skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title should be "Peak Oil Will Never Happen"

"Peak Oil" theory is about running out of oil supply. With all the fracking oil sources now available to tap in the US at relatively short notice, the world of oil is very different now. OPEC used to be able to control supply, demand was inelastic, and thus they could control the price. Fracking is expensive, but you can produce a huge amount of oil by just spending more $/barrel to get it out of the ground. A lot of the oil is owned privately in west Texas and will be available for extraction for the foreseeable future. For the first time since the 1970's(maybe earlier/never?) oil pricing will closely follow classic supply and demand curves.

Another interesting thing is that the US is now producing more oil than it is consuming. It will probably be a net exporter going forward. This changes the realpolitik view of the Middle East. The US could definitely get the hell out of there militarily and just keep a lookout for nuclear weapons production projects (or even just leave that to the Israelis who we already massively support). This is a huge deal that I don't see discussed at all.
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So just blanket appeals to authoritarianism then. Completely rational.
Well, its a long number that satisfies a simple predicate, set by fiat, that makes this class of numbers rare. It is the ultimate "artificial scarcity"! It's too bad there can't be a better way to add new values into the system that scales better with, say, how much the system is used, or how much utility it gives to people, instead of how much oil you can afford to burn to get one.
> a disinformation campaign to give a pretext to act against Cuba.

That doesn't make sense, because the supposed culprits in the narrative are non-Cubans.
Surely people own devices (TVs etc) that don’t support updating the list of CAs?
And it holds less songs than a NoMad. Lame.
Not a lawyer - think the main issue will be whether the companies are shown to have manipulated safety testing.

If not, then it will be a case of bad rules allowing a bad product to have been used.
Because it’s the “contact us” for pricing model.
> Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Square, Apple Pay - there are a ton of companies that all do this same thing in the US because the bank software is terrible and expensive.

For all intents and purposes, Zelle is the bank software, and it’s free. Zelle is backed by a bunch of banks - the majority of US checking accounts have access to use it at no cost.
And yet here I am on the internet, an invention of government-funded researchers.

But seriously: I didn't innovation originates from the government, but our elected officials are certainly a reflection of the culture of our country.

In fact, one of our major political parties rages against the things that made the US innovative: creating a haven for immigrant scientists and entrepreneurs, excellent research universities, and social programs that acted as a safety net for anyone taking a risk on an innovative business.
Is it not, though? Google Sheets is available to all GSuite customers. GSuite is the most popular email hosting platform in the world, with roughly 18% market share (Microsoft 365 trails not significantly far behind).

I think Google Sheets has a pretty solid user base.
Landing page looks almost exactly like the hundreds of other scamcoins I have researched over the past few years tbh.
,,Look, humans can't explain or understand how we drive, speak, translate, play chess, etc, so why should we expect to understand how models that do these work?''

I agree with you, but also it's amazing how much deepmind has achieved by putting neuroscientists and machine learning experts in the same room, and trying to make systems that work inside the human brain work efficiently on metal.

If you look at this talk for 2010, Demis was already listing attention as an example (which was responsible for the recent improvement in protein folding prediction as an example):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PSyu7booU
Are there any solutions out there (FOSS highly preferred) that convert email into a REST/JSON API? What I really want is a traditional email account but headless (a frontend UI that works would be great, but there are plenty of those around already). I have a bunch of other projects I'm working on at the moment so I haven't built that myself, but I've gotten close a number of times. I would pay $3/month for a small account like that, going up to $10/month for lots of storage (but I won't need much personally).

I've heard that Gmail actually has a pretty good API, but I haven't looked into it. Has anyone tried using gmail from the API?
In Guile, because it lacks an optimizing native code compiler, they write C extensions just to get their code to perform acceptably. In Common Lisp the only reason you'd use CFFI is if you needed to call some code that was written in C.
Because it's not an issue. A bag of saltwater makes a really terrible resonant cavity.
When you get to the symbols, all becomes symbol manipulation, so why would computer proof verification systems not be up to the task?
Yes there is a bit of added complexity. By SMTP's nature, the forwarding mail server will need to receive your email, before they can forward it to you. For that reason if you use a service for forwarding, you'll need to make sure you trust the company running this service, or only use this service for low-damage forwarding.
Sure, up to the point where you've reached your screen's refresh rate. I manage to maintain a solid 60 FPS everywhere with OBS recording and doing full-software encoding, with mid-tier hardware. By the way, you can use nvenc in OBS without GeForce Experience running.
Oh there's plenty of good explantation in the neural network literature (my eli5: the skip connections make the default mapping an identity instead of a zero mapping; you can start by doing no harm, and improve from there). The method was suggested by knowledge from differential equations. All I'm saying is that the "everything is secretly an svm" viewpoint is probably too coarse to explain these interesting and effective structural differences.
This is completely orthogonal to the full scope of LAMBDA, But it did make me laugh to see that the first example involved a classic and painful usecase (extracting 2 letters amid a string of numbers), which in Excel has to be written as:

=LEFT(RIGHT(B18,LEN(B18)-FIND("-",B18)),FIND("-",RIGHT(B18,LEN(B18)-FIND("-",B18)))-1)

But if only Excel would support regular expressions like Google Sheets [0], could be done as easily as:

=REGEXEXTRACT(A2, "[A-Z]{2}")

I'm sure adding regex isn't a trivial thing, but simple pattern extraction seems such an absolutely massive usecase for every everyday user that just I cannot fathom why Microsoft won't support regex. It would make Excel vastly more powerful for its purportedly non-coding users, especially since GSheets has had it for years now. Maybe someone on the product team believes regex feels too much like "code"? As a triple nested function involving subtr, strlen, and array indexing isn't?

[0] https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3098244?hl=en
Bitcoin is not that small a slice nowadays, though. Estimates put it higher than Las Vegas.
Right. The opposite of random access is sequential access.

Tapes are extremely sequential, HDD are less sequential, SSDs are barely sequential, and memory mapped files are almost entirely non-sequential
Business books — even the insightful ones — are typically only 2-3 pages long (there a few, very few, exceptions). But that can’t sell at the airport so they are padded out like washing powder.
My domain registrar (Namecheap) provides mail forwarding for free and I've not needed more than that.
I agree with the other comments. He must try to see other channels and copy some of the tricks and one day find his own style. He must start to talk to the camera.

Some channels to copy^H^H^H^H look:

* ElectroBoom: https://www.youtube.com/c/Electroboom

* Cody's Lab: https://www.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder

* Applied Science: https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

* Simone Giertz: https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz

* EEVlog: https://www.youtube.com/c/EevblogDave

Some are more funny, some have more charisma, some make more difficult project, some make weird projects, some like to rant, ... They are very different, but your brother can get a few ideas.
That is literally how Google Sheets started (excel2web allowing lambda functions, hosted externally) before being acquired by Google.
Google has deleted an entire track from a Zappa album (Sheikh Yerbouti) listing for reasons known only to itself. Aren’t we already there?
Building regulations in the Uk mandate a minimum standard of fabric energy efficiency regardless of location, both for renovations and for new builds. The Greater London Authority is quite strict on this for new build developments and I suspect that carries through to renovations. It’s more the other way round in that developers are required by local authorities to meet efficiency targets, but ending up cutting corners to achieve it on the cheap
I can't see any downside to that :-) This "solution" kinda proves the core idea is unworkable
Crypto is backed by immense amounts of power (electricity), and more specifically, computing power (which is scarce)
The paper should be judged on its own merits

Peer review is the process by which that judgment is made.

Criticizing peer review is a little bit like criticizing democracy. It's the worst possible way to go about doing things, except for all of the others we've tried.
Not sure about win5 but I thought windows in general used a mimetype database for associating file extensions to types and types to programs.
Gitup: A minimalist, dependency-free program to clone/pull Git repositories
That's not how forks work.
Yes but people probably access Facebook/Twitter/other potentially politically sensitive content more with their phone than through their TV, and their phone would have probably been handed to them by their operator with the updated CA already installed.
Yes. Politically, since the fall of the Soviet Union, there are few ties between Cuba and Russia.
It does exist, but it’s just taking a while for all banks to adopt it.

Most/all Dutch banks have adopted it already.

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...
Thanks for sharing! For anyone that's gone through these, which are most worth watching? I haven't made emacs a regular part of my work yet, but I'm always curious to see what's going on in the community for it.
Are free radicals always shown to be bad? Maybe too much "protection" prevents necessary cell death. Maybe the free radicals are there on purpose.
Here’s hoping that the capability will be available for online excel (which otherwise pales in comparison to the pc client version)!
I don't understand why people don't revisit DigiCash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash) for this kind of usecase. It seems like a really good fit for this type of usecase where you are giving up on the proof-of-work aspect of bitcoin, but want all the other cool properties of cryptocurrency, and has better anonymity properties.
> The twitter thread mentions this. It involved a bombardment of microwave rays that was detected. How would a similar attack evade detection now?

Sounds like something they could have worked on in the past half-century. Detection of a narrowly focused burst of radiation would be fairly challenging if you're outside of whatever volumetric detection zone is generated by the attack device.

How would you differentiate it from other RF interference?

> if you think a microwave weapon caused this event you should be able to explain how it would function.

I don't see what exists to be gained by explaining the function of a weapon that jeopardizes and frightens your diplomats. If the claims are true, then there is nobody to convince here; the US is going to act internally on its own information, and the alleged foreign actors involved are going to spread their own disinformation accordingly.
I've read too many of the first that lately it has killed most of my motivation to read any non-fiction books (the last couple I started, I just never finished because essentially I got bored). I enjoy reading (and still read fiction), and I want to have that motivation, but I just can't seem to muster it. This includes books that have good reviews, because apparently a lot of people don't seem to mind. It just seems like there's a lot of people writing books because it's "the thing to do" and probably makes more money than the couple blog posts or long article that would have been a better format.

Anyone else experience this, and how did you get past it?
> Note that most domains have a grace period (eg, 30 days) where the original owner can renew even after it has expired.

Back in the day Microsoft dropped the ball with passport.com, shutting down hotmail over Christmas.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/8999

https://www.doublewide.net/faq.html

You’d think Microsoft would have learnt their lesson but no, 3 years later it was Hotmail.co.uk that dropped off

https://www.theregister.com/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to_...
And this folks is why we demand full transparency and power consumption firewalls on any new transmitting infrastructure being deployed in in the USA.
As is the article under discussion...

Computer books is a tiny fraction of the book market.
He (I am confidently making this assumption, feel free to to correct if wrong) also clearly has never had kids or hand me downs
Stack Computers (1989) Chapter 5.3: Architecture Of The RTX 32P
The "shit" part in excel is that there are very limited tools for automated testing and verification.

There's no simple or standard way to tell that line 1138 of a 10k+ line excel sheet has a typo in the formula.

Or check whether Excel has "helped" and changed some numbers to dates without telling anyone.
Very cool. Not just tweets. Loads BASIC code from a github gist as well ;)

https://github.com/mattgodbolt/jsbeeb

I feel like there is a renaissance afoot. These old school emulators are highly performant in the browser. And it's only a matter of time until some intrepid developer releases a full fledged app, akin to Briklin & Frankston's VisiCalc, that launches them from the creative ghetto of "retro computing" and into the mainstream!
Quality is overrated when it comes to tech.

A quality product can be written with many different tech stacks. You just need to be able to recognize what is good enough to get the job done.

I can often deliver faster choosing a good enough stack that my team knows compared to finding the best tool for the job.
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Well, it's not a real video game more like a simulation... But anyway, it's cool!
Yup exactly.
I enjoy using systemd's nspawn containers.
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A word I specifically used, yes.

A fun quote from the Wikipedia page:

> If done too frequently, debasement may lead to a new coin being adopted as a standard currency

Indeed a risk!
Ok. So this brings no added benefit over the free domain forwarding that's included with registrars these days?
Make sense, thanks! But his's french and I'm wondering if it's better to start in english with a shitty accent or focusing on the french community. Any opinion about this?
>If that existed, only truly masochistic people would continue using things like DynamoDB.

Which is probably why AWS doesn't support it, they make less money and have less lock in on their clients.
I believe https://mimestream.com/ is built around the Gmail API.
Ok, rereading I must rectify that my disagreement is only with some of your questions.

I think the distractions are thinking about: handing over the lead and walking away from money. The others I still think they will be a real dilemma in later stages, but I agree that early decisions are already reflecting some of those decisions.
Hey I'm the OP, the HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates."

I reposted it several times over the past month. I'm sorry if that was too much, now I know that.
an absurd amount of work and prerequisite knowledge for a simple feature. Really the flaw of C++
>"The Harris Semiconductor RTX 32P is a 32-bit member of the Real Time Express (RTX) processor family. The RTX 32P is a prototype machine that is the basis of Harris' commercial 32-bit stack machine design.

The RTX 32P is a CMOS chip implementation of the WISC Technologies CPU/32 (Koopman 1987c) which was originally built using discrete TTL components. The CPU/32 was in turn

developed from the WISC CPU/16 described in Chapter 4. Because of this history, the RTX 32P is a microcoded machine, with on-chip microcode RAM and on-chip stacks."
Yep, worked on a product that had an "immutable blockchain audit log".

...which was a single node blockchain implementation.

But hey, the manager who got the blockchain crap implemented got a nice job at a huge company out of it, so it wasn't a complete failure =)
How do you mean? The CLI?

That’s `ctr`: https://github.com/projectatomic/containerd/blob/master/docs...
My daughter went from speaking to not speaking, crying and rocking and pissing herself. We had to put her into speech therapy for years. All this happened directly following the vaccine. Nothing else new was introduced into her diet or system
I don't know how you can say it has a precise meaning and then you define a meaning different than Wikipedia. Is it precise for you?

"It is often confused with oil depletion; however, whereas depletion refers to a period of falling reserves and supply, peak oil refers to the point of maximum production."
Binary decision trees are basically super optimizers: minimizing the number of gates needed to make a Chip's logic (multiply circuits or whatever)

> Sure, and unbreakable crypto is notoriously difficult to make

Not really. It's the unbreakable AND efficient requirement combined that's hard.

Just run anything over a random xor shift add kernel about 1 million times and it's unbreakable (so long as xor / shift forms a bijection). It's just inefficient.

Finding the smallest number of iterations that works is the hard part. Usually, people try to break it (ex, AES was originally broken over 4 iterations) then double or triple your best attempt, and you are set.

AES is now broken over 5 iterations IIRC, but still a long way to go to break full 8 iteration AES.

More modern ciphers (SHA512) are like 80 iterations of a simpler kernel.

Even 'broken' ciphers like TEA or RC4 are hard to break in practice if you just increase the iteration count up the wazzoo. The problem is: AES gets to security in just 8 iterations.

So to be better than AES requires both efficiency AND security. After all, 100 iterations of AES is going to be more secure if you don't care about efficiency. (10x more iterations than the default spec)
For that type of pattern, you can also use the new LET function:

LET(myval, A2+B2, IF(myval>10, myval, 10))

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/let-function-3484...
I'm planning to open-source the service, anyone will be able to host an instance and internal API to use it will be documented.
I'll do that, definitively!
When visiting a neighboring country the local market's Wifi forced an intermediate cert which my US Blackberry immediately flagged. I learned to assume every network and local device was compromised.
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I completely agreed with you. People who hate Leetcode, I am wondering, are those who refuse or lazy to devote hours per day to practice.

Because of covid-19 there are overwhelmed programmers, newbie and veteran on the job market to compete with fewer programming openings. Companies have reasons to be extremely picky, and job seekers either to comply with the game rule (Leetcode) or consider to change career.

And those who have job also need to consider to regularly practice Leetcode (one or two questions per day or every other day) to stay employable.
That pricing model don't work for me.
If I am buying a domain just for fun, I won't want to contact them for quotation -- I want something one or two clicks away.
Isn’t that just =MAX(A2+B2,10)? Anyway I know what you mean. It seems fine to make a sheet that behaves as variables. Ie a sheet that is two columns, the comment for an intermediate and its values. Reference it elsewhere. Re-engineering the whole Excel as a website, with its attendant sandboxing, seems to be the future.
No, because computer science programs are not managed by a central authority, like the CPA or the CFA are, for example.
Ok but again how does that help OP who needs something better than a smart TV to give to their parents?

Be pragmatic.
Great explanation of the intuitive understanding of the path kernel which seems to be the main takeaway from this paper.

One minor technical correction, the proof relief on the continuous model gradient flow not SGD. So it’s proven for GD and likely true for SGD and your intuitive explanation likely still holds, but it’s not obvious.
This is the crux of it really, it wasn’t really government housing any more. It was owned and operated by a independent entity called a tenant management organisation, a nonprofit organisation constituted for the purpose of allowing the government to offload the responsibility of running social housing properly. Likewise the government also privatised the building inspection system which is now also much more vulnerable to corruption. So it was a government screw up, but not in the American sense that ‘the government screws up everything they run’, but in the sense that the government set up a flawed semi privatised system which is prone to corruption at lots of levels.
It was owned and run by a "TMO" not the government. It was subsided by the government but that no more makes it a government building than Amazon is a government organization because they get tax breaks.
Yeah, maybe you are confused indeed. Because if peak oil is a flexible thing, then we have seen it AND will see it again. Like the Schrödinger thing, you know? Now, I’m confused too...
Interestingly, the USB 2.x specification states that a device must not draw more than 500uA (~2.5mW) while it is not being actively addressed by the host.

I frequently wonder how many devices actually adhere to that requirement. Probably not many.
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If I were the CEO of any company and a customer emailed me very angry with an even vaguely plausible complaint, and then let me know that $88 would resolve the issue... I'd just pay it!

Don't make enemies over $88!

If it was $88k, then I'd treat it differently... Or if it was 1000 customers who have copy pasted the same email hoping to collect $88...
The repayment threshold is expected to rise with average earnings so someone on an equivalent salary of £40k would be expected to pay back less in real terms than that calculation if wages rise above inflation.

The amount you borrow is not a fake number, whether it is related to the course cost or not, just as the price of a car is not a fake number even if it was cheaper to produce. It also includes literal cash payments to you.
Fastmail developed https://jmap.io/. Not sure how easy it'd be to translate SMTP/IMAP/whatever into that.
> Because everything they do is to collect personal information.

Are you really really sure that some of the things Facebook (and Google) does aren't done just to spite us ;-)?
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