skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, it would be good to prove scientifically instead of relying on fallacious circular reasoning and assumptions, and it would certainly be exciting if it proved that there was more to the story.

My main point was simply that given that the oldest written texts we have are Sumerian cuneiform, it would seem likely that if there were written texts hidden in the pyramids which predates Ancient Egyptian civilisation, it would likely be cuneiform too, although it would be incredible if even older texts were found (and decipherable)! Early-human history is very interesting.

(I am aware that there is older proto-writing than cuneiform, but not complete written texts)
>This article is serverely stale info. Modern versions of Redis with lexicographic ranges can do much better. Please check the following: https://redis.io/topics/indexes

Are you able to put a similar warning at the top of the article? Maybe something like, "[The following info is deprecated but is left for historical purposes. ... Please check the following: https://redis.io/topics/indexes]"
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I think qwant is a company from france.
The video is not available yet, I will update when ready.
I don't think it's difficult to tell at all. Real businesses have built massive systems on cloud infrastructure and the pace of them doing so is accelerating. Real money is being made all round, so there's no bubble. It's not all predicated on possible future profits that won't ever materialize. Are there too many startups that won't go anywhere? maybe, but that's not going to lead to the collapse of AWS or Azure.

Meanwhile the solutions this article is promoting don't even really exist yet except in very limited, primitive forms. Nobody is going to build a Facebook on bit torrent and the blockchain any time soon.
Go do something worthwhile with your life.
That is true, in any specialised field (apart from, for some reason, programming, which seems particularly great to search for) it does very badly. For example in Physics it can be impossible to find the answer to very reasonable questions. For example, try googling "Fabry-Perot cavity transfer function" which in my field is a very simple and fundamental concept, and you get nothing relevant at all
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I have a "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet to do that job, as the first thing on my bookmarks toolbar. I'm clicking that thing all the time, it works great. So long stupid sliding navbars, enter-your-email popups, fixed video autoplayers, etc. I think I got it from here: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
I've noticed recently (few years maybe) that Google "punishes" results from blogs and less known domains. Searching for some specific keyword combination often results in skipping first few pages of cruft from popular sites just to find exactly what I was looking for in some blog post buried >3 pages deep.
>Remember that massive sales and trend data available to Walmart is not available to this guy [...]

True, but this guy and WalMart are not solving the same optimization problem. Supermarkets are dropping prices on particular items to lure customers into their stores expecting them to buy other stuff as well. They try to maximize the profits they make on all of their existing and potential customers, now and in the future. Customer loyalty is a big deal for them. This is a very difficult optimization problem.

When WalMart sells a particular item for a particular price, it is not a judgement on the real market value of that individual item. And I think that's what creates the sort of arbitrage opportunities that this guys is exploiting. He doesn't have to beat WalMart at their own optimization game only with less data as you suggest.
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For me the web is more alive than ever... Just look at the way static websites are taking over..

However JS is the real threat to websites, react and its ilk are not amenable to being stored long term.. Too many things break.
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If the alligation is true that the supply of Tethers is created from nothing, they would have the ability to trade their millions of "dollars" for other cryptocurrencies, taking control of the supply of other blockchains.
Absolutely! When buying an air ticket, at least on the checkout page I see the final price I'm paying.

On the contrary, when renting a car a couple of years ago I had following situation - I booked a car and paid, then I arrived at the airport, and at the counter I was told:

* 5EUR/day more because I'm below 25yo

* 5EUR/day more because it's a diesel car ("so I don't want diesel" - "but we have only diesel")

* gas policy is full/empty, so I have to pay for gas in advance; I check the contract and it says I have to pay "market rate", I check online and market rate is 20% less than what they want me to pay, I say this is not market rate, they say it includes surcharge for fueling the car.

In the end I didn't have much choice and rented the car, but the experience was much worse than buying air tickets.
There are two key quotes that you need to pay attention to in that document:

This engagement does not contemplate tests of accounting records or the performance of other procedures performed in an audit or attest engagement.

In addition, our services do not include a determination of compliance with laws and regulations in any jurisdiction. All inquiries made throughout the consulting process have been directed toward, and the data obtained from, the Client and personnel responsible for maintaining such information.

In other words, that document is not an audit. Just like previous "audits" published by Bitfinex connected companies, it’s an internal management report created for the management by an accounting firm. Such reports assume that everything they’re told by management is true: why would management lie to themselves? What would be the point?

If you’re an external entity on the other hand, eg a shareholder in the company say who wants an external third party to validate claims made by management, then you will only rely on a real audit made by a company that sends staff to check on those claims personally. This document is not such an audit & it’s authors are at pains to point that out.

Edit: The auditors did confirm bank balances with the holding banks, but did not perform an audit that would find any corresponding liabilities, nor that the claimed Trustee relationship between the company and the individual named on the account had any legal force. What this document shows is that people connected with the company had accounts with the claimed $Xmillion in them in total on the day in question & this was confirmed by the accountants. That’s it - it’s still not an audit.
Utility of money is nonlinear, so it could be rational to throw out a small amount of money for the expectation of large payoff. Of course, it means you should never play again, when you have thrown out sufficiently large quantity of money.
This is also an issue on the original Xbox game console.
It is especially exacerbated on a specific capacitor on the motherboard which is asked to perform above it's specifications.

It is known to "pop" and splash acid all over the motherboard and ruining the motherboard in the process.

Luckily it's only function is to keep time (for about 8 hours after unplugging, then it dies and forgets the time anyway). The fix is very quick, wiggle the capacitor until the legs break and remove it. I've done it for about 8 boxes. This procedure is very, very common among collectors and enthusiasts as the capacitor is not needed for normal operation and it's usually not a matter of if the capacitor will blow, but when, leaving you with a brick.

If you have an original Xbox console and would like to know more, search for "Xbox clock capacitor removal", or message me.

(Common symptoms besides not turning on can also be: Not turning off. Turning on or off randomly. Randomly ejecting the DVD tray. Always ejecting the DVD tray and never allowing it to be closed. Never ejecting the DVD tray. Some or all controller ports no longer functioning.

If your Xbox doesn't have these symptoms but it is forgetting the time after turning it off, you should open your box as soon as possible and investigate the capacitor.)
I usually find stuff like this by searching for

"tinyavr vs pic24" or even "tinyavr vs" and see what google suggests is a competitor.
> […] offers 0 fees […]

I’m highly skeptical of this claim since there’s a cost to running any system. It seems more likely that they just made fees implicit rather than explicit (as in Bitcoin) but, regardless, someone needs to be paid to keep servers running.
> but the thrill of discovery when you stumbled across a gold mine of information was a huge part of the appeal.

To be fair, this feeling is very similar to what you feel when finding something really great in your Twitter queue.
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The coordinator will be open-sourced and in all seriousness, even bitcoin had a sort of coordinator in the beginning, people aren't even forced to use it/can bypass it, but it's recommended to use it for now. So your statement isn't 100% valid.

Regarding crypto, you can read their response & reasoning here: https://blog.iota.org/curl-disclosure-beyond-the-headline-18...

"The replacement Kerl hash function is unmodified KECCAK-384 that only converts its input and output from/to 243 trits to 48 bytes using basic two’s complement. KECCAK-384 is well vetted and researched."
You are right, I usually always do that but this time I totally missed this. Thanks I'll do.
> Went on to do more "complex" things

Have you considered moving in the other direction? There's lots of work -- and value -- in bog-standard software with no mathematical/statistical/computational cleverness. Occasionally you can see an opportunity to fruitfully apply a mildly clever quantitative technique and see it actually get used -- but >95% of the time there's usually necessary grunt work to do.

How about trying contract work on enterprise software projects? E.g. pick a huge boring-sounding enterprise that has some weird legacy* software systems built for internal use. If you find the right one, they will have (1) users who use the system every day to do their job, and (2) lashings of technical debt, and they may be quite excited to have anyone on board to push forward efforts in "unit testing" or "continuous integration" or "implementing exception handling correctly".

inspiration:

https://www.butternotes.com/blog/catfish-programmers

http://edw519.posthaven.com/willie-sutton-would-be-an-enterp...

* legacy doesn't necessarily mean old -- maybe the system uses some trendy new tech stack, but no one wrote any tests, and the first wave of contractors already left
The hit counter is what makes this website.
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This is a great blog post but I'd also like to throw in that the STM line has a pretty great linux toolchain (official or not, I'm not sure).

I made a repository for the toolchain necessary to get STM boards working here: https://github.com/abraithwaite/STM32

Although it's outdated, the links at the bottom appear to link to updated tools which are presumably better :-)
Mmmmhhhhh I guess the RC Church did not prosecute Kepler. Especially because he was a Lutheran.

But anyway.
Yeah well, what is conscience?

As far as I know, there is no clear answer yet. And therefore impossible to say, if AI can reach it as well.

So we only have guessing, where I would say it could achieve, but probably not very soon.
Faking it will come much sooner ...
>blame rests with Islam and Mayans for the loss of this knowledge. They restricted and locked up their scientific knowledge, to the point of not having backups, and then their point of control over that knowledge got destroyed, along with all the knowledge.

Woah there that’s harsh. You can’t judge a civilisation based on how much they back-up their knowledge - much of the survival is based on luck, like how fortunately the Rosetta Stone was written in stone and not papyrus. I would argue that the acquired knowledge did survive ... through Europe!

It’s also incorrect to say that the Muslim civilisation was closed. It flourished because it was open (with some restrictions for sure), for Muslims and non-Muslims, and there was genuine passion for knowledge in general (hence non-religious activities such as scientific endeavours and preserving Ancient Greek works.) Many of the scholars were in fact non-Muslim and non-Arab.
Yes! Theoretically anything that Rust has support for (https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html) but I think most work has been put into ARM Cortex-M support recently. Especially Jorge Aparicio has worked to make embedded programming in Rust a joy (see https://japaric.github.io/discovery/ for an introduction). If you use STM32F MCUs you will probably have the lowest friction. I've heard of other people using the NXP Kinetis lineup as well. Do mind though that there are not many peripheral libraries yet. Currently I myself am fighting with getting USB to work. Of course you could still use the vendor provided C libraries and link against them if you don't want to go for 100% Rust.

The best part: You can use many of Rust's high level zero-cost abstractions. Just take a look at this example code which compiles to very efficient assembly:
https://github.com/japaric/discovery/blob/116fe76491d661b5ee...
What's the advantage over just using iptables?

-A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner [Tor uid] -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -j DROP
> With Colaboratory, users create notebooks, or documents, that can be simultaneously edited like Google Docs.

I wonder how Google came up with this "feature". If there's one thing I don't need, it's other users editing my code behind my back. Probably a case of "just because we can".
Yeah that was a bit much. Shouldn’t post before I’ve had my coffee.
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I remember websites, and I remember that some were made by women, too. The author seems to have only read websites made by men.
It is all a question of use case. This reply comes up all the time when I talk about how I use microcontrollers and what I use them for. For myself, microcontrollers offer me maximum control with minimum overhead. No OS, or maybe just some RTOS that does not really "boot" except for copying initial values for variables from Flash into RAM, being done in a fraction of a second. Switch it on, off it goes. Interfacing with SRAM and Flash without a driver.

You can do MCU based PCB designs. It gets harder when it comes to the mentioned Cortex-A. It will be harder to sample, say, 40 pieces of them. You're very much supposed (and better off) to buy boards like OrangePi or similar.

ESP designs, especially ESP32, are somewhat in between. Started off as a little documented blackbox with a RTOS interface it is now a much better (but absolutely not on par with Cortex-M designs) documented platform. However, part of it is still a proprietary code blob. They are beefy beasts, however, and when you need just that - well, it's a no-brainer. I just wish they were documented like STM32s plus ARM manuals and had a little more toolchain support. The price tag keeps me from complaining any louder.

When you don't really have hard constraints and are fine with a 5 second bootup, chose whatever fits your bill. When exact timing is an issue (and you don't want to go bare metal on the Cortex-A), when fast bootup is an issue, well - better look at MCUs.
"Remember websites" yeah they always had scaling problems unfortunately :(
Slightly tangential, but is there a "modern" alternative to GDAL for working with raster data?

The last time I tried, stitching together tiles and cutting it to state boundaries took an inordinate amount of time (upwards of 15 minutes for 6 tiles from Landsat-7/8). Though, I'm half convinced it was because I was doing something very suboptimal..

Also, iirc, it was single threaded.
I suspect that many, myself included will struggle with reductionist proscriptive limits. Not because they are wrong, but because we have become seduced by apparently beneficial things like bullet lists and two column output.

Relearning to focus on content is hard.
Make sense now, but maybe you should reduce the clicks(on the desktop) for the "1. open modal -> 2. save/buy click -> 3. close modal" action. There is enough space to the left and right side of the names.
Every exchange can fake their user deposits in the same way. Tether doesn't change that. We have to trust their audits.
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It seems to depend on your location.

> In March 2017, news articles revealed Qwant displays mainly search results from Bing, except in France and Germany, despite several commitment to be exclusively "made in France".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Criticism
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This is really just an idea to solve a pain point of mine that I guess is shared among us...

By the way I don't have any experience with MemSQL
Yea, I was hoping to see it there on the comparison list. I guess it fails some criteria.
1. It doesn’t matter whether the software that implements the central coordinator is open source, because the entire challenge of creating digital money is decentralized trust. Chaumian Cash solved digital money with a central issuer long ago.

2. Bitcoin had no privileged nodes, nor does it now. All miners compete on the same terms. A central coordinator by definiton does not, or it wouldn’t be centralized.
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I use my Apple Watch since day they launched, every day, a lot of times per day I use them. Zero issues with the screen and screen is amazing. I think in iPhone Apple will be able to create OLED display not worse than in Watch.
BitTorrent is also much less stable than Netflix in terms of speed of access and availability of any given file, since the distribution of content distributes control as well as work. Peer discovery alone makes BitTorrent less performant than Netflix, for media which Netflix has to offer.
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20 days are minimum. 24 only applies when you're working 6 days/week.

Generally, I'd expect 30 days. That's still the norm.

24 screams "startup" or "we struggled to offer that salary, so we're compensating with less holiday".
Indeed. SEO how it's referred to and done most of the time is almost an anti-pattern: People adjust their system (website) to implementation details of another service (search engines) instead of just fulfilling the "public contract" (exposing good, accessible content).

But that's dangerous, as search engines evolve, change behavior and occasionally penalize this kind of behavior. That's why I always tried to explain to customers they should just focus on good content for humans and not care about explicit SEO after they claimed someone had told them that Google had recently "changed their algorithm" and now did XY.
They try to maximize the profits they make on all of their existing and potential customers, now and in the future
Well, Aiven seems to support DO: https://aiven.io/postgresql
This looks like a good resource.

However, it's really talking about the magic of the layout and styling model. I know this feels like a nitpick, but in the era of CSS-in-JS (still a terrible name), I feel it's worth being more specific.
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That was it! Thank you! I thought it was something to do with Oberon but just searching for that turned up nothing. Thanks to your hint I found the post where I read about it:

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/

The referenced rant at the beginning is now off-line, but still available through archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090416033922/http://stevenf.tu...

Now, I'm not saying Bluebottle is great to work with, but the idea is interesting, and I think some of the good bits could be made to work better with modern IxD sensibilities applied to it, especially with touch-screens.
Questionable usefulness aside, technically, I think it is a very cool feature! :)

(Roughly speaking: IPython + Gdrive = Colaboratory)
> don't look like German? -> you'll get stares -> you'll be second rate / tourist / something

I don't look German at all and have been living in berlin for 10 years. Never had this feeling.

...that being said, I'm Spanish and am sure that a guy from Pakistan will sadly get more looks, so YMMV.

And as for the city, came on! Berlin is so much more than clubs and drugs.

Berlin has a vibrant tech culture with user groups, meetups, conferences and hack groups. Probably the biggest scene in Europe.

Berlin has a cultural offer second to no other in the world. If you really like a band and want to watch them live, just wait and they'll come over.

Whatever you enjoy, you can find it in Berlin. Period.

Reducing Berlin to just clubs and drugs is absolutely ridiculous.
https://www.snopes.com/cress-wifi-experiment/

Please flag this to hell.
Nor they use GPS for that matter. ICBMs are completely inertial.
Great, thank you for the clarification.