skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an elderly family member with dementia who is jolted awake several times a day by spam calls and left disoriented or even at risk of a fall as a result. Telling them they don't need to answer is met with anger and annoyance (and it's not their fault). Most of the discussion here centers on seeing who's calling and making decisions based on that. There's a large group of victims that never understood those concepts, or are no longer capable of processing them functionally. The lack of tools to help us help them is very frustrating, and this is with a clamshell dumb phone, which these days is probably close to 100% elderly users with special needs.
I have the feeling saying an NFT can be worth 2.9 million dollars is misleading, since it doesn't really apply to article's audience. An NFT has only ever, and maybe will only ever, be worth that much to at most two people: The person who paid 2.9 million dollars for this specific NFT, and the person who sold it for 2.9 million dollars. And I'm only really sure about the second one.
In my PhD research (on computer vision at University of Tokyo), one of the topics I was exploring was reliability of models to synthetic data. Using generative models, we could show that models which were built on binary data sources were somewhat more reliable than others. Consider different geometries of rashes on skin & different skin location - the model could still be closer to ground truth (i.e model performance on real skin lesions)

However when other variables came into the mix (different tones, ethnicity, participant age etc), the model predictions were up for tosses.

Now, medical data is much more harder in ML. The variability is quite extreme since all our bodies are little different from one another. In my thesis, I very firmly proposed that generative models should never ever be used in synthetic medical information as part of the thesis proposal - and there were those field studies to back it up. (The thesis is under non-disclosure at University of Tokyo until September 2023 since an embargo is involved from participating hospitals & data sources. I would have been eager to share otherwise). I am glad people aren't wildly trusting if task A, B & C are doable, task AB, CA, ABC, BC etc should be similarly tractable.
> Except we're talking about video games

Not really. Most of the times Casey & Co. (Blow et others) have entire rants bitching about photoshop, visual studio,windows, websites etc. They tend to present videogames as example of "how it should be done".

They (again, as Casey&Blow and the rest of the group they seem to belong to) have this weird attitude of automatically dismiss anything that doesn't belong to whatever microsubset they are already very experienced in.. so Rust is shit, C++ is shit, GC is shit, smart pointers are shit, get/setters are shit, public/private is shit, memory safety doesn't matter and so on.. all this while not offering any alternative other than "git gut".
I tend to agree with a lot of the rants to be honest but I also perceive their suggested solutions as total non starters for large scale development.
When you're shifting around $80m to net $182m, you set your own gas price.
NFTs tied to physical goods (to help solve counterfeiting or sorting membership) makes sense. NFTs that are purely digital in nature and offer nothing else, seems very silly to me because a digital space has no scarcity. An infinite amount of digital goods can be produced.
And is what's out there the actual tweet? I'm sure their data is distributed & duplicated across many regions. Does the NFT encompass all of them?

Are any of them even original? It's possible that the first bits & bytes on a server that hosted that tweet are long gone, tossed out after twitter scaled beyond its humble beginnings. The original could be a slagged hard drive, a cooled molten lump of metal & silicon. Actually, that would be much more interesting to own than the NFT.
This guy is and has always been a fanatic, and completely out of touch with reality.
Internet psychiatric diagnosis is also misconstruable at best, and at worst ranges amounts to more personal attack and trolling, so please don't do that either.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
They'd just demonstrate control of the funds and clear their name before they went to jail.
Depends on what you mean by order i suppose. The simplest are algebraic (zero-order) models where we prescribe the anomalous transport as an explicit function of other plasma parameters. More complex ones are coupled systems of hyperbolic PDEs, which are typically first-order in space and time.

If you are referring to the order of accuracy of the simulations, that's typically 1st to 4th order, depending on method used.
Found the USB-IF member.
The Establishment / Wall Street abuse is what caused the massive effort behind Crypto (open source, open ledger, etc.)

* Why not use a database. Because that means the Establishment/WallStreet are the only ones with full control.

* Banks / WallStreet / Establishment long-term abuse is what created the mandate. The crypto industry is the equivalent to people taking to the streets to fix the problems.

* Open ledger fixes Bank / Wall Street / Establishment long-term above.

* Open source code prevents rigged economy theft by wall street. High Frequency, Front running, Data centers for front running, distance between exchanges for front running purposes.

* The article author is saying "Give the few establishment players full control. Data base. Ledger. Code. Block innovation. Block competition."

* Competition is the fix. 1inch.io takes in trades. It routes to the best exchanges with the smallest: Fees, margin spreads, order book fraud, etc. The fix is many 1inch.io to send trades to, that finds the lowest fee, most ethical set of exchanges. So orders are carried out ideally. Free market, competiton, not blocking new competitors, transparency (ledger + code + order book + etc.) is the fix
I YOLO’d FAANG interviews twice (The interviews were in cities I wanted to visit, so why not)passed both times and even accepted the offer the second time. In the end I wasn't a very good fit for the company.
There must be entire teams going through these smart contracts looking for exploits. Imagine making 10-100mm in a day just with some code. You would have to work for 100-s1000s of years to make that much.
So then you need to keep SSH or WireGuard up-to-date (at least in terms of security patches).

Also, are you going to SSH in every time you need to access a document from your phone? Again, use-cases differ, but that's not a 1-to-1 alternative to, say, Dropbox.
It was a tongue cheek quote from The Big Short… can’t wait for synthetic NFTs.
> a bored ape is pleasant to look at

Subjective of course, but couldn't disagree more. These things are hideous and frankly epitomize, to me, that hype and not artistic value is driving value here
All of us leaded gas brain damaged dimwits are about to hit a double whammy?
No, they didn't.

They figured human nature would keep them safe. And that no one who could muster the capital to perform this action would want to, and anyone that would want to wouldn't be able to muster the capital.

Technically, the risk of borrowing that amount of money is high. As is the risk of investing that amount of money into one coin. They figured anyone that would even begin to attempt something like that would operate in good faith. No way they'd tank the coin, because they have so much skin in the game.

Well, that doesn't matter when you can take your skin and go home. Not to mention the skins of everyone else, wearing them Hannibal Lecter style.
No I mean literally working on GPLed code which means writing Free Software. But, since those companies never distribute binaries, they never have to share the code under the terms of the GPL.
First bid: $2.9m. Take it or leave it!
Fabulous. Not just for the light-pollution & energy side of things, but because softer lighting is the thing sleep experts have been telling us to introduce into our lives in the evenings, all the blue light filters for our phones etc, to help us tell our bodies it's time to sleep...

But the comments here about bright light deterring crime are important (and true). Not sure what a solution is that deals with that AND helps us sleep better etc.
Every backwards compatible spec would have this "problem".

Either a new version of a spec says that all existing implementations are out of spec, or it add new optional features and existing implementations are that don't support them are still in spec. There's really no other option.
BTW in federal structures exists thing named consensus, and in democracy also used many systems different from simple rule 1 person = 1 vote - quorum, quotes.

Consensus, mean, two things:
1. Things differentiated by level of abstraction - less abstract usually subordinated to lower level. For example, question who will wash windows usually on lowest levels of organization, and for this corresponding department got budget, access grants and resources.
2. Things of highest level of abstraction only accepted if nobody vote against them (in large organizations counter-vote may require more than one vote, for example in joint-stock companies usual rule, for veto need 10%+1 votes).
Say why can’t we make a small scale circular particle accelerators and push ions out with that? Would that be more or less efficient?
Ask HN: I burned out but I don't want to let my team down
I never thought I'd write these words but, yeah, it happened to me too: I burned out.

I can't even stand checking my emails anymore but I manage a team of 5 amazing devs (for a relatively large corp) who clearly started to notice something's wrong.

The job, the people, the tasks, the work-life balance are all great so the issue lies somewhere else. I eat healthy, exercise every day and have a good social life. I also see a therapist regularly (I started years ago and find it incredibly helpful to gain perspective on various areas of life). But most days I'd rather spend 3 hours in bed watching Netflix than write a single line of code.

I worked on a couple of side projects, and that helped, but I lost motivation to continue that as well. I'm researching the topic and this community helped me a lot throughout the last few years so I thought I'd post this.

How can I manage responsibilities and deal with this at the same time? Should I delegate my work to someone else for a while? Should I just take a couple of weeks' vacation? I'm kind of lost at the moment.
Inflation has risen so much and so quickly that "basically no one" is going to be the answer.
Two dozen proofs until BB(5,2) is resolved
Namebase has been acquired by Namecheap
According to the jargon file, ITS called daemons dragons and SAIL (whatever this is ?) called them phantoms. Add to that zombie processes on Unix and user rights angels from FreeBSD's capsicum and the fact that processes come from executable files in ELF format and have debug infos in DWARF and it is quite the fantasy menagerie.

I suggest Kobold for whatever kind of process we need to name next.
The grift could have gone on for much longer.
If you want to try this out, give the sicmutils Computer Algebra System a go (I’m the maintainer). Repo lives here: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils

The library works in the browser as well, so interactive TeX rendering from Clojure symbolic expressions and functions is available at the quickstart page here: https://nextjournal.com/try/samritchie/sicmutils
You preferred Star Wars I assume?
> But we have seen time and time again that that isn't true, and if a government wants to freeze your crypto assets, they can do so easily.

We have seen no such thing. The claim is not that the government can't put your wallet on a blacklist in an attempt to ban local companies from serving you. Nor is the claim that the government can't come to your home and arrest you, nor that they can't have your server taken down where you store your private keys.

These things happen, but it is unreasonable to ask cryptocurrencies to protect you from real world violence, anymore than encryption is useless because someone can use a hammer.
I haven't seen a credible study that shows more lighting reduces crime. I wouldn't be surprised if more lighting increased reported crime at night in the same way more policing increases the number of people who enter the justice system until criminals adapt. But most crime is done in broad daylight or beyond the reach of outside lights, so I doubt lighting has much to do with it.
Nope. As the article says... contact the FTC to port the phone number since they (or their supplier) are in violation of law... get response within a day and number ported within 30 days.
SO it's totally possible for the server hosting the image URL to be gone after many years?
This looks... Nifty?
I say day-mon because it's less alarming for non-technical people and less ambiguous for technical people.

But, in accord with the robustness principle, I'm happy to accept any pronunciation.
BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking
When I lived in Canada I remember they had a nifty solution. Put a green round sticker in your mailbox and the mailman will skip your inbox when placing crap mail.
What do expats/immigrants from UK and Ireland think about Seattle? Does it feel similar to the English/Irish weather or is it worse? Also Scandinavians ? Been meaning to ask this question for a long time.

I would imagine for people from UK and Scandinavians Seattle and PNW weather isn't too depressing?
I feel like the general response to things like this in the recent past were "A fool and his money are soon parted". What happened to make this particular method of losing money or making a bad investment get regarded as such an evil?

I've seen a lot of people give actual death threats and are angry whenever NFTs are brought up. It find it kind of baffling how this sentiment came to be so quickly. What happened?
I’m biased because I work at Tlon, but I think using low, but non-zero cost IDs for urbit auth is a really good way to do it and makes handling spam easy. For what it’s worth, I joined Tlon because of conviction in what is being built (not the other way around).

So it’s not “gated” in the sense of excluding people - it’s more about the minimum cost required to eliminate spam. It solves the issue of ID at the OS level and works well for building networked apps on top of it.
I guess we found Elon's HN account...
My own employer, and many others, set their baseline salaries for each job title based off of industry payroll data they purchase from specialized consultancy firms. These datasets do not seem to have kept up with inflation, nor do they seem to have kept up with market rates I’ve seen in my own field (technical security).

I suspect this may be one of several drivers to all the employee movement we’ve been seeing in the past couple of years.
They (Kim's gang) are never going to be able to really take advantage of the funds as the associated addresses have been fully blacklisted around the world and they are never going to be able to find enough liquidity on alternative mediums in order to fully cash in. What a waste. This only helps deflate the crypto a bit more which I guess is good for the hodlers.
That population isn't expected to be a representative of a random population sample...
‘An undebatable political decision’: Why China refuses to end its harsh lockdown
Email.

But really, it shouldn't be on senders to care about how their messages are routed at all. USPS should be able to accept a message, digitally, addressed to a specific individual, and then route it either to an email address or a physical address, per the recipient's preferences.
AMA? How much can these thrusters be scaled up? Or does it make more sense to stick more smaller ones on a craft if we need more thrust?

Bonus question: how would you design a planet scale thruster? (Asking for a friend)
I guess this would suggest that keeping physically fit and calm is the key to getting the best out of your aging brain.
Okay so they have wide authentication infrastructure, that much is obvious. However consider this:

If users, say, want to use an alternative application to view their Instagram posts and Facebook posts, or an alternative application to interact with TikTok, you would, of course, need to authenticate the user against their service to read the APIs, and thats fine, applications can do that with user consent, and of course, if you do that, you can reverse engineer the platforms formats, as described in this article.

The dilemma isn't being able to authenticate a user against an API, its that, if you actually go through and do this, Facebook, TikTok, Slack, or any other service, can use the courts to shut down your business. They have, effectively made this illegal, or at best, legally dubious, through case law and legislation. This was not always the case however, it hasn't always been this way, see Apple reverse engineering Microsoft Office document formats, or Airbnb scraping Craigslist to build their listings.
Ouch, I apologize.

If it matters, you sure made the mark for me, and I will definitely check out the engine further.
I think BEV will work best for most trucking use cases. Try and debate me without using negative language and you'll understand why the debates look toxic.

> Best of all, if we use two, three or four energy sources for our stuff instead of just one, that spreads the load on earth’s resources.

BEV and green hydrogen use the same fuel source: electricity. Electricity is the magic sauce here, since there are a bunch of ways to generate it.
It is a spec, not software. If usb 3.1 includes all the details on how to build and talk to devices that 3.0 did. If a device built for 3.0 suddenly wasn’t 3.1 compliant it would be a huge engineering failure on behalf of the USB-IF.

You are likely thinking of named features and of conformance marks, things like Superspeed 10 Gbps and the like. People outside hardware developers aren’t expected to know USB 3.O vs 3.1, and in fact should demand to not have to know.
I'd happily pay zero more taxes, and have the USPS properly funded using money that used to pay for overpriced cruise missiles or Navy ships that don't even function.
The conceptions of what happened is so completely removed from reality and it's disheartening to see commenters blinded by the hate for crypto stuff to the extent that they don't even bother to concern the details

Let's look at some facts.

The _first_ *Offer* made on this NFT was $280

The current top bid for this $29,000

It is not sold, so to say that its value has actually dropped is just silly.

If you imagine this in the context of a bid/offer market, this is like when market opens and a price hasn't been established because there wasn't a taker yet.
When you willingly take financial action with a smart contract, you are agreeing to the smart contract. The smart contract is code. While code is not “law” literally, in this case it is the lawful contract definition. How else can you possibly interpret this?
This is the crux of the whole DeFi thing, and I strongly agree this was not a hack.
My whole problem with DeFi is Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Roughly, it states that any reasonably complex code is going to have outcomes that cannot be determined by reading the code. In this case:

* Started with currencies that didn't allow flash loans.
* Made a "we feel good about democracy of involvement" rule that supermajority could make any decisions with the funds "because we like people who invest in our work."
* They added two currencies that supported flash loans.
* Person or persons with currencies used flash loans to gain supermajority to transfer the funds out.

This is why banks are inefficient. There are (in theory) safeguards to transfers make it possible to stop or reverse activities. DeFi is forever going to be dealing with these issues after the fact.
This is one of those problems with liquidity. You are buying a subscription plan that tells you can come at any time. The business can't plan ahead because you haven't committed to a fixed schedule. If your subscription plan was locked to specific time slots the gym could do much better capacity planning. However, such a subscription model is less liquid which means customers want to be compensated for giving up their freedom to pick an arbitrary time slot with a discount.

It's kind of weird how liquidity is such a general concept that goes way beyond money.
Your comment missed the main lesson of the post.

GitHub (Microsoft) had a non intuitive UI feature, they themselves were victim of. They restored for their own repo but not for the customer repo...Zero customer focus is the lesson here.

"...In our case, however, they refuse to do that, citing undesirable side effects and the cost of resources. We even offered GitHub financial compensation for any resources required. But, sadly, they declined. They have other priorities than resurrecting the community of one of the oldest and most popular community projects on their platform..."

"...So the answer to the question is, unfortunately, the following: GitHub will restore a repo damaged by making it private. But only if it’s one of their own projects, not a community one.."
> NFTs that are linked to real-world assets (through intermediaries that you have to trust, yes — unlike everybody else on the blockchain) like stock, real estate or anything else are not.

Do those actually exist, or are they just a fairy tale to hype NFTs?

Also, even if they do exist, they probably demonstrate a particular kind of confusion that's often used to hype cryptocurrency-type things: there may be a link to the crypto-space, but it's entirely superfluous and all the real work is being done by a traditional non-crypto mechanisms.
I wonder how much lighting reduces crime vs just moving it around. If you have bright streets and dark ones, does the crime migrate to the dark ones? If all the streets are lit the same, does the crime spread out generally?

Do people feel less safe or are they actually less safe? Suburbs are often lit like a Walmart parking lot yet I suspect the amount of crime is quite low.
“All art” is obviously a hyperbole, but my impression is that it is widely known that high-end art auctions are used for money laundering. There are plenty of news articles about various governments making big busts and attempting cracking down on this.
I totally agree with you, although I'd imagine for the US your first uphill battle would be to convince people that a central government ID is a good idea. I've been mentioning this idea in private conversations in Europe for many years, even here people react almost violently against it.

I'm always surprised at people saying that "government can't tech", without ever demanding competence from the thing that takes a good chunk of their income.
I was hoping this was a new Kodak color-reversal film stock announcement. Edit: It is not.
Surely the right question to ask is what is the origin of computing with regards to the mythological tale of "daemons". The Greeks built a mechanical computer called the antikythera mechanism, and tales of clockwork automotons have existed for millenia. So my argument would be that the concept of a "daemon" doing your computational work for you entirely precedes modern computation.

Edit: The second response to the stack exchange question consists of pretty much this argument, and the Wikipedia page [1] has more information!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computing%29#Etymolo...
> Beanie Babies

At least you physically own and display them. NFTs usually don't even represent ownership of what they're attached to. People are trading baseball cars as though they're actually the player.
Then sell payment plans for NFTs, so every NFT would have a debt associated with it, and a payer. There is a risk the payer will default, but all debts have this risk. Now that we have these NFT bonds, we can bundle them into CDOs...