skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think FL is really strong on live performances.
Money. Yelled wants all of the taxes. And thinks people are getting rich by falling to pay taxes on $600 transactions.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ye...
Antenna theory is a pet peeve of mine. The problem is that it is universally taught with the "Path Loss Equation" and that equation leads to a very poor understanding of how antennas work.

Almost every technically trained person understands that electromagnetic radiation energy dissipates according to the inverse square law in the far field. But the Path Loss Equation jumps through hoops to shoe horn in a frequency term that clearly, if you think about it, has no reason to be there. The distance term is necessary of course but the frequency term scientifically illiterate.

This all comes down to the fact that at some point someone decided they would deem the gain transmitting and receiving antennas as "equal and reciprocal" if they are physically the same. In order to make this delusion work out mathematically a phantom frequency term has to forced into the equation to make the maths work out.

For those who care (not many I expect) the way things really work is that the gain of the transmitter can be function of frequency (geometry and all that) but the receiver has no gain, the energy it traps depends only on its area.

Ok I'm stepping of my soap box, thanks for listening.
Can you show us some examples of where you are better. Pick something that normally spews out seo garbage like “Seattle gardening” and show me what you can do.
No, that's just a problem that lives in a different layer of how we organise the world. Right now we haven't decided to operate these centralised things as services provided by society, to society. Right now, they are owned by people who build up heaps of money, which in our current system translates to unwarranted power.

These are choices which can be changed.

Trying to work around the current system via a blockchain is certainly an option. But it's going to be worse in every other way except those externalities. And so they will tend to creep back, and the blockchain will be pushed out.
From the Poincaré recurrence theorem:

> The result applies to isolated mechanical systems subject to some constraints, e.g., all particles must be bound to a finite volume.

If space is infinite, then I don’t think this would apply.

> So if the universe (or multiverse) has some mechanism which generates new configurations of matter, then eventually it'll iterate a lot of perceptually indistinguishable versions of reality that from your subjective position will look the same.

But that’s not really reincarnation is it? Like the Dali Lama believes they hop from body to body within this singular timeline. The multiverse would just be copies of the universe, that have no connection / impact on the other versions, no?
Or even just include a content hash along with the URL in the NFT payload. Just a way to verify the referent of the URL hasn't changed since the NFT was minted. Where you can find the content with that hash if not the URL can be left arbitrary or out-of-band, but it's at least capturing a fingerprint of the content, not just an address.

It seems like this would be absolutely trivial to implement, right? Just... add a separator token (say `#`) and a content hash (say with `sha1:` prefix, urn-style) to the end of the URL that's already in NFTs.

I don't really understand why NFT's don't already do this. I don't understand why they didn't do it from the start. It seems an obvious choice to me in designing such a thing. Like, it's so easy, and such a step up in making NFT's do something closer to what people think they do... it leaves me thinking that the design of NFT's just wasn't done seriously, and nobody using it really cares.

What am I missing?
Want to know what’s even more fun? Since 2018 if you have income from a hobby you are not allowed to deduct any expenses from it, but do need to pay taxes on any income. So if you make a bit of money from photography, and buy and sell a bunch of camera gear, you you taxes on all the camera gear you sold even if it’s sold at a loss.
What are you doing when you fill in an hCaptcha
Some of the most interesting tech focused people I've found on twitter:

- @VitalikButerin

- @Hasufl

- @ePolynya

- @gakonst

Can see who they're following as a launchpad into the more interesting ecosystem
Twitter has a lot of community subsets, so you're right. We can also see what it looks like on reddit.
First, I would suggest you edit your post right now to remove any hints about the school where you did your PhD (even the geographic location). There's no reason anyone needs to know who you are, but from what you've written, it's almost a dead giveaway (to anyone who may know you -- like your coworkers for example). As to the subject of your post:

No, you're not "thick", by any stretch. But it seems pretty clear you that you think ... differently from the people around you.

That by itself doesn't have to be a problem. But it does seem that at some point you started to run into objective performance difficulties at your job, which were causing you to doubt yourself... which results in brain fog, causing more performance problems and self-doubt. So it's something of downward spiral.

As to advice? I don't know right off -- this is a tough one.

But I would suggest (1) looking into what's called "imposter syndrome", which is amazingly common in our industry and may be part of what's holding you back; and (2) and you may also look into the possibility of that, while you definitely are not stupid, you may be what's called "neuro-atypical" (or not "neurotypical"), if there is such a thing (this itself being something of a hotly debated research field).

The bottom line is -- one way or another, you'll probably have to accept that (either from habit or neurological makeup) your brain seems to march to the beat of a very different drummer than from that of most people (as least those involved in CS research). Which by itself is neither good nor bad. What matters is that you find a way to play this to your advantage -- which most likely will require changing jobs, from what you've written about the profound difference in working styles compared to your teammates.

And one more suggestion: apart from hypothetical differences in cognitive makeup and style -- you may want to develop more of a "take the bull by the horns" approach to life. Spending 7 years of one's life in (as you say very up front) a research area you didn't care about would be pure torture to most people I know (who go the academic route, at least).

Seriously: why do that to yourself? Was it because you felt you had "no choice"? Because you didn't "deserve better"? You may want to start asking yourself what went wrong here.

But also (and this is very important) without ruminating too much. What matters for you is not the past, but what you do now.
Literally nothing you're ranting about has any connection to or support in the content of the article, which describes a transitory effect on menstruation which may last for a few cycles but otherwise has no serious medical effects. No miscarriage explosion, no infertility, no birth defects.

Sorry to yuck your yum as the kids say, but you're not a Cassandra, just another garden variety anti-vaxxer who doesn't bother to RTFA.
How much more blatantly dystopian can you get? Terrifying.
I think OP was implying something of real world value.

I can see the hypothetical value in decentralized computing/public database.

Certain types of data could in theory be stored publicly, and anybody could build APIs around them. In particular, it would be cool if there was some common protocol and storage format for something like tweets, such that anybody could build Twitter client. Common protocol would especially benefit social media IMO.

We've long collaborated on open source code, but this would be more akin to open source data.

But all that being said, why has nothing real world value oriented materialized yet?

The decentralized experience is worse, and there are privacy concerns around storing certain data publicly, I would guess. Can those problems be solved?
best explanation i've heard is the game has 100 doors.

you choose 1 of 100 possible doors. the host then opens 98 doors, all with nothing behind them. at that point it's much easier to see that you chances improve greatly by switching.
I just want to echo the advice: talk to someone, preferably a professional. You've been through the wringer. Best wishes from the other side of our planet.
Cars tear communities apart. None of those other activities are as destructive to our quality of life compared to cars.

Did you watch the video?
This guy has me beat by a few years... I think I had my parents on linux somewhere in the mid-2000's.

It was gnome 2 and seamonkey back then and it is mate & firefox right now. I wish seamonkey/netscape suite (web/email) could have stuck around, but the banners of "unsupported browsers" from banks et al. was the tipping point.

I really feel for those who don't have someone like me to support them... if I wasn't around, my mom would be certainly paying someone for either windows or macs. It kinda makes me sad, but that's the reality.
No, I didn't. Have a nice weekend.
Octal on ios does the exact same thing and I’ve always wondered the same. I guess you could have a server side component where you pass the url, gets the thumbnail from metadata and caches it but not sure what it actually does.
Magic Johnson is still in good health after > 20 years, due to very effective antivirals. Nowadays HIV is a chronic condition, manageable with medication, not a death sentence, but people haven't gone back to fucking like rabid badgers.
That also is a really awful change and probably broke someone in production. Really there is no reason for the not function to take more than one argument. But if you have decided to overload the meaning to NAND, you'd better not later change it to NOR!
> This pushes miners to the cheapest forms of electricity, i.e renewables

If renewables are the cheapest forms of energy, why did the hash rate drop when Kazakhstan went off line?

Based on https://www.iea.org/reports/kazakhstan-energy-profile

> Coal represents around half of Kazakhstan’s energy mix (50% in 2018), followed by oil and natural gas (both with 25% shares).

This means that the cheapest energy to be found for is 100% carbon based and non-renewable.

Likewise, another 5-10% ( https://www.yahoo.com/now/iran-temporarily-stops-authorized-... ) is from Iran - which again is using oil, and natural gas rather than renewable sources.

From https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/ - the countries with the cheapest energy prices (and show up in the hash rates) are those that are using fossil fuels (and likely trying to subsidize those prices from the government to avoid civil unrest).
Metro Exodus... 3 Years Later [video]
Logan's run was the first thing I thought of as well. Maybe a dutch adaptation of the movie that took some liberties?
Dad Quotes
It's a little different than Spotify. Spotify still controls the means of distribution while the data sources for "web3" are public/decentralised (in most but not all cases). Rather I'd compare it to Google Search and AMP. The data is still accessible and there are alternatives (manually routing to the sites themselves or using other search engines) however the main path to the data is gatekept by a centralised source (Google) which is routing all the requests through their servers (AMP) instead of using the underlying protocol.

It's still a severe issue but it's a much simpler solution to simply build competitors for a tool accessing an open platform than it is to build a new platform entirely.
IMO you can't mature in an accelerated manner (save for a lot of personal tragedies; that tends to accelerate things indeed).
The Monty Hall problem absolutely becomes more obvious when the host's behavior is explicitly documented. And as this article points out, many key aspects of the host's behavior are implausible, which is a large part of what makes it counter-intuitive: https://ima.org.uk/4552/dont-switch-mathematicians-answer-mo...
Here is thread on Twitter.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/Raycevick/status/1479538055887265794
It's really not that hard (or even expensive) to run your own.

Here's[0] an example doing it on k8's. I had something similar running on GCP in a couple hours. It's been running for a month with no issues.

0 - https://messari.io/article/running-an-ethereum-node-on-kuber...
The stdlib implementations of associative containers have serious drawbacks. At the very least, most projects should consider adopting absl::flat_hash_(set|map) and absl::btree_(set|map) (or similar replacements) over the stdlib containers.

I am also partial to explicit error handling over exceptions, and there is a lot to like about absl::Status (and absl::StatusOr).

Disclaimer: I work for Google but the views expressed are my own and don't necessarily reflect those of my employer.
TASER
Yes really, if you don't have conviction you are just virtue signalling. I want to see which it is.
Kinda-sorta related, you can pipe to a multivariable loop:

paste <(printf "a\nb\nc\n") <(printf "1\n2\n3\n") | while

read x y; do echo "$y -- $x"; done

Kinda silly for this example, but very useful in things like `kubectl` pipelines -- you can do something like this:

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | awk '{print $1 " " $2}' | grep "doesntexist" | while read x y; do kubectl delete pod $y --namespace $x --wait=false; done

This lets you list all pods in a cluster, grep a selection of them by name, and delete them in a batch, regardless of which namespace they are in, while shuffling the order of args into different flags.
Their website says

>In addition, each API request runs in a full browser, and we'll even solve all CAPTCHAs. Mimicking completely what a human will do.

Wow how would they do that?
You are asking for security issues if you take this approach. Better to increment on several small iterations of dependencies, making changes accordingly, such that you will be able to take a CVE-fixing patch without having to refactor your entire app all at once.
See also `fsn`, the SGI Irix file-manager, famously featured in Jurassic Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
There is only one direct democracy in the world, and it is Switzerland. What are other examples?
Rodney Brooks: Predictions Scorecard, 2022 January 01
This is a fair complaint, and I would welcome a better way for the lawmakers to obtain SME input.
While in theory you could change your RPC URL, in practice what difference would it make? At least IPFS offers some form of integrity checking through its generated hash. But there's no way to say, for example, that I karrot_kream at time T fetched a URL pointed to by NFT N with contents C. As demonstrated by Moxie's changing NFT and eventual deletion by OpenSea, who _knows_ what will happen to it? It's possible to at least build cryptographic attestations of fetching a particular NFT (and even maybe placing this attestation on-chain, to have some NFT "provenance" going on) but there's really not that much work going into it right now. That's the critique.
The Daily Thread on https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance has a number of folks who are in it for the the tech and generally some pretty good takes on protocol/ecosystem tech. It is better than any other crypto subreddit I've come across.
That’s not true. Nobody is ‘keeping’ seniors afloat. They do pay taxes. Unless a sale is made, there is no profit. Property tax is an ad valorem tax. It’s just like unrealized gains. If you haven’t vested your stocks, should you be paying taxes on them?

It’s like everyone asking Elon musk to pay ‘his fair share’ because Tesla is doing well and his money is just a number.

Those who are trying to buy homes are not finding homes. I agree. It’s very easy to solve in a free market. Pay more. Seniors are not a burden to the infrastructure and utilities.

Instead of wanting to sip champagne on a beer budget, perhaps those who want to buy need to evaluate their wallets and purchasing power. And if their quality of life is wanting, the people who need to be questioned are our public servants. Demand that they SERVE the public. Not developers and the only ones being supported here are the public servants with developers colluding with them.

My grandmother bought a Diamond ring for 1000 bucks. If it’s worth a million now, it’s not her fault and she shouldn’t be penalized. It doesn’t cost anyone anything if she refuses to sell the Diamond.

It costs people nothing to NOT covet what’s not theirs..
> or do Photoshop-level editing of photos

How far ahead is Photoshop when compared to Gimp for the type of editing an average Photoshop user does? Do people really find Gimp lacking?
I looked up my current residence and my childhood house.

My current residence is more or less correct given the terrain and watershed (technically it’s broken since my neighborhood is 99% impervious, meaning runoff takes a circuitous route through the sewers instead).

But for my childhood home it’s way off. I’ve hiked all the various gulleys, runs and rivers near there. The route this app gives is just not possible with the assumption that water only flows downhill.
So famous at the time, he had a syndrome named after him…”Sydney Poitier syndrome”.

https://www.denverpost.com/2010/05/27/from-quiet-life-in-bah...

His stage persona as the Black hero was so perfect, that White audiences ate it up, and Black culture thought it set an unrealistic expectation about what Black folks should aspire to achieve and White folks should expect.

The Cosby Show was criticized for the same issue…a perfect Black couple, one doctor and one corporate lawyer, living in a huge brownstone in NYC with several charming children. A little too aspirational…
I pay a cleaning service regularly w/ E-transfer and the money is deposited within minutes. My bank imposes a $3,000 daily limit, which is more than US services seem to allow in a month.
I worked with a Linux desktop for years. Changed jobs and moved to Windows. The huge advantage is Microsoft office finally works for me. I don't have issue with documents and spreadsheets that people send. Outlook has a search that works much better than Thunderbird. With windows subsystem for Linux everything works well, with one exception docker desktop. That seems to be a steaming pile on Windows. Every few months the networking falls over and a reinstall of docker desktop is required.
One approach is to use a public proxy + tailscale VPN, https://init8.lol/expose-web-services-at-home-via-tailscale-...
Fertilizer is not a neutral product. Adding fertilizer destroys the biodiversity of the soil leading to sicker plants and the need for even more additives in the form of pesticides and fungicides to stave off problems caused by unhealthy soils.

So ideally you would replace chemical intensive farming with regenerative organic. Regenerative organic does require more hand labor. What I am saying is that robots could reduce the labor requirement, making it easier to scale regenerative organic. There are a whole host of benefits to this process, cost is not the only concern. In fact people are willing to pay more for their products.

See this 5 part lecture if you want to understand the process I am talking about end to end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hBUOdv2vn8
The current Windows Media Player is a bloated mess with unnecessary features. Not unlike iTunes.

The original WMP was pretty good! But you really can no longer get anything like it. ETA: at least under active development. WMP Classic was a suitable replacement I used to use: https://mpc-hc.org/

Full disclosure: for music I still run Winamp 2.95, and for video it is a mix of Kodi for set top boxes and VLC for PC/Mobile.
I'm going to shut down this thread because the discussion that's continuing here, days later, is not what Hacker News is supposed to be for (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). The topic is painful and personal, and the thread got stuck in a repeating loop. There's no possibility of resolution in this context, so continuing to litigate it here can only make things worse.
Shipping something with zero testing is always crazy.

Even a minor bug fix in a library can expose a critical bug in your own code.
I think you can satisfy my curiosity. I'm brazilian but as far as I know all my relatives up to my great-grandparents were japanese so I look no different from them. However I don't have a lot of interest in japanese culture and know just a handful of words my mother taught me like abunai. How would I be treated over there? I imagine it would be worse than a foreigner since it's expected that I know some things.
I'm not saying that the right to influence legislation is a burden. I'm saying, asking, poll-style, how many Americans would vote for X without any education or informed debate is a bad argument.

By all means, I very much support citizen led initiatives (and there have been some excellent ones), but not out of the blue as an after the fact evaluation of a law.
I don't think it's misleading to call Git history "packed", and the mechanism for regenerating historical states is similar to Ethereum's (though of course Git's delta function is changeset-only with no turing-completeness). In fact, Git calls its own delta-storage "Git packfiles".

The EVM is a very simple and rudimentary virtual computer, so replaying the whole thing isn't an impossible task. According to the tweet, it took this guy's computer 28 days to replay 4 years of history.
But "streaks" are irrelevant. Reversion to the mean doesn't tell you things across trials, it tells you things about individual trials.

Try this on: What is the "mean" red-black on the roulette wheel? There isn't one.

The only way you can reasonably expect the past streak to have an impact on the next spin, is if you've concluded the streaks are sufficiently unlikely to cause you to judge the wheel not to be fair.

If it's random, then you have no recourse but to post-hoc description. There is -no- predictive weight.

... And editing your comment to refer to groups of throws is disingenuous. It would have been more honest to modify your case in a reply.
But COVID isn't really an external threat. It is very much internal, it is now almost endemic virus, a very different problem from a foreign organization invading country. You can't fight it the same way a military fights a foreign enemy.

Iraq isn't a direct neighbour to Afghanistan. And invasion to Iraq didn't have anything to do with protecting Americans "just in case", it was a war crime that killed half a million people on false pretenses, probably pushed through just to benefit military contractors and few people egos.

I don't think governments are surrendering on COVID, but they're not putting in much heroic effort either. It's a moderate-to-weak crisis, and those get milked and not let go to waste.

Yes, some people are inclined to demand stronger even authoritarian government restrictions and action, in the hopes that will help to end this. That kind of cure may turn out to be worse than the disease. We should demand better healthcare instead.
Filecoin that you pay to have any files you like mirrored by many people, in a decentralized way.

Arweave is also a one off fee to have the file mirrored forever, the hosters are paid from the yield earned on that fee.
I think automatic string concatenation and singleton tuples were not introduced according to some high-level goal. They are just historical baggage. Automatic string concatenation comes from C, and the singleton tuple syntax probably just seemed like a good idea at first.

In hindsight, singleton tuples are not common or useful enough to deserve their own syntax. If the way to create them was something like this:

t = tuple.single("hello")

we'd thing it's ugly or inconsistent, but definitely not confusing or bug-prone.
I'm looking forward to Bitwarden "client profiles" (connecting to multiple servers) to finally make the switch. :)