skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, you're not counted in any bucket. That's one reason TWTR wants you to log in to read. So active user numbers go up.
Renault did that last month. They sold their car factories and operations building and selling more than 500,000 cars a year in Russia at a very significant profit for one rouble. The Russian state company who bought it promised that it will sell back the company for the same price when the sanctions are lifted, BUT for the "enhancements" they could make until then...
> protection rackets

Yeah, I wonder about that. Suppose Russia nuked some allied target. Is the USA willing to escalate to global nuclear war over that? Something tells me they won't come to anyone's aid.
Wow, his family as well huh? Why stop there, do the soldiers on the ground share no responsibility? What about his supporters in Russia? Strange how that type of "justice" seems to never lead to a more just world isn't it?

While perhaps understandable this is a frightening attitude.
India has funded solar panel research and development, but it is a small country for the number of people who need the power. As mentioned, hot and dusty too, both are bad for solar panel efficiency.
>Also, “In a sense, the market is going to take that as kind of bullish.” - a.k.a. the standard 'this is good for bitcoin' quote, applicable whatever the news is!

Good observation. I may not be Warren Buffet, but it angers me greatly to see this kind of moronic chatter masquerading as informed opinion on finance or market dynamics.
CF lost the #1 fastest provider in some countries compared to Full Stack Week (ex. Indonesia, Mexico, Chile, etc).

Any reasons why? Network peering/interconnection issue with local ISPs? How did Akamai (in Indonesia, Chile) managed to "overtake" CF?
I just checked one of the node types and EC2 is about 20% more expensive, even after the price hikes. AWS may have more baked-in margin than DO.
Also, I didn’t include Transfer costs in the cross-check, so AWS may be much more expensive.
I would hope that there would be some kind of evidence that can corroborate this. A sudden movement of 3B is a lot to hide on a public ledger, exchanges or no. Someone will certainly be connecting the dots.
In the story "Kiosk" by Bruce Sterling, a girl trains an AI powered jewelry tree by carefully selecting pieces that will move the product toward what she wants.
> the difference is with the current status quo in-app purchases are not really owned by the customers, so even if another game developer wanted to honour their purchases there is no way to interop.

Roblox already does this. Your in-game purchases are yours and you can carry them from one game to another.

Platforms outcompete protocols - this is why web2 became centralized.
I disagree. McDonalds in the US is gross. I've had McDonalds in Europe 4-5 times and each of those were pretty OK.

(Why am I eating McDonalds in Europe? Sometimes when you get off a train and don't have your bearings yet in a place, something fast that's a known quantity is the way to go even if it pales to other options you'll find soon).
I think DigitalOcean is okay as a company, but I don't like the wording of this news item.

> New DigitalOcean Pricing / customers using Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and Custom Images will experience a change in prices

They are dancing around the matter without using the word "increase". If instead the news was a price decrease, they would be screaming "decrease" loudly everywhere.

> Introducing a new $4 Droplet

A smokescreen, a distraction from the fact that most of their existing services are going up in price. Combining good news with bad news to smooth over the bad news.

> For 10 years, DigitalOcean has expanded and evolved to deliver a better cloud computing experience ... Today, DigitalOcean is proud to serve both teams of developers looking to build their next application ...

Flowerly language that serves to dilute the real news of the price increase.
The two things are actually independent of each other: you can create a virtual column and an index, or do only one. The generated column can be used as an alias of an expression in queries (e.g. ORDER BY clauses), while just creating an index cannot. The generated column can be optionally virtual (although that defeats the purpose listed in this article), while the index is obviously always stored. The generated column reduces the likelihood that you accidentally don't use the index, because "the SQLite query planner will consider using an index on an expression when the expression that is indexed appears... exactly as it is written in the CREATE INDEX statement." [0]

[0] https://sqlite.org/expridx.html
> Also, “In a sense, the market is going to take that as kind of bullish.” - a.k.a. the standard 'this is good for bitcoin' quote, applicable whatever the news is!

Yes all weekend I had been wondering and cautious based on how much bitcoin was left to sell! Its just a commodity, supply can be faster than demand, specifically when one whale is expected to flood the market

Terra Luna rallied 500x (50,000%) off the lows. Minting many millionaires that bought that dip. The rumors were that the recovery plan involved a bunch of the bitcoin collateral. I couldn’t verify that well.

Knowing its all gone (or the selling pressure is done, whether you believe it was sold or not) is very helpful

Terra Luna resumes its crash too
This may be a little off topic from the pricing changes, but working in a DC (and a competitor to DO in some way but not directly), we typically have to end up blocking DO's ASNs to prevent the vast amount of automated abuse coming from their services. Typically we have to end up blocking AWS, DO, Azure, gCloud on most servers. Not really so with Linode and Vultr.
On Classical Futurism: Why antiquity is the way forward
I don't see why there can't be a decentralized ad platform that monetizes other decentralized web3 apps.
I wouldn't run anything too important on OVH. It is cheap though.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-dat...
The 3D view has been available since at least 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHe3ag3i8v8

AFAICT the announcement is saying they made it even more detailed than it already was
I'm sure we'll have an orderly audit and accounting for the loss of funds as adjudicated by the appropriate courts!
Yeah, we used Hetzner in Germany a lot at a former workplace where I was for a number of years, for production traffic, and we had a good experience. Most of our other infra was in physical DCs we owned, but we used Hetzner for production DR for the EU region, and also for internal stuff like CI/CD. Was slightly more reliable than AWS was at the time (2011-2014ish) , if I recall!
> I am still looking for this digital slow food movement.

https://digitalvegan.net

Please read it, and if you enjoy it please suggest it to friends.
The risk is very close to zero in America too. There's a lot more worrying, though.
I posted one in. It isn't that bad, but to be honest nowadays I believe the community of a language is as important, if not more important, than the language itself. I don't want to get into a community whose leaders just start jumping on random minor Twitter users.
Well, there are different bots for different purposes.

A bot operated to post advert messages might want to post them on high profile accounts.

A bot for a "500 followers for $5" company might be more likely to follow low-profile accounts, with some random activity/follows thrown in as camouflage.

A bot operated to amplify certain messages/opinions might follow accounts of middling visibility, and focus on likes rather than more visible activity.
A split second after that, the road markings briefly disappeared on the in-car display. Seems like the oncoming headlights blinded the cameras.
Exactly. Turkey's objection doesn't really have much to do with Sweden and Finland, it's more an opportunity for Turkey to get concessions from other NATO members on an issue on which Turkey disagrees with the rest of NATO: the Kurds.
Take various data collection analysis tasks as an example - there's many cases where you may not have a good idea of how everything fits together until you can run queries on the data, with JSON being a very common format. You many may need to combine many JSON datasets, with different layouts and potentially deeply nested structures, as well as more traditional tabular data. Being able to query all of this by putting everything into a temporary sqlite file is incredibly powerful. Sure, you're moving much more into SQL territory once you're creating indexes on JSON data as you say, but I'm not sure that always means "sloppy hack". For data tasks at least, being able to combine the power of relational + noSQL databases is incredibly productive. Doesn't mean I would necessarily put something like this into production, but for figuring stuff out combining the two approaches has a lot of merit in my experience.
Elon nuking the "ad industry" would be amazing.
Abide by Minsk II, officially cede crimea (according to gallup this is what 80-90% of crimeans want), disband azov and promise never to join NATO.

Theres a perfectly clear deescalation path and has been since before the war started. This war was many things but inevitable was never one of them.

Deescalation is the last thing NATO or the US wants though.
Odd isn't it? Could be the roof space? We have no upwards venting of the heat, and the roof space is completely sealed, no vents or anything, and the eaves of any "new" home in the UK is at best 30cm. You can see what I mean here: https://goo.gl/maps/HqzcrvRRCQiebQfr6
This whole thing has made me reevaluate the way the Cuban Missile Crisis is portrayed in the U.S. It's usually held up as an example of great presidential leadership, with almost no push back.

But if you look at the history it's fascinating. The U.S. launched an invasion to try to overthrow the Cuban government during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Then it moved nuclear missiles up to the USSR's border in Turkey (the U.S. was also considering nuclear first strikes against the USSR around this time[1]). Then Cuba asked for the USSR to station nuclear missiles to deter an invasion, the USSR complied, which triggered the crisis. The world was brought to the brink of nuclear war as the U.S. blockaded the country and prepared for an invasion if its demands weren't met.

This isn't to defend the current invasion, just to see how these kinds of actions can be celebrated in a country to the extent that most of the citizens don't even have the slightest idea that they could be anything but a heroic defense of homeland. Sometimes it's only when a mirror is held up to us that we're really able to look at things from another angle.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/10/jfks-fi...
Both the price of, and electricity consumption of computation goes down over time.

How much the consumption reduction counteracts the rise in electricity prices, I don't really know.
I agree.

Study real sciences (physics/chemistry/maths), and if you want to get close to computer programming, study computer applied maths. Don't fool yourself, it ain't that ez, for instance designing a transcendental function approximant with a mathematically proven accuracy.

Computer "normal" programming/admin is high-school level (kids coding assembly are nothing amazing). Computer applied maths is very different and require very probably a college degree.

Computer languages with syntax of very high complexity (best example is c++) are mostly scams used by many ppl with a hidden agenda (or properly brain-watched).
North star metric should be a leading indicator of profits
Both Twitter and Facebook keep messages/posts indefinitely with no (official) way to delete them in bulk.
it's worth mentioning that (like always...) china is heavily controlling information, and since individuals are all locked down there's little leak of information as well (which is to say: nobody really knows what's going on outside their individual complex)

So while it is crazy what's going on in shanghai, there's a large void of information and, on the western internet, this void gets filled with lots of speculation and misinformation. So I'd take any "outlets tossing around the idea of a revolution" with a grain of salt - my understanding is that Chinese who are not in Shanghai are generally very supportive of zero-covid policy (again, due to china's information controls about how bad Shanghai is, but also because I think the chinese are very proud of having had negligible covid death after the initial outbreak was under control, compared to USA and the west)
One irony is that I home charged on 110v for > 7 years.

Teslas could too.

The reason that is viable is that average daily mileage was sub 50 miles, and 110v for 8 hours or so was fine.

If people want to drive much further than that average, as they own average, then 220v charging overnight would easily suffice, if available to them.
I like to do this to ensure GC happens occasionally, when I focus away from Emacs:

(add-function :after
after-focus-change-function
(lambda () (unless (frame-focus-state)
(garbage-collect))))
I don't share your optimism. Just as most smart contract/web3/crypto developers fail to understand political science, economics, physics, and software engineering; fewer seem to understand game development -- yet are happy to blithely repeat the same myth that game assets will somehow live on the block chain and be use-able in different games! Imagine owning Mario!

There are a ton of great games being made today without any of this "ownership" stuff and users are not complaining about it. It's not a pain point for anyone who plays games.

However it does present an opportunity for someone, somewhere to keep growing the herd of people at the bottom of the pyramid...
Also, I'm not a software/web dev by day (perhaps, obviously). But is it not the case that google analytics tag is also needed for google url inspector?

I could be remembering wrong, but I thought it needed to be there to use google url inspector.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/russia-finland...

Another article on the matter. I was in the same boat as you, friend.
>"did Twitter technically lie" which is the most uninteresting question in this whole situation.

I don't know, that seems more interesting than most questions that could be asked about Twitter.
Tether itself also had a dry run of the Tether collapse. It seems to mostly be holding steadyish in the past few days, but the dip down to $0.95 is a giant screaming alarm. It's still only at $0.9990; before the crisis last week it was pretty much always at $0.9998 or above.
I agree that the article would give more information if it gave the background information about the logo redesign, but that's not its topic; the topic is why the logo had problems, not how it originated.

> Now you know where the $30M actually went.

Do I? I have no idea how this loss figure is allocated between lost revenue, and wasted spending on the redesign itself. I'm supposed to believe your comment which insinuates that $30M went to some Arnell person, and nothing was actually lost, sales-wise.
What I want to know is what a Quarter Pounder burger is called in Russia:

A McPutin? A McSputnik? рояль с сыром?
Yes, that's what I meant. This is similar - because you have to put a mirror at "just the right time" and you ignore the energetic cost of that.
I went to a TH in Toronto in 2018 after hearing about it from Canadian friends for years… I would describe the food at that time as ‘technically food.’ The coffee, well, I threw that away and went to another shop.
Yeah, good point. Sometimes I wonder if the fact that so many of the folks developing and using Julia are both highly educated (e.g., in math) and insanely smart (evidently) is a barrier to mass adoption. That is, I wonder if the broader mass of developers out there -- many of whom are less knowledgeable -- find it difficult to benefit from and contribute to the Julia ecosystem.
Depreciation is only relevant if you keep the asset.

If a crypto-miner becomes unprofitable to run, selling it for less than the "after depreciation basis" effectively accelerates the depreciation.
> The current bubble is definitely over though

Why do you say “over”? I see BTC reaching $20k this summer and then falling to <$10k as miners fold.
https://archive.ph/Hf9FR
Uber’s big new update lets you book party buses, electric vehicles and more
I suppose if you consider robbing people of their supposedly inalienable human rights is a “success”, then sure it’s a “success”. But believe it or not there are vastly more problems in the world than an extremely myopic focus on exactly one single respiratory virus to the literal exclusion of everything else including human rights.

Serious I cannot get over how many people think this kind of response is ever justified. It is incredibly myopic thinking.
Opening a Twitter link in a private tab is the low complexity solution, or there's nitter.net, or deleting cookies, or various browser extensions that delete cookies for you.
Monster Breeding
>The current bubble is definitely over though

with bitcoin hovering ~$30K, still seems like there's air in the bubble. a 50% drop (from $60K) is pretty normal for bitcoin. It could drop a lot more without shaking the confidence of the hodlers
The only edge DO ever had from my limited perspective was pricing and it seems like that edge is fading.
I'm curious at how much persistence the detected road markings have.

Surely the car doesn't assume the previously observed and mapped road markings just fuckin' disappear the instant there is a camera or data ingestion error?

The jitter evident in the road markings throughout the video doesn't massively inspire confidence.
And we can guarantee Discord has already sold your chat logs 200 shadier places. Why bother with an GDPR compliance in one area if they aren't going to in others. Guessing it's just a matter of time before they get sued into compliance.

Discord, and all free chat services, rely on selling data for their revenue. What makes them ultra-filthy, in my mind, is that even if you pay you don't get any special treatment. You are literally just giving them money to sell your data. "Hey guy breaking into my house to steal my TV, here's $5!" That's sort of what being a "booster" feels like.

I'm sure Discord knows which side of its bread is buttered. It wasn't architected to have deletion in mind. Like think about all the private messages, messages in public channels, message threads... (you can individually delete some of those, but not channels you no longer belong to), but it's really impossible to glue an export of one-user's messages back together in a way that has context.

Something like "SnapChat" or "Signal" where you could set messages to have expiration dates would have been a perfect move for Discord. Gamers don't need years of Meme Sharing history stored forever.

Having a business model like Slack... where users have to pay for their own groups. Discord deals with kids, and people for whom $5 is a blocker to entry.

I love a lot of things about Discord, I love Push To Talk, and I wish every service used this. (Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Meet... why don't you have a Push To Talk option?!)

Anyway, Discord is convenient, has a ton of great UX features that Slack and Teams could learn from. But at the end of the day free is never worth it. You're the product.

EDIT: I ran a Discord server with 20k+ users at one point. And we came to find out that the "owner" of the Discord was someone who had set it up years back and just sort of faded away. Enough of us had Admin it didn't matter, but there are some things only the Owner can do. It took over 4 months to get Discord support to transfer ownership. I was a paying customer. Their support is really wanting. Impossible for it not to be, they don't have any sort of ID verification and nobody to default back to, "Well, it's my credit card..." total cluster fuck. With what I learned... I'm pretty sure I could get access to any Discord server whose owner had been gone for more than 30 days. Just create a fake account similar in name to the last one, "Yeah, I'm Bob, I lost access to my old account..." That's essentially all we had to do, that and wait for the email they sent the original "Bob" to not get a response. Pretty easy when so much of Discord messages go straight to a spam / updates folder nobody ever checks.
Oracle gives you 10TB of monthly bandwith + a 4 core/24gb ram ARM VM + 1 or 2 (can't remember) 1Core/1GB x86 AMD Epyc core... for free. If you are just looking to get a cloud VM for personal projects, it's by far your best option.

It's a bit weird to say considering it's oracle, but there's no catch and no hidden costs. As long as you don't upgrade to a paid account, there's no way to even mess up and get charged
By 2032?

We need new songs, “you just got Do Kwon’d” instead of “Mt Goxxed”
> The other cat is not so bright, if you ever say anything to him directly he'll only meow back and come over for a pat, that's it. It's just a back and forth screaming match if you talk to him.

More pats for less work? Sounds like the smarter one to me.
>I've noticed during my time here on HN, people are so articulate, and talk/write a bit like Christopher Hitchens[0].

He was definitely a hero of mine.

>I mean, when you contrast the comments here to Reddit, there's a stark difference in writing style, choice of wording, tone, etc

This probably has to do with HN's intention of how they wished to form the HN echo chamber.

>It's as if everyone on HN is following the meme of: 'Be articulate or get downvoted'

This is less about the echo chamber but rather much akin to Hitchens' way. Imagine you're an atheist where only like 1% of the world is atheistic and Christianity is still a powerhouse. You also have multiple rather contradicting political viewpoints. So you have to be eloquent, patient, and explanatory.

You learn that this isn't about politics, ideology, etc. It's about talking to the other person, mr bickerton. It's not about getting a win for your team. It's about saying stupid stuff and see why you're wrong.

Free speech doesn't exist in my country, and the importance of free speech is to enable the possibility of sorting out your brain. I don't care who you talk to, there's nobody who has figured out every political position they support.

The way you figure out your own politics is by talking to people with opposing views. Hope they tell you how you're getting it wrong. It's even very effective to play devils advocate. You're going to say things that are wrong and only through saying wrong things will you find your way to what is right.

Unfortunately we are living in the world of echo chambers and anti-free speech. If you dare be conservative on reddit you'll get banned in a heartbeat. Do you think anyone of reddit has any chance of sorting out their mind via free speech on there? How about twitter where my account said nothing, retweeted nothing, but I got ghostbanned because of likes and/or the people i follow. Clear simple conservative censorship.

This is the point of elon musk buying it. He wants to eliminate the censorship and get people talking again.
Revenue != Value
I really don't think so. Turkey is in a very strategic location. Turkey has leverage and a very good chance of getting the concessions they want. Which is sad, because I care about the Kurds, and they seemed to be one of the few good, humane groups in Syria.
Words used to mean things. The current HN submission title just says active, heavily implying accounts with any kind of activity (eg. like, follow/unfollow), not "users who Tweet".

Sure, clickbait headlines are the norm and the devil lurks in the details, but still, many comments have been spent on this, because it's clearly misleading.

~80% of email is spam, it doesn't surprise anyone, because it's so cheap to send spam. Similarly it's easy to create fake accounts and spam, yet it doesn't mean much.