skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly recommend Flash Boys by Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short which was also a great film adaptation). It follows the trail of High Frequency Trading to uncover how this was used to front load orders and along with other unsavory tactics like dark pools essentially turn the stock market into a rigged game. Of course they’re effects have been dampened in the decade since, due to regulatory pressures once it was more generally understood what HFT firms were actually doing.

I’m not sure to what extent it constituted financial crime versus just being an ethical grey zone, and the book is of course not without its share of criticism, but it was certainly an enjoyable read.
They didn't recommend the book as such, but they did discuss its contents, concluding that American authorities did not behave well.

https://archive.ph/npfpu
yes, one tree with multiple trunks. Many trees will drop their leaves annually, then recreate new leaves next spring. Turns out the spruce can do this with its entire trunk. I found it fascinating and enlightening, and learned something new.
I was part of a pretty large meetup for many years, and all through the dotcom boom and the following years the Windows Laptop behavior was utter trash. Any time a presenter showed up we had to fuck around for ten minutes to get their projector settings working, and for some reason I was the only one who could remember to ask them to turn off their screen saver. If I came late or someone else volunteered to help, we’d get halfway through their presentation, they would launch into a long anecdote or answer a question from the audience, the screen saver or sleep mode would kick in, and when they unlocked they would discover that Windows had completely forget the projector settings, and we’d have to stop for five minutes in the middle of a thought in order to fix it.

There are so many other, better reasons to say it besides this or automatic updates, but Fuck Microsoft. Right in the ear.
200 Years of Frankenstein (2018)
You know Finland gets like 2 hours of sunlight in the winter. Its not a particularly windy place either.
Ok, but now this person has done a bunch of unpaid work for them, just to publish an article, and now they can write some easy scripts to label any occurrences of 'daa+amn girl' as approval (etc. etc.) and in the end only 28% of the dataset will be mislabeled. The system works!
There’s a netflix documentary on the HSBC fiasco. It’s in blood money I think?
The Sheer Absurdity of Twitter vs. Musk
Why not use a firewall? That appears to be the suggestion on the docs linked to by that issue.

> 25672: used for inter-node and CLI tools communication [...] Unless external connections on these ports are really necessary (e.g. the cluster uses federation or CLI tools are used on machines outside the subnet), these ports should not be publicly exposed. See networking guide for details.

Individually binding each service to localhost to prevent remote access seems tedious and error prone. What happens if an update exposes a new port? I like to bind to localhost too, but only as a defense in depth measure.
It doesn't suggest whether the teaching is useful for the career of a lawyer, or just for passing the Bar, though. You'd hope it to be true of both, of course, and ideally more about being a good lawyer than about how to pass the Bar.
Do you extend the same reasoning to fiat?

There are many centralized services that do dispute arbitration on top of USD. Those systems are built entirely outside of USD. PayPal for example doesn't have an account at the Federal reserve nor does it handle physical cash. They are effectively "off-chain" payment systems for USD.

So I guess your question is, what are the advantages of BTC over a fiat currency like USD. The answer is two folds:

1) BTC has an open network (the Bitcoin blockchain) allowing users to exit payment systems for the purpose of self-custody or for interconnecting with other payment systems. There's no equivalent system with fiat. Self-custody of USD literally requires transporting and storing pieces of paper. You also can't directly transfer USD from PayPal to say, CashApp.

2) BTC has a predictable money supply. Fiat currency doesn't: money supply can be arbitrarily inflated.

In addition to the above, Bitcoin enables the creation of payment systems that are more tightly built on top of it, like the Lightning network, which preserves many of the properties of Bitcoin (e.g. trustless). You could also build a dispute arbitration system where the arbiter just needs to be semi-trusted (e.g. there are schemes that can cryptographically prevent the arbiter from stealing escrowed funds, etc.).
Fuzion has contracts as well:

https://flang.dev/tutorial/pre_post_conditions
https://github.com/tokiwa-software/fuzion

Disclaimer, I work in the Fuzion team.
Is it really all that surprising? I’m a fairly spiritual person, and work with logic and reasoning every day.

I like to think about this kind of stuff for fun and one of my answers to this is that if you like fiction, you are able to suspend disbelief at will (whether aware of it or not). I think faith requires disbelief and trust to work. Without disbelief, you will question, and without trust, you’ll undermine.
Stopped reading when saw "Windows" to check the comments. Here it is.
Thanks for the link. I am trying to get my head around the ~1000x improvement and I think it is because we are comparing apples and oranges. ~$100/kWh (like pumped hydro) can last for as long as the water in the reservoir lasts. ~$100/MWh (like the batteries you mentioned) are for <4 hrs reserve.

So the critical question is: how long will grids connected to renewables need reserve? 4 hours doesn't seem like much but I'm not sure the best way to find this info.
Edit: from a 30s google search, 4 hours is only good for <80% renewables in Aus.
[0] https://reneweconomy.com.au/much-storage-back-high-renewable...
We could pass laws to protect cash, but in reality the opposite is happening. Harvard economists like Ken Rogoff are actively lobbying to kill cash exactly in order to remove anonymous transaction possibilities (to fight crime, purportedly), and they are playing into the hands of all the companies who profit off cashless transactions.
I remember the days, you bought the car and it came with heated seats. They will slowly push this model until the public thinks this microtransactions are normal. Gaming is a good example of how predatory it will become. Just look at Diablo Immortal.
Yeah, I saw that too, but it doesn't seem to be in the terms of use?
> We need more houses, which means construction and jobs.

So construction needs labor but also lumber, land and financing. We don’t have the last three enough right now. We don’t have enough land to build near the bigger cities where housing is needed most, due to absurd zoning laws. We don’t have easy financing because of higher interest rates. None of these are short term problems.

Basically, I’m saying labor is unusable when you can’t actually construct.

> but there's always money sitting on the sidelines somewhere

That’s cute but still that’s an assumption.
"Makes dog walking more interesting" sounds like a killer feature to me.

I'm glad you and the dog enjoyed the results.
This looks like a really neat version of org-roam, has anyone tried and if so, how does it compare to roam ?
I'd say this article is a little revisionist itself, especially when it comes to Eusebius, as in nobody really cares about his writings around these parts of the world from where I'm from (Eastern Europe), and, to be honest, I haven't seen Late Antiquity - Moyen Âge French historians mentioning him that often, if at all, either (they're way more fond of Grégoire de Tours, for example).
Green policies consistently treat good as the enemy of perfect. Needs to be a perfect outcome, or no outcome at all!

And even now it’s the same ridiculous tired arguments. “It’s too late for nuclear!”

Oh yeah? Well enjoy the coal power. You’ve earned it.
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It's configurable and particularly if you're running a production system you'll be wanting your own domain controller configured correctly to control Windows Update.

If you're using the OS version which is designed to by used on Grandma's desktop as a server then you should expect a world of pain.

Me? I try to avoid using Windows hosts because .Net runs great under Linux and you don't need to have 5 different Windows VMs running on your dev machine to have an accurate development environment.
The dream of replacing container ships with sailing boats
There isn’t any issue with a camera. The issue is that you lazily picked the spyware camera from Amazon.
"Synth mastery" is not just mathematical or psychoacoustics... let's add some things:

Dave was routinely pushing the envelope when it came to these boundaries but many times it was too ahead of its time. The ARTISTS never really adopted the tech until decades later. Some things that I consider really obvious are still not widely adopted. The art here is to understand WHY artists don't want to use those tools and features. Whether or not YOU know math and psychoacoustics, it is more important whether your users can leverage that knowledge without the same knowledge, so being a teacher+performer+producer is very important to knowing your user base

Then you also need to be able to do market research. Asking questions to people and getting solid feedback all the time. As an ENGINEER!! Because it's the subtle differences that add up to a really amazing whole and you cannot know the difference without learning from every angle. To paraphrase you above, 'audio professionals who avoid making music because it looks hard, do not ever reach an acceptable level' and 'audio professionals who avoid talking to lots of musicians/customers because it feels hard, do not ever reach an acceptable level'

... and there are a LOT of people who never do these things

And let's add 'PERFORM music' to this list as well unless you are making a solely intellectual instrument or mixing/mastering tool. Since we're talking synthesizers, this is very, very important.

This is also why the vast majority of music instruments, including software/VSTs, are designed for producers and not performers. Having the set of skills necessary to design a successful instrument is very, very difficult. You cannot be a master of one.

Sure you can 'master' the DSP and signal portion of audio but I can tell you just by looking at the UI almost instantly how much effort was put there vs. making it an enjoyable instrument to play

I can add a lot more of skills I find very important to being successful in this industry but as an engineer, that's what I would focus on first.

At some point maybe I should update my blog with stuff like this
This thing was so sick at the time. It really made 3.11 feel better to use. For me at least, Win95 needed a newer computer. It was minute before I could upgrade and this thing at least made me feel a lot better about not having the new hotness.
> Part misguided hit piece on High Frequency Trading, part hagiography of Brad Katsuyama and part native advertisement for the IEX stock exchange: Flash Boys is utterly without merit. Michel Lewis valiantly tries to project large institutional investors as heroic victims while repeatedly making the unsubstantiated claim that the markets are rigged. Even putting the bias aside, the book could be cut down to a long-form article while conveying exactly the same amount of information. Would not recommend.
Imposing tax burden. Nothing's free.
That does it, I'm canceling all my BMW orders.
https://www.heritagexperiential.org/language-policy-in-india...

>English, due to its ‘lingua franca’ status, is an aspiration language for most Indians – for learning English is viewed as a ticket to economic prosperity and social status. Thus almost all private schools in India are English medium. Many public schools, due to political compulsions, have the state’s official languages as the primary school language. English is introduced as a second language from grade 5 onwards.
Glad you are enjoying it!

I have become much more interested in the business and entrepreneur side of things lately... take that as you will ;)
> HTTPS is explicitly designed to prevent a Monster-in-the-Middle (MiTM)

Monsters don't exist. If people are really committed to erase anything that has the word "man" in it, at least they should try to be less lazy and use a term for people outside kindergarten.
Oof. Thanks for posting this review. I was a big fan of Walker's book - what a disappointment.
I think we agree on almost all points, maybe with the exception on the overstated dangers argument. (One should always focus on the good arguments and not the bad, and there are plenty of educated people making coherent arguments without resorting to fear mongering.)

Anyway, don't let this cloud your judgement. There are economic issues here, and economics concerns trumps environmental, in Germany and elsewhere. This would have happened even if no anti nuclear campaigning had ever taken place.

In fact, it might even have happened faster if there wasn't also a big push for renewables, which have taken a lot of resources. The people really responsible should answer for this and not some convenient scapegoats.
I absolutely hate this nonsense. They cause countess headaches just to make people click an unenforceable "I Agree" button to terms nobody reads. What would be the best way to kill captive portals once and for all?
Umm, truckers spend their entire day on phone calls or listening to podcasts. They aren't supposed to use a phone directly, but hands free headsets are perfectly within regs.

There's no way they couldn't find a trucker to use as a source due to DOT regs. Plus, drivers spend a hell of a lot of time waiting to unload, with the truck idling and them just sitting. I know quite a few truckers (personally as well as through my job) and you would be hard pressed to find a group of people more interested in having a long phone call.

I can't understate this, truckers will talk your ear off given half the chance and many of them will trade phone numbers and call each other to chat. Phone calls and podcasts are their main thing through the day, and I can't blame them. Yes, it's a DOT violation to fuck with your phone while driving, but it's fairly easy to preload podcasts to auto play before taking off and place calls using voice commands. Guaranteed the guy with the desk job has less time; freight brokers and dispatchers have high-stress jobs that require nearly 100% of time spent on the phone (you handle emails while talking to other people). Those are also high turnover, but not as bad as trucking simply because the hours suck less. Even local trucking is incredibly shit hours, it's not uncommon for it to be a 14 hour day when including stoppages.
First spec I check on new phones is width. It's too big. 72mm is maximum, 69mm optimum to use it by one hand and keep it comfortable in pocket.
Captive portals were around before modern browsers. The browsers made the mess not the other way around.

Respect redirects over HTTP or gtfo.
While I'm sure we all hate scammers with a passion, I don't think actual literal torture is the solution here.
When did you sign up? They seem to opening the gates more:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sama/status/1547212678644371457
Intel 4004 Visual Transistor-level Simulation looks like Factorio
First, can we please stop replacing every word in the dictionary with “experience”? https://youtu.be/nGHbOckpifw

Many of European states (including mine) are looking into ways of replacing Teams and Office 365. Video/voice rooms is a must have and this is a very important update for Matrix. Just updated Element and will be trying soon. :)
IANAB (B = botanist) but I believe that many species of tree can grow more than one trunk and that the spruce is not unusual in this respect.
You are correct, nice to see that this was improved.

I should find time to run some tests with quorum queues, this now actually looks usable. But in the end we will have to see how stable it is running production workloads.
Trafficking Victims Are Being Forced to Scam the World
If a wind turbine catches fire it emits pollutants too. I think we're defining on the (usually reasonable) assumption all goes well and there isn't catastrophic failure.
I think I’m the same. If I drink too much water I can’t sleep now. I realized that when I overdrink water to avoid the hangover.

Lack of sleep also affects my stress/anxiety levels.
What’s the connection of this with the post?

This is a utility to encrypt a file from command line. It’s like saying ZIP is an alternative, because it has encryption.
Ada 83 had long had a reputation for stunningly high prices when my first job chose C++ in 1992 (when templates were pretty new and sort-of worked).
There'd have to be charger every 5-6 meters or so along most sidewalks where I live to make electric viable. Certainly not impossible, but sounds like an absolutely massive investment.
This was also a thing on a land rover I rented recently. It could only be remote started via app with a $45/month subscription.
Except that the seed for the TOTP is unique to each website, because the website generates it, as opposed to an user-supplied password that might get reused across website. The impact is limited to the already compromised website, which is pretty darn good.
> The company says customers can enable all hardware features for a one-time payment if they prefer.

4th line in the article, this particular service is indeed purchasable for a one time fee.
Did other “non-canonical” manuscripts exist, and if so, were they carefully eliminated, generation after generation? What is clear is that the Sanaa palimpsest survived because it was hidden – not simply in a false ceiling in a Yemeni mosque, but as a ghostly, partially decipherable version that lies under the canonical text.

Much research remains before scholars will be able to definitively answer these questions. Including a thorough, technologically sophisticated analysis of this special manuscript, half of which is still stored by the Library of Religious Endowments at the Great Mosque of Sanaa and has not been yet properly photographed.

Interesting that we still find versions of old texts that show a richness in variants.
And what is it that those scammers are doing to millions of senior citizens? I would think that actual literal torture could describe it.
I fell you! I am thinking about nice 3D sensor for robotic applications. I have hardware prototype and rudimentary software. However no parts are available for sale, so I am not able to advance to production ready version. Very frustrating! Happily I can fund my development from other sources and have long runway. I dodged a large caliber bullet not going all in with this single project 18 months ago.
Blah.

FWIW, nuclear and gas aren't even replacements for each other in Germany, and never were. There are some nine million furnaces that burn gas and can't burn anything else, lots of gas stoves in people's kitchens, and some important gas users who use gas molecules to make other molecules. Only a little gas is used to make electricity for sale.

The article mistakenly confuses niche and common uses, and uses that mistake to support its conclusions. But when the support is mistaken all conclusions crumble.
How much noxious chemical waste, and by volume, is produced in the manufacture of the many thousands of solar panels and wind turbines though for the same power?
If it makes you feel any better, its the same outside the US as well.
very interesting. I knew about the global dependency on Russian uranium. Good share on the link, will check out
Related discussion from 2d ago about S.Korea. But I think I read another article (also linked on HN, but can't find it - maybe URL was changed) that didn't mention this to be market-specific.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32065026 2d ago, 377 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32066565 2d ago, 122 comments

(Not to diminish your link, but maybe the other discussions are interesting for those interested in the topic)
> There are all kinds of harms in our environment holding us back from hypothetical perfect health, and there always have been.

If "us" is mankind and its history, the "always have been" seems off. There are traditional harms, like the risk of being bitten by a tiger, but most of those harms are recent, something we are not yet genetically rewired for.
I drive arch btw
I would like to recommend Lying for Money by Dan Davies. It covers the workings of several frauds and makes very good points about the necessity of trust.
When you selected Martin Luther as your mental leader, have you been aware of his antisemitism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism
To #4: It is news to me that France is buying power from Germany. I thought it was the other way around. Is Germany producing enough renewable power to feed its own needs and to sell to France? Then why do they still need Russian gas and oil?

To #5: Let's not forget SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who has long been working with Russia and orchestrated part of the move to Russian gas. He ruled along with the Greens. "In his first term, Schröder's government decided to phase out nuclear power"

"Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Domestic...
As this book's translator, I'm really excited to see the interest it triggers. Thank you for willing to help!

I'll nudge our team about an open mirror, but meanwhile you can contact us at edu@postgrespro.ru.
Bug reports on what's already out there will be very helpful to further improve both this part and what is yet to come.
And the ability to punish guilty people also adds the ability to punish innocent people. This doesn't mean we abandon the concept of justice.
I know of a lot of embedded designs which do not do register renaming.
Maybe they already have a pool of workers in India and they are using it for all sort of tasks. If that's the case, they might have had to start a new process to get people in the US to label those sentences. Starting processes cost time and money and executive's political capital. Using an existing one is nearly for free.
This is a nice collection of graphical user interfaces. This reminds me of the well known Toasty Tech collection (http://toastytech.com/guis/), but with a narrative tying together the evolution of these GUIs.

Some feedback:

1. All interfaces presented were graphical user interfaces for desktop personal computers. However, there's a wide world of user interfaces for computers beyond conventional point-and-click GUIs. A command line interface, for example, is still a user interface, and in fact there has been much diversity of command line interfaces besides Unix and MS-DOS. For example, I remember reading in The Unix Haters Handbook critiques of the Unix shell, comparing it to the CLIs of other operating systems such as VMS. It would have been cool to have learned about the history of various CLIs and how they evolved. Regarding other user interfaces, there are touchscreens and voice, and even among GUIs there have been models that were not heavily influenced by the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, such as Symbolics Genera, Project Oberon, and Plan 9's 8 1/2 and rio GUIs.

2. Some highly influential GUIs are missing. For example, as influential Windows 95's UI was, its look and feel clearly shows influences from NeXTSTEP, the first GUI to introduce the gray, 3D, beveled look that Windows 95 embraced.
You are 10 years old, I am also 10 years old. We are all 10 years old. [10]

[10] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/your-body-is-youn...
Ran an instance of the reference implementation for a year or two and hadn't noticed resource consumption that much tbh. And this was for an organization with hundreds of members. Did something change in the past two years?