skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you just inventing scenarios or is this something that actually happens somewhere in the world regularly? A massive amount of cars getting stuck in snow for so long they run out of fuel/electricity and need to be towed out one by one?

It's not exactly rocket science to bring in a generator on site to charge the EVs enough to get them to the nearest charger.

I could also invent a scenario out of my ass where the local gas station has run out of fuel because of a bank run style situation, but the electric grid still works just fine. How would gasoline powered cars work then?
> A government or an influential entity who wants to "prove" Bitcoin is unreliable (for whatever reason): yes.

There seems to be much cheaper ways to magnify negative public sentiment on crypto though.
Such a pool of pluswords, more or less. What if I am sarcastic, impatient, nitpicking, and arrogant? What if you are?
A Scott Manley video on the subject: Why Japan's Moon Lander Crashed Due to An Unbelievable Computer Bug https://youtu.be/2JlUnOAiMm4

Note that landing on the Moon is difficult. I would urge people to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing and consider all of those failures before one successful mission.
I do this all the time: I bought a fold-up shopping cart with 150lb capacity, and take it on the elevator to the subway platform.

Honestly, it’s even easier than doing it by car; I don’t even have to deal with hauling bags out of the trunk, I just roll up to my refrigerator and unpack everything right in the kitchen.
Cash pretty much has to be fungibile, it would just be too much work keeping track of the history of each dollar in your wallet.

Maybe that's nice because you can pay your taxes with money you made selling drugs.

Maybe it's bad because you don't know what kind of activity you're supporting when you accept a stranger's money. It could be that refusing to accept their money makes them unable to set up the mining operation that would poison your drinking water.
Recently I watch the Scotties Tournament of Hearts[1].

I paid for a monthly subscription to the Canadian streaming provider (TSN), since I live in Canada.

For whatever reason, there was no international streaming provider. (It has been on ESPN in previous years.)

The ads on the TSN stream were horrific. They put a full 25% of the active play of every game (the first thrower in every end) in a muted PIP box so they could play more full-screen ads.

TSN decided to offer a stream of the playoff games to non-Canadian viewers who had no way of watching, and since pay-for TSN is geoblocked to Canada, they made that stream free, and geoblocked it to not play in Canada.

The international stream was also free of commercial breaks. Instead of commercials it just showed miscellaneous cameras between ends, and showed the entire ends without putting a quarter of them in a PIP box.

So obviously, my experience was much better by streaming the international stream rather than the local stream that I paid for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotties_Tournament_of_Hearts
Yes, the future is obviously what’s important.

So you make an educated guess on what the future earnings will be and work backwards from that to determine whether something is a good investment.

So what is your revenue/earnings projection for NVDA and terminal multiple to justify today’s valuation. You do have one right?
Tidying up the top of the world (2020)
What happens when you just change the articles, and include a supporting citation?

In the case of genuine errors, is there anybody actually arguing on the other side?

I understand debates about whether or not things are worthy of inclusion (like unproved accusations), and there's a whole separate category of controversial viewpoints, but I've never come across meaningful pushback on unambiguous factual errors. You should just be able to fix things. I've certainly done so many times in the past, and I've never gotten anything "shot down" at all. In my experience, factual corrections get zero pushback because why would they?

I don't really understand complaining that people aren't fixing errors on Wikipedia if you aren't fixing them yourself.

Also, what are the dates that Brigham Young was added and then removed from the Michael Jackson article? Vandalism happens all the time but I'm pretty shocked that could stay up for a year. But I can't find any reference to it on the internet aside from your comment here, and WikiBlame isn't finding it either (looking up "Brigham" starting from Jan 2001 yields "Your search term was not found at all. Check the settings and try again." but maybe it's broken?)
The estimate was the time to try all possible combinations, per Apple:

> “This means it would take more than 5 ½ years to try all combinations of a six-character alphanumeric passcode with lowercase letters and numbers,”

Surely you understand that trying all combinations is not necessary to find an individual password -- you can stop after you've succeeded. Are you really not understanding this?
There is a tendency towards a knee-jerk response by people who have little broader industry experience, saying "I have to pay for that? It's so easy. Why can't it be open source and free?" Well, because this and this and this and also that little detail which turns out to be a massive deal. The Chinese have an old saying, you get what you pay for. Yes, why can't we have open core + accounting as a service, pay 2x, and have the rug pulled out at any time? Possibly the largest deterrent is the recent tendency of financial VC backed startups to play extremely fast and loose with house (investor) money...
I canceled netflix, because I am spending more time looking for a show a movies than actually watching it.
What are you the best at?
There's also the Nohari window. We did both in our team and man the Nohari led to some interesting situations. Would not recommend unless your team is very close and chill.

With the Johari, the "negative" basically shows by the qualities you attribute to yourself, but nobody else attributes to you.
I agree with this and in most languages I don’t miss sigils but one language I do wish supported them is plpgsql.

The reason is that column names and function arguments overlap a lot, which can cause ambiguities when performing updates or selects. To become productive at plpgsql it’s a problem that you have to solve.

There are several approaches but the one I settled on is just to prefix all formal parameters with underscores.

The wish I have with plpgsql is that I could use $ instead since underscore is already heavily used as a word separator.
My understanding is that automatic import through a third party cost a small fortune.

YNAB promoted not having it, as a feature. They claimed it would make you more responsible by taking 30 seconds after every purchase to open the app and add the purchase. Then they went from a one time fee ($30) to SaaS and began charging $100 + VAT a year, with automatic bank import being the only new feature. Either they are making bank, or it's insanely expensive.
Ask HN: Why do links to Streamlit apps fail from HN? (Eg: https://bit.ly/taxgpt)
Why are generally accessible links, like this app (https://tax-gpt.streamlit.app), not working when clicked from a HN post?
They could just wait until they get a complaint and change it then. There's no reason to just avoid the name outright.
Wave Financial seems perfectly fine. Clockify for timekeeping. PandaDoc for electronic signatures.
>family can't because of eyesight issues, including one who's blind in one eye

Eyesight issues don't stop you from using VR. In VR you will have the same eyesight issues as you do in real life. If you use glasses, then you can still wear glasses when you use VR.
Discussed at the time:

I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12522654 - Sept 2016 (100 comments)
This is still very much a thing, but the degree of adherence varies depending on the family. I know people that don't follow it, but I also know people who pay part of their income to their elders & some voluntarily invite their otherwise healthy parents to live with them.

I personally think it's a good thing to take care of your parents within reasonable boundaries. However, I don't think the current social structure provides a good framework for this. We don't live in the same village compound in modern times, afterall.
I was attempting to contrast the usefulness of sigils vs static typing. While they're different things the do serve similar purposes. They restrict a thing so one can reason about it. At a meta level they do similar things.

The reason I don't like Perl's sigils is that my head is not good at inferring meaning from something like a $ or % or \%. I prefer they way it's done in other languages where you have to call a copy or deep copy function. Not everyone would agree with that preference.

I think dynamic languages have their place. I'm personally more comfortable with the training wheels on in a statically typed language. But there are times where using a statically typed language is going to arrive at an overengineered solution. There are developers that can do amazing things in dynamic languages because they're good at catching their own errors and can leverage the flexibility of dynamic typing to their benefit.
Is rent control the only solution here? Why not build more housing? Build out and up until the price goes down.

Long term I think the solution is to figure out how to structure the national economy so it isn't dominated by just a few cities. This was not always the case and doesn't have to be a given. If the economy itself is less centralized and monopolized the cities will evolve as well.
Intel.

They've made big noise about future GPU and compute products; We'll see if they're actually "competition" in this sector when they actually get released in competitive SKUs.

Though many of those products may end up using TSMC too, but that's an option Intel have likely chosen for capacity/price/performance issues, rather than a hard requirement.
Not sure, I use wsl2 which does the Linux stuff I need without the driver drama.
The good news is that they’re adding a new accessibility mode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...

In the HN thread , a lot of people were calling it the grandparent mode.
Where did you get this impression? I've been involved with bitcoin since 2010, and replacing Visa has absolutely been the goal since the very beginning.
The other thing GnuCash doesn't do is be a multiuser web app. It's an executable, remember them? There is https://github.com/joshuabach/gnucash-web 0.1.0 but that is just an access to the register you might (or might not) set up on a server to access your database.
Just a word of caution on akaunting, the FOSS product is very much the SaaS product, so lots of buttons will lead to nowhere and you will get CTAs to enable plugins which you later find out only work on the hosted service.

I’m my case I even need to patch their css to get invoices to render to PDF „somewhat“ correctly.

I’m still sticking around to see if this is just a momentary lapse but it’s been more than a year now…
With the exception of HyperCard, all those other “giant” technologies were also developed at research institutions whose purpose has been questioned many times: UMN (Gopher), IBM Research (SGML), MIT (FTP).

That the Web was “inevitable” doesn’t mean that it would have happened without public research support. The public, open web exists b/c of academics and industrial researchers hacking on a weird global network infrastructure funded primarily by governments.

The same thing is happening now with AI: academic and industrial research labs have been incubating these ideas for decades, and you can paint OpenAI as irrelevant (Google invented the Transformer architecture!) but someone makes these things happen each time they happen.

Sure, we could have had the web without CERN — but would we have had the web without any of these research institutions?
Yup. It puts some truth in the things people say about pair bonding, even if biologically it doesn't entirely fit. The default assumption becomes under this (fairly natural) behaviour that the more partners you have had generally the less likely you will be to make a next relationship last.
Somebody has got to check the logs and report violations. Chrome does, so CT works mostly for the world wide web, because all websites want to work in Chrome.

For a device like a router, if the router doesn't check the logs itself, and a global adversary compromises the TLS update channel for the router, and starts distributing malicious firmware... If the router itself doesn't report the violation, for how long might such a compromise go undetected? Is there any reason to think it'd ever be detected?

CT has a bit of an implicit dependency on heterogeneous configurations - that at least some clients report violations, and that attackers cannot easily distinguish reporting clients from non-reporting clients. For homogenous configurations (like the implementations of AWS, Azure, or GCM, or the deployment of routers, IOT devices, or gaming systems), it seems like a competent global adversary would simply figure out how to go unreported for that configuration, and nobody would particularly check.
Or actually a terrible third party product

https://www.arkoselabs.com/arkose-matchkey/
> It makes generic programming quite a bit more complicated than necessary. This was when all these dynamically typed scripting languages were invented to enable programmers write abstract code more easily by lifting the burden of constantly inventing composite types. „If it walks like a duck …“

Don't confuse duck typing with dynamic typing.
NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed
This would be so much fun. I imagine being rich and without meaning or a direction. I'd spend my time messing up my housing, secretly taking photo's of it. then flying around for a few hours in a jet to my identical house and yelling at the staff for not having it match the photos.
WASM-4 Fantasy Console
The article was FUD? The reality is much worse...
Seems like none of these are open source.
I strongly advise people learning bookkeeping. The best online site I've seen for this is here:

https://www.accountingcoach.com/

Quite incredible, and well explained.
> who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based?

Why do sites need human verification anyway? If the problem is load, then you just need proper rate-limiting in place. Captcha always seems to be mis-identifying the real issue.
> Apps are tools. Webpages are tools...

I strongly believe that's the main problem. Today UX thinks of computers as Assistants. It is clippy all over again.

That is why tech is so exited about Amazon Echo, ChatGPT.. It's the ultimate assistant.

Nobody wants to teach their users anymore, it's supposed to work out of the box. Easy, simple. There should be one button or one way of doing something (the dreaded User Story). Otherwise the user will go elsewhere. So we get these one trick apps.

In the 90s the user was seen as an intermediate user. Today it's all about onboarding.
Yes. I had to save string data in a column, which is frankly not something you want to do. HDF5 is super weird about encodings, quietly introduces errors, requires a fixed character length for that column and if you want to quickly access or search through the data, you have to write a program because HDF5View (or whatever it was called) is the worst. And since you still have to manage multiple reads and writes, the only benefit is maybe speed.

String data and HDF5 = No.

It does have an index tho compared to Parquet, which is handy for ML type stuff.
> Software development is a labor-intensive process, meaning that the number of software engineers can determine a carmaker's competitiveness.

The ebb and flow of the layoff cycle...
caddy file-server

does this, but more production-ready, honors cache headers, sets Etag, etc.

Also:

caddy respond

can be used to hard-code specific responses if you're testing an HTTP client. It can even spin up on a whole port range and supports templates in the response text right there on the command line:

caddy respond --listen :2000-2004 "I'm server {{.N}} on port {{.Port}}"

Here's an example maintenance page:

cat maintenance.html | caddy respond \
--listen :80 \
--status 503 \
--header "Content-Type: text/html"

https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line
I'm not sure why you're so fixated on this idea of client systems monitoring CT logs.

Operators who host infrastructure can and should be monitoring issuance in CT logs for domains they operate, which will allow them to identify and react to any unexpected issuance for those domains.
0 * 1000 = 0

Actually, my card costs me negative money to use. I get cash back with no annual fee.
This depends on whether the Dockerfile is available somewhere right?
Full text download:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367373175_HDF5eis_A...
One of my biggest life-altering changes was when my wife finally convinced me to get sleep study for my snoring, and they prescribed a CPAP machine for me.
My definition of thin client is how the computer gets configured by the contracting services company, locked dow to use the SaaS product, to be used by muggles on the floor.

Yes, it isn't something booting over tftp, with either green or Amber colors, or a X Windows Server terminal like the IBM ones.

It doesn't matter, they are configured and used just the same, and their resources are relatively limited compared to a random desktop.
I wish that more programming languages would include detailed rationales and justifications of their features like this in their documentation. While this blog post doesn't have the rigor of something like the Ada Rationale[1], it gives a real sense of why something might have been designed the way it was.

Maybe I just enjoy reading this sort of thing. But we are so often told to choose the "best tool", or find ourselves evaluating programming languages for all sorts of reasons. Being able to understand a language in its context, the choices it made in comparison to the alternatives, can only help with that.

When I read the rationale for a new early-stage language Austral[2], I found myself actually able to evaluate what I thought the language might be good for, how it might evolve while under the control of the same creator, whether it fit with my personal strengths, weaknesses, methods and aesthetics, etc.

By contrast, I was perusing the documentation for Odin, another new language, at around the same time. While I don't want to disparage the incredible amount of work it took to a) build a programming language and ecosystem and b) document it, I found myself wishing for a similar "rationale" document so I could actually compare Odin with Austral at a more abstract level than reading syntax.

Odin's "overview" begins with an example of the lexical syntax of comments, rather than what the principle "Striving for orthogonality"[3] in its FAQ actually means and how it is borne out in the language as designed, compared to other approaches that could have been taken.

Austral, by contrast, has a great section called "the cutting room floor" where the creator discusses different approaches to resource safety, the difficult tradeoffs to be made, and why Austral decided on possibly the severest of all the approaches. This isn't just philosophy; it tells me something useful about the tradeoffs involved in using the language.

Anyway, the OP helped me to understand very clearly that Raku's priorities and values are extremely different to my own, and that it would likely be a bad choice for me to invest time in.

[1] http://ada-auth.org/standards/12rat/html/Rat12-TOC.html

[2] https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html

[3] https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/
>Is there much more to the concept?

Roblox is owned by a single company. Only Roblox can host Roblox servers and if Roblox goes out of business it disappears. For the web to disappear every single site has to stop functioning.
Edinburgh literally has underground cycle lanes [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/jun/1...
Well, there can indeed exist a program that writes out the number BB(8000). (In the sense that it is consistent with ZFC that there is a program that writes out the number of steps of the smallest contradiction in ZFC.)

What I don't believe that there exist a program that is a proper counter-example, that is, its halting is undecidable in ZFC, and it halts. Exactly because what I wrote earlier.
Especially considering no one actually owns the earth, not Jeff Bezos, not anyone, yet almost every single bit of wealth (significant wealth) was generated from it's exploitation. through mining and pollution, and will continue to do so. Where do we think the bots and EVs will come from? Our ass?

Therefore, realistically, everyone is entitled to a piece of wealth, whether you like this truth or not, given a significantly more intelligent way of seeing things, this would be the only conclusion that can be made.

But we've drawn borders and set up law enforcement to protect the ridiculous wealth inequality that seems like it will never end.
I might have agreed with you except... Half-life Alyx. I could be immersed in that one for hours at a time. No nausea or pain or anything and very well worth finding solutions for someone to watch the pets and kid for a few hours so you can play.
More generally, large unaccountable bureaucracies are fundamentally against the intent of the Founders, the spirit of the Bill of Rights, and the principles of government by the consent of the governed. That these bureaucracies are powerful private oligopolies rather than formally governmental in nature is mostly just an uncorrected oversight on behalf of those who set up our political and legal systems without the benefit of foresight.
Well, it really depends on the game and user. Personally I'd love smarter AI in some of my games, for some enemies (I realize that I'd probably hate smart AI in other games).

Like, StarCraft skirmish AI is pretty basic, having a smarter opponent to practice against would be nice. As it stands, I can practice a build vs the AI just to get the timings right, but otherwise the AI is mostly useless because it sucks too much compared to a regular player.
Another physicist here.

> Also a countertop swivel chair physicist, my understanding is that Higgs bosons are recruited as virtual particles all the time to bestow other particles their mass.

I think you're mixing up two subtle ideas. One is virtual particles, which as lanza explains, is really a name for a step in a calculation. The other is the idea of vacuum expectation value, or vev.

As another commenter mentioned, a particle is (loosely) like a ripple on a pond. The vev tells you how much water there is, even at rest. With a simple harmonic potential (parabola shaped) the vev is the x-coordinate of the turning point (ie. the minimal energy), which we usually put at zero because of symmetry. However, the 'Mexican hat potential' respects the symmetry but has minima that aren't located at zero radius. The Higgs potential is like that, and so the Higgs has a nonzero vev.

The way the Higgs interacts with fermions implies that the masses are proportional to the Higgs vev.

Rather than it being virtual Higgses, it's more like the particles are swimming in a viscous liquid. Sleek particles aren't bothered and are hardly slowed down at all (these particles have not much mass) and some are not hydrodynamic and have a hard time.

The analogy is imperfect: the viscous soup doesn't provide friction in the way that water does (you can't give your momentum to the vacuum).