skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HFT industry annual profits 2-4 billion. That's a long holiday weekend for Google or FB

Nitpick: that’s 10 to 37 days for Google or FB. 2B for Google is ~10 days, 4B for Meta is 37 days. Alphabet net income for 2021 was $76.033B, Meta Net income $39.370B.
Our device is on OpenWrt (like most routers), but the key here is that it is for people who are not technical, do not want to/or know how to throw OpenWrt on a RPi and integrate a bunch of things.
That being said - we started with OpenWrt on a Pi hahah! But quickly started having issues with the wifi hat and the network over USB function.

Where would you say your level of network/technical skills are when it comes to your home network tapper out of interest? (I am presuming you are not an average home smart device user)
https://archive.ph/PhF1A
Top paying languages are Clojure, F#, OCaml
GCC and LLVM both have terrible UX with their ridiculous compilation times. Go wanted good developer UX so that ruled those out.

None of those VMs would allow for the native compilation that was another design goal.

They had specific design goals which nothing out there met.
> It takes like 5 minutes, and once you are in the habit it's something you do automatically as you write the code and so it doesn't actually cost you extra time.

This is the argument I've been having my whole career with people who claim the better way is "too hard and too slow" .

I'm like "gee, funny how the thing you do the most often you're fastest at... could it be that you'd be just as fast at a better thing if you did it more than never?" .
> tl;dr a routine upgrade marked the zero hash as a valid root, which had the effect of allowing messages to be spoofed on Nomad. Attackers abused this to copy/paste transactions and quickly drained the bridge in a frenzied free-for-all

From this explainer:

> It’s [Nomad is] built to address security first The Nomad team has been building secure bridges as a team for 4+ years and has studied the pitfalls of multi-sig and validator-based bridges.

https://medium.com/imperator-guide/nomad-a-cross-chain-inter...

Assuming this is true, and assuming the team is not incompetent or composed of the typical grifters, perhaps it's time to draw the inevitable conclusion. No amount of experience is sufficient to safeguard an Ethereum protocol of any interesting complexity.

It's a reasonable question to ask, WTF is Nomad for? After all, isn't Ethereum supposed to be the World Computer, Turing complete and ready for any task? Nope. Never was.

I think a good chunk of the answer can be found on the home page:

> Nomad reduces gas fees by a factor of 10x relative to traditional header relay systems, while remaining decentralized.

https://www.nomad.xyz

That world computer is choked to the gills with accumulated waste. The proliferation of chains is the response. Each one is less secure than its forebear. Gobbledygook like Nomad is the "connective tissue" to get the various organs of this science project talking to each other.

Dive deeply enough down and you find the root of it all: everybody wants to make the next Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Polkadot, and so on. With each turn of the crank a new crop of Barnums springs up to take the money of an unending supply of digital rubes.
There's no way I could charge a car at my house. It's only accessible by a narrow alley that goes to the street between two other houses. Of course, where I live, I only actually need a car once in a while. I have a car, and when it finally dies, we probably won't replace it. Just not worth the expense.
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in what way is Obsidian a "flat" system? It has folders, no? Or did you mean something else?
Makes me wonder what parts of your mental and emotional health are mediated by your own breath?

Since the brain attenuates everything outside of the status quo what portion of what it is spending energy attenuating is your own malodorous exhalations?

How does the static labor of keeping your autonomous body on cruise control affect your mental and emotional health? If we could identify and control some of those things, how would their presence or absence alter your mood and worldview?
I much prefer octopodes over octopuses (which sounds dirty, somehow). Agree that octopi is an abomination.
If you had said 20 years you'd probably have been right. But going back 30 includes Python which is still WAY bigger than Go.
How about the Turpan water system?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan_water_system

An artificial oasis city built in the Late Middle Ages* on the Taklamakan Desert for travellers along the Silk Road, it provided irrigation by having more than 5,000km of hand-dug underground tunnels to transport water from the mountains; an IMHO extremely impressive feat of geoengineering for the time.

* https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7_...
> Only 100000x less efficiently.

You're being too kind to crypto there, I think, by a few orders of magnitude.
And that is undoubtedly part of why "brainstorming" has been found not to be the best way to share ideas.
I can't think of any.

There's the Remarkable, but I hear second-hand that it's poor at ebook reading.

Does B&N count as a big evil corporation? I'm frankly surprised they're still going but the Kobo seems interesting and it purportedly handles epub natively.

Myself, I just surrendered and bought a Kindle Paperwhite and paired it with Calibre.

For tech books, I tend to prefer my iPad (I already have it, and it's easier to page flip).
one of the most popular use cases: as a dust collector in a drawer /s
> The post gained a number of replies and the sentiment that “web3 is trash” is about as commmon today as “McKinsey is trash.”

Those are both low-value, ad hominem attacks that don't substantively engage with content, and they are both comments that erode the quality of discussion in our community.
> Perhaps Kendi can take a visit to Africa and witness that there are more slaves today in Africa than any other continent, food for thought for a target audience while he writes his next book.

He's too busy on the high-paying-racist-grifter-speech-circuit to do that.
I gave you a slate of really good reasons for this. You're bring overdramatic. My initial ask, & further suggestion, that you try to say what does or doesnt make sense to you, is not the personal assault you keep taking it as.
Question for those familiar with the backend of things like Alexa, Google Home, Siri:

At what point can we say things like “turn off the bedroom light in 5 minutes” or “stop music and turn off all the lights”? Even something like “keep the lights on” in a motion sensor system is impossible it seems. Because to me they feel like low hanging fruit, and yet despite all the advances in machine learning and these systems being around for the better part of a decade, anything but the simplest single-task no-modifier commands result in a “sorry… I didn’t understand that” or completely unpredictable results. Is there something inherently difficult about these types of queries?
Cassandra was just an example, but most databases can be scaled either vertically or horizontally via sharding. You are right if misconfigured performance can be hindered, but this is also true for a database which is being scaled vertically. Generally speaking you will get better performance if you have a large dataset by growing horizontally then you would by growing vertically.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/14/how-sharding-a-databas...
Actual KYC so they don't base guilt on spurious associations based on dynamic IP or physical addresses that someone else might have used?
> I'm just wondering if you all think that is a coincidence or not...

I see no correlation between these two events. Elon Musk told his 100 million+ Twitter followers Yet Another Vague Comment, and you also happened to start advertising a cool thing you made at around the same time. Unless one of those stars is Elon Musk's GitHub account, I don't really see where you're coming from here.

Curiously, this feeds into another strange trend I'm seeing on Hacker News; people who claim to be 'interpreters' for Elon's weirder comments. I'm not accusing you of being one, but HN has seen a lot of strange posts like "Elon secretly made Bitcoin" and "Elon fired me because I was smarter than him". It's unsolicited advice, but I think some people would be well-served ignoring Twitter and focusing on their own hustle. You've got a really neat project there, it would be a shame if development stopped because you're trying to woo some rich has-been on social media. At least try Mark Cuban, he's the one with a history of investing in elevator pitches.

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Response: by all means, don't let me be the person to stop you from working on this :p

I'm mostly just pissed at this site's trends of social dysfunction. HN's platonic ideal of a technocrat is the same stereotype that Silicon Valley made fun of a decade ago. Nowadays, I click "New" just to see people courting Elon Musk's attention, defending people who will never know they exist, and quoting pithy Steve Jobs 'originals'. Maybe I'm asking for blood from a stone, but I wish a group of like-minded hackers could associate with each other without turning it into a pissing contest. It's the same lack of humility and empathy that makes TikTok and Twitter such depressing places to scroll through, now twice as frustrating since most of these people are consummate professionals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog may explain the ban.
Read a meta study like https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Long.... From section 3.3-3.4, you can see that psychedelic use is beneficial for anxiety and depression and results in improved well-being, increased openness to experience and increased spirituality. Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for substance abuse has positive effects. The safety profile shows that they are not risk-free but that there are few negative long-term effects.
I kinda feel the same. I wake up very calm (most days), and in a few minutes, not sure if its only the caffeine, or the mind worrying about the day... I start to "rush" and worry.

Maybe I just got used to the feeling and have to feel it to start working.
Cost control is important, but I appreciate that structure. I skipped all services like this because it costed me less to have a dynamic website hosted on digital ocean than a static website with a form service.

With this service that is pay-per-use, I can finally "afford it". Thank you!
The issue is that you're breaking the site guidelines, which all exist for good reasons. They're organized around trying to preserve this place for its intended purpose, which is curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. If you want to keep posting here, we need you to use HN in that spirit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You can't judge this by upvotes alone (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Lots of things that break the HN guidelines—like sensationalism, indignation, and political battle—routinely get plenty of upvotes. That's why we need moderation in the first place: to help jig the system out of its failure modes.

"Calling out" and the like is a really bad marker for HN comments. It's the sort of thing people do from entrenched, emotionally charged, pre-existing positions. Perhaps you're right that others are morally preening or double standarding or whatever, but going on the attack in response is definitely not the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for.

None of this, btw, has to do with agreeing or disagreeing with your particular views. I don't know or care what those are. This is just routine and obvious HN moderation, and would apply the same way if you were arguing for opposite things.
> ISO-8601 for thew win. Accept no substitutes.

Preach on!
I'm getting strong Temple OS vibes from this. Has anyone checked in on the creator of this site to see if they're OK?
yea, usb dfu, better tooling and the price is nearly interchangeable. heck, small PDIPs are sometimes more expensive and less stocked
Adopting Sigstore Incrementally
> GCC and LLVM both have terrible UX with their ridiculous compilation times.

And so will go if it implements the optimizations they implement. GCC and LLVM are not putting sleep(10) everywhere just for the sake of longer compilation times.
I see, so we are never going to be able to use trees to capture our current current CO2 emissions. However would it be possible to use trees (and other photosynthetic organisms) to capture our historic emissions in a mass global atmospheric cleanup efforts, after we’ve mostly gone carbon neutral? Or is that also like a 1000 year effort even if we became carbon neutral tomorrow?
Well, as I said, you can complicate things to an arbitrary extent and make them arbitrarily inefficient, and they clearly have done so because their site went down under the load of less than a million pageviews. But the essential part of the service is delivering some HTML, JS, CSS, and images, and updating the client webpages with new flight status information, and that doesn't require 3.1 megabytes, 180 hits, a WAF, an API gateway, etc.

There's no reason FlightRadar24 has to require as much horsepower as running a WordPress site, which involves interpreting PHP (inherently inefficient, throws away 95% of your CPU power in exchange for flexibility and easy end-user programmability) and accepting user comments from a substantial fraction of users. It does require maintaining hundreds of thousands of open connections for Comet, which WordPress doesn't, but that's a manageable problem ever since kqueue landed in FreeBSD and epoll landed in Linux. It's not 01999 anymore.

Let's do an estimate of database size. 100_000 flights a day means about 32768 flights at any given time. You might get an update on each of these flights once a minute, so maybe 720 updates per flight, maybe 16 kilobytes per flight. That's 512 megabytes for the entire database. Not only can you fit that in RAM now; you can fit that in RAM on a 286 from 01987.

If the way you're accustomed to building websites results in websites that crash under light load, maybe you should consider doing it a different way rather than criticizing people who tell you there's a better way to do it.

Though I guess you missed it, I did talk about caches in my comment (edge caches with instant invalidation is the service Fastly provides), which was 626 words, less than three minutes of reading. Calling it a "walltext" makes me think you'd die of a heart attack if you ever saw a book.
Seems pretty testable. Co administer the LSD with something to knock out the individual, and ideally prevent them from dreaming.

You could determine if the benifit(s) arise from the the process, experience, and dis/associations of the trip or simply the subconscious biochemical fuckery.
Even if you had said only the last 15 years, that would still include languages like Clojure, Rust, Typescript, Swift, and Julia. But from 20 to 30 years you start to get into the league of: C# and Java, R, Lua, PHP, Ruby... In other words, there is no way you can prove your assertion.
Hah? Bridge head to what? Contain China?
new boss who once tried to write a 2-threaded app and got burnt, so from then onward he mandated to never use multiple threads

An unfortunate overreaction, I agree.

Does everything have to become dumb to make it safe?

I don’t think trying to avoid shared mutable state is dumb. It’s deliberately choosing a safer default, just like not allowing all references to be null or not accepting the string "123" where an integer like 123 is needed.

Sometimes it can be useful to have shared mutable state, or to make a reference nullable, or to accept different types of data and quietly reinterpret them the same way internally. But these are inherently more dangerous styles of programming — they create opportunities for mistakes that are otherwise systematically prevented — so it seems reasonable to encourage the safer alternatives unless there is a good reason not to use them, and to make the more dangerous choices the ones you have to make explicitly.
The rituals are already happening. We just choose to ruin people's lives over it.
They actually show promise for stopping additions.
The Gore-Tex membrane itself is apparently(?) PFAS-free since some years, however Gore-Tex materials usually have a second waterproofing treatment (a surface coating called DWR, durable water repellent) which, drumroll, contains PFAS. Cheeky buggers, convincing people they had solved the problem years ago. ;)

Apparently they have some improvement in the pipeline that will bring about really PFAS-free product in the next few years or so. https://saferchemicals.org/2021/09/30/gore-tex-manufacturer-...
> isn't Airflow's problem, it's your problem

This is a baffling statement.
Speak for yourself. I can’t stand the summer. It’s the worst.
".. ambitious staffing trajectory".

Read: We were spending money on new hires like a drunken socialist sailor to show "growth" to keep the bubble going and sucking in even more VC money. My bad.

Tired - burn rate, wired - hiring rate.
PFAS-free usually means PFAS-lookalike AFAIK.
Yep... and it would have likely just fizzled out as all the existing toolchains have a terrible UX and that is one of Go's best points.
What if DALL-E or its successor spits out a few hundred trillion illustrations? None are copyrightable?

I think someone taking the time to touch this up would make it copyrightable and trademarkable, and I'm okay with that.

AI generated patents though? Only if we allow AI generated prior art.
Note for those reading this: I'm pretty sure the diagrams in the first part of Chapter 6 are all mislabeled. The diagram labeled as an encirclement maneuver is really a penetration maneuver, the penetration maneuver diagram is really of a thrust maneuver, etc.
Indeed, my other German bank will promptly disown me if I stop living in Germany, but they at least are upfront about it.

Leaving aside my annoyance at the first bank's behavior, it was a definite learning moment, in that I had assumed a "normal" bank could not just kick you out because they feel like it. In Germany, indeed they can!
Embracing randomness is necessary in cloud environments (pdf)
I know linux is a future supported platform but as far as I'm aware, there's not a clear unified way to build bundles in this way across linux distributions. What kind of things are you folks considering if you don't mind my curiosity.
Flashback to the time that I bumped into my friend coming out of the research library in the afternoon. He was ABD at the time. He made an attempt to say hi but was incoherent. I played it off like a regular conversation, because I knew he'd been writing all day.
OK, so it sounds like it’s possible in France too, you just need to employ yourself (and then pay employment-related contributions). In Poland, this is a little simplified, as there’s a company structure called “single-person company” (I’m sorry, this is my own translation of the term, it’s probably not the best) which combines these two things (i.e. after creating this type of company you pay social security for yourself, without any extra employment contract).
> Why is it different that it’s within a metal than the stuff the universe cooled into?

Because that's the point of classification - we want to distinguish between case A and case B. Everything in existence is an emergent property of the universe, but you can't really have any meaningful conversation if the only noun in your vocabulary is "stuff."

> protons are a hole in the background fuzz of quarks and gluons in cold aether

No, there is no cold aether, and protons are not holes in anything. They are composite particles. To the degree that their constituent parts can be described as excitations of quantum fields, so can they, but they are no less real.

> I’m not sure I follow: proton mass is related to flux tubes suppressing that fuzz in the area of the proton. Empty space has energy, which manifests as that particle fuzz.

Proton mass comes from the confinement of its constituent parts. Only about 9% of the proton's mass is a result of the quarks it contains interacting with the quark field, which again is not literally a "fuzz" of discrete particles. Flux tubes are just shapes of magnetic fields. Protons are not just their mass, they have many properties.
>Even for most engineers, somewhere between five and ten million is enough to retire on (3.5% safe withdrawal rate) at a nice standard of living, again assuming you don't want to live in the bay area, NYC, Seattle or LA.

Especially if you already own a place you're happy to live in long term, money in that range is enough to live very comfortably anywhere in the US. No, you're not flying private jets and maybe not employing multiple full-time domestic staff, but $200K-400K per year without even touching principal is absolutely enough to have a nice standard of living even in Manhattan.
This is likely a more "reasonable" path unless you "go into business for yourself" as a plumber or a consultant, neither of which actually makes a salable business.

Especially since you only need to keep your expenses 10% lower (or so) than your after-tax income to hit a reasonable target.
Jellyfish filmed by diver off Papua New Guinea could be rare or new species
Oops! I just checked my email! There seem to be several more responses. I will get back to everyone ASAP.

We might even have room for even a few more!

Thanks guys! Thank you HN <3
Thanks.

I just like the elegance of the design of non-tiltrotor VTOLs, in the sense that there aren't a lot of extra parts, just two motors and two control surfaces.

The downside with most designs is the stability of hovering in a cross-wind. You kind of need to automatically yaw so that the wing is span-wise towards the wind. Otherwise it is difficult to maintain position.
Personal opinions aside it is a valid use case. They can track the wallet and they will, but they cannot close/lock the wallet as they did bank accounts. As you’ve implied there are methods to achieve anonymity but they require technical knowledge. If this becomes a commonly understood use case it will likely become easier for the average person.
Another issue is that keys are not unique. Two objects might contain an "id" key, for example, that identifies them in different ways. This is problematic if you want to arbitrarily merge objects together.

Don't exactly understand this part, if one of your objects has its unique identifier as "userID" and the other as "invoiceID" you can merge them without conflict or what I'm missing? "id" is indeed use widely in blog examples/tutorials and even books but it's not the norm for enterprise data.