
Perhaps Jevon's Paradox?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Though with LED lighting, it really depends. I still am using far less power for all of my lighting vs 1 incandescent light bulb. I am thinking specifically of the room/desk lamp of my childhood. Though I haven't counted the blinkenlights on my router, switch, etc. Maybe all of those added up will tip the balance.
I like this. Everyone tries to bury their shit in the litter box.
My first thought was that it's hard to imagine most US presidents deriving joy from music (anyone who thinks Obama actually listens to the music on those annual lists his interns compile is naive). So it made perfect sense that once these records got to the White House they barely made it out of the crates before being shipped off to some warehouse.
Well it turns out a lot of the big players own huge swaths of IP and ramping up a streaming service is a lot less hard. Netflix tried to build a moat with it's own movies, but I guess so did the Hallmark channel
Much strength, mail me if you feel like.
If you think it's corrupt for the government to offer incentives for people to invest in underserved areas where they otherwise wouldn't, by all means, write your representatives, or run for office yourself to end this corrupt practice.
Colonial Pipeline fined $1M; Management failures lead to fuel shortages
Having a ton of edges also give you the ability to do a lot more granular and faster DDoS/traffic load protection. You can, at its simplest form, just start dropping all incoming traffic to a destination at a node to save a site. With 10 or 20 POPs, that's a fairly big region. With thousands, it can get pretty targeted.

Every company claims to be worldwide, but when their site is down, they tend not to care so much if you just start nuking traffic from random foreign areas to come back up.

Not sure if Cloudflare does this today, but the potential is there.
The whole “Roundup not glyphosate” reframing was just a convenient shifting of the goalposts after their initial claims about glyphosate were debunked. But I still contend that your assertion that we are eating non-trace amounts of Roundup or glyphosate or whatever your demon dou jour is is quite false.
I usually think of "poison" to mean "dampening." It still doesn't quite work here though.
Adams Defends Police for Handcuffing Vendor Who Sold Mangoes in Subway
Let's Copy the Key to T-Pain's New Place
Yes, I have a prototype chip of the 65816 somewhere in a moving box, I really had high hopes that that would be the future and then 68K happened and I was sold on Motorola, and a while later had to adapt to x86 which I've always found ugly and non-orthogonal.
I agree. I currently live in a small city where locals take a lot of pride in their families having been here for generations.
Seems to me that "the wealthy" could come up with simpler loopholes without the pesky requirement to actually invest money in depressed areas.
I think there will still be some stunning imagery, if a bit more ethereal, even for the lay public. We just haven't seen anything multi-spectral and color-mapped.

Here's the pillars of creation in infrared - https://esahubble.org/images/heic1501b/
At least half, and I would say as a hand-waving number, maybe as much as 75% of the comments I see in any online comment thread to any news-y-ish thing demonstrate a complete failure to understand marginal tax rates.

Closer to home: my kids don't understand it. My wife doesn't understand it. Most of my in-laws don't understand it.
Context is important: this was a piece for the BBC's 'Working Lunch' business news programme which went out at lunchtime on BBC 2. This is before 24-hour news channels and endless competition for attention. In 1996 there are four terrestrial TV channels in the UK, most people don't have access to satellite or cable TV, and as for video over the internet? QuickTime is at version 2, and downloading videos over my 14.4k modem wouldn't have been viable even if there'd been anything to download.

And despite that competitive market, almost no one is watching Working Lunch. It's daytime TV, so the majority of people are either working or in school, and the remaining unemployed/retired probably aren't interested in a slightly-more-laid-back format business news programme, and are likely just waiting for Neighbours on BBC 1.

(I was 16 when this was broadcast, and I regularly used Working Lunch as a marker for if I'd been up too late or should go to bed, probably more so a couple of years later than in 1996, but the style is very familiar even all these years later!)
> A person with basic knowledge in mathematics and data compression can find the flaws immediately upon first reading.

Or with any common sense?
Are you sure there was a character named Ripley? I just went and looked at a listing of characters https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Chara... and they didn't have Ripley, but they did have Dancer #3, so I figured that's a pretty authoritative list.

Maybe you mean Grace Augustine, Sigourney Weaver's character?

on edit: I mean it's a pretty hilarious confirmation of my point if so.
Coinbase also gives 1 year grants, so employees would be less affected then those from companies with 4 year grants.
> Counter point: This is clearly not 100% true since I would not say the same thing about Haskell even though arguably I could.

This is not really a counter point. Any dev who struggles to write code in any modern programming language (after ramp of course) is arguably not a good programmer. Programming is far far more than code.
I think this is a great way to learn digital logic and understand computing fundamentals.
That seems like a cq based encode. Try av1an in its target quality mode - I've gotten some movies to a tenth the Blu-ray size with 98 vmafs and with only smudged detail at pixel level scrutiny.

The trick is if your encoder can adapt the quantizer based off a metric to compare the encode quality you can save a ton more space without visual degradation.
Everything is on sale, nice.
From the article:
> These rules may sound complicated, but really, they are about understanding the fundamentals of how a computer works.

... and from the post that the article links to:
> Understanding String vs &str implies an understanding of the ownership system, which implies an understanding of the lifetime system. That probably means that you’ve been exposed to pointers, references and perhaps even aliasing. There’s usually a discussion about mutability intertwined here. Gaining an intuition of data types that represent text benefits from understanding encodings, which benefit from understanding how CPUs operate.

> I’ve yet to find a way through this for complete beginners. Learners with that already know another systems programming language have a distinct advantage here.

This, IMO, is the key to understanding why Rust is hard to learn: it was written as a systems programming language, and we now expect it to be more than that. I nodded my head in agreement as I read the intro to Rust until I reached the explicit use of lifetimes. To me that was where the abstraction got leaky. If your core abstraction of borrowing needed to expose the fact that the compiler uses lifetimes and needs a hint from time to time, you're saying explicitly that your audience are system programmers and they get that no abstraction is clean.

Take that up a few levels of abstraction and application development with Rust is hard. Maybe the rust community should just say: "Yes, its hard in the beginning, but its worth it if you stick with it. Welcome"

PS: I personally found it hard to learn Rust when I was looking for a static single binary generating language for my side project, and went back to C (please don't judge, its just familiarity). But I see what Rust can do.
Do you do well from swing trading? May I ask how much capital you work with, and what kind of gains you make?
You can't have both parties be guaranteed the other party got the message at the same time.
A common gotcha with sqlite and WAL is how it's not supported on networked filesystems, which will bite anyone trying to keep their data volumes replicated over glusterfs, ceph, and similar with corruption.

Let's say we're running a vendored application (forking it is not an option) utilizing WAL and want to store the db on one of those filesystems not traditionally suitable for WAL'd sqlite.

Would dropping in Litestream on the db allow us to do so safely?
>The whole “Roundup not glyphosate” reframing was just a convenient shifting of the goalposts...

Yes, you and Monsanto are shifting the goalposts. RoundUp is sprayed onto foods. Studies show that RoundUp is toxic. Monsanto funded a bunch of studies on glysophate in isolation to try and show that RoundUp is not toxic. RoundUp has chemicals that make it possible for Glysophate to permeate the cells.
This all gets a bit messy when trying to use a simple binary designation of "good" or "bad" to describe a company based on all factors about that company.

Good companies come and go. Good companies of old no longer exist because the world changed. Some companies are good for awhile, and then lose their way. Nuance abounds.

Not putting words in the parent commenter's mouth, but maybe a different way to say this is that Cloudflare is a good product. A product can be both great, and not viable under some conditions. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I think they will have significant difficulties ever bringing a product to the US or EU market. Having observed business dealings related to Comac when they first came about, I’m actually surprised any planes have been built at all. I personally thought it was a government sponsored honeypot to steal/license/bribe engine or other aerospace technology more than anything and when you hear about their ties to Chinese intelligence[1], that opinion might not be far from the truth.

1 - https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/article/21118569/ho...
100% agree. "It's not a real programming language" has become construed as an attack against anyone who makes a career in tech writing DSLs, now everyone labels anything technical as "programming". Laypeople probably think JSON is programming.

DSLs hardly mean "not a real programmer". SQL is a DSL, and I'd wager some people make more money writing SQL than other mainstream languages.
I don't think the underlying game is fun or interesting and the blockchain shtick is the only thing it's got going for it which imho is a detractive quality. I think its only merit is that it sated the author's interests.
There were some “the Internet is a fad” takes, but it wasn’t a widely held viewpoint. No one pushed back on corporations putting up websites. “Crypto is snake oil” is pretty common right now, and a lot of people are rejecting NFTs.

Also, the NYT is often garbage.

https://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/new-york-times-re...

https://nitter.net/DougJBalloon
Just wait until (some) devs realize they don't even need sqlite, and can serialize their data directly to binary flat files with simple locking synchronization for backups.

I'm half joking but I've witnessed many devs use databases when a binary file will do. I've done this personally for years for most of my 'fits-in-RAM', non-transactional, denormalized datasets, which is almost all of them.

Better yet, use both if you have both types of data. The performance benefits are enormous and well worth the complexity tradeoff in my experience.
Does this solve the data-loading issues raised by sillysaurus in this prior thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721229
Recent relevant submissions:

Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised password
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400004

Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142407

How the FBI Got Colonial Pipeline’s Ransom Money Back
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477193
First thing you should explain is what the hell a TPU is/
Design for Creation
maybe they're using utf8_unicode_ci instead of utf8mb4_unicode_ci on their mysql database :P

it's probably a manual filter
I quoted from Wiktionary, feel free to update the definition there (with sources) if you disagree. Note that the "Synonym: toxic" appears underneath the second (figurative) definition, and in my opinion is perfectly correct; in figurative use poisonous and toxic are used in the same way.
Thanks for the very kind feedback! We've wanted to provide TPU VMs since the beginning of the Cloud TPU program, and I'm delighted that you're enjoying them. Many people across Google contributed to this launch.

We're definitely working on GKE integration, and we intend to provide more support for orchestration over time since individual Cloud TPU workloads are getting bigger and bigger. We'd love to hear any more detailed feedback you might have.
Capital gains tax is a parasitical tax that punishes people for being responsible with their after-tax money. It also creates massive, massive loopholes that can be abused.

The fairest solution is to scrap CGT and associated capital loss write-offs.

This allows the middle class to thrive by investing in productive enterprises and not getting taxed yet again to do so.

It's the worst kind of tax that punishes success by stealing your after-tax money.

As for your appeal to nation, the US will waste your money on slaughtering Afghanistani children with bombs and handing out cash to serial fraudsters (look up how many people on Social Security are actually real). Most tax money is wasted by government.
You're both right and wrong. The SEC was told by a US court that they can in fact deliver a subpoena, so from the SEC perspective they've been given "jurisdiction". However the other side of the coin is that they've been granted permission to serve a subpoena to someone who isn't American, and to a company that doesn't have a presence in the US.

If Do Kwon decides to visit the US and hasn't complied, he may find himself getting arrested. If his company decides to have assets in the US, they may be seized. However until either of those things happen, which they won't*, then the US has zero teeth in this.

* assuming he doesn't visit the US again
As you can see from the reaction to your question, a lot of users view lack of emoji as a feature rather than a bug. HN is known for being a very simple, text-based site. HN is viewed by many as one of the last bastion of the old internet, and adding emoji would be likely to result in forks and a civil war. I would imagine that adding emoji is a very low priority, if not an intentional design.
I previously heard this called "The Byzantine General's problem". I think there is a lot of discussion under that name.

for example

Back-To-Basic Reading: Byzantine Generals
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13866732>

The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697029>
You fear emoji because of their immense power. :0
Nobody can tell you that because no one knows.
I guess the idea is that Alice wants to be 100% certain that Bob will attack before she commits her own forces, and Bob similarly wants to be 100% certain that Alice will attack. This level of certainty is not achievable.
Therapy doesn't have a monopoly on being able to control your emotions.
Great distinction!
Interesting that ad companies find the value of sending from a different domain greater than the loss from ad blocking. Makes sense that the calculation would tip on a "weblog covering Linux Systems and DevSecOps"!