skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any Bitcoin transaction will only ever be as fast as the underlying blockchain, which currently processes around seven transactions per second (last time I checked).

Then check again. Go google the Lightning Network. This is outdated FUD.

Lightning sets up secure channels on top of the underlying blockchain. Actual blockchain transactions are only required (I'm simplifying) to record slow trends in average usages.
Sad news. I'd read some of his books... loved them.
To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

— William Blake

“Buddhism uses a similar image to describe the interconnectedness of all phenomena. It is called Indra's Net. When Indra fashioned the world, he made it as a web, and at every knot in the web is tied a pearl. Everything that exists, or has ever existed, every idea that can be thought about, every datum that is true—every dharma, in the language of Indian philosophy—is a pearl in Indra's net. Not only is every pearl tied to every other pearl by virtue of the web on which they hang, but on the surface of every pearl is reflected every other jewel on the net. Everything that exists in Indra's web implies all else that exists.”

— Timothy Brook
I didn't even know jackets and coats were different things.
They had more detailed maps of most of the US than the US had at the time.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/
We do things like this all the time in AU, and it's great. So many cultures and yummy food here, great to give the kids a chance to share.
If you follow that thread, it might be cheaper still for Starlink to provide bandwidth to actual orbital telescopes.
Actually meta-analyses are not limited to RCTs - in my experience they can be quite subjective.

So for example, a meta-analysis might say that there's a fair amount of evidence that people not wearing parachutes die after falling from airplanes (e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/26/story-an-afg...), and plenty of evidence that people can land successfully with a parachute (skydiving videos, too many to count). The conclusion would be a strong correlation between parachute use and not dying. The only thing there isn't is an RCT, to prove that the correlation is causal. The purpose of the parachute RCT paper seems to be to prove that the design of an RCT is just as fallible as any other reasoning that attempts to prove causality, so in fact RCTs are not the "gold standard" and other forms of reasoning may be just as valid. (e.g. basic physics in the case of the parachute)
In the UK, we still have requirements for windows to be open. This year it's much better because they decided to introduce carbon dioxide monitors to every room and force teachers to figure out how to leave the windows open and still have it below an acceptable level.
In December 2020, there was no such scheme, just all the windows open in all classrooms, in the winter. It was especially difficult for most students because while sane schools might've allowed students to wear coats, we had no such luck, only school uniform which is as good as a t-shirt.
It is being discussed to change the defaults on .NET 7.
I suspect nothing is possible in US on the federal level because of the lack of consensus.

But e.g. the Canadian (single-payer!) system is bottom-up - it originated with the provinces and is still run mostly by them, with the feds getting into the game relatively late and focusing mostly on funding and interoperability of the provincial systems. In theory, any Canadian province can withdraw from that system and run its healthcare however it sees fit, including a fully private system - it's just that it's a political non-starter even in the most conservative ones.

It's not clear to me why the same approach hasn't been tried more broadly in US, not even in deep blue states. All the focus is on the federal level, where it gets the most pushback, and where the party deadlock is the worst.
I graduated with an econ BSc from a Russel Group University in the UK, it was definitely not made clear where and where not there was actual empirical evidence for the conclusions of the neoclassical modelling we were taught. The state of syllabi around the world is a total embarrassment.
This is because of deleveraging.

Since more people use crypto as speculation (including leverage) rather than for payments or store of value, interest rate increases result in net outflows
GMAIL is still free because of the wealth of information it gives them. Being able to scrape emails for products, services, travel etc, all help Google sell more ads.
Why can't you just do it?
Isn’t this a bit of a moot point now though?

If you’re going to pay someone for a data warehouse, you can pay AWS some money, or you can pay Snowflake a heinous amount of money, for something not significantly better?

Mongo, ES and Redis all come with open source versions, which shifts the appeal back away from the AWS offerings, especially with things like Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes which has made our ES cluster basically a hands free experience.
Last thing I've read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403024/ seems to leave it at the very least as an open question. It's not a matter of 'a study' passing or failing. It's not controversial to assert that many parasites are immunomodulating , and there are no shortage of cases where it at least appears on the surface that they may ease some autoimmune maladies. My personal anecdote is from a friend whose allergies were strongly suppressed after getting worms.

I don't really have skin in this game, though, and mostly posted to make the humorous juxtaposition of literally getting worms as a preferable and less harmful alternative to smoking for autoimmune relief.
I mentioned this in another thread [1] but this idea of "no free lunch" is nothing more than a human aberration. There are many things in life that are free lunches, including drugs you put in your body but we as humans have such an overriding need to balance the scales of life we conveniently overlook them.

Pattern recognition is helpful to a certain extent in life but we should be careful applying it arbitrarily and try to be aware of when we are doing it.

I took a host of weird nootropics when I was younger. The most experimental was NSI-189. My experience is plenty of these drugs were gratis lunches but I wasn't enrolled in a study and don't have hard numbers to show you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800869
If it's a straight-up termination, that's what you'd expect the company to say (it's extremely unusual for a company to provide backstory for why they're firing senior management, even if the reason is really boring, like "we've lost confidence in the current path the organization is on and feel like we need to take a new direction").
2016, so a whole lifetime ago in pandemic years
This is really cool! I'm working on an asset tracking application right now (https://www.assetbots.com/), and generating labels are a big part of the workflow. My roadmap calls for simply generating Avery sheets.

But it would be AWESOME if I could let a user click a button and send them to a labellive:// URL and have it just work. I'll explore a little and see if there's a mom-tested way to make this usable.

Again, very cool app!
I often use 4 letter shortcut aliases. Inspired by this, "mrdr" is now a new alias of "kill -9".
Coffee shops, health clubs, parks….. would like to see the daytime opportunities for socialization and entertainment to rise.
Columbus doesn't typically get strong tornadoes, although with climate change, anything is possible.
Wouldn't it be running on the same setup as their paid offerings? It's the same thing, just with limitations.
I do this every day with YNAB (even though they have a mobile app). Takes about 5 minutes. So much easier on a computer than on a tiny phone.
Easy. If you don't breed, you get to take The Pill of Eternal Youth. If you do breed, you don't. Any other solution would be unjust or unsustainable.
Honestly this is one of the things I couldn't stand about the bay area. Tons of people that think they're hot stuff and the rest of the country is a dump pile. It reflects in HN comments all the time.

The reality is Ohio State is actually a good university and there's really solid talent out there too. You also have Chicago not all that far away that's a big talent hub.
This implies a dichotomy I don't see. Does an educated society not control information?

Unshaped signal is just noise. I think every society controls information in some way; "How much and how is it controlled" is the real question.

YouTube isn't obligated to share the Oath Keeper content; they're perfectly free to host it themselves. We are also perfectly free to decide YouTube's info-shaping is not to our liking and watch something else. It's freedom all around, including the freedom to not propagate a signal.
Germany has TONS of solar and I would bet Ohio gets more sun
I'd happily go even further and say that economics as a field is a total embarrassment
You wouldn't be anything that requires manual dexterity like typing or playing an instrument.

Either your hand-clothing is inhibiting movement and sensation. Or the cold is numbing your hands.
There's docs on getting it to run, but I can't find docs on what it does or how to use it. Even digging into the wiki, the example use case is vague and it's unclear what any of this is useful for in any way.
I think there is Deer Park Monastery in California, Plum Village Monastery in France, Blue Cliff Monastery in New York, and Magnolia Grove Monastery in Mississippi. There could be others as well.

Edit: I think there are even more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Village_Tradition#Monaste...
They are migrating everyone to the same system as the paid one and deferring payment for a month. So to me it sounds like a flag.
I emailed the mods a link to your comment using the footer Contact link, since they can bypass the lockout.
Zaire could lease that space to China, make some money, and China would even remove the troublesome satellite for them!
Leave him to it, if you can run without investors it frees up a LOT of time.
Cincinnati (double n, single t) is actually growing in population: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2021/08/12/census-2020...
I will miss him and his writings.
RIP. One of the great spiritual thinkers of our lifetimes.
Cloudflare, HashiCorp, Fly.io, Oxide Computer, Vercel
All those datacenters are gonna want a lot of customized CPU SKU's though

The used market for CPU's is already amazing every time AWS dumps a ton due to a hardware refresh cycle - in a few years it is gonna be amazing!
This is awesome! Is there a way to try different hardware to have a spectral range to [440nm - 2200nm]? Or am I too ambitious?
Title is editorialized. Should be “ Palomar Survey Instrument Analyzes Impact of Starlink Satellites”
> VRCs avoid cord tethering

Not with the architecture (x86_64) they picked for the Simula One. Unless they're using an extremely heavy battery in the headset it will need to be plugged into an outlet or an external battery pack for continuous use.

I saw the SimulaVR team was active in a previous HN discussion and I asked why they went with x86_64 [1], they really didn't have a good answer for it. I suspect it's either due to a limitation with their team's talent/skillset, which is a good enough reason for their first gen headset, or they don't want anyone taking SimulaOS and running it on Oculus hardware.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29926189
For hot weather:

A bamboo sleeping mat also works very well in hot weather. Put it on top of a foam mattress. The gaps between the bamboo allow air flow under your body. The bamboo also wicks away perspiration. The mat multiplies the effectiveness of a fan or air conditioner, since it allows the air to reach under your body. When I lived in Taiwan, my bamboo sleeping mat helped me sleep well through the hot and humid summer.

Water beds also work well in hot weather. The water cools down at night. Cover the water bed with a blanket during the day to insulate it from the heat. In the evening, get under the blanket and feel the cool water draw the heat out of your body. It's far more effective than an air conditioner. When I lived in Ghana, my water bed made the hot season almost tolerable.

Perspiration causes two problems: wet clothing and smell. Wear a thin synthetic t-shirt and thin synthetic underpants to prevent wet clothing. Upgrade to thin merino wool to also prevent smell.
Yeah, could not sell a single copy of the software I was doing back then.. I’m still trying to come up with something. Tried web apps but hadn’t much success there as well.
Change the title as well as the title still misrepresents the content.
Those processors can use a dialect of C that embraces ones-complement. Mandating such support in the Standard has little practical effect on code, I expect most programs would have to be recoded to work on ones-complement anyway.
Guaranteed 2 complement arithmetic for signed integers was recently added to C++. Wrap around is still UB though because apparently caused regressions in some significant code bases.

Guaranteed order of evaluation of arguments almost made it into the standard, but because of regressions, we didn't quite get the full benefits; for example:
i = i++ + 2;

is now fully defined, while this:

f(++i, ++i);

is no longer UB, but implementation defined.

Ideally for every UB taken away we would get one or more pragmas to get the optimization back like ivdep. The issue is that that doesn't help old code bases.
My wife used to work retail and yes, customers have definitely learned they can get their way by raising their voice, demanding to see a manager, and the manager will sheepishly do anything they can to mollify them. All consequence-free. And if they don’t get what they want, they can go berserk and trash the store—again, consequence-free. Store management can’t physically do anything to neutralize the threat.

I can’t put my finger on it but something happened in the last 5 years or so, some change in the country’s moral North Star, that ushered in this era of consequence-free obnoxious behavior. It’s almost as if some leader embodied and emboldened this behavior and normalized it.
Lol at the downvotes. This is a legitimate question. Edit: I guess looking at the actual description of the retreat given, people don't actually want to learn about acceptance etc., they literally want to go to a free version of a spa resort
This sounds very interesting. Not to give away your company’s magic sauce of course, but if you were starting today, what niche would you target based on what you know?
Why not put it in code? You're program in strong typed lang, you write the config in that lang. You have a config function (analogous to the file) and a config "data" type (returned by the function, specified by the "configuree"). The function can only read env vars (keys, secrets, etc) and return the data structure layout by the app, strong typed enough you can prevent any side-effect easily by restricting the return type of the config function.

Your IDE can help you write only acceptable config files (functions) this way.

In case you do not want to recompile for conf file changes, many languages come with some kind of interpreter. You may even make it hot-reloadable for some properties.

You need more, you probably need a config service, which you can build in a type safe fashion as well.
I agree. Crash in crypto starts at 80%. This is just fluctuation.
Free markets are supposed to transmit information as prices. Access to information has nothing to do with a market being free or not, and the fact that participants with an information advantage have an advantage is a big part of why people think markets should be free.
Can someone explain to me what value "even" adds in "even over"? Isn't "over" simplier and enough?
The dollar price of many cryptos is being manipulated by things behind the scenes, e.g. exchanges pretending they've bought Bitcoin when they haven't, or stablecoins messing with the market.
For whatever it's worth, Lea Kissner has a pretty great reputation among the security nerds I talk to, and you'd assume that if something shady or dramatic was happening here, Kissner wouldn't be happily jumping into the lion's jaws.

Twitter has been shaking up management for a couple months now. I have no inside knowledge, but this is pretty plausibly just more of the same kind of thing.
> The only thing it has going for it is that it's managed and you're already on AWS, so you don't need to spend months working up a contract with a new vendor and doing the security audit dance.

That's a pretty substantial win for many projects, similar to how popular RDS is while giving up the ability to get updates as fast as if you run your own servers. People pay a lot for stability and reduced staffing requirements, which is a choice — calling it “massively inferior” seems like the wrong call versus recognizing that not everyone has the same needs and resources as you do.
A fair settlement of this would be to allow users to continue using their existing domain names with the accounts striped down to the same functionality as a free Gmail account and associated service access. Unused user slots would be taken away as would administrator access.

How would that hurt Google besides taking away a modest revenue raising opportunity?

Edit: just to be clear, your account essentially becomes a gmail account that happens to have a custom domain name.
I have had 0 issues using zoom on Linux with X.

I am disappointed with the constant hostility by Wayland proponents to projects which have problems with screencasting (i.e. literally everyone). Even prominent OSS projects like OBS only implemented it recently.
People just don't believe me when I tell them how hard it is to get an ID.

I can tell its all very well intentioned, I can understand how and why all the rules came to exist, it still has the net result of making the poor, poorer.
If you are paying 5 cents a click, then you might just about break even ( typically click to buy conversion rates are around 1% for desktop software: https://successfulsoftware.net/2009/04/23/the-truth-about-co... ).

But it is almost impossible to get any worthwhile traffic from Adwords in 2022 (in terms of volume or quality) at 5 cents a click.
"Area Man" - love it. Gonna use that from now on.
> Enterprise React

This is my experience exactly with React. I hate it. I advocate for html over the wire (LiveView, Hotwire, htmx, etc) or even just plain html templates (they are not evil!) to whoever will listen. I realize SPA frameworks have a place, but those places occur much less frequently than people suppose (or want).

I'm saving your comment to show people next time I encounter another team mindlessly reaching for React and friends.
Toonify: Turn a portrait into a cartoon character with StyleGAN
It turned into a bit of a malware redirect cesspool, and I guess they didn't want to police it.

I ran across the issue about two weeks before this blog post:

https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1475673195654959108

https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1475859899099746308

Basically, bad actors were setting up open javascript redirects on github pages, then using git.io to redirect to arbitrary target URLs.
Oh man, is that why pressing "iu" quickly would come out as "ui"? I know I press them correctly, because I use the middle and ring fingers together simultaneously, with the longer finger obviously striking one key first, yet they'd always come out wrong.
My understanding of Roosevelt is that he was not a racist,

To be clear I don't see much point in making character judgements of people who lived generations in the past, and in in circumstances radically different from our own. That said, it may be helpful to keep in mind some of the basic facts of Roosevelt's attitudes towards non-whites, as attested by these easily findable quotes:

“As a race and in the mass they are altogether inferior to the whites,” he confided to a friend in a 1906 letter. Ten years later, he told Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.”

Roosevelt also believed that Black men made poor soldiers. He denigrated the efforts of the buffalo soldiers who fought alongside his men at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, falsely claiming that they ran away under fire. “Negro troops were shirkers in their duties and would only go as far as they were led by white officers,” he wrote. In reality, the buffalo soldiers served with distinction, and several men were officially recognized for their bravery. Twenty-six died on the slopes of San Juan Hill.

...

“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are,” Roosevelt said during a January 1886 speech in New York. “And I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

See also:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act
I gave Flutter another try today and was surprised to see it now builds native Windows applications in two flavors, standard and UWP. They don't recommend shipping anything with it yet, but it looks like a good path.
I love these technologies, thanks for engaging with me about them.

IR roughly meant NIRS - was just playing fast and loose with the modality for 'things that suffer from extreme scatter that I believe will prove impossible (for the intended use) for the foreseeable future'

MRIs as I understand it align then flip water molecules that are a super easy signal to read, it comes down to stitching techniques and the hardware affordances to make that easier.

So, now I'm more curious, you believe you solved the scatter issue but were supply chain constrained?

Your assessment is also mine: spatial and temporal resolution requirements drive which sensing techniques one would use.

My aims were consumer based, so much less concerned about precision, more analysis turn around time. EEG was torture, yet rewarding in that realm - though to many techie's dismay, it only offered a single bit of resolution > I still think that's enough.

Edit: If it's still not clear what I mean (I am not a grad student in any respect), I think that anything one has to 'inject' then read the reflection is a suboptimal approach to reading the naturally emitted (albeit amplified) signal.
I had another such discussion where I suggested that C abandon support for EBCDIC. I was told it was great that C supported any character set! I said C certainly does not, and gave RADIX50 as an example.

How many C programs today would work with EBCDIC? Zero? There's no modern point in C not requiring ASCII, at a minimum.
> char's are UTF-8 code points

I'm guessing you mean that char is a UTF-8 code unit as you keep saying they're only one byte and a code point is far too large to fit in a byte / octet.

But that still seems very weird because a UTF-8 code unit is almost but not quite the same as a byte, so that users might be astounded when they can't put a byte into a char in this scheme (because it isn't a valid UTF-8 code unit) and yet almost no useful value is accrued by such a rule.
What's stopping them doing that with these accounts? It would be perfectly reasonable.
Would be surprised if they do. My service is on the receiving end of these scrapers and it gets annoying when some "growth hacker" decides to flood the service with meaningless CPU-heavy requests with a bunch of typos in parameter values. The scraping service gets a $.0001 for every $1 of damage they help inflict, so yay, bootstrapped business.
Great thread about PDF scanning/combining tricks.
I respect the usage of a couple of them in something like that even if I haven't (and I won't), but that overuse is like the late 90s gifs in personal websites, not only looks unprofessional, but also difficult the reading of the document.