skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is important to understand that crypto is not an expression of finance (although financial transactions do take place on top of crypto), but an attempt to express law outside of the bounds of IRL legal frameworks, stating, "code is law", which is of course, not true. The legal system always takes precedence when they have a monopoly on force (financial and physical), which is why crypto is destined to be a niche system so long as it does not have mechanisms for the legal system to exert its will on it. What is business logic of traditional systems if not expressions of business rules operating within the constraints of legal frameworks?

It is not about immutability or what level of transparency the ledger has, it is about control and who can influence both business as usual contract execution and exception handling. It is a power struggle. Don't miss the forest for the trees.
It's just Rust, so it can be. Will add a `main.rs` and some instructions, but PRs are welcome if someone beats me to it. ;)
https://github.com/mre/zerocal/issues/9
What maths should I learn to be a better programmer?
Ex-splunker here. I just started working at FeatureBase and would say, if your data is in Kafka, FeatureBase might be something to consider. It’s a crazy fast binary index built on Roaring bitmaps.
That’s a great paraphrase of a sentiment that I have also tried communicating to people. I have tried convincing people that just because something is lesser used doesn’t mean that it isn’t more simple.

In general, people are afraid of simplicity. When you show them a technique or programming language or method or perspective or whatever that is new to them but also simplified the problem, people are inherently bothered that it isn’t as complex as they’re used to, which convinces them that it isn’t a valid solution.
Currently working with a student group to build out a 3D scene generator (https://github.com/Cook4986/Longhand), and the prospect of arbitrary, hyper-specific mesh arrays on demand is thrilling.

Right now, we are relying on the Sketchfab API to populate our (Blender) scenes, which is an imperfect lens through which to visualize the contents of texts that our non-technical "clientele" are studying.

Since we are publishing these scenes via WebXR (Hubs), we have specific criteria related to poly counts (latency, bandwidth, etc) and usability. Regarding the latter concern, it's not clear that our end users will want to wait/pay for compute.

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Yeah, to be clear I would rather not invest at all than have Yotta do this for me. That is a bad pattern and clearly the company cares more about visibility than customers or they wouldn't even offer it.
Tiger Global raising $6B for next private tech fund
"The Mandela Effect" was a literal psychic medium saying that some people lived in a different dimension in their earlier lives, and also the weirdest excuse for people who didn't care about South Africa or Apartheid to explain their lack of knowledge about what happened there after the got the basics in grammar school.
Checks and balances are about the concentration of power, it's not just an American thing. The separation of powers is a closely related concept.

Never said that the United States was a democracy, although it is both a democracy and a republic, although the difference between these is specific to the country due to a historic compromise. As far as the state of that democracy goes the United States is considered a flawed democracy. I think that's generous considering how much influence billionaire oligarchs wield in the country, how large inequality is, and given the lack of educated, well-informed citizenry with the media being controlled by said oligarchs and education is being held back for political purposes, so that the people are easier to control.
Hi Jugurtha,
Thank you for your very valuable feedback.

We sold the 100 licenses together. A license costs $1/month per user now instead of $6.99/month per user.

The 500 licenses and Tuesday are my CTO's requests. He will build the tool when I can deliver the licenses by Tuesday.

And yes, our product should solve the decision making part of this problem but, it may not help me getting 500 licenses :-)
We're seeing some issues possibly related to s3. Uploads working, but downloads seem to fail occasionally.
Learning to set up my environment to compile my first MUD back in 1999 was my first introduction to Autotools, ./configure, make, etc. I was motivated to solve the problem because I wanted to tinker.
I'm sure someone will say I'm gatekeeping, but seriously these low-level skills have served me my entire career, and I wonder what happens when every dev environment is just a docker pull away. Who learns how to build new environments?

That said, I have recently been tinkering with the Flipperzero firmware, and compared to the old Rockbox days when you had to install an arm-elf-gcc toolchain yourself and pray, embedded development has gotten way easier and this doesn't seem like a bad thing. I don't have an answer, just something to think about!
According to this article, African Americas have been separated from their indigenous continent long enough that they are now their own distinct race.
I'm glad they released Wear OS 3.5 and hope it soon comes to other watches. When Samsung and Google merged OSes merged to make Wear OS 3, it didn't have Wear OS apps available and was only available on Samsung's watches. Wear OS 3.5 adds Wear OS apps and should be available for other watches.

The Galaxy Watch 4 and 5 should get apps. Fossil has Gen6 series that should get update.
> and then we promised to not game the system

That's the key point. Unfortunately, all known voting systems can be gamed.

Here's an interesting video that explains how they can be manipulated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhO6jfHPFQU
Caml was also initially implemented in LeLisp if I recall correctly. :-).

An advantage of ML for theorem proving à la LCF is that you can use the type system to enforce some invariants ; namely you can prevent the user from ever building a value of type `theorem` that is not actually a valid theorem. I don't know how that would work in a dynamic language where you have access to everything.
I think it could have, but perhaps without the safety factors needed, because of insufficient redundancy in the AOA sensors.
You havent provided a single valid reason why developer needs admin privilege.
Oh nice, I didn't know that about office, it makes sense though. I don't work for Microsoft and mainly work in the Antivirus space, so I only occasionally hear stories from friends about their internal stuff. When I said driver devs don't always use it, I mainly meant third party vendors writing kernel code. I know alot of the overseas places don't, and I've rarely had jobs which use it.
I feel like that is why the article writer said it got them 80% of the way.

Pareto's principle indicates that the biggest 20% of work will provide 80% of the expected results, whereas to get the last 20% of expected results will require 80% of the work.

Doing a basic room EQ with the equipment you have on hand would mean that the spot you EQ'ed from would have a listening experience calibrated to the quality of the microphone at that location (but with a margin for error since they were not using any heuristic other than "make line as flat as possible in a single pass")

That's ~20% of the work in making a pristine audio environment but with close to 80% of the end results. Room correction, reverb baffling, bass traps, better speakers, fancier receivers with complex auto balancing algorithms all could definitely improve the end result but will take far more time and effort (and money) to achieve any noticeable improvement.
Where?

I don't think Google is evil because they get money through ads.

I'm fine with that.

There is also a huge difference on how Google collects, stores and analysis your data vs. companies like Facebook.

I'm pretty sure Google actually knows we're your data is in comparison to Facebook
Out of curiosity, how much are you paying a month using Cloud Console that way?
Facebook still has more employees than it did when the pandemic started, and it isn’t particularly close. Is this a fall?
I dunno. I have to get MRIs regularly: Once a year for my central nervous system (I have MS, this is common) and once a year or so for my pancreas.

I don't mind at all. I have to stay alert for the pancreas since I have to hold my breath at one point, but all I do for the brain/spinal cord is lay still. The machine vibrates, headphones dull the sound, and sometimes there is music. I could sleep and I find the vibration kind of soothing - much like being in a car.

I kinda look forward to it, honestly.
> The reason is because it is cheap to run the reactor once built.

Though nuclear plant operating costs have come down considerably since peak in 2012, the same is true of wind and especially for solar, still leaving nuclear power's operating cost per megawatt-hour above that of wind and solar. Though nuclear has the advantage of consistent power gen regardless of weather or time of day, it also requires $9B (far lower today) in construction costs and at least 5 years to get running, assuming no delays, while materials and installation of solar or wind is a fraction of that cost, and can be producing power in 6 months to a year. Nuclear energy not only requires engineers from a shrinking field, but heavy security, which will prevent operating costs from dropping much lower even if Uranium suddenly becomes cheap, which can't happen. A nuclear plant will require about 27 tonnes of Uranium at an average cost of about $47/lb., about $2.7B in Uranium alone.

There must be a way to make nuclear power plants cheaper without sacrificing safety.
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Coming out of the pandemic, in math we're seeing a lot of #3. It's rather hard to blame the instructors when we have college calculus students who struggle to work with basic fractions.
You realize my last sentence refers to the certain groups in the previous sentence?

These groups only the vaccine as the culprit even if someone dies by accident
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> I don't even know what that systemic action would be in the case of misinformation on Twitter

The whole premise of twitter is rotten, to fix it you would need to cut out vitality and the dopamine reward mechanisms. As long as twitter exists in the present form, it will have these problems.

Trying to fix twitter is like trying to fix a lawn mower; the machine is fundamentally dangerous to fools and you can't fix that without radically changing what the machine is. Deadman switch? They'll ziptie it. Warning labels? Unheeded. Paternalistic AI watching everything you do/read and trying to intervene when it thinks you're doing something stupid? Equal parts pipe dream and dystopian nightmare. Crowdsourcing fact checks? Proven a farce years ago.
X forwarding involves granting the remote system access to your X socket, which is very powerful. I don’t know for sure that Plan 9’s model avoids this (I’ve only had small chances here and there to play with Plan 9), but given its heavy use of namespacing I suspect it’s at least possible.

Performance-wise X forwarding was always pretty slow for me in a way that Plan 9 seems to avoid, though I’ve gathered it used to be more efficient prior to modern graphical toolkits that want to draw a bunch of bitmaps to the screen. It’s possible they were more evenly matched in the past.

Not sure about Display Postscript, never had a chance to try that one.
Define dangerously mentally ill please. I'm afraid that such definition might not be the same, depending on who you are, your religion, your sexual preference...etc

Will the definition of dangerously mentally ill be the same in urban Vermont vs rural Mississippi?

We have a lot of problems with racism in the US. How do we ensure that this won't become another tool of oppression?

Maybe we start by not electing the dangerously mentally ill to the presidency instead.
What did the other half do?
Did people stop running in marathons when bicycles or cars were invented?
I just got a Steam Deck. My hope was a PC gaming experience that worked with less than 5 minutes of fiddling to get a game running. I figured it would be disappointing. The UI is buggy and the first hour was rough. Once everything settled in, though, it's been a pleasant experience.

The nicest, best thing is that the suspend button just works flawlessly. I can imagine the only reason that's the case is because Valve had control of the kernel drivers and firmware. Maybe they had to sign NDA agreements with their vendors to do that work. If their changes trickle down into the vendors' firmware blobs for consumer facing hardware, they'll have compensated a bit for the technical debt of other companies, made the world a bit better.
Oregon has a horrible history with Oregon State Hospital and Oregon's treatment of people with mental health issues. Wasn't Oregon State Hospital basically the model for One Flew Over the Coockoo's Nest? When the state has a history of abuse and torture such as un-necesary brain operations, forced sterilization, etc, then I'm sorry trust in you is lost and requires a rigorous process. I'm sure it would be nice if it was easier for you to take people's lives and rights away and send them to an Insane Assylum founded in the 1800s and with a horrible history.
I think you're right, but I disagree that he has no choice — he can find some other “moonshot”. Pushing VR (or AR) seems like something he thinks will play well with the stock holders; and if he is as skeptical as some of us then he's kind of playing them for rubes.

Hearing them describe their own product as “Chromebook for the face” just reconfirms my suspicious that this is a doomed product.
I actually kind of like an MRI. The rhythmic pulsing is relaxing.

Same, very much so. I often lament that a voice comes through and talks to me.
Heh took me a minute to get it.
A Falcon Shrine at the Port of Berenike (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)
No. Either such training is fair use, or it isn't. If it is fair use, then it's always allowed even if the license explicitly says it's not. If it isn't fair use, then Microsoft is already violating the licenses anyway, such as the GPL, by not making Copilot's source available under the same license (and ditto for things like DALL-E, and also by violating the attribution clauses even of permissive licenses).
Depends on the memory surely, and who wants it erased from whom?
Buses in the USA with limited funding do not work absurdly well, no. I've ridden buses in Hong Kong that are very nearly as efficient as anything else, and one comes along very frequently. Some of that is that Hong Kong is small, but it illustrates the point that buses can be better if funded well.

Spend as much money on buses as the Boring Company wastes with silly unusable routes nobody wants, and you'll get great bus service.
Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button
Thanks for sharing your ideas, appreciate the thoughts to learn new perspectives :-)

And also thanks for contributing, every contribution counts and helps :-) Maybe see you at a future hackathon :) https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/
Adobe software is user hostile, bug infested spyware perched atop mountains of tech debt.
That Big Yellow Movie Site
A no-nonsense listing of the most popular tv and movies, with some basic sorting and filtering. An alternative to _that big yellow movie site_ you may be familiar with.
> We know he has top secret documents

We do.

> we know they were not declassified

We do not know this, actually. That is literally what is being litigated at this very moment.

> and we know they were held negligently while mixed up with magazines in a comically insecure facility

We do not know yet if this even matters...

> a search warrant executed against a former president

Which is extremely shocking and unusual - actually unprecedented. So far the follow-up investigation has been much more lackluster and much less iron-clad as we were initially led to believe.

Political hit job? Perhaps. Malfeasance on part of the former President? Perhaps.

We don't yet know. Yet, if you've made up your mind already then you've stepped on the land mine set for you by the GP of this particular thread.

> You have to admit that this is as big if not bigger than "Hunter's laptop

Not even remotely. Hunter's laptop revealed Hunter sold access and influence to the current president, particularly to nations hostile to this country. We also know Joe Biden not only discussed these business dealings with Hunter, but also received a cut of the payments. He is "The Big Guy".
American tourist smashes two sculptures in the Vatican
Precisely this!

If you want to tell me that I forgot that I was arrested that night, the response is a very blunt "provide convincing proof that doesn't require me to trust you, or bug off".

Being vigilant for fakes is very time consuming too. Especially given some of the scam tricks, like "call the fraud and abuse hotline at 1-800..." -- except that number was provided by the scammer.
K-Means Clustering: An Explorable Explainer
> The pedo diver picked the fight first after Elon offered help and the pedo diver expat Brit lives in a known location for child exploitation

After reading this paragraph I cannot take anything written by you seriously. You use “pedo driver” instead of a name of the person. A person who obviously has zero connection to child exploitation and a documented record of saving lives - at the risk of his own.

Here’s another take on the story:

A mentally unstable narcissistic billionaire attempted to latch on the publicity of a tragic event by publicly suggesting a solution showing his complete misunderstanding and incompetence.

After being exposed in an interview by Vernon Unsworth, one of the people risking their lives to come up with a real solution, the malignant narcissist launched a public attack toward the rescuer, hitting as low as to accuse the rescuer in pedophilia.

When sued by the rescuer for defamation, “ Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase "pedo guy" was common in South Africa, where he grew up.”

The billionaire himself can be seen in a photo with Ghislaine Maxwell who is now in jail for child exploitation and specifically arranging forced sex with minors for the ultra rich.

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17576302/elon-musk-thai-cave-r...
He should, but then he voiced an ignorant and disrespectful opinion and instantly erased his credibility on the matter.
I can't 100% swear to it but I think the postage meter standards in the US are completely owned by the postage meter vendor (Pitney Bowes) and not specified by USPS. These aren't actually "stamps" proper but meter tape. The meter vendor is on the hook to furnish the validation equipment to USPS, so it's all a closed ecosystem to them.

USPS seems to be lax on postage issues... at least some years ago there was some reporting that they very rarely actually scan (and thus mark as used) meter stamps and so you can get away with using them multiple times in practice. I think this is just because of not wanting to spend the money to install the meter validation equipment on sorting machines, since they already have the IMB to use for routing. I suspect they just don't see a lot of actual issues with counterfeiting

Pitney Bowes is much of what I call the "postal industrial complex" - large aspects of USPS technology are completely contracted to Pitney Bowes and a few other companies like Endicia. Pretty much every form of "electronic postage" in the US, including purchased directly from USPS, is managed by Pitney Bowes or Endicia, not USPS (Post Offices used to use an Endicia product for shipping postage, not sure if they still do).
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Better yet.. podcast -> Whisper -> text summarization model... sounds like it'd be fun to hack together
Web3 is fine
You can't get a aggregation from the public, not really. Most people won't participate, the only people who will bother are the ones with a axe to grind. Only 66% of people can even be bothered to vote on the president of the us, what's the percent that will spend their free time fact checking on Twitter? Only the ones who really want to push their own facts will do it.
I've written about this before in more detail:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html

But the reason I started coding in BASIC was because when we received a ZX Spectrum for Christmas one year the cassette player was broken - no preloaded games for us.

I was always more interested in programming, and hacking games for infinite lives than actually playing games!
The History of the Electric Car (2014)
> alt-tech

That's a cute way of trying to smear the alt-right on the perfectly legitimate platform Telegram.

> Russian-made

... and there's an attempt to associate it with Putin's Russia.

All in all this reads like a hit piece on Telegram.
Think this one through.

d₁ = 3, d₂ = 5

What happens at t = 15?
Are You Sure You Know What Revenge Porn Is?
At least they provide monitors. I imagine that many don't.
Right, in the DSM 5 they 'voted' that being gay is no longer deviant behavior. What a rigorous scientific system mental health professionals use to diagnose disorders.
To everyone reading: There is a cage on your head if you get a scan of your head. But if they are looking at your abdomen, you'll find a different sort of device over your midsection. I'm guessing that they have stuff for other parts as well.

I don't personally mind the cage, and a lot of models have a mirror so that your field of vision is greater than the tube. (I get regular MRIs due to MS and a pancreas cyst)
It's a classic but I do enjoy having a look at it every few years.
> Because they're already jumping to a biased conclusion by asking the question

You «jump[] to a biased conclusion» only when the conclusion is held - which you cannot conclude. The poster should keep it open: you should do the same. As you are mandated by the guidelines and the constraint against weak interpretations.
Sweden privatized its electricity sector. Then several nuclear power plants shut down, in some cases because prices were low at the time and it wasn't profitable and in some cases because they let it fall into disrepair. So Sweden has an energy crisis of its own now. Sweden does have hydropower and wind power, so prices are low when it has been windy and rainy, but prices are sky high the rest of the time.
Former Uber Security Chief Found Guilty of Obstructing FTC Probe
It doesn’t make sense. They either dont live in an actual city, or they live in a city “without a problem” because they are bussing their homeless to California. Super convenient way to deal with it.
Just because they “could be disbarred” or go to prison does for it also doesn’t mean they physically can’t or won’t do it. So I’m actually not wrong about anything I said here.
The "meat" of the thing was right in the middle, so you may have missed it... it's simply that according to her research the best way of figuring out what someone is thinking or feeling is to ask them. Doh.
SimulaVR should try to explain to the courts how the subpoena itself is having an anticompetitive effect.
I don't think that NeRFs require too many image to make impressive results.
Nice*

Interesting*
Hi kingkongjaffa,
Thanks for your honest feedback. The CTO exists. His name is Linus and he is one of the best coders I ever met. But he is also very business savvy. You are totally correct that we are validating what customers really need right now. In the past, we built products without first finding out if customers really want to them. I am very sorry if you feel that I am lying. I just want to build something with Linus that helps people. But thanks again for the honest feedback!
Kind regards,
Bastian