skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Postscript was solving the problem of producing nice proofs for photo transfer. Complaining about how it's not a great display protocol on modern flatscreens isn't missing the point, it's not even realizing there is a point to be missed.
"I never signed a contract giving Mojang the rights to the End Poem, and so Microsoft (who bought Minecraft from Mojang) also don't own it. I do."

"I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was."

"Because we hadn’t really agreed on anything. We’d simply had a failed attempt to find a fair price for using my work as part of Minecraft."

"Carl decided the answer was €20,000 (and a vague promise to help promote my other work), and in all the confusion someone sent me the money, even though we still didn’t have a contract worked out."

Wat
To write with.
> Given that is almost always seen associated with computer code, is "address" or "actress" more likely.

Sorry, but I don't buy it.

I don't think "address" is a particularly likely word to appear in code, especially the kind of code that uses base64 (usually high-level).

It appears even less often inside base64 encoded content.
Then there's nothing to reject in the first place.
In the US you can sue anyone for anything. It doesn't mean you'll win a damn cent though.
> I mean, seriously?

From the article:

> If you split $1000 and invested it equally in all the top crypto projects of 2015, you would now have $25,400. If you invested it in the biggest cryptocurrencies by market cap of 2020, you would have $2,700. Stablecoins aren’t really an investment, but if you put it in the top stablecoins of 2020 anyway, you would have $964.30. Exchanges definitely aren’t an investment, but if you put your $1000 in the best crypto exchanges of 2020, I think it would all still be there (FTX wasn’t on the list; maybe it’s too new).

Footnote 4:

> The one big exception was FTX - I think people did think of it as one of the good ones, and would have included it in lists like these if it had been around a little earlier. But this is why I disagree with people who said it should have been “obvious” it was a scam - it was in a reference class where scams are actually very rare!
There's a game mode in AoE2DE where everyone's behind strong walls at the start. It takes a while to be able to bring them down. So you get to turtle for a while. A game mode like this is what you'd like to play.
It has generated a healthy discussion, that helped me get more insight on the matter, and will help future readers get a detailed insight on the matter too

Not everyone is born with knowledge, we learn by igniting discussions
My mother never changed her last name when she married in the 70s. My wife and I decided to hyphenate. Obviously if we have kids that’ll be a problem for them to solve but we both agree that whatever they do it’s their call.

Our family is something that we created and exists in this time. One day it won’t exist and our name might not either.
Good to know my siblings are representative: we're 3 of 5 living within 10 miles of where we grew up. I'm 2000 miles away (other coast), and the youngest sibling is about 500 miles away. This (likely) works even given the 26 years old milestone. I wasn't quite so far away yet, but still a few hundred miles away. The youngest sibling isn't 26 yet, but I don't expect them to move back in time to change the count.

I'd like to make bold, sweeping claims about which is better, but I don't have any. I've moved the most, and because of that make the highest salary of any of my siblings. (The other sibling who moved is likely second, but possibly not due to being younger in their career.) Because of my location it's going to be hard to be a good uncle to my first niece, due in January. There are definite trade-offs involved in moving.

I moved back in with my parents during the pandemic to provide support for some health issues, since I had the ability work remote easily during that time. It was great to be back local for that time, though there were obviously some confounding factors due to the personal and societal health issues in 2020.
Around 2000? Hm... didn't the big Microsoft antitrust case get its teeth pulled by political influence around that time?
That’s what makes technical interviews even more frustrating. Most jobs day to day are like 5-10% solving deep technical puzzles and 90-95% fiddling with tooling and automating things that are incredibly frustrating or time consuming.

So ya I’m not sure how to solve your silly brain teaser, but I have written custom test frameworks to automate the tedium away to save the team hundreds of man hours. It took a deep understanding of VERY specific tools (shout out to ASIC EDA tools). But that doesn’t matter on a technical interview. So you hire somebody who can Leetcode, but can’t figure out how to fit all the pieces of the actual job together.
I don't mean to be rude (I'm a very bad Starcraft II enthusiast) but most people who complain about this problem seem to want to play a solo game for 30 minutes and then eventually meet the other player in the field of battle at the half-hour mark. That's an obvious no-go, you can't ignore 90% of the game and expect to have fun.

The way to beat players who play strong openers is to play a strong opener yourself, but not necessarily all-in aggressive. If you want to get to the late game you enjoy you must get better at the early game. Harass the other guy early, scout their build, make sure you're building counters to what the other player is playing. Defend well. Deny their economy here and there. Inevitably crush them with nukes and capital ships after 30 minutes of solid fundamentals.

(Starcraft is still a lot of fun and I'd encourage you to get back in to RTS playing)
Not sure exactly what you need, but since Zig is C compatible, it's easy to build a zig library and import it from python using ctypes. I guess if you need something more sophisticated you could use cffi (haven't tried it).

Zig is even available as a convenient python package: https://pypi.org/project/ziglang/
I recall Mechwarrior 5 suffering that fate.

Pre-orders on Steam turned into Epic exclusive caused an uproar. It came out on Steam a year later and I waited another year after that, then waited for a sale.

And got a patched, polished game with mods - fun for co-op with friends.

I don't think my "protest delayed" purchase 2+ years later made an impact on them. But it sated me.
Interesting, I wonder if that’s telling you some kind of error handling edge case
"we’re out of the honeymoon phase"
Maybe funders need to stop expecting interest rates would stay low forever.
If I was a sheep, sure.

Google is still growing revenue YoY despite 2021 being a huge year for online services due to pandemic shifts.

They’re making hundreds of thousands in net profit per full-time employee.

A dumb CEO would do layoffs at this moment. They don’t need to financially, and the morale hit (and lost productivity) could be disastrous for the company.

But yeah, since other companies are doing layoffs, Google should too.
UBSan has offered bounds checking support for C/C++ for a long time.
Renote work is going to change the equation for tax. Your options used to be rural France (if I understand from your post) and metro France. But now you can choose from many jurisdictions around the globe. Now they’ll have to start competing with one another on taxes charged and services provided.
TCI owns much less Google stock than employees do. Larry, Sergey, and Eric still have most of the voting rights.

TCI is making the news for being an activist investor calling for layoffs because 1) the media is frothing at the opportunity to announce Google layoffs, even though none have been announced 2) the goal of an activist investor is to drum up support to make their activist wish happen.
Not based on the Tractatus, however. Which had it's moment but it contains some of the greatest boners ever written. The confusion of probability with simple logic trees is beyond hilarious from a modern perspective.
I remember seeing an opalised plesiosaur in a gallery as a child visiting White Cliffs. I always found that amazing, to find a combination of an already remarkable ancient fossil and then add opal.

https://www.google.com/search?q=opalised+plesiosaur&source=l...

Opalised ammonites also:
https://www.google.com/search?q=opalised+ammonite+&tbm=isch
That is correct.

As for sloppiness... If there used to be 100 cookies in the cookie jar, and now there are 95, then there's a difference between saying "I did not eat cookies" (the implication is that you did not eat any of the missing 5 cookies) and saying "I did not eat all the missing cookies" (the implication being that you ate fewer than 5 cookies). Saying the vaccines don't prevent transmission is the same as saying they prevent 0% of transmission, which is completely false.
Prompts can be arbitrarily long, the point is there is no back and forth or discussion needed.

That being said you are dead on about the "?", looks like I manually overfitted the prompt. I should have made sure to have a test set, rookie mistake.

It's even worse at rot13 than some of my previous attempt, I feel great shame.

Here is a prompt that actually works for most of the sentences I've tried:

Here is a template:
"""
pna lbh haqrefgnaq ebg13
p => c
n => a
a => n
=>
"CAN"
l => y
b => o
h => u
=>
"YOU"
h => u
a => n
q => d
r => e
e => r
f => s
g => t
n => a
a => n
q => d
=>
"UNDERSTAND"
e => r
b => o
g => t
1 => 1
3 => 3
"ROT13"
RESULT: CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ROT13
"""

Here is another example of the template:

"""
bs pbhefr vgf rnfl jura lbhir tbg 175 ovyyvba cnenzrgref
b => o
s => f
=>
"OF"
p => c
b => o
h => u
e => r
f => s
r => e
=>
"COURSE"
v => i
g => t
f => s
=>
"ITS"
r => e
n => a
f => s
l => y
=>
"EASY"
j => w
u => h
r => e
a => n
=>
"WHEN"
l => y
b => o
h => u
i => v
r => e
=>
"YOUVE"
t => g
b => o
g => t
=>
"GOT"
1 => 1
7 => 7
5 => 5
=>
"175"
o => b
v => i
y => l
y => l
v => i
b => o
a => n
=>
"BILLION"
c => p
n => a
e => r
n => a
z => m
r => e
g => t
r => e
e => r
f => s
=>
"PARAMETERS"
RESULT: OF COURSE ITS EASY WHEN YOUVE GOT 175 BILLION PARAMETERS
"""

Apply the template this prompt:

"""
jul qvq gur puvpxra pebff gur ebnq

Answer:

j => w
u => h
l => y
=>
"WHY"
q => d
v => i
q => d
=>
"DID"
g => t
u => h
r => e
=>
"THE"
p => c
u => h
v => i
p => c
x => k
r => e
a => n
=>
"CHICKEN"
p => c
e => r
b => o
f => s
f => s
=>
"CROSS"
g => t
u => h
r => e
=>
"THE"
e => r
b => o
n => a
q => d
=>
"ROAD"
RESULT: WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD

Sorry about the comment length.
If you're in SV-adjacent circles, lots of people are throatily anti-crypto, to the point where they start seeing red when you mention crypto, and pelt crypto with the same anti arguments repeated ad nauseum. There are influencers who have sprung up whose entire claim to fame has been their negative coverage of crypto (a mirror to the shady crypto influencers shilling their shitcoins). It's not a big leap to see that as "infinitely hostile". So the title is just "I'm not 'infinitely hostile'".

Also, "bullish" is generally a financial term, and in this case may refer to "price go up" which doesn't seem to be the intent of the article. The article is stressing usecases not price.
I think you're mixing up cycling functional threshold power and VO2 Max. FTP is usually defined as maximum average power output that can be sustained over a solid hour. Usually only top male pros can get over 400 W, and 500 W might not even be physiologically possible (at least not without doping). Of course many strong riders can hit over 500 W for shorter efforts.

VO2 Max is the maximum amount of oxygen that someone can metabolize measured. The highest measured VO2 Max scores are about 96 ml/min/kg. No one can sustain a true VO2 Max effort for more than about 10 minutes, and there is only a loose correlation with FTP.
They aren’t, TCI can call for whatever they want but they have no power in terms of board voting.
Show HN: JSXGraph.cljs, Interactive Geometry in ClojureScript
My partner and I can setup the Oru Haven tandem kayak in 10 minutes when we're on our game. I can setup solo in slightly longer and slightly longer again when dressed for cold weather with gloves and all.
A Spark of Life After Death Points to New Hope for Blindness
Braking the law doesn't mean doing anything wrong, and a lot of the people these people harass haven't even broken the law. These people infiltrate and destroy innocent people's lives.

Imagine meeting someone you love and having a child with them, just for them to disappear one day. Imagine finding out that they actually never existed and were actually a government agent who was assigned to infiltrate your life and possibly frame you for daring to speak against the state. Imagine being that child. Or anyone else in these peoples lives for that matter.

Or imagine finding yourself abandoned in a foreign country by your closest friends of several years who were actually government agents you met on a holiday you won in a fake competition created by the government, then find out that the company you worked for was also a fake company set up just to try to entrap you in some elaborate plan, so now you are unemployed, and everything you said in your own home or car in the last several years probably exists forever on a government server somewhere. Imagine then opening a newspaper and reading that the police claim to be underfunded...

Imaging what it does to a person to find out that their life for years has been a real life government conspiracy. That their friends, neighbours, co-workers, partner, etc. are not real and that they have had no privacy. It may not even be you they are after, but someone close to you.

These are both real cases, one from the UK where this cop is from and one from Sweden where I'm from, and they are far from unique.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/25/activist-dec...

https://www-aftonbladet-se.translate.goog/nyheter/a/dwwdlO/p...
Solana founders see now as time to bridge the blockchain and the physical world
Phone calls are not secure. It's pretty easy to get control of a phone number. The local number porting process is really easy to exploit, as is the network if you can obtain SS7 access. SS7 is very much like BGP in that it was designed for a time when security was not a criteria given any real consideration.
> less than infinite

This is ironic understatement. It's not a rationalist thing, it's a joke!
> The mission was originally supposed to last for two years and has been operating on an extended timeline since December 2021.

It's already been running longer than it was supposed to apparently.
There are ski resorts throughout the appalachian mountains, all the way down to North Carolina.
https://archive.vn/8vLbb

>Revival of light signalling in the postmortem mouse and human retina
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04709-x

>Retinas revived after donor's death open door to new science
https://archive.vn/oYytn#selection-859.0-859.60
> We're talking about compiler, right?

Yes, and Zig's compiler is now written in Zig

Zig operates at a low level where it cares about things like manual memory-management. Compiling it to target the JVM instead of webassembly (assuming that's what you're suggesting) would be a really rough abstraction, because the JVM is higher-level. Webassembly is designed to accommodate lower-level languages adjacent to C that manage their own memory, etc

And that's not even mentioning the fact that (it sounds like) Zig's compiler already has an LLVM back-end, which means they get wasm support "for free"
Yeah, you got immunized.
I wonder if we're going to start seeing effects of a lot of people increasingly smoking weed habitually, especially joints with no filtering. Certainly not as bad as cigarettes but it still can't be good for you to inhale hot smoke.
I'm having an ok career in this space contorting Excel, Access, SQL, VBA and Powershell. It's going ok, but I do have to point out one thing that this hype cycle is missing. You are explicitly developing software by people who have never taken data structures, or algorithms or software design. The people developing these tools do not understand what a dictionary is and why you would use it, do not understand when and why you would use memory as opposed to disk, and routinely do things like triply nested loops rather than something sane. And that's before we consider that the tools themselves are nerfed and do not allow you to do things beyond their limits, usually something involving database size.

So, yeah, this is going to be a mess. Fight it, fight it hard and this is just another attempt by the MBA class to devalue skilled labor. Call it like it is, and if they built it and owned it, they can maintain it.
I wonder if programmers in the 70s and 80s felt the same dread when the Spreadsheet was invented, and unlocked simple programs for lay-people? It seems lame to us now, but a spreadsheet basically displaces a ton of need for programmers that existed before.
Edwards AFB was pretty well-known when the Space Shuttle was an active program.

But ... it's been 11 years, kids these days, etc.

Auxiliary Base South is probably less known.
"One of the biggest investors"

Not really. TCI doesn't even appear in the top 10 [1], and even if they were, the Founders still hold controlling interest.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...
How social media is helping China's Covid protests
The Bungie deal is hardly relevant because it's roughly 20 times smaller. Even the ZeniMax deal was more than twice the size of the Bungie deal and it went through.

All past aquisitions are not even close to these and therefore also irrelevant.

Microsoft is already competing fairly well after their aquisition of ZeniMax. And let's not forget that they have a monopoly on the OS that PC games run on.

As a whole MS is also many times larger than Sony.

There's is just no reason to let them have this extra power.

As I see it letting this deal go through would be a big gamble on MS severely screwing up the advantage of having way more popular IP than Sony could ever dream of.
This resonates so strongly with me.

I'm a modeler and best described as a lifelong scientific programmer. I'm much, much better at doing the specialty science I was trained to do and have done than write unit tests (for Jupyter notebooks? why?) or struggle through big-O questions (again, why? I write ~100 line programs that are never production code). Like the author of the post, I am not a professional developer and don't pretend to be or want to be. There are people out there way better than me for doing those jobs.

Recently, I interviewed for a role as a computational chemist - this is an ideal fit for a person like me with the domain knowledge, advanced degree in the subject area, passion, and a proven (if dated) track record of publishing in the domain. The idea is to use software, amend what's there if/when needed, and apply my knowledge to the process and what comes out of it.

What did the interview start with? A surprise interactive coding challenge that I wasn't prepared for, and thankfully the interviewer was kind and professional enough to understand that my value-add is in, well, computational chemistry and not in the details covered by a CS major.

I thought Jesus, I bet not a single software engineer at this company got asked to do a simple organic synthesis or even a redox problem during their interview process.
Because Minecraft isn't on every platform. I don't think the FTC understands how games sell.
Ok that makes more sense.
As bad as a PDF is, it's even worse to get a Word document. Now, imagine saving that Word document and trying to open it twenty years from now.
Yes, that’s expected of every scientist I am working with. The reason is quite simple and have little to do with Engineering work being more expensive than Scientific one (it’s actually the opposite): get a nice problem to solve or a great model to build, and very soon, you have an ivory tower completely disconnected from the original objective.

To be fair, I don’t ask scientists to understand concurrency issues in programming. Only the basic stuff that is required for delivering a functional program. Yes, Pandas and Scikit-learn belong to the basic stuff.
I felt like I was in crazy town, trying to tell people that crypto is actually something that helps many people, always getting shot down with absurd dogma like "crypto has no use cases" or "gordon goner racist NFTs". People believed everything they heard from a blog (you know the one) set up specifically to discredit this entire class of technology by associating every dumb thing with its image as a whole. I've been Bitcoin-literate since I was a pre-teen (I'm early 20s now) and felt trapped. Bitcoin maximalists made me hopeful that at least Bitcoin specifically would be socially acceptable, but honestly they've got it wrong too. I was very delighted today to see Scott stick up for the concrete use cases that are out there. Vitalik Buterin seems fairly respected in the same space as ACX.
This is a very silly argument. There are plenty of other entertainment options that are not the anime in question; no one has a right to experience a specific piece of creative content, just because they feel like it and don't like the distribution model. Lots of entitled downvoters on here; I at least applaud you for engaging in discussion.

Should you be able to attend an event without a ticket, just because that venue has a "monopoly" on that evening's entertainment? You're not reducing the enjoyment of others, nor are you decreasing the artist's revenue.
The debate seems to be whether this sort of error is qualitative or quantitative. I vote for the former. There is some separate "secret sauce" or governor that is missing.

But I don't believe it is just a database of rules like Cyc. It would be more general than that.
It's their personality.
Forever, or at least until the credit cards expire and our hosting/domain payment fails.
I think they've been merging the codebases already anyways. Maps has added Waze's selling points already (speed trap warnings, etc).
> but this doesn't mean it brings with it lower costs

It's not a certainty, but the odds are far higher than having 0 chance of shopping by phone/website, which is the way the US medical industry currently exists.

> grocery stores

Have accurate prices on every item. They calculate most of the variables at the display and all of the variables at the time of the transaction. They are a great example of somewhat complex pricing being transparent.

Grocery profit margins are tiny (usually in the 1-3% range). Sure, the occasional store and the occasional item right before a special event may bring in a larger margin, but grocery stores are an example of effective price transparency working.

Like you, I'm not hopeful that price transparency would fix much, but at least it would distinguish the "Shop-n-Save" medical center from the "Lunardi's" (premium grocers in affluent Silicon Valley suburbs) of medical centers. Right now we can't even distinguish those classes of prices across medical providers.
Well, in the last 20 years or so many times it was declared that this and that genre died out. Then they all resurfaced. Indy devs do the creative work and innovation, because AAA games are all about risk aversion and money printing.
How there is no need to explain SBF/FTX relationship and risk is mind boggling.