skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. We are going towards a dystopia. Over the past few weeks, all the seniors in my family have accidentally updated and locked (i.e. bricked) their ipads. These tablets are essential to their quality of live. I'm convinced <deleted expletive> Apple engineers applied dark patterns to accidentally trick people into updating their OS. During covid, this means someone needs to expose the seniors to unbrick their bloody ipads. This should be criminal during a pandemic. Btw, I mean functionally bricked here. None of the seniors in my family remember their passwords or is able to deal with a fresh OS install. <deleted expletive> Sorry .. I needed to rant.
Kubernetes: Challenges for Observability Platforms
Does Opera still own Fastmail?
Isn't the solution to add artificial scarcity by limiting the number of users that someone can contact per month, say?

A user should be able to tell the app/site "Don't let anyone contact me if they've contacted someone else in the past week".

Of course that would be terrible for ad revenue of the app/site, and there could be some interesting meta-gaming of how users set these rate limits (or try to get around them), but I think it would lead to a more balanced experience over all.
Engineer bogs.

Per unit area, wetlands sequester more carbon than any other terrestrial habitat. Some ocean habitats maay do better.

Constructed freshwater or saltwater bogs might be the most effective way forward. Existing and novel wetlands.

Side effects are interesting to contemplate.
I believe OP is saying when they can't cover orders, they pull the plug on the market rather than be overexposed.

As far as server load goes up, by how much does it need to increase to cause a problem? Are the numbers feasable, eg 100x volumes?
Yes, there are forces which are fighting to kick out the occupying forces and there are forces keeping them in check. Long gone are the days of occupying forces marching and parading. It's shadow governments and pawns now.
Where Are Americans Staying Home for Thanksgiving?
I'm wondering if the "optimized for reference-counting" thing applies to other languages too. i.e. if I write a piece of software in Rust, and I make use of Rc<>, will Macs be extra tolerant of that overhead? In theory it seems like the answer should be yes
It's fair to say there were a lot of causes of the Great Depression, to be sure. However.

Much of the "Roaring 20s" that preceded the giant market crash happened because of zero oversight or regulation and saw tons of fraud, and, yep, tons of reckless margin trading. This created huge systemic risk that all came to bear on Black Tuesday, which led to unemployment, homelessness and bankruptcies. This led to the Securities Act of 1933 and 1934.

Further, the Glass-Steagall act, also of 1933 separated investment banks and depository institutions. I'll let you take one guess why this was necessary. I'll also let you take one guess what happened after it was repealed (in 1999).

Also kicked off in 1933 was the FDIC.

All three of these are incredibly relevant to crypto and to this specific conversation.

[1] https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/securities-and-...
Ha lol it is literally 5km from a asphalted road.
> I am guessing the article will be critical of the Netflix position that anything that takes a viewer away from their service is a competitor, even sleep and going to the bathroom.

Nope, it actually isn't about that at all!
yes, but they have hardware acceleration for that specific tagged pointer type.
x86-64 was designed to prevent (or at least discourage) efficient use of tagged pointers, with the higher half/lower half split in the virtual address space. All the excess high-order bits you don't need for actual addressing are required to have the same value, so you effectively only get at most one tag bit.
Evil competitor hired shady cybercriminals to put him out of business. It's the most likely explanation, but it looks weird if stated without actual evidence.
Garfield on the front page the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25188207
We think the priority needs to be AR. The ability to see your surroundings is crucial. We have also have some ideas around this that we are hoping to demonstrate next year.
Additional Garfield at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198971
I really wonder how Starlink is going to shake things up. It’s currently expensive, but a continuously improving service could represent a huge risk to otherwise stagnant ISP’s.
If you're trying to reduce the memory usage of calculating the median, you're not motivated by 5 element streams.

Further, I don't think "number of items > k*median" is a particularly grueling criterion for this algorithm (where k is some constant based on the delta).

Here is the first paragraph of the Introduction, for your reference:

> Modern applications require processing streams of data for estimating statistical quantities such as quantiles with small amount of memory. A typical application is in IP packet analysis systems such as Gigascope [8] where an example of a query is to find the median packet (or flow) size for IP streams from some given IP address. Since IP addresses send millions of packets in reasonable time windows, it is prohibitive to store all packet or flow sizes and estimate the median size. Another application is in social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter where there are rapid updates from users, and one is interested in median time between successive updates from a user. In yet another example, search engines can model their search traffic and for each search term, want to estimate the median time between successive instances of that search.

You can also read the paper to see how they implement Frugal-2U, which has better convergence characteristics for twice the memory.

They even address your specific complaint: "Note that Frugal-1U and Frugal-2U algorithms are initialized by 0, but in practice they can be initialized by the first stream item to reduce the time needed to converge to true quantiles."
It seems like an abuse of the concept of "degree of surprise".

An article produced by a totalitarian state could contain a lot of "surprising information", in an information theoretic sense - if it described surprising wardrobe choices and surprising choices of meals by the fearless leader. Vacuous tabloids describe the surprising antics of the more mentally unbalanced celebrities but also don't challenge our world view. And made-up stuff like QAnon is partly surprise driven.

Also, the biggest hit to conventional media has been craigslist - print media never was primarily funded by subscriptions but always made most of it's money with advertising.
Clarke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
Agreed, average speed is generally a pointless metric with it comes to actual usage for many people. We are one of those rural families and we have to have both a 3Mbit DSL connection and a 4Mbit Satellite connection just to make sure that at least one service works well enough so we can work. We can't wait for Starlink to be available and will happily pay nearly any amount to have it if it means that I can kill 2 different really bad services.
Someone here (different article about it) gave a Google Maps link. I took a look. I'd want a good topo map plus planned GPS waypoints before I'd even think about it. It looks like it's a long way in to some complicated country.

callesgg says it's 5km from a paved road. 5km can be a long way in that kind of country.
Not to speak for anyone else, but one thing I gently disagree with:

>Given that Hackintoshers are a particular bunch who don’t take kindly to the Apple-tax[...]

I have zero issues with an Apple premium or paying a lot for hardware. I think a major generator of interest in hackintoshes has been that there are significant segments of computing that Apple has simply completely (or nearly completely) given up on, including essentially any non-AIO desktop system above the Mini. At one point they had quite competitive PowerMacs and then Mac Pros covering the range of $2k all the way up to $10k+, and while sure there was some premium there was feature coverage, and they got regular yearly updates. They were "boring", but in the best way. There didn't need to be anything exciting about them. The prices did steadily inch upward, but far more critically sometime between 2010 and 2012 somebody at Apple decided the MP had to be exciting or something and created the Mac Cube 2, except this time to force it by eliminating the MP entirely. And it was complete shit, and to zero surprise never got a single update (since they totally fucked the power/thermal envelope, there was nowhere to go) and users completely lost the ability to make up for that. And then that was it, for 6 years. Then they did a kind of sort of ok update, but at a bad point given that Intel was collapsing, and forcing in some of their consumer design in ways that really hurt the value.

The hackintosh, particularly virtualized ones in my opinion (running macOS under ESXi deals with a ton of the regular problem spots), has helped fill that hole as frankenstein MP 2010s finally hit their limits. I'm sure Apple Silicon will be great for a range of systems, but it won't help in areas that Apple just organizationally doesn't care about/doesn't have the bandwidth for because that's not a technology problem. So I'm a bit pessimistic/whistful about that particular area, even though it'll be a long time before the axe completely falls on it. It'll be fantastic and it's exciting to see the return of more experimentation in silicon, but at the same time it was a nice dream for a decade or so to be able to freely take advantage of a range of hardware the PC market offered which filled holes Apple couldn't.
I thought it was up to the software (for example, a video encoder like Handbrake) to detect whether a processor supported a set of instructions, and then try to use them?
At some point when going out isn't any fun there's not much to do but polish your rifle and your gun.
If I build a model that actually works well, I'm using it to get rich, patent it, and sell it to the company for a lot more than $100k.
The point is that if there is a trigger that releases them that will cause devastating knock on global warming, that will have also occurred in the past, and it's not a slow gradual process that life has millions of years to adapt to.
Working overtime is a madman's choice. It's possible to work overtime but it's completely irrelevant. It's done mostly for politics. For example, you have small chances of a raise or a promotion if your overtime hours are small.

Collecting overtime gives opportunity for under-performers to make progress in the company.

I've been to more than 5 banks in Croatia and Austria (Most of the banks in Croatia are subsidiaries of Italian and Austrian banks). The contracts make overtime mandatory but one can negotiate to remove overtime completely.

Most people that tell their wives and friends that they work overtime either do not work during the overtime hours, are unnecessarily inefficient for the purpose of collecting hours (unpaid) or have periods of struggle because most of the time they do not work and have no idea what's going on (so when they have to catch up, the stress and the lack of knowledge forces overtime).

Some cases I encountered of people who complain about working too much in a bank are those that prefer the company of their coworkers more than that of their spouses.
NYC Tech Darling Charged with Bashing Englewood Officer in Face with Radio
Stupid people think margin trading is easy money and will lose that in the blink of an eye.

And stupid companies? They’ll do the same thing but take all their employees and affiliated companies with them.
Solar panels expected lifespan is about 30 years.

Nearer 20, due to numerous degredation pathways.

Meaning that one possible avenue to reduced impact would be an extended-life PV (or other solar) array. It's a ccomplex prtoblem, and one for which present financial methods (NPV, future vaalie discounting) work strongly against.
>I've only taken a quick look at the data, but the problem doesn't seem to be focused on their core competencies, but instead is much more general

How can you tell? All the features are completely anonymized.
I don't know about you, but all of these seemingly agreeable anti-disinformation measures look a lot like censorship when applied so heavy handedly. You would think that the video in question would be demonetized but the rest of the channel's content would remain unmolested. What about all the other non-Covid content that the channel is prevented from uploading during the suspension?
Using the Laravel debugbar or telescope toolbar gives you a clear picture of what’s rendering where.
If you want other examples of how this goes wrong outside of Cryptocurrency, there are some amazing stories on WallStreetBets of traders exploiting bugs in Robinhood’s margin limits to over-leverage and ending up millions of dollars in the red.

It’s not a matter of withdrawals, it’s a matter of losing more money than you have and being unable to cover the loss.
Early prototype: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/ec/23/87ec233597ef88520b31...
In Electron 14, we have found an astounding new paradigm for writing apps that results in astounding developer time savings! Now instead of running your Javascript app inside a copy of Chrome, we have a custom hybrid of Javascript and Lisp, which is internally transpiled onto a Brainfuck interpreter running in Conway's Life!

Electron 15: The Life machine has been re-implemented as a series of GPU instructions, which will use up approximately 93% of most users' graphics performance in return for a 20% speedup!
The year in which the regulation was brought in is totally irrelevant, the only thing that matters is whether the regulation is useful and meaningful. I guarantee you if Tether had to abide by the Securities Act it would not exist. I for one am thrilled to have the SEC looking out for us, keeping the scammers and frauds at bay - or at least trying.

Good policy is good policy no matter what year we came up with it.
+1 so much this

Jane Street is a high frequency firm. In this domain execution & infrastructure matters as much if not more than your algo secret sauce.

What good is kagglers' favorites giant boosted bagged lightgbm/xgboost/neural ensembles which will take seconds to predict, when my FPGA or ASIC running in the same rack as exchange's matching engine can make a million trades in the meantime with a much simpler strategy involving nothing beyond freshman math (take a cue in XTX Markets' firm name, for example)

And in the longer timeframes, the edge is more often than not in the data than training algo.
Can Shopify Compete with Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?
I’m the owner / developer of Wrath AIO and would like to clarify we don’t support any electronic related stores, nor do we have any plans to
Professional traders know not to use brokers offering insane leverage because of the risk the broker will be wiped out.

Do you have a way to protect one customer's funds when another customer is ruined?
Whoops somehow missed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198713

Sorry - please delete.
Presumably the two uses of the word "scale" refer to "the scale of the problem of being just one person competing against thousands" and "scaling up your chances by going on many first dates", respectively.
I think you calculated that wrong. I get $1.8B at that price.[0] Though that 7700 lb estimate assumed the sculpture was made of aluminum; rhodium is about 4.5X as dense, so it'd be closer to $8.1B.

[0]: 7700 lb * 14.5833 troy oz/lb * 16100 $/troy oz = 1,807,891,701
When my team at a previous company finished a multi month migration of a large PHP app to the cloud we held a large deploy party where everyone gathered in a room and the CEO pressed a space bar labeled DEPLOY.
A script ran, the load balancer config was upgraded and the whole team cheered for something ungraspable like this website in the cloud.
Same here. I've heard somewhere, in a video about language acquisition, that we have a pattern recognition algorithm in our brains, so all we need is to see examples, and the algorithm does the rest (builds a model by itself).
To have fun exploring and learning.
You do realize that roughly 100% of your food comes from those rural areas that you so casually throw away as an expense on society?

Add to that, telecom companies have been collecting additional "fees" from every user for decades that was supposed to go for expanding infrastructure and never has been.
This is an odd hill to die on, OP. Geopolitics is complicated - there are tons of things to iron out before this. I assure you there are other parts of the sanctions hurting Iranian students more than EdX being [incorrectly] blocked.
Also what is the propaganda you’re referring to?
Previous story here seems to have disappeared from HN's new submissions list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25203846

Guys, I know this is going to turn into a partisan mudfest, but this is a real hack and a legitimate security problem with a popular (albeit partisan) website. A lot of people are going to be affected, it's going to drive news. HN needs to be allowed to discuss it.
I'd suggest that someone who breaks into Slack HQ and secretly installs a underclocking kernel extension on all their developers' Macs wouldn't be a bad person.
Under 370w all settings maxed out CPU/GPU etc.
It looks amazing! Say I spill my coffee in it, is it difficult to clean?

Edit: never mind, just saw the top is solid.
Brew is only slightly a mess, in my experience.

I've installed brew both in the historical /usr/local location as well as the future home of /opt/homebrew. I then created these two aliases:

alias armbrew="/opt/homebrew/bin/brew"
alias intbrew="arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew"

My PATH selects for programs installed in the /opt/homebrew location first and then /usr/local. I try to install with the ARM version first with `armbrew install -s <PKG>` and if it fails, I move to using the `intbrew` alias as normal. I haven't really had any issues.

It's obviously still messy but not in a way that is too bad!
Coinbase has been leading the Bitcoin rally lately and dragging (the supposedly) tether inflated bitfinex exchange.

I wonder if coinbase users went too far in using margin that the CFTC intervened. Wait and see if the same happens to Kraken. They are both bitcoin exchanges.
With the risk of sounding like downplaying it, I think the crucial part here is the potential range of the helicopter, which is fairly limited with the information given (start location, time etc.), and the fact they can walk in from somewhere flat enough to land the helicopter.

The geological part is nice but not necessary (you just need to be able to tell the colors of rocks).
I think duty #1 of a progress bar is just to reliably communicate whether it is frozen or not. In many cases, slow progress is fine as long as it isn't stuck.
Oxygen is also removed by reaction with other reducing species, like sulfide and ferrous iron. And of course in reaction with organic matter water is produced also, not just CO2.
Metal Gear Solid: The strangest great videogame franchise
Pavel Durov tho... he's visionary but his expectations became too unrealistic lately. I wonder what happens to Telegram now that the SEC stopped that ICO.

Loved to work with him while he was sane.
While going over the latest "anonymous" department survey early last year, one of the HR people slipped up and said something like, "...and Mike had really good feedback at the end of his survey." She then had to admit that the surveys weren't anonymous. A lot of people were pissed. We haven't had a survey since.
> Why weight filters are considered an undesirable feature in heterosexual dating apps is left as an exercise to the reader.

I don't get it, why is that?
Conveying progress in a lot of cases is difficult. Sometimes you have two sets of tasks where the first set determines how much is done in the second. That means you can't accurately predict the overall length of time required to finish everything.

You could split up the overall progress into two parts, 50% of the bar each. The first part might take a while to finish and when you get to 50% you determine how much is left in the second half, and if it's quick, you immediately jump to 100%. On the other hand, if the second half takes really long, now you're sitting there waiting what seems like an eternity to do the second half.

With some clever design, you could have a smarter progress bar system where each task is weighted and adding it to the overall progress re-computes how long everything is, but now you have a scenario where the progress bar could shrink as you get more accurate about the work ahead.

If the time to complete a task is short enough, a lot of these tricks for more accuracy just aren't worth it, and often require fundamentally changing the architecture of your underlying processes, making it more work than it's worth. Hence, you end up with funny things like finishing at 75%. Though, to be fair, they should at least jump to 100% before finishing. I think that's a common bug that comes up, not letting the full bar show first before dismissing.
A couple of H-bombs in the Himalayas might do the trick quite quickly.
>How do you differentiate an event that is very improbable and so takes a billion years from an event that is inevitable, but requires many prerequisites, and so takes a billion years?

Holy hell, this man trounced a team of Oxford scientists in a single line! Someone get this man a NObEl PRizE...

So you, a random internet person caught such an obvious error and somehow no one at Oxford or the reviewers at Astrobiology noticed? That's really what you think?
Talk about the blind leading the blind...
I'm not asian. I'm married, and happily, so don't think I'm saying this because it affects me one way or the other.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but we seem to continually be talking past each other. I'm tired of it, so I'm out.
I made one of these.

We needed a progress bar, but there was no way to estimate progress.
I think don't there's automatically evidence on "both sides" of a issue. I don't issues actually tend to have just two sides. For a given issue or situation, there can be one, two, five or ten plausible models.

The worst thing about having roughly two very polarized ideologies constantly visible in society is that the slightly more clever people wind-up expecting that "the truth is somewhere in the middle". In a given case, there's no reason to think that.
this type of knowledge is quite expected from certain analysts in certain agencies [this comment will self-destruct in 5 minutes]
This is neat and makes me want to take a router to my existing standing desk to organize cables in a similar fashion.

That said I think a focus on the entire desk might be a difficult sell. I’m not going to replace my existing desk with this. I’m not even sure if I would go for this if I was in the market for a desk unless I could customize it in some way (or at least choose from multiple configurations depending on my needs). It looks like that’s included in your future planning, so congrats.

You know what I would buy immediately? A well-designed standing/convertible desk that makes a modern design statement. I don’t like the extremely utilitarian look of all the standing desk options I’ve seen. Give me the 2020 version of the Steelcase (or numerous other manufacturers) tanker desk and I will buy in a heartbeat. Those tankers are utilitarian and stylish. I would probably own one already if they didn’t weigh half a ton.