skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't true. Otherwise, exchange rates wouldn't be changing every second.

Prices fluctuate because people trade currencies on forex markets but those traders are not a significant force in the long run... Government reserve banks are the ones which keep exchange rates relatively stable by printing money. Traders just respond to and anticipate changes in the money supply caused by central banks.

If US Fed prints a lot of money (which puts downward pressure on the value of USD), all other central banks in the world will also start printing money to also devalue their currencies so that the exchange rate for their currency remains stable relative to USD (and therefore relative to all other currencies).

There is no major country in the world right now which has a free floating currency. Reserve banks are manipulating the global currency supply and enslaving the working population due to Cantillon effects.

The leader of any country which has tried to move out of this global monetary scheme has been overthrown and murdered by US military action (under some false pretext). For example, the real reason for the war in Libya is said to be that Gaddafi was trying to push Africa towards a gold based currency. Research the 'Libyan Gold Dinar'.
A college extra-credit project became PHP3, still the bedrock of the web
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008
Unboxing of Russian Drone Orlan shows Canon consumer camera used as sensor
Bandwidth is already charged by consumption. What you’re suggesting here is to the idea that vehicles should be charged based on what they’re transporting. Sorry but that is preposterous. Weight is weight and should be considered as such. No cost preference for shipment of products that some private company likes.
Self-correcting doesn't mean immediately self correcting, but it does imply self-correcting in a somewhat reasonable time period, and ideally not needing to self correct too often.

What's reasonable, well, probably not years or decades. Average people cannot make major errors that destroy the value of their job output and then blow it off with "well but the company self corrected eventually so please don't fire me". When they judge science, they will judge it by the standards they are themselves held to in normal jobs.

And what's too often, well, probably papers that don't replicate should be a clear minority instead of (in some fields) the majority. Recall that failure to replicate is only one of many things that can go wrong with a study. Even if the replication rate was 100% many fields would still be filled with unusable papers.
Slightly off-topic, but I appreciate any pointers: In a project, I want to offer an SQL interface for data analysts similar to Stripe Sigma[1]. The tricky thing is not to parse the query but to map the public schema to the private schema, add authorization, and distribute the query across data stores. So, I am looking for a customizable query parser, planner, and execution engine.

I briefly looked into Apache Calcite and DataFusion[2], but I am unsure if I am on the right track. If someone has any ideas about where to look, please let me know.

[1] https://stripe.com/en-gb/sigma
[2] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion
> Kill the person

This reads like an excuse to kill 18 people...
Even if they are 'drinking their own kool-aid' they really don't care, since they already dumped their bags on retail. [0] They know it is a scam.

They will keep doing it until stricter regulations prevent them from doing so. Such as working extremely closely with multiple exchanges to simultaneously list the tokens they've invested in and use them to dump on retail as exit liquidity. [0][1]

Even if they do get caught, they can pay the SEC a small fine which is nothing more than a slap on the wrist to them from their gains. They (a16z) make money and the SEC makes money.

That is why they still win and rarely lose. But retail in almost every case always loses.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012587

[1] https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/21/07/221261...
From 2014. The MERGE discussion is from 2022.
Sometimes you used to hit on ads with minors doing questionable things, if you were not getting a ransomware.
MSSQL mostly has this feature with Query Store.
The claim was no federal employee earns more than X

The proof was a list of federal employees earning more than X
Take a look at Mosyle, free for up to 30 devices? I think it’s where we’re headed when we leave Profile Manager.
Rust might work reasonably well though, given its compiled with llvm. If not, I'm sure whatever asm structures llvm outputs for rust all have C equivalents.

I'd be curious to see the output! It'd be funny decompiling the rust compiler to C, then running it on another platform that way. (Though it would still be, for example, an x86 rust compiler running on arm).
The Babylon Bee was actually suspended from twitter a month ago, looks like.

https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-has-shut-down-the-bee
I don't see any defense for Twitter, just some sarcasm directed at anybody banned that cry about freedom of expression.

Sarcasm is best when applied to both oppressor and the victim. Sarcasm doesn't have to be partisan nor make a statement.
You can create superpositions with guitar strings.
It's also something that could be somewhat easy to get a lot of learning material for.
That's true, but it cuts both ways.

apt-get install wine

Did you just get Wine from upstream? The answer is no and this has wasted significant amounts of time of Wine developers in the past. I used to be one and spent way too many free evenings and weekends debugging subtle crashes reported by users, that turned out to be packaging bugs introduced by men-in-the-middle.

Lots of other Wine devs had the same experience, so at that time we had a policy that if someone reported a bug the first instruction was to uninstall their distro package and to install the binary packages produced by the Wine project itself. Sometimes users were upset by this advice, but it resolved a significant number of "bugs" that were being added by the distributors.
I'm on the same boat as you. I occasionally wonder about this when I see people using their working email addresses to commit code, but I personally think that's a hassle I don't want to go through. I get the benefits of those who do it, but I'm ok with exposing my personal email address to other peers (or everybody since most of my work is open source anyways). Maybe, if I ever feel judged by what I do during my working hours or viceversa (something I doubt will ever occur at my current company Meroxa), then it's when I would probably think of setting a different account.
Thanks for the clarification. The site is not clear on that topic and actually suggests otherwise by listing the planned release dates in the timeline.

On the other hand, the problem that many popular server distributions like CentOS and Debian still haven't updated their Java 17 packages remains and I wonder if this is due to their own package build process or because they are waiting for an upstream process to complete.

If they actually rely on the upstream builds from openjdk.java.net that would mean that the fix will not make it to their repositories at all.
I've definitely had my share of childhood trauma. I've worked my ass off the past 10+ years growing through it. I'm at a much better place now than I used to be. But probably still some stubborn ones leftover.

I don't think my issue is with "stupid" people. I never think that of people. I think I exaggerated in my post regarding that point.

I think what's going on is more related to my over-attachment with these situations, and my anxiety and subsequent reactions to it.

Interestingly, I never cared to have friends or a social life until recently, after coming out of a depressive episode. It's like I've been living in a hole for 30 years, and now I'm out trying to make friends like a overly eager 6 year old, plus anxiety.
It doesn't have a condition code register, which scores it plenty of weirdness points.
That's a neat use case I hadn't thought about.
Shopify

Pro
- Slick UI
- Solid backend to manage products
- Good plugin support with other e-commerce giant like Amazon, eBay
- Good community support
- Flexible store customization with good range of theme
- Easy to manage even for even non-IT person(Taking about backend process like product listing, shipment generation etc...)
Less ill-directed angst, I agree. But the working class as a whole should be feeling more angst than what they (we) currently are feeling, as they are being exploited every day.
How do you define corporate bs Vs productive meetings?
> The intersection of organizations who can run a bank but don't already have entrenched software to do so, and want to build all the other software themselves seems vanishingly small.

Most FinTech is like this though. User Facing front end custom services built on top of bank infra. The bank infra is typically a bank partner and rarely is something like Stripe depending on the exact use case. This basically provides an intermediate alternative between Stripe and bespoke banking relationship.
Show HN: A flexible and pragmatic NLU intent matching server to build chatbots
There's a neat book called "Exploring Quantum Physics through Hands-On Projects" that is well worth a look, for those so inclined.

https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Quantum-Physics-through-Pro...
These are images from the Art Bits stack from HyperCard 2.0, if I remember correctly. Interestingly, they seem to be totally different from the HyperCard 1.0 Art Bits, which are the ones that are rather nostalgic to me.
I can't play any instruments, but I would love to go somewhere where you can just play with these kinds of things (and bring your kids).
There's no need to invoke aliens, or indeed an 'outside universe', in these thought experiments: computations can occur without any 'intelligent designer' purposefully putting together hardware and software (whether to simulate their ancestors, or to generate random numbers, or anything else).

After all, our universe is a Turing-complete computer; we don't need to invoke an 'outside universe' for it to run on, any more than we need to invoke an 'outside slide-rule' when billiard balls collide. Every physical system is "software" running on that computer.

The simulation hypothesis invokes an outside universe, with intelligent designers, to explain why a simulation would be like our universe: because it's an ancestor simulation, so it must be the sort of universe that permits the evolution of intelligence.

This RNG hypothesis doesn't have such requirements: any suitably-unpredictable computation can be used. That makes it less likely for our universe to be a RNG: sure, there are likely many more RNGs than ancestor simulations; but the vast majority of those RNGs will be nothing like our universe.
> Writing the one pager forces the author to condense the book. Discussing it honed his thoughts.

I find this observation shocking, because it forces me to confront the idea that the author didn't already have a concise explanation of the book in their head, even during the later stages of finishing and editing the book.

Am I unreasonable to feel that I'm probably not interested in reading a book created by someone who didn't have any overall perspective on what they were doing?
> I can't wait to see what people will come up with for that!

Why would it be any different from the indie games already on Steam and the same bunch of emulated systems we've all played to death?

Steam Deck although seemingly decent hardware is ultimately boring, it's never going to have an ecosystem of games built specifically around it and will only ever be used for playing existing PC games on the go, never have it's own ecosystem of titles and exclusives like Switch and Playdate do.
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Similar scenario for me... countless accounts throughout various services, newsletter subscriptions, paid services/subscriptions, tickets, loan requests and confirmations, house deeds & ...

I have tried finding the numerous people throughout the world with the same name and surname as me and notifying them and asking them kindly to update their contacts or to stop using mine (name.surname@gmail scenario), some work, some don't.

At some point I even started canceling their appointments/subscriptions/closing their accounts, hoping they'd stop but apparently no use. Not a month passes without a few of these emails popping up in my inbox. The most annoying are when I am stuck in a group email with multiple recipients that are replying all.
It seems all of it is sold out. But yes, looks marvelous on the pictures.
Which, may I ask? I have a Librem laptop, but I wouldn't give it to a previous Windows user because of the pre-installed desktop (some GNOME variant I think).

On the other hand I installed Linux Mint on all family hardware with no issues (complaints from family members).
This site doesn't provide anything newer than OpenJDK 11 and references the Adoptium projects for July 2021 and future releases. But Adoptium only provide their own Temurin distribution. Looks like a dead end for an OpenJDK 17.0.3 upstream build.
Plus, no way for outside actors to trigger the rendering is great for security.
This sounds like it involves a lot of labor and transaction fees, and perhaps some liability. What would be the returns if I paid someone to do all that?
Not having condition codes actually cleans up the semantics a lot - no need to define the CC effects for each and every insn. It's also helpful to high-performance implementations, since the condition code register would otherwise enter as a dependency in every insn.
The various Chinese vaccines have actually proven to be highly effective at preventing severe disease and death.

In Hong Kong, 3 doses of Sinovac turned out to be just as effective (in fact, slightly more effective, though that could be statistical noise) as 3 doses of BioNTech.[1]

Yet the idea that Chinese vaccines don't work is incredibly widespread in the West. It's pure prejudice, in my opinion.

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272769v...
Yes, but it wouldn't necessarily be readable. And it definitely wouldn't be portable!
I could be wrong about this, but you, as a third party should be indifferent to holding it vs cash. J&J shouldn't - if they owned this it would change the cost structure of selling the product. Let's say they buy it, they're now paying $x less in cost per unit, which from a static perspective is the same as the cash value of the royalty, but it could allow them to drive more money into advertising, which would yield more sales of the product. Previously this would've increased the value of the royalty (which they don't own) but now they capture that value instead.
I’m a synth dilettante and I absolutely look at these channels for inspiration and validation on what to buy, and sometimes for tips on how to use it.

Andrew Huang and True Cuckoo for the enthusiasm, sometimes also Ricky Tinez; Loopop and Sonicstate for thorough reviews; and Bad Gear to keep me grounded.

So yeah, if you want my next thousand bucks your chances are pretty good if all these guys like your gear. Or appear to like it.
Cyber Nukes Could Be Our Path to Digital Peace
I recently felt that way (a year ago), and I felt immensely relieved and excited that I had made that decision. After being comfortable and decently happy in a job, I realised how much I needed to take that step it took me much time to take.
Personally I'd go for the Syntakt + Octatrack as Digitakt (and Digitone) seems too similar to Syntakt, while Octatrack being very unique. But then I'm biased because I love using Octatrack as a sampler/sampler-like machine.

Not a fan of the song itself, but ezbot just published a video with Syntakt + Octatrack, which shows the workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6Tct6--8E
At least in Europe, quite a few shops that sell drums, pianos and guitars also have some grooveboxes, drum machines and synths you can try out. Bigger ones could have Elektron ones as well with some luck.
Obama calls for tech regulation to combat disinformation on social media
Show HN: A programmer's approach to finding gifts
Hey Folks,

I’ve been really annoyed with the search part of finding gifts.

It’s hard to use keyword search for something when it’s an “I’ll know it when I see it” kind of deal.

So I thought, what if we scraped/indexed TONS of products and then just focused on removing the things we don’t want and then see what’s left to see if there’s anything cool?

I built it in Flutter so it's both iOS and Android but it could be web too.

I’ve only just started the scraping/tagging of products and if anyone has suggestions for bulk tagging images/content I would love to hear them. That’s the current bottleneck.

Any feedback would be welcome!

cvanvlack AT gmail DOT com if you want to discuss 1-on-1.
I was thinking about that one too. In case you haven’t seen it, Alan W Pollack’s analysis is great: https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/iatw.shtm...

Despite the complex chords, the bulk of the melody is that ultra-simple two-note semitone riff (IIRC Ian MacDonald’s book says it was inspired by hearing a police siren). When John Lennon said someday they’d write a one-note song I always figured this was what he meant -- that I Am The Walrus is a “two-note song”.
I was using the royal we, as in 'we the software industry'. I'm quite picky personally.
I think we need to let go the paradigm that there is a 'good health' state and that we just need to avoid stuff that leads to deviation from that state. We keep discovering that a thing is correlated with one bad symptom - but the lack of said thing is correlated with a different bad symptom and we believe that there is one perfect level that thing that would let us live with neither of these bad things. There probably isn't.

It probably used to be a good abstraction - because we had so many things that obviously harmed us so we tended to remove them from our lives and that was improvement. But now in the developed countries we live in an environment that is mostly cleaned from these obviously harmful things - what is left is all the exceptions.
I've had a GMX address as backup for over a decade. No spam issues whatsoever.
I have a theory about current state of the are of recommendations, automation or ML in general. I think a lot of the valid criticisms we see with recommendation systems (building of bubbles, extremization etc.) is due to the simplicity of the algorithms.

In reinforcement learning there is a notion of exploration and exploitation. All of supervised ML can in a way be seen as exploitation.

Incorporating ideas of exploration in a clever way into the standard recommendation algos, I think could be the solution to a lot of the mentioned problems.
MyHeritage either sold my email
Why are you not shorting Tesla then if you are convinced of your ludicrous narrative?
I know, but I've come to the realisation that menu-diving devices just aren't suited to me. There's too many steps and combinations of keys to remember - is the feeling I get every time. Especially when you've got lots of gear in the studio already. I'll stick to a more straightforward drum machine and modular synthesizers. I wish Elektron would've added more knobs (encoders) and faders. I was looking into combining a Faderfox (or Oktakontrol) with an Octatrack, that seems a bit more intuitive.
Simple constricting joins are usually okay, but if you have joins with "or" conditions on largish tables, that can easily throw it off completely. I find that I often need to rewrite those to use union.
> how did they get funded?

Correct me if I'm wrong (also hard to know since it's a private company), they are self-funded. Started out with a school project and building the SidStation (with a Commodore 64 SID chip), and went from that.

Bit of links that go through the history

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektron_(company)

- https://sonicstate.com/news/2014/06/04/elektron-from-sid-to-...
It's sad that the primary reason for making the site perform well is SEO and not the improved user experience.
This needs to become a recurrent pattern. Once companies see serious red ink as the probable outcome, maybe we will see an end to this kind of bullshit.
50 years, thirty miles from limited leak should be enough for the radiation to become negligible.

The metals are still toxic however. So I wouldn't recommend going for a geiger counter, instead try testing for chemical contamination.
New data: Do developers think Web3 will build a better internet?
The weirdest things about RISC-V are having very weak addressing modes in comparison with almost all other CPU architectures and also having extremely weak support for detecting integer overflow.
This is wildly unlikely. the content scope of twitter is huge, the data scale is huge and they have so many engineers that it's difficult to keep "manual human intervention" confidential.

Even something as simple as a keyword search, ie "hunter biden laptop", would require searching tens of millions of strings per hour. Distributed across thousands of servers, integrated with whatever dev ops set up they have. It just seems like a huge pain, for little practical gain.

Their scale is so huge that I doubt twitter has much manual control over what people see, even if they wanted it. It seems much easier to just multiply weights
I have a statistically very uncommon name (there’s like 3 other people with my name who have showed up on the internet) and I’ve still run into this because I use first name.surname@gmail.com.

I can’t imagine what it’s like for whoever uses the same naming convention for a super common name.
He literally overturned the Smith-Mundt act, making State-sponsored propaganda legal. If he cares so much about disinformation, he shouldn't have first-hand paved the way for it.
Not quite... my argument is that a lot of meetings are necessary to keep an organization ticking - decision making is just a part of it. If for anyone that feels like corporate bs (which is a perfectly valid standpoint!!!), well... these people aren't cut for a corporate life. What's the problem in that? If I don't like children I probably wouldn't try to become a kindergarten teacher, if I absolutely can't stand communication and politics, I shouldn't work in a corporate setting.

And it's also perfectly OK to find this out about yourself only later in life, when you have gathered some (more) professional experience.

What's not OK imho is labelling other people's version of work as "corporate bs".
I am putting a trade on. The stock is overvalued but I am not shorting because Tesla is a cult. I put a trade instead on another stock.
I just played this online Qubit game that I thought I would put down after a few minutes. Ended up playing for 50 min to finish and actually got a much better sense of how quantum computers work than before.

https://quantumai.google/education/thequbitgame
Reminds me of Wings3d in that it's written in a less common language for this domain.
A shame. My understanding is this was state of the art, for a free and open source decompiler.

Of course, times change and AFAICT Ghidra has taken up that mantle.
You really don't want to do this on Windows. People aren't going to install Visual Studio.
I really think the second one shouldn't raise a type error.

This is already invalid:

function foo1(arg1?: number, arg2: number) {}

In that case you have to use

function foo1(arg1: number | undefined, arg2: number) {}

foo1(undefined,1);

But other than that what is the use case?
This has been my experience as well along both sides of the axis. If you're not "Lets Go Brandon" or whatever the equivalent is on the left, you usually are reasonable and have valid opinions.

Even more so, we usually share the same ideals just have different ways of getting there. There isn't huge division out there. Just two camps of dicks with most of us in the middle.