skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sampling doesn’t imply synthetics. It just means that at the small end of their index they don’t bother to hold everything because the cost of doing so is too high. This is only an issue with niche ETFs or total market ETFs where the tail end of the index represents some tiny minuscule fraction of the fund.

Nobody uses sampling for, say, an S&P500 fund.
There's intrinsic value to, say, McDonalds, because they own something like 50k acres of prime retail real estate. The same is not true for a cryptocurrency coin.

There are protections in the stock market against me selling a stock back and forth between accounts I control to pump up its value. It's a common tactic in the crypto marketplace. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15446...
Who do you think is hurt by inflation? Largely the same people hurt by unemployment.

Someone with a million dollar mortgage and inflation proof investments is probably cheering on inflation.

A family struggling to buy food and shoes for their children suffers from inflation.
If you have to ask, it's already happened.
The person behind Signal.
Fixing spelling in GitHub repos using codespell
Same (edit: no permanent damage done yet but now I keep tbird minimised to prevent this kind of bad stuff from keybindings).

And I went back to webmail for 6 weeks because when tbird upgraded itself, the new OAuth (I think) stuff needed cookies, which I didn't allow so just couldn't connect and just kept failing without any explanation. That took half a day of chasing down.

And if I get a calendar invite it just tells me "all calendars are currently disabled. Enable an existing calendar or add a new one..." without 1) saying why or 2) saying how (and why would it not just use the one it's literally showing me while saying they're disabled).

And it doesn't recognise domains correctly, and it strips out inline attachments (yes, really), and fucks up formatting (turns html mails into messed up plain text), and it's caused me so much grief since its install, can anyone suggest a competent, reliable email client that has a focus on quality and not a focus on stupid UI crap that makes it feel like someone's personal side-project. I'd gladly pay .
The Depp-Heard trial was fascinating in many ways. This article mentions Dr Shannon Curry specifically. Whatever she was paid was money well spent. It wasn't just her testimony but how she handled cross-examination and how she carried herself (eg [1][2]). By comparison, the Heard equivalent expert witness got utterly destroyed on cross [3]. And then you had Dr Spiegel who, depending on who you ask, might be called 60 year old Ninja (the streamer) or budget Jordan Peterson who clearly came across as a grifter [4].

One instructive thing about all this is you start to get a sense of how expensive actual litigation actually is. This should both dissuade you from taking that route (unless you have really pockets) and embolden you when others make threats to sue you.

Yes the pay rates are high but these are also people who generally have a ton of experience so comparing what they earn to say median income from doing their actual day job is misleading.

I mean whether or not this is a good system or not is another matter.

But another lesson to draw from this is that binding arbitrarion is often daemonized but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Generally the arbitrator is a subject matter expert and such things are common in, say, the construction industry.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb2p5xR9xjY

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNpEeIus_tY&t=3889s

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WdtBFY4J4

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IwUlKPSVQs
I am so happy about this. I hope this is going to sour crypto for "investors". I use quotes, because they really are not -- investing should be reserved for fronting cash to create some value (like buying stock to infuse capital into a corporation). As it is all crypto trading is purely speculation.

The world would be so much better if money tended to be exchanged in good faith, to improve something rather than just to exploit market instability.
I agree with every single point he makes, but regarding proposals, given the degree of current US disfunction, they are little more than wishful thinking without any realistic chance of being implemented.
Sometimes I wonder how much time humanity as a species has collectively spent first inventing and then trying to solve the problem of "making a website".
Yeah, the financial incentives don't line up correctly.

You'd need something like a paid service that's backed by a guarantee (some credit cards basically offer this for the high-end cards; concierge service that will recommend a restaurant (that takes the card, of course) and if you complain to them afterwards they'll make it right or refund the cost).

But for most things people don't even bother - everyone knows gyms are scammy with cancellations and people still sign up, for example.
Looks like they've resumed:

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/d312178e0fce...
It’s not a luxury brand. It is a high tech brand with a few luxury features. I bought a Tesla as a frugal move to save money in the long run, not to spend more, and so far it’s working.

The up front investment is higher but the long term costs are lower. If you think in purely purchase money terms you can trick yourself to think a Yugo or Skoda or Yaris or Leaf etc. is cheaper, but I factor in safety and fun, so my calculation differs.
> there are toys down near the ground, that can intercept hypersonic missiles

Which toys, exactly? Like which specific weapons systems? Because that could be a game changer. From the research I've done, there are no capable systems as of yet unless there's some secret programs that we don't know about.

Early on, Russia hit the base near the Polish boarder used for mercenary intake and the incoming warning system didn't even come on. And those were supposedly not even hypersonic. Google up the pics, videos and interviews. It was devastating.
Thanks for bringing this comparison out!
Most of the people I met making these arugments gleefully told me that Twitter was a private company and that the "constitution isn't absolute" when it came to rights I cared about. If you aren't going to defend my right to say that COVID probably leaked from a lab why would I defend your right to soddomize drug addicted young women for money and film it and distribute it?
Just think of self identity as something that minimizes the KL-divergence of description of one's self given the outside + inner world.
I think each of those is nearly as easy to update, except the source of truth. Probably shouldn't ever go on vacation if redis is your source of truth!
> I guess I'm arguing for an Electron-based docs/sheets/email/calendar using modern software best practices, and great components.

Nope. Totally not interested in anything Electron...
But then it's not a regular LLM anymore and we don't really know how to build that.

The whole motivating aspect of these models is "attention is all you need" to reduce dependencies from recurrence, which would otherwise halt this obscene scaling in its tracks.
Well knowing how poorly previous NHS IT projects have gone historically, and how there have always been vast layers of useless middle management in these NHS IT projects, and how much corruption and back room deals are prevalent in the Conservative government it would not surprise me to find out it’s just RBAC under a different name for obfuscation and removal of accountability via vague requirements that turn into deliberate money pits.
Although central banks definitely have their problems, the US bank scandals in the 1800s make the central bank's failures look positively benign.
Reposting from the other thread:

I would like to provide some context to people unfamiliar with how the bitcoin mempool works and what you can do to avoid getting your transaction stuck. The mempool is all of the transactions that have ben gossiped about but have not yet been mined (finalized) into a block. Each node has their own mempool. You can see [1] that there are roughly 6 hrs worth of transactions in this node's mempool (everyone should have a similar mempool, though not identical).
So Binance's claims of network congestion are "true" on the surface, however there are a few interesting points that lead me to believe that they are acting fishy.

1. Why does Binance not have RBF enabled on their withdrawal transactions?

RBF mean "replace by fee" and it's a way you can mark an unconfirmed transaction as replaceable by a similar transaction that pays higher fees. This is extremely useful when you need to ram a transaction into a block by increasing the fee you're willing to pay miners to mine your transaction. I highly recommend you only use a wallet that allows you to use RBF & to have RBF enabled by default. Of course Binance knows about RBF so why aren't they using it?

2. Why does Binance not use 'Child Pays for Parent'?
CPFP is a little hard to understand if you don't understand that bitcoin transactions are linked together in a graph structure. In short, a bitcoin transaction is a data structure that points to previous transactions to spend. CPFP is when you make a new transaction that spends from your previous unconfirmed transaction (un-mined transaction in the mempool) and over pay in fees to cover the cost of both transactions. This incentivizes miners to include BOTH transaction in the same block. Once again Binance should be doing this. An ideal way to do this would be to batch a bunch of customer withdrawals in a single transaction. This would save a lot on network fees. They would make this big transaction payout a large amount back to themselves so that they could CPFP this batched withdrawal transaction.

3. Binance has their own mining pool with 11% of the network hash[2].
Binance could easily prioritize their "stuck" withdrawal transaction in their pool's blocks. Of course if they didn't subsidize their miners for this they risk them switching to another pool. One would think that halting withdrawals is an existential risk to their business so temporarily paying their miners to ram transactions through should be worth it?

So what is the take away from all of this?
There are numerous tools at Binance's disposal. Why did they not work/why are they not using them? My hunch is that they don't have all of their ducks in a row & are running a fractional reserve. (this is pure speculation on my part) They likely had a lot of (your) bitcoin tied up in "risk-free" interest accounts (Celsius) and are scrambling to get ahold of bitcoin to give back to customers.

[1] https://mempool.space/ [2] https://mempool.space/mining/pool/binancepool
Show HN: Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
Hi everyone,

My name's Kaveh: I'm the founder of www.usage.ai

EC2 Pricing: https://ec2pricing.usage.ai/

I thought the previous generation of EC2 Pricing Pages were getting quite slow and a bit buggy. So, I'm excited to announce that we launched a free, new EC2 pricing page for the community.

Do you often look up EC2 Pricing? Would love to hear your thoughts direct: kaveh@usage.ai
I mean, I'm not shorting SF real estate, but no, valuation can be wrong and also not tautological. There are lots of reasons in SF that prices don't adjust - e.g. rent control and the tax advantage of unoccupied buildings vs accepting a permanently lower rent. There's lots of reasons that value doesn't adjust quickly.
Just because you support an alternative money system doesn't mean you have to be against the concept of a bank altogether. Bank exists because people suck at protecting their money. You don't keep cash in your house because you get breaked in. And same goes for crypto. You could get your key stolen. You could forget your passphrase. You could get hacked. And so on. Bank aren't invulnerable, but they sucks much less than average people at protecting their assets, and this is why people uses them.
Sounds like the organization's mission might not line up with it's operations. If a bunch of people send letters to the IRS asking to carefully audit their operations, do you think anything would come of it?
I'm not a fan of crypto, but having a stable currency that the local government can't inflate/manipulate for their own gain would go a long way in many developing countries.

Think about it this way, how much trade would the US have if our currency changed every 10-20 years and all of our old debt was effectively thrown out? How would people save to build a business? How secure would they feel investing in their own future?
Well, you’re not running a home chemistry lab, I suspect.

Whereas a significant percentage of crypto enthusiasts believe they’re inventing the future of money, without the slightest idea of the protections the government offers their deposits in the status quo - and happily leaving this for the decidedly less robust protections of a nacent industry that has developed a name for scams and people losing their shirts
When downtime is not beautiful, lovely, and freedom, but rather a liability.
Well laying out that he was payed $2 million per year pro rata when the guy--in court--clearly does not have that stature in the economy, which you can tell by his appearance and bearing and how he speaks--is suspicious. Like these guys are negotiating in court, he himself is negotiating in court on behalf of his client, the fee looks like he's cashing in with them as opposed to offering objectivity. Which doesn't exist, a smoke and mirror concept, but the idea is to reduce prejudice, meaning judge in the moment, with partiality switching, rather than being neutral, and the judges in the room, the one with the gable, the ones in the jury box, and the pews, everyone--switching back and forth until coming to rest on one side, with the amount of nuance or lack thereof they see fitting.
Apple just announced their collaborative whiteboard product: Freeform

It will be available for iOS, iPad OS, and Mac OS later this year.
https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-freeform-whiteboard-col...
>(One) trouble with lead acid is that deep discharges are really bad for the longevity of the battery.

Let me introduce you to the Optima Blue Top[0] marine battery which is designed specifically for draining to 0 and recovering to full charge. Doing this to a typical SLA battery found in cars is definitely not recommended. These are commonly used in fishing boats to run trolling motors and pumps in the boat's live wells. Being the hacker nerd type, I built a DIT cart around these with an inverter to power my gear in remote locations without needing puttputts.

[0]https://www.optimabatteries.com/optima-product-categories/ba...
Geary is too buggy/lacks e-mail refresh, KMail is also too buggy although I haven't tried it in a few years, Evolution assumes too many GNOME parts, Mailspring is electron-based, TUIs are right out, Claws is even more 90s than Thunderbird.

So yeah. For handling multiple e-mail accounts, Thunderbird works best.
Ask HN: Should vendor offer replacement installer if I did not buy suport?
I bought a $59 USD license for a Windows Desktop program two years ago but did not purchase the optional support at $15/year. My PC disk drive crashed and I do not have a backup of the installer for that program. I emailed vendor support and was told my license is perpetual but only for the purchased version and without the support subscription I cannot download the latest version and they do not provide downloads for older versions. It does state in their online support policy that customer is responsible for backing up their installer. So my only recourse is to purchase another license. I guess this is why purchasing support is worth it.

Is this normal/typical for paid licensed software?
Central banks have their problems, but a history of banking in the US, especially in the early 1800s make modern central banks look amazing.
Here's a direct link to the free EC2 Pricing Page: https://ec2pricing.usage.ai/

Let me know your thoughts! :-)
They're going to lose that much more today...
1000? I think it's closer to 100 - isn't it?

> That was more than three years ago. Since then, I have done 100 interviews.
When they impede a competitor (and only a competitor).

As it stands CI/CD is a bit of a commodity, so you can go with any of the solutions and they're largely similar.
There is a term that lines up with this called the Eliza Effect. And yea, it can definitely be an easy trap to fall into. Some people here are making suggestions he is mentally ill, he very well could be, but I dont think there is enough 'evidence' to show his claims are because of mental illness. Just as you mentioned, getting stuck talking to the thing and all it takes it to forget the implementation details. He did have an education in Computer Science, so I am pretty sure he is probably aware of the details, but yea, just getting sucked into the conversation can probably even cause someone who knows better to forget that part. Now as you said, what about when better chatbots become more common place. It is gonna be a mess since most people won't understand how these are implemented anyways.
No, saying that is how everyone ends up with PTSD, and how they learn how to be helpless. Any hardship is not the end of it all.
I've compromised my ideals for money enough times in my life, I'm not going to make it worse here.
> I think the main reason it doesn't exist is that go had no generics. It'd need to be another custom-generic type (Future[T] basically), and it would make it harder to pass around, just like channels. But since channels are generally intrusively-added, they aren't part of the return signature, so they avoid that generic-return issue.

That's a good point I hadn't thought of! Naively I wan to say they could just "implicitly" make anything returned from a `go func` be passed to a channel and then have `go func` return a channel, but that would require doing a bit of type inference as well as deciding semantics for whether it's possible to get multiple values out of that return channel. It honestly seems like there are some interesting ideas here (e.g. having multiple yields out of a go routine that then get sent to an "output" channel, making a sort of generator-like thing, but I guess I'm not super surprised that Go didn't choose to go this route.
This works until you get a flash crash, or a situation where there no buyers can be found - then all hell breaks loose.

Same thing happened with the mortgage backed securities - even if they had some value (and everyone admitted they did) nobody could be found to buy them - hence "toxic" so the government stepped in and became the buyer of last resort.
If the sex industry were organized and professionalized such that they had advocacy and regulation that specified acceptable behavior by management. No work if on drugs or alcohol and if addicted to the above, have programs to address those issues and had independent feminist organizations providing feedback and advocacy for members, and had rules regarding management-employee relations, etc., then ok, they could be addressed as any other industry.
What were the signs for me: No joy in life, even with hobbies or parts of works that were always pretty pleasant. Being snippy, dreading work days rather than having a neutral-to-slightly-positive take on them. (You don't have to always "like" work but I've found there's a real difference between dread and neutral).

When is it time to change jobs: When you really dislike the person you're becoming (irritable, unusually cynical) and don't want it to be permanent.

I got lucky in that (through higher-up corporate politics) I was accidentally(?) reassigned to something else much more joyful and fitting my skills quickly after I started noticing these signs, but it was absolutely a learning moment to see the shift in mindset and mood. This last comment may sound odd, but something I wish I did earlier was to start journaling as it's a great way to notice emotional patterns and to suss out things that have been bothering you but might not be vocalizing (as much as you need to).
If you think you are on the cusp of burnout, you are already IN the burnout. Burnout isn't like a moment that occurs that you can pin point. It sneaks up on you and by the time you are thinking of it you are already deep in it.

Everything you describe is a sign that you are burning out. Take a step back and find ways to improve the situation: short frequent breaks during the days, mini-vacations each week/month, EXERCISE OUTSIDE (walsk ,runs, bike, anything outside rain or shine), find a group of friends or family you ENJOY being around and spend more time talking and laughing with them.

You may not necessarily need to leave your job, but if it is REALLY tearing you down and you feel hopeless everytime you go to it, then NOW is the time to start looking for something else. Do not let all of this build up until you are at a breaking point and suddenly quit "out of the blue" because the pressure has built up too much. At that point it may be difficult to find a job and you might be so burnt out you literally don't have the motivation TO find a new job.

Good luck, find a way to heal yourself, and know that there are a lot of others out here who have gone through this and have begun to get through it - myself included.
Just an educated guess from an armchair general of the 404th chairborn division.
In a setup where you only move between 80-100% charge for most of the time, dip to 50% maybe once a month, and to 10% once a year.

It's kind of like tiered storage on a file server: most capacity is rarely accessed but still valuable to have, so instead of using a lot of mediocre storage devices you use a few really good ones and a lot of really cheap ones. The good ones will stem most of the read load, and buffer writes to the slower storage if necessary.
I like what my Calculus teacher in college did. Homework was only 3% of your grade, but if you did at least 80% of the homework, then you could redo any questions you got wrong on the tests and midterm.
Sorry if it wasn't clear, my comment doesn't just refer to aircraft but to all means of mass transportation, with units of USD per passenger mile. It's based on extensive analysis but is also pretty obvious when you think about it. Yes, as the passenger:pilot ratio gets high, other costs will exceed the pilot's salary.

In the case of a Cessna 172 (for example), even if the pilot works for free, 25% of the vehicle's capacity is wasted, unless the pilot is also a passenger. This isn't true in the case of the general population so these planes aren't used for mass transportation.
Try to think about something you're really excited to do. If you can't think of anything, you're probably getting pretty close.
Most likely not, but they should.
They absolutely do not. They put their savings in an account held by a centralized 3rd party (bank) with the backing of government-guaranteed insurance (FDIC).

Maybe some people store cash or gold in a secret place but that is the exception.
Read a paper: What questions can tell programmers from non-programmers?
>get taken off the grid for 3 days and maybe have your solar ripped off your roof or partially degraded, once every ten years.

Depending on location, the "taken off grid for 3 days and having your solar ripped off" could be from the same storm situation (hurricanes, tornados, etc)
> Wait - so unemployment is bad. Unless enough people have jobs, then it's good?

Yes.

The ideal amount of unemployment isn't zero. People quit jobs and move to new cities (sometimes following their spouse who gets a new job) and then look for work there. People upgrade their skills. There are a lot of reasons people might temporarily be unemployed. If they don't have the freedom to do those things, that's bad.

If the unemployment rate is zero, that also means that there are jobs that literally cannot be filled and are not being done. That's bad too.

Obviously, an unemployment rate of 20% is also bad.