skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is great for driving adoption of cryptocurrencies!

I don't follow cryptocurrency evolution on a regular basis -- in fact it's grown far beyond what I understood when I was BTC mining for fun a decade ago! I did some googling and see literally hundreds of them now. Is the goal CC enthusiasts to see a world with one main CC or a fragmented world of many, all exchanging at different rates?
Except for omitting quotes around strings, that sounds very similar to json5 [0].

[0] - https://json5.org/
I'm sort of a fool who tries to be genuine and tries to assume good faith and so forth and I pretty frequently feel burned. Being "interesting" on the internet seems to be kind of like that Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.
I'm sure I read somewhere that the original comment was intended more along the lines of "this bit isn't going to be on the exam" rather than "this bit is too complex for your feeble brain".
If a service without any users shuts down does it make a sound? I still don't know why I should've cared about it or it's content.

Why should I care about Disney+? It has tons of Disney content.

Why should I care about Shudder? It has tons of horror content.

Why should I care about Quibi?
The first one it gave me was the 1/64th above. I had to mentally adapt my expectation of the amount of focus I had to give to the tones. After that I got them all w/o difficulty. I wonder if the ordering was the same for others, if so this would be a good way to test if there are people who can discern such a difference immediately, without any priming.
What's the best way to handle unary "-" and other unary operators?

I'd like to be able to write expressions like "-2^-(2+2)" or "a cos b + a sin b".

For "-2^-(2+2)" note that exponentiation has higher precedence than negation.
I have no idea why people are so convinced by randomly sprinkled "sources". Pretty much every single of the post's sourced polls have been conveniently reframed to fit a narrative that's only really vaguely related to the polls themselves.

Not to mention point 6) that really shows the bias, a republic instead of a democracy? Come on, that's just juvenile. I don't know why that line has suddenly become popular among conservatives.
It's attacking women of US, not all women. So I guess technically it's nationalism/fascism or something like that?
Ditto, but it took a few tries. My first couple were 85%. I don't have headphones and found that closing my eyes was helpful.
When you call into native code, you're explicitly opening the door to letting whatever happen happen. It's not undefined, it's a clearly defined escape hatch to do whatever. There's rules to follow, but it's the honor system, BEAM doesn't care if you do or not, but you'll have to live with the decisions you make.
I've got the invite to paypal's beta program for crypto. Honestly, you've got to be mad to be dealing with paypal. I've read anecdotes from people, losing access to their accounts, locked up money in paypal, etc... It all seemed to be just stories, seemed rare, circumstances unclear. Until one day this summer, out of the blue, paypal demanded ID of my spouse (for her account), and then after reviewing it, "permanently limited" the account, gloriously exclaiming:" Aha, we got your information, now you won't be able to use your current account nor open a new one!"

Trying to get to the customer support is yet another saga, and I will spare your time, but the net result is nil. Nobody in the support knows why the ban happened (there was no real reason to ban a paypal customer with over 8+ years, buying some random stuff on ebay), nobody can revert it, nobody really cares and there are no appeals.

Receiving a note from paypal today regarding crypto looked like a bad, really dumb joke to me and an insult for my spouse.
You gotta be completely clueless or insane to trust this shitty company with your crypto. One of the key points for crypto is the lack of "deplatforming", which the sinister paypal does left and right, at the same time not even being able to explain its actions, nor comprehend consequences.

Paypal - never!
But its not about the energy - its about the cost of materials, which is a rough estimate of its impact on the environment. And that big old exotic-metal battery has got to have an impact?
The eye tracking looks great, just as a regular additional way of using the mouse for things like focusing windows or tapping dialogs. I'm very tempted to get one of those.

Does anyone with experience of them know what the multi-monitor support is like? I have 3 screens side be side and one below, so quite a large range to cover that requires some head movement to go across all of them. Will it work with viewing over that wide of a space where I'm not always directly facing the primary screen?
Refused to accept KBD input after the mario 8bit chiptune. Loved to try, can't complete. please fix!
It looks like I'm only average at guessing the direction of shift but where do I rank in speed guessing? If they wanted 100% accuracy why highlight the decision time?
I scored 23, I didn't wear headphones. I've always known not to have prefect/absolute pitch. I used to play guitar a lot (I can tune the thing by ear!) but certainly can't sing.

I thought the "game" aspect was distracting. I'd preferred if they didn't show the correct/wrong and the timing. During the listening test I decided to look away from the screen and focus elsewhere. I'd like to take this test again but I can't bothered filling out all those questions again. To bad you can't just jump right to the test...
It is possible to solve that puzzle even if you are deaf, by counting the number of notches the slider has moved, which corresponds to the position of the key on the keyboard.
Considering he's offerring his work up for free, it seems very nitpicky to me
tiktok has infinitely more content and pays infinitely less for it

tiktok has more viral hits per day than quibi generated in its whole lifetime

tiktok is expert at recommendation, quibi doesn't have enough content to have a recommender

quibi doesn't have anything share-driven
Why do I have to give it some PII first? No thanks.
RIP. I remember going to The Amazing Meeting (skeptics convention) years ago and running into a coworker there. It was his second time attending and he spotted James Randi and told me, let's go say hello and that he's super friendly and will chat with anyone. We went over and lo and behold he was super friendly and welcomed me to the con warmly.

I was familiar with his debunking work, but not much beyond that. I watched the documentary about him, An Honest Liar, later on and was impressed with him as a human. Worth checking out to learn more.
Because Mother Jones is interested in parroting a narrative. Don't forget this same magazine wrote articles in favor of California jailing David Daleiden for the crime of exposing criminal activity that resulted in a Congressional investigation and widespread condemnation by the American people.
1pass can store arbitrary keys, not just passwords. Also, we're a long, long way from that being reality.
Ah, I understand. The ICO scams are only illegal because there are laws. If you didn't have laws, they wouldn't be illegal!

Magic.
The only place facing a massive population drop in the future is China and for all the bluster none of the big dogs are particularly threatened by environmental/climate change (if anything they'd save money by focusing on mitigating it's effects locally rather than globally). Even resource depletion is only really a problem for nations of little consequence. So it doesn't seem very obvious that any of the things you're discussing are actually on track to cause the sorts of disruption Rudy your describing.
Your initial comment that I was responding to was:

> Nobody pays for Youtube Premium because they want the exclusive content. They pay because they hate ads and Youtube gatekeeps basic app functionality behind the paywall. It's not a service it's a hostage negotiation.

To which my response was that it's a commonly accepted business practice to create free and premium tiers (it's so common it even has a name: "freemium"), and that this doesn't remotely constitute "gatekeeping" or "hostage negotiation". And it is common for companies to switch models over time, starting out with free in order to spur quick growth and then figuring out monetization later. Make no mistake, YouTube was originally losing catastrophic amounts of money, and what has happened to it is the only path that was even viable. You either need a lot of advertising or a substantial paid subscriber base in order to not suffer huge ongoing losses and be forced to shutter. Just ask every newspaper ever.

I just don't see what YouTube has uniquely done differently vs any other company that has a paid tier or that has grown over time and needed to find additional ways to make money because it turns out that you can't turn around a loss by scaling it.

I don't live advertising either. But I accept that it pays for the vast majority of the content that I consume online.
Programmatically add fields to YAMLs and push them to Kubernetes
It seems to me they just got the scale of this completely wrong. The tubes should be a lot smaller, say a foot in diameter, and go through the air at streetlight-top level. The network would need an automated switching system to direct each "packet" from its source to any of thousands of destinations. People could pay to have endpoints in their houses or receive packages at the corner shop.

Letters, cans of beer and indeed cylindrical foods such as hot dogs, burritos or fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, could be inserted into a cylindrical capsule and delivered anywhere in the network area in a matter of minutes.
>The real truth is: hiring is a crapshoot. For any position and any field. Software engineering is no different

I tried building spaceship and failed. Fiend of mine tried building a spaceship and failed too. However, I know of people who built a spaceship. So is building a spaceship a crapshot?

Reality is: 95% of HRs are incompetent. That's where randomness comes from. Take a random man from street and assign him for HR role after a brief training -- you'll achieve a similar performance to those 95% HRs.

Everybody's talking about hiring the engineer, but so fewer people talk about finding a good HR that would help you to solve a "simple" problem: how to find a good engineer with small experience and small salary that would not leave your company for the next few years and would become after several months just as good as 70-100$/hour engineer hired from top software company, while later most likely still gonna need some time to adapt to your product to become efficient.
Travelling between cities in Australia by train you'd be lucky to have (mobile phone) internet for 5% of the trip.
They had video ads running constantly on Instagram for months. To me, it was pretty clear what the offering was (long form TikTok/Vine/Reels), and not something I really had any interest in.
Ah, that's a good point. It would be interesting to see fairer benchmarks for TruffleRuby after reading about some of the optimisations they're able to make.
I must say... I've seen their ads a lot on YouTube and I had no idea their format and business model was fundamentally different from Netflix. I thought - ok, another Netflix...

Reading the comments I can see it was mobile-only and short episodes targeted at people riding public transport (or similar short duration where what you can do is very limited and you want to entertain yourself).

Seems like a big failure marketing-wise.
It's not really creating tension if you already don't get along.
Well, good luck with all that. I can't say I think you'll be successful.
NIMBYs. No one in napa or Marin counties want a train.
Who is the successor to Randi's tenacity, wit, and intellect?

I used to hope Shermer or someone born out of Skeptic would take up the mantle (and I appreciate comedians like Gervais who take a swing at it) but I don't see anyone who hits as hard and succinctly as Randi did. I think it was also his showmanship that made it all work so perfectly.
But there are absolutely hard places in some code, that mere mortals should change at their peril. Most complex code has some place where it all meets, 6 or 7 constraints and issues in a few lines. Most people aren't in a place to (want to) understand all the issues, and its reasonable and fair to say "Here there be dragons".
That was really fun I got 32 out of 31 correct. I can't sing at all, so there is that- thanks for posting this goofy little test.
So, you just realized that companies play musical chairs with CEO?
It's not clear there's much decay energy in the core. That would depend on whether uranium, thorium, or potassium would dissolve in high pressure liquid iron-nickel.

Uranium and thorium are highly concentrated in the Earth's crust, btw, relative to the rest of the Earth.
Your argument was that people pick Tesla due to reason X and do so with overwhelming majority. That means your argument is Tesla-vs-everything else combined NOT Tesla-vs-another specific competitor. Your own data shows that at best 50% of buyers choose based on reason X while the rest do so for other reasons. I don't consider 50% to be an overwhelming majority or vanishingly small.
We actually discussed this for quite a while at work when I pushed us to start contributing to open-source. Mostly it came down to the fact that TfL wished me to keep my work-life and personal-life separate to keep things simple. Reading that back, it doesn't sound so crazy.
Smells a little like "all the people I know in SF would love this" limited market validation.
How many people are we talking though? Subway trains usually don't get good cell reception, and a huge chunk of Americans drive to work, a time during which they wouldn't be watching video.
Well, that explains why I can't tune a guitar by ear - all the examples where the difference was 1/64 or 1/32 sounded as completely identical four beeps, I had zero idea about the direction and had to guess randomly. I.e. it's not that I could not interpret the difference, it's that I could not identify any difference in the first place.
It depends on what they consider a task and what they are using as a baseline.

For example, banking processes, trading processes, and just routing emails would account for many tasks. Just think about how much postal work, mailroom/intra-office mail has been replaced. How many millions of previously manual steps in trading and banking have been automated. I feel we have already surpassed 50% of work tasks being automated.
Everyone keeps saying they were optimised for vertical videos. No, they weren’t, they had normal horizontal videos that they cropped the sides off in vertical, and it obvious from their own marketing stuff that the video weren’t shot with this cropping in mind. The experience would have been shit.

Second, they didn’t create short episodes for quick watching, they created full length movies and just carved them up, again this was obvious from their own marketing stuff.
Yeah, I bought a Mathematica 12 license from a company on eBay for $100 recently. I figured maybe they acquired it in some sort of liquidation sale, or something. $100 wouldn't be an unreasonable price in that context, since it typically sells for around $350 for a personal / hobbyist licence. Turns out they want you to download the app from some shady site that has nothing to do with Wolfram Research, then email them for a license code.

Yeaaaahh, no. I know you're asking me to download some pirated shit and then just running a keygen. I could do that myself for free if I was interested. No, thanks.

All I'm really wondering now is if there's anyone other than Wolfram Research and eBay that I should report this to.
go for elixir. the differences compared to python are minuscule.
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It is dishonest to sell a product that doesn't exist, that seems pretty simple.
How did the debate go?
TCP has an explicit client and server (some caveats here). The userspace API for TCP requires you to do a connect, which does the TCP handshake in the TCP stack, before you can send traffic.

For UDP, you just specify the destination IP and port, and send packets.

For TCP, new incoming SYNs to most (S)NAT addresses will just get dropped - especially CGNAT - making it impossible to communicate in that direction. If you're both in that situation (really common, actually), you just can't talk to each other.

For UDP, the packets will also get dropped on the receiver side. However, the act of sending the packet will often cause the originator's side's NAT to register that five-tuple (source and destination IP and port + UDP proto), which would allow the other side to reply. If both sides do this with the same IP/port pairs, then magically they can communicate - some of the time, at least. There's a lot more involved (for example, how do you know your own external IP address behind NAT?) - read up on STUN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN - for more details.
So you don't have an actual argument but try to discourage me instead? That's actually pretty nice.
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None of which are completely true. There's a good reason ORMs are so ubiquitous.

Look at his description of the things he was making.

You do not use ORMs for anything but the most basic reports.
This is one great setup, and you can change KeepassXC for any other thing, eg. https://www.passwordstore.org/
> Doesn't every car come with a, "if you crash from not paying attention, we are not liable"

The other cars having to drive next to this car in the road don't get a warning!
It's appalling to hear that economists would think that improving the flow of goods and information would not benefit the economy.

But yeah, it's easy to miss. We've only had Roman roads, book printing, railroads, telephone, container shipping and the internet (to name a few) to point out this evident truth..
Why hasn’t tiktok bought them out for pennies? Seems a natural fit for the content.
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I got an A!
cheers :-) been finishing up the Libra book, but I need to remind myself to write more blog posts
the same could be said for most instruments. Changing the reed, embouchure shape, breath quality all change the sound. Same with a guitar, if you change the strings, playing style, pick material, a lot of different sounds can come out of one instrument.
Did anyone else find the first half of the test harder than the second? I got all of the questions right but the ones where the tone was 1/3 or more of a tone off I really struggled to tell if they were up or down. Weirdly I didn't have that problem on the 1/4 or less questions.

I have no musical talent at all by the way.
I want to believe in GeoThermal. A recent experiment in Australia went bad, this really saddened me because the underlying model clearly works (Iceland, NZ) but something about the combination of drill, frack, extract and process to energy just didn't work out, nor did the post experiment remediation (IIRC)

I also believe, that we actually deplete both deep heat, and deep coolth. Deep heat, you have to keep expanding the deep heat extraction zone or create pumped states in a wider area somehow, Coolth: London underground was lovely and airconditioner cool, it now has 100+ years of soaked in heat and is significantly hotter than it used to be.
They haven't been advertising for a good long time. I think they expected that with a big ad spend, they'd develop a user base and build awareness organically after that via word of mouth. That clearly didn't happen, so more advertising would be needed.

At a certain point those ad bills add up, especially if they aren't able to convert enough free trial people into paid users.
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I think you make a very good point. I would add that in the short to mid-term, Twitch could also grow thanks to the pie getting bigger. Video streaming, I believe, is far from having peaked.
C++: Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names
A large number of "this doesn't quite add up" type of problems, as well as quarter to quarter inconsistencies.

For instance, accounts receivables goes up basically every quarter, but the reason for it always changes. People suspect large-scale fleet sales are being hidden in this term.

Plus their general dishonesty in how they are presenting numbers. They're greatly downplaying how all profits are coming from credit sales, and use an unusual definitions of "gross margin" which doesn't include R&D and sales related costs.
I have better hearing than most people (upper and lower frequency sensitivity) but I guess I'm pretty tone deaf.
But it would otherwise go "up" at a slower rate - so heat adding more slowly but over longer. Pumping heat up is effectively compressing this time horizon - resulting in a difference in rate of heat added. Now if that geothermal energy was replacing nuclear or fossil fuel use, then it might be a wash. But as soon as that energy replaces hydro, wind, or solar (which don't add new heat to the atmosphere - just use heat already there) - then we would increase the rate of heat energy being added to the atmosphere.
Cryptocurrencies are used when you want to hide, or speculatively profit from crime without doing crime. Large scale legitimate transactions don't need to hide, and actively don't want to (the books must balance).
I don't think you understand my point.
It's definitely an electron app. It may incorporate some rust code as well, but it also rolls in approximately the entire Chrome codebase. The decompressed AppImage is 208MB, which is mostly chrome (electron) by size.
There was a company called Quaise in this field I read about in The Engine's portfolio, though I don't know enough about this subject matter to make much of a comment.
Too complicated. Big money ideas always fit on a napkin, haven't you heard?

"Quibi - the TikTok of Netflix."

Now that's a golden ticket idea.
> My personal wish is for a modern and first-class replacement for the various AsciiDoc-to-PDF flows.

Hear hear. (a.k.a. "+1", a.k.a "this")
Ha! I was referring to a self-hosted password manager. I looked at keepass some long time ago (in internet time anyways, likely 4ish years ago), and after starting to get things hooked up and trying to demo it for the spouse, I realized that it wasn't worth my time.

I'm 1000% behind them existing and am planning to toss them a donation cause I like that these FOSS alternatives exist, but I'd rather not have to manage my own in the end.

I've gotten past the stage of wanting to do it all on my own and hit the point where I'd rather pay a company to do it so I can go about the things I want to do in my free time (hobbies and spending time with my kids). I know it means I'm potentially trading privacy for this convenience, but it's something I've accepted in this case.

My new campaign is convince the spouse that we should move away from free email into paid.
You didn't miss anything. I paid them for the same reason.

They failed because their content was terrible, they just aren't admitting it.
This happened back in September. Whatapp already patched it.
The obvious thing to say is "climate"

But I guess that would be seen as 'inflammatory' -when in fact it goes to exactly the same disjoin between statistics, and experiental sense. Nobody who doubts in AGW thinks the changes represent systemic, across the board, movement in time. They just think "its always been this variable" and miss the year on year accumulating effect.