skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wtf is this graph where countries are rated between 0 and 1? This seems lying with statistics territory.

That said, i agree with the author that original bitcoin works well enough in places where modern banking is dysfunctional. Its everything in the crypto world after that point i have a problem with.

I also agree that most crypto projects more err on the side of really really stupid and not outright steal your money (although that exists too).

Basically, i agree with all the authors premises and still think crypto is on the whole terrible. I suppose the issue is that the author is arguing against a very weak strawman - nobody is literally infinitely against crypto.
Or else what? There is nothing TCI can do to force Google to do anything.
So get out as fast as you can reasonably can after your startup is acquired by a company like Google. Droning on for money sounds pretty good to a lot of people.
1) The author is arguing against skeptics who are "infinitely hostile" to crypto because it consists of "100% scams". I don't think many skeptics believe crypto is 100% scams. Most skeptics would say that the use cases are overstated and the incentives to pump-and-dump are so high that an unacceptable rate of scams was inevitable. If you're going to write an article to refute skeptics, refute the actual argument.

2) The author strongly implies that skeptics are skeptical because they have fallen for scams (by "clicking on spam emails"). Insulting the intelligence of your opponent is also not a compelling way to refute an argument. I have always been skeptical, I have never been scammed, and I don't think I'm unique.

3) The author's research found that the scam rate "seemed low." Molly White is probably the person working harder than any other to track this scam rate, and her "grift counter" currently reports losses of over $12 billion.

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If you were doing this professionally you would, because lenses introduce distortions of various kinds - typically barrel or pincushion depending on the focal length and/or the lens.

So any view of the sky is an approximation, and will introduce subtle errors that make it harder to pin down an exact location.

They probably won't be huge areas, but this would be a harder problem if the time and longitude had to be exact with no existing guesses.
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> OK, I'll bite: Which part of this thread is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting"?

I hesitate to qualify myself as a good hacker, but for me personally I enjoy reading about the history of computing - especially in the contexts of what people found important at any given time.
Your point being? If you search for the same query in 2021 as he does in 2020, you come up with FTX and Binance, both of which were decried to be sketchy at that time by skeptics. [1]

My point is, you can always pick your time frames arbitrarily to make any case that you want, and I can make the opposite case by picking my favorite time frame. Seems really sketchy that ACX is committing to this level of fallacy.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-coinbase-ftx-heres-...
It's an ego thing. People love to win even when there's no prize money.

I'm a casual triathlete and it's an open secret that many of the top age group competitors are doping. In particular a lot of the older men are on TRT without having an approved therapeutic use exception. The race organizers do little or no testing because it's expensive and they don't want to piss off customers.
Yes. Curiously, this would work even for a sufficiently intense beam of light. It is called "self-focusing", and has been proposed for use in an interstellar transport network.

Your vehicles would need not to be ripped apart to individual nucleons by the intensity of the beam.
There was a lunch break, so it seems like it must have been a lengthy test. They could have at least stopped it from continuing.
I think a link prominently placed on their website would be helpful.

Also systemd documentation isn't compliance with:

* Tutorial

* Explaination

* How To

* Reference

For instance, I want to know which part of systemd uses `SYSTEMD_DEBUG`.

Hold on ... I am digging thru the Git repo.

Screw the systemd manual:

Here's my environment variable reference guide for debugging systemd (that is NOT documented by systemd)

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/debugging-a-service-in-syst...
There's plenty of people playing SC2 online at ~every skill level, right now. Queue times are not long at all.

The main problem is that it's a 12 year-old game, that's been largely abandoned by the developer. The other main problem is that unlike a skill-based MOBA, you can't blame anyone else for your losses. The third main problem is that the game is incredibly stressful, demands 100% of your attention, and the smallest mistake can lose the game for you.
Aside from maybe Company of Heroes 3, what RTS games have came out anytime recently at all? I want some mid-to-late 90s style RTS games (C&C, AoE, TA, War2, SC, SC2) where you collect resources, build and expand bases, and wage war on your enemies.

I am not interested in 4X games.
Read the "Use a prior build of the compiler" section of the article.
House passes $858B defense bill that would scrap Covid vaccine mandate
It's really not, you're just not part of the culture so you don't understand the lexicon, but since the lexicon still uses english words it's confusing to you.

It's the same thing with any sufficiently divergent dialect, you lack the context so you fill in meaning from your own context which is incorrect leading you to these conclusions. It's just linguistic compression focused on a cluster of common avenues of thought to make communication faster, easier and more precise when in those realms.
Oh no! The public using a public road!
I totally agree. I work on the private sector, coming from a research position too. I was also focused on the "interesting" side of the problem: the modeling, integrating domain knowledge into the analysis, drawing all sorts of plots... But there were other unavoidable and "uninteresting" needs for the research project, like building a data gathering system with its API and everything. This required my best software engineering abilities. Needless to say my best weren't precisely THE best, so as the project got bigger, the not-so temporary fixes increased, as well as poor design choices (if any). This finally led to a complete reestructure and almost fresh start.

I feel some of it could be avoided, so I learned the hard way that the whole modelling + software engineering process is a subtle craft. It is important to take care on the implications of your code and, specially, on how its done, since it may fall back onto you eventually. This reconciled me with the more technical stuff (my tools) to eventually put up a good work in a more satisfying way.
https://c19early.org/ references peer reviewed studies for all supplements and scripts

please note the rankings of Remdesivir as compared to other therapies

also please note DeSantis early in the covid process was PRO Vaxx and is vaxxed and he supported shut downs
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Ports will always be hindered by having been designed around a different interface (and sometimes performance available) first.

You can see this well in comparing Crysis 1 with 2 & 3.
>No, we just didn't read foreign language websites

I don't understand. You're just denying that, before machine translation worked well, some people translated their websites into more than one language? Not many, but some did.

The complaint is that automatic translation hasn't just added translations for those who couldn't afford knowledgeable people, but replaced some of the good translations with bad ones, at the same time driving people out of that kind of work.

I guess it seems at least superficially plausible to me because of the devastation wreaked on journalism by ad-tech.

Maybe the economic net benefit correlates to a societal net benefit, but that doesn't mean everybody has to be happy about the losses.
modeling is 1-2% of the overall work involved in having a model serve customers something useful. There's just so much other work to do that it rarely makes sense to have people who can only model. At some level of scale, building out infrastructure to support people to model full time and constantly run a/b tests make sense but that is not the vast majority of use cases for ML in the real world and building out that support infrastructure is a huge investment
You don't think you're blowing this one instance out of proportion at all? This is just a one person who works at a hobby computer company.
Somehow it reminds me of the the problems people have counting the number of letter t's in a sentence or not seeing when someone writes "the" twice in a row like I did earlier in this sentence.
All of my successful attempts resulted in ASCII pigs no matter what the input was, at least until I asked it to depict police and GPT started saying it couldn't do ASCII art anymore.
Has anyone figured out if there is a way to configure it to use M1 GPU and could land a hand?
"We took a 50 billion dollars and lit it on fire" is meaningfully different from "we structured our teams in a way that you think is inefficient."
" > 4) Is there any way to get Microsoft's attention about this issue?

** No. They would be very happy if everyone just forgot about DOS and
all its wonderful programs & utilities so that all would use their
monopolistic system. "

Some stories never change.
Perhaps the distro devs could maintain their own golden WASM blobs that they compiled themselves and thus trust. Could be the same process as SecureBoot / package signing keys.
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> Maybe. But if we're comparing like to like cocaine is by far the most dangerous central stimulant in common use.

That's... debatable at best. Contamination with fentanyl notwithstanding, it's relatively rare to have a fatal overdose on cocaine or methamphetamine. However, methamphetamine causes a lot of acute damage which cannot be dismissed.

Neither one is "safe", but methamphetamine causes more acute and long-term harm than cocaine does - in part due to the contexts in which it's used, but in part due to the pharmacokinetics of the drug itself.
Their fiduciary responsibility is not to defraud the shareholders. Milton Friedman’s idea that management’s only constituency is the shareholders is not actually a matter of law.

Management can just say “in our judgement X is the right thing to do, not Y”. Google is too big for TCI to try to gain control over.
You just need to link in boehm c implementation and use that as the allocator just like chooosing any other allocator in zig. That's how easy it is.
I have not observed this “seeing red” at all. What I have observed, many times over, is “one side” needing to feel like the “other side” is seeing red. “Triggered.” “Tilted.” “Trolled.” “Got ‘em.” Etc. Very common, not limited to any one subculture.
What mistakes are you concerned about?
I most value the existance of utility spells in a crpg. Spell crafting sytems are also super fun. ES has had both of those elements within some games.

Other games with those qualifications:
Ultima underworld
Arx fatalis
Two worlds series
Deus ex series

The obsidian games typically have plenty of utility spells, but not always.
The tone of the article is ridiculous. So I ended up just scrolling through and reading the screenshots. I agree that the main question is an important one to ask. The big downside of ChatGPT seems to be one of Wikipedia’s greatest strengths - the ability to cite sources that gives the user the tools to trust the output.
Hmm, yes and no. If you want to be able to edit more than a single word or two, I'd rather have the Word doc, it can at least handle wrapping text, widow control etc. (even if the format is a moving target and even MS can't seem to always handle it... so yes, in 20yr you'll need to do your edits via DOSBox). If you only need to read it, PDF wins certainly.
That's a nice testimonial, but you do realize that anecdotal evidence is one of the weakest forms of evidence, right?
By who? This is the first I’ve heard of that.
It is obvious what he did just from reading what he wrote, after. It is not clear that he meant anything at all by the expression. You cannot use his thing in any but a C++ program, so mentioning C at all only adds confusion.
To be fair the 2 -> 3 upgrade path was terrible. And there wasn't a killer feature in 3 which was terrible. And the tooling around the upgrade was terrible. Basically the python devs completely botched it -- which was terrible.

So one thing of golang that is nice is that go 1.19 compiler will compile go 1.1 just fine, and people can iterate from 1.1 to 1.19 in their own time -- or not if they choose not to. It would not be that hard for golang v2 to continue to allow similar compilation of old code.
It's true that inefficient code can get the job done, and if that code is getting the job done where nothing else is that's great. But the strange disconnect among crypto apologists is that somehow the massive inherent inefficiencies are a good thing and central to its effectiveness. Novelty-mania derived popularity is central to its uptake but that's a far cry from "the tech is the source of value."
Other people covered it, but I happen to have a Fischer Space Pen on my desk right now so I'll take a shot. You don't want a pencil because bits can break off and make a mess, so you want a pen. The story with the Space Pen is that it has a pressurized cartridge so it works in space (I can't confirm whether other types of pens don't work).

Somewhat off topic, the Space Pen was researched 100% with private funds and both the US and USSR space programs bought them retail, in contrast to some of the stories floating around the internet.
I came into this article expecting to disagree with it... but the author actually makes a lot of good points. It's nice to see an acknowledgment that crypto is simultaneously useful (and actually pretty cool) but also not a magic solution to all the world's problems. (It does get a bit annoying hearing "we're going to reinvent the wheel BUT WITH CRYPTO!" for the 10th time.)

This was pretty well encapsulated in two paragraphs:

> In the same way, everything about the crypto economy is worse than the regular economy. The only excuse is that it’s decentralized. This means you can use it for all of those cool things - sending remittances, circumventing corrupt banking systems, resisting authoritarian governments - that are hard to do with regular money. Of course subjecting yourself to a difficult constraint is going to be harder than not doing that!

> If nothing’s wrong with your country’s financial or political system, then you don’t need crypto. If you use crypto anyway, it will be worse than your regular financial system, because it’s trading off many things you need (efficiency, speed, safety, the good kinds of regulation) for something you don’t need (avoiding the bad kinds of regulation).

I still think NFTs are silly though.
Cloud-based APs? Seriously? Nobody who actually takes security seriously would use cloud-based APs. Even using cloud services to download firmware updates would be shady as heck.

You just made my point for me. If you have to download binary blobs to your hardware, like wifi interfaces, you can have issues. Would you rather have vendor-dependent devices inside your firewall / NAT router, or just connected to the same network as your firewall / NAT router?

Nobody said APs are bulletproof, silly. Only people who don't know better would suggest or even imply that having separate APs is somehow worse. You want to keep the less secure stuff over which you have less control out of the important systems.
If TCI had a legit gripe it would be that too much revenue comes from one source (advertising, which at over 80% is indeed dangerously high). Google is lazily doing things to address that, but not trying that hard.

But TCI didn’t do that.
The claims from pifm_guy are reasonable.

This is a scenario with extremely high coding gain[1]. The DC value of the sky can be removed by high pass filtering. Finding the rigid transform (rotation+translation) between two images captured by the same camera, assuming no distortion[2], assuming the image pair has substantial intersection, doesn't require calibration.

Dropping the "same camera" and "substantial intersection" assumptions requires searching the entire sky and also finding an unknown scaling factor. It all comes down to the images having low enough noise and high enough resolution, relative to the search space. The math is sound.

You're not entitled to a tutorial in signal processing, though.

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

[2] Astronomy lenses have very small FOV and very small distortion.
They are, but not chatGPT, at least not yet. In one paper they create a so called <work> token, such as <work>22+44</work> and get 66 inserted after the work block automatically. It can also run Python commands and write functions and use them. For example they ask what is the current BTC price and the model writes code to load the price from a web API. When it gets an error message it can try to fix the code.

Language models would benefit from having a <search> token as well. Some models have demonstrated amazing things - with a large search index you can get good performance on many tasks with a 20x smaller model. No need to burn all the trivia in the weights of the network. Just use a search engine to help it.
> So you hire somebody who can Leetcode, but can’t figure out how to fit all the pieces of the actual job together.

Yep - 2021 was a bad time for me, mostly because I was stuck working with "smart" people on 2 different projects who had no idea how to add value. All 3 of us have PhDs, but while they had coasted from there in positions where being "the genius" was enough, I had taken a couple of career tangents. They were constantly mesmerized by my Bash skills and infrastructure knowledge, and in the end my parts of the project got done and theirs were written off due to lack of progress.
Yeah, I definitely think they could have handled it better. Mainly, what rubs me as intellectually dishonest to condemn this one person without knowing him because he used to be in law enforcement.
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Yes, I have read so many news articles about Google that are trying to tenuously piece together a narrative where there isn’t one. An investor with 0.5% of outstanding shares and effectively 0 voting power can’t make Google do anything. They can post pdfs and work the PR machine (which hates Google because news media sees Google and Facebook as their main competitors for revenue ie ads), and WSJ can try to link the two, but that doesn’t imply any causality
I imagine in this system a retiree is the class they achieved professionally in employment.

Generally upper middle class is where family background begins to be a major factor. It generally means coming from a traditionally well off and educated family, with prestigious roles at the pinnacle of a hierarchy (prominent politician, judge, dean of a university, general, etc), public school education, and perhaps ancestral connections to nobility.
Because all laws are rational and make sense.
Roger Penrose is missing from it?
It's explained in the graph text. It's per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity, scaled so the country with the most usage by that metric is 1.

So, like individual Indians use 37% as much cryptocurrency as individual Vietnamese (adjusted for PPP).

It's a good way to show comparatively where cryptocurrencies seem to have some utility as measured by the fraction of an individual's financial power.
$12B over several years sounds like a lot until you realize how much volume is in the crypto market - $179B in 24 hours according to one source!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1272903/cryptocurrency-t...
Just buy a controller? They're pretty cheap and the superior way to play many games. Also IMO it's more relaxing to sit back with a controller, kb&m I find is more high-intensity.
Outer Worlds just made me sad after New Vegas.
Calendly is nearly ubiquitous when scheduling meetings with people outside your office these days. They’re particularly useful in sales and product. Given the space their in and the market cap they have 3b seems in the ballpark. Of course I don’t know what their numbers look like but if they’re doing 300m revenue yearly it would line up…
Its the same flawed analysis people use for many of the tech or story stocks.

In practice if calendly gets a large share of the market and really can charge 100k/customer, competitors will pop up quickly and force pricing far lower.

For a long while many tech companies had no serious competition as startups stayed in their own lane, but thats no longer true.

E.g. people were saying the same things about Zoom and Slack, but now they’re a dime a dozen.

Amazon just launched a tiktok clone. Nothing is safe from competition, so dont expect outsized margins to last forever in your forecasts. First movers get a few years of runway before profitability will be pressured
if it's not fully opensource, most actually technical people won't use it because they know better
> Ah, as I figured, you are promoting VAM.

I am promoting student growth measures in teacher evaluations, which is related to VAM, but not necessarily the same thing depending on who you are talking to: https://www.michigan.gov/mde/services/ed-serv/educator-reten...

> If it's not consistent when moving grade levels, why do you think it's consistent moving across schools?

Some models have been shown to be consistent across both grade levels and schools.

> And yet are a better predictor of future academic success than test scores. As I highlighted

And as I highlighted, GPAs are too subjective and in control of the teacher. If GPAs were used for teacher evaluation a teacher could write his or her own pay check via grade inflation. Standardized tests also act as a counterbalance in general to slow down grade inflation.

> Almost as if VAM-based firing isn't a useful too

Neither is trusting the teacher's unions to decide who to fire, because they fire virtually no one and even protect known incompetent teachers. We need a better solution than what we have now, and SGPs/SGMs have been shown to be far more effective than what we have now.

> So far it doesn't seem like you are aware of the evidence that VAM is not an effective method for deciding if a teacher should be fired

There is also plenty of evidence for using student growth measures as part teacher evaluations. You seem happy, however, to ignore the evidence I've given you that goes against your own bias. A little self-awareness might be in order.
> All I've ever really wanted was a modern D2.

That game exists, and it's called Path of Exile. It is also the poster child for why most of D2 aged really, really, really poorly.

Another take on that same concept is called Last Epoch.
So it's manipulative. Like a sensational headline that buries the mundanity at the end. Lead with "this is already publicly known" so people can make an informed choice about where to direct their attention.