skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self storage of non crypto assets beyond a certain threshold often end up taking the form of other assets like real estate. Purely from a net worth standpoint it's usually not optimal to have cash (physical or banked) on hand above a certain point.

But I take your meaning and it's a valid point: crypto self storage scales better than traditional cash. If scaling of that sort was an issue for me and self-storage a critical feature I wanted then crypto would fill the need. For the moment I'd still avoid using it for that purpose: I don't consider any coin truly stable at the moment, and if a new one came along tomorrow that appeared to have a rock solid foundation then I'd still want to see a few years of history before trusting it's stability. USDC might come close, but can you have self-custody of it, or trade it outside of the Coinbase ecosystem?
- Commodore 1541 drive music

- Captain Crunch whistle

- Commodore C64 SAM TTS
That could definitely happen. That would be kind of similar to how being called "communist" lost most of its power from overuse. In a generation or two, maybe even "nazi" will no longer be seen as an insult in parts of society.
Regarding this:

“ As an example of the detrimental effects of bugs in physically hard to reach systems: the [NASA] Deep Impact spacecraft [DEEPIMPACT] was rendered inoperable due to a fault in the fault-protection software, which in turn triggered endless computer reboots. Mission control was unable to recover the system from this error condition because no engineers were available on-site. The commute was deemed infeasible due to a lack of reasonably priced commercial transport options in that region of the solar system.”

I think this means that software bugs will be acceptable once there is low cost commercial transportation to every part of the solar system? Has a cost/benefit analysis been done to determine which option is cheaper, eliminating all software bugs versus introducing low cost commercial transportation to every part of the solar system? Is it possible that actively promoting the creation of bugs, while funding remediation efforts for those bugs, including all efforts but especially including low cost commercial transportation to every part of the solar system, would have side effects that would actually pay for the remediation efforts?
Current Bloomberg Pro user, same exact sentiment. Bloomberg just happens to have a preposterous number of barriers of entry for any aspiring competitor:

1) Licensing - historical data and metadata (need the day counting convention for random bond in a random country 20 years ago?) is heavily encumbered with licensing contracts. You're not allowed to take data off the terminal, for example.

2) Exclusive data access for things like macro sentiment numbers - for example banks and research companies submit their estimates for things like non-farm payrolls (earlier today)

3) Network effect for IB - huge amount of OTC trading is done via bloomberg group chats

4) Enormous library of pricing models and random practitioner-time-savers * along with the licensed historical data to be able to use them out of the box.

* eg what's the cheapest the deliver for a random futures contract you're looking at

The GIP GP and whatever other price plot function that the OpenBB project is emulating are barely worth mentioning in this context.
Use latexml this is what's running under the hood of ar5iv https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/ and should be able to compile every Latex document to html
I am having quite a good time with CockroachDB. It has been mostly set-and-forget, and it auto-balances, and does rolling upgrades pretty smoothly.
Fiddled around with it a bit and if you reduce the spacing between the boxes to a few pixels the illusion goes away for me or is barely noticeable. But, the aesthetics of the whole thing are quite different then.
"The idea of the republican working class party has always been more of a clever rhetorical strategy than a reality."

Always? No. But certainly since the 1970s.
Note since I haven’t seen it mentioned; the power cable is in fact detachable, it just requires an unnaturally high level of force to remove.
In a idealogical vacuum, totally fair. But in a (spiritually) capitalist economy, the federated nature of government is an effective instrument when applied properly. It’s not either the left or right’s fault that government is dysfunctional, it’s that greed is the root of all evil and subversion necessitates complex regulation over time.. it’s a double edged sword. Hands off and risk irreversible damage to millions, hands on and risk irreversible damage to millions. I do not envy the job of governing (justly).
This is great!

I wrote Margin[1] for similar reasons. But because I wanted to be able to incorporate notes as well as to-dos, absolutely anything can go between two square brackets in Margin:

[ ] denotes a to-do item

[x] denotes item marked as done

[anything] denotes an annotation of type "anything"

At first blush, it would appear Margin and [x]it! are compatible, with some very minor differences. Feel free to draw inspo from the Margin spec, and hit me up if you want to combine / collab.

[1] https://margin.love
The obvious candidates were MySQL (or one of its renamed variants given who bought it) or PostgreSQL, but several of us on the team have operational experience running these databases and didn’t enjoy the prospect of wrestling with the ops overhead of making live replication work and behave well. Other databases like CockroachDB looked very tempting, but we had zero experience with it. And we didn’t want to lock ourselves into a cloud provider with a managed product like Spanner.

What about managed mysql/posgresql? no lock-in and installing them locally is trivial.
this reminded me of the "This is Water" commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. Key graf:

"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive."

Full talk available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
Insulating and heating outside pipes is a solved problem and adding a small layer of insulation around a pipe with electrical heating elements is much cheaper and energy efficient than insulating+heating an entire house. Short term anyhow.

Keyword is "self-regulating pipe heating cable".

I don't know why you're making it out like it's rocket science and with such confidence.
The problem is money, they could have set up a foundation instead of a company and while similar it already steers things into another direction that a for-profit company. They could have still benefitted from the foundations assets in the form of contractors, or even employees, I believe, but the whole topic of being acquired is sidestepped.
You keep saying that == on floating point is a partial relation, but that's only true because of the way NaN currently compares. Floating point exists as a model of the real numbers, on which equality is total, so a system modeling them should absolutely keep that if possible, which it is. It's fine to have a non-reflexive operation that behaves like == does for floats, but making that the primary equivalence relation is absolutely bonkers, since 2 NaN values with the same bit-pattern are completely indistinguishable from each other, yet compare non-equal.

Furthermore, I can't think of any reason that Inf==Inf should be true, while NaN==Nan is false. In both cases, they can be modeling different numbers (although that is true of literally any floating point number).

If there were a major advantage to making == non-reflexive, that would be one thing, but I've been programming for most of my life, (including a lot of floating point), and I've yet to come across a place where I was glad that NaN!=NaN.
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Good call. Definitely all the more reason to avoid using the word "number" to approximate the limiting, specific way developers use it when that doesn't line up with general usage.
If an inverted yield curve means that investors are spooked about the current economy, and thus they favor longer term bonds, does that mean then that the market is not expecting inflation? Who wants to own a 10 or 30yr bond if they expect inflation to soar?
Does such a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs actually exist yet, though?
What choice do they have? At any rate, SS benefits kicked in at 65 originally because that was the lifespan of a worker, more or less. Raising the age is a perfectly reasonable ask if we can get people better affordable ealthcare. Truly disabled people at 65 can of course get SSDI.
Response time was ultimately why I discarded foot pedal after going trouble of setting it up. Brain to foot response time was too long for me and it significantly degraded productivity, especially since modifier keys are meant to be pushed in sync with other keys.

Foot pedal works for music because in music you plan to push the pedal ahead of time, whereas in programming it is a snap decision and therefore requires low latency reaction time.

Not sure if it was a matter of training.
I watched an interview of Mr. Hipp, creator of SQLite, that I can't find now but was pretty interesting. Aside from being way different than I expected for some reason, in a good way - very down to earth and friendly, he was asked specifically about that, and more or less answered that his job was to write a solid DB, and replication can be done elsewhere. That's a pretty honest answer, and looks like someone took up the challenge.
I was surprised to see that the zip file really contains some artifacts and not a rickroll.mp4 :)
> I literally can't imagine what it's like to have a vivid imagination because to me my perception of reality and whatever I can "imagine" are as obviously different as black is from white. I could never confuse one for the other, and I don't know how they can even be compared.

This gets back a bit to what alar44 was saying:

>> I'm still all in on these people thinking imagining something is a hallucination.

Having a vivid imagination is not the same as hallucinating. There is no confusion in my mind between what is real and what is imagined (visual or auditory imaginations, I can also imagine smell and taste, but to a much lesser extent). I don't "see" my mental images through my eyes, in the sense that if I want to imagine what a chair would look like in the corner of my loft, I see the real scene (loft without the chair) and imagine (in my mind) a separate scene, the same (to the accuracy of the imagination) but with the chair.

But it very much is an image in my head. It's not an abstract sense of what it would be like to have the chair there, it is the same as recalling a scene from the past to me. But deliberately altered, rather than accidentally altered based on faulty memory. In the same way, I can recall the visual image of pages I have read (this ability has declined with age) and read the words off that recalled image.
Real-Time Speech-to-Text in less than 20 lines of Python Code
Given her twitter handle is DaniElainaFore I don't think it's unreasonable that Cassidy calls her Dani in this post, after working closely together for what, 7 years? Is there more context?

(edit: nvm, found the tweetstorm from last month https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=... that goes into some details)
> Daniel is an expert on spotting talent.

Why? He's a 31 year old from a startup which left zilch to the world.
No, but Intel's RDSEED and friends rely on quantum electrical noise in conventional circuits to provide true randomness. (Intel uses kTC reset noise from a capacitor or pair of capacitors on the CPU core die, IIRC.)
Yeah, if you have thumb clusters I definitely recommend putting modifiers on them. The thumb is one of the strongest digits, yet most only use them (or one of them!) to press a single key, the spacebar. What a waste.

On my ergodox the two big thumb keys on the left are control (escape when tapped) and alt. I don't use the other thumb keys as they aren't comfortable to type. The two right thumb keys are space and enter.

My thumbs have thanked me for the past nine years.

https://hairysun.com/revisiting-the-ergodox.html
"yeah but in addition to one guy speaking normally half the time, you also hear a distorted voice coming out of the shitty speakerphone the other half of the time."

True. I suppose what I'm saying is that with proper etiquette this shouldn't be issue, at least not often.

"the "effort" also includes the time you have to fiddle with your router to turn it on when you need wifi during the night for whatever reason."

This has never been an issue for me for 10 year of doing this.

"That's partially canceled out by being able to use hands-free calling in your car, and placing the phone on the other side of the car. I suspect the inverse square law will cause you to get less radiation exposure than you holding the phone using your arms."

True. However, if we are comparing being in a car to not being in a car, then you would still have more exposure (eg putting on the other side of the room vs other side of the car. Plus, many cars are no bigger than arms length, and of you can put it further than that, toad noise becomes an issue.

"yet, when I place my phone inside the microwave it still gets wifi reception (yes, I tested it with 2.4ghz wifi only)."

Perhaps you should have it tested and get a new one if it's not conforming to safety specs. However, my guess is that since it isn't causing interference with you or your neighbors phone that it's really just a slight difference in the frequency the shielding is designed for.

"inverse square law applies here."

As it does for the microwave. Im frankly tired of everyone going "inverse square law" with nothing substantive. How about you crunch the numbers for someone 3 feet from a microwave at 5mW and someone 15 feet from a 1W router and tell me what you get... just because a concept is true does not mean you are correctly applying it in your argument.

"also, I suspect you can apply the "runs for maybe a few minutes per day" argument to wifi as well. if you're not torrenting on your wifi 24/7, it's probably not pumping 1W 24/7."

Well, routers are generally transmitting multiple times per second just for the beacon/name (yes, probably at 1W since TX rate is gwnerally separate from TX power). How many minutes per day does your household use on wireless internet vs the microwave? I'm guessing it's a close to a factor of 10 difference. How many minutes do you use either during your typical sleep hours? Even if you're TX is 5% of the time during 6 core sleeping hours, that's likely to approach the amount of time you use your microwave.
You undermine your point with the CTA for the OP to change.
Site doesn't seem to work at all, even to explain what it is, if location is turned off. Which I am not turning on for whatever this mystery website does.
I would begin with the basics of JPEG compression followed by audio compression and then, finally video compression. They are all related in more ways than you think. The 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel has a couple of gems on digital signal processing like how fast Fourier transforms work and everything in between. This is a good modern book on the subject: “Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems 2nd Edition” released in 2021 by Andreas Schwarzinger.
Thanks, I will relay this to the team.
That is far too many rectangles. My cortisol spiked just reading the headline. Please turn it down to a more manageable number, like 3.
It's my understanding that openbsd boot will take a bit longer to seed the random seed file when there is not a prior seed file on a writable filesystem, just like during the first boot after the os install. This was my experience when I created an openbsd router that booted from a single file and had no persistent storage.

It's also my understanding that /dev/urandom on openbsd will never block for a user process, nor anything that I've ever needed to worry about in the kernel.

Some additional info that I found: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/
"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
I was refuting an absolute. I did not intend to posit my own. Obviously, not the case for everyone.
Running the old hardware the main thing missing is modern web browsing, with security, certificates, https, tls, and javascript.
>set and clear a couple bits

What bits?
You can also download the whole data in bulk at https://registry.opendata.aws/nara-1950-census/
Sounds like the car in this state should be illegal to drive for several reasons. I'm glad that in many countries the cars need to be checked every two years.
Isn’t the built world designed by humans with particular viewpoints for other humans with a certain set of perspectives, capabilities and capacities to adapt to those built realities? (But not necessarily all such capabilities…)
This seems like an outlier. Every startup I’ve seen offers at least basic health insurance.

I agree with your sentiment, I’d never work for a place that didn’t offer a basic package.
I agree with you, and I think that part of the issue are the animations that run when doing practically anything on a newer OS, like maximizing or minimizing a window.

Edit: in some cases animations can be disabled, which does a bit to bring back the snappy feel, but there are probably additional reasons why the modern stuff might not be/feel as snappy.
> Alphabet

The Company Formerly Known As Google, that literally had to settle (i.e. paid money to not lose the trial) for collusion to depress employee wages?

That company? Yeah, employee interests at heart <3

> Meta

For employees I hear The Company Formerly Knows as Facebook is actually quite good. But they're not a charity.

> were catered to with many great benefits (including catering)

Those benefits are cheap when bought in bulk, like corporations do. They also encouraged employees to stay more at work. Yes, they're nice, but let's not pretend that those benefits were not chosen very strategically.

Both Google and Facebook are making a ton of money and still growing like gangbusters (Facebook somewhat less so). Once their growth plateaus, if they need to fire 10k employees each to increase profits and share values, they will do so without remorse. Probably on a Zoom call with all 10k employees at once.
“There is merit to the idea of the 'paradox of intolerance.'”

no there isn’t
Computer Modern is the best looking font
The VW EFI actually works really well when it works! Late 70s VW buses and bugs are some of the nicest to drive around in because of the EFI.
Its been there ever since nodejs was around. Ive been using it for a long time now. I love it as a template engine.
LDS research centers are open to anyone regardless of religion. Some records are digitized but have access restricted to the research centers; others may be only available on paper or microfiche.
I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with the topic at hand but statistics show the far majority of minimim wage workers, for many of whom it is not just a short phase, will disagree with you on this.
Not OP, but consider being 6 feet and 8 inches tall. In many buildings (especially older ones), you will have to dodge light fixtures regularly. Many doorways will actually be too short and you'll need to duck. Cooking in most kitchens will end up being quite uncomfortable since you'll be hunched over the entire time. You won't fit in a large number of cars. Flying in planes becomes physically painful unless you get an exit row or pay more. And so on.

You can still interact with the world, but being an outlier adds a whole lot of little bits of friction and discomfort that a more statistically average person doesn't experience.
Not terribly odd, either. My 46 Dodge truck has the same shift pattern, albeit with just 3 forward gears.
FoundationDB is an Apple thing, isn’t it? Might explain why. It feels kinda like they’ve put it out there and it just hasn’t had anyone with a marketing budget to push it along.
For example https://flarerpg.org I didnt follow it closer since years so, so cant tell about the current state. The homepage has some recent news entries though.
Clear the highest bit, set the next highest bit, and clear the three lowest bits. This process is known as "key clamping", and ensures that the private key is in the right range and is not vulnerable to a couple of specific attacks.

https://neilmadden.blog/2020/05/28/whats-the-curve25519-clam...
> Not sure if it was a matter of training.

Probably not. IIRC, nerve signals are actually much slower than we like to imagine, but our brains plays tricks with our memory such that we don’t percieve it.
if you read the actual article, dimensionality reduction by PCA does not retain the most important information about the data
if something is generally intelligent, at the level of a human brain, and is forced to work in "industrial processes" isn't that a form of subjugation?

there seems to be a moral implication here that alot of people seem to be neglecting...
Full 1950 US Census Scan Online
My go-to example is all the talk from conservatives about how allowing same-sex marriage would lead to people marrying animals.

“this is gonna be a totally different country than it is right now. Laws that you think are in stone -- they're gonna evaporate, man. You'll be able to marry a goat -- you mark my words!” - Bill O'Reilly
It’s fucking embarrassing that humanity hasn’t held Peter Daszak and his ilk to account for their consistent lies about the pandemic.

These people should be named, shamed and shunned, and at the very least, be legally prevented from working with anything vaguely related to biology.
First there's AirLand Battle, then there's AirLandSea Battle, now there is AirLandSeaSpaceUnderground Battle?

I'm not certain about how military strategy is improving with technology.