skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they're just looking at a completely different audience/value proposition.

A lot of the problems in finance, for ordinary "happy path" consumers-- are still begging for "faster horses" solutions. Not everyone is on some grand philosophical argument about the nature of money and the relative power of individual, the state, and the bank.

There are at least two obvious pain points even a janky MVP CBDC has the potential to solve:

* International transfers are expensive and complicated, which makes them impractical for small transactions. The fact there's no good answer for "how does someone in Arizona send 10 GBP to someone in Manchester" seems to demand a solution. Something like PayPal is probably the least objectionable option, and I believe even their 'no guarantees, intended for family only' modes have fees for international these days.

* A state entity can service all legal players, while private banks are keen to avoid risky/expensive customers. If you know everyone in the country has some form of deposit account, you can eliminate a lot of hassle for payroll and payment processing by using that as the least common denominator.

Perhaps the "sweep to commercial banks" angle is less about making the BoE relevant, and more about avoiding appearing as a threat to commercial banks, that there won't be large balances piling up representing untapped business for them.
If you are looking for movie recommendations, nothing beats movielense https://movielens.org
One use case would be a little desktop robot for an educational setting. The motors of a robot use orders of magnitude more power than the CPU so it needs big batteries anyway.

I can also imagine applications where the device has wall power but you want to connect to it with a phone. Like a piece of wall art you want to be able to turn on and off remotely.
This is a great blog post. Concise, lacking fluff or extraneous prose, it gets right to the point, presents the primary-source reference and then gets right to the solution. A bit of editorializing in the middle but that's completely allowed when writing this tightly. Well damn done, OP.

And also it's great information that I - like I'm sure many of you - also never noticed. THANK YOU!
Spotify does this too (paid recommendations).
I don’t mean how torch's API could be implemented, I mean how pytorch implements it. Do you know which this is?
The big strength of CDDA as a roguelike for me is that when you die, it's usually clear what you did wrong in the days or minutes leading up to your death.
I thought going directly to BEV was a good plan, but then someone on this site pointed out that if civilization needs to go to BEVs, and there is X supply of battery materials, should we use those in 100kwhr packs for full BEVs, or in 20 kwhr battery packs for PHEVs that will deliver 80-90% of trips electrified?

So you effectively electrify 5x the number of cars...

But, that opportunity has passed, at least we are moving towards electrification.
To make a pun in this domain, attention is all you need!
Considering you wouldn't feel satisfied most with only one option, what will be the optimal number of options?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34749477
There are a lot of IOT applications that do rely on battery power. Regardless, this is nice for people whose MCU/embedded experience is limited to pre-existing firmwares and the Arduino ecosystem.
Very cool, just discovered something to binge :) thanks!
Energy Efficient Design Starts with the Architecture
They wrote a blog post (that I can't seem to find) a few years ago about how they A/B test their thumbnails.
Same thing that happened to reddit and digg etc, the keep trying to improve a finished product and with each revision the site becomes more bloated, difficult to use, and riddle with nasty things like paywalls and fullscreen ads in a pathetic attempt to generate revenue.
New Open-Source Risk-V Laptop
this but actually earnestly yes
Because priority number one is getting you to watch their originals, so that you will keep subscribing as the market for movies produced outside the streaming services gets more competitive.

The big events gets featured on the home page, for anything you are probably better of searching for directors or reading reviews, and then finding where you can see it.
>In Manchin’s case, he thought parents would use the money to buy drugs.

I assume he thought that was the excuse most likely to benefit his political ambitions.
Because it's profitable to recommend shit.
In fact, they often just build a bunker and do a controlled detonation - the bunker directs the explosion forces upwards, where they don't harm anything. Not sure why they decided to defuse this one.
This is the real answer.

Why do Apple and Amazon have search “ads”? They’re specifically trying to push content your way based on the how much the content creator/producer pays extra.

Even grocery stores do this - aisle placement is often something the food distributor pays for.
Why? Yes the operations can be a bit messy. But in practice it solves the "I want to run, update and deploy my service without worrying about hardware allocations" problem. Otherwise you create an implementation of half of it.
Orinda to New Montgomery, I used to start commute around 7:30, otherwise you couldn’t get a parking stop at Orinda.
That's a heart warming story! That head office was amused and honoured the posted price. They would probably have been within their rights to refuse to sell. At least that is the way it works in English law. The price label, etc., is 'an invitation to treat'. That is it is an invitation to enter into a contract, not a contract in itself. Unless it's changed since my wife studied the subject in the 70s.
This is one of many reasons I'm sceptical of the current trend in Python to "async all the things". The nuance to how it operates is often opaque to the developer, particularly those less experienced.

GUI toolkits (like Textual) however are a really good use case for Asyncio. Human interaction with a program is inherently asynchronous, using async/await so that you can more cleanly specify your control flow is so much better than complicated callbacks. Using async/await in front end JS code for example is a delight.

Where I'm particularly unconvinced of their use is in server side view and api end point processing. The majority of the time you have maybe a couple of IO opps that depend on each other. There is often little than can be parallelised (within a request) and so there are few performance gains to be a made. Traditional synchronous imperative code run with a multithreaded server is proven, scalable and much easier to debug.

There are always places where it's useful though, things such as long running requests (websockets, long polling), or those very rare occurrences where you do have many easily parallelizable IO opps within one short request.
Thermoacoustic Engine Has Only One Moving Part (2017)
Anything B2B will take many years to be usable.

Companies wouldn’t trust half baked products in their toolset.
Caves of Qud actually has a bunch of handwritten story mixed in. The main quest and some of the side quests are a lot more interesting. There are a few procedurally generated elements mixed into some of the quests as well, so they feel different on repeat playthroughs.

The game is tons and tons of fun as long as you treat the procedural background stuff as just filler to be explored for opportunities to find loot and cybernetics. The main story is absolutely worth playing through at least once though. I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys roguelikes and likes a game with a good story.
It's not all that strange, a bomb that does not go off will bury itself deep in the terrain, you need to go looking for them somewhere between 8 and 12 meters deep!

The expectations are that for the areas in NL where there was a lot of bombing that it will take another 125 years before they'll be able to declare the job done.
May be being a millionaire is not enough to get a non-hostile treatment from a bank but the problem is that the cost of compliance is of the same order for all customers (because reporting thresholds where exist are very low like €1K or $10K) but per-customer profit is different. This creates an incentive to disproportionately deny service to non-rich customers. This would be much less of a problem if government regulators where focused on people/entities which operate with truly large amounts of money so ordinary folks can stay under the radar and not be a burden for a bank. But for some reasons governments wants have a grip almost on everyone. So having below median wage as the main source of income doesn't not make one a low risk customer for a bank if there are other "risk" factors (like being an immigrant).
Try True Detective
I'm pretty sure these low quality space.com articles are written by 2 cent AI or a factory of monkeys. They've always been horrible
I think Netflix needs an "I really don't like this or programmes like it" option.

...come to think of it so does YouTube.

I'd love to be able to search for a particular genre and exclude everything that comes up.
> Does someone get paid when I have to sacrifice a brain cell for each of these minor decisions?

In many cases, probably, either directly or indirectly. Payola is huge in the music industry and it’s why, despite never having heard of Harry Styles before, Apple Music started pushing him into every corner of their app for a few weeks after his last album release. I can understand surfacing artists who are likely to be popular with the general population. But this was clearly more than that. I’m sure it’s the same with video services. They’re paid to promote specific shows. It probably also costs them less to show you their own shows, so those are probably surfaced more frequently than shows from other companies, etc.
I have considered this, and there’s some truth truth to this, that I have watched all from my favorite categories … but then I do discover whole seasons of things I haven’t watched but liked previous seasons of, and whole series when digging around long enough … it just feels increasingly difficult to efficiently dig.
Does anyone understand why the event loop only keeps weak references to tasks? It'd seem wise to do something to stop it from being garbage collected while running, maybe also while waiting to run.
Even an authentic video clip can be a pile of misinformation, and to me the impact of deliberate misinformation is a lot scarier than a deepfake that has a fairly good chance of being quickly provable as fake by Internet sleuths examining the pixels.

But the cure to both deepfakes and lying/incompetent media is one and the same: promote this rule to everybody you know: literally everything you see should be considered bullshit until you verify it from multiple sources.
Netflix allows you to down vote the content with "Not for me" (thumb down) option. Then it stops suggesting it. The sneaky part is that the option itself is hidden a bit, under "thumb up" button (which expands to three different options if you hover your mouse over it), so I guess we've found another dark pattern :)
Heh, I have a funny story about that too, having written the open source Oratcl extension that was used as a basis for OEM.
As someone that has worked within one of these orgs, it's because the recommendation system has been captured by contract negotiations and forced merchandising. You are not seeing things they think you would like. You are seeing the things they want you to watch.
I'd be perfectly fine never touching a drop of alcohol again, and think this sort of dire warning is crap. It's actively harming the dissemination of good health advice.
Opposite because in China Mao navigated primitive accumulation so later eras didn't have to.

The first fundamental error with the Russian and Chinese revolutions, as Karl Marx warned, was underestimating the difficulty and brutality required to achieve primitive accumulation. Ironically its the same analytical error that Adam Smith made, but in the interest of a different end.

For context, Karl Marx condemned revolutionary efforts in pre-capitalist nations for these reasons. This included Russia and China because they were still feudalist states. Karl Marx insisted Germany was the necessary focus.
Well, looks like I know what I am doing first thing on Monday. I converted a bunch of code to asyncio a while back. I have yet to run into any heisenbug in that code and want to keep it that way.
The most interesting thing about this laptop to me is the keyboard.

After delving into QMK and ortholinear 40% boards, I've dreamed a lot about a laptop that integrates these.

This Balthazar laptop and the MNT Pocket Reform[0] are both exciting prospects in that regard. I hope both make it to production.

[0] https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt...
"Help me find things I like" is basically a mandatory requirement for anything whose catalog is too large to search exhaustively — otherwise there's no point to them.

Doing this well seems to be surprisingly difficult for everyone. Facebook has shown me local news in Florida even though I'm British, live in Berlin, and have not even visited that state. Twitter thought I was interested in baseball, when I don't care for any spectator sports. YouTube is mostly OK for the long form content, but the shorts are 98% useless, and the adverts are… well, the current ad for me in the app is "Click this video = $1000" ad by "Beast Promo" with a cartoon that looks like MrBeast, which absolutely screams "scam", and last week it was something that looked like an anti-LGBT conspiracy theorist but my German isn't good enough to be totally sure.

Netflix, Disney, and all the rest? IMO Netflix is the best of them, but still not really all that amazing — the bar it passes that the rest fail is excessive focus on their own content.
Starlink is already critical to the Ukrainian military, and likely a significant reason they're doing as well as they are. SpaceX is just preventing them from literally strapping Starlink to weapons, which would likely be even more of a PR disaster.

Just can't win with some people.
>Why isn't there a framework that does all this automatically for you?

Check MosaicML if it might help in your case. I haven’t tried myself but they’ve most customizations and speed up optimizations I came across in the recent times

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/supercharge-training-composer

Also worth checking out their “training from scratch” blog posts.

Training StableDiffusion:
https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/training-stable-diffusion-from...

Training GPT-3:
https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/billion-parameter-gpt-training...
As others have mentioned, part of the goal is to induce you towards the service's self-made programming. They're rolling the dice that you will get hooked on something if they show you enough options, and your time spent searching for content (as long as it doesn't lead to an unsubscribe) is cheaper for them than time spent consuming content.

FWIW, Spotify has similar issues in that they can't seem to figure out that new music from artists I'm "following" should be a slam dunk for the "new music for you" list.
We used Tcl back in the day, because of AOLServer, and the startup founders I joined went on to create their own version of the idea.

We had Rails and Active Record done in Tcl back in 1998.
Yeah; we need plant patents, because without them Baggett couldn't have patented his broccolli.

Oh, wait - he wouldn't have needed to patent his broccolli, because Monsanto wouldn't have been able to patent it against him.
Yeah I’ve noticed this as well, and I have liked quite some of their original content … But if it gets to the point that they’re failing to keep me as a custoner at all, something must be amiss …
I've used Vlang a fair amount, and made small minor contributions to its compiler, REPL, and documentation. Personally, I wouldn't consider it suitable for game development, as stated in the article. If you try, you will be very disappointed by its math features, especially for SIMD, its unsophisticated integration with graphics and compute APIs, lack of advanced multithreading and synchronization, and the weak metaprogramming features for performance-sensitive containers you get accustomed to in C++.

V also really can't support custom allocators effectively, much less a hierarchy of memory arenas. To do almost anything, you need a global heap allocator, because the compiler inserts invisible malloc() calls.

That said, I love the language's control flow. It's expression oriented and has a flow-sensitive type system with a very terse syntax.
The are new games made for the zmachine since the 90s.
The caveats are somewhat of a deal breaker unfortunately. It fails on perfectly valid syntax because they don't want to complicate the parser. But that makes the tool not very useful.
Yes, and they're fantastic. Couldn't live without one now.
Ask HN: What happened to FaunaDB? Is anyone using it in production?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, the last place I remember, this vlang thing turned out to be somewhat over-promised, under-delivered / too good to be true / at least mildly controversial (I remember conversations like [1] references).

Did all of that settle down?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/ozd3m...
I love V more than any other language. I've been using the language for quite some time now. I would like to use it for interviews, but when I say that my favorite programming language is "V", interviewers ask me to use something "more mainstream".
There was one about a year ago.

It was about 50 yards from my bedroom window when I was at university 20 years ago. Wierd to think what could be sat in the field opposite my house right now.
All I hear about is deep mind, when will they release a model I can interact with?

That’s the standard chatgpt set
An FDA-approved asthma drug has shown the ability to restore memories in mice
Bizarre take. Capitalism is so insanely effective that 22% of US teenagers are obese, 25% of all black kids.

It may be a disease but it certainly delivers breakfast. And then six more meals, apparently.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html
maybe you don't want to watch tv
FWIW, I typed in track.tv into my browser and it loads up with a blank page. I have JS turned on, so that’s not the issue, but I do also have ad blockers. This is with Orion on the iPad, if that makes a difference. Sounds interesting, but if I can’t physically get to it, it’s going to be hard to use.
You've liberty to be poor, die without healthcare, or get rekt in court by a megacorp with infinite lawyer money
Gofumpt? Is that Ftumch's cousin? :P
> ethnically homogeneous family

My tech lead (later manager) was a black lesbian woman. I'm sorry if that's not ethnically homogeneous enough for you.
Passkeys aren't protected when it comes to laws regarding self-incrimination and searches. Information encrypted and locked behind a password, something only you know, is protected.

Until laws surrounding biometrics are changed, I personally won't move to passkeys. There have been cases where biometrics have been protected under the same category as pins and passwords but there have also been cases where it was not.

https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/fif...
Yeah and composing things with a semicolon creates a new c program

Haskell is an expression language and a runtime environment. The expression language is more powerful than c, but c et al are also expression languages plus environments, just not typically talked about that way. Because the expression language is quite simple.

Imperative do this then that is a exactly function composition where the pipeline is the state. In other words imperative languages provide an implicit function. This is most obviously seen with stack based concatenative languages.
This doesn't even read like an answer to my comment. I am genuinely curious, how many genders are there? And what are they, and who determines what constitutes a gender?
The fact that blogspam showing "hello world" written in a vaporware language hit the front page is deeply depressing.

https://xeiaso.net/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23
> Elegant solution would be if I could write well typed layer that calls browser API

Not if your goal is correctness.

Again, it is completely OK that Elm is not your choice if it does not align with your values, which appears to be the case.
A 21 minute video and the term launch was never really defined. What exactly is a launch anyways? Is it a press release? Getting a website up? Email blasts? A big PR blitz? Or are each of those things separate launches in themselves? There seems to be an implicit expectation that the audience of this video understands what a launch is, and that might be part of the problem.

Now there is a section that goes over the types of launches, but perhaps that should have been first in the presentation and go over what exactly is a launch and when do you do it?

Launches originate from the idea of a boat that's ready for sailing, and the first launch comes out of the dry dock. But even in that case, ships need many more months before their first sea trials (a different kind of launch), and then something else before ready for whatever their purpose is.

Like many other YCombinator videos, I think these assume much more understanding of terminology, lingo, and perception than the audience might actually have.

Also, I have a major problem with launching to "friends and family". In my experience, friends and family provide very poor advice and they're much more prone to be encouraging or want to provide emotional or moral support, without actually telling you if your business idea sucks. I burned years doing something that sucked, and when I stopped doing it, my friends and family told me they never thought it was a good idea. I asked them why they didn't stop me. And they said it would have been not nice to be completely honest. Ever since then, I've ignored friends and family and focus where it matters: on the customers who I want to buy stuff. I don't get why the recommendation for the 2nd launch after an MVP landing page is Friends and Family launch.
Yeah, but I consciously watch things my wife likes with her on her account exactly due to this ;)
These are usually stored in CSV files.
Op-onai: LMS for collaborative programming
In my Netflix I can thumb down content.
It’s the dumbest Jurassic Park level scientific laziness I’ve heard all century.
I imagine it's more like there is less starvation and hunger in modern mixed economies with their very uncapitalistic welfare states than during the laissez-faire glory years of the Industrial Revolution...
> You couldn't really play any games from the 80's without graph paper.

In high school (~1985/86) a friend and his brothers mapped the Ultima IV world by commandeering the family ping pong table covering it with several sheets of graph paper.

It was a glorious map.
As someone else who was the same: Yes. The teacher would be demonstrating sample problems to the class at a much slower rate than I could apply it, so I was checking that I understood the material in real time.

Homework was sometimes useful (the repetition ensuring it wouldn't fade like cramming before a test does), but I didn't need as much as was assigned and never studied beyond that.
You were about half an hour later than me on the way out, and we only overlapped through Orinda to Rockridge. I usually got the 2:something on the way back, and by then it was crowded enough I'm sure I wouldn't have seen you even if we were in the same car.
Speaking as a Canadian, I’d be surprised if we ever fully culturally metrify, specifically when it comes to height and weight. We just consume too much American media which uses convenient imperial bars like 6’ or 200lbs to ever change, I think.

I actually think we’re somewhat lucky in that most of us can immediately grok a measurement in either system when we see one online.