skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, like most things, it’s a bell curve - the bulk of the people want to contribute a reasonable amount while some want contribute none and some extra. The glaring issue in the United States is how much capital is gained — though I prefer ‘allocated to’, as the people do the work — by a minuscule portion of the population and the paltry taxes they then pay.
This is a good point. Of course, I only ever had exposure to the white collar folks.

Those white collar folks could never make the work safe. But they could sure as hell f_ck it up. At least from what I saw, the safety theater was tremendously effective at telling the white collar folks not to demand stupid sh_t: once the guy on the ground says the magic words ("that's not safe"), conversation over. YOU, project manager/junior exec, didn't plan well enough. The guy on the ground is just doing his job.
Kinda hard to do ransomware with cash.
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Amazon. AWS was just a small cloud on the horizon in 2012. They are the dominant platform to run applications and (more surprisingly) now the #2 DBMS vendor according to recent Gartner numbers. That's a major change. [0]

https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2022/04/16/dbms-market...
How did it work out for the company?
"Have there been any new widely successful tech companies emerging since Facebook in 2009?"

Isn't Cloudflare an obvious example?
Now that you've digested your calamari (or maybe pork bung) there's a good TAL about it.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/484/doppelgangers

Apparently it tastes slightly off calimari.

I would assume it's washed of fecal matter, and frying kills anything still living on the surface.

Keep in mind that sausage it traditionally made with the linings of pig intestines. So...
This seems to just kind of stop halfway through. "I took inspiration from things of the past: forums, shoutboxes, IRC and so on." Yes? How did you apply this inspiration? Where's the link to the results of this inspiration? What are the features you decided are crucial?
It's definitely worth a look I think. Just make sure you fully understand their fee structure before signing anything - they have the potential to be very expensive if you're not careful.

A lot of the really good ones can add value in other ways as well; in the past I've had recruiters get us presenting at events without having to pay sponsor fees, free conference tickets and training vouchers for successful candidates, pre-baked employment contracts and other HR-ey documents you can use etc etc.
Everytime I think I had it with emacs config fatigue and try another editor. I realize I prefer emacs. I just tried vscode. Lots of good things but not clearer on how to get what you want. You spend time googling how and what preset to modify, it might or might not work. Their git interface is not clearer. The indentation logic is strange some times.
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Afaik the local governments choose the opportunity zones. They probably put those zones next to colleges because they met the requirements AND someone locally thought it would be a good idea to develop there. I definitely still think it's the will of the people deciding how to allocate some money that would otherwise sit in a stock much longer instead.
I don't miss emojis on the site but there is something to be said for the idea of HN being fully Unicode compliant, consequences be damned.
Many of the Crusoe people moved over from Transmeta to Stexar which was acquired by NVIDIA.
Twitter buyout isn't finalized. Old CEO is still in place and Musk is expected to become interim CEO after the buyout is finalized.
Not to mention the fact that the entire argument is a strawman. US insurance companies almost always fold in the end.
Are you saying 18bn is way too high or way too low when you say ' lI don't think CloudFlare's fair value is anywhere remotely near $18bn?'

I know it's down a lot but I'm asking because it started from such a loft valuation
I have no opinion on NET but a lot of the cloud bubble stocks of the last few years needed to come down by 95 percent IMO to get closer to intrinsic value. To do that they'd first drop 90 percent, then drop another 50 percent from that point. Hence I don't know which you meant.
1 transaction every ($interval * 1.5) seconds ought to be enough for most non-commercial banking users? Even if you could tie the token to a non-separable 'bundle' of transactions for larger transactions (Payroll for all staff?)

Banking IT seems to have their heads in the clouds of regulations, and risk aversion to even proven modern secure solutions.
Drone related;

>Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest< (152 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31268861

>Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild< (4 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31300502
Are you claiming any other company does things differently? Even the greenest of companies have externalities that end up as someone else's problem. Wind farms kill tons of birds, electric cars require lithium mines, etc etc. Was it MBAs who failed to deliver clean water in Flint? I'm not defending destroying the planet or ignoring health and safety concerns -- I'm pointing out that everybody, from financiers to yes, engineers, tends to dismiss the negatives in whatever industry they derive a living from.
and when the gold rush is over, the shovel seller also goes out of business. Therefore, the shovel seller ought to sell their business _before_ the gold rush is over! Or find another use for shovels - unfortunately, i don't think there's much use for shovels outside of shovelling gold.
The scenario you describe is how I justify my stance as long btc/eth, but holding neither. When USDT pops, it will leave a huge vacuum in behind, and cause a lot of harm to the latest wave of crypto adopters (2017-on).

Like your analogy to subprime mortgages, this crisis will precipitate serious regulation that probably won't quite go far enough, which is the final stage of institutionalization cryptocurrency has been missing. From that crater, it can only improve in terms of mass adoption. I'll be a holder again in the year 1, post-USDT.
I'm sorry, but it's like you're describing how awesome navigation has gotten, but ignoring the fact that ship's captains don't trust sextants and watches.

The march of scientific progress is awesome, but unless it can be applied, it's kind of useless.

What I'm lamenting, and I think others are too, is that we don't have a society that says, "Well, science provides the best tools we have to understand the universe, and so, we will trust scientists to guide our decisions."

Picture if we learned about vaccinating against HPV, but no one agreed to do it. What good would it do us to know the virus causes cancer, and to have developed a vaccine, if almost no one trusted the safety and efficacy of the vaccine?

And frankly, no one has the expertise to be properly skeptical of the science that affects our daily lives. We all have to trust in authorities, like peer review. Don't believe me? How do you know lead is harmful? No, really, walk me through it. Are you properly skeptical of that claim? How have you proven it to your own satisfaction? Lead may be beneficial to developing brains, for all you know. Maybe even especially beneficial in high concentrations. Maybe you should start giving lead to every child you encounter.

Or just admit that you take it on faith that the conclusions you've heard repeated are coming from scientific institutions that you hope will get it right, eventually.

If you're lost at sea, trust the navigator to tell you which way to row the lifeboat. Call it "Sciencism" if you want to. All else being equal, trust the experts to guide you. Run experiments if you can. Verify if you have the time and resources. But really, we all have to trust the institutions and authority. If you want to invest some more, put money towards duplicating important findings, or auditing the math and methodology of foundational research.
No, unions create an environment where there is less of a power imbalance.

The insane and rabid anti-union belligerence in US corporations is just as responsible for any antagonism. Other countries don’t have anything like the insane behaviour, because there isn’t one side willing to go to literally any lengths including shutting down sites to avoid working with unions.

A much better way to avoid unions is to not abuse your employees, that way they don’t feel that they’re being mistreated due to a power imbalance that might be fixed by a union.
I'm not sad at all, it's just done on sale.
If we don't get wiped out by a pandemic and/or climate change... Right to repair will be very important to empower the people.
> H264 and h265 are patent encumbered

Same as AV1 [1].

> use AV1 with paying any royalties

Same as H.264/5 for almost all normal usage.

https://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/ReadArticle.as...
How can you be underwater on RSUs?
> i don't see why anyone would want to buy coinbase stock.

Because their growth trajectory is insane. They are making a ridiculous amount of money & will be around for a long time. The real question is how MUCH should you pay for the stock? It's worth something, but I haven't tried to value it & I have no idea what it's worth. More than zero, less than infinity.
The implication is that when crypto goes sideways, trading volumes drop, and thus, even though spread might be same or even better, the volume drop will have lost them money.
For a more prominent example, most gulf countries peg their currencies to the USD.
This chart only goes back 20 years, but the Saudi Riyal has been pegged to USD since 1986

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/USDSAR=X/

https://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap73v.pdf
Let me reiterate what I wrote ~3 months ago[1]

In Anchor's case there are way more lenders than borrowers so Anchor is resorting to pay those high yields from their reserves. It's cutting close to being a Ponzi scheme at the moment.

In a traditional banking world businesses take a loan either to cover for a short-term cashflow crunch (example an invoice that's delayed by their client) or for longer term investment. That money usually goes into economic activities which are expected (hoped?) to bear fruit to repay the loan.

In the crypto world however such loans are taken only to be put back into the crypto world; to be swapped into some hot new coin to be staked and what not. The music has got to stop at some point.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335625
I would be very curious to know how one could test this so easily. https://www.imobie.com/icloud-unlock/locate-a-lost-cell-phon... and many articles demonstrate that even when a Google or IOS phone is off it can still transmit its location. This means it is not truly off and could possibly transmit more information than you realize. My custom OS phone does not do this TMK, and I am just SOL if I lose it. This is the price I am willing to pay.
Nonsense. There's a documentary about Jimmy Carter and pop musicians. [1] Bill Clinton plays sax. [2] Etc. The White House has been known to host concerts. [3] Presidents are people and people generally like music.

[1] https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/music/info-2020/jimmy-car...

[2] https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/saxopho...

[3] https://www.whitehousehistory.org/music-and-musical-performa...
Roguelikes, in the traditional sense, are definitely turn-based games.
My favorite thing about this is how the founder was so confident the algorithmic (sketchy) UST would completely disrupt the overcollateralized (fully backed) DAI:
https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1506494471873081352

Do Kwon was putting a lot of weight behind a stablecoin liquidity pool designed to cut out DAI, crv-4pool. Those who invested in the crv-4pool are left with lots and lots of UST and very little of the other FRAX, USDT or USDC.

https://curve.fi/4pool (Ethereum RPC wallet required to see stats)
USDC: 300,086.92 (4.73%)
USDT: 302,375.01 (4.76%)
UST: 5,443,729.24 (85.77%)
FRAX: 300,405.16 (4.73%)
I always get discouraged by the fact that I'd have to buy-in to the Lisp language to even get going with Emacs. It just doesn't compete with the ease-of-use of data / declarative configuration of VSCode's JSON approach, plus it takes me trivial amount of time to have, say, Node development environment running inside a container with VSCode. I don't even know if you can do that with Emacs to begin with.
> That's a long way from "nothing is happening."

Who are you quoting? Nobody said that. This seems like a non sequitur.
> you get rich buying cheap

it's cheap because it's riskier. The risk may or may not pan out - if it doesn't, you make a high premium on taking the risk. But make no mistake, a cheaper stock is the market indicating that the stock is risky. The alpha of investing is to know when the market may have mis-priced the business.
Gene Fama: "The efficient market hypothesis is a model. All models are wrong."
Further thoughts:

Alice and Bob must each choose an actual policy for how many confirmations they need before they actually commit to attack. We can number the messages like this:

1. Alice's first message
2. Bob's first message
3. Alice's second message
4. Bob's second message
...

Alice's policy can only commit to attack after receiving some even-indexed message n. Bob can only commit to attack after receiving some odd-indexed message m. So n and m cannot possibly be equal. Therefore the possibility exists that a message fails between n and m, and either Alice or Bob ends up attacking without the other's support.
Not disagreeing with you but "this time it's different" is what you typically experience every downturn in the market.
It is interesting that Bitcoin is only down 50% in the same time, that means Coinbase is not strictly correlated with BTC then. So, there must be another reason why Coinbase is down, which would be interesting to figure out.
Not really; Nvidia keeps switching back to Cortex cores.
I think Russia might have some comment to make here on the potential reach of US/interested-parties law.

The incentives are thankfully lower here, though.
They seem like an alright business, I'd wait for it to reach closer to IPO price before buying in.
...what? Nothing here talks about getting customer feedback on a finished product rapidly.
So... It begins.

(Xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1656/)
Folding doesn't help someone with a US$7000 deductible but no means to pay it.
Yup, no grid, no flex, the only way to ensure your chopped up photoshop design would work was with tables.

Now we don’t use images for everything, we use CSS/iconography/typography/styles. Back then though we didn’t have a whole lot of options in CSS so we used images EVERYWHERE! Drop shadow, that’s a transparent png image. Gradients, jpgs. Animations, gifs. Want to play a video? Real player or flash. It was crude, it was hard, and it was a compatibly nightmare.
2008 was caused by systemic risk. And geniuses in the banks failed to see it. So I guess, I fail to see why I should believe some $RANDOM_INTERNET_COMMENTER could figure out if an asset class has systemic risk.
Growth stocks dont exist anymore, all companies with growth potential remain private unless it’s insanely capital intensive i.e car manufacturing. Software doesn’t qualify, they went public only to provide early investors liquidity.
There’s a lot to dislike about forced in office policies, but this letter’s diversity claims stinks of bullshit being made up to not just sound like entitled folk whining.
It's the same reason you have money in a (zero interest) checking account rather than holding cash. For some that's the idea of security, others the convenience of spending "digital money" (e.g. wanting to do block-chainy things without risking the currency fluctuation of ETH or other coins).
It's interesting to look at the list of 11 companies profiled by Jim Collins in his classic 2001 business book "Good to Great". How many of them are still considered great today? In other words, is being great at one point of any value in predicting long-term success?

Abbott Laboratories

Circuit City Stores

Fannie Mae

Gillette Company

Kimberly-Clark

Kroger

Nucor

Philip Morris

Pitney Bowes

Walgreens

Wells Fargo

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/good-to-great-jim-col...
Sadly, that might not be a great bet. The world of government software procurement is very, very ugly.
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I struggle to understand precisely what you mean by user experience and ‘often improved performance‘.

Previously, there was no actual support for crucial features of the TPU related to data loading when using PyTorch, say. In turn, using a TPU over a GPU on that setup was frequently not worth it due to that exact issue. Your answer suggests it might be different now: are TF, Jax and PyTorch now on par in all stages?
It doesn't always make sense to use microservices. If the app is big, you will have a hard time using a monolithic architecture. Also, microservices do better if you have a high load, if you have many teams working on the same project, if you have to feed data to many apps or frontends. And microservices are more reliable if done well.

Many people have a fear of microservices. They are afraid of dependency hell, they are afraid their app will lock up, they are afraid it will make the app more complex. In my experience, that is not the case if the architecture is done well.
It's always amusing to see these projects where a peripheral has several orders of magnitude more processing power than the host computer it's attached to.
last year we spent 25% on social welfare (everything from retirement pensions to the dole), 17% on healthcare for all, 13% on education (from preschool to tertiary) - military was ~3%

One big difference of course is that here in NZ the govt owns the hospitals and doesn't run them for profit, no one takes a cut providing insurance either. We bulk buy pharma for the entire country. We also have a no-fault accident insurance scheme that takes personal injury out of the courts (fewer courts, fewer lawyers, smaller law schools in universities)
> all N threads that were spawned were tied to a single kernel thread. It also required cooperative multithreading, where one green thread may need to yield.

This is pretty much how JavaScript operates. You can consider calling an async function as spawning a user-level "thread"; chained-up callbacks are the same thing, but with manual CPS transform.

This has always perplexed me. Why N:1 threading is hated, but Node.JS is so loved?
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Founder of the Cloud TPU program here. If you'd like to experiment with TPU VMs for free and are willing to share your work with the world somehow (e.g. via publications or open-source projects), you can apply to participate in the TPU Research Cloud (TRC) program here:
https://sites.research.google/trc/
Honestly, arguing against religious ideology is an exhausting exercise and I’m happy to let someone else do it from here on out.

I’ll just note that you should trust the science, not the scientists. Blind trust in institutions and authority is just religious thinking, with all the pitfalls inherent therein.
Google is "propped up" by index funds*. Everyone who isn't an edgy reddit wsb/crypto meme lord has been told over and over to buy SPY et al with religious devotion and take the "guaranteed 6/7/8/9/10%" annual returns to a happy retirement. They tend not to touch their portfolios until things get super ugly, which we may see soon.

*propped up is a bit complicated here, people are just buying these bundles of corporations without making any value judgement on them individually. More realistically though, Google is the one propping up a bunch of companies that aren't as actively traded but are still on the index. People you've never heard of like Leidos Holdings, or companies that make you deeply question the contents of the index like Bath & Body Works, Inc. and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
I’ll go ahead and assume that is a rhetorical question
You are always being graded you just got a report card earlier in life.
Something interesting to note about pegs is that they can be quite exploitable. Some banks/countries have tried to defend their peg but in the end it can ruinous (or wildly profitable) depending on what side you are on.

Some history:

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-day-george-soros-broke-th...
Wouldn't utilities (famous for their large dividend distributions) get creamed in a rising interest rate environment?
Cloudflare’s value, as a business, is in their crack team of amazing neteng talent.

All these employees could just leave if they wanted to. If you are a public company and your worth is so heavily dependent on talent, how do you mitigate that risk?

Is there a future for football player style contracts for engineers, where you are tied in to a team for N years, and with a requirement that another team has to pay big money for your contract if they want you to transfer?
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Wow, this is awesome. So for even a small amount of money, such as in the Kara $1120 example, you simply need to have offices or even cowork in a particular area and you get to write off all capital gains taxes. I'll need to look more into this for my corporation...
Coinbase has a P/E of 5.8, which means the market thinks profits are going to shrink in the future. It's the opposite of a growth stock.
Standups are the new timesheets: a humiliating exercise in micromanagement.
Thanks.

Definitely. I've taken an iterative approach to supporting languages/frameworks and adding features. Python will be the next language to support.

I start with a minimal/basic support and in later iterations I keep adding features.
> I don't see how that's the case. Their wealth lead to a degree of power that necessitated a specialised task force in order to keep it in check. That the power afforded by that wealth was curtailed doesn't negate it's existence.

The power of these wealthy Chinese billionaires was broken by cutting off the head (the guys with the money) from the body (the folks that actually carried out those guys' wishes.) Money won't buy power if no one is willing to accept it.
It's not a solution that would get applied in the USA, which is pretty much run by and for the wealthy, but it shows that money != power in Communist China at least.

> Should the task force cease to exist they would be free to exercise that power without restriction.

But presumably the task force would only cease to exist if the CCP changed it's policies, no?

> I don't think any overall good comes from any individual having more than $1bn in wealth. At that point you can buy pretty much whatever you want and your offspring will still be unfathomably wealthy for generations. As an individual you essentially have the GDP of a small island nation in your pocket.

> Personally I believe the marginal utility of more wealth at this point to be effectively zero. Adding a second billion makes no material difference to your quality of life,

Even if I agree with that (and I do FWIW) so what? How does that give us the right to take their money?
My neighbor doesn't really need his noisy smelly leaf blower, can I take that?

The Waltons are a great example: Walmart is a fantastic store, and even if those stories about the workers on food stamps are true (which they deny) it's still legal. Maybe we increase the minimum wage rather than going after this family for being too successful?

> In my opinion a low degree of inequality is a requirement for a harmonious society.

I suspect that's true. And I'll admit these billionaires make me nervous. I just don't see it as moral to take their stuff just because we think they might misuse it or, even more tenuous, that it might not do them any good.
Making money on crypto? Yes, the IRS expects a cut