skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are not infinite prime numbers, multiply all of them and subtract 1. This number should be prime
A better way to search, navigate, and understand code on GitHub
There is no reason this technology needs to rely on consumers sacrificing privacy. The big players are trying to create that perception in the public so consumers will willingly sacrifice their privacy regardless.

The tech is there so someone could make a box with no external data transferred that could store and analyze video data. I would be a customer for sure for something that had this capability without the privacy concerns.

Google and Amazon say they want this data for quality control, but I suspect each of them have plans (if not active projects) for converting video inside people's homes into actionable marketing data.
I really like these lists, especially this long. Since I saw something interesting in the first couple of links/descriptions, I bookmarked it and will go through it soon. For me, this is what the internet was meant for. I'm also collecting interesting links to share publicly on my website(s), in a sort of webring/blogroll kinda way.
I read the study's paper (https://www.bis.org/publ/work1049.htm) and noticed a glaring flaw:

They gather stats on 213 exchange apps (187 identified from https://www.cryptocompare.com/exchanges/ + 26 tagged by Sensor Tower). They assume downloaders of any of these crypto apps buy specifically bitcoins, not altcoins. There is nothing to support this assumption. In fact, the majority of these exchanges especially from the list at https://www.cryptocompare.com/exchanges/ cater specifically to altcoins. People who want to buy Bitcoin will do so through Gemini, Binance, Bitstamp, Coinbase, and a few other trusted well-established exchanges. But the majority of this list of 213 exchanges is specifically used to access altcoin markets, because they don't even have a way to deposit USD. These exchanges require users to deposit crypto. So that doesn't match at all the study's authors assumption that the enduser installs these apps as a first-time bitcoin buyer.

Ignoring this glaring flaw, graph 1 charts downloads of crypto exchange apps per 100,000 people, and it is interesting as it reveals that the vast majority of users joined after Dec 2020, which was during or after the all-time highs of that year. In other words, they assume more users bought bitcoins in the last 2 years than in the first 10 of 12 years of bitcoin's existence. Anyone who bought bitcoins before approximately Nov 2020¹ is, of course, still in the green. If graph 1 was showing cumulative downloads instead of daily downloads, this would give a better breakdown of the number of users before and after Dec 2020.

¹ Except during a handful of days in Dec 2017-Jan 2018 when bitcoin was briefly above $17k.
I don't think having your reputation, world standing or military prestige be ruined is a deterrent. Countries that are oil exporters are raking in the money and are able to pursuit their geopolitical goals. Now is probably one of the best times to do it considering the greater global turmoil and energy crisis. Take a look at Russia & Azerbaijan, more will come.
GPS is receive only, the phone doesn't talk to the satellites, which just broadcast their signal to everyone. There is certainly a new radio (& ancillary equipment & antenna) in the latest model to support this feature.
Skyroot – Opening Space for All
Multi-Cloud Reality
This is awesome. I saw Portal, Boku No Hero Academia, the Rugrats and Harry Potter just to name a few. Seems it has easter eggs for every generation.
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There may not be, but behaviors can be shared by groups that have very different tastes. Think religions, soccer, etc.
Well, first the regulators would need to grow a pair.
With feedback, it is likely possible for you to train yourself to subvocalize your thoughts as an act of recording. I thought this sentence before writing it, but I subvvocalized while typing.
Naughty Groucho Marx to the rescue:

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

Disclaimer: I was born during the peak year of 8-track sales.
Apparently getting under their desks was on the off-chance their school is far enough away to avoid being incinerated but still close enough for a pressure wave to blow out all the glass in the windows and turn it into projectiles.
There are hardly any
I wonder how viable this tactic is?

Require all requestors to identify themselves as individual open source hobbyist or closed source commercial.

Refuse the closed/commercial work unless they make a monetary contribution.

The (A)GPL is a source code copyright. It doesn't force you to fix anyone's problem or even interact with them.

If the requestor is a business, it'll be an undesirable development burden to carry their own fork with their own patches. It probably makes business sense to pay instead of hiring their own compiler developer.

Might not make for the best community interaction though.
Where in the world are nuclear disasters “in vogue”?
One thing notable about the way Blizzard has been operating lately is that they remove the existing thing when updating the old thing. I've heard you automatically get "upgraded" to Warcraft III reforged if you have it installed and are logged into Battle.net. I hear Overwatch 1 is similarly wiped out and no longer playable.

The thing that's weird is, I don't think this is normal at all. On Nintendo's end, you can still play Splatoon 2 just fine even though Splatoon 3 came out, even on multiplayer. Multiplayer games often have a long life after they're superceded, even if it's a smaller contingent. If you boot up Quake 3 Arena or Unreal Tournament 2004, you can see there are still players online pretty much always, even if it's a small contingent.

The only good reason I can think of for utterly axing old games is so that you don't have to compete with them. Why buy Reforged for $40 when you could get the original better Warcraft III on GoG? (You can't, of course; you can only get Warcraft I and II on GoG, at least now.) In case of Overwatch, they WOULD have to continue to run the servers. But surely, the majority of players would switch to the new game anyway, right?

My opinion should be taken as a grain of salt because Warcraft III is one of the last games I really liked that much from Blizzard, to be honest. But still, something stinks over at Activision Blizzard, and it's somehow not just Bobby Kotick.
Have to agree. As a hardened Android user it is this type of feature that would make me consider an iPhone
Good point but I'd contend that the SP might have been more durable. I'm not sure. Either way, I liked the weight of it over the DS lite. Both great devices though.
Does it have to be the person who buys the most?

“My company is having layoffs”. People would know that I don’t own my company.
Do they brick all previous iterations of CoD whenever they put out a new one?

My understanding is that they shut down the OW1 servers after OW2 came out...
Ah, there it is. I was wondering when this would happen.

Facebook used to be involved with the Mercurial community, but it was difficult to work with them. They always wanted to do things their way, had their own intentions, and started to demand that the Mercurial project work the way that Facebook wanted. For example, they demanded that we start using Phabricator and started slowly removing sequential revisions from Mercurial in favour of always using node hashes everywhere, arguing that for their gigantic repos, sequential revisions were so big as to be useless.

Eventually the disagreements were too great, and Facebook just stopped publicly talking about Mercurial.

I figured they would emerge a few years later with their fork of it. They love doing this. HipHop VM for PHP, Apache Hive, MyRock; these are examples of Facebook forking off their development in private and then later emerging with some thing they built on top of it.

The Mercurial project is surprisingly still chugging along, and there are still those of us who actually use Mercurial. I doubt I'll switch over to Sapling, because I disagreed with the things that made Facebook fork off in the first place. But if others like Sapling and this manages to put the slightest dent into the git monoculture, I'm happy for the change and innovation. I really hope that git is not the final word in version control. I want to see more ideas be spread and that people can see that there can be a world beyond git.
Isn't that exactly what AST is attempting with their BlueWalker satellite and the planned "bluebird" network?
This is drag race car levels of performance. This would compete in the NHRA Super Comp class if it were a race car.
It seems to be missing sulfur, but otherwise - yep.

If memory serves, one of the big reasons for Britain’s naval supremacy for a long time was their discovery and exploitation of large deposits high-quality of saltpeter in India. Before that, they had “saltpeter plantations” with rows of organic waste soaked with human an animal urine and left to dry in the sun. Before that, it was groups of the King’s men going around the countryside and scraping the stone foundations of buildings and cemetery monuments.
Auto encoders really hit this home for me- you are trying to find an efficient compressed notation of the dataset, and the most efficient way to do that hopefully ends up learning useful rules about the data.
I never liked the SP form factor. It’s too cramped. The original GBA is absolutely perfect. It’s like a DS without the weight of the top screen. It’s too bad it couldn’t have had the SP 101 model backlit screen.

One of these days I’ll do that mod.
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And immediately starts posting crazy propaganda talking points the Russians have been dispersing for months. I guess they could be volunteering as propagandists, but there's not a meaningful difference in being paid to do it and doing it voluntarily. It's propaganda for Russia in both cases.
famous Steve Jobs 1997 opendoc question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o
I see a Squid Game reference, so it's at least reltively recent.
Lists of suggestions on how to avoid them are not in vogue.
Personally, I've used an Envy x360 as my laptop through my CS degree and with 1 more semester left, I can definitively say that having a touchscreen to take notes is much better than cheap pen and paper.

The biggest bonus is having my notes in the cloud. I can reference my notes on my phone, laptop, personal desktop, and on other people's computers. I don't need my backpack and notebooks with me to check on a theorem, pseudocode algorithm from class, or how to format that SQL query.

The second feature I use is being able to copy/paste and move notes around. If I run out of space (I like to keep my column width normalized), I can select an area of notes and move/resize, or transfer to an entirely different notebook. I can also copy text from a professor's slides or from a paper I'm researching, and then annotate that text in my notes.

If I was just taking notes for an english or history class, similarly to @_aavaa_, I don't think it would be as useful. Since I'm taking Math and CS courses with equations, graphs, system diagrams, and code I want to annotate, it's been very worth it. However, for short daily notes or scratch work, I do keep a (paper) notebook in my backpack as there's no bootup time or login to scratch out some ideas.
`sl` is in the home row ;)
Thanks arxanas! This is great empirical research that definitely takes precedence over any hunch, even my own ;D

One of my favourite parts of rationality is simply admitting that the data shows you're wrong
Go Lacks Ternary Operators. Here Are Some Equivalents
> When the unregulated-bank owes billions to millions of people, I guess the people have a problem?

That should definitely be the case. The moral risk of anyone else covering this would be catastrophic.
https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/proje...

> left Facebook in April [2011], and shortly after, we open sourced Phabricator
I would guess that they're using OpenAI's Whisper, which is open source: https://github.com/openai/whisper

It does speech-to-text, then you can use the full force of all the text analysis tools that are out there.
Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I don't think "Ligma" and "Johnson" are 2 real engineers that he rehired.
I'm even more certain that Procreate was developed by somebody with a laptop.
Operation Impossible vibes.
These are the fake employees who pranked news media when Twitter initially did layoffs.
It takes a very great deal of hydrocarbon fuel to produce the ethanol going into our engines. When EVs displace gasohol-burning cars, the ag production, 30% of the maize crop, can go back to feeding people (or, more likely, feeding chickens); and we may hope the fuel used will be synthetics from atmospheric feedstocks.

Brazil's sugar cane operations seem to produce more fuel than the process consumes.
My brain immediately jumped to "but you can just git reflog and then copy the state you want to revert to and then git reset --hard <commit>", but not only is that not simple or obvious, it isn't even correct, since a commit or amend operation can be performed with only some of the changes staged, and a hard reset will wipe out anything unstaged. Ah sigh.

So yes, in short I agree.
Stack of commits seems to be similar to what one would call a patch queue if one is using Git.

The fact that they have concepts like unamend suggests that they have thought about this in a way more turtles all the way down way than the Git designers. A versioning for your history changes—why, of course.
Companies make donations and lobby and such too. I don't see the difference.
The software in the user's computer can't, but the software in the hardware wallet can. It's probably more secure than running the software on a conventional computer, this I can see.
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

— https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The story is slightly more complicated than that. Most people who put money into their 401ks end up with positive real returns. If you invest in the whole market, you're going to get positive real returns in something like 96% of historical 30 year periods. [1] Most mutual funds/ETFs invest in a large enough portion of the market that this number isn't far off.

People who buy a small number of individual stocks end up in a different situation. While their average return is positive, those results have a large degree of skewness (meaning most stocks stagnate or fall, but the meteoric rise of those that do well makes up for it on average). If you picked a random stock in 1992, you'd quite likely have lost money by now.

[1]: https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/224
Not the person you asked, but I came to leave a similar comment. I was curious about Monica, but for a variety of reasons it didn’t click for me.

I use obsidian for tracking meetings, people, and documents in a civic engagement sphere. So hundreds of entities and a few meetings a week.

I have folders for interpersonal meetings (calls, coffee dates, one on ones), public/group meetings, people, and a few other things. Every individual gets a top-level entry in the people folder. Every meeting or personal meeting gets a page in folder; folders are organized by year, then month. E.g meetings\2022\november\public forum with x on November 15, 2022.md

I use templates for each document type; that helps me keep things consistent so I’m tracking the same information for meetings. For meetings I run, I have special templates that help keep me organized.

When I take a note about a person saying something or attending a meeting, I type [[, then I get a list of people to choose from that autocompletes. I use the alias feature on people notes to track things like job titles, name variations, and acronyms.

The approach is more flexible than Monica, and it lets me grow and change the data I collect over time. The tool is a super power. Obsidian tracks all the back links so if I want to find out which meetings a colleague was in, it is very easy to do that.

I used to use OneNote but Obsidian is much more scalable. I’m putting 10x as much info in it as I ever did in OneNote and I expect to put 10-100x more before I move on to something else.

Bonus notes:

Obsidian plugin system is great and has a pretty robust, if not super well documented API. I’m working on plugins to automatically improve records and already have plugins that have saved hours on some special-purpose tags

You can embed pdf documents like images and have a preview show up as an embed. Amazing for meeting agendas.

If you have standard fields for notes, you can surface those in a table using dataview.

Todoist integration is pretty cool if you want to make a “Dashboard” note for project management.

The iOS version keeps the synced files on the file system. That means if you refer to a PDF, you can mark it up with a dedicated app (e.g. PDF expert) in place and keep it synced in your vault.

You can create links before creating a matching note. This is great for fast moving meetings, and then you just need to click into the link to create a matching document.
DuckDB Complements Business Intelligence
The continuous scenes are really well done. The city battle is something that stuck with me long after seeing the movie.
Both and more. Having my data sold to 3rd parties is an obvious first. And if you think the terms of service are enough to cover you, see how fast they can change in everyday life and please reconsider. Plus, data can be sold pseudo-anonymously and build up a profile against which your identity is compared and metered, as in, for example, health insurance risks or crime potential.

Additionally, we, the consumers, have lost the right to own things. Or at least, if we do own things, it comes with all sorts of strings attached in the form of "features" or "connectivity". Which is just marketing lingo to say that you're feeding the cash cow.
No in this case it was just the pearling. :) otherwise we do use master without a second thought in all the forms of the examples you gave.
vbezhenar has a history of erring on Putin's side
Moving from Twitter over to here now:

I've had to work through several issues like this in my career. I think there are really a few options, but none of them are great.

1. Depending on the error, what data is missing, can you fill in defaults? If its possible to handle this error in a way that doesn't compound into the application crashing, then that would be the best. The fact you have postHogId, means to me that most likely its a critical field that can't be missing, if thats the case then this option won't work.
2. The problem with showing the user the error, is that they can't do anything about it really. But that is an option, let the user know a critical error has occurred and have them restart (again depends on the context). If you can't minimize the blast radius this is the only option IMO. Its so costly when issues compound and cause issues well into the future, and it takes forever to really track down what caused it.
3. What I would do personally is have to understand the real context of where this would occur. I've found that most errors can be handled and hidden from the user, but there are times like you said where someone changed database schema that no matter what you do its not gonna work. It would depend on what depends on the success of this call for example, if this is only one portion of functionality vs a very dependent piece of functionality.

Tough situation though, and really there is no right choice, its looking at probability of occurrence, and making decisions based on cost, maintenance, impact to users etc.
Remember - you're talking about a country that instead of turning the valve counterclockwise blows the underwater pipeline up.
It's later in the article as is a link to additional details reported by the WSJ and specific accusations on which FTX directors had personal knowledge.

"the company used FTX customer funds to make the payments. Besides her and Mr. Bankman-Fried, she said, two other people knew about the arrangement: Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang.

"The meeting was previously reported by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Singh did not respond to a request for comment, and Mr. Wang could not be reached. According to a person familiar with FTX’s finances, the exchange lent as much as $10 billion to Alameda."
You know, you don't have to post everything on the internet.
What's your deployment workflow like for keeping it simple?

Google App Engine works great but are there other options?
Straightforward Guide to Dimensionality Reduction
Some places are doing what they're calling 'road diets' where they narrow the lanes, add a bike lane if it doesn't already exist, or an additional buffer between the car lanes and the bike lanes. Near me, in a few places they also changed some 3-lane roads to 2 lanes.
Well, being able to pull off this kind of massive fraud pretty much requires steely eyed indifference to your own mortality and/or consequences anyway.

Most mortals start sweating bullets if they steal a candybar, or at most a car.
>"This is literally just describing him, and none of it is generous."

Yes this is literally "just describing him" which is what makes the article so glaringly bad. Exactly none of these trite details have anything to do with the article's title of "How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed."

I would argue that the amount of attention spent on such trivial details about "him" instead of actually talking about the "How" of his spectacular failure is quite generous indeed.

It's also worth nothing that this piece is in the Technology section of the NYTimes by a journalist who according to his byline "writes about the crypto markets and financial technology." Yet so much of this article would not be out of place in a profile in the Style section.
For an "effective altruist", he was neither that effective or that altruisitic. Odd.
Not sure if you replied to the wrong comment by accident, but that has absolutely nothing to do with my comment that you replied to.
Russia smashed a missile 10km into Poland, killing 2 and wounding some more.

Poland is a NATO member, so that is the likely context of the submission.
Mercurial revsets and phases are two killer features of mercurial that blows any counterpart git has out of the water.

Phases are a property of revisions that essentially let you know their state. By default, there are three phases: public, draft, and secret. You can't rebase a public revision, nor can you have a public revision with a secret parent. So you get out of this concept things like safe rebasing, or barriers that let you keep internal and external repos separate.

But revsets really shine. This is basically a full-on query language for revisions. So you can define a query alias "wip" that specifies all of the, well, interesting revisions: every revision that is not in the public phase (i.e., not in the upstream repo), the tip of the trunk, the current revision, and sufficient ancestor information of these revisions that you can see where you based all of these WIP branches on. In a single query: "(parents(not public()) or not public() or . or head())".

Sure, composing revsets is definitely a somewhat painful process... but it's possible to describe more or less arbitrary sets with a Mercurial revset, and I've never been able to find a similar workable setup in git.