skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it worth it to learn Elixir (including Phoenix, and I would guess some Postgres) to be able to rapidly build websites? My day job is mostly Go microservices, making anything this way takes a lot of time and doesn't really feel worth it for single-person projects.
That 'value' effectively doesn't exist. Basically no-one is going out and buying things with Crypto, minus some illegal purchases.

The only reason people are still involved with it at all is as a speculative asset. They aren't using it as a currency - they're hoping it will go up in price and they can pawn it off to the next sucker to do the same. That's not 'value' in my eyes.
To accomplish what end? Why are they marketing efficiency?
I never got around to the flakes thing - if something isn't already in the repos nowadays, I lose interest quite quickly. It's really helped with just getting on with life instead of futzing around with settings. What does work, is rock solid.
If they are, I kinda hope that I could get my hands on one. Or a few.
> Which, like most things, is something that probably be left to the free market.

Except Bitcoin mining is a perfect example of why these things should NOT be left to the free market.
But he's not asking for future dollars, he's asking for present(ish) dollars, in microeconomics terms
> "The guy became a tech superstar in a few days for popularising the oracle of the 22nd century."

This reveals a lot about the people who made him a tech superstar, and very little about his actual underlying abilities.

Silicon Valley circa 2024 seems to just be one personality cult after another.
> Which, like most things, is something that probably be left to the free market.

The free market is often at odds with society at large, which is why we have regulations to protect society from the free market.
Ask HN: Politicians and their families are threatened and compromised, now what?
Assume every politician and public representative is violently kept in line. If this were public knowledge, what would be the ideal outcome?
I'm glad someone mentioned him. I found his channel a while ago and I really enjoy his stuff!
Probably replicating when you scan the paper
Isn't that followed by "Would you like me to help you with that?"
In the same context: How many top ranking games on steam waste the same amount of electricity? Shouldn't they be responsible for building fusion reactors, too, by that logic? If not, why?
Did it say "no longer" or just "not"?
Yes, it's hard to get much distance out of that logic. If that was the case there'd be little reasoning for efficiency as incandescent lightbulbs would also be incentive to expand power generation. It delays turning off dirtier generation even if more modern and efficient plants get built.
It’s not going to happen. Plenty of routers and other equipment are hardcoded to not route to those addresses. Any time spent rectifying this is time wasted on just adopting IPv6.

Ping 240.whatever.whatever.whatever from Windows. You just can’t. General failure.

And Windows is not the exception here.

They can lobby all they want, all the effort is going to be in vain. Imagine having to debug a problem where your services are sitting on 240.0.0.0/4, but some customers have routers that just drop the packets to that destination. It’d be a nightmare and “get better networking gear” might not even be a solution, because their ISPs routers could also be doing that.

This proposal is provably worse than just adopting IPv6, because when IPv6 works, it just works. This? This would fragment the IPv4 internet with undefined behaviour.

If they really want more v4 space, they should advocate for yoinking the v4 space that e.g. the DoD, Daimler, Ford or Apple doesn’t use. And they have a lot of v4 space. But that’s also not going to happen, and one of the reasons why not would be similar. A lot of people are actually squatting on DoD space in their internal networks if they run out of 10/8.
Why aren't there mugs with hydrophobic coating on the bottom? It seems like this should be an easy problem to solve compared to all the petaflop GPU's and spacecraft we're building.
Because most of it is held by a small number of people who have a vested interest?
When did blue become the indicator for "has power"? That has traditionally been red or maybe orange/amber even going back to miniature incandescent bulbs or neon bulbs.
If I try to run you over with my car but I miss, then all is ok?

Just because they failed in harming him doesn't make it harmless.
I'm a fan of QUIC, but these articles are always heavy on explanations and light on data. I understand in theory how head-of-line blocking can cause serious issues on a lossy network, but by this point I would expect to see a ton of data backing that up in real-world usage from Google and Cloudflare.

One specific question I've had is on a lossy network are there really that many situations where you would have packet loss on one QUIC stream but not most/all the others? I don't doubt that's true but I would love to see a breakdown.

Also, what's the crossover point between opening multiple TCP streams and doing round robin across them? Maybe you only need 3-4 TCP connections to estimate the HOL advantages of QUIC.

I will admit fewer RTT handshakes is a more obvious win.
This is why I am not a fan of crypto. It's environmental impact is disastrous in its current form.
What does any of this have to do with theft? In most lawful places, if you dump source code and documents to take with you it’s not going to end well.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/04/anthony-levandowski-gets...
Show HN: DevPillar: An open source web development resource library
Hey all, this is something I have been working on for about a week or so, and I'm excited to start showing others

DevPillar is an open source resource library for all things development & design.

Focused on resources used in Web Apps and the React ecosystem, with others mixed in there, it's got everything you need to bootstrap a great web app & more.

Also, if there are any resources you feel are missing from the site, there is a request form for new additions!

Excited to show off this project & hopefully some others will be excited to contribute.
Amazing to read about the continued re-invention of this part of Netflix's internal systems.

I worked with this team (and its predecessors) during my time at Netflix. They achieved several "holy grails" of video encoding: a perceptual quality metric (VMAF), optimal bitrate selection per 2 second video chunk, and then optimal video chunking to be scene based rather than a fixed 2 seconds. Doing any of that in a research lab would be a challenge, but pulling it off at Netflix's scale is epic.

You might need some background on how adaptive video streaming works to fully grok this article.

But this is also just a story about a massive refactoring of a large, critical system. How many companies have you worked for that aggressively pursued refactoring/re-engineering their central systems? At most other places, I've seen risk aversion, fear, and mismanagement conspire to kill innovation. Not so at Netflix.
The label, like any label, is a tool, it's not who you are. It might be a good tool for you to better understand yourself (your struggles, your preferences), but still not be a great tool for others to understand and communicate with you.

For one, unless people have had direct experience with spectrum diagnosis, I think most still think of autism as the extreme end of the spectrum, of severe disability. For another, the label itself doesn't offer any knowledge of what to do differently.

In my mind, there are two things that you can do that might help:

First, it helps other people understand better when you make it about vulnerability. When you say things like "I dislike crowded spaces, it stresses me out." or "It takes me a little longer to come up with a retort, I've always been this way" it does exactly what you want: allows you to be your authentic self in a social way. Everyone has things that are outside their comfort zone, so being honest about yours is very relatable.

Second, you mention people "viewing hints of antisocial behavior". It's very challenging - to yourself and to other people in the situation - to be both "social" and "antisocial" at the same time. Social behavior requires effort from everyone. That's why advice columns have always existed, that's why there are so many self help books. Recognize that, as a baseline, practically everyone is walking around with some internal sense of inadequacy, and that in social situations most everyone puts on a front. Granted, most will understand the codes to putting on the front better than you. But the effort is there.
Which is to say, if you decide you are going to be in a social situation, there isn't a way to square the circle, be anti-social and have it glide. But you can manage the effort to your capacity: step aside, limit the time, set boundaries - whatever works. It can help to know that really everyone else is doing it too.
well he didn't order sticks, he ordered matches without tips:

> ordering custom matches without the tip from Flam’Up, a French matchstick maker
Implicit in this kind of headline is the presumption that bitcoin is not useful. After more than a decade of scams, I think the burden of proof is on bitcoin to demonstrate utility.
Is this an Austin Powers / Dr. Evil moment where the character doesn't know what decade they're in and how much money to ask for?
wont be renewing personally, but I also got a few pies and cameras and a NAS. There really was never a need for them in the first place.
What about green tea?
A Clock in the Forest
I like my EV6. Zero issues. Of course I have a house and installed a charger so makes my life easy. I actually would always recommend an ev where it makes sense
Ok, let me maybe phrase it as a question. Had he not invented the blue led, would he be telling everyone his childhood in the fishing village made him love the color blue, or would that inspiring memory not exist or maybe not be so significant?
Yeah I was able to find a transcript of his interview with Putin [1] but oddly it does not seem to exist in YouTube in video format unfortunately. It's been years since I've watched him, but skimming through that transcript I can still hear his voice!

And yeah, I do think the two interviews are extremely similar in content. He asks significant and poignant questions, without fishing for trap stuff. So e.g. he asks most obviously why Putin invaded, what he even means by 'denazification', why he thinks Britain wanted Ukraine to fight, whether China may end up dominating (and thus undermining the point of) BRICS, the risks and possibilities around potential ongoing escalation, and other such questions.

Whenever I hear "hard hitting" in modern times, I just think of a journalist digging up some random dirt to try to shock the interviewee with, using argumentative fallacies like strawmen, and just generally doing whatever they can to agitate the interviewee and get some sensational headline or emotional response. And there was none of that.

[1] - http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21558
So Mann's salary is whatever, call it $500k/year, paid for by Penn State. He brings in grants to perform research that justify to Penn State why it's worth it to pay him that $500k/year (e.g. a $5M grant will include some amount for the PI + research assistants, some amount of lab spend, some amount of overhead to Penn State). If that grant doesn't materialize, Penn State is still on the hook for that $500k.

That's why it was tricky for Mann to prove damages here - Penn State was likely harmed, but Penn State didn't sue.
The website you linked is published by the Hong Kong-based China–United States Exchange Foundation, which was founded by a former Chief Executive of Hong Kong.

As the Chief Executive of Hong Kong is somehow "picked" by the CCP, the media can be seen as semi-state-controlled IMO.
Ariakit – Open-source library that provides unstyled, primitive react components
Syn-Drift Plate Tectonics
I wouldn't say copying streams is trivially easy
Ask HN: Atlassian Issue/Deploy Tracking?
Hey guys, I'm looking for the best way to search for a story number to know when it was deployed to PRD. Does anything like this exist?

Something like: story number is in the BitBucket commit, commit tied to Bamboo build, build tied to Bamboo deployment. User searches story number and deployment info (build, date, time) are displayed.
After realising Microsoft Edge isn't ideal for everyone, especially those heavily invested in Google services, I'm changing my approach and re-evaluating where Google Chrome is a better solution.
> most seasoned Go devs would leap out of their seats to tell you it’s an anti-pattern for libraries to start their own goroutines. Best practices dictate...

Then I'm afraid that either the author is not familiar with the standard library, or that it is not built according the "best practices".

Rant: the phrase "best practice" increasingly irritates me. Basically it has become a synonym for "my own opinion just trust me". It's like the Jedi hand gesture to force your beliefs onto someone to end a discussion.
It was intent to harm through lying. I'm not sure why that feels scary, seems pretty right in line with defamation in general.

The truth is an absolute defense in defamation, so the scary result is what? Willfully lying to harm people is not protected?

To take it a step further, if the person being lied about is a public figure, lying enjoys even more protections (you basically have to have the smoking "I'm lying about this" email for a public figure to prove defamation).
Manufactured homebuilders have cracked the code for building affordable housing. Just need to make places with space productive enough..
This ignores the negative externalities - namely, the degradation of our ecosystem - of this increased energy production. Our climate has a carrying capacity, beyond which habitability decreases.
That's more than the GDP of all countries, except China and USA.

What is he gonna go with all that money? Start his own country?
In general, yes. But it's also the "Netflix of information" in that discovery is difficult, and you're fighting an opaque algorithm working behind the scenes.

I'd love the information subscription but with, say, a NetNewsWire-style interface: reverse chronological feeds and search box.
I think the Lamport Clock (and the segue into Vector Clocks, Maekawa's Algorithm, RAFT, Spanner) is one of the top 5 most-mind-expanding parts of the traditional CS education.

Such a cool concept, not terribly complicated at the micro-level, but enables such leverage "downstream".
There's also a positive feedback loop between ice cover and increasing atmospheric CO2, since an Earth covered in ice prevents a lot of the natural absorption of CO2, allowing the atmospheric CO2 to rise via volcanic outgassing.

There's also a theory that a sudden decrease in solar radiation can trigger iceball earths -- https://news.mit.edu/2020/sunlight-triggered-snowball-earths...
No, you need better insulation.

(And maybe a rocket stove combined with a heat storage hypocaust.)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/03/heat-storage-hypoc...
Considering intent is the core of America's legal system.

You can go to jail for attempted murder even if no one got hurt.

You can get away with killing someone if you can show it was an unforeseeable accident.

And yes, you can get punitive damages even if you caused little or no harm.
having something like zelle on your phone makes it hard to understand.

I'd recommend reading "Check Your Financial Privilege".
Google One hits 100M subscriber milestone
Your argument does not make sense.

Increasing usage does not magically increase capacity by the same amount. Even if it did, the increased capacity resulting from the increased demand would not make electricity cheaper, since the corresponding demand would already exist.

In general, increasing demand for a resource increases the price for that resource.
A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Bitcoin Mines Across the U.S: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235518

An energy poor country, Ethiopia, builds a new dam for hydro, all that supply goes to bitcoin!

Chinese bitcoin miners are flocking to Ethiopia, attracted by cheap energy, ideal climate: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3251352/chines...
It's simple physics. You put gases into a glass tube and you test the heat retention. Earth's energy economy is determined by how much energy enters the earth in the form of sunrays and how much energy is lost due to infrared radiation. Climate gases are like a blanket that retains the heat, i.e., infrared radiation.

There are some fun practical experiments to be found: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.192075
. Some you could realistically try at home. The first research papers on that are literally 150 years old. Those are actually interesting to look at, too. Great hand-drawn diagrams of their lab equipment.

An issue is that there are paid trolls that go around posting blanket doubt on climate change, so it's always difficult to tell whom to engage with and when it is better not to provide a stage.
Exactly. It's wasteful by design, with incentives to increase hash rates in the face of efficiencies instead of taking the savings. And the hashes are absolutely useless computations. No one benefits from the 99.99999% of hash guesses that don't "win" the block.
I'm an engineer that needs to sell my services. Any good books on sales?
I recently left my role as a lead devops engineer and would like to work for myself under a devops service contract model (multiple clients, each part-time). Unfortunately, I know nothing about sales or the mechanics of creating and following up on leads. Are there any good books that can explain the tools and workflows of someone who works in sales? Thanks in advance.
Bestowing the ''golden ring of quality'' has now been automated.
> As a developer the lower the market share the less incentive there is to supporting it. I have stopped testing to see if my sites work on firefox and just focus on chromium and safari.

It's one thing to claim to not include Firefox in your list of supported browsers.

It's an entirely different thing to claim you only support Chrome and Safari.

If you are a developer and only target browsers from Apple and Google, this is a personal decision you're making to purposely ignore around 25% of your whole market share. This is not Firefox's or Microsoft's Opera's problem. This is your problem.
There's an argument to be made for crypto to be used to turn power that wouldn't otherwise be economical / linked to the grid / used into money, which can then be turned back into power (in a purely economic sense) later. For example wave energy could power GPUs in the middle of the ocean, with no need to then transmit electricity to shore. Solar could be captured in the middle of the desert. Some oil rigs are mining crypto with the natural gas that leaks from their wells. So long as there's a starlink satellite above, energy can be turned into money on the spot, and then that money can buy energy in another place and time. (Ofcourse, this doesn't actually create new energy.) Something to think about.
Tunable Consistency in MongoDB
thats even better lol. hey 缾 how come so few comments? you have a few accounts or what? I feel priviledged.
Can you substantiate the claim that crypto financed a 2.3% expansion of the US power generating capacity? Most power companies are encouraging people to use less electricity, especially during peak periods, instead of encouraging more use to be able to sell more electricity because of grid limitations etc..
Haha.

Unfortunately I think Philly is more dysfunctional than GTA. Perhaps the greatest of American cities.
This again? Just use v6, it’s not that hard.
> Ending crypto mining is the easiest no-brainer in the history of energy systems.

Ending any profit-generating activity is incredibly difficult. I suspect you're not referring to ending it, but allowing it to be transferred offshore and losing the ability to regulate it. But if it's banned in the US, good luck getting every other country on earth to ban it in solidarity.
I was really really joking
Have we created a society that's too complex to survive?
Chinese Bitcoin miners are flocking to Ethiopia, attracted by cheap energy
I've been using POSIX systems regularly for 25 years. Why have I never seen the comm command used before?
Man there are lots of companies that do this.
https://www.bandwidth.com/pricing/
google twilio alternative.
Don't believe it then, idk, what do you want from us? There are plenty of climate change denialists on HN it's not exactly a radical or fringe position here. Do you want someone to try to refute these points? You could do it yourself in a few days of targeted reading, but you'd need to leave behind your confidence in your junior high "you can't have it both ways" understanding of scientific methods.

Climate change research is anomalously open and the methods highly scrutinized. That you're hung up on such basic points rather than the actual contentions within the field shows me you're not particularly well informed on the specifics. But I don't think this is a good forum to litigate these specifics, and I'm not sure that's what you're actually asking for here anyway.
Maybe CMYK colour with no associated profile?
So now we know why Gaia evolved humans: geological regulation of CO2 levels wasn't cutting it. She got sick of 57 million years of ice and made multicellular lifeforms to grow a better regulator.
> The reason to pick Rust is because you get C/C++ like performance without the memory safety issues. If you don’t need the perf, all the other languages are better choices because you’ll probably move quicker.

Lets not forget a competent type system as well. Go/Java are decent, but i'd not even consider dynamic langs these days for any remotely complex project. I just don't believe in the benefits of a dynamic system.

I use Rust in areas that otherwise don't require it in part because i prefer the type system.
Thanks for linking to that. Really confused why the ctan pages don't.
If you criminalize people’s incorrect beliefs then you are doing politics and not science.
It is interesting how much media/politicians focus on the energy expended to preserve value outside of fiat currency, but are somehow far less concerned with how much energy (and human life) we expend to prop up the petrodollar and various private interests abroad. It is also interesting how little they complain about the energy we expend on ML training for next-gen spambots and copyright infringement.

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

The United States Department of Defense is one of the largest single consumers of energy in the world, responsible for 93% of all US government fuel consumption in 2007 (Air Force: 52%; Navy: 33%; Army: 7%. Other DoD: 1%).[1] In FY 2006, the DoD used almost 30,000 gigawatt hours (GWH) of electricity, at a cost of almost $2.2 billion. The DoD's electricity use would supply enough electricity to power more than 2.3 million average American homes. In electricity consumption, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 58th in the world, using slightly less than Denmark and slightly more than Syria (CIA World Factbook, 2006).[1] The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons (1.7×1010 L) of fuel annually, an average of 12,600,000 US gallons (48,000,000 L) of fuel per day. A large Army division may use about 6,000 US gallons (23,000 L) per day. According to the 2005 CIA World Factbook, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 34th in the world in average daily oil use, coming in just behind Iraq and just ahead of Sweden.[1]