skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that these researchers define an “active” user as one who has posted a Tweet in the last two months. This is a very different definition than the standard “MAU” definition of “active” which means having used the site at all in the last period.

One definition isn’t better than the other but it is worth noting that opening Twitter, looking at a lot of Tweets, seeing a lot of ads, and not posting any Tweets is a behavioral pattern much more commonly seen in humans than in spambots.
I know? The point is: neither bitcoin nor fiat currencies are asset-backed. In both cases, there are commercial entities that offer accounts where you can deposit the "thing", and the "thing" is then loaned to someone else, and this is done for some kind of valuable inducement.

The question is: why is one called fractional reserve banking, a behavior that is acknowledged to increase the money supply, and the other one called "oh no this is definitely not increase of the money supply, it's just you relinquishing custody of your bitcoin and why would you do that, there's no reason you'd ever do that".
I have personally witnessed low angle red sun give artifacts on a Velodyne Lidar. It was not repeatable another sunset, to make it worse.
It would probably be more accurate to label China as a fascist or corporatist state. There are elements of socialism (as well as capitalism) but it isn't the primary policy focus. Look at their actions rather than words.
Or Nim [1]..kind of an Ada with Lisp macros and more Pythonesque surface syntax.

All three are ahead-of-time compiled/less REPL friendly than Julia, though. Taking more than 100 milliseconds to compile can be a deal breaker for some, especially in exploratory data analysis/science settings where the mindset is "try out this idea..no wait, this one..oops, I forgot a -1" and so on. In my experience, it's unfortunately hard to get scientist developers onboard with "wait for this compile" workflows.

[1] https://nim-lang.org/
> Are their interface / setup as easy as DO droplets?

Hetzner Cloud looks modern and it's easy to use. They don't have the same services as DO though.

If you go the dedicated server way, you'll use the old control panel. I don't find it hard to use, but it's not as good looking.
Would you try telling him, in the dream, that "you are dead, you have to go now, go" ? [0]

I have a very rich dream life but it is also very much sometimes influenced by dead relatives or current personal life events. For the latter I can't/won't do anything about it but for the first one it has always worked to tell them in my dream "begone, now". I have no bad blood left with those people though so maybe take what I say with a grain of salt and see if you really want to tell him that. Also none of the dead people (and my first dog) who I used to dream of were dead too soon or in a tragedy. I believe my dreams are made up of current events in our life and the psychological state you are in: anxiety, love, hate... those emotions will taint and shape the dream sometimes in very obvious way. Those dreams are also signals to me that I am not dealing with it like I should, otherwise it wouldn't happen so often. There's no escape if I dive in work during daylight and it comes back haunting at night.
Ask HN: What language do you use for scripts or utilities that's non-mainstream?
This is why we need a TNG style star trek utopia. This nice thing exists because its not being monetised because it has patrons. If we remove the need for money and thus patrons, everything can be better.
Why not move hobby projects and droplets to the $4 tier when it launches? It’s cheaper and likely enough to do what you want
Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid is “on hold” now
But I liked DO because they didn't follow the standard marketing practices. Had been very straightforward with their prices.
You could always make/install a browser extension that replaces the word with one you like if you find it offensive.
These price differences are way too small, I would expect to go from ~3-5k to ~200. If that "doesn't make a difference", you have too much money.
Because it works. Shenzhen is not locked down, but they test everybody several times a week. Singapore is down to 5 of 16 districts with COVID.

China's zero-COVID policy worked quite well against the pre-omicron variants, with R around 3. It's a tough struggle against omicron, with R around 7.

The US just passed one million COVID deaths. The US's "declare a victory and go home" policy is not working. The US case rate is more than double what it was at the beginning of April, and it's climbing. Death rate lags case rate by about a month.

Wear an N95 mask. No excuses. That alone seems to be enough to keep Reff < 1, so the case rate declines. The US is squishy-soft on masking. More masks means fewer body bags.
I am a search guy and I would like you to succeed. But I don't get it. The name of the site is bland and makes me think you are a white label search service for websites. On the homepage it says "Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites." but it offers me to reason about why I (or anyone) would want to use it. The content it actually searches is random and of no real particular value as far as I can tell. Also, you are trying to avoid spam sites, but once you reach a certain size that's all you would see is people submitting spam sites. If you blocked people from submitting you would never get all the diamonds in the rough you are trying to expose.

You need to find an actual niche that solves a real problem people have and can understand and orient everything you do to tackling that. Then expand from there.
> My practice changed significantly as I began mentioning it to some friends.

“It is not good for people to be alone…”
I've had a Twitter account for 7 years, and have not once Tweeted.
1. again you're (mis)quoting universe size without understanding. The actual quote is "There are between 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the OBSERVABLE universe". As in - "universe that is close enough to us that light from it can arrive to us before it expands away FTL". There is no reason to believe universe ends exactly as far from us as we can see. It would be a coincidence much more astounding than the fact that titin exists (it would mean Earth is exactly in the middle of the WHOLE universe and it's exactly the size for us to see everything). It would also mean gravity theory is wrong because with nothing outside of the observable universe - universe should be expanding slower because mean gravity would bring everything towards Earth. Basically it's not the case.

2. genetic code doesn't change only by 1-base pair at a time. There are duplications, inclusions, etc. I'm pretty sure you can find many duplicated fragments in the code for titin.

3. you have choosen your target (titin) without specifying the class that it belongs to. Maybe it only matters that it's long and the endings are kinda this shape? Let's say there's 10^25_000 different viable titin alternatives. No matter which we end up with - it works, and you wouldn't know if you were in these universes instead. It significantly changes the likelihood but you treat the titin as the only possibility.

It's like being amazed that John Smith won the lottery - sure, it's unlikely that this exact person won. But it's pretty likely that SOMEONE wins the lottery. And you can only be amazed if you chose that person before the draw. In case of titin you select the winner after the draw and marvel at the unlikelihood.

These comparisons are usually motivated ideologically and based on misunderstanding of both probability and universe.
So just rubberstamp your pr with a nit to score awesome on the first two?
A hand-rolled LISP or Prolog variant. You don't want to know it, I promise, because it usually means I'm now your independent security or network/audio systems review consultant.
Lansing honors inventor of chicken barbecue
Actually, no, I literally have no idea what you meant - by all means, please amplify!
Oil and gas are vitally useful. They have actual value to make things and move things and power things.
>I mean everything is a bit oversold right now on negative emotions, both in the crypto space and in the stock markets.

...Things have corrected SLIGHTLY from an absolutely historic bubble and you think it's OVER sold?

Meanwhile, we have significant inflation, rising interest rates, supply shocks that still haven't been sorted out and signs of economic slowdown.

Prices have been out of touch with reality for a long time. We aint anywhere near a bottom yet IMO.
Chinese lockdowns are more like martial law style curfews . You cannot go out for almost anything at all.

There are no customers who can go to the dealership, no employees who can sell cars and manage dealerships. Non essential business are not allowed to run at all.

This article title is written to imply that demand has fallen, that is not the case, it is operationally near impossible to make a purchase and take delivery. People still want /need cars and many can still afford to get them .

The pent up demand (with losses due to changing economic conditions) will come back when things return to normal.
I teach, in order, more or less (there is some interleaving):

- Data modeling
- Relational algebra
- SQL
- DBMS architecture (buffering, btrees, query processing, index selection, ...)
- Query optimization
- Transactions

A few assignments have students write an in-memory relational algebra implementation, and then use it to write queries. A typical query is a deeply nested set of function calls (as a "one-liner"). And only then to we get to SQL. The hope is that RA is so ingrained, that the connections to SQL are easier to see. And this background is also really useful in understanding query optimization.

All of this material, including assignments, is available online (this is my own webserver):
http://geophile.com/115.
There is no denying it. Even the system admitted its fault and said it was sorry.

At this point, it is impossible to defend this contraption. This thing needs to be investigated rather than turning people into crash dummies for beta testing safety-critical software that doesn't even work.

Might as well call it 'Fools Self Driving', since it doesn't work as advertised even when it still requires the driver to have eyes on the road at all times; which by paying attention and intervening, that has just saved his life.
Yeah, my dogs both ate Purina One at the rescues where I got them, so I just kept them on that. Once my older dog got to about 6 years old, he started having loose stool, so I switched him to Taste of the Wild, and that's been better. In general as long as your dog is healthy and pooping fine, there's no need to buy ultra-fancy foods.
That was always the case. This simply alters who can enforce it.
Please stop using "nix" to mean Unix and similar systems. *nix is OK. There is an important package manager named Nix.
How much BTC exists in the blockchain is ultimately irrelevant. What matters is the amount of BTC actively circulating.

If you deposit 1 BTC on Binance, then I can get your BTC in the form of a loan. I can even withdraw your BTC. Meanwhile, Binance records still say you have 1 BTC, they even allow you to trade with it. So there's really 2 BTC in circulation. That BTC is duplicated, it's in multiple places simultaneously.
I believe both of these statements are correct.

One of the interesting effect of finally litigating the GPL is that the 'theoretical' implications become a matter of fact. And with that comes a bunch of clarity around what the risks are of using GPL software in your products.

It will be interesting if GPL "wins" and a bunch of companies immediately tells their employees to strip every bit of GPL code out of the system and rewrite from first principles any function that is required for the product to operate. There will be a market for programmers who do systems programming (which is currently not a big market, but it will get bigger.)
Skype’s quality, and subsequently popularity, dropped significantly after they removed the P2P bits.

There’s still nothing that comes close to the call quality Skype provided for long distance calls, especially when the network may not be as good on 1 end.
"dead cat bounce" is what we call it in trad fi.
> At times I wonder what would the web feel like if it worked like my uncle expected it to work back then. Websites could support their existence without ads, since each customer would be a paying customer.

No one would bother with the web if they had to pay for every visit to every website, especially if they had to pay before any content got delivered. It's a certainty that as soon as the client is paying per byte or per transaction that pages will do everything they can to nickel and dime clients by bloating even more than they do today. For clients that's fees on top of what their ISP is charging for the privilege to be charged more money.
> What is the proper definition of "active"?

Twitter's quarterly earnings define active users thusly:

> Twitter defines monetizable daily active usage or users (mDAU) as people, organizations, or other accounts who logged in or were otherwise authenticated and accessed Twitter on any given day through twitter.com, Twitter applications that are able to show ads, or paid Twitter products, including subscriptions.

https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2022/q1...

I'm pretty sure I've heard a similar definition from Facebook.

This definition supports g-clef's critique that the article picks an unorthodox way to measure active users, resulting in an inflated percentage of accounts being measured as spam/fake accounts, vs what the percentage would be if measured against Twitter's definition of 'active', which includes lurkers.
For much of our existence, primitive human groups operated on something more like a gift economy rather than socialism. Those systems are quite different both in theory and practice.
> How many companies actually hit this stage?

In practical terms you should expect to never hit it. The point where such scaling (also the main value add of aws/azure) really matters and you start looking at an entire DC to lease, you've arrived in the realm of speculative fiction. You should not plan to get there, just as you should not plan to get a winning lottery ticket.
I don't know why it is convenient to ignore the "managed" aspect of it.

DO's or AWS's managed databases do more than just stick it on an server VM. It has a firewall built it, replicas, backups, logs, API access to manage it, etc.

The reason why these managed database services even exist is because people are willing to pay for it. It provides them value. If it didn't, they'd stop working on them.
As a fellow LGBTQ, there are child predators on the internet that are quite pervasive. "Grooming" isn't a dogwhistle here.
> I bet if we had lidar/radar vision we could do a bit better too

IMO we do - try driving with the windows on both sides down a crack. Your brain synthesizes traffic noise into your mental model. You can be aware of traffic near you without being able to see it.
It's certainly debatable whether Bitcoin has any real worth as a currency or as an investment, or if it's just another giant speculative bubble waiting to fall apart.

But it's definitely looking like "anonymously drop a protocol and disappear" was a smart move.

All these Ethereum-based token coins seem like they're trying to answer the question "what if Bitcoin had a central banker, but it's a kid in his 20s with a CS degree?"
The humanitarian crisis is caused by the communist dictatorship there.

Chinese vaccines do not work, but the dictatorship insists on China made vaccines.

The brutal lockdowns in Shanghai are their expertise and only a shadow of their recent accomplishments in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
If that's really Tesla's position, FSD is absolutely unusable in Germany. Roads are being build not straight on purpose to counter fatigue in drivers.
"What 90% of Crimeans want" does not set the agenda for all of Ukraine.
> There is still 1 BTC in this scenerio.

You simply do not understand finance. Consider Eurodollars as another example: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/eurodollar.asp
A few years ago, I went to Las Vegas for the first time and had a chance to ride in a self driving BMW 5 series. There was an engineer in the passenger seat, and a full time driver to take over. I forget the company, but it wasn't Tesla/Waymo/Uber.

It was a pretty short ride, near the end an Escalade cut us off pretty egregiously, and the car dove out of the way while braking. I was still so glad we had a backup driver and engineer. I remember thinking how hard those situations will be for a computer to detect, predict, and act better than a human could.

It's going to be a bumpy road getting to transportation utopia.
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics
What makes you think flakes are a shinier side project? In my opinion, flakes are the One-True-Nix at this point. They simplify a large swath of issues with using Nix, and every day that sees flake adoption improve is a net-win for Nix usage overall.
Nearly 85% of all emails are spam.

I would pay $44bn to own email.
https://cinc.sh/ a good (FOSS) replacement for chef.
I wrote the code for the OpenTelemetry metrics I/O plugins and the underlying decoder and encoder, I'd be happy to answer any questions related to it.
> It's amazing they survived this long

It's because most owners know what to feed their dogs.
The Lawyers Who Ate California
https://www.bankrate.com/glossary/r/repurchase-agreement-rep...

Every single day it's Economics 101 here.
Well, for one, they're the prime use-case for this sort of thing because they have the resources. None of these podunk little developers is going to "disrupt" the market with blockchain assets, because of ALL the developers and studios, they're the LEAST capable of designing and testing assets that did not come from their studio.

"Hey Jim, we have a hotfix we need you to work on."

"No time for that, Bob, XYZ Gamecorp just created a pair of shoes on the blockchain, and even though it's only going to net us a nickel, we're going to spend the next week working on getting it into the game."

Might as well just light their studios on fire and try to recoup the insurance money, because it'd ultimately be more profitable.
> * Failure to recognize an obstacle seems to be treated as a no-obstacle condition.

I'm not sure how else this would work. Do you mean the system may see that there's an obstacle, but doesn't know what it is, so it ignores it?

If that's the case, then fixing it is nearly an impossibility. Certainly you wouldn't want to slam the brakes for a plastic bag floating in the wind, but if every obstacle is treated the same, that's what you'll end up doing. But if you try to build a system that can make a decision on every kind of obstacle, it's an extremely exhaustive list.
I wanted to visit China this summer but I discovered you can't even buy tickets into China. I was planning on just avoiding Shanghai and hoping Bejing got better by August but I guess I'll have to keep waiting another long time to finally visit China.
This all sounds good on paper, except for the fact that large miners don't sell their bitcoin. Even when they do, it isn't on the open markets and happens in ways that don't affect the price (OTC) and by selling options.
Not sure what is interesting to this, can you explain please
Do software solutions can work? I’m not sure, besides I’m sorry but… I haven’t used emacs, would you say it is worthy?
If your kid hasn't already stumbled upon the KSP modding scene, it might be a good way to tide them over until KSP2
Might be closer than you think... Check out Notcurses.

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

Here's a demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY
That and the fact that the statistics don't seem very crisp says everything you need to know about cats.

Anecdotally I can confirm that my cats know each others names, not sure if they would recognize on a monitor though.
Yes, the suffering is small. But so is the payoff. My contention is that the people who statistically got seriously sick by the time Omicron became a thing in the US were the ones that decided to not get a vaccinated. I feel not an ounce of pity for them.

The knock on affects is that the Democrats were not doing themselves any favors in the election. It’s bad politics.
You pay for all the software you use, unless you are in a country with public domain and the software is clearly cast into it.

Some software you pay for in dollars. Some in postcards. Some by exchanging patent rights, or promising not to sue. Some by accepting contracts to contribute back changes you make, under certain circumstances.

There is no legal jeopardy involved in using GPL software that is different from buying a math library: you read the contract, you pay the price, you use the software in accordance with the contract.

Violate the contract, penalties attach, starting with enforcement of the contract.
Is there a competing config-management tool that behaves more like you want? I'm just curious because I haven't used the others in anger enough to know how they solve the problem you described
Having lived under Russian oppression during Soviet times, I can tell you that certainly I would prefer nuclear annihilation to being under the russian boot again. And I have small kids. Perhaps especially because I have small kids.
Q&A: the collapse of terra and what it could mean beyond crypto
You can game any system. I think the point is to give yourself guardrails that help you make good decisions for the present and future.
Correct Backups Require Filesystem Snapshots
Those might be complementary but they are still other languages. They have completely different semantics, performance characteristics, deployment stories, etc that will need to be learned, developed and supported internally.

It seems like they like ruby and appreciate what it allows them to do. There's no particular reason to think that the strengths they value in ruby will be present in those or any other languages either. They mentioned metaprogramming for example and it truly does feel easy and powerful in ruby in a way that I've only felt in certain lisps otherwise. Presumably they're heavily invested in certain techniques and powers, have earned and maintain internal expertise in them and find them valuable.

Moving the critical functionality into a language where they'd be giving up that hard-earned expertise is a bold move. It may be the standard move, but imo it's pretty radical and a fairly significant gamble. If you're pushing the limits of a language that otherwise works very well for you, expanding those limits does seem wise, even the conservative choice.
> provide numbers

Even a spreadsheet with such numbers is primarily speculation and your upper management knows this (they make such things all the time). As such, if they did not want to agree with you before this spreadsheet won't make a difference. If they want to agree but don't want to take the time to present exactly that spreadsheet to their compatriots, it is worth making it. If you don't work for a very large company (essentially a bureaucracy), this situation probably will not occur.
Yes, I called anyone and everyone I could at Better, our bid was contingent on those issues being resolved. I could not get anyone with decision making power outside of 9-5 business hours (and it wasn't easy even during business hours, often it would take several hours to get a callback), and also could not get a 15 day close. I had to urgently switch to a local banker to get that kind of service. The local banker started working at 7AM, and would call and email me late into the evening. Perhaps if you have a very run-of-the-mill mortgage situation, Better could work, but I feel like for any mortgages where the conditions are not typical, Better might not be able to respond like a local banker who is familiar with the requirements of the local market.