skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the person. I can’t look at someone directly who I find attractive, otherwise I just get over it and try to lock eyes because I want to treat ppl how I want to be treated, can’t have it both ways.. no one’s perfect though.
Completely agree.

WhatsApp is a real-time messaging service and famously had only 50 engineers when its userbase is close to one billion [1].

[1]Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users:

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
HN needs spoiler tags. But since I'm shadow banned.

There is an answer, I found it outside of the story.

But this a a good hint.

I incorrectly chose the wrong X from these lines. It does narrow it down. The "buttons" threw me. Still not sure what they represent.
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It could, however, with CSS like this: https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/
Yes, but even that is potentially troublesome. If you're in a low trust environment, then probably nobody trusts the labs either.

Like, why do the labs exist? Because the building companies really, really wants to build a solid building but the concrete industry is oddly shady? Or because there's an official/unofficial requirement for it? If the second, you easily end up with labs that rubber stamp whatever you want them to.

Trust in this sense is something that needs to be encouraged society-wide. You can patch imperfections, but there's a very real limit to how practical that is.
"Floater" has a rather different common meaning in the UK (hint, you swim away from them).
I love the "color of the status indicator" one because the "bad" option is literally how most "color blindness compatible" design variants do it. Instead of making red and green easier to distinguish or adding icons/patterns to color, they just use blue to replace one of the colors (usually green), which forces color blind people to guess what the color is supposed to represent or rather which expected color it replaces.

So by the literal text of this game, most "color blindness compatible" design variants are bad design, and as a severely green-blind person I agree with that.
Is it just me or does anyone else find saying "OK Google" a bit of a tongue twister?
A Goodhart's law?

I do not think achieving of such a high result is possible without clear understanding the rules of this game. When I was tested in school I did not even know about a XOR operation which is always required in any IQ test.
> As an outside observer to this area, something doesn't add up. It sounds like software tooling is desperately needed to advance the entire field across the board

This is hardly the only place in society where X is desperately needed, but people don't want to pay for it, and continue to suffer through the underprovision of X.

Here, software engineering is simply not viewed as prestigious or important, or often, even as valuable. The science is viewed as valuable. A lack of bugs or rigorous software engineering practices... nobody cares.

Some of it is a phd is a prestige competition, and dirty engineers being comped on par with people who spent (cough wasted cough) a decade or more of their life in college/post-docs just won't do.

And a piece of it is the scale of the investment needed. Imagine a couple million LOCs with only manual testing. Your two weeks of writing tests is a tiny drop in the bucket. Retrofitting reasonable software dev standards on these projects is enormously expensive.

Finally, there's an inescapable volume issue. Suppose I build a hot new confocal microscope and I sell 300 of them for low hundreds of thousands each. I have 2 teams of devs ($2M/year/team) for 2 years on analysis code, for a $8m investment. That's $27k/machine. That's real tough math to make work. Whereas Google pays gmail engineers really well, in part because they spread those costs over a billion users.
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And yet over a hundred people have upvoted it so far. Perhaps the ambiguity is the point.
It is a classic example of everyone being wrong, everyone wants to feel superior a see a particular thing with that exchange, and thus take away that which makes them feel smart.

Anyway - anyone who has ever run any money knows you use a fraction of kelly, which if you have a brain makes you wonder why it is optimal to use a fraction of the optimal amount - which should make you realise that kelly is loaded with stupid assumptions and is basically useless beyond a philosophical construct.
> (1) How can I perform an atomic transaction across two stock exchanges?

I'm not sure why you're mandating across two stock exchanges? If you want to swap two assets in a single transaction, there is a very mature market for this. This has more to do with CPAMM vs. CLOB than it does anything else.

> (2) How can I take stock held on one exchange, and use it as collateral on an unaffiliated lending platform?

Well, assets aren't held on exchanges...but again, there is a huge industry that facilitates this.

> (3) How can I launch a new financial app, as a small startup, and open it to assets held on ETrade.

This has more to do with ETrade than anything else. It's like saying how can I launch a startup and get my product in every Walmart store...well you need their cooperation.

> All of these are impossible in the current system.

Absolutely not even remotely true. Just because you don't know, doesn't mean it's not possible.
I can do the cross eyed thing to overlay the images and spot the difference. Got 7930 in about 15 minutes. I think I missed one and guessed correctly on another. I feel like the questions were all fair, but it would be a royal pain to find the differences by looking back and forth.
This is the point the vast majority of people miss. When we predict the future, we use, without noticing, a lot of things from our current reality and technological perception. This becomes really clear when you look at "future" predictions from past eras. People don't realize the future will have things that people now would mock them for, for being outrageous, ridiculous or far-fetched.

Most predictions just use the technology of the time in a different way, or show something "impossible" based on current technology.

To be able to predict the future, we have to completely lose a lot of mental baggage, and go for things that don't exist. We have to go back to the basics of what's actually possible.

This is a reason i like Asimov's stories. We often writes in an abstract way, that leaves a lot of room for imagination. He definitely is still bound by technology perception, but often that also helps making stories more relatable.

Example: Sometimes people predict the future where AI is so advanced, and we are fighting it to gain control over Earth. But they forget that an AI that would become sentient, contrary to us, could improve itself, its own intelligence. To the point where we would be as intelligent to them as an amoeba is intelligent to us. We can't even comprehend their IQ. This is such a radical shift from what we hold as normal, that most people just don't even register this possibility. Not their fault. Probably an education system focused on fact memorization and lack of critical thinking is partially responsible.
You start to conquer another sector/industry. You can see that with Apple, Amazon..
Mesa isn't a driver. Mesa is just an abstraction on top of the software that DRIVES the hardware (a driver), which is being written from scratch. Nobody (including the Asahi developers) but you subscribes to your definition of a driver. Drivers implementing Mesa may share next to nothing in common, so no, it's not a "port".
The comments about tolerance for underexposure only apply to print film, not positive film. But no self-respecting transparency shooter would bother with such a camera...
I am starting to think the requirements were crafted to push towards enabling surveillance without outright stating it.

PIRs are cheap and last basically the lifetime of the hotel. I would need to see some actual data to believe this whole project didn't actually cost more than installing a bunch of PIR lamps.
> but only being able to run programs that were programmed 30 years ago

Take the swap. I don't think you'll loose much. Most programs are doing pretty much the same thing as 30 years ago, but with hi-res graphics
And maybe even do better. The trick is to know who exactly to put in those 80%.
33.12c is the Grundversorgung (basic price)

I put it here because even though I am not sure a new customer could get that price, it is still a lot more than what the article quotes as the German average price.
With the default settings and just scrolling around it really feels like I'm in some sort of badly played Ghibli's OST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfLKbjTWn0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz68vFJmLKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFy0yEYki0
Flipkart chief warns startups of turmoil and funding crunch for 12 to 18 mo
These aren't intended for base load at all, they're Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) stations meant to be used for short peak loads, but because of the power crisis they're being run continuously.

Eskom's OCGTs are combined cycle, meaning they can run on either diesel or gas, but historically it's been cheaper and easier in terms of supply to use diesel.
Having used Fedora Silverblue in the past, I went all in on nixOS as it seemed perfect for me.

Setup was easier than Arch and I had more trust in the stability of the system because there's no state/config that I wasn't aware of (albeit after a learning curve).

The biggest issue though is how rigid it is. The "nix way" spreads like a plague into everything and I often felt like I couldn't do basic tasks such as install some node modules without having to relearn how to do it in nix.

I told myself that FHS was a good enough fallback, but that just wasn't the case. Despite using FHS for node development, I still encountered nix-specific issues that needed a nix-specific fix (i.e. using prisma binaries).
There's not really such a thing as low trust/high trust society. That's an abstraction that sounds good but hides too much detail to be useful when discussing specific projects.

You can't just encourage everyone to trust everyone else. To the extent developed countries can be described as "high trust", it's not because they are just magically more trusting. They get that way because there are extensive and mostly working mechanisms to find and penalize betrayals of trust. Corruption is low in the west because corrupt people get caught and punished, and because once the problem gets small enough people won't just blindly accept it but will make an effort to report it and ensure it's resolved (vs when it's endemic).

Stuff like concrete mixing is commodity, lots of small firms scattered around the world. They compete on price and delivery time so there's a temptation to cut corners. Delivery time is easily understood and measured, so is price, if you can properly measure quality then you can switch between providers easily. The alternative is that someone fixes the trust issue another way, like a big centralized mega-brand or having to in-source everything, but that comes with bigger downsides.
It's the same for a lot of EU keyboard layouts =(
Not good. As you can see, even the upper side connections are submerged, and plugs still look like standard components. Nothing to say of the backplane connectors on the lower side and RAM and CPU connections. They seem to just have taken a blade enclosure and flipped it backside up. So yes, it looks expensive, maybe impressive for some audience, but totally impractical even though they claim it to be a custom design.
Wrong version! Arguably (my opinion) an illegitimate version. Another comment mentions some reasons to think that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33690135
I've lost count of how many product owners have interchanged the word Database with Blockchain to try and score some PR points with their customers/bosses.
It's a fantasy because there is no democratic consensus for a US model as you have admitted. The UK isn't the US at all by any number of key measures - market size, resources, dollar. The Tories ejected Truss when she tried the 'growth' low tax thing because they knew they were heading for electoral (and financial) disaster.

The UK is in a no-mans land outside of a huge market on our own continent and all you can offer is 'we can try new stuff now'.

I can accept the vote as long as there is an honest discussion about the consequences. What I can't accept is lines like 'Who cares what economists think about Brexit or the EU nowadays?'. Going back to my original point, Brexit has poisoned economic discourse.
Meta's Galactica AI can write scientific papers, but is it any good?
Aren't reporters scamming us most of the time? "Reporting" for anything that involves a monetary transaction has turned into an advertorial, or at best a superficial enumeration of promised features. Why are we adding "site:reddit.com" to our search queries?
Automattic open to hiring ex-Twitter individuals or even entire teams
To me, these subtle differences aren't just nitpicking by some design team. These details elevate the experience, and I attribute more trustworthiness to companies that put this effort into their projects.

It's funny, in the past few days I thought about how I never liked FTX as a whole because of their abysmal UI/UX. I always thought their business was less trustworthy just by the look and feel of their website. Kraken, on the other hand, put a lot of detail into their UI/UX and so far, they seem to be rock solid. Some of these crypto exchanges look like poorly adapted Themeforest templates, and I would bet money on their eventual demise.
> Rather than relying solely on "fiat" methods like government licenses, auditors and examining the corporate governance and the backgrounds of the individuals running the exchange, exchanges could create cryptographic proofs that show that the funds they hold on-chain are enough to cover their liabilities to their users.

So... use crypto to prove that you hold enough crypto to cover the losses if crypto crashes and you can't pay people back without crypto.

This only works to prove that you hold enough Trashcoin to pay back people's Trashcoin that you're supposed to have - but why have their Trashcoin at all if you need to make it available to them?

You can't do anything with it that would make you money while still guaranteeing availability to it's owner, so then you're just providing a free custody service for someone that's worse than them just holding it themselves.

Also, if you're able to cryptographically guarantee Trashcoin holdings then you don't need the exchange anymore. Guarantees + DEX + off-chain transactions replaces your exchange for low fees in that case.

Leaving all that aside though - It's a suggestion to optimise away protections as a problem to be solved when the solution being proposed has time-and-again proven itself unfit for purpose with catastrophic consequences. Regulating financial systems and making them safe is hard, because it's more complicated than anyone who's approached this in crypto seems willing to acknowledge.

Honestly, I think regulators should be approaching this whole space with a view of "we'll get involved to stop criminals that have the potential for non-crypto victims, but we'll not spend time or resources to help anyone that get's ripped off after choosing to put their money in this".

(i.e. The state has a duty to protect it's citizens, but I don't see what burden the state has to protect money that was wilfully removed from the protections of the regulated financial system. If anything, the state has a duty to not waste resources pursuing lost funds in those instances as they have no mandate to do so.)

I have sympathy for people that lost out with FTX and Celsius - I genuinely do - but there were so many warnings that you would have had to dismiss before ending up in that situation and it's hard to believe that people that put money into these platforms (or tokens in general) didn't realise what they were getting into. There's a massive amount of historical experience to draw on - these aren't new schemes.
Really? It's not techno babble. Encode the first few thousand primes in QR codes and pictures of ducks, throw 2000 GPUs at it and see how long it takes to train a model to pick them out of the other similarly encoded integers. Tune for success rate with the next few thousand primes. Even if it's only right 20% of the time you've vastly increased the efficiency of finding new prime numbers.
He did have a counter argument - 'the market values the box' - pure capitalism.

The scary thing is he understood that the box inherently is nothing of any value, except that the market has placed a value on it - yet still bought into lots of boxes that the market said had value till they didnt have and value. The gambler once again.
Why use the brakes when you have a horn. ;0)
I am too, but the Matrix implementation feels quite complex with many moving parts, when apps like Briar, Berty, or keet.io [0] show up and look more straightforward to use. I don't know if that will be its downfall or ultimately actually make it more robust, but I'm rooting for it.

As convenient as it'd be for one implementation to crush everything else and become better because of it, I think different choices are good in terms of having alternatives and competing for features and niches.

[0]: https://keet.io/
You’re right that I should be a little more precise, and state that their estimates were very, very bad and that the limitations were due primarily to the crudity of their instruments (no telescopes yet).

But I think that amongst the astronomical facts taught to children it will be the most easily remembered. Well, perhaps the number of planets will be more easily remembered, but that has varied over time and the ancient Greeks had as good a number for that as we do.
Mm.

Was thinking similar thoughts recently about Civ 6, and how much longer it takes to load saved games than Civ 2 ever did.

(What's Civ 6 even doing? Deleting and reloading all the textures and/or recompiling all the shaders each time?)
A very rare break of Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
> Complaining about computers in this way is exactly the same as
complaining about the inefficiencies of government or other large
organizations.

And those would be valid complaints, no?

You seem to be defending the system as-is, as inevitable, and
dismissing ambitions about the world as it could be as if they were
the words of dreamers, and ungrateful idealogues.

One should not use our current dependency on broken systems as a self
justification. That's unfalsifiable, as we don't get a null hypothesis
re-run the history of computing where we made better decisions.

I think the article is spot-on as an observation. And the last remark
about it being an intrinsic "civilisational" problem, while seeming
whiney, should not be dismissed if we are serious about solving
many of the problems that technology has created as the price for
progress.

To simply accept it as an immutable feature is defeatist. We have to
believe there are are better technologies than those which mirror the
failings of big organisational inefficiency.
I think that is another candidate for a fact easily remembered by the average teenager. Top five at least, and not known to the ancient Greeks.
Does Sweden have over-utilized railway capacity though?

The punctuality matters in systems which are close to their critical operation limit. One delay here will slowly propagate across everywhere in the network. You need slack in the system for lateness to work with it.
How do you know you can't train a large image model to lean toward preferring large embedded primes?
That looks impressive. Something cheaper would probably still be quite effective though.
> you can't really be part of the game without joining a pool.

What do you mean by that? Is there a ban on independent mining? Or has starting a new pool become forbidden?
Ah, the classic "so you're saying" + (putting words into other's mouth) bad-faith argument...
I'm not sure why doesn't the UK just start selling the .gb domains. Seems like a nice suffix for domain hacks (64.gb anybody?) and in general.
Twitter 2.0 is paying 11.5%
Oh, sorry! Ummm…were you saying something?
> That’s not how typical users work, and I don’t think it’s how they want to work.

That's true. But if people were routinely offered convenient ways to automate, build pipes, or whatever the technique, then perhaps normal people would learn and use it.
> The timing is critical on the shinkansen

Why?

Is this about needing to be on time primarily because there's a reputation to maintain, or would bad things happen if one runs late?
The “coverage” explanation given by the top answer doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. With the manufacturing tolerances involved (especially historically when those values were chosen!) the idea that 22 and 47 gives more useful combinations than 22 and 46 is numerology, not engineering.

Wikipedia only says that the deviation is for “unknown historical reasons”. Maybe a deep explanation doesn’t exist, and it’s a simple historical error that was propagated?
Classic example of two steps forward, one step backwards. Though there's schools which are exceptions to the norm.
All cash
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That's where my mind went as well - in fact, it reminded me of Guy Debord:

> In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Hopefully they are discerning enough that this kind of thing isn't a concern?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22856832/amazon-alexa-ch...
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An Educational Puzzle
If your child is (~7-10) years old, laptop is the best gift for him/her. + programming course for children.
My impression is that libertarian communities, similarly to Mensa, have more hostility between members than you might want to see in a well-functioning community. There are libertarian communities, but they are less community-like than the term would lead you to expect.

That might be directly related to the kind of person who joins a libertarian community (as seems to be the case with Mensa), or it might be an artifact of the fact that women hate libertarianism.
over a few million digits if you were trying for the Guinness book, wouldn't it be handy to have something that narrowed it down?
Gamers in Australia as well (when not using local game servers). South Africa idem (idem).
> The litmus test for this seems to be: Make the exact same scifi show (space etc) but without the Star Wars branding. Will it be considered a children’s move? My answer in this case, no. Will it still be decent? Yes it would.

The thing about Andor is that the Star Wars setting is entirely unnecessary. That series could be set anywhere; the setting is just a cash grab.
Does recruiting a whole team from another company actually works? I wonder if it is common practice for startups that come and go to move entire dev teams like they do in the show "Sillicon Valley" in Season 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
Could you point me to a couple videos of Czech JB devs talking at Czech conferences in Czech?

Asking seriously. Because I was a russian speaking Ukrainian until recently and used to listen to tech podcasts and talks in russian all the time, for years, starting back when JB products just started gaining popularity. Not once was the company or it's products regarded as Czech by russians. It was always talked about as russian, all the podcast guests from JB were russian, all the conf speakers were russian.

Now, it wouldn't be the first time russians appropriated something that wasn't theirs. Which is why I'm asking if there are actually any signs of JB operating in Czechia outside of company being registered there. All I can find is JetbrainsCZ youtube channel with whopping 44 views on its single office walk video.