skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue here is actually that the "potential reach" was inflated by a large number of accounts which Facebook knew were fake, but didn't care to remove. Those accounts were not distributed evenly across all targeting parameters, which means advertisers were setting up their audiences differently than they may have otherwise.
Wow hadn't seen this one before. A friend had the model M13 growing up with a trackpoint and a pretty shitty right/left click in the middle of the keyboard but this looks amazing.
Splitting hairs a little bit. The only recourse to an election that was actually stolen is violence.

By stating again and again that the election was stolen what, exactly, was Trump wanting his followers to do about it? What, exactly, did he want for the people marching on the Capitol to do to stop the election from being stolen? Stand outside? Come on...
I'm sure Facebook would say the same thing. "You need to give us more money before we give you any value, or signs of value."
They already use GPS your whole trip. They know how far you went.
Design Patterns Explained with Food in C#
While the Koo founder sounds idealistic in his interview, it is clear that he is willing to be bound by Indian laws - which a large segment of the country feels that it is being applied selectively.

so, Koo will be patronized orimarily by the followers of the ruling party, and will be seen as such, even if it was not his intent.
UK too.

"Stick shift" isn't a phrase often heard here, because manual transmission is so much the default that "automatic" is the exception that needs a name.
> The issue is less that you need another mind to "note" something, but whether two independent minds will come to the same conclusion when undertaking independent analyses. We think mathematics is objective because two intelligent agents with entirely different histories will ultimately discover much of the same mathematical structure. The consequences for mutual information and entropy of a given process would reveal itself to a sufficiently determined analysis.

We agree then that additional external elements are required to speak of "meaning". This is what I meant earlier by "absurdly reductionist". I have nothing against the reductionist approach. (It's too bad that hn doesn't have a diagraming element as I am curious as to your reductionist diagram of a 'mind' that is 'informed' by 'meaningful' processes. Mine would have at least two boxes.)

I find it acceptable to say that: minds can arrive at meaning/meaningful-theories about a/the world by "[analysing] causative processes to inputs with mutual information".

But I still am not on board with some of the loaded word play. For example:

"the program I wrote to invert a matrix has a bug, its output is not the intended effect". It follows that a 'reading' of garbage out would then prompt the analyst to assert that "this result is meaningless".

> I think you are misreading Dennett's claim here.

That did frame my critical posture to an extent. Good to know.
or they are just taking the first derivative of ƒ. who knows, really!
In order for change in hash function to work, it would require remonitising to a significant hash rate. Why would anyone invest in mining equipment on that new hash function if they already know how the game ends? (ie. their equipment being written off)
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Rocket Lab’s first mission for the Electron occurred back in 2018, and the company proceeded to deploy payloads ever since, more here https://orbitaltoday.com/2021/01/29/rocket-lab-successfully-....
If you're still up for gaming UVII is one of the greatest classic games ever made, IMHO it's still the best open world game and it feels more alive than say, Morrowind or Skyrim or Fallout 4 or anything really. I saw somebody closing their shutters over their windows before going to bed in UVII when I first played the game, so I double clicked the same shutter a minute later and it opened again. As I sat there, just marveling at what I had done and the level of life and interactivity in the game, the woman came back and CLOSED THE SHUTTER AGAIN.

The game is chock full of astounding details like this. Feeling poor? Just thresh some wheat, take it to the mill and grind it into flour and bake some bread and sell it.
I did, but the adding to list function doesn't work well. And they still clutter up my main feed section. Silencing them sometimes work and sometimes doesn't ( I have no idea why ).

And searching doesn't work well either. It is a bit like Facebook, both got the basic right at the right time and fail to innovate thereafter.
The last time winter shut down our power grid was 2011, and many of us called for ERCOT to be properly regulated then.
ahem.

Linux kernel = Linux.

Linux distro = GNU/Linux
How do those systems stop hair or clothing from getting sucked into the spinning bits? Those two modes have always been the more dangerous ones for spinning tools.
I also imagine that after a few days of the network being jammed up, getting social consensus to fork the network to use a different hashing function would be fairly viable.
Regarding error handling: that's a valid point. From my conversations with @DHH, I understand that a set of debugging tools is on the short term roadmap. Even if that sounds rather understandable to me, for a nascent open source project, to be shipped without that kind of tooling at first.

Regarding network, from my understanding payload is never a problem when using Hotwire's magic :)

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But your answer highlights exactly what's wrong about the current situation : you use React because there's nothing else that seems to answer your needs. Not because you love it or need to code everything in Javascript on the front-end. Hopefully, an alternative is created to solve that problem, and maybe that's Hotwire.
I work with large scale flat pack furniture manufacturing. Unattended machining is possible and not uncommon. You have a large tool changer on the CNC, an auto loader to get material on the CNC, and then a stock warehousing robot to fetch the material. You just talk to one of the large equipment manufacturers and they'll sell you this sort of setup.

This seems like a strange problem to try and solve. As a former software developer I see problems every day that AI or advanced expert systems could solve I'd love to chat with these guys. If they solved some of the problems with QC or Packing the industry would be clawing at their doors to buy their products. Not to mention the outdated state of most CAM / nesting packages.
That’s about 0.2% of global wealth allocation. I wonder when the people who normally recommend 30% of your portfolio in bonds will recommend bitcoin as the cash equivalent. That would leave a 150x potential from here.
Shadowbane allowed this too. Was a great experience with the natural politics emerging since resources were fairly scarce and you needed to stick together to survive and not get your things taken from you.
The big problem with this is that our recognition that there's extenuating circumstances (e.g a brain tumour in the prefrontal cortex) says more about our capacity to recognise such situations than it does about actual differences in agency between individuals.

For example, we might say that a serial killer who was born into a life of wealth and advantage and has no macroscopic brain damage has more agency than the individual with a large brain tumour. But this killer is also very much a slave to their brain in the same way as the tumour individual. They were gifted with psychopathy and an inability to feel remorse, which will undoubtedly come down to concrete brain states that differ in a material respect to non-psychopaths. Just because we can't see any obvious macroscopic markers of this says more about our knowledge limitations than it does about relative levels of agency.

Going further, we're all slaves to determinisic or stochastic physics playing out in our brains and environment, and our agency is just a useful fiction.

The justice system should be premised on pragmatic concepts of deterrence, rehabilitation, protecting society, etc, and not on fantasy notions that person A had more agency than person B.
I always wondered about that and perhaps someone here can explain. After bitcoin reaches its "full" volume, mining rewards will go away and the only way miner income can stay the same is if transaction fees rise to match. Since the competition of miners basically converges to "block reward is equal to electricity cost equivalent", this would mean transaction costs increase to an insanely huge amount. Not paying the larger transaction costs would lead to the less efficient miners being squeezed out of the pool of miners, leading to less hashing power overall and thus an increased vulnerability to attack.

How does the system intend to keep up miner income after all bitcoins have been mined?
Thanks for your feedback! Based off the description of how you already do things, I'd say you're ahead of the curve as far as rigorous model quality benchmarking.
You should absolutely hold off of using nitroml for a few months until it's more mature. It's very much pre-prerelease in a build-in-the-open sense. :)
I'll shoot you an email once it's ready for anyone to try out. When the time comes, we'll have a blog post to announce it, and will include proper documentation.

And, congrats on the launch!
I don't think this is entirely true.
Have you tried wxWidgets or even Qt?

In my experience, this is more about resources and economics ("reuse existing code" vs. having to learn something new).
Do they even have a right to sue or does FB force them into arbitration?

I honestly don't know as I have never bought ads on FB. It would not surprise me if all but the biggest enterprise customers have horrible terms of service...
C gets a lot of flak, especially here, but I like the fact that you have more choices in how to do things. Yes, it's absurdly easy to shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also make use of design patterns that help.

For a simple example, if you have a struct that has a pointer to an array that is allocated previously and that also has a length and maybe an allocated amount (and you're careful with making sure they are correct), then you can pass a pointer to the struct to a function that verifies that the length is sufficient for what is to be done and then the function doesn't have to check the length every time it accesses something in the array if it can be assured that the allocated memory or the length didn't change. This could save a lot of generic behind-the-scenes code that verifies the length every time an array element is accessed. It's up to the developer to make sure all the pieces are in place and everything is prepared before calling this function. If that code is in a tight loop, it could make a big difference in performance.

It's a sharp knife, but sometimes you need a sharp knife. You just have to be more careful. Dulling the blade makes it more safe, but it doesn't let you make use of it's sharpness.

Is it often overused? Probably. Does it have a steep learning curve to be able to write code that doesn't exhibit certain classes of errors? Sure. Should other options be used where performance isn't as critical? Probably. But it has it's place.
We could now reduce the development cycle to weeks and run a vaccination to less people than a clinical trial. That would be less risky than taking longer and needing to vaccinate 8 billion people with a vaccine.
My point was that the Nyan Cat NFT likely isn't a security, and hence wash trading might not be illegal.
Las Vegas got to take advantage of an early 20th century hydroelectric dam project. They also had frequent water restrictions when I lived there in the 90s, and the population has only grown so I imagine it isn't much improved now.

Atlanta's artificial lakes/reservoirs are from a similar time, new ones aren't being made fast enough if at all, and the population continues to grow. Dealing with multiple jurisdictions (the region known as Atlanta encompasses the city of Atlanta, many other cities, and is spread across several counties) further complicates the issue when it comes to funding and determining responsibility. You could argue the state of GA should step in. However, there's a huge political chasm between the metro Atlanta area and most of the rest of the state (A "fuck those city slickers" attitude is very common in rural Georgia and the smaller cities, Atlantans aren't viewed as Georgians given how many are transplants). The water in the Atlanta region also needs to travel down river to many other areas (and other states) in order to sustain those regions.
IMO exceptions are a terrible way to signal errors. They obscure control flow and make it much harder to reason about a program's behavior. They make it easy to forget to check for errors, and encourage sloppy catch-all error handling. It is a lot harder to determine if exception-based code is correct or not, and languages that have exceptions require you to examine literally every line of code to determine if it can throw.

Even the name is wrong: an "exception" should signal truly exceptional behavior, things that you would not expect to happen unless something is really wrong. And yet exceptions are thrown for mundane things like "file not found", something you could very easily expect to happen routinely.

Exceptions should be like Rust's `panic!()`: only for things that the programmer can't reasonably do anything about, which will cause the program to terminate.
The headline seems poor, the article not well structured.

Space isn't necessarily the major conservation of vertical farms. As stated in the article, water, soil, transport are all concerns in the total cost compensation, as are the current externalized costs in traditional agriculture loss of biodiversity destruction, soil erosion, and pesticide introduction.

Finally... they're growing crops totally indoors? Um... windows?

Solar panels can be placed on unused land (rooftops, deserts, etc), the false conclusion is that solar would be used on farmland or high biodiversity.

And there's wind.

What a train wreck. Almost a hit piece.
Cockpit is not ever going to be as good as using the underlying tools it integrates with, but it is still pretty nice for what it is and I like having it.
I think anyone would be massively downvoted and flagged whatever the subject, if they talk like you have on this page, going on about how and why you're being downvoted and how people are idiots who should read your noble words more carefully etc. For example

> Can you please _read_ what is written and consider it, before writing things, that I already know might be true? ... Ah, you mean _free_ software. Why not be more specific and say that in the first place? ... Would you please read exactly what I wrote, and not go and interpret things and then make claims? ... It seems impossible to have a discussion about this on HN, without being downvoted into oblivion. Obviously there is a rather big population on HN, which does not understand the differences of the two and feels like they need to downvote any comment, that tries to differentiate or point to imprecision in wording. ... Basically people build their own bubbles everywhere. If you are the one to poke it, you better prepare for the backlash, I learn once more.

All this adds less than nothing to HN, breaks the guidelines in several ways, and everyone is the poorer for having read them. Aside from the unbearable, self-important whining and pouting, it's not so much what you said as how you say it. It seems common to then create a conspiracy theory where it's all about the what, where downvotes somehow just go to show the writer was right. Even if you were 100% right on this page and everyone else 100% wrong, that's no excuse at all to write as you have. And if you are trying to persuade, ranting at people like that seems the worst possible way.
Lucid Sight acquires Colyseus open-source multiplayer game engine
This should be clarified in the post, otherwise you lead the reader to believe you're representing stock Postgres performance instead of the performance of a forked Citus. This is important information for an informed reader.
https://tauri.studio/en/docs/getting-started/technical-detai...

"The first generation user interface in Tauri apps leverages Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Webkit via EdgeHTML / Chakra on Windows. Tauri leverages the MIT licensed work known as webview that has been incorporated into the officiall webview_rust bindings."
Can't you do worse things if you have >50% hash power? It seems like DoS is pretty mild all things considered.
You don't need a DoS attack under the assumptions of this project. It's already assumed that you control ~80% of hash rate, so you execute a 51% attack that mass double-spends coins and destroy all confidence in the integrity of the currency. Poof, nobody uses it.

Note that China already controls ~65% of Bitcoin hash rate, so if they wanted to execute this right now, they probably could.

That they haven't is one reason I'm bullish on cryptocurrency, and specifically Ethereum and Stellar, and it's entirely separate from why many other Bitcoin bulls are bullish on cryptocurrency. You don't need proof-of-work to secure a blockchain. You only need game theory: as long as each participant has more to gain from allowing Bitcoin's continued existence than destroying it (and they can't subvert or destroy it in a way that will be invisible to other market participants), it will continue to exist. China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin; they can just continue to let it exist and tax all the Bitcoin miners in China, generating revenue for themselves and their citizens and continuing to be a thorn in the side of dollar hegemony.

This also implies that proof-of-stake (if done right) is just as good as proof-of-work, which'll solve the energy issues associated with Bitcoin. And it means that cryptocurrency adoption, if it happens, isn't going to be because it's particularly good: rather, it'll be because the U.S. has destroyed the dollar. There's value in cryptocurrency simply in it being an alternative that's readily available, so that civilization doesn't stop if the U.S. does end up miscalculating and hyperinflating the dollar.
> Most people have no idea whether anyone is any good or not, and so they just kind of go with whatever the default is

> there's very little direct connection between the quality (and quantity, for that matter) of work done, and what happens in a performance review at these places. It's more about your attitude and how good you make your masters feel about you and that attitude

A challenge in a typical R&D organization everyone is doing different - and usually novel - things, so it's impossible to compare performance directly (vs. on an assembly line where people/robots may be repeating identical tasks, or in a course where students are given identical assignments or exams.) Ratings tend to be entirely subjective and non-comparable at best, and completely arbitrary/random at worst. As the author notes, they often are based on a combination of manager bias and employee ingratiation effectiveness.

> everything you provide is at best a no-op and at worst a negative, and there's never an upside to it

Matches my experience (both personal and observed) perfectly: at their best, they are a useless waste of time; at their worst, they provide perverse incentives and harm nearly everyone involved as well as the company.
> The privacy debate is woefully lopsided by people who have never spent a dime marketing.

Why should marketers influence how much privacy I have? Their incentive is for me to have as little privacy as possible.

This is like saying anti-war campaigns are woefully lopsided by people who have never sold munitions.
It used to be the case that the theory for why people have depression was "people who are depressed don't have enough serotonin" (in very simple terms), and the reason why SSRIs work was supposed to be that they increase levels of serotonin, but scientists have found that boosting levels of serotonin alone does not help with depression.

Here's a good journal article on the subject https://sci-hub.st/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
Unfortunately, 300 days in, I am neither mentally capable of adhering to restrictions, nor do I have the trust any more to follow through if I did.

For me, it's the risk of death and/or a chronic condition, or the certainty of psychosis.

Hourly reminder that it's been almost 100 days since it was last legal for me to have a friend over for a cup of tea.

Best of luck, glad you're holding up well; sorry that I've failed you.
The reward paid to miners is mostly newly minted BTC.

Presently 6.25 BTC newly created with each block, about 1-2 BTC in fees. Mining has been paid for by increasing the BTC supply, for all of Bitcoin's history so far. Eventually that will have to change as the reward keeps halving. At some point there is no block reward and it's all fees. Will people pay enough in fees to sustain mining at a rate that's impossible for a large actor to 51%?
No he means inflation. New coins are being mined all the time, causing existing coins to lose value. This does not really matter yet since total demand for bitcoins has been increasing faster than the total supply, leading to an increase in price.
My experience seems to be that you're charged for distance traveled, time, or something related (I've taken the same start/end points a few times to see that longer routes tend to cost more). But this extension seems to imply Uber pays based on "as the crow flies". If that is what they do (charge for traveled, pay for straight line), that's absolutely despicable.
They might have licensed closed source components from third party vendors that prevent them from open sourcing the whole thing.
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Thank you for linking this, super cool. His piece on Byrne's Euclid is amazing: https://generated.space/sketch/byrne-proofs/
Thanks, but I mean inflation: miners were paid a subsidy in new Bitcoin for their contribution to the network. This has an inflationary effect on Bitcoin, although it was overshadowed by increased demand over the same period.
Good recommendation. May I ask what is the use case -- blog post, academic journal, news article? If you send us the url to where the data is, we can certainly take a look. pls feel free to email me at anuj@hi-george.com
Open source projects should run office hours
You're correct that startups are designed with the intention of monopolization; however, they don't do so through innovation. They do so through "disruption", which is generally just ignoring regulations and applying a veneer of innovation to it, which is my point.

> We already reduce financial risk with bankruptcy laws.

This is not sufficient. Bankrupcy laws don't pay people's bills while they try out something new and uncertain.

> Reducing risk is one thing, but if you lean too far into that with VC money [...]

I'm arguing that VC money isn't a way to reduce risk. It just shifts the risk.

> Reducing risk isn't the key. You need skin in the game. But more important, you need people with drive. People that like winning more than they hate losing.

Sorry, but this is feel-good motivational-speaker nonsense with an undertone of toxic masculinity. Actual research into motivation shows pretty consistently that people are intrinsically motivated so long as their basic needs are met.

(Which capitalism doesn't.)
Bitcoin Hits $56,000 and $1T Market Cap
Desalination is not cost-competitive compared to piping [1]. The bulk pricing of desalination is between $0.50-$1.00 per m^3, which is approximately a ton. In contrast, piping is ~$0.05 per m^3 per 100 km, so it is cheaper to pipe water somewhere between 1000km - 2000km rather than desalinating. To put this into perspective, it would cost about to same to desalinate water in Georgia as it would to pipe it from the Great Lakes and it is only barely cheaper to desalinate water than it would be to pipe water directly from the Colorado river.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...