skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I idly played with BTC one evening and I let it mine for about a week or so on a fairly poky PC and got bored of it eventually. I was more interested in Folding@Home.

As it turns out I was both right and wrong. That BTC was going to be worth up to $64,000 at one point in time. However, protein folding might save lives.

I ditched that PC and didn't copy over the wallet because I'd forgotten about it - it wasn't that important. I am very aware now that it would probably be a good idea to back up things like that 8)
Which provider is that?
Those kinds of demos always show the simple queries that connect at most two things. Those are trivial to query by hand as well though. I'd be interested in seeing how it handles some self-joins, multiple exists subqueries, date operations, etc. - all in one query.
What’s their AUM now? Do we know it?
They share a long border with the most aggressive militarised country that has ever existed.
> That's funny, a guy made this same offer to me at a conference once

oh wait, you're that guy
The point of a URL is that I can copy+paste it into IRC so my friends can look at the thing I want to share with them.

If the URL has a bunch of goop in it, people are going to make fun of me for it, especially if it's super long and doesn't fit in a single line. Or if there's stuff in there that's specific to me and not the thing I want to show them.
Bitcoin already went mainstream; everyone who cares has heard all about bitcoin for years now, it's permeated pop culture, referenced in TV, movies, music, even superbowl ads - we've reached peak bitcoin saturation. The problem for cryptocurrencies is that that they just aren't very useful to the masses, thus the vision of "mainstream" as imagined with desktop PCs will never happen for bitcoin - what we have today is basically all bitcoin will ever be.
It affects ionosphere, which is relatively low frequency by definition, most time under 50MHz.

In past, where lot of use of under 50MHz bands (most known now shortwave band), because of technology limitations.

Now, most critical usages are over 88-100MHz.

Even more, every smartphone/tablet and display, emit noise in under 50MHz band.
Under 1MHz is just sacrificed to cheap electronics, using dc-dc converters, even properly designed/shielded, emit noise (and many examples are not properly designed/shielded).

Only amateurs and radio-astronomers still using shortwave band extensively. And they usually notice events, but nobody cares much.

Few years ago, I've hear about using shortwave for underground communication and geo-radar, but they by definition mostly underground and very high power, just don't see ionosphere disturbances.

Also one of cause of modern mostly line of sight communication usage - question of sharing frequencies.

- Short-wave are hard to share, because You could hear some guy at other side of Earth. LoS is by definition near invisible on other side, because of surface curvature.

To be strict, many objects reflecting waves - clouds, traces of planes, etc, but they are not very powerful.
Just is designed for running commands, make is designed for tracking dependencies. I use them both in the same project calling each other if need be: there isn’t a competition here.
Avoiding imaginary dog whistles and having nice round numbers apparently aren’t priorities to those doing national defense spending. I take comfort in that myself.
The other one I mentioned—Maze Rats—is licensed as CC BY 4.0, so that might be a good place to start! (The Black Hack is licensed under the OGL 1.0, which unfortunately means it's not immune to the whole mess that this thread is about, but I'm hoping that a lot of the creators who put stuff out under the OGL 1.0 either come up with a new license that's not associated with WotC or relicense their stuff under something like a CC license. I guess we'll see!)
Try randomly selecting numbers between 1 and 7, 441 times (the number of years covering 1583 to 2023), you'll see that a range of 61-65 as the count for each number isn't unusual.

Doing a naive hypothesis test (using prop.test in R for example), you get a P-value of 0.14 for a test of whether 61 out of 441 is significantly different to 441/7. No one would ever conclude a statistically-significant result based on such a high P-value.
DailyDot: dumb people complaining on social media masquerading as content
Why doesn’t Binance (who has gone through the effort to post proof of reserves) post proof of liabilities?

How are we not supposed to interpret their lack of doing so as “hiding something ugly”?
A lot of rooms have an obvious layout... You put the TV in the living room on the wall without windows. Or above the fireplace (ugh, but that's where people put them) If you put a tv in a bedroom, it's opposite the bed, and there's often a clear place for a bed --- if the windows are bed width apart, the bed goes there, if they're closer together, the bed goes on a different wall that probably doesn't have the closet and maybe doesn't have the door.

You can run multiple cables to a room too, of course. Pick two spots and you'll probably get close enough so one is useful. And put a drop in the ceiling too, in case you want to mount an access point there, like at work or in some hotels. If nobody ever uses those cables, and you didn't terminate them, you're only out $100 on materials and an hour or two of someone's time.

Hotel wifi has always been pretty bad for me, not a standard I'd want to aspire to.
These are just examples of poor portability (thus workarounds) and tools that are not installed when you run `make` as the GP suggested, the claim was that you could write a make file and kinda not have to worry about anything else.

Not the case.

I could just as easily talk about the pathing issues between MacOS and Linux: or the multiplicity of issues surrounding `sed` (GNU) and `sed` (BSD), or that the `black` python formatter won't be installed by default.

It is not as easy as the author claimed, you need whatever dependencies you call on, obviously.
Some are to an extent. There are several modern adaptations of the old 'Moldvay' Basic/Expert Dungeon and Dragons rules (The old red and blue books/boxes). Basically getting them down in a better way on paper, smoothing some rough edges out.
It's also "Two Fat Ladies" in Bingo. What do you make of that? Is Canada pro-obesity?

Smh.
Agreed. For example: "As Mehrotra puts it, “UPS has been the one oasis in the middle of a vast desert that is declining union membership in our country.” (Meanwhile, Amazon is in the midst of laying off more than eighteen thousand workers.)"

Hu? What's the connection between these two things? Is the author not aware that the Amazon layoffs are corporate layoffs, not delivery layoffs?
"And what advanced systems are present in the F-35 which can't be retrofitted into the F16s and F15s."

Those are both 45+ year old airframes as well. You're going to have to upgrade to something new eventually...
Did it seem to anyone else that during the holidays, UPS prices skyrocketed? I felt like a box that would have run me $25 to ship 3 day ground a year or so ago was almost $60 this year. If this is how others felt, UPS might struggle next holiday season while USPS and Amazon thrive.
In this context, the initial prompt is the one from the teacher to the student that describes an essay title or topic. Adding prompts like 'academic writing' or 'avoid excessive detail' don't constitute any real creative or intellectual contribution. Do you think buying a cheeseburger makes you a chef?
I bought a house in rural new mexico and forgot entirely to check this until I moved in.

Thankfully, I could get 40Mbps down / 5Mbps up which is enough for me. It is scary to think about what I would have done if the service had been substantially worse (or not available at all).
For WFH, you can work 2 jobs for 2 weeks.

Or try out having 2 jobs for a week before deciding if you want to put in a 2 week notice at your old job, quit the new job, or continue working at both.
If everything goes to plan and everyone is satisfied, noone write an article about that.

On the other hand, this is government (taxpayers) money, so why not waste some extra money, skimp on testing and pocket the difference, because everyone know they can and nothing will happen to them.
Ok, granted, living in different countries is not something that most people do, so let's talk about the other big advantage that a system with a credit score has. It protects against racism. If you don't have that, it's very easy for a bank officer to reject a mortgage because you're the wrong colour. You'll tell me there's law against discrimination but what often happens is people discriminates and then find other excuses to justify the rejection. Are you going to tell me that this isn't a problem?

Without a credit score that follows simple algorithmic rules, how do you want to prevent this from happening? A credit score that has rules that people know in advance may be gameable but it also creates fairness by making it easy for everyone to know what to do to get a decent score.

Now, the fact is that the credit score could be managed by government agencies (although honestly, I'm not sure any government is much better in term of data security), there could be stricter fines in case of data breach (that sounds like a good idea), but those are implementation details.
Did THEY develop this stack, or did the open-source community?
Any kind of stealthiness for one. There are versions of the F-15 which attempt to be more stealthy than the base airframe, but it’s a far cry from being as stealthy as any purpose-built aircraft.
Heh, well there's 2 things I wanted from ECC. Sure I wanted the very occasional random bit flip to be caught and fixed. Making the system more reliable, maybe save a few process crashes or reboots over 10 years.

Although I was much more interested in ability to find dying hardware. Whenever weird (file corruptions, processes dying, reboots, things not working like they did yesterday) could be from numerous causes. Voltage dips, problems in the power supply, software bugs, OS bugs, security compromise, defective CPU/Ram/motherboard/dimms, etc. It can be very hard to track down, you might well spend weeks and significant $$$ playing the game of swap the part and wait for the problem to reappear ... or not. Much like what recently happened to LinusT. I'll happy pay another 10% system price for a system that has a few less crashes and will tell me when it starts seeing memory errors (while fixing the small ones).

I'm typing this from a Xeon E3-1230v5 bought in 2015, that cost LESS then the similar i7. I did spent a bit more on the motherboard ($50) and ram ($75), but it's been rock solid since and if I had a dimm problem it would likely be 10 minutes to troubleshoot and then I'd RMA or buy replacement ram. ECC reduces the chance of writing the wrong data to the right place on disk or, even worse, the right data to the wrong place.
88 is also the number of keys on a piano. Maybe Canada is a big fan of Beethoven? Or maybe they just bought the exact number they needed without worrying what conspiracy theories internet commenters would dream up.
Wasn't aware that Canada had moved to 1940s Europe...
"How to update an os without updating the os itself". Personally I see this model extending to other things as well, the idea that each part of the os is a "package" with a specified interface and that you can replace that package at any time as long you comply with that interface is a very powerful concept. I see this going a lot further then just sdk improvements in the future.
...which was so very obviously never going to happen.
Rebellion ain’t gonna pay the bills.
Why? Because opinion is already half-intelligence :-)
> Does it matter what kind of particle you shoot through? If I fired a stream of hydrogen atoms or neutrons through the slit, would I get an interference pattern?

Everything has a de Broglie wavelength, but the more massive it is the shorter the wavelength, so you'd need closer slits and higher-resolution detectors to notice anything. I guess if you used a really big particle then you'd reach a point where it would be bigger than its own wavelength and you couldn't observe any wave behaviour.

> I’ve also always wondered if it matters what side of the slits the detector is on?

No, the important thing is observing which path it takes

> Also, does the wall itself count as a detector/observer?

Not unless there's a way for you to tell when and where it hits the wall.
That was a really good piece. I'd encourage everyone to read it in its entirety before getting the urge to comment here based on just the title (as is usually the case).

While the article is expectedly one-sided, it does touch upon the changed environment in the delivery sector and labor in America in general. This is no longer a David vs Goliath contest like the last UPS strike in the 90s went. Amazon is now the Goliath. The gig economy is the Goliath. UPS itself is helpless in the face of these developments. A striking UPS driver with stable hours, a 6-figure salary, benefits and a pension/retirement fund is going to get far less sympathy from the public today than 20 years ago. But then is there any alternative other than to sit by and let their job become another Amazon or DoorDash?
You and the ADL can't be serious.
Tell HN: Airbnb has no system in place when a host cancels on a renter
Today our host cancelled a place we booked 6 month ago with zero communication, at time of check-in.

We landed at our destination and ready to check into our Airbnb that we booked almost 6 month ago, for an entire month.

The airbnb is managed by a company, who I assume manages the entire building.

The host promptly tells us it's no longer available, and that we should accept their offer of either refund or another listing that's in a completely different location, with no picture or reviews, but promised that it's "similar"

Of course, being hesitant, we said no thanks, we're happy with just a refund.

They proceeds to tells us to contact airbnb, and then ghosts us.

We open a ticket with Airbnb, calls them, and they proceed to give us the run around and tell us to just book another stay.

So what else are we going to do? be homeless for a night in foreign city?

So of course we try to book, except it's last minute and the only listings available are the once you must contact the hosts first.

Good thing we arrived at 11am and not 6pm. or we'd be literally f*cked for the night.

Why am I complaining?

Airbnb, you should do better.

I am a startup founder, I understand these types of situations has probably zero affect on your bottom line. So you probably never prioritized the need to spend engineering time "fixing" it.

You also probably look at your metrics and say, well these situations happen to <1% of our overall bookings, it's not a problem.

But PG says, the best startups are the ones who solve intense immediate pain for a small number of people.

Well, my confidence in you is absolutely shaken, and now I'm not so sure your position in the space is so infallible anymore. Because eventually this will happen often enough that "the small number of users with intense pain" will give arise to a newer and better version of you, and you will be legacy.

In the end, we booked another place last minute, had to spend 2x the amount and received a refund (well let's see in 10 days).

If I was in a much lesser able financial situation, I might not have been able to float a few thousands of dollars on my credit card, and may have literally ended up homeless.
> Governments have very strong eminent domain powers. There’s a political cost but operationally it shouldn’t take long to acquire the land. Just expensive.

Well... not in California, apparently. Caltrans recently abandoned the I-710 to I-210 connector in LA, after 50 years of trying to finish acquiring the land. Some people just don't want to sell for any price. Maybe it's the house they grew up in or maybe it's ideological.

If choosing a more direct route delays the project for 50 years, that's effectively the same thing as blocking it. That's why I say they made the right call on re-using Caltrain and Metrolink for the Peninsula and LA, respectively.

> The core problem though, and I hope we agree strongly here, is that they’ve spent a shit ton of money on the easiest parts of the project vs getting things operationally as fast as possible and also focusing on completing the most difficult parts first.

I agree that is an important problem, but not the core problem. The core problem, as I see it, is that purists demanded a 220 mph system from the start, and that caused a cascade of decisions that delayed operations.

If CAHSR could be built with a max speed of 160 mph instead of 220 mph, almost all of the land acquisition in the Central Valley goes away. If 110 mph were acceptable in urban areas (including cities in the Central Valley), most of the grade separation work goes away.

If even lower speeds were acceptable in mountain sections, CAHSR could have used the sinuous ACE commuter rail line through the Altimont pass. Do that, and all the challenges and costs of building across the Pacheco pass go away (there's a reason no railroad tried to build that route in the 1800's).

The only new thing you need to build in that scenario is a new route through the Tehachapi pass. Sure, it doubles travel time, but the first trains would be running already.
Except, don't sell yourself short :-)
The US is growing more insular and the world is taking notice. Canadian national security has been maintained by the US for a long time now, we can't guarantee that will be true forever, and with rising global temperatures the northern territories will become more important for trade and resources than ever. Don't underestimate the power of imperialism to change the entire political order of the continent, it has already happened multiple times in the past 400 years.
A quick read seems to me to state that no, the Basel crowd did not give banks an OK to hold 2% in Bitcoin. On the contrary they've added a new rule that states it needs to be <1% (and even then should be risk weighted at 1250%).

BIS (https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d545.pdf)
This states that banks should in the normal course of business hold less than 1% and must report anything higher, 2% is when an additional 'penalty' applies.
You're probably right. I never went to college but I started learning how to code in my late 20s because I could finally afford a used computer by then (late 1980s).

It tore me up to go to friends homes and see a Mac or Commodore 64 sitting on a desk collecting dust. When I got my first used computer in the early 90s, (a Commodore 64) I dove into learning how to program. Back then I didn't know anyone who knew how code. I started buying books in the 90s and still have most of them.

So I think you've got a great point about "if tinkering doesn't come naturally".

Coding something is often times designing the logic to do something you can't copy and past a solution for. It's that kind of challenge that makes it interesting (and frustrating), but if that doesn't intrigue and inspire you than it might not be a good career choice.
I've just been working my way through various lists. It frustrates me greatly that the public is expected to do go through this effort to "opt out" rather than the sleazy stalker companies being required to get opt in.

https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers

https://web.archive.org/web/20201022024035/https://www.stopd...

list of credit reporting agencies to freeze reports with:

https://www.consumerlawfirm.com/credit-reporting-agencies.ht...
Is it? Python is basically everywhere, and if it's not already installed, your package manager has it ready. `apt install python3`, done.

Also, with Python you have... Python, all the language's power to extend your scripts as needed. `Just` works with a shell like bash, and I pretty much prefer python for scripting. Bash scripts get complicated very quickly.
The boulder was likely moving far slower than the car ahead and reasonable stopping distance assumes that your obstacle is the car in front of you not an hidden stationary object on the road.

I find it infuriating how much people ignore safe stopping distances but recommending excessively cautious behavior just introduces more chaos on the road.
>If this is true, why bother with any military at all...

Because politicians need kickbacks, wealthy shareholders need "defense" stocks to keep rising and vassal states like Canada need to act at the behest of their geopolitical master.
I wouldn't call it wasted effort (neither would I call space exploration and lunar or martian colonization as wasted effort) - it's not the kind of bullshit "prompt engineering" that tries to find magic phrases and sentence structures, and gets invalidated every time the model is updated. If I understood the article correctly, this language implements its operators by stepping the language model directly, applying the logical operations to token probability distributions. This actually makes sense as a generic and reliable method for these kinds of models, as it works below the prompt level, directly on the underlying machinery.
IIRC three.js even supports using a CSS renderer out of the box: https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRendere... (as opposed to webgl or webgl2 renderers)

This means you can reuse the same code and fallback to rendering triangles with CSS transform matrix3d if the browser doesn't have webgl. (but of course w/o shader materials etc)
This is not true, NATO members are free to buy whatever they want, as a matter of fact some of them buy f16/18, rafale, eurofighters, gripens etc ...
The story about BIS authorizing banks to hold 2% of reserves in Bitcoin was dramatically misreported. This was actually placing a limit on their holdings, to 2%, which is down from no limit previously.
Yeah, that's my point. If the user signs the EULA the customer is on hook for it, but on the other hand, Netflix is on hook for false advertisement. They can both sue each other and win.
And what advanced systems are present in the
F-35 which can't be retrofitted into the F16s and F15s.

Yikes.

1. Stealth

2. Sensor fusion with other aircraft

3. Carrier landing/launch

4. An airframe that isn't on the verge of forced retirement due to accumulated flight hours and metal fatigue, like many/most of the F16s and F15s

The F16 and F15 are arguably more capable in movie-style dogfights. They can pull 9Gs while the F35 can do 7G IIRC with superior thrust to weight. In a guns-only dogfight maybe you want one of those.

But that misses the point. Modern air combat is not about movie style dogfights. It's about hitting your enemy with a missile from beyond visual range before he even knows that you or the missile exist.

Perhaps even more crucially, it's about surviving enemy ground defenses. Anti-aircraft defenses including man-portable missiles are cheap and getting more deadly by the day. No stealth? You're dead. You're not just dead; you were an easy kill. "Stealth" is not a binary property of course; "stealth" aircraft can be detected with enough luck and effort. But stealth is table stakes for not being easy pickings.

You can see this in Ukraine. Neither side has stealth, neither side has established clear air superiority.
If you believe that then I have some lumber to sell to you.
AMD Zen Software Studio
It is interesting to see a proprietary, very poor and insecure imitation of Nitpicker's xray mode[0].

Note this is written by Norman Feske, who later went on to develop Genode[1], and continues to be its main developer today.

0. http://demo.tudos.org/nitpicker_tutorial.html

1. https://www.genode.org/
"extremely high"
Posted 22 hours ago here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34306469
LLVM has an optimization pass that takes care of that.

https://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html#passes-mem2reg