"The front-end was Python..."

"The back-end was Python... ...."

okay.

Frontend at Google means something like an HTTP server, not a JavaScript app. Backend is e.g. your API server.

We do have a contradiction here, if that's what you're saying.

I was not in YT. I was only told their backend was Python by people who were. I can't explain that paper OP saw. Could be it reflected reality and I'm wrong; could be it was only a design.

I do know for a fact that they still had their own experiment infrastructure, which does suggest that the backend was still legacy.

I was also not in YT (was in Search from 09-14), but a bunch of my coworkers went over to work there around '10-11. I read the paper before joining Google; I think it came out in 07 or 08.

There might also be a lot of confusion over "backend" vs. "frontend" terminology. Like the other poster mentioned, "frontend" at Google usually means the webserver and sometimes extends back to various application-level services. Basically everything that involves user interaction. Experiment infrastructure has been part of the frontend in every system I've worked with at Google (which now includes Search, Google+, GFiber, Doodles, AndroidTV, and Assistant), though the flags often get plumbed back to backends to alter behavior there.

By "backend" I mean the storage & offline processing areas. BigTable, Colossus, MapReduce, various blob stores, training machine-learning models, etc. This is the part of YT that (in my understanding) was rewritten to use Google technologies.

James Simons was caught trying to hide $8 Billion dollars, a lot of it Russian money, in Bermuda. Look up the PARADISE PAPERS.

Robert Mercer did stuff just as dirty, but never quite got caught the same way.

From this it looks like "April May June July 2021" are almost back to the "normal" number of deaths, and not too much excess.

Wonder what that means. Maybe that everyone who was gonna die from COVID-19 exposure already did. Maybe something else.

We can be sure that "December January February 2022" will show some excess.

Bitfinex (which has been outlawed in the USA) keeps printing Tether to prop up the price of Bitcoin, graphics cards are snatched up as soon as they are manufactured, and they're using an Argentina-sized amount of power to keep the whole thing going. Yes, it works, but no one on earth will ever use these Bitcoins to buy two pizzas ever again. What's the end-game, at this point? As many bagholders as possible?

Who is using GPUs for bitcoin nowadays?

Yes. Someday Tether will implode like all scams do. The results will be spectacular.

Not for Bitcoin. PoS is a broken system that reinvents oligarchies. Proof of Work is the only secure protocol that works today -- possessing the real, desirable properties like decentralization and censorship resistance.

Don't tell me about vaporware ETH2.

The end goal for Bitcoin is Dyson spheres around stars. And it can be no other way.

A Kardashev Type III civilization, but all it does is mine bitcoin at the same rate as today.

You might be joking, but I am not. When put on a Kardashev scale, all these energy concerns seem pathetic. Terrawatts? Lol. Zettajoules of energy await us in the stars!

I agree that terawatts seem pathetic when you're thinking about even Kardashev Type I, but I would hate to see those zettajoules of energy spent on zero-sum competitions instead of goods and services that improve our standard of living. That's still true even if the competition consists of Bitcoin instead of the nuclear arms race, Wheel of Fortune, Democrats vs. Republicans, World War II, and NASCAR. I mean, at least Bitcoin and NASCAR don't burn cities, but they aren't building space habs either.

0.1% of our energy being spent on Bitcoin mining is fine, 1% might be a little worrisome, 10% would be a real wakeup call, 50% would be a crisis, and 90% would be ruinous. Is there a natural limit? Competition from alternative currency systems with cheaper transaction costs, maybe?

Lol, this got me good

If you don't want to hear about ETH2 (which is, for the record, not vaporware), Cardano has been PoS from the start and is the #3 crypto [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if it overtook Eth soon.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/

Do you think speculators/retail investors really care about the decentralization properties?

Yes, I think the informed Bitcoin investor is well aware of the value that decentralized peer-to-peer censorship resistant electronic money brings to the table.

I care. Everyone I know cares. The core developers care. The ecosystem cares. I think you are radically underestimating the value of such things.

I'm pretty sure most of them just see mining as quick easy cash. If people actually valued the decentralization aspect then more would be using it for day to day transactions rather than just speculative investments.

Miners? Not a chance. They know exactly what they are doing for decentralization and censorship resistance. It requires large capital investment over many years, and often includes long energy contracts with providers. If you believe mining Bitcoin is 'quick easy cash' I am afraid you are mistaken (in 2021).

Some Retail investors? Sure -- but I'm sure you could find misinformed investors in all fields.

The point nocoiners miss is that holding Bitcoin IS using it. It is storing value over larger periods, and especially through jurisdictions with poor fiscal policies. Many like me will not sell their Bitcoin at any price -- especially not for dirty fiat.

Cool, when is Bitcoin moving to Proof of Stake? Before or after the FSF release Hurd?

There are no such plans, and it's extremely unlike there ever will be.

Bitcoin will never move to PoS. The community is far to fractured, without a leader they'll never agree.

Learning the hard way why having a central authority managing your currency is probably a good thing

Most of the publicity will result in job applications from old people

See my other comment. Yes, we will hire actual old people.

Do you have evidence to believe so?

It's fun how it works the first three times, then less fun when it complains about being "rate limited" on the fourth time.

Any rate limit errors are false flags caused by bugs, they aren't related to load or real rate limits

I'm not sure why this is down-voted despite it being posted by what looks like the original developer according to their username: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

I have no idea, maybe "false flag" was too incorrect? You're right, I am.

"False flag" is pretty close to loaded language these days.

"Spurious error" would probably be a better term.

Thanks, BTW, amazing tool.

Someone also needs to put to rest the "The Banks were bailed out using taxpayer money!" scandal.

Based on what I heard, TARP the Troubled Asset Relief Program, bought a small percentage of those hedge funds and investment banks that were in danger of going under, then let them slowly buy their own shares back over a number of years ... ..... and the "taxpayers" got all their money back.

This was news back on July 20th. What has changed?

Realistically, though, is this going to decrease Twitter usage.

I would never hand my phone number over to Twitter. Would you?

I wouldn't, but almost everyone I know would.

This entire comment section is proof positive that there is much room for innovation and improvement in the space for interactive, online discussion of news items.

Twitter is committing suicide by requiring phone numbers and logins to even read tweets, the way Digg committed suicide and sent all its users stampeding over to Reddit.

Reddit themselves are committing suicide with their aggressive user interface changes, and their dark gangs of out-of-control moderators.

Looks to me like USENET sent us over to LiveJournal sent us over to Digg, sent us over to Reddit, sent us over to Hacker News, and something good and new can grow and replace them all.

Because I am not handing over my phone number to read anyone's tweets.