skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is now 240 seconds on a Google Cloud N2D instance. I successfully recreated my inference worker on a Google preemptible instance. My monthly cost went from $40 on Digital Ocean to ~$16. It's much slower though.
Ah, well, this is a position I can easily avoid arguing with considering much of it is likely correct.

I'm sure I'll get arguments out of those but no cancelling so I'm content with that level of agreement.
I didn't use Windows for 10-15 years. Coming back I was amazed at how often and how long updates took (and how aggressive they got with them). Every few weeks I would have to reboot for an update and it took awhile. For macOS it's like 2-3 times a year. The major update is the only one that takes a significant amount of time.

I've had more bad updates with Windows when dabbling than using Linux/macOS full-time--but I'm willing to chalk that up to personal experience. What was annoying was they removed shortcut keys to access "safe mode" or "recovery mode." You now let Windows detect it had a failed boot (surprise, it didn't in my case).

Linux has way more options for updating. Unless you're updating the kernel you don't have to reboot (I believe there are ways around even that). You install the updates when logged in, so it's a normal reboot and you're not waiting longer. For large installs we booted straight off the network (PXE) which means unless you hit an undiscovered hardware or weird hardware config issue, you can test offline or rollback 100s of machines with a reboot.
in the case of Egypt this is not correct:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694

Also remember that two pharaohs had red hair
imo the bigger issue is that there's only so much you can do with a pancake display. The future browser needs to take advantage of AR and VR.
That is a good point.. these are just my conceptual thoughts (at this stage without any real experiments to back up my claims). The thing with nested hierarchies is exactly at the core of my question. If some lower layers are not hierarchies in sense of local interaction, we might not be able to simulate them on layers that "understand" only hierarchical structures. (for instance the main strategy for humans to deal with complexity is by decomposition into nested hierarchies)
It's just right wing propaganda taking its effect.

You remember that the democrats stole the election from Bernie because the GOP wanted democrats to not be excited about voting for hilary, so they spread the message as much as they could
>No we don't - I assume you're thinking of dark energy, which is a separate and (as far as we know) unrelated phenomenon.

I was talking about the expansion of the universe that is still ongoing.

Inflation has observational data already, the radiation you mention, and much of the work done with particle accelerators is to recreate the conditions of these kinds of events. This is enough to make it science, even if completely wrong.

I thought of perhaps a simpler way to put this. The realm of science is the observable universe. We can use that to develop theories of events in our universe we can't observe, as there are still remnants in the observable universe. We can't develop theories of things that never happened in the observable universe though.

Maybe someday someone will develop some method to observe effects that would show evidence of a multiverse. It hasn't happened, and personally it seems unlikely.
Figma is down, 503 – 20 min before my pitch
Sorry about that :) In CG and gamedev I've seen "Y is up" a lot more, to the extent that the "depth buffer" is usually called the "Z buffer".

I don't know how this came to be. You make a very good point that XY as the floor makes a lot of sense, especially if you're coming from the context of "I'm drawing a floorplan on a horizontal table" - the floorplan matches the orientation of the actual floor so XY is the most natural choice.

I suppose for a similar reason CG adopted the "XY is a wall" convention, since you start with XY on the screen (a vertical plane in front of you) and only later add depth?
https://status.figma.com/
Also a Black mirror episode.
> The staff checks on you less often and you sometimes have to actively flag them down or end up waiting for quite a while.

What you describe is fairly common in American restaurants where people tip. Between a third to a half of the times I eat out I cannot rely on them checking up on me and I do have to flag them. And waiting is common in about 100% of them.

(And no, I don't think they're doing it only to me because I'm a nasty brat - I've observed this to be normal with the other customers as well).
Can’t say I’m too much into internet arguments.

It was a turn of phrase. The good money is a good bet, i.e. I think a tenable and wise position would be to believe what I do, but understand if you do not and recognize my own propensity to be wrong.

As for the name, I felt immediately that it was significant because I knew Russia wouldn’t stake so much national pride on it if it was a dud. Indeed, the evidence coming in seems to suggest that it isn’t, so I feel doubly confident in that assessment.

That’s all.
What a nice sentiment, and one I am completely on board with. I've likened my "digital puttering" to my father whiling away the hours in the garage during my childhood. Some hammering, some grinding, and my mother occasionally taking out a cup of tea.

And to build on that there was a cool video recently about a forensic pathologist in Houston who makes kitchen knives. He's not scaling, but it seems that it is a hobby that he loves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VPSlfz65h8
I appreciate your comment but it's tangential to the article - in this case it's not really about tips but stealing from people who depend on you, and basically getting away with it.
I first read "wank", and the article still works.

All jokes aside, walking is way underrated. I should add that walking without headphones, without music or podcasts, is even better.

It's like an extended shower thinking session. It gives all you thoughts a chance to surface and be addressed. You rarely get a chance to be idle and think about things if you don't make time for it. If you walk to work, it's a nice separation between your personal and professional life.

In a way, it's like taking your brain to the park, and letting it run around without a leash for a bit.

Walking in nature is much better. I never regret going a little further out to walk in a nice forest. It's proven to make people happier.
Yeah, I think I understood correctly. My entire argument for a 23M worth still holds.

Also if this is in relation to net worth only, that's kinda small. I reckon both Bezos and Musk are worth net a couple of billions only. They are 100+ B only on paper.

Coming back to the 23M net one, if that's his net, imagine his stocks. To pay for the ticket he simple does 2 things:

- sells some actions

- declare the ticket as tax deductible on next fiscal year. Guess he won't care anyway
Yeah, you can block Internet access, although still... I try to avoid such apps. I am using "OpenBoard". It has the same functionality from what I gathered, and it is open source IIRC. You can get it from F-Droid.
Piratebay is just hosting the magnet links, right? That's not infringing copyright IIRC.
I break the negative-Z convention in the book. The math and the diagrams feel a lot more natural to me if Z goes into the screen. I suppose negative-Z comes from measuring Z as "distance from the screen to me", but then you have a bunch of weird negative values in the equations.
The left was up in arms and protesting the invasion and war, it was the DNC that refused to act, choosing instead to sit on their hands.

The democratic party is still in the pocket of big business. Don't confuse them with actual leftists.
Love the length of this post. more interesting than what could be said in a tweet, but didn’t belabor his best points. Excellent piece.
As long as you select the right product to focus on, that sounds an excellent plan.
I meant personal involvement. I have no idea why you would think betting. Please calm down before you tell people to get help.
Interesting! Like, leave your plants alone and let them live? (while still occasionally watering them?)
Debugging an Assertion Error in Ruby
Hydrogen-powered drives for e-scooters
I have recently found Golang to be a good alternative. I too like Python and still write lots of scripts in it merely out of familiarity.
Principals at Amazon are 1.8% of the SDE population, so no, the comparison to "Staff" engineer is unfounded.
I think the difference is that the Parler CEO touted their unique (i.e. lack of) moderation as a feature of their website.

The sites you listed are notorious bad actors but they at least have a degree of moderation.
I have actually considered using these scripts on my reddit account for privacy reasons but have always been concerned about deleting some useful posts/comments I have made. I definitely would love an option to unassociate my username from posts but still leave the content up.
>That's ridiculous. If you're not qualified to judge the value of service to yourself then your probably not qualified for a lot of spending decisions in your life.

I can trivially judge the necessity of service but unless I am an expert in the domain I cannot judge the quality of service and very often the entire point of the service is to outsource expertise.

I sent my car in for an oil change. They didn't replace the clogged oil filter and it started leaking a little. I had to sent it in again.

Clearly I know that I need an oil change but unless I do my own inspections (the very thing I am paying for) how am I supposed to know that something went wrong?
>when the coin is overvalued

Or undervalued. If you are speculating on exchanges on a daily basis it doesn't matter but for long term holding, which is the easiest strategy for most retail investors it's not a bad thing.

People who have been through this cyclic process already are looking towards the end of the current market run and are suggesting something like a 60% btc 30% eth 10% altcoins that might spike a lot for holding until the next cycle. Why? Because btc/eth are "stable", which in crypto terms they are. This is an important change in sentiment.

Don't forget that gold has different sell and buy prices to discourage speculating on it's pricing( just enough so that right about anything will outperform it in the relevant timeframes). It wouldn't be unreasonable for something similar to happen to asset types of crypto.
True, but the content of the message could contain identifying information. This is not an easy issue to solve.
Behaviors like sucking and grasping are considered reflexes. Those reflexes are present in all mammals and are relatively primative, the more modern parts of our brain eventually learn to suppress them and they typically disappear in most humans after around 1 year old.

Interestingly, patients with brain lesions in certain places or with diseases like parkinsons sometimes lose the ability to suppress these reflexes.

More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395/
Discord does that.
You're not actually answering the question.

Suppose that the dominant platforms (e.g. Facebook) are not free speech platforms. They boot off a hundred thousand people. 10% of them actually deserved it and are militant jackasses who ruin everything.

Now someone else creates a "free speech" platform. Everybody is allowed in. Well, 80% of the initial users are going to be a subset of the ones who got kicked off of the incumbent platform, and 10% of those are jackasses, so your platform is now 8% jackasses. That's a huge percentage and it's going to immediately turn into a dumpster fire because the jackasses will drive out ordinary people and become an even larger percentage. There are plenty of instances of this happening, e.g. Voat.

But suppose you go the other way. Somehow get a large number of ordinary users. Now the jackasses are only 0.5% of the users. Combine this with something like a voting system so that nothing is ever actually removed, but spam and fascism end up at the bottom of the feed where nobody sees them by accident.

That has the potential to work. The key is to somehow get enough users to dilute the jackasses before they take over, e.g. because the incumbents overreached and a large number of non-jackasses are moving in protest.
The writer is from South Africa, as mentioned in the post. "Putter about" is definitely not a USAism, it's an English expression used throughout the anglophone world that can be spelled "putter" or "potter," meaning the same thing. I've only heard it pronounced "putter" personally. The stats are interesting!
You don't think the government already thought of that? (for patents in general, that is).
From wikipedia:
Section 1498 gives the federal government of the United States the "right to use patented inventions without permission, while paying the patent holder 'reasonable and entire compensation' which is usually "set at ten percent of sales or less"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_...
We are experiencing it too. As it is working hours, this is effecting the agency badly. These issues of course can happen, but always reminds me why an offline app is crucial. Even future is online, there will be always great work done offline.
Wasn't Sparrow got acquired then killed off by Google ?
Wait, if the employee gets their min wage covered by tips the employer pays less? That's even shadier than I thought. Is this in law? Wasn't a delivery company booed for that kind of behavior a while ago?
That has historically not been reliable in any version of docker. A proper solution would probably require restructuring the whole thing.
Taiwan’s Chips Remain Core of Technopolitics
I didn’t know about this anecdote before, but apparently Alan Krueger of minimum wage study fame had an interesting follow up: shouldn’t the federal minimum wage be too high somewhere? What about Puerto Rico?

Apparently, he didn’t find evidence to suggest a strong effect there. But it’s got me curious to follow up with other territory or county vs state differences in the data. My suspicion is that the current very low minimum wages are just too low to see effects anyway, but that a federal $15/hr would be enough of a jump to see many county-level area median wages suddenly tip over.
Discord changes your name, so it does that, although it does not really do much if the messages contain identifying information which it most likely does.
Yes I believe they now only host magnet links. I believe they did used to have .torrent files. I am not sure if .torrent files actually make a huge difference in copyright though do they? Aren't they still almost the same as a magnet link just essentially a different format?

I believe they switched to only magnet links as it made it easier for them to be mirrored and switch around providers to hide from authorities without having to worry about all those files. Also most people likely use magnet links anyway.
It's nice that the cyclical technology pendulum is finally swinging back from XML/JSON to files-with-C-structs again, but any serious analytics data store (e.g. Clickhouse) uses its own aggressively optimized storage format, so the process of loading from Arrow files to database won't go away.
I had surgery which left me with scar tissue; years later another surgery removed it, and I carefully padded and taped over it, hoping it would settle at skin level. It pushed on, I got nurses to apply chemical cauterization, it still filled out until it was back the same as before, then stopped. Maybe 1 cubic cm of flesh. That's not in my DNA, I wasn't born with that, why did it grow and why did it regrow both times differently to how I grew from conception?

See also this talk by Prof. Michael Levin, same guy as your podcast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 - titled "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System", including from the top comment by keithwhor:

"
- Organism morphology seem to be highly dependent upon large-scale electrical potential differentials between cells

- These electrical networks are primarily regulated by cell-to-cell gated ion channels; simple chemical pumps (the same types of membrane proteins that control faster-acting electric potentials that enable muscle contraction, neural activity)

- These networks and patterns of bioelectric signalling have stable memory (once a pattern between cells is induced, it remains stable) and are responsible for driving "subroutines" of large groups of cells -- morphological gene, protein expression downstream of this
"
I'm convinced that Parler was a data grab.

They ran the numbers and figured it would be cheaper to run a social media platform to attract their target constituents rather than try to scrape it (like they did with Cambridge Analytica) or attempt to buy it.

Hence the ID requirements.
I was told in high school that shuffle and toss are slangs for male masturbation. So yeah.
The book promoted in the article is highly incomplete and dissatisfying
FWIW and a note to myself before I check it out a third time:

I just checked it a second time and recall now what was turning me off: I found the installation of the node plugin and node super tedious and too much overhead[1], it's just once but yeah, didn't like the the UX (eg reshim), then asdf always forgot my current node version and finally, I was missing a quick ls command for checking out installed node versions and versions/lts-versions available remotely (nvm ls and ls-remote ) without having to checkout the node website or repo.

I cannot speak for other languages but I found it for node rather a bigger step back and for stuff like Mongo—it's in their plugins!—I just use Docker, IDK but asdf feels just wrong for things like Mongo. I usually use node also from the node Docker image and have node versions only locally installed for stuff like coc-vim or when quickly needing the node REPL but anything serious runs in a container with a volume mapped to the project folder.

So, I guess it's rather for languages that do not have a proper version manager and/or folks not into containerization.

[1] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs
Yes I think you may be right. Dappnode's vision is somewhat similar to what you describe:

https://dappnode.io/

tl;dr An always on node for multiple decentralized networks, and designed to earn the device owner income for that work. For example, Dappnode allows easy deployment of Proof of Stake validation nodes for the Ethereum Beacon Chain for those who have at least 32 ether to stake.

I think the key missing link to making Dappnode-like offerings competitive with the market leading web services is compensation for the Dappnode development team.

How do you financially incentivize and sustain a volume of development on the Dappnode product that is comparable to what is done on centralized web services, without compromising on decentralization?

Value-capture and centralization seem to be intimately linked, so that is a challenge.

Funding open source software may be something only governments can do at a sufficient scale. I'm happy to see that in line with that, Dappnode received funding from the EU.
If I send you a paper mail, you keep it and your descendants could read it in 2121. Of course you own it and they will own it.

If I send you an email, same thing, if it survives for such a long time. Does Google/any ISP also own it?

If I send you a SMS, same thing, I bet it won't survive. Does the phone company also own it?

If I write you on a social network, do you and I own the message or does the social network own it? There are ToS that we might not have read.
I Run a Public Company. Short Sellers Attacked Us Years Ago
Orange man has constantly been made fun of for his dumpy appearance but Obama was accused of lack of respect of the office of the president (including by orange man) for wearing a tan suit. He wasn't even the first president to wear a tan suit.
This is one of the markets some alt coins with low transaction fees and high number of transactions per second try to tackle.
Why+Are+We+Called+to+Love+One+Another?+|+Good+News+Of+GOD
"Putter" is an alternative spelling.
Threema 4.5 for Android: New Features Galore
Moderation is highly subjective and Parler seemed to have limited moderation mostly to illegal speech. We have built an entire country on the premise of legal vs illegal speech and have very clear laws and systems in place for reporting and handling violations. If a company chooses to adhere to the law but not also impose their own biases when it comes to moderation, that is their right. As long as they are undoubtedly doing their best to actually adhere to the law and remove and report illegal content promptly. The technology exists to do this effectively. The real issue lies on the subjective preferences people have over what. otherwise legal, speech should be allowed to remain on the platforms. Clearly it’s a slippery slope which is the basis for the spirit of the 1st amendment in the first place. Whether the 1st amendment ought to apply to the subset of private companies which have collectively become our virtual public forum is a separate debate. But the concept of restrictions on speech still applies to social platforms.
You cannot "unsend" a letter, an SMS, or an e-mail. You can delete messages "for everyone" in many instant messaging apps, and you can do that on Discord, too. The thing here is that they did not do what I could have done were I able to access my account. Perhaps it is covered in their ToS or Privacy Policy.

To the down-voter: could you please elaborate with what you got the problem so we could potentially discuss it?
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That would be interesting. One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order. Users could say “I’ll pay at most 50 cents to view this ad-free.” Most of the time users who want to avoid ads end up paying a fraction of a cent. Sometimes users pay a little more. And occasionally somebody actually wants to target a user so they offer an actually valuable bid.
Can these be used in a commercial feature film? If so, what is required attribution wise?
This is already nearly there
Ah, so free speech is only a good idea when you agree with it. I get it.
Same here. Need to pitch in a few minutes, now cannot access the presentation. Will have to reschedule, hopefully we can still land the client. Definitely a lesson for future me to download copies.
The Known Universe by the American Museum of Natural History (2009) [video]
Show HN: Pitch 325 podcasts with 5M+ listeners
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Mummies with golden tongues found by archaeologists
Correct, more info on the FAQ[0]:

> What are Ask HN and Show HN?

> Ask HN lists questions and other text submissions. Show HN[1] is for sharing your personal work and has special rules[2].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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Elon Musk now posting several pro-Dogecoin tweets
Not every capitalistic market in the world is a cuthroat race to the bottom like the USA.

This isn't a naive statement - this is a reflection of other markets that have had decades longer to manifest in the various societies compared to Amazon.

Food quality is higher, waste is lower, trust in government is higher, social programs can succeed, infrastructure projects are cheaper - all of this is universally true across progressive nations from Western Europe to Canada, compared to the US.