skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So do you regularly allow those who espouse viewpoints you find abhorrent into your living room to rant?
Yes, in many situations it is important that we get AIs to explain how they came up
with a result, and that we are confident in the correctness of the explanation.
That is probably the most interesting thing you can work on now. Is that a sideshow? I don't think so, although I wouldn't mind that at all.
No, it was the long dated part that was the issue. It magnifies the losses when interest rates go up.
Try "In Bruges". Same director and 2 lead actors. A very different setting and premise. No less dark.
That relatively small country found plenty of its victims outside its borders.
> I actually feel more anonymous and self sufficient in a city.

Do you even know that they track your gait? and face? wherever you go?

(of course they don't even need to since you carry a tracking device in your pocket)
Yes, that's basically the only thing I use upvotes for. "Favorites" are useless IMO, since you can't access the "favorite" link from the front page.
>similar consider which liquidity focused/dominated business would be at risk of they randomly lose half their liquidity

Except, the way banking is set up in the US, there exists a lender of last resort (the Federal Reserve) that can step in to replace that liquidity, if the bank is really solvent -- and even then, that's assuming other banks won't lend to it. So yes, I except 50% of funds being withdrawn to be survivable if the banks is otherwise solvent.
Accessible Mysteries: The Global Math Circle
From reading that account, it sounds like the deposits were not actually insured at the time.

> The Victorian government of the time had chosen not to participate in that scheme [an Australia-wide National Deposit Insurance Corporation], believing the government could regulate and supervise societies.

Although, it sounds like the protections in place for Australians today are stronger now and aligned with protections for Americans. https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2011/dec/5.html

The cultural memory in America is that in the 1929 crash there were little to no government protections and economic disaster ensued. Reforms, including the FDIC, were created precisely so that people could lean on the government in time of crisis. The beauty of the FDIC safety net is that it's mere existence reduces the risk of its needing to be used.

And the more recent living memory is our 2008 financial crisis in which the government issued enormous loans (since repaid with interest) to a few large banks to protect the whole banking system, and the belief that, in retrospect, it worked and was a good move.

So I guess my question still is: why distrust the safety nets that are in place, when they are shown to be working? What's the story about a time when the US government enacted an economic security promise and then broke it?
Would love to hear the explanation for that. When people use postman I'm wondering, why not use curl itself? Never looked into postman and know well enough even in C, a simple GET (or POST!) request is a few lines of code.
I recently moved to the country side on a former farm with around 3 acres/15k sqm of "garden" around the house.

It's around 30 minutes away from my old apartment in Denmark's 2nd biggest town and around 15 minutes from my parents.

I live there with my girlfriend and our 1 year old son. We are very happy with it, but it comes with some downsides.

It's not really cheaper to live here. Our rent is much lower, but we need two cars. The house is much bigger than an apartment that would have fit us, so heating and electricity is much more expensive. There is no district heating, so we have a furnace that we need to feed wood pellets, which is a major pain. We're considering earth heating or something similar, again, additional expenses.

I bought a tractor and a mini loader which is use every week, for various maintenance jobs on the house and garden. This is also a significant extra cost, but it would really not be comfortable without it.

We wanted too have animals but we abandoned the idea due to how much work there is just maintaining the buildings and garden + the kid :-)

We love the summers where we get to hang around in our outside areas, but the winters (nov-march) can hard. You look outside the window and it's all just completely dark.

I'm planning on buying a small field and trying to grow some vegetables. We already have an area in the garden, but I want to experiment with actual farming with my tractor :) Considering some grains so I can make flour and beer :)

I learned so much about electricity, building stuff, gardening etc. which makes every day exciting. Maybe it will eventually not be fun anymore, but we're having a good time for now.

I miss the restaurants and take-away from the city, but that's it. We have the friendliest neighbours, although we do not hang out with them, but they are always very nice if you meet them on our small road or ask them for a favour.
What's the alternative? That banks make no long-term investments at all? If government bonds are too risky to make a 10-year investment on, then what is? Should we just stop investing in projects that take 10 years to get a return entirely?
Lots of spam on twitter nowadays, so following a hashtag might lead to a lot of garbage.
And the other difference obviously is ads, you read 5 tweets and get an ad in the following feed.
So much this. Every part of a modern computer contains unseen, non-architectural processors of various kinds. When the main architectural CPU executes the first instruction, that is the last in a sequence of miracles. The only way to be familiar with the whole process is to build a computer from scratch.
Heat , what heat ? I've heard that the moon is cold.
I've never lived in a major city. The closest I've been to a major city is actually where I am now, which is the far suburbs (takes about an 45 minutes to 1.5 hours to get downtown during the week, or as little as 30 minutes on the weekend).

Sometimes I think I would like the amenities of a major city more close at hand, but I don't think I could deal with the rest of it.

I currently live in a quiet neighborhood where I can walk the dogs a couple blocks and see a lake and a nice-sized field (and sometimes see deer or coyotes in the prairie just beyond my back yard), or drive 10 minutes and go to my choice of several parks and trails through nature. And yet I'm also only a 7 minute drive away from a Best Buy, Target, Home Depot, and about 30 restaurants. And there's a decent number of people around that share my interests in board games and game design that I can meet up with on a semi-regular basis without driving more than 30-40 minutes. And that's pretty good for my needs.

That being said, I do sometimes want something a bit quieter (not much, just a little). In particular I'd love to live closer to a major body of water, like the Great Lakes or possibly a beach. I would love to spend some time on a boat, maybe learn the basics of sailing. I've eyed some smaller cities (but still of some size, like 10k people) as possible places to move to eventually. I don't think I could do much smaller than that. My current city is 75k people.

Sometimes I fantasize that I can live on a boat, and mostly satisfy that by watching sailing Youtube channels. I don't think I could manage it very well in actuality (and almost certainly not my wife or dogs, although she does want to try RV life at some point), but it's a nice fantasy.

I also grew up in a smaller city for the first 22 years of my life, but that was still 40k+ people when I was born (and has since grown to 78k itself).
Then presumably he’s criticizing Curl as it exists today.
How many planes have a stall speed low enough to do that even in a strong headwind?
There's already a very good binary encoded vector graphics format, which also supports animation among other things --- SWF. The descriptions in this specification actually look somewhat like it.

The original SVG is 96,719 bytes large, while the optimized one is 85,806 bytes large. When converted to TinyVG, the file shrinks to 27,522 bytes. This means we only have 32% size of the optimized source data.

I have a tiger.swf which is 21381 bytes, and since there's another comment here about gzip'ing them, tiger.swf.gz turns out to be only 17296 bytes. In conclusion, I think a subset of SWF, of which much existing rendering code is available, will provide much better efficiency and compatibility than this.
Like many systems, it's something of a self-perpetuating cycle--combined with an environment where many large tech companies can and will pay almost arbitrarily large amounts to hire people away from another company. I'm pretty sure that, if you're a mechanical engineer or a developer at General Motors, you aren't going to double your salary by going to Ford.
Yes, i stumbled upon a reddit thread recently where the conversation devolved into actual hate for people who were curious about studying the "why's" of quantum. The most liked comment and prevailing attitude was, "it doesn't affect my research, so i don't care", which makes sense but those same people were getting upset that _anyone_ might want to make it _their_ research.

I'd heard of the hate before but it was so baffling to witness. I left a comment asking for explanations to my above observation and received no replies. As someone who's personally very interested in this type of research, it kinda terrifies me.
Who is still inside the metaverse?
It's also an API, there are tons of 3rd party apps available.
It's typical for all degrees, not just CS.
The word "Fu" (pronounced "foo") is a reference to "Kung Fu," a Chinese martial art. It is used colloquially in combination with other words to mean "something someone has to practice to become a skilled expert in." You might see "Google-fu," as in, "skill using search engines to find what you're looking for," or "Spreadsheet-fu," as in, "skill using Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet programs," or similar things.

In this case, "Command Line Fu" is meant to suggest that the command line is something you can practice to improve your skills with, analogous to a martial art. It's not meant to be pronounced "F you"—though I'm sure you're allowed to continue doing that if you find it amusing!
surprisingly, there's no chrome extension for it and i don't prefer installing system wide tool to proxy all the network
I didn't like it that much. It was ok but I think it's been hyped out of all proportion.

Gleeson and Farrell are good actors, but for me the script let them down. It felt like it was trying too hard to be meaningful or symbolic but nothing landed.

Barry Keoghan was the best thing about it, amazing performance.
Risk aversion is not an immutable trait.

At age 6, I was tested for my tendency towards risk aversion. I scored as high as possible in risk aversion; in other words, I was extremely risk-averse, as my parents worried. That tendency marked a better part of my life, and it brought forth/was comorbid with GAD and generalized depression. All of those things make you think that if you just had more control you would feel better, but the grasping for it only exacerbates the symptoms.

Now I'm 41, and am really interested in bootstrapping (I have made one small app, working on the next). In particular, I love the risk/reward calculus especially. I've gradually awoken to the amount of value I bring via programming and strategy versus the salary structure in place at a lot of companies. This year I'm focusing on amassing leverage in several forms, be that a more public voice, a more fit body, additional income streams (however small), etc. (Typical midlife stuff, yes.)
Minor nit: computerland didn't sell C64's. They sold "business computers." In 1983, that meant they were trying to sell Apple ///'s, IBM PCs, Apple Lisa's and maybe a leftover CP/M machine.

You had to go to your local toy or department store to get a C64's or 1541. I remember the day the C64 price hit $200 at BEST (discount toy-heavy catalog store.) But the 1541 was still something like $400, so... OOF!
If you get really rural you won't have to mind any villagers or their gossip.
Mine has led to nothing. But I learned a lot from other people's blogs.

I know most work deserves to be money driven. But I love how the programming community keeps this social-driven effort. Hope people never stop writing great blog/articles just to keep the art of programming growing.
Since many big tech companies were start-ups once I will add psychopaths to the list.
My two cents worth.

The problem is this, is the person who only has low karma any less skilled in spotting a topic that isn't exactly fit for posting or discussing further, than one who has a lot more karma? Do those who have over 500 karma points, any better at remaining objective when they consider down voting a post?

Introduce reasons and I expect the outcome won't be much different to forums where some people over use a report feature and just select what passes ... generally the acting mods soon realise there's a pattern but it takes time to deal with the BS - actually it's a real time cost.

Presently as far as I see, the system at the moment discourages a user walking into hot topics where the ideologues aren't going to see reason anyhow, so there's little point to pile into the conversation. However if something inappropriate is submitted, a wider field of people can flag it. Sure some people might abuse it, but I would guess there's a list of flagged and dead submissions that staff can look over and review.

Actually for the last week I've been following flagged and dead posts - nothing firm but many are nearly the same or on about the same subject that was posted a couple days before ... if not a few hours before, many are simply advertising their own site, and goodness knows why idiots keep posting here about gummy bears. Today was the first I vouched for a dead post, since it was the shiny flag why not vetting who advertises on a website is very bad ... or hard core porn ads will kill a safe for work or kids will be using it website / service.
$100/year is nothing. I'm not sure why that's even being mentioned.

VLC is in the app store (with telemetry, sadly) so I'm not sure where the whole "GPL isn't compatible with the app store" claim comes from.
If you run your own instance of an activityPub server - e.g. mastodon, gotosocial, pixelfed, etc. - for, let's say, yourself or your family, then you will have vastly more capabilities to moderate content (way easier and more reliable than relying on others to do so). If your next question is: why do i have to moderate the content myself? ...Then, your expectations are not aligned with (and/or you misunderstand) the greater fediverse's design. I think the kids would say: "You're holding/using it wrong." ;-)
The up=true label isn't really working, some of those "down" instances are actually up right now.
> No mention of the years-long (and finally "successful") lobbying effort by big banks, to get Congress to let them do far riskier stuff.

First, the 2018 Dodd-Frank modifications did not affect the Big Four banks at all.

Second, the 2018 modifications had nothing to do with SVB's collapse. SVB collapsed because it made a bad bet on where interest rates were going (and did not hedge for risk), making it vulnerable to short-term liquidity issues. That has nothing to do with the 2018 raising of the minimum AUM for application of Tier 1 capital requirements from $50 billion to $250 billion.

To put it simplistically, Dodd-Frank has to do with solvency. SVB was solvent; it was not liquid.
This has much better details about the new features in cloudstack: https://www.shapeblue.com/whats-new-in-apache-cloudstack-4-1...
I don’t understand how we keep allowing this industry having such a huge impact on people’s lives. They makes tons of money when things are good and when they blow up, the whole economic policy needs to be adjusted for years and decades to come as we have seen after 2008. The idea of a “financial system” should be rethought so there is a stable banking system that actually serves the economy instead of dominating it. Let the gamblers blow themselves up but they need to be contained.

It’s really insane what is going on.
Here's an anecdote.

I used Linux as my main desktop OS for like 15 years. One day someone paid me to write some Mac software for them. I did the project on a $150 ancient mac from a second hand store, and partially on Linux.

When the project ended I bought a new macbook when i got paid because i thought "ok, there's money in doing mac stuff, i better have current hardware". Linux was still my main desktop OS.

2 years later I switched my desktop to Mac OS too because after using it, it was simply far less annoying than either alternative.

So when you see people talking about the reality distortion field and why pay extra for Macs... take it with a grain of salt. It's likely they just looked at prices and guessed it's not worth it, maybe thought about induced want. So was I before I got paid to use one :)
To derail the conversation further (since we’re caught up on the ‘definition of fascism’ but), Aldous Huxley notes the same Will to Subjugate and provided a physical/philosophical answer in The Island: if we all have, in varying doses, the will to subjugate others - we should require those for whom the desire is strongest to engage in activities that force the individual to command power over themselves. In the text, Huxley’s answer was rock climbing.
I'm probably listed among those "10M users"

I checked out Mastodon for an hour or so, saw less engagement than Twitter, more of an echo chamber, and a generally inferior user experience. Now I don't actively use it.

It's sad in some ways, because I think centralised Big Tech (as a general concept) is undesirable. But to break the network effect, alternatives have to be much better.

Also I'm concerned about Mastodon shared, curated blocklists. People who express unconventional/inconvenient viewpoints will not be safe on a decentralised network that has anti-free-speech, groupthink authoritarian mechanisms.

(Yes, I know I wouldn't be forced to use a shared blocklist on my own Mastodon instance - but the problem is that my instance would be vulnerable to the whims of those who curate shared blocklists).
This kind of window decoration is my favorite, too.

Modern UIs look more elegant. But I find it easier to conceptualize different contexts on my screen with thicker, embossed, brutal border indicators.

I also simply like the aesthetics for their own sake.
Do you understand the need to give people realistic expectations, so even if they wish to proceed, at least they understand the chances, and not put all their eggs on something unlikely?

Or everybody should be left to live oblivious to some statistical facts, lest they be hurt?
The article is about spiders in case you wonder. :D
Because they all cheated on their coursework and got graded on a curve for exams. Source: I was a TA for an intro CS course.
You might be thinking suburban.

In many rural areas, you have kids as young as 10 hunting (supervised, or supposed to be), fishing, riding their bike places, exploring or "hanging out" in the woods, building things, working with power tools, etc.

Really, location foent matter that much. It's the parenting style and what constraints the local culture places on them.
This resonates with me. I have moved from a big city to a smallish village right next to the city, which is more quiet and close to the woods. It is much better but I would love to go more rural.

I've lived in a really small village in my youth. And though I loved the outdoors where we live - we had a huge garden - the village was backwards as hell and we were the eternal outsiders. I hated it and everyone in it.

Even here, I miss the diversity, tolerance and awareness that people in the city seem to have. It is much easier to find communities where you feel at home in the city.

Of course it depends a lot on where you are, but an overly romantic view of rural community could be a costly and painful mistake. I can take many years before you are accepted, if at all, and even then you may doubt whether you really want to belong.
"If it can look at a picture, explain what’s in it, and hypothesize about physics inside the picture’s environment, is it “just pattern matching”?"

That's extrapolation via approximation. Computers synthesize a specification. The difference is nuanced and entirely contextual.
NB, the background to the film is this fratricidal conflict circa 1922: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War

Not the sectarian "troubles" and IRA, circa the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
If banks want to be too big to fail that have to prove by not hurting depositors. I think the corporate assets of banks and the banking industry as whole should be fungible that depositors can always be made whole on cash accounts. This may help contain a bank run.
OP here. I help run the Global Math Circle. Happy to answer any questions.

Here's a short blurb about our approach and history:

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The GMC approach

Our approach is to treat math education as an accessible mystery. We combine a small group of children and an experienced guide. They go deep for ~8 weeks seeking to understand the insight behind the mystery. It’s an awesome experience where once a week the children share ideas and debate with each other what the next question should be, discovering deep mathematics along the way. The guide contributes minimal input because the discussion is led by the students, helping them learn leadership skills along the way. We never turn anyone away for lack of funds. All of our prices for circles and leader training are sliding scale and we regularly accept kids who can’t pay at all.

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Our History

The Global Math Circle (originally named “The Math Circle”), the earliest math circle in the US, was founded in Boston, MA in 1994 by Robert and Ellen Kaplan[1], authors of such books as Out of the Labyrinth[2] and The Art of the Infinite[3]. The intention, in Bob's words, "Small groups meet with their leader, each seeing and talking with all; and as always, the leader no more than posing a deep and exciting question (an accessible mystery) and the students probing it collegially together. They come up with examples, counter-examples, insights and proofs: intense fun."

In 2015, the GMC moved online and has been running online circles and leader training institutes since. A group of enthusiasts have been helping Bob and Ellen, and with Bob's passing in 2022, continue to operate the GMC on the same principles that guided the organization from its inception. In addition to our main presence across the United States, GMC actively collaborates with groups around the world to spread our approach, from Senegal[4] to Brazil[5] and from Kenya[6] to Columbia[7].

[1] https://www.theglobalmathcircle.org/bob-and-ellen-kaplan

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Out-Labyrinth-Setting-Mathematics-Fre...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Infinite-Pleasures-Mathematics/dp...

[4] https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/62a8b0053c26bc44ba610734/630...

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20210730105533/http://www.ocircu...

[6] https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/62a8b0053c26bc44ba610734/630...

[7] https://www.circoap.org/acerca-de
I applied for the web, but I got a 404 error. I think the web tech has some serious bugs and needs polish. In the mean time, I plan not to log to the web and avoid those 404 errors.

Come on, especially on hacker news, you are a tech person, surely you can find out how the other 10 million people created an account. If anything it was in your spam.
Glad to hear that! I'm still developing the ability for users to define their own templates. Subscriptions to allow for content generation is technically done, I just need to finish some admin before I enable it.
How do you know? Dairy (especially high processed and in large quantities) is certainly a contributing factor.