skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I became very interested in both poker and machine learning when I happened to be present for the opening of this event: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/AI-be...

Reasoning through imperfect information scenarios, and developing emotional resilience when unlikely negative outcomes occur, are two of the skills I cherish the most. I think poker is brilliantly analogous to both prediction markets and leading/lagging social trends and emotions that surround them.
Being able to write software does not automatically imply you are able to write software while on a video call, and while explaining what you are doing constantly.
Yeah it's definitely not cutting edge on all fronts. Another issue is that the length of the plaintext is being exposed. Simple padding would help mask that in most, if not all, instances.
Love this. People are craving a different social media experience or at least quite a few articulate and imaginative ones do.

But while the failure of the current crop is evident (well not in terms of shareholder value), what should be a "good" replacement is not all that obvious. Even beyond sustainable business model issues, there are so many configurations, platform features, constraints, user incentives etc. There are two general principles I can think of:

* Let a thousand flowers bloom (in a fediverse context) and let evolutionary trial-and-error determine what works

* Source some insights from the surveillance capitalists as they are the ones who have accumulated the largest empirical factbase about what we should definitely avoid 8-)
Tips about GitHub Actions environment variables and contexts
> The option to encrypt to SSH keys, with built-in GitHub .keys support

It’s not built in, just composable in. And to the version in the readme I prefer using command substitution personally: it’s clearer when there are multiple recipients, and the infile tends to be much larger than the keys.

The biggest issues wrt github are that it rejects age files (so you have to rename them) and there is no /keys at the repo level whivh would give you the keys of all maintainers, so you have to hunt them by hand.
Mixed frontend and backend rendering = horrific slowness and impact on productivity
Hmm, I think Chrome on macOS is probably the most common scenario and well tested.

Those 4 rectangles should contain the next 4 shortcuts that you have to type. Not sure how this could happen. If you don't mind, could you try with a different collection or lesson? Does the browser console show some errors?
> Who gets to decide the definition?

The FSF. Their definition of Free Software is the accepted one. The blog post links to it.

> I would argue "free for non-commercial use" licenses _are_ inherently free as in speech, but not beer

No, when software is free as in beer, that's used to mean that it can be obtained free of charge.

Software whose licence prohibits commercial use is by definition not Free Software, following the FSF definition, as this violates Freedom 0.
Reminds me of a shop that would buy used CDs, DVDs, etc, buff the crap out of them, print out new art, shrinkwrap them, then sell them as new (not almost new) on Amazon.

They went out of business after they were blacklisted on Amazon... well sorta. They just came back as a different company a few times.
But the point is: why? Why yet-another messaging protocol? If they wanted to have a different client (which I totally understand, given that Element client is currently just a poor mix of all of Slack and Whatsapp and Discord), they could just focus on the client.
well said, that's a good rule for life in general
> Why not both? There is no compromise needed here.

You're assuming that it's actually feasible to keep old devices up to date for that long. It may well not be. It gets substantially harder to maintain old branches the further mainline has diverged from them. The original engineering team has typically long since moved on. The magnitude of the issue, here, can be on the scale of "we now need several times as many engineering teams".

This isn't a matter of "security updates would be better than no security updates". This may potentially be a matter of "security updates for four years is economically feasible, security updates for seven years isn't". (I'm not saying it is infeasible, just that it may well be.)
Reddit needs this but for upvotes. Tons of low quality posts starting with a barely funny joke that goes 15 replies deep with almost the same joke but less and less funny. If you only have say 5 upvotes a day, you won’t contribute garbage to a barely useful thread.
Telosa is eerily similar to Tesla. Of course it’s different but my brain makes the connection. Wonder if there’s a future trademark lawsuit.
Multi spending fiat used to be pretty easy actually. Write a check, use credit card outside credit limit with slow transactions. And so on. Only thing was that on other side you had banks who were friendly with governments.
Minecraft-style door animations (ie, no animation) would absolutely break immersion in a game with a realistic style. You can make a game that does not look realistic, but that's a completely different art direction, we can't just wave away complexity
They can use tauri. A new fresh tech and it is efficient also. They should consider it as the title of this post says revolt is written in rust. So they can try more rusty ways making revolt.
A solar thermal power plant may also be referred to as a solar photovoltaic power plant.

Uh, no? According to my 6-year-old's copy of "Stuff You Should Know!" [1] those are, like, opposites? Very confusing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Stuff-Should-Know-Howard-Hughes/dp/17...
Why do you think the market is providing people the products they want? This may be self-evident for you; it isn't for me. Markets are useful, but they don't work well. People want to be forced to spend an extra buck for guaranteed free returns and another extra buck for minimum warranties, and maybe another buck for 7 year of updates. They also want the resulting costs to be distributed amongst everyone, which makes them trivial. This isn't a particularly unusual idea in a continent that has tended to embrace socialized healthcare.

A big enough majority of people wants it, anyway, to vote for representatives that write these laws. I'm sure there is a small minority of oppressed Randians who suffer terribly from all of this.
On the other side:
A stat shared at my most recent tech companies meeting, they are trying to hire more women.

5000 people applied for a single position and 15 of them were women. This was for a high paying tech job.
Well, yeah, that's why you use hard drives for storing plots (waiting for the distributed lottery to draw your plot's number) while continuously generating new lottery tickets on the SSDs.
Almost certainly Dan Bilzerian. But that shouldn't even be particularly special, because he is a rich guy who plays poker, not a guy who got rich playing poker. (his dad is corporate takeover specialist/criminal Paul Bilzerian)
Good to know you guys are listening, but I'll dispute that UX isn't hard! I think Matrix/Element is great but open source projects at large are let down by UX/UI issues more than anything.
Protonmail turns over IP logs of a climate activist's account
> Your quant will also tell you, if your plan is to buy and hold a "3x long daily return" ETF, that it is the nature of such ETFs to go to zero, and they can say this much more confidently about the ETF than about bitcoin.

This is a common trope, and it is in fact demonstrably wrong. TQQQ is up 160X from 10 years ago. UPRO is up like 60X in the same time period.

Leveraged ETFs "go to zero" in the event the index they track bounces around a mean value or stays dead flat. In the event the index exhibits positive directionality, they do the opposite of going to zero, and instead outperform the sticker leverage.

Over its history the UPRO 3X leveraged S&P 500 ETF has actually tracked about 5X the index.

So their confidence is misplaced, and instead, as I mentioned demonstrates their tendency towards low-risk capital preservation strategies. If you believe in the positive directionality of the NASDAQ moving forward, I doubt there's a better risk-reward profile than TQQQ as it caps your loss on downside while simultaneously exposing you to a lot more than 3X the upside.

[edited for tone not reading as friendly as intended] This doesn't look like going to zero to me ;) [1] Could it? Sure. It's risky.

I'd love to see your fund's performance analysis replacing BTC with TQQQ!

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/TQQQ
Good question. I do suspect it related to the value of land in proximity to major market, and command economy vs capitalism. Obtaining thousands of contiguous acres averaging 240 Wh per m^2 per day, close enough to demand to efficiently deliver it, may face tough competition with other real estate users. Couple that with actually having to compete, vs favorable eminent domain laws, and compelling interest in pollution reduction, and China & India very well may see larger installations.

Ballpark numbers with my own utility solar point to revenue of ~$50/000 per year per acre (paying 15¢/kWh, 50% above normal power rate). Equipment costs may be about $1,000,000 per acre ($250 per 1m^2 panels etc, 4000 square meter panels per acre). That’s 20 years just to break even on equipment. Now work in land cost (and making it viable) vs market rate per acre.
Right. The terms power and force are not trademarked, but anyone who tries to argue that physicists are using these terms incorrectly can expect to be laughed out of the room. That's as it should be.
To be fair, as a Rust fan I think Kotlin and Swift definitely do better in app development still. They have a lot of good language features and their communities are stellar.

I don't insist on everything being Rust. But it gets very close in many areas IMO.
Resellers are charging for games that are free
Rails 7 will have great answers to JavaScript in 2021
> The only people to ever write a merge sort are either in/preparing for an interview, and John von Neumann.

Do you mean "for the first time and without errors"? I assume that most people should be able to give an overview of how a merge-sort works, and a pseudocode implementation.
Use the Right Tool for the Job
You’re making a lot of assumptions about the braking capability of this plane. Notably you’re assuming that the plane was completely incapable of stopping in a shorter distance, ignoring pilot reaction time.

The report mentions that the pilots failed to apply maximum manual breaking till they were a good distance down the runway. A reasonable interpretation of this fact is that the pilots were afraid of locking up the wheels by accident, so they were applying the minimum breaking they though they could get away with. It was only when they were getting towards the end of the runway that the pilots realised they really needed to break a tad harder.

In short if the runway had been an extra 300feet long, the pilots would have still stopped the plane within 30ft of the end. It’s perfectly natural and completely rational for people to consume every ounce of available safety factor when your dealing with the unknown. So measuring the consumed safety factor after the fact isn’t inherently useful or indicative of what the actual minimum safety margin needed to be.

Additionally a runway excursion is not inherently dangerous, provided you don’t do it at high speed. It never going to be very good for the plane, but leaving the runway doesn’t automatically result in all the passengers dying.
Researchers at Cambridge University, University College London and Imperial College London, as well as international partners from Switzerland, Germany, the US and Austria found that

> For every tonne of carbon dioxide emitted, the global economy would be $3,000 worse off by the end of the century, they estimated.

This is because they observed that the time it takes for communities to recover from natural disasters takes more than a few months.

I would like to see the study(ies) the researchers put out so that I can see what kind of assumptions they made. I did not see their work referenced in the article.
In many games I would expect this to be the same as the clientside render distance for the door object, which isn't especially expensive to compute. The server has at least a rough approximation of this distance at all times, affected by lag.
Likewise, it's my my less experienced impression that some people just can't get (or at least it's overwhelmingly more difficult) basic programming concepts with even a visual building block system
Quake, for optimization reasons, did a lot of preprocessing on the geometry that makes up the world. This made it possible to render it on slow hardware. The process for one required the designer to make sure there were no cracks anywhere to fall through, because if you had one the preprocessing would fail.

The preprocessor divides the entire inside of the level into convex areas and builds a graph that expresses where they touch. So for movement, if you just make sure that you can only go from one area into another that according to the graph touches it, there simply is no way to move out of bounds because the out of bounds area is not in the graph at all.

This does mean though that you have a world that is mostly static, that consists only of indoor spaces and has a limited amount of complexity because otherwise the preprocessing results in an unmanageable amount of data. There is just no way you can preprocess the whole world like that in a modern open world game.
The article isn't exactly clear what's happening. Are they extracting natural gas (methane) that would normally stay in the ground, or are they flaring natural gas that would otherwise have leaked out?
Well you're disagreeing with the best practices of the industry.

Spolksy articulates it well here [1]

"Engineers are perfectly capable of walking through a problem with a candidate and almost immediately measuring their ability in how they approach it"

Software is not Engineering in the classical sense, and almost zero software is Engineering, and almost zero developers have a formal Engineering background.

The material reality of Software is understanding problems spaces and producing coherent solutions, sometimes at different scale, sometimes using different bits of tech, but a degree of coding ability is definitely a necessary aspect.

So if we adjust your statement: 'Only a developer can judge a developer' - of course - that's the point of leeting.

In what scenario would 'talking' in abstractions about something be more useful than 'actually doing it'?

Coding is a huge part of the job. Of course, it's not everything, and some devs. may have really strong skills and yet a narrow view of things, but that's actually easier to change.

Getting along is important as well, so that's why we have an interview ... but there's no avoiding leeting/close whiteboarding.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
> it's valid to say that American "Swedish Whites" and "Italian Whites" are far more culturally similar than they were a couple generations ago.

Ok, but if this is true [1], and it’s also necessarily true by your previous claims that Whites have different culture than Blacks in general, then why not capitalize White, since it is a name for a culture.

[1] given that Jews are usually considered ‘white’, and many Jews in fact do have distinct cultures - e.g. Brooklyn Jews, it’s hard to argue this.
Bold move, grabbing a three-letter name with widespread pre-existing meaning, but it looks like you might just have gotten away with it! Congratulations!
> who do they sell it to?

Aquaman?[0]

No, fair point, I didn't think that through. I suppose I thought that the whales would try to prop up the price (and increase their control) by buying out those who had lost confidence, but you're right that this isn't guaranteed, and nor is a return on investment for those leaving.

> That doesn’t sound like a safety mechanic to me.

Even if the doubters aren't able to exit without taking a loss, the risks of the cryptocurrency losing value should still provide a strong incentive for good management by those who hold a lot of it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw
This actually looks pretty cool and aligns with how I'd probably build a lisp.

I know the brackets are seen as heretical to all outside of Clojure, but it really helps the eyes IMO if you're not using a fancy editor or aren't super experienced with Lisp.

The stack is a really nice feature and I think merging the best of Lisp & Forth makes sense in some ways. I think some of the HP calculators supported a programming language called RPL which is a stack based (RPN) language with some lispy elements iirc.
This is how slashdot does moderation.
Yep, this is the same reason I uninstalled manyverse based on https://scuttlebutt.nz/ from my phone again as well, despite it not having any of my friends on it, joining any public room could download any sort of content onto my phone which I would then be responsible for. Cool idea in theory, questionable abusability in practice.
USD is backed by nothing. This isn't some random statement, it literally says so on the US treasury website.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...

> Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything

Fundamentally it's not really any better than cryptocurrencies. We can't easily transact with cryptocurrencies due to cultural reasons. We have coins right now that can be used to transact with complete privacy. People don't do it because culture is slow to change.

Worst case for cryptocurrencies is the whole Tether thing implodes. Not sure it ever will but hey, if the US government will bail out banks when they screw everything up, why not Tether as well?
English was/is not a creole. That's a misreading of things. Rather it was creolised. The linked Wikipedia article mentions this, but it could be more explicit. Old English didn't die out and get replaced by a weirdly similar yet simpler language, but evolved into Middle English over time.

Creoles are descended from pidgins that later become full languages, i.e., they become more complex. Creolised languages, on the other hand, are languages that simplify radically due to contact with other language groups. Now, the _outcome_ might be similar, but the difference in terminology is useful to distinguish the direction of change.

It doesn't take long for this kind of thing to happen, and we have prominent written evidence of this in the form of Afrikaans, which began as a creolised form of Dutch, which was already one of the more straightforward West Germanic languages.
Then that's even worse, no? That they blindly comply with a request without details.
The chia angle is quite fascinating tho, it is a machine that sucks the lifespan out of memory chips and cashes out with crypto-tokens. It is an invention that gives economic incentive to burn as many memory-cycles as you can before reselling the SSD, such that the recipient of the "new" SSD is ripped off.

It's kind of like how the electricity to create a bitcoin costs more than the market value of the mining reward, the only way to be profitable is to steal electricity. In chia's case, the best way to profit is to steal memory write-cycles.
Overly optimistic. If you stack 10 family homes the land is now 10x more valuable and gets taxed accordingly.
not sure about PH itself its not like HN where people would come to see what's new. PH is imho waste of time, maybe unless you have a product for other creators.
Is it a fair assumption that any code written in C / C++ / Objective-C has a high likelihood of allowing zero-click hacks?
California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices
Sure, but it's not trivial to create derivatives in the current system. You'll need to work closely with a financial institution that has the resources and relationships in place to seek regulatory approval. This pretty much restricts the financial space to college-educated people in the first world with wealth and connections.
The interesting part is watching people learn to become junior sysadmins - running Linux for the first time, teaching themselves a bit about storage, learning some shell scripting, dealing with firewall ports. Also learning the hard way not to run every scrap of PowerShell or Bash someone posts on the Internet.
A raw HTML file won’t scale if it’s served from a potato. ;) This probably has more to do with the host & servers than WordPress.
You are free to not copy it and people are free to continue to not use it. Seems simple to me.
Big words for someone who doesn't run on over 6 billion devices™!
You gotta love HN. Threads like this just makes you smile.
I know right!
This is the equivalent of Steve Wiebe about to battle Billy Mitchell but at the last minute Steve gets his job back and goes home.
I’m also getting these—no idea what the exploits actually are or how they work. Am I theoretically already exploited?
Where is the no trust model there though?

If riseup were a trap, they could do all the logging (in secret), find the activist, then do parallel construction for the actual evidence presented in court.
>SMS is also exploitable though, right

it's less feature rich, so presumably there's less attack surface.
Akkatecture – (maintainer) Lutando Ngqakaza has passed away on July 7th 2021
Some years ago, California tried to make it so that you had to pass Algebra II to graduate high school. I think the state backed down from that, because it meant only 25% of students could pass. Or maybe they just bowdlerized the definition of algebra II.

It’s too bad, because I don’t think anyone should be able to leave high school without understanding compound interest-sorta vital for participating in a modern economy. Also, it’s not like we can stop loaning money to the innumerate, even if that might be the ethical thing to do.
"open source" doesn't mean "accepting drive-by contributions from unknown authors". "open source" means "open source". If you want to apply your patches, you're free to fork the repo.
With a corollary, "the stock market can remain irrational long enough for you to profit from something valueless".

It's of course risky, but cruptocurrencies can be a perfectly valid source of money, as long as you just risk spare money. You don't need to trust it to be a valid investment, you just need to trust that enough people will believe it is.
Still, one of the coin's selling points is that low-energy for farming and verifying transactions. That is kind of moot if there's an economic incentive to burn SSDs to get your hands on these eco-friendly coins.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1271149M/Ain%27t_no_makin%27...
The benefit is receiving security updates. People may not choose to update their phones with security in mind, which is all the more reason to do it. Security updates is a place where consumers can be shortchanged simply because they are invisible, the consumer may not be aware that the security of their phone has been breached, and it is the sort of thing that consumers rarely think of until something bad has happened.

As for cost, I don't see why it would have to go up all that much. Apps are already upgradable on phones and much of the OS is hardware independent. So the only real pressure point is with the kernel and other hardware dependent code.
Why? It's really only in those contexts that's it's necessary to have it on hand. Unless you're in the context of needing it on-hand, it's trivia.