skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for your whole market, but I know for me the pre-loading flow sounds really clunky because I'd have to go and manually add funds each month (right?)

It's understandable if your usage data showed the fee-capping feature just wasn't popular enough to be worth maintaining, though that would surprise me based on this thread (but possibly HN just isn't representative of the whole market)
I used EmacsEverywhere with ahk. It generally works great. Sometimes while an holding down ctr-f (or b) it sticks in an f (or b) instead of moving the curiosity forward (or back). I'm pretty happy with it though.

(Don't hate me. Years of Emacs usage is hard to overcome. I even made Emacs bindings for Davinci Resolve...)
Or better question. How many whacks on a rock would an "attacker" have to make before they decide its not going to print any money and they are just wasting their life?

Keep in mind, no one knows if this rock prints money or if that other rock prints money. One of the rocks you've been told can print money but you dont know which one. How many rocks are you going to whack? or maybe its just easier to drive an uber and make money.
My counterpoint: I find it very hard to mistake writing a bunch of tedious repetitive code with productivity.
On one had, totally agree. The audiophile world is full of so much nonsense.

On the other, a decent home theatre amplifier and set of speakers is going to blow away a sound bar. I think people who think "it all sounds the same" have never heard a really good stereo. I have an alright, but far from high end, stereo set up in a listening environment in my basement, and everyone I've ever listened to music with down there is blown away.
Were you doing a supervisor install or something? I didn't even notice the python upgrade. I do occasionally get some breakage when I upgrade versions, but it hasn't been very often that I would even consider using something else.
> At the end of the day, it's a very simple calculation for them: electricity costs in, Bitcoin value out. No matter where their Bitcoin reward comes from, they will not (for long anyway) spend more on BTC then they are rewarded.

True, but the hypothesis in your original comment, that energy expenditure will equal Bitcoin total market cap, does not follow. As other commenters here note, with each block reward halving, the energy required to mine a new block becomes more and more decoupled from the price of Bitcoin itself. In the distant future when block rewards are minimal and fees make up the majority of miners' rewards, only miners who can utilise the cheapest sources of energy will be able to mine profitably, which in the "negligible-block-reward" era will be for the lowest fees. And people making transactions will not pay more fees than they need to, so the existence of miners able to mine profitably for lower fees will in turn bring down average fees. I think all of this should be uncontroversial; it simply follows from the Bitcoin protocol and the work of Adam Smith.

So, given these incentives and Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment mechanism, in the future the only miners capable of making profit from mining will be those with access to the cheapest forms of energy. Anyone who can mine for marginally lower cost is going to push out other miners. This will likely mean the majority of the energy used for Bitcoin mining will come from otherwise wasted energy - such as flare gas, remote hydro not economical to transmit to where people actually live, excess wind and solar supply when demand don't line up, that kind of thing. (And, as an aside, it's probably not going to involve burning lots of oil and gas, since these are more useful to humans in other ways and will therefore cost more.) Obviously more efficient hardware will have the same effect, so there will also be an incentive there. In the end it will have very little to do with Bitcoin market cap and far more to do with the availability across time and space of cheap energy.
I know you're half-joking but there's actually been a few "bootable PDF" articles on HN before.
Just don't forget to optimize it for writes (WAL-mode...etc) when having lots of sources.
> What would the ideal version of this feature look like for you?

I think that Render solved "Cron as a Service" beautifully:

https://render.com/docs/cronjobs
I take a guess that you are using an HDA based sound chip? If yes, have a look at [1]. Can't help you out more than that though, it's been years since I was forced to deal with that crap on Linux.

If it's any consolation... I recently came across an ASUS all-in-one PC where it was not enough to install the Realtek Windows HDA driver, no... that would have been too easy. You also needed to install a tiny extra driver that wasn't visible by default on their driver list in the Audio driver section. The entire audio world is utter, utter madness.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/hd-audio/notes....
Remember when you used to own the software?
It wasn't about "tuning", you simply needed to configure everything so there weren't any collisions, and this depended on whatever other expansion cards and ports you had in your PC, because there was a limited amount of IRQ channels (2, 5, 7, 10), DMA channels (0, 1, 3), and I/O addresses (0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280) that expansion cards could use.

The original 8-bit cards could be configured through jumpers on the card, and the settings you put into autoexec.bat or individual setup programs for your games, simply had to match the hardware settings.

Later, plug'n'play meant that your PC's BIOS could auto-detect and auto-assign everything to avoid collisions, so you didn't have to bother with it.
template<typename T>
concept has_foo = requires(T x){
{ x.foo } -> std::same_as<int>;
};

template<has_foo T>
int get_foo(T x){...}

// or

template<typename T>
requires has_foo<T>
void f(T x){...}

// or even

void f(has_foo auto x) {...}
Russia cuts off electricity to Finland; industry group sees NATO link
The internet in a channel into peoples' unconsciousness. That's why they talk this way.

Like talking to somebody who's talking in sleep.

Reading/browsing is a kind of trance.
Yeah, I skimmed it for about a minute and now I want my minute back.
Right. Yes.

Dextrorotative glucose.

Grape sugar, blood sugar, corn sugar, glucose, dextrose. Dex.

Dextrose monohydrate, powder. It tried the syrup from the commodity seller I bought from, but it was too thick, too glassy and I couldn't mix it. Food production facilities get it in that form, however.

But the powder is great, you can get a little 1 pound bag from a brewer to try it, it looks...well it looks like powdered sugar, but fluffier and uses more volume. I buy them bulk, 25 kilo sacks at commodity prices.

Mix like three tablespoons per liter, it mixes easy and produces a foggy, slightly acidic water that eliminates hunger instantly. Promise.

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Now be careful, you have to use a homemade mouthwash immediately afterward to clean your teeth, because this is very yum yum yummy for mouth bacteria. Like a petri dish.

Mouthwash ingredients: xylitol, baking soda, to taste. Like a tablespoon each per liter of tap water. I got it from a dentist online, Dr. Frei or Frey, can't find it anymore on my youtube. But it'll go everywhere the dextrose can go, and your teeth feel so so clean. You can add a drop of bleach to whiten your teeth...and definitely get some mint oil, like for massages, that shit, 100% mint oil. I use peppermint oil, Nature's Truth Essential Oil for aromatherapy. It's taken from the plant, so eh. 5 drops per liter.

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Note that the mouthwash contains no dextrose, you first drink your dextrose, then rinse with the mouthwash and spit the mouthwash out, got that? And use your judgment. Your body will tell you what you're doing right or wrong. It knows what this shit is. You should get instant tangible noticeable effects from both, like immediate dissipation of hunger from dexwater as you drink it, and clean clean mouth with hardened stronger teeth (in 6 seconds) from the mouthwash. Great breath too from the mint.

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Both liquids are highly perishable, so you'll never find them retail. Must be homemade. Like they both last 48 hours. Both rot quickly when in water.

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Hey I could totally use affiliate links. Well I won't, except I will say if you're in Santiago de Chile get your dextrose monohydrate at Venser SA in La Cisterna.

I might post it as a main thread, and link to that post here.
It's also trivial to serve read requests from a caching layer or via a CDN. At any sufficient scale, you're probably going to need a CDN anyway, whether your database is replicated or not. You don't want every read to hit your database.
Some markets simply disappear. Ice was once a subscription business, but refrigerators ended it.

Average sound equipment is good enough for most people. I enjoyed the chest thumping that my parents high end setup could deliver, but not everyone wants that and even though I would like to have that kind of ability available, my priorities place it down the list for the foreseeable future.
face-to-face for most things but not all. I'm routinely on the phone with project presentations that involved multi-million dollar licensing agreements and then another 2 or 3x that for an implementation team. Not once have I ever done one in real life. Ironically, in a past life I did go onsite to pitch a project in front of a board. It was for a grand total of about $75k.

One thing that I have to admit, and this is a bit weird, but on deals that big by the time "orals" or the main presentation happens the decision is 90% already made in favor of one of the bidders. That kind of back room selling/negotiation i'm not a part of and may very well be face to face all the time.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31366214
Programmers are paid so much because their work multiplies out to have huge impacts. CEOs are that on a much larger scale. There are plenty of CEOs who are ok or acceptable, but one that is 1% better means millions or billions extra in profit.

Companies with top tier management like Apple have had a non stop run of success for a while now and it’s not just luck. They pay Tim a $99 million package, and he certainly earns the company all that and more back.
The only fact asserted here is that conversation involves more than one party.
It is not valid to compare the levelized cost of non-dispatchable sources of generation like wind and solar and dispatachable sources of generation like coal and nuclear. It’s an apples to oranges comparison, unless you some storage costs to the wind and solar.

In that study you see there is overlap between coal and PV systems and batteries.
Uber, Dropbox etc... rely heavily on Go and have much more complicated use case that your CRUD hello world.
I can't find any evidence that this is common on 3.5mm jacks. If it is, it must be an incredibly reliable design, because I've never heard of a 3.5mm audio port breaking.
Maybe, I personally would trust the 3rd party more, but understand that opinions differ.

I think that the 3rd parties have both more at stake to get it right and are less influenced than the gov.
Here's the thing: what does "it might work" result in? 'Cos I can't see a version of this that ends up with you having a pair of working Jabra 85 earbuds.
If you were right, we wouldn’t see comments like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619188
Can someone explain what fly.io actually is for someone with an AWS background?
Written Arabic and Hebrew often omit vowels; the actual spoken languages do not, of course.
Was working from home with COVID (second time, yay) this week and having that 1:20 of total commute time back every day was a huge improvement to my mental health. Second biggest was being able to go outside and throw the frisbee with my dog for 5 minutes every once in a while. I dread going back tomorrow.
No, they shouldn't. In many instances it's cheaper to tolerate downtime than to pay to avoid it, especially when there's no SLA involved.
As a voter, why would I do something so stupid as to put my country's economy under the control of a Ponzi scheme invented by incompetent programmers? That's just delusional, makes no sense at all.
The end user need not know it is QEMU atop Linux. They see and use DOS.
> In fact I myself have been convinced by argument.

If you don't mind me asking, at what age?
Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Systems [PDF]
They only draw about 5 watts under heavy usage, 2-3w at idle. Though I'm not sure how that compares on a watt per CPU cycle comparison.
Suffering a distortion of perspective. From focus, trauma, drugs, obsession...
I have a few Pi's like that. I've literally zip-tied the drive onto the Pi's case.
The big market for this is K-12 schools.

Microsoft has a licensing program for .edu that doesn’t require an “embedded” hardware license. There are also many places using Neverware to provide Chrome desktops while using the some warranty services, etc that they have with PCs.

If you buy alot of computers, you can get desktops crazy cheap. Big enterprise buyers get low-spec desktops for ~$225 without windows or $300 with. If you don’t care about power/footprint, they are the best value thin client. Schools are huge PC buyers, some districts have >300k students, so you’re easily talking 40-70k PCs annually.
Hard to say, but my first job out of grad school was as a process engineer at Intel. The pay grade for a fresh PhD was called "Grade 7", while that of fresh MS is either a "Grade 5" or "Grade 6". The thing is, grade promotions take maybe 2-3 years, so all other things equal, not only did I lose money by not being industry each of my PhD years, I could have been at the same grade level more quickly.

Yes, there are career paths that are only attainable by having a PhD, but those are really only for the top PhD students, so an elite group of an already elite group. The rest of us join career tracks that are accessible by lower credentialed employees by grinding out an equivalent industry experience.
> You don’t need to route every write to primary though, but only those writes that have dependencies on other writes.

Thanks, can you give an example of how that works? Did you write your own fork of Postgres or are you using a third party solution like BDR?

Also do you have a few use cases where you'd want writes being dependent on another write?

> 6-7 probably do the job quite well

You could, let's call it 5.

For a 2gb set up would that be about $50 for the web app, $50 for the background workers, $160ish for postgres and then $50 for Redis? We're still at $300+?

I was thinking maybe 5 background workers wasn't necessary but frameworks like Rails will put a bunch of things through a background worker where you would want low latency even if they're happening in the background because it's not only things like sending an email where it doesn't matter if it's delayed for 2 seconds behind the scenes. It's performing various Hotwire Turbo actions which render templates and modify records where you'd want to see those things reflected in the web UI as soon as possible.
Sure, if one company implemented that and the CEO believed they could be earning 78% more but the company can’t afford that given to all employees, the CEO just leave for another company that can pay that amount.

The problem is more core, it’s that people are paid their market rate which is largely based on economic impact and ability to be replaced. Which is massively unequal between roles.
Fly.io is backed by YCombinator

In order to increase transparency on Hacker News, it would be nice it the title was changed to include the fact that's it's backed by YCombinator

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io

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I personally don't think it's better than Heroku, you have much less features, Heroku is much cheaper + they have an unbeatable free tier
I have the same issue and am really struggling to resolve it. I’m the sole income and have young kids. I’m constantly interrupted by the kids who want to come see me. I try not to turn them away because the advantage of WFH, or so I believe, is that we don’t miss all the things our kids do while we’re slaving away at an office. However, this requires me to push things to later in the day. Then there are appointments and things that my wife usually has covered, but with another adult in the house “can you take the baby for a couple minutes”. I tried explaining the concept of context switching but so think I just come off like an uncaring jerk. I’m looking for a 1-2 time a week space away from my home office because I can’t keep looking at these same four walls day in and day out. I used to be so much more productive in the office, but felt like a terrible father. I’m really trying to come up with a way to have my cake and eat it too.
And yet all the research showed that people were working longer during the pandemic for the same outcomes.

Output didn’t drop but productivity did.
If I'm already productive in Python doing similar analysis, is there a good reason to switch to R?
You would be Okay with it because you like to work from home and others choose to take all the trouble to go to office so that they can have more chances to get familiar with the bosses and learn about things not online.
This is cool alright, but can I program a Rasberry Pi to spray it?
Yeah, the most obvious externality of an ethereum validator is a few megabits of sustained internet traffic that makes it difficult to run on capped internet services. Otherwise it is just a matter of being able to buy the eth, setting up the node (cheap commodity pc hardware) and putting it in a corner in your home.

In contrast for POW you have to be able to source specialized hardware and an electricity supply cheap enough to make the hardware profitable, both of which are much more noticable to the outside world.
I see it the other way around. If I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 on a new laptop, with no other OS installed and everything freezes when I connect to my monitor with the laptop open (so that the built-in display is active), I’d uninstall Ubuntu and be done with it.

In fact, after I had given my parents an Ubuntu laptop and the OS upgrade to the next stock Ubuntu major version hosed the laptop on two occasions to the point that I had to scour forums for hours for advice and hope to get the thing to boot into the GUI again, I handed them my MacBook Pro 13". Which is still in use after almost 10 years and works flawlessly!
> solving virtually no problem other than avoiding laws about the movement of money and capital

This is a tremendously valuable problem to solve for some.
USB-serial conversion would add a measurable amount of latency, and the access to USB hardware would occur under a non-real-time OS. Whether the setup "works" would be highly hardware-specific. There are modern industrial "PC" boards that are essentially a i586 implementation in a SoC and can run these workloads far more reliably, while consuming a lot less power compared to old x86 hardware. (They're also of interest to retrocomputing enthusiasts, for largely the same reasons.)
> The Wirecutter test setup was the most ideal environment possible. It was as if a manufacturer dictated the setup.

The thing with comparison tests is, you have to use a reliably reproduceable, documented testing environment. Everything else just ends up with nasty letters from lawyers complaining about the test being unfair or whatever.

Your uncle's shoddy 1960s-era farmhouse wiring may be the ultimate stress test for a powerline adapter in real life, but no way you can use that house as any basis for a comparison test looking like resembling science...
Also in real conversation it's unlikely that one just adds a quick comment and leaves.
we are on the verge of having to pay our own,

(sorry for the snark,
and I do welcome any efforts that decrease antiscience attitudes)
The government thinks our salaries are too high
> we can still recover mᵉ = m⁶⁵⁵³⁷, but finding m would be much harder, if possible at all

On my (low-end) machine, I can compute 65537th power of a 4096-bit message in ~4 seconds. So just throwing binary search at the problem would give me the answer in 5 hours or so. There are more sophisticated root-finding algorithms that would be likely much faster.
Some birds do, some don't.

Source: my pet duck didn't have a sphincter.

Pro tip: don't get a pet duck
Hot take: if people spent half the energy doing multi-region that they today spend screwing around with Kubernetes, they’d be a hell of a lot more reliable.
Prob this https://yliansoft.com/
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quiver-take-better-notes/id866...
How about Congress ensuring better pay for their existing population?
How amazing is timeanddate.com? I freaking love this site so much. Somehow it always seems surprising to me, maybe because of the colors or slightly cartoony look or something, I can’t quite put my finger on it. But the content is so consistently top notch, clearly made by people who care.
Let's say 100% of income comes from block rewards of 1 BTC. If it costs 0.5 BTC to mine a block then miners will beef up their mining capacity so they can mine more. In a vacuum, this would be great, but because of how mining works (winner takes all), the cost of mining would go up as the number of miners increases. This will keep happening until the cost to mine is close to or equal to 1 BTC (and because of currency conversion, the cost might even exceed 1 BTC today but miners are hoping that the price goes up so they can sell at a profit).

Let's say tomorrow, the income is cut in half. All of a sudden, most of these miners would become unprofitable and stop. However as a result, the cost of mining will go back down to 0.5 BTC. It's a self balancing system but that also means that it's fundamentally flawed for reasons mentions by previous commenters in this thread.
To paraphrase the climax of the movie War Games, "In some games, an NPC is the only winning character".
I think that highlights a missing factor in daenz's question.

If the highest tax bracket is 100% then there's no reason for a CEO to want a higher income, as it will all go to taxes.

In 1960, the highest tax bracket was 91%, for incomes above $200K (that's $5.6M in Y2022), or filed single or separate) or 300K ($2.9M in Y2022) for married+joint.

A CEO in the highest bracket would have to justify a $10K raise that cost the company $100K.

While the highest bracket now is 37%, for those making $314K or above. Asking for a $100K raise only costs the company $160K.

I think that's an easier sell.

So another way to affect CEO compensation is to raise the income (and wealth) tax rate.
the website for fly.io is extremely well written in explaining fly.io in terms of AWS
That's pretty funny. For me, they work pretty good against the pigeons. Honestly, if it were sparrows or some other type of bird making a nest in them, I don't know if I would care too much. Pigeons are pretty large and make big poops.
The inflation due to bitcoin mining is already smaller than other systems that are widely considered stable. Note that I don't think bitcoin will actually be stable, but I think inflationary pressures are almost insignificant as a factor that would drive it to collapsing.

For bitcoin, 90% of all bitcoin has already been mined. So the remaining dilution for all time is in total just about 11%, and the current annual rate is 1.8% inflation. Compare this to gold, which has 2% inflation and no max supply. There are also technological innovations that could inflate gold much faster, e.g. asteroid mining. Compared to USD as measured by CPI is 8%, and the Fed's own target for CPI inflation is 2% annually, so this is much higher than bitcoin and also unbounded total dilution.
Consumers can pursue false advertising claims in addition to whatever goes on between the Bluetooth org and their licensees.
The fact remains that the US is in a far better position to deal with aging demographics than the majority of Western countries. Immagration policy needs to be adjusted as soon as possible as to not squander this.
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