skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice analogy for starters. It's inaccurate, but I think clarifying those differences is something that can happen later if explaining to a new user.

Fwiw main inaccuracy is:

> A Mastodon server (often called an instance) is just a shared blog host. Kind of like putting your personal blog in a folder on a domain on shared hosting with some of your friends.

This is technically true but in practice this kind of thing was never common for blogs outside of university servers, so imo doesn't make for a great analogy. It's also important not to fudge analogies like that because Mastodon's shared instances are different to a shared blog host in some interesting ways.

Most interestingly: moderation. The moderation model of Mastodon instances is pretty fascinating in practice. While it resembles moderation on oldschool indie bulletin boards, or subreddits, the federation aspect makes it really weird. If Mastodon takes off in a major way (overall network at modern corp social network scale) I think we'll start to see really insightful patterns of network interconnectivity emerging as a result of instance-level federation limit/suspensions lists.
And of course they were, what else would they keep it pumped up for.
As with other actions, it's the relationship between the benefits that something brings versus the costs associated with doing it that determine whether or not it's "working".

The costs associated with widespread everyday masking are severe. You even quoted the ones that I'd mentioned earlier.

Just to overcome those severe costs, masking would have had to consistently bring astounding benefits.

At a bare minimum, that should have been a nearly-complete end to the transmission of not just this virus, but others, as well.

Unfortunately, we didn't see that happen, because masking isn't effective.

We experienced the severe costs of masking, but without receiving any benefits from enduring those costs.

This was demonstrated by what's among the largest set of scientific experiments ever performed, involving many millions of people, in many nations, and over two years of masking in some cases.
Just wait until they publish a study showing +4% increase in shopping spend when playing low frequency bass in store.
Umm, yes, I did. It's pretty easy to read between the lines. This article is pretty on-the-nose.
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You also need to watch out for the geopolitical issues before the war starts. Imagine that country A and country B are rivals, but each has its own internally divided politics with Fighters versus Peace-niks. In country A the Fighters bully the Peace-niks into accepting an increase in "defense" spending. Country B isn't deceived, and country B's Fighters try to persuade country B's Peace-niks to agree to more defense spending. Having succeeded they still have to decide how to split the money between tanks and static defenses.

The naive analysis just looks at the military effectiveness of the options. But there may be political implications. Perhaps if country B spends the money on tanks, that gets noticed in country A. That changes the politics in country A and lets the Fighters there persuade their own Peace-niks that more "defense" spending is needed. Whoops! The money that country B spends on tanks doesn't help defend country B as much as you would expect, if in unleashes counter-spending in country A.

What about country B spending the money on static defenses? That could help Peace-niks in country A push for cuts in country A's "defense" spending. That would multiply the effectiveness of country B's spending on static defenses.

I don't think it worked like that with the Maginot Line. Nevertheless, what a General says about military effectiveness misses part of the story.
I'm guessing they sold as much as they could before the announcement, but regardless of the theoretical money value i don't think there was actual hundreds of millions of liquidity so using this stack to wipe out a competitor is probably the most effective way of using it
Hate to break it to you but a few years after Apple made this daring move, almost all Android manufacturers have followed suit.
tl;dr: Differences in rates appear to be due to taxes and different default options included, NOT country/citizenship discrimination.

OK... I'm checking out Hertz using a VPN that puts me in Bucharest, Romania. In an incognito tab, at the OTP airport, Dec 1-8, 30+ yrs old, the 3 cheapest car is 233.29 euros with the button "pay at location".

When I do it from a USA IP for the same airport and everything, it sends me to a different Hertz site that advertises the same cheapest car as 216.00 euros with a "pay later" option (same as "pay at location"), or 181.51 with "pay now".

However, when I look at the fine print of what's actually included, the US site does NOT include sales/VAT tax (19%) or theft in the quote, which the Romanian quote does. There might be further differences too, since I'm only going by the bullet points and FAQ, not the actual agreement.

All in all, it makes it challenging to compare prices because they change depending upon the options you select, and the default options are different depending on which country you're booking from. But the prices all seem close enough to suggest that prices are the same, and then any illusions of "oh it's 40% cheaper in this country rather than that one!" are NOT due to nationality, but simply due to whether the quote includes tax, theft, is prepaid or paid at counter, etc.
Diverse engineers, sure, but tfa is about engineers being occupied by/with matters such as diversity.
I did look into a number of these minimal MTA's, reading a few blog posts etc. before deciding on dma. A couple of neat features:

- Reads aliases from /etc/aliases like the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended.

- Limited (very limited, but good enough for smarthost type usage) spooling support. So if there's a glitch at the moment you're trying to send mail, it's not lost (as DMA doesn't run any daemons, there's a cronjob which checks the outgoing spool and tries to deliver the email).

- Actively maintained, and available in the distro archives.
That's more of a further packing than an unpacking. Although that totally should be an expression for things that go on for too long: "Can you pack this for me please"
Looks awesome!

It has been a while since a new version has been released. Has anything been published regarding future plans? Or is the current version "feature complete" for the foreseeable future?
this is the silver lining to this recession
Binance will buy FTX after liquidity crisis rumors
Agreed that there are no real quality or VLSI engineering parallels with biologics. Spontaneous reversion of mutations, natural mutations, lateral gene transfer, and more are always barriers. Lab work is fun because it always leads to more questions, but it makes the precision of computing only feel like theory crafting.

It's hard to scale in biotech, which does reduce some burden on efficiency. Processes that work at the bench and pilot scale may not work in larger reactors or processes, or only inconsistently. Custom designs for each strain or species would be ideal, but that isn't generally taken very far because it's easier to focus on costs and yields. Whatever can be done most cheaply or the fastest with what already exists is often what wins out.

It's funny, I worked on media development and reactor design for nematode cultures over a decade ago, which I moved to from programming. After frustration with diminishing grants and research budgets, I transitioned to IT, and I'm considering a move to IS to support some projects I care about. The way HN stories often end with "and then I became a software developer and never looked back" makes me feel like I've had my career in reverse :)
Lock her up and throw away the key. What she did was incredibly perverse, disgusting, and immoral. She proved to millions of women that they too can get ahead, for a little while, by cheating, cajoling, and scamming their way to the top.

For women needing role models, she set them back greatly.
But their point was: FTX doesn't purport to be a bank
> Cool, so I can morally use as much as I want because in the grand scheme of things I am just one person.

Fucking yes! We need stringent government regulations, not individual moralizing.

Stop whining and moaning and vote for politicians who will put in place the taxes and regulations needed.
> Even if FTX has stopped withdrawals, it does not necessarily mean they are insolvent.

Update, FTX is insolvent: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590013613586411520
> How fast does you code compile? How long for test to run? How long to deploy to an integration environment? To test environment with real users? To production?

I'm working on ultra-fast iteration development methods for C++ with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMQvsqTDm3k and yes, it makes productivity absolutely unmatched compared to everything I experienced before.
I was learning principal component analysis a few years back which uses Eigenvectors to reduce feature dimensions while minimizing information loss (sorry if I butchered this)

I was really struggling to grok what Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues were and found this video to be the best intuition primer. I wish I had 3b1b when I was in high school and college
Alright, book citation out of the way.. Today I got an invite to a fancy restruant from my internet provider, Frontier. They are doing a customer appreciation dinner. I found a claim that soluable fiber can help relieve radiation sickness by chelation. Might be helpful soon. So with a $65 dollar gift card from my employer (which I prayed to work for) I bought a case of concord grape jelly and a case of peanut butter. And since iceberg lettice is now $3.67 per head in $33 dollar bags of 9 I switched to a romaine blend. But that is just dietary.
Just tried it out today - works on my laptop. Fedora 37 (and I believe Ubuntu has 5.15) has Kernel 5.19, am I missing anything by staying on 5.10?
I stumbled on this one before. Still one of my favorite quotes:

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"Francis bacon"

"Knowledge is power. France is bacon.

When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon." I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is bacon."

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two. If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon", they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd, but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10-minute explanation of the "knowledge is power" bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". At 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.
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That's not a good analogy at all. FTX doesn't need to load a Brink's truck with physical cash and send it to various accounts, unlike an ATM machine.

This is closer to you writing a check and it bouncing not because you don't have enough money in your account but because your bank doesn't have enough money to settle the transaction.
Lisa, I'd like to buy your Tiger[1] stopping rock.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_I
Interesting! I'm thinking ... perhaps a small syntax comparison for prolog/classical datalog vs cozo, would help people used to the classical syntax quickly get started.
I wonder if the authors of the study considered Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). This is the energy expended for everything we do that is not sleeping, eating or sports-like exercise. It ranges from the energy expended walking to work, typing, performing yard work, undertaking agricultural tasks and fidgeting.

If they only selected white-collar / desk workers for the study, then it's possible that people expended more NEAT back then in their office environment. Just looking at movies from the 80s, you definitely see more physically active offices than what you see today. People walking around to pass memos, papers, attend physical meetings, etc in the 80s has been replaced with people sitting at a computer to send emails, chat messages, meeting invites, etc.

Also,the nature of jobs people do today is a lot different. There was a study that showed US men's grip strength has been decreasing from generation to generation. No surprise given that the US economy has been changing from a manufacturing and agricultural based economy to a services one.

Here's an article mentioning the study - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/13/4815909...
Uniswap. Large in terms of volume, not org size.
Also Apple doesn’t have any incentive to ‘fingerprint’ App Store users because they are either logged in or using a unique identifier.
> My point is very clear and simple: all private communication on the internet should be E2E encrypted by default, unless there is a good reason not to.

Are you counting HTTPS as “E2E encrypted”? Because if not, consider that we do private communication over mere HTTPS all day long. Me loading the HN web page and having my own personal rendering of it with my user cookie header and all my upvote/downvote/karma/profile state is private communication, for example.
You should probably not say this sort of thing in public as it may cause people to view you as an emotional or intellectual cripple.
> Were this my source code, I'd probably put the (* 2 a) on the next line (properly indented) so it stood out as the divisor.

And that's exactly how written math does it (big bar for division of complex terms). Infix code notation has an extra set of '() around the numerator and denominator which helps in this specific case.
6% of Americans (10% of millennial Americans) supposedly.

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

Despite actual pictures taken recently...
and besides that - 3/4 of the $4M a day Twitter is losing is the $1B a year interest from Musk's bad deal

To be honest, that's what seems so disingenuous about this article. Why, on Earth, would you fail to mention the fact that the boss is, for the most part, trying to fix losses that he, himself, incurred?
Make the cable gradually less flexible as they get to the connector.
Unless the artifacts were archeologically excavated and professionally conserved, they probably were fake to some degree. The art market treats ancient artifacts like more modern art, which are to be admired for their aesthetic qualities and rarity rather than what they can tell us about the past. They are to be bought and sold as an investment. They are to be displayed to demonstrate refinement, sophistication, and wealth. The result is that unscrupulous "restorations" that enhance the aesthetic value of and apparent condition of artifacts are par for the course.

The Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago has a really great exhibit[0] on this topic right now, comparing Roman marbles archeologically excavated by the university with similar items obtained from the art market. The exhibit opening lecture on YouTube is worth watching if you're interested in this kind of thing.

[0] https://oi.uchicago.edu/marbles

[1] https://youtu.be/DnMO5nYP-eo
The cryptocons will assure us that it's actually unicorn farts.
I agree, I thought that was a bit discordant. A better title, imo, would have been "Kindness, Tech Staffing and Employee Allocation".
You woke up and chose violence today, didn't you? Or is it just so impossible to believe that a social media product actually promotes pro-social behaviors?
Hundreds of lumps of concrete. A tank will go around a single one in seconds.
Not overtly but they do seem to be a fan. They literally described his actions on Twitter as "pok[ing] the first hole in the digital Berlin Wall erected over the past half decade." Which makes it sound like he's made momentous steps forward but as far as I'm aware all he's actually done so far is let you pay for check marks and laid a bunch of people off (the latter of which he also tied into 18th century France, aka shortly before the French revolution).
Cloudflare's Athenian Project
I also was told in my last job that I was way too kind.

They fired me 2 days later, one of the reasons being "you're not cutthroat enough for this business".
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Yes, but if you drill down further into that.. few people actually understand at a deep level what money and government are and how they are linked.

Money is a primary technology for distributing power and control in society. Government is a close second and insofar as it is effective is strongly linked to money.

Cryptocurrency is about making money a high technology.

But certainly society and government won't cede control to some cryptocurrency or decentralized systems with just a shrug.

The role of government really should be to enforce some flexible, evolvable standard for technical integration of different entities in society.

But government represents the virtual monopoly on deadly force and the top of the control hierarchy. We can't just assume that those things will evaporate.
You know you can message people in Instagram, right?
1. How quickly can you understand what others have written in a large lisp project. I found I was spending a lot of time interpreting what was going on rather than the design implementation process itself.

2. unless some clown thought conditional tail recursion was super awesome for the next guy.

3. All code is terrible, but some of it is useful... and if it is only useful to a few than it fails as a language.

Keep in mind I learned on an RPN machine, so understand the sirens song lisp sings. ;)
IDK about elsewhere but East of the Rockies, at least, yes, they're basically used interchangeably in many contexts and nobody cares that a "Silicon Valley" story may in fact be about a company based a few miles from actual Silicon Valley. Sorta like how nobody outside New York cares about the distinction between the boroughs except maybe Manhattan, so including or excluding that information, versus just calling it all "New York", makes no difference to them (/us). In fact I bet a lot of folks think "Manhattan" and "New York (City)" are perfect synonyms, and really, it doesn't much matter that they do.
I hate the bar culture. I'm straight edge. I do not drink. Most people don't believe me. Going to bars where others are drinking is pointless.
Now we have the basis of a movie.
>Generally, if Binance would not have been hostile, they could have dumped their FTT tokens with less effect on the markets. They chose not to do so and telegraphed their dump very openly. This does not reflect well on the crypto industry as general. We will find out very soon.

I think this is a good thing. Companies overleveraging themselves like this _should_ be punished or at least have the risk of this happening hanging over them. FTX tried to create an infinite money machine, it didn't work. They aren't innocent victims here
I think you're writing it off as not actually being valuable in practice, which I don't think is fair.

Should we consider Python's NumPy as not a feature of Python because it's not a built-in library?

A commenter says they prefer to write infix math. Lisp has a completely ordinary, stable, well-known, 30-year-old library to do it. Thus the commenter's concerns are largely allayed.

Not having it in the standard library means people have a choice to use it or not, and it also means one can't expect all Lisp code which has infix math to use it, but it certainly does not means the commenter will be perpetually hamstrung in reading and writing complicated math formulas.
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Did you just dump the entire app into a single Lambda? I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to turn Django apps into services, but it never occurred to me that it could just make sense to dump the whole app in there.
A lot of people, when they hear exercise and physical fitness, imagine something like getting up at 5am and hitting the gym for an hour.

For folks in your situation, I typically advise looking at the overall structure of your life and figuring out what you can change so that you are inherently more active. Try a lunch time walk. Or, one of my favorites, is an after dinner walk to settle the stomach and get a fresh look at the neighborhood. Bike to work. Study less. You got options, you just need to think about what balance you personally want to strike
> It's possible it's just a habit of speaking they've developed.

That's not an excuse. If your habit of speaking causes problems, sometimes the problem is you. Language evolves. Societal norms evolve.
In most (but definitely not all) relationships, one person is more diligent about finances, and the other person is a bit of a free spirit ("budgets are boring").

Is there disagreement? Sure. But not at budget reviews - we agree on shared goals. More at the level of "I'm thinking of buying a ..." We check each other. Sometimes we convince the other to not to buy something, other times it's totally OK, and in a few, we compromise/disagree and commit. Each person understands the financial + practical consequences in that last case. The important thing is there's easygoing communication happening before big money actually gets spent (or not spent).

There's no hiding purchases (or accounts) from the other person. Everything is out in the open. There's also "blow money" / "fun money" - a sum allocated to each spouse that they can spend or save on whatever they want - no discussion necessary.

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(I have relatives that are both free spirits, and in that case, it's tough to see so much money flying out the window. But they keep their income up, and they also automate a lot of their savings so they don't have to think about it.)
Ask HN: Simple stylesheet for changing Mastodon color scheme?
I'm launching an instance of Mastodon. Do you know of an up-to-date tutorial for changing the colors via CSS?
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