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> It feels as astroturfed as crypto is.

I'm curious, how do you expect promotion to actually happen if you feel like "this" (this being a change in branding by a large company) is astroturfing? What is a non-astroturfing way to promote a new idea/product/thing? Or do you think any form of promotion is astroturfing?
Doug Engelbart's work on augmentation/annotation from 1960's through early 2000's, https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/358/000/
Nope, you’re not :)
They used the tests. The specification being very approximate is fine, because they had a prebuilt way to "check" if their result was good.
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The nursing homes couldn't stop them. It was their home. They'd been discharged from the hospital. Are you arguing they can't return home? A bunch of elderly people just discharged from the hospital forced to live on the streets in April?
> Some cities are exceptions to this, e.g. the city of Rochester, NY, which kind of just "ends" at its western border (the Erie Canal), rapidly dissipating into rural suburbs of Gates, Greece, and Chili. But this always seemed like a strange and jarring transition to me. Maybe a lot of places are like this? And maybe more places were like this in the past.

This is because of the belt road fad of the 50s. While it makes transit from the suburbs to parts of the city convenient it ultimately causes sharp changes in density on the sides of the belt. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-01/burying-r...
Prior to Blender 2.6, Blender used to really go out of its way to be different in every way.

With blender 2.7 and 2.8 they made lots of concessions to have more familiar interfaces.

The thing is, most every other 3D app uses the industry standard control scheme. Blender is different.

That means switching between Maya , Houdini, Max etc is fairly easy on your muscle memory. Pulling up Blender is a very rough context switch.

2.8 made it a lot better, but using the Maya keymap makes working in the Blender way kind of tricky, so you're still stuck in this weird hybrid.

Blenders great, but it definitely isn't as easy to switch between apps.
I'm a Site Reliability engineer. I help startups figure out how to deploy to the cloud. My rate is $250, though I'm wondering if I should raise it again due to inflation.
Yes, that's what they're supposed to do. Each of the individual bailouts in that list tells a pretty interesting story: in each case, the FDIC only had to pay out a small fraction of the bank's total assets, indicating that the reserve system functioned as intended.

WaMu, the biggest on the list, didn't require a single cent from the FDIC fund! But again, it would be okay if it did, because that's what it's there for.
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This is why multi day settlement is a feature not a bug. For big money it really does not need to be instantaneous.
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Just a little bit dumbed down, but this is the absolute correct take. Settings are design features, not bugs. Settings are beneficial to diverse kinds of humans.
I rather enjoy the format and suspect other people do too, so I won't be the one to give away any spoilers
Kerodon: An online resource for homotopy-coherent mathematics
were they actually paid in dollars, or some crypto that cant be exchanged into that many dollars?
Have been looking at the fly/Phoenix combo for a while

The one thing I can't wrap my head around is scaling, and the cost of scaling.

If this app magically exploded to 10,000 users at one time:

1. How do I scale with Fly.io? Can I autoscale, but somehow cap at a cost?

2. What parts of the stack would I have to pay attention to? Erlang/Elixir seem to handle a lot of the complication?

3. Are there (hidden?) costs that would concern me at fly.io with 10,000 simultaneous users? Or is there a clear way to estimate the costs at different points?

thank you - this looks very promising and (more importantly) fun!
There’s a linear increase of dementia risk as you age. It seems to be not a matter of if you get dementia, but if something else kills you first.

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I don’t like UIs where i can search only for 1-5, 6-20, 21 and more.

This, absolutely this! I recently had to use a web app whose date filtering consisted of nothing but "1 day ago; 1 week ago; 1 month ago; older than 6 months" when I was looking for a record that I knew was in March of 2018. It frustrated me enough to make me exclaim out loud an unabbreviated WTF!? A peek at the API calls it was making showed those options hardcoded directly into the "filter" parameter, so I couldn't just inject my own custom date range --- something which I have done before with success.

I wrote a short script to scrape the (paginated, infinite-scrolling style) API and filter the tens of thousands of records myself, and almost half an hour later of waiting for those records to come back, found the one I was looking for. Doing that filtering on the backend DB would've probably been nearly trivial, and all the UI needed would be two date pickers (a long-solved problem), but because of that idiotic design choice, I wasted both their and my resources.

Sometimes I feel a lot of modern software has authoritarian tendencies

It's not just software, but you're right. I've referred to "modern design" trends as "authoritarian minimalism" too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30018763
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I am in the same generation and have been replaying a lot of the SNES classics, but I have to say - random encounters are absolutely infuriating sometimes. Chrono Trigger has really become my favorite for never having those.
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Specialize in distributed systems, big data, etc.

My short term rate is $300/hr, $200/hr for longer term commitments and $500/hr + all expenses for on-site. Pre-pandemic on-site w/training was the most successful of all of these despite being the most expensive.

I did it full time for a while, these days I only do it on the side and only for projects that are worth it.
Good to know. Not using it anyways.
I get what you mean. My point is less about "the technology isn't there" but that dev would not bother unless it's very needed.
If you think tuning GP parameters are challenging wait until you try tuning hyper parameters for a DL model!

It is just a press release, to be fair to DeepMind, and I guess they can promote themselves however they wish.

My original comment was more from the context of seeing neural network models in practice perform barely any better, if at all, then classic ML models. Just as those comparisons were revealing similarly I was suspecting this use case may be the same to another classic technique.

GP is certainly not the shining star of AI right now but it is actively researched and perusing Google scholar on the subject will show you plenty of interesting, but less heralded, results.

There are probably several meaningful metrics for this problem that can be examined. If nothing else it is a simple matter of grading the solutions of each, like a university assignment. Also, typically classical techniques are less resource intensive then any neural network methods; the energy savings alone when considered at production scales would be significant.
There are various forms of energy and various forms of energy storage, including chemical energy and gravitational potential energy.

We probably think of energy as entropy like gases because e.g Maxwell?

Examples of gravitational potential energy:

- A water tower or a pulley with weight suspended a greater distance from the most local mass/graviton centroid.

Potential energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_energy
Market has gone up, too - if you're a recent hire, your comp targets are actually above those of your seniors. As an incoming L4 you can make up to 200k now, whereas 140 or 150 was considered 'good' 5 or 6 years ago. L6s who are pulling in mid 3s can leave and get 5-600k elsewhere very easily. It's not that the amazon money is bad per se, just that the industry and talent market are kind of crazy right now.
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Besides the point about a need to generate a large number of random numbers, there's another thing: you don't know the distribution of the true random generator exactly. You know it's random, but in addition to that, the distribution needs to be flat. That's why you use a PRNG with a known-to-be flat distribution to further process the entropy. As an interesting sidenote, though, Mersenne Twister doesn't have a particularly good distribution by modern standards. For this, I would use a cryptographically secure PRNG.
I’m happy it all works for you and it sounds almost like a bit of a hobby for you too which is great. But from someone less interested in it from that angle it still just sounds a lot like a bunch of work and expense for marginal levels of convenience. I also just find interiors more aesthetically pleasing and relaxing with the least amount of technology possible, maybe a side effect of working in this industry.
Do you mean "valley" as in SV, or "uncanny valley"?
Unless “short feature wishlist” is “open source both the client and the server”, then the golden IRC days are not coming back. The whole point of IRC is that there isn’t a central point of control.
It was about 30k/week.

The tech side was almost irrelevant. In the end it was about helping the client document good requirements.

Which you could only do after getting a good understanding of their business ops/process, and identifying the gaps and the impact to resources.

Then you put down really good requirements (which is hard), and only then use that to engineer a solution that appropriately addressed the risk (balancing cost/disruption vs. mitigated impact).

That said, often the solution is tech agnostic. I was just as happy punting final implementation to either internal teams or doing it myself (which often involved sub contracting to a specialist).

That may sound like a lot, but it often involved travel, tools, specialized coms gear, etc.

You also have to factor in insurance, taxes, and a myriad of other expenses related to running your own business.

The sweet spot for me was 45k/week, but that normally involves subcontractor payments as well.
How about paid businesses models? Aren’t we ripe to start these now?
Automatically generate docstrings for your Python function
Japan’s love affair with the fax machine (2021)
Well, working in software, I pretty much only have experience doing design-build work; I’ve never designed something in it’s entirety before building it (except maybe for a touch of hardware design, but even that is iterated and prototyped and tested and simulated…). I took this DOT page as a sign that maybe construction is becoming more like software over time, and I can no longer wax philosophical at cocktail parties about how they’re different.

A little context perhaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design–build
All 3d packages have confusing and complex UIs. Blender’s UI has improved significantly over the past few years - it is now around the middle of the pack. Users care much more about features and functionality.
"Example: Traffic Resolution advisories require a 5 second reaction time"

When the Autopilot swerves into a concrete wall for no reason, you will have 0.5 seconds left to live. Rwacting in the last 0.1 secons bwf9re collision will not save you - you must react in like 200ms.

It is physically impossible to react in time to some autopilot mistakes, stop defending this idiocy.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-drivers-autopilot-swerve...
Insurance has to be able to pay out if all the shit hits the fan at the same time (like in 2008) or it is worthless. That takes a hell of a lot of capital.
Doesn't it have to land in a public repo before it can be patched?

Somebody else is going to run that code publicly, and each person who runs it will find out about the patch with some time delay
Seems like it's half misconceptions (like Austrian hard money economics) and half regulatory arbitrage. There's no reason crypto things shouldn't be as regulated as traditional banking and securities, they just aren't because they don't stop to ask the SEC what to do first.

I wonder why BTC isn't taxed at the collectible rate (higher than ordinary income) like actual gold investment though.
Show HN: Download Twitter data without API keys
In April last year I started thinking about using Twitter in a smarter way. I wanted to do analytics on my tweets and find out more about people following me on Twitter. What kinds of things do people who follow me like and retweet? I decided to dig into the data and find out.

When I went to try and download Twitter data in raw form I found I quickly got bogged down writing API wrangling code and fiddling with API keys. I just wanted to crunch some data but here I was wrangling Twitter's API. This was such a frustrating experience it suddenly looked like an opportunity to me. Was there room for a product here? A product which does one simple thing: help people extract Twitter data painlessly without writing any code.

I did some research and discovered some tools that purported to do this, but none of them worked well for my use-case and all were badly designed and/or expensive. I decided to take a shot at it.

I worked on this as a side project in a "calm company" fashion. Each week for 26 weeks I would put aside one day to chip away at the features. I tried not to think about how the issue tracker was filling up more and more. Several times I pared back the feature set to try to really focus on the core use-case.

When my first user reached out and engaged I knew I might be onto something. I kept posting progress on Twitter and a few more people started to use it each week. Some of them came back, hinting at possible user retention. I hired a writer to write some articles to help with SEO and I kept working towards and MVP that I could use to test the market.

Finally the day arrived where all of the critical issues in my issue tracker were closed. That meant it was launch day. That was yesterday. So here I am releasing this on Hacker News to you, dear reader.

God speed little micro-SaaS, may the winds of fortune be at your back.
A few companies make 300mcg. Sundown Naturals is one.
Pretty much all recent bugs are logic errors which have nothing to do with the language. The actual bugs are often things like typos that use > instead of >=, lagging price oracles or using oracles that can be manipulated. You asserted that loops are 'insecure' but in reality dumb restrictions only force people to invent complex workarounds to obtain the same functionality, making everything less secure, not more. The absolute disaster of trying to make dexes work on Cardano is the best recent example. Their 'safe' utxo design is so limiting dexes like Sundae had to implement a trust-based sidechain just to be able to trade tokens, and it barely works.

After years of iteration, Solidity is now the safest smart contract language in existence. All common pitfalls are either well known or have been fixed. There are code analyzers. The problem with EVM isn't security, but the fact its word is 32 byte long which limits computational performance - but not that much really.
I'm sorry but this is just BS. Raspberry Pi are not garbage.

With good software, and by that I don't mean barely tested Java or Nodejs HomeKit wannabe services, Pis are rock solid.

I'm into SDR (software defined radio.) I have written software which processes 8MB of samples per second, and runs for months without reboot. It means 90-100% CPU load, 100% of the time.

Oh, and the same Pi also hosts AirPlay server and manages ~10 Arduino devices in spare cycles.

Bad software can make any device useless.
The amount of entropy is usually limited. For the lottery, it doesn't seem like it would be a problem, but in general, you don't want your function calls to block while gathering "random data"
I use neovim in VSCode. My setup is neovim (via brew) + VSCode + VSCode Neovim (extension) + clangd (as a language server) with which I am extremely happy.
I understand that in Italy without a facebook (ie whatsapp) account it is very difficult to live a day-to-day life due to the fact that most vendors (eg doctor's offices) assume all customers have one.
It is spelled "Ethereum", not "Etherium".
AKA, impacts of having a baby.
If it's a library normally you'd share a security patch with important customers privately, if they're otherwise going to lose $300 million. I thought this was the service's own repo though.
They also have Instagram, Messenger and Oculus. I think without Whatsapp they'd still be doing decent, and not toast.
Yep, all the open source hope has been put into Krita recently, rather than gimp.
I came in looking for fun ideas for the next cocktail party and found an interesting opinion piece. I particularly enjoyed this as someone who has worked in both aerospace and software engineering.
Close enough to dollars, although one project did also give out a bonus of their own tokens on top of the promised reward.

Large projects tend to be pretty good about paying out as promised, and not in weird tokens.
Ask HN: Best Google Alternatives?
I have been all in on the Google product suite for a very long time. From Gmail to Pixel to everything in between. I haven't had any expectations of privacy from the beginning. While I may not have liked all of Googles methods per se, I have accepted that superior functionality came at a price. That lack of privacy was the cost of doing business so that isn't the issue that is pushing me to part ways. What has pushed me over the edge is the discovery and realization of how "curated" my news and searches have become. After comparing my search results for like terms and news with other search engines, and searches when I am logged in to Google and when I am not, I have come to the conclusion that for whatever reason, Google is no longer the best tool for me to search the internet for answers. Email, search, browser and news aggregation are the main Google services I utilize. I would love to hear suggestions regarding the best alternatives for Google services. Thanks.
If his legislators can exempt themselves, he should be afforded the same treatment. Do as I say not as I do isn't really a good political policy?
And ironically, in the last several years MSFT stock has outperformed nearly all of FAANG, the exception being Apple
>Bitcoin currently has the highest cost to roll back blocks and therefore the most assurance.

This is false. Ethereum has higher block rewards (in $) for over a year now. Bitcoin is the second biggest PoW network by mining expenditure.
I feel like they might have had better luck starting a new Reels app, just like messenger is available as a standalone app. They're cramming too much functionality into a single app/webpage and trying to force people to use things they're not interested in. Why not just make a tiktok clone and keep it separate?
Anything math provable is objective. Anything depending on human opinions like "what's better code" is subjective, and thus suffers from replication.
> Though I think this hacker has a greater than average risk of being caught

Why?
You pretty much described VRChat, but it's off-putting because for some reason everyone's avatar is a furry or sexualized anime child.
I did backend development (typescript, graphql, prisma) and devops (kubernetes, terraform, gcp, aws) for two years. I started at 40$/h then finished at 75$/h (100$/h for short contracts).

I honestly got burned out by context switching (which I needed to do to fill my week). And it was somewhat easy to find contracts at 75$/h (I consider I am senior level) so I would consider either charging more or billing more hours (both of which I was not good at).

Based in Canada.
Seal rebar in it to slow down concrete corrosion?
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> just printing the things whenever they feel like it

sigh This is a common misconception, so fact check time...

Tether is printed on demand, but it is backed by assets.

An independent audit was done to settle a claim brought by the New York Attorney General. The audit found $35.2 billion in assets against $35.1 billion in issuance liabilities.

The case was settled with an $18 million fine and a promise of increased transparency, but ultimately the NYAG was unable to demonstrate any evidence supporting claims that Tether was unbacked.
Here’s the thing though. I remember when the iPhone came out. The web browser experience was a horrible low resolution experience; it was slow, clunky, and you had to charge it every day. Yet none of it mattered - almost overnight everyone became glued to their phones. It didn’t need hyping up like “just wait for 4k to come out and then it will really take off” - people wanted it despite all the original flaws. Same with original game consoles. I don’t know, I just don’t see it.
Of course they are Canadians. Only their narrative is imported.
It didn't really fix Americans' fundamentally dysfunctional relationship with housing.

Now we live in an economy with asset inflation, and everyone's going "housing market is robust" as if that's a good thing.

Sure, it doesn't 'hurt', but we're leaving huge amount of money on the table.
Pushing your customers to a comperror in this way is an unforced wrror.
In fact, no proprietary OS offers different colors other than some accent colors.

Either you're very young, or have some agenda. Scroll down to the Windows section here and observe all the customisation we have lost over the years:

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/appearance

In particular, look at this:

https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/settings/appearance/wi...

Windows 1.01 already let you change the colours of almost every UI element.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." (Winston Churchill). One can only pray.
For what it’s worth, kiwi skin is delicious. Tried it once, and now would rather have an unpeeled kiwi.

Just my $0.02.
Have a website or place to contact? The industry is wide, but maybe we could collaborate
You can see a San Francisco IX's members here, not as gigantic as this one, but you have Indies like monkeybrains right next to Netflix and Google https://www.sfmix.org/participants