skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are building sub-empires within the CCP - not “breaking up” Ma...

Imagine “breaking up” insta and FB and all their attention-channels where the USG can demand fealty % individually upon each depending on which prosper more whilst all built on the substrates of identity, relationships and payment behaviors....

???

Please throw darts at that.
One of the authors of the reviewed textbook has a three part response to this paper.

>In this blog post, I provide a response to the specific points made in that paper and conclude that if it aims to be a fair ‘guide’ to MMT (even from a critical perspective) then it fails badly.

>In fact, his readers will come away from reading his paper with a very weird version of our work. I hope they are curious and come back to source to learn how they have been mislead – intentionally or otherwise.

>I hope that Greg Mankiw changes his “Skeptic’s guide” when he presents it in the coming days at a major conference in the US.

>He has clearly misrepresented our work in significant ways and that should not be tolerated in an academic milieu.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=43900

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=43961

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=43997
If you’re interested in a language which does claim to optimize pure functions, take a look at Koka (https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html), a research language from Microsoft. It doesn’t implement any control flow besides conditionals and pattern matching; everything else is implemented with higher-order functions, and a cool syntax which allows trailing callback parameters to look like a block of code makes it look almost imperative. Additionally, they have a complex effect tracking system which tracks not only if a function is pure, but also things like if it might be non-terminating or throw errors. Somehow this is used to transform functional code into code which is about as fast as the imperative equivalent.

Ultimately, I think reasoning about function effects in such a fine-grained way probably won’t catch on, but it’s a great example of what you can do when you design compiler up. However, the original article, and most in production functional systems, are about attempting to carve out a functional system from imperative parts. The result is like you said, we’re executing unoptimized code.
Yeah, just use Google Assistant to open a Wikipedia page, e.g. "Ok Google, look up Liberalism on Wikipedia". Then say, "Read it", and it'll read it.

Its the best artificial voice available in the wild right now I think, it is a pretty good experience.
What do these inhibitory neurons do to manage short-term memories?
American Mathematical Society Statement about Azat Miftakhov
Well, okay, what makes BTC inherently worth anything, then? Who cares that someone, somewhere, some time ago, solved some useless math problem? Why dedicate the equivalent of 7 nuclear power plants' worth of electricity[0] to it, when we could use that electricity to offset fossil fuel consumption?

I have literally have yet to have anyone explain this adequately beyond the level of "there's a market for it, so, obviously people think it's worth something."

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[0]: https://news.bitcoin.com/the-bitcoin-network-now-consumes-7-...
Recording headless selenium/UI tests to mp4 with Xvfb and ffmpeg
Do you mean TCAS? That would be modulated, which this is not, and would not drift in the way this signal does.
Age reversal / life extension. Most people seem contempt with the fact they'll die pretty soon. Otherwise every scientist would be working on curing this inevitable "disease".
This does the same thing. An example is on the main page of the repo: https://github.com/jonklein/niex#notebook-format
Agreed. This is a desktop widget display we're talking about here, not a log file entry.
> you are assuming that the line that says 'wait' is a busy loop

I wasn't asking if the "wait" was a busy loop, I was asking if the "check whether the temperature dropped too far" was evaluated in a busy loop, and if not, how often that condition was checked.

It doesn't really matter, and I imagine I won't get a response at this point, but it was just something I was curious about since I had never considered writing your own home thermostat software.
Yeah. The trick to managing the offline states is to have it as cache. So updating and solely relying on the server, and only serve when offline.

On the interactivity side, I feel that a lot of tools that I use daily justifies the use of SPA/PWA. Definitely can be passable with HTML SSR, but there's not much examples of it yet.

Todoist: No hassle offline handling. It will sync on it's own.

Twitter: They do intercept everything and handle/queue requests when the client is offline. It's not perfect though.

Roam: Again. Offline syncing, mainly offline search/document creation. This is a bit unique though as I think the server basically is just a sync logic.

I feel that the SPA stage is definitely a growing phase instead of a destination to be. There's a lot of problems that are not solved elegantly yet, and it's and the boundaries. But I feel that SPA and all of it's learnings will be an example of how the next step will be like. And with .wasm coming, there's a lot of possibility of different architectures/how to build apps.

Some talks that refers to why/how SPA makes sense for some problems/usecases:

Offline first PWA/Web App, with CRDT for syncing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEcwa68f-jY (James Long's CRDT For Mortals talk)

State management framework oriented for offline/PWA use:
https://read.reduxbook.com/
You don't even need the absolute latest drives to get reasonable storage volumes. Some careful shopping can net you an LTO-5 (1.5TB native capacity) library unit (one that can be upgraded to newer generations) for under $500, with new tapes $10-15 each.

The nice thing about LTO as a format is its relative predictability and ease of acquiring the parts, even the very obsolete ones. It's all SCSI or SAS, most of the interesting stuff happens at the hardware level, with a bog-standard API. Your average backup app, whether it be Backup Exec or mtx/tar/etc. on Linux doesn't need to care about the media format. Unlike actual "enterprise" shops with datacenters and support contracts and such cruft, where the primary concern is "does it work", it is fine to buy older units second-hand. They are plentiful and cheap.
Newport Beach ended up with 2 affordable housing units in 8 years
Again. You’re angry and asking for vengeance. The legal system isn’t for that. Constitutional rights should never be able to be removed.

Can you imagine if we allowed someone’s entire right to the courts be removed? In that instance, you wouldn’t even be able to challenge your lack of rights. That’s not right. But by advocating for no access to the courts in one instance, there will be people advocating for more. So we draw the line somewhere and say your right to the courts can’t be taken away.

I’m also ignoring how you’re ignoring the actual reality of the Prenda scandal. It wasn’t over copyright infringements lawsuits. It was about lying to the court. Sure, they filed frivolous lawsuits, but that wasn’t why they were arrested.
> Zoom "happy hours" pretty much get dominated by two or three voices (usually of the most senior people) and everyone else just listens, because you can't have 2 conversations at a time.

This is definitely a problem and my co founder and I wanted to solve it. We tried a bunch of stuff, but one thing that we noticed was that we were playing a lot more casual games with our friends and family since the pandemic. It was pretty enjoyable. We tried the same with our colleagues and it was definitely much better than a Zoom happy hour. The game provides some structure which removes the awkwardness and there is some amount of participation from everyone on the call. We are now working on a product (https://getlounge.app/) that helps teams organize these game happy hours.
This is a start, but you may have to bypass the moon and go straight to Mars for your colony:

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-starship-elon-musk...
I read that more as the SEC saying "We didn't reall know what we were dealing with at the time." And their thinking and policy decisions have evolved.to fit both their understanding and evolving crypto scene.
I'm seeing a lot of valid concerns and criticisms of Blockstream's actions and methods. I dont think they can be dismissed with ad hominems.
Coinbase delisting XRP on 19 Jan
It looks like I2C, so it's probably damn slow.
On Anger by Seneca has great context which makes sense even now.
Powering house and cars with home-brewed hydrogen
You also work for Blockstream. Maybe there could be some bias there?
Driver: ST7789
Interface: SPI
Display color: RGB, 65K color
Resolution: 240x240
Backlight: LED
Operating voltage: 3.3V
Optimal adjustment of the human circadian clock in the real world
Hopefully this was cabin baggage and not something left unattended for minutes on the baggage belt
The free market didn't deliver seat belts. Regulation had to step in and Ralph Nader lobbied the US govt to get it passed.
How does TOTP solve the reset email problem, what do you do if your phone is destroyed/lost/stolen and you don't have TOTP app any more?
A lot of people are shocked by Javascript behavior, but the truth is, Javascript became successful BECAUSE it's a language that is(or was) incredibly forgiving thanks to its very weak typing and syntax and its behavior, trying to do everything in its power not to yield errors, or if an error happens in the browser, not propagate it so that an app that is 10% buggy can still run without blowing up (thanks to the event loop). In my book, that's certainly an achievement. IF I recall things correctly VBscript was stricter than Javascript, thus harder to write for people who didn't know what they were doing.
If you're doing archival storage, does the write speed really matter? If you have enough volume of incoming data where the write speed does matter, you've already eliminated most archival storage methods anyways.
> In Japan, where I live, the country side is covered by development projects that destroy rice pads, mostly because there are tax incentives for that.

Sounds like an existing problem, not something which vertical farming is going to accelerate.
Why not just have multiple heads then?
I think they exist, but they don't appeal to younger people. All of the groups you mention that I'm familiar with I associate with people's grandfathers, or at youngest their slightly odd uncles. Also only with men, although maybe that's a bit of selection bias on the ones I know.

If something exists but people aren't using it, it isn't the right solution. It might be hard to say why it isn't, it could even just be a marketing problem, but nevertheless the problem isn't solved by its existence.
Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk
Show HN: For coders to connect and share knowledge
Same thing you’d use a blink (1) for. Long build jobs notifications. Slack notifications. Temperature display. Lots of use cases.

1: https://blink1.thingm.com/
Any prospects of it being unveiled in the future?
As I said, small scale. All of those people in those jobs may want to buy a car, a house, go food shopping at a store that doesn't take crypto... If they're only paid in crypto, they can't do those things unless there's on-ramps and off-ramps from crypto currencies. Those ramps are bottlenecks subject to the regulations of the jurisdictions in which they take place.

At best, even if a shadow economy built up to facilitate those transactions, tax agencies (IRS for those of us in the US) will knock on a lot of doors and say "you have lots of stuff. That means you're receiving value of some sort. You owe us a cut of that, pay up."
Couldn't make it work with those modules.
There is a weird spot in the display market that is painful as a embedded developer:

Displays under 400x240 pixels, usually the gfx buffer can be managed in the ram of the MCU. Nothing fancy needed, can get decent framerate on SPI bus running at 16 MHz. Anything above this range gets super ugly: no good displays exist and if they do, they're expensive or outdated (800x480 resolution is basically impossible to obtain). Furthermore, driving this display requires crazy shit like multiple SPI channels (QSPI), or some neutered version of DSI protocol...impossible to find docs for and if they have docs, theyre in Chinese.

Then there are ultra high resolution displays, for e.g. cell phone market or laptop screens. You're now looking an entirely different beast. MIPI/DSI hardware support is required and a bunch of NDAs, need dedicated GPU and a proper linux running.

Ideal display tech would be 5"inch diagonal, OLED (low power consumption), 800x480 (or similar) and can be run using ARM Cortex-M4 or similar microcontroler arch. That would open up opportunities for so many device categories that doesn't exist today. Imagine a VT100 terminal clone running on 8" 1024x768 resolution screen with a cheap ESP32 + display driver chip. Or a slightly more beefy Cortex-M7 running zephyr/linux. So many things we could build.
I've never used Maps (ES8?) and never felt the need for negative indexes.
Bullish on Real Estate in 2021?
Frameworks and languages to build small to mid-sized web applications that aren't no-code or low-code or tied into an online service. Basically, PHP alternatives.

Here's a "wishlist" of features I'd like in such a framework:

- Absolutely no boilerplate code: It should feel more like a powerful templating language than a general purpose programming language.

- A static type system that's checked before your application can go live

- Vertical integration, especially towards the database: You could go really crazy with this. LINQ-style query-ability is just the beginning. Imagine if you had a typed access control framework that lets you specify which users/roles can access a database column. Or built-in ways to handle migration and automatic schema checks to prevent mismatch issues.

- Useful primitives, especially around authentication and authorization: For something simple I should only have to write my business logic.

- FFI (for example to C or JVM libraries)

- Automatic and safe dependency updates
Definitely the Dracaena trifasciata (snake plant, mother-in-law-tongue). The only way to kill it is with over watering. Once a month is plenty. They have been discovered in closets still thriving after months in the dark. Green, alive and near zero maintenance. This is your plant...
>I’d be interested in knowing the statistics on veterans in Silicon Valley and tech in general.

I’ve met quite few while living in the Bay Area. I moved to Austin a few years ago and there are even more of us here. You and I have made some similar choices in life though. I enlisted in 09 and got into tech after returning from Afghanistan as well.
Korea's Artificial Sun Just Ran for 20 Astonishing Seconds
> M-DISC didn't hold up

Since I have a lot of stuff on M-DISC, you’ve now got me worried. Link? Any other info? I don’t need 1000 years but what is the lifespan?
Building Neural Networks from Scratch Book
IsWindows is likely a macro and therefore you have if(0) or if(1) which the compiler can easily optimize away.
You are definitely onto something though. No matter how many points I make, musicians do like Spotify less than prior solutions, and musicians have a really hard time turning Spotify into a living. I was really only arguing against some causes for that observation (specifically, allocating a pool of funds based on some "usage" metric seems reasonable), but they're not necessarily off the hook. Here are a couple thoughts more in line with what I think your position is:

(1) Inflation adjusted, per capita we spend 5x less for music now than we did 20 years ago. Is that because Spotify doesn't charge power users more? Is it because users won't accept higher rates for song rentals? Regardless of the cause, there's less money to distribute.

(2) Popular music is more popular than ever. For a variety of reasons (some potentially Spotify-induced -- e.g., it's pretty hard for me to get it to recommend somebody who isn't soundly leading a genre it thinks I might be interested in), the top X% of artists are more listened to than ever, and that's going to exacerbate any other problems for the long tail of artists.

(2a) That idea is affecting a lot of industries right now. At some point in recent decades it was easy to be the best <thing> in your local small town or group of peers and get all the business. Plenty of formerly in-person industries are now competing globally though. E.g., I would have a hard time recommending the best ML practitioner in my hometown as a teacher rather than just taking Andrew Ng's courses. I'm not sure how that's going to play out in general, but if the top 1% of the population in any field can make everything we want/need then the idea of having to work for a living might need to be revisited? Maybe we'll eventually all transition to biomedical research when nothing else is scarce? In any event, in the short term a lot of professions are being disrupted.
I’m not sure how many could adequately do the job. Generally because the phone screen doesn’t give a good sense of this so the 30 I talked with maybe 5-10 of them could potentially do the job adequately.

We only extended an offer to one person and maybe a second if the first declined. If both of those two declined then we wouldn’t have offered to the other 3 detail interviewees.

I’d certainly like a better way that uses less time. But it does seem that I need to kiss a lot of frogs.

Also, the goal isn’t to get an “adequate” person but to get a really good or great person. I think that a good person can do 5x more than an ok person, maybe even more. So for this position, I’d rather keep looking than just get a body.

Again, if I just needed assembly line workers or warm bodies that could bill in a consultant sweatshop, that’s a different story. But I don’t want to be in such a hiring position.
Anyone who’s read the actual text of the law know the downsides to this? I can’t imagine it would only benefit people like photographers.
> And JavaScript has always had a map method on arrays, which transforms the array's values into other values.

This is false. Array.map has been only available since 2011 in Ecmascript and has been usable without polyfills since only around 2016. You have to be a newbie in the language not to know this... If anyone older than me ever said that to me I would judge them.
Death before decaf
I think part of fixing the problem of no-shows would be to not let members see who/how many people have said that they're going. If 25 people say they're going to show up, then it's not a big deal if I don't, right? Until half the people have the same idea. There will be more perceived social pressure to keep that commitment if people don't think they're just going to get lost in a crowd.
It’s insane to kowtow to the people who get offended by this.
Exhibit A is Windows. Microsoft publishing APIs and saying not to rely on them doesn’t work. Sure, Apple doesn’t care about backwards compatibility like Microsoft, but Apple will be blamed for breaking changes; They already are every time they change things.
There’s lots of things worth lots of money that don’t have much use value. So yes, in a market, the definition of price/value is generally where supply and demand meet.

As for why people currently /want/ bitcoin, I assume some people find it a good speculation instrument, some people hope that it will be a more stable store of value than fiat currencies, some people have political reasons for wanting to own some, some technical, etc

What’s to explain beyond what’s there at face value? People “want” bitcoin enough to buy it, other people are willing to sell it...

Now as we move further and further away from BTC (not including significantly different cryptocurrencies - ethereum has other advantages for example) into like dogecoin, which has held value for years, it’s clear that we are getting mostly into pure speculation territory. But from a market perspective, even that territory is fine, just don’t want to be the last one holding the bag...
I have pretty much stopped eating processed foods.

I am also a avid reader of nutrition labels.

Not sure it has made much difference to me, but it lowered my food bill.

The advice I follow, not sure where it si from: Eat food. Mostly plants. As unprocessed as convenient.
House overrides Trump veto, defying demand to repeal Section 230
Podman allows you to run containers without root privileges, in case you aren't aware. But maybe you mean something else?
Reading through this, I’m ready for a spoiler. It says a few acceptable services exist. Which ones passed the author’s litmus test?
> It’s quite slow for its specs

Didn't feel like it to me, for development and fairly casual gaming.

> “not enough resources for USB”, freezing, the multi display setup gets often messed after undocking and so on.

Not my experience at all; in fact I was impressed at how well it remembered all my different multi display arrangements.
Rheostatic and friction brakes both basically convert kinetic energy into heat. Is there some fundamental reason why a resistor would be harder to cool appropriately (low thermal conductivity comes to mind, though I'm pretty sure there are high performance ceramics used for both brakes and resistors -- my heuristics aren't really good enough to make a good guess for this one)?
What happens if this went to trial (let's say there was enough other evidence)?

How do you question your accuser?

Do you have access to the software? How much access?

Do many people even have the resources to examine the software?
Shouldn't the resistor having to end up dissipating exactly as much heat as the friction brakes do, by conservation of energy? Is there a reason that it's inherently mechanically harder for the resistor to dissipate that heat?
> As far as I understand U.S.A. law, when a suspect ask for a lawyer, the interrogation is to stop immediately, and a lawyer must be provided or he must be allowed to call one, and the lawyer must be præsent ere the interrogation continue.

They can hold you for a surprisingly long time without a lawyer, and it's very easy to accidently rescind any rights you invoked. To be safe you need the ability to stay silent for 24h while still asserting your rights, possibly longer depending on the jurisdiction, and that's all before youre even charged with anything.

Someone being held for 10 days as a suspect for a crime they didn't commit is unfortunately a benign occurrence for the American legal system. People regularly lose months of their life, held in captivity, awaiting trial.
I haven’t read the full thing yet but this part sure sucks: “once a claim is filed, the accused infringer has 60 days to reject the process, forcing it to be heard in federal court instead.”
> Hats off to you, no idea why you wouldn't just sell this off considering how poorly your honesty is rewarded.

Aside from the ethical considerations you'd have to navigate, there isn't a market for vulns like this outside of bug bounties.

People on HN always cite Zerodium or whatever but don't realize those markets exist for vulns with a long half life. The expected return on a vuln which exists in one website is quite bad.
Pre-covid I went to bars a lot to hang out. Ranging from suburban “family dining” bars to downtown dive bars to hipster breweries, I’ve been a regular at a lot in the last 10-15 years. Most people at my bars come in with friends and really only talk to existing friends or friends of friends. Maybe/rarely the strangers directly next to them if they’re feeling extra social, but not much more than a bit of small talk. From the outside a bar looks like a great place to meet new people and make new friends but in my experience that’s just what it looks like and not how it is.

The only new people I’ve met at bars are friends of friends, not random strangers. And when people are with their group of friends, it’s hard for a stranger to jump into that dynamic.