skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the earlier puzzles were most of the better ones.

What I sent in was the Add-a-gram (on that page, stashed behind the "Puzzle Archive" link). I sent one solution, and when they called, they admitted others were faster, so I redid it that evening ten times faster and sent that. What they never told me, even after I had been there for years, was that my second solution was faster than theirs or any others they had on file. It looks like they retired it right after I started there, maybe because I had shown it didn't actually require backtracking, which they were trying to filter for–ITA was mostly a Lisp shop, so they wanted people who would always reach for recursion first. My solutions were relentlessly iterative.

Some years after I left ITA, they posted the Bitvectors puzzle, which I had to solve, in a fever, but never sent off. (At the time I think it had a different name.) That solution also didn't require backtracking.
While I personally do not believe that those orgs "burned literally every ounce of trust they had to get Trump out of office," as I still trust many of them in terms of their skills and intentions, I greatly appreciated how, before that, you laid out your argument for trust overall, so thank you for taking the time to articulate it as you did.
PoS is much cheaper computationally than PoW so it absolutely does increase the throughput of a network.
Analyses and findings of unusual substitute materials in a raincoat from WWII
Farming is thankless, backbreaking, poorly-paid work that often is only viable because of subsidies the government provides, because the government recognizes that without farmers we'll all starve. And you're concerned that they're not paying their fair share. Fine. Good luck with that.
100% of them. In the face of trying to win the lottery, all human fallibility is accepted. It’s such an agnostic thing to take part in that we don’t judge anyone’s hubris, impulsiveness, recklessness, and of course, stupidity. It’s like being in a prison and watching someone think they are smart enough to make an escape attempt. There’s no judgement, every prisoner wishes to.

It’s freedom.
Hey, thanks!

That looks really cool, of course you can incorporate a puzzle!

I don't have data on solution times, but I think it's very different for an individually-solved series of similar puzzles and a group escape room-style puzzle. My recommendation would be to prefer a puzzle that requires an "Aha!" moment and from there is relatively quick, rather than a more meticulous one that requires tweaking parameters and messing around a lot.
There are definitely electronic Braille reading devices. They're called refreshable braille displays, and are often also combined with a specialized keyboard.

Wider adoption could conceivably improve these interfaces through more users and commercial interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
I believe the first pre-condition is that people actually need to care about their opinion being reflective of the truth. This is not a natural thing to care about, because it doesn't give you social capital directly (quite the contrary: having an opinion that is reflective of the truth can hurt your social standing in many, many places).

So before we ask how people could maybe we should ask how we get them to actually want this?
FINALLY an article that looks at the basic scientific fundamentals of this. Lab-grown meat, similar to carbon removal tech, is currently super hyped in the mainstream media.

Like Pat Brown, founder of Impossible usually says, paraphrasing: "There is no such thing as lab-grown meat, and there will never be. If somebody figures out how to grow cells reliably in a bioreactor, it will make much more sense to sell it as organs for use in medicine than to eat it (financially)."

It just doesn't make sense to grow meat in the lab if we can make it from plant proteins directly. Period.

What makes me sad and angry about the startups and billions of VC money that goes into this is that we need to reduce emissions NOW. We don't have time to fuck around with sci-fi tech that maybe brings down the price of lab-grown meat to a level that the top 10% of the population might afford it, in 10 or 20 years. It has been proven that there are great ways to make meat alternatives from plant proteins directly, we should invest time and money into expanding that!

On a side note, I think for a lot of people the existence of research and startups on lab-grown meat is an excuse to continue eating meat. They say that once it's there, I'll of course switch over. But they are not ready to switch over to alternatives like Impossible burgers that are just as good now.
Sustainable solar cell leans on copper to claim world-record efficiency
Both of these are true, but not necessary for the argument. "One bitcoin in the world traded once" is an extreme edge case where the normally negligible factors dominate the calculation.

Consider instead that there is one bitcoin, that one hundred people sell to each other in a long chain, for varying prices, playing a small fee each time. If you add up the cash inflow and outflows, you will get a net negative per person equal to the average fee paid.
What the heck am I supposed to do now Cloudflare?
I heard it’s the same for eggs, their omega-3 to omega-6 ratio can completely change depending on how the chicken are fed, even maybe their activity.
Zig Showtime – AWS Rust
This should give you a rough indication of typical fees across L2s https://l2fees.info/
I don't think echo chambers are a bad thing. You can't verify everything yourself, so you can delegate some subset of your opinions to someone else, and be diligent about verifying that they're not leading you astray.

I've gone through a lot of different echo chambers in my life. From a traditionalist Catholic school to an ultra-liberal public university, and then spent time trying to orient myself and bouncing through a few different ideologies.

Some lines of thinking I've used to determine if I've found the right echo chamber, which, thankfully, I now have.

1. Is the world-view grounded in positive rhetoric? Do the practices and beliefs encourage building up both group members and the group as a whole? If not, there's a good chance you're being manipulated to serve someone else's purposes.

2. Does the group encourage you to think and reason for yourself? You're choosing this group so that you don't have to think about everything for yourself. But in the end you are responsible for your own life, so if a group is telling you to defer to an outside authority, tells you not to critically think about decisions, or tells you that certain topics on inquiry are off limits, stay away.

3. Does the world view accurately predict what will happen? Many ideologies are great at shoe-horning their narrative on past events, and many are great at coming up with logical arguments that are meant to be confusing and hard to refute, but the proof is in the predictive nature of the world-view.

4. Related to the above, when there's a failure in world-view, does the group have a mechanism of incorporating and learning from those failures?
Read the rest of the comment, please. This has no effect on the outcome of the calculation if the trading continues over a longer time.
Why It's So Hard to Make Nuclear Weapons
Lack of leadership is why BTC elevated a con artist pretending to be satoshi and is still arguing over block size.

I think hard improvements require effective coordination and someone who can pull that off. Vitalik is part of the reason I think ETH is more likely to be successful than competitors in the space (in addition to their head start).
Try applying for a visa to some countries and yes, they will ask. Some countries deny visas to first world royalty for disease history. China denied people with HIV for a long time. Some African countries require vaccinations for some diseases. Some places require vaccinations for people coming from poorer countries.

The angle you're coming from seems to be be that Americans, etc should be treated specially and not be checked. Go to the wrong country with that expectation and reality will hit you hard.
Sxmo: A minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices, such as the PinePhone
The Workation Village
Once you deploy it it will be there, forever running on a decentralized immutable computation machine which is made up of nodes and miners all over the world being incentivized a certain way.

That kind of certainty has a beauty to it.
It is not. Dividends, stock buybacks and the value of voting rights change the situation. Trading some stocks might still be a negative-sum game, but not all. However, all cryptocurrencies are.
Sure, a few times per week, at a cost of spending quite some hours hunting, for a much smaller population.
> the timer that spawned Doom's speedrunning culture

Could you elaborate on that? I'm aware of speedrunning (it's fun to watch!) but I don't know anything about "the timer".
Before I got the Topping E30 DAC, I was using the Apple USB-C headphone jack adaptor, which is a great and cheap little DAC. You can read the review with measurements on Audio Science Review.
If you want SPDIF output, you should consider the Topping D10s, also reviewed on ASR.
> where does the code actually execute? what's the code writen in?

On every Ethereum node that verifies it. It's usually written in Solidity and compiled to EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) bytecode (so it can also be written in other higher-level languages).

> whats stopping malicious code running?

It's sandboxed and since it's limited to the EVM, there isn't really any "malicious" code that could break out of the EVM AFAIK. Inside the EVM it's probably more of a philosophical question whether any code can actually be considered "malicious".
Wish this article gained more traction on HN, very interested in what quantum tech savvy folks have to say about this.
Yes, bitcoin is functionally exactly like a pyramid scheme, even if it may not intentionally be run as one.
I found someone I could talk to; I set low expectations about my ability to talk and asked someone to correct me as needed. That's it.
> Other blockchains technology that support higher throughput are providing exactly the same capabilities for a few pennies

There are many networks that claim to do this, but we have yet to see how this is going to play out. A big question here is if these networks are in practice as resistant to attacks and decentralized as (post DAO) ETH.
> Like semiconductor fabs, keep it clean and automated.

Lets hope not. That's one of the reason why they are so expensive
> Le Monde Diplomatique

...which also uses RSS ( mondediplo.com/rss )! Unfortunately, that other suggestion, ground.news, does not seem to.
Ahh yes, semiconductor fabs, well-known for their low startup and operation costs...
Nothing and I haven't said otherwise.

MSL is a C++14 dialect, while everything else in Metal is Objective-C.

Metal demos done in Swift make use of language bindings.
"First worlders" often are visa exempt when visiting non first world countries as well or visas are online and easily attainable.

Most tourist attracting countries that require visa for some, don't make one submit any medical info for both first world and mid tier countries.
It's the standard definition, where inflation is a change in the price level, and the nominal GDP is defined as the real GDP times the price level Y×P. Since GDP is a just a sum of income components, of which one is wages, an increase in the price level implies a proportional increase in wages.
> I listen to or read probably 8hrs of news at double speed (so 16hrs) a day.

> I intentionally listen to as many varied opinions as possible. For stories I try to find the source material and then can decide better for myself any bias.

How do you have time to track down sources? Last news story that I track the original source for took about 30mins (from mainstream, to local news, to primary sources), and it revealed that mainstream story was correct. I'd need a big team of people to critically look at 16 hours of news a day.
The Theoretical Limit of Radar Target Detection
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09941.pdf
How do you handle issues of consistency once you need to scale your app server across multiple nodes? Under the assumption that in the past much of this would be handled in the database, are there any guidelines regarding what state to maintain in the app server in order to avoid any issues? Or is this just a non-problem?
What is up with fly.io prices in India? It’s 3 times more than in Asia even.
> 300 DPI

That seems a strange thing to claim in this context. I can make a 300 DPI image that's 1px by 1px. It's the number of pixels that counts for raster images - not the "suggested output size" (which is what DPI essentially is without further context)
> bank accounts or travel (blanket! Not certain countries)

This is also the first I’ve heard of even considering denying banking to unvaccinated. Denied banking seems pointlessly vindictive to me also.

Travel, however… well, I think it can be argued that any form of mass transit (including aircraft) should be temporarily unavailable without a vaccine in locations where the incidence rate is still high, but only in combination with an equally temporary government subsidy for their salaries so that the people who have genuine medical issues preventing vaccination don’t starve, and homeschool provision for kids not entitled to the vaccine and their parents, and similar for other legit exemptions.

Unvaccinated people are a danger to themselves and others, after all. Some (kids, immunosuppressed, etc.) will need a carrot because they know that and don’t have a meaningful choice to be otherwise without intervention; others I think need a stick, though I accept I’m not politically astute and such might backfire spectacularly, and has done in the past for some but not all vaccination drives.

Edit:

Banning a private family that lives together anyway from taking a trip in their own car would also be pointless, and feel vindictive to me.
I understand what you are saying. But your argument is true when you are bootstrapping a product. When you have already raised a pre-seed, whichbis what many companies are doing today. What have told a narrative to the investors to raise capital. When campaigns fail, it implies your narrative was incorrect and your understanding about the domain and market was wrong. Which might not be on entrepreneurs favour. When you are building a high growth startup these little lasting events can make or break. I have seen it happening with many companies.
It really depends on the use case.

If the use case is tablet-like functionality, any convertible design simply doesn't work. Using a 700g tablet is already barely comfortable for long usage; a 1.2+ kg one is essentially unusable. In my opinion, it's a great marketing success (in other words, a scam).

For other use cases, I really have no idea what's the user base. I definitely recognize the (relative) innovation of the new functionality, but I have the suspicious that very few users actively use it.
The convertible idea itself has been around for a long time, and based on my experience, it doesn't work in practice (in other words, it's a very
to continue the analogy; idk if dying from starvation is worse than dying from food-poisoning (quantitative and qualitative).

moot point anyways, as google is not (yet) in the business of essential services. they can hand out literal shit and it's totally fine.
Every contract has to be verified by every node on the network, usually many many times over. The network is huge.
People approach things at different levels of abstraction and argue with people at a different level. You saw this all the time in the pandemic. At one level of abstraction it is about the physics and biology of body fluids. At another level it is about reducing some statistics in a population. And at another level it is about economics. One person is thinking about snot dynamics and another about the economy. That's crazy!

All these things have models and data. And when you mix it together you get politics. The underlying data gets lost in that mix of things that would be a false dichotomy in an ideal world. We all have to become more nuanced in our understanding of the world but can't keep up. Instead we battle it out with increasingly strained heuristics.
Just a sidenote, use of chording keyboard in computing is as old as the mouse: allen-riley.com/internetstenography/chorded_keyboard_engelbart.jpg
If the whole world uses DigitalOcean for NFTs sure, but maybe we end up in a world where there are many providers. And not one that controls everything (by which point it's not centralized). Similar to right now many crypto is stored in exchanges but not one exchange holds all.
The data would be in the server database not in memory hogged by state for each client's active connection.

I seriously don't understand server-side rendering when toasters are more powerful than a mid tier pc i bought 15yrs ago. Why not do apis and just send the data?
With a captcha for me this time though (first time this happened to me for archive.is).
Can I change shortcuts to emacs friendly ones?
Until we move to E2EE, we will all get policed for the wrong reasons, even if the files we have are legit.

The scale of some things has forced people to use non humane flagging, and to comply with some tyrannical government requests. The best solution? NAS it or use E2EE providers only.
The question is, why was these run time error not caught by unit tests? Probably because there wasn't any tests - which means the code likely have numerous logical errors. Static typing is great, but it will not prevent against logical errors. So without testing you will have bugs in any language you rewrite in.
Sure. But then the problem becomes the highly political question of who should be trusted. If you rank people from most to least trustworthy, fact checkers just aren't at the top of the list. In today's world we can go right to the academics or people with primary sources.

Why would a fact checker have any authority to declare Finland does or does not exist? It would be better to listen to someone reliable who is interested in satellites. A fact checker might easily turn out to simply be reading Wikipedia.

Small Voice Does Taiwan exist?
Sure, and my point was that mostly the friction in Smalltalk's case, was not reading the documentation and having an opinion without Smalltalk experience.
So far so good just default parameters plus an 8gb heap.

>unspecified behaviour
Also the accepted answer on 100+ different websites for how to choose single jars from a folder at runtime that still compiles but now excepts with no easy replacement or even explanation of how to replace it.
If i get time i might write up how i fixed it.
Introduction to Neural Network Verification [pdf]
The use of neologisms such as "because math" in the middle of this piece do have the effect of dumbing-down and trivialising this guy's amazing work.
Certainly an essay being written in book form is not a guarantee of higher quality, but incentives and dispositions towards different types of media do matter at least a bit.

The act of reading a book encourages the - let's admit it - painstaking act of actively questioning what's being said, cross-checking when necessary, and eventually reaching your own conclusions in a way that Twitter hot takes don't.

The intuition and discipline it takes to apply that kind of rigor takes time to develop, arguably a lifetime.
Probably because your team is winning, at least in terms of institutional power.
Requiring immunization is a cost-saving measure for countries accepting travelers. The last thing a poor country needs is richer people coming in, getting sick, and ending up hospitalized all while infecting other people.

And the system has hundreds of years, if not millennia, of history. Before immunization was available, quarantines were mandatory even for people without visible illnesses around the world. It's only in 2020 that the idea of this become controversial and some people acted like it was unprecedented through exposure to echo chambers.
The Billion Dollar Code: Release Date, Cast, and More
In one of the fastest languages, X==A :-)
I tried it with the New Yorker article on Sid Meier that is in the front page right now. Results:

Xeno Prima (key idea):

Even Meier’s memoir is the result of a collaboration with Jennifer Lee Noonan, a former sound designer for video games. Even Miyamoto had help; his worlds were enriched by the Tolkienist storytelling of his colleague Takashi Tezuka, and, as Melissa Wood and France Costrel’s Netflix series “High Score” shows, by the many illustrators and sound designers who touched the games. Meanwhile, Meier had started working with Shelley, the board-game designer, who gently nit-picked Meier’s sprawling world-building. “Make sure the player is the one having fun.” Game designers want to impress the players, Meier knew, but players want to impress themselves.

Xeno Secunda (main gist):

Meier released Civilization thirty years ago this month, after developing it with Bruce Shelley, a veteran board-game designer. The pair were inspired by the illustrated history books you might find on a middle-school library shelf, and by titles like Seven Cities of Gold (1984), a video game of Spanish conquest created by the designer Danielle Berry. The game is put together by hundreds of hands, from producers, designers, illustrators, and coders to marketers, play testers, and skin-modding fans. Even Meier’s memoir is the result of a collaboration with Jennifer Lee Noonan, a former sound designer for video games.

Quite impressive! Bookmarked, kudos!
That's cute. Now if you want to add a few modules like KYC, make it upgradeable (need to deploy a proxy and a proxy admin) and gasless (deployment through a forwarder) and you'll be around ~3000$.

I mention those modules as those are the ones needed to provide the same services as a notary. This raise the issue that ETH is starting to no longer be competitive with the establishment. It's a bit aggravating as for many this was the main purpose.
Review, usage and repair of the Framework laptop
There is also Django Unicorn (https://www.django-unicorn.com/docs/), which is an implementation of LiveView for Django.
> Trust that bridges are built correctly,

The interesting thing about trust in bridges is that it works even after people witness spectacular bridge collapses in their country/area.

For example in 2018 a bridge collapsed in Genova, Italy, killing 49 people. At least another two smaller incidents involving collapsed bridges near where I live.

And yet people keep crossing bridges every day. You just couldn't function in a modern society if you got paralyzed by fear of bridges; there always were bridges since you were a child and long before; thus you reach the conclusion that such catastrophic events are outliers. I don't think it's because you trust in engineers or society or something like that; you trust yourself and your past experience that you and your friends and family crossed bridges thousands of times and you're still alive
Quake: Let's not forget the NIN-composed soundtrack!
Examples of what can't be done in Logic and what can?
We could all use posts like this:

Leaving the Insert Big Tech ecosystem behind

The deal is that capital is very cheap for Insert Big Tech and the cost of customer acquisition is so easy. So at some point, the economies of scale and subsequent monetization can only be reversed by intentionally moving to smaller providers or making informed choices on supporting other businesses.

IMO - This is not a convenience factor for most people, but for those willing to embrace it, it will open up your way - and compensate many software companies very well.
There’s little to indicate it will be there forever. Today’s computers are tomorrow’s stone tablets.
Terravision (1994) a prequel to Google Earth
This is a very simplistic view as the source code alone may not be enough to build/fix most complex closed source application. You have IDEs that may be costly and expensive components that you cannot release the development builds, etc.