skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philosophers never die. Our bodies are computers and our personalities are self-improving (or self-worsening in some cases) programs. To the moment a body of a philosopher dies, the case usually is it has became irrelevant already because the program already runs in the decentralized cloud of the society.
Whats the total market cap of the economic value protected by the US military?
Supporting an existing API provides interoperability which is beneficial for the users. So that way if there is a better storage service it’s easier to adopt it. However, the S3 API compatibility can be a hindrance when you want to innovate and provide additional features and functionality. In our case, providing additional features [1] [2] while continuing to be S3 API compatible has forced us to rely on custom headers.

[1] https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/objects/conditionals/
[2] https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/objects/caching/#caching-on-...
> Can you clarify how this isn't what you mean? How is what you're saying different from what I interpreted it as meaning?

No, because that’s just an argument about “who said what” and nobody cares about that stuff.

If you had some response you wanted to make about the content of what I said, then I missed it. I don’t know what your viewpoint is at all, except about what the definition of “quackery” is, which is apparently important. If you made some kind of response to the content what I wrote, I missed it.
This comment scares me that YC is desperate for applications now after burning through so many early stage founders for years. Has YC peaked?
Something has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately
Why 50% Developers Hate Dora Metrics?
I think many governments could buy enough compute to mine most blocks and not have any transactions in them. If they wanted to. And isn't GenAI attentional deep networks the currently more interesting way to use excess compute now?
Nope. These were voted in by one party to the war. Rest of the world has actually been busy doing business with Russia. In fact, FT and Economist report that Russian economy grew faster than most European economies.
>Computer chips do not need to use energy useful to humans, BTC and also deep learning algos just to name a few.
>Sam Altman should go to Saudis and plug GPUs directly as petroleum gets out of the ground

Hows that help carbon emissions?
>The point of sanctions is as a disincentive against bad behavior at a national level.

There is an argument to be made that sanctions don't work. Maybe they used to in the long distant past, but they don't now.

Russia doesn't give even half a fuck, Iran gives negative fucks, North Korea gives no fucks, and China is turning the sanctions back against us, to name some prominent examples.

I appreciate the west's desire to settle diplomatic problems using something other than war, but sanctions aren't the solution (anymore?).
You also seem to dance around the very question, "wouldn't feel comfortable" is very different from "intimidated and threatened".

Here's what was asked:

> Do you have references for the “intimidated and threatened” bit? Is there a claim it went beyond a peaceful protest?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087425

Look at this photo and tell me seriously you feel "threatened" by people sitting on the floor to protest a previously-thought-of-as-good company being a military contractor now:

https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,forma...

As a thought experiment, let's say they were protesting Google working for the French military. Or the US military. Or the South Korean military. Is the above a photo of an "intimidating and threatening" protest?
The whole goal of sanctions is to induce behaviours change without resorting to actual weapons.

What do you think sanctions are meant to be?
Interesting, one question i had, was hydroelectric due to mountains/hills glaciation or in the sea like the UK. I googled it, it seems like the former.

Geothermal always seemed to me, it's a pretty difficult source of energy to extract for factories n stuff. Like, a factory can melt steel, but no one wants the ground he stands on to melt as well.

Hydroelectric is a much easier source to work with. Humans have used rivers as a source of energy for thousands of years.
aes128 pagers are the most secure side-channel on the planet. also a kept secret in telcoms.

add payload addressing per message and you can speak oneway to an unbounded number of pagers/devices, for only a few bucks a month. try doing that with cellular.
I guess my point is our world is so intertwined with the internet that if it permanently goes away we're pretty much in a 'the next war will be fought with sticks and stones' situation anyway, so what does it matter how well the military can defend those bonds and fiat.

Re:SHTF for sure, which is why it's not really worth considering, unless you're so sure it's going to happen and you're already accumulating those beans and bullets (also nothing is stopping you from doing that while also buying other things in case it doesn't happen, or takes a lot longer to happen than you predict).
> I say that a very disgruntled Russian who hasn't had a sane, predictable life since 2020.

Seems that it is has made it politically more difficult, if not economically so.
Most languages you mention let you import the individual names that you want, and you can resolve potential clashes at the point of import. In C++ you basically ```#include``` a file and with it comes a flood of names that are often times unpredictable.
UN warns 800k people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger'
Of course there's feedback mechanisms. You just don't want to use them for whatever reason.
Oh god, spare us the YIMBY talking points. Just like this article completely ignores how many vacant homes there are, how many have been converted to short term rentals, etc. There are plenty of luxury condos and McMansions being built, not because “that’s what’s legal”, but because that’s where the fattest margins are and we live in a neoliberal nightmare.
It’s the same culture made by the same people entering and leaving across that full period. Hacker culture is really a continuation of the same ad hock machinist culture dating back to the Industrial Revolution. It jumped to computers from the days of analog computers.

You can trace things flowing all over the place with say MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club being often sited as an early example. But it’s really just refinements of the same basic culture, and computers is one of the few places it survived unlike say pinball.
It was very interesting. It revealed a lot of influence-pedalling and strongly implied Joe Biden profits from it, or at least facilitates his son profiting from it.

Not a shred of its contents were ever disproven, but much was corroborated.

It's only "uninteresting" if you exclusively follow NPR, I think.
What’s your source on the sanctions doing nothing to make the war harder for Russia?

I’m asking because how on earth can you claim that? I’m close to the ecosystem involved and the sanctions work incredibly well. They’re not sufficient and there are bypasses but that doesn’t mean they don’t work.
You're assuming you dont have state sponsors heavily invested in it already - and have been for years. Which is actually kind of hilarious, as it also assumes the blockchain is safe from other threat models. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant chunk of bitcoin movements were state sponsored; its the next logical move - first you build a brivate internet, then you build a private currency.
S3 is not known for performing well with such small files. Is this primarily how your dataset on S3 looks like?
The UAW literally had all their members sit down in various places throughout the factory and offices of GM in the past... I don't know why you think they "wouldn't be able to get members off" from this.
The three scariest afflictions to me are: Cancer, Rabies, and Prions
How?

You mean having the worker "know" that it's Alice's turn, and pull 10 Alice task from the database? Doesn't seem right.
Depending on the kind of questions you're asking it, the mistral finetunes may be much better positioned to give a high quality answer. An apples-to-apples comparison IMO would be Mistral 7B instruct vs Llama3 8b instruct.
You're free not to contribute to Wikipedia. You're free not to use Wikipedia. You're free to download all of the content hosted on Wikipedia and use it for yourself. You're free not to donate money to Wikipedia. You're free to run your own online encyclopedia that's just a dumb web server on Hetzner serving plaintext for pennies each month that's as fiscally conservative as you please.

Wikipedia continues to bring in more money than it spends. It has a quarter billion dollars in the bank. By all accounts, Wikipedia is financially healthier than essentially every startup featured on this site and oversees what's probably the largest, most well-curated collection of knowledge ever compiled.

If fundraising dips in the future, so what? They cut back? It's sad to see folks get laid off, but that's essentially what the author is arguing for, so it's kind of moot.

> Sooner or later, something is going to happen that causes the donations to decline instead of increase. It could be a scandal (real or perceived). It could be the WMF taking a political position that offends many donors. Or it could be a recession, leaving people with less money to give. ... Whatever the reason is, it will happen.

Incidentally, we did go through a global recession. COVID caused Wikipedia to see almost double it's normal increase in funding while the organization decreased expenses. And the following year, fundraising brought in less cash, but income still far outstripped expenses, and income basically returned to it's trend before the recession.

The argument "it's not their place to spend the money they raise" seems, at this point, like such a ridiculous argument when there's really nothing at this point that shows that the people in charge are being irresponsible.
But where does that stop: I can replace chicken here with your kids; still ok? What’s the difference? Dogs? Chimpansees? Dolphins? Why chickens ok and the rest not in the same example?
8 Months of Ruby
> every miner would have to win every block to stay in business

To my understanding that'd be true if the energy cost was $2M per miner, but I think jpcfl was suggesting $2M total. i.e. that an individual miner would spend $100 on energy for a $100 expected return, which may be a 10% chance at $1000 or a 100% chance at $100.

Could adjust $2M up slightly for whatever portion was done by crypto-mining malware or dabblers with higher expected energy costs than return, and down for the portion done by professional miners who will be expecting a slightly positive return even after factoring in other costs.
Who cares?

Your deepest motivation should be to build something amazing that people want to use, to create a great business, to have fun, to go on a great adventure.

If stock market performance plays a major role in your decision to start a business or raise capital then perhaps your motivations might need a rethink.
I find listening to podcasts at 1.25-1.5x much easier. I noticed that this speed is much more in line with my internal dialogue.

I also noticed that I need to speed up female speakers more than males. I'm not sure if this is because their cadence tends to be slower, or if it's something about me.
The ability to use a JIT is not determined by the framework being used. It is a sandbox property for the process.

If you use JSC in a process that cannot use a JIT it will just use the interpreter, that has always been the case.

But more to the point, if you’re going to use JS (or WASM) why not just make it a webpage, that’s what the “web eats everything” means.

We’ll ignore for now the whole reason the web is so great is that webpages cannot screw with your system. The fact that people keep trying to make a web page as powerful as an installed app just means every web page becomes dangerous.
i applied several times and never got feedback which doesn’t help
I like TinyMCE too and swapped out a Quill editor in its favor 6 months ago. But I was annoyed that you needed an API key to use their static JS in your site and disturbed that they rapidly shrunk free tier "use" of rendering an editor a few days back [0]. Out of curiosity, is that not an issue for you?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044544
So, you are suggesting that if someone believes US has waged illegal war in Iraq, he has moral/legal authority to punish US citizens??
This isn't related to access control. Workers process jobs for every user, that's actually the source of the problem.
S3 uses HTTP protocol for communication between client and server. The `s3://` paths make it seem like it’s a protocol but that’s just a way to represent the path on the s3 client to differentiate it from a local file path.
So why enough housing is not getting build in Europe, surely they don't have crazy american rules but still facing severe housing shortages all over.
> I would never contribute to commercially backed, freely licensed project unless I was being paid.

Based on what I've seen, a lot of people contribute to VC/commercially backed projects for resume/career growth reasons.
Depends on who you ask
It’s a shame this is not allowed in most/all countries. So much meat wasted by cremation and burial and solid boxes. Feed me to the pigs after harvesting my organs.
There are a lot of homes in every country that are essentially worthless. You can live in them, and they may even be in good condition. But if you try to sell them, you probably can't find anyone willing to pay real money for them. Because very few people have a reason to live in that area. And good luck if you need to borrow money to renovate the home.

Then there are areas where many people have a reason to live in. Imagine a highly educated couple. At least one of them probably works in a field where fully remote work is not possible. When they choose where they want to live, they likely prioritize areas with many potential employers within an easy commute. If they take the risk and move to a small city with only 1-2 relevant employers and it doesn't work out, they're in trouble. And because educated people move to larger cities, businesses that need talent also concentrate there.

Homes as such are not worth much. Almost all of the value is in the location. And most locations are not worth much.
this is hilarous, I mean, there's a literal satellite constellation beaming the blockchain and the argument is "nuh-uh!"

I guess that until a satellite shoots a wad of bills through your window some people won't give it credit.
Naegleria fowleri (aka brain-eating amoeba)
I liked this one until that stupid puzzle with the gold tooth and the balloon.
> Context: Bitcoin miners have just adopted a 50% pay cut for themselves.

I fully understand what "the havening" is, and this statement is grossly misleading. Yes, the mining rewards for each block were cut in half. That does not mean "miners have just adopted a 50% pay cut for themselves". A lower block reward means some combination of (a) transaction fees will go up, (b) mining competition goes down because it doesn't make as much sense to spend electricity on a smaller reward and (c) the overall deflationary economics built into Bitcoin mean while the rewards are nominally less, they are worth more.
a significant number of hospitals in usa do use american messaging, everyday: https://americanmessaging.net/
(2020), judging by "Observations as of March of 2020"

Discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699011 (314 comments)
I was probably too concise. What I mean is that if I had to choose between two different ideas for what people want, I would pick the one I was more interested in, even if it seemed smaller at first, over one that had a better cover story but which I was bored by. And yes this is what Jessica said, advising a particular founder who had grown weary of what he was working on.

I think the basic philosophy is that your starting point is not so important—you can get anywhere from anywhere, as long as you are (in pg's phrase) relentlessly resourceful. Given that starting point isn't so important, you're better off starting with something you have a lot of energy for. You're going to need it.

Of course I would work on Skysheet again! When did spreadsheets stop being the most important thing in programming?
Well, that explains why we haven't been wiped out by species from other galaxies. We're not worth the trip!
Remember not all magnesium supplements are absorbable by humans. Absorption of magnesium oxide and stearate is as low as 0-10% (common in supplements) while glycinate, orotate and L-threonate is closer to 100% and the latter seems particularly able to cross the blood brain barrier.
The words line up themselves, and I can usually 'feel' the idea before I hear the word in my mind, or the words might be just a part of the idea I'm addressing. Sometimes there are multiple lines of thoughts happening at once.

I also think and dream in code, fwiw.
Amen... I only vaguely recall something about a boating accident.
git bisect now has a --first-parent option, so as long as every merge builds and passes tests, what's going on in the branches is fine.

And yeah, I use it all the time.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect
It reduces it. Instead of taking a barrel of oil, moving it to a different place and burning 10% of it in the process, or even 20%, it can be easily be used right there use 20% less, and cheaper as well. No need for ships to be built, sailors to sail and so on. Less emissions, not zero but a reduction, and cheaper.

Just moving bits around seems like a lot easier, efficient and cheaper than moving physical stuff around.

Edit: bad calculation fix
What's funny is in the US, when even the slightest hint of that occurred, one side completely freaked out. Just imagine if those folks were armed, or say even 10% of the population were heavily armed and in support of that. It also probably doesn't help that the overwhelming majority of experienced combat veterans the US spent millions per troop training for the last 20 years would be on their side, not yours. That layers on top of their real world experience of bullets wizzing and cracking by, living in shit conditions, and holding their friends in their arms as they die.

You're a feeble Internet nerd whose position is an aberration of history.

I'm sure you'll selectively apply your morals rather than having enough intelligence to understand what you're advocating.

This is pretty reprehensible and you should be embarrassed.
The article specifically calls out home vacancy rates. We're at an all time low in cities.
I appreciate the callout to Tigris. Now it’s super easy to use Tigris with Supabase for all those files.
Yes, it's a much bigger compliment than the parent comment suggested. It's the sole point of cryptocurrency -- working around limits set by authorities.
On the contrary, morality has everything to do with free will. It's one of the central motivations of the concept and always has been. From the greeks right up through the enlightenment, the question was always "in what sense are we capable of making responsible choices," with that term 'responsible' just dripping with moral implications. Without the moral implications, free will would not have the place it does in our cultural ethos.
I think it’s a problem if you have to point to a poorly functioning country and go “see? Bitcoin works!” Meanwhile the poor locals need to somehow get enough technology and understand Bitcoin. And in developed countries, no one really wants it or only buy it to speculate, not to actually make transactions.

Bitcoin ATMs used to be on the rise where I live many years ago. And I could make purchases. Now they are all gone.

Seems like the people adopting crypto don’t have many choices.
I remember when the first GPU kernels came out... exciting times!
CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot
I wish to remind you that many everyday Russians participate in the war in a variety of ways, from diffusing propaganda, to a variety of associations with the Russian military complex, to being on the frontlines themselves.

Those many everyday Russians punish people (Ukrainians mainly, Europeans in general) for someone else’s decision (Putin’s power trip).

I also wish to remind you that hardship in Russia does not compare to hardship in Ukraine right now.

I say this as someone with relatives in both countries today.
A satellite constellation is only half of a network. And a system that nobody can actually use is not a useful or functional system. Approximately nobody has a receiver for this network today. The receivers won't fall out of the sky tomorrow if war breaks out.

And even if everyone did have receivers, commercial satellites are highly regulated by most nations, likely will be targeted during any future major war, and there's no guarantee they won't be coopted for other uses by their host nations. Blockstream is a tiny company and doesn't even own or operate any of these satellites. You might as well just use viasat or iridium.
Where would you build them? You’d need to first “seed” new neighborhoods with subway stations “in the middle of nowhere”…
Internet is hands-down the most fragile communication backbone a country can have; you can easily blackhole a whole country (satellite included) by just propagating "configuration". Most physical communication can easily be disrupted by cutting cables or by dragging an anchor at the bottom of the ocean.

In contrast, a vlf transmitter can cover the globe consuming the same power as an old tv set. Its not high bandwidth, but enough for teletype.

Everything that requires stable power is able to function in modern warfare scenarios, as long as UN rules apply; ukranians have internet, palestinians have controlled internet, and sudan victims have neither.
My only response to this is that the USMLE (3-step medical licensing qualifier) has a correlary relationship between score and future ability to practice sound medicine.

While in general I do agree that some physicians can exhibit exceptional bedside manner... most of the med students I started school with are so burnt-out now that they don't give a fuck about almost any of their patients (other than "don't get sued").
> The biggest mistake Redis Labs made was doing a rebrand at the exact same time as a license change.

I honestly don't think that was the issue. The issue, unlike Elastic vs Amazon is, this change affects a lot of big players like Google, Amazon, and Oracle.
IIRC you could build your own kit with a software defined radio device.

you just needed a recycled satellite dish and some other off the shelf components.
Yep.
But for me I started using cash when I noticed my local stores were trying to transition away from cash. They would have one aisle that would accept cash.
As soon as I noticed the transition away from cash at my daily stores, I started using cash way more often and I was a prick about it. For example at a drag race, I couldn't use a card. I'd select some items I wanted to buy, get into line, then be like oh can I pay in cash? No? And then leave the item that the register.
Sure cards are convenient, but this world will become so much more oppressive if we lose the ability to spend with cash.

Buy a $1000 tablet, lol here's 50 $20.

You'll also notice the clerk's attitude change. The money I'm spending becomes real to them. It's no longer just a number on a screen. They recognize how long it takes to earn that $20.
I'll play devil's advocate. I have applied to YC for at least 8 times in my 20s? They rejected me everytime. Not even an interview.

I now run a $XM SaaS (scale-up, not startup) growing at Y00%/annum. 100% bootstrapped with a healthy profit margin. Thanks YC.

The only thing I'd say that YC is good for is their network of existing startups. Then again, startups aren't the best customers IMO given that they die too much.

Advice is free on the internet as marketing material these days. And there are better VCs.