skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't get it either, something seems deeply wrong here.

These are impressive numbers but I wonder about something... Binance is a centralized cryptocurrencies exchange. But AIUI "defi" is a thing: instead of using a CEX (Centralized EXchange), people can use a DEX (Decentralized EXchange).

And apparently there's a gigantic number of trades happening in the defi world. And it's all happening on public ledgers right? (I'm asking, I don't know: are the "level 2" chains public?).

And the sum of all the public ledgers / blockchains transactions do not represent anywhere near 1.6 PB a day.

And yet DEXes do work (and often now, seen that volume picked up, have liquidity and fees cheaper than centralized exchanges).

Someone who know this stuff better than I do could comment but from a quick googling here's what I found:

- a full Ethereum node today is 1.2 TB (not PB, but TB)
- a full Bitcoin node today is 585 GB

There are other blockchains but these two are the two most successful ones?

So let's take Ethereum... For 1.2 TB you have the history of all the transactions that ever happened on Ethereum, since 2015 or something. And that's not just Ethereum but also all the "tokens" and "NFTs" on ethereum, including stablecoins like Circle/Coinbase's USDC.

How do we go from a decentralized "1.2 TB for the entire Ethereum history" to "1.6 PB per day for Binance transactions"?

That's 1500x the size of the freaking entire Ethereum blockchain generated by logs, in a day.

And Ethereum is, basically, a public ledger. So it is... Logs?

Or let's compared Binance's numbers to, say, the US equities options market. That feed is a bit less than 40 Gb/s I think, so 140 TB for a day of actual equities options trading datafeed.

I understand these aren't "logs" but, same thing...

How do we go from a daily 140 TB datafeed from the CBOE (where the big guys are and the real stuff if happening) to 10x that amount in daily Binance logs.

Something doesn't sound right.

You can say it's apples vs oranges but I don't it's that much of apples vs oranges.

I mean: if these 1.6 PB of Binance logs per day are justified, it makes me think it's time to sell everything and go all-in in cryptocurrencies, because there may be way more interest and activity than people think. (yeah, I'm kidding)

EDIT: 1.2 TB for Ethereum seems to be a full but not an "archive" node. An "archive" node is 6 TB. Still a far cry from 1.6 PB a day.
You’re both right! Nuance is important :).

This is an interesting thought, assuming a call center employee is paid $35k, total cost of employment being $70k, you could hire 14.25 employees for every million dollars.

If every Concast exec got paid a paltry $5M (lowest paid exec salary), they’d be able to hire around 975 more CS reps.

They have 13.6 million subscribers, so they’d increase the number of support reps by 0.000071691176471 per customer.

My thought was maybe they could reduce their marketing budget but it seems their business has shrunken by ~50% in the past 10 years.

https://www1.salary.com/COMCAST-CORP-Executive-Salaries.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/497279/comcast-number-vi...
It's well known that there's an undiscovered functional Mayan space ship under Central Park: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms
Like any good Presbyterian, I named my Son after the great Archibald Alexander, the progenitor of Princeton Theological Seminary . Myself, I am named after the great theologian John Calvin.

However, if I have a daughter, I will name her Britney - an anagram for Presbyterians
>Android phones are going to get a major speed boost. They have been so uncompetitive against Apple for a while now.

Uncompetitive? These numbers indicate otherwise while being on a previous generation TSMC 4nm node. Just imagine if they were on the same 3nm node as the A17.

https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-list/rating

https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-8-gen-3-vs-apple...
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this - so well done and thought out
> The world's most powerful CPU

maybe the most powerful / watt - desktop CPUs like the 9950X are still way more powerful.
It's not just a benchmark flex. I have been using Linux since 1992, for many or most of those years on both desktop and server. I am currently more productive while on an Apple Silicon Mac.

I would venture to guess that for most people, they would be more productive on a Mac or an iPad versus Linux.

Pedantry: To my knowledge, there was no M3 iPad.
Shelley Duvall has died
I mean, the barrier to using a fake sign or using a marker to vandalize existing signs is much lower than projecting an image from a drone. But cool idea tho.
That's sort of a surface view. The primary source papers in paleontology are extremely cautious about saying "this is the start". They tend to say things like "earliest found so far". Popularizing the papers, which really aren't that hard to understand, seems to make hedged or relative conclusions into absolutes. And if a teacher imparts absolutes, then they're not doing a good job.
Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch
No year will ever be "the year of Linux on the desktop", despite that phrase being so old that if I'd conceived a child when I first heard it, I'd be a grandparent already.

The fact that you can't imagine a device being useful until it can compile the Linux kernel etc., that you dismiss it as a "Netflix machine", says more about you than about Apple.
Good for them! I hope this gives them a bit more time to R&D, stiffen the chassis, etc. before taking it to market. But, I also hope Formlabs doesn't raise the price as an entry option to their 5-figure Fuse 1 printer. If they can keep the target price with a Formlabs logo, it'll be a hit.
It's worth reminding your loved ones that the FBI specifically recommend using an ad blocker in search engines to avoid exactly this kind of scam [0].

> Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others.

[0] https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221
x86 has a parity flag. It only takes the parity of the lowest 8 bits though. Why is it there? Because it was in the 8086 because it was in the 8080 because it was in the 8008 because Intel was trying to win a contract for the Datapoint 2200.

Sometimes the short instruction variant is correct, but not if it makes a single instruction break down into many uops as the microcode is 1000x slower.

Oh, but you need to use those longer variants without extra uops to align functions to cache boundaries because they perform better than NOP.

Floats and SIMD are a mess with x87, AMX (with incompatible variants), SSE1-4 (with incompatible variants), AVX, AVX2, and AVX512 (with incompatible variants) among others.

The segment and offset was off dealing with memory is painful.

What about the weird rules about which registers are reserved for multiply and divide? Half the “general purpose” registers are actually locked in at the ISA level.

Now APX is coming up and you get to choose between shorter instructions with 16 registers and 2 registers syntax or long instructions with 32 registers ands 3 registers instructions.

And this just scratches the surface.

RISCV is better in every way. The instruction density is significantly higher. The instructions are more simple and easier to understand while being just as powerful. Optimizing compilers are easier to write because there’s generally just one way to do things and is guaranteed to be optimized.
I knew what we were in for when I read

> ... we create a model which is not only tractable and clean, but also perfectly captures the real world.

Kudos to the authors for a good sense of humour.
They just hang up on you if it's taking too long
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Yea, no need of over-engineering.
It might help if congress allowed more doctors and hospitals to keep the ratio per capita the same it was a century ago.
There definitely are various timescales and standards that take relativity into account

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

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

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

Etc
> If so, it is safe to ignore them.

if you say so, but don't whinge if someone pulls off a major heist
during a leap second by counting on you to ignore it

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
These concepts would make for a killer PVP real time strategy game, good write-up
Or just don't create 10,000 tables.
Well, no... they do the opposite and they aren't exactly subtle or circumspect about it.
Same, also I'd love to know more about the technical details of their logging format, the on-disk storage format, and why they were only able to reduce the storage size to 20% of the uncompressed size. For example, clp[1] can achieve much, much better compression on logs data.

[1] https://github.com/y-scope/clp

EDIT: See also[2][3].

[2] https://www.uber.com/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two-order...

[3] https://www.uber.com/blog/modernizing-logging-with-clp-ii/
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It's other way around. Any method of installation is insecure by default. Moreover, hackers are able to penetrate even multi-layered security defence systems sometimes (for a short period of time). What makes this 0-security system secure?
It sounds like a fair deal in that you pay for the service and they provide the service. The economics of it will depend wildly on use case. I am getting internet thru Calyx Institute[1]. About $500 set up and $35/month (supposedly unlimited mobile 4G). Should work most everywhere there are people but only those places that also have cell coverage.

[1] https://calyxinstitute.org
What are most people doing with the iPad that they were being held back by the M3 chip in order for the M4 to be such a game changer for them?
HLA-B27 is directly related to a number of autoimmune disorders, including lupus. I hope this research can expand to other conditions associated with HLA-B27, like psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc.
I'm struggling to think of a case where the free market came up with an environmentally-friendly solution. Sometimes they jump on a save-the-whales bandwagon in a token sense for additional sales, I guess. The environmentally friendly solution is rarely the most profitable, and if it happens to be, the companies are definitely doing it.

The cheapest way to make things is to hide the waste until it becomes someone else's problem. Look at some of the mining Superfund sites. Are you voting with your dollars by not buying mined products? The company that made the mess you didn't even know about and are now paying for was dissolved years ago.

Or the owner of a gas station lets their tanks rust out causing well water to be ruined in a mile radius. He abandoned the station and moved to another city in shame. And opened another gas station.

It sounds kinda like you're underestimating the lure of the bottom line in the free market.
Hahah.. "How is it relevant where they bought it or who installed it?"

Very relevant in many cases. Maybe you have experts installing things who read the instructions, but I'd say more installs then not have some kind of install error.

Super common but maybe not so serious including leveling issues, then clearance issues for all sorts of items but particularly affecting items that need heat exchange or ventilation. Then onto electrical / wiring screw ups, then install damage of various sorts.

People are buying very complex devices now, coupled with cost savings efforts by MFGs (everything built to basically minimal tolerance) and these are not you grandparents refrigerator anymore. By the time the items gets to your house it may have been VERY roughly treated - on and off a truck to the store, around the store, on and off a truck to your house, into your house etc etc. In many cases the installers are paid dirt money basically and these are big awkward heavy items.
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I would like to note that he has created/supported a variety of political causes in the past. His current cause does seem to be pointing to restricting kids internet access, but I can't really figure out what he wants.

One of these is his "moral foundations" theory, which claims that people have different underlying reasons for having various moral opinions. He claimed to have identified some but left the exact reasons open ended and changeable. He claimed that everyone realizing this would decrease political polarization. Neuroscientists pointed out that the "modules" he described can't map to actual brain structures, and he claimed that it didn't matter. I'm kind of unsure of if I would even call this science, as I don't really see how to make a predictable hypothesis out of it. However, it could be valuable as political speech if people do indeed lack awareness that other people value different things than them. (I always assumed everyone knew that, but maybe they don't?)

He also argued for "anti-fragility". The concept that kids these days are kept from experiencing failure and other unpleasant things, and that this will lead them to become worse off during adulthood. This seems more testable, but almost seems to be in direct contradiction to his current anti-smartphone/anti-social media cause. Perhaps this does come from a general "Kids these days are online too much" sort of sentiment, but anti-fragility by itself doesn't really directly suggest we should deny kids internet access.

I really don't know what to think of the man's political leanings, but I don't trust his scholarship much either way. Any time I try to fact-check him, I come up with rather inconclusive or small effects.
Mullvad and Proton at least have had their privacy claims tested by European courts, they really don't have much info on you. And conceptually it is obvious that a hosting provider could provide more information about a permanent activity than a networking provider could provide about a transient one.
Can you name one that had a 24-bit palette?
New trend: Walk around with a DIY stop sign so that you can cross the street when drivers don't respect crosswalks.
SignPath – Code Signing Services
ML Modeling with Flaim and Hugging Face Diffusers
Watch: Moment two planes near-miss over New York airport
Surely you remember what it was like in LA in the 70s compared to now!
I thought that the Traffic Collision Avoidance System should have kicked in here?

Is there an AGL floor where the system won't operate under, or perhaps because one plane was still taking off?
And alternatives:

https://slashdot.org/software/p/SignPath/alternatives

Perplexity.ai:

"Here is a list of code signing SaaS providers similar to SignPath:

Keyfactor Code Assure: Offers cloud-based code signing with key protection in hardware security modules (HSMs), policy controls, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.

PrimeKey SignServer: Provides PKI-based signing for code, documents, and PDFs in cloud-based and appliance form factors.

GaraSign: An enterprise code signing tool that protects keys in HSMs and integrates with CI/CD pipelines.
Unbound Tech: Offers software-based code signing with HSM-level security, DevSecOps integration, and centralized management.

CodeSign by Aujas: A secure, scalable platform for code signing that can be used as SaaS or on-premise, supporting high-volume signings.

CodeSign Secure by Encryption Consulting: Provides cloud-based HSM key management, policy enforcement, and integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows.

Keyfactor Signum: Protects signing keys in cloud-based FIPS 140-2 certified HSMs, offers policy controls, and integrates with native signing tools.

These providers offer various features like key protection, policy enforcement, CI/CD integration, and audit logging to secure the code signing process. They aim to simplify code signing while maintaining high security standards, similar to SignPath's offerings."
I will say that my M1 Mac runs Factorio like an absolute dream. There is an ARM native port now and it’s really good. It something like doubled UPS over the old Intel binary.

One of the big advantages the M chips have is the insanely fast integrated memory, since it’s all right on the die. It’s much closer to ultra high spec GPU ram than PC ram.

My M1 studio has 200GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Extant DDR5 modules are under 50GB/sec
> These concepts would make for a killer PVP real time strategy game

Yeah, I deeply hope someone can write it one day. I've tried thinking about how you'd model and calculate such behaviour, but it's mostly beyond me.

Thank you for the compliment :)
Because you don't know how the script is going to try to install the program. A double-click installer on Windows has a standard approach that results in the program being placed in C\Program Files and the files being tracked and an uninstaller being placed in a centralized location. On Linux, any random "installer script" could spew files all over your /usr or anywhere else with no way to clean them up. This could even break your OS.

The Linux equivalent to double-click installer is ... a double-click installer, Flatpak. Or for even more bonus points, make the app fully portable as an AppImage. In the rare case I can't find what I'm looking for in my distribution repos, I look for an AppImage.
I'm curious if the different SMS message would have mattered in practice.

I for one don't ever read those messages, and Android at least will usually copy the code for you making them even easier to ignore.
You can also craft a text file named startup.nsh, and if present in the root (or ~nearby) of the FAT32 EFI partition, on bootup its UEFI commands will be executed rather than the default firmware selection.

If a motherboard doesn't have enough UEFI commands in its built-in Shell (or has no built-in Shell at all), you'll want to include your own Shell.efi file right there along with any startup.nsh you might decide to deploy.

This can also be good for USB booting where the removable USB device is in regular MBR layout rather than GPT-style-partitioning.

Whether or not the whole USB drive is FAT32 or not, as long as there is a proper EFI folder in a UEFI-recognizable filesystem, you can boot to any other OS on any other filesystem, depending only on the contents of the EFI folder. Unless there is a startup.nsh for the UEFI to follow instead, then you might not even need an EFI folder. As intended. Boot floppies still work as designed too. Startup.nsh is more commonly expected to contain reference to an EFI folder that is present on some recognizable filesystem, rather than work as a lone soldier though. GPT-layout partitions are not supposed to be necessary either, it's only needed when you want more partitions than legacy BIOS will handle, or partitions that are too huge for MBR representation.

Now any alternative to GRUB would by necessity have to perform more pleasingly on legacy-compatible systems where UEFI is not enabled also, or it will remain a less-effective alternative.

Once a geek is smart enough to handle both BIOS & UEFI, the more I would be able to trust their UEFI solution.
>I may be completely wrong, but I think large companies are completely amoral

For one, you are right, and two, they are actively incentivized to be immoral. Doing something in a moral way is to take something extra into account - morality. Taking into account, as an action, costs extra resources, which translates to money or risk, but then, risk also translates into money. So, what we end up with is that being moral is being handicapped. Money can be made by avoiding it.

The situation is especially worse when the other participants, the competitors, are also not moral. They can simply out-price a moral participants - people are less likely to buy the thing for its ethical "real price", if they can get a similar one for much cheaper. This can clearly be seen even in markets where being moral is a bonus, like, I'd say, how the current market is. "Morally superior" is a product differentiator, with labels like "bio", "organic", "fair", "ethical", "free from", "vegan" - even the ol' PU leather being rebranded as "vegan leather". So even in a context like this, non-morally-superior products sell way more than moral ones. So the incentives for companies are not really there, not just from an operational, but from a market standpoint as well.

>that is is an emergent property.

I agree, and I think it's part of the general human experience, especially with taking responsibility for anything that has impact. Attention and possibility of action is limited, so even if the perfectly moral course of action would be known, it might not be possible to enact it. And then, the arguments are endless as to what's moral and what not, and what part of that should people be engaged in. This is all too much to handle for an individual, so, even if morality is desired, sub-optimal decisions will be made on a daily, as part of life. Which is, in many ways, no different to when a company makes them - with respect to the size and impact though, of course.
Using a stipple pattern for the background goes back way further than X. IIRC the XEROX GUI had one.
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Is the Data Scientist position still available?
That's the double edge sword of such a relaxed visa regime. Such open borders work well when either you have a classical liberal free market* with little social services (1800s America) or leaders who rule with an iron fist that can kick out undesirables the moment theyre inconvenient(Dubai).

Thus Singapore, Dubai, 1900s Hong Kong, 1800s America are some of the most famous examples. Free market with no social services doesn't really exist much anymore so most the remaining examples of open borders are something approximating dictatorship, except maybe Argentina(in practice they have almost no enforcement of immigration).

*In theory
Anecdata-point: In the summer I regularly run for hours at a time (marathon training), without a shirt and without sunscreen. (I've got a good tan which seems to keep me from getting sunburned.) And yet I regularly test as low Vitamin D. A daily Vitamin D supplement suffices to keep the numbers in range.

I assume that this is a personal thing, something about my specific metabolism or skin or whatever that doesn't produce vitamin D particularly well. I have no idea if the supplement actually improves my health outcome -- I was generally healthy both before and after adding supplements.

My advice, such as it is: don't take any supplement without a doctor telling you it's needed. But if a doctor says it's necessary, yeah, do that.
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San Diego ComicCon May Be Leaving San Diego, Due to Hotel Price-Gouging