skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stirring the pot over the stovetop and watching the water boil away was not how they wanted to spend their time.

I don't understand. When I cook rice on the stove, I leave it alone. Heat until it simmers (takes only a moment, I start with 190F water), put the lid on and turn the heat down to minimum, set timer for 20-30 minutes and walk away.

We even have a rice cooker, too, but it stays in the pantry because it's less convenient to take it down and set it up than just doing a pot on the stove.
https://archive.is/3G15F
>But at no point did the compiler say "oh, you wrote to this variable without synchronization! Now I'll show you, hehehe!".

That's because the compiler doesn't detect the situation. If it knew, it could, say, remove all code leading to that point - it's legal and the resulting code would be faster.

>Compilers can optimize many loops only if they assume signed integer overflow never happens.

I don't think this happens. Most loops iterate over arrays, and at least in C tradition unsigned integers are used as array index with no signed integers in sight.
I am a little worried about that. Rather than having a logical discussion about vaccines, there is a push to simply imprison people who question (https://katv.com/news/nation-world/half-of-dems-believe-fine...). Hopefully we can rise above the FUD here.

And there goes that chance. @dang, why was this banned?
They didn't get rid of HTTPS yet. They do offer their own CLI tool command line option, along with it.
Cool !

Do you maybe remember another DOS era game that was very similar ?

Two big grey (if i remember correctly) cannons shooting at each other.

I have been trying to find it for ages

edit:
Just found it !! It is called Bang! Bang!
> “It was bought by an anonymous private collector in the United Kingdom who intends to place the coin on loan to a public institution or museum.

Well that's nice. Feels like the ultimate win-win all-round. Nice that's it's not disappearing into someone's private collection, never to be seen again.
Not sure I agree with much of it, but one thing resonates very well with me: A well-appointed kitchen allows you to cook healthy meals for yourself rather than ordering delivery night after night. Having been born in a third-world country, where eating out is cheap and portions are generous, I never cared about learning how to cook properly. When I moved to Europe, where outside-food is ridiculously expensive and portions are depressingly small, I concur with this with all my heart and soul.
Hacker made at least $745k by abusing OpenSea to buy NFTs at older prices
> Unless something _just works_, you're looking at hours of debugging which will most likely lead to failure.

Exactly my experience, in this case I simply switch to my OS package system (I use Nix only as a package manager on my Ubuntu). I think, I have round 95% of software coming from Nix, for the other 5% that doesn't work out of box, I just do 'apt-get install'

Also, for installing different programing languages I switched from Nix packages to 'asdf', because packages on Nix often not up to date if I want to try recent release.
> The funny thing is about rights guaranteed by the constitution is that the courts continually keep moving towards the idea of, "they're not absolute rights". We slowly build the chain from, "no shouting fire in a crowded theater" to not being able to express a mathematical formula without being regarded as an international arms dealer.

It should be noted that the modern interpretation of the first amendment only goes back to the early 1900s. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/what-...

This isn't to say the modern interpretation is bad or unimportant, but I don't actually think it was what the constitution's authors intended.
"Experiences not things" is a reaction against how my parents and other family live their lives. They don't have carefully chosen tools and possessions that maximize their possessions. They have mountains of garbage, huge houses stuffed to the rafters with a lifetime of Walmart shopping. Decaying, worthless, unused trash that can never be thrown away, protected like a dragon's hoard. Minimalism is not a rationalization for urbanism, it's a reaction against our trash-addicted magpie forefathers.
There's no point in having the ability to manipulate BTC and using it to keep it stable. Pump and dump.
Most sites like these fall into 3 buckets:

- Serve ads. Many of us won’t see the ads thanks to content blockers.

- Publicize links, as often for affiliate link spam (generate unintentional clicks) as for SEO (backlinks). The first site you pasted has CPC affiliate links in the footer. Sometimes this is hidden in a CMS plug-in, so the site operator doesn’t know that their site is serving pages that aren’t related to their site.

- Phish credit cards or passwords. If a scammy site has a shopping cart, it’s probably doing this. This is usually on hacked servers, while the first two are often just on low-end hosting services.
On Covid
You hunt for deals known as Tageszulassung in Germany, and maybe get lucky.

In cars you can get up to 5000 euro discounts on such offers.
This is a low effort comment, but I agree. Who does this appeal to? Managers?
On one of my first computers, there was a game called VGA Bomber which was basically this. I'm sure it's a genre and there are a million variants of it, but for some reason I never came across them. So it's fun to see this. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Cloud. Not all cloud scenarios are the same. If the cost is amortized over a long time (theoretically infinite, well that's the plan) then the immediate convenience can outweigh the cost/opportunity cost. For example if you used Backblaze to backup one personal computer at the cost of $6/mo, if you have a lot of data that becomes a huge source of savings compared to managing the backups yourself. At that price the ROI versus other methods like building a trueNAS may not be within a decade, and I'd argue the storage enthusiasts have probably refreshed all their drives within that time and the ROI would never come even if Backblaze doubled their prices. What you do get is that self hosting becomes a hobby, and that's what I feel it is for most people.

Hiring a personal car is more expensive because you are hiring a personal employee.

That said, I still argue for personal autonomy alone learning to do the thing is better in general, but I don't think it's because it's cheaper in all scenarios. And to your point some or maybe even most cloud services are more expensive relative to their self hosted versions.
> This! When people "buy experiences" and travel/visit etc, I just don't really find it interesting.

Agreed. The things I buy make my life richer in some way that matters to me. The person buying the Lambo presumably has his life made a little better for owning the car.

I know someone who, even though they had to sell their house due to loss of income, did not miss a single vacation (at least once each year, sometimes twice, to a resort) in the last 25 years. They told me, at least once when I was buying some new toy for myself, that experiences matter more than material goods, because "after all, you can't take it with you".

Then they got annoyed when I asked them if they thought that they're taking their memories with them.

Given a choice between blowing a ton of money on some ephemeral thing and only having a memory of it in return, and blowing a ton of money on some concrete long-lasting item, I will pick the item most of the time.

After all, the more assets you can leave your children, the better off they will be. They can also turn those assets back into money.
Isn’t that called being a history revisionist?
Is this the best ETL tool ever?
I haven't made this claim? I don't know what you wanted add with this snark to the discussion, I don't even own any crypto assets myself.
OK fair enough, I was thinking more about the operations within a day, when the travel style of a Goodyear blimp would be sufficient. But you are right that long distance point-to-point travel would likely be a requirement for the longer timescales.

FWIW I'd be really interested in a writeup of your actual napkin math that convinces you of the infeasibility so strongly.
There is also a nix store query to find this information. I’m on my phone so I can’t get it right now, but I’ll try to remember to grab it later. You can query all the dependencies of any derivation… this is how I verify the full suite of software that nix-direnv installs for local projects, by querying the store for its cached derivation’s deps.
there is no "official" client, thats the whole idea.
IMO it also needs to default destructive statements (update, delete) to one row limit, and you have to explicitly choose to override that.

In the last 10 years of my career, many a dev & prod databases have been accidentally harmed by an overzealous query.

This could also add a warning for "left-over" non-updated rows, for example if the developer signals that only one row should be updated, but the WHERE clause has many rows, its usually a sign of a missing unique key, something I've seen before as well.
According to the tweet, not a satellite explosion, just the rocket final stage reentering the atmosfere once the starling satellites had been launched.
Boeing invests $450M into electric autonomous air taxi
Agreed, I've had large bills for cloud providers, forgetting to terminate a GPU instance, or didn't realize that having a disk image (even not running) costs money.

>> why anyone would sign up

It happens more often than you think: people sign up for credit cards and forget to pay the monthly bill in full. Sign up for a cell
phone plan and get charged with large bills of international
roaming. People sign up for monthly subscriptions, and exceed the usage limits.
How do you see crypto reacting once the fed hikes rates? Shouldn’t btc be deflationary
I tried using NixOS on a laptop for a month and switched back to Arch a couple of months ago. It was an interesting experience - I never used functional programming language before, but nix was pretty ok as a configuration language. It looks like funny version of JSON with functions.

Debugging it was a real pain though - I was trying to write (or copy from someone else config) a function to recursively import all modules from a folder and the error messages were hard to understand with stacktraces ending somewhere deep in standard library.

The other problem was with nixpkgs, i.e. I haven't found a clear list of packages that were going to be updated. Jetbrains IDEA was updating very slowly and when I wanted to pin a version of it simply overriding version variable in the overlay was not enough - there were also some other linked variables. Emacs package from custom overlay constantly tried to compile itself, requiring me to check build status on hydra build system.

In the end I decided that it's not really worth it. I don't have many systems and services to manage and for a raspberry pi and a vps multiple docker-compose.yaml files in git repo is enough.
I think Henrik Lissner (author of Doom Emacs) wrote a really good piece about why someone should choose to use NixOS - https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles#frequently-asked-questi...
I believe the martian team in LA actually changed their full lifestyle to live around their work times on martian time if my memory serves me well.

This got me to thinking, way ahead of where we are as a species, but synching time on different planets, galaxies will be quite a fascinating and challenging problem.
The article provides no detail on new privacy risk, yet it is the title of the piece… is there some new vector? I agree with your sentiment that it’s not like Microsoft just gained access to some entirely new portfolio of information about you, they already have access to the superset of this data since they own Xbox (PlayStation provides a million data points on the amount of time, progress, and trophies I earn in games that are not owned by Sony - i assume the same for Xbox?)

Fine if you want to postulate as to what these privacy risks are but wtf, the article provides no detail whatsoever here lol.
It's unconscionable that MS doesn't have warning notifications in place BY DEFAULT, so when you start incurring charges e.g. 10x of normal, you get notified immediately. One shouldn't have to set these up manually ever.
They already did that once on my Windows 10 machine a few years back. Wallpaper was reset to the default and my complete Firefox session was replaced by a single Bing tab. Luckily I could restore the session via "recently closed windows", but that was one of the last straws that made me wipe my last Windows installation. Risk of data loss is crossing the line for me.
USDC = Tether now?
Yes, they're busily printing away right now, as are USDC, and it will likely work just as well as before because everyone involved in crypto is incentivised to look the other way in the face of this blatant and massive fraud.
After 7 years, a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage is on course to hit the Moon
USDC is not Tether
Yep windows as the average business OS and and gamers' choice at home is not going away anytime soon.

In the enterprise environment I have control over all of these settings through GPO or our MDM so it's irrelevant.

At home it's a bit more cumbersome but can be overcome as well.
Is this done with Home or Enterprise edition?
Baker's paper is visionary in that it announces a link between linear logic and move semantics for resources more than a decade in advance. As we know this was put into practice by C++ and Rust. Compared to linear types, it amounts to operating a change of perspective from the quantitative interpretation (is it copied? is it dropped?) to a qualitative one (how is it copied? how is it dropped?). This is very much in spirit of linear logic (though it takes a bit of work to relate these ideas to Girard's mathematics). It answers questions that linear types were never able to, such as how to mix linearity and control. I take this paper as an example that there is more to linear logic than linear types!
I'm not sure if you're being facetious, but they're both stablecoins and the principles are the same.
This looks more like a problem with ( my understanding of ) complexity theory in general.

Categorizing problems by "The size of the input" is too imprecise when irrational numbers are a part of the problem.
In practice I think the problem is linear, in that the required precision is proportional to log maxValue, that would be enough for a certain answer.

It's just that a proof of this is considerably harder, since you can't just assume the fractional part of irrational numbers is random.
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But they forked a Matrix server as well to limit it to a standalone server and to limit who can access what information for the reason of privacy of the kids.
NixOS and Guix do _not_ require static linking. They go even one step further and allow many versions of a dynamic object to exist at the same time and each software on your system chooses, which version of the object to link against.
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One hacky solution is to use run a VNC server on your desktop and connect to it locally. Then you can connect to that VNC server remotely and access all your stuff.

The issue I ran into was with multiple monitors. Stretching a VNC window to span multiple monitors is doable, but the window manager in the VNC session won’t know where the borders are and will treat it as one giant monitor. Using one big monitor is a workaround.
Maybe the market cap will go back to it's pre-covid values

From 2018 to 2020 cap was stable at around 200B$

Covid propelled it to over 2600B$ just on 2021

Now a decrease seems pretty normal
1.2 billions on Sunday: https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter/status/148528500117644083...

Probably some institutional investor drove a garbage truck full of unmarked dollars in small denominations to some back alley near Circle headquarters.
It reminds me of this problem. When you plot the motion of conservative dynamical systems, say this one

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

you get these chaotic areas that look like television static on the map. I was reading an 1987 article from Byte magazine that reminded me of a conversation I had when I was working on my PhD, which is that every plot like this you see is wrong because these are done with finite precision math and it doesn't take that many iterations for calculation errors to be amplified up to the first digit.

It's significant because the reason we know those chaotic regions are full of unstable periodic orbits is that those chaotic regions are also full of stable periodic orbits and that those breed unstable periodic orbits on the separatrices between them. The stable orbits form a hierarchical lattice that constrains the chaotic motion and that should appear as visible structure.

There are hints in the literature that it ought to be possible to use variable precision interval math to do parameter scans, make better images, and more accurately understand the chaotic motion. On top of that we know a lot about how the stable periodic orbits relate to each other which would help in making that kind of image.

I haven't seen any evidence that it's been done and I know one reason it is hard is that the scaling of the algorithm would be worse than the usual way of doing things for the same reason the above problem is hard.
I don't have the answers to your questions, I'm not anyhow close to MILINT to know troop counts and accurate positioning, etc.

I don't believe either you'll be able to find open information with such granularity, reports were never about 100k personnel 15km away from Ukraine, that's a strawman, the 100k figure is about all the troops amassed around Ukraine's borders (Crimea + eastern border + northern border with Russia + Russian troops amassed in Belarus on Ukraine's northern border, etc.), so obviously that no, there aren't 100k troops barely 15km away from Ukraine, that in itself would be an extremely alarming escalation...
The goal is to harvest heat that is already being wasted by escaping to the environment. They aren't putting an additional load on the system unless they are foregoing insulating the pipes but there are a lot of cases where pipes are not insulated and these devices would be applicable.
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Yeah, it is a bit "why don't you just buy a brand new luxury car every year?"
Yes I agree they weren’t being satirical. I meant more in general an outsider can see that and with some bits of knowledge of Eth, can reasonably assume it is true that Ethereum is a company.

Like we both have said about the reversal of the DAO hack. There were multiple reversals right? Overall, the general theme/meme of privatized profits and socialized losses is too true in cryptocurrency/NFTs/web3 for now.

The NFL playoffs have had a lot of crypto commercials. FTX (valued at $18B after raising $900M), crypto.com ($700M paid for 20 years of naming rights to LA’s major Lakers stadium + Matt Damon as brand ambassador), Coinbase (market cap above $40B), Gemini ($400M invested at $7.1B valuation), Robinhood ($11B market cap), Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, some big banks have all had commercials this past weekend for crypto stuff. There were multiple celebs in the commercials too. It’s a house of cards only after the centralized power consolidating at the top.

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Potential I agree with.
And if you need that, my -98 Volvo got a little pin on the dash you can press to zero a sub-odometer. It also reset the fuel consumption average. So, ye, no need for spyware.

Google biggest sin is normalizing all these spywares embedded in everything. It is spreading everywhere, even my Samsung TV, and legislators are like 10 years behind were they should have started to "GDPR" everything.
> But these would always cache at the Cloudflare edge node, that's why I could provide the service for free, and I'd done a bunch of work with the folks there to make sure the bandwidth from the origin service was negligible.

If you're not Troy Hunt or another celebrity with special access to Cloudflare -- I don't think you really have access to Cloudflare to do a lot of work with you to ensure that your data gets cached and your egress is minimal, for large files on a very cheap cloudflare plan. (Based on the costs reported by Hunt as catastrophic, I don't think he's paying cloudflare for a large enterprise plan)

(Also, it's unclear if caching large data like this is even within the ToS of Cloudflare?)

I don't think Cloudflare promises to cache any particular URLs for any particular amounts of time (except no greater than cache headers etc; but they don't promise never to evict from cache sooner; they evict LRU according to their own policies). Cloudflare's marketed purposes include globally distributed performance, and security. I don't think they include "saving egress charges by long-term caching your data".

I have a much smaller project, but egress charges for data are an increasingly large part of my budget. I've been trying to figure out what if anything can be done about it. I wish I had a guaranteed way to get ultra-long-cache promise-to-be-within-ToS for very large data files from Cloudflare for a affordable fixed-rate price. (Maybe I do? But just haven't reassured myself of it yet?)

> In desperation, I reached out to a friend at Cloudflare… I recalled a discussion years earlier where Cloudflare had upped the cacheable size… Since then, Cloudflare upped that 15GB limit…

Since I'm looking for solutions for this same problem (delivering lots of data at very cheap prices), I am finding myself a bit annoyed that Hunt is talking about how he solved it, using tools/price-levels not available to most of us who don't have his level of access due to position.

Interestingly, MSN/Azure is part of the "Bandwidth Alliance" with cloudflare, which initially one thinks means there are no egress charges when delivering to cloudflare. (That is what it means for some other alliance members like backblaze). But that's clearly not the case or this story wouldn't happen, right? Turns out Azure gives you a fairly small egress discount when delivering to cloudflare, and only if you set things up in a non-standard way.
Yeah if you’re just looking at the graph trend, you might only start panicking if BTC drops below the previous 2017 cycle’s peak of $19k.
Loved it, its super fun.
Grooming influential people to promote your corp and then bullying them when they didn't turn out to be just parroting your marketing slogans. Classic corporations.
CVE-2021-3998 and CVE-2021-3999 in glibc's realpath() and getcwd()
> We sent warships to practice military war games right off Russia's coast in the black sea.

Eastern European NATO members are concerned they could be next (IMO rightfully), so after what Trump had been doing to NATO during his presidency Biden obviously wants to reassure his partners.

> We instructed embassy family in Ukraine to head back to the state to prep for a Russian invasion.

Yes. And?

> saying the US will defend Ukraine if Russia invades

Source? He said straight up that US will not send any troops to defend Ukraine.

> The U.S. has many allies and we don't wake up to a president calling enemy territory leaders killers and reaffirming we're game to go to war every few weeks for any other territory. This is a very obvious political move that I hope doesn't escalate, but Biden appears to be doing plenty to provoke conflict.

Well, yes, countries like US, Russia, China, etc. need to maintain their strongman image for local electorate. IMO there are much simpler and straightforward ways for him to start a war with Russia, if he would be crazy enough to seek such a thing.
Thanks, I edited the title.

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