skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tired complaint built on a faulty analysis of Bitcoin's power usage. There are a lot of things that use more power than the Bitcoin network, such as all of the idle electronics in the USA. Or christmas lights during the season. In the case of Bitcoin, the power used to mine is often power that would otherwise be wasted. Excess power from hydroelectric damns as well as gas being burned off in the oilfield are both used to mine Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't robbing anyone of power they need for anything else because the moment the cost of power goes up, Bitcoin mining leaves town. Because Bitcoin creates a market for power and can be mined anywhere with power and Internet, it creates unique opportunities to improve our power grid. We can now build power stations in areas where there are not yet enough residential customers to fund it by using the excess power for Bitcoin mining. Net result is that Bitcoin is a value add for our power infrastructure and the negative impact of Bitcoin mining is grossly exaggerated. The current banking system has a significantly worse impact on the environment.
I’m still holding out for the Diamond Age.
ibogaine is a hell of a drug
Of course, I wasn't claiming that openstack is doing anything wrong. As someone who uses openstack every day and has contributed (a little) code upstream, it is all straightforward enough for me. One of the reasons we use gerrit in-house is that we like to maintain close ties with upstream, and a couple of our tech leads are core upstream developers/maintainers. I only don't want to name them because I prefer to keep my hackernews identity fairly anonymous :)

My intention was to reply to the commenter who assumed that opendev only exists for gerrit fans, and it seemed like they were missing out on a bigger picture about what it exists for.
Nah, time spent flirting up a bot is time spent away from actual humans.
The area defaults to zero, and recalculates when you change any of the parameters, resulting in a divide by zero and NaN being displayed
I am supremely curious about this myself.

My guess would be their ad spend is bad in comparison to the other networks (Google, Facebook, TikTok). Could be because their audience isn't worth as much, could be because the ad formats are bad, could be because they can't get advertisers. But unless they are serving ads from Google's network, my guess is they are 4th place at best.

As noted on other threads, their streaming infrastructure must be a burning dumpster fire of money. Live streaming is super hard since you can't edge cache it, and it requires actual hard computer engineering to make work. If a mere mortal company were to try to run a clone of Twitch on AWS, it would run out of money in days. It also likely uses the same hardware as other high-value products, such as AI.
Ok, I can see that, but shouldn’t it be my risk to take in this case (which seems quite a bit less risky than flicking a breaker on remotely when someone other than the app user might be working on it)?
The more interesting question is, from a business pov, is there any other way? If it were profitable to continue creating that good company, people would do it because there is a return to be made.

If "leave before things start going downhill from the pretend-growth" happens everytime, there is an arbitrage opportunity to just continue compounding the "good" company.
You'll get a lot of answers, but I think The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall[1] is key.

Capitalism means competition. Competitors mean reduced profits. As we get into the later stages of the game, that pesky competition aspect comes into play and firms do whatever they can to worm their way out of its consequences.

As profits inevitably fall, firms flail around doing whatever they can to maintain them and cause all sorts of misery for employees, customers, and the world at large. Increasingly brutal exploitation of workers, rotting product quality, all sorts of shenanigans with regulatory capture and rent-seeking as firms try to avoid competition and the need to sell a quality product at a competitive price.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
It IS, look at who traded LOL.
I've wondered that too, but government agencies have long bought ads in media, used the phone system, telegrams, etc. etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol#In_humans

... probably the food needed to keep a constant body weight would be more expensive than paying for heating

ah, I see someone already posted it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38925082
It's ok, all you authenticated accounts are protected by trust me bro.
... all to the detriment of paying customers who happen to use these devices.
>... and being a social media company those staff will probably be big social media users with quite a lot of influence.

Genuinely curious to hear why you think this is the case. It's my anecdotal experience that the average social media company employee is just an average person like you and I, with an average number of followers.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments, in particular about Python? You've done it repeatedly in this thread, as well as on many other occasions (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38010109), and we've already had to ask you more than once to stop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38270168 (Nov 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37807607 (Oct 2023)

This is not about Python, it's about not having tedious squabbles (or worse) on HN. We'd make the same request of any user on any topic. Sometimes a commenter is fixated on a particular topic, can't let go, and posts way too many low-quality and/or hostile comments about it. That's definitely not an ok use of HN, and we eventually have to ban such accounts.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Maybe the security problem is at Twitter.
The Spread of European Printing Activity (1450-1650)
Lets not forget when you attempted to sell me a simple domain for $75,000 just because you thought it was such.

We will go with your over-valuated opinion on [who gives a shit]
Got to keep consumers in their toes.

You're supposed to buy new devices, consume.
Maybe I have been too obscure in stating what’s going to happen: the oligopoly of SSD/RAM makers will collude explicitly or implicitly to cut production and raise prices. Because right know they are making a loss selling you a SSD, all of them.

This is a cycle we have been through at least twice now.
"As much as many people want alternatives to JavaScript, there are also people who consider themselves JavaScript experts (or the various related languages like TypeScript). They’ve invested a ton of time and effort into getting to where they are."

I do not see a problem here. The idea is not to replace js (not realistic anyway), but to have a full working alternative to not have to use js anymore, so in the end you can really choose how to build for the web.

I also invested heavily into js ... but I am really looking forward to the day, I can use something sane again.
pretty sure the only time I ever used Moneygram I managed to send funds from my UK bank account without any MoneyGram account. Was a really easy way to get cash in a city that definitely didn't have Bitcoin ATMs
What type are you supposed to use to represent total cost when spending infinite money for 0 days?
Maybe? I didn’t see it in a Google search
On the flip side New Zealand did create a gorgeously functional top dresser with the PAC Cresco STOL turboprop series.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_MO5Wfomks

It's a rock solid workhorse capable of millions of line kilometres drafting at low ground clearances with short hill top take off and landings.

Even flies well upside down under bridges.
Nice little bubble you live in. 18% of US population is unbanked or underbanked.
A noble sacrifice. Some paying customers will be affected, but it's for the greater good.

The streams will continue to get dumped, with different keys.
I see it very differently:

- Ukraine's drones capabilities were built internally using consumer grade hardware

- US tried to supply some cutting edge military grade drones(switchblade 300/600), but there is no much reports about them, and program has been canceled since then, I speculate those drones were having significant issues

My suspicion is that US small combat drones programs are weak and ineffective.
You can absolutely throw live video on a CDN at which point the bandwidth cost is the same as on demand video. The real-time encoding costs are the real issue.
Sounds silly. Who's going to save the company during the inevitable outages?
Isn’t this consistent with X’s rules that if you call for violence or crimes, you get banned. This isn’t a free speech issue. It’s a “no criminal speech” issue.

So it seems like their rule is pretty clearly applied. And they have an exception for government. So I would expect that the Gaza government, that happens to be Hamas, posts criminal speech it would not be banned since that government is recognized by the UN.
Isn't plywood cheaper than solid wood?
Molten salt reactors don’t need a source of water, as much staffing, and could be used for industrial and other purposes given their improved safety profile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
Normally I would agree with them that making the recording much longer than it plausibly needs to be is not a good idea. Preventing life-or-death situations is about the only reason I'm in favour of recording anything at all.

However evidently 2 hours of sound isn't long enough. Just because a plane keeps going for more a few hours doesn't mean the incident wasn't serious enough to warrant recording.
This would be true if you were to optimize for the very extreme case of running an error correction code over all of your data at once. This would give you the absolute best case tradeoff between redundancy and data storage, but would be completely intractable to actually compute, which is the point they are making. In practice error correction is used over smaller fragments of data, which is tractable but also doesn't give you as good a tradeoff (i.e. you need to spend more extra space to get the same level of redundancy). From what I understand one of the appeals of the codes mentioned in the article is that it might be tractable to use them in the manner described, in which case you might only need, say 3 extra servers out of thousands in order to lose any three, as opposed to 3 extra out of 20. But it seems like it is not likely.

(In practice, I would say existing error correction codes already get you very close to the theoretical limit of this tradeoff already. The fact that these 'magical' codes don't work is not so much of a loss in comparison. While they would perhaps be better, they would not be drastically better).
SSH-Snake: Automatic traversal of networks using SSH private keys
And without Musk, Tesla wouldn’t exist. Martin and Marc wouldn’t have a company today without signing on Elon, who, like them, tried AC Propulsion’s tzero (another entity without which Tesla wouldn’t exist) and wanted to turn it into a production vehicle. Without AC Propulsion separately rejecting the visions of both Martin and Elon, the two may never have met.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion_tzero
Enterprise Sales Tips
1. If you're not 'co-writing' the RFP with the client, you're a check-box in their buying process. Be cautious of weight in your pipe and expectations internally.

2. If they are going to use their paper, double the price. Find this out as early as possible in sales process. Why? It will cost a lot more time/legal/service requirements and needs to be baked into contract value.

3. Give procurement wiggle room to negotiate and take a win — Factor in 20-30% of ACV here.

4. Get on call with Procurement as soon as intro is made. Explain clearly what you are doing so they can understand and evaluate their side’s risks otherwise you’ll get kitchen sink. Ask lead on buy-side to join calls with you at this stage.

5. Know who will actually sign the paper (ht
@devahaz
) . If signature is coming from CFO’s office find out who’s presenting to them and when that will happen. Get list of sample questions they ask so you can prep the presenter. This will also give you a sense of possible close date. If they are open for you to join session, do it!

6. Be as attentive as possible. Follow up quickly (this does matter a lot and they expect it), build slides that are custom to their process, show up in person, etc.

7. Be sure this is qualified, and they are taking this very seriously/holding up their end of accountability.
would it be reasonable to assume that because this entirely network-based, it would work best with systems which really emphasize the "micro" in microservices?

how well does this work if, say, my system has a legacy monolith in addition to microservices?
This was my goto argument when people without technical background were laughing about ChatGPTs bullshit generation (before it was called hallucinating).

Put a gun to Einsteins head and force him to answer any question you ask him without hesitating or denying an answer.

This is not an argument for stating LLMs like ChatGPT are intelligent (it is not, but not for any of the reasons i have read about so far anywhere). But the hallucinations definitely don't show anything about intelligence. Actually, if they did, they would actually indicate intelligence rather than not. So, quite the opposite which should be very obvious.
> regex compatible

Even a typical Product Manager, let alone a regular layperson, would have no idea where to start with regex, so it's a super weird thing to bring up. Of course grep is a great tool, just how the hammer is a great tool (invented around 3 million years ago); but we've moved past that. You can't use a hammer to do EUV lithography.
They are preventing boobs? Have you ever taken a look at Twitch's Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches category? They are complicit in encouraging showing boobs
My apologies for the loose language. Indeed the question remains.
I love the website.

clear and readable, just one stylesheet, no javascript.
Originally, it's the idea that capitalism will have a terminal crisis (i.e. die off) and we are in this final crisis because it will hit a state where productivity cannot be increased and so profit will be too difficult to increase.

In practice, technology and some major events have prevented this from happening. The modern left-wing view is that we have run out of new frontiers to exploit, so the capital class will (has) return to reducing labor costs with more extreme measures among other tactics.

With recent events like a major labor shortage (or future one due to declining population) in the developed world, climate change, a stagnation in productivity per person, gig economy emergence, and widespread privatization being viewed as very destructive; this idea has gotten more popular. Part of this is driven by some companies, especially in tech, having manic levels of optimism about frivolous things.

Personally, it kind of sounds like Malthus. But it is hard to deny that we are in a slump of sorts and that startups that sound like scams appeared to be more common for a while.
How much power does the existing system of mining, storage, minting, accounting, etc cost? Let’s compare.
This reads as a ChatGPT response.
It is a bit weird the tweet went out exactly a day before the approval is supposed to happen.

Let's assume it was the SEC's fault, either by accident or otherwise, could they be charged with market manipulation? Which agency would have authority to investigate? Quite a few people were tricked into buying right before the price dropped like a rock. Shorters have made a killing.
Excited for the next bubble of crypto scams. After shitcoins we got NFTs. What’s next?
The mobile app certainly has problems, but you don't need hundreds of engineers to squash the remaining bugs.
It doesn't eliminate it, just eliminates the ability to realize it 100% up front. Now, it has to be amortized over five years for domestic companies, 15 years for foreign companies.
The loss of ad revenue isn’t a consequence of downtime or losing staff, and I wouldn’t agree they’ve had “a lot” of downtime. Most of the drop in ad revenue is a consequence of content management decisions that seem to be a matter of principle for the company’s new owner.

It’s strange to see hiring as an indication that a company is doing poorly; regardless, obviously Twitter is in a position where they’ve needed to eliminate much of their headcount and replace much of the rest.
If you live in an Anglophone country you already don't need to do so, although there will probably be cultural value to do so indefinitely. I love learning languages but ultimately it's for fun and to make friends and it's such a time commitment...
I mostly agree but think you underestimate the “contexts where we actually want visual interaction” - a screen is not just for consuming visual media. It might be that all input is spoken, but output will always need a screen, because spoken word is just incredibly low bandwidth compared to a good text layout. Imagine an order confirmation page for a complex food delivery order, where you’ve made a couple of item modifications and you’re using a promotional deal for a discount on the total price. You can take in all that info in 2 seconds if it’s nicely laid out on a screen. Compare that to having to listen carefully to a voice reciting it all for you. And same goes for things like just browsing other songs by the same artist you’re listening to. Text on a screen, with good typographical layout for fast mental processing, will still be the best output format for many use cases.
GBTC is it's own weird separate thing, with a whole bunch of red flags. It's not yet an ETF. They don't even distribute the fund prospectus online, it's only available by email request.

Tracking for actual BTC futures ETF's is quite good. Arbitrary example: https://ycharts.com/companies/BITO/discount_or_premium_to_na...

GBTC has diverged so far because it doesn't have a public creation/redemption mechanism. Matt Levine briefly touched on this recently: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-04/put-th...
Machine Learning and Causal Inference: A Short Course
This is an “inside a bubble” take.

The idea that software engineers at Twitter are influential on the platform is laughable.

How many of these accounts are software engineers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_...
It's accelerating now becasue finally most decided not to spend time on maintaining X. Everyone who was sleeping on it finally woke up and realized they need to do something or they'll be left with no support. They can either maintain X themselves now or they'll use Wayland.
Pypy actually works really well. It could probably get even farther if people knew about it more.

Test your packages on Pypy, people.
I'd like a better idea of what the "basic, medium, high" fit and finish options mean. Clicking around various links on the site didn't seem to talk about it anywhere else besides the cost estimator.
Gnome Merges RDP Graphical Remote Login Support
It seems much of the screen content in this keynote was pre-rendered (or in other words fake), so many of the answers might very well be "it can't actually do these things".
HashiCorp Appoints Michael Weingartner as Chief Product Officer
Official PR also found here: https://ir.hashicorp.com/node/9191/pdf
> From what I know, coaches teach a specific free throw shooting technique, including what is done before and between free throws.

Maybe that's your experience. But I have never seen that. However, all the coaches I have interacted with have emphasized be totally consistent. Same ritual every single free throw.

Perhaps this is true in college as I have no experience with that? However, in high school the amount of strength varies so much between players that you can't possibly teach the same biomechanics to every single child.

> Single season: 1. José Calderón 98.05% (2008-09), 2.Calvin Murphy .95.81% (1980-81), 3. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf 95.6% (1993-94)

You can quote what you wish. However, what I said is true. I was a small center in high school (only a couple inches above 6 foot). If my free throws weren't amazing, I was going to get punished horribly and take all manner of grief from people much, much bigger than me. Foul shots were my lifeblood--I practiced them accordingly.

Do remember that those guys play a LOT more games than we ever played in high school (larger statistical sample size). If we played 24 games in a season, that was a lot--20 was more typical. Any of those NBA players probably have multiple 20 game streaks where they didn't miss a free throw (about 10% (.9^20) chance for Steph--better than 66% for José (.98^20)).
You know, I hear this repeated a lot, but I never see anyone put up numbers. I would be very curious to see your math.
What makes you think that the kids of tomorrow are going to give a damn about today's notions of what's valuable? Using an unstoppable ledger doesn't make the underlying values any more legitimate than they were before.

I do think that creating a censorship resistant place for data is more important than preventing people from being scammed, but when I think about what ought to go there, I come up with nothing so status-quo-preserving as abstractions that ensure the continuity of asset ownership. It's like you hate banks so much that you went and built one just to show-em.
I frequently kept a twitch pop-out in the corner of my screen throughout the day. When uBlock stopped working, I almost immediately stopped using the site. Video interruptions are pretty awful for live content where channel switching is a regular occurrence.
When Aeroplanes Had Cocktail Bars, Piano Lounges and Pubs
It's a weak first pass at an elevator pitch for something you do not understand (as the pitcher), and something you do not expect the pitchee to grok, etiher
"Hacked"

Feels like something Elon would orchestrate for the purposes of trolling the SEC.
Fyi, while PTSD is commonly associated with soldiers and the experiances of war, it is far more common in many civilian trades. Top of the list: train drivers. Also, certain types of doctors such as pediatric oncologists. But we never hear about PTSD treatment studies involving anyone other than vets.