skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but you can't fake this. You still have to follow our process because a book that doesn't have strong word of mouth and doesn't resonate doesn't give you credibility.

I.e. you can't just slap a book together and think you've got credibility. People see right through that.

This is something Tendayi Viki of Strategyzer talked to us about:

"HOW DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE BOOK AS A PRODUCT?
In my line of work, credibility is very important. I can’t cold call companies and be like “Hey, you know that those innovation programs are very important? Well, we have the best one. You can buy it now for three easy payments of 599.” Reputation matters a lot. It’s so much easier if someone comes to you. If they already respect me before we start the conversation.

Now, there are two ways to do that. You can deliberately be the snake oil salesmen. But that’s why those books don’t work because it’s so obvious what the person is trying to do. They write a book so they can say “I wrote a book”.

Or, you can say “I actually have something authentic to share and let me share that.” That’s the approach I’ve taken. I know I need to build a reputation but I don’t want to build it on nothing. If people pull back the curtains, they can see substance."

Notes
I want to make it clear that I'm not accusing you of saying that. I'm merely adding to your comment.

Reference
https://writeusefulbooks.com/resources/Tendayi-Viki/
From the website in [1]

The authority that requires the account access is responsible for the permissibility of data retrieval and data transmission. The BZSt only checks whether the application is plausible.

So it's clear that the authority __has to__ require access, it's not granted automatically.

The request has to be plausible (whatever that means, but it's still a limitation)

The banks, on the other hand, are not allowed to find out anything that an account is being accessed. Therefore, an account retrieval does not lead to negative consequences for the bank customer.

So the bank gains no further knowledge about you.

Quoting the article you posted here:

The account query only provides information about the banks with which someone has accounts or custody accounts. No information about the account balance or account movements is transmitted to the tax office.

Since 2009, it has only been possible to access accounts in cases expressly determined by law, for example if it is absolutely necessary for the taxation procedure:

IMPORTANT --> Before accessing the account, the person concerned is usually asked to clarify the matter himself

IMPORTANT --> The master data is only called up if this request is unsuccessful

which matches my previous response:

AFAIK in Germany they can ask you to submit your banking history for tax purposes (for example they have doubts about your declaration), if you fail to submit it or refuse, they can go to the bank, but you are notified way before they go through the bank and if you comply with the request*

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26818220
Discussion of the livestream, including links to livestream and the video itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860842

(Maybe these threads should be merged?)
That's literally how the BoE works.

when you do a bank transfer, do you think they physical cash?

When the BoE does quantitative easing, they don't actually print money[1], they just "transfer" money to banks who then do "things" with it. Its literally just numbers in a DB.

[1] handling physical cash is expensive, slow and difficult. Not only is the price of movement relatively static regardless of the value, you have to keep on paying to store the stuff. The Federal reserve do things differently I think, because are not quite as all in one as the BoE.
It's not hard to understand what it signifies though.
We actually changed from libcurl to ASIO because libcurl creates a thread for every request, and it didn't handle concurrency well (I forget the exact details but it would crash if you added a curl handle to a curl_multi session if that session was already in progess)

Our use case sends thousands of requests per second per machine.
re: the patterns, see discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860627

and my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26861415
What I believe the BOE is exploring is for each citizen to have an account with the BOE and the potential for the types of money that can be used in this parallel banking system.

If we think of the financial system as plumbing, the central bank has direct pipes to banks but rarely to citizens. This is not usually a problem except when you need to do a big emergency stimulus push not having direct pipes to individuals means stimulus takes a long time to reach individuals (if it does at all). Even countries like the USA and UK had a challenge rolling out stimulus, so this is a mechanism to bypass traditional banking system in a crisis.

Thats just the banking aspect, the interesting stuff is what you can do with the type of money issued. For example you can build inflation into the currency, to encourage the user to spend it. Or it can be tied to carbon credits as a way to encourage the purchase of environmentally friendly products. I am not saying this is what is going to happen, only that a digital currency directly issued by a central bank has the potential to be used in ways that is not readily possible right now.
This is my setup. I have a midsize Dell server in the basement and Business Internet. The internet package is symmetric speed with a static IP. The price is about $10 more than Consumer Internet.

I have peace of mind and a consistent solution to hardware issues: I am the service provider.
For anyone interested in repair of vintage HP instrumentation (among other things) I recommend CuriousMarc on youtube (a good place to start e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXYZKg5jdo&list=PL-_93BVApb... )
My point remains valid. If OS is handling contacts it should have some sort of control over what's getting shared. Theirs no point of providing alternate ways if an app can access full list of contacts.
I find Medium difficult to work with. Their writing interface is fine, but their reading experience has gone down hill, frankly.

I'll pass on this option.
lol! This made my day.
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Photo from Ingenuity (looking down at the shadow): https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1384101674650722310

The live-stream also included a short video from the rover. I expect that will be posted any minute now.
I imagine that in places where electricity is scarce, adults might have different priorities than charging kid's laptop. Maybe the idea is that you leave laptop open in sun if the battery dies and it charges without needing access / permission to use power grid / generators?
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> Clustering is not the point of black and white keys. Rather it is the facility to pick an anatomically reachable, desired subset of 12 keys available per octave.

This is the essential point of critique that makes TFA an exercise in assembling loose hypotheses for publication on the InterWobbles.
The website is also mostly broken with JS disabled. But as you noticed, they are using Gatsby, not Elm, so it's not directly related to the subject of the article.
With modest content blocking on iOS Safari turned on, I get a split second of content and then white across the screen. I was curious what humio is and how they are using Elm, but maybe they are bundling their advertising or analytics with their app js? That could be something they might want to address as well.
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I find the paino-roll notation on DAWs to be a lot more intuitive. Not much good for perfomers of course, but it helped me understand things better. Each semitone is given the same amount of space.
Please be aware that "market failure" is also a technical term in economics, relating to positive and negative externalities. Your use appears to be the (by now probably dominant) colloquial use.

I personally would not use this term, just as I would not use e.g. "to beg the question". I wonder if this phenomenon has a name, along the lines of "euphemistic treadmill".
It requires payment - so google account or your paypal/credit card are on record.
My first thought was that they are using an Enterprise Github instance for processing the data. Not much different from a CI pipeline - you get a bunch of sources (in this case, raw data from the helicopter and the rover, packaged and presumably compressed for fast and reliable transfer over the DSN), and you need to take it apart, analyze it, generate various reports and graphs and whatnot... and it looked like the dude who was reporting on the data processing progress was basically reading out the completed jobs from the pipeline progression.
Simply, "It doesn't work like that". Very similar to how you can't just "hack bitcoin and change your wallet value". At best you can use your web inspector to add zeroes to your balance.

Transactions in ledger-based accounting require a source and target account. In double-entry, all transaction legs have to sum to zero. "$10 on Paul; -$10 on Alice."

Your "current balance" may be cached, but it's never used. Most financial systems (which I suspect extends to banks, but I could be wrong) will enforce recalculation of at least the tip of the account's ledger whenever a transaction comes out of it. You don't just add/substract from a cached number.
As someone who might use these with kids: I think the problem with both of these is lack of, well, sound.

To get things, people need to hear sounds, not just see note names and pictures.
You severely overestimate how well known Rob was before releasing The MOM Test.

You've got the order wrong. He got "famous" because The MOM Test did well. It wasn't "He was famous and then The MOM Test did well."

The danger with your line of reasoning is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If one truly believes the need to be famous, they can't ever succeed.

However, our process is designed to show that's not the case and to help "normal people" succeed.
I keep asking myself the question. How much energy is needed to lift the helicopter? And how is this compared to earth? I know density is 0.1% on mars compared to earth. But air resistance on the blades is also lower on mars. It Requires faster spinning and bigger blades. Curious to know what the energy use is there.
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This first successful flight on Mars is literally out of this world. Well done to all those involved.
Thanks, this is exactly the point of this post!

My personal developer stack is getting slightly dated as my main focus over the past few years has been onto dev/sysops, seeing tons of new exotic tech being used now and then.

I am really open on learning something new today if it can help me be more efficient in building my ideas in the future!
Of course. :) I did not mean the "surreal" adjective in any negative way, it's just that from all NASA or SpaceX event streams in past several years, we're all used to seeing something more tangible, like camera views, and almost zero delay, since they're usually close enough for that.

Here, all there was to see was the part that they usually do not show at all.
Agree - it's a great concept but seems to involve an inordinate number of clicks (touches?) all over the screen
What's a full production system? Do you think you could run your company's production system on your most powerful MacBook pro?

I can probably run a few services. And then what for? Why would I run on my host something developed by a team I probably will never speak to?
Ha, it seems phosh for the librem 5 might have pushed too many changes upstream to gnome. FWIW those paradigms seem to work great in the mobile context.
It seems we have absolutely no numbers to go by. This could be the next best thing or yet another also-ran.

Given that, I'm confused why most posters think RISC-V would be a better solution. Don't you need to see both sides for a comparison?
we like things to be regular, so we don't like things that almost fit regular conventions but break them in some obvious way.
I think HN repeatedly underestimates the overlap of these communities. FOSS ideology is critical in pretty much all crypto/defi projects.I can probably pick any dev in the space and they'll most likely be running linux.

HN refuses to change its collective position it settled on a decade ago. It seems people here got stuck on some abstract projections of "crypto-capitalism-cruelty" and refuse to admit there might be something interesting going on.

Where did the "move fast and break things" people, the "disrupt the institutions" people, and the hackers go? crypto.

Or should we only be working on sass startups to reformat pdfs. is that what we're allowed to work on? everything else is a moral sin?

Utterly Bizarre.
Counting pixels in that image it seems like both the ascend and descend took exactly 5 seconds each. So that's about 2.16 km/h or 1.34 mph.
I'm also slightly disappointed because I thought they either drop support or introduce a strict mode that can be used to disable support for esoteric formats.
Funny how there seems to be neither dust on landing or take-off.
It doesn’t work on mobile, which is unfortunate. I was very curious given the title.
You got 3D woven clothing already in stores. But I think there is a fundamental limit in form and function. Clothing isn't just means to keep you warm and protected. Aesthetics matter.

I think the loom is already the dishwasher here, where sewing is collecting used, unordered dishes.

I think these tasks need a deeper understanding of what's there to handle. Prediction how things will behave and adapt intelligently if they don't. E.g. spontaneously using your pinky to stretch away the fabric getting in the way. You need to understand the meaning of the seam to manifest it, even out tension, redo some part, ... Non petrol based fabric has imperfections and variances.

I think you need general purpose, human-level AI to sew a good jeans.
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I can relatedly recommend eevee's post "Music theory for nerds". I'm sure it's one of those that experts will huff and puff about, but it made a bunch of concepts between sound perception and music theory "click" for me: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/
The government doesn’t need everyone to have an account at the central bank in order to deposit money directly into their account.

QE doesn’t stimulate the economy because bonds and reserves are functionally identical as far as bank capital requirements are concerned and reducing interest rate payments is deflationary.
I never considered Julia to extend python but it makes sense.

Although as mentioned in the benchmark, with py2o, rust will be a superb contender, especially considering:

- the toolchain is the easiest to setup

- you can embed asm if you really need this extra juice
I think the G14 just has a matte display with fairly high brightness. It’s not actually reflective; nowhere near as crisp as the laptop in the video.
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They don’t under my rock!
My OnePlus phone in direct sunlight not only pushes the physical OLED brightness to the max, but seems to also apply some filter to the image that makes dark colors brighter, e.g. a dark gray keyboard almost turns into lighter gray. Does help with visibility.
Link is 404.
Yes and severely limited in aesthetical expression.
Has it already been launched or is it still the beta version? During these times, launching a social app feels quite bold to me, but I like the concept. I'm curious to know what kind of feedback you already received
I feel like the #1 downside of Python for the last few years is that you cannot take advantage of multiple cores of a CPU easily. Especially when you think it is heavily used in data analysis. We use Python for data analysis as well, and for 95% of operations we are doing, numpy is fast enough that we don't have any complaints. But sometimes, we do wish to be able to take advantage of all the cores in our CPUs, especially now that we can easily get an 8 core CPU for a reasonable price.

There is multiprocessing module but you cannot share memory between processes. I guess the best options are either writing a C extension or using Numba. Writing C extensions require either distributing binary packages or C compiler to be present on the target computer which is not always ideal. So is using Numba the best solution currently? I tried it a bit in the past but the errors I got was a bit hard to interpret compared to regular Python errors.

I wish the multithreading module had support for native threads. Is there any PEPs trying to bring easy multi-core support for Python?
> I know density is 0.1% on mars compared to earth

Actually, about 1%.
Rust doesn’t need to copy the data. It’s trivial to pass e.g. Numpy arrays to Rust as slices via Cython (let alone originating in Cython!), modify them, and return them, or use them as input for a new returned struct.

https://github.com/urschrei/simplification

https://github.com/urschrei/lonlat_bng

https://github.com/urschrei/pypolyline

Each of those repos has links to the corresponding Rust “shim” libraries that provide FFIs for dealing with the incoming data, constructing Rust data structures from it, and then transforming it back on the way out.

As a more general comment, using a GC language as the FFI target from a GC language is begging for difficult-if-not-impossible-to-debug crashes down the line.
There probably is a better or more general notation system, but specifically for western music it is actually pretty efficient and logical once you start working with it a bit. Just don't put too much weight on the names and think in intervals. You have a scale made up of 7 notes/intervals with the "fifth" simply being the fifth note in the scale. Same with third, etc.
The specific flavor (major/minor) of e.g. the third you're playing usually depends on the mode, but it is still a "third" and serves the same-ish function.
Extending the names i think would actually be more confusing. I'd argue it already puts the patterns of scales and chords in the foreground.
I think they mentioned in the Livestream that telemetry was coming in at 1Hz, presumably precision steps for each data point.
> It's just nearly impossible to memorize.

This can be trivially implemented in CI for code and docs and have links to this doc. No need to remember it.
The blog website isn't written in Elm. We're using Elm for the product application, not for the blog or for https://www.humio.com/.
I'll transfer the remarks though :)
The important distinction is that currently all cashless payment systems are privately run for profit which is effectively a regressive transaction tax.
The culprit here is `a_list: Vec<Vec<f64>>`, which means the list of lists is copied as a whole, hence why the rust version is slower.

In general, rust is at least as fast as C or C++, but this seems to be a special case.
Also the helicopter weighs less, when they tested it in a big vacuum chamber they had a tethered line pulling it upwards to compensate for gravity.
You would be politely asked why you were in a restricted area, and asked to leave.

Currency is based on trust. Trust that the ledger is correct, auditable and matches up.

but to address your question, its possible to unilaterally reverse a payment, but as you'll then have to tell the clearing house to reverse the transaction, you'll need to get authorization from thirdparty, which is tricky. Moving money around inside a bank though is probably much easier.

However you're far better off just running a limited company and offering loans, that's a far easier way commit fraud.
They're not the best for multimedia, that's why. But for strictly informational displays they're really nice. I like the one on the Pebble Time watch.
Lookup "Emotional Freedom Therapy", or EFT for short. Also, alternative "FasterEFT". Its a gamechanger. At 1st it may not make any sense at all, but just give it a wholehearted try. Energy-medicine for the win.
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Cool! I wonder why balloons have not been used much on other planets? Is it the weight of the gas? The USSR had the the Vega 1 and 2 balloons on Venus, but presumably further missions could be pretty useful for studying planetary atmospheres, even for gas giants.
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My brain must be broken, because I don't find anything unsettling about them at all. My brain simply classifies them as artistic pictograms that are representative of the respective letters. Similar to the overly fancy first letter of a medieval illuminated manuscript.
Historically, metric was the thing being pushed.
Yes, higher res, higher fps is coming, but will take a couple of days.

I hope the landing was smooth and we can look forward to lots of aerial photos from Ingenuity.
You left out the explanation from your quote. The full is:

> Rust is not that fast beacuse it needs to copy data; using Pyo3 objects would probably lead to similar results as cython, but with an added library.

"It needs to copy data", because it's converting Python objects into Rust objects and back again. As the full quote states, it could be written in a different way, although that would make the code look really weird.

In this benchmark there is also no normal C++ involved. There is only Cython using some C++ ints, but operating on Python lists. And that's not handled by writing C++ code that operates on Python structures, but writing Python code in Cython in a "C++ mode".

Apples to oranges.
Because they aren't holograms. A hologram is "a recording of an interference pattern which uses diffraction to reproduce a 3D light field" [0]. This is something completely different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
>I suspect people who read a memoir, an auto-biography, an eulogy or about true crime may well be interested in reading about a topic rather than looking for actionable advice?

Those don't classify as the type of non-fiction problem solving books we're talking about.

All models and methods are an approximation of the world (excluding pure mathematics). That error in approximation creates problems when you don't respect the domain of validity of the theory.

Right now, what you claim as over-generalising, I argue is you taking our theory outside its domain of validity.

I agree that it breaks there, but that's only because it wasn't designed for that domain so it's kind of a strawman argument.
I still maintain a blog on Blogger that I write to on-and-off since 2004 on whatever topic I fancy.

When I launched a new project in 2012, I created a home-grown minimal blog for the project, never again. Main issue being with time requirements grow, you rather focus on developing main components of your project instead of developing features for ancillary blog, maintaining interaction with readers was more important for project than managing spam comments and links.

If I were to create a new blog I most probably will go with self-hosted WordPress. It scales as your requirements grow, lot of support, tools, and plugins. Readers are familiar with, writers are familiar with it, you can also outsource administration cheaply.

In your case, your core focus should be on learning and writing about things you are interested in and not developing and maintaining the infrastructure, software, etc. Consider starting with hosted version Wordpress.com and when your requirements grow out, migrate to self hosted version.
What a treat! A very slow and quiet drama, presented by a tight group, a team, of geeks.
Appreciated by everyone watching.
Looking forward to more.
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