skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's faster and more efficient than the judicial system

Only in theory, or maybe if you take averages. As soon as you give people rights (to see the evidence against them, to confront witnesses, etc.) you have to create processes to manage those rights, and it ends up resembling the judicial system.

I had a friend go through a wrongful termination arbitration, and it took two years. Lawyers were present on both sides; the larger party could (and did) stretch out the process so as to bankrupt the smaller one; settlement negotiations were interminable. It's not clear to me that a court case would have been appreciably longer.
> If you want to screenshot your mobile view to share with me

Just, you know, visit your own site on mobile.

Or open Chrome dev tools and switch to mobile view.

> You have my commitment we'll be working on improving the page.

As with all in-your-face marketing shenanigans, I doubt you'll change anything in the long run.
ummm. government censorship is real
2-3 years for a consumer device and 10 for a telecommunications device s em both massively too short by a factor of 2 or more.

Do we really want our devices to stop working physically, at the chip level, in less than a decade? Some people still play on game consoles decades old; these are most certainly consumer devices.

I’d much rather we over-design stuff to last decades, at least at the chip level where overedesigning is super cheap.

Solid state electronics was supposed to mean longer life for everything. No tubes to burn out, no mechanical parts to wear out. It would suck so bad if we nickel and dimed what should be fundamentally physically robust devices to last for much less time than complicated mechanical devices from the past.
> There's only one story that's been recently leaked to the media: The one about helping NSA to spy on domestic and allied political leaders.

Actually several (apparently unrelated) stories have been leaked. One story about an intelligence operative who have been jailed for joining ISIS undercover, and one about a potential security threat from children of ISIS-supporters in camps in Syria. The one about NSA mad a bigger splash outside of Denmark, but the other cases where arguably more embarrassing for the Danish government.
This may be somewhat off-topic, but I think the point of "you lose debug stack traces!" is that with tail call elimination, you have more possibility for confusion from people who inadvertently write a tail call, or who write something tail-recursive without caring about the stack growth (e.g. if it only recurses a few times in their use cases). That's where the increased difficulty comes from; of course loops/state machines/tail-recursive functions are hard to debug either way. I guess basically the problem is that with loops you know what you're in for with regards to debugging, whereas tail-recursion is kind of implicit---you have to learn how to recognize a tail call, which is non-trivial, or at least non-trivial compared to distinguishing a loop from a function call.
You can also install JetBrains’ official plug-ins and use IntelliJ for any language.
tldr: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (it says I love you)
The syntax lowering and modules handling might be really nice. Maybe even the tree-shaking. Minification, thought, especially with this level of parsing, just seems like an elaborate waste of effort if the web server is set to gzip the final CSS file, anyway.
Before crypto, it was Liberty Reserve and similar money-gram services and before/during/after that it was/is Green Dot and other gift cards.
One year post launch: An interview with a first time founder about the past year
A noble effort but in my experience these just get ignored. 90% of the PRs at my org have the empty, unfilled template text at the top of the description, a few line breaks, and then the actual description underneath.
Yes, it would be preferable if people were more curious and willing to explore topics in depth.
But sometimes all you want to know is what's the capital of Moldavia.
Ideally the web would be about easy access to relevant information, not a competition for harvesting page views.
And the screenshot isn’t even from MS Office 2003 but from … Kingsoft Office.
Erlang and kin rely explicitly on the ability to crash and start over with a clean slate.
Simple fix, name it HelperClass instead?
Even if you bring a wheelbarrow of C-notes to the closing to pay for your house, you still never own a house the way you own a ham sandwich. If you fail to pay your property taxes, the government can kick you out and auction your house to repay itself.
I've never been on LinkedIn or hired anyone because of it. I've used it cursorily to contextualize the org chart of a company I'm not familiar with.
Bruce should make a newsletter so they can sell some branded mugs
HFT firms use a tiny fraction of the energy of proof of work crypto schemes. Even if you take into account energy requirements they used to build their high speed networks.

The main reason being is that they are all co-located with the exchange, and the byzantine fault tolerance is completely side stepped by the exchange having a single point of serialization between the HFT participants and the matching engine. And then just ensuring everyone has the same length cables to that single point of serialization.

So the policy of everyone connects through this single point, solves the fairness problem.

And then the fault tolerance is often just solved by having an active standby architecture, so if the primary matching engine goes down, you fail over to the backup.

You would be surprised at the low number of servers actually in the primary path for financial exchanges.
NB: It’s “scraping”, not “scrapping”.
> Have you looked at the study itself?

Please don’t do this here. This is against the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Many people are not in a position to enjoy those works, just as many are not prepared to appreciate the amazing subtleties found in a world-class meal.

I would argue the first step is getting non-readers to read… anything. Just read consistently.
Tried it. Found mostly junk information and terrible people. Not worth the effort and time tbh
Bitcoin, of course.

Classically, kidnappers and extortionists were caught when the money passed. It was hard to find an untraceable way to do that. But with modern cryptocurrency technology, criminals have solved that problem.
The Firefox engine sucks. It's resource intensive, buggy, and doesn't play nice with other technologies... think Flash.

Even the former CEO of Mozilla who left and created the Brave browser decided to go with Chromium.

Right now- the only browser engines seeing a lot of action are Chromium and WebKit. Every browser is being built on one of these two engines.

I suspect even Firefox will switch over to gain the benefits of one of those engines and the number of people working on them.
evidence that R is terrible at everything else?

specifically "data parsing", "string munging", and "file processing"?

I've used R extensively for all of these, and having recently re-visited the python world don't see any advantage that Python has over R for any of these tasks.
"They still haven't told you and I'm not going to either" should have been the correct name for the paper.
Chart has baseline at ~1995. They say we reached 200 zettajoules around 2019.

200 zettajoules => 2.0e23 J * 4.184 J/cal => 8.36e+23 calories

They say this is the energy absorbed by top 2000 meters of the oceans. There are 84.8 million sq km of ocean.

2000m * 84.8e6 => 1.69e20 liters of water.

1000 calorie to warm 1L of water by 1 deg C.

1.69e20 L / 8.36e23 cal => warmed by 0.2 deg C since 1995.
I get multiple invites to interview every week and I do not have a LinkedIn. Just my self-hosted jsonresume site: https://lance.dev
Analogies often mislead. A single driver even a "very prolific" one is not driving hundreds of millions of miles a year.

Thought experiment: view all cars as a single imperfect product that kills 1.3 million people and injures tens of millions every year - vast majority due to poor driving. What's you solution? And make it fast - another 1.3 million will die this year.
> One worry that I have with async rust is that the executors are so complex that the "baseline complexity" starts rather high.

I completely agree, however I like that you have the option to swap out the executor for your own if the situation requires it, which I think concerns a very small number of applications. In other languages with a baked-in runtime you would be left trying to come up with workarounds to make it play nicely.
Another major difference between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 is that SARS-CoV-1 took time to gain new adaptions to effectively spread between humans. These mutations that SARS-CoV-1 went through allowed researchers to find the intermediate animal host within months.

With SARS-CoV-2 there was no known mutation phase where the virus rapidly gained mutations to more efficiently transmit between humans. SARS-COV2 came out the gate perfectly adapted and did not start mutating extensively until many months after it spread globally. These lack of adaptations are also the reason why it's so hard to trace back to the original intermediate host species.
Some enterprising prosecutor is probably, even now, getting ready to bring those judges in and depose them. They don't have any attorney-client privilege, and they certainly know all about some illegal activity.
This is a really poor use of the arXiv.

Here's a discussion of the same phenomenon that provides some explanations that aren't "a shadowy trading firm is propping up prices by painting the tape at open":

https://systematicindividualinvestor.com/2021/01/15/the-magi...

To be honest, the author's strategy could really be happening: some market player (or players) may be aggressively buying up stocks at open and selling them throughout the day at a loss so that the overnight gains positively impact their much larger buy-and-hold tranche of the same stocks. So what? Not only would they be taking on a risk premium by holding that larger slice of stocks overnight, but they're also opening themselves up to massive tail risk. A strategy like this works by taking advantage of the change in order book depth throughout the day to pump up P/Es. P/Es will eventually come back down. When that happens, who knows whether the crash'll start during a trading session or overnight. It reduces into a market timing strategy. This "paper" is ridiculous.
Turns out, all of existence is naturally emergent.
Link to the paper:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00376-022-146...
I believe the theory for an accidental lab leak in Wuhan is more convincing, because it actually started near to a lab. Where is the evidence here that the first cases of Omikron were detected near a lab. Are there any labs in South Africa that could be responsible for such a leak?
This is a common misconception. Anarchy doesn't stand for "without rules", it stands for "without ruler".

The idea behind is to get rid of centralised, corruptible bottlenecks and decentralise decision and rule making.

There are different models and theories on how that could work (The Machinery of Freedom gets quoted often) and zero interest from any politician to push for it; the appeal of getting into politics is having power - and a model where politicians should give away all of it is obviously not very popular with career politicians.
Three screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/XUpP9ha

Including the cookie banner that's illegal under GDPR (and is likely illegal under CCPA)
This makes no sense. Owning a home is not paying rent. Paying a mortgage comes with the expectation of accruing equity in the home. Renting does not. You’re comparing renting with being a landlord.
RStudio has pretty amazing python support now FYI
I could attach TXT records to my own domain and publish "tweets" like that couldn't I?
And so on, and so forth, etc. The actually hard parts aren't about moving money around.
There yet be hope fot justice.
This is completely backwards! Yes, you get value from owning a house, and you can measure that in dollar terms by looking at comparable rents, but this isn't a cost; it's more like a dividend.
What are the implications if this is true?
Yes, it's the free market taking over and providing a service that is in demand, in this case arbitration.
Did anyone bother to check that this bug has nothing to do with Tesla before proudly announcing their EM hatred? It was a 3rd party app that asked users to hand over their email address and password.
i only do weed and just gummies for my anxiety and only buy enough that its obviously personal use and not some weed gummy empire i'm starting.
A lot of times its in the marketplaces or their forums. I mentioned an example good for me in another comment
That's true but the article is specifically talking about ransomware
Not only does science show the current temperatures are getting hotter than ever. We now know the past 50 years was colder than we ever thought. With new advanced scientific techniques, we now have a much better idea what the temperature was 50 years ago than they did 50 years ago.

It should be kept in mind, these new temperatures measured now are not breaking records compared to the temperatures measure 50 years ago, but rather to the modified and corrected temperatures of 50 years ago.

Here is a great little collection showing how the temperature records change over time.

https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/alterations-to-climate-d...
The good chargers hold 8-16 batteries, so there's always a set on there being charged. The chargers seem electrically smart and maintain the batteries well.

This process works wonderfully. We've got ~100 Enloop's of various generations around the house in TV Remotes, XBox Remotes, Garage Door openers, and toys. This process works well.
I have the feeling that many people (especially politicians) think that global warming is a linear process. It's not. It might even be exponential since some sources for climate-warming are affected by warmer climate. For example, melting ice that reflects sunlight back to space [https://arcticwwf.org/places/last-ice-area/].

I'm thinking about choosing a new place to live right now. Climate change is a big factor for that.
Exactly, the "half a decade of embargo" rhetoric come from people who clearly don't live or never have been in Cuba, nor understand the reason for the embargo. I don't blame them tho, they are just victims of decades of propaganda.
As long as there is illegal content on the blockchain, they can simply state that you are hosting a node connected to a network that downloads and shares illegal content, which will be true, and therefore that you possess it, which will also be true. And that can be enough to get you prosecuted regardless of how many crypto bros are going to try to convince you, or them, otherwise.
While at the same time, people are still receiving consequences after the discovery of things they said and did a long time ago. What a world!
If it's -only- a supply shock, then prices would eventually come down, right? Well, we are finding that to be less and less true. So something else is going on beneath the surface.
USDA economists last month projected food increase prices in 20202 of 2%-3% and food away from home 3-4%.

This doesn't jive with this at all.

Meat, poultry, eggs jumped 12-13% and seems like that isn't coming down anytime soon.
Um...it does.

If you are in SAG you are not allowed to work on non-union productions.
Depends on the site, time and listing. I’m sure someone in Myanmar is conflating their experience on Facebook with “the internet” too.
Let's say you use something like a striped raid on different nodes.

Node A contains the odd bytes for something copyrighted like "the love guru" those bytes by themselves aren't the copyrighted content and no one claims rights to them.

Node B has has the even ones.

Downloading either doesn't yield the copyrighted file, but on a person's own machine if they combine them it does.

Still illegal?
Of course. And I also know a single instance isn't proof of climate change. But I wanted to point out / rant about how the winters have changed over time here. It's sad.

And summers hotter than ever. Have had to buy AC, as if we're in Southern Europe.
At least the vast majority of those mortgages are fixed rate so that the monthly payment doesn't vary. Renting means your monthly payments can continually rise - those with mortgages are shielded from that.
It's relative to 1981-2010 baseline. Negative is lower, positive is higher. In 1995, presumably, it was also the average temperature for the 1981-2010 time.

The two colors are negative and positive, a potentially unimportant dramatization.

Clarifying based on what I understood: Data from 1940-today show that the period from 1985-today had 8x more heat added than the period from 1958-1985, and that each decade since 1958 has increased in temperature.
I was thinking about the children™, personally. I wouldn't touch this technology with a 10 foot pole.
I think the issue with this is that one person's loss is another person's gain. Lots of people lose money during the day, but it's not generally the very sophisticated hedge funds and HFT people.

And if you were to hold overnight, you'd have to sell in the morning, and the volume of overnight trading isn't high enough to support a bunch of big firms buying into overnight trading and selling at open, they'd all sell into a disaster, which would make overnight returns go away?
This makes no sense. If you are living in the house you own, you can't simultaneously rent it out. Any rent you might theoretically receive would be essentially canceled out by needing to rent another place to live in.
Well one of the big factors was tax avoidance. Basically mislabel your long term strategy as short term for a lower tax bill. Then just wait, and know that the final penalty fine (while still large) will still be less than the total you made over time by not paying the tax.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/renaissance-executi...
That would be my worry too! I wonder if the next step is to figure out if there's any sort of regularity of the newer climate and to find plants that might be able to support those time cycles..
"In 2019 less than 1 percent of doctorates were awarded to Black mathematicians, and just 29 percent were awarded to women."

Such statistics are often trotted out to imply discrimination, without providing context. A 2020 Brookings article "SAT math scores mirror and maintain racial inequity" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/01/sat-math-... says

"Of those scoring above 700, 43% are Asian and 45% are white, compared to 6% Hispanic or Latino and 1% Black. Meanwhile, among those scoring between 300-390, 2% are Asian and 23% white, compared to 43% Hispanic or Latino and 26% Black."

A 700 math SAT score is good but not great. The fraction of 780+ scorers who are black is probably even less than 1%, since disparities tend to be magnified in the tails of a distribution. It should not be surprising the the fraction of math PhDs who are black is so small, and this does not indicate discrimination by college math departments.
Renters headed about 36% of the nation’s 122.8 million households in 2019, the last year for which the Census Bureau has reliable estimates. Because certain demographics – young people, racial and ethnic minorities, and those with lower incomes – are more likely to rent, those groups likely will be disproportionately affected when evictions resume[0].

I suspect what ProfessorLayton means is that they specifically own a house and so sucks for the rest of us.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national...
Ok. FWIW, I'm not talking about simplistic facts. Rich snippets are often multiple paragraphs. And I understand the distaste for harvesting page views, but websites are hard to maintain without visitors too.
Yes. The law isn't naive and seeing content A appear when using innocent content B as a key is beyond a reasonable doubt.
The author explains what he thinks is happening on page two of this paper (which he cites in the OP, but doesn't actually explain):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.01708.pdf

TL;DR: Stock prices in the US go up overnight and come down during the trading session. The only explanation must be that some shadowy trading firm with a lot of money is buying a bunch of $stock in the morning and selling it back later in the day (at a loss), because it inflates the value of their much larger stockpile of $stock that they hold onto overnight.
I believe that the GP poster was intentionally using emotionally-charged language in order to try to push that position, or alternatively to make an excuse to bring it up in the thread without otherwise having a reason to do so.

Not really in the spirit of HN, of course.
Honest question from someone truly ignorant on these things:

To what extent might this affect Bitcoin (or other proof-of-work) mining?

I've heard that PoW mining is notoriously energy hungry. Does a big increase in energy prices merely slow the mining down, or is there some tipping point that could make PoW-based crypto markets crash and die?

Disclaimer: I'd like to buy a new GPU in 2022.
Unless you're selling your house to downsize or leave the country, raising home prices isn't a good thing. You have to live somewhere. Higher home values means higher property taxes (in many cases, almost paying for your whole house again, and now at inflated rates).

Raising home prices have much worse effect of kicking away the ladders for the new generation to own their own home, while doing nothing for those who already have a home to live in and desire to keep doing so (other than possibly raising their property taxes).
> It's been a really really long time since my EE classes - are transistors just unable to operate this way?)

Yeah, most CPUs nowadays have dynamic frequency adjustment to maximize battery life. Lower frequencies also mean transistors can operate at lower voltages, so by reducing the operating frequency, you can reduce the voltage and therefore power draw on your battery.
> Sorry, the failure to not have your vaccination passport with you has nothing to do with laws in the country you are residing in.

Try to gaslight someone else. There was never an obligation to carry a vaccine passport before the pandemic.

> At least you came to your senses and admitted to lying about it.

I am sorry, but you seem unwilling to understand. I explained how I was not able to get my status certified without getting my privacy violated, while you seem determined to not believe.
> EOL may imply certain conditions

And "EOL" is a convenient shorthand for those conditions.

Most use cases care about never getting patches for security problems ever again.
I hadn't heard of Tom Lane before. But his prolificness in contributing led me to search for him. And wow. He has quite a history. Co-author or the PNG spec. Major contributor to JPEG's success. Not to mention postgres. At 66 years old and still so actively involved! Very impressive
Lots of funky fish found lurking off the LA coast these days.
Personally I would not buy property south of the 45th parallel anymore (in the northern hemisphere). Even north of that we have seen shockingly high temperatures. Anything south of that will become a hellscape within our lifetime.
I thought NJ legalized to the level of CA, where you can there are dispensaries and stuff, no?
some people believe information should be free, period.

There's am argument to be made that the drawbacks of revenge porn are outweighed by the benefits of free access to information.