skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can handle being 'exiled' from the past permanently, what difference does it really make?
> isn't that just how LPDDR is in general? It has much narrower channels than DDR so you need much more of them?

Well yeah. But 400GBps is equivalent to 16x DDR4 channels. Its an absurdly huge amount of bandwidth.
It didn't seem like the person you're responding to was saying "Roko's Basilisk is a real thing".
> How are these companies providing 8%+ return on stable coins?

Aave/Compound/Curve/Benqi <- decentralized non custodial overcollateralized lending protocols.

These centralized and incorporated companies [basically a big bulls eye saying "please screw me over, here, I'll make it very easy for you for governments"] use Aave/Curve/Compound on behalf of their users who are too lazy/ignorant to do it themselves, plus maybe some economies of scale with cost of gas fee on ethereum.

Right now on benqi (compound fork on avalanche), one can supply DAI and get 8.09% APY in DAI alone (there's more APY in other tokens but I don't like to count those since those incentives come and go), but it fluctuates based on borrower demand/pricing model used in the smart contracts [0].

By supplying DAI, using it as collateral to borrow more dai (up to 75% for dai, different collateral factors for non stablecoins, i think max 60% of collateral value, some with 0%[which means it cannot be used as collateral but it can be lent/borrowed, USDT is like this]) and then depositing it back in again, you can get more yield on that minus the borrowing costs if there are protocol rewards/incentives to be liquidated for more dai.

There's also providing stablecoin <-> stablecoin liquidity on dexes and collecting fees on each swap.

[0]: compounds jump rate model: https://github.com/compound-finance/compound-protocol/blob/m...
I had tubeless with my last bike. Maybe it was just my setup but I pretty consistently had flat tires when the temp dropped below zero (which, admittedly, is a weird time to be on your bike).

I think the rim just contracted too much to maintain the seal.
Interestingly, Snow Crash is mentioned in the first episode, where the two meet(the coder and the visionary), where they talk about which books they've read, and can't believe they have the same tastes.
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UK govt issuing heat pump grants worth £5k to kickstart low carbon heating
None of the companies mentioned are even in the same market as the predatory lenders you seem to be confusing them with. I'd wager they want to be subjected to the same oversight as "legitimate"(aka incumbent) players, but as has been shown time and time again, cooperating with the existing regulatory bodies when one is not a part of the club is akin to talking to a brick wall. Why HN wants to carry water for massive incumbent banks and their lackeys in the bureaucracy is beyond me.
“Keeping the meatbag alive” is what makes it travel. Unmanned flight isn't travel.
If they're contractors I can't "easily" find their salaries, since they aren't listed on levels.fyi (and other sources e.g. glassdoor are grossly unreliable). And, uh, I think the proper point of comparison there would be to line them up with the compensation of contractor devs; from what I hear they also earn substantially less than FTEs.
Japan used to have quite a few public trash cans, but they were widely removed particularly from public transport as a security theater overreaction to the Tokyo sarin subway attacks in 1995. But drink vending machines do nearly universally have a trash can next to them, which is (supposed to be) used only for recycling cans.
> vandalism is generally explained as a response to a social hierachy

Japan is even more hierarchical than the US. Their vending machines are fine.
Isn't this to be expected though?

Early on, optimizations are everywhere which allow you to pick the low hanging fruit. Ideally, this gets passed onto the consumer.

However, over time, the optimizations become more costly to develop and less of them exist.

Just the other day I got a notification from GCP about new Spot Instances driving prices down by 80% which exceeds their existing preemtible instances.

Similarly with AWS releasing Graviton instances offering better performance and cheaper pricing.

I think egress fees have always been the catch, and I don't think they've seen much price changes over time. So I am excited to see it, but I wonder how much of that is due to the current one directional nature of cloud migration.

Most people are moving to a single cloud. As a result, there probably hasn't been a ton of demand to negotiate the outbound movement. We can debate the merits of the lock in nature, but I don't think that technological improvements really help here. This is just a decision to charge for bandwidth or not.
I found your description of Lawsons kind of funny since Japan also has their fair share of 7-11s.
It almost has, it's just playing the long long game. People don't replace their monitors, tvs and projectors constantly but eventually they will all be bundled in with usb-c cables. Last time I was in an office, every cable had a usb-c dongle stuck to it permanently.
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Mixed DPI still doesn't work reliably for me on Windows. Lately mine has been confused with dragging windows between monitors, they'll get stuck on the border when dragging even though I can move my cursor across fine when not dragging anything.

It could be unrelated to the mixed DPI scaling, but that's what nearly all my display issues on Windows have been related to so that's my assumption.
This has also been ported to Android!

https://github.com/xyzz/openmw-android

I made pretty significant progress on my phone with a Razer Kishi. Pretty fun.
>greenhouse gas
How is HN of all places this out of touch?
They essentially market themselves as "S3 without the surprise costs" as well as "trust as more than amazon" which I think they hold up to. What they lack is the insane amount of reliability and scalability that S3 offers. I'm not saying this as a fanboy of S3. They (aws) have their share of issues and AWS has never been transparent about their pricing structure. If you don't believe me there just Google "surprise AWS costs". Just like everything in life B2 is a tradeoff. I love healthy competition and I hope backblaze continues to crush it!
I didn't evaluate its sources, but thought the writing in Debt was excellent. The typical pattern throughout was for Graeber to introduce an idea in a paragraph, for me to think of several "what about..." and "hm, I dunno"s for it, and for Graeber to spend the next few paragraphs addressing all of those, directly.
Patents, trademark, and copyright pretty clearly serve to empower the aristocrats.

A good idea will win on its merits or fail.

Legal ownership of ideas just tether us to paying Disney and Google’s of the world in perpetuity as they buy everything up.

We basically live in a state sanctioned system of quota and expropriation of effort. It’s not violent like the USSR, so we look beyond it.

And we spend a lot of energy policing it all.
What does that regex match?
The American equivalent identifier is including punctuation (full stops, periods, sometimes even question marks) inside quotations, even when that punctuation was never part of the quote.

Although that seems to be much less common online than in print.
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that (nearly) 100% of the galaxy's solar systems except the one we're currently in are (likely) unreachable within your lifetime.

Though to be fair, I think the original title can't possibly know this, for instance if we live in a simulation, what's to say that some sort of algorithm (assuming we learn to meta-code our own existence) could put us in any galaxy we choose... Or warp drives, worm holes... light speed travel hardly seems worth the trouble, and unfeasable.. but if we can master warp drives, and bending space around us... then is there a limit on max speeds? If we can actually reprogram the universe would there be anything we couldn't do? have any other alien civilizations realized that at all?
If you think a book review takes too long to get to the point, do I have some bad news for you about books....
I wonder if you could use this to tell programming languages apart.
Having worked in HFT for many years now, this absolutely rings true. I would add, backtesting a meme stock strategy sounds like an exercise in over fitting. There are so few previous examples to look at. And all for something that rarely happens, relative to how many stocks are out there and how many trading days there are in a year.
Massively inefficient compared to something like the certificate authority system, and you could have a "certificate transparency log" like system if needed.

You don't need a blockchain to do signatures or other cryptographic operations, and in fact the blockchain is the worst way to do it if you do not have adversaries trying to make double-spends.

It's much harder to write correct code if you have to give equal power to all peers, while also trusting no-one.

It's much easier to do what most systems do, which is trust every peer more or less (aka the SMTP style usual federation), or trust a small number of well-known supernodes (aka the CA system, the DNS system, the BGP system, etc).

All of those systems for distributing information of various kinds are vastly easier to reason about, operate, etc, than blockchains.
A test of human intuition for mean-reverting processes
You are asked one mathematically subtle question about mean-reverting processes.

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It almost never gets commented on but you can sneeze on the usb-C ports on the MacBook Pro and they will unseat enough to stop charging. It’s a shame the standard didn’t get notches like lightning cable which can easily hold the weight of a dangling iPhone pro max.
If we're in a simulation...couldn't we learn to reprogram/hack the sim, and just put our spaceships in another galaxy?
If you see relative clauses, that have extraneous commas, they may be German. They're also likely, to put them before infinitives.

And in Commonwealth English you might find:—

- the 'dog's bollocks', a colon followed by a dash or hyphen.

Group numbers by the myriad? 1,0000,0000 times more likely to be East Asian.
> Vararg functions also have limited use.

This is only because people are using statically typed language that place arbitrary restrictions on such functions and make them harder to use. In dynamically typed languages, vararg functions are widely used and enable patterns that are pretty nice.
> I have owned macbooks only since 2017 and found the older (2011 era) aesthetic design to be bulky and not too appealing. I own a 2020 model, which looks sharp and professional.

There used to be a time when what people considered “professional hardware” was versatility and durability over pure aesthetics. I’m not saying we can’t have both form and function with professional grade hardware but with the later iterations of the MBP Apple have put form ahead of function and then trained an entire generation of developers to look at hardware superficially. I honestly weep for the industry if this is the path we are destined to continue down.
Yes and no. There are many variables to take into account. An example from the early days of the PPC architecture was their ability to pre-empt instructions. This gave performance boasts even in the absence of a higher clock speed. I can't speak specifically on the M1, but there are other things outside of clock speed and cores that determine speed.
Beyond OUR reach. I am sure extreme advanced civilization are capable of traveling 3-dimensional space without considering 4th dimension (time). Just like we can use video-recorder to record 3D world and put it on a 2D film to watch on a 2D screen, if advanced ET figured out ways to travel without consideration for time, then then switch from one point to another happens instantaneously. Whether its going from one room to another, or from one place in Universe to another, far far away. To them Einstein theories or articles like this one are just "thing of being a human-being".
Single connector, the 3.1 spec goes up to 5A at 48V. You need new cables with support for the higher voltages, but your "multiple plugs for more power" laptop is exactly the sort of device it's designed for.

It was announced earlier this year, so not in wide use yet. PDF warning: https://usb.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/USB%20PG%20USB%2...
So, the M35 Mako from Mass Effect. Elon should get on it.
They're not in the file-reading business. There's a staggering variety of 3D object file formats, both open and proprietary, so it's logical enough to let the application worry about reading the geometric data and converting it to the representation needed for physics simulation.
SPACs don't even have a business idea, and they trade above cash. They literally sell the potential of possibly getting into some sort of business one day.
Mac laptops have supported clamshell since at least 2000.
Yeah, I’m actually curious if there’s a new major release or feature launch that I missed. I keep tabs on the project, didn’t think anything new suddenly happened.
Mmmh. Probably.

I'd throw an asterisk on this... technology advances in ways we don't expect, and the definition of "lifetime" might become very fuzzy very quickly.

(I don't think I'd put 50/50 odds on it... but I wouldn't put 1/99 odds on it either).
Maybe just too heavy.
yeah but maybe you really like your dog
Skynet operates on a freemium model where users get 20mbps and 100 GB of storage for free and significantly more if they pay (80mbps and 1 TB for $5/mo). This is what pays the bills, and also how things stay pinned.
> What lessons did we learn that led to this being so highly regulated like it is?

Is this a rhetorical question?
What if we're in a simulation, and algorithmically there's a way or method that will drop you in any coordinate at any time in the universe's timeline so that you can indeed explore space, and return home for dinner? I mean it'd require a TARDIS to exist probably lol, but in a sim, why not? Of course if we're in a sim, then that's probably not part of our overall 'goal' for creation, and likely we're the only creatures created so exploration really won't satisfy us, other than total galactic conquest, but then what?
Reading the argument he does seem right. Simply being the owner of something successful does not prove that you caused the success, and if your definition of merit is "owning a profitable stake" and nothing else then you haven't actually shown them to be meritorious, just asserted it.
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One strong advantage of MuJoCo is its plain vanilla C bindings. Hardwiring an API like this to C++ or Python makes life much harder than necessary for users of other languages. Conversely, it's very easy to wrap a well-thought-out C API in your language of choice.

Super impressed with the data structures (and documentation) they've already released.
Does anyone have a handle on how the new M1X is expected to perform on Deep Learning training runs vs a NVIDIA 1080Ti / 2080Ti. I think the 400 Gbps bandwidth and 64 GB unified memory will help - but can anyone extrapolate based on the M1 ?
That doesn’t prevent the kind of accidents that mag on machine does.
Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies (2017)
This post is quite nice in naming the people who did all the improvements. During this time, I was at a company trying to fit browser tech into consumer electronics, so we had to build the technology to run on actual inexpensive and cheap systems. Which became a core unmentioned technology, now called AJAX. Several engineers went to keyhole right at the time of the Google purchase, and did very well. Also remember Earth did little for Google, it was all maps - which had no flying demo, it was just 2d (ish) and useful.
Author should learn some modern css (I say this in jest)
The notch is the most stupid feature. The stupid touch bar is gone but here you must swallow this. Apple just likes to screw you one way or the other.
On the Nature of Data (Jeffrey D Ullman)
so there's an estimated 200 billion galaxies...still leaves us 12 billion.... I mean how greedy are we?
I think the answer might be that the lowest large portion of their society—aside from some marginalized groups and outliers, talking the broad base of their social pyramid—is their working class, not something else even lower. There's enough affinity or in-group feeling among the working class that it's not divided into a whole bunch of categories, with some very low ones indeed that are very clearly and visibly way under the top of that stratum, but into a smaller set that still consider each other fairly similar and "one of us", for where-am-I-on-the-social-hierarchy purposes.

(pure speculation)
Not at all. It's strange to me how paternalistic HN seems to get on this front. I would love concrete examples.
There's a bunch of smt passives visible on the top side. Insufficient decouplers though so those are likely on the back.
Here are live stats about dai (and including its collateralization)[0]

[0] https://daistats.com/#/overview
You don’t want stream replication for scale, you want it for availability and durability. The number of times replication has saved my ass is too damn high.

And you want Kafka (or something like it) the moment you need two processes handling updates which again you probably want for availability reasons so a crash doesn’t stop the stream.

You also don’t catch deletes or updates with this setup. But there’s a million db to Kafka connectors that read the binlog or pretend to be a replica to handle this.
The content seems good but it's hard to get used to the pompous style.
I have no idea if 508 compliance does anything to help. After 10 minutes of reading, all I have found are nonsense websites that have not specified a single concrete aspect of what it might mean, except putting alt text in images.

I've certainly heard of 508 in the context of WCAG, but I don't know what benefit it could give unless it actually prescribed accelerator keys with consistent visual hints about what it those accelerator keys would be.

Web designers and developers spend way too much time mucking with React or other frameworks, spoiling the natural usability of web browsers. They are more concerned with restyling forms away from the platform's native, visually identifiable controls, than they are with making forms usable or speedy or consistent.

Old terminal based text entry systems were so much better at data entry than the crap we've built since then. I really wish that at least one web framework would take this seriously, given how prevalent web based data system are. Instead, we get a constant churn of harder to use, slower, and more and more abstract web frameworks.
Are numbers read right-to-left in Arabic script, as in ones first, then tens, etc.?

Edit: this led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to find the history of alphabets and writing direction for Turkish and Farsi, but I still don't know the answer to the number order question.
I respectfully disagree. What Shulgin did simply represented rational science and protocols for self experimentation. He established some of the best possible harm reduction methodologies, and communicated his knowledge to the world through PIKHAL and TIKHAL. Through those books he's saved countless lives and minds as people used and shared his guidelines.

He was a subtle rebel, who played by the rules and they kept changing the rules until they could shackle his research.

The context of the war on drugs and the vastly restrictive IP laws created the current culture of drug development and research. That culture is dominated by the pseudo capitalism and monopolistic death grip Big Pharma has on drugs in general, and their development and manufacture in particular.

People absolutely should be allowed to self experiment, and knowledge should be freely available. Shulgin and his wife showed virtually no I'll effects after a life of responsible drug use - he lived to a vigorous 89, and his wife is still kicking around at 90! I wish their brand of drug use had taken deep root in American culture such that substance use was appreciated and respected and approached with the caution it deserves. If high school children were given drug use education, and pharmacies were a legal source of all drugs without the asinine scheduling prohibitions, so many tragedies could have been avoided.

Even most doctors don't prescribe drugs as responsibly and carefully as they should, and people are ignorant and ill prepared for anything that happens. They could use Shulgin's approach, carefully increasing dosage and providing patients with a common verbal framework with which to describe their experience.

Anyway, sorry to rant. Shulgin is a hero to me - a gentle rebel who made his PhD count for something he believed in.
Apple compares the M1 Max as having similar performance to a nVidia's 3080 Laptop GPU, which scores around 16,500 on passmark. For comparison, the AMD 6900 XT desktop CPU scores 27,000, while the nVidia 3080 desktop GPU scores 24,500.

So the M1 Max is not as fast as a high end desktop GPU. Still, it is incredible that you are getting a GPU that performs slightly less than a last generation 2080 desktop GPU at just 50-60 watts.
Isn’t such an e-mail subject to and potentially in violation of election campaign and financing laws? Not to mention the CAN SPAM act.
So people in present-day Austria are time-travelers?
I remember seeing Dune in the theatre, but what I remember more was being handed a single sheet glossary on my way in that explained all the characters and what they were about.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/dune-confusing-1984-...

Test screenings gone bad? Nervous studio? Was the glossary itself an experiment? I never found out.
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I like the notch. It makes the phone look different to every other glass slab on the market.