skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, this is a lot of words to say nothing really, a sponsored article for A16Z. The core “problems” of the internet business are still up in the air: ads vs payments. The author mentions she prefers her own curated “search engine” company over Google (I wonder why!) but any paid service won’t be able to compete with someone making a free version with ads. One of the biggest lessons of the past 20 years on the internet. I know the author has a vested interest in this not being the case but unfortunately it very much is. This is Google’s whole strategy: make a free thing with ads and they will come. CF Eternal September; why HN is much more pleasant than mainstream social media sites; etc.

Also seriously stretching the definition of a “search engine.” I certainly wouldn’t consider LinkedIn a search engine. It’s a social media site with search, and recruiters can filter their queries on people but it’s a closed system. Only LinkedIn accounts are there, unlike the web which is open and needs a true “search engine” to organize it. If the web is open, then to me LinkedIn already is curated, and then what the author is proposing is further curated still but certainly not a “search engine.”

Snark aside: The random, bold “Nascent token-based business models show early signs of promise.” from an author who has no understanding or experience with them and is tacked on at the end just makes me picture someone at corporate writing this in in sharpie.
Happy to see Peg.js still being used. Always a joy to work with.
Aside: looks like the domain for the url in your profile expired and it now goes to some ad harvesting site.
I am the same way. This is where smaller companies thrive because you get exposure to more of the stack. Just have to find the right domains with interesting problems. For me that’s building analytics and visualization tools for scientific and engineering modeling data
New Robin Hood web 3 wallet
Ah, okay; yes, if allowing untrusted parties to execute transactions is a goal, then blockchain might make sense.
A few years ago, one of the selling points from Apple was that you didn't need as big of an IT team to manage Apple products. Has something changed?
In most of the US, electricity usage in afternoons in July is 50-100% higher than during the middle of the night in January[1]. Your intuition about when the most electricity is used is dead wrong.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
I've been paying for Youtube for a few years now, so I have no idea what the ad situation is.
is it going to compete with Google on its own turf and be ad supported? Is it going to sell your inbox to foreign intelligence services? Is it funded by a philanthropist?

All great questions. I could not even begin to speculate how to answer them short of hiring an army of private investigators, investigative journalists and other things I could never afford. Even if one were a philanthropist that would not be mutually exclusive to the other possibilities you mentioned. Some of the wealthiest philanthropists have started off as the golden children of the state.
Thanks for the thoughts. Looking at solutions to help with state drift in multi-tenant clusters. Using lots of rancher but a dev “flipping switches” sometimes creates pain for me. Argo seemed to be a good solution to “no more kubectl in prod” but I think there is some neato fleet integration with Rancher. Thanks again!!
I look at it the other way - I like having the panels on my roof. When I later add battery storage, I'll be able to keep the lights on during power outages. And maybe my purchasing them helps finance the industry a little bit so further improvements can be made.
Sorry for another reply, but a quick thought:

This is the main problem with Uber. There was never any need for investment. The service itself could run perfectly well without anyone skimming off the top, and there wouldn't be as many mouths to feed running things.
That gives me flashbacks. I worked on a payment system that had to pull data from third-party service providers that only made it available in the form of downloadable spreadsheets from godawful slow and unreliable JavaScript-heavy web portals. Just getting to the point of downloading the spreadsheets was painful enough, and then the spreadsheets themselves were inconsistent and would sometimes flap back and forth between two different formats for a few weeks as the service provider repeatedly deployed and then rolled back new versions of their software.
Other sources being natural gas plants? Great plan.
Well if it means the conspiracy theorists avoid cheese, there's all the more for the rest of us
I've had good luck on this front, but I pay for Youtube, so the experience might be a little better.
Nothing really wrong with consuming limited quantities of candle wax.
>Tether.to lists a US address and phone number

Where?

>Their ip returns a cloudflare ip in California.

Cloudflare uses anycast. Their IPs don't have a single location.
Properly maintaining and deploying hundreds of Apple products (Macs, iPads, whatever) still requires knowledge, planning, and organizing and the utilization of a well setup MDM system.

I worked a role like this within an IT department many years ago and while it's not super complicated, it still required knowledge and understanding that this new Professional training is set up to provide.
> Male Patriarchs in Sub-Saharan Africa who father 6 children

When international policy preferences (especially ones that will result in mass death) are justified with highly specific examples that appear to be described with careful word choice to achieve a particular emotional response, I check for my wallet.
Get a company to come out and do lead testing. They will give you the results, recommend abatement contractors, and maybe give you some tips and recommendations.

Where I live the people that do the testing are required to be different from the people doing abatement. (And once the abatement is done you can get the people that did the testing to come back out again and officially verify that the housing unit meets lead safe standards.) But US states differ in some of the details here.
Honey is a tracker you willingly install[1]. If that doesn't concern you, I can understand why the privacy features of Firefox aren't too appealing either.

[1] https://www.datarequests.org/blog/honey-data-collection/

Edit: When did we stop calling this stuff "spyware"? When it became widespread enough to no longer be remarkable?
Fun fact: the Mangyshlak atomic energy complex used low temperature steam from the first stage turbines for thermal desalination: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
Yeah, profile manager was never much more than a reference implementation. It never really was something you'd put into production.

It also was never free, it was part of server
Does no one proof-read any more?

> New PRNG added to the rand module, for fast pseudo-random numers.
sick of these posts all the time that are so anecdotal. Google performs great for so many searches, for normal people without stupid additions like site:reddit (insane, I've never had to do that, if anything is relevant from there it will come up naturally, and/or reddit should not be a source you want to use). Average people that don't use/know about or care about using ad blockers. Average people that aren't paranoid or don't surf sites they don't like unlike HNers here who are paranoid or have a weird aversion to ads (who notices them anymore? why are you on sites that have them? Spend less time on youtube or wait 5 seconds). We're so in our tech bubble sometimes.

Yes there has long been a problem with paid ads floating to top etc but that's a long time battle of business and the general internet landscape and doesn't mean google is 'no longer good'.
We're (well a good deal of us here) trained enough to know how to search best for results, just those little tweaks in language etc, to get results, and Google works for millions of searches without fail. I think about side things that are tied into Google search now like the AI helpers, Mini etc, that all understand natural language and return results and perform actions based on very casual sentences. G is doing just fine.
Nothing eliminates anything. It's all CxHy + zO2 -> nCO2 + mH2O

There is such thing called second law of thermodynamics.

The only question is into how much stages we can split this process, and how much useful stuff we can extract from each of those.
It would be ironic if a second housing bubble collapse causes a second financial crisis. It's entirely possible. It could start outside the US, in other Western countries where real estate prices have reached completely insane levels. In Canada, if there was a housing "bubble pop" then it would be catastrophic for the entire economy and financial system. It would not really be better even for those who didn't buy into the madness, unless they've been sitting on a hoard cash the whole time and buy at the right time. Most people never had the cash to buy into the madness, and if the music stops then they lose their job and a significant portion of their investment savings and are probably unable to take advantage of the opportunity. The rich always get richer, and the poor always get poorer, even in a financial crisis.
I think more accurately the sun puts in incredibly long hours, but isn't working at full productivity for a lot of it (maybe if it cut back to a normal 40 hour work week it would get more done).
I haven’t open sourced them in that sense. I don’t want to maintain them for others to use. I just shared the source code for inspiration.
Maybe this is a stupid question but I wonder if there are any ecological concerns about redirecting terawatts of power from the photons hitting Earth into electricity. Of course, it's bound to be a big net win over burning hydrocarbons. But is there any drawback?
> Does zstd benefit today from ISAs like AVX-512, AVX-2, etc.?

Zstd benefits mostly from BMI(2), it takes advantage of shlx, shrx, and bsf during entropy (de)coding. We do use SSE2 instructions in our lazy match finder to filter matches based on a 1-byte hash, in a similar way that F14 and Swiss hash tables do. We also use vector loads/stores to do our copies during decompression.

We don't currently benefit from AVX2. There are strategies to use AVX2 for Huffman & FSE compression, but they don't fit well with zstd's format, so we don't use them there. Additionally, our latest Huffman decoder is very competitive with the AVX2 decoder on real data. And a Huffman format that is fast for AVX2 is often slow for scalar decoding, so it is hard to opt into it unless you know you will only run on CPUs that support AVX2. Lastly, AVX2 entropy decoders rely on a fast gather instruction, which isn't available on AMD machines.

> Do you foresee the need in the future to offload compression/decompression to an accelerator?

Yes, there are trends in this direction. Intel QAT supports zlib hardware acceleration. The PS5 has accelerated decompression. I'm pretty sure Microsoft has also released a paper about a HW accelerated algorithm. Compression & decompression take up a significant portion of datacenter CPU, so it makes sense to hardware accelerate it.

> what hardware platform(s) do you use to test new versions of zstd for regressions/improvements?

We mostly test and optimize for x86-64 CPUs, on a mix of server and consumer CPUs. But, we also test on ARM devices to make sure we don't have major regressions. We've found that optimizing for x86-64 has done a good job of getting good baseline performance on other architectures, though there is certainly room left to improve.
C code is usually rife with unrelated technical detail like manual memory management. It also lacks ways to build useful abstractions that exist in other languages.
> ice breakers

I don't understand this aspect of corporate/startup culture. Who the hell likes ice breakers in meetings? Everyone I know -- and I mean everyone -- has started joining late in an attempt to avoid ice breakers.

(I actually know who likes them: all those "life coaches" that regularly get hired by startups with too much money.)

They are infantilizing, kindergarten-like activities for adults who will never again speak to each other until the next ice breaker activity.
Is there a faster way to age parmesan?
Ask HN: Should I use a blockchain as a keyserver?
AFAIK, one of the bigger problems with implementing PGP on a wider scale is the need to trust a keyserver to provide the correct open keys and update them when necessary. If so, can the database be decentralized via a blockchain so that no entity has absolute control over it? Key rotation can be implemented via additional blocks containing new keys signed by the previous ones. Proof-of-work also functions as a kind of CAPTCHA to solve potential spam issues. Since the rate at which new keys are added shouldn't be high, low transaction speed doesn't matter either. Would this kind of setup work and if not, why?
I can think of a use case or 2. Thermal printers (for those wanting old timey unix line printing interfaces) or e-ink displays in console mode.
Tesla expands Supercharger pilot program for non-Tesla EV owners in Europe
Temporary Tables in SQLite
Literally just figured out how to get my browsing history piped into Grafana+Loki so that I have a single source of truth regarding my browsing history using a userscript that ignores CORS and just POSTs to Loki's API.

Apparently that's going away entirely now and there is no good way to stream browsing history anywhere if it's not tied to a browser maker's services (even if they are selfhosted a la Firefox Sync).

You can't even read from the browsers history database because browsers for some reason lock the entire database even while running in WAL mode (my original plan was to do something similar to litestream and just attach to the places.sqlite or History files and push the url to Loki, but that just doesn't work).

There are reasonable reasons to do this, but it really seems that it's just to curb user agency with their own data and devices.
(Not parent) I started my migration last night. Overall, great experience! The heroku addon worked great. I was very impressed that the build succeeded and I had my site working in a very short time, with sendgrid and all that working. Only minor misstep for me was when pg_restore didn't work because by default Access Control has no entries and the migration doc didn't mention having to add one.

The much more significant issue for me is that I honestly have no real clue what to make of Jobs. In Heroku I use Scheduler to run rake tasks. And in Render there's an API Explorer (and my rake tasks fail when I attempt to run them through that) and then I'm supposed to add crons to... my repo (?), and the Jobs I create go... somewhere. I am very confused. I've read the Jobs and Cron Jobs docs like 40 times.
I have made more observations and it seems to have to do with how you arrived at the post. If I click on it from browsing my timeline, it does not show “more tweets“. If I click through to it from a link somewhere external, such as a link in an article, it does. I’m sure that somewhere there is a thorough analysis of this.
Mysterious beaked whale washes up on California beach north of San Francisco
Does it still require DeviceTree or custom images? Because that's what I'm trying to avoid, I want to stick with devices I can load any generic ISO on. So far the only thing in the ARM space I've seen are servers.
I worked on a tax app. Total nightmare. I remember having to adjust tax rate for a couple parishes in Louisiana and a city in Florida for example. Trying to come up with a readable, testable, way to get that done was something I tell ya.
Reliability hasn't changed significantly for server-grade kit for decades.

All Intel-compatible servers have been essentially perfectly compatible with each other for decades.

All major brands will keep selling server kit. It's not like you have to throw away your IBM brand Intel-based servers and replace them with ARM chips from some no-name vendor!

My point is that in next year and the year after, and the year after that IBM will sell you faster and faster servers. Also... bigger and bigger. At roughly the same price point. With largely (if not entirely) compatible management systems, drivers, etc...

Speaking of drivers: VMware and similar hypervisors have almost completely eliminated driver compatibility as a concern. Clusters can contain wildly different gear without issues.

There's a lack of understanding in the industry by older managers that gained their experience in the "before times" when even the firmware had to be consistent for a cluster of servers.

For example, the local budget airline Jetstar would buy used servers from Ebay.

Why?

Why not!

Why would you need "support" if a server dies? It is stateless (diskless!) and just 1% of your capacity! Just throw it out.

Why would you care about driver updates if all of your VMs are using emulated hypervisor drivers only?

Why would you care if a server is "used" if chips don't "wear out"?

Etc...
Right, why can't this be a part of login.gov?
I always plan to remove the rind but find that it has completely dissolved.
It really does raise the question what other obvious (or not-so-obvious!) risks they ignored. How is "a foreign country can perform a DOS by using the DNS system as intended" not an obvious problem?

Imagine if the service was called who.ru. What could possibly go wrong?
Exodus Releases Browser Extension Beta
Yeah, no.

It spews NOx and the whole bunch of undesirable things like dioxines.

You don't get pure PET and oxygen in, and you don't get pure CO2+H2O out.

It's messy to the point that it's debatable if it's better just to bury it.
Who brought morals to the table? I'm not interested in his morals, I'm interested in the effect the PR about his voting intentions has on the wider vote, and the economy worldwide.

His current worldwide sell is buttressed by interventionist public policy to promote EV, and state backed investment in corporate space exploration. The one exception I'll make there is starlink, which appears to me to be designed to bootstrap business which steals the lunch of a lot of ground-technology communications businesses.

Do you honestly think the Republican policy for capital investment and tax necessarily favours his core businesses in Cars and Space? I don't personally think so, short term. Long term, when the current cohort of Republican leaders are dead, who knows? It's not the party of Lincoln right now, and I'm focussed on Musk, and the economy right now: I don't think Republicans like Californian EV market interventions, or the disruption to the telecommunications sector.

But I could be wrong.
Reminder that advice about not being boring, being entrepreneurial, the idea that everyone should start their own business at some point, have active side projects they try to monetize, can't possibly universalize. Specialization and division of labor is the basis of civilization. The vast majority of people need to be boring and content to just do enough work to support their family and otherwise try to stay healthy and sane, via whatever habits that may or may not set the world on fire you find fulfilling and useful. A world of 8 billion entrepreneurs is a perpetual 8 billion wars of 1 against everyone else with nothing ever actually getting done.

It doesn't mean don't be an entrepreneur if that is something you find fulfilling. But don't do it because someone else told you that you should. As a piece of advice given in general to all people, it's flatly ridiculous.
Yes, it does make more sense to use natural gas between 6-10pm than it does it use it 24/7, like we do now.

And/or use hydro, which can also be throttled.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/expanded-view/el...
Eh it's probably just a version of "owning the libs". By and large the leftist environmentalists and "tree huggers" are anti-nuclear, so you basically annoy them in two different ways.
It's power in, water + brine out. You have to do something with the brine- dribble it into the ocean over a large area, pump it into old salt mines or below freshwater aquifers.

It's too concentrated to just put back into the ocean in one spot without killing everything around it, and you don't want it contaminating what little fresh water you have under ground. Not an insurmountable problem, but it does add another cost in addition to maintenance and power
> the company keeps on changing its performance review system every 6 months so you literally never can see them again.

Yes! In my past two jobs I finally learned to never pay attention to official performance reviews and career goal plans and personal goals tracking systems: every 6 months to 1 year, like clockwork, someone important in HR gets replaced, a new tool to track goals gets bought, and everything is redesigned from scratch.

The only way to get a promotion or a pay rise is to push for it on a completely different band, nothing to do with these systems.
The web apis haven’t become quite good enough to match native apps yet though. Things like inter page transitions and gestures aren’t as nice.

The telegram web app is the best example I have seen so far and it looks like a real app but the gestures fail to recognise or complete a lot of the time.
You don't believe businesses should have the right to free speech, because they are not a person. Fair enough. Do you believe religious groups should have the right to free speech? Religion isn't a person. If not free speech, what about the right of assembly?

What about the press? The press isn't a person, either. What about political parties? What about your family? What is the limit? Two people? Four? How many people does one need to gather together under common interests before their rights are nullified, and replaced by some other set of rights governing "entities" like businesses, religions, political parties, etc?

There's a very good reason the First Amendment refers to "the people" and not individual persons - because it makes no sense to deny the existence of rights in aggregate. Yes, the press has rights, despite being an abstract entity, because it - along with religious groups, political parties and businesses, represent collections of people, and thus is synonymous with the rights of the sum of the individuals making up those entities.
Modern practice is to ban food exports in these cases. The Irish potato famine was notably not caused by a lack of food production in Ireland, but by a lack of affordable food.

In a food drought it’s quite likely that rich countries would feel the pain as well as poor countries.
Consecration of Russia
That depends on how building standards have shifted in your location in the last 100 years - and the durability of construction methods used.

Here in the UK most homes are built from brick, and in many regards standards of housebuilding have dropped a lot since the 1920s. A 100-year-old house will have its downsides (standards of insulation weren't high 100 years ago) but will often be more desirable than a new-build property.
I think you shouldn't be concerned about drop-off unless your demo is asinine and patronizing. Anyone actually interested in your product will happily sit through a demonstration, and if they won't, do you think they would actually convert to paying customers? Casual interest is unlikely to be valuable for your business, so maybe you shouldn't be too concerned with friction.

Honestly, looking over your site, I think you can probably afford to be highly targeted and personal with your sales and registration procedures.