skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Keep in mind that in this case, even a perfectly functioning democracy may not give you the result you expect

I don't expect to fully know the will of the majority. If the majority think that clearer skies are great, and let's say that took a significant amount of finances to happen (not sure that it would), people might think that lower taxes are even better. Democratic government is just a vehicle for enforcing the interests of the majority, and I present it here as the potential avenue for reducing artificial Night Sky Brightness (in answer to GGP), with the premise that this is actually in the majority interest.
Well, that’s one reason. Another is that sometimes my headphones run out of charge while I’m away from an electric socket and would like to keep listening - a 3.5 mm socket allows me to do that.
> If Musk is good at anything, it is taking other people's money and building a cult of personality.

That doesn't sound too hard. Why is Elon the only one good at it?!
Think we need to take that with a massive pinch of salt - Musk only came out and said that after the whole thing blew up. The actual contemporaneous messages are simply that SBF wanted block-chain twitter and Musk didn't. It's easy for all the SV people who didn't work with SBF to come out and act the genius now, but it's a bit self-serving.
Same in Poland. And the "landfills" are just random plots of land, often very near high-density areas. The gangsters dump the waste in there, collect the money from their Western clients and disappear before the waste is discovered and police gets involved. Quite often, it's real nasty stuff (very toxic chemicals) and cleanup of one such site costs tens of millions of euros.
EraDB, data observability startup gets acquired by Service Now
DOStodon – A Mastodon Client for DOS
Why does it trip you up? 4 - 3 - 2 does the same, no?
You mean everybody should just be an island with low and very dispersed population, with relatively high development levels at the start and high degrees of self sufficiency wrt basic needs? Why, why didn't they all just do that then!
Most likely, it is included in some kind of ThirdPartyNotices.txt that ships with the game. It's actually pretty hard to sneak third party F/OSS under the radar in the company of this size - there's automated code scanners, among other things, and while they can't catch everything, they sure can flag a copy of a public project on GitHub.
Bro there aren't many players that can't do this... This is a fundamental feature of tens of standalone music players. You just need to explore more than Roku or any other streaming service.
There was a time, not that long ago, when what you say is true. Unfortunately NYTimes gave up caring about accuracy and reliability a while ago.
Have you ever heard the word "colonialize"? Spell check doesn't accept it, google doesn't either.

Colony->colonize->decolonize

Colonial is an adjective from colony. You can add -ize to the noun, no need for this intermediary step.
The alternative is to use a phone OS that has become so unbearable to me after 13 years of being a loyal user, that I decided to switch to iOS. So yeah, I gave them my money but am reluctantly satisfied with the trade-offs… for now.
What is interferometry?
> Note: Personal accounts registered in Germany/Austria/Italy/Greece/Hungary/Poland are excluded from the inactivity fee assessment for 2022.

Why might that be?
As an european I do believe that the European Comission really hates innovation and they believe everyting should be regulated as if only the politicians know what's best for every one. Like they're trying to regulate what kind of chargers we can use, the maximum speed cars can reach, what you can say on the internet and so on. All in the name of safety, terrorism and all other buzzwords politicians throw around to make it sound important. If we'd had the EC 30-40 years ago, most probably would all still be using dial-up for internet or maybe DSL at best and still have BBSs.

And PoignardAzure, yes, I do believe seatbelts and motorcycle helmets should be optional. If you die because you're too cool for them, you die - simple as that.
> In a podcast from 2019, SBF brags about making predictions on the timescale of 1-2 seconds

> While this might have been considered highly competitive in 2019-era crypto markets, it is a far cry from the microsecond-level precision of market making in traditional finance.

The author is confusing tick-to-trade with prediction horizon. The "microseconds" market makers talk about is how long it takes to react to incoming market data and send out a trade message. The 2 seconds SBF is talking about is how far ahead in the future you want to predict price changes over.

Doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence in the rest of the analysis if this is the level of domain knowledge the author has.
For me the main point of the app is having a nicer interface to discussions and getting notifications.
They also have a cypriot CySec new crypto license obtained just 2 month ago that was suspended, the license was obtained from another company that was involved in Financial investment scam in Europe.
But every implementation except clisp, ECL and clisp do it reliably.
> Your point is that centralized financial services on sqlite is good, decentralized protocols on a blockchain is bad?

Where exactly in this comment did I say that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33606218?

> If that is your point, it's a funny one to make in a thread about a CEX collapsing.

What's funny is inventing arguments for other people and valiantly fighting against them.

"Smart contracts" were mentioned as "other uses of crypto currency, as yet unaddressed". I addressed them. I couldn't even care less how you made the illogical leap from that to whatever you accuse me of.
It's money, just like the Zimbabwean dollar
> Though I prefer the X11 compose sequence business where you type <Compose>'a to get á and so on. X11 compose sequences are a lot more intuitive than the Windows U.S. international keyboard because there's no ambiguities, so, for example, a cedille is just <Compose>,c whereas in the Windows U.S. international keyboard layout it's 'c

That sounds pretty good indeed. Any idea how could I go about setting this up under macOS?

> Also, if you program or use a shell, then the Windows U.S. international keyboard layout is just unspeakably unbearable.

I have indeed a couple of little, weird problems when working in the terminal. That's inconvenient but still beats switching between 3 layouts 50 times a day.
The NYT article was biased. Have you read it? Read the author's other articles and the sharp shift in tone. He is strictly apologetic towards the FTX ponzi scheme, the author's behavior is to the level which one could call morally compromised. He has a history of badmouthing other exchanges (e.g. Kraken) while singing the praises of FTX.

Appeals to authority are weak compared to facts laid bare. The fact is that the NYT author has made clear biases against other exchanges and overly forgiving of a single exchange guilty of customer theft, which is papered over in his article. This is unusual compared to all other reporting of FTX amongst mainstream jouranlists. There were no articles attempting to humanize Bernie Madoff, this article hides the fact that SBF ran a ponzi scheme, imagine the same with Madoff, it would be shocking. This is shocking.

Imagine having the Bernie Madoff subheading, "he had expanded too fast and failed to see warning signs". This is the scale of ludicrousness here. The facts aren't subjective or unclear in any way, FTX didn't have customer deposits, which they claimed to have up even until the very end. When it comes to journalism, this is an unforgivable failure.
> I don't see the issue with being able to transport cash across the 'net.

The very idea of “physically unconstrained cash” is relatively new to humanity so there are some unknown unknowns, but even then I think the issues are obvious by now.

The necessity to handle a physical object limits the scale of potential upsides (help relatives, etc.) and downsides (scam people, etc.) of cash—and it might have transpired that, with that necessity removed, the downsides and exploits are much more sought after and outweigh potential upsides.
Thanks for the recommendations!

> Great textbook, I learned all the topology I know from it.

Hatcher's Algebraic Topology was that book for me. https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
If you don’t care about bulk or age of the device, look at used older Thinkpads. There’s a reason why they are popular with hackers of all stripes. Good durability, good Linux support.

If you want something more recent, I advise looking into ex-corporate laptops. Those are usually built to last.
Yep, spot on!

In the next decade I see even Microsoft moving way more towards Linux.

Still unclear on whether they’d ditch the windows kernel for Windows, and adapt the UI for it.
I also have the same experience with memory. Often I'll revisit an area and have a very strong recollection of a particular part of a story/book and be momentarily confused. Until I realise that yes, the first time I listened to a particular story was on a particular road or by a park somewhere. Naturally this effect is reduced if it's a place I go to all the time, presumably because I've overwritten that memory dozens of times.
This depends on the country though. Here in the Netherlands, it's extremely expensive to dispose of things in the "general trash" bin. Recycling on the other hand, is essentially free (at least in my village). Organic waste is not free (except during the holidays!), but it's an order of magnitude cheaper than the general waste.
In 1970s Oregon, I knew four cases where a guy built a house for his family over a few years. They were all outside town. I haven't heard of such projects for a long time, but then I live in town and don't hang out much with that age group.
This sounds more like you need better consumer protection that is government backed and written into law. You shouldn't have to have possible debt just to get that.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your Google Images reference, but the content of the discussions on Reddit since this all kicked off have followed enough of a theme that I can take a guess at what some of those people have photoshopped up for the web masses.

Probably easier to ask outright, why shouldn't I do a Google Images search for Caroline Ellison?
Can we think of any computable number?

And then some uncomputable ones if we give them a name/concept.

It seems quite wild
Hiring freezes and mass lay-offs - who still believes that we aren't facing a recession?
Indeed. https://youtu.be/CchRwnTorjY

subLogic flight simulator is even older (first Apple II version in 1979) https://youtu.be/uvvfJ60gIf0 Microsoft licensed it to make MS FS.

Someone showed me (subLogic) Flight Simulator II, on a C-64 I think before I had a computer. I finally got a used IBM PC as my first computer (4.77 MHz 8088, CGA graphics, 20 MB hard drive) and MS FS version 3 and played the hell out of it, despite how badly it ran. When I installed it at my mom’s work on a 386 with VGA it was like a whole new game.
This has been my idea for starting a business too. Glad to hear there's a way to make a living out of it. It always seemed to me that the used video game market was tough to get into; lots of competition, easy to enter, have to deal with theft and other costs of maintaining physical (and in some case decaying) product. I've seen enough stores go out of business to scare me away from quitting my day job for it.
There's an uncountable number of numbers between 0 and 1, but you, a human, can only pick from a countable subset of those.
The problem goes a bit deeper than just competence vs incompetence of the planner. The planner is a person. A person looks at the mathematical recommendation - and sees that it is cruel: a project should be closed, a lot of people should be laid off. In capitalism, no cruel decision is yours completely: “market forced me to do it”. Brezhnev time Soviet leaders were probably less cruel than an ordinary American capitalist. So the effective economy was out of question.

Also, to be cruel is not enough. You should have a political power to implement an effective solution. Political power is based on relationships. Suppose mathematics says: person A’s project should be reduced, person B’s project should be funded more. But: person A is your guy, and person B is of your rival’s camp. Will you follow the math? It’s probably a theorem: in a planned economy a recommendation that reduces the political power of a person that has the political power to implement it - will never be implemented…
AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein
There is a problem with people putting plastic into organic waste bins though.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24685... (Compost as a carrier for microplastics and plastic-bound toxic metals into agroecosystems)

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aap8060 (Organic fertilizer as a vehicle for the entry of microplastic into the environment)

When I look at the contents of the organic waste bin of my apartment house people often put what they throw in there inside plastic bags, which is kind of understandable because just throwing it in there unprotected and open to the air will probably lead to a rot problem and some really bad smells right in front of the house. I don't think this is collected every day.

I read an article here in Germany years ago that this is a major problem and a leading cause of ever more plastic in agricultural soil.

and also https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345545-most-home-compo... (Most ‘home compostable’ plastic doesn’t break down in garden bins)
I like when someone asks a question that looks snarky, maybe rhetorical like saying "what you are saying is nonsense, look, this question cannot be answered", but then there is a perfectly valid answer
Ask HN: Examples of websites that work well on mobile?
Hi, I'm curious of you have any examples of websites that are fairly complex and also work well on mobile. I feel like all social media websites are completely broken when using my phone. I see mostly these issues:

- broken navigation

- screen flickering

- scroll issues

- non-intuitive controls

- buggy input events that trigger unwanted actions

Do you know any websites that do it right?
> tends to accumulate second-hand spam

The second hand also has to follow spammers. Most humans just don't do that, do they?

> It was the driver in case of e-mail, but e.g. for Mastodon, I'd say political extremism is the primary force. The result ends up being the same, because the dynamics are content-agnostic: users migrate to nodes that offer most reliable communication, and as those nodes grow in usercount, it makes it easier for them to fight undesired communication with blunt tools (e.g. instance or IP blocklists).

I agree with this bit. But I think there is an opportunity to avoid it this time. We're much more aware of the potential pitfalls than when email was conceptualized as a protocol, and we have some quite amazing tools to tackle some of these challenges differently. I predict we'll see some innovation on this front, and I'm honestly pondering participating in that effort. The fruits of that would be very much worth it.
I am on macOS as well and the diacritics I mentioned ("a → ä, `a → à) work out of the box with the "US International PC" layout. If I press ⌥a I get å with my layout.
I think it's less that the parameters are the wrong way around and more that the file-reading feature in grep is redundant and could be deleted.
Curious!
802.11g will be 20 years old in a few months - that's up to 54 Mbps, which is plenty for most things short of streaming video. Similarly, 802.11n (up to 600 Mbps) is almost 15 years old.
Amazing, thank you for your response
You're right about the technical aspect, but the rest of the critique is more about business level stuff like knowing what you have. I don't think you can say the whole piece lacks credibility because he got this thing mixed up.
It amuses me that of your three examples, only speaking English is a product of colonialism.

Chairs were known in ancient Egypt, the fork in Byzantium. Neither is a colonial power by any reasonable definition.
I don't know about creative thinking ... but consistent walking sure as hell helped jump-start my running life. Here's my little story. I'm 37 and was never a runner, but last October a friend dragged me out for a run. We ran a 5K straight-up (at ~6m:30s/KM). It's not a "couch to 5K", as I'm lean and bicycle a lot ("zone 2" cardio) as part of my daily life, eat healthy, and put in many walks and some hikes over the past 3 years. So the "infrastructure" is in place.

This year I ran two half marathons (one in Bruges last month), and went for another "half-marathon forest hike" last weekend:

I had no idea I could run these longer distances, and was not even planning to run. I activated this "latent" potential by a happy accident. Earlier this February, when talking about running with a friend of a friend, she casually said "why don't you register for the half-marathon at this gorgeous nature trail[1]?" I said, "hmm, I never ran more than 7K, and the half-marathon is only 50 days away." "Just register, you'll do fine!", she said. I did register, and diligently trained for exactly about 45 days.

Lo and behold! I completed the first half marathon in April in 2h:12m; and the second one last month in 2h:9m. Both of them without stopping. I'm still surprised by myself. If that acquaintance hadn't pushed me a little bit, I wouldn't have bothered with half-marathons. Now I'm hooked. I'm calling my next half-marathon "cracking 2" (running it under 2 hours). Some runners here might recognize the term "breaking 2" ;-)

Edit: added the missing crucial word "half" (!) at the beginning of the fourth paragraph - thanks, vanilla_nut

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonian_Forest
well, the ABI doc says:

We have not attempted to constrain the interface [of the standard library] at this level, because we do not consider doing so feasible at this time

So it wasn't necessarily out of scope, it was just hard to do.

I think the reason they don't consider it feasible, is because the C++ ABI would constrain the implementation significantly and there was too much divergence already.
Every morning, the first thing I do, is take a 5K walk (just got up, and will do it in a few minutes). Takes most of an hour.

I use it to “triage” the day’s tasks, I often “fix” bugs, on these walks, and apply the fixes, immediately upon getting back.

I also find it's a good time to develop architectures for my projects.

WFM, YMMV
I happen to know that the particular websites I'm thinking of are written by people who got the microservices religion using this technique.
Absolutely outrageously weak piece. I'm shocked. It's a puff piece. The NYT has really dropped the ball here. Worse than incompetence.

The responses to the journalist online are exceptional:

https://twitter.com/yaffebellany/status/1592353938099302401
But the number picker specified the number in their head to themselves before the game began.
I do you enable the third layer? I don't have a menu button on my Mac.
>I wasn't familiar with anti-windup, so I found https://www.scilab.org/pid-anti-windup-schemes that seems to cover the concept reasonably well.

It's one of the fundamental techniques to get PIDs to work properly IRL. I can't find it right now, but I remember having a cheat sheet with a lot of tricks to make PIDs work properly. As a control engineer you learn a lot of fancy techniques, of which you usually only use a few, but practical PID control is sadly not taught in most courses because it's basically a collection of hacks.

If you know a little bit more about the system's behavior you can usually precalculate the optimal inputs and use the PID only for course correction, that often yields much better responses than what you can achieve with a controller alone.

If your system is nonlinear, it might be useful to use gain scheduling to adapt the PID parameters to the setpoint region you're operating in.

Switching behaviors in the system can also mess up your responses.

Sometimes your system has a vibrating frequency that can lead to resonance in your control. You may need to filter that, too, maybe even with a sliding frequency window. E.g. when controlling a gearbox attached to a motor, you don't want to actuate at the motor's vibrating frequency.

>smoothing functions that reduce overshooting the response also add some delay to the time taken

It's not so surprising if you think about what a low pass filter does. By filtering out the high frequencies the response becomes more sluggish, meaning that your input to the PID is already delayed. This means your PID reacts more slowly.
Pi and e come from an uncountable set, but the set of things you can think of is almost certainly countable.
T and X series Thinkpads have served me really well.

Good quality build, replaceable parts and cheap as chips when buying used corporate machines.
I wonder if it is now possible to "get" an object file "out of a library" so I can link it into a test program.
I didn't pick it, that's how the layout works out of the box. I agree that :a would be probably more convenient.
I thought I was the only one… I find ARM to be quite cumbersome and odd. I wouldn’t call it RISC by any means when it comes down the pragmatists, at least not in the traditional sense. I think its popularity stemmed from its energy efficiency rather than elegance…
One thing that stuck out at me in the NYT puff-piece was:

Alameda had accumulated a large “margin position” on FTX, essentially meaning it had borrowed funds from the exchange ... He said the size of the position was in the billions of dollars but declined to provide further details.

Did FTX use their pool of customer deposits to extend leverage to margin traders?
The problem is, I think the people behind that mean well - they really do. But, unfortunately, in a mindcuffs echo chamber kind of way that is removed from the rest of society. Of course, you could argue that this description fits the early stages of any grassroots movement. However, I think this is not grass roots at all - at this point, it's a loud minority.

And whether you agree with their position or not, I think, the woke movement is not proceeding very strategically. Granted, so far their approach - which basically boils down to "lots of pressure" - has been admirably successful. Yet, I don't think it's going to be sustainable. I see a real risk that the tide might be turning and a backlash will happen when the pressure gets too much on those that feel pressurized. This could destroy a lot of successes of the woke campaign, which could be avoided if those pushing these ideas tried to be appear less confrontational, matter-of-factly, and aggressive.

For instance, instead of presenting a proposal like the one hand at hand "top down" - which now meets a predictable opposition - it could be a more successful long-term strategy to get all of the affected people into the same boat first, and then move forward with strong support, rather than dropping suggestions for what appear like radical changes.

I suppose, though, that one reason this latter strategy hasn't already been pursued in some fields is that the opposition, like in this article, just immediately makes more sense, which then leaves little hope to get the changes implemented.
Don't forget about vw/vh; viewport width/height.

https://css-tricks.com/viewport-sized-typography/
> As one example, one such diversity course at Kent university requires all students to affirm that ‘sex is, in fact, a diverse, multi-expressive form of identity and a full spectrum.’

Correct, there are multiple continuous quantifiers which we can use to determine sex and therefore it is a multimodal distribution.