skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's plain old double standards, Tornado Cash is the "peoples" money laundering service, anyone can use it, so it could be of benefit to them at some point.

Global banks that could facilitate the same thing would only consider doing it for the super-rich to hedge against the possibility of getting caught and fined. So are not open to the average person, hence people have no problem calling for them to be held to account.

Both should get the same treatment. That goes doubly for the global banks that have historically caused far greater problems than TC.
e-tuk tuks (with and without cycling) are a thing, and seem likely to explode in popularity though they mostly seem to be for delivery drivers.
Canada Post just started an initiative to replace their smaller package trucks with electric trikes. Electric cargo bike delivery is VERY feasible, for everything but inter-city cargo. Even moving vans - my brother used to work for a bike delivery company, and he was able to borrow an electric cargo trike to help my with my last move. It took two loads instead of the one it would have taken with a van, other than that it was entirely painless.

Which is not to say that bikes can handle 100% of the tasks, but they can handle much more than you might think.
As a web developer who has to test websites across multiple browsers, having to support another browser sounds expensive.

While its fine to create new languages and platforms, attention should be paid to the costs this will have on the developers that have to now support the new stuff as well as the old. One example I bring up is Gradle. The jump from Ant to Maven was huge. Maven was so much better than Ant that Ant basically disappeared from my purview. But when Gradle came out it was not so much better than Maven that is caused a sea-change in the Java community. Now I see a split. Some projects use Maven, some use Gradle. And some projects post their instructions in both. I have to become an expert in both. And I don't see this changing any time soon. So now the Java community has to pay this tax going forward. Its no one's fault. The intentions were good by the folks who created Gradle or who adopted it in their project. And projects do need competitors to keep them motivated. I offer no solutions here, only gripes.
It is delightfully ironic to see code as law slowly chipped away by Law until law is code and you’re back to finance business logic on a slow distributed computer fabric.
It's not an AFCI breaker, is it? My last house had sensitive AFCI breakers that my laser printer would trip about a quarter of time when warming up.
> Are there concepts that our human brains are biologically incapable of understanding

As silly as it sounds: UFOs. Chasing UFOs with jet-fighters is probably as silly as a dog eating a credit card.

To be clear, I don't imply that UFOs exist. Science says "I don't know" for the few serious cases that are still unsolved, and that's my answer too.
Depends on the type of HFT. On one end, not even C++ cuts it and FPGAs are used, while on the other hand I heard of plenty of Java deployments. Sure though, HFT itself is a niche.
Do you mean aside from the trillions of dollars worth of yearly imports/exports? That's a pretty massive part of their economy.
That makes sense. Although now I'm curious what the average thief does with a device these days... I wonder if they even know how to get past a login screen, get your info and sell it? Or they just break it down for parts/pawn it off?
Our local mall has been bought, bankrupted, and auctioned off every couple years for the last 20.

There's a Macys and a JC Penny as the anchor stores. The old Sears was a COVID testing center for a while, now it has been turned into a Halloween store for the season.

The food court once had Subway, Panda Express, McDonald's, and Taco Bell. They're all long gone, there is a Bourbon Chicken, cookie place, and a pizza place where the Sbarro was. They flipped the signs around but kept all the pictures and menus.

Inside, it's about half-empty. They've been trying to attract smaller mom and pop stores, but it has had the side effect of giving the place a "flea market" feel.

The next town over has mall that's doing a lot better. There's a Target, Barnes and Noble, Planet Fitness, and a much more vibrant food court. There's still only about half occupancy when it comes to the stores, but the parking lot doesn't look like there's been and earthquake and the bathrooms aren't disgusting.

There was a push to convert the empty anchor stores to office space, but with WFH that option is off the table.
The way he moved his eyes was kinda like some tryhard at the bar with no game
All of those people are by example rarely seen in the commute trafic. Lots of middle aged single person in a car. Even older / younger ppl can ride a (e)bike when its not too cold/hot. Get rid of heavy traffic, keep the cars for elderly and kids. Or drive them around in taxi/uber / buses. Edit: sp.
Why then, for example, are cleaning services workers, mechanics, and health workers all more obese than average? Those are jobs where you are much more active than an office worker. Those are all cases where someone gets exposed to chemicals (cleaning chemicals, lithium grease, and PFAS-based medical fabrics). In fact, healthcare support workers are more obese than healthcare technicians, even though technicians are more sedentary. Support workers are the ones changing PFAS-based curtains, garments, etc.
Just bought a bike in Bangkok.

To be honest it sat in my living room for a week because of the fear of riding it on these most dangerous streets. (Bangkok has bad reputation for accidents worldwide).

But today I took it out.

I rode to work and it was amazing. People here respect two wheels a lot and drivers slow down for you.

Normally I’d walk to work for the exercise 3km. Which is about 45 minutes for me each way.

But today the riding took about 10-15 minutes with a great cardio workout.

I’ll take the bike out most of the week now instead of taking a cab.

Here motorcycles are the mainstay. But I’ll stick with my bike for shorter distances and cabs for longer ones.
Some malls (the smarter ones?) have integrated those stores listed into the malls themselves; I've certainly seen Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, Nordstrom Rack, and IKEA built into a mall. Even more if you consider "strip malls" to be malls.
> […] a President has in parliamentary republics, of dissolving the parliament and calling elections.

This is a bug.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2022_Tunisian_political_c...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Peruvian_self-coup_d%27ét...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

> The UK has been stuck in crisis mode more than once, because the Queen couldn’t say “fuck it, let’s have some elections because the current state of affairs is damaging the country”.

This is a feature. Let the politicians figure it out or go to the electorate and have them sort it out.

(I'm Canadian.)
Agreed. The "value" of the senior engineer is not that they write code faster than a junior. The value they bring is that they level up a team. They hire well, they provide mentorship, they help the team avoid making time-and-money-wasting mistakes.
I watched it last night. It's about his romance with his first wife, and very little about adventures of a curious character. Having seen Feynman give a lecture in real life, and seeing him in various film clips, there is nothing about Broderick's performance that is like Feynman. For example, the enthusiasm and charisma Feynman displays when talking about physics was non-existent in the film.
Yeah, evolving the culture of drivers is harder than putting in bike infrastructure.

Painting bike lanes is cheap and effective, but not foolproof. You have to change how people drive, and it seems like the wealthier the suburb, the more careless drivers are (driving fast, blowing lights/signs, not yielding the right of way).
Starting in 2018, I was a tech lead (at the time, my title was Senior) for 2 teams spanning ~4 years. I have a Staff title today.

Here's my problem with these roles. Going by the definitions from Will Larsen in your link, I am currently expected to be: a tech lead, an architect, and a solver. I engage primarily with tech lead and solver work. I also frequently have to dig in to "regular" IC work tickets. No single individual has the capacity to do all of these things well but the business will see you succeed in some degree with tasks associated to these different roles, fail to recognize that these roles are distinct from each other, and unrealistically expect you to do it all.

I am working with my management on this problem, specifically about expectation setting (because it's a mess, everyone, and I do mean literally almost everyone, has a different idea about what my role confers), but it's frustrating.
Yes, unless you happen to live in top European cities, those that make the top list where to live in Europe, you get there by car.
Not unless that bike also includes an engine. You exclude so many people who are incapable of propelling themselves around, let alone people who can't see well enough or lack the cognitive ability to navigate themselves
Competition is great, especially when it breaks oligopolies, I just hope stuff like the Digital Markets Act will manage to stop them from abusing their positions to make their solution a monopoly
So then what's the solution? Self-driving and/or electric cars aren't it. They may be an improvement, but they still waste a whole ton of energy in their construction and use.

Personally, I think this isn't an either-or kind of thing. I, and plenty of people I know, have both a bike and a car. They use the bike for relatively short trips, shopping, etc., and the car for everything else. As it turns out, the vast majority of driving people do are the sorts of trips that can be done easily (and more quickly) on a bike anyway.

People who simply cannot bike for whatever reason will continue to drive. That's fine. But we still need to shift the balance so that it's easier and safer for people to bike, even if it makes using a car slightly less convenient.
All three of those populations, aside from the very obvious extremes, can in fact use bikes. The former two without many modifications, the third with some hefty ones.
Go Proposal: Profile Guided Optimization
It's no different than people who like to talk about their kids. I could have told you about the art work on my refrigerator that my kid drew in third grade, except that would be a lie because I don't have any kids. My legacy, such as it is, is my work, and my little stuffed lobster is no less a token of that than the third grade art project on the refrigerator would be if I had one of those. I'm sorry if that offended you. Talking about one's children is generally considered a socially acceptable thing to do. A little tacky perhaps, but not something that merits a snide response.
To me Roger Ebert fills the role of legendary but I'm not sure I could think of anyone else. Like all movie critics, Ebert would sometimes express opinions that would surprise or vex me, but - more or less uniquely to him - by the end of his reviews I would usually come to respect and somewhat understand his opinion despite the fact that I did not share it.
How long before we see tanks on the roads ?
api can receive files, what am i missing
I’ve read bug threads in the moby GitHub where they reject a feature because it’s not repeatable, while people point out that Docker files start with apt-get so they aren’t repeatable from layer 2 anyway. The team members don’t seem to hear them and it’s frustrating to watch.

Images are repeatable. We like repeatable images. That’s enough for most of us. Don’t break that and we’re good. Just fix build time bullshit please.
What a great resource! Thanks for posting.
That's great as long as there's a shower at your destination (to deal with road grime, sweat, and sunscreen).

I'm fortunate that my office provides showers but a lot don't.
Have you seen the 'in-painting' technique yet? You can write prompts for each element of an image you want, erase the parts you don't like, position them on the canvas, and make SD fill in the blanks.
Can be, yes! And just to say it was meant as sympathetic to the situation, not, "get treated!"

Really appreciated your perspective and experience.
Can you show me how exactly does the optimization/deoptimization of unused branch look like? You need detect that you got into an unused branch and that requires... a branch!

In order to be able to optimize presumably dead branches you need a primitive that:

1. Can detect entering "dead" branches

2. Is faster than branch.

I'm not saying JIT optimizations are not possible, JIT compiler can totally choose to inline function call based on frequency or loop length. It can make "better" time/space complexity decisions (though "better" is still going to be controversial).

But optimizing branches because they were not called in runtime seems like common a myth. Like previous commenter who confused startup optimization with code optimization.
> Order a random item from China and take a look at their product manual - it's very likely that it's machine translated and not by a person.

Yes and with luck, at least one language you know how to read will make sense and not be off-the-wall bonkers or simply incomprehensible.
This is a really big announcement. Kudos to Meta. I use PyTorch daily at work and am very happy with both its current state and where it appears to be headed. PyTorch makes deep learning accessible, understandable, and portable, and I love it.
Burnout happens.
Riding a bike doesn't need to be the only or primary way that people get around in every city, all the time, for it to drastically improve quality of life for people living in cities the world over. Most people are capable of riding a bike - especially an e-bike - to get to where they're going. It's cheaper than a car, it can be faster than driving a car, and it is obviously better for both the global climate and the local environment.

More than half of all daily trips in the US are less than 3 miles[1]. If cities give people the option to ride a bike for those shorter trips without feeling unsafe, a lot of people will ride bikes to complete those trips. That's shown over and over again. Change is hard, but a future with less cars and more trips by bike and public transportation is better, and possible.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-marc...
They've started doing ABS for bikes with disc brakes.

https://www.bosch-ebike.com/en/products/abs
I agree, but in the article they define an API as one accepting JSON. So I was just going with the conventions they were using.
If they were really hacking their way, they’d just move to more modern process where there is and will be more capacity.
> Banks store money, right? Does bitcoin store money?

You mean physically? Plenty of banks (especially online banks and investment banks) don't physically store any more cash than something like a jewelry store. Physical storage is hardly a core characteristic of banking; I've never been to a branch of any of my current banks. If you don't mean physically, I can't see how this is different than "have accounts"...

> Banks have accounts, right? Does bitcoin have accounts?

An account is just a ledger of credits and debits coupled with some form of access control. How is a bitcoin address meaningfully different from an account? Keep in mind that not all accounts are interest bearing, and it's very possible (even common) for one individual to have multiple accounts.
I've noticed that at least some of the "buy online" things are being shipped from stores. So ordering something from Kohl's or Walmart or Home Depot actually has someone in a store (not a warehouse) pick and pack it and send it off.

That may help keep the malls alive even as traffic dwindles.
The underlying idea is the idea of fixed points (aka spectra, diagonalizations, embedding, invariants).
By fixed point I mean something like the "Lawvere's fixed point theorem".

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Lawvere%27s+fixed+point+theore...

Dennis Gabor's Holonomic brain theory also indicates something like that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory

I have a linkdump on this https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint

I also have a discord https://discord.gg/mr9TAhpyBW
There are certainly "favorite" websites. You could use that as "sites that I use for professional work and track the latest features." Gitlab, Github, Gmail, and so on.

There are also the "Mom's cooking blog" that is running an ancient copy of Wordpress and mom still doesn't understand that <b><i>This is important</b></i> is not formatted correctly. Some browsers are able to handle this, but if you browse it with a "this browser only follows standard compliant html" you may get the entire page in italics or bold.

The article even acknowledges this - https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...

> Fidelity of modern websites in Ladybird is steadily improving, but you’ll often see lots of layout and compatibility issues. For example, here’s Reddit right now:

> (mangled layout)

We could put Reddit in that list of favorite sites that need to work. And so, is it the fault of reddit or the browser that the page isn't rendering right? As reddit works on other browsers, surely its the browser's fault and not something janky that reddit is doing that the other browsers happen to work with.

And thus my post - if a page works correctly in a different browser but incorrectly on Ladybird, to a user it is always the browser's fault.
It's based on qtpy [1][2], which supports both Qt5 and Qt6 with pyqt5, pyqt6, pyside2 and pyside6.

[1] https://enaml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/get_started/installat...
[2] https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy
Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into early medieval England AD 400-1100
Saying that neural networks are "similar to" or that they "mimic" the human brain can be misleading. Today's architectures are the byproduct of years of research and countless GPU-hours dedicated to training and testing architecture variants. Many neuroscience-based architectures that mimic the brain better than transformers end up performing much worse.

The Quanta article is overall pretty reasonable, but I've unfortunately seen other news outlets regurgitate this kind of blanket statement for the better part of a decade. The very first models were perhaps 100% inspired by the brain, but today's ML research more or less follow a "whatever works best" principle.
Go modules and NPM are easy to use. Virtualenvs are a pain in the ass to configure. That's the difference really. If I could just go to my Python project directory and "virtualenv init" then this wouldn't be a conversation topic.
The abort engine burn apparently used up the solid fuel engine, so the capsule landing wasn't gentle either. Looked like it dug a substantial hole.
IE 3 and 4 compared to Netscape navigator in 1998 were also superior and (relatively) bug free. It didn’t make a dent.

Then Microsoft bundled IE4, and killed Netscape (it took a while, but the unstoppable momentum was built with bundling/embedding).

Chrome is “bundled” with Google. Every Google search recommends it, and everyone uses Google. Same for YouTube which to this day works better and faster on Chrome. Android (80% user base at the time it happened) also pushed Chrome.

Chrome wouldn’t have become popular if it wasn’t good. But the market dominance did not come from being good - it was just a necessary condition for market dominance in a market already dominated by incumbents.
The challenge of "living close to the office" is that people change jobs every few years, especially in the bay area. Unfortunately we don't change our addresses as often.
The most successful software project I've ever worked on, in terms of our utility to the business and our customers, as well as personal satisfaction to the team members, was one where myself and a technical PM handled "planning and design" in lock step with each other. My (former) management tried to build a template out of our success and failed, horribly, because you cannot account for the personalities that sit behind these titles/roles.
I surely can’t be alone in just not picturing myself on a bike…

I walk, take public transit, Uber, etc but will often drive myself places a little too far to walk despite the inconvenience of parking when I get back because of it.

All it might take to adjust to this is starting to do it… anyone go from bike-curious with an aversion to biking in general to a full blown biker?

Also, anyone living in a city with an e-bike: is this very expensive, easily stolen item you have to park outside of a store often stolen?

Edit: just to clarify I know you are supposed to use a bike lock but … bikes and tires and whatnot regularly get stolen regardless. Just curious if e-bikes are more of a target.
It also made me think of this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671

All of these are good illustrations of the idea that by putting multiple data sources together, even "anonymous" data sets can be de-anonymized surprisingly easily.
> That's what Servo said years ago. I don't see the progress or hype around that anymore.

The Mozilla team didn’t intend Servo to be a fully functional new browser. The project was amazing as a Rust-only implementation of the basics of a browser. But ultimately, the utility of Servo was that it served as a place to rewrite modules into Rust for use in Firefox.

Incidentally, there were some good talks by the Firefox team about how they chose to select which modules to rewrite in Rust (since a complete rewrite with feature parity is prohibitively expensive).
Or too hilly. Can you imagine everyone being forced to ride bikes in Duluth?
Art in the sense of gallery art is a social phenomenon. Nobody cares about the paint splashes with a meaningful interpretation on the placard from some high school student in Nebraska, but the same thing at a hip NYC gallery from the right NYU student with the right mentors could be a big break.

This isn't a cheap shot on art (the same can be said for many things people enjoy, including much of fiction). It's to say that I think that this will replace "art as a low margin service" but not "the art world."
Of course, there may be fewer fat people if it were possible for ordinary people to run errands around the neighborhood on a bicycle. Go to Amsterdam and take a look around.
If people are gathering "en masse" that is exactly what public transport should be used for. Not every individual attendee showing up in their own car. Look at football stadiums in Europe. They don't have huge parking lots like stadiums in the US.

As for overweight, old, and disabled, in the Netherlands they can use mobility scooters on the bike paths. This makes the cities much more accessible for them to get groceries and visit the doctor independently. Also much safer and accessible for children, a huge portion of the population that cannot drive.

It's not about eliminating driving. It's about providing alternatives. If those that can cycle or walk do, then there is less traffic for those that need to drive because of distance, cargo, etc.
I don't think artists will be out of demand any more than fast food has made people stop eating out.

I do think it will cannibalize the lower end of art such that it becomes like working at a fast food joint, though.
This could be solved on basically all arti communities by simply putting in a post limit per day. Say an artist can only upload 5 images per day or something, why would someone need to upload more than that?
In the US, we have the problem with people using ultra bright lights and not aiming them correctly, so they're blinding to other drivers.
Fediverse also has the advantage that it refers to the community rather than the specific protocol. When mastodon spoke the ostatus protocol with gnusocial that was also fediverse.