skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some specific reason you think coins would be immune to shorting? This sentiment seems to come up frequently, but shorting is something you can do with basically anything that holds a value over time and is (sigh) fungible, because at its core it's just a transactional set of promises ('borrow' asset, sell asset, buy asset again at your target date, 'return' new assets).

If anything, the modern round of coins with smart contracts are probably uniquely suited to shorting, or enabling the shorting of other coins.
It's not super adjustable, it's really designed to illuminate the area just below the monitor (mine is actually a 43" 4K TV). It defaults to sitting at 90 degrees - straight down. It can be adjusted a little bit, but ONLY towards the monitor. This isn't terribly useful - I don't know why you'd want to do that.

As for cost, yeah it's a bit much for what it is, but the build quality reflects that. The counterweight on the back is quite nice and solid feeling.
You can find any (decimal) digit, but the amount of computation required gets larger for higher digits (I'm not sure of the actual scaling) - and the parent comment is saying that the paper's author says it would actually be faster to compute the intermediate digits than to use his formula for a specific digit.

The BBP formula represents pi directly as a sum of increasing powers of 1/16, and provides a given hex digit in constant time. Such a formula has not been found for decimal digits
Show HN: My YouTube channel with recreational coding projects
I was a holder of UST in anchor protocol. I was aware the peg was shaky, but my yield farm output UST so I went with it.
As a longtime C++ programmer, my view is that that manual memory management is a discipline that you can learn somewhat easily and then you don't spend a lot of time thinking about it.* <-- Big Asterisk

For many applications, allocations fall into two categories: One, temporary allocations that work well with a stack allocator (which is often going to be the main stack where the allocations and deallocations are handled automatically, but sometimes it's useful to have secondary stacks with different lifetimes). And two, larger allocation categories where you can pre-plan access. Many many things can just be allocated statically, others can be allocated from simple pools, and maybe a few things will need complex pools, or even compacting allocators where you end up using smart pointers or smart handles to track them. Once you're used to programming this way, figuring out allocators usually isn't where you spend most of your time. (And as others have said in this thread, if performance is a concern, you spend the same amount of time thinking about this stuff in managed languages, as well.)

* The Big Asterisk is that it's hard to program this way 100% correctly. While it's not hard to get code that works 99.999% of the time for normal usage, it's very hard to make sure nothing in your manually memory managed code is exploitable. Rust, for instance, adds a bunch of language features to fix this issue, and that's one interesting way to go. I do wonder, however, if for many applications it won't turn out that the sandboxing model of something like WASM is more productive. You can still code everything in good ol' C++, but the worst an exploiter can do is hit the edge of the sandbox and crash your application, instead of pwning the user's system.
Initially sure but this has been nearly 2 years now. Even the Switch which had severe shortages 4 years after release.
>What service?

Keeping you from having to constantly try and ram through the checkout on a moments notice and still not get the product in the vast majority of attempts.

>They create the headache in the first place.

They would be completely sold out even without the scalpers. The scalpers are selling them to somebody -- that somebody would have just bought at MSRP and you would still have to do what I mentioned above.

>Do you also think a protection racket provides a service? If you pay them for protection, all the headache of your business being firebombed goes away!

This is a pretty ridiculous characterization, even if you don't like what scalpers do. You are not being forced to buy a PS5. You're not even being forced to buy a PS5 from them. You can pull up a restock stream and watch it like a hawk if you have the time. They're not engaging in violence against you because you didn't buy a PS5 from them.
> Branches are virtually free and implemented using the "copy of write" technique.

Copy on write, presumably.
Hah, no, I took 51H and suffered through it for some reason, but just took normal 52 and 53. (And I think I slept at your place when I was visiting MIT as a prospective grad student).
Yeah, the neural network "diffusion models" are not very well named. If you have background in natural sciences, you would understand diffusion to mean, well, diffusion. Whereas there generative neural networks are about (1) blurring data by Gaussian noise, (2) teaching a NN to denoise the noised data, and finally (3) with Gaussian noise as input, let the denoiser NN to generate new data. So it's not so much about diffusion as it's about reversing the diffusion. And it's not really (smooth) diffusion, but Gaussian noise.

"Denoising autoencoder" is already used for processes that reconstruct partially corrupted input. So what name to suggest for a process that reconstructs data from nothing but noise?
For sure - the thing with Twitter is it takes forever. At least it did for me. Like if there was a chart of my followers, it would show a little growth for a long time and then you kinda just “break through”. I write a lot, so that’s helped, I got connected with the indie scene so a lot of good friends and community there and of course, I try to tweet helpful stuff. I ran ads for the past years for my book, podcast spots and newsletter sponsorships and all of those things coalesce together to help with social stuff.

One thing that might help is I wondered - who do I love to follow? Why do I like following them? And for me, it was people who would teach me something, inspire me with their work or were just simply nice people to be around.
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> If you want your fence to stick around: document the rationale. That way, later people know if the reasoning still holds. And if you're at the point where the fence is being removed: might as well bite the bullet. The way I see it, the fallout from the removal (if there is to be any) was sealed at the moment it wasn't documented

I have a somewhat embarrassing confession: I've done this with code I've written more than once. I've learned to thoroughly comment anything unintuitive even when I know I'm going to be the only one reading it.
My favourite bit of this article.

"Google, until a few years ago, scanned your private email to show you ads. Many email carriers still do. If private electronic messages can be scanned for one purpose, they can be scanned for any purpose."

I love that idea.

I say.. we add cameras to all TV's and watch what you watch.

We then make it super hard to get a notebook and a pen (because we cannot monitor those, and clearly we must).

It all sounds reasonable.

Oh wait, I have read this book about how to do this right... For the life of me I can't remember what it was called. I bet the Disinformation Governance Board will know the name of the book. I think it's part of their required reading.
I wrote a blog post about this exact problem half a year ago, specifically going into detail about the proxy networks scalpers use, and how to detect them: https://rasbora.dev/blog/detecting-residential-proxy-network...
I agree. More details. The "real" URL of the article is https://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/covid-... I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad journal. Also it says "Article Type: Editorial"

The articles of many journals are collected in "PubMed Central" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central that has the nih.bov URL. But PubMed Central and the NIH don't filter or endorse the papers, they just republish what is published in journals.
I had a contrary response to the Hue. The color rendition felt dead compared to my typical lighting from Waveform.
Also a big truckers hitch fan, but that animation was hard for me to follow because it doesn't look anything like how it's used in real life. It doesn't really make sense to compare to a bowline, it's basically used like a ratchet strap.

The first part, up to step 6, is just a slip knot. That part could be replaced by a bowline. But the slip knot can be thrown in one-handed in the middle of the line without needing to pull the end through like a bowline. And when you're done you give it a yank and the slip knot pops out.

Step 7 is the real point of the whole thing. You're using the loop and the hook (in this example) to create a pulley system to crank your load down tight. Then the rest of the steps are a hitch to keep it in place.

This is more secure than the version than I typically see used (and would be annoying to untie). I normally don't poke the end through like in step 9, but make another slip knot so the whole thing can be unravelled by pulling on the end of the line like a quick release.
I'm pretty sure the non-republicans are just paid off by their "donors" to let republicans win. Democrats are just there to feign opposition.
I think its more than ads. The ability to have conversation has largely gone. It's seems so full of hatred and anger now vs people posting interesting information or politely joking about. While there were always toxic subs they tended to exist in their own universe for people that wanted that. I really miss the days of polite discussion, joking about bacon and grammar nazis.

While reddit still has great points, I feel there needs to be a new reddit that has its core rules based on courtesy and some kind of intelligence/knowledge test before people can comment, and have to repeat if they can't follow basic polite and value add conversation.
This reminds me of when I used to run http://snortinline.com/ in 2004 - when having the IDS inline seemed quite cool.
Yeah, that was my analysis as well.

> What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware?

Still much to figure out. The project is still fairly immature in general.

As far as hardware and funding goes, it's sort of sustainable now through not demanding very much in either, but more of both would no doubt be necessary to grow much farther. It's a bit claustrophobic not really having a proper CI machine or test instance for example.
Robinhood agrees to settle customer lawsuit over 2020 outages
It actually reduces REM sleep:

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/amh/if-amh-...
Humans in a slowly boiling pot seems to be more accurate.
which privacy restrictions would have to be relaxed.
No it really doesn't. It's a supply/demand thing. A ton of jobs bring people into San Francisco, a lot of people coming into SF (with housing supply roughly steady) let to ever increasing prices. Simple as that. That's the majority of why people come to SF.

It's not the 1960s anymore as people fled to SF because of flower power, hippies or the gay movement. Sadly it's become a very different town.

As soon as jobs didn't require people to live in SF (thanks to Covid induced remote work) people moved out. Not everyone! Of course. But more people moved out than moved in, showing that the desirability of SF isn't as strong as you think it is.
This year, I've really put effort into building my skills and not spending so many hours reading the news. I find myself feeling happier andI'm currently studying for two highly valued certifications.
Then perhaps you should help me to understand.

>The flow of virus diversity is from wild to domestic bird populations.

Why? If viruses can get in, they can get out. The CDC even warns about the possibility [1]. Livestock birds outweigh wild birds by nearly 20 to 1 [2,3]. You're arguing that 95% of the world's bird population is irrelevant to the evolution of avian influenza. It wouldn't take much transmission from livestock back to wild birds to significantly increase the population of potential hosts.

>This isn't a breeding ground or the perfect environment for evolution.

This is a novel environment that didn't exist 80 years ago. A virus in the wild can't spread effectively if it kills its host too quickly, and it needs to transmit in an environment bathed in UV light with constant air circulation. These aren't limitations in a tightly-packed indoor environment. We wouldn't be culling entire flocks if viral transmission weren't so rampant in these environments, and you can't have viral replication without mutation.

>The article is also about wild birds.

The article also talks about poultry, which, again, make up 95% of all avian biomass and are therefore relevant to ANY conversation on avian influenza.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/Docs/Understanding_CAFOs_NALBOH..., page 16
[2] - https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production#meat-production-b...
[3] - https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth
From your link:

Classic Serverless: The database engine runs within the same process, thread, and address space as the application. There is no message passing or network activity.

Neo-Serverless: The database engine runs in a separate namespace from the application, probably on a separate machine, but the database is provided as a turn-key service by the hosting provider, requires no management or administration by the application owners, and is so easy to use that the developers can think of the database as being serverless even if it really does use a server under the covers.

It sounds like this is neo-serverless but serverless nonetheless.
Because then all the games would sound similar.
> kinda like a prusik

Speaking of climbing-related knots, the figure-eight knot is another great knot to know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-eight_knot
Was the majority of people that pushed for zoning laws that discriminated against minorities (it's mentioned in the videos if you don't know what I am talking about), or was it a systemic issue that needs to be corrected?

Do watch the videos, especially the "Strong Towns" series about the issue of how the rich suburbs are actually subsidized by poorer people living in bankrupt city centers. The only "straightforward" path for this to change is by getting younger people to participate a lot more on town hall meetings and to get their city councils on board with change. The status quo benefits and has no interest in doing that.
Shotwell anyway has to know that the whole Mars colonization shtick is total BS.

He has been lucky in some of his hires.
Wow, I just assumed that fixed rate mortgages were the norm everywhere. TIL.
Yes. These all work roughly the same - the light bar rests on top of the monitor and has a counterweight in the back to keep it there. So no adhesives or clips.
I think this was the push I needed to apply for Github Sponsors. Keep an eye on the project though, I'd really love feedback from people passionate about transit! Feel free to email me too if you have ideas of what the UX should be. ellen.h.poe@gmail.com
This is the use case that'll probably get me to invest in IoT products (which I otherwise don't want in my home).

(I have one of those Philips alarm clocks with the "sunrise" light, but it doesn't light the room enough to wake me.)
I kick started lifx. Received 4 but had so many problems. They were crazy slow and didn’t change colour properly. I’m sure they have improved since then tho but I don’t have any use since I’m not in my own home.
Sounds like you're describing an electronic chess board[1] being hacked to be a general purpose input. I don't think I've seen something like that before. Start by unlocking your computer by moving the pieces to the right positions, then give the Queen a McDonald's hat, the King a BurgerKing hat, one Bishop a Taco Bell ringer, and proceed in this fashion until one of you checkmates your way to a dinner decision...

[1] like https://www.adverts.ie/other-electronics/dgt-electronic-ches...
What would a recession mean for developers?
The worst sleep I ever get is when I drink alcohol too close to bedtime.
This is how literally all access media works. Companies, politicians, and celebrities only give access when they know they'll get favorable and softball coverage. It's pretty rare when American journalists push back during interviews--they usually just give them the person being interviewed free air time to speak their talking points.
Exist(ted) for GPUs, unsure if it still works.

https://github.com/Hari-Nagarajan/fairgame
I hope so. I mean imagine actually believing, giving up your privacy would be a good thing. I don't often think people are stupid, but using 1984 as a guide really makes it hard to avoid.

Also, giving up privacy would be an excellent bit of proof that guns are in fact needed.
A lot of apps don't need internet access, or only communicate with a single (trusted) website, with no data exchanged with other users. I might even say most apps.
Of course - billionaires, the quintessential example of the motivations of the common man. When I think, "a person under the same set of constraints as Joe in R&D", I think of Jeff Bezos.
More efficient remittances is a problem that can be solved without the massive negative externalities of the crypto ecosystem.

“Banking the unbanked” is a core part of the crypto narrative, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of traction in the real world. El Salvador ought to be a showcase, since it’s a dollar economy (no local currency) and the government gave crypto wallets to everyone with a $30 free money incentive. Yet crypto remittances is only a few percent of the total, IIRC, and the wallets mostly go unused.

More regulation around crypto on the remittance sender side (USA / Europe) is inevitable, and that makes the case even weaker. A non-crypto startup is probably a better, nimbler disruptor for this market than one carrying the ideological and technological baggage of crypto.
Not the one you’re responding to, but I can take a stab:

The article on battery capacity assumes a country would need to store an entire week of energy to have a dependable grid based on renewables. But it isn’t like the sun just might not rise a few days in a row (and solar panels produce a non-trivial amount even on cloudy days), and it is basically guaranteed to always be windy somewhere. Overbuilding generation capacity is also missing despite being a far more economical approach to dealing with long stretches of reduced wind/solar output.

The net result is he overestimates the needed capacity by probably 1-2 orders of magnitude.

As a smaller point, his math works out to $74/kWh (in 2012 dollars) which probably seemed outrageously low at the time, but thanks to Li-Ion tech and lots of investment might actually be reached in not too long
We changed the URL to that from https://git.marginalia.nu/marginalia/marginalia.nu. Thanks!
> How do you explain the influx of businesses to places like Austin? It has nothing to do with taxes?

Dude, SimCity isn't the real world, and cherry-picking some correspondence doesn't change that. Even a stopped clock will sometimes give you the right time.
I just finish it, and it was very good.
That's probably a factor tied to area - dense Manhattan is more luxurious and expensive than Bensonhurst, where a three bedroom is more common and a fraction of the cost. A more meaningful metric would be, by borough, market rate housing. Then Manhattan three bedrooms will be 6,000 and not 3,600. They can easily reach 9 in a doorman building downtown.
Be careful of UV exposure from aquarium coral lamps.
If you're murdered and the court finds you shouldn't have been murdered, that doesn't help you out much.
People have been arguing that the ad tech industry is overdue for a reckoning due to its opacity and overblown promises. The book Subprime Attention Crisis is one treatment of the topic. Tightening brand budgets might force that reckoning.
It must be hard being the only person who sees the truth and no one believes you. Probably leads you to write long ranty editorials about how everyone’s out to get you and lying, especially the governments and organizations and bill gates.
This directs light down on the desk, so the light is perpendicular to the light coming from the monitor. It's not illuminating the monitor at all really. It's basically a desk lamp that doesn't take up any space on the desk. And in my case, it's powered by one of the USB ports that the monitor (43" TV) already had.
> It was also never particularly widely adopted

I think you must be ignoring television and video here? Basically everything that was shot on digital video for broadcast for decades was shot on 3-sensor cameras, and every "serious" video operation from sports to news all the way down to wedding photographers and high school videographers with any scratch at all were using 3-ccd setups. Sony's current (and only) 8K TV studio camera uses 3 sensors.
This is the missing piece on cloud for masses

* we already have compute scale-to-zero (cloudrun, lambda, fly.io).

* Network is default pay for use. Storage (S3) is default pay for use.

* The only piece in the stack that was always-on was the database (only serverless db thus far was firestore, or something like sqlite+litestream)

With something like this we get a solid RDBMS engineered to be scale-to-zero, and with good developer experience.

This opens up a world of try-out mini applications that cost cents to host. serverless db (postgres) + serverless compute (cloud-run) + use as you go storage+network. This is a paradigm-shift stack. Exciting days ahead.
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Huge shout-out to Buffer for their pay transparency! I know that's a complete aside from your comment, but I really admire their pay transparency and continually evolving formula on pay.

My partner is doing her dissertation on pay transparency as a recruitment tool and Buffer's model was an inspiration for the study.
Sure, I don't contest that memory unsafety has some large drawbacks of its own. I'm glad that languages are innovating in memory safety.

My comment was about the tradeoffs we make for our memory safety guarantees, and whether they're always worth it.
Terraform should have remained stateless
Seriously. I zip my raw files for storage on my NAS. Would that be an infringement?
> Sincerely asking: why is this an issue of ethics? What about algorithmically generating porn would be unethical?

There are several potential ways:

The training data may come from unethical sources or processes.

The result may be degrading or demeaning to people who share characteristics with the virtual people depicted (gender, race, etc.)

Increasing the supply may increase the demand, exacerbating the previous issue.

The technology could be trivially repurposed to produce content that is entirely illegal.
There was a big price spike in late 2021 to the present for rents. There was an amazing opportunity in early 2021 for a super negotiation position.

Unfortunately the people came back all at the same time, seemingly.

The state is booming with low vacancy, that's the present state
> Mass shooters don't hide their intentions

So what was the Vegas mass shooting about then? That guy was basically a totally private individual (I think there's only like 4 publicized photos of him) and his motive was apparently a total mystery to this day.

PS: From a rights perspective, Red Flag legislation definitely feels like it can be abused. To give an example that most people are probably familiar with: think of the Department of Pre-Crime from the movie Minority Report. This is basically what we're doing with Red Flag legislation: taking somebody's rights because we suspect they might commit a crime. I can easily see how it can be abused. Presumption of innocence before guilt and the right to due process by a jury of peers is not something that should be casually given up.