skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Astonishing that arguably the 3 greatest players in the history of men's tennis were contemporaries. It was truly a golden age for rivalries.

Sport is competition. Rivalries ? I don't think so.
yea and more! they use low-dot (period) when multiplying variables, and Roman digit for 1, and does not use the "-rd" ending names for the power of 1000: milliard, billiard…
Are you saying that because for the SaaS company, $100 in income can service $20,000 in debt?
is there a difference?

I had kids and they were the best machine learnign systems I've worked with.
> It's not that.

Are you saying it's easy? The PoS algorithms I've read seem quite complicated, and honestly quite interesting. Also there is a lot of academic research about this stuff, some of it private, some of it public.

I mean, I know there are people out there who think that, for example, particle physics is totally uninteresting, and you are of course free to decide that a given research area is totally uninteresting, but you can't expect others to agree. It is just your opinion
"digital original" is on its face absurd

An analog original could be valuable or at least meaningful because it's impossible to create an identical copy of anything in which exists in the material world.

But there is no way to distinguish between two copies of digital data.
I've made these arguments before. The lack of wide, common adoption of the metric system is a common plank in U.S.-bashing.

The metric system is convenient for calculations involving conversions of scale or dimension (e.g. "How long is my finger, in kilometers?" "What is the rough mass of a cubic meter of water?"). The standard units are more convenient for calculations involving division, as you point out.

These are convenient in different arenas and it doesn't surprise me that these different arenas use different systems. For science and engineering uses, the metric system is a lot better, and it's in wide use. For the common human-scale uses you point out, the standard units are more convenient.

People often pooh-pooh the matter of "convenient" units but the fact is that teaspoons and tablespoons are still used for cooking, even in France itself. And these aren't approximations but (as they are in the U.S.) strictly defined according to a standard.

The metric system makes a great standard, which is why the U.S. fully adopted it and all weights and measures are defined in terms of the metric system. The metric system is taught in schools. There's just not a compelling reason to, for common and mundane uses, to switch to it; and some disadvantages.

(I always wondered why decimeters weren't more popular with metric users, they seem convenient enough. But they do seem to get by fine with piles of centimeters.)
Sure, I could build a photo app for a one-time purchase that lets you add your own credentials for S3, B2, etc.

What’s the market size for users who will set this up themselves (versus going for a competing app that bundles the cloud storage), how many platforms will I have to develop for (Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android?) and will they promise to never complain when an OS update or API change breaks the app?
I think it's a matter of how quickly the thief could make their profits before people notice.

Of course, keep in mind that for such an attack to work, you need 51% of the total ETH being staked. Again, that's billions of dollars right now. If you stole some coins via double-spend, you couldn't pull the money into usable fiat very quickly. Even dumping a bunch of coins is going to crash the price.
esbuild – a fast JavaScript and CSS bundler
The reason I ask is that I see certifications all over the place. Frankly, I couldn't care less about them, but wonder why some folks seem to want them and feel that they are valuable.
Serverless database. Loving it!
Good-luck!
(1) it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to do that, and be of pretty much no use to the _vast_ majority of tax payers. Essentially it would be an enormous cost that would primarily be shouldered by people for whom it had no value.

(2) all the things that "FSD" vehicles need are things that degrade quickly to the point where they don't work for said "FSD", so the highway maintenance costs would skyrocket

(3) Even if you were to say the costs of 1&2 were reasonable, that money has to come from somewhere, and what that will essentially mean is that the already underfunded infrastructure will have even less funding for things that are the also already underfunded freeway things, so your normal streets end up in even worse condition, and based on existing spending the brunt of _that_ cost will be born by low income people. The cost for low income being exacerbated by their presumably cheaper and poorer condition cars taking more damage from poorly maintained roads, and so increasing their direct maintenance costs.

(4) Fundamentally single car travel is an inefficient way to move people around, it simply does not scale as well as good public transport, and always will be: the amount of people a road system can transport is directly proportional to the area of the road that each person takes up, and cars are just not efficient. The average car is 8m^2 and in commute traffic the vast majority of them are single occupant, the average bus is ~30m^2. If we were extremely optimistic and assume an average of 2 people per car you have 4m^2/person vs 1m^2/person in a bus. This is excluding following distances, which if we were to include (say) 2m of following distance you get a conservative 3.5-4m^2 of additional wasted space so lets just say your total for a car is maybe 5m^2 per person. I think :D
microsoft teams is the worst for this. It'll be loading for 10s, during which it will actually steal focus _multiple times_! (and then I have to login to my university account in order to logOUT of my university account so that I can login to my work account. What a marvelous piece of engineering.)
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you can absolutely hire devs per project. My employer has done it many times. I was in a project that scaled up from 10 scrum teams up to 120 over a year and a half, and then once the product was launched, down to ~25 teams again for the maintenance part of the product cycle. This would have been impossible without contractors.

That said, your first argument is sound.
You can still copy just the primary file and not the WAL or any other files if you want to live dangerously and possibly lose transactions if there are write operations in parallel.

Of course, you'd be better off with WAL-based replication tech like litestream instead of plain file copies if you are truly worried about parallel operations during your file copies.
As a person advocating for the rights of single-celled organisms, I find this bacteria slavery troubling. The only ethical shoes are graphene-based.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007239
You know who should be celebrating? Sketch and InVision. Sketch has signaled a desire to go multi platform, which has been a problem for large corporate customers with mixed platforms.

InVision failed to standup their own UI design tool, but the collaboration suite is still good and they were starting to death spiral. This would be an immense opportunity for both to become the only viable immediate alternatives to the Adobe threat.
> First - that's a big if

That ain't an "if" at all. The actual identifying information on, say, a vehicle title or land deed takes up maybe a couple hundred bytes at most (if not far less), whereas most NFT-capable blockchains allow transaction metadata on the scale of multiple kilobytes.

> Second - do you realise that title contains private information which will be forever exposed on-chain?

Nearly (if not entirely) all of the actually-private data (namely: the owner's PII) is redundant under a title-as-NFT system, since ownership is asserted by wallet/token custody rather than being baked into the document.

Besides, encryption is a thing that exists.

> Third - ok, even you admit that not everything will fit on-chain.

I admit no such thing. What I actually said is that you can break up large data into smaller chunks such that it can fit on-chain even if it somehow blows out the chain's transaction metadata ceiling.

Regardless:

> Then who will store the rest of the data?

Have you heard of IPFS?

> Fourth - in the hypothetical case when we have titles and NFTs linked to them, there are several interesting questions - what happens when owner of the NFT forgets his private keys? What happen if the owner dies? What happens when the court judges declare that the ownership is incorrect? How are marriages handled, where today multiple people can own the same property?

All of these things can be (and, in the case of lost keys, have been) addressed with smart contracts; the blockchain can programmatically define conditions under which the NFT can be transferred, e.g. with consent from multiple parties. Such programs can also represent multi-person ownership; in a world where blockchain computation can handle the governance of large organizations, something like a marriage or an estate is a readily solvable problem.
:( After posting, I re-checked that listing on Zillow--as I had done all of this research back in April--and saw it is now marked as "Contingent", but I hadn't thought to search to see if they had already announced anything. That's sad... I am now seriously considering flying out to Chicago next week to frequent there until they close.

The bottom of that thread also mentions Café Prague a lot... I realized that that was likely the fourth restaurant mentioned by the owner of the catering outfit (as the hours check out, being closed on both Monday and Tuesday). Their Czech menu is a subset of their full menu, but is way more complete than anywhere I have so far found in the US outside of Chicagoland and is frankly competitive with McCook.

So, I guess that means we are down to three remaining restaurants, with Westchester Inn being the only one that still has fruit dumplings (boiled, not fried), which I have found to be extremely difficult to find anywhere... I went to a town in Texas that is 90% Czech and, while people knew of and loved fruit dumplings, they didn't know of anywhere locally that had them :(. (I ended up not even managing to get Czech food in that town, due to conflicts with the opening hours.)
Its a legal requirement. Banks loose their license if they don't use KYC
I'm not sure where "one hundred and seventeen" would mean 100.17. To me, as someone from the US, it unambiguously means 117. I probably wouldn't use the "and" myself, but it makes no difference in interpreting the numbers. To say 100.17, I would say "and 17 hundredths", not just "and 17" (17 what?).
This piece would have been a lot better if it were maybe three paragraphs long. In summary:

1. Scott Alexander should have used an off-the-shelf benchmark like Winoground instead of rolling his own five-question test.

2. He shouldn’t declare victory after cherry-picking good results from a small sample of questions.
Fwiw, I’m just using them as an example. There are likely plenty of other options.
> "I want to work for the US company while I stay in your country, can I haz visa?"

Yes. As we've been learning for 20+ years from the music industry. If you restrict easy access to what people want or make unrealistic demands, then people just side step you. But if you make it easy and accessible people happily pay.

Obviously the details vary, but frequently the terms are as egregious as

1. Regardless of length of stay we now want a % of your annual earnings

2. The process involved takes orders of magnitude longer than your stay

3. The typical legal fees involved is orders of magnitude greater than what you'll even earn in the time period, meaning your best alterative to "No" is actually to take time off, paid or unpaid

4. You're literally bringing them an opportunity so it feels unjust to be barred. An opportunity to have tourist income -- something that many countries _pay_ to compete for.

There will be a massive upside for the first country to have a safe desirable location, with fantastic internet, and visa policies that make sense in the above rubric.
Wouldn’t that only apply to investigations by e.g. Fincen? How many of these are just internal risk triggers by Stripe? Why would they have to stonewall you in those cases?

(Obviously it’s quite difficult to know the ratio of cases like these involving government investigations and those involving their own internal risk procedures.)
> You conflate porn with sex trafficking. May as well conflate girl's gymnastics with sex abuse. Because there is certainly sex abuse in girl's gymnastics. Heck, in society as a whole. You have a very warped definition of pornography.
> You talk about sexual stimulation for people that can't have sex with other humans as though it's a bad thing. That's just being a prude.

You conflate sex with porn, then try to paint porn sick individuals as "victim" because they are not entitled to have sex, while being completely oblivious to the real victims of porn production and trade, trying to paint pornography as any other thing than violence, grotesque and vulgar and you have the audacity to call me prude because I'm against sexual violence and its effects on society? If that's being "prude" in the mind of porn sick individuals trying to paint their fetish as art, then I'll be "prude" all day.
And if it chooses the wrong prior topic (among several possibilities) the smartbot could behave maddeningly obtusely. I suspect even the best of these today will have little idea what part of the conversation is more relevant to the human's focus than any other part. It's just as likely to turn its attention to an irrelevant 'token' that came before as a relevant one and say something obvious or fatuous.

It's a lot easier to converse gracefully than to add useful info to a conversation.

This is essentially what has made past intelligent assistants so dysfunctional (like Microsoft's Clippy). They couldn't model cognitive concepts like 'relevant', 'interesting', or 'necessary' relative to the active topic.
The reason Imagen isn't made available to the public probably isn't about compositionality. The most notable thing about Alexander's challenge is that Imagen totally failed every single one despite his claim of success because, apparently, it is programmed to never represent the human form. Not even Google employees are allowed to make it draw humans of any kind. They had to ask it to draw robots instead, but as pointed out in the comments, changing the requests in that way makes them much easier for DALL-E2 as well, especially the image with the top hats.

If the creators have convinced themselves of some kind of "no humans" rule, but also know that this would be regarded as impossibly extreme and raise serious concerns about Google with the outside world, then keeping Imagen private forever may be the most "rational" solution.
Capacity/peak vs average tps.

Visa says they process "150 million transactions every day in 175 currencies" (see page 3 at https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...). That's ~1,800 per second. Mastercard is smaller, so this would be the upper limit for them. Both combined should still fit into "a few thousand transactions per second".
This is false. They recently added a subscription option (prior to that it was only available as a one-time buy), but it has always been an extra upcharge.

It intentionally started at some initial pricepoint and then kept increasing the closer it gets to completion. Sorta like an early adopter discount. I remember it was around $7k in 2019, and it ramped up to around $10k in the present day.
OP probably meant fake wash trades and real non-wash trade ones, not fake and nonfake wash trades
CRTs were never crisp at decent resolutions (like 1280x1024 on a 17").

LCD sharpness was basically mind-blowing in comparison at the time.
You know what would have been much more effective than this counter-screed? A pointer to an image generated by DALL-E of a horse riding an astronaut. That is something I would really like to see. And in this case a picture is literally worth a thousand words.
> Secondly, is Bitcoin + Lightning in combo decentralized in practice?

I don't know. I'm much more interested in Ethereum, personally.
I also had fun making gold in Skyrim, which was offline. I don't recall it being work, but whatever.
Can you say more about why you think MDX is better?

For what it's worth, we considered MDX, but chose not to use it. Full explanation here: https://markdoc.dev/docs/faq#why-not-mdx
Sure. As an engineer who knows what they're doing I of course agree with you. I'd argue with management that random is both obviously the correct choice and unlikely to cause compliance problems. But...

Here are some of the "Unpredictable numbers" from a series of EMV transactions reported in a paper in 2014:

F1246E04, F1241354, F1244328, F1247348

That's a 32-bit value, so not enough to count living humans, never mind grains of sand. And it's not very "Unpredictable", indeed the researchers have more data from the logs which allows them to predict with confidence future values from that same terminal, basically the low 15 bits are a clock which repeats every 32768 cycles, with cycles having a fixed duration of several milliseconds. The high bits, if they change, don't change for a prolonged period.
I've used one for a while and it's amazing. You can taste the difference. You can put water with food coloring/dye through the filter and it will come out clear and delicious. Brita pales in comparison.

Granted, I was not aware of the certification stuff and I suppose that could mean some of their claims are misleading, but I've been very happy with their product.
Might be time to build an analytics.js equivalent, but for payment processing. A single API lib that you can then use to process payments with Stripe, Braintree, etc.
https://neal.fun/
Current Acela trains run at the advertised top speed for a stretch of about 50 miles in Rhode Island, and another even shorter bit in New Jersey. Elsewhere, they're limited to far slower speeds by track (about comparable to European commuter rail lines).
Software is sold as SaaS for the same reason games are multiplayer. Both are driven by the need to stop your app from being pirated. The recurring revenue piece is just a side effect of adopting the only effective anti-piracy mechanism ever developed.

If all the code runs on the user's laptop, it doesn't matter whether it's a game or a productivity app and it doesn't matter whether it's cheap or expensive, it will be cracked and it will be pirated.

If a critical piece of the product runs on a server that you the business founder own, whether that's multiplayer lobbying or MMO sharding or some key part of your productivity app (like data storage or whatever), piracy ceases to be a crippling problem for your business and becomes a non-issue. You also have the opportunity to get a recurring revenue stream rather than a single payment, which is generally preferable for the business (and better aligned with the fact that you do now have monthly per-user costs because you're hosting part of the app on your servers).

As a data point to back up the importance of piracy in the equation, look at the distribution of start dates for successful software companies. There were lots of successful software companies started in the 80's and early 90's, but almost no successful software companies were started between 1995 (when the first web browsers made piracy easy for the first time because you didn't have to physically know someone with a physical copy of the cracked software, you could download the crack from anyone anywhere) and 2006 (when Salesforce.com showed the world what the games industry had already figured out, which is that hosting part of your app on your own server is a great way to stop piracy and get recurring revenues).

Once Salesforce.com showed the industry that "SaaS" works, all of a sudden people could start launching tons of profitable software companies again. Can you find a successful software company started during those dark ages of 1995-2006, of course you can, these are trends not absolutes. Was it far harder to be a software company in those dark days? Absolutely. That's why we have SaaS today and that's why SaaS is here to stay.
For someone who didn't exactly excel in chemistry, this was rough:

"Automotive industry" to "Pi bond"
Time: 145.773 Seconds

Number of links visited: 13

The path you took:
[ "Automotive industry", "Industry (economics)", "Product (business)", "Raw material", "Foundry", "Hydrogen gas porosity", "Hydrogen", "Diatomic molecule", "Molecule", "Chemical bond", "Bond length", "Molecular geometry", "Covalent bond", "Pi bond" ]
145.77300000000002
Okay, I doubt that is going to change. If anything you will probably start paying less per month
Playstation VR2 is about to breathe new life into virtual reality gaming
There is no way they ignored legal service.

Op speaks of calling and emailing and reaching out … instead, pay your lawyer 30 minutes and have the letter hand delivered to their legal department.

I can’t predict what will happen but it won’t be ignored.
Speaking of Monte Carlo, here's a paper about how using bad randomness can lead to wrong simulation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992609/
(or should I call them _biased_ ones?)
The last 10 years of AI is basically defined by proof of concepts like that that were 80% (or whatever) solutions and claimed there was a path to something commercially viable. Turns out that ~20% is always basically impossible - self driving cars being the archetypal example. I work in the field and I think it can be a great tool, but it needs to be acknowledged what its limitations are and how we don't actually know how to address them yet
Markdoc syntax and capability looks so much like MDX (https://mdxjs.com). Can anyone who's evaluated Markdoc and MDX 2 comment?

I'm currently doing an architecture decision record about Markdown documentation, and will add Markdoc to the candidates. The leaders so far are MDX 2 with plugins for JSX-style work, and Svelte for a fully dynamic site.

I'm aware of the Markdoc page about "Why not MDX?" which explains that Markdoc is deliberately less capable than MDX. But the page doesn't show how to do typical needs (IMHO) such as loops or substitutions. And for simple writing, compare with standard markdown annotated with tags/templates using Liquid or Jinja or similar?
As others have said - recurring revenue models are easier to structure businesses around. It makes business planning and employing people easier. It also makes VC funding easier because the books are more consistent and easier to understand.

It may or may not be what best serves the customer or represent consumer preferences, but it is (increasingly) how things are done in order for a business to compete (or exist).
I think Fortnite is UE5 while Valo is UE4.
Arbitration does absolutely means a bias to the party that requires it. You can't have a long-term relationship with a company and not acquire some bias.
Awesome! Would love to know how the interpretative text is or if there's other questions to include on the tour.

I haven't heard that they've been able to enter the void yet, but there's more information about the project and findings here: http://www.scanpyramids.org/index-en.html
50% savings right out of the gate
The suggestion was that they weren't likely to be Republicans, given that they've chosen a D over two different Rs, and presumptively wouldn't be voting in a Republican primary. I agree than with (semi-)open primaries that's not guaranteed, but it seems valid as a first approximation at least.