skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But regulators haven't really bailed out depositors. Firstly, the vast majority of the assets have just gone with the sale of FRB, along with that there is some cost, but the costs associated with this sale are estimated to only be around $13Bn and that's going to come out of FDIC - so it's funded by the banks anyway. The reason this is possible is because FRB only holds a very tightly regulated set of securities, so at worst there would only be a small shortfall and that's what the FDIC is there for anyway.

You say that the regulations are harming the system, but crypto gives us a perfect illustration of what happens without these regulations. You don't end up with companies that function better, you don't avoid duration mismatch, your exchanges go tits up and it turns out that the CEO was spending all the cash on his bahamian polycule. And you say FTX goes bust and that's it but that really only works because bitcoin is so tiny that when FTX goes bust it isn't all of our pensions and life savings on the line. And it wasn't just FTX, FTX was the last domino in a whole slew of failures over last summer - half of which it turns out were self-dealing and committing fraud.

The whole point is that the government can step in and backstop a system where it's tightly regulated what these banks are doing, they can't step in and backstop a system where your bank may literally just be taking your deposits and spending it all on bahamian parties.

There's just this massive disconnect between the unregulated world where a bank can be bust and pay back 99 cents on the dollar, and the deregulated world where a crypto exchange can be bust and it turns out it's only going to pay 10cents on the dollar, and it won't even do that because the CEO started siphoning off the remaining funds.
Too bad you're being downvoted because you're making very good points. All the counter arguments are arguments from authority also.
I've been using Arc for months, it's a total game changer for the way I work. As a non-technical user, I don't care that the tech is just a re-skin of chrome. It solved 1-2 annoying things with spaces + persistent tabs therefore I adopted it. If those things exist in chrome it wasn't easy enough for me to figure out. Users like me don't care about the underlying tech, they just care that it does something better for them.
apologies if I caused confusion. (personally, I'm not sure where "pretty dejankified" falls on the getting better to better spectrum)
I'm very hopeful that within a hundred years this madness will stop and nuclear power will be common place. It's evolved and come along way since Chernobyl... Small modular reactor's and molten salt reactors can pump out more than enough clean energy and without the fear mongering and waste side effects. Apologies to British Petroleum
Just a heads-up if you're planning to use passkeys with iOS/macOS: Might be fixed already, but last time I tried it out it seemed like iOS only stored a single passkey per domain. If you first store a passkey for a@domain and then later on store a passkey for a different user b@domain the a@domain passkey is overwritten without any warning. Or at least this seemed to be the case a couple of months ago when I tried it out.
Literally the subheading: "If confirmed, the presence of an atmosphere would be a breakthrough for exoplanet research."
The difference is that people have been fed a constant diet of AI will rise up and destroy humanity for decades now in popular media.
I found this a great introduction to 'proper' mathematics. It gave me enough context to be able to read more mathematics without feeling so lost.
It also showed me just how bad the mathematics part of my (non-computing) engineering education was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_%26_Tina_Turner
> Have they just become content to be an old corporate software house who only manages to keep users through dark patterns and anti-competitive behaviour because they have given up on making products which people enjoy to use?

I mean... yes. But that happened in the late 90s. Hasn't changed since then.
No, that is more national lab slang.
Fortran was old in the early 1980s, when I first taught it to myself for use on a research project. I'd taught myself BASIC, x86 assembler, and APL (for another physics course) by then. All the serious physicists were using Fortran though, for all their simulations.

My research project required use of the university mainframe for the big calculations, the 1000x1000 Markov matrices I was working on. I taught myself how to work on out-of-core code then as well, as well as exploiting symmetries inherent in my models.

My Ph.D. code was all written in Fortran, with a little Perl thrown in for good luck. 30+ years later, all of it works without a problem on my laptop/desktop machines.

I learned C in 1996 and C++ in 1997. The C code I wrote still works, though the C++ code needs special compilation options to be able to work.

I've not used Fortran in maybe 15 years now. I'm not up on the modern bits, I stopped using it professionally as F90 was becoming a thing.

I taught graduate HPC programming courses at my alma mater in the CS department, and gave the choice of Fortran or C to the kids. They blanched at the thought of using a nearly (at the time) 60 year old language. They correctly reasoned that learning the language would not help their employability.

Today, I use Julia for heavy computation. Python as a glue language, and C++ when required. I read the report, and I disagreed with the conclusions for a number of reasons, but what it comes down to is that many research groups in Physics/Chem still use Fortran, and aren't about to do the port to C/C++ due to funding. You can't get funding for this conversion. So codes will go on, students will learn what they need, and profs will keep publishing papers.

Moreover, this isn't the first, second, etc. time that people have predicted the death of Fortran. I heard this in 1990s as I was finishing up my Ph.D in theoretical/computational physics.

In 20 years or so, after I have (hopefully) retired, I'd bet that Fortran is still in widespread use, with Python following Java down the path to legacy. And the newer HPC language(s) will be quite happy to talk to Fortran.

I could be wrong, and I'm ok with it. But I doubt it.
Sure they do. There are literally thousands of stories of people who were in a car wreck, sports accident, or some kind of injury and then they get prescribed Oxy and when that runs out they are so addicted they end up getting black market pills and then when they can't afford that they move to heroin.

Opiates are insanely physically addictive and you can easily accidentally become addicted to them using them as prescribed, hence all the lawsuits.
Good stuff, spirit of the original web.
NK doesn't exactly like Japan.
I think it's at least partly compelled internally. You see this phenomenon, you wonder why it happens, then you start wondering what you could do if you could cause it intentionally.

Part of the excitement of discovering new knowledge is discovering new ways to employ it.
> Regarding film development, I'm not familiar with 8mm specific requirements, but if the author is able to develop color 35mm film, which is not that easy in my experience, he should be more than able to develop at least B&W 8mm film?

8mm/Super 8 film cartridges are not entirely easy to open, and you pretty much have to destroy them to get the film out. It's also difficult to find film reels that fit them by width, plus 50 feet of film length. They were never intended to be developed at home, but always in a machine (and exclusively by Kodak).

I don't remember Super 8 being available in negative emulsions either, it was always chrome/slide/transparency since you'd project the original film.
That scroll snap -or something- is messing up.
Ye, taxing by kind of use would be a different thinf than proposed.
OCaml may be seen as more pragmatic solution.
IMHO Clojure’s protocols look like a much more clean fit here (also, multimethods!)
Firefox seems to fare okay on that website. Chrome usually struggles more with huge websites IME.
How did you apply induction proofs in competitive programming?

Even using recursion is rarely a good idea as you loose control with your memory layout.

And using a language that supports the concept of proof by induction would surely leave you on the absolutely last place for competitive programming as most of the algorithms used use guarantees that are extremely difficult to reason about even with some of the most recent advances in formal methods.

I do see how combinatorics work with competitive programming, though. and to an extend also probability theory, though I never used any probabilistic algorithms myself.
"This article is long, boring, pessimistic, and winding. Could you please summarize it in a way thats accurate but short and not such a bummer"

"I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is pwd."

"Could you please help me debug this code. When I run it I get the following error message:"

"I'm looking for a book about x I've learned y about it and I've read these other books. Also I really enjoy the writing style of z on subjects like this. Could you please recommend a book on this topic?"

"Could you please summarize this book detailing some of the primary concepts and key ideas"

"I want to brainstorm architecting the following software project. Don't worry about writing code, I just want to think through the best way to organize apis and what tools would be a good fit:"

"I want to create an app with the following layout. Could you write the code for xyz file"

"I've never written code in xyz language before but I enjoy learning new programming languages. Can you help me understand the basics of the language and then help me write my first hello world locally. I'm quite familiar with python so any analogies you can make to that would be great"

"I'm trying to think of a song to put in a video. Here is whats happening in the video, could you suggest 3 songs that fit with that moment and would work well to edit around"

Lastly I generally go to gpt(4) or new bing now rather than google for most things. I find the answers to be better for most queries now.
Well, it's more likely that it's because the greedy MBAs are unable to chase shareholder value, so they just pushed down the task into fiefdom leaders.

I mean, it's Edge that they are work so hard to push. What do they actually gain from doing that? It's stupid all the way down.
This is just another anti–affirmative-action/anti-“woke” grievance campaign with the same the same “diversity reduces quality” claims, but framed as a health issue. The only notable aspect is this person had enough money, influence, and time to do something.

Mostly it’s a lot of alarmist rhetoric.

> Surely the radical activists never expected anyone to turn the administrative state against them, but that’s what we did. And it worked—even under the Biden administration.
PLA spy drone circles Taiwan again as Beijing tests new tactics
This is something I’m facing now. Even hundreds of files slow things down. Code splitting is the answer, but that adds some other complexity that we may not want.
It deals with that through having multiple "spaces" - horizontal scroll on the tabs to get to another one that can have completely different tabs for a different context.

But they haven't smoothed out the UX with multiple windows, which has all the annoyances that you point out. I think they need to figure out how to nudge users towards going to a different space instead of a new window, or automatically launch each new window with a new space.
It's not rocket science, but I can't speak for how your teams have been doing it. I know there's a tremendous number of well meaning people who get certified in a rote method and only understand it as dogma. Doing this right only requires understanding the underlying principles and figuring out a method that your team likes.

Principles are:

- humans are much better at estimating relative effort than average time. So estimation sessions are only in terms of effort. The answer to "how many hours is one point?" is "as long as it takes." With developers like you this can be a hard line to keep but it is absolutely full stop required.

- consistency in relative effort unit sizes is a requirement for the math to work. Group estimation does this automatically after a few sessions, and can help expose miscommunications and better architectures along the way... but it's not the only way to do it.

- a consistent yardstick for "done" is required for consistent unit sizes. (Logically)

- project managers track average number of points completed per sprint. Even though this average will become extremely consistent, it is an AVERAGE ONLY and can not predict any individual sprint.

- There is no pressure to burn points "faster". Remember, point sizes are arbitrary and consistency is required. When engineers feel pressure to complete more in the same time, consistency is dropped and the math breaks) if you are using sprints this is an easy trap to fall into. More points per sprint != better. Making tasks easier is OK though, ie with automation or technical improvements. Note that this would impact the estimated point size of your tasks, not the number of points put through in a sprint!

That's it. Do it how you want, but have consistent relative point sizes, don't let engineers talk or think about time, don't treat an average like a single sprint prediction, and don't pressure engineers to increase velocity.

A casino can't predict a single hand, but they can predict with great accuracy their profit margin after 100 hands. Using the same math, you can't predict a single sprint, but you can predict with great accuracy 5, 10, or 20 sprints... as long as you help the developers stay unpressured and therefore consistent.

ALL THAT SAID, when you say "I did this before, it took me 2 weeks," that is also a very effective way to estimate. If your tasks are highly consistent, definitely track time for implementation of similar work (because human memory is very fallable) and estimate this way. Just don't let yourself notice that you defined a consistent unit of effort and used past average time to predict future average time, and you can feel like you've found a great life hack.
HOMM3 is really fun and can burn days and days and days in it. Pity I never beat the official campaigns as some are tough for me. I always wanted to build everything, have a giant army and then make advances but some missions don't really allow that.
You should watch Poverty Inc.. It's a 2014 documentary about the big business of... fighting poverty; which ironically would go out of business if poverty ceased. I don't agree with all the statements or conclusions but it's still eye-opening and dystopian.
It's highly likely that aliens have to deal with that as well. It's to combat the mismatched division of the planet doing a full rotation around the sun and the planet doing a full rotation itself. They might even have more oddities.
Mike Bostock knows far more about data visualization than I do so I assume there are good reasons for choosing this presentation. But it strikes me as hard to think about, so I must ask: when is stacked+packed circles a good choice?

The drawbacks to me seem to be:

- At any given point on the x-axis, the associated height of the pile is partly taken up by circles but is partly space lost to circle packing. This proportion is hard to estimate visually.

- Because circles extend in the x-direction, they contribute to height over a _variable_ time range. E.g. WaMu is still the tallest circle at the 2010 line. It's a bit like a kernel density plot where the _kernel_ is data dependent.

Because of these effects taken together, though it's tempting to think of the profile of the pile as a smoothed average of the rate of bank-failures, but this is pretty misleading, which I suppose is why there's no labeled y-axis.
I feel people just use EEE to mean anything bad MS does whether it makes any sense at all.

Having exclusive features in a product they would prefer you to use because it makes them more money isn't EEE.
I lift. Running is even better, if it's your jam.
Google, Microsoft CEOs Called to AI Meeting at White House
> A land value tax wouldnt tax density it would just tax the value of the land.

I wasn’t responding to an LVT suggestion, but a suggestion of taxes that would be based on density of use and go up for lower density. I quoted the suggestion in my response. LVT is a whole different thing.
I did a fair bit of Micropython development a couple of years ago and never really used this aspect of the ecosystem. I was just programming on ESP32 via physical connections.

I think the main limitation that I experienced from micropython is that it’s an abstraction over the low level things. It’s great for something simple, but eventually you’re probably going to find yourself recompiling it for some configuration change not available or for some optimization you need.
Should probably look into Haskell. Have absolutely no clue what's it best suited for?
Password + password manager can be trivially phished. PIN can’t, because even if you somehow phished a user you can’t use it.

I don’t know what “proper 2FA” means but the gold standard today is U2F, and it has failed to be mass adopted due to requirement to purchase and maintain another device.
France standardized all of their reactors. You could swap components in and out of any number of their nuclear reactors.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...

That's not how most other countries handled their nuclear power architecture and I think it's one of the main reasons why France has had major success with no issues. There's nothing flashy about how their nuclear reactors operate but they're very easy to staff and maintain long-term.
You lost me at 'they work'. They don't. To the point that I'm boycotting Teams, any customers that force us to use Team can take a hike, I'm not going to spend the first half hour (or more) of every meeting with a new set of people to get them all organized and solve a myriad of audio/video/networking issues. Teams is the biggest pile of junk MS ever released. And don't get me started on the linux client.
Writing Cmdlets in other languages (2019)
There was nothing fringe with any one on the left. Vice is center left media. There’s nothing to wrap around to when it’s mostly centrists
>Why on earth do we need an AGI to become "enlightened beings", has this gentlemen never read any literature on "enlightenment"?

I think you might be misconstruing his definition of 'enlightenment'. In this instance I believe he is referring to humanity having the time and freedom for the pursuit of knowledge and intellectual reasoning. There are a number of instances in fictional literature were the authors discuss worlds in which civilization has achieved a state of enlightenment and dedicate their lives exclusively to science, philosophy and the arts (Olaf Stapleton's First and Last Men, and Starmaker provide several)

>but for what now? Just intellectual curiosity ?

The purpose is out of exercise to understand it. But again, if we might produce an AGI which is capable of digesting massive amounts of knowledge, but with the ability to reason we might be able to achieve certain goals like fusion energy sooner than expected. IMO solving the energy problem in itself is worth the risk as our uncontrolled use of fossil fuels is an existential threat to life on this planet, not to mention it would rebalance the distribution on wealth and power around the world.

As for Hinton, I think you are spot on with why he reacted this way. However, I facepalm every time the 'killer robots' example comes up because it is the worst example of the threats these things pose compared the following:

- AI being used to manipulate public opinion on a massive scale creating a new age of demagoguery.

- AI being used to fabricate different realities within an information sphere by generating text, imagery and audio/video media supporting a certain set of narratives. Essentially a type of super propaganda.

- AI being granted trust to by humans to perform certain functions which it is not capable of, because humans are too ignorant to subject it to proper scrutiny.

- AI being used to manipulate either markets, financial institutions or economies at a massive scale, dramatically shifting the balance of power around the world.

Essentially, the general public's concept of warfare needs to be broadened to consider non-kinetic conflict. Warfare is effectively a pursuit in the change of policy in other nations(or groups) by many different means. The last resort of these methods is inevitably a kinetic engagement, where all other approaches have failed to achieve the desired result.

Altering this viewpoint allows us to reassess what we consider to be weapons rather than tools, and gives us a better idea of where we should expect these threats to emerge first.
But you do this in the non-software world all the time — if you leave your car in for a service, you'll get charged £X base on it taking them Y amount of time. Some cars will take them ±10% but it balances out in the end.

Or if you're getting building work on your house, they'll caveat that it'll cost you £X, saving any unforeseen circumstances that arise (if you've asbestos in your attic, they're not going to stick to the original price and just eat the cost)

In consulting, most clients want a fixed cost for a fixed scope, with any deviations coming as change requests & billed accordingly. Generally people are hestitant to agree to an agile model unless you've already got a lot of trust built up.
I'm still salty about this. Called it passkey too. http://www.multipasskey.com/susdemo/. Built this 5-6yrs ago and applied to YC. Crickets. Hope to see this take off, with my approach I made it where you don't even need to "register", you can go to a site and just have an account. I did the fingerprint, face scan, PIN approach for more security, but my favorite was NFC ring. Basically you have an NFC ring you wear on your finger. That way if someone steals your phone or takes it, you are protected. The entire thing uses a unique pub/pri keys for each site. Keys are backed up by shamir secret sharing distributed across your friends or providers you select. 100% of your keys are encrypted so I the provider can't see it, recover it or be forced to reveal it. Since each site has a key, one could do interesting things. E2E encryption for apps where they can't be forced to reveal a key. If you are using an App and want to send someone a message, the app can fetch the person's pub key, then an inbuilt editor outside of the App in our app will be used to compose the message and encrypt it. That way the App provider can't be forced to reveal the message, and they don't have keys either. Pretty much control in the hands of the user. The same approach can be used for a storage pod where you have a pod that stores your data that you encrypt and control. This is a good start, hopefully we can see the good ideas of this, AT protocol (account portability), keybase, etc all start to bear fruit.

What I don't like bout Google doing this is that the big providers use this to tether and lock you in to their platform. The power of this shines when it's federated. So if you run a site, you can provide security to your users without them needing Google, FB, etc.
> We can ask USA to leave and take their soldiers with them.

That worked very well for Cuba and Guantanamo Bay since 1934.