skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Line go up and FOMO. This scheme was advertising the potential of meaningful gains (5-20% per year) for simply parking your money in it. And it was a 'stablecoin', that sounds low-risk. High rewards, low risk, doesn't everyone want that? Anyone who had money and wanted more money and wasn't well informed of the true risk was susceptible to putting large sums of money into it.

Think about all the crypto ads shown during the last Super Bowl. Think of all the people who watched those ads and decided to try out crypto speculation. Some percentage of those people were bag holders here.
Luna-ust was paying ~40% in yield. People thought it was safer than it really was because of how much others had invested, because of the technology. Because of ads, sometimes from people they trust
Really depends on the room and the time!

I would say that once you get over some initial shock about colored lights, sometimes it makes sense to have lights in room half brightness orange-yellows and sometimes it even is nice to have them deep blues and purples and some accent lights are always nice to have somewhat colorful because they are mostly providing ambience and decoration rather than light to do something with

Also moving away from overhead lighting and towards more lamps and wall lighting in rooms has also done wonders. Something about overhead bright lights feels unnatural once you don't have them

Which makes sense being that the only time that sort of light happens outside is at midday in the summer
The product referenced is called pimeyes.

https://pimeyes.com/en
If a majority of people want something else, it seems like there’s a straightforward path for them to take. Do you see it differently?
> it’s very salient for me because now WordPress is the same age I was when the first release came out.
That’s the only key thing in the whole post.

Take away that, and no matter how good that book was, sales would be closer to 0.

Actually getting this success is more likely like this:

- spend last 5 years getting followers on Twitter by writing engaging content, reply to others.

- spend also many years in your website and include a mailing list

- email your email list regularly with very interesting things

- spend 1 year to write a book

- send a blast email and tweet about your new book: Most likely people will buy whatever you say at this point because they trust you already.

This is the secret formula, which is hard work and 99.99% can’t do this consistently. (In addition, but not really required, also be smart and bring something new to the table)

From the author:

- I wrote on my blog for nearly a decade before I could launch a book that I sold.

- Announce it, ask for email sign ups if they are interested, keep them in the loop, and then launch. The mailing list had about 1,000 people on it once I launched (about two months from announcing it to doing the early access launch)

- I settled on adapting one of my more popular [blog posts][2] that I keep updated through each version of iOS into a five book series

Actually full details are here

https://www.swiftjectivec.com/the-best-in-class-book-beta-la...
They have a DMCA exemption: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php
depends on your target. my local targets are pretty accurate with inventory management. as a comparison; my local bestbuy is not (website said they had usb drives in stock, when i got there they didn't have any)
The attraction is not the lighting. It's the people living in harmony with nature and eachother, and the implicit lack of human exploitation.
God Speed, feel free to put up a donation page. I'll definitely donate !
Your far ancestors didn't have to deal with light pollution and all sorts of city lights. I don't know where you live, but a lot of people live in cities, where this is a problem. If you live in the countryside or in very small cities, you may not have the same problem.
I am not surprised you seem compelled to do the right thing
Good call, I'm working on that project this weekend for myself.

I grabbed this resource from Beeper's landing page: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Is that what you're using?
Some of the best sleep I've ever had was while camping, where tent is pitch black at night and a soft diffuse glow in the morning.
Crypto companies had several ads in the Super Bowl this year. Ordinary people were sucked in by promises of foolproof returns and delirious web3-metaverse jargon that sounded like something important is happening.

The Terra/Luna token was created by a South Korean company. These quotes are from reporting by the Financial Times:

“As the losses mounted, South Korean press reports linked the crash with a local surge in online searches for Seoul’s Mapo Bridge, a reputed suicide spot. Local police announced increased patrols around the bridge in response.”

‘“Do Kwon was like a successful cult leader,” said Donghwan Kim of Blitz Labs, a Seoul-based crypto advisory firm. “But now he’s the most hated man in Korea.”’

Venture capital lended an aura of legitimacy to the cult-like operation:

“Individual investors had been attracted by a scheme in which clients could lend out their terra for a 20 per cent yield. But hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in Terraform Labs came from venture capital firms including Galaxy Digital, whose chief executive Mike Novogratz would later acquire a luna tattoo on his left shoulder.”

‘“Commitments from some of the most respected funds is a testament to the shared vision of bringing decentralised finance to the masses,” Kwon declared in July last year.’

‘“About Won14tn-Won15tn was deposited in just one year after they began to offer the 20 per cent yield,” Kwon’s former colleague said. “Retail investors were lured by the high yield, while venture capital was attracted by the coins’ fast growth. The speed of growth was unsustainable.”’

15 trillion won is 12 billion USD. The scale of the scam was massive, and it’s possibly only the first crypto domino to fall.
While I would certainly welcome such a project, I wonder if a truly open source bot would be hampered by the fact that online retailers could view the source and proactively circumvent whatever strategy it implements.
Do you really think that Circle and Coinbase are spending USDC reserves on their own behalf? Do you really have so little faith in the US financial regulators that you think they would allow publicly traded companies to steal their customers' money in such an obvious fashion?

And what do you mean by "much like traditional banks in fact - there is no uncertainty that eventually they will go bankrupt"? Are you saying that all banks eventually go bankrupt? When should we expect Barclays to go bankrupt, now after having existed for 300 years? When should we expect Bank of New York to go bankrupt, now after having survived for 250 years?
> would your manual code review process have caught this issue?

On a one character code change? I’m inclined to think so.
> It only needs

This phrase is doing a lot of work here. It's one of my least favorite phrases (in a close race with "just do this") and is often associated with unrealistic feature requests.

I'm sure there is a disagreement between SFFD and Cruise as to exactly what happened, but the article implies that the Cruise vehicle isn't the one that moved to fix the problem.

> The fire truck only passed the blockage when the garbage truck driver ran from their work to move their vehicle.

Even if the Cruise vehicle was able to call for help, the car not only needs to call for help, but also wait for a response (at 4am), and give a remote human enough information to control a car remotely in a safe manner. None of these things are easy... not impossible, but not "only needs" easy.

> driverless cars need to deal with every one in a million scenario

Of course driverless cars need to deal with one in a million scenarios. Human drivers deal with one in a million scenarios every day. Nothing is ever the same when driving, so there are always subtle changes. But even if there is an unusual situation, there must be some kind of response. Even if that response is to move to the side of the road and put on hazard lights to indicate that it doesn't know what to do (which it may have done)... that would have been a better response than to do nothing and sit to wait for a human. There should be a default "unknown input" failure mode. The disagreement here is that SFFD didn't like how the Cruise vehicle failed. Maybe there is a better approach.

We are expecting these vehicles to move us around 24/7. That's a lot of trips. At this rate, one in a million scenarios will happen every day. That's the problem with large numbers -- even rare events are to be expected when N is high enough.
Thanks for sharing this, it's super interesting. I've been on the fence for a while about writing a book.

Would you mind sharing how you built up a twitter following? Just consistently posting useful tweets?
First time I heard someone counter "Now you can order pizza with your smart phone" by saying. "I could always order pizza with my phone."

Same here..

My grandpa had a green house 40+ years ago. I think we've solved growing wood/plants in a lab.
HN don’t like CLIs I guess.
I mean it gave him a pretty good life as well. Possibly fair trade.

Internationally reknown eternal legend who has made hall of fame lists, been knighted, praised and adored far and wide by everyone, and lives in a castle.

For 1/3 of his hearing.
I can't recall the last time I used malloc/free in C++. Even new/delete are rare acquaintances, I use new most often in unit tests.

As far as I'm concerned, it's automatic memory management (with lots of control). There's also the other end of the automatic memory management spectrum, garbage collection.
The words she knows, the tune she hums

Schubert: Alright baby, now work it away from C to change things up a bit.

Elton John: Like what?

Schubert: Lemme sit there...

plays flat VI

Elton John: But, oh, how it feels so real!

Schubert: I know, right? For your homework try using it in at least 3 more hit songs that I can think of off the top of my head.

Elton: Thanks, Schubi!

Schubi: You're welcome, Elton.

Elton: Goodbye.

Schubi: Auf wiedersehen.

Edit: added italics so that Elton sings his famous line
> Why is it that when you go camping you feel so refreshed and good when the sun comes up and wakes you up?

Because alcohol induces REM sleep?
Even 4k is a huge step up from what I had been using which was just whatever.

Getting up to a modern DPI is a game changer right?
I don’t suppose you took Math 51H/52H/53H? That series is ridiculous.

(I suspect we met, at least briefly, somewhere along the way. Hi!)
> In every professional environment that I have known, good habits have beaten genius, whether real genius (a very rare property) or assumed genius.

In every successful startup I worked at (3 of 20ish), I observed the opposite.
I agree with everything in your original post. Its like riding a bicycle you can't grip the handlebars too hard or you negatively impact your ability to steer properly.

Cultivating forgiveness and empathy for myself is a lifelong journey. It's really hard but positive comments from people like yourself helps a lot. Thank you.
You can also do eye exercises, like going between focusing on something close, eg a finger, and focusing on something far away.
I know plenty of people who've been taken in by the rhetoric. In the end "look at all these people who have made life-changing amounts of money by just putting some money into this thing" is very effective at disengaging people's rational processes.
No, but that's interesting. I manually setup Docker containers for Mautrix bridges alongside my Docker container for Synapse. Thinking I might switch to this though for less maintenance, that's a very nice find!
> Edit: I include myself in monkey-brain analogies, I am a human/stupid/exploitable just like you.

Yeah, I mean, kinda right back atcha here ;) A lot of people are still stuck in the "apple is dumb Jony Ives design with no ports and super bad performance and overheating" era too, despite Apple actually putting ports back on laptops and having an in-house ARM core that is far and away the most performant laptop you can buy with multiples of the battery life of similar x86 laptops too.

A more productive take on the topic is that a lot of times these things come down to values differences between various consumers: you value repairability and open ecosystem, Apple customers value high-quality OEM parts/service and the all-around build quality (other laptops have a few of the selling points, but it's hard to check all the boxes that Apple does). You highly value the keyboard, Apple customers are willing to tolerate it even if it's not ideal because of the rest of the package. Apple customers value the battery life, you are willing to tolerate plugging in more often even if it's not ideal because of the rest of the package. Etc etc. Those are values differences, not in the sense of moral differences but different customers have different needs and preferences and a lot of time is spent arguing about stuff that ultimately comes down to "I value different things than you do".

It's fairly rare that things actually come down to what I'll call "alternative facts" scenarios - sometimes it does, like the broad disagreement over how to interpret M1 performance numbers (but the differences in performance/battery life that people observe tend to lead to a pretty obvious conclusion imo). But it's generally a lot rarer than the "I like different stuff than you" spats.

I'm saying this as someone who has an x86 apple laptop for work and is not particularly pleased with it, but who is looking at the M1 as a prospect for a personal laptop, but also considering a few particular x86 laptops as well. People get super weird on the x86 side with the "nothing apple can ever be good" shit too, or the Android people getting super weird about how sideloading is a must-have feature (and ignore how that sidesteps the app-review process and leads to facebook/netflix/other must-have apps forcing their way to escalated privileges). It's generally a lot of values arguments, people value different things and that leads them one way or the other.

Of course marketing does play a key role in telling people what they should value, and I am no different from anyone else in that I am affected by marketing even when I think I'm making rational, logically-supported choices ;)
CTOs aren’t always super-technical-and even those who are, while the CTO of a small startup might realistically have an expert-level understanding of all the business’s core technologies, that is no longer a realistic standard when talking about a multi-billion dollar firm with a highly complex or diverse tech stack. Arguably, one of the most important tasks for a CTO, is to be able to tell the difference between good engineering executives and bad ones. And, judged by that standard, Musk actually has done a very good job as SpaceX CTO, much better than many of its major competitors. Doing that requires understanding the technology well-enough to distinguish engineers and engineering leaders who really understand it from those who are just pretending to do so-and I think it is obvious Musk does understand the technologies at SpaceX (and Tesla too) well-enough to successfully make that distinction. People seem to be holding him to an unrealistic standard, which I doubt they’d actually apply to a CTO who wasn’t named Elon Musk.
VimMotionApp: Access macOS UI elements with your fingers stay on keyboard
Anyone got a spare invite code? =D
May I know how you found this game? They don't seem to be listed on Steam.
> Disclosure: I was on the Go team at Google until earlier this month. Dealing with DeVault's bad faith arguments is one of the few things I won't miss of that job.

Speaking of bad faith arguments, aren't Google and its employees the ones that:

- Claimed that scrolling screenshot on Android are "infeasible" [INFEAS] despite Samsung, LG, HTC, etc. already implementing the feature in their forks/distributions of Android?

- Claimed "[t]he generic dilemma is this: do you want slow programmers, slow compilers and bloated binaries, or slow execution times?" as an excuse for not implementing Generics in Go?

- After years of claiming this nonsense finally implemented Generics in exactly those ways? [GoLang_GenImpl]

- Even when implementing Generics in exactly those old and previously known ways claim that "Russ Cox famously observed that generics require choosing among slow programmers, slow compilers, or slow execution times. We believe that this design permits different implementation choices." [GoLang_43651]

- "Loses" or "loses track" of their customer's mobile phones, and when said customers cancel the credit charges for the phones they never received or otherwise disappeared, block their Google accounts, including their access to email? [Google_Criminals]

Drew DeVault certainly deserves some or even a lot of criticism, but Google and its employees attacking other for "bad faith"? This should be acceptable in a civilized society.

[GoLang_43651]: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...

[Google_Criminals]: For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7nrx07/google_... and https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/84sysx/update_... There have been other documented cases of the same so this is not a single uncharacteristic incident.

[GoLang_GenImpl]: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/e0113ba8479092562cf9d...

[INFEAS]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80491647#:~:text=Stat...
Are there prefiltered derivatives of Laion-5B available? I can imagine various contraindicated categories you might want to avoid entirely, as well as biases you might want to adjust for by balancing classes in the data (5 billion images gives you a lot of room to balance the dataset).
Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads
Nice. I looked at the 3. It seemed like any cost savings are quickly eaten up by the difference in price over a comparable vehicle. I’m hoping that changes.
Having algorithms study people's social media data (including their PMs) to try to profile potential shooters will just have people screaming bloody murder the way they were with Apple's recent CSAM debacle, or literally anything else to do with social media platforms. Remember when we all wanted to make algorithms illegal and force social media platforms to get a court order to be able to do anything, lest they be held legally liable for all user-submitted content? And that was just because they were moderating content. Imagine if they actually profiled your private data under laws which allowed the government to confiscate your guns? Americans would probably riot and burn Facebook's campus down.

The Federal government can't pass such laws because of the Second Amendment, and few American states are willing to confiscate guns under any circumstances[0]. Oklahoma even passed an anti red-flag law.

None of this is going to happen. Nice try, though.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_law
The reason those didn’t matter so much in the past is because traditional light bulbs are so damn good.

Even today, as good as LEDs have gotten, their color rendering is still noticeably worse than incandescents. (The highest scores are around 80-90 CRI, an old-fashioned bulb is the standard at 100.)

Trouble dimming smoothly, harsh blues, flickering, strobing, excessive glare… all of these weren’t a problem until CFLs and LEDs, so now we need a bunch of measures to quantify our light.
Advanced freshman math, the kind for the top few students, varies extremely widely. As far as I can tell, if you made it all the way through the series at Harvard or Stanford, then you are an excellent student regardless of whether you get a good grade. I’m sure a couple other schools are like that. Many schools that you might expect to have similar classes don’t.

Sadly the universities with courses like this seem to me mediocre at advertising that, no, if you are not specifically very very good at math (and very very good at following a very fast paced course and you don’t have a strong background), then that’s not the class for you and you should be in the other honors math class.
AGPLv3+, nice!
Did you ever own a Griffin PowerMate[1] to compare it with? They were out in 2001 as a USB device I always wanted to play with but never had any reason to buy or use. In 2018 they were discontinued and replaced with a Bluetooth version, by the looks of it.

[1] https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/8ad6a841-3639-429a-8163-9f3...
Same here please!
Thanks for choosing the GNU AGPLv3 license! That is the best license for services like search engines, especially if they intend to cement the license by having a diverse set of copyright holders that ensure the license doesn't change, rather than going the open core route and requiring copyright assignment via a CLA and selling proprietary versions.

What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware?
Do just a single Google search, friend, on home manufacture of firearms.
That's a nice quip. If only it were true.

Of Buchanan and the nine justices involved in Dred Scott, only one was a New Englander and he was one of the two dissenters. Both dissenters were educated in New England but only one from the majority. On the other hand, the list includes five Southerners, two Pennsylvanians and three from Dickinson College.

* James Buchanan - Pennsylvania, educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania

Majority from Dred Scott:

* Roger B. Taney - Maryland, Dickinson

* James Moore Wayne - Georgia, educated at what later became Princeton in New Jersey

* John Catron - Tennessee, self-educated

* Peter V. Daniel - Virginia, one year at Princeton, then self-educated

* Samuel Nelson - New York, Middlebury College in Vermont

* Robert Cooper Grier - Pennsylvania, Dickinson

* John Archibald Campbell - Georgia/Alabama, University of Georgia

Dissenters in Dred Scott:

* John McLean - Ohio, Harvard

* Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Massachusetts, Harvard
Thanks, I think I better understand the point he is making.

I would call that the “why don’t we have flying cars” kind of thinking, and the restaurant example feels the same to me. To the “that's a technological problem we'll only solve if we have a vision for those kinds of experiences in the first place.”, that’s a valid point. I think were I stray from that is I don’t feel the appeal of the vision.

A restaurant giving me complex “a choosing experience” instead of presenting the traditionally “flat” list and menus is not an improvement from my perspective.

In general, I think we’re at a stage where interface that make more sense physically are still physical. For instance cars are completely electronically driven but we (still) have physically optimized controls. My oven is a computer, but I have nobs and buttons that click. My “smart” lights have rotating controls to adjust brightness, etc.

These interfaces are well into the world and I feel they’re not in the article because the author (and you perhaps ?) take it for granted.
Plus one to if you're falling asleep in meetings, classes, driving, etc. please get checked for sleep apnea.

I spent too many years thinking that was normal, along with daily migraines.
> would be a good study to see how informed the average voter is

Genuine question: how would you measure this?
I try to walk around every 15 30 minutes and stuff.

My workflow is especially dangerous in this regard because I do almost everything in the terminal so it’s especially easy to get sucked in.

I’ve known sightless hackers who were awesome, it’s definitely not game over, but it also definitely slows you down.

For most hackers our eyes and the musculature starting all the way back in your lower spine through to your fingertips is such a huge part of our livelihood. I’ve been trying to treat all of it with more care.
Please stop this abuse of language.

Here's serverless sqlite: https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html