skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this conflates a bit p2p as a technical means and p2p as a means to organise control.

Like, there are all kinds of products which use p2p architectures internally to solve some technical problem - bit torrent is sometimes used inside updaters, elasticsearch organizes its nodes as a p2p network for greater robustness and scalability, WebRTC let's you make direct connections between browsers to save roundtrips, etc etc. But those are just technical details - the products themselves are still controlled and administered by a central entity.

In contrast, crypto, file sharing and federated systems use p2p as a technical means but they are also administered in a decentralised fashion, where no person or entity has ultimate control (or should have at least).

I think Skype was falling squarely in the first category here: They were experimenting with decentralised network protocols, but the nodes were all pretty clearly belonging to a singular and centrally controlled product. That's why p2p really just was an implementation detail that could be replaced by a different technical architecture by a simple update.

(Weird thought as an aside: I think most companies or organisations follow a sort of similar pattern: They are communist with respect to coworkers of equal status ("everyone should chip in for Carol's birthday present"), authoritarian with respect to management and owners - and libertarian/anarchist with respect to the outside world ("freedom! ...from annoying rules and regulations..."). But that doesn't mean leadership necessarily follows communist, authoritarian or anarchist principles when deciding strategy)
"It's proportional to the difficulty."

You just confused the amount of electricity it takes to mine one block, vs, the amount of total electricity all miners spend.

And the total amount of electricity is indeed proportional to the market cap. (with a constant of proportionality being halved every 4 years).

As the original poster said, it is ridiculous that we still have to debate this.
It's a public beta that normal drivers can sign up for. So I'd say there's quite a lot of them out there
Valuable? To whom? To whoever wants to spy on millions of 14 years olds cursing each other over the most insignificant petty squabbles one can imagine?

Sure there are good communities in there but I don't imagine they are distributing illegal things or want their existence be secret?

But I can see a lot of value in the existence of the mountain of metadata, sure.
> That means that 20% of the posts that I see, as a lurker, are generated by bots

I don't see how you can arrive at this conclusion. It depends on who you are following, with some additions by the algorithm (unless you use the chronological feed) and (speculating here) the algo pushes content from real humans.
Why do we need to? No, seriously, why?

I have yet to see any meaningful increase in a team’s productivity after they start tracking “developer productivity”.

Each time it results in a blow to developer morale and a pretty dashboard that management uses to retroactively justify their decisions.
And Python is implemented as a large C program.
This was bad. Notice how little time the driver has to react. At 8:05, everything is going well. Straight road, no obstacles ahead. At 8:06, the car has veered into opposing traffic. So the driver had about 1 second to react to Tesla's mistakes.

Now look at 2:51 .. 2:54, where the driver is distracted from the road for 3 seconds while operating the touchscreen interface. If the operator had been using the touchscreen in the same way at 8:06, there would have been a crash.

This demonstrates a few things:

* One fixed forward facing camera is not enough in rainy conditions at night. Humans will move their head a little in that situation to disambiguate raindrops and windshield dirt from distant lights.

* The system seems to identify oncoming vehicles at night by recognizing two headlights. If reflections or rain on the windshield or additional lights confuse that pattern, the oncoming vehicle is not recognized.

* Failure to recognize an obstacle seems to be treated as a no-obstacle condition.
What do you mean evaluated? There are thousands of us using the FSD beta (including I assume the video from OP).
Thanks, I think I get it now. Btw, do you believe in life after love?
Amongst all volume I was not particularly amused by the 15minute bars, it would have been hard to move 7 figures usd, but they could eat a 6-figure market order easily. The rest would need just a little patience.

No need for me to move the goal post to legit vs not real volume, there were some AMMs that had the same liquidity depth.
Having zero bots would be good, but obviously that isn't True. So instead they say a low consistent number and hope no one proves them wrong. Most importantly it doesn't appear to be getting worse.
It's just one of the possibilities. It's not like corporations aren't full of “government relations” staff whose job is inventing creative names for bribing officials, and creative methods of doing so. Especially in “interesting” countries where it's easy to have an excuse that “everyone does that”.

There is technology that can be important for military industry; no doubt it is going to be tightly controlled. There are people who decided it was unacceptable to work in Russia; it was their choice. However, these corporations are not people, nor they are important in the arms race. If we skip the fact that Central Bank severed everyone's ability to do business to control the money flow out of the country, corporations that left Russia made statements about leaving it for the media picture. And flashy media picture is once again really important to hide the elephant in the room — what really powers Russian economy, and how. It's not McDonalds.
I have done it up to maybe 75% from time to time.

Most of what I do is in ssh sessions to other systems in Xterm windows, so that's easy to do in console especially with tmux.

I read my email in a terminal as well.

I still need a web browser mostly for administrative stuff at my office that is only provided with a web interface.
Different things are available in different states all the time.
What are you proposing?

What does it solve?

How does it source or separate minerals at fractions of a percent concentration in overburden or ore?
I'm sorry I was a bit unclear. I don't take much issue with "run by engineer types", but really I'd question the assumption that they "were fairly rational". Why do people hold that assumption? Is it because "engineer types" must be rational? Personally I haven't been struck by the rationality of the PRC government.
> This isn't California specific at all.

It's a District court. This is specific to California by nature of the jurisdiction. The finding of the Honorable Josephine L. Staton is, an element of that case, not the ruling. This will end up in the Appellate.

It's a good first step, but don't overstate the facts.
A slow pace makes it possible to slack off more in peace. If you plan to take a week to do feature A and you finish it in a day, you have 4 free days. If you plan for 1 day and it takes 2 because it was harder than expected, plans get messed up, you need to work faster on the next feature and look bad.

I always encourage fellow engineers to vastly overestimate tickets. That‘s also important to set a comfortable pace with the business people who have zero clue how hard our work really is and prevent them from making us work hard.
I mean this is penny stock trading at this point. It's easy to show huge theoretical returns when you don't actually have money in there distorting the market.
I read that as it incentives botnets made up of more powerful hardware.
As a huge fan of Julia i got to fully agree. Although i would probably not "no longer recommend Julia" but "give huge caveats when mentioning Julia". Organisations (that includes those who maintain programming language) have values Bryan Cantrill has an excellent talk on this https://youtu.be/2wZ1pCpJUIM and i got to agree with the author that correctness (especially correctness under arbitary composability) is not a value that Julia teaches and instills in its users. Some Julia users care about this, some core maintainers do to (as the Pkg3 demonstrates). However there are many invocations (SafeTestSets vs Test) and stumbling blocks. I am aware of no efforts to do formal verification on Julia code. There are no good ways to move certain Run-Time to compile errors. Correctness is not a value of the Julia language. Here is the good thing though, as Bryan demonstrates in his talk, you can hire for values.
Engineering productivity doesn't always have a 1:1 relationship with profits in the current quarter, it can take a while for the rot to start to show up in the bottom line - by which time people may have moved on and it's someone else's problem, there may have been an exit, etc.
It helps a bit if you look at the business ecosystem as being made of various fish sizes, up to huge krakens like Facebook. And everything is sitting on a tortoise called VISA.

The size difference between what we're used to think as "players" and credit card processors (and a few others) is fking huge. We don't have cheap micropayments because they don't want cheap micropayments, period. It's not going to change soon.
Btw - your website looks really slick. I could easily understand the product by just casually browsing. And the site is fast too.
That you won't get to use nor cash out the unused days should you leave. 'Unlimited' holidays is a scam.
“I didn’t see them coming!”

—- 50% of humans after a crash
However, cats are far from the top of the food chain themselves, which is reflected in a lot of their behaviors.
The question becomes what sort of world do we want for our children: one where nuclear-armed nation-states simply take what they want (and remember, it’s not just Russia and the U.S. who have nuclear weapons) because it’s better to appease them?

The mere existence of nuclear weapons means that our future is in jeopardy. That bell can’t be unrung. But it doesn’t mean we have to allow the fear of that hypothetical future to prevent us from standing up to genocide.
it dropped 20% over the past week and keeps falling now.
Interest. Right now Binance is offering 5% APY for BTC savings. If you give them your BTC, you'll stack sats automatically.
I am in the beta and treat it just like normal AP. I tried it almost 100% of the time the first week while building a "relationship" with it. Now (months later) I only use it when I know it has high probability of success (known-good routes).

I am sure there are a lot of people who stopped using it. I'd hope (but don't know for sure) that they could easily opt back out of the beta.
I like the approach in Google: everything is a protobuf message including a config.

A couple benefits: 1) all fields are documented and strongly typed, with backward and forward compatibility (old binary + new config, new binary+ old config works). 2) you can use any language to generate the config, simply specify your proto-generator binary as dependency. 3) if your config is simple enough and willing to lose some backward/forward compatibility, a text proto file is perfectly human readable/writable.
This is one reason I never user their Desktop Apps and simply use browser.
that would be worse than 2018
I am going to break with the consensus here and present an alternative: embedded systems are easier than "big software".

With much of embedded you don't need to worry about updates, maintenance, logs, security, multiple cores.
Not just their customer base, but everybody else on or near the road.
2nd result I got from that exact search is an article from techradar:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/best/best-document-management-s...

Do you consider that search engine spam?
Except when scrolling, gods forbid you scroll on an eink screen.
If you read the thread you would see that obviously we are not talking about mass production cars. Obviously those are superior to horses.
You could give Puppet Bolt a try, which is like a blend of an Ansible agentless method with declarative Puppet manifests.
Conserving Spock's Ear
Is there any kind of baseline for what percentage of a system can be fake/spam to still be considered a "healthy" system?
> My take on this is that the big three dog food companies have the budget for food scientists and a reputation to protect.

When we first got our pup and had her in for her initial vet check-up, the vet went over all the fancy-ass boutique brands of dog food that were all natural and holistic and organic, blah, blah blah. I said that all seemed a bit silly to me and I'd rather feed my dog kibble unless it was definitely unhealthy for her. The vet then said, "yeah, honestly, that's what I feed my dogs. But people like to get sold all this stuff, so..."
I've been thinking about doing something like that. You'd also want to space the commits over the day as well so you can complain about how you were up till 2 working on things and your commit history will bear it out.
I’m surprised that folks are still considering metrics like LoC and commit frequency to measure developer productivity, even more so due to the (anecdotal, from my XP of 25 years in industry) fact that as developers gain in seniority they are typically spending more time with people than with code.

IMHO, developer productivity is best judged by the humans they work with.
I keep almost killing off my Netflix in favor of the others, but then I remember its actually where most of what my kid watches is right now. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth a consistent subscription.

What I really need is a better way to manage it all: Content aggregator which you can add everything to a single watchlist. And when you want to watch something on a service you don't have subscribe and then cancel it immediately so you just have it for the month. I am sure all the services would squash something like that though.
Gassing Up GCal with Chrome Extensions
Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future”
And to me, this is brain-dead obvious. They completely removed everything that was visually distinct about the packaging and replaced it with blandness.
I use "Let's go" for "it's time to leave this room", and the effect is that they flop on the ground, unwilling to move further. If that had been my intent, it would be a decent trick!
> The big thing, though, is that I agree with Lee and Tabarrok—goods are cheap, and it does seem wise to buy a lot of them (environmental considerations aside)—but I think they’re missing the point, for a few reasons.

I don't put environmental considerations aside, since this is where we live.

See also 16 May 2022 discussion on HN: The Modern World Can't Exist Without Fossil Fuels (time.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395036
But humans don't work 0-based. Try explaining to a bunch of scientists why for rows 2-5 of the DataFrame they have to write df[1:5].
You can say things like "people are more important than production" and you're technically right, but if you shut down the production all those people starve. When you're talking about things at this scale you have to think with a little more nuance than that.
Ammonia!

Literally all the buzz in renewables (now that solar being the cheapest energy source in the whole of human history is boring, old news and there's no doubt that EVs and battery production is going to drive prices down to incredible levels) is about Green Hydrogen, Green Steel and Green Ammonia. And that was before gas prices went through the roof. Then the headlines were that it was already cheaper to make Green Hydrogen in Europe due to high gas prices.

How out of touch with the energy market do you need to be to lead your "Fossil fuels are irreplaceable" diatribe with Ammonia?
>Is there a good reason why it takes that committee over a week just to meet?

It's a complicated issue, that will take time to sort out. There is no decision that will just magically fix everything.

>It's not like starving babies are a time critical issue ...

This is a baby formula shortage, in a rich first-world nation. No babies are going to be harmed. Is there really a need to go into hyperbole?
Change to Bitcoin Core; hard fork; majority of miners and nodes move to new fork.

The only reason we're not calling "Bitcoin Cash" by the name "Bitcoin" is that the last part didn't happen, right?
They wouldn't even tell me what I had supposedly done wrong when they terminated my account, and said that they investigated the claim and upheld the termination... That is, when they eventually responded.

I had to make a new account and set all the servers and such back up.
could a YNews moderator or other knowledgable person here please explain why my opinion above is now marked 'flagged' ?
I recognize Tenderlove in a photo, so whatever they're doing is probably more than Adequate. If Aaron is involved I'm bullish. It's great to see Shopify giving back to Ruby in a serious way. Imagine Ruby's future if most companies that benefit from it make a similar tithe. That sure has paid off in terms of open source, e.g. Rails et. al. If that community also collectively finances teams of researchers the ROI should be similarly worthwhile. Integrating contributions into GitHub seems like a good direction.
Armchair hacker news CEO knows what is REALLY going on behind the scenes at digital ocean.
1. Vaccine quality is a multifaceted issue. "Not good" really means not good at preventing transmission, compared to mRNA, for the original strain. Since Omicron, all vaccines are "not good" at this. When it comes to preventing severe disease and death, Chinese vaccines work just fine, both for the original strain and for Omicron. It's arguably "less good" in the sense that it requires 3 shots instead of 2, but research has shown that once the 3 shots are reached then efficacy is as good as mRNA. Report on the study: https://www.fridayeveryday.com/boosted-sinovac-as-strong-as-...

So really, the "Chinese vaccines are not good" narrative is an oversimplified and frankly wrong take, perhaps deliberately so.

What's interesting is that nobody talks about vaccine safety. Chinese vaccines, being of the inactivated type, have fewer side effects than mRNA ones. The jury is still out on whether mRNA vaccines are safe long-term. I got two shots of Pfizer and every time I watch dr Campbell's videos I really hope I won't get cancer in 10 years.
We need to talk about dbt
Discord support is non-existent like every other digital company. Customer support in 2022 is a cost center.

I'm often surprised by how responsive dang is despite being an individual whenever I email HN.

The only thing you can do is complaint to relevant authority in your country.
Look, there is no denying war atrocities. But all conflicts have them to one degree or another. If we go by the definitions above, then most allies (and foes) have engaged in terrorism too, including ourselves and then the distinction the term provides disappears.

Let's look at it from another angle. In order to submit the people of Ukraine, has Russia taken out all the stops? Do they have other more lethal and effective options?
I think a conversation about what ways we expect and permit corporations to lie, either specifically in financial statements or to the general public, is much more interesting than a discussion of exactly how many fake tweets there are and exactly how many accounts are making them, though I guess you could construe that as broadly part of the same conversation.
> A good way to frame the question is, "Is it ethical, to take a single alcoholic drink, and then drive?"

I don't see why. I would trust a road full of "I had a single drink" drivers over self-driving cars. Assuming the self-driving cars are all like the current models of trying to use vision, radar, lidar because it's assumed to be a mix of all vehicles. 100% self-driving cars with 5G and a mesh network is a different question.
I agree completely and you wrote my response better than I could of.
> It is far too early to be calling that a failure.

Any what exactly do you think the end outcome will be when a) it is impossible to stop omicron and b) the CCP isn't ramping up the vaccination effort on the 80+ yr olds?

If live in a tinderbox with frequent lightening strikes, spending billions on firefighting isn't going to change the end result. HK got to 1/3 the US's death rate in __weeks__.
> A lot of this was foreseeable too, which is why many (including myself) thought Putin wouldn't invade.

It was a gamble. Would Ukraine fold, or not? If they folded, Russia could have taken all of Ukraine, and the only price would be the sanctions. Putin could easily have thought that it would be worth the price.

The question was, what were the odds of Ukraine folding? Putin may have thought they were 90%, which would make it a worthwhile gamble. I'm not sure anyone in the West regarded the current situation as the most likely outcome, either.

So I'm not sure that it's fair to say that "a lot of this was forseeable". The sanctions were (though perhaps not to this level). NATO solidarity and Finland and Sweden joining were somewhat forseeable. I'm not sure that the rest were.
You cannot get a STEM degree if you are incapable of thinking logically. The same is not true for other degrees. Therefore, it makes sense to connect the two.
> And it doesn't make a lot of sense that the different vaccines would be substantially different against different variants or would wane quicker once the same level of vaccination was reached. Once you've got the T-cells and B-cells they're permanent and they aren't going to remember what kind of vaccine they came from. The differences in the vaccines should just be in overall effectiveness.

Not quite. Subunit (Novavax) or inactivated virus vaccines (like the Chinese ones) do not cause synthesis of viral proteins, so they do not stimulate killer T cell immunity [1]. That's a whole arm of the immune system which is not getting primed.

[1] Except to a limited extent via cross-presentation, i know
Paul Krugman's guess[1] is that since Putin wants to sell a smoke-and-mirrors idea of "Everything is fine, Russia is winning!", having a number (the exchange rate) not match his bullshit would mean an obvious "This guy is full of shit" to anyone paying attention. So, he's made the central bank boss[2] (a respected competent lady, who rumors say tried to quit but was not allowed by Putin) do anything she could to make it look decent.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/opinion/russia-ruble-econ...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/business/elvira-nabiullin...
As an owner of multiple Thinkpads and a fan of the classic IBM keyboards, I hear you loud and clear.
I think many people in the comments here, and most users, are missing that you index a SMALL subset of the web. This leads to people running a default test search, finding no results, and concluding your search engine is bad, and leaving.

While you imply that in the search page, obviously it's not clear enough.

Maybe add "this search engine only searches a small set of user submitted sites. Click <here> for the list. Or <here> to add your site."
Here you are confusing "total amount of electricity Bitcoin used trough history" and "amount of electricity Bitcoin miners are currently using".

The second is proportional to the current Bitcoin price, the first one, who cares.