skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a thing of terror & nightmares that there is so much TypeScript code in the universe, and that most of it is pre-compiled down into very old versions of JavaScript & legacy packaging solutions like CJS.

I'm glad these release notes include some instructions for how to wrangle things in package.json[1], which is another long story unto itself.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
> He should just tell them to push the button. If you think he shouldn't, you should be able to say why.

Accepting that Drew should get them to just push the button is accepting that it is the responsibility of each victim individually to cope with the abusive load being sent their way by engaging directly with their abuser. Rather than the sender, who is truly the one responsible, fixing it for every target by reducing their polling at source.
Thought experiment #3

Create a hypothetical new stable coin. Issue one coin for every dollar put into the stable coin. For every dollar subtracted pay out the dollar and take the coin out of circulation until another USD comes back in. Make money on exchange fees ONLY. No fair using the coins or dollars in any other way.

The schemes for stable coins ALL have failure mods until someone does #3. The most likely entity to do #3 is the US treasury (or other national entity). But if someone is willing to live with income from fees only, they could do #3. Crypto currencies have efficiencies enough to make this a viable option.
If you replace Bitcoin with a smart contract, a hard fork could change any aspect of its behavior, such as removing the 21M cap. The social consensus of Bitcoin is that no changes will ever be made, but Ethereum is much more open to changes.
Next time when you have to work on something hard, just think, is it worth getting brain cancer over this.
I built my own graphics card (2021)
What is the purpose behind https://open5g.com and https://www.athertonfiber.com ? Is it only for those with an Atherton address?

I live in Redwood City near the Atherton border, but it says I'm not eligible for their fiber service.
Specialization and experience is pretty much it.
It’s also an example of how Go thinks about all problems. Do things one way that is well made and roughly satisfies most use cases
This is an ongoing area of study. Here's a list of research (ML-focused) on the topic - https://github.com/subeeshvasu/Awesome-Deblurring

I personally used a technique (based on a paper from that list) that learns a kernel based on the idea that it's easier to learn a latent source image and a blur compared to learning a blurred image.
60 Hz. Forgot to mention it in original post. Strangely, my laptop monitor is also 60 Hz, but I only have issues with the desktop monitor.
Your last paragraph exists in the form of margin loans and is already well utilized by savvy people.
I second this. I’ve been toying with irrigation for a while, but valves have always been the issue
The explanations I've seen reduce this phenomenon to financial incentives. A movie studio is going to spend a lot of money on making a movie, and know that star X will ensure some level of box-office returns. In turn, lead actors have a "brand" and if they were to actually take on new personas for every role the "brand" would be diluted and the lead would not command quite so much money.

FWIW, I agree with you aesthetically.
How much better will you perform when they boost your pay 0.005%?
Maybe. On one hand USPS might have a database of which buildings are multi-family homes and reject stuff like "unit 123" if it's not a multi-family/tenant building. However, I've also seen letters addressed to "basement" (for someone who's renting out the basement of a single family home) which seem to arrive fine so maybe they're not doing too aggressive filtering.
I just discovered them thanks to the latest 3blue1brown video[1]. Definitely fascinating stuff.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric&t=0
yes, chaos theory, including strange attractors, is still deterministic. it acts at a level where the tiny probabalistic effects of a multitude of tiny particles cancel out in ways to miraculously make the larger subjects of interest predictable.

it's the same phenomenon underlying the wisdom of crowds (and the pricing function in fair markets): each individual can be wildly incorrect in an observation, but averaging many (independent) observations together reveals stable insight.
I know chickens can fly a little, but I imagine they don’t really do so — so only targeting and acting on things above ground level should be largely sufficient
Wifi is practical, too. But I prefer wired Ethernet whenever possible, even if it's hard.
Actually the exact layout I was struggling with.
Surprised you didn't fast forward to ipv10 [1]

[1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-omar-ipv10-06.ht...
Yeah, what you just described as a senior engineer has been my experience as a tech lead. It's really organization dependent
We still have 3M who up until recently had a business formal dress code for all employees. I know several friends who turned down jobs because they were not cool with having to wear a suit the entire day they were coding.
What most people outside America are you talking about?
What companies keep x years of backups (for any x > 1, possibly even ½)? I don’t think that’s worth much to any company. Better make sure your recent backups are good than spend effort on keeping such old backups around.

For accounting/tax purposes, you need data up to typically 7-ish years ago, but isn’t that data typically online nowadays so that it will end up in today’s backup?

Even if they still have the bits from an old backup, they should have thrown away its encryption key.
> The BigTech companies adore new college graduates

Of course they do. New graduates are cheap, expendable, and ready to put in 10-12 hours of work a day.
I like the write up, I think it articulates some principles well.

I saw all the shitting on "algorithmic stablecoins" and found it a bit absurd. Not all algorithms are the same, this is plain as day. Not all game theoretical systems are identical. One very badly designed system fails, predictably, and all of a sudden every system that (conveniently) doesn't include a custodian is snake oil.
Paddle buying ProfitWell is big. Paddle would also take over all my billing support. I don’t want to do a billing migration right now but if I did I probably would switch to Paddle.

The first real contender to Stripe in a long time.
How is this different from a bank account?
How much energy loss has the system? And what complexity curve fit its efficiency over length?
The hn bootlickers really come out hard when someone suggests that wealth inequality can't be fixed by unregulated capitalism. Won't someone think of the oligarchs?
How else will leadership get those much-needed annual bonuses?
Fingerprints of the Gods? The one where he wrote the whole thing stoned? And then remained stoned for 20+ years until a hallucinatory snake on an ayahuasca trip told him to quit smoking weed.
I’ve been hoping we get #3 but with commodities and precious metals.

I want a “stable token” that represents barrels of oil, wheat, etc or physical gold, silver, etc.

The argument against the gold standard is that there isn’t “enough” to represent money — but I think we’d gain a lot of stability if prices were denominated in a basket of commodities.
Okay, I keep seeing people say this, and I have had the complete opposite experience. VS 2022 brings my somewhat beefy work laptop to an absolute crawl sometimes. I can open VS 2017, load a solution, and close VS 2017 all before I can even get to the solution selection screen for VS 2022.
This is fairly easy to recreate on your computer. What I would like to fiddle with are compilation options, extensions, pragmas and their combinations. Make it easy to also see the io ops and cpu load per query and it becomes interesting
I always think the waves on Pangea's coast must have been huge. All that wind blowing and no continents to stop the waves from forming.
The bank doesn’t actually store your dollars and your bank account can’t make transactions on the blockchain.
Probably the crab at the bottom of the bucket?

Limits on compensation are ineffective at achieving their goals under the best of circumstances, and the inevitable "unintended" consequences of further government manipulation in the market place would likely have negative effects.
Good. Finally one positive impact crypto has on the world.

After it all crashes, hopefully these rust coders will find their way into traditional finance and tech and displace C++.
Dervla Murphy, who just passed, did it by bike.
WebAssembly Landscape 2022
yes and a lot of these coins claim they are all backed but it's just a lip service, it's too lucrative to not do full 1-1 backing, you are right only something like US treasury can do it.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/tether-c...
Ok -- this is a common statement. I suspect you are arguing in good faith, but ignorant of DC v Heller, and don't understand the prefatory clause debate.

> ... the right of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms...

Clearly, this is a right that belongs to the people, regardless of militia membership. Please read DC v Heller.

Even grammatically, "well regulated" refers to function, not rules. A mechanical watch that keeps time is "well regulated".

Please understand that these points are extremely well settled, and that bringing them up is like bringing up "violent video games".
> Who decides what constitutes a "human rights violation" in the first place?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

How about we start with rape, torture, and murder, and work our way back.

But like really. How do we figure anything out? We work at it, we learn we make mistakes and we grow. It seems like just throwing you're hands up is oppositional to the entire notions of innovation that guide tech companies in the first place.

It's hard but we pay CEO's $21 million dollars a year to do hard things.
> Does anyone know if and where I could file a bug report?

The linux kernel does take bug reports: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html

However, that bug probably isn't specific enough as you've described it, unless you can find the commit causing it (such as via a git bisect https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bug-bisect.html), or come up with a clearer repro.

Alternatively, if you're seeing the issue on a distro-maintained kernel (such as on fedora/ubuntu/debian with their kernel package), reporting the issue to the distro maintainers may be more appropriate.
Hi

I'm working for Open5G.

Open5G - US National broadband deployment initiative using this data approach.

Atherton Fiber - A fiber to the home network in Atherton, CA
Are there good libraries for doing runtime feature detection? Eg, include three versions of hot function X in the binary, and have it seamlessly insert the correct function pointer at startup? Or have the function contain multiple bodies and just JMP to the correct block of code?

I know you can do this yourself, but last time I looked it was a heavily manual process— you had to basically define a plugin interface and dynamically load your selected implementation from a separate shared object. What are the barriers to having compilers able to be hinted into transparently generating multiple versions of key functions?
I've been thinking about a way hypothetical idea for a stablecoin that uses price information. If the purpose of a stablecoin is to aid transactions, why not flip the contract around to be transaction first?

I list a couch for sale on the blockchain. And I say I will exchange it for 799 LegitCoin. And now the blockchain mints out 799 LegitCoin, and auctions them to the highest bidder. And now there is 799 sitting on the blockchain while the product is listed as available.

Because there will only be a 1:1 ration of coins available to coins spendable, you eliminate the role speculation will play. There is no rational reason for the value of the coin to rise above the peg, but there will almost always be arbitrage reasons to drive up the value of the coin to the peg.
AVX2 is not as good as AVX512. But AVX2 still has vgather instructions, pshufb, and a few other useful tricks.

AVX512 and ARM SVE2 bring the CPU up to parity with maybe 2010s-era GPUs or so (full gather/scatter, more permutation instructions, etc. etc.). But GPUs continued to evolve. Butterfly-shuffles are the generic any-to-any network building block, and are exposed in PTX (NVidia assembly) shfl.bfly, and AMD DPP (data-parallel primitives).

Having a richer set of lane-to-lane shuffling (especially ready-to-use butterfly networks) would be best. It really is surprising how many problems require those rich-sets of data-movement instructions, or otherwise benefit from them.

NEON and SVE had hard-coded data-movement for specific applications. The general-purpose instruction (pshufb) is kinda like permute/shfl from AMD/NVidia. A backwards-permute IIRC doesn't exist yet on CPU-side.

And butterfly networks are the general-purpose solution, capable of implementing any arbitrary data-movement in just log(width) steps. (pshufb / permute instructions would be the full-sized butterfly network, but some cases might be "easier" and faster to execute with only a limited number of butterfly swaps, such as what inevitably comes up in sorting)

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Still, all of these operations can be implemented in AVX2 (albeit slower / less efficiently). So its not like the "language" of AVX2 / AVX is incomplete... its just missing a few general-purpose instructions that could lead to better performance.
It's a really amazing case of a business going into a crowded space and building a solution to what anyone would have called a thoroughly-solved problem and still managed to disrupt it. They didn't really "invent" anything or make a new market, they just did something better than everyone else. And, I think, got incredibly lucky with entering the market at the exact right time.
This kind of business is like airbnb for entrepreneurs. Accounting is a big hassle for small devs
One of the big problems with the current power grid is transmission loss, resistance in electrical wires over long distances eat ~5% of the generated power. This makes it infeasible for example to have large solar installations in the American southwest transmit power to the Northeast.

Does anyone know about theoretical minimum losses from this kind of power transmission?
What happens if they waive the loan? Does it count as LTCG + the income tax on the loan amount?
I prefer email but why can’t it be encrypted. Why can’t I log into my bank and optionally upload my pgp public key?
Not device background. IE submit requests to the iOS mothership and to the endpoint URL to talk to each other and work things out.
Mine just does nothing.
> I think this was because Perl's early success in the 90s was based on CGI.pm, not frameworks.

Exactly, the second wave of dotcom software was largely written using frameworks that built on the mistakes we'd been making in the first wave.

And because, so many programmers had memories of horrible experiences trying to beat Perl/CGI applications into submission, it was probably too late for Perl even then - although a large number of excellent Perl tools (Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Template Toolkit, Moose, PSGI to name just a few) were emerging at about the same time as Ruby on Rails or Django.
1. If the regulators can behave so unscrupulously, making Jeff Bezos poorer won't solve that problem.

2. Wealth and influence are always used for personal gain. That's kind of the point, no? People are incentivized to work and earn money exactly so they can use it to make their lives better.
I think that leaving splice() as it was, is worse than breaking the "NEVER BREAK USERSPACE" rule, in this specific instance. It should not become a regular occurence, but I don't see a better way. They tried to stick to it, things happened, but I am optimistic that they will fix it and try better the next time.
Sorry it's been a few days. But most turn based strategy games fall into this category. The whole Civ series for example. Card games like Pokemon or Hearthstone. RPG games, while slightly less 'strategic' still offer decision-making, imperfect information and random elements. Squad based shooters (the randomness being provided by the players themselves). MOBAs And so on. Games are games and you can find enlightening elements in most.
I have read that book, but I personally disagree with such a premise. I hold that in the moment a scientist or otherwise poses a statement in the form of "X exists in and of itself", they are doing philosophy, not science.

The scientific method is about predictions and testability of such predictions, therefore it implies behavior. Nothing more is needed for a scientific theory. To test for existence within the scientific method would require to test for non existence too, a clear paradox, which is the reason why ontological statements ("X exists") are meta-physical in nature.
I did! Doesn't he always play the tough guy even when he shows some vulnerability?
Am I reading it wrong?

I would never say this about Hoffman or even about people like Farrell, or Sam Rockwell...
Somehow I always see De Niro playing De Niro playing something (not a typo, I mean it this way).
PNAS publishes a lot of junk. If you're connected to the Academy you can get papers through with very light review.
In fact, one can even seen this happened in the Tipler paper: "This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor." [0]

Andrew Gelman calls it a "tabloid": https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2014/06/17/hurricanes....

I will check the paper out though.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/no-more-prearrange...

Edit: I read the paper. It is borderline crank work. There are decent arguments for the Born rule in MWI but this is not one of them. (I like David Wallace's book, for example.)
I was hoping an independent VMware might recapture some of what it lost during the Dell years, but they still produce a solid product that I generally enjoy working with. Not sure if Broadcom is going to make the situation much better though.
I don't think that's a valid operation. The title of the article refers to four groups of people

Group A: People who lived in a home with handguns and were killed by a gun.
Group B: People who lived in a home with handguns and were not killed by a gun.
Group C: People who lived in a home without handguns and were killed by a gun.
Group D: People who lived in a home without handguns and were not killed by a gun.

Original: "People in homes with handguns more likely to be killed (by guns)" sounds to me like "The fraction of people in homes with handguns that are killed by guns is higher than the fraction of people in homes without handguns that are killed by guns", that is "A/(A+B) > C/(C+D)".

Modified: "People who were killed (by guns) were more likely to be in homes with handguns." sounds to me like "The fraction of people who killed by guns who lived in a home with handguns is higher than the fraction of people who killed by guns who lived in a home without handguns", that is "A/(A+C) > C/(A+C)".

If, for example, you have a population with 25% of households owning guns (which describes California's population, and the study was done in California), and the risk of being killed by a gun is 12/100,000 if you live with a gun and 8/100,000 if you don't, the a sample of 1,000,000 people will have a ratio of roughly 30 : 249,970 : 60 : 749,940 in group A : B : C : D respectively.

Which means for that population, the original statement is true (people in households with guns are more likely (12/100000) to be killed by guns than people in households without guns (8/100000)) but the modified statement is false (30 of the 90 people killed by guns come from a household with guns vs 60 / 90 from a household without guns).

Edit: I suppose the reverse statement could also be

> People who were killed by guns were more likely to be in homes with handguns than people who were not killed by guns

which would be valid but to me doesn't sound like it says anything meaningfully different from

> People who lived in homes with handguns were more likely to be killed by guns than people who lived in homes without handguns.
You can keep using those. The database format is defined as a long-term storage format by the U.S. Library of Congress.

https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html

There have been a lot of new features over the new years, the latest being window functions. Those features do not impact the database file format.

Embedded systems that don't need these features probably haven't upgraded.
I mentioned fines that exist to refute the implication that the first amendment is all powerful and without government limit. The government limits all kinds of speech based on various tests (threats, yelling fire in a crowded room, art vs. pornography, etc.) that have been applied in the supreme court.
Presumably you can do like Matrix, and have the developer of the app run a push gateway.
That said, the initial protocols that were too challenging for XMPP to unseat (MSN, AIM, Skype...) have been unseated by newer tech anyway (Whatsapp, iMessage, Telegram), so it clearly wasn't a perpetually insurmountable challenge.
I can confirm that at least at my dealer. Just bought a Mach E this week that I ordered the first week of October of last year. Got it at the MSRP at the time of order, not purchase. The salesman was telling me that the guy he was helping before me took over an abandoned pre order and paid 10k of dealer markup for that privilege.
I've got to squint pretty hard to see this. Seems pretty mundane and non-satirical to me. Birds have viruses and bird sociality contributes to them. Just stands to reason that controlling contributing factors like bird feeders would be among the mitigation strategies.
Essentially yes :) llvm dev here
They want to censor everyone. And good that they have been shown the door.
I still don't understand what Paddle offers to SaaS.

As a dev I thought maybe easier integration. But it doesn't seem all that different from Stripe Invoice.
More importantly, there is no threshold of usefulness where continuing the behavior is justified.

If the behavior is unimportant enough that drew should accept eliminating it, then its value does not justify the load.

If the behavior is important enough to justify the load, then eliminating it is no solution.
Before the pandemic hit and management decided to move to MS Teams, we have been using Cisco Jabber which — by the name — obviously seems to use XMPP.
New York’s Hipster Wars
I think (hope) most k8s installations are there to run multiple services in a consistent fashion. There is a lot of infrastructure involved, but once you have it the marginal costs of a new service are notoceably lower.
I've gotten to the point where signing up for anything is rare. I used to try out all types of tools to see if they help me work, or sign up for the "10% discount" at some new store.

But then you start to realize what happens to your info. If I buy running shorts from Nike I'll start getting junk mail from running and fitness brands to my home address. If I back something on Kickstarter I get spam coming from other Kickstarter campaigns.

Lately I've started reading privacy policies more than signing up. Here's something from Pelotons policy on what they collect:

> Voice and Likeness: Your visual image, likeness and voice recording (e.g., via photographs, video and/or CCTV) if you visit our studios and/or showrooms or participate in live studio classes. Additionally, Peloton fitness equipment and the Peloton App may contain a camera, microphone and voice control features. These features are in use only when activated by you, for example, to use the Peloton Guide, to take a Peloton user profile photo or to initiate or accept a video chat from another user and, for usage of the Peloton App, any device settings that you have activated.