skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As I've gotten older, I've become less convinced to the value of "advice", but far more convinced to the value of learning by watching what people do.

I've seen this too. In my case it was more being social to people in general. A person with a similar-ish personality. I saw what he was doing, copy/paste for me.
Aah that's awful.

I remember when Maemo first arrived wanting one, and they never made it mainstream.
Ownership of the minting policy of any currency is ownership of the governance of said currency.

By locking minting behind the gates of riches, you give those same people a perpetual license to govern. They spread their tokens how they wish; they choose which projects live and die by their usage of currency.

Because they are embedded in the minting process perpetually, their stack keeps growing. They can stake earnings and their stack grows at a compounding rate. With exponential growth, they create an accelerating divide between themselves and no stakers.

The limit of this pattern results in a small minority owning a money tree which allows them to feed scraps to the innovators, creators, etc and decide who lives and who dies.

With that money, they also have the influence necessary to dictate what core devs work on.

A lot more to say but the summary is: I am not sure if Vitalik is talking in bad faith (he seems genuine and honest) or he is just naive (he became rich very young and doesn’t seem to be connected with reality). It seems to me he has a surface level understanding of freedom, tyranny, poverty, wealth, etc but a deep technical understanding and he is only focused on achieving the technical goals. This is very dangerous.
Well, we live in the age where the story hardly matters. I saw Top Gun the other day, and was shocked at how bad it was. The aerial stuff was superb, but everything else looked so amateurish. Acting was hideous, the story was so predictable and boring there was hardly any substance to the film. And yet it got an 8,5 rating at imdb.
originally it was three, published over the span of ~1 year.

29 July 1954 (The Fellowship of the Ring)

11 November 1954 (The Two Towers)

20 October 1955 (The Return of the King)
Psychedelics, LSD in particular, see their major use being a party drug. Coming from a personal experience, many people decide the "trip" they want to go on way before the trip starts. I am pretty sure there are non-zero amount of people who regularly take psychedelics, but have never been on that kind of "trips" that instead of going deep into your own mind, they just enjoy EDM, a party, perhaps a hike, paint something, watch a movie, play some sports outside, play video games, etc.
They are also the single least efficient transit organizations on the planet, at least when it comes to new construction where apple to apple comparisons are easier to make.
There's problem solving and then there is "working around" things like bad code, bad coworkers, slow hardware, being stuck with old versions of software...
I recently binge watched a series (Irma Vep) that, very tongue in cheek, addressed the malaise of "platforms" affecting film/cinema. It's a very complex work (in terms of multiple layers of readings) spanning the director's closure over his lost love (see Irma Vep 1996), a hat tip to Truffaut's Day for Night, and a very explicitly expressed concern of characters of how "content platforms" have killed cinema and mutated it to "TV" and "series". Naturally all this was said, to wrap up the irony train, on HBO's platform.

Irma Vep (2022): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13649314
100% agreed. When it comes to any kind of incrementing counter, IMO the limit should always be multiple orders of magnitude greater than the expected lifespan of the system.

Taking OP at face value, these devices' counter has a zero point on February 1, 2003 so if we don't know what happens when they roll over they must have been designed after that point.

In the world of the 2000s even 16 bit processing is old school, so there's no good reason this couldn't have been a 16 bit counter instead. If that had been the case the rollover wouldn't be until the year 3259.

IMO this is the correct way to handle situations where you think you don't need any more, round up from your reasonable limit to the next major "bit border". If you have a 10 bit counter, round up to 16. If you need 16, then make it 24 or 32. The limit shouldn't just be "above where we expect it to reach in its lifespan" but "if you hit this the device belongs in a museum".

Designing a device with a 10 bit week counter in the 2000s is bad design, prioritizing either laziness or cost over quality.
It should be set up to change the URL hash field with each different recipe you create. For instance, the URL for 'From_Base64' is:

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Base64('A-Za-z...

Let us know if it's not working on your device, :)
Doing it all at once suggests factoring out all checks into a separate function, in which case it also makes sense to throw from that function, in order to give good exception messages depending on the specific error, and possibly including associated data in the exception. Which means that at the call site you won’t have any indented block structure differentiating the validation call from the rest of the function.

When programming with exceptions, it is the common case that a function consists of a sequence of steps each of which can fail and thus abort the function via an exception. Simple validation steps are not a special case in that respect.
> People in the 1970’s didn’t anticipate that we’d get to the time Sep 2022.

No, they just didn't anticipate that a GPS receiver would not know which decade it is (knowing the decade is enough to disambiguate a 10-bit week number) even though it knew the correct date a few moments ago. That is, they didn't anticipate counter rollover bugs caused by hard-coding of the starting point of the counter, instead of calculating it based on the last seen date.
> You mean three books, right?

Point taken. My goal was to contrast the unsuccessful show with another adaptation that was successful imo.
I always mentally replace the word ‘woke’ with the word ‘caring’ and that shows me a great measure of people.
Good job staying professional to the end.

Was it windows 98 that came with the buddy holly song?
I think my question is rather, "Why not use a representation as a fraction?" then. Technically every number inside a computer, which is not merely symbols interpreted outside of the computer, is a fraction, because of limited precision of finite memory. I guess it is all about the representation then. So the question becomes one of why one representation is better and why not use a fraction representation of 2 integers instead.
Ukraine sitrep: inspectors find military equipment at nuke plant, defenestration
Don't touch my floppy disks!!

My life experience: be in another country, have electronic documents on flash pendrive, bring to government facility, have recepitonist read it, take back home, discover sophisticated trojans on the drive. After that, I only bring DVDs.
You are not alone.

2 minutes of new yorkers doing the double metrocard swipe. (Contains opera)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KExZw3hh1Ic.

And a few going over/under…
He was a tutor in one of the CS subjects I took at Uni of Melb (I think it was Computer Graphics? not sure now). He was just way too smart - one of those true computer scientists. He spoke well, he was detailed and thorough. Wish his family all the best.
It’s how the tourists are sussed out.
> It's not a rare or unheard of thing for an industry to attack solutions that are significantly better than their own (very profitable) solution

See Juul, attacked by both the smoking industry and anti-smoking lobby. Ecigs don’t have brand loyalty like “Marlboro”—and cigarettes cost only 6 cents a pack to manufacture. So, buy Juul, kill it, preserve the massive profit flow.
Actually you can observe that countries with less vaccination uptake are having less excess deaths at the moment

Not sure how that translates to life expectancy
I found it, it's a restriction on "app builders" or "app generators". If I manually build an app for a client, it's fine for me to publish it in my account. Glad I didn't do anything wrong.
Ezba experience: A magical glimpse into the private life of Abu Dhabi's Emiratis
The pleasure of learning in and of itself was always the privilege of a class in society that did not need to worry about educating itself for the purposes of work.

The only thing that is different now is that purchasing an education has become more common, and more of a prerequisite for a job.

The idea that you can simply counter it by convincing universities, which exist to profit from this fact, to slow down and give students more time for leisure in learning, is wishful thinking.
I remember playing games along the same lines (a few years earlier than the author) on the Amiga buried in free game archives and collections. Or possibly early networked systems; my memory's cloudy.

I haven't seen them again. I've always wondered if some of them were partially finished personal projects that never were released widely enough to survive.
Galadriel took part in the kinslaying at Alqualondë, she is totally a dick. The LOTR movies portrayed her in a much more positive light than the books.

True heroes as you describe them exist only in your imagination and in fairy tales.
Yes, the sound! It's a very important security factor, allowing you to spot suspicious activity. I still use HDDs for important data for that reason too.
My guess is that because they threw so much money at this, they also put too many cooks in the kitchen. You're gonna end up killing all creativity if it has to get rubber-stamped by a long line of "producers".
keep your expenses low is easier said than done. Things are different when you have kids, elder people in the family you have to support, than when you’re young and single. In my case, I wanna buy a modest two bedroom apartment that I can afford to pay the mortgage. My family wants to buy a house with a garden.

One of my family members’ 12 year old son suddenly developed a health issue. His dad is worth at least 3M, and was looking to retire in his 40s. But the medical bills are insane, he can’t retire anytime soon, as most of the bills (tens of thousands a month) are being paid by the good insurance his employer gives him.

I have always spent much less than what I make (I don’t even have a bed, I happily sleep on the floor on a sleeping bag). But I also haven’t gotten any raise the last few years, while my rent (for the same apartment) has gone up 20% in the last 4 years. So has my other basic expense like phone bill (same phone, same carrier, same plan), internet etc.

There is a reason people spend long hours working because the alternative is worse.

The most sensible thing to do while one is young is to live frugally, but also earn as much as you can and save.
Very Stable Diffusion
Huh! Wild!
https://boingboing.net/2020/12/07/rivers-cuomo-of-weezer-tak...

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer takes online Harvard coding courses, writes band software
Because energy companies, even European ones, are making bank. So are asset owners.

Every crisis is someone's opportunity to make money off other peoples' loss. As long as their assets are safe and keep going up, nobody cares about CoL going up. Well, at least until riots happen and political extremism grows to new heights.

Come on France, 'do yer thang' (riots), we'll follow suit.
i agree. nuclear.

and coal.

and develop fusion in the meantime. a well funded global effort.
It is indeed dead. We have given it 6 years and little to no-one is on the platform.

> Mastodon is not the same as Twitter, but there are plenty of us that prefer it.

With the constant comparisons and mentions of Mastodon, being an alternative to Twitter even in its early days, it will be judged as so and my strict judgement is that it has failed.

> There have been many small exoduses, and some people stayed with Mastodon.

I'm almost certain that this year's Twitter exodus to Mastodon, that more than 90% of users who registered at the time do not use it regularly and have moved back to Twitter due to little to no interaction there.

That is the fact of the matter after 6 years of operation.
Well, we don't really "forget" the knowledge; the shallower and more explicit aspects of it just fade away. The roots are still in there, and still inform how we understand problems and act on them. I'm not saying that a costly college education is essential; just that this is not proof that it's worthless.
If they don't care about the source material, then a story about Prince Cabosiam and the Dragons of Krongar would be just as fine. When someone pays to use famous names or famous stories as source material, then that's because that's valuable, and then it's self-evident that faithfulness matters.
I'm glad Kiwi Farms uncovered and documented Keffals' child grooming and drug distribution. No one else cared to look. The NBC reporter in the link doesn't mention it. The gender-critical feminist (or TERF if your prefer) website Reduxx is the only other outlet I know of that's covered this:

https://reduxx.info/kiwis-vs-predator/

There's absolutely a discussion to be had about the asymmetric power of harassment enabled by "public", yet personally-identifying info on the Internet. Personally I think the answer is to ban sites like Spokeo and White Pages, not gossip forums like Kiwi Farms. The problem isn't that people can talk about a person they dislike and that person's bad behavior online. The problem is that bad actors, whether they be Facebook, Twitter, or Kiwi Farms users, can plug anyone's full name into a people-finder site to learn where they live and then SWAT or harass them with this info. Unfortunately the submission is a highly-partisan post that doesn't give the topic serious treatment.

In the meantime, if you don't want to attract the attention of trolls lurking on Kiwi Farms, don't sexually exploit children or secretly send them life-altering drugs.
Welp, no one can say I didn’t try with you! Later!
Since there were no dark skin in depictions that are chronologicallly later, the two trilogies we already watched, it means that some terrible genocidal racial cleansing happened in between.
MDMA is underrated. I gained a lot of healing from it in the past. If done responsibly and intelligently it can be very powerful.
Every profession in the US is paid more in absolute dollar amounts than equivalent professions in other countries. Teachers in California are especially well paid.

The problem arises when the biggest expense (housing) is bottlenecked by nimby landlords. So raising salaries boundlessly is just going to make for richer landlords.

Good public transport and housing access take away the 2 biggest expenses for any family. (California has good public schools, so not counting education). Add healthcare to that, and suddenly you don't need to be making tech wages to lead a decent life.
If it was worse than everyone has said it was, it’d still be better than Hobbit 3.
>the sanctions have been spearheaded by the US when they are mostly shielded from Russia. Whereas for European countries, it is obvious that they are dependent on Russian gas and yet they are not willing to negotiate.

This was my problem with the Syria war too.

US: We want war! Europe you will get refugees, good luck.
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The entire premise of the movie is the conflict born if prejudice between prey animals, who are the majority, and predator animals, who are the minority. Throughout the movie, prey animals are depicted as being suspicious of predators, or even refuse them business. The main character is a idealistic cop, from a rural setting who moves to the city and encounters anti-predator bias. There is a panic after a series of predator animals appear to engage in random acts of violence. And the big reveal is that the panic is all manufactured by prey animals in government to maintain power.

I feel like a lot of Disney movies aren’t exactly subtle in their messaging these days, but even by that measure this one was about as hamfisted of an effort as they’ve ever made.
So negative reviews has escalated very quickly.
Bot or not, I normally trust IMDB ratings. Any movie with rating 6 and above is at least one time watchable. Any series having rating less than 6.5 is not worth. There could be exceptions off course.
Are there any interesting incidence of purposefully negative reviews on imdb?
One I know of is [1]. The Indian movie Gunday was bomb shelled by Bangladeshi community as some historical reference was not proper.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/t he-story-behind-the-worst-movie-on-imdb/
The krill - whale poop cycle was the fertilizer that fed the mass algae blooms in the Arctic that sink increasing emissions. That’s the point. It isnt burning fossil fuels that is the problem… it’s the fact that polar algae is way below normal levels because of a lack of nutrients due to the lack of baleen whales

https://www.academia.edu/314989/Southern_Ocean_iron_fertiliz...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254789/
Russia certainly believes they have ...
The show is kinda OK if you ignore the book, I.e. for general public. Expensive, good CG, etc.

What does feel painful though is the wasted opportunity: chances are that Foundation will never get its Peter Jackson.
Or John Zorn's Dreamachines

(haven't been able to find it on youtube for years)
Cheers brother
I guess I did say that… Would delete it, but can’t so I’ll clarify instead. I just think that “happiness” is sort of a banal goal in life and at work. However, the study’s definition of happiness included meaningful work, and I have to admit my comment was reacting to something that was not said.
> A LOT more time than LOtR did

they compressed 3 thousands years in a ~10 years story "so the mortal characters didn't have to die" (writers' words)

So no, there's not much time to cover.
If I want to watch a history lesson, I can do that, there are some great documentaries out there. Probably produced for less money. And I would actually learn something.

But of course, there are many interesting narratives that don't involve the apocalypse. The Wire has a great one. Bladerunner is superb. The recent Black Bird was captivating, too.

Dragons though? Just boring.
You can find the episode on the usual podcast mobile apps if that helps?

Very high quality discussion it is too and not overly long at 18 mins
Can you elaborate on your research and how you were able to find the right guide, achieve the proper set & setting?
Teachers can max out at a good salary, Chicago looks pretty close to where I live where 25-30 years in you can get up towards 90-100k. An L3 Google engineer looks like they start at 190k. That’s an extreme example but I’m just saying, dual-teacher families are probably not exceeding the median dual-professional household salary, so I don’t understand the callout.
So the human race can, in real life, have black and white people, but the made up species of dwarfes and elves can’t?
Yup.

The wisdom of locking down toddlers and children for years on end was also a spot where the uppity rubes were correct and all the science wizards were disastrously incorrect.
Bookmarks are supported, but they work with input and recipe. I.E.:

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Base64('A-Za-z0-...

A use case could be to build a recipe to encrypt a message with your public key. Post the link on your website, now anyone can click the link and encrypt a message to you.
The evidence doesn't back you up here. The Rise of Skywalker made half as much money as The Force Awakens. Rey and Rose Tico merchandise didn't sell. Viewing figures for recent Disney Marvel TV shows have been extremely low. Star Trek Discovery can't be viewed in many countries because no network broadcasts it. Netflix's attempts at woke series tend to get cancelled after the first season. And so on. The poor performance of woke entertainment products is visible for all to see.
As in so many measurement/benchmarking situations, "compared to what?" is indeed The Big Question.

For example, you can also compare to a C program not doing much, overhead-wise:

/usr/bin/time bash -c 'for i in {1..100}; do /bin/true; done'

which gives me like 70 ms for all 100 or 0.7ms per each startup, with also some adjustment to start-up the bash driver shell itself.

Even that 700 microseconds is a high number, from glibc & dynamic linking mostly. If you

echo 'int main(int ac,char**av){return 0;}' > /tmp/true.c
musl-gcc -static -O2 /tmp/true.c -o /tmp/true

and repeat, you see 380 microseconds per each.

In benchmarking scenarios requiring more elaboration than makes sense in an HN comment, I see times as low as 140 microsec per run on that same machine/OS. In fact, as you push things to low overhead extremes, you can easily see the impact of how much environment variable data is in play (`env -i` vs. not).

It is true that Python start-up time is not that bad compared to a "mean diameter of the Internet in milliseconds" which is probably the relevant time scale for CGIs, but it's probably not so small as to be truly negligible, esp. once imports are happening.

Also, Python3 remains quite a bit slower (1.7X slower on that same machine) to start-up than Python2 even after more than a decade of promises to claw back start-up performance.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the comparison, starting up a Julia REPL seems to take quite a bit longer than the Python 16 ms..Like 340ms or 20X longer.

So, the overarching point of this overlong post is just a follow-up/supporting of @tyingq's "compared to what?" with a little more detail.
Define „woke“
Obama existing won the hearts of Republicn voters.

Lets not forget the tan suit, quite right it was rolling news for weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy
The opportunity cost is there to prevent that, and the tastes of the fans don't always coincide with the general audience.
For me it plays back audio during recording, causing audio feedback screeches
Only at the cost of poor cache locality. :)
I mean ... she's a fairy, not a human .. what does her skin have to do with the time period or place in which she appeared?

And there's literally zero reason to insist that Collodi's description is the only way a fairy character can be portrayed in a staged version of his book.

The real problem is getting upset over the skin color of the actors and actresses playing fairies (or stormtroopers or elves or angels or for that matter any fantastical role, which is rooted in escapism and alternate realities.)
> have no idea where you get the 90 minutes from

>> but having the first two (allegedly: haven't seen it myself)

Not watching something that you critique, and instead basing it on what you saw on Reddit, HN or YouTube, seems de rigueur these days.

I did watch it. Enjoyed it. And will hold my final opinion until I've seen the last episode.
> N9 was incredibly polished but Meego wasn't that great behind the scenes and would have required massive rewrites if development had continued

That was probably because N9 didn't really use MeeGo - technically it was still a Maemo based system that was only disguised under MeeGo brand.
More UK cost of living information: https://www.theguardian.com/business/cost-of-living-crisis
Al Gore received a nobel peace prize for his climate work.
> If Vitalik was wrong, do you think he'd be able to see it?

Vitalik is one of the few people that prioritize the technology over money. He's often been critical of Ethereum, its price, and previous choices he and the rest of the Ethereum development community has made.
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