skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment was not about The Catherine Project.

I was responding to part of your comment, which seemed to assert that "not-for-profit" is inconsistent with "business model".

I pointed out that many non-profits do have business models. But I was careful to point out that this may not apply to The Catherine Project ("This particular not-for-profit may have no business model, i.e. no revenue outside of donations.").
We can't really know why it's slow without knowing how it works.

If it were sending keystrokes to a box, you should expect latency <100ms and no bandwidth limitations. It must be a problem with the emulation server. Without knowing more, we can't really know.
and then you lose :)
Not to mention the stupidity of developing what would surely be the least useful bioweapon in history (most people of fighting age get mild and brief symptoms or no symptoms, but it's infectious enough to get back to your own population and kill similar proportions of your own vulnerable before you figure out how to deal with it)
Is it controversial/surprising to say that one would learn more from studying than not studying?
yeah, definitely. The advice we often got was to either go fundraising full-on or not at all, because it's very hard without that momentum that takes time to build up (as you could see on our chart, in the end we had even more interest that we aimed for, but took time to get there).

I never did fundraising pre-Zoom/covid so can't compare, but the advantage here was the sheer volume of meetings we could do in a single day. I guess that in-person it would be easier to build rapport, but Zoom was definitely an advantage when playing the numbers game.
But now you have traded compile-time safety for a runtime error whenever the api changes. I’d prefer the switch in this case.
oops, sorry for the misinformation
really great article, so rare to not simply say what everyone knows but in your own voice.

What I got out of it (which is known) is that founder+CEO is like politician. Most of your job is fundraising.
You keep the walls in permanent shadow. Convection keeps the air near them moving downward.
+ allows you to have infinite accounts on the same email. It might be disabled on purpose.
Thanks for sharing your marketing preferences.
..Or the warranty becomes void if you open up the hood of your car and try to repair/replace parts..
> I know for a fact that I don't learn if there aren't exams and grades.

There's a reason a lot of first-year grad students end up dropping out. :)
"I don't know how yous done it, but I know yous done it!"
I can't really speak about Java, but for C++, std::unordered_map (which uses separate chaining) gets destroyed (performance-wise) by any number of alternate hash map implementations that use open addressing. There's just no question that open addressing is inherently faster for most use cases.

To be fair, unlike std::unordered_map, the open addressing implementations don't come with a guarantee that they won't move the items in the hash table. But in practice that doesn't really matter anyway, since you could always use unordered_map<unique_ptr<T>> instead of unordered_map<T>. But, I digress..
You are clearly an amateur thinker….
Nerds always want to interpret the law in some strict pedantic fashion, but in practice this is almost never how it works. Law is not applied stupidly or mechanically, you can't fashion yourself some ad hoc workaround unless you're extremely certain about what you're doing, preferably with a mountain of precedent behind you.
Passive Income and Entrepreneurship
What is the implications of breaching these keys?
US contract law jurisprudence doesn't really seem to support you here.

> The mental assent of the parties is not requisite for the formation of a contract. If the words or other acts of one of the parties have but one reasonable meaning, his undisclosed intention is immaterial except when an unreasonable meaning which he attaches to his manifestations is known to the other party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_v._Zehmer
glitch in the matrix Oh, yes, "Die Hard" was always a series of Sinatra musicals.

That's a lot worse than "Berenstein Bears".

On the other hand, I'm glad that "Weird Science" had so much hardcore inter species porn. I wish it had been that way when i was a kid.
A present day German car with a drag coefficient of 0.200: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2022-mercedes-benz-eqs-ev...

A present day American three-wheeler with a drag coefficient of 0.13: https://www.aptera.us/
I oppose carbon taxes (I don't want to get into that here); I also think bitcoin is stupid. But I see this kind of headline as an argument for a carbon tax. Trying to ban specific things is a silly political game of whack-a-mole - creating an exhaustive list of "bad" things is impossible and also overreach into telling people what to do. The better way (and I realize this is beating a dead horse) is to have the price reflect the externalities. Let people mine bitcoin or idle their car or whatever other thing they want, just make sure the cost they pay to do it properly reflects the all-in cost of the activity, and try to do it in a way that the poor are not disproportionately disadvantaged (whoops, that's a big part of my opposition).
Thanks; I’m really glad to hear that!
> instead of using ret to return, jumped to the ret-instruction of a different function

... wat
A cursory google search on your part would have easily turned up web pages like these from the central bank of Canada:

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2020/02/contingency-planning-cen...

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/research/digital-currencies-and-...
Quite successfully, it would seem.
> grocery shopping in dollar stores

> Dollar General

Dollar General has never been a "dollar store" in the way you're thinking.
1. The information gets from the VM to you through a custom WebSocket protocol called Goval (you can see the JS client at https://github.com/replit/crosis). It can do editing, console I/O, VNC, configuration of the image, etc.

2. The console is rendered with xterm.js, the desktop is a VNC client.

3. Not sure what you mean
IC is a commonly used acronym (at least at some of the big tech companies) for Individual Contributor. For instance, when the author says "customer ICs", I imagine that means the internal engineers that would be using the database they created (individual contributors on other teams who would be customers/clients of this service).

(Vouched for this flagged comment after seeing the other comment)
meanwhile Google happily continues to run ads for malware like the infamous 'MacKeeper'
Does the car have a power usage estimator? Or would that perhaps be dangerous if one misses traffic changes due to following the dial
According to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_fuel

Methanol is 19.7 MJ/kg so 5.47 kWh/kg and 5.47 MWh per ton.

I assume shipping is not often weight constrained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fuel_oil
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/transportat...

Current "bunker oil" is 40 MJ/kg so approximately double, but toxic emissions (sulfur content) are so bad that some countries/states mandate using a less polluting (less sulfur) fuel when near coasts.
And yet, the uniformed masses seize upon the news every time as proof that crypto is doomed.
> On the bright side, the new CEO ran the company into the ground.

I've seen this up close several times, and countless times afar. Successful company gets bought by bigger company, new owners replace the successful management, new management runs company into ground in short order. Remains possibly sold for scraps to former competitors.

Like... is there something they're getting out of this I don't fathom? Or are they just repeating the mistakes of others again and again and again?
It’s done all the time on Station inside machinery. We also can easily making spinning rooms on Earth. merrygorounds are playground equipment for children.

It’s don’t commonly on Earth. Most of the point of LEO space stations is to study microgravity so you wouldn’t even want it.

It is indeed pretty easy, but annoying to do for technical reasons (rotating joints, etc). Easier not to.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-559...
Facebook did not lose any lawsuit. A settlement is a far cry from a loss and judging from the outcome, it looks like Saverin got screwed over.

So basically, the board will try to screw you over; if you're not in a strong enough position to do something about it then you're out of luck, if you are strong enough to do something about it, then you might be able to recoup some of what you're entitled to.
This is exactly what I'm looking for as well!

Someone please fix the "hckr news" extension, it worked great until it stopped working.

I suspect recent changes in HN ("context" links etc) broke it.
Yeah absolutely
Is America going to let Chinese investigators start combing through their labs and almost the populace to see if an alternate domestic theory that it originated in the US earlier (after all, there’s been reports that it was in NYC in fall 2019 already).

Can you see how a government might be concerned about keeping an adversary do that because of the sovereignty violation it brings up as well as concerns about spies being part of that group (eg how the CIA used a vaccination program as cover to find Bin Laden in Pakistan)?

It’s not the only rational explanation. It’s just the one you choose to prefer (and it might perhaps be the most plausible given how the Chinese government appears to operate, but it’s not beyond reasonable doubt). Heck, this was the theory behind invading Iraq and looks like the US never did find those WMDs.
Court has no jurisdiction over NSO. At most, it was foreign international persons who accepted iCloud's terms and conditions. They'd have to identify them, prove that they are linked to NSO, and in fact acting on behalf of NSO in their official capacity. And even after that, they'd just not travel under their real names, or even not travel at all, and that's that.
California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
Yup, I was poking fun at the entitlement people feel toward FOSS developers who release free products.

Amusingly, the person railing against Mozilla didn't catch that it's free and used "the refunds" as an additional talking point against Mozilla.
Ok,so kids which are more likely to be picked up and held transmit slightly more than other kids.

This sheds no light on my original query which seeks to compare viral loads and transmission rates between unvaccinated kids and vaccinated adults. First, vaccines were not available during the study. Second, it only considered one direction, kids to adults. One would need to do a multi way with more age groups. We know the disease is skewed w.r.t. age.
> There's a reason why students cram at the end of the semester. Without pressure from grades, they won't do the work of learning. I know for a fact that I don't learn if there aren't exams and grades.

We call this pumping-and-dumping. You pump the info into your brain then dump it on the test, then you forget it. This is not really meant for learning.

The type of student that won't learn unless strict deadlines and grades are placed on them is a very different type of student than one that will learn more with less deadlines and grades.

Take away deadlines and grades, and you will divide the class into two groups: that which genuinely learns the information better without deadlines and grades, and that which will slack off without strict deadlines and grades. The education system is (or should be!) designed to push students into the former category.

Unfortunately "desire to learn" is incredibly difficult to measure, let alone objectively, hence the standardized testing (you never get complaints about favoritism if everyone gets the same test).
One could also argue, that as Apple is commonly branded as "secure" alternative, and therefore high profile targets are potentially using their products. This might mean that interest is much higher for attackers on that side. They might not care so much about Android. Increased interest and effort means that more likely something is found.

Also, Apple's sandboxing settings and permission managing makes the most malware pretty useless with App store policies (no sideloading), so only RCE exploits are kinda useful.

What it comes to iMessages, that is the most interesting channel with Safari to deliver exploits, iMessage without user interaction and Safari with some. All you need to know is that target is using iPhone. Other non-default applications as target introduces new challenges. iMessage and Safaring being part of OS updates might indicate, that they are handled differently compared to other apps - is security policy same, worse or better? Is there larger attack interface to system by using these apps?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/

“ The World Health Organization has confirmed that breaches of safety procedures on at least two occasions at one of Beijing's top virology laboratories were the probable cause of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) there last month, which infected nine people, one of whom died.”

It even happened with a coronavirus in China before!
So carbon tax and dividend.
> they created more than one hundred Apple IDs to carry out their attacks

Maybe the most interesting thing about this is how it proves that their code signing system is worthless. If the same bad actor can get a hundred Apple IDs to sign literal malware with, why are they imposing this burden on random small developers?
Are those poor immigrants, or rich immigrants?
How Norway got rich against all odds before oil
That doesn't necessarily rule it out. Cryptography is one of those things that once you get it down, you stick with it. It is entirely possible this may give enough insight into Nvidia's SOP with cryptography to extend the PoC proven on Tegra to something like their firmware signing functionality in GM 204 cards. At least, I haven't seen anything that stands out enough to downright disclude the possibility from possibly nudging things down the road, in theory.
Original author here. Totally. I’m old enough to remember when Web 3 was the semantic web, so I guess I don’t put much stock in the label. And, personally, I’m really interested in crypto-less federated systems like Mastodon and some of the stuff the Indie Web community has built. I have no idea if those are, uh, web3 enough for web3.:-)

As for the question of casinos, I think @pinboard’s description of Web 3 as “an unregulated casino with a hip bar scene” (sigh) strikes me as… about right?
yeah that's good to hear, I feel like Zoom is just strangely efficient. On the momentum note, did you feel a sense of less interest from the investor-sphere after no's from certain investors? The implicit assumption is that investors are colluding with yes/nos.
I registered at exercism.io as a mentor to help other people. Thank you for sharing!
> what has been proved is that Marx’s theories don’t limit the effects of the machinations of assholes

What a weird test. No system of government does, and Marx was not writing a system of government. I guess it is time to throw out all political theory, though.

> that we shouldn’t be claiming that Adam smith has written a prescription

Funny, the people making that claim about Marx are equally wrong, and yet you want to discard all of it.

> means doing your own thinking

...Which apparently can only lead to your conclusion? That's hilarious.

> and not fetishizing

I'm not the one with the fetish here.
You don't think anyone ever discusses Marx?
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No, it's not a proper word. It is, however, a word that is used somewhat frequently ;-)

In native English business circles, it's a word that someone made up so that they could say "what are our learnings" instead of "what did we learn". Why? To sound more sophisticated and pretentious - or so I suspect.

Anyway, yeah. People use it, even native speakers, even though the word should be taken out and shot.
> The value of the distributed ledger is rooted in a theory

A theory which many people disagree with.

> You seem determined to think with analogies.

So do you.

An NFT is not a signature on a piece of art. You are trying to convince us that an NFT is analogous to a signature on a piece of art.

Whether the analogies of the crypto community hold is what is being debated here.

I assume you are aware that NFTs are not actually signatures on physical artworks.

> If my attempt above didn’t help you understand why people are paying tons of money for these things,

I’m sure you wouldn’t be claiming that people never pay money for things that later turn out not to be valuable.
Plato’s republic is primarily about the soul…
Incorrect, though. The page does not work on my phone running latest Firefox. Page goes in a refresh loop.
If you want our civilization to thrive, you don't want to force it to go through any radical changes too fast.

Climate change is gradual. It won't cause famines and droughts overnight. The places that will become unlivable are already struggling, which is already forcing migration, government action, etc.

You're basically suggesting that we tear off the band-aid and immediately transition to the state we will be in in 50-100 years. Doesn't seem like a great idea.
Agreed. As long as people make some quick profits, they will blindly support anything, even fight governments - even if that thing makes it easy for criminals to launder money.

It is going to be an interesting battle. I got my popcorn and enough fiat currency to survive whichever way this goes. In the worst case my plan is https://xkcd.com/538/
> I increasingly just directly equate 'logs' with 'property hypergraphs' and skip the relational step. Funny enough, a lot of our enterprise+gov work is undoing the weird tabular optimizations of SQL engines to get 360 views of data back to users. It's cool someone has 10,000 tables, but..... :)

The more I program, the more I realize that all these data-structures are conceptually the same if you squint enough.

Graphs are matrices (Edge == 1. Non-edge == 0). Matrices are graphs (see sparse matricies, like COO and its really obvious). Computer Code is graphs, Databases are Hypergraphs. Circuits are hypergraphs. Etc. etc. Everything seems to convert into each other.

The study of NP-completeness is the study of graph (or hypergraph) complexity. Chordal graphs and Bipartite Graphs seem to have significantly more algorithms in P-complexity rather than NP-complexity. (Assuming P =/= NP)

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There are questions about which forms are easier to think about... both for the human and the computer. At least, for the equivalent forms (Relational Databases vs Hypergraph representations seem to be equivalent, though I'm not 100% sure)

When one form is "less powerful" than another form, you often get significant improvements in speed. Lists are less powerful than trees, but almost all list algorithms operate way faster.
In Java? No. Rust is safe out of the box while retaining O(1) properties at all times
remember what they promised us?

https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/telegram-...
EV Batteries: Cheaper Way to Recycle Material Developed in Japan
Good Crypto
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I understand this. The difference is that when somebody implements RCA findings this usually results in mandatory overhead. That is not the case with a wooden jig which you can decide to skip if it does not suit your next item you are working on.

And that is the point. If I gave you the wooden jig to help you make better job but allowed you to skip it when you know better -- it shows that I trust your judgement and I only care to give you tools to help you make better job (safer).

But if I give you wooden jig and tell you you are going to be fired if I see you not using it regardless of how little sense it makes just because some other employee showed bad judgment once, I am saying that I do not care for you as an individual and not only I do not trust you, I do not trust you so much that I would willingly cripple your ability to do good job just to make it less likely you make a particular type of error.
Aren’t mortgages actually also examples of over collateralized loans? You borrow 80% of the homes value, and use the entire home as collateral.
There is this one though: https://github.com/minio/simdjson-go

EDIT: Apologies, simdjson-go is included in the benchmarks and discussed as well.
There is and never will be a definitive "morally right" answer for all situations. Also death is not the only metric people are scared form side effects that may not cause death. They probably should not be but most people simply cant do the research to "know" the real risks. So most people go by what they are told from someone they trust or they do the opposite of what someone they dont trust says (for example the mainstream media).

In the end the only acceptable "morally right" thing to do it to let people decide. This is how it was before covid and this is how it should be after. Will this lead to more death than enforced vaccination for everyone? Yes, it almost certainly will but that should not be the metric. Its an completely "invalid" argument that would never be used for any other similar topic.
Sure, you have to account for things (especially if you are a registered not for profit), but as long as Donations >= Expenses you don't really have to worry all that much about a 'business model'.

In fact, it often happens in reverse for these sorts of clubs/societies - Because the base expenses are very low (a £11.99 zoom account and to start with it is volunteer-led) rather than requiring enough revenue to cover expenses, you usually gather donations which let you spend money, and you don't spend money that hasn't already been donated. If less money gets donated, you can just slow down spending.

In terms of not for profits here we aren't talking about a company the size of Oxfam - we are talking about a reading group that has 12 volunteer hosts.
>Cryptocurrency fanatics

I am a person with nuanced thoughts and opinions, unique and diverse from the rest of the world.

>cryptocurrency

Let's not confuse zk proofs with cryptocurrency. Powerful, non-cryptocurrency systems that use zk proofs are coming. Alone their power is something we must reconcile, even before combined with distributed, autonomous systems.

And that's my point. ZK proofs are astoundingly powerful. Our societies and governments should be getting ready to deal with them.

>protect itself through regulation

Yes, this is a tool of the state. But it's just that, a tool. People have tools too.

The assertion of absolute state control is contrary to the state loosing the Crypto Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars). The Crypto Wars were one of the first examples establishing the limits of state power in the face of the Internet. This is before other global projects like BitTorrent or Gnutella.

The world is wide and I suspect the future is going to be weird.
Ah yes, the easy solution is just to ban all the exchanges. That'll do it! And then they'll just have to ban the peer-to-peer decentralized exchanges (dydx, sushiswap, uniswap, xrpl). That might be a little tricky though...

It's just like governments trying to ban torrenting and p2p file sharing. Look at how well THAT went.