skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a selection bias you need to consider. Twitter investors probably wouldn't be Twitter investors if they thought it was on the decline without significant growth prospects.
> 1. Upon entering the store, write down at the reception desk how many words and by what time you are going to write your manuscript.

> 2. The manager asks you every hour how your manuscript is coming along.

> 3. You are not allowed to leave the store until you have finished writing your manuscript or writing project.

Sounds like a cute idea. I wonder what would happen if you decided you wanted to leave before finishing. Do they berate you? Do you lose a deposit? I imagine you can't hold customers hostage or trap them in your cafe if they actually want to go.
That is a great idea provided that you can find actual human beings to make a deal with. I'm sure someone from google is reading this with a smug expression in their faces.
> (It's an interesting comparison to CS too.)

Particularly since the first behavioral economist to get a Nobel was also an early pioneer in many fields which are now housed in CS departments: programming languages, artificial intelligence, theorem proving.
There was a post on slashdot years ago where someone had built an office chair out of the driver's seat from some kind of mercedes that he pulled out of a junk yard. I've always wanted to try that, look for a car or suv with a comfy seat and build a desk chair around the seat

Edit, I looked for it and I can't find it. Does anyone else remember what I'm talking about?
Ha, Flash Boys 2.0 was from 2019. This blog post is literally "I read a thing from three years ago and have lost faith in something that I never believed in in the first place".

As someone who knows and has worked with all the people involved with the write-ups referenced in this blog post, I can pretty confidently say that the author is way way behind here. There have been some insane advancements in recent years that would blow his mind.

MEV harvesting is actually an insanely fascinating field of study, and it comes down to consensus in a world where information can only move as fast as the speed of light.

Front-running is a general problem where, if you can find out that someone wants to buy something, and can buy it first and sell it to the person who actually want it at a premium. This gets really interesting in the blockchain space, because Miners (Validators) decide the order of transactions, and in some cases validators can be incentivized/coerced to move around transactions in a way that might be beneficial for certain users. This is what is referred to as "Miner Extractable Value".

Yes it's a problem, yes there are mitigations, yes there are fun and weird ways around those mitigations, etc.

This is what happens when people are incentivized to take a really good hard look at what global consensus really means. At a high level, most users don't really need to know or care about any of it, but it exists as a parasitic force constantly extracting value from the network. Still, IMO the parasites that feed off MEV are at a significant disadvantage compared with those who feed of legacy financial networks (for more on that, you can read the actual Flash Boys book https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393...).
How about you take a couple of months off and chill? Perhaps you come up with an idea on something new that you could dive into again.
Weirdly, I found out about this previously because some of my peers who are no longer friends assumed by parents helped me out in this way. In actuality, my parents had no money to help because they were nearly ruined by 2008 and I bought my house at market bottom with my own money, having been saving diligently since I was bagging groceries in high school. In fact, I don't know a single person who had their parents help them make their downpayment, but all of my peers in my career are homeowners and Millennials. Frankly, I can't even fathom asking my parents for that money in the first place.
I dug into the background, and found this article: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/blue-origin-vets-unveil-startu...

The punchline is

> The startup has raised a $5 million seed round, secured a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) International Patent, and recently emerged from stealth mode. A few weeks ago, Langtry and Riordan generated their first neutrons via fusion.

But there is also nugget of information that gives some hint on the technology:

> While researching the field, Langtry came across a graduate thesis from a Lockheed Martin researcher named Tom McGuire. It included open source code for simulations for an electrostatic fusion reactor. The idea became the seed for Avalanche Energy’s technology.

Notably Lockheed Martin themselves have also made noises about fusion power:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8486335
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484100
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458371 (there should be another thread for this article that I can't find?)

This is both good and bad thing; on one hand, the concept might not be completely bogus if LM has been researching it too. But on the other hand, if LM with their billions together with McGuire who seems like a pretty smart fellow haven't figured how to make it work, then this startup is having quite an uphill battle ahead of them.
For sure, DeFi loans aren't practical at the moment (for anything but speculation), and may never be practical for something like a mortgage or even a credit card. I still find it pretty mind blowing that an algorithm can loan me money.

For insurance I don't agree. Something basic like weather insurance (widely used in agriculture) is already possible. The hardest part is getting the weather information onchain in a way that's trusted by the buyers and sellers of the insurance. Weather oracles do exist though.
I worked at a company like this (chasing novel high efficiency small-scale energy production) for a while and it was a lot of fun. Just my friends and I working very hard to build something impossible with other people's money. Countless hours in the lab failing over and over again, but learning at a tremendous pace and feeling like we were getting closer than anyone else would believe. There was much stress as our nutjob CEO portrayed increasingly fanciful mistruths to a revolving door of investors.

I wish the folks at Avalanche Energy the best, even if I think their business proposition is... dubious.
Cool project but I wonder if the name will catch flak from the lawyers. Trademarks and all that. At they very least a big "This is not affiliated with Google/Youtube" seems like a wise precaution.
So... Cramer has twitter stock.
> For example, I live next to a popular and well-maintained trail that used to be a railway, and the site still lists it as an abandoned rail line.

Eh? What do you think an ‘abandoned rail line’ is? It’s exactly this.
The ssh shortcut can also be used from the iOS share sheet, e.g. to send a URL, file or selected text to a script on a local/remote server.
This is the entire business model of Shutterfly.
The vapourware product or the whole scam-ish company?
You are absolutely correct of file indexing and it was true of the prior iteration Nepomuk. It is seemingly a complex thing to get right. File indexing sucks hard in several instances

- When the OS is running on the same spinning rust or performance is substantially impacted by said rusts performance
- When the filesystem uses encryption but isn't hardware accelerated
- On first run when it has to index everything
- If the filesystem performs poorly on lots of small files.

So you boot up on a fresh install do you just not showcase features working to their fullest or do you sink performance for the first hour or hours on some systems much more than others? I think personally you ought to prompt the user to schedule the first run of the file indexing service since it will impact performance far more initially than it will thereafter.
The Democrat’s still want to spend trillions more…
They're attempting to advertise lower prices than they're charging. If they want to advertise real rates and provide an itemized break down of fees on demand I'd be happy to see the increased transparency. Fees unmentioned until the last moment are designed to leverage people's sunk cost fallacy and say "Well, I'm already so close to booking a ride I might as well."

This is in no way a move to increase transparency and, uh, fuel doesn't have a flat per ride cost anyways. If I book a three thousand dollar uber to take me from LA to NYC it apparently uses just as much fuel as getting an Uber to the bus stop down the road from me.
Maya is $225/month. Photoshop is $21/month. I think that explains at least part of it.
KDE either works flawlessly and one praises it endlessly, or you change one setting and everything crashes at the slightest touch. I'm unfortunately in the latter camp having tried it twice over the years.

My biggest issue was this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426644
I've settled on Manjaro GNOME right now because while it's not as customisable as say Cinnamon (which I started having issues with after the latest release - mainly workspace switching gradually grinding to a halt) it seems more stable than KDE.

Don't have the energy to rice XFCE. There really isn't a DE that "just works".
The person in the US can find another job. The person in jail doesn't have such luxuries.

Also, when the woke people take over your government, there's no bright line rule that says, "You can't put people in jail for speech." Now you don't lose your job for disagreeing with the latest woke positions, you go to jail. In the US that bright line rule does exist, so they are limited to just trying to get you fired from your job.

It's obvious to me who has better freedom of speech.
"everyone I know and care about still uses twitter"
FTFY
A Study of Real-World Data Races in Golang
Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals
The headphones and earbuds could easily and realistically incorporate a buffer today. How’s that being ignorant?
Always a good barometer of the merits of an idea
Yep. Maybe just forbidding enumerating environment variables in the runtime would be enough for this case.

However the CI shouldn’t have backend-only private variables available to frontend builds… some separation here would be safer regardless of developer mistakes.
RE the last point: if the candidate mentions side projects, I'll typically probe there. It shows me they have a genuine curiosity and probably a motor. Anyone with a motor and is a good cultural fit will succeed quickly.
Most advertisements in Twitter are in the form of sponsored posts right? This isn't like YouTube where an ad is displayed embedded in a video.
Windows integration work in Qubes 4.1 by the tabit-pro team
Press 'X' to doubt.
that is the exact reason I don't like to use bluetooth for audio devices. Nothing beats physical jack cables.
To me, it seemed that west expected Ukraine to fold too. And the west also have circles that admire Russia quite a lot while Ukraine was not taken seriously until they started to be serious in battle field.

You still have fawning over Russian this and that, culture, shock over their army being disorganized and corrupt or looting etc, despite them being like that always. While Ukraine was mostly non-existent.
I am glad that you are in your early 20s and understand this fundamental life truth - I am in my mid-40s, met some friends this past weekend, friends since elementary school, some more successful than others, in the capitalist sense of the word, although all of us are pretty well grounded.
One of my buddies, who had more fun than the rest of us was complaining how his 20's and early 30's were all about experiencing life - and he wished he had focussed on his career and saved more. But at the end of the day, he has more stories to tell that anyone else. At the tail end of life, those stories are all we have..
Firefox Sync is great for this. It's essentially a password manager, and if you install it on Android, you can use it as the default login information autofill app.
While custom-tailored games may be interesting, it seems like such a thing would be socially fragmenting and isolating. People need shared experiences to relate to each other. I'm not sure the world would be a better place if people gradually have fewer and fewer shared experiences.
>and I can not help you further.

Clearly, because there is no logical response. If Putin truly thought he could easily take Ukraine under Trump, he would have. Which means your assumption is wrong.

Meanwhile, we're back to wondering why the Biden families massive financial interests in Ukraine somehow aren't relevant...
> Is this a disaster waiting to happen if visa/mc one day flip the switch on name verification?

Doesn't even have to be that big of a policy change; if Facebook gets suspicious about you using a fake name or various other scenarios, they'll lock your account until you provide a scan of a passport or state ID.
Hear that wooshing noise?
You are correct, it is a very simple thought, Fred. I encourage you to try a complicated thought in regards to this topic.
Yes, where I live in the greater Boston area, you've seen a few commuter rail extensions that I assume made use of existing railroad right of ways that were abandoned (ADDED: As in no longer used for rail service) at some point once the rail service became commuter rail service
Why don't you simply retain productivity by dropping gnome? After all this isn't exactly the first time they have dropped a feature people were peeved about.
KDE stores a lot of dotfiles. I have had luck preserving my config because I don't wipe my root folder, but aside from that it's quite hard to migrate from one PC to another.
Given the power of Google they may be able to force you to sign in after watching a few videos.

Or only serve videos if they detect some kind of physical input(mouse/keyboard)

But they don't seem to care that much for non-mainstream tools, or this would be blocked already

For small scale sites it's definitely not easy to block

They may be some paid libraries that promises to do it, but I've never seen one that seemed really unbreakable

Even if you go all the way and block EVERY possible way of doing this, you can make a puppeteer script that could watch and record sound/video directly on the screen in like 15 lines of code, even if it would be really slow to get long videos
Hehe all good. I can empathize, long flights are a real drag.
A McKenna style heroic dose in silent darkness is something I'd recommend any for human, at least once in their life, if they're not at risk of schizophrenia. The experience is profoundly and deeply human.

In a therapeutic context, though, make plans with professionals. Go on a trip to a doctor guided psychedelic session, involve your personal doctors and therapists.

Exploratory, experiential uses of psychedelics aren't appropriate when you're depressed, stressed, or anxious. Psychedelics notoriously kick you into positive feedback loops, which amplify your internal state, sometimes in extreme ways.

Reddit and erowid and tripsit sites aren't rigorous sources of data suitable for science, but they're great for personally understanding the range of possible effects you can experience.
The GDP doesn't really matter in this conflict, since the Ukraine is essentially getting all its weapons, intelligence and training for free.

That and, a lot of the Russian military (the reserves) and their equipment (ships, subs, intercontinental bombers, nukes, etc) are not really going to help the Russians win the conflict, since they're either not useful, or politically impossible to use.

I think if Putin can sell to the Russian people that this is a war, not a special military operation, and as such, they should call up the reserves, break the law about how those reserves are allowed to be used, etc, then they could probably win. Without that, I don't think it's that realistic: they're fighting against a totally mobilized country that's being flooded with high-tech weapons. Imagine afghanistan, if the taleban were armed for free by the western military-industrial complex. The US wouldn't be able to do it. Russia almost certainly won't be able either.
thank someone brought this up. Wire is always better than wireless. Wish the world would go back to everything being wired, more secure as well.
This is a crucial and under-represented perspective. I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion, but it is hard to ignore the inherent callousness of arguing over a conflict that will have no direct impact on me or my family.
Yes, good idea. For the purpose of this article I want the reader to encounter the features as I talk about them, but for other applications I would fix the controls.

Plus, inlined controls add to the suspense -- you might truly get lost in the dark! And breathe a sigh of relief when you find the button again :)
Unregulated capitalism. Regulation limits how much information/expertise disparity can tip the scales. It doesn't prevent it altogether (nor is that a constructive objective), but limits it so the distribution between the winners and losers ensures still reasonable outcomes for the loser.

All that's happening in crypto is the same exploitative games/vehicles that happened in other markets before regulation protected the least informed and least Machiavellian players from the worst outcomes. There's no real innovation in that respect.
I do think something like twitter longterm could a big play at something like authenticity verification in the world of deep fakes, similar to what keybase was trying to do but they already have traction with public figures
Wasmtime: Supporting UDFs in ScyllaDB with WebAssembly
> Not sure why all of these picky commenters leave that out every time we discuss DEs.

Because it's a lie.
Zero marginal content already exists with procedural generation (PG).

The problem with PG is that it's all the same after a while - i.e. one of the chief complaints of No Man's Sky is that all the PG planets look the same after a short period of time.

The real value isn't zero-marginal content, but zero-marginal narration (or story telling) that breaks new ground. Piecing together PG or zero-marginal content isn't enough, any next step breakthroughs will come with higher-level orchestration of said content.
There are plenty of non-transferable warranties out there.
I highly recommend installing jamtaba (a ninjam client) which supports running as a vst plugin within DAWs like reaper.

This way you can sync the DAW and any outboard gear to the jamtaba/ninjam clock, and route your pre-existing setup into jamtaba/ninjam.

Personally I'm using Ableton, and it works great
I can't fairly represent the FAA's point of view here.

I'm not saying that to be cagey; I just haven't spent tons of time thinking about all of the "what could go wrong?" and "why is airplane certification done the way it's done?" It's easy to sit on the outside and say "that's ridiculously overly conservative!" but I suspect the truth is there is a mix of over-conservative and genuine purpose to "until you prove it via certification, it's not certified as true".

Air-cooled engines have wildly varying operating conditions. Airplanes need to take off not just on a 60ºF sea-level departure to a 3000' cruise, but also at a 105ºF departure from 5000' with a direct climb over terrain to 15K feet. The fuel will sometimes be 125ºF after baking in a tank or a wing all day. It might not be on the exact centerline of the specification range. It might be 6 months old and some of the higher volatility compounds present in reduced amounts. High-strung turbo engines with fixed timing live with pretty low detonation margins, especially at partial mixture settings. Pilots rely on the pilot-operating-handbook or airplane-flight-manual for performance calculations with regards to runway utilization, accelerate-stop/accelerate-go distances, all engine climb gradient and one-engine-INOP climb gradient. Any amount of performance degradation that would invalidate those figures is cause for FAA rejection of the STC. Having flown a handful of heavy, hot, and high departures where the ground isn't falling away from the airplane nearly as quickly as I'd like, I can appreciate a certain amount of conservatism here.

So, I have to give the FAA some benefit of the doubt as I'm not an expert on certification topics. I do believe in the technical ability and already completed lab, bench, and flight testing that GAMI has done and the way they've set out to approach the problem, but to be fair and balanced, they've done some amount of "we think the FAA/PAFI process is fundamentally the wrong approach and we're going to go about it this other way that we think is superior." I happen to think they're right, but when you very publicly do that to a government agency who said they want the process to work this other way and you don't participate in their preferred process, I think it's reasonable to expect that you'll run into delays. (Even if no FAA person is acting in the least bit unethically; you're just trying to use a different process than the one they're putting their energy into and even if everyone has the best intentions, that will cause friction and slowdowns.)
I 100% agree with this, and it’s why we see a lot of lucky billionaires looking to give back to society. What do you do when you’ve reached the pinnacle of achievement? How can you make yourself happier when you no longer have unmet needs?

You start looking for ways to improve life for everyone else, and focusing on what kind of impact you want to have on the world. What’s something that has caused you or someone you care about a lot of pain? Could you help prevent someone else from going through that, or make it easier somehow? Maybe you can’t achieve something grand like world peace, but you can use your skills to improve education in war torn areas to provide new options, etc.

Start to think of the world as an extension of yourself. After you’ve honed yourself, hone the world.
I wrote specifically that comment above because I've wasted a few years of my life with this mindset and after therapy and a lot of struggles, I've figured out it has been what made me depressive and hate my life and myself.

But I was lucky enough to change the situation around with therapy, friends and a framework that enabled me to... and now I live in peace with a degree of peacefulness with myself.

I recognize that I can easily get addicted into something that gives me that feeling of self-improvement, money arriving in my bank account, stocks going up, being recognized by my peers. This at a modest level, it is actually great, because it will provide you a good standard of living and confort, but too much will make yourself miserable, only when I saw that I was basically like a cocaine addict and couldn't enjoy anything in my life and finally hit the breaks that my life changed.
Hello, reading your article I realized that you are an extremely intelligent person, I don't know if we simply coincide perfectly on this topic and from there we are simply similar people, but I swear I read this article as if I had been the one who wrote it ... I have sent you my ideas derived from your main article as an 'issue' in your repository.
A board works for the company not directly the shareholders. Shareholders think they are the owners of a company but they are not.

"Shareholders think they own the company — they are wrong":

https://www.ft.com/content/7bd1b20a-879b-11e5-90de-f44762bf9...

"Board of directors have a fiduciary duty to exercise due care in how they manage a corporation's affairs and also have the duty of loyalty and obedience to the corporation. A fiduciary duty means that both directors and officers handle their powers only for the collective benefit of the corporation AND (my emphasis) its stockholders."

https://www.upcounsel.com/board-of-directors-fiduciary-duty