skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I remember it, the need for a new shell language for system administration was something that lots of people in Windows Server were trying to solve. Ballmer talked about it, we had a push to add a handful of new command line tools (like tasklist.exe I think) that you could use under CMD, and there was a proof of concept where MMC could be used to output some kind of macro language when users did things in the UI. PowerShell was the thing that eventually won, and I think it was largely because it stood on the shoulders of .Net so had a ton of capability right out of the gate. (And TBH, I think it's a little bit weird that we have this mythos today where Snover sat down at his computer one morning and invented it out of thin air, when even the v1 feature team had something like 30 engineers and PMs on it.)
But, governments with militaries also protect crypto assets. Like when the DOJ went after Frosties founders, or more recently, SK and Do Kwon. There's also the CFTC and the SEC fighting over who will regulate the space.

Even the most charitable argument, that crypto-relieved folks are trying to get governments involved.
What a magnificent joke that their “The Merge” link 404’s.
> Forcing your code to be open forever isn't freedom, it's the omission of freedom.

On the contrary, forcing your code to be open forever is the only way to preserve freedom.
It’s only going to get worse with the proliferation of NLP nets a la GPT.

Will be interesting to see a decade from now how researchers collect a corpus that isn’t chock full of a model’s own output
It’s amazing to compare the energy consumption of a network where the all time high of total worldwide transactions in a 24 hour period is 1.7 million. Compared to the entire energy consumption of a country (Netherlands) with a population of 18 million people.

Just incredible.
3.5 billion kWh = 3.5 TWh, not 3500 TWh
I'd also like to know. It's an honest question, and I don't see why we should evaluate Ethereum's power consumption based on an unrealized scheme that's been promised (and left undelivered) for years.
The only customer type served by this model compared to the others which are available are the underinformed.
What do you mean "fiat assets"?
I am a man who dated many women casually via online dating, until I decided to settle down (wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31021578), so I think I can bring a somewhat relevant perspective.

Based on my experience, dating is absolutely a market driven by a typical economy of supply and demand, and the supply of "good enough" men who want to settle down with a woman is virtually unlimited for virtually any woman out there, in virtually any major US metro area. This means that the problem might be in yourself, and my guess is:

- Men perceive you as "weirdo". For example, going on a first date and immediately stating that you are looking to have kids since your time is "running out" would be a red flag even to the most desperate men.

- (I bet my money on this) You are too picky, even if you don't think you are, and the only men you're interested in are the ones who have an overwhelming abundance of choice (e.g. top 5% in terms of earning, looks, status), and as such are not in any pressure to settle down with you.
Yes. If your country does not have one of the tech companies mentioned in the article then $75 per hour is a fever dream.
Given the little time you have left, i'd recommend going with that friend that's been secretely in love with you, but you've only ever considered a friend.

My guess is that you've built yourself a modern romantic image of what a couple should be (aka : two maddly in love young beautiful people having crazy passionate sex every night) instead of the traditional one (two grown ups trying to build a family against the constant shitstorm that life is).

I'm not judgemental, as i'm almost in the same situation as you, except as a guy i feel i still have a bit more time (but not that much).
Good ideas.

41 isn't that old, and by this age there are more divorced than never married.

If someone has never had a serious relationship by the time they're 33 or so, it's a red flag 100% of the time in my experience.
The dawning of the Age of Apple Aquarius (2019)
If you're writing in C++ on Windows, expose only COM (or at least COM-style) interface called through virtual functions on an object pointer. Then you can use whatever C++ run-time you want, internally. What you don't want is the other library calling C++ functions by name. Like you pass it some ostream object and it calls ostream::put or whatever, where that symbolically resolves to the wrong one.
That protection applies to the people and other assets, too...
> Although validator earnings will be single digit percentages in ether per year, isn't that just the block reward, and all of the transaction fees are also split?

Don't forget about MEV (maximum extractable value). Block producers can front run your trades and do other interesting stuff to about 6% extra a year using something like flashbots.
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FWIW, just as Amazon and SalesForce are already doing their version of CoPilot, there is nothing to prevent GitHub from training its models off open source that is hosted on sr.ht or GitLab or anywhere else. If it is open source then the source is going to be available to be used for the models.
So, You Think You Can Design a 20 Exaflops Supercomputer?
> games with a story-line as rich as this is very rare

The best story focused game I’ve played recently-ish is Disco Elysium. Great artwork too.
You shouldn't be so surprised. The energy consumption issues of cryptocurrency are very well-known, and the claims that "you didn't take into account all the human office staff" were attempts to deflect discussion from this energy consumption, almost certainly made by nobody who ever attempted to crunch any numbers. (The last time I tried crunched the numbers, I noted that Bitcoin uses more energy than the US mint making literal physical currency in industrial processes, and that was with heavy overestimation of the energy consumption of the latter.)

Believing that taking into account human-associated energy costs would put them on rough parity would require assuming that computers take up 1/1000th the total energy costs. And that's before you actually look at how many human jobs would actually disappear were cryptocurrency to magically replace the financial industry.
Orange juice took over the breakfast table
Not at all. 3.5 Billion kWh is 3.5 TWh.
I think you're way too deep in the maximalist culture to actually see reality for what it is, Jimmy.
Give them their semantic difference, it’s all Bitcoin maxis have had to fight the absurd numbers for a while.
But when is this merge happening? There is still no date as far as I can see? It's been happening "soon" for years now :(

I really hope it takes off though, because if crypto is here to stay it really should stop wasting so much energy. We'll never solve the climate crisis this way.
How the climate crisis is forever changing our national parks
A youtube video by some random guy with 310 views is not a credible source. Surely you've seen some kind of evidence that isn't social media hearsay to make you so convinced. Pictures, videos? Can you tell us the name of the slum you're referring to?

>They took huge amounts of money in Africa.

"Huge" amounts. What sort of amounts are we talking about? Do you have a more concrete number and a source? Must be someone involved in the scam who told you because the perpetrators have not even been caught yet, let alone tried.

German authorities tried charging a single couple that collected over 320 million Euros for Ignatova on their own! Just to give an idea of what sort of sums we're talking about. The average each of the European victims invested is in the thousands, possibly over 10k Euros.

The media commonly cites 4 billion dollars that Ignatova and her accomplices collected in total. How much do you think they got out of that supposed Ugandan slum?
I believe the worst part is redux. React is mostly reasonable. Redux is massive boilerplate.
> Ethereum will use dramatically less carbon to be more secure

Why is that? PoS security model is fundamentally different from PoW - for instance - you cannot determine which of the two chains is "correct" anymore, you have to consult "a friend" [0]. That's not the case in Bitcoin, where the correct chain is simply the longest.

All PoS algos are very complex and have a ton of seemingly bandaid solutions for various problems that arise when you can create alternate histories freely (even if you use VDFs I think), and there is a disturbing lack of critique on that. So, why is it seen as "more secure"?

[0] https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-...
> Sounds like you've an abrasive personality.

Well if that ain’t the voice of experience then I don’t know what is.

Most of what makes Scrum successful today is that they are doing half of XP, and not necessarily calling that out. Kent Beck published the first XP book in 1999, and people were still arguing - energetically - about adopting aspects of that book in 2010.

Google’s secret sauce was based on an algorithm that was 28 years old at that point (and yet never came up in any of my classes).

It’s not invention that limits us. It’s adoption.

Howard Aiken clearly understood this:

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
If their class action waiver holds, that's fairly irrelevant.
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So, they fit a fancy model, played with it, and claim the result says something about the real world?

I have never seen a valid social science result derived by this method. This is just fancy model lovers dabbling.

If the patterns they claim are real, they can be exposed with much simpler and direct methods. Let's talk after that's been done.
https://Wenmerge.com
Everyday censoring is the spice which makes these words desirable to use in the first place.
That's actually a good thing, those feelings are a strong signal you probably wouldn't be a fit together.
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You need algebra and calculations calculus to do anything theoretical in probability. But I'm a fan of working backwards from interesting applications of algebra to the fundamentals.
And altcoins are a lot riskier too. They tend to come and fall out of favour.
Founder of sr.ht here. I understand these fears, and I have gone to great lengths to give users tangible assurances in this regard. Trust is something that has to be earned, and it is incredibly important to me that we are worthy of yours.

For a start, the company is bootstrapped and we have no private investors. The revenue to maintain the platform comes directly from users, and all users are expected to pay if they have the means for this reason. We are accountable only to them and we do not have to find "creative" ways to monetize them (or their work) because they are already footing the bill themselves. Every cent paid by users stays in open source, either supporting the platform or the dozens of projects our engineers maintain or contribute to in the FOSS ecosystem.

We also seek to be as transparent as possible. Our financial reports, monitoring system & alarms, security reporting, operational documentation, backups, and so on, is all publicly available. We have hard data that you can use to understand our platform's sustainability, security, performance, uptime, and more.

And, unlike GitHub (and GitLab), SourceHut is 100% bona-fide free software, mostly AGPL. You can run it on your own servers, and we make it easy to import and export your data, in standard, interoperable formats that you can use to move between instances or even between software stacks, such as GNU Mailman or other solutions. SourceHut is also not an ivory tower -- we elevate our users to peers, and many parts of our system are officially maintained by independent volunteers.

I work really hard for our user's trust and I'm proud to know that I have it. If anyone has questions or concerns, I'm always prepared to listen to them and do what it takes to make sure our users are confident in the platform. FOSS is my life's passion and I am committed to doing it right.
I mean that fiat is always issues by a central authority. To be a trusted/stable central authority you need power, which is usually represented by military strength (either your own or the strength of your allies).

You do not get stable fiat without a trusted central authority and you do not get a trusted central authority without military power.
“The counter artillery radars being sent are the Raytheon-Technologies (RTX.N) AN/TPQ-37 systems, a senior defense official told reporters. This is the first time these systems are being sent to Ukraine which have about triple the effective range of the previously sent AN/TPQ-36 systems.”

Also found these:

https://coffeeordie.com/radar-systems-ukraine/

“The AN/TPQ-36 can detect artillery up to 9 miles away, mortars up to 11 miles, and rockets as far as 15 miles away”

https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/an-tpq-37.htm
I understand Proof of Stake to be much more centralized and prone to takeovers than proof of work. So if the merge ever actually happens, it would fix the energy consumption issue at the trade-off of security (staking, aka rich get richer).

I'm much more bullish on Chia and proof-of-space/time — same nakamato consensus as proof-of-work without the energy consumption: https://chiapower.org/ Also helps that Chia can be farmed from a raspberry pi or similarly low-performance device, making it so there are over 100k farmers around the world currently.
Humanities supposedly most brilliant minds work on the next e-billing system, AI on how to sell more crap that nobody really needs, keep a glorified message board afloat or enable the cancer that is advertisment.

They should work on how to address the climate catastrophe, the waste/recycling problem, food security, sustainable agriculture and land/water use, medical devices/health care or how to fix the broken participatory political system that has led us to the multifaceted crisis we all find us in.

None of the companies named in that article solve any of the existential threads we as species at large or society in the small face and yet they pay the highest salaries and we are supposed to chase those.

This adds to the dark and heavy ball of despair in my stomach more than anything.
Dumb user question: Why is this URL redirecting to https:// from http://
Funny enough if you click through to find out what 'The Merge' is you get a 404.
Ancient or not, I don't think it really matters for allocation performance: malloc in both msvcrt.dll and ucrtbase.dll after some indirection ends up calling RtlAllocateHeap in ntdll.dll
The linked article does mention that work towards the transition has effectively been in progress since before Ethereum even launched.

If you're talking about when it started being claimed that it was happening soon, the beacon chain launched at the end of 2020, so probably 2019/2020 sometime.
Because this comment is basically copy/pasted in every HN article about Ethereum[0]. It doesn't add anything to the conversation and is extremely repetitive. A bit like the "generics in Go" comments on every Go article until they were implemented.

[0] Not even 24 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31954276
I was wondering what makes companies be willing to pay Bay Area packages for engineers in only a few tech hubs. Supply and Demand? But then at least FANNGs have a hard time finding talents in European countries too, at least in Germany. And the number of engineers they hire is small compared to that in the US, so the companies could afford larger packages, right?

If it were not supply and demand, then it's puzzling to me why companies didn't want to pay packages comparable to the Bay Area in cities like London or Berlin. Is it because these cities do not have teams that own sufficiently mission-critical products or systems? If that's the reason, then why can't the cities own more products?
I wouldn't want to use any decentralized system for code if there's no discovery, code search, cross instance logins, AND BACKUPS.

It'd suck to end up in a situation like you see with torrents, where there are tons of references, but no access to the data.

I can imagine tons of useful code being lost over time that way.
That rule has so many exceptions that there's another mnemonic for remembering the exceptions.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_after_C#Exce...
That's a hilarious quote we used to say to each other in college at BYU.

p.s. LDS / Mormonism is the biggest sham ever. Do not recommend, would not do again.
Because the final steps are finally being performed. Just because something has taken a long time, doesn't mean it will never be done. There is nothing more to be done now except the actual final step of the merge.

The latest test merges have gone very well, but when you're dealing with something this valuable, you do a lot of tests, just to be sure.
The irony is that BrandonM's classic HN comment makes more sense these days, as Dropbox continues its evolution towards Microsofthood. Increasingly, using Dropbox means putting up with an unceasing deluge of product promotions while you're trying to get your work done. No such annoyances with rsync and ftp and the like.

Just last week, Dropbox unilaterally decided I didn't want local copies of the shared files on my laptop, which made for some awkwardness inside a secured facility with no Internet access.
This is from a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194586

They keep making the same announcement every few months.
Only if the developer is capable of finding a business product that can be automated at scale. Nobody suggested that part was trivial.

Once you have a business with that problem, then developers are worth significant money.
That was my expectation when I started interviewing candidates for a post, but I was surprised to find that most of the candidates didn’t seem to have that one prepared. It really seemed they honestly struggled and had to meditate the question. (They were very technical people and were expecting technical questions)
Probably deserves its own site or app.

Also, everyone is already on tinder, hinge, bumble, grindr etc.
CNBC is better?

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/no-bitcoin-is-likely-not-goi...
The last time I bought ethereum was around 2016/2017 when there were heavy talks of proof-of-stake coming soon.
Energy use can be computed from first principles given some arbitrary assumptions: average power per node and number of nodes.

There are ARM nodes that require less than 10W. Then there are more conventional servers that require ...150W? Average here is pure guesswork, but error bounds aren't that large - let's say 100W/node.

How many nodes are going to exist - I think 10k is a reasonable maximum number.

The result is 24000kWh per day. At $0.15/kWh, that means $3600 in daily energy costs.

There's also the hardware cost itself and internet connection cost (which can be zero if there's an already paid for connection) - but all in all, total, real expenses to run ethereum become a rounding error of current ones. Guesstimating hw depreciation and connection cost, daily total at $5k translates into $1.825M/year. The value of block rewards during the last 24h is ~$15M.

In other words resources required for running ethereum for ~3 hours now are going to be enough to run it for a year after the merge.
Those numbers don't look right. A plant running at 90% uptime is ~8000 h/yr, and a typical large power plant produces 100s of MW. So you should be looking at a yearly output in ~1000s GWh/yr range.
At this point they should consider rebasing instead, clearly there's too many conflicts.
As a PO, how do I tell my boss he hired the wrong person and needs to up his budget by 25% and delay development by 2 months while we hire and onboard someone better? The answer is I don't, because I like my job. Upping all the estimates takes much less energy and is much safer than fighting someone's inflated ego.
Yeah, it's just a joke. SourceHut is already profitable & sustainable. But, I think that it is important that we establish the expectation that users should be paying for the service. It keeps our interests aligned directly with theirs and we are accountable to no one else.
It’s very healthy to be skeptical. I’m no expert but the current status appears to be a successful test of the merge on a public testnet and an expectation that it will happen on mainnet in the next few months. More details here: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/ and a prediction market on the actual date it will happen here: https://polymarket.com/market-group/ethereum-merge-pos
One of the things that makes HN special is getting frontline insights like what OP gave. Almost any thread with a major issue/outage will have such a comment. Most of the time, it will come directly from a CTO/CEO.
Ah interesting.. So "the merge" is pending some kind of blockchain activity? Like an X number of blocks mined?

I thought it was just an arbitrary decision saying "We'll merge on date X".
Low tech vs. high-tech wealth
It seems to me this cannot possibly be a hard limit. If it’s a hard limit it’s only because AWS wants to milk you dry.
I tried to on the Upwork. But it is really hit or miss there.

1. I got hardware electric engineer to help me with a design of PCB. Guy was worth every cent.

2. Got embedded developer on separate project. Guy pretended that he can do a lot. I tried to explain to him, that I need a USB CDC device driver in MCU which has USB PHY and I want Windows to recognize and use usbser.sys (generic COM driver) or something similar. He told me that he understand what he is doing, I sent him the dev kit and then he ghosted me and I have ended up doing it myself with TinyUSB.

So as I said, really hit and miss on Upwork. Some people are writing lofty skillset so they can get more per hour and then failing miserably.
My sophomore calculus Prof, whenever he'd introduce a new concept he'd say "ees treeveeal!" It was a such a trademark that the students would keep a log in their notes of every "ees treeveeal!". (Of course, the joke was none of it was trivial.)

One day, he remarked that this new concept "ees non-treeveeal". We knew we were in for it then!

My jet engine Prof would lay out the boundary conditions of a problem. Then, "Und now zat vee haff zee eekvayshuns, vee merely turn zee krank!"

What can I say. I enjoyed those classes very much.
This fact was a minor irritation to me until someone pointed out the ways you can discriminate against people with these processes. We really do need to be better about these arbitrary interview techniques. The off the cuff stuff tends to be very biased, and it takes a long time for most of us to notice that maybe hiring ten people who think exactly like I do was not my smartest decision. If indeed they ever work it out at all.
Making source code available and not requiring the same of those who use it is a temporary fleeting freedom that soon turns into lack of freedom.

Like thinking you're ending slavery by freeing all the current slaves but not making it illegal to own, buy, and sell slaves, or capture previously free people into slavery. Guess if you'd have slavery again very soon?

The analogy is about freedom vs lack thereof, not manual labour vs software. And as you see, it works very well.