skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's victim shaming to say that and not push for the behavior of people who, for instance, told reporters that Luna was doomed while happily making money off people using his platform to buy it to be criminalized and shamed:

From https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/165364/sam-bankman-fr... sourcing a Bloomberg interview that itself seems to be paywalled:

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One of the most interesting phenomenon happening right now is the rise of Luna and UST. Luna has this Treasury Reserve consisting of a lot of Bitcoin, which seems a little dicey, but some people say any idea of an algorithmically-backed stablecoin is a perpetual motion machine – it’s only a matter of time before it fails. Do you believe there can be a truly decentralized stablecoin? What do you make of these projects?

SBF:

I do have some sympathy to the perpetual motion machine crowd here. They can serve some useful purposes, but if you do zoom out, right, and you say, this is a stablecoin, backed by volatile assets, what’s gonna happen in a big market move. Right? Like, you know how this plays out.

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Is there a word better than "despicable" for believing that at least some things in the ecosystem are a scam but still profiting off helping people get scammed by those things?

Why would you just feel bad about the tragedies and not also furious at these people happily making money off of the tragedies?
Previously, they were more prevalent in certain industries in the US as well. That's not as true anymore. I wonder if wider adoption would lag with distance.
You can still find rotary engines in cars, that doesn't mean that the first thing that comes to literally everyone's mind when you mention engines is the classic combustion engine with cylinders.

Lots of big claims about engines traditionally not being about editors, but nothing to back that up. Engines have always referred to the whole package, and to something somewhat reusable. Saying "recently" and mentioning the Quake Engine before makes me question your definition of recent. Thirty years old in an industry that's barely 50 if you count the first popular games like Oregon Trail? Where do you fit Monkey Island, using the SCUMM Engine in 1990 ? You don't see anyone talking about the Celeste Engine, or the A Link to the Past Engine, because they're bespoke, single purpose implementations.

So, no, engines have pretty much always been about reusable tools, that may or may not bake certain gameplay elements in, but are overall just a tool.
The law on structuring (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5324) is about evading the $10,000 reporting threshold for financial institutions taking cash deposits or businesses taking cash payments for goods/services. If they are perpetuating some kind of fraud on Venmo making multiple accounts to do so in violation of the ToS is maybe wire fraud (so is just about everything) but by itself is probably not illegal.
One thing that I have noticed about Spanish natives in my five years of living in Spain, is this frequent comparison with every other richer country.

By almost every measure, life in Spain is great. Public transport is great, but you compare it with Japan which is the best in the world. Security is great, but you compare it with Luxembourg. Unemployment and salaries are... OK, above average at least, but you compare it with Germany.

Spain has issues, but every other country does too. There's a reason "eramos felices y no lo sabiamos" is a Spanish expression... I really wish people here would appreciate how good they have it.
I didn't spell it wrong, you are suggesting a different idea. Own up to it rather than using a lame linguistic deflection tactic.

It is beyond fair compensation, because the standard of living is fine in Europe, even though I know a lot of americans think we live in squalor. The pay in the US is beyond what can possibly be expected in other developed countries.
Back in what I'll loosely call "base reality," a loan is typically an investment, while ridiculous crap is typically not an investment.
Did I say or imply I wanted to do that?

Is the last line of my previous comment not clear enough? It's weird but there's no concern.
Browsers and other programs can use the User-Agent[1] header to send along a bit of information about themselves with each request.

This and other information is then used to filter out various types of visitor.

In this case, requests claiming to be a Google Search crawler will receive a boring page with lots of text that it can index and use as search results.

Most browsers' devtools let you change your user-agent string, and a listing of the ones used by Google crawlers is publicly available. Not saying that you should, but you could check this out for yourself... entirely at your own risk of course :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
Yes, more themes are needed, but I think they should also focus more on options for creating pages, especially landing pages. This would be very interesting for business-focused sites — which I believe are the majority these days.
This is really the amazon leadership principles - customer obsession, hire and develop the best, invent and simplify and deliver results :)
I wish there was more accountability for International Institution.

Saying "WHO Director Declare X" is obviously more accountable than "WHO said X must do Y" with a shadow comity deciding for 7 billion people and claiming it's not their fault when they are wrong...
Yes, that's one of the systemic failures. Despite proponents saying blockchain tech brings a new level of transparency, it's now very clear there was near zero transparency for companies built around the blockchain.

For the layperson, there is no way you could have done proper DD for these investments because the regulations to force disclosures that could have helped you did not exist. However, the inability to do proper DD on their claims due to the information not existing probably should have served as a form of DD.
Then you don’t get regular optimizations like deduping identical declarations.

Or source line location debug info, though nobody tries to show that for data at the moment.
So thinning out the bottom of the pot with a metal drill bit won't work? Why not?
Not sure why you're replying to me, read upthread in more detail.
I think this is true in aggregate, but not at the margin where you are making the decisions. Marginal utility should theoretically decline as you increase capacity (five lane road, six lane road, seven lane road - ignoring capacity induced demand for a moment), if the marginal rider is not willing to spend $2.5 to get where they are going how valuable can the economic activity be at their destination?
Now break that down by age. And for bonus points tell me which people died “from” Covid and “with” Covid.

All the data surrounding Covid is trash. Garbage in, garbage out. It’s gonna take a while before cooler, non politically motivated people can get an accurate figure.
A simpler technique which already exists is embedding invisible unique watermarks in the video output of the game, which can be revealed with image processing[0].

Of course that doesn't prevent the image being tweeted, but it does mean they can punish the person who made the tweet, which might be enough of a deterrent in most cases.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/p319oj/if_...
Is that not energy
Depends, by that time it's possible Microsoft will get its shit together and release a Windows 12 without the unwanted stuff or Linux will get popular enough to fill in the gap.
Not less sex per se, but avoiding sexual practices that increased the risk of infection were supported.
Spanish flu is an orthomyxovirus, not a coronavirus. There are some cold-causing coronaviruses though.
When someone gives you a "free" candy bar, no one thinks it materialized out of the sky. We all know it had to be made somewhere and that process cost money. People where you live may not all have sophisticated understanding of taxation and government expenditures, but they are not so stupid as to pretend things just happen by literal magic. They know a doctor they visit gets a paycheck and a train the ride costs money to maintain and that these things aren't paid for with magic.

So what is their explanation when you talk to them? Do they actually say it is magic? Or do they acknowledge the universally-known fact that stuff costs money? I can't think of a third explanation, so it must be one of the two.

They may not share you same perspectives or understanding about how taxation works, who is paying those taxes, how those taxes are spent etc. But I seriously doubt they think it is faeries and wizards.
> gives no reasons why the author's thesis should be true

I believe the author’s thesis is we need public resources to start holding promoters accountable. Criminally, if they defrauded. Financially if they were just dumb.

Nobody is seriously advocating for reïmbursing the victims. I wouldn’t go so far as to say they deserve what they got. But it’s their problem to solve.
Yeah, Rhett Butler was another one of these reality-based people. What a buzzkill.
My main concern with rented cloud software for this space is that it seems like a great way to lose access to editing your own past a academic/technical work.
The problem / disconnect with that DPI is dead article is that corporations still want to use use, as they control their employees computers.

Hence I've recently been asked to implement a URL inspecting firewall, which implies a HTTPS intercepting MiTM proxy. They will probably require some exception list where things get passed through 'unmolested', but for a white listed sub-set of sites (say well known health, banking, etc).

The one thing which can break that is cert pinning, but then the corporations can simply mandate that apps requiring/using cert pinning not be used from the corporate machines.

There are some bumps in the techniques caused by HTTPS RRs, AltSvc and HTTP/3, but they will be worked around, at worst by forced downgrades.

The "they'll never no argument" carries no weight, as employers up front tend to inform their employees that the communications are monitored, hence giving the corporation legal cover.

That said, I do generally agree with the aim of that article, but changing the corporate mindset is a different (non technical) problem; it is all about providing the corporation with a colorable argument towards reducing their liability in certain scenarios.
Those are awful "cat and person" portraits.

The cats are obviously engaged with an off-screen handler and not the subject so it does not come across like a person and their companion animal.

The off-screen handler shows up in most animal performances, there is a scene D-movie Devil Dog where the family dog leads the members of a satanic coven to a pentacle and it's obvious the dog is following a handler (Satan?) and being submissive, not dominant.
Your second citation does not show AC peaking at 6, it shows Solar and Wind use averages over time of day.

I don’t know when AC use peaks but total use tends to peak before 6PM while residential use peaks in the morning and evening [1]. Solar does fall off around then and rather suddenly for any given longitude. But what you see with the duck curve (slouching midday prices with a 6PM peak) in California is reduced grid demand. Grid demand is not the same as energy use because of behind the meter generation (e.g., rooftop solar). The duck curve shape is caused by replacement energy use from solar not reduced energy use.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
Does the market care about anything else?
They operate below the dew point because;

1 - drier air feels cooler, and has other advantages (reduced condensation on surfaces, etc).

2 - it’s more efficient for them to do so, considering heat exchanger surface area, the phase change temperature of the refrigerant, etc.

For the most part, those are the priorities people have. Subtle things like ‘not drying out the air too much’ are less noticeable and not generally a competitive advantage.
...really? what were they hoping to gain? By the time you're elderly I feel like you should understand that there's no such thing as low risk high reward investing.
> To be honest, your reply came off as very condescending.

Not my intention. You are right no one would have known it would be flagged.

My point was merely that if the tweet isn't 100% for your work / online profile then I would use a different account to post it.
Just stop. The word "invested" doesn't apply at all when people are just setting fire to the money, or playing the lottery.
Only one nitpick - I remember LE as being around 10% of the org and was strongly suggested to put around 15% on focus so that 6% can be managed out, assuming 50% of people on focus would get out of it.

Source: former L7 manager, now happily out.
Fair enough, but I think most people appreciate constructive criticism with good faith, specific suggestions on how to improve.
I'm not claiming that all surfaces are exactly equal in their ability of transmitting it. But the guidance of "such as bedding, towels, ..." under a heading specifically about sex makes it seem like an artificially narrow category. How about upholstered furniture? Did the last guest lie shirtless on the sofa in your airbnb or hotel room? People are acting like this is only an issue of gay men having sex, and while clearly that's a very large factor, as the outbreak grows I'm guessing the chance of other forms of community transmission are going to rise.
It's not just about that. What rust sees is you are calling two functions: the len() function with a shared reference, and the indexing operator implementation for the Vec's [] (Which is just a function) with a mutable reference, which returns a mutable reference. The compiler does not look at the actual implementation of these 2 functions to figure things out, it only looks at the signatures (If it did look at the implementations, it would probably be slower, and what's worse, the caller's code could stop compiling if you change the implementation! That would be specially bad across a library boundary). The implementations are irrelevant AIUI to the borrow checker, only the signatures matter.
What caused the lake to fall to its second-lowest level ever recorded in 1962?
You can add a non-zero number which squares to zero to your number system [edit: but this doesn't let you divide by zero]. This results in the "dual numbers" and is practically useful for "automatic differentiation", where we represent quantities in the form x + x'ε, and have the rule that ε² = 0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation#Auto...

Quantities which square to zero are also implicit in spacetime. A "lightlike" vector which has equal displacements in space and time between two spacetime “events” (e.g. the displacement between two points along the path of a photon) has a squared length of 0, compared to "timelike" vectors with negative squared length and "spacelike" vectors with positive squared length. (conventions about signs vary from source to source)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Spacetime_interval

* * *

In other contexts it makes sense to define 1/0 to be the quantity ∞. There are two relevant models here, with different practical applications. One model where we add a single number ∞ which is also equal to –∞, and makes the number line "wrap around" into a circle. Another model where we add two separate numbers +∞ and –∞ at the two ends of the number line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectively_extended_real_lin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line
They became evil?
awesome 1/10
I do know a few people who've had COVID. I don't know a single one, not even a FOAF, who's had MP.

Does anyone?
> Cost is not really a valid reason not to pursue renewable.

If you have a money printer in the basement or free materials and slave labour, sure. In every other case it quite simply is.

> We need to switch to renewables no matter the cost

All true, but not relevant - we live in the real world where we make practical decisions. One of the aspects of that is not spending more than you have (for example so you can still eat).
In this case, DD could have been as simple as:

This company claims they provide low-risk xx% returns due to their risk mitigating crypto lending strategy, yet this company does not publish who/what they lend to and their claims are unaudited. Since they're unregulated, there's also no protections in place for investors if it turns out their claims are bogus.
Most coffee innovations are focused on cafes as the customer. If you can make on-demand cold brew you no longer need to worry about anticipating demand, throwing away waste, etc. You can probably even market the "fresh brewed" aspect of it.

Cafes will make an effort to increase extraction yields 1% because that means 1% less coffee needed over the many pounds used per day.
You're right--it's been a while. Not all LEs were meant to leave.
TheDailyMentor: A new lesson. Paired with a reflective question. Everyday
Spain will introduce worse trains and worse service
Of course, but as far as I understand this device does exactly that?
> The MTA spends almost $19 billion per year. You want it to be free?

100%

> Go find $19 billion in the budget.

A combination of:

1. Taxing private vehicle ownership in NYC

2. Congestion charging, primarily in Manhattan

3. Charging for street parking below 110th Street; and

4. Increases in NY city and/or state income tax.

> Roads aren’t subsidized

Yes, they are [1]:

> The reason is simple math: The gasoline tax that bankrolls the federal Highway Trust Fund is politically untouchable, leading lawmakers and presidents of both parties to balk at raising it since 1993. But the money to pay for the nation’s growing needs for roads, bridges and transit has to come from somewhere — and the main answer has been to borrow it, adding it onto the yawning federal deficit.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/06/30/dri...
You could probably build something similar using zeolite (if that's not already what they've using). The form factor undoubtedly matters but there are existing water absorptive materials that are long lasting and effective.
Another comment stated that SO uses ads from someone else than Google, while the copy-paste sites use Google for ads. If true, that is clear monetary incentive to not go after this too hard.
Meanwhile, in China, there are manufactured cities inhabited by ghosts. The people never showed.

This Saudi proposal isn't a skyscraper, but an elongated and enclosed earth station. Great for controlling the inner environment, as well as those who inhabit it.

What would be the tourism appeal? Anyone?
I’m a little ambivalent about sshfs. It would be sad to see it die out. On the other hand I’ve only ever seen it misused.
Would be interesting to see stats from that time how many people were working on search engines and how it turned out for them. Did they end up getting acquired, at least funded for a while, exited, or just bootstrapped themselves until they realized there'll only be one winner.
> Is there a word better than "despicable" for believing that at least some things in the ecosystem are a scam but still profiting off helping people get scammed by those things?

Well, he’s the richest ethical altruist out there, so it appears that’s the word for it.
It's asymmetrical.

You can feel smug and vindicated for being treated unfairly in the past, I won't take that away from you, it sucks that it happens.

But the amount of airtime paid for by people saying "be careful" or even a nuanced "I like bitcoin long-term but be careful with some of these risky new schemes" was basically zero compared to the amount of resources relatively rich people spent trying to convince suckers to make them even richer by buying into their bullshit.

I say, don't blame the victim without trying to fix that as well. Why do we shrug when millions are spent to try to outright lie?
> Uber is no less of a Ponzi than crypto.

What?
What names? Aren’t musical notes called A, B, C etc?
“Of” or “with”? Cause that makes a pretty big difference.
It’s rude towards Twitter. This is not a conversation, it’s a box in a form. One of many copies of the same form they’re churning through. I don’t understand why a CS rep / moderator reviewing appeals would take it as a personal slight, because that would require personally identifying with Twitter and its algorithms.

Do you think people should be banned for being snippy in a customer satisfaction survey too? Product reviews? A human reads it. A human that should know well enough that they’re not the subject of any negativity therein.

The idea that this is a CS rep’s petty revenge is as much of an unsubstantiated fantasy as “they’ll tell the cook to spit in your burger”. It’s far more likely that either the human reviewer(s) is doing a poor job, or there’s something else broken about the appeal process, considering all the other comments referencing nonsensical failed appeals with no evidence of “rudeness”. Like false positives in appeals going uncounted because the appeal decision is itself taken as the source of truth, and reps being incentivized to churn through appeals quick to save on labor costs.
What happened to author's team (Dragon Sector)?

Until 2020 they were almost always around top3 and a few times top1 teams in the world according to https://ctftime.org/

but in 2021/2022 I don't see them
Isn't i just a rotation about the axis of origin?
> Writing a PhD is much easier than writing a book.

IMHO, I think that's a pretty broad statement that's wrong as often as it's true. Surely it depends on the book, the thesis, and the discipline/genre.

Firstly, not all disciplines have theses broken down in the way you've outline. Theses in certain humanities often more resemble non-fiction than those of other disciplines.

Of course, some disciplines or departments or schools or supervisors will have you write a "thesis by manuscript" in which you present manuscripts you've written as chapter and write little interludes connecting them as well as a unifying intro and conclusion.

This on the face of it might seem like "just recycling" previous articles, but I think it overlooks the fact that those manuscripts must be written, at least in majority, by you. Even when you aren't writing a "thesis by manuscript", most people I know write chapters as they go along their PhD.

And finally, a bit of digression, but I don't think it's reasonable to exclude the amount of research it takes to write "books" or theses from the estimation of effort it takes to write them. It's an integral part of the process.
> but that is detectable so you end up renting IP's from mobile number
farms or trying to build your own 4G network.

Something is deeply wrong with such an adversarial ecosystem. If sites
don't want to be found and indexed why go to any effort to include
them? On the other hand there are millions of small sites out there
keen to be found.

The established idea of a "search engine" seems stuck, limited and
based on some 90's technology that worked on a 90's web that no longer
exists. Surely after 30 years we can build some kind of content
discovery layer on top of what's out there?
I watched Google grow up, and for people who’s main experience is with the last decade or so, I’d say they have a very insightful view.

Yes, some have argued that Google can’t make content and from a technological standpoint that’s right, but here’s the fulcrum: from the perspective of “I asked a question and got a result that seems right though I’m not sure”, there’s shockingly little difference between GPT-3 generated content, and low-effort SEO-optimized content found on the first page of Google.