skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as we can tell the primary motivation of most people playing the game is the hope to earn money, and the business model is sustained primarily by the pace of new user growth.

SLP's price is supported by demand to breed new Axies -- it is consumed and then a new Axie is created -- and so demand for new Axies props up the value of SLP. But additionally there is some speculative value to SLP based on expectations for what will happen with the game itself.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Web 3.0?
I've heard the term thrown around a lot recently and I was curious what this community thinks about the term and the trend?

It seems like the term "web 3.0" has been used for a while now and has been applied to different things from an AI-focused web to the more recent iteration where it's being used to describe the trend towards user-own decentralised services and blockchain applications.

While we've seen a few decentralised technologies emerge in recent years (mastodon, blockchain, etc) I'm quite sceptical of how far this decentralised movement will go. Aside from digital currencies, useful applications of Blockchain seem relatively niche and a significant push towards decentralisation more generally seem unlikely given the lack of economic incentives for the established players (MS, FB, Google, Apple) to allow users to own their own data and services.

I generally tend to be quite sceptical of tech trends though so I'm curious if there's anything I'm missing here or if there's something I should be looking into?
There's this PCB design course that was posted on HN a couple weeks ago, teachmepcb.com, so I'll be spending a couple hours on that.

Other than that, I need to replace all 3 smoke alarms in the house that are expiring soon, and replace a toilet fill valve. The joys of home ownership.
The funny thing is (mentioned briefly in the article) SDL just released a geometry API so pushing geometry to the renderer is easy now. Dear ImGui already updated their SDL renderer for it.
Could we simply use another muon beam as a detector?
Don't be afraid to ask questions. Also, avoid scope creep if you can. Good luck!
For each pixel on the display, you derive a (not necessarily integer) pixel coordinate on the original image. The top-left display pixel may be at (0, 0) on the image. The next pixel to the right is at (0, 0.333) on the image.

So say you're dealing with the pixel at (0, 1.333). You take the pixels at (0, 0), (0, 1), (0, 2), and (0, 3), and you run a cubic interpolation to find the value at 1.333. (You do this three times, for red, green, and blue).

If you're at non-integer coordinates in both directions, then you run an interpolation that is cubic in both directions (that is, a bi-cubic interpolation).
Lisp is a linked list, where first item describes what to do with rest of list. And with infinite memory.

There is also very particular textual representation of Lisp.

But there could be others.
Except it's often a high drag portion of flight, flaps and gear extended etc.

Asking if you've been on a plane that entered a holding pattern isn't "making it personal".
He wasn't suggesting Zulip is comparable to those companies or that the world is holding its breath on the issue. But it's reasonable that some people who use and/or develop Zulip (ie the typical readership of the blog) may be wondering the leadership's stance on crypto.
Ruby doesn't have functions. It only has methods. That blocks in MRI happen to be implemented without reifying an object is an optimisation. You can only ever obtain a reference to said block by reifying it into a Proc instance.

Letting you obtain some kind of raw reference to a block that isn't a method on an object would make blocks unlike every other value in Ruby.
Maybe, but I suspect it's mostly just a function of vastly fewer programmers doing embedded than "standard" programming.

One of the reasons why I have been banging on chip companies to support VSCode is solely that. The total amount a chip company is willing to spend on software is less than a rounding error in the budget of any Microsoft division.

The only thing that will get embedded out of the ghetto is to ride the coattails of the mainstream--nowadays that's pretty much VSCode and clang/gcc.
That post made me vomit a little bit.

"""
The Ultimate Guide to creating a popular open source project in only 3 steps from someone with 10s of thousands of GitHub stars.
"""

These are tips to gain a person exposure.
Look at me I am famous. I have so many stars.
and all I did was write a 67 line Python code. yay.

You can do it too!!!!!

Marketing, logos, shiny, shiny.

You are hyper focusing on the wrong metric

To me, and I am too old to matter, it highlights a fairly substantial perversion
of the reason and motivation to create great software that you give away for free.

It sets you up to chase fame on GitHub just like people do in every other social medium, Twitter and Instagram followers. Look people love me!!!!
So excited in the quest for brief moments of stardom.

You get there by feeding the lowest common denominator.

What does the mass of followers want? How can i get 1000 more.

Oh they like my bikini shots. Ill just make it a little skimpier. yay.

They like the drama with my momma, Ill stir up some real shit tonight yay.

Oh I see the dig it when I go off cussing about politics and today Ill cuss like never before. Yay.

With this type of mindset, you will not create anything original ot beautiful.
It's a fast-food junkie stuck in a feedback loop with a race towards the bottom.
It becomes an unhealthy addiction.

I have 0 stars, 0 twits, 0 Instagram, 0 all of social media because I am a quarrelsome luddite. I would not get an account in any of those systems
even if they paid me.

It is a distraction. at best. more commonly an obsession and no good can come from it.

It used to be that modesty was a virtue.

A compliment from one my sensei when I was studying martial arts,

Honest praise from my Lt when I had the misfortune of ending up in the army.

The camaraderie from the band of brothers I discovered.

A professor seeking me and giving me some life changing advice based on a couple of my essays he graded.

Having one of my most respected "master" developers reach out to me to point out that I
had made some errors in my code, but he liked these two other things.
Meant he had actually spent some time looking.

Praise should be earned, and it should not be given out freely.
Seek it from those who really matter. The rest is noise.
Maybe that revelation will become more apparent in the next period from inflation. :-)

Many world currencies are pushing 20% (reported figures, so reality is much higher).

Btw Bitcoin was invented in 2008 with the explicit purpose of being an inflation hedge, cannot be debased.
>It's really the same method in different notation. You take the cross product and separate into parallel and perpendicular components, and then you reach the epsilon^2 equation, and it's the same from there.

Bivectors and cross-product aren't just different notation for the same thing if that's what you meant. They're distinct (but very much so related) mathematical structures. For one thing, one's associative while cross products break associativity.

As far as GA sharing a lot with the more comment vector algebra/calc methods. Personally, I'm happy that GA has an attitude of "if it's not broke, don't fix it". It also means there's really not a lot of time lost in the transition due to the compatibility. Hell it's even backwards compatible in the sense that you can still easily retrieve your axial vectors the cross product gave you if you so wish (which cleared up instantly what the exterior algebra folks were doing with their hodge star business when I decided I wanted to explore that perspective later on).
> Over 99% of all species that ever existed are now extinct.

This is often cited, but the jury's out on whether it applies to us.

As far as we can guess, none of those 99% of species could control fire, much less band together to push aside an asteroid or develop a vaccine.

We, too, might go extinct. We might even go extinct because we can control fire or do space things or biology things.

But as far as we know, compared to 99% of all species, we're a special case.
Not sure I understand your point? They’re not talking to you. They’re yelling in a crowded subway car. Can you explain how yelling at you vs. touching you are fundamentally different? What if they smell really bad? Would you consider making you smell a foul smell a violation of your personal space? What if they could somehow make you taste something against your will, would that be a violation of your personal space? Not sure why you’re treating ears differently than the rest of the body.
Well any complex number a + bi can be described as a transformation matrix

|a -b|
|b a|

So you could start by just asking what it means to transform the plane
or, if you've read the article and seen that the crypto gaming space is worth a lot of money, 2k for a bunch of data and insights is a steal to some.
Disagree. The Game Boy will take sections of RAM and render them to backgrounds and/or sprites. That's it.

Any connection between those hardware elements and objects in a game's state, as well as updates to that state, must be maintained and implemented by software, and that software is the game engine.

For example, on the NES, the hardware can display 64 8x8x2bpp sprites, on a roughly 64x64 tile background where 1/4 of it is visible at any given time. Mario Bros' uses the hardware to "draw" Mario as 8 sprites by adjusting registers per frame, but things like what happens when movement commands are received, when Mario hits bricks and other objects, does not involve the PPU at all.
Now I'm imagining a future where some modulated binary star merger is being used to stream episodes over Netflix.

Hopefully we manage to find a way to miniaturize things.
GCC attributes give you per-function control over both target and optimization options (unfortunately not with Fortran). I'd have to look up what's available, but some per-loop control is possible with OpenMP pragmas too (perhaps with GCC's -fopenmp-simd if you don't want the threading).
Being a healthy weight is an excellent way to lower your chances of developing the more serious symptoms of COVID.
Hah, as a Pythonista, I'd say it was definitely written by a Rubyist :D

That initial example would usually be, in Python:

class Stuff:
def __init__(self):
self.a_list = [1,2,3,4]
def __iter__(self):
for value in self.a_list:
yield value

Basically, iterators and generators are native constructs that for loop operates on in Python (lists, which are actual "data", are simply special-case optimized instances of those).

Instead of calling iterators/generators "data", I'd call them wrapper control-flow constructs that `for` really operates on which provide amazing syntactic power in Python.

Ruby, from the examples given, seems quite similar, except that the "syntactic sugar" is somewhat inverted. I don't think it makes for a huge difference, but I don't have any Ruby experience.
Don’t most people get up later on sat and sun if they work during the week? This doesn’t seem to bother them.
each time complaints are raised about single precision, you could deduct 1 bit from the allowance of bits per floating-point value for the next assignment
Ok, 3k will be more than enough. Will try to run the numbers below choosing high income options:

- 2 bedroom apartment in Matosinhos Sul (near the beach): 900/1000 euros (non 'fancy' places this will be around 500/600)

- Utilities (gas, electricity, water + internet/mobile/cable tv): 200

- Decent food for a family of four: 500

- Going out for dinner once a week with family: 150 euros

- Car: 600 (nice car lease, insurance + gas)

- Public transport for family: 100

Note all the prices are in the upper range. You can easily feed a family of 4 with much less or shopping around (we average 100 per person per month, but we still buy nice cuts of meat and the likes), just showing that it is well within the budget. Spreading out to non beach/not as close to porto places would reduce your rent almost by 50%. You can get a lease with insurance and maintenance included in the price for new a new Mazda 3 for 300 euros for example, leaving you with 100 on gas.

I bought my car upfront and I also own my apartment, so not the best example, but I still pay 300 euros of child support + private school for my kid (250) + other extras, and me and my gf (my kid stays with me 1/3 of the month only) don't spend over 1250 per month including those expenses.
This is my biggest gripe with ebikes. On a regular bike, there's a nice curve where you can always push yourself a little more to get a little extra speed, tapering off a little as your speed becomes too high for your gears. On an ebike, you have the assist until you don't, and (especially in high power mode), the wall when exceeding the assist threshold is too extreme to be worth fighting.

I wish someone would make an ebike that gradually dials down the assist in the last 5-15kph (depending on max speed; my experience is mostly on a US class 3 bike that caps out at 45kph; I'd like it to gradually ease off starting at ~30kph).
sure. Then a web app is a clear example of Lisp's increased interactivity.
Because the way you scale up a Python web app is by adding more servers, and ORMs like SQLAlchemy can't share(aka pool) connections across processes let alone servers. Scaling a web app means thousands of open connections to Postgres, and the only way to fix that is server side connection pooling. (Server as in Postgres, because here your app server is the client)
> So then we create systems which send 10 nonsense emails with occasional flagged words along with every one real message, inundating them with so much data they cannot begin the handle it.

Which will then get you charged with wasting police time, covering criminals or worse. Also, it will be pretty obvious that all those reports originate from you, unless you have a massive amount of burner phones - which are, by the way, also on their legislative way out.
The whole Bitcoin networks uses less energy than clothes dryers in the US. And about 1/5th of what video gaming uses.

If Bitcoin has a "horrendous environmental impact" than there's no excuse to play video games or use a dryer.

edit: downvotes? Check the math yourself:

https://www.casebitcoin.com/critiques/bitcoin-wastes-energy

https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
I can't recommend a tutorial, but I could suggest finding any older 'learn HTML in 24 hours' from before frameworks were a thing (pre-2010) and get a firm grasp of the basic language.

Creating a server-side thing to interact with is another level of depth, since you'll have end up choosing a language or system to learn in addition to HTML...older books will probably have you using something like Perl to submit forms to, so you might desire to pick up a more modern technology.
Sure, your no code system can be Turing complete. Lots of things are accidentally Turing complete. But at that point, aren't you just coding with a different interface but all the same problems and complexity? And (as argued already elsewhere in the thread) none of the tools and support...

I agree that "arbitrary business process" is a smaller target. But it's one that grows over time (see GP comment) to include more and more "solved problems" that were solved by lots and lots of code.
Great answer to a question no one was asking. Solid PR bump, coupled with a partially absurd reasoning for why they aren’t working with cryptocurrencies. I wonder if they are aware that the internet itself is associated with the enablement of criminal activity and if, as such, they are going to remove all internet presence.
You want this:

https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=560

Hope that helps!

(And yes, the CCAN memeqzero routine is the same as yours above in form).
Funny you mention Nim, lately I've been toying around with running Nim on microcontrollers:

https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/svd2nim

https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21
The language in this article is heavily biased towards considering a camera on your porch to be "surveillance"; a loaded term that implies an invasion of privacy.

You have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your bathroom, at your kitchen table, in a public toilet etc. You don't have any reasonable expectation of privacy when standing on someone's porch. The home owner or a neighbour are not invading your privacy by seeing you standing at the porch.

And particularly if you are standing on that porch for the purpose of stealing a package.

The question of whether to report to the police is a separate issue, but really if you don't want to get reported to the police, don't steal packages. I don't think we are solving any problems by pointing the finger of blame at the person whose package was stolen.
This is another way of moving towards a bayesian lower bound instead of a frequentist one. As your formula shows, in this case the bayesian formula is super duper simple.

(positive + constant1) / (positive + negative + constant1 + constant2)

For more details see the beta distribution.
Was it actually illegal or did they just bully him into doing what they wanted?
Also rebuilding the same docker containers 500 times a day…

We could do a whole lot better with our energy usage across the whole industry.
also https://searchcode.com/ was posted on a HN thread about niche search engines a couple days ago
Oh yes, you are correct. But seriously, pinch-to-zoom has been around for 10 years now, right? This honestly cannot be the first time it's "reproduction accuracy" has been questioned, can it??? The judge gave him half an hour to go do some legal searching, and he came up with nothing??? Milwaukee is just up the road and has a university with a pretty decent CS department. Nobody there was willing to say "yeah, the interpolation algorithm will make an accurate reproduction"? If the prosecution said "I have a professor willing to testify, can we have a delay?" I'm pretty sure the judge would have said yes. Or at least said no so there is something to appeal later on.
How does that work for burstable VMs? Surely they must be oversubscribed on a per-core basis? Are they sharing cores, but doing scheduling at a very fine granularity (eg. millisecond)?
Is this sarcasm? Scams via Venmo and even old school wire transfers are common and law enforcement doesn't particularly care despite transfers being easily traceable.
I agree with your first sentence; and disagree with the second.

I parse code, every time I read source. Ease-of-parsing is absolutely a quality worth optimizing for. (The difference is, ease for who? Optimize for a human parser, not a machine parser.)
"[Something else] has a bad environmental footprint too" is the most tiresome refrain from crypto boosters. It's nothing more than pure whataboutism.
> I wonder why anyone would want to have a popular project in the first place.

It's literally the second item in the ToC of the article.

> Why Bother? Popular Projects = More Contributors = Better Project

The author does go on to talk about how it becomes a challenge, dealing with people that are the opposite of helpful, as you also mention many people are, but the point still stands. The more popular the project, the more contributions, even if many are in the form of bugs/complaints, those are still useful. If the ratio of complaints to actual code contributions is even remotely consistent, the more complaints, the more actual code contributions. :shrug: To each their own, but at least read the article before criticizing.
Sounds like you need a BCI like this: https://shop.openbci.com/collections/frontpage

(semi-joking... but complaining about typing 3-5 letters is definitely a 1st world problem ;)
I have nothing but personal anecdotes and observations to base my thoughts on here but it seems to me that this has become true of life in general. And as the OP has now learned, it's of no consolation how right you are or how justified you may be to get angry in the first place, either. You still lost.
They are not in any way forced to. There are a lot of bigger companies that have never made such a statement either way. They just chose to for idealogical reasons, PR or something else.
This is an extremely detailed report including explanations of Axie Infinity and blockchain gaming.

I'm a crypto bear but it's well worth being in the front page if you ask me.
If you scroll down, under the "Super-Resolution Results" header, there's a comparison with a "Reference" column.
> quirky work around for negative square roots. I would say that is more of a side effect.

I agree it's not a perfect motivation, for teaching purposes. When you introduce an answer to the square root of a negative number, questions of soundness might arise. Obviously it's sound, but is that a distraction at the level where complex numbers are introduced?

Besides, many people like geometric interpretations: they might feel more 'real' or relevant than an algebraic motivation.

/Nonetheless/, I can't agree well defined square roots is just a side effect. The complex numbers are (up to isomorphism) the one and only algebraic closure of the reals. That's a very natural and and useful way look at them for, say, university level maths.
Nobody who is complaining about this is making that assumption. PoW continues to exist, and they know that as well as you do, and it's really bad.
"Virtue signaling" is an empty phrase - implicitly it's an accusation that the speaker doesn't actually believe what they are saying, and are only saying it for the approval of others.

Not to mention, typically when the accusation is leveled, no attention is given to which virtues are being signaled, and why such virtues are bad.

This is a common rhetorical trick and it's frustrating how often it works - rather than arguing the specifics of a situation (which the arguer finds difficult to justify) a more general, more vague, and more obfuscated point is argued instead.

See also the OP and "betting a project against a technology", as an accusation of close-mindedness, which is amusingly vague. The blog post makes a point against a specific technology and goes to lengths to describe its reasoning, but a murkier, more abstract argument is made instead to color the company as somehow luddite-like.
This topic is obviously going to rankle some feathers, since it involves NFT's on hacker news. However, this was an incredibly well researched article and i enjoyed it.

I've tried many of the crypto games recently and i'm not a fan. However, the space holds promise.

One of the things i found shocking was not about gaming or NFT's, but the fact that Eth 'Made/Generated' $1.4B in fees last month... Thats wild. According to that metric, eth is one of the most profitable companies(?) on the planet.
Herd Immunity is not profitable. Endless mandatory vaccinations is the end game.
My understanding is that the 4680 cell doesn't have any better energy density than what Tesla is currently using (the 2170). Yes, it has 5x the energy of the 2170 but it's also 5.5x bigger in volume. In essence, the energy density of the cell has gone down, not up. The battery as a whole could still go up because bigger cells mean less weight in the steal casing, better packing efficiencies and the tabless-ness of the 4680 should allow more efficient thermals. I'm assuming that the claimed 16% improvement in range would come from that. The big improvement of the 4680 is the power (and manufacturing costs), not the energy. In any case, it's sort of a moot point if Tesla won't sell these batteries/cells to anyone else.

Anyway, my take on the article was that the practicality of the electric airplane basically comes down to battery tech. If someone produces a dramatically better battery I assume that putting it into an airplane will be straightforward. So if you want to build an electric airplane what you should really be building is a better battery.
Too true, wondering when this absurdly off target talking point is going to be discarded