skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you flip a penny 5 times and get 5 heads, you need to calculate that the chance of getting that particular outcome is 1 in 32. If you conduct the experiment often enough, you’re going to get that, but it doesn’t mean that much. If you get 3/5 as Alexander did, when he prematurely declared victory, you don’t have much evidence of anything at all.

This doesn’t make much sense. The task at hand is in no way equivalent in difficulty to flipping a coin. This is kind of like saying, “if you beat Usain Bolt in a race 3/5 times, that doesn’t mean anything; it’s like getting 3/5 coin flips to be heads.”
YES! I have no idea why you are being downvoted on that - while it wasn't in mind while I wrote it, it does indeed apply! All the problems are at placed on the gig worker and the Ubers/AirBnBs/Instacarts of the world provide the software and work to shed as much responsibility as possible onto the drivers/hosts/workers. Apparently, there's a fair number of ppl on here who either do not see that or whose salary depends on them not seeing it.
BTW, subscriptions/recurring charges aren't "rent seeking" per se.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp
Isnt bmw offering monthly subscriptions for extra car options?
History++
I definitely think QC will answer a ton of important physics/quantum mechanics questions. Worst case, if research into QC ends up proving that no feasible error correction strategy can overcome the inherent noise, that would be a major advancement. At present, QC is more promising than that. Scientifically it’s comparable to XENON, LIGO or the LHC. The worry is that from a market perspective QC might turn out like nuclear fusion.
> Jet brain moved to subscription first.

This is why I stopped using their software.
Not sure if there would be anyone old enough here - but all the old San Francisco Film Noirs from the 40s and 50s show SF and pouring rain.

Was that real or just a Hollywood thing?
I have messed around with this just using some simple routers. Works fine. You could also just leave the router at a friends house or family
Wear and tear is always going to be a limiting factor. Back in 1955, SNCF began its early high-speed research with a record-setting 331 km/h run - this under 1500V DC catenary, boosted to 1800V for the run. Some aerial footage of the run shows spectacular arcing, and they switched pantographs when first one became too damaged.

Newsreel in three parts (in French):

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AyPGkMoGE0

2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpLf4M5OXeQ

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWjelxe_MU
Large companies are growing to levels that are arguably unsustainable. When you have billions of dollars in baseline overhead costs, an amazing product may not even get you in the black. You'd need to do that every year, and likely multiple times per year. It's simply not realistic. So the solution these companies are choosing is rent seeking.

I'd add that this issue is affecting many other industries as well. Entertainment being a visible one. Hollywood has big budgets, big overhead, yet increasingly difficulty finding the big ideas. So we get "Men in Spandex Save the World #83." AAA games are behaving similarly. There seems to be less of an effort than ever to even feign that "Next Big Shooter" is essentially last years next big shooter, reskinned.

This is why I hold the certainly uncommon view that we are probably nearing 'peak big business', at least until the next great frontier emerges. It's difficult to imagine these increasingly widespread "solutions" being sustainable in the longrun. One issue, among many, is a tragedy of the commons with many solutions. Charging rent sounds great for the individual company, but the more companies that charge rent - the more intolerant consumers become of it. See how online streaming went from a golden goose to a bloodbath for everybody once "too many" companies got involved.
This is amazing, I almost want to have more kids so I can have them love this song.
Stairs, pickpockets and the smell (I am French, used to work in Paris for 8years)
Carmel is basically a suburb of Indianapolis, and all kinds of things happen at the Indianapolis Convention Center. Surely you can sell your family on one of them!
That may have been true at one point, but now you can use Spanner closer to $60-70 a month factoring in storage (and even cheaper with committed use discounts) after upgrading from the free trial instance. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/use-spanner...
1. Recurring revenue - revenue is repetitive, with, ideally, a low churn rate.
2. Revenue forecasting (being able to predict growth with higher precision than ever before, and also check out how fruitful your marketing campaigns are).
3. Flexibility. If users like your product (there's a real value that your product or service provides to them), they'll stick around. If not, they won't.
4. Profitability. The SaaS model tends to be a lot more profitable (especially in the long term).
This is gonna be a nightmare for web hosts. And it's gonna make casual surfing a lot less fun. You'll have to sign up and verify your identity for every single page you visit.
Newsflash: watching paint dry is a game (until the solvents reach an equilibrium with the air).
Yeah my problems compounded because I grew up in a small unloved city where property was always cheap to big cities with expensive real estate that seemed crazy but maybe makes sense.
I find the traffic roundabouts a great solution for seattle residential streets. It allows a slow down through the neighborhood, a way to negotiate the four way intersections, and helps with the narrower than normal roads.
Being idealistic is part of being young even when wrong that is good part of being young I think.

I am more regretful I can no longer make those kinds of decision anymore, older you are there is more responsibility and you are forced into pragmatic approach to life and let go principles and ideologies you fought for and deeply believe in .
Perhaps it's because people (who run Shopify stores) put them there.
It's interesting to consider how Apple and NeXT were both nearing collapse in the late 1990s, and yet combining the two resulted, over the next 20 years, in perhaps the most successful tech company of all time.
Actually the majority of the countries use the comma. Though dot wins by population as China and India use it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
Couldn’t agree more.

Reminds me of the early days when pro Mac software was well designed and reasonably priced; not the bloatware we get from Adobe
and Microsoft today, for example.
With the current court, almost certainly not; they're not inclined to expand the definition of "disparate impact" like that.

If a future Court ever decides hair color denotes national origin, fall back to a different example of your choosing; people with tattoos, Mac users, viola players.
Traffic to local news websites has plummeted. What happens now?
You could rape someone with a dildo, it is basically a gun and should be banned as such!
They do now, but that wasn't always the case, and people didn't say that you weren't running Postgres when you did that.

Cockroach is not the same thing we're talking about here; it's a much more ambitious design, just like rqlite is much more ambitious than shipping SQLite transactions. What we're talking here is the tooling needed to generate a single-writer multi-reader cluster the way you would for Postgres, but for SQLite instead. I don't know if single-writer multi-reader clusters for Postgres qualify as "easy", but they're not science projects.

If it's not obvious: we love Cockroach. Our commercial bias is that we built a platform that is especially useful for distributed services and clusters, and Cockroach is very much that.
Train AI models, not children!
Yes, a new high speed line will be built between Dresden and Prague, mostly in tunnel to replace the current slow and restricted line which had to stay in the river gorge.
Correct, not possible if you dont want someone to know

But of you’ve ever traded NFTs its hard to really begin with the assumption that trading volume is fake because bots and market makers buy from you so fast. You know that wasn't a fake or wash trade, while there is a pervasive audience of onlookers that are trying to prove a negative.

You know that funds in bankruptcy court have successfully sold $30,000,000 worth of the NFTs on their books as ordered, without issue or further controversy about where the proceeds came from

You know that DAOs have liquidated $30,000,000 worth of NFTs on their books as determined by the community, without issue

How much convincing does anyone need to move off of “its all wash trading and money laundering” to “yeah thats possible there is also lots of liquidity”, it doesn’t really make sense to make the former perception their whole identity
The Tornado Cash tumbler allows you to create sort-of-Sybils so it looks organic. The no-KYC Dex allows you to push from a no-KYC account to a KYC'd account.
The KYC'd account lets you withdraw fiat.

I see. Okay, each of the pieces are necessary. Thanks for the explanation.
If this were true we would not still be dependent on fossil fuels.
hmm but how would the replication and sync be handled if you have many sqlite instances on edge locations around the world? If someone inserts a row with id 234 and somebody from other side of the world does it, wouldn't this type of logic involve reaching into a central source of truth to compare the diff?

tryna wrap my head around this architecture, it is quite interesting but concerning that it is now sharding into close-to-local sqlite instances located near the user.
Meh I fought alongside the YPG in Syria, under a rather weak government. They let me come in or leave as I pleased. They didn't steal from me. We fought against the other 'warlord' ISIS and all in all it was nice having a pretty diverse pick of militias to choose from.

All in all it was definitely a more freeing environment than a lot of life in the US.

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>Why do you live in the US, then? That should make you think a bit harder about failed states.

If the government wants to leave the territory I'm in, I'm all good with that. I've never demanded the government stay here.
> I feel like I'm going crazy over here. These accounts have hundreds of thousands of dollars in them being held hostage by an utterly incompetent team / algorithm that seems to lack any and all empathy for the havoc they wreak on businesses when they pull the rug out from under them with no warning, nor for the impact they have on customers when they all of a sudden lose all ability to make money. And all that for an account that has been using Stripe for nearly 7 years without issue!

When people on HN swear up and down that Bitcoin has zero use cases, I think some may be voluntarily forgetting stuff like this.

Is Bitcoin a perfect fit here? Probably not. Does it eliminate the problem of arbitrary algorithms blocking payments for no discernible reason? Yes.
To learn the latest about GraphBLAS, join the free online GraphBLAS session at HPEC next Tuesday:

https://graphblas.org/hpec_bof.html
https://ieee-hpec.org/

Also, these are probably better intro pages to GraphBLAS:

https://graphblas.org/
https://graphblas.org/GraphBLAS-Pointers/
I was simply responding to OP's assertion that anyone who voted for Peltola as their 1st choice was necessarily a Democrat, and so would not have voted in a theoretical Republican primary. This is not the case. I don't agree that 'typically, independent voters don't' vote in party primaries
Past ceremonies are archived on Youtube[0]. I haven't watched any front-to-back, but I do enjoy watching bits and pieces. I enjoy watching people taking a rigorous procedure seriously.

An HSM was purposefully destroyed after being zeroed during ceremony 45[1]. That was a fun bit. The HSM is "drop tested" before being disassembled.

I had occasion to commission some HSM devices and generate some keys as part of an engagement with a Customer a few years ago. I tried to model our ceremony after the IANA procedure. (As a contractor generating keys to protect a "revenue model" for a 20+ year product lifecycle I was immensely concerned there be sufficient evidence to show I could not possibly have secreted away copies of the keys during the commissioning ceremony. If those keys get compromised sometime in the future I don't want to be on the hook as a suspect.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChND9hEeJQjtLDFZ-m8U47A

[1] https://youtu.be/Kj1dbn9a2uc?t=13754
I don't believe "compositionality" is a serious obstacle.

It is a different issue than generating an image based on a bag-of-words, so it isn't surprising that an attempt to solve that issue didn't immediately solve the other.

But a variety of approaches can easily solve this problem.
I’m in Cozumel as I write this. I assure you they love tourism.
It seems similar to the censoring of free speech on the Internet and social media. Sure, the specific manifestation is different, but the basic idea of using AI to control people’s behavior seems the same to me.
I can pretty confidently say that all of Visa+Mastercard is way more than a few thousand transactions per second, I'm familiar with several companies that push hundreds of transactions per second through Visa+Mastercard and there's no way they're a significant portion of their business.

This article claims Mastercard alone is 5k: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-lightning-network-vs-...
> I really think it's just the best fit for the benefits that software delivers.

How so? The only "benefit" you cite for the user is lower cost of entry, but the total cost of using the software over time is higher, so that's not a clear benefit.

From a user's point of view, SaaS does have some other benefits, certainly, but it also comes with some rather large drawbacks. So it seems to me that, on the whole, it all just adds up to software costing more.
I’ve seen unskippable ads that are a combined total of a few minutes long. People reporting on this have said they are five short ads.

Isn’t this rather pointless news if the five ads add up to the length of the two ads? Has anybody figured this out before reacting?
but it makes an actual difference in unambiguous comprehension, like the Oxford comma.

"one hundred seventeen" vs "one hundred and seventeen" are different, 117 vs 100.17

"twenty three eights" vs "twenty and three eighths" are 23/8 vs 20 3/8.

I don't know why this idea is upsetting to people.

https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/numbers_how_to_write...
Fantastic, great idea! The amount of job offers when searching for 'software engineering' is a bit annoying, though.
Oh 100%. The problem is solved. The hard part is not solving it, it’s just work to do it.
Because I didn't have a physical SIM. The phone was lost.
Off-topic, but why am I confirming my nonchalance about cookies on Stackoverflow/Stackexchange sites like three times every week?

The first bunch of times I could handwave it off as a result of Stackexchange having hundreds upon hundreds of sub-sites, but that doesn't work months into the deal. It's not like I'm on a mission to visit all those sites.
> Do you expect every user and every product to be happy with bad behavior for philosophical reasons?

No but I expect them to realise the boundary of their own control.

> Second a browser is less and less a user agent and more and more just an app runtime. It's only the lingering history that separates browsers from native app runtimes and not any real difference in expected semantics about experience control.

This is only true if we let it be true.

I detest browser applications, which almost never are accessible, never use platform-native UI, do not integrate properly with system services. Except in dire circumstances, I simply refuse to use them.

I am in no way willing to give up my uniform platform to appease someone who things that every UI element should be "branded".
But if you do that, I think you'd be first on the list of people investigated for the dirty money. It has to be cleaned in some way by obscuring it.

The approach described here seems more plausible https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32857382
The kind of creatives we're talking about, kind of by definition, do things differently (not to ape Apple's old slogan too much). That's AKA risk, and, yes, sometimes it will lead to ruin.

But it's also the only way to move the area forward.
Fwiw the pattern can be dynamic. But at that point as others have noted might be better to have a dedicated validator
Heh. I did my first on an 8088 with a companion cyrix 8087. I started in turbo pascal, writing code based on the description in Scientific American. I later added ASM for the pixel calc, carefully hand optimizing it and managed to keep all the values in the 87's stack so I wouldn't loose the precision. I think the intel x87 used 80 bits of precision, but the Cryix used 90 bits. I then wrote an EGA driver for Turbo pascal based on a description in PC Tech Journal, so I could see Mandelbrots.

I had a university account on a ultrix system, so I ported my pascal to produce 600 dpi bitmaps compressed with RLE. But the fortran libs I could find where only on the VMS system so I moved them over to convert to postscript. The 10 foot long printer in the lab usually spat out 100 pages per minute of pure ASCII stopped for a minute or two processing my 600 dpi mandelbrot. The lab attended ran over to reboot it, I pleaded my case. They waited, were amazed at the result, and everyone wanted one.

Years later fractint came out, and each version seemed to have yet another optimization to make mandelbrots faster. One fun optimization was to surf the edge of a particular depth, then keep progressing inward. Calculating only the edges of the depth changes was fun to watch.
"You liked oppression? You're going to love oppression at scale!"
There are appropriate, consistent definitions for what a woman is. The fact that there are somewhat vague boundary cases is true of any definition of real world things and not an indictment of its utility.
I read these articles sometimes about crypto games, but they all never seem to describe the actual game, it’s like crypto is the primary concern, and game is secondary, and i’m getting the distinct impression none of these games are any fun and everyone in the space has to avoid mentioning it.

I think that the people writing these things only have a very slim grasp of gaming, but they know it would be a good market to capture
Much like guns, the technology can greatly empower the individual. But, governments can afford a lot more than individuals.
DxO destroys Lightroom, as far as I'm concerned.
By the OP definition, pension funds would be ponzis.
> Wait, aren't digital nomads literally bringing money in from another country?

I used to make the same argument, but it's just so convenient when it's easy to forget that there is a reason why income tax exists on top of VAT in the first place. And that's because VAT doesn't cover all of the budget expenses.

So you pay your hefty income tax back home, and only pay VAT on the products and services provided by (private) entities. The proportion of the budget not covered by VAT is covered by the locals and their income tax. That's not OK.

Same reason why the most touristy places impose additional tourist tax.
They say the effects are due to increased heart rate and blood flow. Perhaps a sedentary lifestyle can be offset by popping a Viagra every day.
NFID: The Digital Identity Protocol
Yes: the model topology you should have in your head is "single writer, multiple readers" --- exactly the same way it would work with a conventional Postgres setup. What you're getting with SQLite here is that the reads themselves are served out of the app process rather than round-tripping over the network; otherwise, it's the same architecture.

(You're not generally "reaching back to the central source of truth to compare" things, so much as "satisfying the write centrally and shipping out the new database pages back to the read replicas at the edges").

More on this model: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/
Most buses on Europe have gps tracking and updated timetable available online, they are also fairly comfortable.
I want to move to Capture One... Is it a nightmare from Lightroom? Is there any migration automation?
What I'm trying to convey is that the statement "entanglement is instant" is implementation dependent. You can meet the specifications of quantum mechanics using a simulator where entanglement is instantaneous, but you can also meet those specifications using a simulator where entanglement is not instantaneous or where that concept doesn't even type check.

What we can objectively say is that entanglement doesn't care about the distinction between time-like separation and space-like separation. If two non-communicating parties are entangled and they perform an experiment, there is no observable distinction between the cases where one of them goes first or the other goes first or in whether there is time for light to travel between them in the delay between their two parts. But that is much looser than requiring the effect to be instantaneous in some unspecified frame, because only requiring that there's no observable distinction is a much looser constraint than specifying that it must be instantaneous. And the only thing that we can experimentally verify is the looser constraint.
Imagine a world in which most middle-class families have a cloud VM where they run server-side stuff (Mom's blog, Junior's minecraft server, etc), and when a software vendor sells you software with a client/server model, it's normal for them to deliver the server component as a container to run on your server.

That's the world in which you can buy the software you described without SaaS. As long as the vendor is running the server side, you're paying by the month.
I completely agree with you that the result under the traditional primary system and FPTP election would have been the same. Palin would have won the primary, and then lost the general.

The ultimate question is which candidate is socially optimal. Don't think about specific methods like FPTP, RCV, etc. Just think about specific heuristics.

If you somehow had an algorithm for summing up societal satisfaction, which candidate would maximize it?

Given that 52.5% of people prefer Begich over Peltola, do you agree that more Alaskans would be satisfied if Begich was the winner (again, without thinking about the details of the algorithm that selected him)?

Given the result, it is clear that Alaskans are more satisfied with Peltola than Palin, but it's also clear that Alaskans would be even more satisfied with Begich over Peltola. But due to the particular algorithm used, that better outcome was precluded. There are different tabulation algorithms that result in higher expected satisfaction.
You can, for example, do work in US under a B1 with permission; this isn't a digital nomad visa.

It's true you can't necessarily do what you want, where you want. That's fine though, no?

> unless you have a proper visa for that

Yes, that is part of doing it "properly", I should have been clearer.

My point was that there are mechanisms for doing all of this stuff; someone may not like the mechanisms but that's not the same as them not existing.
Food as a service?

hellofresh.com

Car as a service?

zipcar.com