skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) Granted, but also EURUSD pricing does not work like any AMM [...]

Exactly. So, if I want to put liquidity in EURUSD market, I have no choice but to actively manage it, since traditional financial institutions won't do it for me. That was my point... to bring up examples of use-cases that are not covered by traditional financial institutions.

> 2) Lending can be regulated, so might or might not be ok for you to lend - not a lawyer. What about KYC/AML etc.?

Sure, lending is regulated. But then the problem mostly lies with AAVE (for example), not me (they are the one lending my assets, after all, and the ones possibly subjected to KYC laws), I would assume.

My point is... even if you are willing to go through KYC, and have nothing to hide (e.g. you got your crypto-assets, or whatever you want to call them, legitimately, and file your taxes correctly), there simply is no traditional financial institution that has a "BTC savings account", for example.

> 3) Aren't there specialized prime brokers that do that? (maybe Genesis?)

Probably. But then the argument that "there is no actual use-case for blockchain outside of crime and speculation" kinda breaks down. If you consider Genesis to be part of "traditional finance", then it's clear that "traditional finance" sees value in these things (it's not just vapor). If you consider Genesis to not be part of "traditional finance", then you're just confirming what I implied: there isn't anyone in "traditional finance" providing such services.
A single human mind won't do it, but we have a way to record information for successive generations, AND now we also have a method to validate information and tell it apart from myths and superstitions.

So maybe it's time to start thinking long term?
There's an assumption that public repos can be read by humans and machines both which hasn't been questioned legally.
The monoliths you acquire through acquisitions aren't really microservices :)
> Can you share some examples?

The main issue, as far as I understand it, is that the tiny sensor and tiny lens at some point just end up limiting the effective resolution. You can capture more pixels, but you never really increase the actual effective resolution of the end product. At that point you're not accomplishing much more than scaling up a lower resolution picture.

The "computational photography" usually ends up just vastly over-doing the sharpening and creating artifacts, and leaving weirdly smooth gaps where there was nothing to sharpen but the camera completely failed to pick up detail.

Just a couple random photos I grabbed from a day I took my kid to the park, but not necessarily like... scientific-paper worthy examples: https://imgur.com/a/7bn8W5S

One's taken with my iPhone 12 Pro, one with a Nikon D70.

Mainly, though, I base this off of trying to print any of the photos I've taken, and maybe someone else can hop in and explain this for me. I could be way off base here.

Printing photos from my iPhone at 4x6 they all look like someone took a really soft or slightly out-of-focus photo, applied way too much sharpening, and printed it. Printing a photo from my D70 generally still looks crisp and natural. Even if I blow it up beyond the actual resolution, it looks pixelated... not soft and then sharpened. This is even though the iPhone has twice the resolution of the D70.
Type 1 - over-ear

Type 2 - in-ear
The GP’s first submission to HN was a link to a diffing tool, so I assume it’s this: https://prettydiff.com/
https://magit.vc/

Magit is the git layer/plugin for Emacs.

I don't know about others but personally magit changed the way I think about git and version control.
A capitalist society can put forth a hundred of justifications for facial recognition.
I can see why countries with f'ed local currencies might embrace BTC (in same way they usually have a parallel USD system). But surely the transaction costs kill any use as a replacement for cash?
Wouldn't there be massive amounts of copper in landfills? Might be hard to separate from the rest of the waste, but perhaps not harder than regular mining?
permisson from whom and for what
Interesting article. I had not read about the use of drones in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
How to monetize content without degrading the user experience?
So i am working on a few content-sites like reviews of products etc.

I want to have a pleasant user experience and therefore i am creating mostly static content with nextjs, lazy loading etc.

What i hate most are pages that erratically jump around after loading. Ads tend to do that and i do not want to expose my audience to this.

Is there some UX friendly provider to monetize content-pages?
Why Windows Terminal renderer is slow
A while ago I got really interested in how this technology worked, and was digging into the various companies that provide this.

This company offers some interesting info about the tech: https://broadcastvirtual.com/
I feel like we are heading towards the world where the USA, EU, and China each form separate, isolated economies. Each economy would try to produce everything by themselves and import as little as possible. The flow of information and research would get limited.
I wrote diffr [0] for that purpose; it serves me well, especially if your team makes code with long lines.

In my opinion, a simple approach that does NOT make any parsing is more efficient (what about bugs in your parser? code with syntax errors? also, how fast would the parser be?)

[0]: https://github.com/mookid/diffr
Imagine other industries did what the software industry does, so we had articles like "how big should transport vehicles be". So we decided a sedan car is basically the right size, and proceeded to call trucks, trains, airplanes, ships, tankers, motorcycles, bikes and scooters as being the wrong size.

That's how stupid this entire way of thinking is.

It's attempting to take a problem that requires a ton of domain-specific considerations, and dumb it down to something that everyone can read and understand with toddler-level experience and feel smart.
Notice that blockchains have no notion of property rights. As far as the blockchain is concerned whoever controls the asset (i.e. has the password to the wallet) owns it. For example, if the owner loses the password, or has the password stolen, they no longer own the asset. This is a big problem. Imagine that if when someone stole your car they automatically owned it! The lack of property rights is one of the reasons blockchains are not suitable for almost anything.
GitLab is a fairly good one. Lots of people self-host their own GitLab/Gitea instance too.
> Facial recognition technology has been widely implemented in contemporary China and has become an integral part of people's daily life. (2020)

https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/insights-and-events/insight...
For a dns server this is irrelevant, but what impact do these cookies have on privacy if I'd use it while browsing? And how long are these cookies meant to be valid for? To have a speed-up effect, it needs to be long enough to cover two separate website visits, but to preserve privacy you might argue the requirement is exactly the opposite.

I would be curious if anyone knows if a scheme like Zcash was considered. No, not another shitcoin, it's from 1983 and uses RSA blind signatures:

> Blind signatures can also be used to provide unlinkability, which prevents the signer from linking the blinded message it signs to a later un-blinded version that it may be called upon to verify. In this case, the signer's response is first "un-blinded" prior to verification in such a way that the signature remains valid for the un-blinded message.

I guess the issue would be too large signature sizes are needed for RSA, and that the verification operation is asymmetrically slower than what a client has to do, leading to a denial of service attack? Maybe the server could have (configurably) a per-IP limit of, for example, 4 opens per 20 seconds (bursty) and a global limit of 10% of CPU time as measured over 10 seconds. Above those limits, clients just have to do a 3WHS as usual or re-use connections if the protocol allows (http does).

I'm probably overthinking this but without blind signatures, it seems like no browser would enable it for privacy reasons. Technically it's illegal to use this for tracking without a reason (such as user consent or fraud protection or so), but that won't stop everyone from doing it.
One advantage of real microservices is that you get better tooling around rate-limiting HTTP APIs than for simple function calls. And it's much easier to see which services creates the most CPU/Database/Network load.
> Out of curiosity, how do we define license violation in that case? I, as a human being, have trained by reading code, much of which is covered by licenses that are somehow not compatible with code I'm writing. Am I violating licenses?

That depends, if you end up writing copies of the code you've studied then yes. You are on thin ice. Plagarization is definitely something that you can do with computer code. There have been several high profile cases around this in arts. As far as I can see it usually ends up being a question about how much of the work is similar, how similar it is, and how unique what was similar is. And added wrinkle in programing is that some things can be done in only one way, or at least any reasonable programmer will do it in only one way. So for example a swap(var1, var2) function can usually only be done in one way, and therefor you would not get in trouble if your and someone else swap function are the same.

I've been following the discussion about Copilot, and one issue that comes up again and again is that people seem to think that since Copilot is new, the law will treat it, and the code it writes differently, than what it would you or a copy machine. I think that is naive, my impression is that courts care more about what you did, not how you did it, and if you think Copilot can be used to do an end run around the law. Prepare to be disappointed.

So if Copilot memorize code and spits out copies of that code, then it is at best skating on thin ice, or at worst doing a license violation. If the code it is copying is unique, then it definitely is heading into problematic territory. I'm fairly sure sure someone in legal at Github is very unhappy about the quake fast inverse square root function.
But the repos are provided under licenced terms no which can vary depending on publishers choice? Put another way, is there a licence that would prohibit reuse in this manner ?
On EURUSD, you could look at currency funds (not strictly the same, but as close as it gets)

Depending on which country you are in, things like bitcoin savings accounts are starting to emerge. Also funds might be able to invest.

And yes, traditional finance is starting to see value in providing services for these things (and has so for a while) - not strictly the same as seeing value in the underlyings, but separate point
Podcasts embedded from Spotify on the webpages are covered in DRM and provide terrible experience, I can't understand how podcast creators can be so ignorant about this.
Improving Customer Reach, Customer Engagement and Satisfaction
No, it only means that Rockchips (or one of their customers) ships a kernel with a a driver for a Marvell wireless devices (presumably now made by NXP), for which Marvell claims to own the copyright and gives permission under GPL.

Assuming that the license text is correct, Marvell or NXP would have been in their full rights to provide the same source code to some users under the GPLv2 for use in a Linux driver, and to other users under a different license.

Another possibility is that Marvell themselves licensed the supplicant code from someone else and replaced the copyright information when publishing it together with their driver.
there is, IMO, a very simple answer to this: Own goals were often attributed to the last person to hit the ball from the attacking team.

The defender (or other, but usually defender) didn't want the own goal and the attacker did - it was a system that suited everyone.

Take a look at this goal by 'rio ferdinand' in the 2002 World Cup - this is given as Rio's goal - that would be inconcievable today, its clearly an own goal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/21785916
The other strange thing I noticed is how many goals have been reverted due to video analysis (mostly offside situations). Maybe I just haven't watched enough soccer recently, so I didn't see that trend earlier, but I found it curious. Maybe the two are connected, with defensive players trying to enforce offside situations by playing back into their own direction, and accidentally hitting the own goal more often than before. Or that the technology and its more frequent use allows for more precise detection of who was actually last to touch the ball (sounds more reasonable).
There’s also a question of how far back to go. With few exceptions, human history is an unbroken procession of brutal conquests. Many colonized peoples were oppressors at some stage in their history. That doesn’t justify the horrors of colonialism, but it does complicate attempts to make absolute moral (or legal) judgments against one group or another based on the crimes of their ancestors.
Sure, it might certainly be the case that different rules should be applied to humans and machines, but this makes the discussion only even more nuanced. But I don't think this could reasonably be used to ban machines from ingesting code with certain licenses even though it might restrict what they can do with this information.
Is that not true? Google and Oracle had a 10 year multi billion dollar legal fight over ~20 lines of code identical between Android and JVM.

A non rich individual has basically zero chance of challenging GitHub on these blatant violations, and they know it.

> At any rate, it's not even clear to me if me publishing code written with copilot (or even with a random tool that will wget from github) puts the blame on the toolmaker or on me.

It really depends on the license, which GitHub apparently doesn't care about at all.
If you were to write large swaths of copyrighted code from memory then yes you'd be committing a copyright violation.

Most humans don't do so unintentionally though.
Doesnt matter how you define it. What you have to under stand is the personality trait spectrum of the chimp troupe.

Some chimps cant sleep at night if what comes out of their 6 inch chimp head is not acknowledged in some way by the entire troupe. These bastards then spend their whole life finding each other and reinforcing each others self importance calling the stories laws, ethics and all kinds of bullshit. It all doesnt matter cause once what comes out of the 6 inch head has been digitized it is now property of the rest of the universe.
> What you're suggesting is: Give everyone an automatic transmission so no one ever shifts gears at the wrong time. […]"if we just turn everything on, problem solved."

Not at all. A zero-covid strategy doesn't mean “Covid doesn't happen, nothing to do here”. It means locking down entire cities as soon as a few case of unknown origin are diagnosed, and doing so every time the situation occurs: it's not a one time medicine, you must be ready to to enact local lockdowns many times.

Australia, Vietnam, China, South Korea, etc. saved hundred thousands of lives by taking extreme measures super early on. Locking down 7 million people when 9 cases have been found is an extremely tough political decision to make, but it has been immensely successful (both from the health and economy point of view). The western world has been completely oblivious to this strategy since the beginning of the pandemic, and not allowing this kind of strategy in a game is just going to reinforce this idea that there is no alternative to the deadly “flatten the curve” strategy.
If you go all in on micro-services, image processing may have an ingress service and a scaling service, and a conversion service, and, and, and...
Maybe we don't disagree, but it just seems to me that is a very strange way of looking of analyzing things. There is so much talk about confidence and who believes what, both the state itself and the people and media.

You point at some things the media believes and that is of course a different question compared to what the government itself believes.

> The French I think have a much more accurate understanding of their abilities.

Funny then that they thought they can overthrow Gadafi only then to literally begged the US to intervene as they totally failed.

>The reversals they suffer have been far fewer and less disastrous than those the Americans face.

Well if you try far less you can lose less. But of course also if you have far less, even those much smaller loses are just as big a deal as the much larger loses for the US.

I must admit I am not all that informed on the details of French wars in different African countries. So I can not speak on those details.
That’s an interesting argument. What defines “value” in your mind? The platform brings value to artists (financial freedom to create more art), value to collectors (digital ownership over a scarce conceptual artwork), and value to the art world (more digital art being created by a more diverse group of people).

Not all may agree with these values, and perhaps this platform and it’s tokens will not persist after some years, but I’m not sure that means the project does not currently provide value to those participating in it.

Because “NFTs are dead” (according to the media) we have hopefully past the moment of tulip mania. But perhaps it will really take some more months or years for this to truly “die” — during which time the artists have a viable marketplace to distribute their art and earn revenue on it, where no prior option existed for them. Or, perhaps it will not die so quickly, if enough people continue to see value in collecting and supporting digital artists in this way. Time will tell.
You can likely write/find one but if you don't want your code seen perhaps it'd be simpler to use a private repo.
Not just biologists. It's a common trope in all academic output.
There isn't a hard physical reason why prolonging lifespan would be impossible. Maybe it's philosophical wankery but I do think these questions have some meaning for us:

1. whether human mind would remain stable on such timescales, or how to alter it

2. whether elven approach to nature as described is feasible and sustainable and how (separately from eternal life considerations)
Ban targeted advertising.

Break up big tech into <10 000 employee companies.

Make GDPR fines a percentage of global revenue.

Hold companies liable for data breaches.

Stop handing out software patents like toilet paper.

End planned obsolescence of tech products like phones.

Technology went from a tool to empower and enrich people's lives to a tool to oppress and silence in a few short decades. Either people realize the monster it has turned into or the conjoining of government and tech companies will create a dystopia that will make the dictatorships of the previous millennia look like heaven on earth.
Git is not a blockchain, there's no distributed consensus algorithm. The consensus on what's the main branch and what's the authoritative history lies with Linus Torvalds.

> The "Bitcoin" application is a tool useful for buying and selling recreational drugs without exposure to the physical risk posed by cash transactions.

It hasn't been since at least 2018; authorities regularly seize millions worth of bitcoins together with drug dealers, and have been openly bragging about their de-anonymization successes as early as 2019.
Yes.

We have a small holiday place in Lake Wanaka right down the road from Peter Thiel’s block of bare land and his substantial but not ludicrous holiday home.

I suspect a fair few who planned on NZ as their international bolt hole are now a bit confused.

They likely planned on a terrible catastrophe with enough warning to get here.

Instead they received a minor catastrophe with air travel lock downs where even a private G650 is not permitted entry.

I’m of the opinion that all this doomsday prepping by the wealthy is simply an unconventional insurance policy for extreme/unlikely events.

Basic and moderate preparations for reasonable likelihood events makes great sense.

Extreme preparations don’t make financial sense, but I suspect are done for the same reasons some people of lesser means seem to dangerously over invest in disaster preparation, it’s the perception of control and order amidst a macro environment they feel they cannot influence, control, or predict.
> Because if 1 BTC = 0 USD...

A big assumption here. I can also hypothesize that 1 USD = 0 EUR, at some point in the future, and, thus, holding or buying USD is pure speculation and there is no compelling reason to try to acquire more USD.

Under this logic, I shouldn't ever buy or hold anything (forex, stocks, etc.), lest its market value goes to zero.

Also, thanks for ignoring the rest of my point: What if I choose to get my returns in some asset that is pegged to USD (e.g. DAI, USDC), am I still speculating on the value of BTC?
I'd be surprised if nobody brought up those 'what-if' scenarios at the time.
I have issues since my iPhone 7 with pictures turning into watercolour renditions when zooming in any further than screen size. My wife’s iPhone 7 doesn’t have this issue. My 11 pro doesn’t have this issue as badly but grass seems like it is replaced by some texture instead of reality. Seems like overly aggressively compression in most cases.
The key takeaway is that there have now occasionally been situations in places where humans cannot survive at all outdoors, even if they are optimally healthy and hydrated. That is to say: situations where the environment is no longer livable.

This is an interesting piece of anecdata.[1]

Of course there is other anecdata for any and every other set of permutations, but mentioning all of that every time is a bit silly.

[1] Since anecdata is a neologism to begin with, I presume that attempting to insist on "anecdatum" is probably a lost cause. :-/
Since you seem to be arguing in good faith I'll engage; at which point will you accept that the value of BTC is > $0? It's coming up on a decade of showing seemingly limitless upside with the bottom constantly rising. The tulip mania everyone loves to cite lasted about 3 years. This is going on for more than 3x. At what point would you consider you are maybe wrong?

Personally speaking, I was on the other side of this until about 3 years ago. I first learned about crypto in 2011. At one point I realized I was not looking at the facts unfolding right in front of me. I was just telling myself "look everyone are idiots, and everyone is going to crash and burn because of this. This makes no sense." Then I realized smarter and smarter people were getting in and more and more people were getting convinced and either I benefit from this or I become the person on the sidelines left behind.
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It was pretty hot during most games, especially in the first weeks. Maybe that was a factor. Maybe the strategy to involve players more actively in defense was also relevant. Most own goals were tries to kick the ball away from the penalty area and perhaps it was just bad luck in many cases.
If the service workers vote with their feet and leave Florida, retirees'll be stuffed.
do most people know about the usage of their DNA data in this form though? My guess would be no
Why -- for a report created in 1996 -- using TeX tools why does

https://www.gwern.net/docs/math/1996-hoare.pdf

look so awful?