skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of slack's weak-points imo. Discord allows you to reply to a particular message when making a post. In Slack you make a "thread" but then click "also post in channel". This can cause a lot of confusion if all you're trying to do is use it as a reply because most people will start replying to the thread, not realizing you were trying to keep the conversation as part of the regular channel flow
What happened was they got what they wanted: full control of running the business. Then they quickly learned that was actually a lot of work and not very much fun, made some fairly unpopular decisions (business, product and policy) with a fair amount of public backlash, put Sundar in charge and backed away.
If you have inflation, something is going up in dollar terms. The answer is "real" assets: physical assets that have an intrinsic worth due to their substance and properties. Real estate, infrastructure, and commodities are all examples.
That’s not a reasonable comparison for Thailand food prices as food isn’t disposable income. World bank says GDP per capita PPP was 18,232$ in 2020 down from 19,233$ in 2019. Of course that’s not evenly distributed, but rural vs urban incomes mean costs are higher in cities than median income suggests. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

Where your number comes into play is for people pricing Netflix subscriptions.
But that just suggests that at some high enough energy that QM becomes nonlinear and singular and nonreversible and information is destroyed.
Aren't stable coins pegged to USD subject to the same inflationary concerns as USD and counterparty risk? You're getting a few extra % return, but aren't the risk adjusted returns the same?

I honestly have the same questions as you though, I feel like if I was 100% sure of big inflation coming, all I'd know I want to do is get out of cash, but I don't know where to put my money. Part of me says Walmart, Dollar stores, and other inelastic merchants, but idk. Physical gold seems ok, but you're right in that if you overpay, you're overpaying for an asset that doesn't return anything.
Print 50% of all existing USD in less than two years, then see rates go up up up. Color me surprised.
It nice that 25Gbps is available, but I’d rather that ISPs started to lower prices, rather than upgrading speeds. I just cancels my 500mbps, because I now have to pay myself, 200mbps is plenty for online meetings, ssh and browsing.
Even the industry isnt quite there yet, what we will probably see, will be a truly post-maxi crypto that will focus on interoperable dapps and other higher abstract decentralized entities that will be agnostic towards their L1 and will just plug them in as needed ...
yes, its pretty vibrant for the past 2 years. claims get made in advance and paid out unceremoniously with no fanfare (just like outside of the crypto space) but there could certainly be more fanfare and articles around that experience, since you can tell by this thread that people who should know about it don't know about it. You can find people in the discords of most communities who have the claims after an exploit who are like "yeah they paid" and move on, and you can look at the insurance protocol's contract to see it paid out for your own verification of that.

not sure if I've seen it for NFT collection contracts, but they're pretty robust and actively cater to the DeFi category of services.

here is a list of insurance protocols that also use a token for any number of reasons. its a whole category on the "marketcap" sites.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/insurance

there are likely many well capitalized insurance protocols without a token but I don't know about them for that specific reason, which is a fun irony when wondering "but does this need a token?"
This is only somewhat related, but it still surprises me that people click on links in personal emails when most links are either useless spam or outright scams, but maybe my experience is different than most.

I’d love my email client to not make links clickable at all.

If I get an email from any company that says “you need to update X”, it’s always easier (for me) to go to their website or use some standard update process if they utilize one.
> TIPS don't seem to have a rate that would protect me from inflation

The TIP yield is a real yield. It's indexed to CPI-U, same as Series I bonds. (TIPs adjust monthly; Series I bonds semiannually.)

> would convert a some portion of my savings into stablecoins

This is probably the worst choice one can make. It's accepting a 0% nominal yield against an unregulated counterparty. A Bank of America savings account is literally a better choice.
Two Hundred Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Large Hadron Collider Restarts After 3 Years of Upgrades
I'm in the suburbs of the most expensive city in the world and I get 1gbps for $70 CAD
Thank you.

So my real question is: will I see a noticeable improvement when playing games? Especially World of Warcraft, which is a super old codebase that relies heavily on cpu.

I have a 3090 as my GPU which is overkill for WoW so I’m mostly wondering about whether the single-threaded performance of the new chip at 5GHz will be much more than my current chip, given that it’s running at 5GHz vs. the default 3.7GHz.
Nothing in the article suggests anything particularly novel or severe about this policy. What’s up with these panicky quotes
Can't keep at this pace for much longer. We'll know more in 12 months, stay liquid for now
That only worked because the funds didn’t bounce somewhere else first. Wire transfers are final.
I can understand why you would make the distinction. Making distinctions is good, in general. However from my perspective as a frustrated user being antagonized by ‘my’ devices, it’s all the same battle to me.
We agree there is a group of people who don't have a nuanced view of the cryptocurrency space. But you seem to have overlooked about 99% of people advocating for crypto.
If the cause of inflation is the same amount of dollars bidding up a lesser quantity of goods, the only way to resolve the situation is to increase the number of goods or decrease demand for them.
Its interesting. But the use of “texts” and omission of “in 2018” makes this title feel a little click-baity…
The issue is that there is no incentive for banks to increase interest rates on accounts as they are already sitting on too much cash. Banks make money by lending money out, in times where banks are strapped for cash on hand, you will see interest rates increase. I don’t see this changing in the near future.
Hobbies are almost by definition not mandatory activities. Earning money to eat and pay the mortgage is not really optional. Making the hobby activity mandatory will make it feel a lot more like work and a lot less like a "fun" activity. It might not be as bad as working in an Amazon warehouse, but it'll be a job all the same.

Worst case, if you get burned out on the new job you will not only no longer have a job but also won't enjoy your hobby anymore.
Zulip has been my personal favorite for the way threads are handled. But that's because it centers them and ends up avoiding everything people hate about the thread/channel hybrid systems
Powell was placed by Trump to feed the rich. It worked and now middle class will suffer
I just checked the NYPL catalog and found The Turner Diaries, Camp of the Saints and Mein Kampf to be available. Just three examples, but I find it hard to imagine what else they’d refuse to carry if those are fine.

Is there a particular book you have in mind that “Park Slope progressives” would find too objectionable for libraries to loan out?
The power company has the money, coal was bought+burned. Ultimately this is a form of broken window fallacy - buying resource to literally burn them into thin air is not stimulating the economy
Rules around fake information scare me because they're a limit on speech, and as Russia has recently shown, fake information is anything a dictator doesn't approve of.
It's important to understand that Hawking radiation is not something we've observed and have noticed seems random.

Instead, Hawking radiation is a prediction of a mathematical model. In that model, Hakwing radiation is purely random.

If I remember correctly, Hawking radiation is postulated to arise because of fluctuations in the vacuum giving rise to virtual particle pairs. Normally, these would annihiliate back almost instantly. But, when such an event happens near the event horizon, one of them may fall into the black hole, leaving the other one to "escape", and appear as if the event horizon is emitting radiation. Since this radiation is caused by random fluctuations in the void outside the event horizon, it can't be correlated with anything past the even horizon, so it can't carry information about that.
> People keep claiming over and over that you'd not lose money like this with (non-smart) contracts because the court would always rule your way.

If people do it that much, surely you could give us links to 3 or 4 of them? I'm interested, as I've never seen anybody claim that.
Selling that excess power is possible, as is buying some extra panels - there is enough space for at least 36 more on just that single roof. For now I choose to add panels - and batteries in the not too distant future, once the market is flooded with used EV-batteries - and continue on my course of decentralising the 'net using 'old' hardware - not a single new product is used in any of my computing endeavours. Most of it is either dumpster-dived and repaired, bought 2nd hand or acquired through places like Freecycle.
I guess you are mistaking the “local linear nature” of tensors for differential geometry. GR is certainly not “linear algebra”.
Wall of text, didn't answer the question.
No. The chemical reaction is just really intense and next to impossible to stop.

With an intense lithium-ion battery fire the only thing you can do is calm it down a bit (with a ton of water or sand) and make sure it doesn't spread.
I would heavily recommend first learning assembly with an ISA that's not x86, though. The x86 ISA has just as much cruft as C, e.g. all the overlapped increasingly-sized registers, the now-irrelevant segment registers, etc. And x86 has some stuff that's not legacy, but which makes learning much harder — e.g. assembler-level instructions like LEA that compile to a set of entirely-different opcodes of different shapes depending on what you do with them. (IMHO, for best learning, you should be able to easily disassemble object code in the ISA "by hand" back into assembly, with just an opcode chart for reference. Doing this with arbitrary x86 assembly would be quite the challenge.)

I'm not sure what to recommend as an optimal learning ISA, though. Ideally something that's mostly RISC, with a small but unified memory model, and no virtual memory, and which has all the math ops that embedded RISC ISAs never bother to implement. (In the end, probably no real architecture ever made that exact set of compromises, and so it'd have to be something made up — some kind of bytecode abstract machine ISA designed specifically to be used in education, an ISA equivalent to languages like Logo or Scratch, or OSes like Minix.)

In practice, I think I would recommend learning assembler by programming for the original Gameboy's LR35902 ISA (which is almost, but not exactly, the Z80/8080 ISA). Not because it's the optimal learning ISA per se, but because it gives you a complete machine including graphical video output, with a compact unified address space (no separate IO-register read/write ops), modern tools that target it, and good emulators that almost always include built-in debuggers and memory viewers — where, as well, the memory is small enough to get it all on-screen and have room left over.

Oh, and unlike other ISAs, where people either never hand-write code for them, or where no hand-written code survives in a readable form, with LR35902 we have several complete projects with hand-written assembly codebases (or, well, reverse-engineered + annotated disassemblies of originally hand-written assembly — just as good!) around to be studied. And, of course, they're just the sorts of things kids interested in computers would be interested in studying the workings of: video games! (https://github.com/pret/pokered is a shining example here.)
Lots of people have written big posts at this point about this topic. DALL-E2 let's you guide the image generation with text prompts, and mask part of the image and regenerate the masked parts.

This allows collaboration between the use and the algorithm to iteratively converge on what the user wants. There's also been lots of exploration to find text prompt recipes that produce interesting and more consistent results.

In the end, it's a tool! Tools are used by humans to do something that matters to the human user. Humans adapt to the tools they use to maximize the tool's utility.

Understanding that is fundamental for thinking about where ML will take us. It's not magic, it's tools.
So treasures yield 3%. Why can’t I just buy these bonds and get a 3% rate? What am I missing?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/19/us-bonds-treasury-yields...
Where the core type goes is orthogonal to the notation for affixes (array, function, pointer). Put the type last if you like :-)
IMO the APIs are overly complicated and there's no proper dev tools to test and debug the code. There's a few testing frameworks out there but I'm not really sure how well they work considering how often this happens. I don't get why there isn't some straight forward way to build failsafes into these contracts.
You read the paper about calibrating the signals, that's a reasonable takeaway.

There's a different paper about how the 4 independent algorithms were tested to make sure they did the right thing with simulated data: ring, crescent, disk, double point source.

That's the process that you had an incorrect takeaway from the documentary about. The filmmaker is a member of the collaboration and was highly involved in the imaging.

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV.
Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e85/...

You'll have to follow the footnotes to find out the ages of these algorithms; CLEAN was invented well before I first used it in 1985, and I first ran into maximum likelihood in 1987 or so.
Networkx is pretty cool. If you’re struggling with performance, try Python igraph instead.
They can undo. But if there's some Marty Byrde on the other side, there are ways of making the txn durable, not subject to undo.
Set it to 4625 USB and listen to the creepy Russian Buzzer UVB-76.
There has been speculation that this is part of the dead hand nuclear response system, though this theory has seemingly lost credence more recently. I also didn't notice any mention of it in David E. Hoffman's book, but no matter what it's actually for it is interesting and just a bit unsettling, especially late at night.
A tensor is a differential structure with pointwise linear properties. But the important thing is not the pointwise behavior but the differential nature of the “family of tensors in non-Euclidean space”.
> most Western culture still lauds virtuosity playing and "skill" over most other things.

We must be in different Western cultures because I definitely don't see a lot of skill and virtuosity in most popular music.
Sounds like quite a reaction you’re having
Exactly the same. I’ve added to my collection over the years and am eagerly awaiting my ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2
Pretty sure that getting old is a universal problem
What exactly is fiat based financial system to you? Can you say it's abs. not a ponzi scheme for baby boomers and corporate America?

Because I can't. It's wealth oppur. destrying system only to create wealth for certain age group with assets and their friends.

Millennials and newer gener. are out of most of the "real "financial oppr. by design. So they create their system. It's that simple.
I can say what I wish people had done.

This is an issue that has been on my mind a lot lately, as a lack of it at a critical time in my life, from multiple people, had critical consequences.

There's two things I wish people had done. The first is to provide advice in good faith with the sincere aim of helping the person, wanting a good outcome and with the belief they can do well. Advice that comes from acting in bad faith, will be picked up on as such. Acting in good faith is important because if you're not, you're undermining the advice: in that scenario your advice is suspect because it's impossible to know what your aims are. If you can't act in good faith, someone else needs to be advising.

Related to this is that criticism alone is not advice. This is something that's emphasized in different ways in different places, but it's because it's important: don't just criticize, let them know that you'd like to see them doing or feeling better, and preferably, how to do that.

The second thing I wish people had done is to try to identify what I will call "unspoken factors" in the situation before offering advice. For instance, what sort of advice has this person already received? What advice haven't they received? Is there something about the situation the person finds themselves in that's important to understanding them? Should the advice really be directed at that person, or the people around them? If the person is going to you for help, what are they "saying in between the lines"? That is, they might say they're having trouble with or want A, B, and C, but it might be that the real problem is, or what they really want is X, Y, and Z. Talk with them about that. Relatedly, don't assume that what they're wrestling with is "just in their head": it might be, but they might really be facing something problematic.
Occidental plans up to $1 bln for facility to capture carbon from air
i could definitely be wrong, I thought i made that clear from my phrasing. A cursory google does seem like it was closer to my number then yours though.

Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Cross gen bundle / Ultimate edition - 283.5 GB minimum
Spider-Man Miles Morales Ultimate Edition - 170.5 GB minimum
Hitman 3 - 105.1 GB minimum
Destiny 2 - 101.1 GB minimum
The Last of Us 2 - 93.37 GB minimum
Well, that exceeds my knowledge, but my guess is that it'd be very tricky to accomplish.

You have one cable, a given frequency may go in one direction or in another. Both sides have to agree on what it's being used for. You'd need a communication channel between the ISP side and the client side to constantly negotiate, and that negotiation would take some time, so such a mechanism would have some latency to it, with possibly weird effects on things like online games. You could get weird behaviors where some particular pattern of traffic would result in the connection readjusting itself just wrong on a regular basis and result in hordes of angry gamers.

I think it's reasonable to guess that ISPs targeting consumers have no interest in monitoring and troubleshooting such a thing when they can just set a fixed split and be done with it (and ask the customer to upgrade to a bigger plan if it's not good enough), and ISPs targeting enterprises have no need for it.

Edit: And there's the issue of how you sell such a thing. It's a system that readjusts itself automatically based on some arcane magic and may work differently from one day to another. How do you make any reliable promises about it?
Would be fun to have demoscene competitions restricted to that hardware.
So-called "stick framing" is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to build the core of a house. The only thing I know of that's faster is pre-fab panels that are built off-site at a factory, and then just assembled on-site. But then that requires a crane to get them off the truck and into position.

Large-format 3D printers that use a form of concrete as their "filament" is poised to be even faster, but also still much more expensive for now.

Check out the Build Show network at https://www.buildshownetwork.com/ and Matt Risinger's videos on YouTube at https://youtube.com/c/MattRisinger if you want to learn more about advances in building construction methods.
> Why can’t I just buy these bonds and get a 3% rate? What am I missing?

Savings accounts can be drawn with zero notice. They're essentially rolling overnight. A 10-year Treasury cannot be redeemed before 10 years. (It can be sold, though at the market's whim with respect to price.)
NYPL isn't BPL for what it's worth. :) NYPL only covers Manhattan, Staten Island and The Bronx. Brooklyn has Brooklyn Public Library and Queens has Queens Public Library. All separate systems that existed before NYC was united in 1898 and stayed separate afterwards.
Linus heavily implied that he had an "in" at a senior level that could make an investigation happen and get the funds frozen before they were moved. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't have that level of power.

The destination of a fraudulent wire will be known, but that money is practically unrecoverable if it takes another hop or gets withdrawn.
Whilst it is good the browser side windows provide also quite a lot of information about the JavaScript info. Perhaps as js came from scheme …
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I can privately communicate with my bank. But I cannot do so anonymously. LEO can’t see what I am doing on the wire. But with due process they can compel my bank to reveal what I have been doing with my money.
Challenges in Experimentation
I don’t know much about the black hole information loss problem and I do like Sabine’s skepticism. However, saying it has no use to work on mathematical solutions in this area is taking it one step too far. Maybe, based on the solutions other (indirect) experiments can be devised, maybe it will help solve other Physics, mathematics or engineering problems in the future.
> Some variant of this kind of disaster with smart contracts seems to do the rounds on Twitter every couple of days. Why does this keep happening?

Because it’s code which means errors are a fact of life, and the goal of crypto pushers was to spread the scam so instead of looking at formal methods in order to make “smart” contract ironclad, they started from ECMAScript so that any idiot could go from a frontend widget to deploying a smart contract with minimal introspection or reflexion.
"Smart" is to contracts as "Democratic" is to country names
Why would a local news site care about GDPR compliance? It's not like enforcement is even feasible.
I know this sounds crazy but... you can quit your job and go work somewhere else. I can't imagine working with the "fear of god" or "panic" over stupid shit like this. just find a remote job elsewhere, fuck JPMorgan.
Monkey does monkey things and gets accused by greater monkey community of monkey activity. Civilization is a meme.
Yeah. Back in the 90s, especially in the days of software rendering, a combination of overclocking and config tweaking was often the different between "playable" and "unplayable" framerates for something like Quake. The difference was hugely important.

These days, generally, you'll be getting playable frame rates no matter what in modern games. Powering up your rig or your config can help to eliminate stutters, push higher levels of detail, etc. But it's generally not needed just to play the dang game in some kind of baseline reasonable way.

A faster CPU would help me write code faster, especially when I'm working on a big hairy Rails monolith or whatever. But when you're working on something that slow, a 10% or even a 50% CPU usually doesn't help that much. You need to address the root causes in the software itself - fixing the test suite or whatever.
If the decoy hostnames (as the author describes it) used in encrypted SNI are deterministic such that you can statically determine the real hostname the client wants, then what’s the point of encrypted SNI in the first place?
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