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I gotta say, reading this I have no idea what Render actually does or how it's different from AWS or Heroku. They say they've threaded the needle between the two to provide a new way of deploying infra, but what that is…who knows! Naturally a paragraph on AI.

At some point companies lose the ability to say, "We are X. It used to be that Y, which had issues of A, B, C. Instead, X does Z, so $USERS can now D, E, F." Where the letters are specific (not empty words like "innovative").

As they grow, these companies add additional products, which is one reason I think they lose this. That's okay! Add one or two sentences (max) that say, "Once we solved Z, we kept building to offer L, M, and N. We expanded from serving $USERS to supporting $EXPANDED_USERS who need O and P."

It's kind of wild how rare that clarity of communication is. Stripe still does a pretty good job despite the _huge_ range of products, complexity, customer profiles, abstractions, and interfaces.

You can definitely tell when companies are either parroting what they've read other splash pages say or are using LLMs to say a bunch of empty platitudes. Good writing is really fking hard.
I dislike that take. Taxes don't really matter, and there are examples of currencies that are worth something and that are not used for taxation. Cigarettes in prison is an example of a currency that is not taxed per se, the early US dollars are another example.

Currency is useful because people have faith in its properties: scarcity and ubiquity as a medium of exchange. Dollar is important because people have faith in the US government to not dilute it (too much), and because everyone in the world accepts it.

Bitcoin _is_ a currency. Its scarcity is limited by its construction, and it's widely accepted. But it's a bad currency, that is mostly backed by illicit transactions, and its "mechanical" usability just sucks due to delays and transaction fees.
Surface Flinger currently doesn't support well or at all multi-monitor configurations which are essential for the PC user.

Otherwise, it's actually far more advanced than Wayland, and it had essential modern features implemented years ago, including HDR, VRR, and others.

Why hasn't it been ported to Linux? Probably NiH, probably it's Google's child.
> Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe

And in Cisco. And in PaloAlto. And in Fortinet. Amazing how those companies bend to the 3 letter agencies.
No, they don't do any of that. There are 100 different blockchain implementations at least, and none of them are standardized across any of those metrics. Everything from the consensus mechanism to the packet format to the bytecode is different. The standard way to interop between the Tezos blockchain and the Polygon blockchain is to create a token on both sides and attach a tag saying "don't touch me I'm actually somewhere else".

The only way to standardize ~all companies would be to have them all run the same exact ledger system, and if it was easy enough to make them do that, it would be easy enough to have them standardize a different reporting system for the same purpose.
>When someone finds some niche applications of crypto currencies in payment services, or something like that, it's economic value is above zero.

No it isn't. My credit card has an intrinsic value of zero. It might even be negative due to the massive amounts of infrastructure necessary to run it, similarly to bitcoin. The value is in the networks surrounding it, not whatever method Visa uses to move the bits around, be it blockchain, databases, or whatever. And even then, Visa's value add is only a few points on the transaction. It's in no way a speculative asset and if Visa went away tomorrow forever, it would suck for maybe a month while we adjusted to using cash again. In the same vein, if bitcoin went away tomorrow, I wouldn't notice until reading a panicked article about it.

If the US dollar went away tomorrow, however, I'd be happy to have stocked up on ammunition and cured meats.
Thanks to Media Matters for America, I'm very aware of actual data on how Fox coverage of inflation changes depending on the party in power (e.g. a massive drop in coverage after a Republican wins an election).

Do you have any links to actual data that suggests that MSNBC or CNN do the same thing?
Sure you can create 10 different blockchains but will those have "stable" value 10 years from now?

In China, it's nearly impossible to invest your assets without friends in the government. The government strictly controls conversion of their currency to non-Chinese currencies. As strange as this sounds, but with cryptocurrencies, you can export value from your country to something more stable.

Same goes for many south american countries.

I still wouldn't invest into Bitcoin or Ethereum but I live in the west where there is the rule of law and one can invest into a large variety of asset classes.
It always jars me when people conflate public drug use, which is fundamentally an aesthetic issue and not a matter of public safety, with crime - as though people getting dysfunctionally high on opioids pose a danger to anyone but themselves. It suggests a very foreign moral system, which is hard for me to understand.
It's about per capita basis - it's still roughly half the US emissions per capita and while it may be growing it still has a long way to catch up.

The population of China is about 4x the US.

> Allowing a catchup (cumulative/per capita?) isn't sustainable to achieve climate goals.

Sure. But the current US position is to leave the Paris accords and drill baby drill - while China is leading on renewable generation.

Hardly anybody is doing enough - but blaming others and doubling down on consumption it's a sustainable strategy either.
Are there robust non-JVM based implementations for Iceberg currently? Sorry to say, but recommending JVM ecosystems around large data just feels like professional malpractice at this point. Whether deployment complexity, resource overhead, tool sprawl or operational complexity the ecosystem seems to attract people who solve only 50% of the problem and have another tool to solve the rest, which in turn only solves 50% etc.. ad infinitum. The popularity of solutions like Snowflake, Clickhouse, or DuckDB is not an accident and is the direction everything should go. I hear Snowflake will adopt this in the future, that is good news.
Do any of these sources adjust for the fact that people are not reporting crime in many places? When prosecutors don't enforce, police don't investigate, and people don't report crimes.
Anyone have a good tutorial or reference for doing that on a modern windows system? It would be very useful alternative to VM seamless style and allow Linux X11 system as the hypervisor with windows VM.
At Vanguard, not only are the assets owned by the shareholders. The manager itself is owned by the funds, and therefore by the shareholders.

That's not the case for a typical hedge fund.
The actual use case of crypto is censorship resistance, money laundering and sanction evasion. In a multipolar world, none of those are going away anytime soon, so crypto is here to stay.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Microsoft bring Clippy back instead of Copilot?
The Copilot icon is confusing and doesn’t convey anything. I only discovered it was Copilot when I clicked on it out of curiosity.

Clippy, on the other hand, is very charismatic.

They are focusing in enterprise customers?
> That's seemingly what OP was demanding, given the displeasure he was expressing at uber for the practice.

From the OP

> Uber runs an algorithm which kicks drivers out of the app randomly if demand gets too low, without warning or indication of when they can get back in. It can be minutes or hours.

I think the OP makes it very clear that the issue is the lack of communication especially around when they can work next, not that Uber isn't willing to maintain a surge staff during minimal demand.
What happens to a store-of-value asset like gold or cash if you can't convince the next generation to trade another store-of-value-asset, hard asset, or labor for it?
If you look at the USS Enterprise and Midway flight decks they don’t make use of the full length of the ship for landings.

That seems crazy, but by traveling into the wind you can subtract the ships forward speed from an aircraft’s stall speed.
Benny Morris is not a right wing historian, but was actually very much in the deep Israeli left when this was written, very far from the Israeli history consensus. You'd might want to read about the New Historians for some perspective on that.

Reading his seminal work 1948 puts your quote as somewhat out of context:

Plan D has given rise over the decades to a minor historiographic controversy, with Palestinian and pro-Palestinian historians charging that it was
the Haganah’s master plan for the expulsion of the country’s Arabs. But a
cursory examination of the actual text leads to a different conclusion

If you are interested in Benny Morris, you will probably be interested to read in the same book about the Palestinian and Arab armies expulsion of Jewish settlements as early as 1929, and in multiple places in the war (Etzion Bloc, Yad Mordechai, Nitzanim, Masada, etc), where they cleansed the Jewish population from the future Arab state. This followed multiple declarations of intent by the Grand Mufti and other Arab leaders of cleansing the Jewish state.

Furthermore, you might be interested in the forced expulsion of around 700,000 Jews from Arab countries following the war, a similar number to the number of Palestinian refugees created by the war. These were settled in Israel, while the Palestinians were kept in city-sized refugee camps as non-civilians in Arab states for 70+ years.

Generally, based on some information you have omitted or seemed to misunderstand, I have the feeling that most of your knowledge on this subject is based on reading post-digested sources in Wikipedia, which is nowadays an extremely biased source on this subject, and very much deviates from even basic facts.
Yeah but that's the network, not the Bitcoin itself. Money as a system is valuable but that doesn't mean it's worth holding cash.
Notice that his government hasn't been libertarian.
It's a definition of a pension fund.
And there’s a lot of people to prey on who don’t understand the difference between day trading and investing.
I wish Microsoft would have the balls to do this. Meme it all the way. At least we'd get some good laughs out of it.
> Jim Jones making his followers believe that their best choice was to kill themselves and their children by drinking cyanide laced Kool-aid

Just a nit: my understanding is that anyone who didn't drink the poison was murdered.
Thought experiment: what would happen to the price of gold by 2125 AD if nobody born after the year 2025 believed it had value outside of its industrial applications?
Yeah testing this with a wireless mouse is dumb. The proper way is to use an Arduino or similar as a USB mouse, and connect a photodiode to it too.

USB mice update at 1 kHz.
This is huuuge. Thanks a lot for mentioning it.
> The number of drivers needed at any given time is completely variable. It's obviously a larger number during peak travel periods.

That's variable based upon time of day, not completely variable. It is not a new problem either. Take public transit: drivers may hate split shifts, yet they are given well defined shifts that they are paid for.

On top of that, a company that operates through an app ought to have the ability to develop software to relatively reliably predict demand.

> Moreover, there are many people willing to do that.

Willing, or desperate? For example: relatively few people want to be on-call replacement workers. They either do it because they need the money or they do it because they are hoping to get their foot in the door. Those who do it willingly are typically doing so for extra cash and because they don't have any other obligations (e.g. retirees in some fields). Now imagine that an entire company is based upon the concept of replacement workers. That puts Uber closer to the exploitive end of the spectrum than the opportunity end.
Not functioning as intended is different than the original intentions and it is important when arguing for one more function.
Came to say the same.
> Americans believed the economy was in the tank, despite loads of evidence showing the opposite.

The evidence they use is in the form of the financial markets. Blue collar workers don't care about the market. Nurses don't care about the market, construction workers don't care about the market. They care about can they afford food, can they afford a home, and can they afford healthcare. The answer is more and more becoming no.
> Briar runs P2P over Tor so they can't collect data, even if they should want to.

That makes the common, dangerous, naive assumption that the implementation is secure. Correct, complete, secure implementations are very hard.

(It also assumes the design is secure, which is impossible to tell based on that limited information. P2P is not any more secure than over the Internet: In fact, it's easier to identify (there are only a few Briar P2P signals and near-infinite Internet signals - you've outed yourself), and if you mean local mesh P2P networking, that doesn't help at a protest, where the authorities also are present.)

In the more public app world, only Signal has done it well enough that experts trust it, and they have lots of free help from the expert security community.
How old is Wayland?

I'll be reading a dream of spring in my grave at this rate.

I understand I'm complaining about free things, but this is a forced change for the worse for so long. Wayland adoption should have been predicated on a near universal superiority in all input and display requirements.

Intel and AMD and Nvidia and Arm makers should be all in on a viable desktop Linux as a consortium. Governments should be doing the same because a secure Linux desktop is actually possible. It is the fastest path to showcasing their CPUs and 3d bling, advanced vector /computer hardware.

Wayland simply came at a time to further the delay of the Linux desktop, at a time when Windows was attempting to kill Windows with its horrid tiles and Apple staunchly refused a half billion in extra market cap by offering osx on general x86.
Money we are using now is backed by obligation of people to pay it back and very well developed institutions that enforce it.
If you hold 100$ you know someone, somewhere needs it to pay their debt. If you hold Bitcoin no one ever needs to buy it from you unless they hope they can find a bigger sucker later.

Instruments in money market are of the kind of: "give me 100$ now and I will give you 101$ 3months later". Bitcoin is not backed by such contract. It's only backed by the hope of finding a bigger sucker later.
> Have you ever had a domain name stolen? They're also gone forever in most cases.

If it's a high-value domain, you call the registrar and get it back. Worst case, you can sue the thief if you hold a trademark for the name.

> There is no standard recovery path once a domain leaves the hands of your registrar.

There is. It's called "a lawsuit".
The server is open source too. You could download it and run your own server, afaik.
This assumption is incorrect.
Hardware cursor might be used in games. You notice the difference on Windows if a GPU does not support it, even on the desktop.
Clearly, digital ownership for something that truly lives on the blockchain and not outside is an obvious use case. But it also illustrates that blockchains are pretty useless beyond that.

I also wonder how the long-term monetary incentives work for a truly trustless domain name scheme. Having a quick look at https://app.ens.domains this doesn't seem terribly cheaper than a traditional registrar.
Hello fellow Xtripe! This blog post wasn't meant to focus on differentiation, but you might find this useful:

https://render.com/docs/render-vs-heroku-comparison
Why this does not surprise me? every attempt to rewrite a working solution to make it more "modern, easy to maintain and future proof" rarely do so. It always end up slower, with more latency and lifted by faster hardware, not by faster software.
Every 20 years a new generation comes weaker, pampered with the abtsractions of the previous generations who did the grunt work for them. After 3 generations of software developers all we have is library/framework callers and nobody really knows about performance and optimization.
What I don’t like about eth is when you think extremes and I mean 10000x supply growth of eth or 99.9999% burn all of these are possible scenarios which is not a good idea. Remember how eth forked to save someone’s crypto? Basically defeating the whole idea of crypto currency.
Bitcoin on the other hand - hardcoded, meaning supply can’t change.
You don't suppose people are choosing to live elsewhere for any "political" reasons do you?
The carping about if statements really gets to me.

I mean, I get it, structures like

if(X) {
if(Y) {} else {
if(Z) {
return;
} else {}
...

will drive anybody crazy. For a query builder though, you should write something table driven where for instance you have a hash that maps query names to either functions or objects

variables = { "age": where_age, "username": where_username, ... }

these could be parameterized functions, e.g.

where_username = (operator, quantity) => where("username", "text", operator, quantity)

or you could have some object like

{field_name: username, field_type: "text"}

and then, say loop over the get variables so,

username:gt

gets broken into "username" and "gt" functions, and the where_username function gets these as arguments in the operator and quantity fields. Easy-peasy, wins at code golf if that's what you're after. Your "field" can be a subselect statement if you want to ask questions like "how pictures are in this photo gallery?"

This is the kind of code that Lisp wizards wrote in the 1980s, and there's no reason you can't write it now in the many languages which contain "Lisp, the good parts."
Satellite images of Wuhan may suggest coronavirus was spreading as early as August 2019:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52975934.amp

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/08/health/satellite-pics-cor...
Hacker News ceased to be a news site for hackers and founders years ago and is now a generic discussion forum with all sorts of people with all skill levels and from all political spectrums. Hating cryptocurrency is especially popular here.
That's not the same though, in zero hour contracts you get told how many hours you being asked to work and you can decide to come in or not. You're not called into the restaurant to cook 2 burgers and the told we don't have customers right now so you're off work and the 20min when the next customer comes in you have to work again. Completely different scenario.
Lichess does have some puzzle modes that are timed, such as Puzzle Storm where you try to see how many puzzles you can solve in a fixed time, but their puzzle rating system doesn't take into account puzzles used in the timed modes.
People have a hard time understanding the nuances and the context. Because he is somewhat crazy, he is able to do things a normal politician wouldn't do. Clearly, eliminating corruption and waste is a good thing. He was also able to end the endless street protests. He was also the only option that was expected to make radical changes. On the other hand, the guy is pretty crazy, lacks empathy, is authoritarian, hates dissent, lies a lot, and so on. He is in love with Israel and Trump in an emotional way. Everything he doesn't like is extreme left, etc. My hope is that a new force will emerge that can continue fighting corruption, establish rule of law, create a vibrant market economy in a democratic way. It will be a long journey.
Hoarded wealth is a stinking manure; used wealth is a fertilizer.
Eh, crypto is weirder and worse than a Ponzi scheme in a way that deserves its own moniker.

A Ponzi scheme typically involves a small inner circle perpetuating a fraud; even if "everyone knows" it's hinkey, it is ostensibly returning fabulous returns through actual investment/economic activity. Eventually, the insiders stop being able to keep the game going, and go bankrupt, get arrested, flee the country, or some other ignoble end.

Crypto has lost its layer of fraud; it used to be "this thing will be the future of money and therefore have value", but for the last five+ years it's all just been "this will be worth more in the future because people will buy it so you should buy it," a naked Ponzi.

Meanwhile, it is distributed, even if it is highly centralized at every point from mining pools to exchanges. There's no single person who has to go to jail or disappear with his money to collapse the whole system. It's happened dozens of times, and every time it does a new set of criminals steps up to keep the fraud going.

In summary, even if individual enterprises (eg, FTX) are classic Ponzi schemes, crypto as a whole deserves to be the name of its own type of scam.
This is an old practice suggested by HCI research going back decades
I like this - simple, good, and practical

# Feedback

- Maybe add a way for a user to modify/adjust layout of search bars. For example view them in a row or grid versus single column

- Delete a search bar from the list versus replacing it with another search bar. For example, I may just want to see github and google only. But can always add more from the 'more' dropdown menu. Basically adding an 'X' to the left of the search bar

Once again, smooth app
Obviously it depends on what you're doing.

Used RoR back in the day and it's a great way to get stuff out the door. I coded like I was on fire. I've never had that sensation since then doing JS/TS/React blah-blah.

If you're doing a startup, your goal (I presume) is to validate your assumptions and get customers.

If it takes off you could always rewrite the backend in Go (which will buy you lots of time) and think of the frontend at a later date.

Remember 95% (odd) startups fail, so think about failing as fast as possible.
Sell the company to the founder(s) for $1 and write off the rest?
Infections in long-duration space missions
How to work for Microsoft without getting hired
If GDP keeps increasing, but the percentage of GDP that flows to labor keeps decreasing, then both of these things are true:

* the economy has grown

* people are worse off

People's feelings about the economy can be both accurate ("we are worse off") and inaccurate ("the economy is worse").

The lesson here is that we need to clear about what the metrics we are using (e.g. GDP or disposable income after housing/health/food/transportation is accounted for) are actually good for.

Rising GDP really does indicate a larger and/or more productive economy. But because of the way wealth is distributed and controlled in the US, a larger and/or more productive economy does not have any direct relationship to individual people's economic situation.
> say, it was a button for "show your support for the sanctity of marriage", would you blithely say "there are lots of buttons in the preferences so it's weird to get mad about it"?

if I was pretending that my dislike of a button for people to show their support for abolishing gay marriage was rooted in sincere concern for how much time was spent in porting the skin and menu button to another platform versus other more complex features, it would be absolutely right to observe I was being disingenuous in feigning neutral interest in feature prioritization decisions every time I called for it to be removed...

If you don't want the pride skin "shoved in your face", it's relatively easy not to visit the relevant area of the preferences menu and select it, just like people that aren't particularly interested in marriage or Christmas are welcome to refrain from using any of Office's wedding-related or Christmas-related templates