skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reference. Although I'm not able to judge the validity of the report, looks like around half of Tether's assets (not necessarily half of their market cap) are held in dollar-denominated securities (T-bills and cash).
About 40% (Australia's pop. is ~25M). It is, however, close to 50% of Australia's adult population (~20M). What a mess.
Well, the status of the experiments is unclear - since the Google paper was published, the state of the art in classical spoofing of the same result has improved by about 10,000 times, and the results obtained by Google in 300s have been obtained by a classical computer in 1s or so. Note that the classical computer was much much larger, so there is still a huge difference in number of operations executed that still gives a notion of quantum supremacy. It is harder though to be sure now that the result will stand compared to when it was first announced.

It should also be noted that there is no prood right that any of the known quantum algorithms give an exponential speedup over the best possible classical algorithms. In particular, integer factoring (that Shor's algorithm solves) is believed by many to have a yet undiscovered polynomial-time classical algorithm.

Separately, it should be remembered that quantum mechanics has large difficulties when applied on classical scales in reproducing classical observations. This is an inherent problem, since QM is an almost linear theory, while there are many extremely well confirmed non-linear processes in classical and relativistic physics. The only possible source of that nonlinearity from QM is also the least well understood aspect of the theory - Born rule (measurement postulate, wave function collapse).

For example, if you try to use QM to describe the motion of a double-pendulum, you will get a completely wrong result, even if applying the Born rule at the end to get a single definite result with some probability. You instead have to add multiple intermediate applications of the Born rule to get the non-linear behavior that is observed in practice.
"Corrupt" is a human notion, nature doesn't exist by our concepts. One has to look at history to learn that albeit the human condition is messed up, it is less so these days of what it used to be. And no, the faults of the world are not ours; thinking otherwise is dearth of humility.
Yes, completely agree, there's no point remaking it. If you enjoy the IT crowd's atmosphere, check out Garth Marenghi's Darkplace as well. Same-ish cast and humour.
Also, we would like a phase transition slightly below freezing so that it's easier to keep a stable temperature.
The air around you is (usually) colder than your body. That means your body is transferring energy to the air. When the wind blows, convection causes you to transfer more energy to the air than you do when the wind doesn't blow. That increased transfer of heat away from you makes the wind seem colder/creates wind chill.
Yeah, google pretty much ignores search modifiers these days and DDG (which I also use) routinely fails to understand what -term means. I still dream of the day we have a search engine that supports regular expressions.
Why not make a demo that you can try out via navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia . Of course you will get good results if you demo using the training set.
Who wants to build a rollercoaster? [video]
For me, generally sub 100ms is acceptable. a few hundreds .. No thanks html over the socket is faster than that.
I also don't get why people call the Fed a central planner, the Fed has very limited powers by design, it doesn't get to tell savers, borrowers etc what to do, they just change the profitability and ease of borrowing. Each private bank gets to decide who gets to borrow and for what purpose. There is competition between banks, if one rejects you, just go to another next week.
HP ink cartridges have a partial vacuum in them. That means when you open them to try and refill them, air gets sucked in and they no longer work.

It's possible to fix by taking the side panel off and squeezing the flexible membrane on the inside to get the air back out again.
A lot more Mercury than sum of all asteroids. On the scale of "this century" this may only matter for von Neumann probes building a Dyson swarm, but that's not a 0% possibility and you did ask for a reason.
The same thing for Whose Line Is It Anyway?. UK version was hilarious, and every host fit in perfectly, while the US version was atrocious.
Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?
The books you mention can be of any genre and from any discipline of life. The important criteria is that they were helpful to you in whatever way you think.
Witcher3 was the last game in 10 years that landed in top10 on metacritic.

Its not really me, good games are just not created as often now.
And there's one thing that really bugs me: in the new Win11 build 22H2 - supposed to let you regulate how much power each process is allowed to use through the 'economy' feature of Task Manager - Teams seems to be amongst few apps on which that functionality is not allowed. It's only possible to limit individual processes within Teams, but not the entire app. Basically making the feature useless, since Teams uses at least 20 processes on my system. I can limit all of Edge. I can limit any of my own apps. Teams is the single most inefficient app I have installed. And it's the only one I can't easily limit. Why Microsoft, why? (edited for clarity)
Hm. I guess I must have lucked out when I visited the other Brussels, the one with all the fantastic Art Nouveau buildings, nice cafes and bars. Try around Metro Louise.
> After receiving the letter 5 days later

Meanwhile, my same country mail takes up to 2 weeks to arrive. No wonder I'm not making any ground breaking advances.
When I was a student, some known enzymes had a catalytic efficiency higher than the theoretical maximum (i.e. they were faster than kinetically perfect enzymes.

This has since been resolved by refining the model of substrate diffusion, but for years (decades?), it meant that some enzymes were using a mechanism that had not yet been discovered.

Edit: I just looked it up, and it appears at least one enzyme has exploited quantum tunnelling to achieve these impossiby-high production rates. That was taught to us as a fringe theory when I was a student.
Hey, I know! Those kinds of jokes are never funny. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5lWowU52t8
I think you’d want time responsibility to fall the other way — a bounty system basically — where the fee can be offered to anyone willing to clear the task. This it can also capture negotiation, invalid tickets, etc by nature of both parties being involved before the task is undertaken.

One problem though is you’d need a strict definition of complete, and someone to arbitrate.
Both keys and values in FoundationDB are simple byte strings and keys are treated as members of a total order, the lexicographic order over the underlying bytes, in which keys are sorted by each byte in order.

You can see some more details about it here: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/data-modeling.html
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/the-us-promoted-and-financed-t...

> Ukrainians spontaneously united against the actions of President Viktor Yanukovych after his government refused to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union, which had taken seven years to negotiate, due to pressure from Russia.

If the Ukrainians spent 7 years wanting to get closer to the west and then as you say "[Yanukovych] changed his mind". I think it's easy to see the populace wanting to oust this leader and that the following leader would be pro western, like the leaders in the seven prior years.
Yes it's legally required for them to properly verify your identity both for credit reasons (on a postpaid plan) and simply to identify who owns what phone number s
> Blurring a work but incorporating it would nonetheless still be derivative, I think.

you have to show that the derivative work is a substantial part of the new work.

If your background is a small portion of the new image, and the blue makes it difficult to see that it was the original, and that any other blurred image would've done the same job, then i would argue that the final new painting does not constitute a derivative work.

A similar argument could be made for AI models. The model consists of billions of training images. None of these images are individually substantial in the final output, despite that on some part of the output, you can trace a derivative work. For example, if an author used 1 million books, and copied every nth word from each book and merged it, to produce a final book (which happens to produce a coherent book), i would argue that the author did not infringe copyright on any of the original 1million source books.
Magic lantern to remove shutter speed and other menu overlays from the hdmi feed, might also enable long duration HDMI output without the camera going to sleep.
My Arch on Framework experience has been great. If you're just getting yours up and running, I've been keeping notes on tuning/setup: https://github.com/lhl/linuxlaptops/wiki/2022-Framework-Lapt...

Some people have been getting hard graphics lockups (seems to be an Intel 12th-gen GPU / GNOME issue that may be affecting more than just the Frameworks). I'm running Sway and have yet to have any lockups over a month and a half of usage, though. Here's the community discussion thread: https://community.frame.work/t/hard-freezing-on-fedora-36-wi...
> YT's censorship of certain political content needs to stop, but they instead remove the "Dislike" counts.

But other political content is ok, isn't it ?
Powerful and fast, and also *portable*. It'll run on your low-privileged tools box, 20 year old beige box, vhost, you name it.
In London (state owned) museums are free for everyone. Maybe they should offer them a Eurostar ticket as an alternative.
Eh, if it's economical to have the sinks at that scale, we probably won't turn them off for the same reason we "could" turn the CO2 sources off but don't.
> What logic is this? If you commit one crime, now forever you must prove your innocence? That's dumb.

[trust: noun] assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone.

If someone demonstrates they’re untrustworthy by cheating to meet a selfish ‘want’ (success, status, attention) rather than out of desperation for a ‘need’ (feeding their family), why would you ever trust them again without evidence of some kind of personality transforming life event?

Also, competition isn’t just about winning - only one person ultimately wins after all - the other players have to be able to take pleasure and meaning from just taking part, and the suspicion of cheating completely undermines that - it sullies the whole endeavour for both players and spectators.
Maybe it says something about my maturity level, but I miss Code Monkeys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UFYpnE_Ob0
That explains a lot of it.

AngularJS's dirty checking was neat but pretty inefficient, and since you didn't have to think much about implications of changes of state it was easy to write slow apps in angularjs.
How about spreadsheet and google map app!? \s \s \s!
Ideal for plants is bad for us.
It's interesting how the back-end part is "funny" as well. If you a Teams to Teams call, your internal call flow ends up being exposed to the calling party [1] - and that's not what you expect out of an office PBX. This happens only if both parties are on a Teams client, though.

[1] https://twitter.com/lenz/status/1571921532783587329
Yes. You need to provide legal id to get a phone number in Australia.
This is handled by the phone companies themselves. But this is probably a good reason to not let them do it themselves.
You patch the JDK because it doesn’t make sense to try to access the filesystem if there is no filesystem, lol. The JVM is sandboxed, it’s the APIs you give it that let it break out.
Just to check, have you ever looked up the total solar irradiation wattage? You might be surprised.

Climate change isn't "Grug burn too many fire, fire make hot.", it's a comparatively tiny shift in a delicate balance.
You can tell how broken their tech is when you try and use the website. Half the pages just fail to load. I don't mean time out, I mean, they think they are finished loading but most of the page is missing.
SpaceX Tests Raptor Blast Shield
An incbin-like facility is coming to the standard: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23
Uh, right? The demo page renders fine on this decade old core i5-3337u, with all the vulnerabilities patched.
In its most primitive use case "guix shell" sets environment variables and doesn't isolate. With "--pure" it also unsets existing variables. With "--container" it unshares a bunch of user namespaces so that the process has a different view on the file system (and others).

User namespaces are a Linux kernel feature. You can learn more about them from the man pages: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/user_namespaces.7....
I live 15 miles from there, its a beautiful, popular area, that is easily accessible via nearby carparks and riverside paths, so great for family visits. There are more challenging routes on the surrounding hills and moors, so attracts a variety of people there to enjoy the outdoors, its common for the large carparks to be completely full.
I can't comment on the mortality rate at the Strid, the photos and videos do not do justice of how dramatic it is and how loud the water is where it escapes from the narrows.
You only have to go a short distance downstream (1/4 mile) and there are safe paddling spots after the river widens again.
Basic Attention Token (BAT) Price Prediction 2022

BAT cost was swinging from $0.36 resistance2 to $0.35 resistance1 in the wake of contacting the help level of $0.30. It turned around from the help level of $0.30 and presently going sideways on the lookout and is supposed to be bullish before very long.
In the meantime, our drawn-out BAT Price Prediction for 2022 is bullish since it can't break the current help level soon. We can anticipate that BAT should reach $1 in 2022.
I don’t know about this attitude. In my experience, family is all the time. Sure, it’s great when we do special trips together. But “weekend time with family” is not necessary a recharge for oneself or for the kids. We shouldn’t feel guilty about making time for deep work on the weekends. Often, two parents and kids on a weekend day are worse than one parent—more conflict, less flow, less fun. Take turns, get “me time!”

My wife and I have recently come up with a series of agreements on time that have substantially improved both our work and home life.
Does it, though? On the level that you would write a prescription for it like a drug? Taking medicine doesn't rely on your aesthetic taste, judgement, education, etc. It just performs its chemical imperative.

Things like this seem to be tracing the gradual turn of rigorous science-driven disciplines into something else.
I like the idea of opaque citizens and open government/search company though.
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 Launch: A Strong Ray-Tracing Focus
Same but I found Parks and Recreation a welcome change
Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1 release
Right but WhatsApp solved a very different problem in the beginning - how do I send a message to someone who isn't online right now (or has a flaky connection).

THAT was what was needed for mobile devices. I remember trying to use MSN messenger when I was on WAP and it sucked. And then I remember Skype on iPhone sucked for messages too. SMS also wasn't great if you were remotely international and had friends and family not in the same country as you.

It took two whole years for Skype to rearchitect away from peer to peer (understandably so).

To this day, when you want guaranteed delivery, in order and without duplicates WhatsApp runs circles around its competitors.

Compare that with Slack which both on desktop and mobile regularly has weird issues with successfully delivering a message.

Ultimately avatars are nice to have and later on top of a reliable messaging service but otherwise I'd take boring old text over flaky rich messaging every day of the week.
I literally don't know anything about this topic and the only reason why I know it exists is because I once looked for an example of crypto payment accepting merchants is that I went on serverhunt but, uh, have you tried Coingate?
Agreed. It looks relatively harmless to make it premium only.
Exploiting Web3’s Hidden Attack Surface
The exponential growth of neutron flux in a detonating nuke may be overwhelmed by a different function as the pieces fly apart, but I wouldn't want to be part of that even allowing for it being a metaphor.
and as far as I read nuclear fuel isn't endless either...
A different analysis here:

https://eeb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Decoupling-Debunk...
Calls yes, but making calls is not what’s regulated in Australia. The ACMA regulates the assignment of Numbers in Australia, so make calls to your hearts content but if you want to be addressable by a e164 or IP number, prepare your documents.
Short Thoughts on Computers and Programming
So, i used to be a part time vSphere admin, worked with many others, and had to automate the hell out of it to deal as little as possible with that dumpster fire.

No, VMware didn't miss the boat, vCloud Air was announced in 2009 and made generally available in 2013. Roughly same timelines as Azure and GCP, slightly trailing AWS, and those were the early days, where the public cloud was still exotic. And VMware had the massive advantage of brand recognition in that domain and existing footprint with enterprises which could be scaled out.

Problem was, vCloud Air, like vSphere, was shit. Yeah, it did some things well, and had some very nice features - vMotion, DRS (though it doesn't really use CPU ready contention for scheduling decisions which is stupid), vSAN, hot adding resources (but not RAM, because decades ago Linux had issues if you had less than 4GB RAM and you added more, so to this day you can't do that). When they worked, because when they didn't, good luck because error messages are useless, logs are weirdly structured and uselessly verbose, so a massive pain to deal with. Oh and many of those features were either behind a Flash UI(FFS), or an abomination of an API that is inconsistent ("this object might have been deleted or hasn't been created yet") and had weird limitations like when you have an async task you can't check it's status details. And many of those features were so complex, that a random consuming user basically had to rely on a dedicated team of vExperts, which often resulted in a nice silo slowing everyone down.

Their hardware compatibility list was a joke - the Intel X710 NIC stayed on it for more than a year with a widely known terribly broken driver.

But what made VMware fail the most, IMHO, was the wrong focus, technically - VM, instead of application. A developer/ops person couldn't care less about the object of a VM. Of course they tried some things like vApp and vCloud Director etc. which are just disgusting abominations designed with a PowerPoint in mind, not a user. And pricing. Opaque and expensive, with bad usability. No wonder everyone jumped on the pay as you go, usable alternatives.
Is it disabled on your system? You can enable it https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/nautilus-prev...
Failure stories suffer from an infinite amount of things that can go wrong. I never found "stories of failure" compelling, because in many cases I'm on a different path and wouldn't have done the same mistakes anyways.
Can the app read it concurrently while it is updated by LiteFS?
Today is a one-off national public holiday in Australia to mourn the loss of the Queen. I'd be curious to know when this attack started and whether it coincided with the public holiday by chance or by choice.
How did you battle condensation on a super chilled hard drives?
Could you share a sample of the output? The last dot matrix I saw was from the 1980s.
Still true if the investment made with the cash distributed over time performs better than the RSUs granted lump sum up front.
We don't need rare earths to make renewables, we choose them because they are cheaper; and calling renewables "so called" in this context is a bit weird even though yes the sun will eventually die.
How do I buy it?
Up to now, the way freelancers and clients have interacted is through using third party services like: paypal, fiverr and upwork. Paypal is great for P2P payment but there is no guarantee that the client will pay you after work is done, or that the freelancer will do the work after receiving payment. Paypal also charges some hefty fees. In the case of Fiverr and Upwork, freelancers have more peace of mind knowing that the money is safe. The only problem is a huge centralized company is going to take huge fees and provide you with almost no adequate dispute resolution. The Altversesmart contract based Escrow service is going to revolutionize the way freelancers and clients interact. No more trust based systems where you have to trust the client will pay on time (or at all). Now parties can contract freely and securely with complete peace of mind knowing that the funds are held in escrow and will be released automatically when tasks are complete.
> Unpatched 15-year old Python bug allows code execution in 350k projects

Do theese people ever used a computer or they only write about them ?
What's next ? Arbitrary command execution in the shell ?
Allowing default values for columns is definitely doable and we can also implement it in a similar way by filling it in during the query. But changing the type of a field to an incompatible type is tricky and needs more constraints and external machinery to fix the history.
> They've really curtailed what information is available through their apis by default.

Maybe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901768
> Information which may have been exposed includes customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and, for a subset of customers, addresses, ID document numbers such as driver's licence or passport numbers

Okay so this was half the country.

I cant honestly understand how anyone thinks KYC laws make sense if anyone can make a bank account as anyone else, and it all looks like legitimate money or the human is getting framed while the criminal just rotates IDs.
PDF is an open format with open-source software to read it (such as libpoppler). I don't see how they could become unreadable in the future, any more than JPEG could.
The film Ad Astra may contain the most spectacular imagery of Neptune that is currently available. It’s done with reasonable verisimilitude (the planet, not what happened at the planet), based on what we know about it. Some liberties are taken with the thickness and relative velocity of the rings.
> The Big Bang should have made cracks in spacetime–why haven’t we found them?

As the song says: We tried to look but they were gone.
That's fascinating, I've never heard of hard drive data recovery using liquid nitrogen. Is the idea that the lower temperature prevents the drive from overheating long enough to recover the data? Sounds very cool.
Here's a rando image of Neptune: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/59/4788-Im... I'm certain there are nicer ones. That site has most (all?) of Hubble's images available with keyword search. The reason the rings don't show up is the same reason that Neptune is its real color in the Hubble image. The Hubble image was taken in the visible spectrum, while JWST images are colorized infrared images.
I have another dot matrix printer, 24pin LQ. Wouldn't want it uf I had to print more than 5 pages a day because of the noise. A single page takes about 10-40 seconds depending on quality and content, the 'images' it can do really slow it down.

But the cheap cartridges are all worth it.
Hey, its Microsoft. Expect quality?