jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The article is massively misleading. It should say "95% of bitcoin is controlled by a small number of entities, most of which are exchanges".

Yeah, that's exactly what I felt as well. Thanks for clarifying.
I think you're missing the point of the article (and the material you included). It's not that the method of inference is that interesting, its the fact that the game is able to make use of that inference at all. Every thing else about the algorithm is interesting: rollback, reconciliation,
(de)synchronization,
choice of delay, the the separation of game logic from rest of the game loop, etc. As the article details, it's extremely complex to do this right, to the point where many games just don't bother trying.

Think about the time scale under which this prediction is made: 60Hz. Even the best players do not change input at nearly that rate. So it's clear that the current value is going to be the best estimate for the next value. That realization doesn't even begin to solve the problem though!
I have used Noweb a few years ago [^1] for a small Python program; there were two major issues with it, from my PoV:

- I had to take care of writing each Python code chunk with the amount of indentation appropriate for where it had to end up, since Noweb does (did?) not respect relative indentation of chunks when tangling.

- Debugging the resulting script was more painful than plain Python sources, as all the debugging info (line numbers, etc.) referred to the tangled code and not to the actual noweb source file I was editing.

[^1]: Looking at the website, it doesn't seem to have changed much since then.
> I use iCloud now.

Didn't learn your lesson then, I see.
I used to think they looked peaceful and fun too, but then I read Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, which begins with a hot-air balloon accident. Although irrational, I now have an abiding fear of hot air balloons and am unlikely to ever go in one.

(although, for context, I also have irrational fears about helicopters)
SolidRun HoneyComb has about the same slots and price, but instead of weird nvidia closedness you get first-class upstream EDK2 support, everything is about plug & play with ACPI.
The goal of DRM is not to kill piracy 100% and anything else is abject failure, it's to raise the cost of engaging in piracy to the point where just buying the movie seems easier and cheaper.
Decades of Windows and Linux I figured I'd give it a shot for a few weeks before I would eventually give up on it.

It took maybe a day, I'm hooked and now everything else is weird.
Meh, it jumped the shark for me in the first two paragraphs.

"We would never say that about reading.”

Now this is just a hunch, but I'm guessing most highly educated people have used their reading skills on a regular basis since school as compared to, say, what they learned in Calc III.
Time or money?

If they were the ones ending the contract then I also would have to stay for 3 months (getting paid for it).

I would get no money if we would both agree to let me go on the first day. They didn't want me to leave and I was not in a hurry to go on the first day. So I stayed for the whole period and tried to do my best both for my co-workers and my employer.
So what happened to the "avoid success at all costs" motto?
I would guess they aren't required to give any notice. However, they are probably required to pay him at least 3 months of salary after they do. If they choose to pay without having the employee do something for them during those 3 months, it's their call.
http://www.supertopo.com/inc/photo_zoom.php?dpid=Ojg7PjwgICE... [Warning: beta]

That's a pretty good breakdown of the route. One of them completed pitch 15 yesterday and today were mapping out pitch 16 / continuing pitch 15. There's contention over whether 15 or 16 is more difficult :)

Pitch 16 is the dyno pitch (video of him dyno-ing: http://vimeo.com/80908548) though it sounds like they might be doing a workaround to not have to do the dyno (they think its hard to do consistently.. for obvious reasons).

http://instagram.com/p/xb6x5Oj5dz - a picture of how high and exposed they are on El Cap.

And, more information just if you're still wanting to listen to a climbing nerd.

Free climbing means that they climb without "aid" - e.g. nothing is pulling them up the wall but themselves. They still use ropes and other devices for protection.

Pitch is a "section" like the article says, but you have to climb between these sections before you get any rest. Otherwise, you have to stayed glued to the wall on your own power. Once you get there, you set up camp and wait for the other person to climb up to you. Up you go the next pitch, etc. etc.

Dyno is a move that requires a person to leave solid contact with the wall and move to another place. This is usually seen as a leap from one hand hold to the next hand hold.

Traverse is a lateral, not upward movement.

Yosemite is one of the world's premiere Big Wall locations. To do this in this place is iconic.

Climbing can be very much like (a very physical) puzzle game. Especially for long climbs. You need the right gear, the right moves, the right body position, etc. in order to keep going. It's both mentally and physically taxing.
When you are just starting -- there is no abuse, because nobody knows about you.
If you keep working on application and monitor it, you would be able to notice the abuse, fix it manually, and add features that would prevent it in the future.
Indeed, that's just for the rooms where users are joined. But be aware that if you join a large room on matrix.org from your own homeserver, it might fill-up your disks with a lot of old state (and that might take large amounts of CPU+RAM for days, too).
Most people didn’t have a timeframe of 100 years. More likely something like 30 or less. If there is a downturn during that time and you don’t have enough cash to avoid touching your principal you can quickly have a problem. For example let’s say stocks have a downturn and you have a serious health issue it’s very possible that all your proceeds are gone and you don’t have any money to reinvest when the market goes up.
Just try each for a little while and decide.

Personally I used vim and then vim keybindings on SublimeText, and now vim keybindings on VS Code. I prefer vs code but you may prefer vim.
I thought it notable that the faith wasn't named in the lede-in.

Although 'church' denotes a Christian house of worship, it is also a generic, western term. I am accustomed to seeing the faith expressly identified, in the build-out to a story like this.

I don't think it's absence is anything other than benign, however.
Obviously we don't want the Westboro Baptists picketing any funerals with "Idiot!" signs. We're not in that context now; we're online discussing highway safety. The blizzard was not a surprise to anyone who had seen a weather report in the preceding week. No one is a perfect driver, so it's certainly possible for anyone to take part in a collision. However, it is smart to consider the actual causes of a particular collision, in order to avoid those situations while driving in future.

Several professional truck drivers (who likely had prior experience in winter weather) were involved.

Every time I see something truly stupid on the interstate, a semi truck is involved. Around the same time as Texans were having problems, I passed by a semi truck in a ditch. The two drivers who (or, presumably, one of whom) had missed the entrance to the filling station that dumps sewage into my creek, were wearing long-sleeved T-shirts while they shuffled about watching the warmly-dressed wrecker driver hook up cables and the temperature was in the low twenties. Clearly these guys weren't ready for driving in February.

Empathy is a fine, human thing. In other nations, empathy has led to helpful emergency payments for workers and small businesses who have suffered during the pandemic. In USA we don't have enough empathy for all that. (Maybe $1400, but certainly not $2000.) Still, weather has even less empathy than Congress. E"R"COT are some other Texans who should have known that already.
How different is the React.PureComponent behavior from the "wrap stuff in React.memo()" behavior?
> the game perspective was the only model that really matched the marketplace

I agree, but I suspect the "company" and "stock" investors implicitly do, too. They invest with their strategy knowing that if they're right, they'll be rewarded by other investors demanding more of the stock, driving up the price. The main exception is dividend investors who just want their utility stock to keep paying the same dividend every quarter--that's a true "company perspective."
Just drive.
Correct, nobody thinks of themselves as ultimately evil.

The only safeguard is to incentivize that people mind their own business.
sure, and many types of intelligence aren't well covered.
however, most modern tests have a variety of subtests that are aggregated to produce the final value. People just talk about IQ because single #s are easy to talk about
http://www.assess.nelson.com/test-ind/stan-b5.html
1. On sign up, if there's an error, it clears the password field. Too much friction.

2. Font size could be a little larger.

3. No way to close a task description flyout box except clicking on another task.

4. LOVE the way the first intro to the utility has the tutorial built in with examples preloaded. Really nice.

5. Great functionality.

6. The matrix (unimportant now, unimportant later, etc) doesn't feel natural or even that useful.
the ingredients are exotic (i.e. where I live they're expensive and you'd need to go to a specialty shop for some of them) and don't overlap much between recipes.

I had a housemate who kept a copy of the Wycliffe International Cookbook. It was originally meant for overseas missionaries, written with the expectation that the user would have trouble getting access to the wide variety of ingredients specified by most cookbooks (which also made it useful for a college student kitchen).
Also, you can communicate your upcoming features with the press under embargo, they will be happy to break the story exactly at the date and time you specify, everybody loves to brake a story.
FUD would have been to disregard Goal flows entirely. The fact that GA gives you the choice is part of the problem: there are two funnel visualizations, and it confuses most people.

If you believe that web-analytics should be understood and used by just a few, then it's OK, GA is great. But if the discipline wants to reach a broader audience, product choices should be made, but GA will not commit to such changes apparently.
Lack of meaningful connections.

Also, I don't want to participate in their facial recognition database. I find this to be the worst in terms of the privacy I give up because I can be tagged in a picture without ever posting a thing. Anonymity goes away once anyone can identify anyone else through a simple picture. Then they can see who you work for, where you live, your family life, your sexual orientation, political beliefs, and so on. The downward spiral goes on from there.
Suppose I wanted to try learning Rust again; is there a resource for someone with a lot of (hobbyist) programming experience, and experience with low level languages and memory management (e.g. C), but not complicated low-level languages, like C++?

When I tried to work with Rust a few years ago I found it utterly impenetrable. I just had no idea what the borrow checker was doing, did not understand what the error messages meant, and honestly couldn't even understand the documentation or the tutorials on the subject. Understanding what is happening in C or Zig is pretty easy; in Rust it's always been a nightmare for me. I just really don't grok the "lifetime" concept at all, it feels like I'm trying to learn academic computer science instead of a programming language.

Rust feels to me like a powerful, expressive language for professional programmers at the top of their game. That's a complement for any language. But it comes at the cost of mind-numbing complexity for anyone who's not an expert.
Paul, Solomon, and a few prophets weren’t too keen on wine. Jesus, the only omniscient one in the bunch, clearly anticipated this very thread:

“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
The first tranch of social networks (Friendster, Friends Reunited, MySpace, etc) were very much based on people keeping up to date with their friends. They worked quite well for users, but were hard to monetize succeasfully. There was value there, but not much in the way of ideas about how to extract it besides sticking a skyscraper ad down the side. I don't see any reason not to try that model again. Maybe it'll work now people are seemingly a bit disenchanted with things like Facebook.
> Anyone who says the modern world is a horror show has no idea how good they have it.

The modern world is still a horror show. We've just dialed back the barbarity from 100 to 98. Only now we tend to know more about what's going on in the world. And even then you can turn off the tragedy and suffering on the nightly news and happily watch Jeopardy!

And to misquote Gibbon - "our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery".
What month should I conceive my child to maximize their educational attainment?

I'm only half joking.
Aaronson has a gift for popularization, but the fact of the matter is, mathematicians can be astoundingly impractical. Practically speaking, NP hard problems are solved constantly, at least in an approximate sense, by physical reality and computer algorithms; soap bubbles, chemical dynamics, airline scheduling. The exact solution to any problem is uninteresting, just as the exact value of a real number is uninteresting.
This buildpack and halcyon work very well. Heroku hit a wall with a little web project & Mietek's buildpack saved the day. Thank you!
The article almost opens with a line about the previous biggest ever layoff in history of 60,000 people. In 1993. By IBM...
Mostly unrelated: I've always wondered how anyone in the tech industry would go to IBM as a business consultant, when they can't even figure out how to have a website that doesn't require things like "www-03.ibm.com" to be the hostname.

And it's not even like they're just maintaining legacy URI's for search engine purposes, either: Go to ibm.com and click on "Services" > "Cloud Services". For me I got sent to http://www-935.ibm.com. Do they know how load balancers work? Do they just not want a global namespace in the HTTP paths, and everything has to be namespaced by the hundreds of different servers it runs on?
There's also https://github.com/begriffs/heroku-buildpack-ghc.
At least it's no longer allowed to promote to an opponent's piece. Otherwise, I imagine the computer would do that 50% of the time.
Coinbase and Winklevoss ETF are acting more like new commodity exchanges than currency exchanges. A commodity (like Gold) has value attached but it is not a currency, and its value invariably fluctuates (like Bitcoin).

To date, crypto currency remains a technology topic. If you want to change finance, first understand it. Take your corporate finance, capital market, macro economics classes, and understand government's role in currency and economy. Learn about the history of how commercial banking, investment banking, currency and payment worlds have evolved over the last 100 years.

In short, figure out how bank and capital flows work before prescribing any solutions like Bitcoin, otherwise it will just prove the rightful criticism - that crypto may point to the right problem, but it in itself is just a technology looking for a problem to solve, and that even if it eventually finds its purpose, the chance that the problem will be small or a better, simpler solution comes by remains high.

Financial system as it's built today is an equally sophisticated system vis-a-vis the digital world. Most of those system designers (from say Banking Act of 1933) have left this world. Tech-hackers are many, finance-hackers are fewer. Even fewer understands both. This is why if you ask the view on crypto, you will have very conflicting views between the tech and the finance worlds. And rest to be sured, we are dealing with a problem that's more finance (including financial regulatory) than tech.

Almost anyone on hacker news understands how a full stack software system works. But do you understand how a financial "full stack" works? If you're interested in tackling the problem in a new way, we are hiring and welcome your input.

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According to the pew research center, Median net worth for American Households was as follows in 2013:
Whites: $141,900
Blacks: $11,000
Hispanics: $13,700

So if you care about the lack of diversity in race in the industry, a good place to start is addressing the underprivileged.
You might like the idea, but there are millions of people who work hard, who are smart and don't get anywhere.
> Bitcoin's price is mostly backed by speculation

Bitcoin's price is 100% backed by speculation.

Bitcoins are worthless. They are worth $0. They are useless hashes. Their value is $0, and their price is destined to be closer to that than its current $265.

This scam has been over for over a year. The hucksters who created this fraud bailed out for the most part once they hyped the price up to over $1000 in November 2013.

People are still suckered into the Nigerian scam, and are also still suckered into this scam, for reasons unknown to me. The creator, "Satoshi Nakamoto" turns out not to be a real person. Mt. Gox is busted for fraud. The main ASIC makers, Butterfly Labs, are busted for fraud. The coins have no value. What signals do people need to realize to not spend their hard-earned cash on these worthless hashes?

Of course, some high faluting types in Silicon Valley have put their imprimatur on Bitcoins. But they did the same thing to Pets.com, Flooz and other worthless dot-bombs 15 years ago. Just like major banks and Wall Street peddled worthless subprime real estate and mortgages 8 years ago. Caveat empor, before you trade your cash for a Bitcoin hash, ask yourself, cui bono?
Indeed. I corresponded with the CEO about offering a non-offset keyboard and centered trackpad and he declined to consider it. I used an offset Dell for a couple of years and never could learn to love it.
'Kay, cool. I guess I am a bit misled by the amount of power they have to just arbitrarily redefine what the statute refers to.
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Checking for updates sends a packet out of your computer that contains your IP address, happens at a given point in time (timestamp), contains 'atom.io' in the TLS SNI, and is accessible to your ISP, their network providers, the national intelligence agencies that monitor those connections, Amazon network administrators, Microsoft systems administrators, and GitHub systems administrators.

It's telemetry because it happens whenever you open your editor, and it includes your IP, which in the hands of some of those recipients (i.e. intel agencies, your ISP, and Amazon) means your exact physical location (because you ordered paper towels to your street address using that IP two hours ago).

It can never be anonymous because it has to have a source IP on it, and even if the TLS connection is zero data, the fact that it has "atom.io" in the SNI field means that it's a data leak of the "person at 123 main street opened their text editor (Atom) at 1:23PM", and it leaks that information to a lot of people.

"only checking for updates" is, unfortunately, a form of telemetry, and must be gated on a user's explicit consent to telemetry, otherwise it (no hyperbole) sends an activity event that becomes available to thousands of people against the wishes of the user.

Remember when librarians got all up in arms about warrantless collection of what books you've taken out of the library? That was per-user. This is bulk collection, and is way more invasive: it has second-granularity timestamps.

PS: Thank you, Edward Snowden.
In the UK we have more and more roadside chargers that take a card just like a self service fuel pump.
> The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees?

That meeting was probably never on the official schedule. There are numerous ways to arrange such things off the books. The Gov's office can certainly provide the schedule which will give him plausible deniability, after which it's he said she said, unless another witness comes forward.

(If the above strikes you as too underhanded and sleazy, well, the whole affair is such. The lure of Amazon HQ2 was in play, remember.)
This is either incredibly good news, or incredibly bad news, and I think that Lego's near-death experience and family ownership might mean this is good news ... maybe.
The Indiana Governor disputes the allegation.

What he disputed (according to the article) was his personal involvement in the case, and his attendance at a particular meeting.

He did not dispute allegations of interference by state agencies, per se.
Ex-employee of mine who is a star. They are not paying him enough if you are telling the truth. Thanks. I'm out and I'll send them a link to here.
As long as criminals find something more lucrative than stealing packages, I agree.
Nuclear ramps just fine. French nuclear plants reportedly ramp routinely between about 50-100% capacity, so this isn't just theoretical. Going from full power to less than about 40% tends to run you into a Xenon pit, which causes a two day shutdown, but fortunately nighttime load is roughly half of daytime load, so this point is moot.
Leave and sell the data if you can do it legally. That's what the business owners would do if it would make them some extra cash.

Empty promises are usually a sign of deep trouble. And people that make them create very toxic environments. Hoping people change is just wishful thinking. It's who they are. You can't change them with words. And usually not even with actions.

Pack your stuff and prepare for the inevitable downfall. Because it really is inevitable at this point. And keep in mind that some bridges are worth burning.
Imho slow is one thing (I could probably even live with the performance) - the other thing is that font rendering in Atom is horrible. At least for me on Windows the text is blurry as hell. No comparison to the clearness in Sublime Text or other native editors (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Notepad, ...).

Brackets is better in that regard. Both brackets and Atom provide better extensability APIs than Sublime - but that doesn't help when the performance is worse than complete IDEs.
But wouldn't people looking for that full 'free' content, go look it somewhere else?

Maybe another search engine?