skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think printer drivers do anti-aliasing on text. The hardware of a printer does anti-aliasing for free.

Also, I doubt you can get conclusive evidence from a single letter. Luckily, your average random note has lot of them, even duplicated ones. I would carefully align and average out as many capital A’s as I had, and work with that.
And then there is the police.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41313700
There were like $18bn Terra. It was "backed" by maybe $3.5bn of BTC, and by minting Luna from scratch and hoping people would assign a nonzero value to the Luna token.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/05/luna-foundation-guard-bolste...
I'm disappointing that so many who are openly promoting vigilante justice.

Remember this is pretty much just doxxing.

I understand ther's a certain amount of schadenfreude here, particularly given Do Kwon's open disdain for nocoiners. I also understand some people have lost their houses (seriously, go look at the TerraLuna subreddit; it's dark). I also realize the irony of an Ancap requesting state protection.

But it's sad to see how many people who somehow feel comfortable with sending other people death threats, directly threaten violence or try and get people injured or killed by the state (ie swatting). It's a form of mental illness and it shouldn't be encouraged.
We live in a society, where sometimes we have to endure a brief peak tension in order to settle a larger issue and prevent it from becoming a psychologically draining hindrance day to day.
Thank you for the very interesting breakdown.

Regarding LASIK, I got my surgery in 2009, at 21 years of age. At the time I only did enough research to know to find a reputable surgeon in my area, and no more. Nowadays I would probably Google for more side effects and dangers. I'd likely hesitate at the risk of getting it so early and wonder if it'll be a waste as my eyes change, but at the time I just trusted what the doctor told me.

I still consider it to be one of the best things I've ever spent money on. I think the surgeon mentioned he over-corrected somehow, accounting for eyesight changes over the years. There's been some degradation. If I close one eye I can see that my right one is slightly less sharp and slower to focus than the left. But overall my eyesight is still excellent over ten years later, with none of the scary persistent complications I'd read about since the surgery.

Nowadays, I hear of newer methods of laser eye surgery that involve putting in lenses that you can replace with new ones when needed as opposed to resurfacing the eye itself. It makes me think about how much advancement there must be in the techniques since I'd gotten it done. If I'm still happy with my decade-old result, I imagine people getting it done today might find their procedures to be even better.
Okay but why?
Certain application in the decentralized finance space will allow you to borrow a cryptocurrency based on collateral in another currency. So in this case you deposit bitcoin and get Luna out. Then you sell the Luna. Then after the price crashes you buy Luna to repay your debt. Basically shorting Luna
> I'm certain he was at least smart enough to call convert a lot of his earnings into more stable cryptos.

I am considerably less certain given some of his Twitter postings.
Hi, yes that's true but to compare pricing you need to think of the cost of cat6 cable, which isn't much. Also the time to run the cable.

This is assuming you have coax rg6 or better already in the wall
I think this is a very important point. When the rule of law continuously fails there needs to be a measure that strikes fear into those that disregard it.

I personally call this the French/Guillotine Deterrent.
I have this ghosting issue too. A bunch of us have been trying to get to the bottom of it here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m1-air-ghosting-flicker... – It only affects M1 Macs, and seems to be unrelated to the brand of display. No replicable solution found so far. Incredibly annoying.
In addition to that, incredible amounts of Luna tokens have been printed as part of the "stabilization" algorithm. The supply went from around 700M tokens to nearly 7 trillion in a few days.

Source: https://terrasco.pe/mainnet/luna/supply
At face value this seems like it could apply to a bunch of different categories (e.g., another text editor, another todo list, another chat app, etc...)? Yes, most new software in every category fails, but every once in awhile one succeeds, and that's how we make progress. The failures along the way just seem like a necessary byproduct of progress.
Quite aside from the fact that things like mass famine and nationwide mob violence can affect people's emotions sometimes, and Mao had those and Elon didn't, I don't recall ever seeing portraits of Elon Musk being emblazoned all over San Francisco, or kids all coming home from school with Musk's Little Red Book.
Why? What is the deal and what stage is it up to?
Is the periphery not always blurry, because the glasses are only in front of the eye?
That horrific, I’m sorry you go through that.
Well, that and Luna is only worth money if Terra is stable, and Terra is stable if Luna is worth money. I don't think Dai is susceptible to the same sort of death spiral.
Well, arguably the duplicate is the later submission :-)
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I hope not. Just saying that their stance towards Russia is ambivalent.
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So in my experience there isn't a single job with a defined remit that does this, instead a range of positions do bits of this

Business Analysist, solution architects, presales engineers, product owners, sometimes even project delivery managers and developer team leads have to deal with this.

You might stand better luck of getting into one of these positions in a consultancy company, because there each customer has a separate set of requirements and often they don't have enough of these people.
Musk is already locked into the deal. If it is possible for him to back out he will have at least one billion dollars in breakup fees. [1]

This could be a setup to give him an reason to cause a breakup of the deal (he can't just walk away!) but there are real money consequences.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-02/twitte...
The trading price can be based on a lot of factors and/or tiny volumes of trades.

The price of a stock can change drastically with almost no money changing hands compared to the market cap. Which would then not be a Ponzi.
Sure, but if you retired in 1997 to live off the interest on an investment in the S&P 500, by 2008 you'd have made an annual return of... 0%.

If you used cromd's figures of $5M in funds and lifestyle expenses of $400k/year you'd have spent ~80% of the principal (although you'd probably have reigned in your spending unless you were mad)

A boat doesn't just need to survive the harbour's average water level - it needs to survive low tide and high tide.
> I guess it comes down to how ones brain is wired then.

Your brain is not wired. You can learn new things, including this.

> I've read and worked on enough super-terse code in other languages to feel confident in that.

To know you will fail before you try? What a great time-saver that must be. I simply would never believe it.

Listen, I don't think most k code is "super-terse" -- for sure, it is fun to play golf with k and think about ways to make it shorter, but you can do that in any language. That's not what's going on here.

Allow me to explain: I learned k because I saw someone do something with k I did not know how to do with C. That was it. That convinced me that there was value here, and so I learned k.

And then something magical happened: When I went back and read C, I was reading that faster. Not quite as fast as k, but substantially faster than I was reading C before.

That was so surprising and unexpected to me. I think I expected that if I took a break from C I would get rustier at C, not better. And so I talked to a few people about it, and convinced them to learn k, and you know what was really amazing? It made them better programmers too!

So I hear that you can't now, and that's okay, but I think it's worth learning. I don't know if everyone learns differently, but most everyone (myself included) struggles and struggles and struggles until one day, they just get it. And it's hard to know how far away you are from that point unless you go there, so if you're worried you're not smart enough to figure it out, you just need to trust that dumber people than you have figured it out and you just have to keep trying. I am telling you it's worth it.

There are other languages that actually try to look like noise, like brainfuck, where part of the challenge (or the treat) is figuring out how to say things we think of as simple using the most primitive of tools, but k is not one of them.

I remember the first thing that got me excited, was when I realized the implications of (intentionally!) confusing indexing from application. In k, f[x] means if f is a function, call it with x as an argument, but if f is an array, give us the value at index x. Just think of this pattern, in all the ways you see it:

for(i=0;i<x.length;++i)f(g[x[i]]);
x.forEach(function(a){f(g[a])})
foreach($a as $x){f($g[$a]);}
for i in range(0,len(x)): f(g[x[i]])

Now they're all just f g x; barely 10% of the typing and code! I just can't agree that f g x is "super-terse" that's just the normal way to write it. I also think it is easy to agree that it doesn't look like noise and couldn't possibly be anything simpler.

> I don't have trouble remembering what range() does because it says so right on the tin, unlike for example + in k (addition or, surprise, transpose).

Try to read a little more carefully what I am saying: I wasn't confused about what range() did, I was confused about whether it was the best way to do what I wanted to do.

Also, + is flip not APL's transpose operator.
>These people should not have gone "all in" on a risky investment

People shouldn't go to a casino either thinking it's a money maker. They see a high risk/high reward investment option and are not properly educated about the risk or significantly misinformed with statements like it being "fairly safe". You encouraging people to look for similar ponzi schemes to invest in even though you seem to know a fair bit about how it works, just proves that point.
>Eating beef means killing the planet faster. [https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets]

This is a completely false statement.
Something more accurate and less opinionated might go something like

"Intensive meat farming (like any intensive farming) is contributing to harmful factors impacting the earths atmospheric and biodiversity conditions".

This article (and every other one I have seen like this) bases most of its evidence on deforestation:
"The expansion of land for agriculture is the leading driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss."

What this doesnt take into account is the millions of people who buy their meat from local sustainable non-intensive farms. Not contributing to deforestation, or diversity loss at all.

A much fairer outlook than demonising all meat consumption would be to promote import taxes on meat. If we all stopped buying meat imported from south america, there would be no reason for the locals there to keep clearing forest to raise more cattle.

Educating people on food miles and sustainable sources is the way to achieve this goal, not telling people that eating meat is killing the planet.
Yes,"Capacitor plague" it was called. There's an interesting story about espionage and incomplete stolen formula in the wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Fully agree with the article and the security improvements are suspicious. I think Microsoft did not change.
I'd wager that those communities that so called "get ruined" didn't grow as their size grew. What I mean is that the rules, norms and the culture that allowed X number of people to thrive in a niche, most often does not translate to much larger Y size. If a community decides to allow growth, it must also be flexible to adapt to that growth. And let's be crystal clear on one thing: communities grow because they want to grow. There exist sites online that have very strict sign-up policies that ensures they are kept small and/or limited to a certain type of users. Some even show long questionnaire on their sign-up forms and you have to wait for sometime to contribute and have to stay active to keep your membership, etc.
Isn't that just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence ?
Does Mkdocs have functionality to auto-generate docs from docstrings? I’ve been using Sphinx with RTD (ReadTheDocs) theme for python code. Wondering if Mkdocs can somehow be better.
Has he really? a) it's really obvious that he's doing it — I cannot believe he hasn't fallen foul of regulators yet b) he hasn't gained anything from this particular deal yet, as far as I can tell
If you can do a statistical sample of a very small number of users, say 0.1%, and do very expensive detailed investigation of them that determines 5% are fake, you can easily extrapolate that 5% to the entire userbase with small confidence bounds, but have no idea which of the rest of the users are fake.
He's always been like that - narcissistic, manipulative, dishonest, hateful, lacking empathy, attention-seeking, unhinged.

I can't believe that so many people still haven't figured him out (which is also true for the previous American and current Russian presidents, who have similarly repulsive personalities).
I haven't had problems with Bluetooth in a while - love my TWS earbuds, RF mouse, BT mouse and BT/RF keyboard. Those devices last for months/years on two AA batteries (other than the headphones of course). I will concede that the audio delay degrades the call experience a bit.

Wifi on the other hand... I have no idea if its interference or the modem. It worked fine for months, then all of sudden my connection went to 2Mbps. And my Chromecast can no longer connect to it, etc..
I like to wake up and be cynical all the time.

That being said, I've been reading Hacker News for for ~15 years. (Pretty much from inception)

I've noticed that some meta-eras don't appeal to me that much, and have bickered about it in passing comments, but never properly thought that it had ever gone down hill.

That's not really related to the original question.

Just doing an obligatory hats off to the staff and community.
My primary use case is windows and embedded.
Also sometimes while the compiler is easy to install, make c compilation work seamlessly across multiple machine with unreliable vendor toolchain or weird path issue where the compiler can't find the correct header/library are not that uncommon.
A randomized controlled trial in children found that undercorrection accelerated the progression of myopia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12445849/.

This trial had a similar but not statistically significant result: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16907670/

(There are conflicting observational studies, but these two were controlled trials).
Those exits were not planned, one guy was even on parental leave, so it was definitely a rushed thing. That always stinks when an acquisition is taking place.
Part of the shtick and cult idea of alienation to create a common enemy or 'the other'.

"Those guys are dumb, they can't see it, but you can, cuz you smart!" (Twitter is geared to show you these hot takes, they also bait reasonable people to 'engage')
It’s direct because (1) he is selling and collateralizing his shares, and (2) he is also taking on a role to overhaul Twitter that’s going to take time away from Tesla.
They don't support multiple Bluetooth audio connection at the same. They basically quick switch between devices in the background.
The USB-C audio mode just pushes analog audio over the pins, so the hards DAC stuff stays inside the phone and just gets harder with all the multiplexing required.

And fully agreed on USB-C ports being even more fragile in the pocket than 3.5mm.
> He should hire private protection. Funny how an anti-government person runs to the government in times of trouble.

Why is it funny? Regardless of how anti-government you are, you're already have a contract with government: they take your money and give you protection. You wish to change this contract, may be even spend time and effort in political activity to get it changed, but it's still there.

The fact that you express your desire to change your contract with somebody does not give them any (moral or legal) right to not follow the contract if it is not yet changed. And especially if, despite your wish to change it, you still follow your side of the contract (pay taxes).
Look at this and tell me it's not an actual cult. After reaching almost 0 $ in value

> Let's hodl and believe that Luna rises again!!!!

> Hold on, brothers, summer is coming, the sun and a sea of positivity. There will be a time of growth and huge victories. LUNA ahead!!!
Burning some money is not an “honest comparison” to killing tens of millions of people, no.
I think the military and petroleum industries (to name just a few of many) are far, far worse than a few hurt feelings from Musk's twitter posts or alleged undeserved subsidies.

But their messaging goes through layers of lawyers and PR agencies and is carefully curated to fool you and you don't even know you're being fooled.

The cult of anti-Musk is actually more tiresome and unhinged than the cult of Musk these days, in my opinion.
Why would you want to log every transaction with an external accountant?

This increases the cost of your service and adds absolutely nothing of value to the customer.
I agree with you and have experienced similar problems. I wonder what is the tradeoff between glass and plastic and why they choose one or the other.
After the market crash a day ago, there was a joke on Twitter about Musk cancelling the offer, burning a billion and buying Twitter later at a half price.

Conspiracies and jokes aside, how one determines(at contractually acceptable certainty) what accounts are absolutely fake or bot account? It's not like they ticked the checkbox saying "I am a fake account".

If the sellers and buyers are not on the same page here, wouldn't that drag in court for years maybe?

After all, maybe Musk will actually burn a billion only to buy Twitter later at a half price or less and save $20B+. Twitter might end to be much more cheaper after a stock crash due to the bearish markets and that fake users scandal(?) that Musk exposed(?).
It's not as much issue with tools as it is an issue when working from shell. You have to make sure to quote such paths, and autocomplete gets confused sometimes when it auto-escapes the space with \
Yep! This is pretty much the main reason I don't use SQLite in Go unless I know that the project won't ever be compiled on anything other than what the devs and the server run. Simple and easy cross-compilation is one of Go's often forgotten selling points, and depending on how you want to use SQLite, using CGo may or may not be a good solution for you.
I used to watch Discovery’s “Wild Discovery” animal series every night. Then they spun out Animal Planet, which was cool. Then they started putting filler programming on AP. Now it’s all gone Honey Boo Boo TLC with scripted reality shows that are animal-adjacent. Have to catch reruns of Blue Planet and Planet Earth on BBCAmerica if I want to unwind with a nature doc in the evening
1. The supply of Luna kept going up

2. The price of Luna kept going up

3. Volumes were massive
If Elon bails the deal. Twitter will be at 1/3 the price and there will probably be massive layoffs.
Certainly satisfies the quirkiness factor :) Extra points if you can squeeze in linear actuator for an actual choke switch.

Also good to think of alternative fixes like this when it's difficult to source replacement components.
Yes - but you're supposed to start at point 1 :)

Meat eating is a complex matter - no time & space to cover it extensively here.

As I'm convinced, without forests the water cycle gets disrupted and the climate won't be able to support life as we know it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKL40aBg-7E - The Biotic Pump: How Forests Create Rain].

With cows, there is not enough land to even have forests.

And if we can agree that we don't need cows and dairy (plants can replace it easily), why not also remove all the suffering that's connected to the meat industry?

Sorry for the detour.
Elon's just getting started in politics. The presidential run won't happen for another couple of cycles.

Also:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=musk+poster&source=lnms&tb...
I really hope you have read the guidelines: [0]

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Those guards are mostly for show. They really can't do anything. Even then, in South Korea it's even worse because I'm pretty sure they can't even carry a gun.
Probably not materially. I also assume they have a pre-allocated pool for their ESOP or equivalent.
> don't know if this is the right word -- unhinged

[my bad misunderstood what unhinged means.]
HN has its fair share of cynics. Just like in a stock market you need bulls and bears , you need people to peek behind the stories and tell whether there is substance or full of shit. It's up to us (the other readers) to be influenced or learn or tune out, isn't it? You don't buy a stock or sell one because someone yelled something, do you?
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Not sure about "likable", but most of the high-profile people in crypto behave professionally. For my taste they are actually far too timid when it comes to talking about projects other than their own. Everyone is always super positive and hyped and agreeable and sure, there are "tons of scams out there" and "99 % of projects will die" but you rarely hear names.
> What if we can standardize this process in some way?

Surely, this would be useful as part of a platform similar to Heroku where you plug your git repository and it would fetch such scripts and generate the Docker image.

It could be developed as a standalone tool that you integrate in your `git push my-heroku` hook, but I would not use it outside of that use case. Nothing beats copy/paste + some edits :)

> Also, we could have a configuration schema where people define the base images, copy glob patterns, etc.

Yes, copying files from stage to stage is quite a pain at the moment, that is why I have such a Dockerfile for every language I use, the copy glob pattern has already been done for 99% of my use cases.

You need to understand well your toolchain to know what to copy. For example, I did not yet write such a Dockerfile for Rust or Go, where I just do the usual "build + copy binary" multistage. No caching of dependencies :(
Reduction in price.
Twitter takeover temporarily on hold, says Elon Musk
> do most investors really take out margin loans to buy stocks?

In the scenario I describe, those investors take margin loans to long or short crypto, and when they fail, they sell other assets to cover themselves.

This is just one possibility I describe.

> but i'd imagine it's not a majority.

No one knows. It may take only one institutional investor who lost a gigantic amount of money in crypto trading and were therefore forced to sell stocks to shake the stock market.