skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exchanges aren't banks, and crypto exchanges especially shouldn't be banks. Crypto is liquid and can be redeemed in its own denomination instantly if you hold it in a simple wallet. That's what exchanges should be doing. They shouldn't be doing fractional reserve banking, and a run shouldn't be possible. Preventing runs on a crypto exchange is exceedingly easy if the operators aren't taking risks with client funds.
I don't see why an auxiliary language needs to reflect all languages. How could it?

Are you suggesting that an auxiliary language should have elements from as many languages as possible? That such a "balanced" or "blended" approach is better b/c it allows people from more linguistic traditions to feel a little more comfortable?

Maybe a little, but such complexity would sacrifice learnability.

English has been adopted as a common lingua franca though very different from Arabic and Swahili. The driving factors have more to do with geopolitics and economic power than linguistics or conceptual familiarity.
I did something similar though I never made it into tech, I dropped out of a bachelor's in math to pursue art, this was roughly 5 years ago and it's been a tough journey, I wish you the best of luck.

Some resources that will help you a long the way:

youtube:
proko
steve huston
steven zapata
ahmed aldoori
sinix

nma.art
watts atelier
schoolism

Try to find a local life drawing class and go every single week.

Animation specific check out Toniko Pantoja, ModerndayJames.

I'm currently trying to change my relationship to art from something I pursue to make money, to something I enjoy doing to fuel my soul. I haven't drawn in a couple months, but I've come to terms that it's something I'll always be pursuing, in what capacity I'm not sure, but art, is the coolest thing that's ever come into my life.
Of course every hardcore kid knows that site, no idea he was your cofounder. No idea you are even a tech founder! This is crazy cool. Thanks for entertaining me here, GCF should put out new music in my opinion but that's for another day.
The drugs typically have inverse effects to what they're supposed to do. Antidepressants cause suicidal ideations, this is well known, but did you know that they also cause homicidal ideations? The kids at Columbine were really smart kids, but their parents started medicating them and they got a lot worse.

Charles Whitman, U Texas, 1966, was on psychoactive medications such as Dexedrine; it's no coincidence that he was compelled to murder lots of people from that tower, not because of mental defect but because of drugs he was on.

Nancy Reagan was right. "Just Say No." I listen to Nancy Reagan.
WhatsApp is ubiquitous in many parts of the world (like here in India), but it's also easily replaceable with telegram or signal. It won't be missed for too long.
TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phone
In Japan you can get glasses for dirty cheap, including the eye check and case that goes with it. That's what happens when you liberate the market.

NOTE: it's not reimbursed but nobody cares because it's cheap.
But how do you compare the quality of different eye surgery doctors and their facilities?

Even a small difference in probability of complications makes a huge difference for something as vital as the eyes.
I know Verizon has been pushing "6 months free of Disney" really hard. I wonder if that's a factor in these numbers?

Edit: discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33526360
They had a big office right on Page Mill Road (and maybe still do), which had to be horrendously expensive. Also all those salaried professionals. I don't think there's any big pile of money to give back.
So if I'm reading https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d... correctly, 7 is an STA release and support for it will end before support for 6 (LTS release) ends?!

Seems like the only reasons for upgrading from 6 to 7 would be an easier path (possibly) to upgrade later than going from 6 to 8, or if you really want to use something in c# 11 (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...) . I remain unconvinced...
What does stripe use facial recognition for ?
I'm not sure WikiLeaks itself had RNC documents, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

WikiLeaks got its DNC emails from Guccifer 2.0, which seems to have been a front for the Russians. I found a story saying that the Russians had RNC docs too, but chose not to release them: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/10/report-russi...

can't find anything about WikiLeaks actually having RNC emails. not that WikiLeaks wasn't biased against the DNC, of course.
I do most of my own graphic assets.

I know there’s many better artists, out there, but I’m good enough for government work.
After decades with private practices, since I switched to WalMart my prescriptions are more accurate and glasses cost almost nothing.
Sounds good.

It's the "community service" I worry about. "Boo hoo, she's a mother of young children, how horrible to lock her up."
Correct. It requires that they published it, clearly with the intent of making it public, and for purposes similar to what it is being re-used for. I believe I mentioned that.
Thanks! But that was long ago.

There’s a picture of Arteeste Chris, back then, in this story: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
Why can't a new company simply undercut the competition? I don't imagine the barriers to entry are too high for manufacturing glasses, are they?
They do in fact purposefully keep their stores dingier then what the average big box store is.

To reassure value shoppers that a minimum percentage of the purchase price is going towards the facilities, thus making it self-evident that they are getting the best possible deal.

Whereas a better maintained store by definition cannot offer a lower price and still be profitable.
There is the unsolved problem of the governments themselves being co-opted. The situation in Europe is obviously changing, but it still is very much under the thumb of the United States. We have all been living in a fairy tale and we are all about to find out where the bottom line really is.
I like containers, but I absolutely love chroot and debootstrap. It’s killer for when you need isolation (like building software locally without ruining the host OS) but don’t need the pomp and circumstance of containers.
Another aspect of this issue is the apparent difference in intellectual preparedness of kids today. I think this is partly due to educational environment and partly a result of selection bias (in that accounts of the past focus on the "smart" kids).

When I was a teenager, rummaging around the attic at grandma's house I stumbled upon my dad's old scientific stuff. I was shocked at the sophistication of what a high schooler did in the 1950s. For example, there were projects to build radio circuitry, with the expectation you would have a mathematical understanding of the function of every component. By my time in the 1970s, home electronics projects aimed at teenagers had devolved to "Stick this here, and that there, and connect the battery, and gee whiz isn't that neat!"

He also did what would today be college level chem experiments, without aid or supervision. A batch of nitroglycerin was one of his less wise projects. I think it was memories of his own near-disasters that caused him to watch over me like a hawk during my own youthful experimenting.

The level of ability and initiative in a high school student as shown in the movie October Sky (1999) was certainly not typical in the 1950s, but I think it was more common than modern experience would lead you to expect.
> If you are a crypto exchange and you have a liquidity crunch and you cannot process withdrawals, and you don’t get a bailout, then your future equity value is basically zero. If you tweet to all your customers “sorry we’re out of money for a bit so no more trading and we’re going to hang on to your money, but things will get better,” they will not get better.

This is incorrect and coming from Levine, it's surprising. Especially, that the crypto ecosystem had an exchange that had just that (Bitfinex) and convinced users to take up the loss and carry operations (I was one of them). The exchange is still operating and one of the major exchanges in crypto.

> You don’t have a ton of time to negotiate, and they don’t have a ton of time to do due diligence. How does the buyer know that there are no huge disasters lurking on your balance sheet? They don’t, and they don’t have much time to find out, and your liquidity crunch is not an encouraging sign. You are having a disaster now!

They probably have a good idea. Crypto balances, at least the two largest, are public. And Binance is a large (largest?) exchange, so they probably can make a good guess of their balance sheets.

> A lot of FTX’s business is in perpetual futures, a leveraged product, sometimes levered 20 to 1. If you are an exchange and you are in this sort of business, you will need to come up with the extra $100 to lend to your customer. Presumably that doesn’t come from your equity: You are doing some sort of borrowing, perhaps from other customers, 2 perhaps from outside financing sources, perhaps from your affiliated hedge fund, etc.

This is also incorrect. There is no borrowing in derivative futures. The writer didn't really do his research.

This is a case of cascading margin calls, but for very big guys. FTX tried to bail out some smaller guys but ended up getting margin called itself. Now Binance is picking the trade which carries itself a risk for getting margin called (ie: A liquidity crisis inside Binance).

This will be the most optimistic scenario for Crypto, as it'll wipe out the largest exchange that it is enabling this scam industry and also changing the crypto culture (no-KYC, Decentralized, Trust-less, Permission-less etc...)
For the record, while Netflix really pushed the anime angle, Castlevania is actually an entirely American production. It was written, directed, and animated entirely in America by Americans.
Headless EMR resonates best with me because of the parallel to other cms solutions like contentful. I’d spend time making sure you validate your point of view on the persona of the technical decision makers. The EMR decision for an early stage healthtech company is 10x more important than your initial cloud provider.
> It's fast enough for Stripe's API...

Stripe is moving to Java.
Dumb question. Frames can be 3d printed right? Is it possible to so the same with lenses?

Sounds like a "neighborhood/artisan" lens and glass maker could so this easily for a reasonable size neighborhood lucratively?
I’m not familiar with the medical evidence, but… why would exercise instigate a cardiac event when anxious? Perhaps if having a panic attack it would be unwise, but I feel like exercise can serve as a distraction or outlet to anxiety and be beneficial on the whole.
I use rails every day. Looks close enough. You’d just need to specify the fields with the table name, I.e. ‘albums.id’.

Also, for anyone reading, a total_length method dynamically will be added objects returned. :)
Woah, locked up my computer like it hasn't in about ten years. Luckily had sshd running, but still couldn't get it to do much. Had to resort to magic sysreq keys to sync and reboot safely.
I’ve found that all this does is make the query less readable. SQL is purpose made for writing queries, and avoids unnecessary syntax noise you get when trying to fit the query into a host language based dsl.
Andor I have 2 episodes left to finish, ah I feel its so slow and drawn out.

She Hulk, I hated the first episode, but it kinda came into its own and I ended up really enjoying it, but the last episode absolutely ruined the whole thing for me.
I'd recommend checking out books on career transitions before pulling the trigger, for example The Squiggly Career and Refuse to Choose. Also try reaching out to working artists and ask them to a coffee to discuss what the life is like: many people actually welcome the opportunity to give a stranger the advice they wish they had known when they were younger.
I chuckled at - "There is no time to think about what you just saw because as soon as the clip ends, you’re on to the next one. The spectator is rendered a consummate consumer,"

I still haven't installed/registered for tiktok, I have no more bandwidth for another social network. I'm still fighting IG and Twitter addiction, what happens when I add another one. Just throw your phones away haha.
Same. Although we resubbed to Netflix after going without it for 3 or 4 months. Netflix has juuuuuust enough content to keep my wife interested. I could go without it and wouldn't miss much. For as little TV she watches though, having "her" shows available when she does want to watch means we keep paying.
Guessing it’s still a scalable issue for it to take off. King Children is still the only company I know that’s in this space, but they haven’t taken off like I’ve hoped for them to expand
Eoapi is an open source API tool with a plugin system
I like this explanation, which puts the concept of operator at center and has some nice computational relations, and is related to the physical world by the notion of an observable, with an eigenfunction being a special kind of operator-function relationship. At the end, there's a nice non-QM application (Fourier transforms).

source: PW Atkins & RS Friedman, "Molecular Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed"

> An observable is any dynamical variable that can be measured... in classical mechanics... observables are represented by functions* (such as position as a function of time), in quantum mechanics they are represented by mathematical operators... We shall not in general distinguish between the observable and the operator that represents that observable (such as the position of a particle along the x-axis)"

> "An operator is a symbol for an instruction to carry out some action, an opeeation, on a function...in certain cases, the outcome of an operation is the
same function, multiplied by a constant" [that constant being the eigenvalue]

Form: (operator) (eigenfunction) = (eigenvalue) (eigenfunction)

> "An important point is that a general function can be expanded in terms of all the eigenfunctions of an operator, a so-called complete set of functions... then a general function can be expressed as the linear combination [a sum over a complete set of functions, each function having its own coefficient]"

Finally, we get to a practical real-world example (non-QM):

> "...for instance, the straight line g = ax can be recreated over a certain range by superimposing an infinite number of sine functions, each of which is an eigenfunction of the [differentiation] operator, d2/dx2. Alternatively, the same function may be constructed from an infinite number of exponential functions, which are eigenfunctions of d/dx."

Extending this general concept, we can go into the famous Fourier Transform, used widely for all kinds of classical problems in converting waveforms into frequency peaks, such as in musical analysis, electrical engineering, etc. The wiki page on Fourier transforms has a very brief mention of this view, i.e. The Fourier transform decomposes a function into eigenfunctions for the group of translations.

Here's what looks like a deep dive into this approach to the Fourier Transform (2008):

http://www.systems.caltech.edu/dsp/ppv/papers/journal08post/...
But containers are not just chroot + marketing. Some containers offer real security advantages not found with using straight up chroot. I would agree that the __basis__ of containers is chroot however.

Any search of "chroot vs docker" or "chroot vs lxc" will immediately show that there are some attempts made to isolate the container from the host.

But I will say that I use docker images on a regular basis in chroots for the simple fact that I don't have to wait for debootstrap (or similar) to build a chroot for me.
I also have other worrying symptoms I’d rather not disclose here but it’s more assuring to hear that it’s more common than I thought. Cheers.
https://gitlab.com/iode/os/devices is a pretty short list; why would someone choose this over CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, or even Lineage?
No strong moves.... he has bills to pay at twitter
Australian law seems to be very aggressive in eliminating perceived materials of misbehavior. I'm thinking of how the laws against guns were extended to even BB-guns and slingshots. Is this an extension of the English legal tradition or is it uniquely Australian?
> Why can't a new company simply undercut the competition?

They can and they do [1]. They just don't have the same marketing budget, so you don't hear as much about them.

[1] https://www.zennioptical.com/
I think what happened is that the probably wanted to buy it with their balance sheet rather than $$ which explains why this is a liquidity crisis. Say they have a $2bn in value (crypto, company assets, etc...); they can't place market orders to buy the FTT on the open-market; but they can make an off-market deal with Binance to swap these assets.
If you manufacture glasses, how are you going to get it into the hands of consumers? Luxottica owns the retail stores and the insurance company.
Please explain what you mean by spun up.

If we are talking about emotional stress coupled with a slight increase in heart rate, I would not be concerned about doing exercise. Quite the opposite -- I think a quick jog around the block can do wonders.

The key is to be able to do the exercise without bringing additional stress.
Post title inspired by Doctor Who S09E12 "Hell Bent":
https://youtu.be/p5eHJmQg-_M?t=44
A glorious tearjerker.
It's not always that the internal process is broken - it's that sometimes it takes a very long time to get a new release approved for use (even if it's an upgrade to one that the customer has already been using). Sometimes it's the customer's process that is slow (big enterprise culture), sometimes there are one or more third parties involved. Sometimes it's both.

Many years ago I wrote software for a medical device. Before we could sell the device we needed to get it tested by Underwriters Laboratories to ensure it was safe (wouldn't shock people) and could be cleaned by hospital staff without damage. We also had to do the process to get the CE mark for it so it could be sold in the EU. And of course the FDA needed to approve it. It took nearly a year for all this, before we could offer it for sale and start marketing it.

So there's a third of the LTS lifetime consumed, right there.
I think the general consensus is that "If you say you understand QC, obviously don't".
The two taste waaaay different.

The Kikkoman is "just soy sauce" as I've always known it, and sipping it off a spoon tastes like a mistake. It's thin and its saltiness punches me in the mouth like a cheap IPA.

The Yamaroku is like a fine barley wine. It's considerably thicker, and I can clearly taste the wooden barrel that it was aged in. It's almost as pungent as the Kikkoman, but in a smooth, complex and pleasant way. It's almost addictive, and I keep finding myself going back to the fridge to try it again.

As to whether the Yamaroku is worth 10x Kikkoman.. it probably depends on whether you're a foodie and/or have the money. But I'd highly recommend at least trying it once!
> No one thought the internet was a fad.

Wrong.

[0] 1995 Wired Magazine "Most things that succeed don’t require retraining 250 million people."

[1] 1995 NewsWeek "The Internet is a fad" https://www.peterlundell.com/the-internet-is-a-fad/

[2] 2000 Daily Mail "Internet may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it." https://regia-marinho.medium.com/internet-may-be-just-a-pass...

etc. etc.

Anyone who was a nerd in the 80s and early 90s knows that we spent the better part of two decades being told that the internet was no more revolutionary than fax machines and that most people would never use it.
Wow that’s nice. Wonder what happened to this app
print("${} per BTC".format(data["bpi"]["USD"]["rate"]))

OMG no! didn't javascript add a nicer string interpolation syntax?

print("${data['bpi']['USD']['rate']} per BTC")

yes!
Mastodon feels like if discord and twitter were going through a web3 phase and had a child
But why did they want to remove The Big Red Button?

Sorry if that’s a dumb question.
>Yes. Increase shipping capacity and reduce gasoline costs.

Easier said than done. How do you do this without driving more inflation in the meantime? If supply chains are constrained, deploying a bunch of oil drilling equipment is going to make it worse.

>This is worse than inflation IMO - if you make less money how is that different than things costing more?

What's bad about inflation goes beyond just "inflation was 10% so people are 10% poorer". Inflation hinders trade and financing (why would you sign a 5 year contract when you don't know what prices will be in 5 years?), discourages saving/investment, and adds inefficiencies throughout the economy as everything has to be constantly repriced. Also, failing to contain inflation when there's an expectation of a certain inflation rate leads to higher borrowing costs (for both private and public lenders), because lenders don't want to be wiped out by inflation.

>That can be achieved by lowering interest rates which stimulates capital investment in supply side expansion and facilitated demand by lowering the marginal cost of credit facilities.

That's absolutely bonkers. There's already too much dollars chasing too few goods, and your solution is to unleash even more dollars?
Conspiracy theory was expected but Alameda was spotted to have smoke up a week earlier.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/02/divisions-in-sa...

CZ sounds smart to withdraw quickly not to be the one in a sinking boat and it did sink quickly.
Are Walmart glasses cheaper?

My last pair was about the going rate, although it's been 4 years ago.

I still use Walmart for exams but buy all my glasses from Zenni.com.

They're so cheap, glasses have gone from sacred to disposable.
Again, your dates are badly wrong. You might want to research this subject before you comment on it. In terms of the Eskimo and other aboriginal people who migrated into or across Beringia, the relevant dates would be:

"It is believed that a small human population of at most a few thousand arrived in Beringia from eastern Siberia during the Last Glacial Maximum before expanding into the settlement of the Americas sometime after 16,500 years Before Present (YBP). This would have occurred as the American glaciers blocking the way southward melted, but before the bridge was covered by the sea about 11,000 YBP."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia

This is extremely far north, as far north as 78.0 latitude, so again, you cannot put together a coherent theory that maps skin color to latitude in any simple way, therefore you need some additional theory, beyond UV rays, to explain the unique whiteness of northern Europeans.
Indeed, which is kind of ridiculous. Additionally, it's build on Xamarin (the buggy cross platform framework) instead using the pretty usable WPF / XAML approach, they had to build something great. This also means you get bad performance through an additinal layer of rendering engine instead of direct rendering like in flutter (see https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/7212)

I, personally, prefer AvaloniaUI, a community driven project that uses the same rendering engine as flutter, which gains some pretty good traction atm. Although I doubt that C# will be anything more than niche for REAL UI development in the future. Even Microsoft does not use it for their apps (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578178)... :-/
https://orpheus.network/ (google around for details)

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#med...
Most countries, including Turkey, don't actually define race or care about it really. The U.S. and a few other countries are the exception.

In fact even the UN doesn't really put much stock in it, since the concept is too muddled for it to be useful across 190+ countries.

Ethnicity, the kind provable by family ancestry or genetics, is the usual replacement.
Unit cost probably.