skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a major expansion of the park near Paris in progress.

https://www.disneytouristblog.com/walt-disney-studios-park-p...
> Blockchain skeptics are all defending the tech of the current financial system, and implicitly arguing it can’t be improved.

Homeopathy skeptics are all defending the mainstream medical system and big pharma, and implicitly arguing it can't be improved.
It replaced the trading mechanism of existing stocks with its own. It didn't replace the traded stocks with it's own stock or stocks it controlled, which is what crypto is trying. Perhaps the example was not clear.
Part of the driver is new, but part of it is just existing code that is part of Mesa.
ONLYOFFICE can also do collaborative online editing, and sharing, for free (and it's also open source!)

https://personal.onlyoffice.com/
I worked as a client performance engineer in a former life. It is not slow server performance “almost every time”.
But this is a government. Their operations, and the impairment thereof, affects millions of people. Further, they should be in the business of governing, not cobbling together solutions based on stackoverflow posts.

Collaborative, concurrent document editing is a must-have feature, especially now with so much remote work.

So it’s not just dirty dishes. A more apt metaphor would be a house where 10% of the time when two people enter a room together, they both lose their phones in the room, can never find them, and have to get new phones. I mean, I guess you could decide that outcome is better than a house in which 0.0001% of the time, the US government looks at the contents of the phone, but I don’t see why you would.
It produces the ilusion of escape from hopeless circumstances.

Stuck in a dead end job. Gamble.

Alimoney and no way out. Gamble.

Stuck in a dictatorship which can crush your life for arbitrary reasons every day. Gamble

Its a valve for deeply dysfunctional societies. A faked flame of hope for hopeless situations.
And some find staring into one's eyes and holding eye contact with strangers kind of aggressive :)
I can't sleep in silence.
> Then the companies using "BigBucksDB" decide to transfer all of their customers funds into their own accounts at a real bank and declare bankruptcy.

Not your keys, not your coins. If some random company that you don't trust has permission on the chain to transfer your funds, you're not doing it right.

> That fraud has still managed to be committed.

FTX was plain old fashioned fraud, the fraud wasn't committed on a blockchain. Ironically, blockchains (in particular decentralized exchanges and "DeFi") are a solution to the type of fraud FTX committed. They purported to be in custody of their customer's funds, while in reality they frittered them away, because there was no transparency. From the perspective of people who had Bitcoin and Ether in their own custody, the chain has been chugging along as normal.
When I was working at a large company, they moved all money out from Paypal every night without exception.

I'm not sure why anyone would keep money in Paypal or Stripe.
This has a lot of truth in life in general, not just in software. We spend so much of it expecting to fix certain things in our relationships, our physical environment, our society - later. But then you grow older, and you realize you'll have a lot less "later"'s available for doing anything than you may have imagined.
wrong, they figured this up using trigonometry having 10x mistake as an outcome from inability to measure disc of Sun in angular units with enough precision.
Backed tokens are still a trust liability with the issuing party. They have a place and are interesting, but it would make sense to limit the scope of exposure.
Starting e-mails with "dear Isis" just feels like begging to be added to watch-lists.
Border radius is not 'correct design'. It's subjective design. There are places where `border-radius: 0px` works and places where it doesn't. Context matters more in design.
I had the chance of making one in Oct 2021 following Javier's advices on his docs. This was a lot of fun. I printed the 3 required parts on my Prusa MK3S 3D printer. Perfect at the first attempt. I learned how to weld, not so difficult and I could make it also at first attempt. The MPXV7007DP component was indeed difficult to find at that time, but I could find one at Farnell for 18€ (and Digi-Key at 19€). It seems it's still difficult and expensive to find at the moment (but available at about 25€). The result is very nice. The sound also very good with most of the effects you can have on a real sax. And I love the geek look of this sax.
There are two models:

1.) Those without checks who take everyone but later will easily bann/block accounts.

2.) And those who are more restrictive to take on customers but will work with you instead of blocking your account.

Everyone needs to chose their preferred payment provider, you usually can't have both.
As a hobby or are you actually getting some benefits?
> Doesn't mean the pilot is superfluous

the pilot is the pilot, but 80% of the crew is, if the plan is to got from A to B. Maybe a second pilot for backup is a good idea, but is cabin crew selling lottery tickets on flight?
It uses only BLE. What's the point when Briar is a better alternative?
Reading the Vitalik posting made me think of this, also on HN right now:

https://annasofia.xyz/2022/11/05/criticizing-computers.html

Every problem, issue with crypto-tech seems to be solved with yet another layer of crypto-tech. Every criticism of the tech is deflected by pointing at yet another project that is claimed to fix what is being criticized.
Show HN: Aliasing as Art – Moiré Patterns
I've found myself focusing on all the chaos going on in the world to an extent that's not healthy. So I decided to make some art that tries to find a little beauty in what otherwise seems chaotic.

This is based on the concept of aliasing[1]. That's exactly what anti-aliasing is normally trying to address in computer graphics, but here aliasing is leveraged to generate interesting visuals. It took some doing to overpower the anti-aliasing that browsers insist on doing. If you look at the JS embedded in the HTML, you'll see that it's nothing more than ~4,000 straight lines being drawn from the center of the window to the edge of the circle that circumscribes the corners of the window. Those lines alternate between cyan and purple, all on a yellow background. The elaborate patterns are merely interactions between the jaggies[2] of adjacent lines. If you want to get more intuition for this, try downloading the source and increasing the increment size in the loop (i.e., the `milliradians += 3`) until you can clearly see the straight lines.

Try dragging your browser window around the screen while the Moiré Pattern is up and you'll see another level of aliasing that is evocative of magnetic field lines. Aliasing is all around us when you know to look for it.

Rendering these patterns digitally is not new. Many of us were doing it 40+ years ago on 8-bit computers (e.g., Apple ][ and Atari 400/800). In those days it was typically integer based. It's freeing to be able to use a little floating point here.

I hope the pleasing aesthetics born of complexity helps others process the chaos around them. And if you're aware of other artistic endeavors leveraging aliasing, please leave a comment!

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[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggies
Since no-one else in the comments seems to have pointed this out, I'm pretty sure these are all examples from real apps, which is how they're deciding which is correct.

It's not so much about choosing the "better" design (although in most of these cases one of them is objectively better), but choosing the design used in the real app.
The gambling industry is like the tobacco industry, in that no matter how legal their product is, it's going to be run by gangsters. Because working with it, you can't in the long run deny the deadly human misery you create and profit from.

So taxing it is no solution. It would have been better to let that foul industry keep corrupting Malta, than let them start corrupting the Netherlands as well. They won't be paying taxes for long.
The concept of creating a startup to build other startups as a well-defined and repeatable process came to be when Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, originally meant to be an incubator. As you can imagine, Gross firmly believed in the process of ideas arising in a person’s mind, and ultimately turning into viable businesses – which is why Idealab was named that way in the first place.
Very big article that basically buried the core difference: zero trust or some "trusted transaction manager".

Moving from the second to the first is very trivial - just make it based on distributed consensus of nodes that are run by separate entities, may be even several different cloud vendors.

AWS also doesn't have some interesting things from crypto-world - smart contracts, that are just like lambda functions that couldn't be altered in any way and could be trusted by third-party. They have Nitro Enclaves, this is close, but quite hard to use.
Heh, I do know that to some extent, but I feel like it’s a different issue. We are all submitting sensitive data all the time, and trusting that whatever service we are using (and the services they in turn are using) will handle our secrets responsibly.

But that stuff is regulated by laws (GDPR etc.) and, at least to some degree, self-regulated by economic principles (leaking passwords or credit cards should be bad for business). More importantly, though, it isn’t in itself a violation of security best practices. You often have to submit sensitive information to live in the modern world.

What is totally unnecessary, though, is for highly trusted services to teach people to share sensitive files unreservedly, just because they are really nice to have during debugging.
> If you never have to come back to “fix it”, was it actually wrong to begin with?

1. Ah, we often "have to", but also aren't allowed to because it would rock the boat too much and take too much time.

2. Unfortunately, too many coders share your attitude, and then other people have to work with what you guys left us - facing the consequences of making it do something which is different than the original settings, and being stuck with some jerry-rigged and inflexible set of assumptions. At least sketch out in comments what the better solution was supposed to be and where you cut the corners!
I was well into smartwatches and was planning to scale up to an Apple watch or Garmin or something higher end.

Then I got a Longines automatic, and I remembered why I loved mechanical watches so much.

So, it's back to basics for me. While the features are nice, It's nice that my watch is "charging" itself as I wear it.
We already have functional, audited, open source DEXes and have had them for years now.

Uniswap was the first well-done AMM (automated market maker) design. It's on version 3 now, and has traded more than $1.2 trillion in volume: https://uniswap.org/

The smart contracts are posted here: https://github.com/Uniswap/v3-core and can be viewed directly onchain as well: https://etherscan.io/address/0x68b3465833fb72a70ecdf485e0e4c...

FTX was primarily used for perpetuals trading, which is a type of leveraged derivative product. Popular decentralized perp products include:
GMX: https://gmx.io/#/
and Dydx: https://dydx.exchange/

Vitalik is certainly influential, and he did conceive of and invent the first smart contract blockchain, but he doesn't call the shots any more than Tim Berners-Lee controls the web.
From what I know this is Czech company, not Russian.
The grumpyness is what I love about him. But in the supercut I watched, he is constantly specifically attacking other men's masculinity in a way which felt super toxic. There's plenty of healthy ways to present a grumpy character but Gilfoyle's behavior with regard to masculinity just sucks.
Decentralized data stores exist. IPFS is perhaps the most widely known. But if you discount imaging and store only medical summaries (which if we're being honest is often the only thing doctors look at after the fact anyways), it would definitely be technically feasible.
Same here, had everything right until Skip button when they chose dark pattern is correct approach to not give user clear options, which I call BS. Stopped test right there.

Ideally it should be regular button with outline and some greyish color, but not completely hidden button.

Btw. quite easy for someone working in QA.
A fork is not a theft. The code allows for forking, doesn't it?
Trust is expensive, lack of trust is even more so.

Say, how would you build a skyscraper without trust? Are you going to set up an on-premises laboratory to test the quality of the concrete and steel? Are you going to personally verify the entire building's plans? Check whether the geological study was accurate? Follow every worker around to make sure they don't cut corners anywhere?

The less you can trust that the many people involved did their job, the harder and more expensive it gets to actually get the work done, until it turns out it just can't be practically done.

A lack of trust gets you a place like Afghanistan -- where the moment you stop looking stuff starts disappearing.
This isn't a port of an existing driver. It's completely new Kernel space + user space driver. Of course it makes use of the mesa "framework" but that doesn't mean the driver is 27 years old.
Yeah, basically everyone. "Blockchain" as commonly understood was brought into being by Bitcoin, and encapsulates far more than just a linked list with a cryptographic component.

If it doesn't contain a mechanism for trustless, distributed consensus, then it's not really a blockchain in the sense that HN or the wider industry understands it.

Your definition is wide enough to cover a lot of things that are well outside of normal discussion of blockchains. I'm not insinuating this is your goal, but it is a common argumentation tactic of people desperately trying to defend the sector, to widen the definition until they can include within it things like git, and then say "so of course blockchain tech is useful! You're using it!"
I discovered it innocently. I wanted to create a gmail address named support{myfirm}.gmail.com. Of course I instantly understood what you point out but then I had to discover all the other edge cases.
> Sometimes it takes months for regular new employees to do anything productive in some of these codebases.

Which is most probably why most of them were just kicked out. Twitter isn't complicated, it's literally just a micro-blogging platform.
Your experience matches mine and I do the same thing with shows and movies.
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Werrrrlllllll... It all depends on what yo umean by "type". In physics problems, I find taht quantities may be measured in "floats", but have the types "mass", "amperage", "distance per second per second" and the like.

In Go, I would probably model this as:

type mass float64
type speed float64
type acceleration float64

That way, they'd all have float64 as the "storage type", but it would be harder to accidentally pass an acceleration when I wanted a mass.
Great summary! Also, at [1], one can hear Deepmind hinting at that state-of-the-art engines (Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero) will beat Alphazero.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2MncpRMnFA&feature=youtu.be...
> But that is a poor argument against what stablecoins could be.

Why did the argument suddenly switch from "have been for years" to "theoretically there could exist a stable coin that isn't outright fraud"? Is the reason that you can't think of a single example that is actually trust worthy?
The vast majority of my answers are in C. Not sure how to filter out and count them, though. Fun if you have! :)
Ah apologies, it's Alyssa who I usually see in relation to Asahi Linux so maybe I over-attributed it to her :)
What Your Dog's Behavior Means
It was a small startup, so "product manager" wasn't a narrow role with clear boundaries. Their job was to bridge the clients and the software team, and they insisted that clients would jump at the chance to have a blockchain vendor.
If you close your eyes and ears, then it is possible to imagine that such filthy thing as offchain liabilities doesn't exist. At least when Kraken posts about their "proof of liabilities" without actual audit of offline liabilities on Reddit r/cc, they readily eat that claim, no one challenges it. And then in every single post about this new trend, they will write that Kraken is somehow solvent due to this. I guess this was the point - if people already believe in something, it doesn't need to be real :) .
> At the moment, it's quite clear that current cryptocurrencies are solving problems nobody has (trustless transactions)

That’s an assumption, not a fact. And trustless transactions might not be the only problem that it tries to solve. What about predictable money supply. Trustless custody (instead of just “trustless transactions), …
All these will not appeal to a lot more people today (but nobody and not many is very different, and that ratio can change with future technologies being built)

> how to restore keys when they lose them or they are stolen, and related how to tie those keys to real-world identity in a meaningful way, how to rollback fraud and punish grifters, etc... for most of these you need a trusted central authority and also trusted, verified identity.

The first part (how to restore keys when they lose them or they are stolen) does not necessarily mean that there is no decentralized solution. Social recovery (Shamir Secret Sharing + social recovery; or safer some multisig + social recovery) is being worked on.

The second part “how to tie those keys to real-world identity ” is much harder (specially if one values anonimity to avoid 1984 scenarios).
Many of us were dismissive of everything cryptorelated even when many others became millionaires or billionaires believing into it. If you needed something as pathetic as the FTX fiasco to change your mind, you’re right, that’s unreasonable for sure.
> It really has little to do with lobbying politicians

Casinos are very good at courting (or grooming) rich and powerful people. It would be very strange if they never applied that skill on politicians - or judges.
> > The Sun–Earth distance is 93 million miles.

> I don’t think every teenager knows that.

Teenage respondents have a good chance of remembering that it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.
The internet was a hype cycle, which ended with the dot com bubble burst. But some of the companies that came out of the bubble came out strong. AI has had multiple hype cycles, like every washing machine with "fuzzy logic" in the 90s, they usually end, but they do usually leave us with more than we had. This AI hype cycle is ending now, and we have seen a lot of progress on image detection, video editing, etc. but the highest targets haven't been reached.

It's kind of the explore-exploit dichotomy. You have some new technology (internet), in the first few years you have exploration and all the low hanging fruit are implemented, then everybody just starts iterating on similar ideas, which lead to less and less gain. The Uber/AirBnb/Amazon for X pitches. If you hear those you're in the late phase of the hype cycle. Because Y for X just means it's not a really new idea and plenty of people have thought of those.

Similarly you have some new technology like fuzzy logic, then some people thought of some good applications. But because the hype train was running it was put everywhere where it didn't make sense.

Or deep learning which was the first to have useful image processing. Now most research is tuning some parameters, adding compute, and hoping for better results.

But in the end we'll be left with some technological advances, and maybe in ten or twenty years somebody has a new idea which beats deep learning in learning efficiency.
"that was simply a matter of upgrading a dependency."

... Across a global infrastructure. ... And finding out if, where you have been compromised. ...And fixing all those systems that was found to have been compromised. ...And handling media questions, PR related to the issue and your organization.

Just saying it was "simply a matter of upgrading a dependency." is so amazingly far from what such an event requires. Even if you wasn't actually affected in a technical sense.
What's disappeared isn't the small independent super-low budget movie... as you said, that market is more active than ever. It's the >$10 million movie that everyone in the country can enjoy, has a name brand actor or two, but isn't just some recycled comic book tripe. Forrest Gump. The Big Sleep. Kramer vs. Kramer. Three Men and a Baby. Four Weddings and a Funeral. Terms of Endearment. etc.
> If they want to make Marvel for teens and older, then by all means. But they clearly market the franchise to the under-10 crowd, ...

TBH I'm a little confused by this claim, why do you think any of the marvel movies or shows are targeted to kids younger than 10? I'm pretty sure basically every MCU movie has a PG-13 rating, which is definitely a deliberate choice they made. Certainly the ratings are just a suggestion, but I don't feel like they're making any attempt at targeting kids younger than 10, they have completely separate shows like Spidey that target that demographic and (AFAIK) have nothing to do with the MCU.
I wouldn't change my Casio Protrek PRG-80T for nothing, More than 16 years and no battery change, Titanium strap and case, solar charging and tough as none of the others, A classic ABC watch (Altimeter-Barometer-Compass) with temperature sensor.

To be honest, I also have a small smart band (latest Xiaomi Mi Band) to complement for all the missing smart functionality. People keep asking me why I wear two watches :-)
As Scott says in Weak Men Are Superweapons [1], a meme aimed against a specific, easily disliked subgroup is unavoidably an attack on the entire group by association.

It is impossible to say "Karen, who is a woman, bad" without implying "women Karens, women bad." Or if there is a way to disentangle them, it certainly won't fit in a meme.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap...
I went through Delta academy's Reinforcement Learning courses. I really like having someone to ask questions when I got stuck. Not free, but 100% worth the money.

https://joindeltaacademy.com/
All the early experiments with semiconductor devices have been plagued by irreproducibility, because it was not understood how much even minute amounts of impurities or crystal defects can affect the results.

The reason why the transistor and the other semiconductor devices have been discovered quickly after WW2 was that during the war there has been a huge effort to improve the purification and the growing of semiconductor crystals like germanium and silicon, with the purpose of making large quantities of detection diodes for radars.

At the high frequencies used by radars, the devices used in low frequency radio receivers, e.g. vacuum diodes or improvised point-contact diodes, such as those made on galena, were ineffective.

After the war, the research on semiconductor devices could use the newly available high-quality crystals, on which reproducible devices could be made, so the invention of the transistor became an unavoidable consequence.

Like the nuclear industry, the semiconductor industry is also a result of the large amount of money spent in USA during WW2 for improving manufacturing techniques.

With normal corporate spending that is limited by short-term profits, becoming able to make reproducible transistors might have needed many decades, if ever happening. Making pure semiconductor crystals is not something for which a lone inventor could afford to build equipment.