skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most game file transfers are torrent based, so if you've ever played an MMO you've been involved in a torrent. Definitely not piracy.

This type of torrent transfer goes for a lot of updating processing as companies can't handle the bandwidth.
-- Asian Beauty is hilariously accurate but not good - Cosrx always comes up because it's cheap - however in my experience tiny small amount of Dr. Jart will provide much better results for general purpose skincare - Also Melano CC Pure - people use it for general pimp reduction but a pimple patch like Acropass Trouble Cure is targeted - people like Melano CC because it's cheap - however shouldn't be used like a moisturizer for pimples as I always see in the subreddit --
I found the arguments in the article rather weak. One was that trees die. True enough. But if you plant 100 trees and 10 die within ten years, that's still quite a bit of CO2 converted into O2. It may not scale so well, sure. But as far as I can tell, neither do wind & solar. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make the best use of them.
I was sceptical at first but then I saw some photos and YouTube videos of people using them. Have a look at this, it’s not an ultra short throw one but it is a 4k laser one. The guy is using it outside in broad daylight to watch Netflix:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nebula-Polaris-Pro-Projector-Black-...
At this point finding a unit and someone to install it might not happen until 2024 in some places.
How to always stay on top of customer feedback
Typically this is done for Windows guests.
Extremely rarely. Usually they are used for visiting legal websites.
But at what point is "marketing" just engaging with the community? If you go out and develop a suberb product that some niche reddit community might love, you post it...and they like it... OK, good for you?

What I am saying is, if your product / marketing is sooo good that it passes the smell test of the relevant subreddits..maybe your not shilling / astroturfing but helping?

Similar to how a lot of SEO advise is: "Create good content". Where is the line here?
Sure, but if there's a contract like that, then I insist that I be paid for my time and bandwidth in addition to the content I'm being interrupted/distracted from viewing. My time and bandwidth are both valuable, and can be far better used than viewing ads for products or services I guarantee I won't buy just because of some shitty advert.
Except this has been happening for well over a decade. There are player characters doing (usually very inefficient) moneymaking strategies in most popular MMOs, literally harvesting resources like ore, fish, etc. They then sell this gold online for real money - usually with large overheads like being intermittently banned from the service or having to maintain a subscription for the service.

This is prevalent in South America and Asia as a means to supplement or even make a living, for games like World of Warcraft and Runescape.
The first rebooted HNLondon meetup (today thu 8th sept) has been postponed
Note: I am not the organiser

From the organisers:
Hi everyone,

We must regretfully postpone this evening's Meetup.

Due to ongoing news from the Royal Household, the event space will no longer be able to accommodate us this evening.

We will announce details of an alternate date in the coming days via the Group and Hacker News.

We apologise for any inconvenience and look forward to meeting everyone at the next Meetup.

Dillon & Connor
If you're getting a chromebook, it's worth checking if it's on the list of models supported by Mr. Chromebox[1], an alternative firmware that gets you mostly normal UEFI booting with no mandatory waits or loud noises or chance of accidentally wiping.

Chromebook ram and storage can be pretty small and newer models have both soldered, so shop carefully, but like for like, chromebooks tend to be a bit less expensive than windows laptops.

[1] https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices
I've started writing those answers out as separate blog posts:

Measuring Connections: https://www.savannahhq.com/2022/09/06/measuring-your-communi...

Measuring Support: https://www.savannahhq.com/2022/09/08/measuring-your-communi...
> But while the system can shoulder a certain load of parasitic behaviour, if everyone does as you say then it stops working.

Isn't that a worthy goal? After all, if the "system" stops working, it's not as if the internet will go away, or the worthwhile sites will disappear.

The "system" is a parasitic drain on the users. If it went away, the internet will still be there, as will the users.
[Deleted a previous reply out of an abundance of caution about proprietary strategies]

That matches my first order academic understanding of market makers, but not the more detailed work I've read, or the work of the QRs at the handful of market makers I've spoken to/worked with.

It didn't seem like connecting trades were a particular focus of the people I've spoken with- is that something that happens off exchange? My understanding is that would happen automatically on the exchange, and that primarily market makers connect trades across time, pocketing bid/ask spreads but accepting risk of adverse price movements while they hold that position. To mitigate that risk, they do a bunch of signal analysis to set the spreads low enough to be competitive, high enough to mitigate that risk. Some market makers famously pay and provide price improvement for small/uncorrelated orders from retail brokers. I was told that that was specifically because of the reduced risk of adverse market movement from retail orders.

Market makers are generally required to always provide buy and sell prices, or risk fines/losing their market maker status on an exchange, right? Those prices might be extremely unreasonable (e.g. in a flash crash setting sell prices to 9999999), but if there's a market maker, there is required to be a price at which they will execute a trade, whether or not they can hedge that risk or now.
>Consciousness is some made up philosophical macguffin.

Well it's not totally made up. There is definitely something there, there is a real difference between the experience of being a rock and being a human.

The idea then of a P-zombie or some other version of a major intelligence operating with the lights off internally really is spooky.

>Asking things to draw themselves is fun, I could just as easily ask an elephant holding a paint brush to paint itself and then enjoy the outcome. That's pretty much all there is to it.

Agreed. But asking Dalle or whatever model to draw "The meaning of life" and thinking there is some kind of enlightenment in what it draws is ridiculous.
Even on modern hardware with vectorization, the speed of perl is hard to match for stream processing.

I write and deploy brand new perl code in 2022 to replace some clunky python and javascript - for real! AMA!
It would be super nice if this product could take it one step further and show trending products vs clicking a category first.
Good idea...
I see people jump the turnstiles all the time, and they're usually not the type that growl at you. Usually (at least in my area) it is young, teenage or early 20-something brown/black males who blend back into the crowd immediately.

I agree the types of people you described are a problem, but they aren't the farejumpers.
LOL. One look at the front cover and I was like yeah, nah mate.
> We achieve lightweight VMs by using unikernels

When I attended Infiltrate a few years ago, there was a talk about unikernels. The speaker showed off how incredibly insecure many of them were, not even offering support for basic modern security features like DEP and ALSR.

Have they changed? Or did the speaker likely just cherry-pick some especially bad ones?
Seeing it from the outside, the LDP seems like Japan's Republican party, Komeito is the Evangelical Christian bloc, and Abe is your basic Conservative running on American exceptionalism and traditional cultural values.

The biggest obvious difference is the failure of the LDP to successfully repeal Article 9, but as I understand it, that doesn't have nearly as much popular support in Japan as war posturing does in the US.
The Carlsen-Niemann Affair
There was this time span few years ago when all TVs were "3D"... so much electronic waste was produced...
Microsoft invests in Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens startup
in new delhi, india, metro is "actually amazing"....

you have mandatory baggage x-ray checking and a physcial patdown, both for men and women EVERYTIME you enter the station so you cant have weapons of any sort.

the stations are guarded by trained police (cisf) whole job profile is to only secure highly sensitive operations and they are trained to actually do their job....
you have full CCTV coverage of stations and trains and it is generally safe.
for women, the first carriage of every train is mandatory for women only and any men who board that carriage are fined and removed from the train...

you cannot eat or even "sit on the floor of the train" so its very clean even when many thousand passengers ride it every single day...

tickets are enforced so you cannot just freeride the stations and cars. you need a card/ticket to enter and exit and are charged by the time between these two entries so there aren't panhandlers, beggars there...

india has a generally dirty habit of doing chewing tobacco and the city stinks with the stink of red stains on every building, wall, road, vehicles but spitting is an offense in the station/train permises so its also clean by that way.

if you are in india and in delhi, try it once. you will enjoy the ride
Do you know of any papers investigating how kelp or other seaweeds compare? I've heard some biologists informally claim that they would be even more effective because they can grow incredibly fast.
California’s move to phase out gas-powered cars could spark battery innovations
zram isn't default because it adds additonal CPU overhead and can't always compress data efficiently. Sometimes it is better for a program to just run out of memory and crash than go to swap

I suppose it's similar to "download more crypto" mining in the sense that there is a CPU tradeoff.
Affiliate links on things an immigrant needs during their journey. There's enough genuine demand to skip the sales pitch entirely. The quality of the advice gives the rare product recommendations a lot of weight.
To be fair, how often were discussions about windows talking about anything to do with computers BEFORE microsoft made Windows?
Another idea: what if we don't ever swap images like this?

It looks like a bad idea that I would never want to do.

This is what your chroots and jails are for.

But if I wanted to do it in style, I'd hack up the cool kernel support to atomically mount multiple directories as part of one atomic swap.

How can you call it "atomic" if you have executables still running from the old /usr/bin? Say there is some script running that is executing external programs. At some unspecified point in its execution, /usr/bin/whatever changes meaning; all newly run programs are different versions on a different libc and so on.

If you have enough control of the system that there are no such processes, then you can easily do the swap directory by directory: just do it with system calls out of a single process, rather than by invoking tools, so that nothing trips up at the point in time when you have a mismatched /bin and /lib.
>According to Geekbench 5 scores, the iPhone 14 Pro has a 1,879 Single-Core Score, while it has a 4,664 Multi-Core Score. Compared to the iPhone 13 Pro benchmark test, the predecessor of the iPhone 14 Pro has a 1,797 Single-Core Score and a 4,659 Multi-Core Score.

>With this test, we know the A16 Bionic chip performs 10% faster in a single core compared to its previous model,

Um.... What? 1879 / 1797 is less than 5% speedup. How the hell did they arrive at 10% number?

I would not be surprised if A16 CPU is merely a die shrink of A15 with slightly higher peak frequency.
It is still lighter in memory only. CPU is also a relevant thing to compare them.
Atonality was a radical departure. Impressionism was quite radical, too. And minimalism. But although Rachmaninov was "up to date", he almost didn't leave the established path. He wrote great melodies and the harmony, orchestration and runs are wonderful, but it's not radical. That's not bad, IMO. Radicalism as such is overrated. It's throws out the baby with the bathwater. It may come with great ideas, but it often also is a power grab, an attempt to overthrow the elite and establish a new one, which may have a different "language" or style, but still has an old-fashioned power structure. There will be a top, there will be some good works, but the lesser artists don't magically improve: they were there before the new movement, and they will there there after. And (all this IMO, of course) they were what made chromaticism and atonality so boring.

The other day, I listened to Christian Sinding's 3rd symphony. I thought it was a bit bland but ok for 1870, but it turned out to have been written 50 years later. Still, since it's tonal, it's accessible, and there will be people who enjoy it. But a composer of similar caliber in a later age, forcing him/herself to write in some serial technique, will sadly produce something we'd rather forget.

TLDR: I like Rach, and I'm not fond of radicalism for its own sake.
Oh I have a decent handle on that I think:)

I mean if your mom is texting with SMS, she’s in North America. If she’s texting with a lot of iPhone users your family is in a certain economic position already. If you are on this site you are in a certain economic position and get called in for a lot of family tech support. If your mom has an android, supporting it is probably not worth your time in terms of the hourly rate you usually get. On top of all that, an iPhone SE is one of the best deals in phones and its long support life will save money over a parade of crap cheapest-available androids.

I am just speaking to my audience.
With function signatures and state variables added in 5.010, I consider Perl feature-complete and have not really missed anything from it for as long as I've been writing Perl.

What I do appreciate that's missing from many other languages and systems is the extreme committment to backwards compatibility. The knowledge that the next minor release won't break existing scripts is underrated, IMO.

Solo project with ~23K LOC of Perl and counting here. Bless you, Larry Wall and Perl maintainers. Keep it up!
Yes, it may very well be the case that this is the answer. But that feature is not stable today. It would be great to re-evaluate once that's available.
I'd argue perl's major value is from stability in the sense that what the perl developers write today can be run on the perl available on any machine, new or old. If a lot of perl developers end up use'ing lots of these new features that feeling of compatiblity will go away.
60s Woman Who Became a Computer Programmer Out of HS
For me, rich and unknown would be way, way better than rich and famous.

Even financially comfortable and unknown is better than rich and famous.
Got to agree unfortunately. I'm a huge fan of Troy and HIBP in general. This was a tiny bit too much right now (I've got a 7 month old and my wife isn't working!).
Just to add, deposit rate is 0.75% while the refinancing rate is 1.25%.
If we're dreaming, how about an e-ink with black default for coding / terminals? Real, deep black.

16 colours will do for syntax highlighting.

But it has to refresh much faster than current e-ink. Can't scroll through code at the speed a Kindle refreshes.
I wouldn't say that I'm taking my day off to go ride my bike without telling anybody, but I would say that working from home affords me flexibility to, say, take a few hours to get a massage, go work out, or take my time making lunch.

I make sure I'm aligning my personal technical interests with the kinds of projects I work on for the company, so work feels more like a fun puzzle to solve rather than slogging through tedium. Generally I don't work late into the evenings, but sometimes a problem is really just that fun to solve, and I enjoy spending time on it. Other times, projects may be less interesting, so I work fewer hours, letting myself rest. Burnout is real, and it sucks, and I avoid it at all costs.

My employer really just cares that I get my work done, not how many hours it takes to do it. If I'm getting "meets all" or "exceeds" in my yearly ratings, then I'm meeting or exceeding their standard, and we're both happy.
The slashing enforcement mechanism introduces centralization; it has to, to work around nothing-at-stake.

I'm not throwing around buzzwords. Please don't accuse people of that without sufficient understanding to be reasonably confident you're correct.

> locking down 32ETH is different from requirement to run ASIC

This is precisely the opex-vs-capex distinction we are discussing in this thread.

32eth is strict capex. ASIC capex <<< power opex.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Interest-Rates-Fourth-Finance...

Read this book to find out
This is a shockingly coherent summary. The accuracy leaves a bit to be desired, but this is perfectly usable for distilling things you don't have time to fully evaluate.
Until I can roll or fold it up to a size no bigger than a 13" laptop and cart it away in my backpack I could care less.
As someone who has not "used GPT-3" what does it mean to say that you used it to make a summary? Just dump the full text of the article into a tool and request a summary output?

I have only seen GPT-3 used when it takes a prompt and then generates more related text, I didn't realize you could run that process in reverse.
I don't know which game implements it but the Nintendo Switch's system license lists FSR as one of the libraries that it uses. So I guess even Nintendo Switch supports it.
They will, ultimately, be significantly cheaper, for one reason - freight. TVs ship in big boxes, full of styrofoam - you’re limited on how many you can fit in a standard container, and they’re expensive and fragile to ship the last leg to the consumer. They take up warehouse space, and are often a two-man lift for larger models.

Being able to ship a TV rolled up in a tube will be revolutionary.

See also: mattresses.
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Independent Thinking
> The CIA didn't setup the LDP anymore than it setup the Portuguese Socialist Party

Yeah, it setup and ran both equally.

> The most crucial interaction between the CIA and the Liberal Democratic Party was the exchange of information for money. It was used to support the party and to recruit informers within it. The Americans established paid relationships with promising young men who became, a generation later, members of parliament, ministers, and elder statesmen. Together they promoted the LDP and subverted Japan's Socialist Party and labor unions. […]

> The Japanese came to describe the political system created with the CIA's support as kozo oshoku—"structural corruption." The CIA's payoffs went on into the 1970s. The structural corruption of the political life of Japan continued long thereafter.

> "We ran Japan during the occupation, and we ran it a different way in these years after the occupation," said the CIA's Horace Feldman, who served as station chief in Tokyo. "General MacArthur had his ways. We had ours."

From the book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/03...).
'Stop making decisions based on engagment measurement' might be a better approach, if what you care about is maintaining the quality of your online social group. Some social media sites have tons of high-quality original content submitted by people with expertise in their domains, and some are 90% fluff. If you want to attract people who'll make high-quality contributions, getting rid of the fluff is the most important goal.
> because politicians

how can politicians be directly to blame for everything bad. Surely majority people are electing this person to do what he/she/they are doing.
This data comes from a survey that explicitly asked about how people changed habits [1] and the CO2 figure is "Based on the journeys shifted from cars to buses and trains" [2] not total usage.

[1] https://www.vdv.de/bilanz-9-euro-ticket.aspx

[2] https://www.vdv.de/presse.aspx?id=df893fc7-1759-497b-9488-ce...
It claims 2400 lumens - I have a couple of flashlights in excess of 6000 and yeah, the light beam is visible in daylight but I can't see any way you'd project something with decent contrast even with that.
Now lets find a way to sequester volcanic CO2!
Have a look at this, looks pretty visible to me:

https://youtu.be/nu2OZq8A-AI
couldn't care less is the phrasing that invokes an expression of maximum indifference
i think the connect wallet flow makes it feel more like a high effort joke. it reads your balance and adds the value in the UX. it uses MetaMask and is pretty clearly read-only, the site doesn't ask to sign any transactions.
That's not going to happen, because touchscreens on computers suck. Waving your arms around in front of you all day is a shitty way to work, and takes up way more space than a mousepad.

Not to mention: Why would you want your hands and arms blocking your view of the stuff you're trying to manipulate on-screen?

Entire companies have already come and gone because the "Minority Report" UI has no legitimate use case.
> I think rent control is a good idea. It's always the implementation that falls apart (because politicians)

If the implementation of a good idea always falls apart for any reason then it's a bad idea.
Only because the technology was pushed forward and adopted for the masses.

P2P is used a lot of normal actives (Zoom, Discord, Games, Collaboration apps). It's just when it comes to sending large amounts of data, that Apple wants to have a say in it.
OsStr uses WTF-8 on Windows, and just represents the raw underlying bytes on Unix.

Byte strings can be WTF-8. They can be anything. The problem is that there is no real way to (easily) get the underlying WTF-8 bytes of an OsStr on Windows. So there's no free conversion to and from byte strings.

I wrote more about this in the bstr docs (and don't miss the link to os_str_bytes): https://docs.rs/bstr/latest/bstr/#file-paths-and-os-strings

I'd be happy to answer more questions if you have them. :-) https://github.com/BurntSushi/bstr/discussions
Pretty sure isPrime can't simply be replaced with k % 2 == 0 ;)
The grand majority of HTTP traffic (in the US at least) is legal. Obviously one can break the law with anything that can reach the internet, but it seems Apple is drawing a line in the sand for what they believe to be a category of apps that in reality, are used more often than not for piracy.

By the way, don't take my comments as endorsing Apple's position. I personally think torrents on iOS is silly due to the battery and connectivity issues, but I feel like people should at least be able to sideload apps if Apple doesn't want to host them.
>> Person A was born in 1930. Person B was born seventy years later, in 2000. They both start applying the Graham investing strategy at a very early age, let’s say when they were 15 years.

>> Person A becomes Warren Buffett, once the richest man on earth, who experienced one of the biggest booms in value stocks when he was young. Person B loses half of their money because value stocks are out of favor in the 2010s

Buffet started when he was 10, not 15. His net worth is 97.8 billion dollars, 97.5 billion or so of that was earned after he was 50 years old. His success or failure was not due to whether stocks were in or out of favor in his first 5 years of investing.

If you want to be extremely rich, set aside the next 82 years of your life to do nothing but work on that, and you should have a pretty high rate of success.