skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think most people find consumer protection regulations very reassuring. It's natural that they're reluctant to transition to a system that does not (and arguably cannot) have any.
I believe it may be much more fruitful to observe and talk about our conception of holes rather than discussing any kind of ontological existence.

We only perceive a hole as some kind of entity because our perception works in such a way that it preferably recognizes simpler, smaller and more “figure”-like shapes (see Gestalt psychology). I think that this perception of a single, coherent unit leads us to believe that there is some kind of independent existence, which is why we talk about holes in the first place.

But there is nothing special about holes that we could not attribute to the properties of space itself or the physical shape of their sorrounding objects. Where does a hole begin and where does it end? What “is” a hole independent of any host object? Why do we not just talk about complex shapes, why do we even need to talk about holes? The idea that holes can move (as opposed to a region of space) is just part of the idea of holes itself and does not follow from any observation about physical holes.

It may still be interesting to explore how we talk about holes and what our concept of a hole constitutes. The idea of holes is after all very useful in various fields (even computer science – see “typed holes”, maybe even the idea of the zero was inspired by holes). I have the impression that the article actually discusses exactly that but seems to be more concerned with the existence of holes, which, from my perspective, is a meaningless endeavour. But I am not a philosopher so maybe there is a context or method here that I don’t know/understand.
The author stated:
> Now, with the release of Emergency SOS via satellite on iPhone 14 Pro, I don’t plan to carry the inReach nearly as often, and I’ll pause the subscription to save the monthly fee, with the added benefit of weight savings in my pack. Keep in mind, the Garmin has its advantages with super long battery life and an extremely durable build made to withstand the rigors of multi-day expeditions, so I think it’s worth keeping around.
But probably the most exciting aspect of satellite connectivity being built into iPhone 14 Pro is that loved ones like my wife, Esther, will have it with them all the time. It’ll be ready for them to use whether they’ve planned for it or not.

The author has also replied to my comment saying he wasn't aware that the satellite service was North America and Canada only and that he will make sure to take his Garmin on international trips. My critique was not aimed at the author, but at the marketing materials which need to hammer this point home, even for North American residents such as this author. Based on this evidence, I think it was a pretty justified comment.
RGB lighting for PC components is dumb. It's a computer, not an art project, even if it were it's tacky art that distracts from the functionality of the computer.
Visualizing General Relativity
labeling 6 billions pictures, even at 10 labels per second would take 20 years, so I guess nobody
I’ve had a horrible experience with Paypal in the past and I harbor an unnatural hatred for the company. Granted with the size of the customer base most people will be fine, but once Paypal soft lock the account Flipper Zero should have immediately removed the ability to pay via PayPal to limit the damage.

Always limit your exposure and never keeping any amount of money with Paypal that you’re not prepared to lose in the worst case scenario, because Paypal is accountable to no one.
Ramp Memo – Contrary Research
Why would they?

It would decrease engagement. A significant portion of Twitter is bots and fake profiles/scams and Twitter isn't best known for caring about users or being honest.

More engagement (even if from fake profiles) = more ads to show = more money.

This would decrease trust in the platform in the long run for sure but they probably think they're too big to fail without a good competition anyway.
They do solve the consensus problem but don't have the same constraints crypto does.

The consensus (of who owns what and how did that happen) is whatever the banking says it is at the moment.
This works because society places a lot of trust in the actors and the checks and regulations surrounding them (e.g. liability regimes) as well as the ways to rectify mistakes (through the legal system).

Crypto adds the additional requirement that every participant of the system (even end users) can independently come up with the same state without a single entity being the arbitrator of truth. The tradeoff is added technical complexity and inefficiency (storage and computation)
Hey, if you are proud of your security issues, good for you :)
Monero is the only cryptocurrency that is fulfilling its original promise (basically digital cash, untraceable) and that is being banned left and right by exchanges these days. ETH is more of the old power balance with slightly new players without all the previous regulations (i.e. scams everywhere).
European permanent salaries have been coming down. UK contractors take home less now than they did 5 years ago due to taxation changes (IR35).

The tax changes have also made the market a bit strange where rates are still advertised at £500 a day even though, contractor takes home significantly less money. These have not gone up inline.
> Java Nashhorn was passing all ECMAScript 5.1 tests in 2012

Half supported means it is some Mozilla side project which likely is not funded.

> JavaScript is one of the most popular programming language

it is popular on UI yes, for backend I am not sure about that.

> person who wrote the library may not be familiar with your favorite language

he/she could create it as a throwaway weekend toy project, without interest in wide adaptation and high impact, yes. Also, my critics was directed not to him/her specifically, but to the fact that all other do the same.

> moreover certain things are easier to do in some languages.

this is not about implementing prover n javascript

> This is not the attitude that we should be showing when receiving free work from someone.

My attitude is that I am entitled to express opinion if it is well justified.
Gradient-descent optimized recursive filters for deconvolution / deblurring
I believe it would look something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9990wY1DEhk
Transition to proof of stake consensus doesn't make a byzantine fault tolerant system anymore or less accessible to the everyman, it simply replaces depending on electricity to depending on investing directly into the protocol.

One may see the 'wealthy' as getting more 'say' but in reality they could (and did) just buy hardware that produces higher hashrates.

This performative ceremony is gone now to the benefit of all
I feel like you have an overly emotional attachment to this, given your need to make this comment. People say things that turn out to be wrong all the time, but you seem to have become resentful that they disbelieved this would happen.

Odd way to approach a technology.
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Aight. Makes sense.
Banking systems do not require consensus. So, it is a single party that has to make a trust decision with a counterparty that it partially trusts, but may potentially be a fraudulent party masquerading as a trusted party.

Crypto requires consensus amongs millions of untrusted and possibly malicious parties i.e., no trust, all cryptography.

Both require cryptography to work (eg: online banking transaction vis-a-vis crypto currency transfer). But the former is well-known (Public Key Encryption and Symmetric Encryption) client and server with established trust relationships that can be cryptographically verified whereas the latter is a distributed system with untrusted nodes and has different dynamics.

The other issue is about correctness. If there is an error (system or human) in the banking system, there are compensatory transactions/procedures possible. Crypto has not evolved yet to accommodate these real world issues. It is also not proven that the crypto protocols are 100% correct. Therein lies the rub. The banking system is also not 100% correct, but has procedures to address the failures (complaint system, appeals, courts etc.,) but with crypto, there is no way to address the failure cases (hacks, lost wallets, corrupted drives, 51% attacks etc.,)
No doubt about that, people are in the dark about effective centralization of PoW and PoS, but PoS makes it easier to move to a new representative. In PoW, if you wanted to be a part of those centralized services with any return at all, you often had to get a spot on a mining farm, which meant you were locked into that place; even if you left, someone else just took your place, so effectively, it was the computational power that was locked in with that specific centralized mining operation. With PoS, there is no such lock-in, and changing the staking destination is a quick affair.
I very much enjoyed Andrej Karpathy‘s „from scratch“ bitcoin implementation [1]. I‘m sure there are other projects on GitHub explaining blockchain concepts directly in code.

[1] https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/
If you can buy a bunch of 3090s for mining, you likely can buy a 2000Wh power station with solar panels to feed them and pay $0 variable costs.
> but I believe no one has succeeded

So stop trying, or what is your point?
Sadly, most of the software I use already has a link in the list to an issue someone made about XDG support and often developers don't care, actively choose not to respect the user's preferences (snap, for one) or don't want to change the location out of fear of breaking compatibility. Those MRs would probably become forks in practice.
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> There are other choices across a range of languages, which a quick google search found

could you provide example?
Do you know much about France? Almost all large enterprises in France are partly state owned (Total being the notable exception). Although they also have private ownership, it would be extremely hard for say Air France or Orange or Credit Agricole to pursue a course of action in direct opposition to what the government, the civil service, and other large interests wanted.

This may not be text-book socialism but it is quite different from capitalism as practiced in the United States.
We've had a issue similar here due to using SERIALIZABLE transactions, and postgres chosing an index that caused it to lock the whole relation due to how locks are upgraded if you scan for too much [1]

Every change to our prod DB requires running EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE on some data to make sure the queries are doing the right thing (we use GCP Query Insights to watch for regressions [2]).

The cast majority of our queries are single index scans. I wish there was a database that we could fix the plan when our app is deployed. For the most part our schema is fairly denormalized so we don't need very complex queries. The flexibility/power of SQL is really for debugging, analytics and other one off queries.

Hot take: I wish there was a DB that didn't force SQL. At least for the application, instead you just told it what scan you wanted to do (basically the embed plan directly in the query you send). There could be a reporting mechanism if the DB detected a more efficient plan for the query or something. You could still have a SQL layer for your debug and one off sessions.

I would vastly prefer the predictability over occasional performance spikes or in our case a spike of transaction failures due to a predicate lock being grabbed for a whole table.

[1]: the default here is 32 rows (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-locks...)

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/using-query-insig...
Why have kids (if I read these comments) have such an ingrained idea that you will abandoning them? Is that subconscious, and/or just an emotional response? As in, why would they not presume the inverse (that you will always be there)?
It would likely be Teledyne. Although they are more likely to just be penalized in some other way, especially since they now own FLIR.
Is this an "/s"? Leetcode is nothing but a pulse for hiring. Most jobs are about connecting systems together like Legos to unlock value for the business. The minority that actually require deep knowledge of DS/A require actual knowledge of DS/A, not just grinding a bunch of BST problems.
1. Energy is limited.

Sun’s mass is 2e30 kg.
E=mc^2 gives you max energy. (2e30 * 9e16).

Assume we start with one joule this year. Each year increasing energy output by 5%.

How long will it take till we use-up whole sun?

ln(2e30 * 9e16)/ln(1.05) = 2230 years

How long till we use up whole milky way? (Around 1.15e12 solar masses)

ln(2e30 * 1.15e12 * 9e16)/ln(1.05) = 2799

How long till we use-up whole universe? (10e53 kg)

ln(10e53 * 9e16)/ln(1.05) = 3348 years

Our potential is not limitless, exponential growth is not sustainable even on universe’s scale. Eventually we will reach hard wall.

2. Crypto heating (mining and poW) is very inefficient use of resource (as in, percentage of planet using crypto vs percent of total energy required for it). Not a smart thing for humanity to do.

3. Energy being limited, makes it shared resource. Crypto heating raises energy prices for others.
No more mining for ETH. And all other crypto together (not counting Bitcoin, which uses ASIC) have 20x less daily mining reward compared to ETC. That means a lot used GPU cards will hit the market, since huge part of pie just disappeared.
Wait, so this cryptocurrency was never supposed to be... ...a currency?

In this case, the crypto-not-currency community really needs to work on branding.
I'm pretty sure they also ban executives now.
The books by Emily Oster are great, they’re purely based on data and she’s a PhD in Econ at Brown so she knows to not misinterpret. She’s also a mother and blends in just enough personal experience into these books to make pleasant to read while never straying from the aim of scientific accuracy. On many topics the answer is unfortunately still “some studies show X but there are flaws or they aren’t statistically significant so we don’t know for sure what Is the best answer”
What's cooking on Sourcehut? September 2022
Cloudflare backpedals, decides to block Kiwi Farms anyway

https://nichegamer.com/cloudflare-is-blocking-kiwi-farms/
One gets myocarditus from covid and even mild cases in healthy young people commonly show damage from covid which isn't true of vaccination. Furthermore its reasonable to suppose that decreasing chance of infection decreases chance of spread which effects your 60 year old with hypertension which probably exists in most exists in most people's peer,friend, or family group and would really rather not die.
This must have been the default for human history probably as well, I am thinking.
> If malicious means transferring funds that don't exists, it'll be noticed.

who cares?

As far as I can tell, a majority that wants to block a vote can do so freely and the only resolution is a fork where people just assume that the honest fork will win out.

I also think it's not a majority but actually just a little more than a third to block a vote for eth
Nah my PC case has a glass window and a red glow inside and it’s awesome.
Lots of companies released blockchains and coins. It's called FOMO, or "Metoo-ism". Interpreting this (or IBM's blockchain) as signs of a significant market shift is a triumph of hope over realism.
* dishonest and ethically corrupt contractors now take home less thanks to IR35.

for the rest of us, it was a non-event.
Have a search for the original investigative piece done by Private Eye. The rest of the reports on this are somewhat lazy copies of their original work.
They should teach this to new parents before they let them leave the hospital. My wife and I went to the hospital’s parenting class before the birth of our first child. They focused on a lot of skills for infant care but not much on new parent sanity.
I look forward to their rebase :D
Please don't. Half of the fun is the time travel into a different culture, or maybe even most of it.
They probably don’t draw much revenue from those countries anyways. The dollar is pretty expensive there. Well, let’s send a gesture to the relevant customers then (including governments).
> I would rather buy a phone that looks like a dildo, than Apple phone.

People in 2007, they all own one now.
Thanks for the product rec. Does this work via bluetooth or did they somehow keep the servers on?
I am nit sure how it works elsewhere but with NFC i can set limit when PIN is required . And with NFC on phone this gets preapproved by using biometrics.

So most people dont write PIN.
If someone's copyrighted material was used to train a model, what analogy would you use?
First things that come to mind reading GP are the existing interbank payment clearing networks: Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT, etc.

And, on the contrary, SWIFT was hacked not so long ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_SWIFT_bankin...
This is the same thinking that leads to incredible astrophotography using stacked long exposure images that appear to be pure noise individually.
Eh? Teledyne is a publicly traded American company.
> UK contractors take home less now than they did 5 years ago due to taxation changes (IR35).

The way I've seen this go with companies that care about their contractor workforce is that assignments and their working practices are thoroughly checked to ensure they remain outside IR35, so the take-home is just as good as it used to be.

Some contracts I've seen involve a liability shift clause from the agency/client to the contractor's Ltd co - and the client will often insist that you have fee-payer/agency IR35 insurance in place to protect the supply chain (Kingsbridge sell this sort of product) if such a clause is in place.

You need to be in an in-demand role and present enough value to be able to demand this though and avoid blanket 'inside' determinations.

Of course, if you continue supplying small companies, it remains the contractor's liability.
Handling more than 1 client isn't doing you any good if you are still paid by the hour. What would be a game changer is if you can be paid fixed price for some well defined piece of work (writing an app module, creating cloud infrastructure for a single environment, etc). Another game changer is if they allow you to subcontract boring parts of your task to your own "employees".
At this point, Cuba is stuck being a chip in presidential politics to win Florida’s electoral votes.
> In the most extreme case like London Underground, they are wildly different dimensions than mainline trains.

Though on the other hand especially in the case of the London Underground the boundaries are actually quite blurry, too.

First of all it's only the deep tubes that are running those noticeable smaller trains, and even then the Bakerloo line nevertheless actually has some through-running onto the mainline railway network, too (Queen's Park – Harrow & Wealdstone).

Secondly, the subsurface lines have some more through-running (District Line to Wimbledon and Richmond and most noticeable the Metropolitan Line north of Harrow-on-the-Hill) and historically, the boundary between the Underground lines and the mainline network used to be even fuzzier, e.g. for a time some District Line trains used to run all the way to Southend and Shoeburyness, beyond today's Circle Line the so-called Middle and Outer Circle services partially ran on mainline railway infrastructure in West London, etc. etc.

Even as late as 1988 there was a special railtour on the subsurface lines utilising standard Gatwick Express Mk2 railway carriages (albeit hauled by London Underground battery locomotives).
> You don’t think that before the Constitutional Amendment to allow taxation of wealth is ratified that there will be 1000s of CPAs and attorneys looking for loopholes?

Sure

> GRATs and IDGTs will look like quaint children’s toys compared to the schemes invented to receive the benefit without formally having $10^9 of net worth.

Well good luck then.
I’ve seen videos where captured Russian soldiers are actually conscripts from the contested regions.

I would think they have a lot more to worry about than okta authentication.
If you have a random stream of bits, and you use rejection sampling to extract a value from that stream, then you don't reveal any information about the value. At most, you reveal information about the stream prior to the value you chose, but each bit of a secure RNG should be unrelated to all prior bits, so this is not an issue.
The strange things is why there was never any helmet law passed for cars and truck drivers.
I don't understand the big hoo ha about the special effects in this. They look tacky and fake, like things I've seen in advertisements years ago.
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1652926/qui...

"Lockdown made Brits lazy and entitled, they will face a rude awakening CAROLE MALONE

There's a new craze sweeping the nation. It's called Quiet Quitting. It's a craze that started on TikTok, the same social media platform that encourages people who aren't disabled to pretend that they are in order to dodge airport queues. Nice, eh?"
Any Blue Mic will do, but your Airpods will do fine too, just don't do it in a restaurant or busy cafe.
Well this is funny: I'm the author of this post, and pleasantly surprised to see it coming around for a second time!

If you like this content, there's a bunch more on my blog that you'll probably like too:

https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/

While I continue to work with Postgres, I'm enjoying the life of an early start-up where your default is "not much data", though it does make you unlearn a lot of the habits developed when dealing with multi-terabyte databases!
I'd argue the cisc vs risc dichotomy hasn't really been true in ages. Among other things, does a cisc-y frontend over risc-ier microcode count as a cisc or a risc cpu? I also don't think Apple's chips are particularly risc-y in the first place. I believe they have plenty of special purpose silicon.
Sorry, that's not the part that bothers me. Instead, it's that everyone agrees that keeping the content serving is their highest priority, and they have far more money than they need just for that, which means additional money they raise is not "keep Wikimedia online" but funding their other work.

People may be excited to fund that other work too, but they should make the case for it instead of pretending there's a risk Wikipedia and their other sites will drop off the internet.
In San Fransisco rents and home prices are very high (an errything else, I gather). You probably have a comparable life on average, just fewer chances to get 'retire early' money at a young age and less absolute value of extra cash.
Haha, that's my fun fact of the day that there is a serious philosophy article on holes (on the Stanford encyclopedia of all places, one of my two favourite philosophy resources, the other being Existential Comics).

On topic, I was actually expecting a bit more discussion of the fact that mathematics has arrived at a pretty rigorous way of defining holes (in topology, the 'donut equals coffee mug' type of math).
looks like they are still using Akamai:

www.apple.com. 0 IN CNAME www.apple.com.edgekey.net.
> This is a historic moment for computing

A) Really?
B) Bit early to be proclaiming historic events. On account of, well, history is very much post-tense.