skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase has been operating since 2012. The big crypto ICO wave was in 2017. The total market cap of digital assets today is ~ $1.2 billion. It's crazy for the SEC to make no regulations, allow Coinbase to go public two years ago, and now to make some vague threat to sue without actually saying what Coinbase is doing wrong.

Just because you don't like crypto tech companies doesn't mean the SEC can just not do its job.
We use k8s to run the app both on AWS, on our own hardware in a few datacenters (in countries with strict personal data laws) and on clients' own servers as well (something like the banking sector or a jewelry company, i.e. companies which don't trust the cloud).

From what I heard, AWS is the most stable and easiest to work with of all; the servers which run on our own hardware have more outages and our SRE team often needs to make trips in person to the datacenters to replace hardware etc. Clients' hardware is the faultiest (unsurprisingly). Ideally we'd rather host everything on AWS :)
> There's even a semiofficial API that works pretty well

Notion has an official API. https://developers.notion.com/
> One of these anti-pornography bills was passed into law in 2021 in Utah but cannot go into effect unless five additional states pass similar laws — a provision included to prevent Big Tech companies from isolating the state after passing the law.

Ok so they have to isolate five small states instead? I don't think the tech companies will worry until California, New York, or Texas pass this law.
With Italy, we may not want to use 'quickly' and 'cheaply' too soon.

The collapse of the Ponte Morandi / Polcevera Viaduct was just a few years ago and is still fresh in the minds.[1][2]

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi#Collapse

[2]

Police release new footage of doomed Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V479srTBlAk

Genoa motorway bridge collapse caught on camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pl0rsVdXxM
> The value of Bitcoin would not fluctuate wildly if it were the default currency.

I wouldn't think so. Many of our "crisis" are due to the value of "cash" or liquidity to fluctuate significantly. This is the case in the recent banking crisis. In the case of Bitcoin, this will be a deep dive in price. Now which one is better? I don't know.
even without those shady security practice, the app itself exploited dark patterns for profit. E.g. search for TEMU invites on Twitter.
> They have a huge list of tools and integrations that they've tried out with crazy names; Capistrano, Chef, mrsk, Filebeat, traefik

These tools are pretty stock standard in the Systems Engineering world. I think anyone that's been a Systems Engineer that's over 30 has probably deployed every one of these.

One thing I've learned over my mixed SWE and SE career is that infrastructure is expensive and grows regardless of revenue. I didn't truly appreciate this until I launched Kubernetes on Digital Ocean and began running my personal cloud on it. It was costing me over $100/m for very little. That money was gone whether I pushed a ton of VPN traffic over my mesh or not. It didn't care about how much I stored in the disk I reserved, and frankly, that cost was going to grow as time went on. I pulled the plug, setup servers in my house, wired up Traefik and Docker Compose V2 with a little Tailscale sprinkled on. The servers stay up to date with some scripts, I deploy new apps on select servers with Docker Compose and Docker profiles.

It's possible for companies to do similar things, but not to the extremes I took it to. A really good infrastructure SWE generally goes for $300k. You can pay people with an expertise in these things who can streamline them and create maintainable products out of your infrastructure or you can pay for Legos and glue from a managed service provider like AWS, GCP, or Azure. At some point the latters costs will not scale, you'll pivot and cost reduce many times - maybe even begin rearchitecting. I think there's a lot of companies that are noe realizing the cheap money is gone, and the cloud has somewhat relied on cheap money.
To play the devil's advocate here:

> I aim to keep everything I’m working on using the simplest services possible, essentially treating AWS like it’s Digital Ocean or Linode with a stupidly complex control panel.

What's the benefit of AWS then, if you're not using any of the managed services AWS offers, and are instead treating AWS as an (overly expensive) Digital Ocean or Linode?
that explosion had very little to do with being exposed to the risk of startups
Understandable, I don't expect these tools to do anything like that.

Are you able to share the name of the voice changer?
>I wouldn't call VSCode a copycat of atom.

C'mon, Electron was literally built for atom. They took the literally framework atom was running on and built a me-too editor
I don't get it. A 20yo panel doesn't suddenly stop making power. It's just making less power. No need to throw it away when the 20y mark hits.
Good points; I wasn't very thorough at all.

> Increasing disposable income at home. The rust-belt wasn't rusty yet.

This one I don't know about. The term 'rust belt' goes back to the 1980s.
You might not need an effect
I want a progressive, inclusive society. I want a society that argues and fights for actual change, not just changing word usage. I bristle at the “master vs. main” debate not because I’m racist, but because it distracts from real impactful change. Every second spent arguing over whether “master” has meaning outside a slavery context is a second NOT spent on expanding educational equity or progressive taxation. The people who are benefiting from the status quo want us fighting over the dictionary.
Nuclear Power Can Enable an Energy Utopia
Most engine wear is from cold starts.
> Where is the spirit today of someone like Carnegie, who said I’m going to take all this wealth and build thousands of free public libraries?

I'm really annoyed that philanthropy is so applauded. Yes, it's nice that a robber baron decides to give some money back, even all of it, but it would have been better for the economy if he didn't monopolize it in the first place. The giving back does not make up for the cost.

Microsoft held the computer industry back in a way that was very expensive for many many customers not in the computer industry. Bill Gates shouldn't have done that.
There is posix_spawn, which on linux I think is implemented using clone (which is more flexible than fork) and exec.
Can someone explain what are these models for? For a person who knows nothing about geo data, it looks like something that helps to process the data that satellites capture.
Every company that I have been at that uses k8s at scale ends up having an internal team to manage the complexities and build internal tooling to make it work. It sounds like they left behind a lot of the cruft and just built a tool that does the one thing most people want: put a container on a VM and call it good.
Happen to have a write up on this? It sounds really cool.
I’m in the process of retiring old machines for a client and I was thinking of doing that.
You don’t need to. Your cap is 8MB/sec. For audio you don’t even need that. 48khz 16bit stereo is only 192k/sec.
It is interesting how the phone cameras modify the actual image eg. Samsung fake moon or modified faces. Feels bad, can only trust reality (meet people in person).
Downtown is also dark and gloomy in an already gloomy city. I’ve been to many cities but have never seen a downtown like SF. Too many tall buildings may be? But other than offices, conference center and office lunch places there’s just nothing to bring people in. The bars were usually empty, not many good dinner places…etc. It was always weird and depressing.
You’re implying the government doesn’t regulate any of those other activities?
What will the impact of LLMs in short, medium, and long terms?
I have been thinking about it lately, and decided to ask GPT-4. I further asked it to convert it into a fancy HTML, which I copy/pasted on codesandbox.io and shared here.

Would love to see what other folks think about the subject.
> It's even more frustrating that, from what I can tell, there is nothing published about how GPT-4 improved.

There's the GPT-4 Technical Report which gives benchmark results vs GPT-3.5, PaLM, Chinchilla, LLAMA and other models depending on the benchmark.

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
Good. Justin Sun is a serial bullshitter, one of the most egregious self-promoting token pumpers out there.

Check out this article if you want a profile on this narcissist: https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisitio...
It’s so predictable even ChatGPT can write this drivel now

Prompt: Write a press release for a company who is laying off 15% of its workforce. It’s in the voice of the ceo. Mention that they are accountable for this decision.

—-

Dear valued members of our community,

It is with a heavy heart that I announce today that our company will be undergoing a significant workforce reduction. As a result of ongoing challenges in our industry and the global economy, we have made the difficult decision to lay off 15% of our workforce.

This decision was not taken lightly, and we understand the impact it will have on the individuals and families affected. We are committed to supporting our colleagues during this transition and will be providing them with resources to help them find new opportunities.

As the CEO of this company, I take full responsibility for this decision. It was a tough call, but it was necessary to ensure the long-term success and sustainability of our business. We remain committed to delivering exceptional products and services to our customers and believe that these changes will allow us to do so more effectively.

We want to assure our customers, partners, and stakeholders that we remain committed to our values and to providing exceptional service. We will work hard to ensure that this transition is as smooth as possible and that we emerge from this period even stronger.

We understand that there may be questions and concerns, and we are committed to providing answers and support to everyone affected by this decision. We will continue to communicate openly and transparently as we move forward.

Thank you for your understanding and support during this challenging time.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
CEO of [Company Name]
I'm instead having people try to use my newsletter to "DDOS" other people (subscribe someone to 1000 newsletters, of which one is mine, and see how they like it). Subscription confirmation emails don't help, because now instead you get 1000 confirmation emails. Or at least that's what I think is happening.
Honestly, I think it's because they believe anyone with a macbook should have an iphone - their easy and transparent tethering works embarrassingly well.
You can wear them?
Amiga OS does use the second core even if the software does not, just like every modern system. Do you think it just piles every single process onto a single core?

I never said the x5000 was in production, I actually said it wasn't.

The closest thing to "Amiga Developers" would be Hyperion who took over the OS and has made licensing deals with 5 or 6 different hardware producers, they make no hardware themselves. Over the past decade or so at least a dozen different Amiga systems and motherboards have gone into production and sold well for what it is. Most of the hardware is sold through various online stores with a couple of those producing hardware also selling online, Hyperion only sells software; so who exactly are these evil "Amiga developers" you talk about? Or is it a conspiracy and they are all involved?

If you are going to make accusations you should identify the culprit, would you blame Microsoft and everyone who makes or sells computers which run Windows because HP ripped you off?
What is the USA trying to achieve though? If you want innovation to continue in the USA you can't expect companies to wait decades until the government has decided what is allowed and what isn't, they're just going to setup in other countries instead.

The USA was founded on freedom and the ability for people to innovate and create, now it's becoming a place many companies avoid because of a hostile government and this is going to be disasterous for the future wealth of the country.

Coinbase points out in the post that it's been much easier to operate in every other country than the USA.
> Just a reminder, you can donate to archive.org

I'm all for giving money to make the internet better, but the high profile projects (wikipedia, archive.org, ) are generally extremely well funded already, to the extent that they engage in all sorts of ancillary programs not directly on the main mission. Whereas if you give money to create and sustain more sites, niche sites, struggling sites, that creates more content and communities that archive.org is going to archive anyway.

(web.archive.org WaybackMachine already has dpreview.com archived, how is this project something new? translating all the URLs or something?)
JUSTICE. - Lambda alum, 2019. Never again!
Wouldn't the cost of cooking be higher depending on who you are? If one could spend few hours doing something that has higher ROI than eating pre-cooked food, then you are actually losing money cooking your own food.
> Weights are irrelevant, what is relevant is any aspect of the system that is subject to the related terms of use and/or copyright.

The leak appears to be essentially just weights. The copyrightability of weights is the central and perhaps only issue.

> it would be up to the courts

That's a non-argument. Everything is ultimately up to the courts despite the letter of the law.

> decide whether the contracts [...] had been breached.

If you didn't sign the contract or induce the breach then it isn't relevant.
FTC has mandated "influencer" posts must acknowledge if they're paid for, so why would clothing and apple jacks get a free pass?

And yeah, Logan was a special case because he shilled quite a few coins including a few he was "involved" with.
At least it's possible to reconfigure the device you own to obey your own wishes and not that of the manufacturer's.

Oh wait, no it's not, Apple can censor anything that an iPhone can display, and any jurisdiction Apple operates in can compel them to do such and the device owners would have no workaround.
If someone is making profit does not mean you are making a loss. Both consumer and producer could end up making profits depending on the situation
The GP literally said "...some of the best in the world"?

I just looked things up for SF and I have to say I would not regard it as some of the best in the world. Pretty temperate, with mild annual swings: summer highs of 23C and winter lows of 7C - that's actually a little on the cool side for me hah. But the rain is wrong way round, IMO wet summers and dry winters are better, and it seems like it's also quite humid?

My experience is obviously limited, and weather preference is subjective, so read the above as if it's coming from one idiot on the Internet.
In big companies, the decision of who to lay off is often handled farther up the management chain. It’s very common for upper management to decide on criteria to use then have HR execute the layoff by identifying individuals using that criteria.

Criteria commonly is some combination of performance review history, cost, location, role, seniority, tenure.

The goal is to do it without managers interfering to save their favorites and to ensure it’s done in a non discriminatory way.
Same experience. Worked perfectly fine before.

I wrote w LS support, it is a Ventura-related issue. They've made a request, but it appears Apple has yet to address the problem.

This, unfortunately, is a major problem for my use of LS. Interrupted connection attempts happen silently and result in different behavior for each app they affect.

I've had the most problems with requests from pycharm, where the binary is updated regularly and needs a bunch of re-authorizations.

I'm ready to give up on Spaces, it is so poorly supported by Apple at this point.
Thanks for clarifying.

Their previous statement was not clear:

>The loss is nearly as large as their entire revenue

Their initial claim is "Coinbase is piling up losses, it will eventually be bankrupt, and executives will have accumulated billions while customers will lose billions." And saying this is "stealing" from customers.

I haven't been advocating for purchasing the stock. I don't own it.

Regardless, looks like they had positive net income in 2020 & 2021. Coinbase isn't the only business dealing with losses 2022. I still very much disagree with "piling up losses... eventually be bankrupt"
If they ever do become an independent company you can be sure that Microsoft would already have sucked them dry. Microsoft will never let them go now as long as they are valuable.
openAI is in the business of releasing impressive tech demos, Google is in the business of providing search results. I would believe that Google is further along towards creating something useful, but they still don't have anything that's better than their existing search product.
Isn't Justin Sun a diplomat from Grenada now? He would have diplomatic immunity even on travels in the US or in countries that were willing to extradite him to the US.
> > it was firewalled and available only to large corporations and those with personal relations to big tech execs.

> The previous call-out to IBM seems relevant: before PCs, this exact statement would've been true for (mini)computers and mainframes.

Pre-PCs, IBM mainframes actually were quite open – up until the mid-1970s, IBM released its mainframe operating systems into the public domain. On the software side, the IBM S/360 was actually a lot more open than the IBM PC was – OS/360 was public domain with publicly available source code and even design documents (logic manuals), PC-DOS was copyrighted proprietary software whose source code and design documents were only publicly released decades after it had ceased to be commercially relevant.

As we move through the 1970s, IBM became less and less open. The core OS remained in the public domain, but new features were increasingly only available in copyrighted add-ons – but IBM still shipped its customers source code, design documents, etc, for those add-ons. Finally, in 1983, IBM announced that the public domain core was being replaced by a new copyrighted version, for which it would withhold source code access from customers ("object code only", or "OCO" for short).

The main way in which IBM mainframes in the 1950s-1970s were "firewalled" was simply by being fiendishly expensive – most people's houses cost significantly less.

It is true that IBM did engage in anti-competitive business practices, but those were primarily non-technological in nature – contractual terms, pricing, etc – the kind of techniques which Thomas J. Watson Sr had mastered as an NCR sales executive in the lead-up to World War I. In fact, a big contributor to IBM becoming "less open" was the US Justice Department's 1969 anti-trust lawsuit, which led to IBM unbundling software and services from hardware–and its software culture became progressively more closed as software came to be seen as a product in its own right.
Coffee shops and lunch restaurants--the places people going to an office might frequent--sure. But other shops will still exist (or if they don't, it will be because of Amazon, not because of WFH). As for reduced foot traffic, that problem will solve itself if commercial rents plummet; look at the storefronts in any depressed town or dying mall and marvel at the weird, low-traffic uses that empty storefronts get put to when landlords get desperate ("Sure, you want to open a store for bouncy-ball enthusiasts that's only open on Mondays? Keep the pipes from freezing over and it's yours."). And if there are 2/7ths as many Starbucks, that'll still leave two Starbucks within eyeshot at any given moment.
Were you able to integrate any of your data into it yet ?
I like working in office so I’d be indifferent. Perhaps Apple wants to develop their in office culture again and let the people who want to remote work move on.
> According to the owners, everyone they demo'd the product to said it was very clearly superior to what they were currently using.

And owners have never lied about the superiority of their product, or what other people think.

Except that is pretty much all they do.
For how long?

That board uses a chipset that has been out of production for 9 years.

The newest CPU it supports was released in 2017, and has been off the market for 3 years.
Interest on treasury bonds or federal reserve accounts can only come from new money. The Fed has no power to do anything but create money or sell money created by the treasury. All roads lead to the money printer.

1. When central banks raise interest rates, this means governments spend more on their interest payments. This translates into increased income for bondholders. Higher incomes lead to more consumer demand, pushing up prices. Similarly, banks benefit from higher interest payments from the Federal Reserve. In other words, the interest from the higher interest rates goes to someone in the economy, and their demand increases rather than decreasing.

2. Interest rates are a cost for businesses. When central banks raise interest rates, businesses pass this new cost on to consumers in the form of higher prices, which is inflation by definition.

3. Higher interest rates make it harder to start a business and harder to hold inventory. This reduces supply, leading to higher prices aka inflation.

4. Finally, MMT economists point to the fact that there is no empirical research at all showing that higher interest rates decrease inflation. In fact, the correlation runs in the opposite direction.

The above points are taken from Additionally, the following points are taken made here https://www.reddit.com/r/mmt_economics/comments/wchq55/raisi...
It’s pretty sad that both Google and AWS price their on premise versions of their hardware at the same price as if you were running in their cloud.

Makes it totally a non-starter to be a universal platform.
Leiden physicists use Lego for ice cold research
> it isn't clear whether a pay range of minimum wage to 1 million euros would be in compliance with this new rule.

I would literally pay to see someone look a judge in the eye and tell them that that counted.
I mean it might not be the most impressive, but again since they're marketing focused they're a hell of a lot better at getting word out.

Still I wouldn't be shocked if they were ahead of the tech race, but as someone who was way into dota and tech and very interested in AI, i followed their results with the game closely, and was very disappointed with how they handled the presentation of their data in multiple instances.

It was still massively impressive that they even got it to play the game, let alone win matches, but certain factors that really should've been mentioned weren't, and they liked to pull the AI before it could get embarrassed
Ah, in that case, I'm much less interested :D , because that would mean that you let the untypedness of the DB queries propagate through pretty much the entire codebase.
That’s interesting to hear your perspective.

Do you really believe that any given token does not qualify as a common enterprise? Crypto tokens seem to pretty clearly meet that definition.

Additionally, if I were to buy any given token and then it gains or loses value without any effort on my part, that would pretty clearly satisfy #3. Not sure what #4 is that you’re referencing