skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This type of investing has long been done on paper, but the blockchain makes it much more liquid.

Being digital makes it much more liquid. There's literally nothing about fractional real estate ownership that needs distributed consensus.

>Another advantage is that it doesn't matter if the facilitator goes out of business, because all the ownership records are on a public blockchain instead of their secret central database.

You could solve that problem by only working with companies that have publicly readable centralized databases? Again no need for distributed consensus.
I don't think they misunderstood and I think their point still stands. The irrelevance of Google's search results are becoming ever more unyielding to the user's intent. The portion of results that are SEO spam for every query is increasing. The amount of your query being dropped and ignored in your search is increasing. Google results are becoming increasingly irrelevant and is on a trajectory to a point of completely ignoring your query where the results are strictly a combination of spam and a random pick of websites.

"Google-fu" is not progressing. It's struggling to hang on by the decreasing number of threads before it's utterly ineffective.
My recollection is that pairing Swiss tournaments manually actually got easier as the tournament got larger.

More players did make the mechanics of manipulating the index cards harder: splitting into score groups, sorting each score group by rating, splitting each group in half and matching to make the preliminary pairings all would be more work the more players you had but those steps are all routine steps.

It was the next part, where you adjust the preliminary pairings to ensure things like not having anyone playing someone they already played (a requirement you must meet), having people play someone in their score group, alternating colors, not playing the same color three times in a row if you cannot give them alternating colors, and whatever other ones I've forgotten about where having a lot of players made it easier.

When you've got lots of players you'll have bigger score groups. If you have to shuffle some players in the pairings to get things to work out you've got a lot more room with a big score group to do such shuffles while still keeping the players involved playing in the right score group and close to the same position in their respective halves of the rating-sorted score group.

When the score groups are small you've got a lot less room to move within the score group to shuffle people.

The net result was that a larger tournament made the easy parts of pairings harder but made the hard parts easier so was a net win.
Please don't ignore accessibility. Docs that aren't accessible are a big no-no and a dealbreaker for my company. I've had a quick look at your own userguide and the results aren't good.

https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/audit/?website=https%3A...

Even just the basics of alt text and sufficient colour contrast need fixing. This suggests accessibility hasn't been considered at all.
> Modern professionals: HTML doc with default browser stylesheet

damn. Got me.
Perhaps it's a self-fulfilling meme at this point, but searching "programming socks" on Amazon right now still only recommends socks like that. Definitely not doctored
sorry didn't meant to be obscure - it was just google searches, but I found that if I used quotes google was less useful than if I searched for a longer string without quotes (I think others on HN have noted the quality of google searches seems to be decreasing). In my case I searched for

fyi: the self reproducing cpp was installed on OUR machine and we enticed the unix support group

but without quotes. I know it's quixotic but I kind of wish altavista was still working (now yahoo owns the domain name).
The posit is a compressed floating point encoding with a flexible data structure with a trade-off of precision (the number of bits after the dot) and magnitude (the absolute value).

It uses more hardware because the posit is decoded into a floating point larger than a equivalent IEEE754 with the same number of bits. So, the logic units needs to be larger.
Why aren't those made out of clear plastic?
I used to have a VAIO P series laptop - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P_series
It could just about fit in the back pocket of my jeans and had a sim card slot for mobile connectivity, if I remember correctly.
It was a really nice little laptop. Not going to be rendering any 3d models on it, but great for basic internet and office work.
Yes, it's not replacing 64-bit math with 80-bit math, x87 just doesn't have proper 64-bit floats with correctly sized exponent-field and the flags here interpret float literals as "long double" if I remember correctly. It's just the 80-bit x87 problem referred to earlier in the thread. The workarounds mentioned in the github aren't actually enough. Compilers cannot do IEEE-compliant computation on x87 without relatively large performance penalties (I made a library that did it).

Fortunately that isn't a problem since SSE2.
It will be online only. Sorry about that.

Not that I’m against “on-premise”, but it’s much easier to deploy updates this way.

Thank you for taking a look at it.
Someone missed the DevOps revolution…
Since you never open the laptop to use the LCD, would an Apple Mac Mini work for your use case?
> Which sounds pretty bad, because it seemed like inflation should be the #1 concern right now. But BoE has other economic data and are clearly worried about something else...

Like some clod announcing they're going to decimate revenue by cutting taxes for their rich mates and plug the hole by massively increasing borrowing?
Presumably that would require calling your provider to do. But depending on how your source device was broken, even with a physical sim that might be required.
Something like "compressed floats" would express well the name.
A lot of these sites do it deliberately to annoy people on hackernews, it is so funny :)
Force Touch was discontinued in 2019 and replaced with a simple “long press” feature called Haptic Touch. iPhone 11 and later and Apple Watch 6 and onwards don’t have the pressure sensitive layer anymore.
It's amazing how they have destroyed the reverse image search for the last 3/4 years. It's since the switch to ML and the identification of keywords, they don't seem to have image hash search anymore.
And the "normal" children just visit YouTube and search for "how to fix a doorbell".
“Just as we respect and care for our ancestors, so we must respect and care for our old backups, for one day they may achieve great glory.”

— http://www.taobackup.com/history.html
As old as /g/
https://archive.ph/USt99
This goes to show the importance of multiple independent toolchains, and multiple variations on debuggers.

The more there are, the harder it would be to successfully execute this attack for any length of time.

However, it could and certainly has been done in specific targeted cases I bet.
> None that I know of is designed to operate from a single Thunderbolt cable like a docked laptop can.

The Mac Mini is basically exactly this, with one exception, which is power. I really wish this existed as well. An M2 Mac Mini that supported being powered over TB with PD, would be perfect for me, because I have multiple work locations that each have monitors that provide 90W of PD power over TB, and I could simply drop it in my bag.
I don't think your comment has exposed any flaws in GPs point.

The first point doesn't refute anything GP said. If Amazon, Google, Meta, etc, are natural monopolies like utilities, then have the state regulate them as such. If they aren't, have them broken up like Standard Oil. You yourself have pointed up that monopolies are bad for the users.

Second, even if "free market" is used by (some) economists to mean a specific thing, that doesn't mean that GP, or most people for that matter, use it that way. For many, many people (including elected policy makers), a "free market" is a market without government intervention, and the less intervention, the more free it is. Nobody owns the official definition of the term, redefining it and then calling the argument which used it in a different way "fundamentally flawed" is not correct.
It's not the case that the only valid position is one that is perfectly generalizable. Supporting good or necessary things is better than supporting bad things, even if they share some functional similarities.

Sex workers not having access to reliable payment methods directly puts them in danger in real, quantifiable ways. The same is not true for letting white nationalists recruit teens or whatever other free speech/market economy intersection thing you can think of.

We are not philosopher-automatons and may, should, use our moral judgement about which things specifically are worth our support and which are not. A perfectly consistent framework here is impossible and probably undesirable in any case.

It's not that sex work is better than other things and should be endorsed because of that difference. It's that forcing sex workers out of the legitimate business process gets them killed and we have a duty to prevent that outcome.
Yep. But my concern is with the phrasing “We’d make an exception if someone really needed accommodations”. Like it’s their decision whether or not someone has their camera on. Who is included in that decision? Just the manager? Do they get to look at you and say “You don’t look so bad”? Do you get to veto if you really don’t want to turn your camera on? I think it’s easier to approach every situation with an open mind towards kindness. And sometimes people just don’t want their camera on.
I anticipate people misguidedly objecting to the 2008 comparison due to the traumatic baggage of that era.
Here's a repo for all kinds of anime girls holding programming books: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
At one point, it was supposed to be the universal GC for chrome. In fact, that was cited as the major holdup for getting the DartVM into chrome, they wanted a unified GC between dart, v8, and the DOM.
My understanding is that payment processors find themselves enforcing the Overton Window lest they run afoul of present legal trends. There's a sliding scale on what is or is not acceptable for them to be facilitating and it changes constantly.

Within sex work, where on the sliding scale of acceptability does enabling a "self employed cam model", vs facilitating a "trafficked cam model" fall, especially when a payment processor has no idea what is going on behind the scenes? Is the payment processor supposed to watch the stream and recognize a gang tattoo and conclude that one is trafficked while another is not?

I can see people on the political right in the US saying they shouldn't process payments for pornography at all, and people on the left saying "I can't believe that <company> facilitates trafficking or victimization". I'd see the payments processors saying "It's not worth it to process any payments for any pornography at all".
Biogen Revives Anti-Amyloid Alzheimer's Theory with Positive Phase III Data
Here in Europe I also see a much stronger moral conservatism. Like I said Britain is the strongest example. But also the Netherlands, and it really is highly influenced by American culture. Even the language on the street is half Dutch half American now :)

In the 80s it was totally normal for (regular non-porn) Dutch movies to contain exposed boobs for example. No way that happens now without very restrictive ratings. And countries like Ireland have outlawed prostitution and Spain is thinking about it.

Of course the west has always been the most open in this kind of thing, probably because we're not as religious. In the Middle East there is almost no difference between government and religion whereas we try to separate them.
Yeah prostitution is legal as long as you film it and sell the video. Unclear if this is a feature or a bug.
Thanks for clarifying it! Here's a NSFW link about the meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks (NSFW)
I consider this a fallacy. I´m on the dedicated server camp, but had to use AWS in a "everything in cloud" company.
I spend way more time with Lambda/Cloud formation/ECS shenanigans than the terraform recipe I use in dedicated servers. And this is not even considering the higher latency between services and how hard is to debug it.

In your case, you are not exchanging 2 hours of a developer for a higher bill. In my experience you will get a higher bill and 5 hours of a cloud expert, and probably a solution that for every change or problem, you will have to call this expert as no one know what to do.
Can anyone shine a light on this solution and GDPR compliance?
The only real prospect would be intel enthusiast or extreme nucs.

[0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/196170/...
What I don't understand is why anyone would spend, precious and expensive engineering resources on coding to a proprietary API owned by one of the largest companies on the planet to whom you are nothing.

Ok so you save money on the monthly bill but what happens when Amazon decides they want to enter your market? What happens if they decide your service is too controversial and they kick you off?

If you were deploying your own services to EC2 instead of using AWS's own services you could at least setup shop elsewhere with just a bit of work.

To me it is antithetical to building a sustainable product. People just hoping their startup gets bought and then it is someone else's problem.
I fear this may be a feature no one at Google is actively caring about anymore.

Here's Matt Cutts' tweet about it in 2014: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/422944316458168320

But I think it dates back to 2009? https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-common...
Sex isn't a necessity the same way geopolitically showing you'll fight back the moment someone decides to invite your country is. Laws and mandatory drafts reflect this.

Despite being recognized as a necessity in many countries (mine included), you won't get subsidy or sexual assistance as an otherwise capable individual. For obvious reasons, this affects guys the most (the problems for women come after, generally). You'd need a really severe case for governments to make the wet dream of specific circles come true. The equivalent of your country's leader being at gunpoint by an opposing invading army.

If your country gets attacked, you bet mandatory draft will be reinstuted ASAP and executed. It's obvious, just look at Ukraine and Russia.

It's not the same. Actions speak louder.

That's not to mention, sex usually isn't the only thing lacking, making sex work a horrendous substitute or even exasperating the problem.
Europe Considers Making Big Tech Pay for Building the Internet
> The scientific method is one thing, but it is not something that can be used to prescribe a way to live.

I understand what you're getting at. I agree that much of what is considered "philosophy" isn't just "what is", but "what should we do about it".

I would argue that the answer "what we should do about it" is either:

- So relative that there isn't an answer (or are infinite answers), at which point everyone is welcome to substitute any answer they like.

- Dependent on as-yet-undiscovered information in the physical sciences (biology, cosmology, physics, neuroscience, etc), which is why we're still reliant on incomplete (or incorrect) proxies
I use Kagi frequently, and just for giggles give Yandex image search a try, you can actually specify dimensions (like you used to on Google).
Calling Germany a vassal of the US is more than questionable. I think you also underestimate the EU, as many still do. The US doesn‘t deal with individual states anymore.
Yes, I have a whole 1K for program, bliss!
I am using `kagi` as my search engine. While reading the article I searched `sur:fmc` [0]. The first result was a site that gives information about search urls [1] and gives correct description of what is the function of `sur:fmc`. I couldn't find this page on the first 5 pages on google [2] (and didn't look further). Not to mention google trying to correct me the query text.

[0] https://kagi.com/search?q=sur%3Afmc

[1] https://sites.google.com/a/arps.org/esresearch/images

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=sur%3Afmc
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half
I don't think so, "programming socks" is a LGBT-adjacent meme to my knowledge, while this is related to https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-... and image board culture.
I made my career using google search and it has changed pretty significantly from the early 2010s. There was a point where it would seemingly scour the entire web for whatever string of text I entered, but now it tries so hard to give me what it thinks I'm looking for that I very often get results that are completely irrelevant. I'm still usually able to find what I'm looking for eventually, but it takes a lot more work on my part.
cuts deep :( Serif fonts did nothing wrong. Black and white text is timeless.
>ostracizing sex work is almost entirely normalized

100%. One of the universal curses people throw at each other is implying that someone's mother is a prostitute, or that they are a product of extramarital sex, implying the promiscuity of the mother. This all is hand-in-hand with the implied comtempt towards women of course.
Yet, politicians like Rand Paul constantly complain about publicly about specific studies that sound like a waste of the public's money

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1474101150874050561

> Pigeons playing slot machines (NIH) $465,339

even if he's not in charge of it, he still comments on the studies he thinks are a waste of the public's money
> Apple accounts for 25% of their revenue

Isn't this misleading? If Apple doesn't take the fab capacity then somebody else will.
They've got us on the beer factor and higher education. Not sports, but eff college sports anyway. Looking forward to going down for Lexington SC some though.
…thus making sure that absolutely nobody goes around looking for unowned code? And, if they do find it, try to keep it a secret as much as possible?
Maintaining Monopolies with the Cloud
Sorry about that. Did not mean to look like I am doing that.

Subsection is about a week old and I am slowly building out the guides for both our apps.

Also, there are currently two users who are using it to build out their User Guide and they will hopefully publish soon, so I can share their guides.
My brother in Christ working class Americans do not have the jet fuel to go to Haiti

edit: tribalism has existed for all of human history as a function of brain structures older than the written word, which new thing are you referring to?

edit2: what have you done for us lately? In other words, the fun part about the 80s being 20 years ago is that they were actually 40 years ago. Consider a local food drive that does not require jet fuel? You are probably surrounded by unmet need.

edit3: republicans didn't include a 'moral majority' of evangelicals who openly claimed AIDS was literally an act of god in punishment of homosexuality?
1> https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2007/05/07/see-aids-as...
2> https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/14/3/154.full.pdf
3> https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
I don't think it is related to a new generation or something like that since i remember people using anime wallpaper backgrounds and avatars (in MSN Messenger, etc) since the early 2000s. It is just that in recent years anime became more popular in general than it used to be even 10 years ago, so you are more likely to see anime stylized characters nowadays.
I can power mine off a coin cell.
Fun fact: not only is the iteration order of sets in python unordered, it's also undeterministic! A set of the same values, iterated in two python program, could iterate in a different order.

I learned this when a unit test that iterated over a set started failing sporadically :P super confusing bug!
> That anime girl really makes it hard to hide that you're doing work unrelated things in the office.

What do you mean?
He recently met with the SJ Sharks. They are interested but want to make sure it really works well. https://surjan.substack.com/p/an-inventors-quest-for-the-nhl...
I see why this is tricky, because I'd argue a Mac Mini fulfils that requirement - but it doesn't do the power delivery aspect. If you ignore the power requirements it becomes much easier.

It's funny because I searched for it and Intel has a page on this exact thing about their lineup of NUCs - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

It'd be a small market for sure, which is why I don't think you see it. Personally I'd maybe grab a MacBook Air or something as that is likely the best
"power to weight" ratio for a laptop.

Your mention of the Framework desktop case seems like it would work no? As it can be powered over USB-C? Or does it not do output over the same port?
I agree.

[I overlooked the "much of" in your first sentence. This would have been my reply:

Yes with limitations. As I implied there are more kind of sciences. Philosophy itself has very diverse fields which have their own sets of scientific methods. So it's hard to say something with substance about the general field of philosophy.

The philosophy I was talking about is more compared to math than empirical evidence based sciences.]
This may be a weird recommendation but the steam deck may be something to consider if your docks have a usb c connector.

It's nearly as powerful as my desktop, and I can't find any laptops/portaPCs with similar specs at that pricepoint.
>censorship resistance of a distributed ledger is surely stronger than a centralised database

People bring this up a lot.

1) In practice, blockchains get censored and edited all the time when mistakes happen.

2) I don't see the advantage vs. a publicly readable database that a distributed set of users can archive in a cryptographically secure way. Again, blockchain's main failure point is that it does what centralized databases (which can be cryptographically secure, some even are!) do, but it takes 200x more effort to do it.
At this point, it should be pretty clear that self-hosting is cheaper, given all of the examples we have seen.

AWS's economies of scale have as much to do with its pricing as the phases of the moon, and citing them as a reason why AWS could be cheaper than self-hosting is pretty ignorant in itself.
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You realize that in 200 years people will be saying the same thing about us, right?

Very good point. I 100% agree.

What I'm arguing is that hard sciences are the only pathway to real understanding, and the hard sciences only got started during the enlightenment.

Anything before then was just somebody grasping at straws really convincingly.
Stable Diffusion Webapp
The OP appears to be mostly talking about porn, but your points seem to be mostly addressing prostitution.

Prostitution has long considered an disreputable and undesirable activity, and it along with other types of sex work are often tightly coupled with involuntary exploitation. A lot of the stuff that you're criticizing derives from attempts to continue to legally discourage prostitution while preventing the legal system from further punishing women who are being exploited.
I found the headline to be misleading. The article is mostly about the migration process (which is interesting), but very little about the details of the cost savings.

What does it cost to run their data center? What are the salaries they are paying for internal IT efforts to administer it? Is it an apples-to-apples comparison, e.g. are they load balancing across multiple datacenters in case of an outage?

It sounds like this was a good move for Prerender but it's hard to generalize the cost claims to other situations without details.
I'm curious what sort of provision exists in the contract language if China invades Taiwan.
TSMC is charging 6% more across the board...all they way from 3nm to the 350nm stuff.