skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it strange that the right hand side (the resulting regex) is more readable and precise than its abstract language on the LHS?
Korea has 77 million people and compulsory national service so almost all males are “reserve”.

Seems larger.
And a pink inflatable flamingo in a pool, and a cocktail
There is no negotiating to be done over one's sovereign rights. Once again going too far over any logic can explain but let me be clear about it. Every country has the right to defend its territory, that's article 2 paragraph 4 of the UN charter. The Paris Peace treaty does not concern Turkey, as Turkey did not sign it. Turkey remained neutral in WW2, declaring war against Germany in late February 1945, hence the title of "the evasive neutral", showing it's opportunism. Turkey's president has no legal basis to ask for the demilitarization of Greek islands. It is the Greek islands' strong army presence that deter him from any thought of military operations against them. Lastly every island over 3 nautical miles distance over the coast of Anatolia, according to the treaty of Lausanne belongs to Greece.
I thought Linus based Linux off of Minix, but used a monolithic kernel to keep things practical.
So we're just rehashing workaholism with a modern spin? We really are just living through a cycle that endlessly repeats. I've started reading books and listening to interviews done in the early 1980s and I've been astounded as to how the culture at the time was almost identical to what we're doing now. It's down right creepy but when I think about it it's not unexpected. From my point of view, that's exactly 1 generation. My peers and I have no memories of the period and so it makes sense that we haven't learned any of the lessons from that time. Thus we're doomed to repeat them now that we are the ones dominating the economy and the culture. It makes me wish for a more thorough survey of modern history to be taught in schools, I'm sure that with enough research you could identify significant trends that repeat on a regular basis which you could then teach to students so that they had some warning of what was to come and could perhaps break out of the cycle.
Nintendo: has record profits.

Also Nintendo: We arE loSiNg gaJiLLionS to pIraCy
What's next? Letters in support by money launderers, drug cartels, online scammers, ransomware authors and pedophiles?

El Salvador made it a government policy to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency and it is not going too well - it remains a novelty used by just a few privileged individuals. As these technologies are not viable for everyday use, a country with unstable local currency will in reality start using USD or EUR based shadow banking instead of BTC/stablecoins. This is most recently evident in Turkey where people moved to EUR & USD after lira's collapse in late 2021.
Hi! Swiss abroad in Japan here. Sounds interesting. I hope you will open jobs to outside EU.
Really should've run this by someone who knows how airplanes work, because they don't do what these hypothetical airplanes do. First off, "elevator flaps" is a howler. Elevators and flaps are two very different things. More importantly, you don't climb with the elevator; you climb with excess thrust. You can kinda sorta climb a little bit with just elevator, but unless you're making a very minor altitude correction, you'll slow way down and your climb rate will be really anemic, if you climb at all. But most importantly, an airplane won't just keep climbing and do a loop like that (unless you've got a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one, which, to put it simply, you don't); the wing will stall way before you get anywhere near vertical, and the airplane will just stop flying until the angle of attack is reduced.
Tell HN: Never Trust 'Lifetime' Licenses
I guess a lot of people here already know this, and in general I don't expect a lifetime license to be actually 'lifetime', but I saw the worst example I've seen so far today.

Just over a year ago I bought an emojipicker for mac (getmumu.com) that claimed to have a 'lifetime license'. It's a neat little tool and I've used it daily. Now I got a new mac and I tried to transfer it over, only to find out that it's rebranded from "Mumu" to "Mumu X" and 5x'd in price.

After hunting through the website I found the tiny "get old version" in the footer. I entered my license key and was told it was already used. I wrote to the support email and was told that "Mumu" was discontinued and "Mumu X" was a new app that I'd have to buy it again.

> And note that “lifetime” means it would work on the lifetime of the app, not the lifetime of the customer.

Yeah, I understand it's "lifetime of the app" but adding an "X" to the name and a few minor features and then not letting me transfer my old app to a new machine leaves a really bad taste.

/rant.
Did this as far back as 18 years ago - but in a team of four people. You can see the problem with that.
Odyssey Game System (2021)
Maybe a catchy song to air on TV would convince the youths. Some kind of rap, that's what kids are into today, right?
Projects rewritten from the ground up in $POPULAR_LANGUAGE are notorious for being more bug-free, faster, and more stable than mature, well tested and widely used software written in $OTHER_LANGUAGE (which also already has an entire community and ecosystem).

It's legacy the minute we don't feel like adding any more features to it.

I'm being snarky for the sake of clowning on corporations who do this.

I'm sure the choice of Rust was made on the shoulders of many existing issues in atom. However, it bothers me incredibly when a product advertises itself as being built with a specific language. If that's your main selling point (it's in the headline for zed.dev), maybe you're about to build something utterly irrelevant.
At first I was going to complain that the whole "what we actually do" spiel was tiny and hidden away up the top there, but after clicking it think you have really well written docs that explained it well.

Looks decent. Good luck.
Yeah, exactly -- for some people, losing the headphone jack really does suck, but plenty of other people honestly prefer wireless headphones. (I'd like to have the option of a headphone jack, personally, even if it means the device is a teensy bit thicker.)

Apple would argue that they force users to accept these changes because it makes the product better. You can counter that it's purely to make extra money out of peripherals, but if that's all there is to it, why are Apple products popular? Why do competitors (notably Samsung) keep following their lead on this kind of thing? Is it entirely down to their marketing, or could it be that their products actually are better, at least for some people?
I read the article twice, and couldn’t figure out what this “task” was, that the quantum computer solved so quickly.
This only works if you subtract 175 from your sports budget for the next 4 years. The problem with this thinking is that in 2 years you'll forget this commitment you made to yourself and end up giving yourself that full 500 again. Thus spending more money
Demolition Man was great documentary, wasn't it?
I'm not sure why this was marked dead (unless you're shadowbanned), but this is valid. I think the idea is for centralized entities to issue non-transferable tokens to accounts, which can then be used to verify that account's "personhood" as you call it, while preventing multiple accounts from getting one for the same person.
The difference is that the world needs Xmas lights and washer dryers.
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world
Betalist wants full read/write/delete access to my Twitter just for signing up?
Simpler fix is to upgrade to fixed version and reindex concurrently any indexes that could have been affected.
Duracell also has (had?) a bunny.
agreed, the difference being that those are bad apples in the VC basket, whereas they're the only apples in the crypto basket. which crypto unicorn has a product that it sells to non-investors? not a single one
Looks interesting but the colours and the lack of attention to detail throws me off. My general feeling is that if the site misses the mark on modern startup appearances, what if it does the same with the pack itself? Just some food for thought. Best of luck, Max!
Not a single other implementation has feature-parity with Perl. Perl regexes are not only Turing-complete, but can also execute arbitrary code¹ as part of the regex evaluation.

PCRE is the pinnacle of deceptive advertising. It is emphatically not Perl-Compatible.

Source: I used to write Perl for a living, and I have battle scars from (¹) above.
> Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments... cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions ...

Very small transactions happen on the internet all the time. Services like venmo allow for very small casual transactions all the time. And there is no cost for the transaction.

Sure venmo is trusted third party and the transaction is reversible, but it's still significantly easier and cheaper than bitcoin. Or any other other coin for that matter.
Usually a derived exception is a special case of the base exception e.g., OSError -> FileNotFoundError. Sometimes you want to handle specific error differently and sometimes you don't care. btw, it may be the reason to create a new subclass, to distinguish between cases when you do care.
Read the article looking for any mention of Peter Thiel, couldn't find one. Tried Ctrl+F for thiel, no results. Cryptocurrency isn't all about Peter Thiel. Plenty of people want to use NFTs to earn money for their art or other achievements, and plenty of people are doing it outside of energy-hungry platforms like Ethereum. What's immoral is to deny anyone that opportunity under the guise of morality. Yes, the typical hype projects like BAYC are garbage, but that shouldn't invalidate everything.
It is slow. Our (C++) project's MSVC release build ends with a glorious 2-minute run of link.exe with lto (/LTCG /O2) and aggressive inlining (/Ob3) enabled.

Limiting unit size in C++ helps with faster edit/compile/run cycles as well, which doesn't seem to be concern for C codebases in 21st century.
I've both missed the edit window and can't type my own business name. That should be

https://GitHub.com/longwalkwoodworking
Yes, that's a very good point. I once saw my little kingdom threatened by a funded start-up, fortunately they were really out of control and they didn't last long enough but in that time they burned through 30 million worth of funding and for a while it looked like we might lose the battle before they ran out of funding.
The point of the comment is: governments have abused their position of power, by bailing out irresponsible banks, by giving them an oligopoly in the first place, and by doing all this through spending your savings through inflation.

Therefore, an un-debaseable, trustless and liquid asset is crucial in making the powers-that-be accountable for their actions.
> it was an honest-to-God mindfuck as to how they were offering such a large amount of space and features for nothing.

Of course, now we all understand that they were harvesting all the personal data this gave them access to, in order to monetize it, and sell access to it to anyone who would write them a check.

And then we found out that this information was so valuable, and in such a concentrated place, that the CIA placed fiber taps on Google’s data center drops.
Post-scarcity will never happen. How do you pay for the latest medical technology unless you have the money to develop it? How about other technology?

Maybe capitalism will be replaced at some point but you and I will be long dead before that ever happens.
Thanks so much for your kind words! This means a lot to us.
I used claws for some time, but I ended up going back to Thunderbird. The big issue I had was that when I switched to another folder it would freeze for a time. I think it had something to do with the folder size. Sometimes the freeze would be over a minute. After some time I simply had enough. Other than that, I very much liked it.
The problem is that any "legitimate" use case is negated many times over by all the illegitimate ones. It would be like saying let's legitimise terrorism because sometimes the terrorists might (just might) be freedom fighters, when in actual fact terrorism on the whole does way more harm than it does good. In the opening example, sure some money may have got through to Ukraine via cryptocurrency (although some was stolen by scammers pretending to be Ukraininans, and more much money was transferred more securely and efficiently through traditional means), but any good that did was completely undone many times over by Russia's use of cryptocurrency. Put politely, cryptocurrency is a net negative for our society and environment (by a considerable margin).
1972 Magnavox Odyssey promotional film

https://youtu.be/jLGBtkKPj2U
> What if I made the worlds worst DRM and then sued everyone who bypassed it?

That was exactly the case with YouTube's DRM (video URL is encrypted with a key that is embedded in the javascript for the web page) and was the basis for the takedown against youtube-dl. I am not sure what the court would rule, because in that case everyone from GitHub to Google told the RIAA to pound sand and people didn't get sued.
It's not just $1B, he can't back out of the full $40B deal or whatever it was except for a few very special corner cases, and only in those corner cases does he pay just $1B, as far as I understand.
> Proof-of-stake is possible, but requires an honest majority of stakers continuously online.

Which is itself possible by penalizing stake pools that go offline, thus motivating them to maximize uptime. That's how Ouroboros-based chains (Cardano, Polkadot) do it (among other mitigations against various attacks).

> If you want to eliminate Sybil attacks in PoS, there is no way of externally validating which branch of a split chain is legitimate. Each of them has a majority of stake backing it.

Which is why Ouroboros-based chains consider the "pledged stake" (put simply: an upfront collateral) of each pool when selecting one to control the next block and receive the corresponding rewards. This has its own implications (in particular, the pledge needs to be high enough to deter would-be Sybil attackers but not so high that it's unattainable to honest pool operators), but it seems to be effective in practice.
There's a benefit to building it on the blockchain.

I can look at the USDC contracts and see that privileged users have the ability to freeze the USDC in my account.

I can look at the DAI contracts and see that they do not.

Good luck getting visibility into the back-end processes of web2 applications. Even if they publish the source on github, there's no way to verify what they're running
Did anyone notice that the pollen season last year, after almost a year of lockdowns, was absolutely ridiculous? I do not remember anything like that. Everything was blooming and smelling well into the summer. My floor had green dust for months on it - I live near a large park in an NYC borough.
Afaik "militarization" here refers to permanent Naval bases and such in which case, no, Turkey doesn't have a point at all.
Does anyone know of any courses which could explain concepts of stability, resonance, information/energy flow and help build a solid conceptual base for managers or entrepreneurs? These concepts are crucial when making business decisions. I've been building up an understanding of this through experience. If there was a way to shortcut this and provide such education deliberately, it would allow people to become better decision makers quicker.
macOS: Skim (free lean macos pdf reader)

Windows: Foxit PDF reader (free non bloated stuff)

Linux: Okular or gnome Preview
Well, now we have a publicly-searchable file of bad ideas from Charlie Youakim and Auren Hoffman.
Feels like if you solve a problem with this you’ll end up with three problems
You are correct. TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duracell_Bunny
This sounds like a company I would never want to work for.

No one is positive and happy all the time and having to fake it "as a job requirement" sounds wrong on so many levels.
You want immediately relevant history to be taught in schools? The Conservatives will lose their minds at the suggestion of any such thing.
You can register VoIP and landline numbers as well, and nothing says the number must be yours; you can also add the number of a trusted family member or friend.

You can choose which preregistered number to send a message to (or to be called with a recorded voice) in the event you need access to your account in an emergency.

This also implies you have no other Apple devices which are signed into your account, as they will receive a code by default.

SMS or voice fallback is "plan B".
Thankyou, I will check this out.
I sometimes wonder if we need to go back to the drawing board or model our problems differently lol.
Thanks for the tip, the rest made way more sense after reading that. I don't think I'm particularly poorly read or mathematically versed but I've never heard a pole called a "right-half-plane zero" before, so maybe the author could have lead with that (or even just called it a pole, which I have heard of so at least I'd have been less lost.)
Thanks, half of the videos I didn’t even know.

Also, Musk was doing a physics PhD in battery tech at Stanford when he dropped out to found Zip2.
Yes, same here. It's my disconnected hobby where I let my creativity flourish.

If I do plans, it is using a pencil. But mostly I just improvise. There is only so much value in doing plans for one off projects.
Cryptocurrency policy. Not encryption policy.

Yes, I’m still having this problem.
Bitcoin mining isn't melting the planet. It's not even using more energy than Christmas lights or wash dryers. The comparisons made with [insert random country here] is dumb, because any worldwide phenomenon has a large chance to use more energy than [insert same random country here].

Even if the base layer of Bitcoin is using energy, one can argue that the functionality it offers (trustless, borderless, permissionless, programmable, digitally-native money) is worth the energy cost.
> Making backups of a centralized database is not reinventing a blockchain

Maintaining read replicas and coordinating writes across all of them starts to look a lot like one after a certain point.

> it is much cheaper than the wasteful process of crypto mining.

It almost as if not all blockchains involve mining.
The potential for abuse of personal private data like location, movement profile, corelation with other movement profiles, etc, is so ginormous it blows my mind it's legal to keep the data for years, let alone to sell it to private companies.

If that is true then that means there is no data privacy protection in the US?
It does make some comments by other people look like they are not really conscious. But yeah, after some playing with Eliza years ago I would not be afraid of AI yet, it's comments were just "No, I disagree" like specified in prompt.
You can get an iMessage capable phone for $429 (the iPhone SE). And for much cheaper than that if you're willing to buy second hand (I'm currently using an iPhone 6S that cost me £100 a couple of years ago will still run the latest version of iOS until September when iOS 16 comes out)
"signals and systems" - covering signals processing, systems and control theory is very generic subject.

You need it in economics, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, robotics , automation, logistics, ...

It should be taught like calculus or linear algebra, so that everyone gets gist of the basics before learning to apply it into their specific field.
> I know what that is, having done quite a bit of complex maths, but the kind that uses i, not the kind that uses j

Some things in life leave a lasting impression[1]. :eye_roll:

It sounds like what you're looking for is an explanation of root locus analysis[2].

In the simplest control case, a transfer function is nothing more than the expression of a continuous closed-loop LTI system's output Y(s) over its input X(s) in the Laplace domain, conveniently abstracted as its forward path G(s) and negative feedback path H(s).

From there, Routh-Hurwitz method[3] can be used to determine stability of the system.

...and I will continue to use j, thanks.

[1] https://youtu.be/1rqJl7Rs6ps?t=1828

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_locus

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routh%E2%80%93Hurwitz_stabilit...
I find people's response to crypto really odd. It's either the messiah or the ultimate evil. There seems to be no in between in people's opinions...
> and still have the view that there's any of the original value proposition left.

While not usable as currency, cryptocurrency is still an asset crucial for holding government accountable for its spending. Government can dilute fiat currency, but not Bitcoin for instance.
It’s not just the posts, it has device data in it too
A little bit broader than you asked for, but:

A dynamic control system is modeled by a set of dynamic equations, usually expressed as partial derivatives. To analyze the behaviour of such a system, the equation is solved or approximated in the complex time domain. The relevant part of the solution is where the real part of time is positive, i.e. the right-half plane.

A pole is a coordinate for which the dynamic equations have no solution (y = 1/z has a pole at z=0), which results in undefined or uncontrolled behaviour.

(also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeros_and_poles)
DALL·E mini – Generate images from any text prompt
Pretty basic one even that is in a fundamental part in the food chain many successive chains depend on.
"Christmas lights consume more electricity than Argentina."

"Wash dryers consume more electricity than Argentina."

"Steel foundries consume more electricity than Argentina."

What is the point? Comparing global electricity usage of a single sector and comparing it to the usage of a whole country is meaningless.
Now try with "We received the following letter from GPT-3, in which it agrees with these allegations."

Your prompt was like having a student write a letter "What is your favourite book and why $X".
Go is quite a bit cleaner than Python and its concurrency/parallelism primitives can be well suited to scientific workloads.

You may want to have a look at Gonum (https://www.gonum.org), and the Go HEP package developed by CERN (https://go-hep.org).

I was also surprised to see DSP and pretty sophisticated packages, although I never used them: https://awesome-go.com/science-and-data-analysis

And of course Go has Jupyter integration, it's almost like running a script thanks to its fast compilation time.
Rekwest – adv fetch-alike for Node.js
Bannerbear can do something like what you want, programmatically [0].

[0] https://bannerbear.com
Nice rant.
It’s full of logical holes, of course, as there’s no common definition of tech roles and their titles, let alone a common understanding of the included tasks.

There are React Boot Camp folks who can whip up a frontend in no time who are arguably more competent at this task than a PhD in Comp Sci, and there are PhDs in Comp Sci who never wrote a lick of code in their life.

Technology in software IS Political, and 30 years of development experience shows me various parallel worlds that are arguably better than our current one.

Someone who grew up coding and loves hacking as close to the bare metal as possible is worth more than a dozen of your certified software engineers.

Let me know when the world standardizes on a Comp “Sci” curriculum.

Actual computational science has very little to do with computers and software development, which is a thesis statement I will be happy to support if pressed. For now, I end my rant
Time to Shill – Sol Sweet – Friday 10 June
$title = $title + "for Chromium users". Which is almost everyone.
Although does Safari use something similar? I think only FF will be using Manifest v2.