skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol so if I send BTC to a friend overseas and they use it on their ancapworld exchange or whatever that is legal in their 3rd world shithole, then suddenly that BTC is banned from ever entering the first world again?

The only way I see this kind of works is if they ban crypto in general, and then ban cash in the mail too. Oh yeah and ban foreign trade, because as long as it's legal somewhere else you can spend XMR in THAT country in the form of importing goods to the US and then sell those goods for cash. We're talking about bits in the ether, and unlike with bitcoin at least to our knowledge the public ledger is not traceable. Seems like a tall order.
I think I either found some kind of bug or Apple Music is really weird.

The similar songs for Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment [0] have Annal Nathrakh with エンダーケンメント at the top. So a misspelling of the band, and apparently (according to google translate) a Japanese transliteration of the song title (Endākenmento, enderkenment). The song itself is literally the same one, others listed are their other songs, or more Japanese transliterations of their songs. The weird versions can be played, but the linked page does not exist on Apple Music [1]

[0]: https://maroofy.com/songs/1522388463

[1]: https://music.apple.com/album/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3...
> or some reason, in 5-10 years Apple will become a monopoly in western nations and it'll be completely unavoidable to own an iPhone or use non-Apple computers or operating systems

In Europe, Apple is way less common thank you think.
For half or one percent of outliers, you could give them an earlier heads-up. But for 99+% of the people in a massive layoff, I do think you need to do it in a single day for the practical reason that you want everyone to get certainty as quickly as possible.

Can you imagine the chaos in a company if layoff certainty takes a week or two weeks to achieve? This is not a time for eventual consistency.
But demand and buying with dollars is still real. No exchange is giving out tethers for free. Unbacked Tether is just not a real problem (yet). It is only going to be a problem when multiple exchanges are trying to collect, why would they? They have been given cheap merch to sell..
I don't think it's that simple of a hypothesis to verify, even inside Google. There are lots of reasons why CTR may be constant or go up despite fewer people converting through ads. Examples are bots, crawlers, more kids playing with iPads, or malicious website design, e.g, I have clicked on ads because I was tricked on it by the HTML/JS, but that doesn't help the advertiser because I'm not going to buy anything.

CTR only matters in the short-term. In the long-term, what matters is if the market of advertisers believes ads are profitable for them. If their CTR goes up 10x but they cannot verify conversions, they may eventually stop buying ads. That won't happen quickly, because attribution is so hard and you can never be sure where your conversions really come from, but the decline of ads may still happen over a longer time frame.
It certainly doesn't feel like that to me in the UK. Being fired is generally because you are incompetent or do something unethical/illegal. A good employer would try hard to work around the former. To my interpretation, being laid off/made redundant implies no fault. That has legal financial consequences like redundancy pay, but also hopefully a good reference and possibly even help to get new work.
Loss of organizational knowledge.

It is the zombie disease. Companies start off, have people with tons of knowledge, people don't get into higher positions, politics happens, they leave, and now you have someone that's there just for the job and is surviving off of limited knowledge. They leave because they don't own the system, and now the org is inefficient and cumbersome, effect becomes worse with the next hire, etc.

Company dies, another spawns, cycle continues.
Exactly. He wasn’t speaking of the “door kickers” pejoratively, just pointing out the difference in mission. They drop in to kill/capture as you say and GTFO (SEAL - Sleep, eat, and lift).

Also there’s a bit of controversy in the SF community as they’ve spent more of their mission “door kicking” lately…

In terms of training, he’s Hispanic and with his language abilities (at least three fluently) travel anywhere SOCOM sends him he more or less blends in.

At certain times he’s described his mission as “teaching little brown guys how to fight”. That said he’s also described really dicey standoffs (literally weapons out and trained) with local militias, etc where finesse and nuance was the way to “win” (stay alive).

Point still being, police academies in the US train more “door kickers” (and poorly) than they do SF - which is what we need.
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More likely they’d be wondering what all those extra people were doing in the first place when they realise Google is still operating as usual and churning out features and products.
This paragraph took me aback:

But if I just look at it and say, if 10 years from now, we have ‘universal remote employees’ that are artificial general intelligences, run on clouds, and people can just dial up and say, ‘I want five Franks today and 10 Amys, and we’re going to deploy them on these jobs,’ and you could just spin up like you can cloud-access computing resources, if you could cloud-access essentially artificial human resources for things like that—that’s the most prosaic, mundane, most banal use of something like this.

It kind of shocked me because I thought of the office worker reading this who will soon lose her job. People are going to have to up their game. Let's help them by making adult education more affordable.
Everyone is building their own ad platforms now. I hear even kroger has one.
About 2010 I published a stupid little Android app and added ads to it just because I wanted the experience. I was shocked to actually make $25 a week off of an app that I didn't think anybody was really using.

I put the ad someplace where people had to click on it on purpose, and I guess a lot did. That or Google did it for me
I thought the Drive's article was pretty good including details of a Canadian flight to (presumably) check on the balloon as it went over the Okanagon roughly.

Similar balloons appear to have been photographed in Hawaii, India (Andamans), Japan. A different type was recently photographed over the Philippines and there is a comment about use over Guam.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-spy-balloon-ove...
https://twitter.com/steffanwatkins/status/162136299808111001...
Hahaha. Not every engineer is a salesman who can close a deal. Contracting is a cutthroat business as well where the competition is fierce. It’s global competition too!

I wouldn’t recommend this route to any random senior engineer.
Hi, author here: yeah, the site's a bit glitchy in almost any modern browser, given Dashcode is software from ~15 years ago and used a lot of WebKit-specific stuff, but it seemed like it was usable enough in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Is Vivaldi worse somehow?
Agreed, it's my fault that I didn't explain why maps.DeleteFunc() can be slower than a simple loop with "if" statement inside. The reasons for the slowdown are:

- Go compiler may fail to inline the callback passed to the maps.DeleteFunc(). This will result into an additional overhead for callback calls per each item in the map.

- Go compiler may move some variables inside the callback from stack to a heap. This will result in an additional memory allocations comparing to a simple loop, leading to an additional load on garbage collector.
Aluminum cans have a plastic lining.
Nothing plays for me.
It’s unlikely they’re gonna be understaffed. The projects cut weren’t revenue generating ones.
Thank you!

Yes, it's the same dynarmic that Citra and Yuzu use.
Yep - he also failed with his lean, simple, first-principles approach with Armadillo Aerospace. The guy is proudly uncreative, and so he could have never come up with Scaled's design of a variable geometry rocket ship launched from a jet mothership.
AI is going to make education way better and more affordable too. Personalized 1:1 tutoring in any subject for the cost of running a model.
For anyone reading this, don't be misled by "open source crypto bro." into thinking the author is a web3 "crypto" developer, he is the maintainer of the go crypto library. Also what do you mean by 'Bro'?, it sounds demeaning. I have met filippo and he is far from being how you're insinuating him to be.
Revenue is generally highest in Q4 due to Christmas spending.[1] So comparing 2022 Q4 to 2022 Q3 isn't really fair. If you compare it to 2021 Q4, it's much worse. Operating income declined from $20.6B in 2021 Q4 to $13.6B in 2022 Q4.[2] Disclosure: I work at Google but don't have any insight into company finances.

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/revenues

[2] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q4_alphabet_earnings...
Yes, they can. The thing is that tarballs are not part of release artifacts, even though they do appear to be among them. If you look closely, even the endpoints that user uploaded artifacts and generated tarballs point to are different.

Github could just generate the tarball once and store it in the same way as other release artifacts. But for some reason they chose not to.
An automated email is unacceptable in any context there, even if they had only been there for a month. An automated email is a dishonest deflection from executives having to face the people their decision making affects.

I don't know an honest owner that wouldn't pull even their worst worker aside and tell them why they're fired at a minimum. I've seen CNC shops where the owner finds new jobs for the people they had to lay off.

Hold the wealthiest corps accountable.
This is so sweet. It's finding gems that when I look them up on YouTube, are 10+ years old and sub-200 views. Total sleepers, but I can discover them through this service. I love it. Great work.
There are also projects that have gotten versions of iOS running in QEMU:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095830

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545425

I don't know how usable they are for this kind of use-case though.
Your post reminds me of the interview of Ben Shapiro accusing Andrew Neil as a lefty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
Inflation also. If the ones buying adds have not managed to fully transfer their input cost increases to output price. They have to cut that money from somewhere. And adds are pretty reasonable place as it is not mandatory to function in short term.

And elsewhere, you have VC driven companies who have tougher situation for getting money to burn on adds for growth.
The search seems to be down? I'm not getting any results back in the dropdown.
> The regular web is going to get worse

Author implies that web = Google (or search engines in general). But web is not search, and Google doesn't own it, although it seems so. There are other methods of content discovery on the web, and we are at the beginning of exploring them.
> As much as I respect Carmack as a computer graphics expert, I really doubt his competence in machine learning. He doesn't have a single notable paper published.

Publishing papers is the way the academic/scientific world measures notability and/or competence. It's not the way the engineering world that Carmack comes from measures it. They measure it by building. But you're right, we kind of have to just trust that he has the expertise he says he does by his statements since he has not built any modern AI programs (that I know of at least).

> If he really thought that implementing gradient descent and basic stuff in a week long retreat gave him the chops to have serious conversations with AI researchers, he is really deluded.

This is not an accurate account of how he said he developed his knowledge base. Just how he got started so he could have conversations. He said that he spent a retreat learning the basics and then later in the interview he said he took the time to understand the 40 most essential papers in the field as related to him by a well known researcher. He has since largely put the last 4 years of his professional life into this. While we have no proof of his knowledge, given his intelligence and high competence in computer programming and math, I have no doubt that if he did put in the work he could achieve an understanding equivalent to that of your average AI researcher.

That said, of course it makes sense to be skeptical.
> Sounds like it would work if homelessness was solved, which isn't a bad objective for its own sake anyway.

Or driver you actually enforce the travel policy, but then you should have huge delays.

So IRL it can't be solved and free public transport would be actually used as free shelter by homeless people even more, because now they can kick them off at least simply when not presenting ticket, if public transport were free it would get even worse when people would not be visibly paying for the transport, they would treat it even worse as something which is free (you appreciate more things you have to pay for).

As for ticketing cost and ticket inspectors, they make negligible part of expenses, it would not really make justifiable reason to make public transport free, since it is heavily subsidized from city taxes anyway.

> There is a cost for space in a city. There are maintenance needs wherever an office is occupied or not, wherever it subscribe to utilities or not. A company in a building pay taxes, and those are used to maintain road, water and electricity networks, among plenty of other things. If you want to wait until you have the best possible tenant, that's fine but you shouldn't expect the rest of the community to subsidize your tenant-shopping.

I would argue you paid those cost when you bought property and when you pay property taxes, unused building is not really using any infrastructure benefiting from the roads or other networks especially if you are disconnected from them and they can make up for the expenses on connection fees. People with these ideas are usually poor ones who can't afford to own anything so they wanna punish successful people for their success to lower them to their low standards, we had that for few decades with communism with everyone living equally bad life and didn't provide much motivation for progress, since whether you was good or bad at your work you still had crappy life. People who never experienced communism have naive ideas like these, it's especially popular in (west) Germany, France and Spain especially from naive young people.

> Mirror advised.

I provided counterarguments for his lazy questions without ranting, the original author didn't provide any solutions just raised pseudointelectual questions which should somehow imply some solutions. Also I'd prefer if you would stop attacking other HN users.
I hope you at least estimated how much work it would be to add a user-facing audit tracking and reporting feature. You could probably charge good money for that.
Ah yes startups are famous for good work/life balance and treating people fairly by paying with worthless shares.
Yes, this guy is doing proper crypto, and the "pyramid scheme money" comment is uncalled for and incorrect.
Education is great, but it can go only so far.

We will always have to find things to do for the less gifted in order to provide them with some dignity. Even if they are not strictly needed for reasons of productivity or profitability. Anything else would be inhumane.
Bitcoin price is at $23,530 right now. Imagine Alice wants to buy 1 bitcoin and sell it a few minutes later for some profit. In that case Alice can apply a 10x leverage since it is short term, and needs only $2,400 as collateral. 10 minutes later she sold the coin at $24,000, netting a profit of $470. This makes $47,530 of trade volume with just $2,400 collateral and $47 in tx fees (assuming that tx fee is 1/2000 for both buyer and seller).

For some illiquid exchanges, buying a bitcoin may cause a huge price impact such that there is room for arbitrage. Someone would buy a bitcoin at a cheaper price at another exchange and sell it to Alice at a higher price for profit. In this case, the trade volume is doubled (i.e. 1 bitcoin at this exchange and 1 bitcoin at another exchange).

So while trade volume is very high, only a very small percentage of it is customers' own money.
> So I asked Ilya, their chief scientist, for a reading list

Just curious, if this reading list is available somewhere.
I got C’s in college math but was a little clever when I was younger. I came up with my own method for estimating square roots, which was not bad (but not nearly as good as Heron’s method).

Find the biggest whole number less than the square root of N, call it A.

Sqrt N =~ A + (N-A^2) / ((A+1)^2-A^2)

e.g.

Sqrt 33 = 5 + 33-25 / 36-25 = 5 8/11 = 5.73

I didn’t explain it to my 5th grade teacher but told my older brother, who was taking calculus. He said I was doing a sort of Taylor expansion.

What I learned later was that I was quick at mental math and got by until I was taking real calculus, then I fell behind as I didn’t know how to learn material because of bad study habits and not being clever enough to intuitively get it (my roommate who was slightly less clever at quick math breezed through the same college math classes and became a physicist).
There's no lack of innovation in the home. It's just that Americans refuse to adopt any of the innovations that have become commonplace in the last 40 years.
Does anyone with any understanding of field believe that immune system issues just appear out of no where without an underlying trigger? The fire fighter analogy does not match my understanding.

But even if we go with the fire fighter analogy, how is it any different from say, liver disease? Usually the trigger is something else, like drinking too much, and your liver is like a firefighter, trying to fix the issue, but it's still called liver disease. In fact it's more apt because the liver won't directly attack other tissues when it fails, unlike the immune system.
This "novel" "scam" has been around since 2000 when Request Money was launched.
> Happy to try to answer any violin questions!

As a math grad student at Indiana University, liked music, had recordings from Vivaldi through Rachmaninoff, had a dorm room next to the music school, got started on violin, and eventually make it through a few pages of Bach from the E major Preludio and the Chaconne.

Now I'd like to get back to violin, and wonder, what strings should I get? There at IU, I was told that Piastro Eudoxa strings were "good" so always used those.

What are some more recommendations?
Trending in AI/ML/DS
Please share some interesting links to articles/GH repos/ tweets/ subreddits/ blogs/ papers. In AI/ML/DS domain that you might have come across in the last week.
I need it for some research.

Any Input is much appreciated.
Yep! Sundar was strong-armed by investors, plain and simple.
Shorting Coinbase won't force anyone to exchange USDT for USD, so it doesn't help control the time-line. Also, if Tether collapses, these companies could end up in such a bad place that they get delisted, so I still may not be able to make money off my short position.
Interesting opinions here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627
Because you're American.

In other countries, showers have temperature settings on the controls.
yup, for instance Beijing (at in past not so many years ago) had extremely crowded subway that you have easily wait for 3-4 trains before you get on train and that didn't really mean it's that popular, it just meant that population per subway line was much higher than elsewhere in Europe, it used to be something like 0.5M pop. per subway line in west, while Beijing had 1M/line, after recent expansion I guess it improved a bit, but you would really need paralel lines since some areas are extremely densely populated

I mean it's popular of course (since there is really no alternative), but it doesn't mean it's good.
'Kill Your Darlings' is one of the most fundamental skills in anything creative. It is a hurdle that, once taken, allows you to ascend above a plateau of mediocrity.
It is pertinent though. Some autoimmune diseases are indeed due to an over active or malfunctioning immune system, just as a fire fighter failure can lead to burning down a building.
Adult education is already free in modern countries.
> there's no way to escape them without the content blocker, so you have to watch the ad anyway

I’m confused. So you use the content blocker.
Apple is unwilling to participate in scummy OEM schemes like Dell and HP does. Therefore they can't take over everything PC side yet.

Windows OEM's are all about selling useless IT solutions, "support", and lying to get people to buy their products. They shove defectively designed things all the time, yet corps around the U.S. still buy the crap.
Does it matter if "the guy is doing proper crypto" if he is getting paid by "pyramid scheme money"? Arguably it is worse since his presence is ostensibly legitimizing the "pyramid schemes". It feels like the techie version of celebrity endorsement
The way interviews (and hiring) is conducted sense this as well, illustrate it. Giving it the (alibi of) equality prinicipal treating everyone the same with standardised measures and whiteboard tests effectively looking for new people fit a simplistic API, possessing the standard communication style and returning the expected (here simplistic) results allowing a hot swap attitude for human components.

There should be additional proper internal training and discovery of hidden talents and diversity, also retention measures (this automated firing method seems to be the opposite) if they want to avoid stagnation into predetermied style by standardised persons. With the dynamicity of the industry stagnation puts giants in danger of stepped over or trip in a shorter period than a top manager's tenure (earlier stagnating giants could live for decades due to their mass, for the pleasure of top executives).
Opinion that I find to be usefull on this:
The surveillance balloons are very, very difficult to destroy, the aircraft's radar cannot see them, they fly almost in space at altitudes up to 25 km, they are painted in the color of the sky, or even transparent like jellyfish. Reflective surface is less than any of stealth planes. For any sane results, you need a dedicated aircraft with a special weapons set for destroying this thing. Missiles with a thermal homing head and special anti-aerostatic incendiary tracer shells, with a special fuse that is triggered when the thin shell of the balloon touches. This fuse is also triggered by raindrops, so it's better not to shoot them in the rain. Rockets, on the other hand, capture the heated sunny side of the balloon with their clever thermal head. Secondly, as a rule, one hit is not enough(due to the cell structure of balloon). Balloon doesn't give a fuck about shell holes, it will slowly descend to where it needs to go for thousands of kilometers dropping ballast more often. And by the way, he can also bang on a lucky hit and take the plane with him.
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