skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's possible to develop the ability to predict astronomical events without a lot of work analogous to modern science. Sure it was probably couched in some spiritual terms that we wouldn't recognize, but it's probably not all that different to how people will view our modern science in thousands of years.
> The correct answer is a 10-year extended window

How would that work? Very few people stay in a tech job for 10 years. I stayed in a software job for 9 years, until I was laid off, and that's extremely unusual.
A large fraction of the field of economics is about taking that tremendous force coming from the desire for personal gain (= greed if you will) and turning it into a public good (= the enormous abundance the markets have delivered) while avoiding some of the most egregious harms (= "externalization of costs, privatization of profits" = exploitation, pollution, overfishing, etc, etc).

What I believe OP is talking about is how the blockchain made it possible to incentivize people to mine, thereby delivering the service of the public good of the blockchain.

Sure, all of those individual points are of perhaps debatable value, but he acknowledges that while maybe mining or staking aren't quite it yet, the fundamental blockchain tech still enables decentralized coordination and the creation of a public good through private incentive.

Which is no small feat.
I never understood this argument. If you have code that only runs on perl 5 then install perl 5. If breaking changes objectively make a language better then break it! Nobody is forcing you to migrate to perl 7 and you can always just maintain binaries for perl 5 for legacy use.

The amount of time spent on this seems absurd and could have been spent getting a perl 7 release candidate ready. It's sad to see OSS eat itself alive so often over a desire to keep something that people just assume is desired.
Related: Bring Back the Sabbath (https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/bring-back-the-sabba...)
There are parts of New Jersey 11 miles from the closest bit of New England. I'd be inclined to treat that as close enough.
Can you take stock of a public competitor in the same industry and simply apply its price movements to a private valuation?
I agree with the hope not but I have never had a correctly made burrito at Chipotle that didn't fall apart. But I have had many burritos usually off of a taco truck that hold together quite nicely.
> Neat! Does it have any compelling features over e.g. geogebra, or inkscape?

minimalistic, you called it
Bitcoin as a concept is philosophically opposed to the philosophy of Keynes. What is a Keynesian Bitcoiner anyway?
That doesn't bear out in interviews and the remuneration stage of hiring.

The main struggle is lack of sufficiently skilled applicants.

The problem might be our ability to attract them! But it's a tough market.
I happen to think that Germany has about the right balance of encouraging hunting that's beneficial to the environment and allowing traditional gunsmithing, while prioritizing the right of the vast majority of Germans who have no desire to be involved with firearms to live in peace.
"Obviously Gmail and such are piped directly into global intelligence databases"

Wait --- 'obviously'?!? Do you have any info on this because that is a wild claim.
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine
Point is the only case for taking money from people now and giving it to other people is based on the wealth people have now. Everyone involved in slavery (or the slavery reparations attempts to address) is long dead. The argument is "you are wealthier because of slavery". Which may not be true according to the above.

I don't know if that line of reasoning is correct; I'm just laying it out for discussion.
> fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt

Well good thing I'm an individual adult and, after assessing my lifestyle and level of fire-arm responsibility, feel confident that I have control over these scenarios (not) playing out. I don't have any control over someone breaking into my house at night.
This is one of the coolest web apps I've seen... awesome work!
Ever since HomeAssistant developers threw a hissy fit about NixOS (and anyone else) repackaging their software, even if their license allows for that, I can no longer support this project. Which is a shame, since it is very turnkey.
Oh my god - I hadn’t heard the phrase “story points” in a few weeks and now I will have nightmares tonight!
I can confirm. After donating a similar amount, I regularly field calls from candidates (directly, not from their staff). Granted it’s usually just asking for more money, although I’ve had some interesting chats to say the least.

10k is not a lot at the presidential election sure, and maybe not for Senate either, but it is a lot of money even in House races. And for many state races.
I haven't seen this video, but would like to -- It sounds right to me, which instantly makes me question it, but it does fit the information coming out of Ukraine re: Russian military and local population.

This is exactly the scenario the 2A is designed to thwart.

It doesn't guarantee a win, but it gives civilians a chance to group together to protect themselves. I've got friends from Hong Kong, and what the government did there to a helpless (disarmed) population in order to crush any unapproved views absolutely blew my mind. People being murdered, rounded up and vanished, thrown from buildings, beaten in the streets on a wide scale. If the troops are given false information, and move in to attack, then they're going to be made to pay dearly for every mile they advance. There's a lot more people out of uniform then in it, and I mean a lot -- winning against a mostly disarmed population (in the middle east) is more than we can handle. Attacking a heavily armed population in its home area is suicide for the attacking forces.
> but if you look for it, you can find some usually anonymous detractors.

Seems like a vacuous statement. Isn’t that true of anything/anyone in life?
in my experience, good managers of any kind will be there to push on issues that block me or help communicate/coordinate across the company whenever my work needs. Everything else should be hands off
> I do think they'll try harder & more earnestly than the rest of the gang attempting it.

Why, though? What do people base this assertion on, other than clever marketing materials which extol virtually meaningless controls like "it's hosted abroad" (which is actually much worse for foreign nationals' privacy, for example)?
I've been paid high hourly wages to build software and you definitely start to look at every minute of non-billable time as, "I could have made X in these 3 hours I spent relaxing." Leads to overwork. There's a healthy balance but took me a while to find it.
I wonder what they would think about my eyes becoming short sighted because I stare at a computer screen all day, or my neck aches because I sit in a chair in a room all day.
Maybe the goal was never to chop trees?

One of the projects I'm working on right now is a vector GUI with one OpenGL based and one software based render pipeline. It's also networked (one server only). Right now I can't tell you a single thing that needs to be destroyed in this program. When you start it, it acquires and sets up resources from the OS, and it uses those. Well, there is a worker thread that reads files from the filesystem, that one needs to fopen() and fclose() files. There is also a job_pool_lock() and job_pool_unlock() to read/write work from a queue...

When the program is closed, the OS will cleanup everything, no need for me to do that (that would also be slower). And note that what the OS does is not like RAII destruction of individual objects. It's maybe also not like a garbage collector. It is like destruction of a (linear) arena allocator, which is how I try to structure my programs when that is required. This way reduces need for destruction calls by so much that I seriously don't worry about not being able to use RAII.

(The frame rendering also works like that - When starting a new frame, I reset the memory cursor for temporary objects that have frame lifetime to the beginning, reusing all pages from the last frame. I'm not ever releasing these pages).

The widget hierachy is constructed by nesting things in an HTML like fashion. I have a simple macro that exploits for-loop syntax to "open" and automatically "close" these widgets. The macro works mostly fine in practice but can break if I accidentally return from this loop (a break is caught by the macro). An RAII based solution would be better here, but I also feel that maybe there must be a better overall approach than nesting generic stuff in this way. The "closing" of elements in this case is needed not because they need to be destroyed (they are stored in the frame allocator after all) but because I don't want to name individual nodes in the hierarchy, but want to build the nesting implicitly from the way the nodes are opened and closed.

There is no way that you could convince me that "destruction" is an important concern in this program. It's probably not enough of a concern to make me switch to some idiomatic automation technology that has potentially large ramifications on how I need to structure my program.
Snowden docs
I'm kinda torn on AVX-512 (and SIMD in general). On one hand, AVX-512 finally introduced a sane programming model with mask registers for branching code, which makes the lives of compilers much easier.

On the other hand, the tooling for turning high-level languages into SIMD code is not there yet, ISPC refuses to support ARM, and is still kind of a novelty tool.

Additionally, 512-bit wide vectors are just too big - the resulting vector units take up too much die space even on big cores, and the power consumption causes issues causing said dies to downclock. Probably it won't be viable on small cores.
Or they have custom code for bigger services.
There must be a lot of statistical noise in the climate system and political systems, but maybe there is enough data now to find the signal within that connects the two.

I think that one particular risk that needs to be thought about specifically, though, is the risk of nuclear war, for which there is even less data. Consider the following hypotheticals:

* The difference between 2 degrees warming and 3 degrees increases the chance of nuclear war by 1% (percentage point)

* The expected death toll of a nuclear war is 1 billion people

* Some particular country committing to a "net zero by 2050" goal increases the chance of keeping to 2 degrees warming by 1% (percentage point)

The conclusion is that the expected number of lives saved by this country committing to this policy is 0.01 * 0.01 * 10^9 = 10^5 = 100,000.

Implications for individual voters within the country are left as an exercise for the reader.
I think in my lifetime I’ve started to see the articles morphing a bit more towards “pushes back the date for the first evidence of people doing X”, which is a better spirit of discovery to express. This may be the result of choosing better magazines to read though, too. :)
This is why I love HN. Thanks for contributing, this has been a very interesting discussion.
We're not too far off right now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
If Shaq lifts me up so I can dunk, you can say that I dunked, but in general it's more accurate to evaluate things under more normal circumstances.
Simply, but not precisely. The same macroeconomic factors that affect the public companies’ value apply.
Ava Find - It was a Windows-only file indexing and search software. You could find any files instantly by name and pattern matching. It also had a window with recently changed files which it actively monitored to update indexes.

These days, Windows has good file indexing out of the box... but I still miss the "recently changed files" pane.
Yeah, there are rare exceptions to The Rule.
`event.key` returns the key with the mappings, e.g. "E"

`event.keyCode` returns the physical key, e.g. "KeyE"
Two techniques for solving unreproducible (random) bugs
The VAST majority of employees at Bolt would not get life-changing amounts of money at an $11B valuation.

Unfortunately, they'll probably never be able to sell their shares for even a fraction of that amount anyway.

The first 5 engineers would be incredibly lucky if they got 0.1% - who knows how many of them fully vested and still have shares. I'm guessing less than half. There's MAYBE one person who was looking at close to $11M.

Engineers after that would be incredibly lucky to even get 0.01% of the company. That's $1.1M. Again - I'd be surprised if there's even 5 fully vested that still have shares.

And even if they still have the shares, they'll be lucky to sell them at a $2B valuation - let alone $11B. So cut those numbers by 1/5th (or more).

Bolt would've been a SCREAMING success for a startup. Unless you were engineer #1-5 - you'd be better off as an L4 at FAANG.
This reminds me of the Love Contract skit from Chappelle's Show.
That's crazy. I'm speechless. What a fucked up situation.
> but also explains why stable coins keep central bankers awake at night.

Can you elaborate on this?
Deblurring is a classical ill-posed inverse problem where no matter how much math you throw at it (and there's lots of very interesting work in that vein) at the end of the day, data-driven solutions (i.e., ML) will work best for most cases. The only caveat is that ML solutions can be somewhat riskier in that you increase the chances of hallucinating false details, but given the quality of current SOTA it's often an acceptable trade-off (application-dependent, of course).

Another caveat: for ML-based solutions, data is key, and a lot of early work on ML-based deblurring suffered from the fact that the "blurry" image data was synthetically created by blurring sharp images. Thankfully, the community has come to realize this and has taken steps to fix it, by collecting "real" blurry datasets and creating more realistic synthetic blurry datasets.
This is one of those points on which I have realized that in many respects, my dad and I do not share a worldview, and live in such different worlds.

Yes, I knew this. I have not bothered bringing it up with my dad, but may end up doing so in the course of making it clear that he can either have unsecured firearms or his grandson in his house and truck, but not both.
As someone who works for Proton VPN, I can assure you we do not resell any white label VPN services, and that the people I work with every day are incredibly smart people who truly, deeply care about users’ online privacy.

I’ll concede that this isn’t much better evidence than the links you provided, but that archived site in your comment really doesn’t read like a reputable source of truth, either.
Daily Mail headline: "Thinking gives you cancer!"
It's not just about central exchanges. A stablecoin lets you use on-chain exchanges like Uniswap, loan money on chain, etc.

(I don't think there's a tax advantage though. I'm not a CPA but my understanding is that in the US, any exchange of one token for another is a taxable event.)
Is there not selection bias in this? That people being treated for mental illness have high incidence of mental illness?
That’s a good point - I hadn’t thought of it that way. Thank you!
I actually referenced tamu_nerd's link below, but my approach was simpler as I used an ESP32 (more pins, so no shift register needed), and I powered the ESP32 with its own USB charger (so no AC to DC converter needed). I can add something to GitHub and will reply here)
Which is pretty much realistic…
Buy new ones if they die? Looks like they cost $20 each.
Real time events in a text format can be easily version controlled.

Better than export a zip and store in Dropbox imho.
>Do you have any info on this because that is a wild claim.

Not only has the concept and implementation of automated law enforcement portals been around since the 90s, the Snowden docs revealed that major providers were providing such portals. AND that their inter-datacenter communications were being piped directly into global intelligence databases without.

These portals, NSLs, and other mechanisms have also been codified into law for over a decade, and their existence is extremely well documented as well as reinforced.

It sounds like a wild claim, but unfortunately, it is extremely based in reality. And, it's so well documented that to be ignorant of it at this point is akin to incompetence.
Range is important, but the differences diminish once we get above 250 or 300 miles. Especially for what may be typical, where you charge nightly at home. Those who regularly drive for a living may have a different perspective.

Looking past reviews and whatnot, I can't ignore some of the bigger safety concerns, like randomly catching on fire. An extra 20 or 30 miles of range is irrelevant in that case. (to be fair, maybe that's a general EV issue, and Tesla is known only because of the volume of that market they own)
I looked up something quickly, to see if it was still true.

In the UK, where you're not allowed to use firearms to defend yourself, home invasions where someone is home is 64%. In the US, where it is permissible, home invasions where someone is home is 27.6%.

You're over twice as likely to be robbed while you're home in the UK as you are in the US. I'm sure the factors are complex, but knowing that you're actually risking your life when you break into a home in the US has to be one of the factors.

https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/home-insurance/burglary-statist...
https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/burglary-statist....
https://stripe.com/files/stripe-2021-update.pdf
Pokemon go that's actually a game and not a one trick pony relying on the AR gimmick.

The fact that real life locations carried that game for so long is so sad because it could've had so much potential if the game was designed to be a game. You know, fun.

You should've been able to have actual battles instead of just spamming the screen. You should've been able to go to heal at Pokemon centers.

They should've taken all the proven game mechanics of the original games and adapted them properly
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The sounds of the crashes are very loud and occur all hours.
ICE is unpopular because they the lower the voting power of blue states via removing illegal immigrants and thus lowering their census numbers, so the US media that is almost entirely Democratic[0] isn't a fan. The FBI[1][2] and CIA[3] aren't targeted because they carry water for the democrats. It has nothing to do with human rights, just politics.

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[2]https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/13/raid-veritas-okeefe...

[3]https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/intelligence-experts-refuse-to...
Picassa, the offline photo management tool with pretty good face recognition

Google Reader - RSS reader via the web

FTP - the protocol - why can't I download files from gnu's FTP site in Chrome?

Flash - if they just sandboxed it, and allowed no local file access, it would be ok.

Delicio.us - the social bookmark service

Edwin - Turbo Power Software - a nice macro recording text editor for DOS

Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, with Access

Visual Basic 6.0
Ideas are both valuable, as in they allow society to advance, and worthless, as it’s almost always the execution that matters.

Also: “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

— Thomas Jefferson, 1813 (https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12...)
It’s a great course if you’re into that. We even have a major for it — EECS, which is electrical engineering and computer science.

For pure CS majors, it should be an elective. But it was made mandatory until recently. The main complaint is that it’s intense and difficult - regular reports of spending an extraordinary time on the course per week. You can see how a lot of resentment builds up quickly.
This is such a disingenuous retelling of what happened.

Terms of Service don't trump lawful orders issued by a government. Never have, never will, for any service or company. They were issued a lawful order, did you expect them to just close the company instead?

Whether or not you use Proton before or afterwards is of no matter, but please at least try to be honest with what happened.
Exactly in the same spot, I've recently gone freelance where I'm paid by the hour and I've yet to take a holiday cause I always think this week of holiday will cost me $$$ (huge amount of money compared to what a normal one week holiday would cost).
Sadly, I will probably burnout soon and ignore that thought.
Even by the time of this post they've still got that DB exposed to the open internet - their update was just an attempt to obscure it, not an actual fix.
I know the Collisons are brilliant founders and I have long admired Stripe (I've used their Golang API client as inspiration many times in my own code) but it's kind of unfortunate how founder lore really minimizes employees. Stripe has 4,000 people working there, this article mentions only two other employees in passing (the CPO and CFO). Surely many others were brilliant contributors to Stripe's becoming a $95B unicorn, and staying one, beyond just the Collison Brothers. A culture in our industry that made employees feel more ownership would likely help with retention and recruiting.
>Also, his character was hardly the "role model for millions of young men" one. It was not written that way and afaik Wesley was not treated that way by fans.

Correct. I doubt fefe23 has ever seen TNG, because Wesley was in no way, shape, or form a desirable role model for anyone.

(My understanding is that Wesley was sort of a self insert for Star Trek creator, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. As with all of the other times Roddenberry tried to artificially impose his own Message(TM) on the show, it failed miserably.)
Yes, but this is the same argument as "Its significantly harder to be CEO of books than warehouse employee"
>Please understand that these points are extremely well settled

You mean like Roe v Wade and Casey? I don't buy this argument.

>Clearly, this is a right that belongs to the people, regardless of militia membership.

That's not clear to me. Not at all. Why mention militias at all? What is a poorly regulated militia?

>Please read DC v Heller.

Okay.
interesting. i looked at juneau and anchorage but it seemed there was not much for rent and seemed to be an expensive place?
NoteSelf – Your Selfish Notebook
Lazarus, based on Free Pascal, is close to that easy. The documentation isn't as good. It is cross platform, which is a big plus.
I'm down for extreme Mormon simulator
A few years ago, most of the US dev team for workstation was laid off in favor of a non-US team.
I'm so glad I've read this today. I've been thinking about building a little SaaS product and one of the aspects putting me off was the VAT/Sales Tax problem. I'm a stickler for the rules, I don't feel comfortable YOLOing something like that the way so many seem to be.
We've known it for literally a decade now... How can you be ignorant of the whole Snowden docs?
Many of those same sites rank Tesla highly as well. Knowing how Tesla uses NDAs as a tool, I wouldn't be surprised if there's gaming there as well.