skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

I'd say it's "confusing" rather than "misleading"; this is because of lack of context. Reading "KDE Community Edition released" when you're on a Pinephone website is more meaningful than reading "KDE Community Edition released" on Hacker News, with only the pine64.org domain being available next to the link.
>The first answer is ICBMs are, now a days, mostly an IR optical thing.

Source? This seems unlikely since ground-based visual tracking would be obscured by e.g. clouds. Is ICBM tracking all space-based and visual? (I can see why IR is useful to detect the initial boost, but it would also seem rather useless to track a small, passive object in freefall).
I'm not looking for links to books.

I'm looking for an explanation in plain English that shows why any of this matters.
The commercial web would look far worse without open source. I don't expect any thanks, just that a new generation gets to the ability to tinker themselves instead of using throw away products.
Polio.
Graph Theory in General is extremly useful for all sorts of algorithms [1]. What the application for this particular discovery might be is also unknown to me.

[1]https://mypages.valdosta.edu/dgibson/sjs.pdf
I've found KDE Neon to be WAY more stable than Kubuntu. And this has been the case on multiple LTS versions. I just think this is odd since, in theory, they should only differ by the KDE apps that are installed.
I presumed "Adjustment layers" were these: https://imgur.com/dHtKq6Z
MobileSafari doesn't support a number of "PWA" features that Android Chrome does. Push notifications, for example, always require a mobile app on iOS (which I think is a good thing, personally, but I can understand other perspectives).
I first used it to pay a contractor in Argentina, since then I stick with the store of value hypothesis. It’s like gold but easier to hold and trade without having the government devalue it by printing more dollars. Or put another way, why does a dollar have value?
Is this picture real? I don't get why there isn't any evidence of bits of cables still hanging from at least one of the towers or any other kind of wreckage. It looks more like someone has photoshopped all the cables out of of an old photo.
Every article I've found indicates it was an unintentional collapse, but they're mostly sourced to the unidentified "officials and locals" from the AP report, which may just be the original tweet and replies.

EDIT: NSF confirms it was an unplanned collapse that happened overnight: https://twitter.com/NSF/status/1333772980539691008
Record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season ends
Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning
> I'd love to see you defend yourself to them, one on one. No PR people. Just techie on techie.

That wouldn't end well. He would get his ass physically beat, in most likelihood.
"The five-day is locked in pretty firmly in the developed world, and a company that tries to change that risks getting out of synch with suppliers, subcontractors, and partners. "Today's Thursday. Our office is closed on Fridays, so we'll have to schedule that call for Tuesday, because one of our suppliers is closed on Mondays."

Last week I was surprised to find our engineering team in our Washington DC were all out of the office on the Thursday, I needed a remote machine repowered.

Friday is a bad day when you work with the Middle East. I believe some countries work Saturday-Wednesday and have Thu/Fri off

Of course right now in New Zealand it's 3AM on Tuesday, but it's 6AM on Monday in LA.

We somehow manage to cope scheduling meetings.
but then again, the set of "non-contrived irrational numbers" is certainly of measure zero
Well, it's very useful for LARGE and semi-clandestine cross-border transactions, but yes it's not a liquid currency. It's more of a separate economy.

It's just programmable money so it's really the beginnings of a new financial system that is a bit divorced from our current one. It's not panacea for the world financial problems, but it's cool and fun.
Does that include their Mac Cloud offering with custom networking/subnets, or the per Mac Mini rentals? Generally the cloud services (similar to AWS) are pricier.
> Because there's money to be made by not "ditching the entire Apple ecosystem."

That's very shortsighted. You can make money without Apple. And by doing so, you show that you value open, generic compute systems. Also, the prosperity of your business won't be at the whim of Apple.
We always use imperfect approximations to model real-world processes to great benefits. The map is not the territory but its still pretty damn useful.
I think it's because Bitcoin is kind of the 'de facto' cryptocoin. It's the easiest to exchange. Most exchanges exchange to/from bitcoin, not directly between altcoins.
> “If we end up in a situation where the team is working four extended days then we miss the point of this,” he said.

I believe this is lip service. They will still ultimately expect 40 hours of work to be done in 4 days, regardless of what they say now. I'd rather stick to 5-8s, so I have some personal time in the evenings.
> in the way it would benefit the citizens of the world the most - as liquid currency for regular & cross-border transactions.

Hawala has succeeded in performing that role for centuries.
I once met with the former chief engineer of Pringles. (This was years after he'd moved on and was working for a consulting company we ended up hiring to do some work for us). He was a food engineer. He really enjoyed his time on that project and didn't mind that his employer had him talk about his time there when prospective customers showed up.

Actually until meeting him I hadn't really understood that "food engineer" was a job and how complex it was. Just spraying sugary cereals with lacquer to keep them from clumping in the box is a complex engineering task combining designing manufacturing equipment and designing a formulation that can be used. Real systems engineering.
> I don't understand cryptocurrencies.

People buy cryptocurrencies and hope the price rises and they can dump it back into the USD it has always been valued in, before everyone else does the same.

Since spamming forums to inflate the price doesn't work as it did a decade ago, in order to prevent them crashing to the floor, all kinds of nonsense white elephant use-cases have to be imagined/invented.

We all understand cryptocurrencies. (You're just not supposed to admit it out loud.)
Is it my imagination or do would-be "non-technical" cofounders looking for "technical" cofounders vastly outnumber the opposite?
Hmm ok I watched the video someone else linked here, apparently the telescope was used to check for facilities in Russia by checking the reflection of radio waves on the moon. Pretty cool stuff.
Amazon brings macOS to cloud in a boost to Apple app developers
Nope, there's no option for that in phosh settings. Actually, it's the compositor (phoc) that starts gnome-session in /usr/bin/phosh. I've just tried to edit the startup script to launch gnome-session directly, but it would refuse to start.

It's also a pure wayland system, so it's quite unlike what we're used on desktop.
That’s a great project
The world needs a form of money that is not under the control of any one sovereign power or group of sovereigns. Understanding this may necessitate reading some books, but in short, sovereigns have historically proven to be untrustworthy, so a trust-free form of money is a powerful notion.
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Hi Andi, thanks for your comment, I just found out about this. Actually I did not write that any matrix can be diagonalised. I wrote that we are dealing with matrices that can be diagonalised via an orthogonal transformation. Indeed, I also specify (in the notebook is quite clear) that we are working with real symmetric matrices, and these can be diagonalised via orthogonal transformations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonalizable_matrix#Diagonal...

This is why is called the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble. The Unitary ensemble deals with unitary matrices for example. All of these ensembles deal with diagonalisable matrices.

The code is providing a numerical verification of the analytical formula. It is a simple code that samples symmetric matrices of different NxN size from a Gaussian distribution.

For N fixed, you draw a certain number of samples and you plot the eigenvalue distribution and compare it with the analytics. Then you can see that for small N there is a deviation from the analytical expression, as this was formally obtained in the large N limit.

Hope this clarifies.
I read a lot of difficult words that I can't relate to.

What does this mean for the average citizen in America or Europe?

Also, I read this:

> Ethereum clients use a listener (TCP) port and a discovery (UDP) port, both on 30303 by default.
> If you need to run JSON-RPC, you'll also need TCP port 8545. Note that JSON-RPC port should not be opened to the outside world, because from there you can do admin operations.

Sounds like quite easy to block by any government.

Or just cut off internet access at all.
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You forgot USD (30%)
If you present complexity, people assume you're smart, and give you their money to invest.
Hofstadter had many fascinating philosophical ideas, but did they go anywhere?
Ah. Of course!
It's a lot of fun! I was only missing a key to rotate a 2x3 piece along the "sideways" axis.
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Are we starting with this even here? Is there really no corner of the Internet that's immune to this bullcrap?
For anyone that gets a chance to visit India, the McMaharaja is genuinely worth a try. I found it quite far from anything you could easily find in North American fast food.
This reminds me of pol.is, which is used in various places to develop rough consensus in multi-stakeholder situations.

https://pol.is/
https://github.com/pol-is/

Taiwan use it for their multi-stakeholder decision making to find points of agreement. Their application of it to the Uber vs Taxis situation was quite interesting.

https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/135-q-a-session-with-min...
https://blog.pol.is/pol-is-in-taiwan-da7570d372b5
https://blog.pol.is/uber-responds-to-vtaiwans-coherent-blend...
We already have solutions for paying people in other countries.

Why would I use this one?

I read a lot of difficult words I don't understand. It doesn't explain anything to me.
It is deceptive to say 'I don't understand' when what you mean is 'I disagree.'

Your central argument is: 'You offer a service to everyone. I already have that service. Therefore you are not creating value'
Some Thoughts on Grad School (2009)
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=what+is+the+point+of+ethereum
I think they have the obligation to give the "techno-illiterate" the possibility for growth beyond the diagnosed illiteracy and little else, basically the exact same tools the previous generation had until it got the understanding.

Don't buy an iPad for your kid. It will just get dusty because it already has a phone, which can do the exact same things. Some people think computers are too complicated for kids. I think they themselves could use an outline instead.
This discussion would really go better if you followed the links. See lines 92–96 of cf.py:

By the
# Gauss-Kuzmin theorem [5, 6], a partial quotient in the
# continued fraction expansion of almost every number exceeds
# 1e+31 with probability log2(1+1e-31) =~= 1e-31/ln(2) =~=
# 1.5e-31.
You're right but, it looks like the smoke/dust comes from the anchor points of the cables, so the ground part gave way and all cables were collapsed cleanly.

Another angle is https://twitter.com/adamonzon/status/1333742939005218816/pho...

Also looks like "cable hubs" at the top of support towers are gone too.
I mentioned adjuncts in there as well.
> The world needs a form of money that is not under the control of any one sovereign power or group of sovereigns.

Why?

Why can't you explain this in simple, easy terms?
While I'm against the use of crappy anticheat software, the windows solution would be easy for institutions with volume licensing. Perhaps a fair middle ground is to force institutions to provide bootable USB drives so students avoid corrupting their own installations.
you don't need to build solar cells - a reflector will do. and you don't need to launch these reflectors from the earth - launching them from the moon or mercury is much less demanding. you just need to build factories in space.
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ITER is so horrendously far from competitive (in power density, in cost) that a fusion reactor can be much better than ITER and still be completely impractical.
Coming from a different culture myself, I wasn't aware of concept of "Advent Calendar" until 2014 when the first QEMU Advent came out.

Think of the term "advent" as "the arrival of a notable person or thing" — in this case, it's a thing :-)

That said, I don't see any issue in using that term here. Even if one is not religious (I'm not), they might appreciate the cultural aspects of it. Furthermore, the Call for Images[1] clearly says this in the postscript:

"QEMU Advent Calendar is a secular calendar (not religious). The idea is to create a fun experience for the QEMU community which can be shared with everyone. You don’t need to celebrate Christmas or another religious festival to participate!"

[1] https://www.qemu.org/2020/11/26/qemu-advent-announce/
Particularly, it isn't an installation method someone writing a package manager should consider. Bootstrapping tends to be clumsy, but this is too much.
Thanks Andrew. Yes Medium is not that good for math, but it gives visibility to a broader audience w.r.t. a personal page. The plan was to add the PDF of the article on GitHub but I forgot. Nevertheless, beside the painful process of cutting and converting equations, the final result is not too bad in my opinion.
In simple terms. The currencies, and related technologies al deal with the problem of transferring of money/services between parties where no centralized trust/power exists.

This is, in the words of their proponents to prevent abuse by the trusted party:

Credit card companies blocking transfers to legitimate companies on the basis of pressure from the US gov.

Banks printing money and devaluing currency of currency holders, etc.

Bailouts/handouts to undeserving private companies with public money.

Often mentioned that this freedom comes at the price of making it easier for bad guys to receive payments for various bad things, increasing their income, increasing the scope of the damage they do.

If you write a program on the eth blockchain, no party can one change the way the contract was written or execute. What is written is what it does. You can't change the TOS later or something similar. They are called contracts for this reason.

They prevent screw-overs in TOS that you have to "accept" or similar shenanigans that big corps use to screw you over, over time.
Nice. So maybe not 'true', just depends; like most things.
I'm not specially a believer in cryptocurrencies, but it's probably the best way to implement micropayments, which will solve the biggest problem we have on the internet: monetization of content and of effort (think open source), which today is mostly sustained by ads.
Simple is going to be a caricature:

Diversification of risk.
"hahahaah what a stupid language..." :D
In documentation it mentions it's using OT.
It's very easy and fast to try: using 0.7.0+51d7c14ce from https://ziglang.org/download/ and:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() void {
std.debug.print("Hello, world!\n", .{});
}

----------

zig build-exe hello.zig -O ReleaseSmall --strip --single-threaded -target x86_64-windows

Resulting hello.exe is 3072 bytes. From these 2560 are zero bytes. The only system calls from the resulting binary are to ExitProcess, GetLastError and WriteFile from KERNEL32.dll Additionally, changing the release optimizations:

zig build-exe hello.zig -O ReleaseFast --single-threaded --strip -target x86_64-windows

produces hello.exe of 2560 bytes, 1849 from which are zeroes.

Note all: winter_blue has right to mention Zig. It's about what's provided out of the box in that new language and the provided optimizations are really effective.

Edit: asking
mcountryman to explain: "the compiled rust exe has 480 non-zero bytes" -- I think you mean not just "compiled" but "hand-optimized writing hundreds of lines of the rust source code and not using standard library"? https://github.com/mcountryman/min-sized-rust-windows/blob/m... https://github.com/mcountryman/min-sized-rust-windows/blob/m...

Edit2: Please note that zig doesn't eventually link to printf and libc there, but links and resolves the std calls from the source to the calls to KERNEL32.dll.
Yeah, but how many high school ruffians today speak and write fluent Latin?
I don't even understand if they even provide a real service.

But - for the sake of argument - if they do, I don't see the unique selling points.
LOL just because uM was abandoned by Gorhill doesn't mean the extension stops working. Gorhill is a moron of the nth degree but his software is great.
Yes but Hawala it is the anti-thesis of crypto. Crypto is born out of the dream of cyberpunks to have a trustless society.
> What problem / which problems are being solved here?

I think mostly it's for people don't want the government/Federal Reserve fiddling with the value of their money.

Personally, I think monetary policy is an incredibly valuable and important tool, but I recognize that trusting the powers that be to wield it properly is a bit naïve of me.
I just google-translated one of Korean news article. It may help to understand their intention.
I guess maintaining plasma for 300 seconds seems one of their milestones to commercial development.

---

KSTAR is setting the world record for ultra-high temperature plasma driving every year since raising the plasma temperature to 100 million degrees for the first time in 2018 and maintaining it for 1.5 seconds.
[...]
The fusion reactor aims to reach the stage of maintaining 100 million degrees of plasma at KSTAR for more than 300 seconds by 2025. "Most of the physical variables that act as obstacles to commercialization appear within 300 seconds after the plasma temperature rises to 100 million degrees." It means that it is no different from that.” It means that commercial development is possible only after reaching this stage. Director Yoon added, "We plan to maintain it until 30 seconds next year, and then achieve 50 seconds in 2023, 100 seconds in 2024, and 300 seconds in 2025 through facility upgrades."

https://www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/A2020112318570005798?d...
Nice. But you didn't guess someone's tweet id, the name in the url is actually not used, these three links actually all point you to the same place because they have the same tweet id:

https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309684114073808896

https://twitter.com/gzhdigital/status/1309684114073808896

https://twitter.com/donkeytron200000/status/1309684114073808...
You will not get a satisfactory answer.

Cryptocurrencies will only make sense in cataclysmic scenarios or for very niche use cases. Trust systems (of which money is one) work well (some times very well) 99.99% of the time.

It’s certainly been useful to some people for gambling - but that use case could’ve been satisfied with a video game, or a physical casino.
You sound like a cunt, I bet you're an ace to work / live with. LMFAO
> e: although AlphaFold appears to be convolutionally based! I suspect that'll change soon.

“For the latest version of AlphaFold, used at CASP14, we created an attention-based neural network system”

?
Perhaps the modes of operation were not comparable? Unless you really understand whats going on, i would not be calling it false claims.

However i do agree it is unclear
Be the best person you can be while also being gentle and loving to yourself.

There will always be someone better than you at everything you can think of. Running, mathematics, chess, programming, kite flying, writing whimsical poems, whatever

There are also people who are not good at those things who nevertheless gain tremendous satisfaction from doing them and getting better at them.

Are you on the side of good? That's all that matters, really
This may not be the case with any crypto currencies soon. The entire asset class is already way beyond 'let the geeks play with it' stage. It's taxed,it can be seized and banned all together,if that's what governments want. Not quite the freedom tbh..
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> The world needs a form of money that is not under the control of any one sovereign power or group of sovereigns.

Do you believe that any existing cryptocurrencies currently fulfill that criterion?
I find myself doing this too. My kids put such a large constraint on my free time that between work and family I only have 3 hours or less per day to do everything, so I am tempted to sacrifice sleep to gain a bit more book reading, side project, or video game time.
Fond memories here. I was a Zamboni driver from the age of 16 to 19. I was the youngest driver at my local, municipal rink in metro Detroit which had one indoor and one outdoor rink. A pretty good gig that earned me admiration from lots of pint sized aspiring hockey players.

Driving it was fun. It was even more fun when you focused on how fast you could go vs how well the ice was resurfaced. (Did I mention I was 16?!) The mechanics of the machine were also very cool.
> What problem / which problems are being solved here?

I guess all crypto-currency is an attempt at digital cash. I.e. the ability to send "money" between people who do not trust each other digitally; with secrecy/privacy in manner which cannot be taken away by states/governments/banks etc.

Why people want to solve this problem through a scheme of chained hash-values and mining (which I guess is just padding the data you compute hash-values from until it hits a certain number of 0's at the end), is still unclear for me.
You could make an argument that Fission has succeeded on a technical front (large amounts of electricity are being generated for multiple countries at this precise moment), and that most of its problems are social.
LMFAO, it is written in Rust for memory safety, not performance. RING RING, the clue phone is for you.
The problem is payment processors deciding who you can and cannot give money to. Crypto currencies solve this problem by not requiring traditional payment processors to make an exchange of value between parties.
This seems counter to the longer trend of knowledge workers coordinating asynchronously and working when focused & inspired.

Speaking personally, over the years I probably wasted 10,000 hours... sitting in an office in the late afternoon, waiting for silicon valley traffic to clear enough to go home.
pol.is was certainly an inspiration. We were really interested in the power of wikisurveys broadly, including pol.is and AllOurIdeas. When we started working on OpinionX, we couldn't find any wikisurvey tools that weren't really complex to set up (especially if you didn't have a technical background), so we figured we should try and democratise the wikisurvey model for broader use in a self-serve SaaS tool.
>What problem / which problems are being solved here?

Lets say I want to transfer some assets to a guy without anyone knowing from any internet connection. There is a demand for this global service.

Crypto-currency faciliates this. You buy crypto with your normal currency. Transfer. Switch back to normal currency. Yes you've endured some volatility in price but the whole operation was done in an hour or so.

So legit business will set up as "Bitcoin Banks" allowing people to trade in and out of them.

It's truly "digital cash".
Sounds like you could use some anger management classes.