skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pattern recognition+spacial rotation+quick answer to stimuli+repetitive tasks or short term memories, several IQ components are testing these.
Kids might have higher IQ because of video games, but poorer to everything else that matters.
I've quit pirating content a decade ago - combination of time, safety, priorities, and availability of legit content.

I've considered getting back into it occasionally.

Why: Convenience and access. From having everything on Netflix a decade ago, to now having almost as many subscriptions as I used to have cable channels, it's a pain (let alone a cost) to install dozen apps on my phone tablet TV roku etc. Their quality varies WILDLY. The user experience ranges from pretty decent to seemingly user hostile. I've recently watched a set of seasons of a show pirated a decade ago, then last two seasons on actual subscription service, and it sucked: app would not let me download to SD card, had to take precious phone storage. Subtitles were 2 seconds behind with NO way to adjust. Fast forwarding was wonky and basically unusable. And best of all, it auto deleted itself 48hrs after downloading so I had to keep redownloading same stuff over and over. Brutal!

Why Not: As explained above - It's pricey and time consuming, there's a fair amount of risk in pirating, and technology seems to keep changing. I made a post about that a while ago, but I'm no longer at a point in my life where every 6 months I can spare the time to fully rebuild and reconfigure and troubleshoot a stack from sabnzbd and nsbmatrix to udirwioay and fewiap and fdsjei, and then 6 months later again to fdwjieo and wearp routed through wefheio and zxcnzxcv. I have a friend who keeps urging me to set it up because it's so easy - oblivious that whenever I try to use his helpful "how to", a) It's 3 pages long b) it is missing about 10 pages of details and c) It's already out of date so it's "do that, but none of that actually because these days now the cool thing is ____" :D
See gridcoin, it is a proof of stake currency where you can additionally earn coins via mostly useful scientific computing. It's a neat project, but it gives effective control to the boinc server managers. The users have to sign up to earn that way
Ah, thanks for the info. I thought Coinbase was more reputable.
The point is for outside investors to ensure them that money is well spent and the company is on path to success.
Common for public companies to do this.
I had three years of high school with a substantial amount of calculus; by contrast while I was introduced to matrices and Gaussian elimination at high school, the treatment of the algebraic side was almost completely superficial and focussed on solving systems of linear equations.

At university that changed, with a clear treatment of vector spaces and linear algebra as generally interesting topics. But still, they received far less time than calculus in my first year in a maths degree.

Now that was over 30 years ago and things might be a bit different today. But I have the impression that the more generally applicable subject of linear algebra gets less time unless students get interested in the applications that demand it be taught properly.
hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Infra.

Under the hood, we support OIDC, and should be able to support custom IdPs. If you have specific requirements, definitely let me know.
Sorry I should specify that I live in Germany and 19 per 100k is almost 3 times the maternal mortality rate here, and we're already a little high compared to most of the EU. Sure if you compare it to countries with barely any medical infrastructure it's very low, but for a rich nation it's terrifyingly high.

Even with your child you're not obligated to donate blood or organs, which is more analogous than giving food since giving someone food doesn't impact your health or body in any direct way. In some places in the US you don't even have to provide a child with health care if it goes against your religion, I don't see why you should be forced to give up your body for 9 months and then also possibly suffer various conditions afterwards or death.
Postgres Traceability: Use SQL Comments Like a Stacktrace
How to write more clearly, think more clearly, learn complex material -printable [pdf]
This presentation was shared on HN last month [1] but the format was not very printer-friendly. I'm sharing a printer-friendly version for those of you who like to read this type of stuff on paper :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31060362
that's assuming the rat's nest of cables even permits access.
EDIT: You're right I did in fact say victims of torture are liars, at least it can be read that way! Wow, didn't realize it, didn't intend it. So I don't know what he was saying to the others, but he set up many many scams like talking really loud on his cell about "an opportunity going to waste" when we met at Metro el Golf staircase, trying to get me to ask on my own accord what that opportunity was, but I had no curiosity for it. So helping me with torture, I fell for it a bit, but it was something I could not fail to want.

So honest John means many things, but basically it's hard to get someone to engage in a scam without engaging greed. Now with the tortured that's disgusting, it's not greed but he verbally claimed a government payout to the tortured--a pension--ten times higher than the real amount. It's like 230.000 CLP whereas he claimed like 2.200.000[1]. And that's designed to get them to pay him something, very difficult money for a torture victim to earn because their careers are ruined as part of the torture, to keep them down. The torturers advise to steal and impoverish them, never pay back debts. Torture involves bankrupting the victim, it's property crime too. Coerce signatures of course, give up deeds, give up property, give up a car in one case, betray people, betray yourself.

But then the torturer tells you the solution is to get a job. Try to get one with that ruined resume though! "Where did you work in April 2009? No good answer? No hire!"

[1] Morally that's 10x as much, so he didn't actually quote 10x as much because that's too disgusting, too easy to put that in a newspaper headline, it burns too much. But that's how he got the number, multiply it by ten, and then subtract a meaningless amount strictly in order to reduce hatred against him, which he also did with a nonprofit called Sin Odio, Without Hatred, which was linked to his claims of being a human rights lawyer.

My torturers did this too: I was under amnestic drugs from March 29, with a few days on at the beginning, but in total 29 days under amnestics, meaning they give you pills as soon as you awake, all day long, and then you think tomorrow is today, next week is this week, next month is this month. Literally motivating the question, "what year is it?!" Like in time travel movies. But it was less than a month because that's bad PR, saying you tortured someone for a whole month, so they say 29 days, so that I have to say "almost a month" when morally the intention was a full month, minus some meaningless amount to take away the PR sting. Water down the accusation, but if it weren't for the intent to water down the accusation, it would have absolutely been a month! A lunar month, though. And so the reason is they do this to women too, but they menstruate so they know if they've gotten roofied for weeks, unless you shoot the moon, 24/7 amnestics for an entire menstrual period, 29 days, they end up at the same part of their cycle as before the amnestics started, then it's not as obvious.
Link to the project as promised for anyone interested in making such a device:https://medium.com/garage-adventures/eink-laptop-based-on-on...

Requires a largish 3d printer (which I happen to have, one of the advantages of co-owning a makerspace:https://revolutionmakerspace.com/) or ordering a 3d print online.
Brings back memories, writing chase/swarm and projectile movement simulations in 6502 as a kid. And so many hours playing Ultima and Wizardry.
Some would beg to differ https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/econometrics-a-cr...
If I'm understanding the article correctly the problem the author has is that single use paper bags, which are biodegradable and more easily recycled, are being banned in favor of reusable plastic and cloth bags which are considered significantly worse for the environment due to the required amount of use before they have a 'neutral' environmental impact compared to current practices.

The source they get their info from is interesting, though. (Linked below.) According to this, depending on which study you're looking at, it may actually be impossible to reuse any bags enough times that they become worth it compared to ditching them in general.

The lowest possible seems to be paper bags with 3 reuses, followed by plastic bags at around 10, then if you have a durable enough cotton bag to get through 130 uses it becomes the better option environmentally speaking. I've never known anyone that could reuse any of those bags enough to get through that many uses before they tear to the point of uselessness though.

I wonder if it would be advantageous to encourage stores and individuals to start using crates or woven bags again, which may be able to withstand the number of trips necessary to make their environmental impact neutral compared to plastic bags.

Their source: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/08/heres-how-many-times-y...
This was the best blog I ever noticed on this topic,an Australian using exhaust air from their miners to pre-heat incoming air to their heat pump. TL;DR - it's worth it.

https://blog.haschek.at/2021/how-i-heat-my-home-by-mining.ht...
This is not a moralistic view, did I mention ethics? Just an observation. I find it hard to escape contracts and laws in general. Musk, and other rich people don't. Do you agree it is much easier to escape significant punishment if you have much more money?
Gender and the Disparate Payoffs of Overwork
I occasionally suffer from this pattern, although not as gravely as you describe it.

Something that I found helped me with the "bigger" manifestations of it, i.e. not a small homework assignment but larger projects in life, is: Stop psychologically evading failure.

That is, the instinct is to try not to think about what happens if you fail, since that's terrible; and maybe trying to convince yourself that you won't fail (and indeed maybe you're unlikely to fail). I say, do the opposite of that. Try to work through that worst-case scenario. This often brings up fears such as "What is my life about if I am unable to do XYZ?" Or "My self-perception is of a 'doer of X'; who am I, as a person, if I don't successfully do X?" If you are willing to face those questions and provide answers which you can conceivably live with, the fear of tackling X may subside somewhat.

Hope that helps.
Is playing chess online “digital media”? What about learning to code with online tutorials?
I also find GitLab's UI pretty chaotic, and a lot of space is wasted on "UI chrome".
I think you've nailed it. It's not backed by a nation. It has no underlying asset like gold. Your assertions of privacy only hold if you never convert it to a traditional currency or asset, otherwise you're on the radar. While many folks in Ukraine have been able to use crypto to buy goods recently, so has Russia to sidestep sanctions. As a result, we're seeing more incentive for nations to put the breaks on BTC and other crypto (with threat from their nuclear arsenal). China already has put substantial obstacles to crypto ownership.

Then there's the lack of an FDIC equivalent for crypto, which is HUGE for the "not just the super rich" demographics. The 19th and 20th centuries had many examples of runs on the bank where life savings were wiped out. Crypto exchanges have already screwed thousands, and maintaining your own wallet and transfers is not ever going mainstream even if crypto had any intrinsic worth beyond speculation—which it doesn't.

If you have the assets to gamble, that's for you to decide. I myself would rather rely on assets with underlying value that extends beyond speculation.

My house is worth way more than I think it should be. Helps my credit score. But if it and all the homes in the area suddenly and magically dropped to $0, I'd still live there, because it's a home. The reason I purchased it wasn't for speculation or my credit score; it was to live in. You can't live or eat or build in BTC. When the bottom drops out, you will only get to keep the bits and the memories of a more naive era.
UST, USDT/USDC, DAI all use widely different methodology to keep themselves stable
Albeit not using gas, you may want to check out https://github.com/SnellerInc/sneller -- it has about ~250 primitives written in AVX-512.
(Sneller founder)
Thanks! We collect OS/browser information from the user agent, country, referrer and query parameters.
Not recognizing what the word is supposed to mean in this context doesn't imply any of those things.
"Buttonless" is also critical. If you make people press a button on their key to open the car, it's secure.
You are just hoarding data which is a different "hobby" and piracy is merely a component of it.

And, yes, this hobby is expensive.

Do not go around saying that piracy is expensive.

There is also a similar side to it. You are _storing_ a lot of data. What if you decided to _play_ (games) instead? You would have needed more expensive hardwares. And a lot of power. Here _gaming_ would be more expensive.

What is expensive is your datahoarding habits, and not piracy.

You are also comparing apples to oranges here (watching movies vis-a-vis storing them). A more obvious a-to-o comparison is buying a Spotify subscription versus playing CoD: WW2 from a pirated source. You see, the second is more expensive than the first.

So,

1. Piracy is not expensive, your datahoarding habits are (plenty of people watch pirated content on 300-400$ laptops and 200$ phones.)

2. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Basically, Roe’s logic goes like this: The 14th amendment gives everyone equal protection of the law, including from their state governments. SCOTUS historically took that to mean that there are federal restrictions on state law. A few relevant to the history of Roe:

- States are bound by the bill of rights (eg. they can’t violate your free speech for instance)

- States can’t tell you where your kid has to go to school, or what they can or can’t study

- States can’t restrict access to contraceptives

Since the 9th amendment acknowledges the existence of rights NOT enumerated in the constitution, the court decided that it has to look at rights that are historical and customary, or contained in the “penumbra” of enumerated rights. Since you have a right to be safe from searches and seizures, and to be free from having the government quarter troops in your home, and whatever unenumerated rights exist, they’d several years prior agreed includes “marital privacy” to protect couples’ rights to choose whether to use birth control. Shortly thereafter in Roe they decided that women have a right to choose to get an abortion prior to the first trimester. They chose that cutoff based on historical and customary treatment of abortion in English common law as well as older western legal traditions.

That’s a pretty brief summary, but that’s how they got there.
You might enjoy the writings of /dev/lawer
https://writing.kemitchell.com/

He wishes to create such forms, and created PolyForm to try and do so.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/06/23/PolyForm-Commercia...
It wouldn't be any worse. The question isn't whether the noise is correlated with the outcome. The question is whether the denoised variable would be much more correlated with the outcome (yes), and whether that would change the effect of the focal variable.

In any case, it's a weird thing to control for in a panel study. Why not just use per-person fixed effects? That would eliminate all effects that are constant across individuals.
Banking is older than trigonometry, or even writing. All of this has happened with clay tablets; all of this will happen again.
$45 a month is a pretty cheap vice as far as things go, though.

You could easily be spending $45 a month just on streaming services.
When I worked for the Danish and Swedish division of Thompson Reuters WestLaw we had a product named Pacta that lawyers used to generate all sorts of contracts that operated on this principle. I have to assume that other parts of the WestLaw platform internationally, and other services like Lexis-Nexis, must provide similar functionality. It is, after all, not too difficult a thing to do.

When I left (2013) a project was underway to add lots of functionality to it. Not sure what the current status is if any.
In addition to the creators of the project not being Google, it might be worth pointing out that most of the controversy happened when React switched away from Apache 2, not to it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library)#Lic...
Yep, I'm subscribed.

I also do some digital archiving work (I don't want to get into specifics for anonymity sake), but since that's text it only takes up about 12TB right now. If I run out of space I delete some video.
I think the accuracy should be fine, cell phones typically have a GPS accuracy of 5-10 m. The problem is that you won't be able to rely on it. You probably won't have any GPS signal at all in an underground parking garage, and even in an above ground parking deck you will likely have poor or no signal due to being surrounded by steel and concrete.
Accelerated SQL for JSON with AVX512 (Golang)
> I've watched dozens of videos on procrastination

But perhaps not that many videos on irony? :-P
In the 80s/90s, I pirated a lot of software for Amiga/PC, because it was either unavailable or expensive for me.

Nowadays I don't bother pirating anything, for two reasons:

a) I don't feel comfortable any more to steal money from others,
b) there is nothing out there to make me want it so badly. Everything looks so mediocre...
I didn't claim that paper votes are immune against it. But having voting that is a complete black box for everyone will amplify it.

> No single individual is able to count all paper votes either

Compare "I can't count them all myself but I can see and understand the way it works" with "I can't count them myself and I can't even understand how the system and validation work".

Imagine if trump could've slapped some claims about faulty tech, broken tech security, untrustworthy developers etc. on top of the rest.
What a great non answer
Undercollateralized algorithmic stablecoins that use their own issued coin as a '1:1' collateral don't work because they depend on ponzi growth to maintain the illusion of it working.

Overcollateralized algo stables such as DAI are much more sustainable. They require substatially more of a user's unrelated capital (whitelisted assets not based on the stablecoin's issuing protocol such as eth or wbtc which also have relatively deep liquidity available on the market) to be locked up and held as collateral to mint the stablecoin. And that makes drawing down the supply much smoother when times get rough as folks with their capital locked up will repay their debt on their own or have the market do it for them in a liquidation of locked capital. This repayment is what burns the supply and keeps the stable from falling far below peg. In fact historically, DAI's problem was that it would go way over peg during drawdowns because damand for DAI to stave off or participate in liquidations would push the usd price of dai way up.

It is highly capital inefficient model, as it takes roughly at least $1.50 of the other asset to mint $1.00 worth of stablecoin, and users will usually go for a much higher ratio to prevent the liquidation threshold from kicking in. And this capital inefficiency really kneecaps growth since you can't mint anywhere near as much of the stablecoin, but it also means the protocol and thus the stablecoin is much more robust in downturns.

Now it still has real risks because the protocol still depends on lively and accurate oracles to watch and report the collateral values, and that liquidations execute properly when collateral values fall enough to trigger them. But those risks are much more manageable compared to the risks undercollateralized stablecoins present.
They raised the price as high as the market would allow, but did it gradually over time (about 10% per year).
In the US, banks also pay FDIC insurance premiums. A stable coin could run the same way - buy insurance on the portion of the deposits that they gamble with.
Regarding the website: having a video embedded with zero control to mute or change it's audio volume is really insensitive UX. The annoying background music is not even necessary to actually get meaning from the video.
Video games are available to people of all abilities. You certainly can't say the same of football (indeed, with concussions, one might question if this lowers intelligence over the long term)
BIKE also stands for Bit-flipping Key Encapsulation

https://bikesuite.org
Ah, gotcha.

IMO these standards just make no sense at all, scrap them. The market is literally designed to sort this sort of issue out - if you want a bigger kitchen pay for it, someone will provide.

Artificially restricting the minimum size of dwellings is just forcing people to either overpay for housing or be homeless.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. When I first took econ, we used a book by Gregory Mankiw that featured a list of 10 things that Economists generally agreed upon, and the percentage of Economists in some survey that agreed. I think the most agreed upon one was "people respond to incentives." And the second-most was "there's a short term inverse relationship between interest rates and unemployment." This was 20 years ago, and I think we're already at the point to where that second statement has been rendered obsolete.

So, yeah, I think I agree that all that Economists have left is "people respond to incentives."
FWIU, QB64 will run nibbles.bas.

Nibbles (video game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)

Here's a PyGame version of snake/nibbles: https://github.com/caffeinemonster/python-pygame-nibbles/blo...

For in-browser games in Python with JupyterLite and the pyodide WASM kernel, there are now the pyb2d bindings for box2d:
https://twitter.com/ThorstenBeier/status/1523573928702087169
>Torrents have been out of favor for a while.

Have they? Because it seems to me from my sample size of friends (say 20) that torrent+VPN is definitely the preferred method, way over usenet.

Usenet seems to be for people who are trying to download EVERYTHING (like OP was originally complaining about) instead of just watch movies occasionally.
Personally speaking .. with a perceived growing trend towards using low(er) power hardware - planning for dystopian power shortages etc - I know that I can host a reasonable server on a Raspberry Pi and still have it working effectively. I had mine running on a Pi2B for quite a while, but with the introduction of the Pi Zero 2 and the addition of an ethernet HAT, that's also a viable device. The size of the gopher files library will be determined by the USB stick you can afford.
Fair enough, thank you for the explanation!

Seems like your other Java services were not an issue though?
Designing Machine Learning Systems
I’m reminded of a scene in some TV show from many years ago where a mobster goes to a market, whacks an item with a baseball bat, then demands the shopkeeper sell it to him at half price.
I am very out of touch w/ the current world of gaming, but in my past experience Nintendo has always been the 'healthiest' platform. The games are full of beautiful animation and great music - truly works of art, and aren't violent and/or trying to get them to buy things.
Sadly my emacs freezes about once every 2 weeks. Hand rolled config that restores everything within 30 seconds. But still.
Renault Twizy. However is not a full size or speed car.