skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Corporations can still very much "fall out of flavor", driving their revenues and assets to zero. This criticism isn't only applicable to crypto.

That's technically correct but missing the point: cryptocurrencies are an extreme outlier in that they have literally nothing other than social consensus backing them. If you look at examples of failing companies you will find a few cases of Theranos-level fraud but far more cases where a company was mismanaged into the ground but shareholders received _something_ and it's not common for this to happen so quickly that nobody had time to react. The more common trajectory is something like Sears or RIM where the writing was on the wall for years while the PE guys strip-mined the corpse or someone buys it to go patent-trolling, where a savvy investor has plenty of time to exit before the end and the people at the end still receive a fractional payout.

> And cryptocurrencies' intrinsic value is this: they are payment networks that work even where traditional systems fail. No denied transactions. No limits. No "account" to open. Works for the underbanked. Send money truly anytime anywhere. No other system does this. That's the value.

This is a good example of the problem: those claims are either completely untrue or significantly overstated but you have a significant financial interest in repeating them because being honest will imperil your ability to find someone willing to pay more for your random numbers than you paid originally.
> Combine’s API is based on the Publisher and Subscriber interfaces, with operators to connect between them. Its design focuses on providing a way to declaratively specify a chain of these operators, transforming data as it moves from one end to the other. This requires thinking differently about intermediate state. Sometimes this leads to call sites that are more complex than one might expect – especially when working with single values, errors, or data that needs to be shared. async/await’s Structured Concurrency provides us with a new way to express this kind of logic. We can now write asynchronous code that is split into smaller pieces and reads from top-to-bottom instead of as a series of chained transforms.

Ouch! Why would anyone reach for Combine with this available? With the simpler call sites and Linux support and all.
>When Fisher etc. say we must return a focus on class on the left, he means not the Marxist abstract idea of class as groups with aligned economic interests, but the specific classes Marx outlined as relevant under capitalist productive forces.

Right. And to be concrete, it means people who control the distribution of wages, vs. people who are dependent on wages. A focus on class is a focus on the relationship between wage-workers and shareholders.

> it absolutely makes sense to say "Labor's subservience to capital is a driver of material inequality"

Well, I don't get it. Labor/capital is one form that subservience takes. It is a form of material inequality. I don't see how you can say that the subservience can "drive" the inequality.

"Subservience" is not a very specific term here btw, it's basically metaphorical... an individual laborer is literally subservient to their specific employer, but "labor" is not literally subservient to "capital." More specific concrete language would be much appreciated.
An old-timer developer at my shop says this:

A developer's job is to make QA's jobs boring. A QA's job is to catch developers making themselves look stupid. As a developer, I'm happy that QA is better at the job than the developers.

Playing this game in a way that all can laugh over lunch is good for the culture as well as the business.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716390
The internet truly gets more and more amazing the more you contemplate it. I can communicate instantaneously with people all over the world?? We have an encyclopedia that the entire world can contribute to????
It is just scanning the data (in parallel), not copying it into DuckDB!
About 1, one of the factors for renewed interest in expanding the reach of manga is that the Japanese government started paying very good money for it, over the last 10 years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan#Creative_Industries...
"Irrelevant" and "non-existent" are two completely different concepts, and neither of those quoted phrases are even remotely absolutes. Unless you have an actual point to make based on actual knowledge of the subject at hand, please stop with your false pedantry. It's entirely unwelcome and not adding anything to the conversation.
So glad you mention the Julian May book. It was the first thing I thought of when I started reading your (excellent, highly readable) post!
Email from Twilio sounds like a compromised credentials email
Received the below email from Twilio today. I don't remember ever using the 3rd party Twilioid app butand see no integration in my Twilio account. upon reading, they are recommending rotating all API keys, changing Twilio login passwords and even changing email passwords of accounts associated with Twilio and making sure that all attached phone numbers are correct.

They even recommend assessing our server security and closing open ports, running malware scans, etc.

Does anyone have any additional information on this situation? I would expect something like this after a big breach. But not a 3rd party app simply shutting down.

===========

Ahoy!

You are receiving this email from Twilio because your account has an integration with Twilioid, a discontinued, third-party Android app not affiliated with Twilio.

What do you need to know?

Twilioid has discontinued its app and asked users to rotate their auth tokens.

What do you need to do?

We recommend you stop using Twilioid and take the following steps to protect your Twilio account:

Change all passwords associated with your Twilio account. You may also want to update the password for your e-mail provider.
Reset the Auth Token for your parent account and subaccounts.
Delete existing API-keys and create new API-keys.
Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for all account users.
Verify that any applications or Twilio integrations are running secure, up-to-date versions that are not in debug mode. This includes frameworks (like Wordpress) and administrative tools (like cPanel).
Check computers for malware and run anti-virus/anti-malware software.
Verify user’s email addresses and change them if needed.
Make sure that the caller ID used to sign up for the account hasn’t changed; this is the same number you enabled 2FA on. Change it if needed.
Secure your website by closing ports, removing unnecessary files, and using up-to-date integrations.
Review website permissions to ensure your authentication tokens aren’t stored in plain text and visible to the public.

Sincerely,

Team Twilio
For sure, chargebacks are really worrying especially to a small business. I can only hope Radar is as good as they say :/

A sad state of affairs in finance when this is a legitimate concern.
oof. has a very Worms aesthetic to it.
I'm really looking forward to this technology getting applied to home improvement.
Why do you need runtime codegen? What exactly needs to be "instantiated"? Ultimately the runtime representation of a type parameter comes down to sizes and offsets. Why not have the caller pass those values into the generic method?
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what a collection! a huge loss.
> The rule of law.

Making it legal doesn’t make it moral or ethical.

Bribes aren’t necessarily illegal either.

> So, should I donate to a mayoral campaign that aligns with my beliefs?

There is a very clear distinction between donating and lobbying. Political donations are typically not driven to any specific end, whereas lobbying seeks to influence specific legislation.

Saying that lobbyists look to “inform” the “ignorant” legislators is naive and disregards the fact that congress and senate people have enough staff at their disposal to do the necessary research to pass legislation.

Lobbyists aren’t experts. They are marketers. It seems that to you, a lobbyist is an expert in a field, like a doctor is an expert in medicine. In reality, a lobbyist is more akin to a drug sales rep, a marketer. Do sales reps accurately inform doctors about drugs, or do they try to get them to prescribe a certain brand?

Lobbying is then legalised bribery. In fact, the US is one of the few developed countries where blatant private enterprise interference is allowed at all levels of government.
Here's a metastudy of 26 studies of the results of handgrip training on systolic blood pressure: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6292032/.

The results were that handgrip training for at least 4 weeks reduced blood pressure by around 5 mmHg. Which yes, could lengthen some lives.

Assuming that correlations are spurious is as poor an approach as assuming they are not.
I did research into session types to try and solve this exact problem. However the theory still new and implementations are lacking. Again session types encode the logic, you still need some sort of structure/content language to describe the messages. Session types should be able to encode complex protocols and combined with kaitai, maybe something can emerge.
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rqlite https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

I'm the creator of this project. While it's not going to work super well at very large datasets, it's explicitly designed to be trivial to deploy, and very easy to operate. You can get it up and running in seconds, and clustering seconds later. My practical experience with databases told me that operating the database is at least as important as performing queries with it. So I put a lot of work into easy clustering, clear diagnostics, and solid code.
Also, Turing Completeness is almost always accidental while non-TC is obtained by design. Hence, just about anything has Turing Completness which doesn't make it a feature.

Now if you want to gain the ability to make serious proofs about your programs, one can make the argument you need non-TC.
I think people hate mandated central control. Designing a system that is opt-in, and otherwise degrades gracefully to a reasonable state of functionality will win a lot of fans.

Automobile companies won't do that however, they'll serve you subscription spyware/adware laden services and you'll have no choice.
The best bit is that the proposal requires devices to support the original app store AND side-loading.

Which is exactly what Apple doesn't want, because of (a) Fortnite / alt payment options (b) Facebook / privacy restrictions bypass, i.e. the loss of revenue and the loss of credibility as a (sort of) privacy-oriented platform.

So I am sure they will fight to at least make it an OR.
Those applications are not negative sum. My impression is that the total revenue for services like that is minuscule, I would be very interested if you have data showing something else.
Huh? A rocket sending a telescope into space is much greater news than a receipt printer connected to yet another data source.
No icq? There was a time when the first thing you installed on your computer was instant messaging applications. It's how you kept in touch with friends online. Crazy how quickly it fell off.
It makes no sense financially, building, maintaining, running them is expensive. I liken it to my own experience. I sent about 20 boxes of books to be stored because I just could not get my self to get rid of them. I rented a place for $25 a month. It was ok since it would only be a few months. So, 5+ years later, and an increase to $45 per month, I finally decided that I was never going to read them so I threw some out and donated the rest. I never even read a single one in storage and If I really had wanted to I could have bought them multiple times with the money I spent in storage fees.

Now imagine millions of items stored without really knowing if anyone will ever buy them.

Companies are so opposed to using storage that they are willing to send brand new items to the dump and take a 100% loss rather than to store them.
Also, for anyone that hasn't been to either of these places, it is one of those that you simply cannot get the full effect from pictures or videos (same for the Grand Canyon). It truly feels like you've just walked into Tolkien's Middle Earth or something and I am not aware of any comparable place anywhere else on the planet. I highly recommend putting the redwoods and sequoias on your bucket list.
Yes, because google always cares about not pissing off people and they never shut down old services...

/s of course
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806668
You can go larger than 9, quite a bit larger. I just suggested 9 as a useful size. But the 7.x series introduced much better support for Kubernetes, so it's much easier now to manage larger clusters.

But larger clusters mean a larger quorum, so larger isn't really better. It depends on what you want. If you want a distributed database where more nodes means more write performance, then rqlite may not be a good fit. rqlite is distributed for fault-tolerance and HA, not for performance.
Yes you enjoyed Bruce Lee and Bad Boys because they were a novelty. Now ask yourself why were they a novelty. Because it's a medium full of white people.

>Also, FYI, your comment is racist garbage,

Not a stretch to assume someone who believes everyone else has the luxury of worrying about the same trivial things you do is white.
Maybe ask more people. For me, after Postico 1, if its deprecated it's TablePlus over Postico 2.

It sounds like there is a lot of the sentiment on this thread too, although it doesn't go into specifics.
sorry, but this is all types of wrong:

> Sounds like they won the lottery by getting perpetual visibility on poorly made albums thanks to how poorly optimized discovery and publishing was back then. Wont ever happen again with how much better those processes are today.

first: better for whom? optimized for what, in particular? Spotify is better optimized for funnelling the money that artists earn towards Joe Rogan than any other system in human history. but that's not an absolute good; that's optimization for a particular purpose.

second, it's wrong because the lottery those folks won was not a discovery or publishing lottery. I'm not even sure how (or why) you think the publishing side of the music industry is any different than it was in 1978; maybe you're not using "publishing" the way the industry uses it. but discovery wasn't a problem back when it was incredibly expensive to record music in the first place. that change has nothing to do with Spotify or streaming or anything like that; it happened because digital recording technology (mostly) replaced analog recording technology, and each type of recording tech got commoditized, i.e., smaller and cheaper. that had to happen for a discovery problem to even exist; in 1978, recording studios were almost industrial machinery.

I guess that's just two types of wrong, maybe three depending on what you're trying to say with the word "publishing" there.

on the bright side, this is legit:

> doesn't sound like that old system actually was good for the music industry

that's pretty true. but you can say about it about the modern equivalent also.
Who defines “99% accurate”? Couldn’t it mean zero false positives and 1/100 positives missed?

Couldn’t it also alternatively be defined as 99% accurate for a given person?

Maybe there are reasons/conventions it is always as you originally describe, but if that’s the case wouldn’t it be more about poor communication to the public than a paradox?
> They then proceed to compare a w1 with a 1/0 of 1:1 vs w2 with a 1:3 ratio, "skipping" 2/3 of 0s in w2, claiming a contradiction. So they're really doing a injective non-surjective mapping, not a bijective one.

There is in fact a bijection between indices that maps the sequences to each other -

index: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
w1: 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ...
w2: 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ...

bijective map such that w2(f(i))=w1(i) :

f(n) = if (n is even) then n*2 else floor((n*2+1)/3)
f_inverse(n) = if (n is a multiple of 4) then n/2 else floor((n*3)/4)*2+1
We must be careful to not conflate our distaste of highly abstract OOP code with generics. Generics and OOP are orthogonal. If you've used a map or a slice in Go, you've used generics. If you've used a union in C, you (sort of) have used generics.

I bet most complaints we hear about generics in Java, have little to do with generics themselves and mostly to do with inheritance, abstract classes, and so on.
This is probably true among free soloists (rock climbing without a rope)
Hi! Yep, I think you're right :) That sparks a memory.
Yes! NeXT TurboColor Workstation w/68040

https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/j5943h/im_over_...
Sorry, but the final price of an item cannot be used to determine whether someone along the chain was exploited.

I was in the t-shirt industry for a number of years. Sold millions of them. The base price of a raw blank t-shirt at scale is around $1-4, so there isn't much room to go lower there. In essence, from your definition, ALL t-shirts are exploitation of some form or another.
I just don't see what you're seeing I guess. The clock starts at 00:00 and goes from 23:59 to 00:00 in the 24 hour system. In the 12 hour one, it always starts at 12:00 and goes from 11:59 to 12:00. That parts not confusing at all.

I do understand that having two different 12's in a day introduces an ambiguity about which one is the "real start" of the day just based on "12:00" alone.
This is assuming, that they wont profile/fingerprint you, if you pay. Surely no service like that would ever double dip
It would be nice if these metrics ever actually helped, but mostly, they seem detached from reality. This article says that McCabe (cyclomatic) complexity "strongly correlates with program size or LOC". It's like nobody actually tried using the metrics.

It would be even better if somebody could define "quality", for software, or indeed, for anything else. There's inherent tension between "defect free" and "getting the project done", so you can't meet all definitions of "quality", if it's ever defined. Bellcore (became Telcordia, don't know what they are now) used to sell something called "QMO", but never actually defined "quality" other than mindlessly following the QMO specified behaviors.
It's an old study, but correlation doesn't prove causation. It turns out that people who have pore hand/grip strength are more likely to fall, or have a type of life that leads to higher chance of death.

This is a very complicated cause/effect to figure out, even for top-class physical therapists.

Also possible that if you have good grip strength then you have good muscular balance and innervation, vascularity, and motor neuron balance (extensor/flexor), which possibly leads to better overall health, including heart health.

Honestly, I have no idea. But that's the point. Neither do experts who spend decades in this field. It's far too complex to study through these types of lenses. This is often why clinical practice still does better than science in this field. It's complicated as hell and many traditional scientists think they can study the musculoskeletal system this way, when the top doctors learn most of their skills through clinical trial-and-error. Still in 2022.
I really like the DuckDB philosophy, and the maintainers were really responsive and helpful with my docs questions. Didn't end up using it because the compressed database files were much larger than SQLite for my data (weird use case, admittedly), and the .NET libraries were poor. I look forward to trying it out again, though.
Corresponding paper is probably http://people.csail.mit.edu/kostas/papers/CADE1996.pdf. Thanks for the name drop, looks great
> the disparity increases as income drops.

This is a relevant fact that seems like it may be amenable to intervention.

> black wealth crosses generations at a fraction of the rate white wealth does

Note that the factors that drive wealth preservation are also what drives wealth accumulation in the first place. When you've always been living in a more-or-less chaotic environment and almost no one around you is intimately familiar with a feasible alternative, it becomes really, really hard not to eat your marshmallow (or, to use a different image, your "seed corn"). This has nothing to do with race per se of course, but plenty with material conditions, even in a Marxian/Marxist sense.
Wow yeah I was gonna say. Big gaff on the parent poster's comment.

If median wealth for majority families was that high I would be very confused how most families in the US could NOT handle and unexpected $500 bill.

~188k Is more inline with what I'd expect the median home equity to be for families, so that makes more sense.
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Full details on what the limits in rqlite may be, and why, are here: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/DOC/PERFORMANCE...

That said, very large datasets (> 2GB) will work, if you've got the disks and memory to handle it. The link above explains how to do it.
Did you read the article and agree or disagree with the contents?
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U.S.-Soviet Alliance, 1941–1945
And who says I'm against it?

I could buy a house here per year, cash, with a decent US dev salary. It's not the most expensive place. I enjoy living in a city with things around to do without having to travel. But getting 2+ extra rooms solely for us to work remotely? Then we'd have to go for the biggest apartments ever made here. They are not built to house an office on top of living space currently, and personally I enjoy talking to real life people daily.
If you're just returning JSON what does it matter which language?
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The idea behind it is that the criminal will not have to break the windows which is more costly to replace than what was in the center console.

Sort of violates the idea of a "smash and grab" though. You want to minimize the noise generated and time spent and maximize the potential profit gained. Typically, you just inspect what is in plain view of the vehicle and if there's anything that has value (ie, backpack, clothes, cell phones) then it's a good target. If there's nothing in plain view, then there's no point in attracting attention and increasing the chances of getting caught.

Of course, there are some municipalities that have decriminalized or refuse to prosecute this type of theft so that negative reinforcement no longer applies and you just get people that smash all windows and search entire vehicles.

Anecdotally, just following the idea of "nothing in value being in plain view" has worked wonderfully for me. Works locally in my somewhat big city and when traveling to other big cities.
Agreed it's subjective.

That said, what would you do with your quadrillion year long lifespan, assuming you're healthy during it? It's way past everything you can do and learn, and cosmic level events are not what the human mind can perceive as they slowly unfold...

I would like to live a couple thousand years though, as long as my loved ones get to be along for the ride. Though I wonder if my loved ones would eventually become my hated ones...
They added a Linear A block despite the language still being undeciphered, so not having living speakers is not a barrier to being in Unicode.
What happens if you want to animate part of a NeRF, or crop it, or change it in any way? Do you have to throw away all trained coefficients and start again from training data?

You don’t change NeRF (the model). You change the point of view of an observer.
I think it’s correct that “99% accurate” here means “99% true positive and 1% false positive”. Agreed that “accurate” is ironically an awfully imprecise word to use.

As for why it is the case, I presume it is just the usual focus on counting your hits and not on your misses.