skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a trade off. Think of the difference between paying the deposit on a house vs. buying a coffee.

Need a large transaction to settle with a high degree of security and finality, but "slowly" (i.e. ~10 minutes)? Do it on-chain.

Need a small transaction to settle instantly and cheaply, but you trade that for some security and finality? Do it on the Lightning Network.

Similar trade offs already exist in traditional finance. See inter-bank transfers and things like FedWire compared to payment networks like Visa and Mastercard.

Some of those inter-banks transfers can take days to weeks to settle with finality and can be expensive. Bitcoin can settle in ~10 minutes relatively cheaply.

Credit card payment networks charge a 1.5-3% fee on each transaction. Transactions on LN are a few sats or fractions of a sat... practically free. Automated micro-transactions are now practical with LN [1].

Also, the Lightning Network isn't a blockchain.

[1] https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/streaming-sats-why-bitc...
> But if you are taking measures not to leak your authorization model in the front end

How would you do that? At the end of the day the front-end needs to know what you can access somehow.

I guess you could add a compile step that rewrites all your permission checks into validating opaque uuid’s.
Government services need to be effective, not efficient. If increasing efficiency reduces effectiveness, as it sometimes does, then we're going to rapidly enter a cycle of "make it more efficient! The service doesn't meet our needs! It's costing too much for what we're getting! Make it more efficient!"

Many public services eventually get asked to be revenue neutral, which kills their value, which leads to people saying things like, "See! Public transit is a waste!"
There's a shitload of black/white/muslim supremacists on Twitter too. Twitter is almost exclusively toxicity.

There's normal people on Gab as well. It's nice if you want to talk about taboo topics during controversial times like lockdowns, certain laptops, certain vaccines, etc..

Basically if you want to escape western propaganda.
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> vs. $10M to purchase goodwill that is only worth $1M.

The goodwill is worth far more than $1M because it affects Google's entire reputation.

They already have a reputation of shutting things down.

How many people will look at this, and start considering whether or not they should move off GCP?

How many people will not sign up for their next big new product because of things like this? Which will ironically be likely for that product failing and being shut down (like Stadia).

It's a vicious cycle, and Google is going to have a hard time breaking it.
All the other answers in the thread focus on maximizing head-to-head score. I'll try to answer the question for the goal of greedily maximizing your own score.

Using the same definitions from the article, we now have (for a 2 person game):

Q_i = -P_i + (1 - sum_{j=1..i}(P_j))

Where the first term is for the case of choosing the same number as your opponent, and the second when it's larger than your opponent.

Now solve the same set of equations, but with our new Q_i. Solving Q_1 = Q_2 analytically is easy, then Q_2 = Q_3 and so on... You get P = (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ...)

So that's the result for this specific 2-player game. You could also ask about the 2-player game with tie=t for any negative t (the above is for t=-1). Now we get

Q_i = t*P_i + (1 - sum(P_j))

Again, solving Q_i=Q_{i+1} is easy and gives

P_{i+1} = (t / (t-1)) * P_i

For example, if t=-2 then (using the fact that all P_i's sum to 1): P = (1/3, 2/9, 3/27, ...)

I did not try to tackle the 3-player game with tie=t.
Because an opinion by itself doesn't add much to the discussion, if we don't know why that opinion is held.

As far as I understand it and as stated the post text up top, the protesters are protesting because a woman died in the custody of the Iranian morality police. That seems like a pretty good reason to protest. If there's more to the story and the protests are actually about something different, then it would be interesting to know what it is. As it is, the comment comes across as "I don't think the death of that woman is worth protesting about" which isn't a sentiment that I think is likely to get much sympathy here.
Introduction to Copulas (Part 2)
Marc Andreesen recently has been talking a lot about the professional managerial class (PMC) and how it's causing the principle actor problem. Everyone is playing it safe and not risking their high pay checks for the off chance of rocking the boat and landing a moon shot. Nobody really makes any hard and decisive moves because there is much to lose and not that much more to win. This was different when we had companies owned by individuals or families.
I was on a blind focus group for cloud offerings. Turned out to be Azure, but every IT person their ranked them AWS, Azure, GCP. And GCP was #3 only because Oracle was universally hated
When I'm working on a side project, I sometimes only have a few hours a week to invest in it. It can take years for the project to be completed. If I want to have any hope of completing the project, I need to be able to plan for multiple years of slow and steady work.

This has gotten easier for me as I've aged (I turned 40 this summer). I'm not sure I could have sustained that level of focus in my early 20s.
Google announced three messaging products in one year.

They literally left a city streets in ruins after abandoning one of their products.

https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-...

Google is not some fly by night startup. But people have learned to treat it like one and not depend on their products.
Wow, this is good analysis and very prescient. I don't necessarily condemn this as a strategy, if you can afford it - there's always a chance of an interesting pivot. The problem is when people know your company doesn't commit to products long-term and don't care if people love them (cough Reader cough), it starts to affect their interest in engaging and committing their time.

/xoogler
Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
I'm more worried about all the criminals that are out there not being caught because we won't crack down on what they're doing, not really because they're some kind of masterminds.
But are they making more money? Surely Tumblr made more before banning porn and OnlyFans wisely reconsidered before they sealed their doom.
Is it though?

Most people sometimes leave the room while ads play on TV. The advertisers know that and work the percentage of pepole that do that into their pricing, etc.

Also, non-organic click fraud is rampant already (and maybe even the majority of clicks). /dev/null + click would at least route ad income to reputable sites that at least have some human readers to view future ad impressions.
I think the highest value of the UN is in the security council. It's a forum for the nuclear powers to talk to each other. Everything else is secondary. If it's enough to avoid WW3, I don't know, but it's all we have.
"People talk" has no value, is there evidence ?
Don't underestimate propaganda in Africa, where Russia ( and China) have much more influence.
> Lab126 created some of the first e-ink technology, right? Is the Kindle, or e-ink screens, or e-ink patents, the worst thing ever... or is there something else I should know about in this space?

There's a lot to unpack in that sentence. Care to elaborate?
>Because an opinion by itself doesn't add much to the discussion

This is a misunderstanding in how downvotes work here.
Hah, good point! In the case of China they're likely to peak soon. The USA might peak much later still. The Roman empire lasted over 1000 years. I have my doubts the US can go the distance, but let's see.
Not that the legislature met the obligation of actually funding them for like 30 years, though.
You have to prove harm, not the other way around
Every once and while?

When was the last time Russia invaded the EU?
bsd variants and sun os used to have n:m APIs but they got deprecated and removed long time ago. It's hard to provide a consistent behavior that works for everyone.
This is conflating two very different issues around social media regulation in my opinion. I won’t claim to know “HN’s” opinion because it will likely be as varied as its users, but there are two main camps in this area:

1. Regulate data privacy and tracking

2. Regulate porn/liability risks

The first camp generally opposes Facebook for its huge collection of personal information and tracking across the web. By “regulation,” they mean make this kind of behavior illegal so I don’t have to run Facebook Container and try to cover my tracks to have privacy online. I don’t really believe these sorts of people have issues with porn online, unless their porn habits/opinions are used to profile them perhaps.

The second camp is the likes of Nicholas Kristof and FOSTA-SESTA, who believe that unregulated social media will lead to sex trafficking and prostitution. I’m not gonna get into the validity of these concerns, but generally these people are not concerned about data privacy and in fact want companies to be able to identify people by name and stop any crimes facilitated via their site.

You also have another curious mention of regulation for kids which I interpret as a reference to Instagram Kids. The backlash here was, from my memory, much broader than the likes of either the EFF or the porn crusaders alone and had a lot to do with the recent press about Facebook being harmful to teenage girls in particular and children in general. So, a lot of parents were upset at the idea of an entire app dedicated just to Instagram for kids. Of course, I am sure there were also people concerned that Facebook was further cementing a digital “pipeline” from childhood to adulthood where your Facebook account follows you the whole way and makes data collection and surveillance even more powerful.

I also disagree with the notion that “no company wants to be the most lax company in the space.” If anything, from this post and also from sites such as OnlyFans, I think many sites “want” to host adult content in the sense of “want” meaning don’t want to turn away potential users. The issue is, as this post touches on, being associated with adult or illicit content can result in payment processors blocking your accounts and advertisers souring. You can see a milder example of this on YouTube with unsavory videos being demonetized because advertisers don’t want their ads played over a video about serial killers or racism. It’s not that YouTube is cowering at some journalist penning them as a public menace, it’s that they want advertisers’ dollars and advertisers don’t like adult content because it’s a threat to their public image.

Regardless, this “race to the bottom” theory doesn’t really hold water when you consider that only Tumblr has banned adult content. Twitter and Reddit still allow it and there are even whole sites dedicated to distribution of it (OnlyFans and its clones) which have never existed before on this scale. Then again, you have things like PornHub taking down “unverified” videos after threat from Mastercard, so it’s not really clear either way.

This was a very long reply I realize, but I had a lot to say I suppose.
But it doesn't make money for them. No-one's actually losing consumer sales by allowing porn. It's all 50+ CEOs worrying about what other 50+ CEOs will think.
It's been around for 7 years now with over 1B users and is directly monetized by storage space. I'm a big Apple ecosystem person and even I use Google Photos instead of iCloud so I would bet on it, yes.
My (main) point was not that Gab is perfect. The main point was: Gab is banned by all these evil app stores, cloud services and financial processors, still it survives and functions. That means - you can have your ideal Gab without relying on these nice monopolists too.

My wish list for such an ideal Gab would be:

- only illegal content should be banned and by legal process only;

- the moderation should be decentralized and placed in each user’s hands. My blocking you should mean I won’t see you, but all others will.

That way you may post all goatses you like, but the “suprematists” (and me) wouldn’t see them. Unless you’ll post some clever things from time to time, not only goatsees, then I would rather read you. But my decision to see or not your posts should not affect other readers.

I would even pay for such a platform.
We have new movies? I thought they abandoned that in the quest for reliable profit, dooming us to endless live action remakes, and and endless stream of remakes of comic book blockbusters.
This blog post seems like a Windows problem specifically...

That being said, in general, modern software is more bloated than ancient software because it does more...
Which 70$ device? I also have one in that range and I don’t trust it.
What is going on in the UK is not, in any imaginable sense of the expression, "financial tightening": the "mini-budget" that prompted the response from the market is a $161bn tax-cut and spending plan funded by government borrowing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2022_United_Kingdom_...
What emulation layers are you speculating there are?
Are they? If they are, then other things we do for pleasure must also be, right?

Are videogames? Books? What about theater?

I painted my office lavender last year, was the industry that made that possible a frivolous use of energy?

What about eating beef? Certainly a hamburger is as frivolous as a frappucino, right?

Or, it could be that none of the above are frivolous at all...
What makes that different than ads on YouTube, where I watch the ad to see a video?
I Stream locally from my gaming PC to Nvidia Shield in 4k with around 80 mbps and it looks as good as an HDMI hookup.(and less than that would look fine)
I remember waiting almost two minutes for Netscape Navigator to start.
Most of them uses GPU for calculation primary so what host CPU is used is a bit off topic. Maybe AMD EPYC is chosen for its great PCIe lane count.
I purchased a 'Yvelines' brand air quality monitor. The company appears to be one of those random word Chinese generic product companies. Some of the readings spike when I take the unit into the garage where we park the cars, keep the lawnmower, gas can, etc. Most go down if I take the unit outside. I don't know how accurate the numbers actually are but it certainly can distinguish between areas with different levels of pollutants.
Asking? Of course not. There's no incentive to just stop, and 100x more signals to consume.

Instead, apply of concept of capital gains being taxed less than income to consumption and carbon footprint. It works for the behavior of the rich. I'm sure Bill would agree. It can work for the rest of us in the context of climate change.

p.s. Funny how Bill (and then wife) built a massively excessive home. I guess he asked himself and that didn't work. So now he speaks from experience?
> You can be as independent as you want if you don't care about getting paid. If you want to run a small web site with handwritten HTML hosted on a server in your house that gets a few hundred visitors a month, you can still do that.

I used to agree with you, but watching Kiwi Farms get cut off from the internet has been pretty sobering.
Project Loom experimentally proved that the benefit of virtual lies not in its fast context switches, but in the throughput afforded by having so many threads executed at once.

I am aware of GC-aware green threads. They allow you to combine your GC pause and scheduler pause into one. Again, this is not the end of the world, even when you don’t have shared mutable state. If anything, it makes it easier to build a runtime on top of.
Iraq: Saddam wanted to move to the Euro for his oil trade.

Libya: Gaddhafi wanted to move to a gold backed African Lira.

Afghanistan was initially due to 9/11 and then became a weapons testing ground.

Syria: "We're keeping the oil."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/keeping-oil-syria-trump-cons...
The objection was to your metaphor.
Maybe the less important people should recognise that they are less important and make peace with their powerful neighbor? When did Ukrainian interests exactly correspond to EU interests? Governments are not charities. What is so important about Ukraine that Germany and France need to suffer for it? Didn't German voters elect their government to put German interests first?
Yep, one of the main reasons I stopped using FB many many years ago was that they made it so hard to view the posts I actually cared about, and gave the user almost no control. It was clear at least a decade ago that FB didn't care about users and just saw them as chattel to squeeze for money.
So most of them. This sort of thing happens all the time everywhere. Unfortunately.
Which part, specifically, is damning? Because this document largely says, "we believe that ethics is important in research" and "we shouldn't stigmatize the populations we research".
Why then program the brain to try to understand that it's in a simulation when the goal was to create a realistic simulation in the first place? That'd be a rookie mistake on part of the simulation developers.
I draw the line at adversarial wasting of energy.

Bitcoin needs to waste energy for security. If humanity manages to produce twice the energy, bitcoin needs to waste so much that the economic price of the energy to attack it is similar, so likely bitcoin would have to use twice as much energy to produce the same good.

On the other hand, if humanity were to produce twice as much energy, your frappucino would still take the same amount (or less if the machines get more efficient somehow!), and would maybe even become cheaper with the cheaper cost of electricity.

Adversarial proof of work is designed to not be able to become more efficient. It is designed to only operate in energy scarcity. Without PoW, creating a fusion reactor may mean energy is effectively free for everyone. With PoW, electricity must have a high enough cost that it deters attacking bitcoin, so anyone who owns bitcoin has a vested interest in wasting electricity until it is scarce and costs money again.
The problem with that approach is that nobody agrees on what is frivolous. So it ends up being counter-productive as everyone squabbles about why their most hated thing is frivolous and should be banned/regulated, whilst the thing they like provides enough benefits that is should be left alone.

Off the top of my head, the things I have seen people argue should be banned due to climate effects:
- Eating meat
- Plane travel
- Cars
- Only large 4WD's ( but not cars)
- Clothes dryers
- Bitcoin
- AI
- Computer games
- Christmas lights
- etc
It doesn't, except that I guess the publisher doesn't have to run a license server. IMO this would be better achieved by simply not having a license check, at least on some terminal version after which no updates will go out.
A normal master is cut in metal, not acetate.

That metal positive is then plated and turned into a negative, and then the stampers are made from the negative.
Do you mean the "long term"-ness has gotten easier? Or just focusing up in general?

I am 39, and I feel like I have 20% of the (mental) focus I had at 20. What's your secret?
Why should 3rd parties be allowed to sell unauthorized devices to be connected to the telephone line?

Additionally, phones are only monetized through leasing, and 3rd party phones aren’t leased. How do you expect the 1st party to stay in business?

I don’t align with AT&T on a lot of issues, but they should be able to control which phones connect to their network. Don’t like it, don’t use it.
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Indeed. This is basically the crime version of the anthropic principle.
Imagine that was probably limit on hard drive read speed
valve is a very, very, very different company
> I find it kind of astonishing people are citing Ukrainian numbers as anything short of blatant propaganda, just like Russian ones.

US reports are worthless, because it has no soldiers on the ground.

The extremely high Russian casualty rate has been reported by multiple independent sources from inside Russia.

For instance:

> "Everyone went to the SVO," Astashov told RFE/RL, using the acronym for "special military operation," the euphemism the Kremlin has insisted on using when discussing the war in Ukraine.

> According to Astashov, the size of the brigade when it deployed was about 1,500 troops. The total number of dead, by Astashov's estimate: "At least several hundred."

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-army-casualty-rate-64th-briga...

Also, many huge Russian loses in Ukraine were confirmed by NATO countries with visuals:

> The British defense ministry on Friday said satellite imagery has confirmed that Ukrainian forces decimated a Russian battalion as it tried to cross a series of pontoon bridges over a river in northeast Ukraine earlier this week, a dramatic setback for Russian forces already struggling to make significant progress along the eastern front.

> Russian battalion groups generally have between 700 and 1,000 men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/world/europe/ukraine-russ...
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English pronunciation ;)
No. It's Bloomberg. Imagine the type of talent they are attracting. They can't pay a competitive salary, the b players they have on staff think that scoops come from their boss, and in approximately 10 years time they are going to be replaced by AI that will do a better job writing click bait articles for their brainwashed audience. Why would anyone with half a brain be working there?
At this rate, within a few years we'll have people creating low quality movies just by describing what they want the movie to look like. Soon, every book will have a video version. As someone who has written several unpublished science fiction novels, I can't wait.
> Have you considered that you have the causality flipped, and that people are generally rich because they're good at making money under adverse conditions?

They might have. However any look at generational wealth dynamics quickly dispels that idea. Any above market performance rich people have are simply able to have better managers because managing bigger pools pays more and maybe an education which focuses on maintaining and building wealth. This education could be widely available but it is not made widely available. I am not going to imply a conspiracy here or appeal to class interests for explanation and just leave it as a statement of fact.
And low available RAM paired with a slow hard drive and memory swapping.
Wait, why wouldn't that be true for Bitcoin too? Surely the folks who can afford the most Asics can exert the most control...

Both Ethereum and Bitcoin are subject to basic laws of capital... The rich were always going to benefit the most.
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Can we just not.
I predicted July 2022 when it was announced, off by a couple months :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19434347
The market doesn’t care. Making the program run in 1 second instead of 2 seconds takes the same effort as adding a new feature. The new feature empowers users more than saving a second, where they have the option of just buying a faster computer if they care.
DC native here. Glancing at Google maps, I'd say it looks further out than Arlington. Maybe I'd put it at about Rockville.