skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree with you. I have however shared all the new features in a comment here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421863
> but practical algorithms with better exponents exist for all of them.

I'm aware of randomized algorithms with better complexity, which come at the cost of only giving approximate results (though the approximation may be perfectly good for practical purposes). See e.g. [1]. Are there other approaches?

[1] https://doi.org/10.1137/090771806
If Tether held less than $1 in assets for every $1 in circulation...there's a name for what that is...

A bank.

But if Tether is a bank, then UST isn't a 'stablecoin' it's a deposit. And Tether is engaging in what banks have done for centuries, that is increasing the money supply through credit. They are doing it in an illegal and unregulated way which most likely will result in tears and recriminations. But ultimately there is nothing new under the sun.

Edit:

I was wrong in what I wrote above.

Tether is acting as a bank, and yes UST's are simply deposits, but all those people correcting me are right.
Their assets (at least nominally) should match or exceed their libailities.
"True" black on white contrast ratio: 21
Medium's default very-dark-grey on white contrast ratio: 14.54
This bizarre theme-that-makes-it-hard-to-focus-for-non-contrast-reasons contrast ratio: 14.52

If legibility was important to this author, they could have done the bare minimum to improve the legibility on their own site. The bare minimum was to not change the default theme. A bit above that but more honest to their claim: host somewhere else and use a darker grey.
but that's not a .edu site though

e: ah it looks like it is a .edu that redirects to a .org

https://www.kellogg.umich.edu/patientcare/conditions/anatomy...
The sooner a critical mass of people start use alternatives then the sooner Google will start changing their behaviour.
lately when I google I put my query + Reddit xD
No matter how much you dislike it, people are allowed to vote for their own manifest destiny.
Also it's clear from the twitter leaks and Elon's finding on bots, that twitter attacks anyone not extremely liberal.

So I only expect more counter party reactions as both sides as the left and right have no middle ground anymore.
The whole point that the person you're replying to is making is that the paraphrasing is similar in morality to plagiarism.
Are you Ron Jeffries? (People here is more friendly if the author is in the thread answering questions.) Are you the editor of the blog?

About the article: How does it compare with the method proposed by Joel Spolsky in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch... ?
Nonfunctional on contemporary cell phones?
Same.

I am on 10.14 because there are some 32-bit apps I can't replace (either because there are no 64-bit versions, for instance some old emulators, or because there are but they cost money, or there are but they have other changes which I don't like. MS Office is an example of both of the latter.
(Kamil Kazani has excellent threads on RF and Russia in general. Recommended reading.)

https://nitter.net/kamilkazani/status/1526323072483065857

Russian ex-Military and his prophetic (uncannily precise) predictions of what awaited RF in Ukraine and world at large. He discusses the fabled missiles in passing. (Google translate does a good job.)

https://nvo.ng.ru/realty/2022-02-03/3_1175_donbass.html
GraalPython only supports a relatively-small subset of the Python language, making it impossible to collect numbers on realistic benchmarks
To be fair my result in Germany is a very good article that even has a video and a good schema. Before the result I even have google's automatically generated summary of the page that's quite good to understand if the page's actually useful.
I hate Google Search for many reasons, but this example is really ill-conceived.
The originals were all 8x8 bitmap fonts with no extra leading. If these are true to the original, then, any multiple of 8px in height should work for you.

Unfortunately, the specimens are rendered with a larger leading than would have appeared on the original systems; if that’s part of the font specification, you’ll have to experiment some.
Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021
Thunderbird's donation-driven revenue rose to $2.7M in 2021
It's a little more manual but I like having Behind the Overlay installed. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behind-the-overlay...

It's a one click removal. It's nice because I dont have to search for the nearly transparent x or tiny no thanks, I can just muscle memory to the same button in the toolbar of my browser every time.
Bouldering seems to be really popular amongst Software Engineers I know.

Taps into many things that Software Engineers typically like.

Walls often require problem solving as well as physical ability.

Walls are shorter than rock climbing walls (fast iteration cycles/“dev loop”)

Lots of different difficulties for a clear sense of progression.

Indoors (usually). Can be done solo.
I've been using Kagi for search and it's much better than DuckDuckGo. As much as I like DuckDuckGo, I think I'll stick with Kagi.
Are you sure? Because my pension fund (ABP) has this page: https://www.abp.nl/over-abp/duurzaam-en-verantwoord-beleggen... I found it as result #1 when googling ABP investments. As you can see there are several PDFs listing investments of each category:

- External fund managers

- Engagements with companies

- Overview corporate bonds

- Overview nation-state bonds

- Stocks

- Overview top 100 largest investments

All contain detailed lists about the country, instrument invested in, sector and how large the stake is rounded to the nearest million euro. All these lists are updated regularly as changes occur. Nobody is asking Tether to disclose every term of every single deal they make, but making disclosures about the composition of your underlying assets is not a very big deal at all. You can find similar documents for almost every pension fund out there.
DeepMind researcher claims new ‘Gato’ AI could lead to AGI
I really hope this isn't more web site wrapper garbage
"For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than the repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the ~/.gitconfig file doesn’t."

Everyone aren't using all the freedesktop conventions, so no.
Suburban planners: we need 3 acres of land for 36 people in line for coffee
Same! The macbook speaker is also one of the best I've heard. Sometimes if I'm not expecting a rustling or footsteps, or a quick car beep in the background of a movie, I'll look over assuming it was a real life sound.

That's coming from plugging a bose speaker in to whatever laptop I'm using before.

The machine has it's flaws, but this part is really close to magic for me.
For MacOS, I use HexFiend. It has TCL-based binary templates (fairly easy to write) and a CLI launcher (hexf)

https://hexfiend.com

https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend
Most people yell at their computer. Preciously few people who spend 6+hrs a day on calls and meetings, get a good headset with a boom microphone. Nobody correlates the "what? Did you say something" and overlaps and garbled voices and muffled noise cancelled uni-directional simplex conversations on them not getting a company-expensed headset. Improving on the built-in laptop video is not even on the radar :D
Yes, I get heart palpitations too when I don't take electrolytes. You need a certain ratio of sodium, potassium and magnesium. I also recommend drinking at least 200 ml vegetable juice per day. That doesn't kick you out of ketosis or autophagy.

In all medical supervised fasting clinics they don't allow a pure water fasting. A small dose of carb is highly recommended for absorbing and buffering the electrolytes.
I agree. What the search space needs is a different business model. I have no idea what it could be. I'm quite sure a subscription model would fail. Micropayments have not taken off. How can we fund meaningful search divorced from an ad business?
What type of workflow do you use where you regularly want to commit only some of your changes to a file? I honestly don't think I've ever had that need.
Good catch -- the Google result is actually on an .edu domain but it redirects to the link I pasted above.
Self-fulfilling rankings boost agencies’ power, influence
How Complex Is a Knot? New Proof Reveals Ranking System That Works
> You should still buy the album if you care about it, even with streaming.

I agree with this to a degree. If I really like a small indie artist I'll usually buy a Vinyl from them. But alot of the music I listen to is "mainstream" and made by artists that are already raking in cash, not saying that they don't deserve the same compensation, but I feel exponentially less bad that Taylor Swift is making $0.0005 per stream rather than some indie artist trying to make it.
There is no perfect answer for a query.
There can only be contextually meaningful answers.
They can be from highly relevant to far off.
It is very hard to prove a search engine as bad in general.
It may not work for you. But it may still work for a lot more.
Google has indexed the entire Web. This is as large a span as one can take.
I found this to be an incredibly depressing article. It boiled down to, "think about pleasant things that aren't work." For example,

> Pick an activity that you've always wanted to try. Don't have ideas? Try Wikipedia for a good list of hobbies

I already have plenty of hobbies, and I'd rather work on any of them than be at work!

I've always been very self-motivated. I want to work on what I want to work on. Being forced to work on things that I don't care about in order to draw a salary sucks, and no amount of

> Schedule a 30-minute time block to freely jot down questions that spark your curiosity as an engineer. (They don't have to be about work.)

is going to change that. If anything, it makes it worse because now I would rather be investigating those questions than working!
7 or 8B were redeemed yesterday within 24 hours, not bad isn't it? This goes without saying that it's only 10% of the market cap, but still better than many banks ...

Speaking of banks, another question: which legacy bank would be able to redeem all money of all account holders? the answer is: none. The money you have on your account is "safe" only because there is no panic. Does that make traditional bank a huge scam?
Apple Music refuses to work at all on my iPhone, just won’t play anything at all.

I don’t even care enough to fix it, tbh. Will cancel it when the trial expires. Bummer as the spatial audio tracks do sound pretty badass on AirPods max :)
I came to find out how to change a tire, not to get a job in dealership. If the page said "we have 5 different guides on how to change a tire with different level of details, so you can choose the one you preffer. Just pay us 5$ to get download link" without forcing an account, it would be much better.
I don’t think it’s the author. The account looks like it posts submissions from Pragmatic Programmers blog posts.
In Europe it's normal; if you encounter a road safety issue you report it and a crew gets sent out to fix it.
I think in the US people stopped giving a shit, because you know it probably won't get fixed so any time soon so why bother?
There is some blurring between moderation and censorship here. There are plenty of forums and entire platforms that cater to your favorite religion and politics. Free speech absolutists would have us turn every platform into 4chan.
Why cant your resize the window?
To be clear, the author is well-intentioned but wrong.

Nothing is so simple to be just black and white (see what I did there!)

I say this so that other HN users that influence the design of their products don't walk away and start making changes that negatively impact their users.

This has been studies and there is a ton of research. Here are a few with selected excerpts- please read the articles in full!

"white text on black backgrounds creates a visual fuzzing
effect for people with astigmatism called “halation”."

Source: https://www.essentialaccessibility.com/blog/accessibility-fo...

"A research study found that “black text on a
white background overstimulates the OFF ganglion
cells while white text on black background
overstimulates the ON ganglion cells.” This finding
means that “white text from a black screen could
inhibit myopia, while black text on white background
may stimulate myopia.” The study advises against
reading black text on a white background due to
the striking effects of contrast polarity."

Source: https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure...

A collection of further reading:

https://www.esa.org/communication-engagement/2018/08/03/reso...
1. Qt is much faster than other UI technologies, but it’s far from being as performant as native solutions are.

2. You will need a big amount of hacks to make your project work on different platforms. Especially if you do something fancy.

Not to mention serious licencing issues.
The cookie popup really kills me when trying to do a quick site preview on my iPhone and all I see is the popup.
> in 2005, prior to WCAG 2, major websites such as CNN, Yahoo, About, and Wired used black text. Not long after WCAG 2 was adopted, those same sites were reducing contrast, moving to ever lighter grey texts.

Correlation is not causation.

Possible alternative version of this history: WCAG came out with its recommendations when it did precisely because trends in design at the time were towards using different font weights and colors, as cleartype rendering was becoming universal and displays were moving away from CRT to LCD and becoming higher resolution. (LCD monitor sales only surpassed CRT monitors in 2003. The concept of a 'retina display' dates to 2010.)

In the absence of WCAG contrast guidance, the wild west would have won. Instead, by putting a line in the sand for contrast, WCAG helped ensure that design trend was held in check.
> In videos like this, he's not being conservative but simply making an observation or asking a question that liberals don't like.

Isn't that his whole thing? Asking weasely questions instead of making statements?
You _have_ to create a video. That’s a requirement. You don’t event have to talk or show your face on it though. I agree many people doesn’t like to record videos, I’m one of them, but you are a developer and your app is going to be available to 1.5 billion users of Gmail. Complaining about having to record a video (which is what Pegasus dev did) is not _normal_.
Is there a C++ library that implements static integer types with these ideas? In principle the operations don’t seem complicated, but there are probably enough edge cases that it’s tricky to get it all right.
Looks like I wasn't the only one confused between Logi Tune, Logitech Capture, Logitech Camera Settings, etc :O

https://www.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/nw17w1/brio_cam_w...
All they have proven is that 1 USDT >= $0.1 USD. When the bank run really gets going, we will see just what fraction of the money they actually have.
You don't need to use the asterix after site:, site:.edu or even site:edu works the same.
yep, Google makes it hard to copy the original link too which is annoying
Unfortunately, as of about 6 months ago, Spotify ignores the auto play setting if you’re listening through a smart speaker. And it’s not a bug.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22774897/spotify-connect...
Having bought a few artist compilation on it, after clicking 5 links manually I resorted to writing a script to parse the webpage and get the links there.

But what's even worse is that their CDN throttles your IP after ~15 downloads and you have to wait 1-2 hours before you can download again (which I've already hit a few times, even while clicking on the links manually)
For absolutely critical hot path code this obviously won’t be enough but subinterpreters with memory arenas is a really solid model for safe concurrency and faster than multiprocess IPC.
Someone needs to dig out the VC letters from 2007-8 and just change the date and re-publish them.
So, is this firebase API compatible?
Other languages do this by sacrificing correctness. If a() calls b() calls c() causes an exception Python will show you the correct callstack. In other languages the callstack will differ depending on whether the compiler decided to inline c() or b() in a(). Same thing with TCO, it destroys callstacks and is therefore incorrect. If one prefers correctness over performance one should use Python. If one doesn't mind sacrificing correctness to gain performance one can use other languages.
Bit of context for this:

- Cheaper Python frames are enabled by making some semantic changes to the language, mostly by removing some dynamic functionality that no one uses

- "Inlined Python function calls" is a bit misleading: Python functions are not inlined, it's the "code that does the bookkeeping for calling a Python function" that is now eliminated for Python-to-Python calls.

- The most important part of the specializing interpreter is the attribute caching, which is quite significant

Source: I work on Pyston, where we do many similar things (but can't make semantic changes to the language)
I thought the parent was criticizing Twitter's active monthly user definition, which only includes people who have tweeted in the past 90 days. The article used this definition of active use as well.
Don't forget, so will the alternatives :)
It’s literally their job to do that kind of thing, but was there legitimate concern in the UK that they unnecessarily targeted people in a malicious way?

You don’t just burn a vulnerability like that without a target.
Cvedia-RT
I've been using Kagi[1] in private beta; they plan to launch a subscription model very soon. I hope it works out.

[1] https://kagi.com/faq
Body language, facial expressions, tone of voice (annoyed, happy, etc), massive speed increase in communication.

Please don't take it the wrong way, but it's extremely strange you don't see any of this.

If I may ask, what do you do for work now? What kind of communication do you need with people where text is as fast as face to face? Have you ever worked in a physical office before? Do you have any issues when it comes to socializing with people IRL?
The number of results can also vary wildly.
That’s the real issue, isn’t it? The tooling for this is shitty. You can create an accurate color profile for your monitor, apply it in software and your OS will automatically map the values correctly. This will improve contrast quite a bit, but is complicated, expensive, and you’ll lose a lot of definition in other brightness ranges.

But the same issues apply in reverse if you try to reduce contrast because some idiot thought a 200:1 contrast for text was healthy.

My personal solution is relatively simple: I replace every monitor that’s too shitty to do sRGB at good contrast at 400 nits. For a T470/T480 I can recommend this panel: https://www.xelent-store.de/Innolux-N140HCG-GQ2-400cd-Low-Po...
My daughter loves the books, she's on book 10 now. The book was a recommendation from the staff in our local bookstore, it was a few weeks later that I discovered they had a tv series and it's been a real enjoyment for her to see the characters in her head appear on screen.
And I can really appreciate that. Reading the CPython source is extremely easy for me and I have only “I learned it in college” level C experience.
> Appwrite is simple to self-host. Like really simple. Like a single line of Docker command simple

Is is possible to use Appwrite without Docker? Docker is super-slow on Macs so I tend to run everything natively. With traditional tools (e.g. Postgres, Redis, etc) this is super-easy. I can just `brew install`.
I liked the article and the wikipedia page for hobbies is very interesting, I've found some gems...

- Magnet Fishing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_fishing)

- Binge watching ( didn't know it can be called as a hobby - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge-watching )

- Constructing languages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language )

- Tea bag collecting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag )
I'm assuming if you deleted your free GSuite account at the beginning in a panic, you're probably screwed, right?
Not all languages make call stacks observable.
Yeah, initially we didn't have this. During beta our main servers were in europe, and while I was in SF I saw what a difference this made to the overall UX of our kind of realtime apps. Everything took like 200ms more :) With the optimistic updates it's now fast everywhere on the world.
The macro economic setup doesn’t look good for small tech or growth stocks in general. Big tech I’m less worried about.

We have central banks rising interest rates to fight inflation, caused by wars and massive monetary and fiscal stimulus to fight Covid. these hikes impact valuation multiples used to value tech and unprofitable startups.

We have a supply chain shock caused by war in the Ukraine, the aftermath of Covid and Chinas second lock down which could lead to stagflation.

The only silver lining I see is that big tech prints money, is in many areas essential for cost reduction and has excellent balance sheets.

In summary Im more worried about the general economy tear down than the tech tear down, especially in the later half of this year and 2023.
a) Banks have actual rules they have to follow with respect to fractional reserves.

b) Individual bank accounts (in the US) are backstopped by the federal government, via FDIC. It might still be a scam, but it's a scam whose validity is backed by the most expensive military on Earth.
Never fond of CMD. Always prefer ENTRYPOINT.
I wanted to make a comment explaining how banks are different because they lend that money back out - it's not like they don't have it, they just don't have it liquid. Regulations are very strict about what percentage they must keep available. Also there's things like FDIC insurance. But at the of the day they are something akin to a government sanctioned ponzi scheme. It's true that if everyone asks a bank for their money back at the same time, the bank will fail.

I imagine you're bringing this up to say that crypto is no worse than traditional banks. I disagree strongly with that.
Corollary: Web page creators are no longer interested in answering your query; they're interested in getting you to 1) view their page for ads 2) click on their affiliate links 3) buy the product they're selling.

Google has an impossible task in trying to answer a query like "Portable air mattress reviews", because 99.99999% of the results are SEO-optimized crap
Tether's liquidity position keeps getting compares to banks, as though banks hold 10% of all reserves and nothing else

They hold 10% in _cash_, and 90% in debt. That debt is liquid and can be traded for more cash easily in the case of a bank run (possibly even guaranteed by the fed?)

Tether _may_ be holding cash and assets covering 100% of its reserves, but 1) it's not sure, 2) it's not clear how liquid those assets are (e.g. dubious CP)

If Tether hold cash+assets covering 90% of issuance then it's a scam. If they hold 99% then it's a scam. It's not equivalent to fractional reserve banking