skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best binoculars are the ones you have with you…yes, just like cameras except an iPhone won’t do it.

And like a camera, binoculars are a bit of a personal choice because a person is not likely to lug around binoculars they don’t like a lot.

I travel with a Bushnell Banner 10x50 wide field that I bought at the SPCA Thrift Shop for $12.

That’s the thing, just about any binoculars are probably good enough optically. Even rank amateurs’ inexpensive binoculars from the 80’s like mine.

Provided they have large enough elements and sufficient magnification, of course. Yes, there’s some chromatic aberration and I noticed it after reading an online review and not before or since…though I guess if I take them out tomorrow after writing this I might if I got bored looking through them too long.

But since these are a gift, ask your wife what she wants…assuming she wants binoculars, then she will probably have something in mind. And if she isn’t asking for binoculars, have an idea where they will be kept…

Mine were the SPCA volunteer’s late father’s. He bought them when he retired. I asked if he had been a bird watcher. No she said as she rang me up.
Then she went to the back room, because they were her father’s and all.

So I guess they sat in a closet for a couple of decades, which is why I mention talking to your wife and/or having a plan.

Which is to say, good gifts aren’t about the specifications. Fitting in a purse might or might not be critical.

Good luck.
Fascinating he would choose to retire at 39, in a position of what sounds of great influence in the space program. Anyone know the context around this? Was it mandated?
> The PEP in no way explains how to write a usable pyproject for ordinary projects. It's basically just targeted at people developing installers.

Did you look at it[1]?

> I meant package. A directory with an __init__.py. You can't install standalone script.py (or a generated wrapper) as /usr/local/bin/script with a pyproject.

I still don't think I understand what your expectation is here: a `pyproject.toml` is just a metadata specification. The only difference between it and `setup.py` is that the latter is arbitrary code.

There's an old, long deprecated way to use `setup.py`, namely `setup.py install`. But that's been discouraged in favor of `pip install` for years, which behaves precisely the same way with `pyproject.toml`. If you want to install a script into `/usr/local/bin`, `pip install` with a package specified in `pyproject.toml` will work just fine.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/#example
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Wipr (adblock)
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DevonThink (web archive for local search)
Codebook (password mgr, wifi sync)
The wording is bad. It’s moved the equivalent of that energy.

Technology connections did a good video on this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
I think the implicit reason (which I too wish the article would state) is that if you (1) have bowed-out wheels for the front, and (2) want the benefit of all wheels being the same (easy replacement, etc), and also (3) want more wheels on the back (because that's where the load is), then the arrangement of bowed-out-face bolted to bowed-out-face solves it.

If you had a bowed-out-face on the rear wheels, you would need some comically long bolts to join it with the other (inner) wheel.
You make good points, but I think we would diverge in that I think the western democracies have already crossed into the pseudo-democracy trap and are already tyrannies. However, I want no part of oppressing anybody because I don't find myself to be exceptionally impressive, so don't look at me to come up with a better system of oppression.

People go along with this idea of democracy because they believe (read: they've been told) that the possibility of freedom and prosperity exists if they are simply able to convince enough of their unimpressive friends to vote hard enough for the correct team. It's absurd.

My belief is simply that nobody else speaks for me. I'm not responsible for the depravity that arises from democracy, just as I'm not responsible for the depravity that arises from authoritarianism. It's all the same thing.

Having said that, I could probably be convinced to follow a truly heroic and impressive person if one were to ever appear. Jesus seemed like a good fit, but the mediocre leaders running his local government killed him because he was a pain in their asses.
I live in the Bay Area and I’m curious about trying mushrooms for personal reasons. I’m not addicted to anything and don’t drink alcohol or smoke or do any other drugs After reading information about mushrooms recently I’ve been interested to try them for personal growth and wellbeing.

Where do you even get them? How do you know how much to take? How do you take them? I’ve tried finding centers to go to where they assist you but can’t seem to find any that aid with it end-to-end.
but where the heck did it originate from?
A standard heat pump water heater does that but will only provide a couple degrees of cooling to meet standard domestic hot water needs. You can also get pool heater heads for heat pumps/ac units though last time I looked not all were available in the us.
This just means that you are moving heat energy from one resovoir to another. The total amount of energy the system releases is the energy moved AND the energy used to move that energy. COP is calculated by dividing the amount of heat moved by the energy used to move that heat. In short no violation.
Yup. It’s always easier for a people to go ‘down the ladder’ into a more brutal place, than it is to go up it, all things considered.

It requires constant work to stop in oneself - and others won’t necessarily see or want to do it. True for people, true for societies too.
I think you are right that this paper may not amount to anything but it should also be a big wakeup call that maybe we need to switch or enhance our public key crypto starting now rather than later, in case similar ideas can work, or in case quantum computers get a little bit better faster than we thought, etc.
> these are the kind of points peer reviewers would raise (though typically in far more esoteric and passive aggressive ways...)

If you don't mind me asking, how do you deal with this kind of culture, where a normal process is being purposefully obstructed with such behavior from the reviewer?

Do you ever call people out who sprinkle their "reviews" with such passive aggression? What is their defense? What highlights does your profession have that make it worth putting up with this?
Almost certainly Utah.
Financial security is the reason - if people don't have financial security, they'll expect their children to care for them in their old age when they're unable to earn.
That's the case in most (all?) immigrants cultures - children are expected to, and do, take care of their parents in their old age (exceptions are always there ofc).

After families are established and have financial security, they no longer need to rely on their children in their old age - at which point it becomes a choice.
maybe they didn't know how to spell Xzaviar and this was the best they could do?
I have a hard time believing that it is financial because even high earning SWEs are skipping it. Feels a lot more like both parties want a career than an inability to afford.
>I am surprised Wall Street doesn’t do this already to create synthetic longs.

A comment on the post covers that: It's called a "bucket shop", and it's illegal.
If your parents named you that, you should be allowed to sue them when you turn 18.
Thanks for figuring it out! This tweet also accounts for the Vue spike mentioned by another poster.
How to Achieve Sustainable Growth as an Open-Source Company?
The FDIC is funded by insurance premiums that banks pay that are then invested an generate returns.

Thus it comes out of the returns the bank generates using your money to invest, and then also from the returns the FDIC generates investing the premiums.

In the case of a black swan event, the US Gov might have to step in to increase funding, but that is not how the FDIC normally operates.
This is a common headscratcher in the heat pump space. They're taking advantage of a thermal gradient to get more out than they put in. Very much like driving downhill, as I understand it. If you put an air conditioner into a closed system, you can't beat Carnot efficiency. But if you're allowed to dump/absorb heat to/from the environment, the coefficient of performance measures the heating/cooling on the control side versus energy input -- which is allowed to go over unity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance

(I'm no authority here -- I only bought a heat pump and had the same reaction as you)
I also have this question. Is the RL MDP actually encoding cause and effect? Or just learning (bidirectional) correlations between states and actions?

I wonder if Pearl thinks that RL replicates his do-calculus under the hood, or if that's an innovation we're missing.
Yes, the simple opcodes are the most-used, and this was one of the ideas floating around that helped inspire RISC, but be careful how you figure out which opcodes are different. For example, mov in x86 is extremely polysemous: It can be move from register to register, load register with data from RAM, store register contents out to RAM, store a constant out to RAM, and even perform ALU operations and then use the result of those operations as a memory address for storing something out to RAM. On a cleaner (RISCier) ISA, all of those would be different opcodes or sequences of opcodes, assuming they're possible at all.

Other than that, this piece looks good as far as it goes.
Each set of upstream hosts in nginx is a single instance of load balancing. You aren't load balancing across services, you're splitting traffic by service and then load balancing across instances of that service.

The split is inessential. You can just as easily have homogeneous backends & one big load balancing pool. Instances within that pool can even have affinity for or ownership of particular records! The ability to load balance across nodes is not, as you claimed, a particular advantage of microservices.
> Fly.io is not a support-first company. If this bothers you, then Fly.io is probably not for you.

> When emailing support, and email is the only option, it can take from hours to days to get a response. Sometimes they don't follow up. It does not feel like their level of support is on par with other cloud providers.

This enough to keep me on AWS. You can say a lot about AWS but their support is great
That makes sense. I am still trying to understand why does it differ between a monolith and microservices. The app in the monolith can make the call to non-critical functionalities time-limited and fault-tolerant, just like a network call has a time-out and can return nothing (in a simplified manner, it can wrap that call with a timer and an exception handler).

I agree that microservices are suitable for large organization, where the organization practically has multiple products (which could be purchased from a vendor or sold to another company).
Usually, when I'm debugging a container, I start with a `tail -f /dev/null` entrypoint, or something like that, and then just shell into it to run the real entrypoint to see if it's working.
Lazyweb, since searching for "Toybox" wasn't helpful: https://github.com/landley/toybox#readme (although "toybox shell" did help)

And it's BSD Zero Clause, for those who are curious: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/0.8.8/LICENSE
This misrepresents what happens if you use busybox in your product and don't comply with the license (posting a buildable version of your changes) - they first try and negotiate compliance before starting litigation. You won't get served papers until you refuse to comply with the license. This includes giving you time to fix the situation - https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...
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Would it maybe help to extend https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-n... with new options, like rel="aigc" or rel="noTrainingOfYourLanguageModel" ?
Hi. I agree with you that "prompts are a lot like 'functions' in a programming sense". Check out https://github.com/xiaoniu-578fa6bff964d005/com2fun.
I am. Equifax should cease to exist for the breach.
>Korea's financial regulators are strict, but Korean politicians and media are paternalistic, so if there's a problem with finance, most of them try to side with financial consumers. For example, the issue of password leakage due to a keylogger installed on a user's PC is considered to be a bank problem, not a user problem.

Isn't this also the case in the US? You're generally not liable for fraudulent transactions, as long as you took "reasonable" measures to prevent the fraud from happening. Given the technical ineptitude of the average person, banks/regulators will rarely blame the consumer.
He likely cannot give away more than $17K per employee per year without incurring gift taxes.

Rough 43K employees (in 2020 per Wikipedia) at $17K each is a maximum tax-free gift of $731M to some hypothetical co-op.

In 2022 Hobby Lobby had $7.7B in revenue suggesting that it is worth quite a bit more than $731M. The difference would be subject to gift taxes at a rate of 40% if transferred into employee hands.

He frankly could not have given it materially to the employees at once without liquidating a serious portion of his holdings to pay the gift taxes.

Though, it could be transferred as compensation and taxed at income rates. But then the employees would be dumping shares to pay the taxes.

(Someone please correct me if I am off here with my numbers/understanding.)
Fake. No one in this dialogue uses the words "lindy" or "mid."
Most banks, embassies, and other businesses do not have a zoom link you can call to take care of business.
All hail Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20230104011250/https://busybox.n... (and it seems they run their own git server, which is similarly sad right now)
Excalidraw is another really productive infinite-canvas app. It feels 10x more productive to draw diagrams using that (for me at least). I think the imperfection of the lines, text, boxes means that you aren't distracted by slight misalignments that are glaringly obvious in most drawing tools and that allows you to just go faster.
You've never used a thermal camera?
Thanks to DALL-E, the race to make artificial protein drugs is on
The external costs can be mitigated.
Rotating makes the subpixel orientation incompatible with ClearType (subpixel font rendering) though.
FDIC: Bank Failures in Brief
Wikipedia will be more helpful here than I can be.
ARM license fees are a relatively small proportion of a smart phone. It might have some impact on the low-end, but licensing costs are more important for all the small "invisible" chips that are in everything these days.
Responsive at least. They’re very quick to inform you that x is a known issue with their service, and the request has been dispatched to the dev team.
Synthetix has been running a bucket shop for a long time. They added stocks through Kwenta but got spooked and removed them.

https://synthetix.io/
> In healthy orgs...

This is, so far as I can tell, ~5% of them.
the ssa page of baby names is super interesting and a lot richer than this link alone:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

you can look up popularity of any name over the past 100+ years, top names in every year since the 1900s, some modest visualizations, etc
Thanks! Is there any documentation on the stable API? The link I posted has some normal REST stuff for machines, but nothing on other resources. I can't find any central API reference/etc in your docs.

Looking at the code, it uses GraphQL? I can't find any documentation on your GraphQL API either though, aside from a web editor that doesn't appear to be linked anywhere official.
No, really. This is how I use it. Get it to emulate a Linux terminal. Seed the history with ls / -lah, lscpu, lsb_release -a etc. Then at that point {use git to install a Python project that is a Slackbot template}.

Boom, it clones the fake library. cd slack-bot-template, cat main.py and away you go.

{Modify the project to do X and commit}

Etc etc.
From the perspective of AI Safety (may get important soon), it is perhaps a very bad idea to allow AI agents to suggest execution/injection of arbitrary code into random places with a review from a single human that needed help from Stack Overflow.

[And don’t believe ChatGPT that claims it is an only a Language Model. It is not. It is a RL Agent trained with PPO.]
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>Of all these solutions, the numbers card gives me the most peace of mind: even if my machine is fully compromised and all my passwords and certificates stolen, the attacker would likely need very long-term access (or access to the bank's server) to get all 35 numbers from the card

I think you're overestimating how much security this provides and missing a very simple workaround: the attacker can simply wait until you preform a transfer, and then replace the intended recipient detail with theirs. For instance, if alice was sending funds to bob, and the attacker controls the machine, they can simply replace the recipient to malory, while still displaying bob to the user.
This may change - California, for example, just passed an adjustment to the payback prices that will drop them by 75%.
Maybe [Comskip](https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip) could be used for this, depending on whether or not the hosts are doing the read.
>We are now attempting to solve this with caches and doing batch requests, but all of this created additional overhead that could have all been avoided by not using microservices.

> especially since some of these services are not even in the same data center.

I think you need to answer why? If you can't put all of the services in one data center, then by definition you can't write a monolith either. If the monolith would happily run in one datacenter, then you should have all instances of your microservices in that one datacenter.

It surprised me that you would conclude that this is a problem with microservices. It's like if a particularly architect always punches you in the groin in every meeting, and you've concluded that architects are bad people, rather than this one architect is a bad person.
My only counterpoint to this is that for some folks, particularly at the junior level, forcing them to write out their questions into text helps them focus their ideas and what they are trying to solve. This process often helps them find new avenues to search and helps them answer their own question
I feel really bad for people named Karen due to no fault of their own, as I've met a good amount of adults named Karen and heard jokes passed their way. I think it's extremely unfair that it turned into a meme depicting a caricature of a person. It's not even similar to a "Chad" which in guy-world is desirable to an extent.

Just another casualty of meme culture, but who cares right?
"easily treatable"

Let's not get carried away here.

"According to the American Cancer Society, for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined, the one-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 9%."

And don't forget, Steve Jobs died in 2011, which means treatment was being received for years prior. That's 12+ years ago.
In a regular Quest 2 (not the pro as discussed here) you can use pass-through and actually reach out and grab a glass of water and drink it. It's super impressive and actually makes the pass-through useful for the things that you use pass-through for.

Would it be nice to be able to actually read text and not have distortion when objects get too close? Yes, of course. But it's not necessary.
That's a fair point. Does the same argument apply to GitHub Copilot / ChatGPT?

Does it apply to things that aren't programming? e.g. People are already using these AIs for legal work.
Paul Ehrlich is on a mission against humanity. This is nothing new from him.
A Rust view on Effective Modern C++ (2017)
We need less people who measure things at our companies and more engineers who are actually designing and implementing the technology.
> you don't know how to run a database.

Hah, I wish you didn’t need to know how to run a database to use RDS. So much is dependent on settings/parameter groups.
> They might draw today and it has to be available.

This is true for non-solar customers too. It may be more true for solar, but unexpectedly high residential loads happen for all kinds of reasons. (A big one is heat on a very cold day, and that tends to be a correlated load.)
My perception of the word "meritocracy" is that it's usually used by an autocrat to describe his autocracy. A head of a hedge fund or start-up business might say "Come work for me, you will find it so rewarding, I've created a true meritocracy here." Inevitably that raises the question "Who decides what's meritorious?" The unspoken answer: "I do."
>But really contraception was available long before birthrates started declining, and what changed most of all was cultural attitudes towards contraception.

The important statistic would be birthrates after women gained access to convenient and obtainable (cheap or subsidized) contraception.

Did women really have access to effective contraception before the sharp drop in this graph? Or were they having kids because they did not have control over it?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINUSA
It's fragmented information due to so much lead gen content out there, which is of course all very rose tinted. /r/solar is a decent community.
It has an infrastructure cost. Either it's donated or it's cost is recovered. The shifty part is not being very up front about this although I suspect bits of this are tech "do I look like I read the manual" things.

I use letsencrypt. It's less shifty than normal CA to me.
I have trouble with this idea that “Michael” is only #17, as a Michael born in 1983.
Grammarly - Because I misspell all the time(Not supported on HN)

uBlock origin - Because I'm not a big fan of ads. Also works on firefox on android if you are tired of ads when browsing on your phone.

Bitwarden - Just switched from lastpass, and wow what can I say, such a breeze to use and it's free!
Most countries have mandatory military service? Care to back that up? While it’s certainly common I doubt it’s the majority
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You've hit the nail on the head. Small business valuation is hard and surprising. Almost by definition a small business has not been systematized and abstracted. The owner is vital to the operations.

This is in strong contrast with medium or large businesses where a professional management layer exists. Thus allowing the owner, even if nominally the CEO, to relax and ignore day to day operations.

Thus small business are best through of as a job, not an asset.
Say your name right D-nice.

Wonder if k&p had anything to do with that.

(edit: typos)
I agree with you — and was lazily side-stepping that argument.

Part of why I believe such tools are likely to be among the first cyber AI is that they’re already cyborg AI, in transition from meat AI. I do think the cyber version will be qualitatively more “self”-aware, though.
While that's true for some bills, it's a strange comment on an article showing how the "Clean Water Act" has apparently been wildly successful cleaning up waterways around New York and causing a huge improvement in the health of these ecosystems and a massive resurgence in marine life...