skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Practically speaking, digital is far more durable in the balance.

It is, until it’s not. You wouldn’t loose an entire part of your physical collection because some company on the other side of globe decided you shouldn’t be able to use it. But that happens all the time with DRM content. If you only lost 1 album, you are lucky. Past performance is not is not indicative of future results.
Battery life vs display resolution is always a balancing act. Even macbooks don't have 4k displays for this reason. Makes me wonder why manufacturers opt to make so many 4k laptops compared to 2k ones.
Housewives never successfully sold cupcakes before Google, Facebook, and Instagram? Citation needed! I don't think that's obviously true.
"My hope is that, going forward, entrepreneurs explore the idea of building Ethereum apps where the only financial instruments involved are in Eth itself, or perhaps stablecoins if necessary."

Yeah, but then how would "innovators" maximize their grift?
Even if the 0.1% figure is correct, I find it a lot of energy (and growing) for something found useful by so few. Reducing it to a percentage and saying it's ok because it's within a rounding error is like taking the entire population of New York City (8.38 million), killing them all, and saying it doesn't matter because it's "literally a rounding error of global population (0.1%)".
I just built a similar feature into our app, where our users may specify email contacts and send chat messages to them. Those messages will be sent using a special email address containing our user ID, so we can route responses back into our chat database. By storing the email message IDs along with the messages, we can even implement full conversations and let our users and external recipients respond to specific messages.
This was rather cheaply possible using Mailgun webhooks - we even have delivery receipts!

Edit: in case somebody worries - this is a B2B application where buyers can talk to their suppliers, some of which may not be onboarded yet. We rate limit sending out too, so there’s not really a spam risk :)
The thing is:

- You have people whose security depend on you

- You say this is a top priority and of ultimate importance (people's lives depend on it)

- You make $300K gross income over a year

- And you dedicate $50'ish for an entire year to contribute into solving the issue

It does look like pocket change to me.
I think it’s specifically purchasing a license to view the content.
Isn't that playing a little loose with definitions? if you have 10 "repetitions" that don't need to change simultaneously they aren't really repetitions in the first place. Just because a dumb analyzer says you have a 10 line block of identical code in 10 places doesn't mean it's actually identical.
> it's really weird for you to try to hold the moral high ground while also announcing that you do something much worse than they did.

That's likely because you're viewing it through a different lens than the person you're replying to. Try to look at it this way...

- Company sold ownership of an item to individual. This is what "purchase" means to most people.

- Company then decided that individual should no longer have access to item, so takes it away.

- Individual knows that company has no (moral) right to take away item, so takes it back.

From a moral view, if you agree on what purchase means, the individual is completely in the right. If you don't agree on what purchase means, then the individual is not in the right. There are a lot of people that do not believe that companies should be able to use a word and just define it as meaning something totally different in their specific case ("purchase" when they mean rent, "unlimited data" when they mean limited, etc); and that when a company uses a word, they are morally bound to its common definition. For such a person, the OP's statements are internally consistent.
True. The tokens can also be used to own the arcade, recieve a portion of the revenue and make decisions for the direction of the Arcade.
They'll just bury somewhere in the contract that you are purchasing the limited access to the good, not purchasing the good itself.
This is pretty GPT-3'ish. Yes, it matters.
You're not alone. I additionally like John Adams (Shaker Loops) and Steve Reich (Electric Counterpoint, Music for 18 Musicians).
Please, just no.

The C committee should do basically nothing. If someone, somewhere, finds an actual bug in the spec, then fine -- fix that. But don't go adding new features.

If you want something new, then make a new language.

Leave C alone.
You're literally providing no reason why you think this, or what you think this about.
Using git for so many things (it's a database! it's a blockchain! it's a dessert topping! It's a floor wax! [1]) does start to smell of "I have a hammer, and luckily everything looks like a nail if I squint enough". But it is fun to see how folks have stretched git into so many directions, even if some of them are more useful than others.

[1] SNL, 1976: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shimmer-floor-... (may not work in all regions, sorry)

(edited link)
> You're relying on the assumption that, in the above example, the fine (which should be minimized) is directly proportional to difference from the estimate. But that assumption doesn't appear in the explanation of why one metric or the other will minimize the fine.

Yes, my argument is specifically for the case where the fine etc. is directly proportional to the difference (or absolute difference). I'm pointing out that the two cases are similar apart from the signedness.

To put it mathematically, I'm just observing that if you have a set {x_i}, then:

- avg{|x_i - y|} is minimised by setting y to median{x_i}

- |avg{x_i - y}| is minimised by setting y to avg{x_i}

The excerpt in the article says "the mean minimizes the average squared distance" (i.e. setting y to avg{x_i} minimises avg{(x_i - y)^2}), which is correct but not obvious (the proof is non-trivial, and if you were to ask the students who chose the mean why they chose it I bet none of them would say "because it minimises the squared distance"). So I find it odd to include that statement. If I was the author I would have said "the mean minimizes the average signed distance", which I find more intuitive and think is a better explanation of why those students chose the mean. (Also, I like how "average value of the absolute difference" and "absolute value of the average difference" are the same words just in a different order.)
The sanctions go a little bit further than that though. Financial institutions are not merely blocked from accepting transactions from the IP region of North Korea, but actually from doing business with a whole list of companies and individuals with ties to NK. To comply with the sanctions regulation you would need to have a lookup service listing the owner of every wallet and for every transaction you validate, check if any of the wallets involved belongs to a sanctioned company or individual.

I don't think "but I didn't know that it was a NK wallet!" is going to hold up in court either. There are laws regulating the minimum Know-Your-Customer a money transmitting company needs to perform and when the regulators come knocking you need to be able to show your procedures for that and how they lead to compliance with the law.

The real question is whether courts will rule that POS validators are "money transmitters" in a legal sense. To me it's kinda obvious that they are, since without the action of the validators no money would get transmitted. No doubt there will be much water under the bridge before that gets settled though.
On the CLI, you'll see the error just above the prompt and then the stack trace above that. It makes sense since the user is always reading up the terminal in reverse order.
not really what i was trying to say, read the other reply in the thread. the political affiliations are not quite relevant (to some degree) as far as working and relationship between government and state apparatus and journalistic outlets are concerned.
I'm in Taiwan and am also blocked. What did Taiwan do wrong?
To the west of Sydney are many areas of low lying land and most of it used to be market gardens. Property developers saw all the nice level land, bought it up, sub-divided it and built thousands of homes. Now they are getting flooded ... d'huuh!

Instead of rebuilding in the flood plain, which has copped 4 once in a 100 year floods in 18 months, the government should open up land on higher ground and exchange them for flood affected properties. Then do what the Dutch did, drain the land properly and use it for agriculture.
Thought someone might say this!

You're right. At the risk of sounding kind of hypocritical, after a decently long career in software engineering, I've learned that some carefully chosen future proofing is one of the things that makes a great developer and it's also something where one learns to eventually "see" where it is needed.

My "if nobody cared to mention..." part should have probably said "if nobody cared to mention, even after several specification meetings, that the software should be able to do X..." as I agree it's definitely part of your job to assess the needs.

This post is a bit weird though. It's as if someone is ranting about how hard it is to hammer nails into wood with a shoe or 15 other things, when you could just use a hammer.
Sounds like an allusion to blue ocean strategy

“ BLUE OCEANS, in contrast, denote all the industries not in existence today – the unknown market space, untainted by competition. In blue oceans, demand is created rather than fought over. There is ample opportunity for growth that is both profitable and rapid.”

https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/what-is-blue-ocean-strateg...
ie upto 2012 A10 vs from 2018 Ryzen 2000. Both still useful nodes but only one of them can be taken seriously in a laptop.
I have a 2y old PF5NU1G (a second run Mechrevo CODE 01) as well, and the battery has decayed to ~73Wh (from a 91Wh original design). The one bright side is that the replacement battery, PFIDG-03-13-3S2P-0, seems to be pretty cheap ($60, shipped by boat from China) if you know you're going to stick to the same laptop for a while... https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256803017144797.html
I'm going to tell you what I think is the issue here.

You probably are not looking for the kind of advice that will actually work. Because that advice entails changing your end goal (lowering your standards) instead of merely changing your strategy. You are vehemently agreeing with the posts that flatter your "strategy" and disagreeing with the ones that get to the bottom of the issue (The men who will meet your standards can get young attractive women, they don't care if you are smart/successful.)

You also have an inflated sense of how smart you are. You are a humanities graduate running a generic education startup. Not the kind of tech genius you are painting yourself to be. You said you can't find any men as smart as you? Seriously? You can't find men smarter than you? Or is it that you have an inflated sense of how smart you are combined with a very narrow definition of what "smart" is?

I also looked at your twitter and you are not physically attractive enough to go on 120 dates and not find a match. Sure your friends will tell you you are beautiful but you are physically a 6.5/10. I don't say this to be mean, but to be honest. You are a 41 year old woman and you look like it. The kind of men you are looking for will not start dating you now. You seriously underestimate how much this factors in to the equation. I'm a 25 year old guy and you probably make more money than me, but I won't date you because I don't find you physically attractive enough. Men who have much more money than me would also probably feel the same.
Me and my colleagues (actuaries by training) ran some very interesting what-if scenarios based on our companies insurance packages, and every single scenario indicated that going with the highest deductible (or HSA) was more cost effective for the employee...the employer (with the insurance companies) had stacked the deductibles and cost structure to shift the risk from the company to the employee.

And the medical providers (not the insurance company) will always have discounts on their procedures...just have to ask for them. Makes one wonder how steep the mark-ups are.
I recall watching a video of Schmidhuber presenting. He comes onstage, introduces himself, and then makes a joke. ("You again!") It's a funny joke. And it's self-deprecating. I remember thinking to myself, "This is a formidable Austrian."
That and the Gödelmachine: I'm a fan.

There's a simple and obvious way to solve this: cite the papers. It's traditional, it's noble, it's not hard, and it makes you look good.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago something I learned reading an old interview by Bill Moyers of Isaac Asimov, that in ~1900 three different people, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, discovered the laws of genetics, checked the literature, and found the work of Mendel from half a century earlier. Each of them credited Mendel.
How to Achieve Dynamic Dispatch Using Generic Protocols in Swift 5.7
Will certainly have some effect, and at 5 million tourists a year thats $250M yearly into the governments coffers.. could come in handy
Surely I'm not the only one to notice the first example refactoring is wrong, in a strangely ironic fashion too...(but too lazy to contact author)
You know how I know environmentalists are just dragging their feet on nuclear for ideological reasons?

When we talk about a storage facility for nuclear waste, a scenario they insist you prepare for: if human civilization completely collapses to the point that any of the currently spoken languages on earth are no longer able to be read how to we keep the, whatever comes after us, from busting up the concrete and digging down deep into the earth and playing with it. That's the last gasp of someone out of obstructionist ideas. I've had these people tell me that launching the waste into the sun would be dangerous for the sun, they aren't serious and need to be ignored.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warn...
IMO, the problem with vanilla JS on anything other than trivial pages is you end up having to implement a bunch of common patterns (such as interpolation and form binding) and before long you’ve got what is effectively a private framework that you’ve kludged together in an ad hoc way while simultaneously trying not to be distracted from solving your actual problem. But because it’s come about in this organic, unfocussed way, it will have a bunch of bugs and caveats, and it will be a bit of a mess. And don’t even get me started on browser engine differences.

Better to pick one of the lightweight frameworks (like Vue, which is super simple to integrate into plain html/css), and save yourself some pain.
> Most companies don't have interesting FE work

While true, I think it's a bit more nuanced than that.

The most attractive companies have at least 2 of 3 qualities that make front-end work significantly easier:

- engineering permission to use sensible tooling (typescript, openapi type generation, etc)
- strong / focused product team (stable roadmap for project requirements)
- modern ux designers (able to design a component library & can easily communicate changes (Figma))

I've noticed that companies that get this right tend to have healthier work cultures & deliver on expectations without stress.

Companies that don't tend to have front-end work defined by a sense of impermanence, lingering technical debt, and pain.
There have been a couple cases of a game being removed from both the store and users' libraries, such as Order of war: challenge.
It was fun for a while because it didn’t. It’s fun again because, in the end, it’s doing just that.
One thing apple does very well is marketing. Just ask an average person what company they think does phones/laptops the best and they would say apple. Most people don't care about the specifications tech details but just the ease of use and looks, which apple (arguably) does well to optimize for.
“This industry makes scraping available to individuals and companies that otherwise would not have the capabilities.” - seems like web scraping companies are doing a good job :)
Uniswap/Sushiswap uses ETH token…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Resigns
DRY is mostly a good thing. What complicates stuff at companies is often coupling and dependencies though. Sometimes it is way faster and better to do a bit of copying just for the sake of removing coupling. This is largely due to the short comings of programming langs, packaging tools, CI/CD and source control.
laptop < bare-bones OS[3] < neighbors wifi[1] < (pfSense VM[0] + VPN) < (pfSense VM + multiple per-connection load-balanced anon VPNs + pfBlocker NG) < (Tails | Whonix Gateway) < (Whonix Workstation Live mode | Windows IE VM[2])

[0] With DNS trimming, forced DoH(TTPS), forced over VPN, no VPN no internet

[1] While inter-railing, tickets paid in cash

[2] https://www.amiunique.org/

[3] installed on an SD card or USB-C attached NVMe, with a dummy OS install on the built-in storage

And even then, the best anonymity is to just pretend to be somebody else, proxy through their home internet with stolen cookies and same browser version, using the same laptop model as them. Many 2nd-hand laptop and phone shops forget to wipe the previous owners data, or will 'forget' for a few extra dollars.
> this is not how any system involving human works and cryptographic technology is not going to change that.

How is a system that allows people with ~$30k to have any type of influence worse than the status quo?
>how do you thing people sold cars before the internet?

You're not following the particular context of your subthread and inadvertently moving the goalposts.

The side conversation you're replying to was niche businesses with niche customers e.g. gp's example of "small businesses (think housewifes selling cupcakes)"

Buying ad space in a local newspaper is a waste of money for _small_ businesses like that because the subset of readers interested in paying for homemade cupcakes is too tiny. There's a threshold where it's just not financially feasible to pay $$$ targeted at a general audience in the hopes of converting the subset of that audience into customer revenue.

On the other hand, cars are purchased by everybody and the profit margins are also higher to get a return-on-investment when spending for ads in local newspapers.

Mabye a better example than housewife cupcakes is the niche video educational content on Youtube that's supported by advertising. The niche videos from Animagraffs, Practical Engineering, etc with micro-audiences wouldn't be economically viable on traditional network tv or even PBS. It required the long-tail of the internet matching the marketplace of viewers + creators + advertisers.
If the rest of the world were like the software industry, we would see news like this on Facebook:

"KayaCar, a distributed kayak with wheels to drive on the streets of San Francisco"
Considering your tastes I'd recommend this streaming station

http://radio.garden/listen/fnoob-techno/ItGJW-os
Which version of GTK does WxWidgets use? Overview mentions "2.6 or higher", but Wayland support hints at GTK3, or am I wrong?
If the incentive is not more money in most cases then it won’t work.

And those who generously give may not oversee how money is spent and likely squandered to a certain degree.

Takes an incredibly self sacrificing individual to risk it all, which is what this requires.
House is the best for coding. I have a playlist on spotify that I always listen to, but I gotta start using Soundcloud more since there's so many great sets there. The UX kinda annoys me tho.
Ukraine fatigue surfaces in Texas poll
> It is baffling to me why AMD chose to have the odd-numbered 5000 series (5300/5500/5700) with Zen2, and the even-numbered 5000 with Zen3.

Oh no, it's actually even worse than that.

5300U/5500U/5700U are Zen 2 (Lucienne, Renoir Refresh).

5300G/5400U/5700G/5700H are Zen 3 (Cezanne).

I find it remarkable how AMD started a completely new, fairly sane naming scheme from scratch and screwed it completely up within two generations (Remember 3200G/3400G? Pepperidge Farm remembers).
And then we get to the fun of trusting trust.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
I doubt it’s a good strategy to put all our eggs in a photovoltaic basket.

I love PV tech, I think it’s incredibly useful for small and medium scale self sustainability. And yes, in many areas it makes sense to dedicate a bunch of space to PVs and energy storage.

But PV is inherently intermittent and unless you massively overbuild capacity you’ll always face a weather threat.

Until we manage to harness nuclear fusion we’ll need nuclear fission along with hydropower to be the backbone of our energy generation.
What if the inverse is true? Someone (maybe Meta, maybe someone else) is playing a zero sum game and now you are forced to bake a bigger pie otherwise your slice gets smaller.
Sounds like the entry tax is working as intended, then (since it's intended to reduce how many people go).

What did you like about Trieste and Zagreb (I've never been and I'm not familiar with them)?
> North Korea is the way it is because they've rejected our neo-liberal ideology

I don't think the dystopic human torture camps are a necessary part of "rejecting the neo-liberal ideology".
Which sunglasses do you code with?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/low-hanging_fruit

Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-hanging%20fru...

the obvious or easy things that can be most readily done or dealt with in achieving success or making progress toward an objective

"Maria and Victor have about three months' living expenses set aside. That's actually pretty good …. But I urged them to do better …. Looking at their monthly expenses, we found a few pieces of low-hanging fruit: Two hundred dollars a month on clothes? I don't think so. Another $155 for hair and manicures? Denied."

"As the writers and producers sat down in spring 2007 to draw the outlines of Season 7, they knew, Mr. Gordon said, that most of the low-hanging fruit in the action genre had already been picked."

"When business types talk about picking low-hanging fruit, they don't mean, heaven forbid, doing actual physical labor. They mean finding easy solutions."

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/low-hang...

something that is easy to obtain, achieve, or take advantage of

"The easy changes have all been made. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked."

"When cutting costs, many companies start with the low-hanging fruit: their ad budgets."

"For the beauty-care industry, the teen demographic is a new category for them - low-hanging fruit."

"I'm a great believer in picking low-hanging fruit. Start with what's easy, and go higher later."

"This legislation is some of the low-hanging fruit - the issues that we can agree upon across parties and regions."
Yea true, but its a fine line to something like copilot, since it also can be thought of as a search engine, however it has your whole code (and maybe your past behavior too) as its context, hard to beat.
Is there something in contract law that prevents this?
> why can't the hardware designer do something simple and clean

If it was easy, it would not need firmware in the first place. Firmware is there because people expect certain features and quality of life. See softmodems.

> write some assembly (without abusing the assembler preprocessor...)

You want https://terralang.org/ and not "just C"/"just Assembler" instead ?
Retool

https://retool.com/
It is my belief that wider aspect ratio displays are easier to manufacture, too.

At a given pixel-pitch, you need fewer rows. In extremis, imagine a display that is N x 1 -- much easier to limit defects and handle the necessary multiplexing.