skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I just don't buy the argument that China as the world's electronic supply-chain can't be replaced. //

Of course it can. Manufacturing moved there over the last 30 years for the low regulation and particularly the low wages that keep manufacturing cheap and allow the bosses/owners to make more money. So, all you need is to accept less profit, which the controlling powers won't do without keeping wages/costs down to soften the blow - Western regulations on safety and workers rights means that's hard so prices will have to rise.

You might do it in a decade, but it'll hurt profits. Hence, USA politicians wading in with 'China can't be trusted all our allies must now buy electronics from us' ... which also helps y'all to spy on us too. Double win for USA.
> But there's a problem here: Some cryptocurrency exchanges have been faking their volume numbers in order to raise the visibility of their businesses and bring in more customers. That's easy to do in the less-than-transparent world of global crypto trading.

> Now, an effort is underway to force the exchanges to report real numbers.

I can’t believe this isn’t fraud of some sort already
In a large orga, you limit the languages available for projects to well supported ones internally, ie. to those that are known to have a port of the RPC/metrics/status/discovery library. Also makes it easier to have everything under a single build system, under a single set of code styles, etc.

If some developers want to use some new language, they have to first in put in the effort by a) demonstrating the business case of using a new language and allocating resources to integrate it into the ecosystem b) porting all the shared codebase to that new language.
ad List-Comprehension:

The only thing this "feature" ever accomplished, was provide a short-hand to write clever code that would otherwise have required a nested for-loop instead. In some cases, the resulting solutions were so clever, that the code was completely unreadable.

ad futures and promises:

The reason why async/await is popular in JS, is not because it's such an awesome way of working around blocking IO, it's because it is the only way to get around the fact that JS is single-threaded.

In golang I simply say `go someFunction()` and get the result over a channel.
Oh I know Donald Knuth from the Lex Fridman podcast. I am noting that it was written in 1994. Would any problems result from this?
> My preference would be searching by rating with a minimum number of installs

This problem has a better solution - sort/search by the lower confidence bound for the rating: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
>When Intel starts disabling cores that are fully functional, then the practice shifts over into the bad column of artificial product segmentation.

Why?

If their yield improves, should lower core count chips become scarce and then approach the cost per core of higher end chips? That's not exactly in the interest of a consumer anyway.

Also, they absolutely already do that today - all chip manufacturers make viable cores inaccessible so they can have the right part mix that is selling the way they want.

If your demand curve perfectly matches your supply/yield curve, great - but that's rare over time.
> Where do these high APYs come from? Well a lot of it is coming from incentives of these protocols and speculation in those native assets. But the author doesn't even know that, so I won't bother steelmanning his argument

Is this not the very definition of a ponzi scheme? The returns coming from "incentives" of these protocols and "speculation" in those native assets sounds very ponzi-like to me.
As an academic, all my papers from the last 5 or so years have associated github repos where all the code is accessible under free licenses. Most of my peers in academia do the same. Documentation quality is admittedly quite hit-and-miss, because we aren't paid for that and we need to jump to the next paper, but all the code is there and everything can be replicated even if it takes some effort due to rushed code or suboptimal documentation.

Industry is a different world, and indeed there are plenty of opaque industry papers that aren't replicable at all because much of the model is essentially a trade secret, and the paper is more an avenue for bragging than for developing new knowledge together with the rest of the community. To be honest, I would just outright disallow that kind of papers. But that's not a popular opinion, and taking into account that big tech companies sponsor our conferences and provide grants, I can't blame those who think otherwise.
100%

It also felt like a long apology/explanation for Emergent Ventures rather than a true deep analysis. Pretty strong (and often false) statements for only what seems like half a year of total, somewhat vague work.
As far as I can see the post does not mention the affected releases nor the versions to upgrade to.

Is 8.3.1 patched?
Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion
Can you explain some of the ways then?

Not the user facing side, but the backend/underlying part that generates the returns necessary to sustain those yields.
Would prefer max installs filter instead of min to filter out the bigger apps that have budgets for seo
Considering that the former Director of National Intelligence, who committed perjury before congress, is a regular CNN contributor and go-to guy for commentary, I think the answer is pretty clear.
Lending cryptocurrency as a business model seems like absolute nonsense to be honest. My entire understanding is that the bitcoin model isn't compatible with investment capitalism, nor is it compatible with high-volume low-value transactions (i.e. buying food at grocery stores). It's only real purpose is as an independent store of value, for example you might convert $US 10K to Bitcoin and then just sit on it, not really expecting it to decline or increase in value in terms of actual goods/services purchasing power. Not that I know all that much about it, just what I've seen so far.
If you're relying on growth to save you then you'll die like a locked-in morbidly obese person in a bed of shame and your own filth. It's unsustainable.
> Net negative for most, net positive for a few, good learning experience for all.

You mean the printing press, right?
Thank you for the explanation. From what you said, blocking the UK looks like the most sane thing to do if you run a forum, though I'm not even sure if that would be enough for them.
There are also other ways to get these returns outside of DeFi, like by staking ETH, selling covered calls, or various other strategies on centralized services
Absolutely. I was thinking what if there's a good business reason to use a different language that's not the norm for your org. Then you're stuck with an infra problem preventing you from using the right tool for the job.

Of course, this is the exception to the rule you described well :)
AlphaZero cannot chat and interact outside moving pieces. For science, self-training would be too wasteful, intractable and impossible to boot, given there's no simulator.

An AlphaZero for science would instead be like the recent deepmind paper where the pattern matching capabilities and internal features of a neural network were used to navigate some domain's decision space of conjecture formation and testing.
People definitely buy real estate for the resale value.
> Where do these high APYs come from

The promise of DeFi is that it's supposed to reduce risk for lenders by letting them see the assets of borrowers in real time. If the risk to lenders is lower but interest rates are higher then how can it not be a Ponzi scheme? There's literally no other possible explanation.
This is why being skeptical of big-business claims is warranted. Something to remember while big-pharama is pushing new vaccines as the only answer to Covid. People may well look back on this time the same way we look back on big-oil and big-tobacco today.
This strikes a chord because I struggle with social anxiety...I wouldn't want to go out for a beer with any coworker, only with friends I've vetted over months/years. I hope I am in any other way capable of being a good engineer. Should I not be hired because of it?
> Supposedly seniors relying on recruiters and job offers instead of using their network

This always stands out to me

I’ve had 6 jobs since college: only #5 was outside my network (which I leveraged into #6)
All of what you mentioned was never meant to be the value-add of NFTs, which is namely that there's a trustless, verifiable record of transfer from the original creator (which yes, you have to verify is actually the person you think it is) to the current holder. When tied to physical possessions, it's one additional piece of evidence that the thing before you is likely genuine. When tied to digital entities, it's an unforgeable piece of bragging rights.

There are a lot of fools in this market that don't understand the tech or its specific guarantees and non-guarantees, sure, but that doesn't mean NFTs aren't bringing anything new at all to the table.
Agreed. And once the irrational optimism leaves the market, we'll see just how stable this whole system is. It mirrors the irrational, misplaced confidence in the housing market back in 2007.

Tether feels like the most likely POF based purely on the attention they're getting now, but nobody knows exactly how it will bust.
Have you looked into Hawala systems? Unofficial, trust-based money transfer agents can transfer money with a phone call. Have been doing it for decades in India, for sure, since before computers were common. Still works, and no need to risk volatile crypto coins or trust exchanges.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp
Yes. I often find Play "hides" deep in the results apps that I had previously bought, even typing their exact name, in hopes I choose another (always paid or with ads) above them.
Pilots still miss the light for "all systems not nominal", they only have so many brain cycles to interpret.

One example that comes to mind is visual and audible alerts when you haven't put the landing gear down and the system thinks you're going to land (speed low, flaps extended, descending). Yet gear-up landings are still common in single-pilot general aviation aircraft.
30 years ago, I asked to see how the cable was made. In a hour I was making cable drops and running the cable. Using 25 conductor cable, configuring pins 2,3,7 it was nothing to cable 4 PCs in each of 2 offices in a day. Nevermind the cable ran across florescent lighting, etc. Later that week I learned to check the runs were less than a certain length from the computer room. But primarily I wrote software.
It's ironic - China starts beating USA at growth based capitalism, USA starts using central control to try to beat China.
So on 7th December they announced that? :

"You’ll be able to export your team message history until 1pm PST, Saturday, December 11th 2021, when we will be turning off our servers and deleting all data."

4 day notice that service will stop and all data deleted?

If correct, that's extremely poor, indeed.
With “Aurora Store” you can filter out apps with ads, paid apps, or GSF dependent apps. Updating apps requires manually pressing “install”, but other than that it's pretty neat.
I wouldn’t jump to conclusions before we fully understand what’s happening. Maybe this issue was introduced in the latest version of android (that would be my guess seeing that it was just discovered) thus fixing it in a patch release on that version would fix it for everyone. You with an older pixel have nothing to worry about because you couldn’t update to this version anyhow.
Including almost all currencies...
Can you explain what "audited by state of new york" means? I'm not aware of NY offering such services outside the realm of "we're investigating you for financial crimes"; https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablockfi.com+audit is not promising.

Tether claimed audits for years, too, and it was bullshit.

https://help.blockfi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049344531-Why-... ("Unfortunately we're unable to offer the interest account in NY") and https://blockfi.com/licenses/ don't look too promising for this claim, either.
The problem is that every Ponzi insists that their critics just don't understand their special sauce that generates their phony returns.
Nintendo Famicon was the first console I ever played, and to this day, controller-based sidescrollers are my favorite type of games. Chances are, it's because all those hours I put into Famicon (Dendy, actually) as a kid.
Thank you for all the memories!
There's definitely a ton of low quality videos doing things that might be better presented in text, the worst examples being videos of text. They're easy to make and YT makes it easy to monetize them so people make them without caring how practical it is, and people watch them for various reason.

I've utilized a few myself (42, I think), and it's usually because it's the first thing I found and I'm a complete beginner, so anything will help point me in some reasonable direction. I've even specifically watch "programming a microcontroller" and "making a gradient in Gimp" videos. I have very little experience in those things and, even if the presenter is just going through the steps, there's visual hints that help me navigate the intimidating interfaces those things come with. If I need text for future reference, I can usually find it in a matter of seconds. Maybe even easier than before if I've learned a few new keywords from the video.

As far as the "more authoritative" thing, that can only be solved in the viewers mind. Learning to control that bias is good for life in general anyway.
> It would be tough to get any adoption at larger than a small handful of people scale

I think that's exactly the point. OP wants a human-sized community, without the cancerous mandate of growth. It's meant to be a bulletin board for your immediate community, around dozens of people in size on average.
I used to love this theme (you can even see it in my old screenshots https://github.com/talha-akram/anvil) but over time I started to prefer lower contrast themes now the same neon colors are jarring to me.
Not really, it was used for ground-up development of new solutions, particularly as middleware between the user and mainframe systems. It marketed itself as part of the 'rapid application development' trend of the time, in that it let you create UIs pretty quickly using their tooling - but it always came down to code in order to implement anything useful.
We decided to upgrade from a terrible old coil range to induction. Since our wiring is old, it was just barely the minimum amperage for a lot of the brands, but the one brand we liked with knobs needed more power. So we're paying an electrician to come upgrade our wires, because touch controls are that terrible.
Absolute legend, it's sad that he is gone. SNES is still my favorite platform (I love iso-morphic view points).

Just a few months ago I setup a retopie and did a play through of one of my favorite games, Trials of Mana, with a rom patch (http://ngplus.net/index.php?/files/file/28-seiken-densetsu-3...).

I feel the rom hacking community is still going strong and some of you guys might find it interesting. An intro to rom hacking: https://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Introduction_to_Hack...

If you want to bootstrap a s/nes collection to play/hack on in memoriam (this may or may not work):

1. Update the no-intro rom set. This guy usually post an yearly update: https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets

2. Update the no-intro love pack dats (PC-XML): https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=download&s=64&op=daily

3. [Update and Apply patches](https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/)

4. Pull https://github.com/andrebrait/1g1r-romset-generator

5. Run build.sh to build 1g1r sets

#!/bin/bash

cd 1g1r-romset-generator
git pull
cd ../

# Select what systems you want for you base 1g1r romsets
zips=(
"Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (20210122-114559) [headered]"
"Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (20210122-114559) [headered_iNES2.0_NRS(2020-09-27)]"
"Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (20210122-114559) [unheadered]"
"Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Combined) (20201230-192658)"

)

dats=(
"Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Parent-Clone) (20210822-055431).dat"
"Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Parent-Clone) (20210822-055431).dat"
"Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Parent-Clone) (20210822-055431).dat"
"Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Combined) (Parent-Clone) (Parent-Clone) (20210119-061911).dat"

)

NOINTRODIR="no-intro_romsets/no-intro romsets/"
OUTPUTDIR="roms-output/"

mkdir -p $OUTPUTDIR
for i in "${!zips[@]}"; do
mkdir -p "$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}"
unzip -qq -n -d "$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}" "$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}.zip"
python3 1g1r-romset-generator/generate.py \
--no-all \
--regions=USA,JP,EUR --languages=EN --all-regions \
--input-dir="$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}" --output-dir="$OUTPUTDIR${zips[i]}" \
--threads=16 \
--dat="./No-Intro Love Pack (PC XML) (2021-08-22)/${dats[i]}"
done
A “US journalist” whose grandfather was the personal physician to the house of Saudi’s founder, whose billionaire arms dealing uncle was involved in Iran Contra, whose first cousin was in that car with Princess Diana…

He was hilariously Saudi!
this is an excellent tip for someone who doesn't want to sign up to youtube/google just to be able to follow a channel.
I didn’t think it would work but I’ve grown fond of switching between light and dark os theme based on the time of day, and having all apps auto-adjust. If you haven’t yet give it a try.
There is a cabin camera that detects when you are no paying attention to the road.
FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement
Anyone thinking that dollars are going to go up in value is seriously loony. Dollars only go down in value. We keep printing more of them. At the same time, we aren't printing as much land and productive assets to keep pace...

The entire US economy has become dependent upon asset prices going up. The easiest way to achieve that is to make dollars go down. Conveniently, there is a branch of the government (The Fed) - who answers to no one - and who has the power to print dollars.

Sure, some American companies actually do things. But a startling amount of wealth in this country is tied up in R/E and derivatives. If dollars go up and asset prices go down - this explodes spectacularly.

The Fed chairmen are all relatively wealthy. IIRC, Ben Bernanke was - by far - the poorest Chairmen ever. At the time he was elected, he had a net worth of $2.5M - inflation adjusted would be >$5M.

That's still similar to the type of wealth you read about in Jane Austen books...
Clickbait title and no proof at all. HN hates all things crypto so much this gets upvotes even though the quality is less than Buzzfeed.

Rates like these are absolutely possible to get using Defi, futures and so on. One example of doing it risk free (staying delta neutral) is by selling crypto futures contracts and buying the underlying asset to hedge.

With that said, lenders like Celsius, Nexo, Crypto.com etc. should have transparent audits for sure. Same goes for stablecoin providers. Everyone pretty much agrees on this.
idk there are 50,000 Picassos and only 100 stupid pictures of rocks from the first such collection of stupid pictures of rocks on ethereum
It's salient that the video is from 2010. Where I was (not Google), the push to make everything multi-region only really started in, maybe, 2011 or 2012. And, for a long time, making services multi-region actually was a huge pain. (Exception: there was a way to have lambda-like code with access to a global eventually-consistent DB.)

The point is that we made it easier. By the time I left, things were basically just multi-region by default. (To be sure, there were still sharp edges. Services which needed to store data (like, databases) were a nightmare to manage. Services which needed to be in the same region specific instances of other services, e.g. something which wanted to be running in the same region as wherever the master shard of its database was running, were another nasty case.)

The point was that every services was expected to be multi-region, which was enforced by regular fire drills, and if you didn't have a pretty darn good story about why regular announced downtime was fine, people would be asking serious questions.

And anything external going down for more than a minute or two (e.g. for a failover) would be inexcusable. Especially for something like a bloody login page.
Not Celsius specifically but you can see details about yearn's strats here: https://docs.yearn.finance/getting-started/products/yvaults/...

Specific vaults strats: https://medium.com/yearn-state-of-the-vaults/the-vaults-at-y...

Links to the actual contracts: https://yearn.watch/
I use it to money launder - I lose 10-20% in the value swings - but that means I get 80% of the money for free out the other end of the NFT Ape I sold.
I think you are the one living in the bubble. Take a look outside the west coast and northeast and there are new houses popping up all the time keeping house prices down because there are no geographical constraints [0].

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
So who's taking the other side of these trades? Who's paying 10% to borrow money under these circumstances?
>The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things.

I'm at a loss as to how you might construe these statements, which you presented as wrongheaded (i.e., that you believe the inverse of each), to not imply that you believe that the "cognitive capabilities of students of color" are lesser, considering the nature of the racial achievement gap (an aspect of the conversation which you broached). Either you simply do not remember what you stated earlier, or you're lying. This is clearly a reference to students of color, at the very least. I just want to establish the high probability that you are being disingenuous.

>Do you have any evidence that the vast majority of people can learn calculus in a timely manner?

Assuming that most people can learn at a 5th grade level, and that, as suggested several times in the comments, this lecture could be broken up into multiple days worth of dynamic, interactive instruction, rather than being presented as a blitzkrieg 20-minute lecture:

https://youtu.be/TzDhdvVg9_c

This is not conclusive, of course. But you asked for any evidence, and I think a reasonable person arguing in good faith would conclude that it suffices. You've shown evidence to be otherwise, so I don't expect you to agree, but I would be happy to be wrong for once in this conversation, on this matter.
Honestly I read through the substack and its not that good reporting. Not the kind of hard hitting journalism the tag of this post suggests -- not worth your time. Still shouldn't be banned tho!
No but it's a maths textbook more than anything else. Not really a starting point for the sort of thing you're describing.
It’s a fundamentals thing, you will have to practice it a lot before it clicks and becomes practical for you to use on a daily basis.

But it won’t help you land a job at a startup, for that you need to learn JavaScript or C++
"Its flagship product: 10 to 12.68% annual returns on USD stable coins and this with little to no risks."

What is more likely that they figured out a way to "hack" the financial system to make such returns in a very safe fashion or that they are doing things behind the scenes which may be a little bit sketchy?

10% safe annual returns is a bit high if one thinks that the APY is reflection of how risky the investment is.