skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Play-to-earn is a really exciting area of development with a lot of cool ideas coming out of it.

Many games are being developed now that are fully funded by fans and generating a lot of income for players.

I know HN will shit on this, but for the more open minded among you I really encourage you to take a look at this space if you are planning to develop a game in the near future.
They can't. It's simply a coup by one party.
So you will only be able to send payloads that can handle such immense G-force pressures, I imagine? Humans can be ruled out then unless you want hominoid scrambled eggs in space
They've always been a lie... The west is simply better at propaganda.
This is like the "add one smoothing" the is commonly used for entropy / population diversity statistics.

(class1 + 1)/(class1 + class2 + 2).

(effectively, initialize all counts to 1).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_smoothing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession
Oblique to this but still relevant.

There's a retail chain I write
the software for, including the website and online store. They send out occasional customer surveys, which I also built, and which are constantly reviewed by corporate management. So, they wanted to raise their Google review rating, which was hovering between 4.6 to 4.8 stars, varying by location.

The CEO called me with this idea that at the end of taking a survey, people who give us five stars in all ten survey categories should be shown a link to directly review the store on Google.

Me, as an engineer - I was like, okay let's sit down and review metrics for each survey question, weight them and figure out how likely someone is to give us 5, rather than 4 stars in aggregate, and use that to decide whether to give them the link.

He said no. The only people who should get the link are people who gave 5 stars on the survey in every single category. This seemed counterintuitive to me and I ran the numbers and found that only a small fraction of people did. But I accepted the dictat and did it his way.

End result: About a 30% increase in 5-star google ratings across the board. His intuition was right, that the people most motivated to take the survey and complete it with straight-A's would be the people who would take the time to write great comments.

You can and probably should infer from this that if you actually need to balance "average" ratings, the outliers on the top and bottom of the scale exert an inordinate amount of pull and tend to skew results toward the extremes.
> how do we deliver high-quality software to the general public that is stable, easy-to-use, and secure, yet respects user privacy?

I don't think volatilizing users' privacy for money helps to make a product more stable, secure, or easy to use. It's just something companies do because they are allowed to and it makes them more money.

> I find free, open source software to respect my privacy and generally be stable and secure, but I find it harder to use than proprietary alternatives

It's a problem certainly. It's not universal (VLC comes to mind), but the trend is real. Open source software does tend to lack the polish but the authors often lack the resources of commercial software.

> If even experienced software engineers struggle to find the time to contribute code to FOSS projects, then making such a contribution would be almost impossible for members of the general public, the vast majority of whom have no coding experience.

I'm not sure the goal should be for non-coders to contribute to code. I think projects could try to make the process of submitting code less intimidating, maintain standards that are clearly defined, and try to avoid cliques that might make it hard for newcomers.

The best thing non-coders can do is what they love doing already: complain and offer suggestions. If something in a program like libre office is counter-intuitive let them know. If the UI in firefox is terrible let them know. It does mean that the people working on those projects have to be willing to accept criticism and respond to their users concerns though.

> Another challenge is thinking of new funding mechanisms for FOSS

I agree that this is an issue. The fundamental problem with software written by single dev hobbyists or many volunteers in their spare time is that is that the result is about what you'd expect. The more money there is behind a project the more likely it'll be polished and professional looking, but there's only so much you can if you want to keep the F in FOSS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847
People and many delicate equipment cannot handle such high G forces.

I do wonder how a Hyperloop kind of long tunnel, vacuumed out would be a less-G substitute.
Sounds like one of those "Look! We came up with a voluntary code of conduct, so your regulatory body can stop investigating necessary regulations, we've changed honest, so please feel free to have a triumphant press conference and congratulate yourselves without actually holding us to account."
Instead of stereotyping and blaming someone, better to find cause in ecosystem. Except for last few years most non HTTP communication systems were complex, platform specific and with enterprisey bloat.

May not be for this instance, but if people are gravitating towards a bad tooling alternative must be worse by some important parameter.
Worth mentioning that canola oil apparently has a much lower omega-6 to omega-3 ratio than butter, lard, olive oil, or coconut oil, not to mention other industrial seed oils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_ratio_in_food#Oils
What are the limitations on banning lawmakers from voting? Could politicians ban their opponents from voting for any reason?
Typically people spend money to play games. How can any game generate net income for players? It's not Wimbledon where fans pay to watch.

I think any income must come from a stream of new players, meaning it's a Ponzi scheme.
>> Not everyone can have a better job

I'd counter that your comment reveals disdain for people who you wrongly assume can't improve their skills or economic outlook.

I could make a long list of people I know who taught themselves new skills and leveled up to new jobs - code or otherwise - without the need for "empathy" from someone who was certain they were less "privileged" and therefore should be pitied.
Subsequently numbered "webs" are starting to feel like subsequently numbered versions of Windows. Better looking but worse.
This has been my fear as well when looking at other laptops.

In terms of hardware and build quality, apple is crushing it with m1 mpb.

However, I just received my framework laptop and am totally excited by it. The build quality is pretty good compared to my 2019 15” intel mbp.

It feels like a hunk of metal, similar to mbp. I love the size, the monitor is great, keyboard is much better, and all the parts are replaceable. Running arch with zero issues so far (although i havent tried bluetooth or fingerprint reader yet).

The battery doesnt seem great (8hr real use) and the speakers are not even close to my mbp.

Other than those two items (both of which are fixable with battery pack + headphones) I find the offerings very similar.
Yet, the only instruments we can build pick up particles, and nothing but particles. Maxwell's electromagnetics, and his field waves, are a useful approximation. But as close as we have been able to measure, the Schroedinger equation is an exact description: of waves that resolve to probability of the detection of a particle.

There are things to complain about in our description of the universe with particles: magic numbers that can only be measured, not deduced. But incorrectness isn't one of them.

"Spin" is just a name.
It's enticing because what if you could use this to put fuel and/or parts into orbit to assemble a second stage rocket for interplanetary travel? That'd be sick.

I suppose it partly depends on how high you can reach (LEO?) with this method and whether your spun rocket can carry a fuel payload itself.
Oh great to hear, shout out if you want us to test anything
> you can spin a smaller rocket

That could be extremely complex, unless (perhaps) the rocket using solid boosters, in which case, you are spinning a highly volatile mega bomb.
If folks are curious about "Q clearances" (more appropriately called Q access authorization) I suggest you take a look at this DOE website on departmental security [1]. It will clear up some of the close to correct information floating around in this thread.

Note, one of the very unusual things about a Q is access control for both information AND physical material.

<<

Q: Back up a minute! You just mentioned a "Q" access authorization. What is that and how does it relate to the Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential clearance terminology I'm familiar with?

A: Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential security clearances refer back to the level of National Security Information to which an individual may have access. Because DOE is granting access to Restricted Data and special nuclear material, it uses different terminology. Generally speaking, there are two types of access authorizations, the L and the Q. The L access authorization corresponds to the background investigation and administrative determination similar to what is completed by other agencies for Confidential and Secret National Security Information access clearances and the Q access authorization corresponds to the background investigation and administrative determination similar to what is completed by other agencies for a Top Secret National Security Information access clearance. In addition, because RD information is more sensitive than NSI information, access to Secret Restricted Data requires a Q access authorization.

>>

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ehss/security-policy-guidance-reports...
I think both Citizen's United and the allowance of asymmetric trade with China (e.g. China's currency manipulation, IP theft, restrictions on companies operating in China, etc.) are both symptoms of a much larger problem. The U.S. is being dismantled by the capitalist / owner class for personal profit. Very few decisions are made in the government that promote the long-term health of the system. This trend spans the administrations of both parties all the way back to Nixon.
> and not come out as human paste

This is a hard part (which sounds impossible to me): since all acceleration needs to be done in a spinner, you need to get to 7900 m/s (even assuming no braking from the atmosphere).

And a = v^2 / r will turn living things into a paste for sane r. :(. I would love to be refuted.
I did the math once, and that vacuum hyperloop would be 10s or 100s of km.
Really big. Escape velocity is 11km/s. Acceleration in a circle is velocity squared divided by radius. Assuming you can withstand 10g with proper gear and drugs that's a radius of a thousand kilometers.
Let me soften that claim. The probability that we humans are even capable of comprehending the fundamental nature of the universe, if such a thing exists, is approximately 0%.
Zinc battery storage maker Eos has logged US$137.4M of orders this year
SICL is still an implementation of Common Lisp, and not of a new programming language (give or take some additional features, such as first-class global environments). That said, there is some overlap between the authors of SICL and the authors of Well Specified Common Lisp <https://github.com/s-expressionists/wscl>; but WSCL only really defines some undefined and contradictory behaviour in the ANSI Common Lisp specification.
Yep, I was still asleep, good call.
I can't speak for Australia specifically, but most EU countries sharply cap the interchange fees that credit card companies can charge so they don't really have rewards to speak of
Perhaps this can also be used to send a continuous stream of supplies, such that we could have a true, inhabitable space station, where all the components required for space travel are manufactured and assembled in orbit.
> You clearly have a deep and nuanced grasp of finance.

That's the beauty of it, I don't!

Not that I have time to be playing slots with just 7k, but I get to rely on people who do have that deep understanding! That way I (usually) don't have to listen to people who lack said understanding bray about TQQQ!

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That being said it takes minimal common sense and the ability to read a prospectus to steer people away from holding a product designed as hedge for intraday strategies for long periods of time...

So congratulations on your first words that were able to cut through the viscous layer of "angsty 13 year old after being told to go to their room" coating everything you say :)
I agree wgpu is great, but wgpu isn't a substitute for SDL. The Rust project that replaces SDL is called winit

https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

One can use wgpu with winit (which is more common) or, if they prefer, wgpu with sdl2. Here is an example:

https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2/tree/master/examples/...

edit: but, the "next-gen Vulkan API" the article refers to, that SDL will be developing, it would be a competitor to wgpu.
"The judge responded by disallowing the zoomed-in footage unless the prosecution could prove that it wasn’t manipulated, and only giving them 20 minutes to find and produce an expert witness from Apple, which was obviously impossible. "

20 minutes to find an expert?

All of this hinges on whether or not Apple really is using AI (like super-resolution) for pinch and zoom. If they are, this is a totally valid objection.

But I've never heard that iPad pinch-and-zoom does this. It would be surprising if it's more than plain old interpolation.

Not to mention the defense lawyer clearly doesn't understand what the hell he's talking about, which doesn't exactly engender confidence in the judge taking this complaint seriously: "iPads, which are made by Apple, have artificial intelligence in them that allow things to be viewed through three dimensions and logarithms"

OH NO. LOGARITHMS!
There are a lot of samples in the SDK and docs. Compared to android or iOS it is much simpler. Or if you want I can give you some sources of things for PalmOS I’ve written recently. Email me if you want.
You say the swaps are the only component that has meaningful counterparty risk, it is worth noting that the swaps dwarf the other TQQQ holdings over 7:1.
That is even easier. You by default have direct hardware access :)
Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190670?

If you continue to use HN primarily for ideological battle, we're going to have to ban your account. We do that regardless of what people are battling for, because it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.
> how many lines of code was [Zope] before then?

Soooo many. Zope was a very formidable code base to delve into. I was trying to learn it because my company was using Plone, and Zope quickly surfaced through the abstractions.

Zope's codebase might have been more accessible if type annotations were a thing back then. Their implementation of "interfaces" for Python were very interesting back in the Python 2.3 days.

I disagree that Python is a "toy" language now. It started out as one, and has been stumbling awkwardly away from that ever since the mid 2000s - virtualenvs, pip, pyenv, pipenv/poetry, type annotations, mypy etc.

In my entirely unscientific opinion, I think it was Django that started this journey, then of course scikit, numpy leading into pandas etc.
That video is a trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo&ab_channel=PoorL...

"deldo-eugenics-mode and the end of the editor wars" sounds like a Harry Potter sequel that no one asked for.
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> since all acceleration needs to be done in a spinner

The payload would have a rocket stage after reaching a certain altitude to further accelerate.
Column width has always affected my writting. The line breaks can hide some flow issues where punctuation might be necessary. For this reason I write on three emacs windows with different widths: one as narrow as suggested by OP, one more or less at target printer width, and one in between.
I wonder if this could be used in a rifle type design, where the "spinner" would carry an impactor that would push against the space-bound rocket/projectile, to avoid (some) of the high g-forces?
Exactly. $10k skimmed out of my bank account is a huge problem for me while it gets resolved. $10k skimmed off a credit card, eh, I'm never that close to my limits anyway
You could also buy a bike with a shopping basket

Not everything can be accomplished with code
https://archive.md/WCUaT
Other than the "breakloop" functionality, which I agree is (AFAIK) unique to Lisp interpreters, I don't see anything described there that can't be done in a Python REPL.
How did you invest in it?
I've always noticed that cash has a way of disappearing from my wallet with me wondering "what did I spend it on?" With a credit card I have to think: will I punch myself in the face when I see that on my statement?
That we could be so lucky as to have a primordial black hole close enough to go chuck rocks at.
So, I want to give a shout out to -- "pessimism" as one of the good things?

Weird, I know. But I would say that a little over a decade ago, it feels like Facebook wasn't even being questioned and that everything new in tech was always awesome. And was always like, we are screwed if people don't begin to see how creepy this stuff is.

Now, I mean, there's work to do, but I don't get seen as the paranoid weirdo when I criticize Facebook anymore. :)
It's a tactic of authoritarian regimes, it's not something unique to the nazi regime so calling it a nazi tactic is a bit of a stretch. Then again the GP never called it that anyway, he mentioned 2 authoritarian regimes.
He's rich.
That's the DOM manipulation and browser behaviors, not Javascript itself.
The site is banned on HN, like most primarily political sites. Some users vouched for this particular submission. Other users flagged it. That's not particularly unusual.
Scaffold-eth exists to help web2 devs speedrun up to web3, highly recommend it!

When you get there, tell ‘em the coordinator sent you :)

https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth
What limits are you talking about?
Bitcoin Mining Noise Drives Neighbors Nuts–A Giant Dentist Drill That Won’t Stop
Slightly better version here https://archive.org/details/ZeldovichYaglomHigherMathematics

(the PDF is 20MB instead of 150MB and the text has been OCR-ed)
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Those find the first zero -- not the number of contiguous zeros.
A breach is literally the opposite of willingly giving something over, or “handing it” to them.
Testing multiple implementations of a trait in Rust
You can use ground-based energy to spin the rocket, which is vastly cheaper and doesn't need to be lifted.
Rust data structures with circular references
Drug use, crime, violence, short-term thinking, ad nauseum.

The majority of the population is working low-skilled, low-pay, low-satisfaction jobs. The people that do the shitty work (cleaning, cooking, serving, building, maintaining, etc.) are supporting the more privileged way of life.

Circumstances aren't bad enough yet for all of them to go full Roman and stab the professional ("laptop") class while they're walking in the street or working in a cafe; but that doesn't mean all that negative emotional tension brought upon the working class is simply isolated, and has no reverberating impact on the greater world.

However, were these circumstances left to deteriorate enough -- i.e. the negative emotions start overflowing and can no longer be subdued by drug use and other outlets, e.g. when one is starving -- then you're one internet meme away from getting your house molotov'ed and dragged out into the street.

I for one don't mind making life a little bit easier for the working class. In this case it would likely be preventing managers from texting un-scheduled workers: "I need you to come in tomorrow to fill someone's shift" (a request that usually entails one's job being on the line).
It goes to analytic geometry, not really the same.
So for the 97% of humanity that are worse off than american software engineers, you think they are just not trying hard enough?
“AFAIK, the number of people with TS//SCI is not actually classified.”

Then you quote TS clearances. With a guess at how many have SCI access.

The amount of people who have TS/SCI clearances with a Full Scope Polygraph is classified.
> Removing this is going to waste peoples time.

The term of art is ‘increase engagement’.
To quote Bill Bailey on lockdowns:

> Then people go, "It’s like Nazi Germany, these lockdowns". Yes, because that’s what the Nazis are known for, isn’t it? Mild inconvenience.
And it looks like this documentary will be 7 hours long, so it's a ratio of 60:7.
I wonder how much lower the g forces would come than from 10k if the radius was larger. The high energy particle accelerator at cern comes to mind. It wouldn't need to be vertical either just at a slight tilt since to go to orbit you need to travel horizontally most of the time.
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I've never had a financial advisor or any money manager of any sort sink to the level of "hold TQQQ long term" for an investment account. Usually it's "risky" choices from a selection of "normal" funds.

And exactly it's a relatively small amount anyways... so why waste it on the fees TQQQ is bleeding?
This is pure speculation: if someone worked on some kind of communication involving nuclear missiles, they might work for the NSA and have Q. But otherwise I can’t think of a reason they would. That said, NSA is a world almost wholly unknown to me
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here. We've had to warn you about this several times before. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not whether they do, it's how they do.

For instance, in 2003 there was no such thing as a mobile phone; passing code review today is probably going to entail either being responsive, or directing to a mobile version when accessed from a mobile device.
The underlying question is why? Surely this activity could have started in 1950,1920, 1890 or any other year. What change occurred that seemingly has removed any long term/societal concerns from the minds of leaders?
Arthur C Clarke proposed the idea in 1950 in a paper, and wrote a rather excellent short story about the concept (and a wild escape from a launch failure) called "Maelstrom II".

In Clarke's story, the launch system is located on the Moon rather than Earth; the lower escape velocity and lack of atmosphere makes the fictional engineering a lot simpler (and allows the climax of the story, which I won't spoil).
You can build something like this, but much bigger, and with no external casing, on the Moon or anywhere with little or no atmosphere.

Professor James Longuski and his students at Purdue University have done quite a bit of research on this idea over the years. They call it a tether sling. To keep the tip acceleration (v^2)/r low, you want a large r. Some papers:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=long...

Note 1: Professor Longuski was my PhD advisor, but I never did any research on tether slings myself.

Note 2: Others have also researched tether slings. The papers linked above give many citations to related research.
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True, even most people who believe they understand stocks don’t understand the complexities of the market.