skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the advantage of an entirely new language, when you can use decorators or other DSL-like constructs like Rails' on top of existing general-purpose languages?
It's not using a bitmap font.
That answer isn't even technically correct unless the man on the ground is in a boat: https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B000'00.0%22N+60%C2%...
Solving climate change by exacerbating water shortage.
Experimenting with CLIP+VQGAN to create AI generated art
Which one of those has the best hardware?
Have you checked https://www.protondb.com/ to see which games run well on Linux with Steam?

Lutris ( https://lutris.net/ ) also provides scripts for games that aren't on steam or bought on other stores.

You can also install Pop!OS which is another Linux distro for gaming (or so I've heard).
It’s simply emergent behaviour. The only “programmed” part is with the flashlight.

However there is some form of manipulation going on. They act as a combined organism due to the fact that they are physically constrained together.

The emergent behaviour is due to interference of all members combined. I’m assuming the clustering is due to a common equilibrium reached when they’re lined up next to each other.

Remember that they’re running DC motors with weights on the ends so they’ll resonate together.

Overall it looks like in some scenarios the behaviour becomes cyclic due to above - I’m also wondering if at some point deterministic.

Regardless, it’s a great example of emergent behaviour. Like Boids, Bees or Game of Life.
I never heard of a 6.3% figure for efficacy in any sample, small or otherwise. Are you sure that's what your figure refers to?
I disagree that it cannot be obviated in Julia. Can be solved with one or more of static tooling (ie proving there's no overwriting), tiered compilation with a faster interpreter and sealed modules. All things jeff et al have been discussing
> When you represent the Haiku community badly, that's everyone in the Haiku community's problem.

it's truly, truly a sad mental state to consider anyone has to be representing some certain community. really hope someday you can pull yourself out of that.

> Although my opinion of you as a person is lowering for other reasons.

lower it as much as you want my friend, seriously wouldn't mind if some random stupid asshole insists considering me a stupid asshole.
Well said, point 4 really resonates with me, they seem to want to be different over just using things that work well
Update. Tether has replied here. This site is down, but this tweet has it: https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoinsguide/status/141969423526...

URL for if their site comes back online: https://tether.to/tether-responds-to-bloomberg-article/
I agree, except for the “few commercials” part. That seems highly dependent on the event. For events with regular short gaps between action, they seem to show a ton of ads.
It's way cheaper to retire back in the home country after you've made your money in the states. A side benefit is that you can rent out the property before retirement which nets you a small income and keeps the property maintained. My in-laws own about a dozen properties in the Philippines, half of which they rent out, and a couple are being used by their kids. Collectively they make enough from the rentals to get by.
It's really not that much work. I have a cheap $20 antenna hanging in a window (you could use a suction cup) and I can get almost 40 TV channels.

As far as distribution, I connect my antenna to an HDHomeRun device. I can either stream directly from the device, use a DLNA client on my LAN, or I also have it hooked into Plex server for DVR and live remote viewing.

A basic HDHomeRun device goes for around $100 but I'm sure you can pick up an older model on eBay for less. You could even bridge it into a raspberry pi or some other wifi device so that you don't need to run Ethernet cables around.
> What tether is doing is reframing what 1:1 collateralization means.

Which is, to be clear, fraudulent. Their website long claimed that for every 1 USDT, that they held $1 in USD. This claim fell apart years ago, as did their claim to regular audits (they still never completed one).

It may indeed be that they are collateralized now, but they got there via fraud.
> even today it can cost between 2-8% just to remit funds

Does this number include Remitly / Transferwise or referring to Western Union?
> So these same people are going to become even more concerned, spooked, and make choices respecting that.

That's exactly what I'm arguing against - where is the evidence that people are "more concerned"? The evidence suggests that people's concerns have no relationship to actual crime rates. Your statements about cities "descending into chaos" could have just as easily come from 1995, or 2005, or 2015.

> This is what I don't understand about most people, especially those who look to the government for solutions. Instead of accepting people as they are, the arguments are over whether those people are wrong. If you want to influence human behavior, first you have to understand how they behave, not tell them their behavior is wrong.

I'm not telling anyone their behavior is wrong. I'm saying that I don't think it's a good idea to base public policy primarily on peoples' perceptions of crime rates when those perceptions don't seem to have any bearing on reality. (Consider the counterfactual: if crime rates were continuously rising, and everyone thought they were decreasing, should we do nothing?) I think we should instead look at the actual facts on the ground before going crazy with the "cities decesnding into chaos" narrative: 1) violent crime rose 3% in 2020; 2) nonviolent crime actually fell in 2020; 3) the rise in violent crime was fueled by a rise in murder specifically - but murder rates have actually been rising since 2014 so this isn't a new phenomenon. This isn't a policy prescription and crime is not a simple subject, but I think if we want to solve issues (crime and homelessness) we have to be able to agree about a basic set of facts on the ground without resorting to hyperbole.
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Ive moved everything to eth over the last few months. It retains the ability to store value like btc, but fuels a defi ecosystem that is providing an automated financial services economy. As traditional financial institutions dive into the crypto assets, im thinking they can feel more comfortable about eth investments due to how they can compare defi to cefi and traditional finance and have good tools for valuing the asset. Wall street loves recurring revenue.

Comparing eth to other smart contract platforms, eth has strongest ecosystem of block chain developers, and the most mature smart contract tooling.

As for regulatory risk, it seems to me like pulling off a really attached bandaid, it will shock and hurt, but ultimately regulation allows a framework for traditional finance to bring crypto based products to its consumers without stepping into legal issues.

I am concerned that regulation around tether and stable coins could be very hurtful to anyone who is currently invested. For less risky investors, I would consider waiting until regulatory murkyness has been clarified.
1. Limited and transparent moderation occurs everywhere in society, and isn't remotely the same thing censorship.

2. No private tech company makes their content moderation "in collusion with governments". Not in the US at least.
You can do structure from motion on a single camera without the need for stereo.
which subreddits?
I'm using Stremium with Locast. Stremium is a cloud-based DVR service that can take in and record other services like Locast. Still pretty new, and there are occasional bugs, but it's working well for me. Stremium is $5/month for 50 hours of DVR storage and another $5/month for Locast to turn off the subscription nags. Works on Web, Android, AndroidTV, FireTV, and Roku.
> They still employ Cade Metz, who doxxed Scott Alexander.

Internet norms are only internet norms, they aren't everywhere norms. Cade Metz did not "doxx" Scott Alexander, because doxxing does not exist outside of some particular very online spaces. And Alexander even wasn't doxxed by properly-understood internet norms because he doxxed himself long before.

The situation was Scott Alexander was confused to think the norms of his community were controlling in every community, or that he could set arbitrary rules that everyone else would then be obligated to follow, and he has a lot of fans who share those confusions.
Brussels to install 11,000 electric charging stations by 2035
So what you’re saying is it’s backed by the US military.
This focus on CO₂ as a "pollutant" saddens me, since it's by far not the worst substance emitted by power plants. Can we ever go back to a sensible environmentalism that considers all harmful effects on the planet and its inhabitants?
> PHP just started so, so, so far down, it's had more to overcome than most.

This is probably fair. :) I think PHP tried to combine Python's "batteries included" approach with Perl's "more than one way to do it" style, but did it in a pretty disorganized way that created lots of Catch-22 issues later -- when you get that popular, it makes backward-incompatible changes fraught with peril, even if you're addressing obviously craptacular past mistakes.

I think PHP has become pretty solid in version 7+ on, although my feelings about using it remain mixed. I've joked in the past that it's stopped being a cargo cult version of Perl and is now a cargo cult version of Java.
So don't do that, then.
It's not an either OR, it's an AND.
Completely agree with 4 and 5. I use Julia regularly and while it is great for scripts and proof of concepts of mathematical stuff it might be too complicated to implement in Python or in C++ once one starts to grow an application it is tremendously frustrating.

I have clear and satisfying workflows in C (vim + make + gdb + valgrind) and Python (vim/vs code, pdb) but I cannot say that debugging and tracing errors is a comfortable experience in Julia. Essential development tools are relegated to third-party libraries (e.g. Revise.jl and Debugger.jl) and are often clunky or responsiveness is limited (e.g. Revise.jl won't work when you change a struct)

I believe the problem is that, because of Julia is marketed towards scientific computing and HPC, it draws mostly from an academic user base which is not that interested in software development.
Would be interesting to plot that on an informativeness scale as well. I know that's arbitrary, at least we know whether the growth rate actually provides us with exponential (or whatever rate) information.
This. Quality and extended costs of life are definitely vague but important aspects when considering a move to Germany. There is no perfect lunch let alone free lunch.
Maths is, I believe, unique as a discipline in that it displays a distinct set of discrete difficulty steps the further into it you go. The first step is encountered at school: many students find they may be OK with basic arithmetic but anything conceptual like algebra is beyond them. A second step is encountered at college/university: someone who is perfectly good at school-level mathematics can find themselves totally at sea within literally week 1 of a degree course. And someone who copes fine with this level may in turn find that the more rarefied and demanding level demanded by a very top university is beyond them (source: this was my own experience - fine at degree level at an 'ordinary' university having flamed out spectacularly in an Oxbridge interview, demonstrating absolutely that I'd have been totally out of my depth there). Then, there are those few who push through even that level with enough ability to become productive and innovative academics.

When you start with a population for whom even arithmetic can be a challenge, it's not too surprising that only a miniscule priesthood emerge from the other side.
If Windows Defender was deleting any file named "Animal Farm.txt", that would be a form of censorship, right? It's preventing the transmission of a piece of political literature.

I guess, in some ways, you could consider it censorship. But without evidence that its being done specifically to target certain types of speech, as opposed to a side effect from some other goal, I'm not sure it's a particularly useful label.

What is anti-virus software in general but "censorship" of people's abilities to distribute viruses to whoever they want? What is an adblocker but software that "censors" someone's ability to advertise in the most effective way possible?
> I was both amazed at the organization

I used to be impressed by the organization, but as I look at my shelves of Muji document filers, I realized the organization is necessary.
SHA-512/256 is what I default to since it is faster than SHA-256 but doesn't have the ridiculously long hash length of SHA-512
Somehow I don't think the app developer is experiencing the same sense of sublime transience as the Buddhist monks.
I’ve found that if you sign up for a month of YouTube tv and then use the nbc olympics app, it’s a pretty decent experience. Oh and then you also need peacock to watch some basketball games

At first I tried sling but they didn’t have the full family of nbc networks
Now the question is: why did he think it was acceptable to disembark? The report says this was an experienced engineer with a clean record. If it had worked, he probably expected he would get away with it. That’s the real problem.
And if you ever see "DO NOT HUMP" on the side of a car, this is what it refers to.

Crews also "kick" cars in flat yards which looks a bit more like humping in that brakeless cars roll down tracks on their own: https://youtu.be/zEWE3df6Q2s?t=248
hesitantly takes the pill ... :)

... interesting article, appreciated - though it speaks more of how CIA and the like operate to have themselves be portrayed favourably ...

... that's more good PR than psy-ops!
Other than the keyboard, Apple's screens and trackpad are amazing. Also, when in warranty, their support is genuinely great.
North Stream 2 anyone? Why do you think Germany needs to increase enormously its gas imports from Russia? Gas is cleaner than coal, but still much worse than nuclear. That will be a serious problem to meet net 0-emission targets in 2050 as planned.
Its almost like parents are fallible people too and simply provided a cautionary tale
Have you tried running anything on new Apple architecture -- even running your own apps built locally works half of the time, and that's _with_ the full moon out and correct number of goats dully sacrificed...
It seems pretty cool - but I think falcon[0] is more practical. You can install it from the chrome extension store[1], if you are too lazy to get it running yourself.

[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe...
You didn't do any back of the envelope estimate. "so just about double we have now" would require what?

Let's look at this chart of US electricity production. [0]

It took us about 30 years to double our electricity generation in the US from 1975 to 2005, but since then it has largely remain flat. So how quickly do you estimate that can happen?

Then you have to look at renewable production separately since that's what you have to scale. What rate of renewable production is that going to take?

0. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
>There's a complete and total disregard to any notion of a smaller Julia or a Julia more suited for general purpose

That's false. General purpose Julia is a stated goal of the core team, it's just that numerical domination is higher priority.

Also, small binary static compilation with tree shaking is further along than you think
We refuse to do modern marketing
That was also the year that mobile phones became common for children to have in classrooms.
I still read both and consider them two of the most reliable sources of domestic journalism. Their non editorial sections are of very similar qualities. Their editorial sections are both political hackery.
In general people are will willing commute up to half an hour each way to work. Some people do more of course, but the average person considered anything more than that unreasonable. So your point is wrong only because you are using a different definition of good public transit from me.
You can't watch age gated content on newpipe, ime. Throws an error.
YouTube TV only lets you see what is broadcast live on a handful of television networks. There is a huge amount of Olympics action that is only available directly from NBC. (You can sign into NBC using YouTube TV as your “cable” provider.)
Maybe some political innovation would be good also. They should legalize the herb.
The "court of public opinion" didn't prevented walled gardens on the mobile world. People wouldn't stop watching BigStudio if they didn't offer their service for a TV vendor, people would just buy from the vendor who bowed to the imposed conditions.

In Brazil, there's nothing legally preventing you from recording OTA TV but no big name TV vendor add a unencrypted record feature. You can find it on cheap digital decoders which have no support for streaming or apps. I don't think this is mere coincidence, I think streaming services and content producers already pressure TV vendors to not support "unwanted features"; in exchange, they gain the right to include some apps out-of-the-box.
>There are applications with more than one window.

And windows handles it just fine. Clicking X on one window doesn't close the entire app.
It doesn't. Hollywood is private and profit-seeking. They will soon start paying more attention to the demands of the Chinese government than they ever did to the US government. Because that's where the future growth in revenue is.
I simplified a bit by saying the stronger player wins 90% of the time. They score 0.9 on average. That could be 9 wins and one loss, or as you say, 8 wins and 2 draws.

You would think that a low-level GM would be able to achieve more draws against the super GMs, but somehow the ratings indicate they don't. It may be that the super GMs deliberately avoid drawish lines against much weaker players and try to keep the game complicated.
> (Yes, I know it's zerohedge, but this is a decent article)

It's not even zerohedge: It's copied from bombthrower.com
This was my experience as well.
Sure it could be better, but it’s neither shutting down all the nuclear nor failing to set a good example about reducing coal-based electricity.
This makes a lot of sense: Ideally, we'd want a small (<20) amount of "future power users" as our focus group, since we imagine these users would provide us with the most most powerful growth via word-of-mouth if we work extra hard to make that initial focus group happy.
Sofia is the middle daughter - reportedly the most talented.

Judith being the youngest had that kill instinct at an early age.

The sibling dynamic is something I did not appreciate until I had kids of my own.
> I personally found that Julia community is slightly hostile to feedback and negativity. May be it is just me but it has way too much hype-driven-positivity that leads to delusion.

Part of the problem, at least from what I observed here and in other dev communities, was that Julia had a large number of bad faith critics (probably larger than the number of active users, at the time) from about 0.2 to 0.5 or so. I'm talking about everyone who compared the runtime of hello world in the REPL, with start up time, to that of a compiled executable. There were piles and piles of fake benchmarks that did little more than compare BLAS bindings as though the differences were intrinsic to the language.

Sure, the Julia community could have reacted better to such (and a few people did: BenchmarkTools.jl was an early win in this area), but few people do react that way in practice.
"It's not incredibly hard to imagine that no one would take it seriously if some nebulous phrasing like the "most important conflict space of the 21st century" is the content of our warning. Even less difficult to imagine if this is being espoused by an already untrustworthy three letter agency(ies)."

These agencies have huge conflicts of interest in that their funding depends on how afraid the government is of the threats they're tasked with defending. So the more afraid they can make politicians, the more funding they'll get.

What makes their claims even less credible is that they're basically professional liars. They're trained in deception and have a long, sordid history of deceiving the public: often quite consciously and deliberately.

"the tension with the current bureaucratic classification system is that it limits what these organizations can actually tell us"

Even if they did tell us we could never know if they were telling the truth, as the public has absolutely no access to their internal records. They tell us what they want us to believe.
I appreciate your informed perspective, indeed I’m just bitter that banks got away with laundering drug money among other crimes. Sometimes it can seem like governments and financial institutions are on the same team ;)
You can fix the bug but emit a metric on the original code path to estimate the impact after the fix is made. It wouldn't tell you who sent what to who, but would give you a better idea of impact for an incident report or postmortem.
> mobilize half the population against the other half,

This, a likely scenario under such circumstances, sounds atrocious ...
Right, but I'm just explaining why there is nothing unusual or alarming about a privacy policy saying that they will comply with law enforcement when legally required.

This is all a non-issue since the telemetry is entirely opt-in and can even be stripped out entirely with a single make flag.
Point 4 is going to get explicit dev time after the initial stages of the new general purpose compiler plugin infra is completed.

Then, proper debugging and introspection tools will be easier to build.
> Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything

This is how a fiat currency is supposed to work. Earn it, then buy some gold, silver, real estate, crypto, or whatever. And inflation is not necessary a bad thing.
I agree that it’s pragmatic, it just doesn’t seem especially Just.
even if it would be the worst one, optimisation based on just one metric is usually a bad idea.
Yeah I think this is why the US is so behind the curve on paying for things with phones. We went all in early on credit cards, and those are still mostly good enough for most cases, so there's not a lot of incentive to upgrade.
Do you have an example? I can only imagine three scenarios:

- SQL logic. We should be able to write this as a literal query, parameterised as needed, e.g. (made up syntax)

query(
addParam(
"MyParam",
$myParam,
SQL"SELECT foo FROM tbl WHERE @MyParam IS NULL OR bar = @MyParam"
)
)

- PHP logic. This is just ordinary control flow, like anything else, e.g.

query(
($myParam === null)
? SQL"SELECT foo FROM tbl"
: addParam("MyParam", $myParam, SQL"SELECT foo FROM tbl WHERE bar = @MyParam")
)

- A mixture of SQL logic and PHP logic. This seems inherently unsafe to me, so it's not surprising that safety guarantees can't be proven. My point is that such things should be be made difficult ("artificially", if needed), such that nobody would choose to go down that route when another option is available.
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