skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is (probably) taken seriously, I am sure they were pushing things to limit to render just one more car or have a one more AI etc. My assumption the loading times just somehow slipped off and no one thought it was a solvable problem or it is just loading performance is not taken as seriously
> What is it with the Musk hate?

After he accused a random guy of being a pedophile because he saved a dozen kids, after he lied about making Tesla a private company, after he lied about Tesla accepting bitcoins as payment (just to speculate on BTC), it should be evident to everybody that Musk is not to be trusted. It wouldn’t surprise me if he pretended to buy Twitter to speculate on price changes with some weird derivatives.
See also: raku's grammars (https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes).
It's a negotiating tactic, part of which is just stalling the deal. Musk will likely still buy Twitter, but for less. Happens all the time in sports when a player still has multiple years on his contract but threatens to hold out if the team won't negotiate a new, higher contract.

Musk agreed to pay $54/share. But after the tech selloff, Twitter might be worth $25-30. Maybe less. Musk can, in fact, get out of the deal for $1 billion or so in fees. But that would be awful for Twitter too, it's stock would tank overnight without a bidder (it already dropped from $50+ to under $40 quite rapidly). So perhaps Musk can get the board to agree to a deal at around $32-35/share, it would be a win/win for both parties.
You can simply opt in to those kinds of setups.

The flipside is there are times I've been unable to pay with cards because the processors deem it to be too large of a risk, despite me being happy risking my own money. Or, see the risks people take running businesses on PayPal - large companies able to reverse transactions / hold your money solves some issues but raises others.
I've tested the questions in the article, and the answers I got are entirely consistent with the examples. Cranking up temperature and a few retries gives a better answer.

Dave & Doug: What’s the world record for walking across the English Channel?

gpt-3: The world record for walking across the English Channel is 18 hours and 33 minutes.

D&D: How many parts will Dr. Hofstadter's ego break into if a grain of salt is dropped on him?

gpt-3:

There is no record of anyone ever breaking Dr. Hofstadter's ego into parts, so it is impossible to say for sure.
Power is proportional to stake size. This can be (and is) mitigated by penalizing stake pools that get too big relative to the rest of the network, thus encouraging users to stake on other pools.
>> Even Google uses their own private networks.

Of course they do.
A call is a generic overarching theme, you of course still need to write a proposal which includes the research problem, motivation, and questions.

It is sometimes asked to include implications for externalities such as public engagement, climate, equality, but if the call is about compiler design for example, you shouldn't make these central to your research.

> When calls have low acceptance rates, the deciding factor is cronyism

I don't see how it's possible that cronyism feeds into large public European calls that you mention
I have failed once at Flipkart due to System Design, how many problems on should solve to get better at this?
> the first important lesson of inverse response is: don’t ride your bicycle on the edge of a cliff

I don't know if many people often ride their bicycle on cliff edges, but many plane (as in airplane) accidents occur because it's difficult / impossible to recover from a stall near the ground.
Wc2 – optimizing wc with asynchronous state machine parsing
As an alternative to Leetcode, I have had a good experience with Byteboard. It's sort of a "project" based interview format, that comes with 2 parts.

Part 1 is a design doc where a problem statement has been outlined with goals and notes from the development team. Your job is to respond to their questions and propose a high level architecture to solve the problem. Part 2 is the coding portion, you're dropped into a codebase that relates to the previous portion and are given a todo list of tasks to complete. It's basically feature implementation, ranging from trivial to somewhat involved.

I really like this approach. As someone who has interviewed a lot of candidates using Leetcode style questions, I would love if my org moved towards this format. Unfortunately, it's pretty hard getting FAANG companies to drastically change hiring practices, but if smaller companies start adopting it maybe it will get some traction.
Related tweet from the author: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1494009849427992576

PoC||GTFO article: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/pocorgtfo21.pdf#page=71
> “This is the deep insight I would share if I gave a TED talk”

I don't think we should be too harsh about that sort of thing. It's hard for people to learn how to have deep insights or how to communicate them if we are hyper critical of everything that isn't a perfectly formed nugget of transcendental genius. People need a bit of license to be over-excited about their own insights or over-optimistic or slightly prententious as they work out their voice. Sure, it's annoying, and taken too far it can be very unpleasant, but it's also probably a necessary part of learning to do and share anything creative.
I've only been following this through Matt Levine, but he thinks Musk absolutely does not have the right to bail on the deal for $1 billion. This clause is only triggered if he can no longer find financing, which he can.
You’re painting with a very broad brush.
> Not detracting from the value of the study

You just upvoted a comment detracting from the value of the study. (Well, if it's not doing that then it's a non-sequitur. I'm not sure which interpretation is giving the most benefit of the doubt.)
I find this one interesting in the context of math. For example with sin/cos, a lot of people think about it as a phrase "sin is the opposite over hypotenuse", whereas I have this image of sine returning the fraction of how many times does hypotenuse fit into the opposite, which is not word based at all.

I can imagine people having vastly different representations of a lot of math concepts.
This is also how almost any technology can be dismissed.
There's also an argument to be made that piracy increases sales in some cases, most of my music/game/tv/film tastes as an adult can largely be traced back to content I pirated as a teenager who didn't have money to spend. Now most of my spending on entertainment either goes to artists/franchises that I was introduced to via piracy, or on services that are more convenient then piracy (Steam, Apple Music, Netflix, etc.)
> Obviously that all fell apart a few years ago and have since diluted their talent pool into mediocrity

This could well be true, but it seems far from obvious to me. Do you have any evidence? Clearly netflix stock is doing poorly in recent months, but this seems much more of a consequence of content issues rather than engineering talent.
Don't worry even though many of them have a much wider field of view then humans, their vision is much less advanced, many can't even see colours or the direction of light, although the latter is probably achieved with image processing.

Interesting thing that I discovered about a month ago:
Humans have an inverted retina, which means that our sensing cells are the furthest away from the light of in other words the sensing cells layer is covered by another nine layers of different cells. This seemed kind of illogical to me, which I pointed out to the professor, why is our retina inverted? Because if it wasn't, then we would have blind spots and because most of the body cells diffuse light, the image quality could be better. Sadly the professor didn't know the answer. But when I got home and did some research I discovered that we actually have another set of cells in our eyes called Müller cells which extend through all nine layers from the top of retina to the top is our sensing cells. These Müller cells function similarly to optical fibers, they direct light to the sensing cells so that were actually able to see a clear image. Taking this into consideration, our eyes become quite similar to eyes of bees and bugs. As to why our retina is inverted and thus requires special cells to solve the problems that inverting the retina introduces, it's actually quite simple and obvious, is because of "power consumption" or in other words, or sensing cells require a lot of food and nutrients which is why directly behind the sensing cells there a web of capillaries and thus they are the first cells in the retina that get food.
there have been issues around this, insofar as how much the VC investors - who are part-owners, remember - are involved in the running of the company.

When Telegram did its failed ICO, a pile of the VCs who bought tokens behaved with sufficient involvement that the SEC deemed them underwriters, i.e. partially responsible for the offering.

So how much business help did Y Combinator offer this particular blatant Ponzi? Looking forward to YC and PG's comments on this.
Thanks, you saved me a click.
Is there a difference between a Hyper-V snapshot and a checkpoint? See the explanation for a Hyper-V checkpoint along with effective tips on VM data protection.
At current rates of inflation, it is actually quite a bit cheaper to pay over 10 years if you can finance it without much interest. However, your point stands -- this should not be used to justify purchases and to view things as cheaper than they really are.
I agree with you that we need something different than trusting an entire user and everything that comes from them, and something more like trusting a specific releases.

I think crev is a step in the right direction, but there are some things I don't think they get right which makes it hard to actually be useful in practice. For example, there is no specifics regarding crew understanding files themselves, no easy way of aggregating data, the solution not being scalable for projects using lots of dependencies and some other points.

But rather than just complaining about crev, I've started to build an alternative, that addresses those issues. It's not really ready for showtime yet (it'll be a Show HN once it is :) ), but if this is something people want to help out and collaborate on, I'm happy to share the progress in private for now. If anyone is interested, reach out to me at v@depscheck.com and we can talk more! I'm also currently looking for another full-time/part-time developer to work on the project together with me. Only requirement is some previous experience with Rust, Clojure and ClojureScript, and a burning desire of wanting to fix security in the open source packaging community.
And on better timezones
Failure of the nft platform is cited as a negative by the employees here though
> Sounds like hell.

Sounds like standard corporate usistan.
code is law, just make DAO or something
You are shifting the goalpoasts. The assertion was that "No content would be produced if nobody was compensated for it." which is undeniably false since there has always been content produced without compensation.

I don't think many people will deny that compensation encourages more creation. That is in fact the basis for copyright (at least in the US) - to romote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. But that does not mean that the current copyright scheme is the best way of achieving more creation. In many ways it stifles creation as much as it encourages it.

Yes, we need to make it so that those who create can afford to live. But why do we need to so heavily restrict everyone elses rights to share and then throw public funds into enforcement of that insanity in order to achieve that? Really, we should make it so that everyone can affort to live instead and encourage creation via public and community funding or private patronage directly instead of doing this copyright dance where middlemen profit off our shared culture.
> Regexes often contain complex parts that repeat themselves throughout the regex or can be combined into higher level patterns.

sounds like a parser use case.
But the fraction of computing that deals with quantum systems is a tiny. I would like to see performance on a more neutral benchmark than Gaussian boson sampling. I mean, it's fine to include boson sampling but it would be nice to see QC performance on general hard problems improve over time as well.
For the youth of today:
Mail = Snail mail or slow mail aka. letters and such.

I personally quite like the sound of snail mail ^^
For me that creates two big questions:

(1) Do we really want high frequency markets in real estate? Is that socially and economically desirable?

(2) Land and property records so far have survived centuries (if not millennia), can we hope that an NFT solution will have the same long-term compatibility?
> And there are theoretical solutions to this as well; projects like Bright-ID are working on proof-of-identity / proof-of-humanity.. maybe we'll see a proof-of-stake blockchain with governance tied to identity in the future?

This is what I'm hoping for. As soon as this proves viable, this opens up the door for things like automated international UBI.
It's a nice thought experiment. I call it ubiquitous surveillance. Anything you say, do, etc. is picked up by cameras, microphones, sensors, etc. and analyzed and archived for the duration of your life. We're a few decades away from that becoming practical to do for the entire population of earth. A few exa bytes of data per person sounds like a lot right now but there are already companies operating at that scale today. A few decades would allow scaling that by few billion times.

That's scary if you think in terms of a scary state surveilling its citizens. But as soon as you have multiple parties doing ubiquitous surveillance on each other it gets interesting: counter surveillance becomes a thing. Counter surveillance could be a crucial tool to enforce rules related to e.g. privacy.

For example, the act of violating somebody's privacy would be observed by potentially many third parties, some of which might not be friendly. Doing so covertly would get a lot harder and now would have a risk of legal escalation. In fact doing anything covertly would become extremely hard. People will get to watch each other, but not covertly and probably under some very strict and extremely hard to dodge rules.
> Realtors are a state-sanctioned monopoly for real estate transactions

This doesn't even make sense. 'Realtors" is plural, and there are many, which is incompatible with monopolies. Realtors have a monopoly on their trade only because anyone competing with them becomes a realtor, by definition.

It's like complaining about the airlines' monopoly in air passenger transport.
Vespa Cloud's HNSW-IF to index 1B 512x8b vectors for 1% of Google's cost
+1 for Authy. I like it because it has cloud sync and has a desktop app available as well.
This is a cool story! Is that vector library public or is it an internal project? I'd love to take a look at the rest of it...
i.e. hell
> I disagree with the article on this point. No reasonable person expects to be able to reverse a cash transaction;

What gave you this idea? If I have proof that I paid you cash for a service, and then proof you didn't provide that service, I absolutely expect to be able to reverse that transaction, via the legal system.

> A blockchain is much more resilient; the equivalent would be to have hundreds or thousands of redundant SQL databases around the world and somehow keep them all in sync.

That level of resilience is completely unnecessary and is part of why blockchain is such an extraordinarily wasteful technology.

> Local governments are fully capable of putting real estate NFTs or whatever on something like Ethereum or Cardano and publishing public keys such that people can verify their authenticity.

And who will hold these NFTs? And where will the data the NFTs sign be stored? If the government holds the NFTs, then nothing will change for you: you will have to bring the exact same kind of proof after you bought a house to the government so that they can update the blockchain record.

If they want to distribute the NFTs to the current owners of the houses, than they now need to establish an Ethereum/Cardano/[...] wallet for each person who owns a house in their district - a decade-long project in the best case, involving a level of bureaucracy to ascertain that no house NFT was incorrectly transferred to the wrong owner that will blow your mind (or, more likely, a process which will cause massive fraud and property disputes for decades to come).

And of course, the NFTs don't solve the problem of actually storing the data (physical scans of the documents that were used before the move to digital, at the very least, since the chain of ownership of each piece of property is an extremely important part of how you can settle disputes). Who will hold these records, and update them as needed? If it's still the county clerk, the problem of bureaucracy flies back in. If they want to make them part of the NFTs and store them on-chain, then minting the NFTs will be exorbitant, and it's doubtful the Ethereum blockchain would survive having the entire archives of home ownership in the USA on-chain.
And a location/distance, that seems to be pretty important most of the time, from what I can remember, but otherwise yeah.

We had one of those people as a client and thought his "special sauce" of Myers Briggs, some Neuroscience research test bullshit we had to build into the system and have people, and some bullshit matching algorithm based on astrological sign would be the next big thing. Of course it wasn't, but my boss was happy to take the guy's money to build it anyway.

The client actually told us that it would have ten million of users after three weeks of release, with basically no money spent on marketing. It did not. Nowhere close.
Chief People Officer in the list. To any young, fresh eyed college person taking up their first job - don't believe HR is your friend (as I did, when I started my career). They are not.

It might seem silly to point out the obvious, but a lot of people still genuinely believe HR is their friend, especially those starting their careers.
I'm running 12.11. Do I need to do anything?
> Stuff like Nyquist criterion just sort of appears out of nowhere as functions.

Black's canonical 1934 paper[1] Stabilized Feedback Amplifiers, which had an outsized influence on EE classical control theory, may have something to do with that:

Results of experiments, however, seemed to indicate something more was involved and these matters were described to Mr. H. Nyquist, who developed a more general criterion for freedom from instability applicable to an amplifier having linear positive constants.

...which directly cites Nyquist's canonical 1932 paper[2] Regeneration Theory.

[1] http://archive.org/details/bstj13-1-1

[2] http://archive.org/details/bstj11-1-126
I can relate to this.
I pick up woodworking a few years ago, before the pandemic, when wood was actually cheap.
I chose to pursue a semi-'pure' manual hand tools only, and I'm feeling pretty satisfied.
I embark on small projects, boxes, book dividers, etc., to disconnect from software development.
If you want to pursue this manual woodworking, search YT for Wright Wood, Rex Krueger, Paul Sellers, etc. Craft masters.
Italy's GDP stopped growing when they joined the Euro.
Composability is the main one for me that's interesting.

When serving data, I often use HTTP pulling from a Postgres DB. Both of those are massively over engineered for the problems I want to solve but I use them because:

* They're already built so it's not my engineering time.

* Others can interact with them easily.

This is more strongly the case, and becoming more so over time, in crypto work.

I can make something with key based auth that I can uniquely identify such that a user can prove they own it to integrate in my "real world" systems, while letting them sell it, trade it, auction it or whatever.

To build this I do a starter tutorial, load a common library and publish. After I can just use already existing APIs for integration. That's it and it works because the data and APIs and Auth are all common and standardised now (either inherently for Auth or by convention for the data).
using NNTP internally was something I always thought would be a great idea: all public discussion (i.e. public to all inside the company, as opposed to siloed conversations in emails or Slack/Teams) and a repository for knowledge transfer (whereas wikis and such are always out of date and usually do not record the arguments that led to a decision)... unfortunately I never saw it used that way at any place I worked at (lucky you).
Wait till they find out about Hacker News …
+1 on this answer. Put another way, it's a programmable settlement layer for the internet that anyone can access and is always online. Add in standardized interfaces and all applications built on it become easier to work with and extend.
I don't know the Polish constitution but Romania when joining wrote in its own constitution that EU laws are senior, so that is that. Also in general, international accords and treaties are always senior - so one should pay attention when signing them, not years later.
That's so aggressive? What would the non-aggressive version be that still makes the important point?

I was aiming for a basic simple assertive, avoiding being overly passive-aggressive. The question in that post is not rhetorical.
> Bitcoin - $1.62 per transaction

If you used real sources I'd take this thread seriously, but you don't and this is exactly why I don't respect the majority HN's view on most things with regards to Bitcoin and to a lesser degree crypto in general.

It's currently $0.04 for a high priority tx on the mainchain [0] right now as the memool is pretty clear.

[0]: https://mempool.space/
Not a natural born US Citizen, so can't be President.
If you don't need PCI-E slots and only need 128GB RAM maybe it is. But remember the Mac Pro has a memory ceiling of 1.5TB.
Show HN: Visualize and explore GitHub data in realtime
An attempt to visualize and explore the trending of OSS repo in Github
My personal worry would be security, the way I built stuff 25 years ago would never pass muster today.
Texas is enormous. If they switched to their own currency it'd be doing fine. This "clout" and "superpower" nonsense was talked up big time by Remainers in the UK too. Guess what - post leaving nothing is observably different. The average voter doesn't care about the sort of stuff thinktanks care about. Their concerns are local. A Republic of Texas probably wouldn't have invaded Iraq, and thus may in some sense be less superpowery than the USA, but does the average Texan see that as a problem or a benefit?
I mean "just learn HTML and upload it" will always work, you can provide them with a simple template as well if needs be (e.g. http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ ), but they would also need to learn FTP or its equivalent built into their file browser.

But I'd argue those are easier than wordpress itself. Plus, WP is quite invasive in that it will do its own updates, and most plugins try to push some paid services as well.

I'm sure there's more minimalist WP alternatives though.

What about a blogging platform that runs as a self-contained single page application (minimal) that gets its contents from text files? I'm sure it exists somewhere.
It probably is not solved without a central authority that distributes and revoked identity tokens, like we have with passports. Decentralized proof of personhood is a pipe dream.
What does it matter that they go on-chain? They are happening between one Coinbase/Binance/etc. wallet and another. If the exchange wants, they can write a reverse transaction on-chain, nothing's stopping them. Even if it was transferred to a wallet of another exchange, they can work with that other exchange to reverse the transaction.