skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that there's a survivorshio bias in the 100 year old buildings you see still standing today. In many cases they are impractical for modern standards too - my home has 2ft thick external sandstone walls, and all the internal walls are brick. It's massively overengineered for the use of the building.

At the same time there is nowhere to put any insulation on external walls meaning that during the winter were leaking huge amounts of heat and during the summer we live in an oven. Compare that to my friends modern new build in the same city (Edinburgh) their internal temperature is mostly stable.

There's also things like "you can't run any extra cabling"- adding ethernet to my existing cabling isn't happening without replastering my entire home. And lets not start with modern 5GHz WiFi not passing through my internal walls.

Needs have changed, materials are more consistent and easier to get, efficiency standards have changed. All of these things have had a huge impact on materials and costs. It's unfair to just say that buildings are built worse without considering anything else.
It used to be that the political Supreme Court justices were confirmed with bipartisan approval. This meant that the court's decisions generally fell within the national consensus and the judges received national respect.

Now, we have a new phenomenon where every justice is confirmed by an approximately 51-49 party line vote. And moreover, because the Senate is highly weighted towards one party (as small rural states get the same vote as big urban states), the politics of the Supreme Court are quickly becoming very different from the politics of the nation.

I suspect the new state of affairs - where 5 or 6 unelected politicians-for-life who aren't respected by most voters create laws that most voters disagree with - is unsustainable.
There are obvious flops based on how much it cost to make and how much it made in the box office.
But the kids do grow up.

With dogs, that is eternal.
Imo the reason for this is because there isn’t one perfect show for everyone. If they have to cater to the world, then they have to cater to everyone’s tastes.
Who owns a copyright to these images? Can I just use them on my website?
HBO seems to do it.
Leverage would be more like buying Russian gas but having a backup. If you have no choice but to buy Russian gas then it is not leverage—in fact it is leverage against you.

Also If EU did not buy Russian gas and China and India were the only buyers then that lowers the price and profits Russia commands. In a liquid marketplace the number of buyers available contribute to profits.
I just recently got into a trading firm. I also had this sort of question before and its relative question, that is “can individual trader really make money without having to be a fortune teller”?

What I found out that my trading firm is a market maker, and this trading firm, alongside with other non individual (corporate) players in trading world, have moats in their cutting of fees.

To make a profitable trade, you need to take into account many of the fees (and taxes) or else you get into death by thousand cuts. Trading firm simply operates in a different fee structure than individual traders. Some market makers are actually getting paid instead, just by providing liquidity. That’s why they can be profitable.

If an individual stock trader buys stock A for $100 and sell it later for $100, it is considered loss (due to fees) or at least break even. Not so much for trading firms, they actually make profit.

Since trading bots are just individual traders, same rules apply.

CMIIW
Drunk in osdm moshpits gets me to whole new levels of dopamine
I was wondering that myself, as reading the list I suspect it's got something to do with people reporting they experienced the feeling from that song. Too many bands had their most popular song featured, and while it could be that songs that cause frisson are more popular it seems more likely that more people listening to the song makes it more likely to be reported.

If they had some program check some huge library of songs for ones that have some sequence likely to cause frisson I'd expect the playlist to be far different.
USDP which DAI has as collateral is at $1, there exists a different USDP coin which dropped to $0 in April, but that USDP was used hardly anywhere.
Earned $1.6M total since 2017, up until today. Still impressive, of course.
>Statistics show very clearly that coops have a higher survival rate.

Your claim is easily refuted by pointing out that of all of the largest most profitable companies in the world, none are co-ops. Not a single one.
I don't remember which hotel website(Marriott?),I was using that migrated to MPA and their dev team had no clue that it broke their in-app chat feature. Agent asks me for registration details, I click on the page to get details... Poof, my chat gets disconnected and now I have to wait another 30 minutes for next agent.
Schubert's "Ave Maria" is the one that gets to me the most, although I associate it with action scenes where you can not hear the protagonists, with glass breaking in slow motion, from movies and video games.
This is the stuff that "hurts" the most. The realization that not everyone starts from the same place and most of us are way back from starting line. And no matter how hard you work there isn't a way to recover that "lost distance".
No, the internal storage is still UTF-16.

What the "UTF-8 literals" feature is really about the conversion of strings to byte[] (and similar).

And more specifically the static initialisation of byte[]: initialising a byte[] from a string literal will store the UTF8 encoding of the literal as a bytes array and can be performed from static data (a bytes constant in the binary), before that you had to write the "new byte[]" with individual integral byte value by hand e.g.

byte[] thing = new byte[] { 0x77, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6c, 0x64 };

can now be written

byte[] thing = "world";
I am sure you have heard this before, but F# sounds like it would be right up your alley. It has sane defaults (non-nullability, algebraic data types, etc.) while still targeting the CLR, enabling the usage of any normal C#/.NET library to be used within your application. Granted, there's _some_ friction going between C# and F#, but that is a small price to pay (IMO).
>Js has const, C has const, Java final.

C# has readonly and const

>Imho it'd be awesome if mutability were not the default

If they decided one day that - "let's make immutable by default", then it'd be performance hit - wouldn't it?
If the issuer of USDC fails to redeem USDC with USD, the price of USDC in the market will collapse, so I'm not sure which "multiple parties" have to fail for USDC not to be redeemable.

Further, keeping funds in a non-custodial wallet entails a huge operational risk that you're glossing over entirely.
I have been working with .NET since the heady, early days when the web framework was being called ASP-NG (next gen) and C# had not yet been given it's official name. I've written millions of lines of C# but sometimes I think it would behoove me to start over with C# as though I had never seen it before because there are things that have been added to the language in the last few years that I had no clue were there. Is there a course or book or blog post series along the lines of "C# for people who are writing C# like it's 2010"?
Malformed anatomy is still a pretty good artifact of AI. Problem is some human artists aren't that great either, so easy to confuse with AI.
They were listening to the Cash version, so the sentence is fine as is.
I don’t think astrophysics is a hard science anymore.
Beautiful animation. It shows how much understanding were there in 1968 for diagnosing the problem, and how little for treating it (“Using plain common sense, is the easiest way to minimize stresses and strains of life and keep all sides in balance”).
And the solution is? Have a system where I can lose ALL my money by forgetting a password? Or when a crypto exchange goes boom and my life's savings are not FDIC ensured? I am sure your friend could get back in into the bank account. Being a random subject to a dumb banking accident is not the reason to upend the financial lives of billions.
Cherry-picked images, I guess.
Is it me or is this very depressing and scary? I always assumed the creative industries would be relatively resistant to automation, with more algorithmic jobs more easily replaceable. But with this you never need to buy stock pictures ever again, right? I saw several stock-picture-esque images of indistinguishable quality, and yet with incredible specificity to the user-supplied description.
Ok, someone indulged your complaint.

What did you /learn/ from this? Do you actually know more about the capacitor than when you were just told it was coin sized?
Squid Game's success is partially due to international mainstream audiences not being familiar with Korean overly dramatic narrative style. Once one has seen and gotten used to their melodrama style, they are in a rut just like US laugh track sitcoms.
Thanks! I've been reading about the OSR and trying to understand what it is all about. It's funny but the last time I was keeping informed about the RPG market, back in 2011-12, is when the OSR started up, with retro-clones like OSRIC and so on, but I completely missed it back then. I guess it hadn't gathered momentum yet. My interest in the article I posted above follows from my attempt to get my head around the OSR.

Critical Role is another thing that had escaped my notice. The way I understand it, the "narrativist" agenda, following Ron Edwards' model (that first popularised the term) and that I know from a stream of "Indie" RPGs that came out of The Forge community, is specifically opposed to a story arc carefully planned by the GM and instead invests on rules for "collaborative storytelling", that give players "narrative control". Those games are sometimes styled as "storygames" rather than RPGs and they are, in my mind, exemplified by Dogs in the Vineyard [1] possibly because that was the absolute darling of The Forge crowd back when I was browsing the forums.

But I personally also think of the kind of character- and roleplaying-focused game you are talking about as "narrative focused" myself, quite aside from the academic discussion, of which I'm only dimly aware most of the time anyway.

All that said, thanks for clarifying! It's been a long time since I moved in rpg circles and I miss a lot of the nuance in online discussions and articles.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_the_Vineyard
click multiple times on mobile, get free points until the tickmark loads in
I used to use emacs, which had a decent PL/SQL mode. But it has been quite a while since I used anything but SQLDeveloper (Oracle) or SQL Server Management Studio, which are pretty hands-off.
Oh sure, and while we're dreaming, imagine that it's nanotech so it repairs itself automatically and can even make copies of itself.

Even if such a ridiculous "Star Trek" miracle device were possible to build with today's technology, it would just ruin the economy.
To be clear, I love Postgres. We use Postgres as our app db. But clickhouse is hands down better for analytical workloads[0] (think aggregate queries over a billion rows).

> Clickhouse sucks when you need data integrity, primary key can be duplicated. People use MergeTree engine to dedupe, but even so, dedupe doesn't guarantee the absence of duplication primary key. So at query time you have to call Aggregate Function.

Agreed. Fortunately we control the processes that insert data and can handle these issues during ingress.

> But good thing is ClickHouse has amazing integration with Postgres such as replication through logical replication, foreign data wrapper so you can query Postgres table inside Clickhouse

Yes! This was surprisingly easy. We set up a way[1] for users to connect their pg data in Luabase.

0 - https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

1 - https://luabase.notion.site/Postgres-c6abe018218d49348ad7549...
Because we can send emails from Australia to Macedonia for free.

I think the point they're trying to make is the current (lack of?) Global financial system is a joke.

Crypto is enabling something that has the value and utility of "money" with interconnectedness and simplicity of the Internet. How does that not click in ppls minds?

For the 7Billion ppl on earth, easy low fee international money transfers are a joke. And in this context low fee is 1-3%.

I can send $1B USDC for 60 cents using crypto.

And before anyone says "but you need to have crypto and a wallet and an exchange and a ..."

The same is true about email. You need to have a computer, and internet, and a email provider/server.

We take for granted the things that are already engraved in our lives, but it wasn't that long ago when someone could make the same argument about snail mail/fax vs email.
We're the AI generated images from scratch or they are edits to some human image ?
I'm slightly surprised to report a 100% score. However, I think I'm actually recognising DALL-E-2's _style_, and not "this picture is CG". It feels more like I'm identifying the work of an artist I'm very familiar with, rather than identifying fundamentally different categories of creator.

I think all it would take to "defeat" me here would be greater variety of high-quality image generation AIs.

I expect in a few years that will be the case, unless the "style" of DALL-E-2 is something fundamental, instead of an artifact of its specific implementation.
Flightcontrol (YC W22) Is hiring a back end TypeScript engineer [Own-cloud PaaS]
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Don’t think the Germans still know how to “get it done”. Afaik their power transmission network hasn’t received significant improvements (even though I had last read something on the subject a few years ago, maybe things have changed) and their energy prices were among the highest in Europe before this war started. I’m also very bearish when it comes to their car industry efforts to transition to EVs, but that’s a slightly different subject.
Unusable on mobile, the button behavior is all over the place
I did say "to me"!
"what is truth?"

each individual one of us has to decide that, for themselves. Too many decide that "truth" is what they think someone else thinks.
Because then you would have shows made for fans, and not shows made for woke HR departments.
Standards have been trending up. Modern houses are much more likely yo survive a hurricane, and have much better insulation. Most people have no idea what makes a house good and so are impressed by things that don't matter. A lot of this is because the important parts are hidden inside the walls where you can't see them.
I don't think the initial script / idea is a good indication of where a movie / show is going. A lot more of it has to do with investment into locations, sets, props, technology used to shoot it, skill of crew and director, actors, editing.
No. Excessive spending is the major problem. They would spend 100% of all income / revenue if they could. And still complain it isn’t enough.
Ecstasy. There are heights of happiness unreachable without drugs. The funny thing is, I only ever take it when I am happy, because it can‘t turn an existing frown upside down. It sucks feeling the chemical rush of it but without happiness, because your base state is bad.

The last time I took it was so long ago, I can‘t remember. I see no upcomming situation where‘d I‘d be happy enough to take it.
Disney also has the benefit of being able to makes billions in movie theater that pays for content before if ever gets to streaming. On the other hand, how many people watched Loki and WandaVision to have context for Dr. Strange? It’s the famous “flywheel” that Disney has been talking about since the 60s.
it’s easy to dismiss nft and the like if you are dead-set on your opinion that it’s all ponzi, but it is making traction in art and media: see Christie’s and Sotheby’s and a variety of notable artists and galleries not to mention Meta, Spotify and other platforms.

> you can just use cash?

this question sorta gets at one of the primary values of crypto, that it’s peer to peer, transferred non custodially and pseudonymous. many countries are moving away from cash into digital only forms of transactions, and having a system that upholds peer to peer transactions can be useful.

replace abortion in that example with other legally questionable actions depending on your state. maybe buying marijuana or psilocybin for medical purposes, paying somebody like Edward Snowden for giving a lecture, or purchasing a VPN subscription. for citizens who are rebelling against their state in some way, such as abortion rights protests, or climate activism like extinction rebellion, or a person that lives in a less democratic regime, it may be desirable to use certain crypto systems to mitigate state oversight.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/style/abortion-crypto-don...
Sorry, wrong link:

https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
Thing is, all those "concerns" proved to be bullshit, created by a certain church to cover its own crimes, such as rampant pedophilia and promotion of numerous social pathologies. Remember when Vatican granted diplomatic immunity to a pedophile to protect him from law enforcement? That's the people who invented the satanic panic.
So stream cutting is the new cord cutting.
Watches use a gasket and either a friction fit or screwed on cover. There is no reason a phone manufacturer can't do the same with a larger product.
> centralization and hierarchies are far more efficient

Efficient at what? Dictatorships are efficient at maximizing centralization power (and therefore creating wars), not efficient at making citizens happy.

Private companies are efficient at maximizing profit for the shareholders, not efficient at making employees and customers happy.

> With democracy, you spread the decision making across a vast number of under-informed people, which seldom results in superior outcomes.

Wrong. You are trying to applying direct democracy at specific, technical decisions. This would be like passengers on a flight voting on what flap configuration to use.

But democracy is not the Borg and does not automatic mean "everybody decides everything together". Specific knowledge and division of labor can still exists.
> First: a mortgage is overcollaterized. A bank will take the whole house from you if you default, not just what is due. They are taking your downpayment and effectively keeping control over the property.

Uh, no. They are required by law to sell the property at a balance between timeliness and recovery of owed monies. And they are required to return to the mortgagee funds in excess of what was owed.
Wouldn't regulating crypto need an influx of dollars from the exchanges or other liquidity providers back into the government? If that money doesn't exist or is hidden well enough regulation is only going to crash down liquidity providers and screw this people you are saying it should be designed to help.

The US is already very much ahead of most countries in regulating but not outright banning crypto. It's closer to banning it than let's say Switzerland. With the way they consider any sale a taxable event if US regulations were better for let's say the retail crypto trader as a whole they would all massively move to US regulated exchanges like Coinbase but that would remove a lot of "natural" circuit breakers like bots or manual arbits.
The main reason I avoid Netflix shows is that their formula insists on a cliffhanger season finale, but there is no promise of another season. Many shows quite literally have no conclusion, ending in their version of the second act.

Sci-fi nerds are somewhat used to this; it was a problem even when cable tv was the dominant model. Netflix has somehow managed to bring this sour note to every genre.
I disagree: delegating to a cache isn't a major problem, when the single source of truth is public and relatively easily accessible. A DNS server censoring or tampering with DNS requests is already trivially detectable now by comparing it to other servers, and it would be even easier to detect when anybody can operate a "full" DNS node with a $50 hard drive and a fiber connection.
Land Marketplace, Landmove Launches LandSmart Tools
It'd hard to sleep for you not Africans. 1C difference can't make such a difference since we can adapt. I am all for climate change but the title of the study sounds meh.
Objects of type `string` are internally encoded as UTF-16. Byte arrays or spans can contain anything, including strings encoded as UTF-8 (or whatever encoding you like, or raw binary files, or random bytes). The new feature does exactly what's written in the blog post: if a string literal contains only UTF-8 characters and you assign it to a byte array or span, it gets encoded as UTF-8. It's just syntactical sugar.

This is a post about C#11 the language, not the framework or the runtime. It's only telling you about what the compiler does when it encounters some syntax. Under the hood, it probably calls some encoders from the standard library.
Your toaster would be fine if you would control the variables you input. Bread and air humidity and temperature, keep it clean so the mechanisms don't jam, etc etc. You don't wanna think about these things, but want to pay someone to make a machine that does it for you. Just because you want that and people will say they can provide it, doesn't mean its available.

Bullfrogs want wings, too; so they don't bump their little butts when they hop.
Are there any actual human-created images? I didn't stumble onto any. Maybe that's the point?
Thanks for replying!

> I hear ya! But I don't have the power to make PostgreSQL switch to C++. Years ago, std::sort() vs qsort() was almost a standard example of how C++ can be faster than C.

Indeed - re-reading my initial comment it sounds like that particular part of my comment was directed at you, but it's really directed at projects like Postgres. The std::sort vs qsort example is exacly what I mean!
Odd Lots is also a really excellent podcast, even outside of this episode. Their coverage of the past couple years of supply chain issues has been so cool.
Where are you where you can’t sell excess electricity back to the grid? You definitely can here in SE Pennsylvania. Amongst the few people I know with solar panels on their roof it’s the most common scenario. Several of them have no battery either so they cannot store excess electricity.
Some part of physics are not hard science at the moment as long as we can't perform observations/experiments to validate or invalidate theory (for example string theory). Some part of astrophysics are clearly not hard science at the moment.
Nobody cares if the make money.

Everyone is still filled with hope.

They'll care if/when they lose.
It makes sense in the context that many people use Dune (the product mentioned in this article) for crypto analytics and Dune uses Postgres.
Having already seen a few DALL-E generated images, there seemed to features I could pick up on that would allow me to identify them such as proportions, composition or unnecessary random detail. For example, in one image, there was a trail from what looked like a spaceship in the sky but the spaceship itself was obscured by a face in the foreground. It was hard to believe any human artist would choose that composition as it's quite jarring to look at.
I think you have the point, and it makes me worried to see your comment downvoted to oblivion.

It is worrying to see that people tend to just click thumbs down when they don't agree rather than to pick the towel and build a strong argument against what they don't agree with.
> And the fact that YC actually invested in this company which claimed to contravene that basic rule is staggering.

StableGains was skimming off the top so they weren’t directly exposed to the risk of the underlying asset.
In exchange for Röyksopp, I present you the ending of Pacific Heights' "Buried by the burden" (the music video features point cloud/LIDAR imaging, a bonus): https://youtu.be/XBUdCBxrhZo?t=168