skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want my "appeal to numbers" argument, you can see it all over this thread.

It seems like I'm getting a continual -2 on votes for all of my arguments just cause I'm coming off as "pro-vaccine". So it doesn't actually seem to matter what appeals I make.

Also though, I don't really believe I'm changing anyone's mind on this. I'm just inviting people consider the humanity of things like "child deaths". Which, is much easier to consider as a number than it is as an actual concept.
Europe doesn't have a large scale crypto mining industry. Energy prices aren't competitive enough there for it to be viable.

Europe's hashrate could disappear overnight and barely anyone would notice.
I have found the ideal highway speed to be 90. Set the adaptive cruise control and relax.
Maybe I misunderstood, but if the investments were on the "assets" side, doesn't that mean that FTX was the VC investor here - and the "asset" is the potential of the investment to pay off?
If you take out all the crime (unlicensed taxis/hotels) and subsidies, is there any value left? I never used them but I've seen a lot of people saying that e.g. airbnb isn't actually any cheaper or easier than a hotel nowadays.
> The main difference in result is that with the mRNA, there is an upper bound to the number of cells which can be infected

Reverse-transcriptase enzyme in liver cells in a lab has been shown to convert the mRNA vaccines into DNA. While it's unclear if it would actually be a permanent change to cells, DNA is a lot more stable than RNA and could hang around a lot longer than expected, and result in a lot more spike protein than expected.

https://www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/44/3/73
That answers my question. Thank you
It’s a very different scenario.

Just selling to other early-stage startups doesn’t generate much growth/revenue or make you look like a solid business to a sophisticated investor. SaaS/B2B companies that make it big do so because they get huge numbers of small-medium businesses using their platform, not just startups - E.g., Slack, Stripe, Square, Shopify, Canva, Zendesk, Zapier, Segment.

Having other startups using your product is a good early source of product feedback and a strong signal to very early-stage investors, but that alone doesn’t give you the huge growth you need for bigger funding rounds.

It’s very different to the scenario PG was describing in the late 90s; in those days, a startup would be founded, quickly IPO to raise several $million from unsophisticated retail investors, then spend much of it on advertising on Yahoo to drive traffic and artificially push the share price up. Hence when the music stopped in 2000 all that ad spend dried up and Yahoo’s share price crashed.

All those companies I mentioned above are going fine; slowed growth, sure, but they have real businesses with broad customer bases well beyond the startup ecosystem, so they’re all able to continue operating and keep doing OK.
Mainstream news doesn’t understand mainstream EV range
Social stability needs to be maintained by government even if that means everyone's getting a bail out.
When a million people lose their savings it is EVERYONE'S problem.

See Roosevelt's New Deal that saved the country (and got America in shape to fight WW2).
Right, so you already have all the answers, it’s a big mystery why the manufacturers are doing this research. A big mystery to you, that is.

Indeed there is no point in communicating further, you made up your mind years ago and you will probably never progress beyond repeating the old talking points. Luckily most of the rest of the world has started to see reality is a bit more nuanced than ‘COVID is doom, vaccine is good’.
This only comes into play once you've started the interview process, unless you're saying you're so jaded that you don't even bother contacting candidates with good resumes.
So you want some other people to sacrifice their life goals in order to achieve yours?

I'm just not sure how it works in practice.

And yeah, they would be taken care of by evolution.
But it does what it can. It patches the system, the kernels, adds many hardening features, provides updated browser engines, and removes the proprietary unpatchable components that it can.

This is all well documented on the website, please read through it.
> You can't get banned from email

If your domain gets added to blocklists from gmail/outlook/spamhaus you basically are.
He didn't come up with that number. Twitter engineers told him that number.
Individual plan works great. Since these tools are in an infancy, the user culture has yet to catch on. Launch individual plan (no limits). Launch a friends feature with tracking/comments.

Launch teams feature under paid plan that has a management system built in, with a manager.

Btw, i bought a lifetime plan (sucker?) but it is not activating.
Can you show any examples of "go compiler being garbage"? In my experience, it often generates much smarter code than C# or Java.
I try to avoid updating my iPhone for as long as humanly possible. I find updates generally bring bugs, features I don’t want, apps I don’t want, and sometimes taking away things I like.
No, generally in terms of QOL. If you make less, but what you have goes further (because of offsets like national health services and otherwise functioning societies)there are some tradeoffs that some folks are ready to make.
Musk has said he's a free speech absolutist, and also he likes to cultivate an environment where iron sharpens iron.

This shouldn't be job-ending for someone who extends the first amendment to 'corporation owners shall make no rule abridging the freedom of speech, especially in their own town square'..
author of the tweet also worked at Heroku as vp engineering before joining GitHub
Hy isn't transpiled though, it's compiled into valid python bytecode so some of the traditional issues around transpilation doesn't apply to Hy.
Non-Violent Communication ("NVC") by Marshall Rosenberg changed how I communicate forever. The big lesson to focus on people's underlying needs in a conversation = gamechanger.
This reads like an autodidact's rediscovery of psychological egoism: https://iep.utm.edu/psychological-egoism/
But it gives you custom emoji!
Yes, your custom emojis will turn into images anyone can see. See: https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/847#issuecomment-131372...
> For anything 64 bits or smaller, value semantics are pretty much always going to be better.

That's assuming a 64-bit CPU (which admittedly seems like a reasonable assumption. The nice thing about the abstraction though is that there's nothing preventing the runtime from applying value semantics for those trivial small-object cases where they're obviously more efficient.
I really disliked those. I had this fun routine where I would let my dogs pick a fortune cookie and then read the fortune to him or her before giving the cookie to the dog as a treat. One time Sky got, "you will live a long life and eat many cookies." I about cried.

These, blegh took all the fun out of it and I just stopped getting Chinese take-out.
I have to point out that these actions were condemned contemporaneously as well. Even in their own time, by others living through those times, this was considered an atrocity. Standards of socially acceptable harm to minorities may have been different then, but we also know that this was easily recognized as unjust at the time, by the fact that so many people at the time did condemn it as unjust.
Also, brief note, that you might think you're an emotionless rational machine, but very few people actually respond well to that. So it's important to use everything in your rhetorical toolbox including appeals to emotion to try and convince the wide range of responses people might have.
Who isn't being heard? Did he silence the tweets?
No, but then we should see more Western countries with money problems having the same issues.
Elon Musk said "the App makes >1000 RPC".

Calling the backend services the "App" would be atypical. So it's expected than an App engineer (the one on Android, the most popular Twitter App) would assume Elon is talking about calls made by the App, wouldn't he?

There may be 1000+ microservices fed the firehose and so on on the backend. Sure.

But... those microservices also existed two weeks ago, when Twitter was running just fine.
I'm friends with a few of the super early Danger employees. My buddy and I were trying to use that opportunity to get our app into that store. At the time, you kind of needed to know someone on the inside to get listed on stores, especially if your app wasn't a game or ringtone.

We built a small and simple bartender app that had a UX almost exactly like the hiptop address book. You could easily look up recipes for drinks and then we'd let you build a shopping list. It was a fun exercise that was about a month of development time for the both of us. Mostly, it was just cleaning up the recipe data and adding a few drinks on our own.

It turns out that T-Mobile wouldn't list the app because they didn't have the ability to make sure that everyone using the app was 21+. We fought with this for months over it and eventually gave up. It was a really frustrating experience.

Apple came along with the iPhone and their own store model and while people used to complain heavily about it, I kept thinking at least it wasn't T-Mobile.

By the way, the VM was the precursor to Dalvik, which eventually turned into what is now Android...

https://medium.com/@chrisdesalvo/the-future-that-everyone-fo...
Admittedly, it wasn't a book or course.

But I remember really struggling to get my head around Obj-C syntax - I was trying to learn iOS development, but I hadn't been exposed to atypical syntax before, so it was completely tripping me up.

I left it a couple of years and eventually came back to it. At some point, I came across this page, and it finally made sense: http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/
Nope. Under 40% of households in my area own cars; in the area I grew up in, it's under 25%[1].

[1]: https://edc.nyc/article/new-yorkers-and-their-cars
I think/hope the crime companies are a minority. I wish the industry would do more to root them out, but I guess there's no profit motive in it. I've never understood why the government didn't come down hard on Uber/AirBNB/etc. and those who invested in them. (Isn't this why RICO exists?)
First, that is nonsense. Just because there are people accusing others of fallacious arguments for no good reason doesn't mean you can always just disregard the claim.

Second, you're the one not addressing my actual points but I'm supposed to be the one who's dismissive and immature?

You can just search for proposed bill, draft eu, and such. There's plenty evidence that the argument such submissions are offtopic is false.

You then insinuate that this would lead to a load of overly similar submissions and conversations by comparing legislation to software releases. How's that not a slippery slope? Where will all those tech bills suddenly come from?

Besides, I'm not arguing for more of the same but simply against the notion that early stage submissions are not appropriate for HN. This would not bring any major changes to the queue.
> You DO own the ETH.

Personal wallets cannot participate in ETH staking and you know it. The first step is to transfer your ETH to a large scale, trusted wallet, like Coinbase's wallet.

What you own is an IOU from Coinbase saying they owe you the ETH at a future date. The value of this IOU is taxable of course. But the important thing is that if Coinbase goes bankrupt, it is an unsecured IOU / bond that is junior to Coinbase's other creditors.

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Just like how depositors into Celsius "owned" IOUs saying they had BTC or ETH or USDC in Celsius... it turns out that the value of those IOUs is worthless as the bankruptcy proceedings carried forward. Customer deposits, in the USA, are junior to investment banker's bonds that funded the business to begin with.
Impressed that PyPi had HIBP-check measures in place. Kudos to them on that, I hope it's more widespread.
I have the same use case but with very different results. “hotwords play my playlist foo” works for many values of foo with both google assistant and Siri. Ditto mapping, ditto sending texts.

Do you have an uncommon accent?
This argument comes with the rather absurd assumption that the only material that's being blocked is that which the community agrees is harmful. When more often than not it's simply the material that is from individually small enough third-parties where the content doesn't really matter.

On top of that, there isn't community agreement as much as there is community ignorance. For every case we hear about of someone being banned or blocked by an automated system despite doing nothing wrong, there are hundreds more similar cases which simply don't gain enough traction for the 'community' to hold the service provider responsible.
Yes, ProtonAOSP: https://protonaosp.org/
All this without your own definition of a "bunch"!
That's absolutely true, although it doesn't change the equation much for my area: most households here don't own cars.
Have you read this exception in the link you posted:

- "with one exception. Men under 40 who received a second dose of the Moderna vaccine had a higher risk of myocarditis followingvaccination. The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are available in the U.S."
I'd say it's worth a mention.

But then it's also quite an unfair comparison if you compare the all the vaccinated against a filtered group of unvaccinated people.
Of course not, and that wasn't the point. Did you think it was?
> people have nothing better to do that read hundreds of pages of European legalese

That’s what they do all day long themselves after all. It’d be reasonable to think that everyone has as much free time on their hands, right?
> It's that people are bending over backwards to find shitty things in the silver linings of these companies, instead of just complaining about the thunderclouds themselves like the rest of us.

I'm sorry.. but wasn't it the US Government make significant investments in both companies producing this therapy? Wasn't the the US Military that drove much of the initial interest into mRNA therapies in the first place?

Why do we continue to consider these companies as anything other than conduits of government research and funding? When then is it a surprise when these companies don't recognize this that people become offended?
> If you trash everything, of course you're going to turn out to be the guy who was right "since the very beginning".

But he was right. Do you really think tether/iFinex/Bitfinex/Deltec are nice persons playing it fair?

It's clear he wants Bitfinex to fail and Bitfinex shall eventually fall.
I don't know unfortunately - I just happen to have used an optician for years since buying my first set of glasses (Schuller Opticians in London) with just two branches, who uses Zeiss.
We were talking about how many men today want to be a househusband. I fail to see what that has to do with historical wars. The comparison would be men today and if they are signing up for wars. Are you? If not why bring up war?

Also we were talking about what men want.

Does the fact men fought in wars imply they wanted to fight in wars?

Did men in history during times of peace sit around saying to themself 'I hope someone starts a war so I have an excuse to stab a guy and get away from my wife and kids?'

"Are you arguing men aren't predisposed to solve their problems physically?"

Assuming you are a man... unless you are Tony Soprano and you go around hitting people with a baseball bat you probably don't "solve your problems physically".

So why write a sentence like "Are you arguing men aren't predisposed to solve their problems physically"
>I doubt anyone uses hy in production for completely other reasons, would love to be proven wrong.

When I was working on Hy, almost 10 years ago, there was a couple of Hy core devs that had managed to push some Hy code into production. I won't name names, but a known company used Hy when processing firewall rules (if i recall correctly).

I doubt that code is still being used, and I'm not aware of anyone beyond a couple of previous Hy core devs that managed to push Hy into production.
And there lies the issue with propping up the demand side of the equation with unlimited money from the government rather than regulating the supply side with affordable charges.
The fact that you cannot configure or control Slackbot in any way is a _huge_ hole in the Slack feature set. You can't even mute it - I cannot say how many times I've been interrupted by a useless notification from Slackbot.
Sadly, this is true, distractions are a tool which have been well used as subterfuge. And the fourth pillar of democracy have been bought, and most of the rest just spew badly written clickbait. It's hard to have a good government when people are not well informed or educated, to see things more broadly, question things and relate them to historical events. The thing is, it's hard to question things if you don't have a good framework, which has to be more than just navel-gazing. Some only see what is immedietly in front of them, and feed into the emotional side of things as a distraction.
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Well this is alarmist. I haven’t read the ActivityPub spec or code but the main failing in the current implementation of Mastodon is the codebase is not conducive to horizontal scaling.

There will probably be work in that domain sooner or later. Or it’ll never really take off. Either way I like how it’s small and niche. Let the normals stay on Twitter and they can keep the advertisers, too.

Moderation is done by users of a node or a server admin or admins. And from what I can see admins block on a node level and users can block folks at the user or a whole subdomain/node.
Same happened to me. I ran Adsense and one day received an email from Google saying I was permanently suspended.

I knew I’d done nothing wrong, but there was nothing I could do to prove it to Google. Nor did they provide any useful info on what I’d done wrong.

This was the first experience I had of the perils of Big Tech monopolies holding the keys to entire sectors. Once they shut you out it’s game over.

Since then I’ve not found another decent ad provider. There are loads of awful ones that hit your users with deceptive and obtrusive ads. I just want banner ads, like Adsense served.

Any suggestions appreciated.
Well, it depends on your data model. Like, if you write only a little (compared to reads), write-thru model of cache (write to cache as well as to backing store) will lose you tiny % of hit ratio at profit of never having to worry about stale data.

> My problem with the term 'cache' here is that people have expectations about what cache is and when you violate them you tend to discover that they've returned the favor.

That's with everything that have any level of complexity, just see how many people got transaction isolation wrong just because they had some simplistic view on how it works in database they use.
Is it possible right now to program a bare e-ink screen for an application with lots of text and scrolling? I see plenty of e-readers out there that appear to have good refresh rate, but I always wonder if they are using special drivers to achieve this or if it's as simple as using an off-the-shelf screen with included driver that has a `scroll_down()` function.
Well COVID also causes myocarditis, so it’s not surprising there were a lot of cases at the hospital. The question is whether the vaccines cause myocarditis at a higher rate than unvaccinated/unboosted COVID infections. They might for young men. For every other group, unvaccinated/unboosted infection is way more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccine.
>If this is true, how does it get fixed?

It's not true, they're just dipping into customer funds to make risky bets on extremely volatile instruments (more crypto assets) and losing. Along with straight up fraud stealing customer funds and having shit security and getting robbed.

It gets "fixed" by regulatory bodies like the SEC appropriately and quickly requiring a set of rules and regulations on any exchange that operates in country along with auditing, fines, and general fast and effective enforcement.

These exchanges aren't failing because of accidents or inherent risk, they're committing fraud and taking foolish risks that traditional banks aren't allowed to take.
> I had a month where I sent only one email. All month.

this might be the best line in the article :)
That's why you see all kinds of fintechs trying to push art investment into the masses nowdays. They want the stupid money.
Definitely this. Bladerunner is all about being a future Noir set in Los Angeles where it is perpetually night and often raining. Surely they knew when filming it or it being written that LA is extremely sunny and never rains.
You got me. I wonder if we did a poll, how much money is "a bunch of money" and how much money is "a bunch of money on ads" for people.

I think if it had been $500k or $1M I would've called it a bunch, but $160k seems low.
Their core product is very comparable to VMware vSphere -- a system for managing virtual machines on a cluster of on-prem hardware. Nutanix was one of the first to do storage virtualisation, whereby each node provides some local storage that is shared across the whole pool. I believe they were one of the first (if not the first) to offer this as a turnkey product. The initial version was just an add-on to vSphere, but they now have their own hypervisor as well to make it a more complete offering.

These days you can achieve the same thing with VMware vSAN or Hyper-V on a Windows cluster using Storage Spaces Direct. The latter is practically free for organisations that use mostly Windows Server workloads, because those orgs typically license Windows Server Data Center Edition for every physical host anyway. In my experience Storage Spaces Direct was also much faster, especially when used with SSD disks. The protocols used by Nutanix were very inefficient compared to the RDMA and Infiniband capabilities in SMB3. Think millions of IOPS instead of tens of thousands.

In some sense, the cloud provides a similarly abstract view of storage. You ask for a 1 TB disk, you get a 1 TB disk. You don't have to worry about formatting a disk array or securing a fibre channel fabric. There's no "maintenance" tasks to be performed on cloud storage. It's just... there. All the time, with zero effort.

This is why I think Nutanix is in trouble. They provide a partial but good solution to a problem that the public cloud providers eliminated entirely.
Thanks for the shout out! I'm still amazed how well that talk struck a nerve and it's a real kick seeing people getting something out of it 8 (!) years later.
The page with stats looks neat!

This system could work for any chatops style of work (Slack, Teams, GChat), incl. within the company where team A supports teams B-Z. The plethora of unmanaged threads is like a parasite and team A does not realize how much support work they really do as chat threads are just threads with 0 stats. Being able to mark ongoing/finished/stalled threads and create tickets/new issues out of these is highly valuable for managers of chat-support teams.
Interesting... mail me? I will meditate on this.
Exactly! If security is your highest priority, buy a new Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it.

But if you have an EOL device, DivestOS seems to be an amazing alternative to just staying on the stock firmware that is not going to get any updates at all.
It sounds like you're in Europe? They require invoices for everything there.

If you're in the U.S. though...you need to find a new accountant. You don't need to invoice every transaction. It certainly is advisable, for accounting/auditing purposes (much easier to track and verify income), but it's not mandated.
IBM Secure Execution for Linux
High-Fat diet can provoke pain sensitivity without obesity or diabetes
We were talking about in 2022 but I see now that the original comment is flagged, sigh.