skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Historians don't have a monopoly on truth, nor are they "agenda free", both of which you imply in your many comments.

This is certainly true, which is why professional historians cite their sources, preferably original sources (not the opinions of other historians).

> Fiction writers can write deep truths

Yes, they can. How can you tell if they're writing the truth, though?

You're right, I don't like Sinclair's obvious and heavy-handed socialist agenda. But do you ever see me citing fictional works that promote freedom?

> it threatens your version of the truth

My version of the truth is based on reading verifiable historical examples of what happens under socialism, and what happens under freedom. Not novels of either.
Specification vs Implementation: There could be only one specification, but many implementations. There is only one Python specification, but it has many implementations, cPython being the most popular.
> Regarding coding challenges, I meant to say that … They're meaningless.

They’re not meaningless. I worked as a technical screener for a recruiting company a few years ago. We interviewed thousands of people and had good data on this stuff. Programming challenges had high signal - doing well at ours was positively correlated with all the other parts of our quantitative assessment (knowledge, software anrchitecture, etc) and ultimately with getting hired.

There’s a reason they’re popular. It’s not all cargo culting.
If your password is compromised they still don't have access to your OTP, so 2 factor. If your password manager is compromised then they have both, 1 factor.

I'm no math wiz but pretty sure that makes it a 1.5 factor
Can I trust my weather app? [video]
What is hot wallet, btw?
We do cross functional mob programming at my company with native iOS and Android apps. Works like a charm with a small team and I don’t think a react native app would offer any advantage. Instead we try to build the best app for each platform as one team.

I’ve never believed the hype of code once run everywhere. All solutions have drawbacks you just have to pick one.
Sure, personal responsibility still matters in an individual level… but that’s irrelevant to the point you’re replying to! I’m not sure of your point.

If those groups can convince a decent percent of people to spend the max that they can get away with, it doesn’t matter what you do personally. Prices will inflate because most others are still spending big.
GMO yields are actually lower than non-GMO in ideal conditions. The savings come in other ways, such as no manual weeding with glyphosate resistance (or higher yields compared to letting the weeds rob NPK), or less insecticide use and spraying for BT corn. As a rough estimate, yields are about 6-10% lower for GMO seeds, but labor savings can be huge. GMO cotton cuts labor costs by 90%.
Okay, let me be that guy... I was that guy telling people no no don't send your customers to Facebook, Noooo twitter is not the superior RSS replacement. Live journal is the wrong choice, your Myspace efforts are not history in the making and your Geocities was historically just as much a waste of time. Flickr is not the place for your family album and neither is Picassa.

There are countless active platforms and other walled gardens that offer actually great tools and do just what you want them to do but the thing is, non of it is yours! You are not making something for yourself, you are working to enrich the Zuck who can turn on you at any moment, from a benevolent friend to a brain eating zombie overnight.

Take youtube, its still a great product but it's nothing like the fantastic thing it started out as. Yours may one day go from a popular channel or from quality content to being not advertiser friendly. You've invested countless hours only to be discarded with various motivations. You helped build these digital prisons, no faith can be cruel enough.

Who cares that web is slower than native. People with slow phones should buy a faster one. If they cant afford to they have no money for you either. We pretend phones are not fast enough to do anything?? They are insanely fast compared to desktops from not to long ago. The only reason they are slow is that you've piled to much crap onto them, crap that shouldn't be there.

I suggest we stop executing tasks and just pile them up, gradually execute them little bits at a time. Don't let anyone else manage this for you! Others will think their stuff takes priority over the user trying to input text. If I'm inputting text I honest to god want all other processes suspended until I'm done. Perhaps if I'm not typing for 20 seconds, gazing at the input area, perhaps you can send me a push notification. Its still heretical interference with the writing process. Apps are slow because the user just isn't important anymore.

To do a silly analogy: Some people get stuck in a monologue, say after 2 beers. Others may find themselves unable to get a word in. The problem is not that they are not talking fast enough.
no big issue because surely he must have 96M more. no one would ever store all of his wealth in one single asset - and especially if its a very risky asset that isn't backed by any real value. or would he?
To expand on Parkinson's Law: capitalism grows to fill the space allotted to it.

The 90s internet was great because it was built by academia. Post Dot Bomb, the internet got saturated by big business. Everything evolves so quickly on the web that we're already finding ourselves living under the eventualities of late-stage capitalism and ultimate wealth inequality (slavery).

I've come to view tech as an ever-tightening noose that solves every problem except how to get out of it. Loosely that means that whatever goal each of us has for going into tech will be the one that gets us in the end. We get older, conditions change and we find ourselves becoming the villain of our own story. Even if we succeed, we fail.

Stepping outside of that, I've decided to embrace magical thinking in my own life. I believe that ultimately tech will bring magic back into the world and we'll find ourselves confronting the ethical dilemmas of fairy tails. In the New Age, when everyone has the ability to change the world for better or worse, wisdom becomes more important than knowledge.

The status quo is threatened by that, so there's already a backlash against stuff like wokeism. Socialism becomes the bogeyman to keep us distracted so we don't turn our attention away from systems of control in general. And so on.

How to protect ourselves from that? I think it's helpful to meditate on what the opposite of all this might look like. What's the opposite of profit? Or power? Softer questions might be: what's our individual definition of success? Why are we doing this?

Now to get back to watching superhero movies on New Year's Day..
I chose Zulip over matrix. UX in quite bad in matrix element and offers no new features compare to others. Zulip topic based discussion model is really powerful and it gives a lot of ways to manage the team asynchronously. What worse is performance, matrix is quite slow compare to Zulip because it's choice of underlying framework not asynchronous , where Zulip uses Django 4x and tornado framework.
object oriented programming, with public, private, classes. inheritance, parameters... ugh. It took much longer to internalize these than I'd care to admit.
Yeah, probably my mistake was just dropping QWERTY completely, and not using it at all anymore.
OOP does not require mutable state. OOP has its origins in imperative languages, and so in the past OOP often involved poor management of mutable state.

I am a Scala programmer, and our code mixes OO and FP. Almost all of our classes are completely immutable.

In the end, you will always need to encapsulate data and functions in some manner. The FP approach involves module systems, but as I understand it, objects in Scala actually provide a better module system than found in pure FP languages.
Neurodivergents Will Inherit the Earth
Perhaps because of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw
Regarding literature, I'll give an opposite opinion. Being forced to read the classics in school led me to not caring about them at all because I just couldn't relate at all, I had not had the requisite life experience for them to make an impact on me. Now, being an adult and having the life experience, reading them again makes me think more deeply and I can actually relate. So I think in school, we actually shouldn't read high literature lest we hate reading them as adults, which is really when they should be read, not before.
Yes, but implementation errors-- not fundamental flaws in the theory or underlying mathematics.

It's not a statement about such things being impossible, just unlikely to come from a single individual working in complete isolation up until the bitcion whitepaper release.

Additionally this alone would be merely peculiar on it's own, coupled with the lack of retrospective investigations uncovering -anything at all- significant about the person moves it to suspicious. Adding in the subject matter of cryptography + pseudo anonymous money and it strains credulity not to consider
I think that would be precisely zero people? Unless you're confusing New York state with the federal government?
Why not? No individual needs that kind of money.

I don't want billionaires running charities deciding who gets what. I want elected governments to do that. (yes I know the US government is wasteful and incompetent but not all governments are). The wealth these people have acquired is because of the public and the public should benefit from the excess.
That’s why you don’t store millions of dollars in your physical location. You break up the seed and disperse it among several bank lock boxes. (See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing).

Keep a small amount in a hot wallet for convenience and a larger amount (but not too large) in a cold wallet accessed via hardware. But the bulk shouldn’t be accessible without breaking into at least two lock vaults.
People keep diaries.
My grandfather was born in 1902, and I'm in my early twenties now. It's wild — I know people my age whose grandparents were born in the early 70s.
Informal Review of 'Exploration of M31 via Black Hole Slingshots'
F-91W is the watch I wear today.

Actually, my favorite wristwatch - or rather the one I wore for 25 years or so - was a W-71. Unfortunately, you can't buy these except as vintage second-hand. I still don't understand why that is... I always felt it a more "aesthetically-balanced" version of the F-91W; plus it had 4 buttons rather than 3, which makes sense given the structure both watches. But I lost my W-71 while moving out of my last apartment, so... now I've had to settle on the F-91W. Ah well.
But is that limited to just Mastodon?

That happens on other social media to avoid getting banned.

One example is anything showing disagreement with LGBTQ movement from the east, no matter how much you think that is a done thing, it definitely not, especially there.
Agreed. When I was doing sales, I would follow up with people seven times before they replied. I used to feel bad until I realized that it worked, then I just automated that part and didn't think about it further, the leads once they replied were sent to my CRM where I could then set them up on a call or some other action.
Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest-known record of a candidate aurora
When I was making my pac-man clone, I used this as a reference. All the details add up, as you said.
Could LastPass be an intentional backdoor from some Government or entity?
Much better than it did back then. Modern farming is much more resilient than farming back then as is proven by how rare famnes are today when they used to be common in the past.
It's in theory possible for the technologically to grow this quickly. However, there will be a delay in human adoption because of how large of a paradigm shift it is.

Artists are already using copyright law to attack AI. Once other parts of our economy are hit you could see more vicious attacks and alternative strategies used against AI. It's possible for even laws used to limit AI in the same way tariffs work or we might even see resistance similar to the Butlarian jihad. Who knows?

That's all hypothetical though... Even if none of these resistance scenarios arise, I still think adoption will not happen as fast as technological development.
Even tough yes, that's a good answer to the GP... Are people expecting WASM machines to be a thing? And with a different fate from the Java machines? (I don't see how they are different enough to change that fate.)
> some random vps provider.

devil's advocate: is DigitalOcean in this category?
This is why lack of consumer protections suck

Agreed, and the problem is that this is a feature. Without that feature of a lack of central control, Bitcoin's main use case is invalid.
Unless they're your boss. They may be too obnoxious to rise any higher, but they'll still make your days extremely unpleasant.
FWIW the GP didn’t say US; there are many more intel orgs and govs desperate for money than the US.
Agreed, this has taken me years. It also is tough because lots of people over use it IMHO. When the logic keeps bouncing around dozens of classes its too hard to follow, even if its easy to test.
Why Gen Z is 'quiet quitting'
That's what trive.news was about. Turns out crowd sourcing truth gives a weighted average towards accuracy. Something tells me businesses relying on getting "experts" to sell you on things, would want to keep general public opinion out of the equation.

http://www.trive.news/Whitepaper.0.2.6x.pdf
I have no idea what's in that documentary to be honest. Not sure if it's pro-Lula or pro-Bolsonaro. All I know is they preventively censored it. Not even the military dictatorship of decades past preventively censored material. Censorship is unconstitutional but it's not like these judges care.
Pretty much anything related to personal growth (however you define it) takes time to click, but it took a while to understand two things at a deep enough level to begin to make change:

* everyone has a set of habits that served them well during childhood, but may be maladaptive as an adult (e.g. getting angry is almost universal a sign of this maladaptive childhood habit rearing up). Book recommendation [0]

* the fear of hope is a key thing to understand when it comes to why people (myself included) hold themselves back. Taking the first step can feel terrifying because it demonstrates that one is responsible for creating one's own life. Book recommendation [1]

The only way out of this is to deliberately design your days so that you get the most out of them, even if it is fumbling at the start. Add in some times to relax here and there, but if you have a plan, it's much easier than staring at a blank Saturday with the vague goal of "I MUST learn JS/Rust/Go/Scala or my career will be over!!!" and then getting nothing done.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-...

[1] https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-we-change-ross-el...
When Mike Griffin started the Space Development Agency under Trump in 2019, he said we need LEO constellations to track hypersonic missiles and be proliferated to be robust against anti-satellite tech.
However, existing MEO satellites have proven capable of tracking hypersonics just fine. Meanwhile LEO satellites are way more vulnerable to ASAT, they can be directly hit. No... LEO only makes sense when you look at Mike Griffin's history working on the Strategic Defense Initiative. He sees LEO constellations of sensors as the first step to including space-based kinetic interceptors (hypersonic reentry vehicles, aka space weapons) which need to be close to Earth in LEO to work. He is part of the hawks in Washington trying to build a space-based power projection system for boost-phase interception and prompt global strike.

The whole thing seems built on deceit.
I don't strictly need a TB of NVMe storage, but:

* I might in the next 5 years, which is at least how long I'd like a $1k+ system to last.

* I do like to download media, including movies. It adds up fast.

* I know for a fact that 1 TB of NVMe storage does not cost $400. Apple's storage pricing is downright offensive and harmful. These machines could last a lot longer if Apple didn't skimp on the storage as much.
Bitcoin isn’t anonymous. The transfers of coins are there permanently for all to see.
Can anyone recommend some “offline only” password generation tools? I don’t see why passwords need be stored on a server at all.
Something with mobile support would be ideal
But they haven’t managed to fix a rather basic feature in their iOS client in nearly 6 years now: <https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile/issues/438>
North Korea seems to have been weaponizing it more aggressively than anyone at this point.
That's true of all A/B testing for real world things isn't it?

You could have measured increased traffic because something was trending on twitter/HN instead of the UI changes you just deployed. Might be completely different tomorrow.
The frequency is the imaginary part of the Laplace parameter s (and the attenuation is the real part of the Laplace parameter s).

Laplace transforms work on systems with attenuation—that’s the main advantage.

Because the kind of transform was swapped out anyway, people used the chance to often only define one-sided Laplace transforms that only work for t > 0 (because as an engineer, thats the systems you want anyway).

There’s a direct correspondence between the (usual) one-sided Laplace transform and the (unusual) one-sided Fourier transform for that reason.

Since you usually have systems where f(t) = 0 for all t < 0 anyway, the distinction one-sided or not is not so important in practice for understanding.
Satoshi is (so far)
That is true for A/B tests too in tech.
InvokeAI Version 2.2.5 – A Stable Diffusion Toolkit
“Every step that is ‘jay’ is defiance in the face of the automobile machine.”

huh?

https://unevenearth.org/2022/02/a-jaywalking-manifesto/
Perhaps one mitigating fix may be to add some code that checks password complexity and if the check fails the admin must either remediate the bad password, or be forced to add a configuration directive that says "I_KNOW_I_AM_DOING_SOMETHING_SILLY_AND_RECKLESS=true".

Is something like this possible in PHP?
Beginning two long endeavors this year.

1. Becoming UltraStrong. A concept I made-up to test myself. Compete and not zero any events in an open strongman event on a Saturday, then complete a 50 miler (ultra marathon) on a Sunday. I did ultras in my 20s and competed in two strongman competitions last year.

2. Reading and writing an essay on all the books in my library; roughly 300 books.
you have to instantiate variables anyway. grouping those variables in objects simply makes your code more understandable - there is really no extra cost.
I was fine with literature, but yeah, history, what a snooze-fest. Why do I care who fought what war 1,500 years ago and who won? It seemed like it mostly came down to a bunch of pompous elites having dick-measuring contests a lot of the time.

Then one day the teacher didn’t want to teach and instead showed an episode of Connections, and I was blown away. Learning about how and why our science and technology became what it is was something I could related to and seemed actually useful. I still don’t care for military history, though.
You sound like a stamp collector.
> but the fundamentals pass a reality check vs amount of energy delivered by the sun (lots).

Solar panels produce about 150 watts of energy per square meter since most solar panels operate at 15% efficiency this translates to 15 watts per square foot.

Which is 100 Watts solar energy per square foot, so 35 Watts certainly has the right order. (LEDs are not 100% efficient, sunlight is not 100% efficient with chlorophyll, some edible plants grow in shade).
I can answer two of those. Middle-men are useful whenever there is fan-out or fan-in. A producer wants to sell to consumers, so there is a lot of fan-out. The producer could get the consumers to come to the factory and to buy good directly, or they could go door to door, or they could use middle-men: retail stores. The stores buy the goods wholesale and take on the work of selling them to individual customers, in exchange for a portion of the total profit. Customers visit stores for the same reason, to avoid having to visit every factory for every producer of the goods they want. With time and effort saved on both sides, the stores benefit both the producers and the consumers.

The economy is not a zero-sum game because we are summing the value, not the prices, of the goods that are traded. If I grew wheat and you grew apples, then we can trade between us to mutual advantage, because after the trade we can both make apple pie (assuming we can find some cinnamon). The total amount of wheat and apples hasn't changed, but their value has gone up. Every trade involves two parties who must both believe that they will gain value by the trade. Of course it is possible for either party to be mistaken (or even deliberately swindled by the other party), but as long as the majority of trades have net positive value then the economy as a whole will be a positive-sum game.
Your reasoning about bilateral/symmetry implies there is an even number of things (like the 8 eyes spiders have) 2 is not the only even number for this.

(Also, I find it interesting that most of internal organs are not symmetrical)
It's like the apple which falls from the tree, gravity and all that...

Seriously, the effect of money supply on prices has been established for quite some time, with historical data to back it up.
And yet the Cia found it useful to sell cocaine. And that's in a country that has unlimited funding.
His red flag for bootcampers is a red flag for his managerial skills
What should we rely on instead? Hopefully not the social media comments of random strangers?

Maybe we will see credibility stamps that mean something more specific than the vague prestigiousness that they often have now?
How do you enforce the JSON schema?
DAN mode
I mean, aren't they still currently engaged in the genocide of the Uyghurs? Forcing them into work camps, breaking their spiritual freedoms, and relocating communities to forcibly dilute their unique genetic makeup? And the West did what?

China is building bases around the South China Sea, pushing borders back, commandeering fishing rights, making a claim on Taiwan and their territories, and pushing very close to US naval support in the area. What has the West done?

We're paralysed by our inability to build stuff, and our unwillingness to go against the electorate and actually stop them buying all the Chinese tat that they do. Our reliance on their mineral mining and processing means cutting them out means far worse than a recession in the short term. It would take two decades to even come close to replacing China and at an unimaginable construction cost because much of the world doesn't even make its own steel any more. And China has links, they own significant portions of Africa's mining rights.

China are untouchable and their military and their nukes have nothing to do with it. China has real power. If you ever want to imagine the end of the world, imagine what happens if we can't buy cheap shit from China and follow the thread through to a conclusion.

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But why would they help Russia? That's probably a better avenue of thought. Russia has crazy territory, and resources without the real means to explore of extract.

Russia could make it worth their while.
Peer review before the white paper was published? I'd be fascinated to learn more about any such conversations.
What do we know that the "hacker" achieved? Was it physical access to the datacenter at the VPS he chose or was it... some "Linux malware virus"?

What did they get? His PGP keys were his Bitcoin private keys? His passphrase? They were just a file laying around on his VPS machine?
Probably not, he was storing his bitcoin private key on a low cost server, that regularly got hacked, as recently as a month ago. And he kept using it.