skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't trust Musk as a leader after what he's doing to Twitter. And all the cover ups about why they removed radar and sonar etc from the Teslas, and the false advertising about self driving and battery replacements and all that. They may be good cars, but I'd rather go with a good enough car from someone less manipulative.
I routinely remark to both our product folks, and some of our lower level senior leaders that 'just' is one of the most expensive words in the English language, and please avoid using it when you're trying to decide how much effort something will take. They're not intentionally trying to trivialize the effort, but they're causing themselves to misunderstand the effort involved by presuming it to be simple. Just ask the development team for a real estimate.
An automobile that 'lane-splits' to pass a bicyclist isn't moving between two other automobiles, they are (partially) blocking two lanes of traffic to pass. Basically it's a half-assed passing maneuver. When you discuss a two-wheel vehicle and talk about lane-splitting you are talking about moving in the middle of two lanes between automobiles, essentially claiming a middle third lane that's not marked.
FTX Sells Itself to Binance Amid Liquidity Scare at Crypto Exchange
This title made me wonder, what ever happened to monkey pox. Turns out that it has more or less died away.
Can you propose one?
Or it can just give someone root.
Former 80s punk guitarist here. "It's really easy to make boring punk music" - so true! It was easy to identify the greats at that time, some of whom the narrator cites - Bad Brains, Minor Threat, DKs, etc. We found out about them through word of mouth, live shows, fanzines, listening to records at friends' places, or college radio. But man was it hard to write songs as good as that. And maybe the problem was we were listening to too much punk and hardcore and were determined to reject everything about "classic rock," and the 80s electronic influences that were taking over the pop charts.

These seminal hardcore bands not only had fantastically skilled musicians (including vocals), but also they were coming from a much different place than we assumed, something I didn't find out until later.

It's a mistake to think of them as amateurs who only knew the Sex Pistols and Ramones before they picked up their instruments. Bad Brains started out as a jazz/pop band. Greg Ginn of Black Flag also had some kind of jazz backgroud. I read somewhere that one of their favorite albums in the tour van in the early 80s was ZZ Top's Eliminator. Flea, who played bass in Fear before cofounding RHCP, was a high-level French Horn player in high school. East Bay Ray - surf and jazz. D Boon of the Minutemen studied flamenco guitar at one point.

There's a great book by Michael Azzerad (Our band could be your life, https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/michael-azerrad/our-band-...) which gets into the influences of many 80s/early 90s bands including Minor Threat, who late in their existence were veering off into U2 influenced rock.

I know hardcore is fast, but had no idea the BPM was 300-400 for many of these songs. I remember seeing the Circle Jerks once and their new bass player couldn't keep up. His hand was clearly in pain.
Conversely I have learned to distrust any software developer's opinion on a subject of how easy it is to do something, especially when it comes to replicating the actions by a layperson, when they blurt out "Oh, it's easy, you just..."

"Oh, it'll be easy to distribute this update to our customers (who are Doctors), you just have FTP into our server, unzip it, and copy the files into your Program Files directory."

"Oh, that's an easy problem to solve, you just have to get the client site to standup a docker container on their infrastructure and..."

Just... don't.
So this is presumably going to stop the bleeding for customer deposits at FTX. I wonder how this all shakes out with Alameda - because it looked extremely likely that Alameda and FTX were doing a fair amount of business between each other, and now Alameda likely will be forced to unwind a load of illiquid shitcoin positions, CZ isn't going to want those loans outstanding (or maybe he will - pull the same move again and hold a gun to Alameda's head ready to force liquidition whenever he likes)
Consider that many users of computers think any search box is Google and any word processor is Microsoft Word
Unfortunately, a subset of cyclists users the bad behavior of drivers as an excuse to be rude to pedestrians.
Tauri 1.2.0
TIL PyTorch, CPU and fp16. short story
Uhhhh. Who are you? Now I wanna know.
One big question is: do those API implementations keep any state between requests in RAM or is all the state in the front-end and/or database?

If there is no local state than serverless is a feasible solution, if not the best. If there is then you need to find some substitute for that local state and the case for serverless is much worse.
If the black hole formed while in the system, the resulting radiation would wipe out all life in a light year radius. If the black hole captured the star, the tidal forces would slowly rip the planets apart.
If history with this client is any indication, they will not realize I have offered these viable solutions at all.

A week or so from now the warehouse will complain vaguely that they have “no place to write”.

The client will blame me for the poorly designed packing slip and suggest we “just go back” to the Excel version (which required multiple hours a day of manual data entry by an employee who is no longer at the company and cost untold $ in human error).
The second is the problem and the only real solution is policing it.

Bike cops, perhaps.
App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app to Apple
Title is incorrect, they signed a non-binding LOI. They will first do a lot of Due Diligence and might back out of the deal anytime.
Some ex-Dice guys are at Embark Studios and their next game seems to be bringing back destructible environments.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYYiP2cKHKs

https://www.embark-studios.com/
ELI5: they call themselves “exchanges”. they are more like banks. liquidity crunch means they don’t have money to pay back all the customers.

real bank - fdic protected for people. maybe fed govt bailout

ftx - bailed out by competitor Binance
> I wish there was a way to support the first (which I know is the common case by a long shot) without enabling the second.

I think if we can all take a deep breath and acknowledge that it is a relative majority who ride with situational awareness and understand right-of-way, even if sometimes the specific dynamics of a specific interaction means the rule won't be strictly obeyed in all scenarios, and that's fine.

There are many, many cases where I ride (SF bay area) where drivers are so extremely deferent and "nice" that they give up their right-of-way and just wait for a bike to roll through the intersection, even if it's clearly their turn and the obligation of the person on the bike to stop. But this gets back to the points made elsewhere about why right-of-way exists: for predictability. It's easier on everyone and conserves mental/decision-making effort to just do what right-of-way dictates. It gets to the point where I forcefully put both feet on the ground and stare through their windshield til they get the message and go.

While we're on the point of complaining about unsensible driving practices: do not stop for bikes who want to ride across the street in a crosswalk! They are not pedestrians, they have to use the road! They can wait for traffic to pass, it's fine. No, I don't care if it's a mom with her baby on the back, she has strong instincts around safety anyway and won't do anything dumb around cars. Relax and trust other people.
Wow. What an outcome to the whole saga. I wonder what happened behind the scenes
Hi Nathanael,

Patrick here, CTO of Neoplants, thanks you so much for spending the time learning about what we’ve built. TLDR: we’ve put together a white paper explaining the technology behind what we do, as well as the performance data we’ve accumulated so far: https://bit.ly/3hjMqsB

As you pointed out, the range given by the Nasa study covers 2 orders of magnitude, this reflects the difficulty to extrapolate from their data to real life situations.

Even though our first product, Neo P1, is “only” 30x better than normal indoor plants, it’s already a great improvement over anything that’s been done in the scientific literature to date (usually improving phytoremediation by 2 or 3x) , and this is just the start of the adventure. As you said, we expect to continue to leverage our metabolism and microbiome engineering technologies to have even more performant plants every year.
I usually rely on word of mouth through people I know or follow on Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc. I can't recall a time recently where I've sat down, opened up the App Store, browsed for something useful
Ah, I see. I misread what they were saying.
This seems to be an inevitable consequence yes.

The Idaho stop changes the rules of a 4 way stop, because bikes have three modes, and cars have two.

I'll assume we all know the rules of a 4-way, which, by the way: 4-way stops suck, they should be roundabouts in almost all cases, and this nonsense is a big part of why they suck.

That said: two cars rolling up to stop signs can know which one gets to cross.

If it's a bike, the bike gets to cross.

If the car claims the right of way out of a full stop, and the bike is not in roll-mode (which it has absolutely no business being, in this scenario), the bike to stop.

But look: if a car is at a stop and a bike is heading across its path on any reasonable vector, hitting the gas is asshole behavior. Cool your jets.

That's the moral intuition, the rule needs to be that bikes get the tie break on any right-of-way question involving stop signs.

It is, to end where I began, a consequence of having the Idaho rule in the first place.
To the best of my understanding,

- starting state had FTX as insolvent, but had enough money to cover the withdrawals of their token (FTT)

- Binance CEO announces that they're going to dump all of their FTT because they don't trust the stability of it

- now there's a bank run, and people are making enough withdrawals to expose that FTX is insolvent

- FTX pauses withdrawals (because they don't have the cash)

- Binance bails out FTX by purchasing it
Hi David, Lio here from Neoplants, thank you for your comment! The plant itself is also bioengineered to purify the air, but for people who will want to maximize the performance of Neo P1 we will indeed recommend adding back the power drops (microbiome) on a regular basis.
Condorcet has arguably worse features:

1. Even harder to explain to the average voter than RCV

2. Greater likelihood of nobody winning / needing to conduct new election

I am of the belief that RCV is not great, but that it is significantly better than status quo... and it is possible.
I love how their response to "your lock is bad" is "you don't really need a good one". I guess that's supposed to convince me that spending over $300 on a lock is what I need.
"Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone." - Bagehot
It seems that I really did misunderstand the differences.
It is now under LGPL. The repo still requires CLA for contribution for the moment until I am really sure.
> App permissions are granted when the app is installed, not when it's run

This is not the case in iOS, and I don't believe it's the case in android either, IIRC. You can also always audit app permissions via the settings app.

> how do I revoke it

Settings app. No idea how I'd do it in the browser, FWIW. Nor how I'd audit what permissions an app has.

> it still running in the background accessing my location at all times

Apple has a "allow location access only while running [in the foreground]" option as well. Not sure about Android.

> Furthermore, apps update silently, and are they giving themselves new permissions or not with each update?

They are absolutely not doing this. Security auditors would be screaming from the rafters if Apple or Google allowed app updates to change their permissions settings.
September's cover of Fortune was quite the jinx

https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/COV.W...
I can’t go so far as to change how the warehouse operates.

Why not? That's what differentiates those who sling code from those who do real Digital Transformation (not the crap our bosses spout off.)

it wouldn’t hurt to answer my questions about how the warehouse operates and ask me to come up with solutions in line with that

This says volumes about what they think about you and worse, what they think about their business and the problem at hand.

Most users are fleas who used to jump 6 feet but now only jump 3 feet because they can't even imagine any more.

Sorry to hijack the discussion and I didn't mean to suggest you should be doing any more than you are. (Believe me, at my rate, I get the job done and move on.) I just enjoyed seeing someone bring up the bigger picture.
My only problem with Noita is that the back half of the game basically disregards most of the physics and chemistry systems. It’s more based around exploiting the build-a-wand system so you can e.g. generate infinite black hole chainsaw spells that let you blast through rock at a million miles an hour.

It is the only game I am aware of that I would say has a true “chemistry engine” along side its physics engine. (Though props to designers of Zelda BotW for giving objects internal properties besides just velocity & mass that facilitate reactions and interactions. Falling sand games that Noita takes a lot of inspiration also often have “chemistry” interactions but generally don’t incorporate physics bodies and are more of a simulation toy box than a game).
Landau/Lifshitz: "Mechanics" has a chapter on small oscillations
Gap sells its China business after 12 years
Serilog wasn't the issue, I'm still using it. The problem was LiteDB not being able to open a database sometimes, and also reading those logs through LiteDB Studio was a PITA.
Adverbs are easily overused.
Related is the amazing Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City California.
So what would you want people to say to you in that situation?

It's also true that at some point, if people are overly prickly, but the problem absolutely has to be solved, then it's going to be 'show me the logs of exactly what you've been doing, now go take a break and let me work on it.' That also will piss people off, most likely.
sorry for the delay, yes we plan to do that!
Having the inability to know if a message is propagated federation wide, based on an arbitrary value judgement based on ????, renders it useless as a communication medium.

For this to work it needs to be treated as a common carrier, and not a social network.
> Police in those cases are not trying to root-cause the accident. They are assigning legal blame. Here in the US, if you are driving a car and a child suddenly runs out into the road in front of you, you are at fault regardless the circumstances. The child's behaviour was the root cause, but the car was at fault.

That might be true in the US, not so much in the UK. The police reports try to determine root-cause, including any mitigating circumstances for any party involved. Insurance might consider that as “legal-fault”, but the courts don’t. They’ll use it as part of their evaluation, but judges and magistrates also include other information that might be pertinent when trying to divvy up fault.

> Where I live now there aren't many road cyclists, but like the child, if a cyclist does something unpredictable and a driver doesn't notice, I assume the driver would still legally be at fault.

Has it occurred to you that if a cyclist making a minor error results in a car hitting them, it might be that the driver was far too close to the cyclist? It not like a bike can accelerate or change direction extremely quickly, giving a bike a couple of meters of space is usually all you need to ensure that a collision doesn’t happen if either parties do something unexpectedly.

Finally the most common cause of bike-car incidents is driver doing stupid things like pulling out in front of bikes, or more likely, turning across them unexpectedly. Cars can behave just as erratically and unpredictably as bikes, difference is, car occupants rarely suffer serious consequences.
Author here, thanks for the perspective.

I’m absolutely on board with it being easier to build something today than ever before. SaaS, public cloud providers, billing platforms etc. all exist and are awesome.

My viewpoint is that it’s harder to build something original or financially viable.
Sometimes it feels that all the low-hanging fruit has been picked hundreds of times, and anything truly significant is out of reach.

I‘ve had dozens of ideas I didn’t pursue further after asking myself „if this is such a great idea, why hasn’t somebody else already done it?“.

Maybe that‘s a loser‘s mindset ;-)
Hi socialismisok, Lionel here from Neoplants. We do not want to prevent our customers from propagating their neoplants, so Neo P1 will not die without its soil nor without its microbiome, so if you feel like sharing some cuttings to your friends for them to discover our concept, you’ll be able to do it. However, when it comes to air purification performance, purchasing the full value proposition will be needed, not only to ensure the bioengineering features are well expressed in the plant but also for the microbiome, the shell and the size of the plant that play a crucial role in our products. In addition, all of the bioengineering we do is proprietary IP and we will deliver a certificate of authenticity with your Neo P1.
"Drivers are mean to me so I get to be mean to pedestrians" isn't the excuse you think it is.
> Does anyone know of an example of a simple physical system where eigenvalues have a physical interpretation?

Oscillation modes in mass-spring systems. Here is a simple one with 2 masses and 3 springs, so the matrix is only 2-by-2.

https://math24.net/mass-spring-system.html

With more than 2 masses, you don't need to arrange the masses on a line, but you can have a 2d or 3d arrangement, with interconnecting springs. I am sorry I failed to find an example image.

The theory is explained, for example, around page 479 in this Thornton and Marion Classical Dynamics textbook. But you need to read about Lagrangian mechanics (chapter 7) before it makes sense.

https://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Classical-D...
Thank you for saying that Jason; it means a lot coming from you.

I remember when you sent me that email months ago it was super cool for me. The creator of WireGuard emailing meee? whoa! Anyway. Thanks again for the kind words.
The vibration of a bell (say) could be modelled by a matrix, with a state vector to represent position, velocity, and acceleration, and the matrix modelling the differential equations describing their evolution over time. The eigenvectors represent a basis of the system, so that we can describe any potential state vector as a sum of eigenvectors. If we do so, then each step of the system can be modelled by multiplying each of these eigenvectors by its corresponding eigenvalue. If an eigenvalue happens to be complex, then we can describe it in phasor form as the product of an amplitude and a angle. The amplitude tells us how it will decay (or amplify) over time. The angle tells us the frequency of oscillation, and thus the note that the bell will typically sound.
> There was no latency, or waiting for the language at all. I could live in a running Lisp image and iteratively define my programs from the inside out, or in whatever way I wanted to, with immediate feedback after each change.

I am becoming more and more convinced that developer latency is the most important metric for being able to deliver value to your customer (broadly defined).

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?

Lisp in some ways is still unmatched in this metric, for the kinds of reasons cited by the author.
And ... not quite correct. The paper at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202204315 even says "Tetrataenite has been found as a terrestrial mineral".

That (second) paper, at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2138/am-2015-5061/... , says:

> Here we report the characteristics of terrestrial tetrataenite from an ophiolite-hosted Ni-bearing magnetite body from the Indo-Myanmar ranges, northeast India. Although the mineral assemblage surrounding it is very similar to that found in the meteorites, the postulated cooling regimes cannot be similar. The mineral is formed as a consequence of hydrothermal alteration of ferromagnesian minerals of the olivine and pyroxene groups.
> If a community forms and after I understand the consequences a little bit more, the license may change if the community decides that it is better for the long-term good of the project. For the moment though, it is staying AGPL.

Yes, I do want to be clear: I encourage you to use whatever license you like. You wrote the code! I was just curious, because it would also affect the license of any hypothetical software I wrote that used the library.

Here's a super oversimplified version of the main license types (I am not a lawyer):

- Permissive: "Do whatever you want but don't sue me."

- LGPL: "If you give this library to other people, you must 'share and share alike' the source and your changes to this library."

- GPL: "If you use this code in your program, you must 'share and share alike' your entire program, but only if you give people copies of the program."

- AGPL: "If you use this code in your program, you must 'share and share alike' your entire program with anyone who can interact with it over a network."

The AGPL makes a ton of sense for an advanced database server, because otherwise AWS may make their own version and run it on their servers as a paid service, without contributing back.

But like I said, I'm simplifying way too much. Take a look at the FSF's license descriptions and/or talk to a lawyer. This shouldn't be stressful. Figure out what license supports the kind of users and community you want, pick it, and don't look back. :-)

(I may end up writing a super-simple non-persistent Datalog at some point for an open source project. My needs are much simpler than the things you support, anyways—I only ever need to run one particular query.)
I directly addressed this with my following two paragraphs. It's not secrecy, we're fully aware of why they were unarchived and have no reason to think there's any other reason.
Sure, for sufficiently advanced definitions of “growing up”.

Opportunities to push yourself all the way to the limit don’t come around every day. Nor do a bunch of smart, experienced people who are willing to give you brutally honest feedback.
That can't be right, some of us have worked for IBM and no longer have souls.
CZ triggered it, destroyed FTX, and now gets to be the hero.
Hi missosoup,
Lio here, co-founder of Neoplants. At this point we are not considering subscriptions for Neo P1, only bundles to keep things simple. When it comes to that article quote, it is referring to the 4 pollutants we are targeting: Benzene, Toluene, Xylene and Formaldehyde, which are the 4 main Volatile Organic Compounds commonly found in houses, highly carcinogenic and very hard to eliminate (not just capture). You can learn more about that on our Product Page here: https://neoplants.com/product
When you're rotating something, the axis of rotation. That's the point that doesn't change in rotation ("maps to itself").
can't beat the JVM, python is great for many reasons and situations though
That's a logistical issue, not a sub-bass issue!