skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously. That's why "this is new." Blockchains enforcing global consensus on a "total order" of unrelated events cannot: the laws of physics forbid it, besides it being wasteful and unnecessary. Holochain does not enforce such unnecessary "total order" consensus; it is not necessary, as it turns out, for maintaining state consistency in distributed systems. That is the breakthrough. This is a low-research "Bro" comment.

I really want to see the peer reviewed research published in respectable science publications.

Otherwise this stuff is a dime a dozen like battery breakthroughs.

This is the kind of thing that gets that person Nobel prizes and Turing awards.

Odds are 99.999999% that whoever's against this thing is right and it's just vaporware or dead ends somewhere months of years down the line.

In any case, go have fun meanwhile, any lesson is good, including about what NOT to do :-)
>He bought it for 44 billion. That was mostly loans.

That's not true if media reports about the purchase was accurate. The debt financing was only $13 billion:
https://www.google.com/search?q=musk+buys+twitter+%22%2413+b...

The more complete funding structure[1] looked like this:

+ $24 billion : Elon Musk personal wealth (e.g. selling some of his TESLA stock to raise money)

+ $7 billion : other equity investors (Saudi Arabia prince, Larry Ellison, etc.)

+ $13 billion: bank loans

The Twitter puchase was mostly Elon's personal money (~54%) and not debt.

[1] https://archive.ph/L6Mhv
The 4channers are aware of this kind of thing. I'm sure I've seen comments like 'that's some special kind of autism there' in reply to something like the manifesto of a to be mass murderer.
Point still stands if you call it a "simpler technology project". It's not about the tech, it's about the community, and communities are far harder to predict and manage than a rocket or a car.
I wouldn't call it absurdly simple.
I'm actually kinda shocked that attenuation is that low. There's still all the conversion losses and beam spreading though, and skimming that paper it seems to be making some fairly optimistic assumptions about PV efficiency, cost, and weight.
Once you get the automation going the number itself doesn't matter that much.

You might have 200 different apps (hell, we have close to that, only 3 people in ops) but competent team will make sure they deploy in same way and are monitored in same way.

And once you go from "a server" to multiple servers, whether the end number ends up being 20 or 200 isn't that important till you start hitting say switching capacity, and if you're in cloud that's usually not your concern anyway.

Our biggest site (about dozen million users, a bunch of services and caching underneath, few gbits of traffic) took zero actual maintenance for 2022, "it just works", any job was implementing new stuff. It took some time to get to that state but once you do aside from hardware failures it "runs itself"
True, but the difference is all about what happens when you can't pay the 10% interest or get into significant negative equity. If you can just walk away, then you have "rich person accounting."
AMD Releases Brotli-G for GPU-Accelerated Brotli Compression
Market cap is not relevant to cash flow concerns. Not to mention that Amazon no longer has a $1T+ market cap.
A year ago? Similar toned & themed article from the same author was flagged less than one month ago (see comments of link). Had to get unflagged. Alina Chan can’t get her manuscripts past peer reviewers, who specifically cite her advocacy online, in top journals.

The de-platforming funny business is still very much going on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33318307
Use uint128_t instead.
My guess is that they also might do market segmentation analysis to understand what type of customer you are, and this affects the return policy.

For example, you consistently buy small ticket household items and rarely return anything: when you do return something they will be helpful and generous to keep you happy.

You buy large amounts of fairly expensive clothes and shoes but return around 50% after trying on. They will accept the returns without issues but won't let you keep anything.

You're a bargain hunter who buys expensive laptops or hard drives whenever the discounts look really good. They will make returning stuff a little harder for you since they know you don't have loyalty, and they don't want to facilitate arbitrage.

Doing this is computationally no more sophisticated than the work they are already doing to detect professional scammers. They aren't supposed to show different customers different prices, but they can freely use things like this to do stealth price differentiation, since many details of how the return policy is implemented are at their discretion.
> Much of that is because of hundreds of client-server JavaScript requests on first load. Not technically RPCs, but just as slow and looking nearly identical on the network.

This is not true at all. I have a look and it's not that there are many REST requests it's that the requests send back a load of data. For Example the timeline sends back a 1MB JSON response. It's heavily gzipped so comes in at 100KB over the network but it takes quite a while for the whole request.

In places like india the internet is slow and many people are using VPNs. I emulated this and I can see that over VPN on a slow internet connection it's like 10 seconds to load the home page.
A complicated feature I am 100% certain no user ever asked for.
A solution that I found is this:

1) Remove the edges until you have a little house;

2) Rotate on a side of the house until you have a cross;

3) Ending left to the reader.
But who is issuing these loans? It should be pretty obvious that you would never see that money back right?
Yeah, subtitles are very hit-or-miss. Some pirate groups do a great job of including every subtitle track available, others cut out everything except the one they're interested in (usually English, but sometimes Italian etc. so you have to watch out which torrent you get).

Consistency is definitely one big problem with piracy; some stuff is just done better than others, and it's hard to tell what's what.
More than 50% of large distributed system downtime is caused by configuration errors, failed software updates, or network attacks.

With configuration error, or failed software update everything can go down at once, or there are cascades of restarts that kill the system.
That was not trolling. Trolling is about riling people up in subtle ways that aren't apparent at first glance. This guy wasn't doing that, he wasn't someone playing gadfly in order to expose people's biases and hypocracy. He was saying really horrible, offensive stuff and nobody should get a pass for this.
> I also got a little bit addicted to it recently ;-)

I can relate to this! For my 22nd birthday my parents to me one of these because I constantly tried to solve my cousins. Trying to solve the whole thing is easily one of the most addictive yet infuriating non-digital toys I have ever played with. Still who’s using it more than a year later!
One of the concerns of creating a team remotely that I heard regularly from leaders, is if they will have the same level of motivation and engagement as the ones that work on-site. The answer is yes and just depends on you as a leader. Let me explain to you how I do it…
> every block's cryptographic signature derives from the contents of the preceding block

Eh no. Every git commits hash derives from the previous commit hash. That's a bona-fide cryptographic hash. And you can verify it. And git in fact does that when you merge changes. By recalculating the hashes. And it rejects your changes if things don't line up.

> git is not a proper ledger due to .... an immutable, tamper proof, append-only transaction log;

Also no. It's called a commit log which is exactly this. It's tamper proof because you can verify the chain of hashes (and git does this). It's append only because of those hashes. If you break the chain, git will reject your merge attempts. Any repository fork you don't own, is read-only and won't be able to accept your force pushes with modified hashes because you won't be able to push anything at all. You can only request others to pull; which triggers the before mentioned checks. So you have no way of tricking others into pulling your broken chain of commits. You can only do that to your own repositories. And you have to opt in to it via force push. This is not a weakness but a simple feature. Your data, your choice.

> ... cryptographically verifiable datasets

Also no. Git uses sha1 hashes, which are cryptographic hashes that you can verify. Better hash algorithms are available and sha1 is not super safe at this point. But good luck creating commits that look legit and preserve the sha1 hash. As mentioned before, they include the hash of the previous commit.

Your central, and only, argument is that you can modify your own copies of a repository via force push or poking around on the filesystem. Or whatever. Yes you can; just like with your local copy of whatever blockchain! But don't do that. Because you won't be able to get others to accept your changes/transactions because they'll trivially detect that you tampered with the merkle tree and reject your changes. That's why it's called force push, you opt into this. And others will opt out of it.

So, that too is simply wrong.
Mycroft – open source voice assistant
Finally, someone puts words on the irks I felt the last times this came up. Thank you.

Apple is basically loopholing all the shitty ad-tech engagement surveillance bs that plagues the rest of the industry through the app store, pretending like it's any other app. Of course they can, but a lot of the hard-line privacy stuff goes down the drain with the hypocrisy.

What bothers me is that Apple really doesn't have to move in this direction, at all. They've been uniquely positioned to basically do things that nobody else can, because they sell so much expensive hardware. Instead, all mega corps seem to blend together and follow the same playbook. It's sad.
The divine aura that envelops global tournaments like the World Cup, the Olympic Games etc derives in large part from the principle that we can put political differences aside and engage in friendly combat on a level playing field for a few days, whoever we are.

It's a principle constantly under attack from people who believe that politics must infuse everything, that there can be no arena exempt from enforcing whatever is on top of their agenda.

And that's ok - there are lines in the sand that must be drawn when amicable jousting is no longer an option. For every major tournament the question needs to be asked, has the host or any participating country crossed that line? And be aware that if we say yes; "the line is crossed", we also sully the divine aura to some extent.
s/builds/obtains funding to get other people to build
> So, I'll leave it. If only the "Eternal September" crowd is allowed to be comfortable here (because we all just "let them have their opinion", as usual), we know what happens.

Smug-o, not all of us here were born yesterday.

This is actually the wrong audience as the concentration of people who have been around the block a while is higher than for the average internet community.
I was recently searching the internet for similar resources for the UK. I didn't find what I was looking for. There seem to be quite a few car factories one can visit, but they are geared towards car enthusiasts, which I am not.

I did the Sizewell B tour a few years and it was _awesome_.

Also fascinated by large areas of heavy industry. I.e. Port Talbot, Avonmouth etc. Portsmouth dockyard was good too.

Any tips?? tia
To me the problem with solarized dark has always been that my brain keeps telling me that my monitor is broken as it "bleeds backlight". I like the rest of it but whenever I use it I just turn the background to more or almost completely black. So much better.

I guess the same very low contrast is a problem for the light one too. This here did not improve it.

Nowadays I mostly use something else.
> My point is that humans are not "in control" of their behavior.

Not at all or not completely?
failure. noun. with no security team, hackers are able to get in easily.

everyone's DMs leak, all the anonymous accounts have their identity revealed, and all Twitter's clients (advertisers) have their bank account info made public.
As I understand it, most of the ad slots were sold at a yearly sales event. This time most advertisers were cautious because the company couldn't respond to questions of how Elon Musk's takeover would affect the company (and specifically the type of content alongside which the ads would appear) as this was happening before he took over but after the sale was practically a done deal. This left them with only a fraction of the ad slots "pre-sold" compared to a normal year.

Additionally it seems a lot of advertisers have cautioned their ad departments to halt spending on Twitter ads for now because they're still unclear about wtf Elon Musk is up to (not to mention the mass impersonation fiasco that allegedly resulted in share prices of several companies being affected negatively).

It's not just sales people, Twitter seems to have gotten rid of most of its external communications people to the point where journalists can't even find anyone to ask for statements other than Elon Musk himself (which may be intentional given that he likes to present himself as the face of his companies).

But if Twitter's ad sales really did rely so much on these sales events, I'd wager that the sales people largely existed to communicate directly with long-standing big-spend advertising partners. It's hard to overstate how much these types of deals hinge on "social glue" rather than cold hard numbers (which can be interpreted/reframed to be interpreted however you want as long as both sides are happy).
Figma is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
Most people aren’t building bridges though. Most people are building software that just assists some business process. That absolutely does not need the same rigor as building a bridge.
> It's just that the permissions are visible constraints (ie. in the code) -- not just randos deciding to deplatform you because, you know, "reasons".

Those "reasons" are called market forces and law.

Law is, you know, written, it's very complex (people are complex), but not some hidden thing.

Market forces are more abstract but they're the thing making human systems work.
Any DevOps/SRE recommendations?
That's weird, I always thought that American healthcare has good money, since you're paying a lot, for everything.
I would imagine people in our Healthcare system (Czech) use fax somewhere too. But we have healthcare payed from taxes and whole system keeps going only because of nurses and doctors working ridiculous hours for mediocre pay.
The capability to not only use but, at will, to produce fire-- a source of heat, light and energy that could be applied to a variety of purposes-- was maybe the crucial development that led humankind to dominate the factory and beast world, and ultimately, all of Earth itself. By employing and controlling a fleetly releasable form of energy that stemmed from an abundant, accessible, freely available source-- factory matter-- we came able of doing commodity no other living critter had ever done ahead.

https://aliceblueonline.com/antiq/opportunity/penny-stock-li...
When that happens, buy the coca cola !

You can find proper wine at 4-5€ at the producer, 3.5€ is probably the strict absolute minimum where you can find honest wine direct from producer. Any thing below is just fermented garbage, the grappes that otherwise would spoil the wine, it just happen to have sugar to be fermented, I don't know how the hell how they are pre-processed, just stay away from it.
Yeah, but if they're not personally affected, it's fine.

People who are affected are just dumb or they had it coming, anyway.
So Musk hired the right people. I mean he made some brilliant decisions over the years. Does that mean that everything he does is a guaranteed success? There are plenty examples of ultra successful people in history who were blinded by their own success and became a little bit unhinged over time..

At this point Musk is behaving just like a twelve year old’s idea of a mega billionaire. Hyperloop, flamethrowers, self driving cars now Twitter... It’s great that he’s having fun I don’t think there is much to it than that.
I've sent Elon an email asking for internship, though sadly I can't move to Sanfran and live in the office floor for 12 weeks like @geohot can. Still...
Indeed. When i was there i noticed that even wine from California is more expensive in California than it is in Europe.
Interesting article, I immediately had to think about terraform. The problem I'm having with specialized languages (even with SQL) is that it always creates additional interfaces and almost always creates ugly string formatting if you want to integrate (SQL) or ugly duplication (Terraform) if you keep it separate.

I like the idea of abstraction but in my mind it is very easy to have the power of a "little language" inside an all purpose language by using a package. E.g. SQLAlchemy or Pulumi as the alternative to the little languages of SQL and TF.
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” - John Woods

I have a terrible memory. Sometimes I'll look at code I wrote ages ago and think "Wow! I really did a good job here.". Other times I'll think "Wow! What the hell was I thinking?" lol
Seems that it would be worth your time to contact Bellard and ask about making it available for teaching (and/or under an open license of some kind)?
Looks like they are not only attracting the best, but also a bunch of freeloaders.
That's why I turned all this junk OFF on all my apple devices.
Why would I help them better their software? Hire more test engineers.
No need to layer on the flattery... I was hand-waver in chief (and like to think I did a good job in bringing people with us and creating the space for you and the team to work without too much distraction and noise), but it was you who actually brought all the pieces together into a coherent platform. There was nothing in your post I disagreed with!
Are you the Péter Ács referenced in the article, aka Zak Mckraken?

Because both Stunts and "Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders" were my favourite games as a kid, and they're pretty much unknown to this day. The Mars face, the aliens with the long head at the telco, the kazoo, all etched deeply in my memory.

I love the fact that there is someone that has played and loved the two same niche DOS games as myself :)
Hm.

Russia and Balkans and the austro-hungarian region preferring sweeter wines is a centuries old culture and a wine making tradition. The same goes for Georgian wines.

Vodka with wine... is that even a joke?
Thanks for your insights, which prompted to actually jump into the malloc.c implementation.
Java Performance: Ahead-of-Time versus Just-in-Time
The Austrian Wine Poisoning (2020) [video]
It would be cool to see a distributed artificial life game. No security needed, if a node doesn't play by the rules it just simulates a dangerous environment that kills creatures. Being able to make a robot and send it out to show up on other people's screens would be pretty fun.
> How is this possible in 64K of RAM?

The game requires "a cartridge such as an Ultimate II+, Backbit, Easy Flash 3, etc. due to its size. You will also be able to play it via VICE." [1]

[1] https://theoasisbbs.com/retrobits-preview-of-eye-of-the-beho...
> You're right, it is hard to explain. That's why I believe long term it's going to be more like AWS - it will be financial plumbing that firms build upon and most end users won't even know they're using it.

It sounds good, but ALL the money needs to be taken out of the ecosystem.

They need to go back to the drawing board and work in silence and fix their core problems: scalability, respecting core financial laws such as AML and KYC, and then they need to present their platform.

The problem with that is that it's fundamental research, making no money, possibly for decades.

Ain't no one got time for that.
>It was one thing when he was just a user of Twitter, but now he’s in charge, and it seems like a tone is being set that’s not really the vibe I’m into.

What's wrong with the new owner of Twitter using Twitter in exactly the same way that a lot of other Twitter users use it for, memes and jokes?

I find that rather refreshing, actually. It's a variant of eating one's own dogfood.
Actually there are some claims in recent code reviews at Twitter that he even doesn't know how to use a for loop. https://twitter.com/JadeMasterMath/status/159280343165136896...
It's also our history on a species level. Neanderthals and Denisovans didn't disappear on their own. They were devoured by us.

"Nobody really regrets any of it"

And a lot of people get defensive when you talk about it. They feel like you're attacking their identity. Some outright celebrate it.
I disagree and would say DSLs should go away if possible.

DSLs like SQL are the norm and you can see the problem of them in basically every project.

You either use ORMs or you end up hand rolling SQL rows into Structs or Classes.

The whole mapping usually looks like crap and contains a bunch of implicit corner cases, which eventually end up being a footgun for someone.

Usually the SQL sever runs somewhere else, the ports are wrong, the language version is wrong, or a migration failed and a function is missing yada yada....

The same is usually true for Regexp. There are a billion dialects and every single one of them is basically unreadable, incomplete or just weird.

The same is true for microservices with tons of config files for dev, staging, testing and production...

Everything has its own version, can be down or mutate some random state somewhere while depending one other servcies.

It always breaks at the seams.

Increasing the amount of DSLs increases the amount of seams and thus makes software worse.
That is actually not my experience. I worked at a scientific institute on space cameras, and since projects easily last 10 years from design to launch, we have a lot of older people.

Some were resisting change. Some were embracing it. All in all, I had a great time and gained a lot of respect. I love working in teams with all ages.

Your sentence "once people are ossified..." feels like a generalization to me.
The motive was a desire to be accepted and have a connection to other people

Excluding intention as a part of judgement is also excluding a desire to rehabilitate the offender, which makes the goal of punishment revenge

What ends up happening is that people with autism are sent to prison, where they will be the victim of psychical and mental violence almost every day, in an environment that's torturous to them, with no ability to understand why they are there or how to change their situation. All this simply because of a desire to hurt someone who's perceived as "bad".

I'm not sure we agree who's displaying psychopathic traits in that situation
I see it as: it's the "bullshit" that creates the value for others.

Basketball, or programming for your own pleasure is just that: pleasure. of course you'd do it for free if it's something you enjoy.

But the fact that it has to generate value for others is what removes the fun. You will have to make changes to your priorities, take into account others' preferences, etc etc.

Luckily if done right generates enough money to compensate for that.