skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ceres Imaging (Aerial and satellite imagery analytics for farming), Convoy (Trucking load auctions), etc. There are plenty of companies doing very real work that need this kind of heavy numeric lifting.
> How could he not trust them in the first place?

Because they were running a crypto exchange, a sort of business that very frequently ends rapidly and in a way that is not good for regular users.
Agreed - everything slows down and it is absolutely wonderful. The world through a view camera is a beauty in itself. I never got a chance to use a 8x10 but I imagine it is even more incredible.

I still have my Toyo 45AII tucked away. Last I checked the prices for film + processing were too much to justify it mind you.
A VR Hologate[0] amusement venue + a big (possibly multi level) electric cart racing track + a small food court.

[0] https://www.hologate.com/

P.S. Check the layout of an actual Hologate installation here (scroll to bottom):
https://hologateworld.com/

Obviously you could built something twice or thrice ad spacious.
They don't claim it's backed 1:1 by USD. They claim it's backed by more or less liquid alternatives: https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports
It doesn't make sense to people who are too poor to post 5-figure bails. Unless you assume that wealthy people play by a different set of rules. Then it makes perfect sense.
> She mentioned she’s not a fan of stop losses

At the volume they were trading, stop losses are no longer practical. The market is not infinitely deep.
In the Magic the Gathering lore, the elves on the plane of Lorwyn could be an example of a reflection of this. They are obsessed with beauty and perfection and absolutely xenophobic. https://gamelore.fandom.com/wiki/Lorwyn_Elf
I always geek out showing others Numi: https://numi.app/

The ability to use variables in a calculator is exciting to me because it is so easy and because it helps decrease errors.
That's a pretty complicated explanation, given that (1) every major city PD already makes ample use of street-level CCTV footage, and (2) it involves local-federal cooperation (the FBI is seemingly the ones flying these planes).

If we're speculating baselessly, my guess would be that, like all cops, the FBI has a bloated surveillance budget and loves trinkets. Why waste shoe leather or sit in a car for hours when you can justify a joy ride in a plane while you watch the bad guys?
> It was just a collection of random loosely-associated ideas and nothing ever came of it.

I remember buying this in '89 and being completely underwhelmed by it. There is nothing there imo. I stopped paying attention to the name Minsky after this introduction to the 'great man'.
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Yeah, I knew I was running that risk, but since I (thankfully) don't have a LP account, I don't have the same depth of experience with that ecosystem. However, I think they now have more in common than differ ... err, php and lax security practices aside. When I saw the attacker had exfiltrated the cloud storage, as a 1P member I thought "there but for the grace of God go I" and have been trying to think through the threat model that does apply to me

I have better-than-average experience with 1P's opvault format, and have lightly dug into their local cached copy, but realized I can only say so much about their cloud storage situation because the local copy presumably isn't the same as the way they store it

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BTW, if one is into vault storage formats, I have really enjoyed this series that dug into the 1P API and associated (they didn't have to reverse engineer the .opvault format, that was published): https://darthnull.org/series/1password/ and https://github.com/dschuetz/1password#readme
Do you have any idea how hurtful the phrase is to people without thumbs? And if we only follow "rules of thumb" where does that leave canines, whales, and tardigrades? Not to mention mycelium. What UI best practices are they to follow?

Let's try to be a bit more inclusive...
Yes, we built this tools from May.2022. I am happy you like it. We are open to discuss any ideas on OSSInsight, actually we are planning to make this product more useful and interested, it would release a new version of OSSInsight in near future.
https://www.informs.org/Resource-Center/Video-Library/H-T-Vi...

says March 5, 2001

and while that video starts in media res wrt the transcript, with the father of linear programming question, that question and his response are in the transcript verbatim, it seems.
Wait, that definition is too constraining. And imho Wikipedia articles don't need that "fix", unless the articles are in the Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

But a disclaimer: in my native language "utilize" is relatively common.
I think you are assuming way too much here. She's not the queen of anything, she's a fraudster that will spend a long time in jail and that has probably much less understanding of the mechanisms involved than you give her credit for. If she did she wouldn't be in the position she's in. The last thing we really need is for people to start lionizing her.
You mean if they hadn’t gotten involved in cryptocurrency?
What are my options for running a larger scale web conferences (up to a thousand endpoints perhaps, handful of them speaking) with free software and regular web browsers involved?

I guess past a certain point it's more like streaming than group calls. What have larger f/oss events such as FOSDEM used during the pandemic and what did they have to change to get it to scale?
In my state assisted suicide is legal after check and balances from medical professionals have occurred. There is basically no push back in the wider society on this. For someone who has a long term debilitating disease the right to die with dignity is available.

Yet after watching my 99 year old grandmother die last year in the final seven days before she passed it became increasingly obvious she was in significant amount of pain. The assisted suicide laws are irrelevant in this scenario and it became more obvious that giving her a massive dose of morphine to end it all was, in my opinion, the mericful and right course of action to prevent the needless suffering the final five days gave her.

Medical professional ethics of course prevented that happening which I thought was borderline cruel. If I am ever in that position I have told my family to give me a 'hot shot' mixed with LSD to make my end of life timeframe as painless as possible.

It's a shame that we couldn't have a quiet word with the doctor to over administer medication to her. In the final words she spoke a few days prior to passing she said she just wanted to go.
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Aren’t most hardware teams typically very old in terms of having lots of people with a lot of experience who have been working together for a long time? It feels to me like it’s not as simple as attracting talent.
Have your read the release-notes? Hint emacs. It's about the coresystems (network, graphic, sound, storage), the bsd systems do that (partially) so is windows and macos.
> Very few CS students had any experience writing production code, even for toy apps. This meant their ramp up time was often slower than bootcamp grads

This sounds like self-serving BS to me, or if it’s at all real, it’s indicative of employers not understanding what’s important in hiring for software development.

Even if someone takes longer to ramp up, the depth of knowledge is much more important in the medium to long term. Perhaps if the work being done is just churning out boilerplate, the boot camp grad might have a brief edge, but that’s exactly the kind of thing CS grads can automate out of existence.

But anyway, the key phrase in your comment is “according to him”. It sounds like he came up with a maximally rosy-eyed rationale for his failure, but the reality was probably a lot simpler: he just wasn’t creating any value.
Update: I just finished stuffing my belly with half the rice I cooked using your recipe, it came out delicious, thank you for that!

The reason why I left the other half outside of my belly is not due capacity limitations of any kind, but rather because I suspect this kind of rice will lend itself really really well to food-dehydration as it's already almost dry (in a good crunchy way!). I do this sometimes with leftovers pasta and rice and later use it as backpacking meals (either by cold soaking or super quick boil).
> If OP eventually writes C code that goes into production for a company, it is the company's responsibility to have procedures and safeguards which ensure that OP writes reasonable code. Ideally, one such safeguard will be a senior colleague to introduce them to the thornier parts of C.

You've mentioned something like this in reply to a few comments in here. This is a strange argument. It isn't too much to ask of a book to lay down more of a foundation so you don't need a 1 on 1 tutor later to correct misconceptions.

I get people like K&R because it is short and easy to read. Some subjects aren't best served by short and easy to read. The subject was well served by it when C was new and novel. We live in a very different world.
It seems like they were ordered to give the plaintiffs the documents, but they weren’t ordered to publicly release them. NYAG also looked into them last year. They were fined but it doesn’t seem like anything else came of it.

> The New York Attorney General’s probe into Tether’s reserves concluded in February 2021 with an $18.5 million settlement.

I don’t hold any tether, and I wouldn’t recommend it to others. But the common opinion that Tether is insolvent might be wrong. Tether, as a stable business, is a money printing machine. I’m not sure it’d be worth risking the business and jail time to pump shitcoins.
Sounds like the answer to just about everybody's areweuiyet? Question
You need to choose from a drop-down that the token owner is the organization, not you. Then you can create a token for a repo of the org. Your org must opt-in to beta.
that sounds very expensive to do, doesn't it?
Considering the fact that we now know that Maxine Waters got bamboozled by a 20something crypto bro, has your opinion of her being a competent regulator of the finance industry changed at all?

It’s fascinating when people think of politicians like sports teams and not public employees with a mandate of competence.
That's stunning to hear, and also speaks to "then they must not have been adding many features" or that file format must be absolutely rockstar. I'll try to make time to study it in order to learn which this is

(BTW, you also have duplicate comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34110529)
It's very cool. I'm curious about the name (OSSInsight). It's essentially Github insights (which is not a criticism). Just wondering if you planned on including analytics for gitlab and such somehow?
Is there some reason to believe auto makers will be totally unable to shift to EV? Particularly when most of them already have EVs? I also checked the stats, and it doesn't seem like the market cap of other auto makers have dropped because of Tesla. They're all over the map but generally trending positive, going back 12 years, which as far back as this site lets me go.

I agree they aren't selling a lot of EVs...but I also think a lot of that is just that EV demand is just not that high outside of certain bubbles, and certainly not at the current price point. Teslas, even Model 3s, are priced as luxury cars (I can't afford one myself), and have cachet among a certain set. Most EVs are worse off, in that they don't have the Tesla glamour. But there's no reason I can imagine that situation is permanent.

When/if demand changes due to regulation or economics or evolving tech, it's going to be a very different environment. This is particularly true as batteries become commodities. I don't want to handwave away the engineering, but electric motors are not revolutionary technology.

Even if we assume Tesla comes out on top, it seems crazy to believe Tesla is going to come out on top so hard that it sells 95% of all new vehicles globally.

NB: I think the auto industry future is very bleak for other reasons: we could make a great, reliable electric vehicle, but instead we're packing them full of shoddy electronics and software that will have unpredictable and difficult-to-troubleshoot failure modes (as is already the trend in ICE cars, where electronics are a bigger and bigger problem.) They will end up having to be serviced by manufacturers only and we'll probably all be cursed with subscription plans. Life will me much harder for those less well off.
She's not going to get sentenced to any time whatsoever. She cut a deal (full co-operation, forfeiture of assets and some fines) and is voluntarily pleading guilty to honor the deal.
There are, but I'm the only public one.
This sounds really interesting. I'd love to see your work if it's available online somewhere.
CS may be mathematics but programming certainly isn't

If you're discussing pure CS, the thing you can write down in a book and for which a computer is a largely theoretical device, sure CS is mathematics.

If we're talking about the practical reality that CS majors in America today are trying to achieve, and their undergraduate programs are trying to prepare them for, that's becoming a working programmer and has very little relation to mathematics.
Queen of WSB and yolo record are not a good thing... that is a subreddit that mocks bad risk management by ironically celebrating it. They know exactly what she is over there.
Yeah, how much would you really lose sight of a multi billion dollar business you own 90% of?

(at least I read that it was 90%)
That ship has long sailed. She's coming out of this with a slap on the wrist because she ratted on SBF. She's a hero of the alt right because her Tumblr is full of creepy eugenics shit. She has a pervo following for being a poly sex fiend (allegedly). She's going to write a book, sell her movie rights, etc. and live a life of luxury as the woman that took down SBF and FTX (who will be remembered as the real fraudster).
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> Doesn't "CSO" come with potential for personal liability in worst-case scenarios?

Depends on your definition of worse-case scenario, but generally no. Otherwise no one would be dumb enough to take that job.

Personal liability is not impossible of course, here's the recent example that made headlines: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-chief-security-o...

But "obstruction of justice" and "misprision of felony" is not something that just happens to you by accident.
It’s not about ChatGPT replacing Google IMO but the fact that decades of very expensive AI research at Google produced relatively little apart from impressive looking papers. If I was a major shareholder I would be asking some uncomfortable questions to Sundar right about now.

EDIT: Yes, there is TensorFlow but that is not really a product of the core AI teams, rather than a need for better tooling from them.
Hi guys, reposting because it may interest you. In particular using LTFS on the command line get little love on the internets...
If it is rational, that means it's beneficial, therefore not to be medicated away. Unless "rational" somehow includes "considering useless or counterproductive elements", and I would reject that.

However, I would not consider it to be terribly rational, it depends on the equation you're solving. If you're a single mother of 5 little ones, you will fear for their survival. If you're a soldier, well, your inability to face death may get many others killed.
Add support for bundle gem --ext=rust command.

Cool to see support for writing extension gems in Rust shipping with Ruby.
The flip side of a proof assistant's 'minutiae' (and there's plenty of room to disagree wrt. whether paying attention to those minutiae helps with gaining a better, more accurate intuition!) is its ease of refactoring a proof. A proof assistant can instantly tell you whether a seemingly nicer, better-abstracted proof B really manages to prove the same thing as proof A, something that's very hard to do without the use of precise formalized statements and automated checking.
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Yep, this stood out for me as well:

> but now (thanks to Emacs developers!) has a fully-upstreamed, polished-to-a-shine native GUI.

This alone is definitely worth giving it a go!
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This is great, since many people are looking to get away from Zoom. I was on a call the other day that was hosted by a very large startup (raised $200M). They had to end the call at 40 mins "because of our subscription tier".

If companies this big don't want to pay a penny to Zoom, that's saying something! It doesn't mean there's a great market opportunity for a paid tool, but it does mean that free tools will get good usage. I'm looking forward to the normalization of Jitsi and other alternatives, so people don't think I'm a weirdo for sending out links to services they've never heard of.
Plain Brezel along Weißwurst and sweet mustard is also fine for breakfast :)
On Android, Handy News Reader from the f-droid.org app store works well, once I went through all the settings and customized it, and got used to it. Except now it doesn't auto-fetch (it used to) and I don't know if I did something wrong, but manually fetching new stories isn't bad.

It is a local reader -- no account required, no server storage, but stores everything on the phone.

I've also used NewsBlur which I would probably like more if I paid. One thing about Handy News Reader is there is a way to see the URLs of existing feeds, which I have not found how to do in NewsBlur.

A previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424

I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.
Meson still won't have user defined functions, and gives a bad excuse:

> Meson does not currently support user-defined functions or methods. The addition of user-defined functions would make Meson Turing-complete which would make it harder to reason about and more difficult to integrate with tools like IDEs.

No, user-defined functions won't make Meson Turing-complete as long as recursion is not allowed.

User defined functions make it easier to encapsulate complicated build logic and reuse it.
Awesome - I had a similar idea to create this product. Your execution looks great. Well done.
There is very simple explanation though: Investors and VC funds burned literally billions of dollars (apparently over $30b according to [0]) to fuck up a functioning market.

The result is that existing players were forced out of business by a company that isn't even competing. It's a complete failure of the underlying principles of the free market.

When the investors have made out like bandits and the tap runs dry, consumers find themselves with poorer service. At that point the damage has been done and we have to hope that the business can actually be profitable while providing a similar quality of service to that which was available before.

On an unrelated note. The majority of Uber's early executive team belongs in jail. Their blatant disregard for the law should have repercussions. I find it repulsive that their actions are ignored while others are imprisoned for far far less.

[0] https://uberlosses.com/
Another tip here: Upwork can help kickstarting this.
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We are a complete and utter failure in that aspect (I am French).

We had a law in the 2000's (law Leonetti) which was ridiculously weak. It is now going to take uears and several elections to have progress there.

Fortunately we have reasonable neighbors where you are free to dispose of your life.

This together with the squatting laws are a disgrace.
> closed nature and hard to integrate with existing tooling (editors, vcs, OS)

This is probably the big reason - Smalltalk is its own OS and GUI, and didn't play well with others until relatively recently.

> poor story for Web, Java had applets and JS was native

This only became relevant after Smalltalk was already very niche.

> slower and memory hungry compared to C++

So was Java back then, and, thanks to free-as-in-beer and being easier to integrate into build tooling and the workflows developers were used to, it had a much bigger impact.

> lack of type safety compared to Java/C# or Ocaml

The way Smalltalk works, this is more a feature than a bug. It's a given it'll result in more runtime errors if types are abused, but that's also one of the reasons so much early progress on automated unit testing started there.
FTA: 'Apple engineers were "too ambitious"'. Yeah, right. I'm sure management had nothing to do with pushing unrealistically time-framed specs down to engineering.
It predates the name change from Mantle to Vulcan by almost two years. Metal was built using Mantles ideas. When AMD gave it to Khronos, they changed the name to Vulkan.

Here is a comment from 2016 from a person already tired of explaining this to people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11112078
This is a fantastic article! Though, for the first half, I do think folks would benefit from having a rough understanding of the nuances of hash maps, if I may plug my own rough notes [1]

[1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/datastructures/blob/main/docs/...
This seems like an odd use of 'unprecedented'. It's in the same category as "I made an unprecedented dietary decision today and decided to drink chamomile tea instead of mint". Yes, it might be unprecedented because I've never done that before, but it's also super boring. Who cares? So they tried to put too much graphics power in the iPhone and it didn't work. And it's not exactly a setback either. So they had to have a slightly less powerful phone. Whatever.

Sometimes these article titles are ridiculous and I'm quite tired of this hyperbole, especially in tech. What about "iPhone engineers tried a powerful GPU but had to use a less powerful one".
Seems like it might be a bad move to enter a conspiracy with someone obsessed with game theory.
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With result/either you are forced to handle the error very close to where it happend. With exceptions (in my understanding) the goal is to be able to handle errors much further up the stack. But in such cases you aren't sure where the exception originated, so you need to encode that in the exception to understand the error.

If you do very close exception handling, you lose what I consider to be 'the point of exceptions'. Hence I don't think that should be done.

The core of my argument is then that error handling beyond 'just retry' needs a lot of detail about the error. And I believe this detail is easier to encode if the error handling is close to the error. Since exception handling is meant to be further away from the error, it isn't as suited to this kind of error handling.
Well, all right, a bug in someone else's implementation can make your car the cause of the crash. (Though "cause" here means proximate cause rather than root cause.)

Why does that matter? Because it's your insurance premiums that go up.
That was unclear, I meant that I'm a former Imagineer/Disney Researcher. Cheers ;)
“Queen of wallstreetbets” is (presumably) not a compliment, it’s a reference to the idiots on the subreddit of that name, notorious for their irrational support of companies like Gamestop, and completely disconnected from any actual understanding of market behavior.
No, of course not. If it were easy, why would it take six payments of $24.95+S/H to teach you how to do it?
Since it’s Christmas I feel I should post my old addressable LEDs project.

https://youtu.be/Ic_MmhiT8qE
Exactly my thought. Another was: Because Apple shares technologies between platforms, I wonder if this GPU development hiccup had any bearing on the apparent delay of refreshed MacBook Pros and the Apple Silicon Mac Pro.