skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They start off that way, so it is good for that, but that flips around in later problems... coding them is not the hard part. Many require nontrivial mathematical insight to solve in any practical time frame.
Even worse, they batch transactions by the day, and reorder them highest debit first in order to maximize overdraft fees.

So if you spend $5, $5, $5, and $40, in that order, with $38 in the bank, instead of getting one $35 overdraft fee, you get 4. It's the difference between a balance of -$52 and a balance of -$157.

I once worked at a bank where they had for a period doublecharged people for overdrafts, driving them into further overdrafts even after deposits clearly intended to cover those overdrafts had been made. The cheery low-level administrators loudly resented that they had to refund the overcharges at all, because people who kept their accounts that low were obviously deadbeats anyway.
Same here for me 15 years ago (& then C when my brute force approaches needed the perf boost to finish in a timely manner)

Recently ran into Project Euler again while benchmarking my recent Befunge JIT work. Most Befunge programs are pretty light computationally, but https://github.com/Mikescher/Project-Euler_Befunge solves the first 102 problems in Befunge

It's given me reason to go beyond spec & eventually I'll implement 64 bit cells with unbounded space so that I can execute their entire catalog
Only if the backup side is unreadable (which is different from being append-only).
Mailgun does this, however I wouldn't recommend any of these services unless you are willing to fork out the cash for a static IP.

The free tier or shared IP side is where these kinds of shenanigans can be played out.
There are way more downsides than that.

1. No recursive types, so you can't express a lot of basic things like a "Json" type. This ends up coming up a lot more than you might imagine.

2. Not great support for every pep ie: Protocol

3. Generics are extremely confusing in mypy. Generic classes suffer from the lack of recursive types I'd mentioned as well.

4. Implicit 'Any' everywhere unless you use the strictest settings, which I don't believe anyone does on real code because of the above issues. I've never once managed to get a real codebase to typecheck with mypy.

Honestly mypy works as a somewhat fancy linter, not as a type checker.
Electronic musical instruments, especially from the mid-80s on, make heavy use of customized and of course undocumented ICs, thus revealing their inner workings is of immense value for emulation purpose when the original instruments are either unobtanium or too costly for normal people to purchase. Also, should one day technology allow small run production of chips at home, sort of 3D printing silicon, it might be worth having a library of interesting chips to replicate for fun and/or to repair old instruments.
They are complementary, though -- in fact, intertwined. You cannot have durable privacy without the ability to selectively secure information. And many security mechanisms (especially those that are digital) rely on a secret, which is sort of the essence of privacy.
Worse. It is apparently to protect teachers who create quizzes in Google Forms. They don’t know anything about servers or clients, just that Google Forms is easy to use.
> border enforcement has a minimal impact on illegal immigration

this doesn't talk about anything regarding wages.

> illegal immigration from Mexico has a minimal impact on wages in U.S. border areas.

That seems narrowly scoped to "US border areas" whereas the parent comment is talking about America in general. Likewise how do you provide a control factor for a study like that?

I think the evidence is pretty much obvious and doesn't require a study to conclude. The market wouldn't prefer illegal immigration (which it does - ask any restaurant operating in the US) if it didn't reduce labor costs for businesses. So the opposite must be true - citizens and legal immigrants would increase labor costs.

The other factors are simply true by careful observation. How is it not obvious that a labor class that has no legal rights of citizenship is also not going to have legal rights in the labor market? (i.e. ability to legally fight wage fraud, depressed benefits, etc.)
Municipalities in the United States typically require building construction to follow the standards outlined by the International Building Code[1]. Therefore I wouldn't expect the building quality in the United States to differ significantly from other nations following those same codes.

[1]: https://www.iccsafe.org/
Chrome monopoly

How is Chrome a monopoly? Google made a good browser and customers chose it over other alternatives. Now you can argue that chrome isn't a god browser. But that's your opinion. People are voting with their feet. Does google have an obligation to make their browser suck?
Have some relevant science! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system

Similar to this is metallic glass, which has the potential to be injection molded. If we can figure out Fe-based bulk metallic glass then a lot of problems will be solved.
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From the security perspective, they are public information. You shouldn't have any vulnerability created by exposing them.

From the privacy perspective, they are PII. You should not publish them or link them to any information.

"Public" is a very overloaded word.
Yeah, they never should have started the "breakfast is the most important meal" when there was no evidence to back this up.

For me also breakfast doesn't come natural to me, unless my kids bake croissants in the morning ;).
Yes it takes one extra step to answer that question. We have numbers comparing infected to uninfected, and numbers comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated (and presumably uninfected).
Your comment seems ill-informed.
Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
I mean, you might have wanted to have a plan for your bad food and worse weather before leaving the place that has those things.

All to make sure a couple people’s 86 karat diamonds can stay safely in their vaults.

https://youtu.be/bRBZw4IU8rg
top500.org for June 1994 lists 79 entries for Thinking Machines which is their high water mark, but it looks like most of those are CM-5s with about 20 being CM-2.

So assuming some of the CM-5s are replacements for CM-1 and 2s I would expect they sold maybe 100 machines total, 150 absolute max across all three models.
You can say that about almost any mathematician in history.
I have no clue, never have heard of that happening, but then again, I never bothered to ask. I suspect that customs issues would be the more common use case to not actually want to pick up a container though.

The fees are not usually due on collection, but as part of the contract between shipping line and shipper. Not picking up the container probably does nothing to get you out from under that contract.
Yes, but they don‘t provide an interface for inbound mail, only redirecting, right?
Maybe they don't think anthropologists have high IQ.
Er, the CDC is a US public health agency. The UK data comes from the UK HSA.

The US figures do indeed diverge strongly from data in other countries. This is very unlikely to be because the USA is somehow biologically special. US statistical quality is unfortunately garbage w.r.t. vaccines, as the CDC stopped tracking data at a national level a long time ago and the states often don't report in comparable ways. The UK data is of a much higher quality as it breaks out the population in the ways needed for this type of analysis.
From the abstract[0]: they have a promising catalyst that could be used for a "direct ammonia fuel cell" operating at room temperature. It involves ruthenium, which is an expensive rare earth element.

For context, it's possible to 'crack' ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen & feed that to a PEM fuel cell, but this requires extra equipment, high temperatures, and consumes some of the output energy. Solid oxide fuel cells can also run directly on ammonia, but that's b/c they operate at high temperature [650 C].[1] Solid acid fuel cells can turn ammonia into hydrogen at 250 C -- but this is still extra equipment & consumes energy.[2] Ammonia can also be burned in modified gas turbines, which IMO would be a great way to quickly displace natural gas in peaker plants, to enable higher renewables penetration w/o relying on fossil fuels to take up the slack.

Ammonia is a better hydrogen carrier than liquid or compressed hydrogen because storage is easier due to high energy density. The round-trip energy efficiency could also be higher.[3] It's less flammable, but more toxic. For more, see [4]. It sounds like the real enabling technology would be direct fuel cells and direct electrosynthesis (reverse fuel cells) to get higher efficiency.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-021-00797-w

[1] https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/ammonia-for-fuel-cell...

[2] https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/11/ammonia-to-gre...

[3] https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/round-trip-efficiency...

[4]https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/40233
Proof of work is the only system where you can look at the blockchain data and figure out the consensus. All other systems depends on people agreeing on what is the truth. PoW is not just superior, it's essential for true decentralized crypto.
What would classify as a private bank? IME, you're given the option for overdrafts regardless.
When you say people, who are you referring to? I have never heard anyone claim that.
I kept assembling points I wanted to make in the comments, and then the article would cover them itself, so I'll just quote it:

> He imagined that this machine, which he called “the great instrument of reason,” would be able to answer all questions and resolve all intellectual debate. “When there are disputes among persons,” he wrote, “we can simply say, ‘Let us calculate,’ and without further ado, see who is right.”

> But as today’s data scientists devise ever-better algorithms for natural language processing, they’re having debates that echo the ideas of Leibniz and Swift: Even if you can create a formal system to generate human-seeming language, can you give it the ability to understand what it’s saying?

This is the important part. Having the naivete to assume that a flawed mechanical system represents the whole of Truth, is worse than having no system at all.
The default redirects are way slower, at least behind a mulvad VPN, did you reconfigure yours to have faster ones?

Also most youtube videos are not as high quality as the original youtube site, typically 1080p+ seems to be missing.
Pretty lazy article. Basically just an advertisement for manufactured home that hasn't tested any of its safety claims.

> Later, he realized that because the houses he was selling were almost entirely steel, they were fire resistant. So he added noncombustible sheathing, which he said makes the structures’ main materials noncombustible, in theory, up to 2,600 degrees. (In certain scenarios, he said, they could still burn, and none of the Q Cabins have been tested in real wildfires.)
I (from the uk) have never heard that personally.
Why would I go for a "good old incandescent bulb" when I can buy an RGB light and go for any mood I want for?
When can the trusts move anything? Let’s say he wins, when don’t he trusts move something. I think everyone just wants to see some coins period to finally resolve this matter.
They have inbound on their paid tiers.
The cost can come from things that do not consume energy, for example fabricating a complex chip that includes rare materials.
I doubt he felt good about that. A person died lets respect that. And also as a human being genuinely fuck you. That was a person. Jesus. Im not going to pretend I new everything about his life but he had a family, a life, and thats now gone. So seriously go fuck yourself. I will never regret this comment because where the fuck are you coming from?
What! Where did they say that! I've always been told to recycle glass because it's easy to make new glass from, is this a recent thing?

Sounds like malicious advertising from people making PLA garbage, which I mean literally since "compostable plastic" rarely is without expensive industrial composting equipment (instead it contaminates the compost so you can't use it) and PLA (while theoretically recyclable) is not so in basically any curbside recycling anywhere.

If you collect it special and find a specialty recycler it can be done, but it's hardly going to fall apart sitting in a landfill in an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment.
While I've never seen/heard of this happening, I suppose it's possible. I'd chalk it up to 2 issues: 1) possibly not tightening the quick release skewers quite enough 2) cheaper aluminum dropouts on the suspension lowers. One solid option is to purchase a thru-axle fork and wheel. They're becoming pretty much the standard across the cycling/mtb industry and you can even find rigid steel options (https://surlybikes.com/parts/karate_monkey_fork). If you're replacing your fork, that'll also open up options to buy a larger rim & higher volume tire to absorb more impact. Generally speaking, thru axle forks are designed to take a lot of abuse, so you'd be hard pressed to overstress one in a commuting setting, even over a long period of time.

You can also try a bolt on hub/fork where you're actually tightening a hex nut to secure the dropouts on the axle—most older 10 speeds are in this vein. They're also typically steel which is always nice for reliability.

I electrified a Kona Unit last year as a car replacement and have put it through the ringer. If you like tinkering, I highly recommend poking around the forums on lunacycle.com.
if ATM fees are important to you, you could always consider opening an account with schwab. they reimburse 100% of ATM fees.

as for ISPs, it's hard to do worse than comcast, but at least they don't block a wide range of content by default.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
A personal history of visual programming environments (2021)
This is neat. And for the first time I feel that my job can be easily automated.
"Slavery" gets thrown around way too loosely.

But, yes, pricing is a useful discovery and market making mechanism. If I want a personal chef but I'm only willing to pay $2/hour in the US for such a service, I should and will have to deal with cooking my own meals or otherwise find some way to obtain food that doesn't have as large a labor component as personal service does.
>the delta also still keeps partitioning information in the hive metastore, while iceberg keeps it in storage, making it a far superior design.

Check out https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/3ffb30d86c6acda9b59b9... when you get a chance. You don't need hive metastore to query delta tables since all metadata for a Delta table is stored alongside the data

>they did not include features like optimizing small files

For optimizing small files, you could run https://docs.delta.io/latest/best-practices.html#compact-fil...
I personally think that shaming is mostly counterproductive. For it to be the right move, you have to 1) know you are 100% correct, and 2) have a pressing need to alter the persons behavior/understanding, and 3) know that shaming is the most effective way to achieve the result.

Without those 3 things, I think there is a good chance that you're just antagonizing someone for little benefit to you or them.
Obvious in what way? It wasn't obvious to governments. So far only the Nordics and France have banned Moderna (and only for the under 30s). And at the beginning, there was no mention of heart damage for anything.
The first time? Sure, nothing ever gets it right the first time, but over time software should converge on being bug free and not requiring any support at all. Free-with-paid-support has a perverse incentive against this.
The fundamental technical problem I see with PoW is that it only seldomly really aligns with the "good guy/bad guy" boundary.

I.e. the basic purpose of PoW is security: Allow desirable actors in, keep malicious actors out. But this implies that "ability to put in more work" is actually a working way to distinguish good actors from bad actors. This is true in very specific cases, like blockchains - but I believe in most cases, this is actually not given, such as emails.

E.g., suppose we're using PoW to secure email: We do away with SPIF and all that and simply require each email to contain some hash that a sender had to bruteforce (just an example: use whatever PoW scheme you want).

If the scheme has a fixed difficulty, spammers can easily defeat it - they just have to rent (or capture) more machines. So you have to dynamically adjust the difficulty to meet some message/time unit quota. Congrats, suddenly the whole network is limitited to some maximum throughput. Alternatively, you can have separate difficulties for each user - but then, you need a way to track individual users, compute individual difficulties, etc. All of this needs some centralized entity again and agents that enforce the rules. If you have all that, why not use traditional rate limit and forgo the energy (or resource) waste?
How do you deal with distracting hunger? I try ignoring it and then find myself subconciously going to the fridge every 10 minutes. And I'm not doing somewhat abnormal things like not eating for 20+ hours.
guinea pig in kitchen
It’s fascinating how different peoples’ bodies are. Maybe try a slight variation? My father in law has been restricting his food intake to 600 calories per day a few days a week for years, and it’s done wonders for him. The exact numbers might not matter; 700 calories twice a week may be better for you, for example. I’m just thinking this might be good for you if you need some constant (but low) calorie intake.
> That's the story -- is it /true/ ?

Can you please be more specific; take a particular sentence that I wrote (above) and make an argument for why it is or is not 'true' -- and then please explain what you mean by 'true'.
Absolutely. These debates are as old as linguistics, there was a lot of controversy in the 19th century between supporters of the tree and wave theories. It's an active area of debate now too with a lot of cross pollination between biology and linguistics. A good recent summary of the issues is Jacques and List 2019 which is available here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:25642/datastreams/C...
The authors' application to historical linguistics of the concept of incomplete lineage sorting from population genetics I think is particularly cool
> To be frank I find the point about developer speed in Rust to be a bit exaggerated, it's pretty high level and the tooling is pretty great.

Rust has a long learning curve that most people won’t make it through. For them, they might feel the language is slow to developenin because they haven’t gotten to the point where they are “thinking” in Rust.

As a Haskeller, you are well suited to learn Rust; due to their similar ML lineage (the original Rust compiler was written in OCaml), Rust and Haskell make some similar design considerations. I’d say one thing Rust does right is take a lot of the things that make Haskell safe and make them fit in an imperative language.
Exactly. I think of forces of this type as analogous to negative feedback in amplifiers. When a system gets out of whack, a system with negative feedback tends to stabilize.

Too much inflation? People buy less. Too little inflation? People buy more. Labor too expensive? Less labor is used (perhaps via automation). Labor too cheap? More labor is soaked up on projects that would have been marginal or automated otherwise.
I really like Project Euler. I'm unsure why it's coming up now, but everyone is new to it at some point.

Some advice: people should definitely start off in linear order to warm up, and it's worth sticking with a problem for a while... but I think at some point it becomes valuable to skip around a bit and do the next one if you get stuck. These are the sort of problems where a fresh perspective can be very valuable.

Also, reading the solutions from the forum thread that is unlocked after you solve one will give you a LOT of insight - definitely do that.
Those are some very large qualifications, though, right? I think a better way of saying this is something like “you actually have to work quite hard to write native code that outperforms an equivalent Java/Kotlin/Scala implementation for a specific kind of long-running process which can amortize the startup costs and the JIT time.” And that can be true! (Though in my experience naïve Rust often substantially outperforms naïve Java/C#/etc.)

The other thing is that true warmup (not just startup) time to reaching optimization is a lot weirder and less predictable than people realize. See e.g. [1] and [2] for a fascinating analysis (caveat: about a decade old) of the actual warmup characteristics of a number of different VMs (Graal, HHVM, HotSpot, LuaJIT, PyPy, TruffleRuby, and V8). Spoilers: there are bizarre deopt cliffs, scenarios where it appears to optimize and then de-optimizes if you run it long enough, and programs which just never optimize… and this is on benchmark tests!

[1]: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/why_arent_more_users_m...

[2]: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/why_arent_more_users_m...
Did they though?
Faselei!
Check out https://frame.work. That’ll certainly be my next laptop.
The linked post is the useless info here. The dude randomly picked 3 words that come up in conversations sometimes and decided there’s an ancient widespread philosophy around them, then spouted it on his blog.

Japanese people are the kings of throwing perfectly good stuff away and replacing it. They build their houses to last 20ish years, and a lot of them buy EVERYTHING at the dollar store.
Well as an example, it's used in cryptographic key generator functions.

But there aren't many things it solves well. The easiest and most economical solution to "decentralizing rate limiting" is usually centralizing something.
Oops autocorrect typo…When can the trusts move anything? Let’s say he wins, when do the trusts move something? I think everyone just wants to see some coins period to finally resolve this matter. Will coins move period or is this just a big charade? For BSV to survive and for more people not to jump BSV ship, they have to move. Craig is always so cryptic in his messages and seems to make a lot of noise around things that don’t really matter as much as this key point.
Lol. Really? How is that possible?
> have they?

Yes, they certainly have.

Look at the ratio of cases to deaths in the data from countries where people generally believe in science and are accurately measuring data: Canada, Germany, Israel, France, etc.

Look at Portugal, with the highest vaccination rate in Europe and see how there are 3-6 deaths/day despite a resurgence in cases.

The US has a low vaccination rate, and is in complete disarray regarding COVID (in many cases simply due to the fact that each state has its own policies/problems), but most modern countries are carefully balancing policy to keep ICUs at a manageable rate.
So, proof-of-gold?
Yes, I should have specified that the emphasis is on the use-case of finding and restoring old files.

Yes, a backup tool never deletes by itself, but the standard way of using such tools is that you keep the last n snapshots - this is just delayed sync.

I don't know anything about backup architectures, but is it possible to be more efficient with storage and indexing(for search) if your use-case includes finding files from 5 years ago, but not necessarily recreate the whole filesystem as it was on some date?
Title completely misses the actual key part of it:

> Newly-Announced Free Speech-Focused University of Austin Draws Over 3,000 Employment Inquiries in Four Days