skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We considered putting some of our treasury in Anchor. I didn't build a model, just one hour of DD was enough to see the risks. Here is the message I shared with my team on Slack with the findings from a very brief DD: https://twitter.com/josusanmartin/status/1524323026942242818
That raises an interesting ethical problem, really; should there be a duty to report this sort of thing, or is "scheme X is fundamentally flawed/a scam and investors will lose everything" legitimate proprietary information? As I understand it, various analysts were pretty sure at the time that Madoff's scheme was a Ponzi, but in general they didn't tell anyone (in fairness, one attempted to and had trouble getting listened to).
The thing that has shocked me about all of this over the last year or so is how seemingly easy it is to just start issuing debit cards to people.

Maybe there's more regulation than I realise (and the emperor has more layers of clothes than Joey Tribbiani), but I'm not seeing it.

I assumed issuance of payment methods was much more strictly controlled than this due to the risk of contagion if the issuer can't meet it's obligations after the transaction (are card payments instant delivery between institutions these days? I always assumed there was a clearing period in the background).
I like the name “Feeder Ponzi” though! Has a sort of legit-not-legit sound to it.
Jesus, offering "measure mains AC" and absolutely no touch protection, that is nuts.

I'd expect this thing to be seized by customs if you attempt to import it into the European Union.
Small sample size, but the Google/exGoogle engineers I’ve interviewed are much more capable on average than others (or are at least better at crushing our interview loop). YMMV.
It's a great analogy because:

Banning watering gardens is exactly as dumb as banning proof of work. The vast majority of water wastage occurs irrigating farms supporting crops that are unsuitable for that area.

A solar panel connected to a coin miner is only doing good in the world. Where is the negative? You sure it's the mining that is the bad thing and not the dirty energy?
Backstopping those losses would be the right thing to do.
Yes. This can also be done by SNI scanning[0], which is a pretty core function of the web these days.

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/

P.S. not sure why your comment got flagged. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Did you need to be an accredited investor to “invest” with them? Or should they have required this?
You totally forgot audio. Sound effects, music, ambience etc.
Voyager did benefit of gravity assists from all the major planets, though. New Horizons was launched at a much higher speed than the Voyagers, but will never overtake it.
You might have missed from the article that these are non fungible chips, tied to an ad-hoc blockchain.

What brings you to think that in 2 minutes, just by reading an article (if you’ve actually read it and not just lazily skimmed it) you’ve been able to find the single point of failure of a technology that an entire engineering company has been developing for years?
Well, certainly they haven't ruled it out. DNS servers are third-party servers. VPNs are third-party servers. They can be as kind or as nasty about this as they like,

For all my fear mongering, I should point out that the only reason Google are saying this is to cover their backs when they decide to levy the maximum fee on an unsuspecting competitor. If they don't consider you a direct competitor, you might be ok. They have no reason to use this policy to alienate the majority of desktop applications that connect to email.

But they also have no repercussions if they do.
I think the article is talking about criticizing others behind their backs. Quote from the article:

> I mean in private conversation, not in public discourse, and this is not to their faces but rather behind their back
Pumping water uphill requires no lithium.
Thanks, this is the answer I would have written, and gives some more useful details (rather than my initial irritation).
Interesting to consider the power the mods have here to nudge certain companies into the lime-light of influential technologists.
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to use an oxymoronic name like "safe moon" is a great tell that it's a scam. A coin cannot be safe - that is, riskless and stable in value -, but also go to the moon! So they probably looked up the thesaurus and found "Stable" and "Gain" as synonyms...
I am Anh-Tho blabla... just kidding :)
> From Code Search

What could have been... [1] Yes, I'm still bitter about it after all those years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
One of hundreds (thousands?) of chess variants. For more you might be interested in https://www.chessvariants.com/alphabet.html (I am not one of the authors.)
The UK has no by-right development at all afaik, so you’re getting what they can afford to build after making it through planning.

This is a big reason San Francisco never builds anything anymore; absolutely everyone gets to have their aesthetic opinions in design review and will band together to sue you over them if you don’t bribe them.
Wouldn't that create an incentive for successful companies to be unethical?
Ask HN: How did my brain get me home during blackout?
Last night I drank too much alcohol and lost consciousness.

Then I took a train to another city, but I woke up next day in my bed.
I don't remember anything from last night, only today I noticed the flex ticket I bought at the train station from my town Neustadt to Regensburg....

What was I doing in Regensburg? How did I get home?
How can I do this "difficult" things like this during Blackout?

I have some flashbacks, I was sitting on a train, the conductor asked me for a ticket. That's all. I don't remember any more.

How did my brain get me home? How does it work?
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Pardon my ignorance, but isn't this blocking something which could exist completely separately from / orthogonally to any particular compression algorithm? Is this a question of zstd supporting a blocked compressor, or of a blocked compressor supporting zstd?
My personal feeling (based on what I upvote) is that ycombinator isn't getting enough quality writing about tech issues to fill the front page, so if it's "full of fly.io", that just means there isn't enough stuff about other systems at the moment.

Same reason for a while the world seemed full of Rust articles -- at that point in time there wasn't (speaking as a C++ programmer) a pile of quality C++ articles around which the Rust was pushing out.
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I honestly don’t even know what that number means in interstellar space.
Obsession over tools, and the more trendy obsession over productivity ("My secret to be 10x more productive!!") ultimately seem tautological in the end: most people hooked up on these techniques will never stop talking about it, and sometimes even write books on the topic.
Take the 2 most well-known authors on these topics: Tim Ferriss and Cal Newport. And look at their list of published works.

I've only very rarely seen actually productive people talk about the way they do things -- probably because they know there isn't a one technique, and have tailored their own things to themselves entirely. Balzac used debt to keep motivation alive, Hemingway wrote while standing up and used the counter of his chimney -- who cares?
You make a good point. I guess as long as the people are passionate, the first two issues can be, over time, worked through. I guess the tarpit is that the "time" can be really long, especially for (skill-wise) heterogeneous team working on large undocumented projects.
That must be why the software industry isn’t developed there, there’s nothing to cool down your brains from all the thinking.

Japanese houses tend to have not good enough wall-mounted AC but the commercial buildings have it on freezing.
You can try connecting with the schools' alumni. I was able to get an internship at a startup by contacting an alumni who at the time was the hiring manager.
Sure .. happy to help (and to be clear, I did find the paper to be insightful even as a senior researcher. e.g. I was familiar with OODA but the SPAA was neat! Don't take my comments as too negative :) )

For recommendation systems, the top three examples that come to mind are TikTok, Layer 6 (a Canadian company that TD Bank acquired a few years back) and Netflix.

You may want to add Nerfs to the paper. They are the hot new algorithm out there. I am a scientist at a Canadian research lab and my very smart colleagues tell me it is the next best thing.

Automated vision is far head of NLP IMHO. NLP had it's Imagenet moment only at the advent of BERT (which was cira 2018? or so). Also, Transformers, which BERT and its progeny rely on, are massively compute and data hungry. They are also slow to run on today's chips. In my opinion, reason is that language benchmarks aren't as clearcut as vision. For instance, NLP researchers use BLEU scores, which are a pretty blunt instrument. I'd say NLP is even further behind than speech processing (which is now mostly based on DL). A key person behind Siri is Adam Cheyer btw .. he did Siri and then Bixby. The way these NLP systems work is pretty simple conceptually .. they break the problem to two steps. Intent Identification and then Slot filling. You can use DL for both steps but don't have to. Key issue with NLP systems is they are extremely brittle (a ton of work to customize). Dialog is pretty weak today, and that is partly due to the challenge in training signal.

You say 5000 images per images of a class. I know that was a ballpark but this seemed misleading. There are at least 2 problems I see. First, you need "different" examples .. seeing the same examples (e.g. from different viewpoints) does not help. Second, it really matters what the set of classes your model is trying to discriminate against. E.g. to differentiate apples and bananas, I likely need far fewer than 5000 examples since they are so visually distinct. Imagenet was a seminal moment not just because of the number of examples per class but because of the humongous number of classes (10K+).

For RL and robotics, there have been some neat advances. I was skeptical about RL's utility in practice (due to reasons you point out .. simulations vs. real-world, and especially the issue of faster than real-time) but am seeing it more and more in practice. E.g. 5/6G applications exist.

You may want to add coverage of some important emerging topics: multi-modal (matching vision to text and vice-versa), sensor fusion, student-teacher.

Paper didn't talk about any work from MIT's Han lab or their startup OMNIML? They just launched at the TinyML summit this year and they are hot! Also, TVM tech (startup behind it is called OctoML) is pretty important for on-device AI.

Those were some initial thoughts. If this is useful, can add to it later.
Every time blueberries are mentioned in a US context, it's just as jarring! It's a rather simple/common thing, and yet it is not the same all over the world.

Over here in northern Europe (Sweden), what we would call a blueberry is what you would call a bilberry [1], and what you would call a blueberry is referred to as an American blueberry (or maybe a cultivated blueberry).

They're all awesome of course, and not having to bend the fsck down to pick the things is a nice feature of the American ones.

Edit: weirdly enough the Wikipedia page for the bilberry doesn't even link to the Swedish page for the same berry [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry

[2]: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A5b%C3%A4r
> quantum leap order of magnitude

What does that mean?
115kbps while it was out as far as Jupiter, and falling off with distance. I can think of a few places where a solid 115kbps would be more than adequate right here on Earth.

Consider that this is in the same band as broadcast satellite TV but with a fraction of the power of for example the Astra 2 satellites. Think in terms of looking out for the brake light of a motorbike in orbit around Jupiter ;-)
Which is ironic given it was historically the wealthiest part of Ireland pre-partition. If unification were to happen my money would be on it becoming much wealthier (module some kind of troubles 2.0 not kicking off - a big if!). Even if there was no reunification, I think they could be in a really strong position economically if they were to just accept the current NI protocol agreement. They would be in a very advantageous position with access to both the EU and UK markets. Maybe that is what the brexiteers are worried about as any improvement relative to the rest of the UK would provide concrete evidence of the economic impact of brexit. Of course it could go the other way!
But if you ask *how hot is the sun* someome has to actually study this
Indeed I was using this definition of the word, and quite purposefully as there are both complementary and contrasting elements. Online discussion is biased towards the "argumentative" so sometimes it helps to break people's expectations.
We have an event-based architecture and offer 'aggregations' at the moment: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/guide/billable-metrics/aggregat...
We plan to add more aggregation types, gauge metering as well!

We definitely want to address usage-based pricings, but also all the pricings that are hybrid between usage and subscriptions (ie the vast majority of software pricings). Feel free to reach out if you have more question: anhtho@getlago.com
Madoff's ponzi had a pile of feeder funds too. Feeder funds are a sorta-legit strategy, but ...
I'm pretty sure "Web3" is just a term that crypto-enthusiasts have invented to mask the fact that crypto has completely failed to live up to any of its promises.

No-one can tell me anything about Web3 except that it's the future, it's the next wave, everyone is investing in it, everyone is moving into the space, it's going to be huge, you'd be a fool to miss out. But ask for details, or for a single example (just one) of a Web3 application that's unequivocally proved itself or that can't be better served by an existing pre-blockchain technology and... crickets.

Replace "Web3" with simply "blockchain" and I could have written the exact same paragraph five years ago. It's hard to keep the hype train going when you've been saying the same thing for five years and the "future" still hasn't arrived, but rename "blockchain" to "web3" and suddenly it sounds like you having something new and the hype cycle can repeat.

Give it another five years and I expect the cryptoheads will be pumping another trendy new term to mask the lack of innovation. It's the future, you've got to believe me! It's going to blow up! Any day now.
What are you basing this on?

I'm not trying to be difficult, I have used IRC since the 90s and still use it. It's just the best format for chat imo.

But my observation is also that it's dying slowly.
Torment is probably the easiest of the bunch to get into, it is far less combat heavy and you are literally invincible. "Game" part is just there to deliver the story. My suggestion is to just start playing and not worrying about min maxing
Isn’t the whole appeal of fly that they’re geolocated near your users, reducing latency so you can use fancy serverside rendering stacks like Phoenix?

Cold start latency kinda ruins that no?
Information density is a phrase I throw around a lot when comparing the new web based chats to IRC.
Was I really such a pain? :)
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Yes, but are those Linux circles are committing changes to cripple Nvidia's stuff?
I think for "forfeit" you can substitute "cut them loose".
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100% they would vote for reunification, even if it made little sense economically. Anyone who tells you different has spent too much time in the Pale.
> The parser just needs a table to look up the precedence (and associativity) for a given operator. But a parser already needs a bunch of different tables in order to work, so that's certainly not a problem.

Think about how you'd implement an independent parser for such a language, say for the sake of pretty printing it to html. Module A uses a user-defined operator that has been defined in Module B. You effectively cannot parse A correctly before you parse and load B, but the fact that you need to parse and load B is "hidden" in some import declaration that in turn needs to be parsed first. That's what I call a mess.
Sure, but he's never taken any action against Nvidia, whereas he has against OpenZFS (which is open source, I note).
I agree with sibling comments.

I'd also add that IRC nowadays is very different from what it used to be. If you removed bouncers channels would be mostly empty. That's why you often see silence.

Back in the days IRC had very vibrant communities. I'd say it's turning into nostalgia now.
Because it's factually true and explains everything else.
I have no idea, really. If I would, I would try to submit a paper to POPL or so.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220518225354/https://www.econo...
Japan is absolutely full of developed property and in many cases way overdeveloped (there’s nothing they won’t cover in concrete, even creek beds), so it seems to work. I think their theory is it keeps the construction industry working, whereas in California we might end up forgetting how to build houses if we keep using the ones from 1969.

The terrible quality and strange choices of many Japanese buildings is notable though. A lot of residential buildings are covered in what I can only describe as bathroom tiles. And they have no insulation and extremely cheap windows.
Same principle as the carbon tax. Actually, you don't even need to be that aggressive on price increase, it seems that small but steady increases is enough to send a strong signal to markets.
I had never heard the term until I moved to the UK. It's certainly not in use in Ireland much.
For those that are not aware, there is also a vr port for openmw.
This is why I don't run my own email server. This stuff is table stakes for email services, and there is no leeway for getting any of it wrong, otherwise your mail doesn't send (and you don't get notfied)
Why MasterCard and Visa rarely shut down scams
Nooo, my favourite Android email client :(. Thanks for all the years of hard work on this amazing app.
Why would you use a different color for the placeholder text in the first place - the whole point of having you design filled with lorem ipsum instead of empty space is to see how it would look with real content.
This is really the crux of the issue

How many people get duped into thinking there's such a thing as "unlimited gain" and "rewards without risks"

Like what, people are just going to give you money without you doing anything?

It would be largely beneficial to everyone, if we were to provide some basic economic/financial/"how money works" lessons to everyone through the use of schools and public education..
1) different jurisdictions, different people running them.

2) a planned conscious organized attempt to start a race war, versus apparent mental illness. A manifesto that explicitly invokes platforms and their roles.

3) yes it is race baiting because the proposal is literally that white people are treated harsher than black people when a mass shooter.
Shall we consider that proposal, Tucker Carlson , wink wink, or shall we say: “knock it off, you can’t be seriously proposing that”?

I personally think such a proposal can be answered “no“. Only in liberal blue NYC does a black shooter get taken into custody, elsewhere they get shot by cops. White shooters are always getting coddled and taken in alive by LEOs, in my limited 50 years on this planet, and I find the notion that someone in contemporary America suggests that white prole are treated worse than black people to be abhorrent and only used to stoke more sense of unearned victimhood where it doesn’t belong.
It’s a subtle push towards starting a race war, in my personal view. Disgusting.
Your statement was: "Free markets, however, have the wonderful property that the closer one gets to them, the better they work!" and you bring up the US compared to North Korea. That doesn't support your point. You simply showed that a market that is freer than NK works better, that doesn't mean that a market that is freer than the US would also work better than the US, or that the US is the global maximum.

Europe is arguably a less free market than the US but it's by no means clear which one is working better. Somalia ruled by the warlords was a freer market but nobody was emigrating from the US to Somalia.
I have largish hands and I still find the pixel 6 painful to use due to its sheer weight. the pixel 3 really was the perfect size for me.
Allow me to recommend The Powder Toy[0]. It is to date, as far as I can tell, The most advanced falling sand game available, aside from maybe Noita, though the focus there is quite different from most falling sand games. It has hundreds of different elements to play with. It simulates air pressure and can with the toggle of a button simulate ambient heat, water pressure, and newtonian gravity. People have built everything from bombs to CPUs in it.

Disclaimer: I did some minor development work on TPT and am involved in the community. Still though, great game.

[0] https://powdertoy.co.uk/
A model has assumptions, but the space is new enough to where there's going to be uncertainty in any model due to unknown unknowns. So it seems like defining a standard of mandatory reporting of assumptions would be hard.
That is an important observation: as you get older you become more aware of the clock ticking so if you do start something the pressure will be up considerably.
> It would be like setting up a front-end to receive investments, and then depositing the money with Madoff. I'm not saying it's a legitimate business, just not a ponzi.

So, it’s neither legitimate nor a Ponzi. Cool, what is it then?
I empathise with this, especially:

"People (myself included) are very limited and imperfect. The body requires a lot of maintenance and has limited energy. Money is really nice."

I used to really push myself with a million projects, coding and otherwise. But I was eating like crap and sitting down all day, and felt awful as a result. I can't live that sort of hyper-driven life if I'm going to exercise and eat right (which for me tends to mean time spent cooking).
a16z companies next?

https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/a16z-struggl...
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Where does it say anything about blockchains in the article and how often do you think about how much you hate them?
As someone who went heavy into crypto/web3, it does pain me to admit that there really are no use cases besides making money. Which isn’t a bad use case by itself, but after using practically hundreds of protocols and projects, there’s not a single one I’d use if there was no prospect of making money off of it. My dApp usage has cooled off almost completely. And all data shows that this is true for most others as well
Growing up I was convinced the Scandinavian blueberries where the standard. Then I found that in fact it's not a blueberry but instead bilberry. However still like them better.
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Surely, if it's that difficult to send out your marketing emails, maybe people don't want to get marketing emails?
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Who needs to send 20,000 emails per hour? Other than spamming people, who actually needs to do that?
I believe the parent didn't mean the Oracle DB but Oracle MySQL. This makes the most sense as Oracle's acquisition of MySQL (Sun) was discussed before.
Reminds me of "Raze, rebuild, repeat: why Japan knocks down its houses after 30 years": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736734