skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that marketing teams at large companies sort of inherently lack long-term marketing consistency. Or at least, had the product team been in sync with the marketing team about their long-term vision of removing the headphone jack, then maybe they wouldn't have marketed the "roast".
I recently started taking notes and I like LogSeq for this. My memory is of goldfish so I type meeting notes, code snippets, links, progress of the day, etc.

I really love the [[]] feature of LogSeq and how the datastore is .md files which I can just keep in a folder in gDrive/Dropbox.
1. Rejected energy is not surplus energy, but instead energy lost through inefficiencies in its production or use. How does bitcoin use this energy?

2. No argument there, energy price is one of the main costs in a mining op.

3. This seems like a minor win. What happens to these plants when the miner moves to a new region? They’ll become unprofitable again and shutdown. Which means waste again.
Unweathered protocols on eth failing shouldn't affect bitcoin. They're only related insofar as they are both crypto. The $3B in bitcoin sold could have been anything.
It's a common joke on countless shawarma/doner/gyros/etc. stands everywhere. Not original in the slightest.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/e1/9a/bce19a4e0ca810310c07...
I thought it was caused by loose floormats.
Empirical observation and scientific measurement.
Did anyone else glance at the title and get curious what the latest news was with the Dead Sea or other related ancient scrolls?

If NLP had been spelled out, I might not have made the mistake. In retrospect, I know what NLP can mean, but I also know that just about every acronym has multiple meanings attached to it anymore.
Cloudflare Walks a Tight Line with Its Decision to Remain in Russia
Faster to accept payment? How is it easier for me to accept payment in eth and use it to pay my energy bill than it is to set up stripe?

Also, you claim a better path to getting payment? What is better about it? As far as I can see either I trust a third party to act as an intermediate to save in gas tax, or I charge multiple dollars to verify payment "immediately" - i.e. anytime in the next few hours if imlucky, depending on the currency. Of course there are coins out there that don't have these problems (yet) but then I need to go find an exchange that supports the coin I have and the coin I want, transfer them (see above) and _then_ pay? I don't see how this as a consumer is easier than having my browser autofill my credit card, or as a developer is easier than implementing a handful of functions to accept currency my users already use.
> Implementing operator precedence isn't that hard actually.

Like all the claims about making languages: Truth until is a big fat lie.

Try to do the full precedence for more complex languages than formula evaluators could become harder than expected (you think you nailed, then a edge-case happens).
excellent! irony here -- this single sentance can be taken as constructive and engaged OR a passive aggressive attack on current research and therefore researchers. No evidence in this sentance could prove either interpretation, nor others. So what is the article context? for that matter, the reputation of the speaker? What is the rest of the sentiment in this article text? What forum for publication? What is the typical audience sentiment of readers of this forum? all so important, right?
Software that "grows organically" is usually used derisively, as opposed to software that was actually designed.
You lie, or have no idea what has been discussed in Finland for the past few months. The public has given a very clear mandate to join NATO ASAP.

Here's the latest poll news from 2022-05-09. "Yes" at 76%.
https://yle.fi/news/3-12437506

And additional interesting bits, both the president have backed joining, and Sweden is joining NATO too:
"A possible Swedish application for Nato membership would raise backing in Finland to 83 percent.

A clear position by the Finnish president and the government backing membership raise support by around the same margin, to 82 percent."

Meaning the support to join is overwhelmingly in majority.
Kagi has a non-commercial filter that I suspect uses the presence of ads/analytics as a signal.
Let's see, I host Dokku in a VPS.

For 7 USD/month I get:

4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, uncapped bandwith (at least in theory)

The days of DO offering the best prices are long over.
Listening to that verbal diarrhea, I had an unmistakable visceral reaction that George Carlin describes so well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UecRfBJ2LBM
I mean NYT and other media outlets were begging for this type of “real lockdown” the entire time. Not to mention tons of people. This is the “real lockdown” they all wanted.

Well, this is what a “real” lockdown looks like! They are “taking it serious” over in China!

I still can’t get over how so many countries and states decided to copy china back in march 2020. What you see here is the end result of letting exactly one specific problem completely dominate everything else.
I don't share a border with everyone whom I consider a neighbor, being close enough is good enough for me.
This is how we "chose" our cat. My wife and daughter sat down in the room of kittens and picked the one that came over and started snuggling and playing. It chose us.

She's such a mellow "no f's given" cat. Lives in a house with two border collies and doesn't take any crap from them and lies around totally chill all day long. I suspect this might be due to her socialization at the animal shelter.
I was making a very obscure reference to Office Space, oops.
The direct sales, home delivery, and at-home servicing of electric cars has the potential to wipe out a vast part of the US dealership economy, and with it tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in tax revenue. In the US, car dealerships are often a city's largest source of sales tax revenue.

My guess, as a former sales and auto finance guy, is that VW has seen the handwriting on the wall and doesn't want to invest anymore in the traditional dealership model and all the capital baggage that it requires.

If one compares EV platforms and products, VW is furthest ahead among the combustion vehicle manufacturers, so this is a bet on EV cars winning in the long run.
Or the problem is a bank run. They threw 3B to fix an issue with a bank having 40B+ in assets and seeing more than 3B of withdraws.
Any AllWinner H3 for example (i.e. first hit at Aliexpress: https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/10000299302152.html) or something like a Sipeed Lichee Nano if you want to go smaller. (https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/4001150568609.html)

For a significant performance increase, but at a larger size (still very small): https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/10000379696950.html

Most of the RockChip/AllWinner/MediaTek type things are China ODM anyway, and besides some middleman-markup the SDKs and reference designs are all the same across the board.

If you want a product that is going to last a little longer and is a bit more useful beyond the basic physical specs (like size and I/O), you'll also want to know what bootrom, bootloader, devicetree and register documentation is available. Native in-tree Linux kernel support would be a must as well. At that point you can essentially boot any (low-footprint) distro forever until SoC support is dropped from the kernel (which takes a really long time if the SoC is still in use).

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Updating mostly for my own peace of mind: like most Chinese native manufacturers, they (the SoC manufacturers) generally don't give a crap about other companies, rights or long-term sustainability. I would suspect this is mostly cultural/political and a bit of 'eat or be eaten', not some dunk in the style of "country bad, people bad". This doesn't mean that therefore nobody should use any products anywhere forever, but like the sunxi community for Linux support (https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page) you might need to find out if there is enough knowledge and willingness available to you to actually be able to make good use of the products listed. This is why the Pi is so successful, the SoC is fine but Broadcom doesn't allow any public information on how it works and how to program for it; the community and the foundation around the Pi make it possible to make it work long-term regardless, and for any AllWinner/MediaTek/RockChip you'll want to select your parts in a way that gets you a similarly useful ecosystem. Buying a cheap thing and getting an Hello World out of it today is easy, getting a product that doesn't turn into e-waste in a year is a lot harder.
If the options are a) government or b) private company, then I will choose government. I guess the issue is does one trust one's government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLP
People forget those rack servers still need a CPU to run everything and controllers for all the drives.
Normally working out how a complex piece of software works from only the source code is called reverse engineering.

I've encountered this "readable code means I don't have to document" idea before. I have no time for it, it's just wrong:

1. Important things aren't easily visible in the code, most commonly why the code does a particular thing. "Readable" code, which is a very subjective standard, can only tell you what it does but not the underlying rationale.

2. Writing docs often exposes the fact that the way the code works, or is expected to be used, doesn't make sense or is sub-optimal. If your docs include lots of caveats or explanations of nonsensical behaviour then it's a good hint you should go back and think again.

3. Figuring out stuff by reading the code is often drastically slower than reading the docs. That's why all professional APIs have good docs and people grumble and moan when expected to use code that doesn't.

4. The sort of people who argue this, in my experience, often don't actually write readable code, they just tell themselves they do.
Perhaps it's more important to have Turkey in NATO than Sweden and Finland, but I honestly don't know. I hear Finland has a strong army and it's useful to have all of the Baltic Sea countries in NATO.
No because there’s no reliance on a cloud service. There’s cloud features, but there’s alternatives and workarounds that they don’t (can’t, really) block and even suggest if you don’t want to pay.
Two hours at the gym might be the place to find more time.
I've been using Linode instead of DigitalOcean since ~2015 IIRC. I just checked their pricing page [1] and find it pretty hostile and confusing. First, you won't see any tech spec at all without clicking on a card; "starts at $blah/mo" means precious little without tech specs. Then, once you click on "Droplets" you get another grid(s) of cards where the tech specs are teeny-tiny and comparison is very painful. Compare this to the classic table-based pricing page from Linode [2], where everything is very straightforward. I won't go to Wayback Machine and dig out DO's pricing page from back when they were still the HN darling, but I'm pretty sure it was a straightforward table-based layout. Who the heck prefer this new mess?

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

[2] https://www.linode.com/pricing/
Having had experience with researchers at that university, I would be much more inclined to believe that their command over the English language is the culprit. I’ve helped write documents in English for one researcher there and everything reads as run on sentences. Please don’t judge non English speakers to the same standards.
Whoops: I missed a "not" in the last sentence. Should be:

> So in this case, the plastic straw issue does _not_ necessarily appear to be related to the redesign.
I was pretty sure it was a joke, but the manic enthusiasm for the impractical that I've seen the crypto ecosystem makes it hard to be certain sometimes.

I look forward to the government-issued "Agriculture-coin" issued to farmers that show they grow a certain amount and follow certain standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...
Yeah, I agree - this was an unsafe system. We lived in a secluded space, and that surely helped prevent accidents, but i'd not set it up like this again even if I lived alone.

As others suggested, a water cannon would be safer (not entirely sure about a sprinkler - in my experience with pidgeons they do seem able to get used to all but most unpleasant defences). Also, an auto-firing high pressure, precise water cannon would be a cool side project :->
Well, the value that collapsed was the exchange rate of BTC to LUNA, which is now at fractional cents per coin after hyperinflation... They kind of gave a $3B liquidity exit for holders to dump their LUNA tokens into via the LUNA/BTC pairs that they were market making
unless said neighbor is the current hegemonic nation, in which case you better make sure you buy/sell oil in dollars and that your national bank is independent from your government (you know, just to be safe).

i.e. if the USA invades sovereign nations then it makes sense to be in good terms with them.
I don't think Tesla owners are that influential, no. I was merely making a joke that we get solutions codified into law that are driven primarily by rich people, and I don't think anyone would argue buying a $60k car doesn't make you rich.
If and when that happens (and let's be honest, it probably will) a whole lot of people are about to see that bitcoin has no clothes.
I'm not giving you my info. It's not a "free" video if it requires payment in the form of my contact info.
Uber is the polar opposite of what web 3 purports - it's a closed garden of a standard that allows other members to play by their rules.
Isn’t it the default shell on macos?
It's true that the software kills the theoretical performance that the hardware makes available. But I actually think this is an indictment of hardware not software engineers. It's basically "We've created this incredibly difficult problem for you, good luck" from the hardware engineers. How the hell is the OS meant to know whether this thread is going to turn out to be a rendering operation or a logging thread?

With these architectures I think often what the management should really look at is: "We currently employ 100 hardware engineers, and 30 software engineers, with this architecture, we're going to need 50 hardware engineers and 500 software engineers. Do we still think this is the right call?"
Re: the masks on planes. Assume a linear rate of virus particle shedding per breath and calculate the total viral load in the air of the plane over time, assuming the mask can catch a resonable proportion.

The "pointless ceremony" of "masks while not eating" works out better.

I think because we see ourselves as "sick or not sick" and "infected or not infected", people are not very calibrated to think or care about magnitude of exposure.

Public health prophylactic measures can have real impact on both large and small scales, even when imperfectly followed. It's the statistics of the thing. Terrorism measures are stil theatre IMHO because they have such a lumpy and weird distribution.
I wouldn't trust or believe either of those numbers for either country, at all.
What I wanted to say is that it's a popular practical algorithm. But theoretically speaking it's a variant of the shunting yard algorithm. Books typically describe the latter.
Why do you want to take notes?
Yea, it doesn't seem like such huge news to me they're intoducing a new $4 droplet when they had previously had a $5 droplet...and bumping that one to $6.
China isn’t distributing the effective western vaccines to its citizens. Also their death numbers are a complete fiction.
I wasn't thinking of the isolated little hate communities when I said "pretty much everything". Truth Social is another isolated little community based on Mastodon, for that matter.
A more appropriate title for the OP would have been:

"A new language that makes it easy to write and use generic algorithms on a growing number of custom types developed by others is bound to experience growing pains as difficult-to-foresee correctness bugs have to be discovered and fixed over time."

In my humble opinion, this kind of universal composability, which Julia makes easy via multiple dispatch and naming conventions, is the underlying root cause of all the correctness bugs that have surfaced as the language has evolved. But the bugs are being fixed, one at a time, and ultimately the result should be both beautiful and powerful. We will be all be thankful for it!
There's a very funny gag in the credits of the movie Inside Out by pixar about cats vs dogs.

https://youtu.be/6DZVnX8bEAs?t=68

(If you've never seen the movie, it's worth a watch!)
I agree. The Putin regime has paid such an enormous price over the last three months that I'm now concerned they might take egregious and insane steps at any time. These steps would be to save face, and I think they can in part be avoided if the regime could somehow package together something that they can sell as a victory to the Russian people and their sympathizers abroad.
That description of "pizza-box development" (unfamiliar term for me) sounds pretty good actually? Seems pretty agile: informal planning, time-boxed sprint, revisit with stakeholder, repeat. It gets so much worse when the implementers are further from the stakeholders or customers. What's the issue there?

I've also worked in consulting and appreciate the explicit requirements, but I find the formality much less efficient than the process you describe earlier. It ends up being very "waterfall" and exactly the approach the Agile Manifesto attempts to counter.

Perhaps you prefer a more waterfall, hierarchical development process, or the companies (big ones) or industries (highly regulated) that necessitate it?
Also it was really easy for Sweden to defund their military, when they have Finland protecting the east :)
Pity Writing Studies, the Field That Hates Itself
He can do due diligence but from what I heard (correct me if I am wrong) he has to pay a heavy penalty ($1B) if he backs out.
They won't be able to sell them at all. Putin has already said that any companies that leave Russian markets as a result of the current conflict will have all their assets nationalized. This is what happened to McDonalds in the Donbass -- they're still operating and called "DonMaks". The experience is extremely similar to a normal McDonalds. The only thing that is obviously different is the fries.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLkrs5FBkct/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSQzA_dhatu/
https://i.insider.com/58dd477677bb70f13a8b4c89?width=1190
I guess I'm a spambot too.

But hey maybe with these kind of analysis, and rando computer generated / un-appealable bans in the the future the "real accounts" will just mean "very elaborate bot".
Bots contribute easily a third of the value of the Twitter service, they aren’t “fake”. This is a terrible analysis.
No... in those cases you're starting with 0 because that's the lowest exponent of a polynomial.
Google translate is your friend.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=sv&tl=en&text=https%3A%2F%2...
I don't understand, if $3B in bitcoin is sold to save UST we should also be able to see a equivalent of that $3B in Terra/Luna/UST buys?

I don't understand crypto, and or how the Luna/UST works, but if you supported/buy something this should be visible, not only in vanished bitcoins, or am I mistaken?
I was saying the ISO 3166 is absurd, not the .tw TLD. ISO 3166 is absurd because it tacitly acknowledges that Taiwan is an independent state because it has its own record, but then parenthetically asserts that it's a province of China. Fujian isn't a top-level record of ISO 3166.
A bank run is exactly a trust issue.
Do you have an example? I'd like to know more about this - it must have been quite egregious if it makes you stop learning a language.
The most tragic thing here to me is that we're losing Yuri — who has been an invaluable contributor and bug-reporter for issues like these — and that Yuri got burned out instead of feeling empowered.
I've been thinking about what make a good language for configuration files, and the conclusion I've come to is that it ought to have:

- Local variables

- Pure functions with basic math and string manipulation capabilities

Possibly with an extended version that also has:

- Input variables (that must be provided by the code reading the file)

- Exportable functions that are callable by the host code

This extended version would be perfect for use cases like defining CI pipelines.

A language that did this but was otherwise simple and allowed no access to the host system, and had widely available library support across most common languages would be just awesome.
Russian social media are full of winking posts hinting that McDonald's will sell operations to a Russian company which it will still profit from "behind the scenes" (via offshore proxy or some other indirect way). They also hint that this will pave the way for other Western companies currently in limbo: split ownership between controllable proxy and Russian owner. And at the same time shout in Bloomberg how much you condemn Russian invasion to pacify Western public.

Can anyone confirm if it's possible? I hope it's Russian desinformation again, but I fear it's possible looking at how "well" Western "sanctions" work (Moscow feels great, ruble is much stronger than even pre-war).
Similar enough! The one that I'm thinking of was the only actual non Linux talk (and really, OS development talk) at a OS Dev conference.
Interesting, this is the same issue I had. This was around 3 years ago, though.

Have you tried spinning up your own Postgres instance to see if the same thing happens? It might help to be able to show them that you’re able to resolve it when you don’t use their DB.
Not every comparison is pure whataboutism design to pull the discussion off-topic or complete off-track.

Perhaps the difference is so obvious to you that the question doesn't even need asking, but I think it is a valid question: what values does this invasion violate that the other situations do not, at least not to the extent that McD reacts by considering pulling out completely.

It would undeniably be whataboutism if it were McD being asked why they've done (or not done) something and they're point out something unrelated (or only tangentially related) that they have/not done or asking about what other bodies have/not done in that area of discussion. But as an outsider looking at McD, asking them to define their position more precisely, perhaps with reference to their position in what may be seen as similar circumstances, feels like a valid request rather than the fallacy of whataboutism.

Of course the question could be used purely to make McD look bad, particularly if the asker of the question as some axe to grind (against McD specifically, American corporates more generally, or big business even more globally), which flips the pendulum back in the direction of a logical error because the asker is not actually trying to gain perspective but is instead intending to impose that others take their perspective.

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FWIW I think I have a fairly solid idea of what the difference is. If you remove the moral aspect and just look at the circumstances from the robotic PoV of a business doing business: while the sanctions don't directly affect McD their impact does affect their ability to efficiently do business in Russia. Such sanctions don't exist in a manner that affects them in the same way in those other situations. Moving away from purely robotic business related points, this is happening in Eastern Europe not the East so it is both closer to home to those making decisions and is getting a lot more attention in Europe and the US (meaning that there is more push from their customer base in the west).
Does it matter? Is this kind of response ever okay?
Brazil is a highly successful case for taming chronic inflationary processes.

Printing money is a crime there nowadays (and similar creative financial operations). A head of state lost its office once for disrespecting it.