skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politicans and Miners are indistinguishable in this Australia. The main political party is in cahoots with the large media companies and is a boys club of ex-miners come polticans.

https://act.greenpeace.org.au/dirtypower
The security hack part of it isn't that sophisticated--it's literally just someone changing values in a database to make certain tickets a winner.

The interesting part of the story is the sleuthing the investigator did while trying to conceal his investigation so the guilty parties did not get tipped off.
That's up to the thief to decide. It's pretty easy to avoid such "extrajudicial violence," simply by respecting the property rights of others.
> Question about LN, if I have funds in a Muun wallet, can I send to a friend with a CASH app wallet? The language makes it sound like we have to be on the same "payment channel" so I would guess the answer is no. But then how are retail checkouts meant to work, should a retailer set themselves up with a muun wallet as well, or is there a way for LN channels to interact?

Yes, I just tried it: this is what I did and it was all pretty seamless.

- I sent out a desired amount to my muun wallet using a LN invoice from my CASH wallet and it was received instantly for no fees.

- Once in my Muun wallet I sent it back to my CASH app bitcoin wallet using a Segwit address, as you cannot currently create a LN invoice within CASH.

So, it seems that while CASH supports LN it is only for withdraws and not deposits; this could possibly be added later as a feature by the CASH team, though. But as of now, only Segwit layer 1 address deposits are available to a CASH wallet.

Still, I paid ~7 cents with a 1sat/byte tx and it arrived in the next block since the mempool is clear using a segwit address.

If a retailer wants to take payments via BTC and LN they have two choices: use custodial wallets like Muun that support both Layer 1 and 2 protocols and move to a secure wallet where they hold the keys. Or invest in running their own nodes and a deploy a system that works for them.
The worst thing is when laymen abbreviate the version number 1.20 to 1.2 - quite confusing.

Versions aren't numbers.
Shameless plug: I did something similar 6 years ago and created sonos-web. Sadly I stopped working on the project, but it was indeed cool to play Youtube videos on your Sonos device (among other things).

https://github.com/denysvitali/sonos-web/

https://github.com/denysvitali/sonos-web/blob/master/plugins...

Screenshots on the README are not available anymore, but I managed to find these:

http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sonos...

https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/sonos-web-open-source-loesung-f...
I love Go.

It's the new Java, but fewer batteries included, and very easy to learn. I spent a day going over https://gobyexample.com/ and became productive the next day. I tried to do the same with Rust, but I failed. Nobody was able to succinctly explain all the things you have to learn to become productive with Rust, let alone understand anyone else's code, since there are too many different ways of doing the same shit.

I fear generics will make Go go in a worse direction, but I'm not losing sleep over it.

I would even go as far as to say Go is the fastest way to land a $100K/yr job with zero knowledge about programming and still be able to live with yourself (unlike with the JavaScript/npm oligopoly).

Solid Go'ers eschew huge dependencies and prefer classic Unix KISS philosophies. It's a breath of fresh air. And like the performance figures show, your apps magically get slightly faster over the years!

Life is short, use Go.
Not necessarily, you can scale each of the fees by income, either of the household or the average income of the suburb/region. Or just introduce subsidies for poor households.
That 94% was against symptoms, not infection. They didn't measure infection, so there was no way to distinguish between stopping infection and still being infected but stopping symptoms (and so still being able to spread it). Turns out, even before Omicron, it was mostly the second case.
For the following questions please give an answer and explain your work.

You have two balloon. One is pink and one is red. One balloon pops and then you find two more. How many balloons do you have?

Answer: 3
Explanation: Start with 2. Color is irrelevant. 1 pops, so 1 is left (2-1=1). Then, I add 2 more (2+1=3), so I have 3 balloons.

If you have five buckets, and someone gives you four more buckets, and then you find thirty-three cents, how many buckets do you have?

Answer: 9

Explanation:

Start with 5 buckets. 4 more buckets are given to me, so I now have 9 buckets (5+4=9). I then find 33 cents, so I have 9.33 buckets (9.33 rounded up is 9).
Not sure where this is coming from, or if it relates to the article at all really, but do you think it squares well with the section titled "Does the gender pay gap decrease among long tenured employees?"

I agree that it's often been awkward to talk about my compensation at work, though I continue to try if only to make such disparities more clear.
I think it might actually be better to reward someone for updating extremely old documentation. Like if there have been N commits since this documentation was updated, it should be worth N points. Then people are incentivized to update the oldest documentation. Sure someone could wait for yet another commit and have it be worth N+1 points, but someone else might take it up.
As usual when attempting perfect op-sec, this probably works 364 days of the year and then someone does the equivalent of taking a selfie with a sensitive object in the background and shares it on instagram
This is great to know -- feels commonsensical in a way (I think Australia and I think Murdoch, mining, and fun loud Aussies traveling abroad, so 2/3 I guess). Thanks!
How does that let me stream the actual song? It provides access to metadata only, as far as I can tell.
"You keep focusing on Manhattan."

Because we were talking about what effect a ban on large trailers would have, and that's the only place in the US where there are no large trailers. We could have talked about ~all the capital cities of Europe if you'd preferred. Or the entire island of Britain.

"An intentional misrepresentation, and modification of my quote"

Well, it doesn't get better when I quote the full sentence, but here it is: "Lol do you know how unsafe it would be for 'non-driving' residents if trailers can't unload food and necessary items to NYC?". Large trailers can't unload in Manhattan. 53' trailers can't even be on freeways in much of Europe. It's not unsafe. No one starves.
This was at least the direction we were headed with XHTML. The source document could be something more akin to raw data and the presentation could be rendered on the client with an XSL stylesheet. Instead we got... something else.
"The number of detections of large XCH4 enhancements around the world, each associated
with an ultra-emitter, totals more than 1,800 single observed anomalies over two years
(2019-2020), a large fraction of them located over Russia, Turkmenistan, the United States
(excluding the Permian basin where regional enhancements comprise many small to medium
emitters), the Middle East and Algeria (Fig. 1). Detections vary in magnitude and number
between 50 to 150 per month, most of them corresponding to O&G production facilities (about
two thirds of the detections, or ~1,200) while ultra-emitters from coal, agriculture and waste
management only represent a relatively small fraction (33%) of the total detections (cf. SI).
Ultra-emitters attributed to O&G infrastructures appear along major pipelines and over most of
the largest O&G basins representing more than 50% of the total onshore natural gas production
over the globe (IEA, 2021). Offshore emissions remain invisible to TROPOMI, hence excluded
from our analysis (cf. Supp. Info.)."
If you think about it, this isn't new but only a twist on an old law that was around for centuries. If you had leprosy you were forcibly isolated by law and sent to a leper colony that was isolated from the outside world.

The difference with this Austrian law is that the 'lepers' have a choice whether they remain 'lepers' or not.

It'll be interesting to see how this law pans out.
I recall having to quit Illyriad [1] because the PvP politicking was so intense it was undermining my ability to function IRL. That's pretty common in that game.

There's a couple of bona-fide dark patterns in that game, but the developers definitely tilt towards serious gaming, and overall the game is the opposite of cow-clicker addictive patterns.

[1]: https://elgea.illyriad.co.uk
Thanks! Yes, we know Deepnote! We want to focus on pipelines and deployment so we currently integrate with Jupyter distributions (as long as they keep the standard format); we have users that run Ploomber on JupyterHub, Domino, SageMaker and others. I don't think any of our users runs on Deepnote but it should work as well. We are thinking of being the "backend": Users can develop their notebooks from whatever distribution they use; Ploomber will provide the tools to help them build modular pipelines and we'll help them deploy those pipelines. I'd love to learn more about your use case, please ping me at eduardo@ploomber.io
Rest assured: the American trucking industry abuses workers too.
Thanks! I created the previewer myself in ReactJS/Ruby on Rails. The titles that appear in the search results are driven by the google books api.
I find this article overstated. I ran some Postgres databases on ZFS for specialty needs for some time, mostly to take advantage of compression. It can be quite potent for this, though the amplification of CPU usage with a pathological access pattern can be a problem for some workloads.

I did have some problems in early versions that seemed plausibly related to its contiguous memory needs, and later I saw a release quite drastically changed this (0.7), and indeed, it was stable from then on.

I found it more cohesive to work with than other options available at the time, e.g. l2arc for caching. I didn't have need for pool dynamism, but I found it rather easy to use, though I also have experience with lvm and mdadm.

That said, some of the source code I found more incomprehensible than average, and I'm fairly used to reading linux to answer certain questions. Maybe I just needed to study it longer.
That's a good point, you don't always know, so your quantitative data starts with qualitative (you decide what to measure).

But, for the common cases you can follow the industry standard measurements. They also learned from the war question mentioned in the article, now they just measure public support, too.
> LN has less than 3.5K BTC for channel collateral, meaning relatively few people use it.

Seeing as how the 2nd layer network is optimized for instant micro txs, that still is not accurate; the point is to be able to have low/no cost instant txs for small sums in order to not clog up the mempool on layer 1.

> I didn't say you need to run a node to use it. I said you needed an always online hot wallet. You need it because even to receive a LN transaction, your private keys need to sign a series HTLC of transactions linking the originating node with yours.

Sure, but that is like saying you need an internet connection to post on HN and decrying it as a pitfall of a system.

But even that is being worked on as we speak [0].

0: https://protos.com/bitcoin-lightning-dev-fix-existential-pro...
Netflix was rolling it out in 2016 and wrote a blog on it: https://netflixtechblog.com/protecting-netflix-viewing-priva...
Guess everybody knows what’s going on in your 10’s of forum pages lol. What are you referring to and what’s the substantive argument against the idea that “proof of work is uniquely incentivized to always maximize energy consumption by design?” As someone who lives under a rock and has not read
a single one of these aforementioned forum pages, would love some clarity.
This is a nonsensical conversation, since you're demanding that I should defend words that you put into my mouth. No, thanks.
Sounds like somebody without practical experience.

E.g. Borg was worthless because the retrival of data was so slow from a dedicated hetzner SX6_ Host that getting data back with less than 10MB/s was disastrous for a 10TB+ repo. (Not a bandwidth problem.)

Been there, done most of the suggestions. Most of them are unpractical -- regardless what benchmarks at phoronix say and how often one jumps from solution to solution for certain aspects.

Still use ZFS, still IMO overall the best package for a lot of data management.
AlphaCode Attention Visualization
There is no way this will get much floor time on the Senate.

The only real path forward is that a stripped-down version of it is added to some sort of big spending bill, similar to what they did with the tobacco minimum age[1].

https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/congress-raises-minimum-age-tobacco...
Atom by atom: new silicon computer chip technique opens up quantum computing
> The right kind of user will be begging to throw money at you.
I agree, that's the best kind of user.

> If you have to be more aggressive, chances are you're targeting the wrong type of user.
Very true from my experience.

Would you agree that identifying the right kind of user is the most important thing for a startup? Or can a startup be successful even if they have not nailed down the persona of the right kind of user?
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WE MAKE THINGS, AND WE'RE AWESOME AT IT!
Our charms…marketing”
Sneezing hamsters sparked a Covid outbreak in Hong Kong
If you don't wish achievements to appear you can disable steam overlay or download Steam Achievement Manager and 100% all games. One of the reasons devs put them in games, especially those that track chapters completed, is to have a measure of story completion across player base.
“ About Us

Futura Prototyping, Design, and Research Labs, shortened to Futura Labs, is a research group that makes cool shit. We work on all sorts of stuff, including:

Music
Technology
Design
Film
Lifestyle
Health/Fitness
Finance
Internet
Media
Working 24/7 on our dreams.”
You don't need to calculate any averages to plot a distribution.
> You could have the worst software and the best content and probably win

I definitely get where you're coming from. As a counter example, my parents aren't great with tech and have written off platforms with content they want because they find them annoying. For example, they find Amazon Video way too confusing. What's free? Why are there channels that aren't free that they already have somewhere else?

> I suppose the answer is to let the users write their own clients

Netflix definitely doesn't want this. They want people to turn on their TV and open Netflix. If people have a third-party client that can show Netflix content alongside content from HBO, Amazon, Apple, and Disney, people might start watching their competitors more.

Not only that, but Netflix wants to be able to push your viewing in certain ways. If everyone starts watching a show at the same time, it can create buzz. Netflix's big promotion of Squid Game got to that critical mass for buzz to happen.

If they're able to determine what comes up where in the UI, they can also prioritize shows that are cheap for them. Getting someone interested in an owned show is better than getting someone interested in a show that they're renting from a third party.

That said, there are third party UIs like JustWatch that allow you to integrate with multiple services. We also saw Movie of the Night (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862588) featured here a little while back offering an API and it does offer links to shows in Netflix.

I think the issue is that it takes work to build a third-party UI and it takes money to actually collect the data (or pay someone else for the data) while the streaming companies aren't totally happy about giving you that data.

Really, everyone is looking for an edge. Google wants their Android TV to serve you ads for shows. They want Hulu to pay them money for them to push Hulu shows in their UI even if you don't have Hulu. Roku wants to sell advertising space on their Home Screen. Every content provider would love to become your primary destination while you ignore the other apps on your system and forget that they have content too.
Dang, I watched you single out all of my comments, and then later go back for a second pass to flag the other posters too after you read my profile description, so as to preserve the illusion of impartiality. Calling my posts "flamewar comments" implies I'm being uncivil, and this is how the HN echo chamber gets groomed. Please be more conscious of your own biases in the future.
> That’s not true.

My two Starlink terminals respectfully disagree. It has been mentioned numerous times on the Starlink forums. It's IP space previously used by Google Station.
It's amazing to me how there is not a single ultra-emitter from Europe, Australia or offshore. Surely this is evidence that regulatory regime is critically important?
Wish the author shared numbers regarding the cost of the lot + construction, etc...
> Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean.

This is pretty well guaranteed if they can read your message at all.
What he seems to be saying is that by design proof of work incentivizes fully saturating available energy, and that the only world in which it won’t compete with other uses of energy is one in which we have more than enough capacity for all other uses, plus excess, and that until we’re there being in favor of devoting energy to proof of work is functionally equivalent to being against preventing emissions. I’m unaware of the debate, so as a lay man I admit I don’t know if the argument is old or not (and I think how old it is is irrelevant to whether or not it is right), but I find this line of argument compelling.
The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution (1959) [pdf]
I think the aim is to get you out of your comfort zone, so that you can find more things to watch and don't cancel your subscription.
My primary school’s library included books written by students of any grade, and kept them at least while the students were still at the school, along with dozens of the best ones from further back. The whole endeavor was called the school library “publishing house”.

Students at school who wanted to could write a book (typically 3–10 pages, but occasionally longer), and the handwritten or typed document with line art would be xeroxed 3 times then each copy would be colored by the student, laminated, and spiral bound, with one copy sent home, one to the classroom, and one to the school library. All of the student authors would get to go to a ceremonial “authors’ tea”, held a few times each year.

It was optional but a great experience and some kids enjoyed it so much they “published” several books a year. Others only did it once during primary school, or not at all.

This was all back in the time when schools had enough budget to fund a full-time school librarian who could organize such a project. I don’t think it has continued down to today.
Blizzard one-upped them by playing a reversed and tweaked sound of opening a beer on hitting the enemy.
This is really well done. It's like a live-updating meta analysis. I wonder to what extent each paper can be parsed automatically to extract the p-value and effect size to add to the table.

I'm not sure what to do when there are methodological differences (e.g. randomized trials vs. observational studies), but I'm sure people who know more about meta-analysis have already developed techniques for merging such heterogeneous results.
> Not sure where this is coming from, or if it relates to the article at all really

The article shows pay gap, and I offered one of the possible reasons that contributed to pay gap.

How is it not related?
“ We want to swap the human and the AI in the their respective prompter-prompted roles so that the AI is the prompter and the human is the prompted.”
When a comment is worth more than the discussed random blog entry...

Thanks for the USENIX link!
But telling a valid story about something that definitely happens (the seemingly endless cycle of deconstruction in cultural storytelling) in the culture. All the time. That's definitely interesting, I guess.

Tho I get if you don't find that interesting. But that seems to be willfully looking away from something that's happening in the culture. okay
Prohibiting books from being added to a curriculum is what banning is.

I have seen this disingenuous copy-paste objection show up in every thread on this topic on HN, and it hurts to see people swallow it.

Especially since it then conveniently leads down the slippery slope into aggrieved complaining about scumbag reporters and scumbag press and how newspapers were newspapers and news was news back in the good ole days in the nineteen umpties.
> Known under the initials VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company would be worth about $7.8 trillion today.
>Pre-fab homes should be cheaper than custom-built homes.

Yeah that's my main pick with all pre-fab proposals that eventually pop-up here and there, some of them even winning awards for "affordable" housing. Every. single. time. the total cost of the project is on the 6-7 figures range ...
> Why wouldn't they paint such a detail on it?

The shelters are mobile. It wouldn't be practical to paint the runway/taxiway lines on it, and I don't know how you'd get them to line up from different angles.
I was hoping for native webview and official fluent support before windows considered stable in flutter.
Let's Go Streaking
World Is Not Normal
Submission to ArXiv
Where are these images though, if they exist?
I have hundreds of hours in Portal games and an avid Valve fan, but I had never heard of that Portal trick. Do you have any sources on it?
I've been using go services for my backends for years and I've totally fallen in love. I'm always amazed whenever I write something for like an hour, then compile it and it just works. It usually never does.
> "There is a limit to optimization, and that ends with optimized machine code."

There's a vast amount of concepts when it comes to "optimization" and we are very far from the limit. There's still tons of research just to improve compiler intelligence for high-level code intention, let alone in runtime performance.

> "Go being a compiled language"

All code is eventually machine code. That's the only way a CPU can execute it. Virtual machines are an implementation detail and the latest versions with dynamic tiered JITers, POGO, vectorization, and other techniques can match or exceed static compilation because they optimize based on actual runtime behavior instead of assumptions; balancing memory safety, fast startup, amortized optimization, and steady state throughput.

> "As far as cloud costs are concerned, a well developed program should cost least with go."

This is meaningless without context. I've built 3 ad exchanges running billions of requests per day with C#/.NET which rivaled other stacks, including C++. I also know several fintech companies that have Java in their performance critical sections. It seems you're working with outdated and limited context of languages and scenarios.
The people building distributed tech and the people shilling shitcoins on Youtube are two different groups
Everyone says they're awesome while at the same time pointing out that the digital services are far superior in terms of scalability, quantity, searchability, etc.

It seems the one things libraries have going for them versus digital services is the emotional effect that these physical places have on us. That doesn't bode well for libraries long term.