skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the world is full of datasets with < 200 datapoints, and that is where excel (in my experience) is great. With such datasets it often makes sense to look through the data at particular outliers.

Also, even with huge datasets I tend to always look at a random sample, and the "most extreme" datapoints -- mainly because in my experience there is a good chance some parts of the data are malformed, and need to be recollected/fixed. Of course, if you trust your data collection you don't need this!
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I don't have the time, but I'd love to see someone rewrite "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" as "Reminiscences of a Crypto Operator". I don't think you'd have to change any of the scams, only the context. Partner with a good illustrator and it would make a lovely coffee table book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera...
Oh, it's you!

What a beacon of light and inspiration you are. Thanks for your work.

That said, I welcome you to publish your work so it can become even better after a formalized peer-review process.
Market cap is not the sum of all injected capital, it’s the total supply multiplied by the most recent value of a unit. For example, if you paint 2 paintings and sell them to me for $100 each, and then I sell 1 of them for $1000 to a third-party, the market cap of your paintings is $2000 ($1000 x 2 paintings) despite there only being $1100 dollars spent.

It’s plausible that there’s less than $80bn of USD in the crypto market and so tether could well represent every single dollar available. I don’t know if I’d argue that is the case, but it’s certainly plausible — and so it’s easy to see how a collapsing tether could take down the entire market, or at least, represent a far greater threat than the ~5% it represents in market cap numbers.
Well, two flaws.

i) if Einstein had patented his ideas and had left Billions of Dollars to a top university, would it have been ok with you?.
To answer your question, Universities are institutions that last centuries. To survive and attract the best in the world for 300 years, there is no limit of cash that such an institution will need (they need to survive economic crashes, world wars, climate catastrophes, pandemics etc)

ii) You don't have counterfactual evidence. There is a difference between mis-quoting in the comment section vs in Billion $$$ Marketing campaigns
Probably, but all the top comments are saying "this is magic" or "I got to this blog feel stupid of whatever" whereas I just think it's a nice hack, so I thought I'd mention how I'd actually to do it in production.
I would have said Ghandi... though polling suggests it's actually Queen Elizabeth II.
I haven't used a cloud where you don't dictate the exact CPU you want. EC2, GCE, and Azure all provide specific guarantees. Even if you wanted a generic any-cloud binary you would probably compile with -march=skylake or, if truly paranoid, sandybridge.

Many distro packages are, by contrast, compiled for k8-generic. Freaking Opteron!

BTW "native" is not really recommendable. One really ought to target a particular platform.
Deutsche Bahn is very far from 99% punctuality. Statistics were published only recently and they pointed down once again. But to be fair going by car is hardly better, you can get stuck more or less unexpectedly in most somewhat busy places.
Thanks for taking the time to respond and collect all those links, I really appreciate it! Not just for the great reading material, but hopefully some potential community / contacts for people already working in this space (broadly).

I hope you're right, on... yeah, every single point here. It seems like we need something that's definitely not the mostly centralized world of the major tech giants, but also not completely atomized and economically unsustainable in a way that creates a power and technology vacuum... that leads inexorably back to centralized control and exploitation.

The essay on "local first software", in particular, really resonates. Going back to my point about our economic models for technology development (strongly) influencing the nature of the technologies that get developed, it seems like a lot of the existing open source technology is designed in way that facilitates commercial for-profit activities and structures. For example, most databases aren't designed for end-user access directly, nor do they enable users to bring different applications to the same data, in the way that traditional filesystems do. On the other hand, the traditional filesystem paradigm just doesn't scale like applications with big back-end databases. It's like... there's a whole type of infrastructure for which the technology stack just isn't really there yet. Or, maybe more accurately, hasn't yet come together in quite the right way.

I'm just starting to get more involved in this scene, but, just based on where I've come from studying the economics of ICT, this seems like just going to take considerable effort to get started. Probably a lot of work by activists/enthusiasts/etc... at the beginning. In the long run, I think it needs something more structured and economically SELF supporting than the traditional open source model as well. I'm hoping all of this is just... early in the process, so the organization that you'd see around larger projects just hasn't coalesced yet. I'll have to get in touch with some of these guys and have a few conversations...

Again, thanks so much for taking the time to reply.
For them I guess ...
> which only happened because they were refused normal banking

They gave nearly a billion dollars to someone without a contract. That's a higher level of stupidity than just "we used a shady banking partner because we had no alternative".
Awesome. You we're just making a joke, but for some reason that one simple statement had my brain looking at the dollar from a whole different perspective for a few seconds. "What is money, anyway????" Nice. It's like when you start to grapple with relativity... "What is time???"
Decentralized search engines.
For sure. When making my emergency kit (my oldest has severe food allergies and I live in a major earthquake zone), I ran across some issues with things with high fat content though (which I believe bran might be). Unless you’re very careful with removing oxygen, the fat can go rancid after awhile (from months to years depending on the specific oils).

So best to do some research beforehand.
Right, and I think they missed some major opportunities as a result.

Would be great to have an offering as the basic base image for docker containers (outside of UBI).

They let Project Atomic die.

Then they let CoreOS Container Linux die I think?

They have a Fedore CoreOS but don't seem to promote it at all and I can't find images on docker hub for it.

The RedHat stuff is generally paywalled. CentOS is gone.

I know they are pitching the IBM cloud - I don't care about the IBM cloud - though they keep on advertising Watson to me as the solution to every issue.

The OpenShift brand was hurt by the enormous mess of complexity it was compared to K8 and things like ECS and Fargate etc.
I would caution against this approach in general (unless you’re working with unusually uniform data from a deterministic source — in my world that is rarely the case). Summary statistics are useful but taken in isolation they can mislead. One loses the ability to get a feel for interesting non-aggregated phenomenon.

I find it’s important to actually “touch” the raw data even if only in a buffered, random sampling sort of way to get a feel for it. Sometimes with big datasets, looking through rows of data feels tedious and meaningless but I’ve found that I’ve often picked up on things I wouldn’t have without actually looking at the raw data. Raw data is often flawed, but there’s often some signal in it that tells a story hence it’s important not to overlook these through a lens of aggregate statistics.

The next step is to visualize the data multidimensionally in something like Tableau. Tableau works on very large datasets (it has an internal columnstore format called Hyper) and can dynamically disaggregate and drill down. Insights are usually obtained by looking at details, not aggregates.
A similar channel I've found recently that tackles the same kind of content is ScienceClic [1]. The visualizations are some of the best and most intuitive I've yet seen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN/videos
I am thinking about living off the grid for a few month this summer, this guide was pretty helpful.
I'd love to hear from someone at GitHub (anonymously or not) what they've done to be satisfied with action Heroku have taken that would allow the integration to be turned back on. My confidence in Heroku to give me accurate information on this is low.
That's the upshot of my own wall'o-text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31449413

I think you're lowballing the cost, though the total still remains low.

At the 2005 advertising peak, ads income (a cost born by the public through product purchases) was $50 billion. Subscription expense in 2020 was another $11 billion. Pro-rated per person among the 330 million population of the US:

- Advertising: $50 billion -- $150/person ($12.60/person-month)

- Subscription: $11 billion -- $33/person ($2.75/person-month)

- Combined: $61 billion -- $183/person ($15.40/person-month)

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers...

An advertising-free subscription assuming 2.5 persons per household on average would run less than $40/mo. With advertising, the cost would be less than $8/mo. This would fund journalism at the levels of 2005, whilst making the work product available to every household in the US.

We could factor in all book publishing revenues, roughly $25 billion (2019), for another $6.50/mo.[1]

Again, pro-rating this by household wealth / value, would make information equitably avaialable to all.

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Notes:

1. https://publishers.org/news/aap-statshot-annual-report-book-...
Exactly, it is not just operational cost for 1 year, but Stanford and Hebrew universities have to survive the next 500 years of humanity for the benefit of humanity. No amount of Cash in the Reserve is enough for a 500 year plan
There's a subsection of people who are very well served by that. And it has already been happening. SQL, Python, HTML/CSS/JS are all things that people use who are not primarily programmers. Applications like Unity, Excel, some Adobe stuff also blur the line here.

But let's not forget that there are a ton of people (many more than the above) who are constantly overwhelmed by computers even though they only use very few features. There's people who can't use ATMs and smartphones. Most computer users only ever use the most common applications (browsers, music/video players etc).
Caffeine is a very effective supplement that isn’t sold as medicine. So’s creatine.

NAC is a pretty effective supplement which is also coincidentally a medicine sometimes which is why you can’t get it on Amazon anymore.
You are making the assumption that it's one person traveling. If I imagine me traveling with my family, then the tradeoffs would look quite different:

1. There's only one driver in the car, so all other passengers could still work/read during the drive.

2. The cost is split. With three kids and two parents, the cost would be 45 EUR vs 50 EUR traveling with a somewhat fuel efficient car with an internal combustion engine. This is only fuel price and deprecation of the car is not accounted for and would be more.

3. The stress of switching trains multiple times with small kids, putting clothes on in the cold, making sure they don't bump into people, etc can totally negate any "you don't have to navigate traffic" benefits.

4. You usually don't travel from main railway station in city A to main railway station in city B. Getting to your actual destination can also be a slow and complicated affair with public transportation, especially in conjunction with 5.

5. Luggage can be problematic. If you are traveling with children, moving multiple heavy suitcases from one train to another while simultaneously taking care of kids can be a nightmare.
Show HN: WebApp to Create 3D Plants
Hi HN :)
I created a web app to create parametrized 3D models of plants. It's open source and build with svelte, typescript, ogl and nest.js. Feedback on UI/UX or code is very welcome :)
With that sort of question, I don't think you will be getting the answer(s) you would want or would like to see.

But the answer I will give you is that applying 'blockchain' to everything does not make sense. Best stick to payments or domains instead.

Let's see at least some replying with an absolute response and sweeping the brush on everything, or over-generalising and scanning anything that has the word 'blockchain' on it and screeching on every related blockchain post.
For comparison, in Berlin the monthly ticket for the A-B zones (does not reach the airport) costs €86, and a 4-ticket pack €9.40. A €9 monthly ticket is an insane bargain, even if you only plan on using public transport within the city.

(source: https://www.bvg.de/de/tickets-und-tarife)
> I was really struck going on vacation to San Francisco how together the bus schedule was,

Wow. Things must have improved incredibly in the last ten years.
1. Might want to mention FDO, even if it doesn't use the gcc-native profiling data.

2. Do not use instrumenting profilers for measuring code.
I wouldn't say explicitly, but that is basically how most law lectures happen. You generally start with a basic rule such as the definition of a crime. Then you proceed to discussions of case law that explain nuances behind that rule. Rule: murder is killing people. Nuances: All these cases where killing people isn't murder. By starting with a simple rule, then proving that the rule is not simple, every lecture revolves around a single lie. That perspective on how every simple rule can in practice be expansive and difficult is probably the biggest and most useful takeaway of law school.
In cities, there are many bus lanes to bypass traffic. And they circulate several times per hour, 6 or more.

Even if sometimes they are not punctual, the density saves you and you rarely think about it.
How is providing access to any publisher at a flat rate predatory in anything remotely like the sense of, say, inflicting the occupants of a public space to advertising subscribed to the highest bidder?
Washington? I don’t know for sure what he looks like, feels quite US specific. But for some reason Lincoln I do know.

I would guess the “Mona Lisa”. Or maybe actors in popular films like Robert Downey Jr.
so re: MtG, this goes back to my original point. most of the game depends on scarcity. I was recently informed about proxies where users can print their own cards, but it still sounds like the majority of players value the cards themselves rather than just a self printed version of it. apparently there is something special about "owning" MtG card rather than just a proxy

> Why would the game publisher, Google, or Apple want to make an effort to recognize assets from a blockchain they do not control and do not profit from?

they don't and probably will not do this, unless it starts to compete with their profits. this is what we are seeing with nfts in art world, llike Christie's and Sotheby's now selling nfts, Instagram and Meta adding nfts, and now Spotify announcing they will explore nfts. these corporations see value that they can extract, in the same way opensea is extracting 2.5% on each trade and as a result making millions in profit.

if more gamers begin to use and demand decentralized marketplaces for games and assets, the major publishers will step in to those spaces as well to try and keep their foothold and avoid becoming obsolete in a new market.
I've done this course and I'd say it's a high school level course. Maybe a superstar 7th or 8th grader could do this on their own but I think that would be a stretch because there's some "advanced" math involved in the exercises. It's explained pretty well but it definitely assumes you have a basic understanding of geometry.
What peer review or regulatory approval process has this been through? Seems pretty irresponsible -- there are many notorious pitfalls encountered with ML for medical imaging. You shouldn't play with people's lives.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand. Really, what an incredibly weak argument.

The Netherlands has chosen to legalize prostitution, for good reasons which have proven in practice that the argument that you are making is invalid. That immigrants (the bulk of which joined since that legalization) are demographically ascendant and embrace those same ideas that you espouse is utterly irrelevant. The point is: there is ample evidence that the theory you push is wrong.
You should try reading the constitution some time - there's an amendment that disagrees with your reasoning. It's called the 9th amendment and it literally says that there are rights beyond those specifically enumerated in the constitution.
There is still no audit, only attestations.
Many of my fiends in Germany get them delivered and they take the empty bottles back, others bring them home in crates and similarly just take the crates back to the store when they return. A lot of bottling is done locally (as it is in the US as well actually) so the bottles themselves aren't traveling that far.

My impression is that this system works quite well.
But you don't take away cars or impose a speed limit. You simply provide an alternative option. In fact, emptier streets will make every driver happy.
Or, another idea, for when you're out of luck, furious, and have nothing to lose: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120768/
Genuinely curious: why do people need that?
> Creating those estimates alone is more than the sum of total work usually.

Then simply add those hours spent estimating things to whatever time management solution that you use personally (for insights into where your time goes each quarter/year) or that your company mandates (for basically the same thing). If it's an actual problem, then simply raise it as such later down the road and look for ways to streamline things.

Most of the time you shouldn't care about how much time something takes (exceptions exist, based on the industry/project, but many deadlines are made up anyways), merely that the time to be spent on the task has been approved and that you're not doing something that isn't documented/categorized, e.g. time that "disappears" by being spent on things that don't have any sort of visibility/basis for taking up your time.

If changing how a button works takes 2 hours but writing tests takes 4 and refactoring old code takes another hour, then let the record show exactly that. If unclear requirements cause you to spend another hour or two in meetings and talking to people who didn't document code or explain their changes in merge/pull requests, then let the record show that, too.

Of course, this might vary on a per-company/project/culture basis.

> Then the problem of convincing others is itself typically more than the sum of total work.

If others in the team don't want to fix these things, then they probably aren't as important/annoying as you think they are and therefore probably won't be prioritized so highly anyways. When there are really annoying/brittle API integrations, for example, most devs usually should back you up in your efforts in making things less horrible.

> Usually metrics aren't accurate enough to be able to prove these things anyway in my experience.

You don't actually need metrics that are completely accurate, because finding ones that are is seldom easy to do or even possible, or simply not worth the effort. Having something to the tune of "This API integration can be improved, the last 3 feature requests related to it exceeded their estimates by quite a bit" should be enough, provided that you can get the other people on board.

If you cannot, then it's probably an issue of the actual work environment/culture and/or soft skills.
Cheaper, easier, more straight-forward and no tie in to just run a server.
Didn't hear /= upheld
> router with CALEA capabilities and specifically configure it to log all of your data

the point is that in the US this [the device you own snitching on you] is required by law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_fo...
That chip will more than likely be designed by the Chinese so still arguably toxic. Pick your poison.
> I think the trap is that over time it doesn't work exactly like it did before, and if you take it every single day you can get burned out.

You may have a magnesium deficiency. Tolerance to Adderall definitely isn’t guaranteed.

NAC can also help in some people.

(both of these recommended by my psych not just /r/nootropics)
My favorite one lately has been, what if supply chains collapse and grocery stores are empty for weeks/month, causing most people to starve? Or similarly, what if the electrical grid just stops working for some reason, causing the majority of jobs to evaporate overnight (as well as the aforementioned supply chain problems, and a whole host of cascading effects).

As a SWE, I recognize that although this career is one of the most valued in our current economy, we're highly dependent on modern infrastructure. Take away certain services, and all our years of coding experience are rendered useless.
The startup slump may be a blessing in disguise
Guys like Jack Ma consider being awake to be working. It's how a former CEO of mine justified his 10 week a year vacation schedule with 2.5 day work weeks. The man would walk into the office after a weekend at around 11:30am on a Tuesday to select a few employees to eat lunch with, and then make up for his missed work by staying until 7:30 on Thursdays.
I had the same thought. Some police have punished citizens for petty reasons and that door is still wide open in this solution. It's still better than what we have now, but it's not perfect.

Perhaps an additional measure could be that a jury of the people should decide if the property is returned to the person or if it goes to the state/treasury. Most people seem to think civil forfeiture is problematic.
USDC.
Does anyone know if Red Hat enabled landlock in this release? The kernel supports it since 5.13 and they are running 5.14. The kernel config should look something like this:

CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK=y

CONFIG_LSM="landlock,lockdown,yama,..."
I'm curious - why Canonical is considered "sketchy"?
You are describing a criminal situation.
1. Yes, I know the rules here.

2. Yes.

3. No, I‘m saying that forest is being removed for windmills. You are assuming that I‘m having some dumb argument. This is what I see where I live. Windmills in a national park with more trees removed for service roads. But please, continue educating.
The singular habit I picked up way back in the day was to simply cope with what was available.

There's all sorts of utilities and such. Emacs was a grand example at the time as well. Lots of better mousetraps.

But when you bounce around to a lot of different machines, machines not necessarily in your control, "lowest common denominator" really starts to rear its ugly head.

That vast majority of my command line concoctions are burned into muscle memory.

Today, I think the base line install of modern *nixes are higher than they were back in the day, but the maxim still applies of working with what they have out of the box.
I'm a bit out of the loop on RHEL, but a large reason for the specific kernel versions is to maintain API/ABI compatibility.

One of the reason, at the place were we ran about 100's of RHEL/CentOS instances, he stayed with RHEL-ish installs was to maintain API compatibility through out the lifecycle of the OS version.

I've now moved on to places were that isn't that specific need. But I still have a few smaller projects that I use RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/etc. because of the stability that those built into the releases.