skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In French, but Google Translate works well.

COL Jacques Baud is former Swiss military intelligence, and worked several years for the UN and NATO in Africa and Ukraine. In the Ukraine, he monitored flow of weapons into Donbas and advised in management of Ukrainian forces. He has written several books on politics and military intelligence.[1]

I'm not sure what to make of him. He undeniably has considerable relevant experience, but he sometimes sounds a bit credulous. He gave this[2] interview in English in which he details some of his personal experiences.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1271643.Jacques_Baud

[2] https://www.thepostil.com/our-interview-with-jacques-baud/
Over the years so many people have patiently explained why and how you're wrong whenever you mention the NHS that I can only think you're choosing to misrepresent the information now.

And here you're repeating the claim that US health insurance is a unlimited source of healthcare funds for anyone who wants it, even though someone else is telling you that's not their personal experience.

Denial of health insurance is so common in the US the charitable orgs give advice about how to deal with it: https://www.cancer.org/treatment/finding-and-paying-for-trea...

"It’s not unusual for insurers to deny some claims or say they won’t cover a test, procedure, or service that doctors order. You can appeal many types of health insurance decisions – sometimes even things that are written into your health plan’s contract. You can appeal Medicare claim denials, too."

All the available evidence directly contradicts your claims about the generosity of health insurance.
What a day.

what a lovely day.
> using the other voices

Yeah, you can do that as well, well kinda, but it's harder, provides a lower maximum frequency and wastes more CPU cycles.

See: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=72678&show=notes

There have also been efforts to do "sampled" sound synthesis with C64's 3 voices, speech, etc. I don't remember any links about that, unfortunately.
Have you tried TeXmacs? It's neither TeX nor it's Emacs clone. It's WYSIWYG scientific editing platform. Documents created can be saved in TeXmacs, Xml, Scheme, PDF or Postscript. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and HTML/MathML. It can also be used as a graphical front-end for other computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics software[1].

[1]https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
That link's broken; do you have a screenshot?
Apple platforms has by default problem with Auddioserve - my choice of default audio codec is opus (in ogg container) and Apple support of opus is not very good, to put it mildly (I think one can make Safari on MacOS to support opus, but no chance on iPhone/iPad AFAIK). So for Apple you'll need to change the default configuration. First thing to try is to put transcoding to None on client. Thus formats supported by Apple like mp3 will work. Next task is to change transcoding on serve and use aac instead of opus. Recently I added possibility to choose transcoding based on User-Agent string (regex match).

I'll add some chapter to README about this.
I think it’s interesting
I laughed at the VPS hosting flexing... pretending it's a grassroot movement running on limited resources. You're limited alright, in other ways.

Run it from your basement on a pentium and I'll be impressed ;)

Sorry I'm too old for this.
Looking Back on Go from 2053
GitHub says Fyne has 120 contributors… and Fyne Labs is working to get substantial investment to secure the future like Google has done for Flutter or Facebook for react native.
Gaming — which fuels the sedentary and obesity epidemic. Maybe crypto is useful after all?
ETH also briefly dropped below $1k. These should trigger a series of margin call events, shouldn't it?
Apple has a bug in its disk I/O throttling code that affects raw disk copies
Yeah, I don't get that. There seems to be an assumption that the size of the workforce exactly matches the labour needs of the (maximum) number of orchards - 1. I can't see what that is modelling.

It seems to mean you can't have a labour crunch.

The fixed (maximum) number of orchards also doesn't seem to be modelling anything realistic; if apple prices go up and labour prices go down, I'd expect new businesses to enter the market.

Of course, labour crunches and new market entrants would make the game less stable, and economic collapse would be harder to avoid.
> because it’s very hard to have an analysis about it that we haven’t heard in recent months.

You literally have answered your own question.
Poll: What do you prefer cats or dogs?
I have a "feeling" that tech people are more into cats... but I might be biased or completely wrong.

So, are you more a cat or a dog person?
I moved this blog to MediaWiki for one year (2021)
Couldn't agree more. This woke bullshit is getting out of hand.
Comparison of Vale with C++, Javascript and Rust, with detailed explanation of how it aims to do things differently in the three categories of speed, safety and ease of use.

https://vale.dev/comparisons
Is it pronounced va'-lay [1] or vehl [2]

1. Vale: it's worth it, fine, in Spanish

2. Vale: an area of lowland between hills or mountains, in English
Playstation Creator Kutaragi Snubs Metaverse and VR Headsets
Download 100+ million customer details. Check

Install Crypto miners on customers' systems. Check

Think the only step she missed on the 'easy ways to go to jail' was she didn't think (get around to?) doing a insider deployed ransomware attempt.
I may not be. Then, since I don’t see it then I genuinely wonder: what do you find interesting about it?

The most interesting thing to me is how correlated it is to the S&P 500. It’s interesting in the sense that people used to say it’s an inflation hedge but it isn’t. Suddenly, we don’t see the opposite message so much (that it isn’t an inflation hedge). This shows a positivity bias and points to a certain information asymmetry.

Just to point out how I believe an article with the headline of it falling below 20K could be interesting. The submission here is just a chart, not interesting. I guess this comment can be seen as showcasing some factors as to why it is below 20K :P

I think that the smart money is running for the hills because the FED is performing quantitative tightening. Moreover, more and more retail traders are panic selling, realizing that it isn’t an inflation hedge (but not being vocal about it).

Anyway, I’m just brainstorming.

How do you find it interesting?
Russia has huge surplus of foreign cash right now. If anything, I would expect billionaries to get into crypto, since what would you hodl instead:

Russian Rouble and risk its volatility?

USD in bank and risk its freezing?

Physical printed USD? Not available in sufficient quantities.
Can’t you short using Binance or something? Or is making money using a crypto exchange unthinkable for you?
Goto in C (and worse, setjmp) is almost always a workaround for a deficiency in C. Examples:

The "goto cleanup" idiom to do deferred work (I don't like defer or finally in languages which have them, but at least these are language constructs which say what we wanted, the goto cleanup idiom only achieves that in some very easy cases, in more complicated cases your actual intent will be unclear)

The "iterator escape" idiom to get out of some larger iterative operation we're doing because we just realised we want to give up / found the overall answer. This is lack of imagination in the language's / library's / eco-system's control flow semantics and is one reason I really like Rust's core::ops::ControlFlow.
Calls fiat currency inflationary while advocating a "currency" that has had (as of this moment) 45.92% inflation YoY and is rapidly getting worse.

Nice religion you got there.
Thank you! Reading it now!
I believe it has to do with mobile support. Material design works well on mobile.
Yes, it is used to power many tech companies chat and text comprehension tools and services (e.g. Alexa, Siri, Hey Google, AWS Comprehend, Google Cloud Natural Language API, Azure Text Analytics, IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding, etc.)

With this customers feed the service the data or have humans or machines interact with the service and normally either conversations, metrics/analytics are derived from those services.

Example, a video might be uploaded to the service of someone that does not speak the language in the video and it has no captions, that service can then process the audio in the video and translate the text and depending on the tech do audio overlay and captions of that video to the language of the person that does not speak the original language in the video.

This could also expand into breakdowns of what was said in the video to translate into thousands of languages, pull in research data from the video, process and build a graph or other infomatics all based on what was said and seen in the video to auto determine and pull in related information based on how things were said and build on what was learned over time.

Another one could be analysis of a person talking to their infotainment system and sharing the results not only based on what they originally said, but also based on the tone and other things going on in the background to differentiate the tone and any additional context of the response. This could lead to a full on conversation that seems natural but with the information gathered allow that system to do a large amount of planning, ordering and other background tasks to accommodate the requests of the user for large planning items (wedding, property management, taxes, accounting, security, plane trips, etc.).
Previous hits - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bitcoin+falls
Bridging the Gap Between Open Source Database and Database Business
(plus to the things being told) Also immutability of storage and an ability to fork the thing and proof of being able to be anonymous for a someone nowadays.
Right now I am looking at the entire crypto market from the side that is not losing money.
Disentangling visual and written concepts in CLIP
Good question!

If one defines safety as a lack of UB or vulnerabilities, then I'd say Vale's a bit safer than other languages like Rust.

I say this because:

1. There are no unsafe blocks in Vale.

2. Vale memory is decoupled from native memory, it only passes messages and handles between, and uses a different stack. [0] This prevents accidental bugs in unsafe code from corrupting data from safe code. We just finished our proof-of-concept of this last month!

3. Building on that, we could automatically sandbox any native code for a module in theory, with either subprocesses or wasm2c. [0] (Note we've only just started on this part.)

I'd say that's safer than Rust, where unsafe code can undermine the code around it.

I'm particularly excited about how this might make it safer to use dependencies; #1 and #2 protect from accidental corruption, and #3 could help protect against malicious corruption and certain kinds of supply chain attacks. We're even tossing around a potential #4 to add permissions, so dependencies must be whitelisted to be able to access network, files, etc.

We're also thinking about relaxing the above 3 restrictions on a per-module basis if we can do it in a way that doesn't compromise the safety of the ecosystem (note that these relaxations are not implemented yet):

* Instead of full sandboxing (3), we can rely on the decoupling (2), if we trust a dependency's intentions.

* Have operators to skip generation checks for extra speed. [1] These operators would be by default ignored for dependencies. It's unclear if this will help, as the combination of regions [2] and HGM [3] might combine to eliminate the vast majority of generation checks. We'll see!

* Perhaps add a keyword for blocks, to ignore all generation checks within (maybe `unsafe`?). This would also be ignored by default for dependencies.

Rust must always allow unsafe blocks, because libraries often believe it's necessary for their performance, or sometimes for just working around the borrow checker. Vale would default to disallowing it (and sandbox FFI), and it would be much more noticeable (and suspicious) if a dependency said it wouldn't work without unsafe; they can't just sneak it in there like they can in other languages. These adjustments are still under consideration (thoughts are welcome!) but as of today, there's no unsafety in any Vale code.

To summarize, Vale has stronger protections against memory unsafety and UB, so I'd say it's a bit safer. Though, if one wants to prevent all bugs at compile time, then one shouldn't be looking at Rust or Vale which often panic, but instead look at languages like Pony (which doesn't even have panics, hence its amazing uptime) or proof languages like Coq.

Hope that helps!

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/next-fearless-ffi (still a draft, read generously!)

[1] https://vale.dev/guide/unsafe

[2] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-refs-regions

[3] https://verdagon.dev/blog/hybrid-generational-memory
agree - there is so much ego around when things like this are discussed. It is very frustrating.
Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets
Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure (2020)
The game has no relation to reality, but also remember that economic theory is only a rough description of what "seemed to make sense" at some point.
I get the feeling you've misunderstood my comment.

From my perspective you asked "What does woke mean?" and I drew from my personal experience to answer how I have seen it used. The examples I choose of pronouns in signatures and having a BLM position were very common ones that also occurred at my current company.

Does that make sense now? I'm not actually sure what you want a citation on... that people push for pronouns in email signatures? That this does not have a direct and obvious link to workplace performance? That pushing for such was unheard of in 2001? That this is how people use the word "woke"?
Wake me up when it's sub 2$. Where it will eventually end up. Or maybe dollar collapse first, both good options.
Its a california law so most places accept it.
I guess the main problem is weight. 6-10 windows might weight ~100 kg, and you'll need more aluminium in the frame because of more complex structure.
Most games are immediate mode graphics. An operating system cannot function efficiently if its graphics are not more like a retained mode system. There’s a big difference between the two.
This particular level ($20K) is actually very interesting. Because it's the top from the previous bull run. And cryptobro TAs everywhere were parroting incessantly the mantra "Bitcoin never falls below the top from the previous bullrun". Well, oops.
So every business associated with crypto is untrustworthy? It’s hilarious that the anti bitcoiners are so anti bitcoin that it prevents them from using any of the trustworthy exchanges to short it.

Exchanges make huge amounts of money in bear and bull markets.
We once had a bug from this incorrect use of "distributed locks". A server we accessed under a lock suddenly started lagging past the timeout of the lock, another server using the lock assumed the lock was released (i.e. timed out) and acquired it, while the original server assumed it still owned the lock. Data corruption occurred.

This implementation has "heartbeats" so I wonder whether it solves the problem.
Assuming the node network and mining remains intact... now you own a pretty valuable and difficult to replicate infrastructure. At least some people will want to own the "native token" of that network.
Google C++ guidelines is well know among the community for not being the best in what concerns C++ good practices, only C++ outsiders look at it as something of value.

Something like C++ Core Guidelines, which include your remarks, is what should be looked into.

Naturally Chrome follows Google's C++ guidelines, so.
Not sure, but certainly feels like it.

The movement towards "no prosecution" prosecutors (Read: Chesa Boudin) seems to be exported already though. A few latin american countries are horrified about it, since they are beset by major crime already.
20k was the December 2017 peak of the ICO craze. I guess NFTs are the new ICOs/DAOs?
Sure the internet greatly improved access to information, and definetly helped science and tech.

But at what psychological costs?

It has greatly reduced: stability, attention spans, empathy, being satisfied in what you have and probably greatly increased depression and anxiety.

All those are key to the psychology of happiness and personal growth.

And since our material well being is already good, and science and tech would still advance, it does seem that happiness and personal growth are much better indicators for progress.
Dark matter. I know we don't see it in infrared, but maybe there is a way to block even that with some physics we do not understand.
GOOG has not dropped 45% in a year.

(Not that I care much, I sold all my GSUs after I quit in January, and lucked out and hit it at its peak)
Moviedle: The Movie Guessing Game
You can short it using CME futures. Collateral is in USD and insured by various safeguards in case counter parties cant meet margin requirements. You can short it as reliably as any other asset.
Bitcoin hit $3,000 like 2 years ago, just trade my guy! I love the volatility in digital commodities, its like seasonal commodities every year except with way greater amplitude and traders that treat it like forever-up equities

The origin of “hodl” was a drunk guy languishing that he couldnt trade well

> Yeah you good traders can spot the highs and the lows pit pat piffy wing wong wang just like that and make a millino bucks sure no problem bro. Likewise the weak hands are like OH NO IT'S GOING DOWN I'M GONNA SELL he he he and then they're like OH GOD MY ASSHOLE when the SMART traders who KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING buy back in but you know what? I'm not part of that group.

Just trade my guy. Nobody has to ever make an opinion on the asset class’ utility, only liquidity. Know your risk and accept the consequences. I’m very keen on this shakeout, the money is barely exiting the market its still in the stablecoins ($200bn+) and ready to pounce into any other crypto in the matter of any single block. Even if those implode too, good! Shake it out! I love 1,000% swings that dont have an expiration date, I still dont know another market to do that, especially randomly on a weekend. That was happening before hedge funds with LPs that are QE beneficiaries got into this space, and will happen after.
They very well might look like they were the low-hanging fruit in the future.
Honestly? If a podcast sells itself as being an "AI" podcast, and the creator doesn't expect the audience to know what a computer is, I really do think that it is unimportant.
What is the real use case for this?
I guess most figure it is easier than creating their own design language as that is tremendously difficult (for engineers ;) ).
Most figure if it is good enough for Android (and simile enough to Win10 and much modern iOS) it’s probably good enough for us.
Everything seems to be underperforming. Most tech stocks are at their 2020 levels or headed towards it. Almost all tech IPOs in the last year are down. With everything being down, how is Bitcoin's performance an outlier?
CA sheriff seizes aromored car cash transported by marijuana businesses
I’ll bet you $10k USD that Bitcoin goes over 30k in the next 4 years. What does your crystal ball say about that?
She sounds very "triggered" by how "triggered" the employees are.
How a Russian billionaire can get in crypto now? All he can is to suck all bitcoins on local markets, I can not see any possible connection between US miners and Russian buyers with dollars.
At the risk of explaining a joke, the idea was not that it’s something that’s only ever been said before failure, but that it’s a quite funny thing to say just before one.
Could u please game this out for me (Disclosure: i do not hold or hate crypto)?

99% of crypto users sell, or abandon their wallets

Remaining users are HODL, and even have some cash left

Demand falls, prices falls, mining difficulty adjusts, HODLs keep buying

As difficulty falls, there is a real risk of something-something-51% attack

So HODLs (acting rationally) need to spend more $$ to boost prices just to protect their existing coins

So now, we have a finite asset (coins), which do not generate income, but require non trivial constant $ cost just to protect it?
Eventually, but maybe not this cycle. I think it’ll get to 3-5k and remain there for 2 years and then go up again for the next hype and get-rich-quick-everything-must-be-blockchain cycle. Even when Tether collapses, I see still too much hype and believers for it to reach under 1000$. Or course there is always a chance the US/EU ban cryptocurrencies (they already regulated the hell out of fiat/crypto conversions for ML purposes) and then it’s gone.
What he says makes perfect sense to me, a person who thinks about these sorts of things in their spare time. They are simple and logical consequences of what we see. If academic philosophy isn't following it then perhaps it needs to get it's act together.
GitHub already has a feature to check if any public GH repo has this name. They've called it search.
> It’s interesting in the sense that people used to say it’s an inflation hedge but it isn’t.

It's still a strictly speculative instrument which target (say, in 50 years) value is still unknown - may be anything, for example $1k, $100k, $0. As such, it's currently a terrible inflation hedge. Precious metals are much better for that.
The arbitrary signposts are because the only way to look at Bitcoin is with technical analysis and looking at the graph. There are no earnings releases, press releases, or business conditions to discuss. We can only look at the price, and speculate. (NB: speculate, not invest.)
Not IMO. Simply more volatile.
The training set had shapes that the proteins usually take - which is a result of interactions with the things that usually are in their environment (including copies of itself).

So to correctly predict that - the algorithm had to learn to simulate these interactions, right?
what's wrong with copilot as a concept and as the concrete implementation?

it's a fancy autocomple. we had stack overflow based autocomplete before. this got a bigger training data set.
it will happen by september, testnets already merged and merging
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If you keep inflation low and steady you can get higher scores from reducing menu costs. I can get around 446k by trying to keep it around 1%. Note that it gets more difficult to keep steady when you keep it lower.
and it will probably continue to fall long term relative to better assets, unless the protocol or tech changes drastically - or if PoS somehow proves to be untenable.

but contrary to a lot of HN commenters in these threads, this is not nearly the death of crypto currencies that they think it is.
Ah, so a dig at TA then? Please do elaborate :)

The chart is not enough context for me.
Didn’t realise copying / pasting longer HN links fails.

Here is the full link

https://cdn1.hardhattraining.com/wp-content/uploads/how-high...
Sure, there are uses. But they are not in this article. The article argues that without goto, an if statement can only conditionally execute one statement.

> The paper doesn't explain to us what would be the use of the "if" statement without a "goto" to redirect the flow of execution: Should all our postconditions consist of a single statement[…]?