skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpicky, but saying

> It turns out that, like with almost anything else relating to IEEE floating-point math, it’s a rabbit hole full of surprising behaviors.

immediately before describing that they disabled IEEE floating-point math is a bit funny. The standard isn't surprising, floating point numbers (arguably) are. The whole point of standardizing floating point path was to reduce this surprisingness. Can't complain about IEEE floating point numbers if you tell the compiler not to use them.
The legitimacy of a car title is backed by a government agency. What legal entity backs an NFT? To what authority do you go to enforce your ownership of a JPEG if there is a dispute? Will courts recognize an NFT in a case of disputed ownership?
I don't think crypto in general is nonsense. I do think a lot of the hype is. Some of my concerns with it

* Is it a currency or an investment? None of the major coins seem usable as a currency to me, the values are too volatile.

* What does it offer me over using USD? For me at least I see very little value, I often cannot use it for purchases and most of the places that I have seen it offered do it for secrecy, VPN or counterfeit goods. I am not trying to perpetuate the idea that cryto is only used for illegal activities but for myself I have little to no benefit of using it for purchases.

* Would you compare your "store of value" use case the same as owning gold? It is interesting to hear coins having a store of value since for me at least the volatility kills it and without a huge use in the economy I don't have confidence in it holding up.
I use TE Tuner and like it. I don't use all the features, but the tuner and metronome are pretty great.
It’s funny that unedited, poorly rehearsed “presenting style” has in a way taken on a life of its own. Speaking to a director off-camera, quick jump cuts of multiple takes, drawing attention to flubbing of lines, are all sort of techniques used in YouTube videos to show “authenticity” to the viewer (ie, I’m just a regular person making these videos).

I was listening to a podcast recently and noticed they left in some banter before an interview started. The banter added nothing to the discussion since they weren’t even talking about the topic yet. Its sole purpose was to make the chat feel informal and, in my opinion, “more real”.
Major discussion about this topic just a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500508

(611 points/88 days ago/411 comments)
Moore forecasted a doubling of transistor points but a halving of costs. The costs haven't been keeping on pace. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-81fb704374c332ad5c5e27...

https://www.quora.com/If-the-Moores-law-is-slowing-down-can-...
I do have a Boss TU-2, but I'm sometimes in a situation where I'm too lazy to use a cable but have my phone handy (because I record ideas on my phone)
That's kind of obvious considering crypto“currencies” are inherent multi-level marketing pyramid Ponzi schemes too.
I hope to live that long. The average life expectancy for a Japanese male is 84, but there is this pandemic going on and it has definitely hit the older generation hard.
That is only true at a superficial level. In terms of high-quality art, the Picasso is artificially scarce in the sense that there are reproductions so high-quality that only experts can tell the original apart from the reproduction. Clearly it's no longer the quality of the art that matters, because the reproduction visually looks just as appealing as the originally, but the provenance.

There are only so many "original" Picassos because Picasso is dead, but if we consider artwork that looks just as good as Picasso's, then the scarcity is entirely artificial and caused by provenance.

NFTs from a particular source will similarly become "truly" scarce once that source is dead.

There may be a difference in degree, in how hard it is to recreate a physical work versus a digital one. But it is not a difference in kind.
> If you need this to be spelled out, either you’re being rhetorical or you’re uninformed - I suspect the former.

No, I suspect you have things wrong in this case, but you're being so vague it's difficult to figure out where the error is.

> NYT is extremely predictable - both in its choice of what to inform its viewers as well as what will fit their political stance (globalists).

Even if that's true, it's no reason to assume they wouldn't publish this story for some ideological reason, especially given they've published very similar things in the past.
I just downvoted your comment and it says "undown".
Anyone with a non-directional strategy that generates higher returns than that. There are probably hundreds of such firms by now.
You should read his book, Facts and Fears. No perjury was committed. The question was incorrectly phrased and a lot of context was left out.
The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who exposed torture by US troops
The health risks of asbestos were known since 1898, yet they still kept on selling the stuff and ruining thousands of lives. There are many other stories like this. The invention of the "legal person" was a mistake.
This sounds like “single sign-on.” The web site would still own whatever I post or contribute, wouldn’t it?
Textbooks are the old way to learn, but sometimes old is gold.

Use videos for faster learning though. It’s pretty much learning on cruise mode.
So, definitely not in defense of Celsius it smells funny to me as well. But the author doesn't seem to understand DeFi. I don't know how Celsius operates but if there's a genuine zero-knowledge proof of their operations then that is better than an actual audit. The author doesn't understand this and proceeds as if no audit actually happened. If the author instead spent some time researching the contents and the merits of the proof they'd make a better point. If the zK proof is bullshit, that's a far worse indictment than all the other circumstantial evidence in my opinion.

Anyway, I don't have much faith an operation ran by an old con artist and a 24-yr old actress would actually produce a valid zK-proof that covers their operations. That's the sort of thing you need a serious technical team for. So the article still stands in that regard.
Yes.

That being said, to this day TEL remains the cheapest way to add octane to gasoline, if one disregards the public health issue. So it's not as simple as evil corporations profiting from poisoning people, customers got to enjoy cheaper gas as well.

Clearly, in retrospect, it was a poor tradeoff. Hence the argument for regulation, as the government is the entity that ought to weight society wide tradeoffs instead of individual companies or persons optimizing their own benefits.
If the yields are actually coming from speculation, it's not a Ponzi. Ponzis don't generate real yields, they just shuffle money from new investors to old investors. If it's actually making risky bets and winning them it's more like a hedge fund or something.

Of course hedge funds don't have steady 10% yields, they lose money when their risky bets don't pan out.
Do they have carmageddon?
The Peoples Fund for Cannabis – Christine DE LA Rosa
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It is incredible that Uemura has been giving lectures at foreign universities even in his late age, and a member from our local video game archivist organization was extraordinarily lucky to get a NES signed from him when he was visiting Bratislava.

https://sanqui.net/etc/masayuki_uemura_signed_nes.jpg
This feels kinda pointless, but I wasn't trying to say that the package "web3" existing means the concept of "web3" exists. It would have been better for me to post npm download trends, see here: https://www.npmtrends.com/web3-vs-ethers

These are both libraries for frontend code to interact with smart contracts. All I'm trying to say is that they do exist and developers have been using them for years.
Mobile platforms are the 21st century nanny state. You can only do what we allow you to do, because it's for your own good.
the problem i faced is that aurora store is disliked by google and my account was terminated. would recommend though.
I can't say with any kind of authority but my best guess is that private banks were involved in PPP as most going concerns already had a loan/float relationship with them.

Not that they don't have one with the IRS but I think no one wanted to task the IRS (and give them billions in additional funding) to build the infrastructure that banks already had to manage loans.

PPP seems slightly different than single payer healthcare as the government is already a huge player in the space.
My house is ~180 years old, and is of timber construction. It may not be as well insulated/air-tight as a modern house, but it is hardly "sticks". While energy use is higher, not having an entirely air-tight house is a good thing in my region, as much of the ground below is made of granite which emits a large amount of Radon gas. In a perfectly air-tight house this radioactive gas would accumulate more in indoor spaces, so I'm happy with a larger degree of change over with the outside air (even at a larger heating cost).
this is worth it just to see the screenshots of the apps for it's own purposes
But Picasso made his paintings artificially scarce too :)

He even made two versions with the same title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Musicians
> Identity-based Security: Relying on network identifiers to achieve security is no longer sufficient, both the sending and receiving services must be able to authenticate each other based on identities instead of a network identifier.

Kinda semi-offtopic but I am curious to know if anyone has used identity part of a WireGuard setup for this purpose.

So say you have a bunch of machines all connected in a WireGuard VPN. And then instead of your application knowing host names or IP addresses as the primary identifier of other nodes, your application refers to other nodes by their WireGuard public key?

I use WireGuard but haven’t tried anything like that. Don’t know if it would be possible or sensible. Just thinking and wondering.
I don't think of it as an infra problem, but as an early manifestation of effort that would arise later on, anyway: long-term maintenance of that new language. You need people who know the language to integrate it well with the rest of the codebase, people who can perform maintenance on language-related tasks, people who can train other people on this language, ... These are all problems you'd have later on, but are usually handwaved away as trivial.

Throughout my career nearly every single company I've worked in had That One Codebase written by That One Brilliant Programmer in That One Weird Language that no-one maintains because the original author since left, the language turns out to be dead and because it's extremely expensive to hire or train more people to grok that language just for this project.
Will the unofficial tribunal judgment issued on the 9th November 2021 have any effect on Apple? The account of the Tribunal findings as given by BBC World today are almost too much to stomach. I suppose I should add these are 'alleged' but people should judge for themselves.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/09/china/uyghur-tribunal-jud...
I've viewed that flag as an admission or convenient hookup point for new features under development, and have taken to adding a `--moo` or `--wip` flag which is a convenient starting point for adding something new to a utility.

It's much easier for a developer that's new to a project to make `--moo` do something different than it is to perform all the ceremony to get a `--feature` going in the first place.
Yes, billionaires and little people will suddenly forget the easiest, fairest, securest way they've done finance on the internet.
And Princeton valedictorian and current professor of mathematics at Duke Lilian Pierce interned at the National Security Agency. Don't read too much into Cooper's very brief time at the CIA.
A lot of fundamentals to fully understand any problems are not covered here. It can be the article is right or wrong but it's nevertheless inflammatory.

Just to prove my point: Look at the P2P micro credit market (which works in the similar direction and out of the scope of fed regulated money market) where it is no big problem to get 12% APY on established P2P institutions.
> Neither of these are terribly "air tight"

Newer homes in the US often have a hole in the basement explicitly to make them not airtight. This is presumably to avoid CO2 buildup.
You can absolutely buy a teardown in Montreal for under a million. You can actually buy a really nice house in a decent neighbourhood for under a million.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/23885137/80-49e-avenue-mo...
I just glanced through these and don't see any explanation.

They basically just say "we put it in a vault and harvest the rewards".

What I'm asking is where do the rewards come from. What is the underlying mechanism that makes this model sustainable.

If you invest in a REIT, tenants earn money through their business and pay rents. If you invest in a BDC, the BDC makes loans to businesses and collects interest. Relationship and risks are quite clear here.

If you're Bernie Madoff you generated high yields for investors for decades by taking money from one investor to pay another, and ultimately was not sustainable and bankrupted many people. For example.

So are DeFi yields like a BDC, or like a Bernie Madoff?
This reminds me of a blog post that I can’t find anymore. I sort of remember the title being a riff on “Cooking for One” but it might have been “Programming for One”. It was about the author making a little photo sharing app just for their family. Kind of like a snapchat clone, but invite only for friends and family, no public feed at all. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
You can press "parent" and then "next" to jump to the next (sub)thread. I wish there was a single button for that.
If I was truly myself in an interview I would have never gotten a job.

I believe that people who are most successful in the corporate ladder are those that are able to be completely pathologically "fake".
Not so easy to walk when I've built skills in unmarketabke tech and have to support a family with multiple medical issues.
Asking as an avid textbook fan -- what might be some videos that you especially like?
I believe there is a channel that you can explicitly request PMs however it’s subject to review, assuming its along security/privacy lines.
Sometimes when I hear music playing in the distance my mind "fills in the gaps" and I hear a "new" song. I wonder if this is a related phenomenon.
This phenomenon itself could be here to stay and even grow in the future if world GDP continues to increase. There's just less and less downward pressure on things as the economy grows, less "natural selection" so to speak. Scammy or outright broken things can stumble along for a long time. Look at all the startups stumbling along for years and years with almost $0 revenue and a poor or nonexistent product.

I wouldn't have a problem with this if there wasn't so much inequality at the human level. A schoolteacher should not be struggling to pay their rent when obvious bullshit NFTs are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars and startups with barely a product and no revenue are raising A rounds.
There is a good talk about this (and more) from KubeCon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5qujcujfI
So, you can buy Celsius and get double-leverage on moving Btc/Eth. If you know where Celsius buy their coin you don't need to move the whole market just produce a local shortage. Don't know if that's realistically workable, I wonder how rich you'd have to be?
Yet I've found video lectures and documentaries enlightening as well as a method to teach me something I did not know.

I'd also think that fiction novels are more entertaining than 'educational'.
This brave world of unregulated opaque finance is just awesome, isn't it?
My favorite CS book is structure and interpretation of computer programs.

I used it for one of my college CS classes. The book was written to be a semester class and MIT even has various offerings of their version of the course recorded and available on YouTube.

The book is online and available for free.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
One thing I realized about the media is that there is ALWAYS forces behind to manipulate the view. In the best case when journalists are simple individuals, their view of the world still create sort of biases.

From that perspective, nothing is objective and everything is subjective. This might be an extreme view but I do believe it's a good mental antidote.
Tickets: Remote Chaos Experience Dec. 27th – 30th, 2021
I wonder how Apple views this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952
How can you resist the dominant ideology without valuing freedom? How can you challenge the norms set by the elite without asserting your right as an individual to take a non-conforming stance? Even if you argue that society would be more harmonious if we all followed a different/better norm, how are you entitled to make a statement that contradicts the current paradigm if you don't value the ability to contradict the current paradigm of society?

I suppose that an alternative basis than freedom is faith; eg "God told me to stand up for divine principles" — but even then, why are you uniquely responsive to God's will?

Seriously, I'd love to understand how you critique the status quo/advocate for change without valuing freedom.
Why Vue over React?
I'm pretty sure they have sensors showing which seats are occupied too - if there isn't a passenger detected, you shouldn't be able to launch the games in the first place - nevermind having to click and confirm you're a passenger.
Yeah, we can quite easily add that. Just a matter of adding and wiring up one more text field and a chart widget.
At the end of day power is power. Once a corporation has enough of it compared to local governments it might as well be "government like entity" themselves, or like in case of defense contractors (not just USA, look at Airbuss in EU, Ariane in France, NSO and others in Israel) where it's hard to draw a line where corporations end and government start.

There are plenty of places with week governments in the world, where global multinationals are above the law (look at Africa, some south America).

If corporations get big enough, this might start happening in more developed world as well.

I perhaps notice it more because I live in small country (Slovenia) whose entire national budget is lower than any one of the FANG's. This is one of the reason I support EU despite it's many shortcomings.
Sorry if I was unclear. There is no singular optimal way of teaching. But for every subject, there is an optimal way to teach it. And usually that optimal way is a combination of visuals, auditory, reading, etc.

Way too often, someone achieves understanding when information happens to be presented in an optimal way for that information and they instead believe that the way was optimized for them rather than for the information.

Then they get stuck on "I need to watch videos to truly understand it".
It's not a Ponzi scheme, it can totally be used for this other Ponzi scheme!
Higher social class predicts a greater desire for wealth and status
> try sending large amounts of money around in the legacy system, expect to wait several days for every action

The legacy system (e.g. banks) aren’t sitting still either. In many parts of the world (Europe) a transaction is pretty much instant.
Yeah, you can't outsource that to Hyderabad. You'd need to know subject knowledge + very specific English and possibly other languages depending on the field (not saying Indians can't do this, but I've studied enough languages to know that doing high level/academic work in a non-native language is hell even when the language is pitched to students).

And you'd have to know enough about the process and authors to know what makes papers relevant. The metadata matters as much as the data.
I'm currently going through TAOCP[1]. So far, seems pretty good (although I found one mistake in an exercise).

Also, I can never recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective[1] enough. (Also features a rare mistakes in an exercise or two, but that's detail.)

And for network protocols, Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP[3] was just great (you only need volume 1). I've read Stevens' books on socket and IPC programming in Unix, but didn't like them, so I also stayed away from TCP/IP Illustrated, but others have different opinions.

[1]: <https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html>

[2]: <https://www.csapp.cs.cmu.edu/>

[3]: <https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Comer-In...>
I don't get how you could know and still do it. I mean they drove, sat in, were around cars, so they literally poisoned themselves knowing full well what they were doing.
You'd be adding a whole new layer of what would effectively be dynamic routing. It's doable, but it's not a trivial amount of effort. Especially if you want everything to be transparent and automagic.

There's earlier projects like CJDNS which provide pubkey-addressed networking, but they're limited in usability as they route based on a DHT.
New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life
[An app can be a home-cooked meal](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/)
Found a decent article about this:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/42218/if-leaded-fuel-is-so-bad...
What I am wondering is - how much corruption would be uncovered if journalists investigating corruption did not fear going to prison or dying?
I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to point out? The jump in 2020? The exponential curve? The exponential curve is inflation in action. That is, 1.03^x is an exponential function that represents the 3% inflation target. I think the jump wouldn't even be noticed by laymen. But, my two cents, is that I think modern monetary theory (a contested theory) would say that printing money to control unemployment does not necessarily lead to inflation. This is kind of what we're seeing?
The industry is moving away from the client library approach. This is possible in a place like Google where they force folks to write software in one of four languages (C++, Java, Go, Python) but doesn't scale to a broader ecosystem.
Astrological Stereotypes and Discrimination in China [pdf]
Manufacturing Consent is such an interesting book. The framework of analysis Herman and Chomsky present is general enough that it, while approaching almost 40 years old, still very accurately seems to describe the current media landscape.

Chomsky is a famous left-leaning anarchist, and I find it interesting that his analysis isn't "the media is too right-wing" or "the media is too left-wing". Instead, his analysis is primarily about how power begets power -- even at the level of the local paper.

This[0] short 3-minute video does a fine job of letting him explain his position on media bias while not really going into the nitty gritty details. His books, however, do go into the nitty gritty details while still being relatively easy to read.

For anyone interested in Chomsky I highly recommend "Understanding Power"[1] as the intro to his views on the world. It's not as detailed in every topic as many of his other books and is primarily conversational in style - owing to it being transcribed discussions with audience members after he has held a speech.

[0]: https://youtu.be/x60pSXlwmNE

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194805.Understanding_Pow...