skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who else read PYUSD as "pie-usd" intuiting something like "Python USD"... "pip install pyusd"

Honestly? Probably no one, but I like here your head is going; money as code is something that we in the Bitcoin community have been advocating since it's inception. People need to understand that money has to evolve, and that the current system is as archaic as the massive computing machines that occupied entire warehouses in comparison to where we are in terms of computing power and advancement.

If seen from a purely technological lens: fiat is a Luddite's folly.

Personally, I think that the stablecoin behind Paypal must be seen in the same lens as Zuckbucks (Libra) but it is shifting the POV that the majority 85% of the population that you can in fact have systems which not only allows for 24/7 transactions (I doubt Thiel-bucks will be seamless given my experience with Paypal mafia) but they also allow for Bitcoin to enter as the leader of the paradigm shift.

Honestly, if Thiel has done it as this point--an entrenched fossil in terms of fintech--you HN stragglers need to realize that this is where money is going, whether you like it or not at this point.

Web 3.0 and NFT BS always were VC's COVID rug pull, cash grab with cheap money; however, that doesn't mean the underlying tech we've built isn't sound and slowly taking over the financial system (the way some of us in this for 10+ years always wanted it) as Blackrock, who has more assets under management than God, is getting close to it's Bitcoin ETF and the SEC saying anything but Bitcoin is a security etc...

With that said, I honestly envision a World with competing non-nation State fiat currencies is now inevitable; Global inflation is now at unpayable levels and will continue to de-value as the Geo-political and environmental situation intensifies, despite our best attempts.

What becomes of this is where the real experimental design runs at it's simulation limits, so it will be interesting to see what happens from here.
I'm very embarrassed to say I used a bad link. Here's the real one https://library.relume.io/site-builder
> We standardized on Clickhouse for everything. (With its own set of surprising and/or horrifying ops issues.)

Clickhouse I admittedly haven't personally seen quite as much operational unpleasantness as Greenplum or Galera, but at this point I'm dubious of anything in that bucket.

> But at least it is a proper high-load, high-availablity solution, unlike Kafka, Cassandra, et al.

What went wrong with those for you? In my experience the setup stage is cumbersome, but once you've got them running they work well and do what you expect; most complaints you see come down to they're not relational/not SQL/not ACID (true, but IME more of an advantage than a disadvantage).
I also appreciated recent HN threads on Anna's Archive.
What a fine piece of writing!
> go to amazon on a real computer

What's a computer? /s
The reason is that Apple specifically requires all digital only purchases to only use in-app payment and must give Apple 30%. You are not allowed to process digital purchases through an app with your own payment system. You also can’t tell people that or link them to the website.

This does not apply to physical goods. Which is why all the apps you mentioned are fine.

This is the same issue that has been talked about for years, the cause of Epic (Fortnite) vs Apple, etc.
Having never heard of this person, I clicked through to their author page which has apparently only the books she actually wrote. They're all books about writing books: "The Business of Being a Writer", "Publishing 101", "Beginning Writers Answer Book". Oddly, also on that page is "Author In Progress: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published", but the page for that book (and image of its cover) do not mention her.

I see no indication that she's written a well-reviewed non-fiction book, or a moving memoir, or a slim volume of poetry. She publishes only on how to get published, which seems like a close cousin of people who offer drop-shipping classes and get their revenue through those classes rather than the drop-shipping that's supposed to be their expertise.

I think the thing she's really annoyed with is that apparently AIs are demonstrating that these days it's really easy to get published and perhaps her books aren't necessary.
Yep agree. Most HN developers work on comparatively simple JavaScript CRUD business applications and have zero clue on what it takes to write the large scale high-performance software the world relies on to function.
They weren't ready to publish and then got forced into the lime light by a member of their team going rogue. We should give them some benefit of the doubt due to the circumstances, even if LK-99 turns out not to be a SC, they didn't choose to publish.
That's insecure because if the password leaks from any site it could be trivially used by attacker in other sites. And your algorithm is not safe at all because password crackers could guess your algo and generate millions of its variations.
You can have the headquarters in Australia, and open a US office for fundraising
Not all the replication videos show the sample in the middle, see the Varda sample videos. Constructing something that simulates something else is proof of very little, other than there are other possible explanations. The existence of alternative explanations isn’t a proof the proposed explanation isn’t true.

This paper doesn’t explain away anything yet - they’re conjecturing based on their experience with their sample. Their conjectures are no more credible than the opposing supporting conjectures.

IANAP and I don’t have a horse in the race, and while I’m excited to see if this is true, I don’t believe anything other than there’s a long road of research ahead and nothing will be proven with hottake nitter videos or hottake preprints.
I still don’t like when number keys are taking ten keys on the unmodified keyboard. In AZERTY you would need shift to enter them, and that’s fine because anyway numbers are usually by group. While a lot of keys requiring caps are braces that you will enter twice.
Mission accomplished I guess? Utterly soulless and boring - for a computer no less - but if that’s what they wanted, sure.
Does anyone have info on how to run 70B on windows ? :) would appreciate it.
are short term rentals part of that 6 percent? Because I'm sure it's way more than that if you calculated homes vacant that do not have a permanent resident with at least a 6 to 12 month lease.
> RVWMO is based on experience gained with ARM and DEC Alpha memory ordering models, but fixing the problems

In what ways?

I thought that it was fairly well understood that LR/SC stuff was suboptimal for (for example) lock-free data structures and that the x86 primitives were quite a bit more suitable for those.

Taking a superficial look at the RVWMO stuff doesn't seem to contradict this.

What am I missing? How was this fixed?
Though, if you know enough to edit diffs by hand, you could use git apply --cached to stage parts of the diff in a way to make a sensible set of commits instead of a single commit for a large change.
Reducing saturated fats does not reduce CVD risk
I have been very cautious on any analysis on LK99 - especially my own.

I have mentioned to many people that any potential application of this stuff comes with an 'if it is real'. That IF is doing a lot of heavy lifting and it has to be emphasized.

I want this to be a thing, but it doesn't matter how much you want something to be true, it actually HAS to be true.

A beautiful elegant idea can be crushed by a single ugly dirty truth.
> are they using Hollywood-style accounting techniques

there's no need. Whereas individual movies do need a fake P&L, Google doesn't report Maps P&L at all. AFAIK.
Can I vote for you? I would feel so much better if I heard anyone in government talk like this.
I have a feeling the BSDs could be the answer to that, but I think at this moment what makes me reluctant to migrate is hardware support (could be mitigated by buying specific hardware but I prefer to use what I already have) and virtualization (evolving but not as great as KVM). It is mainly the amount of packages available on Debian-like distros and the slow update cycle that makes me stick to them.

I tried to use OpenBSD for a while at home, and it mostly worked out, but making my VPN work with it looked so complicated that I went back to Debian.
I should note this is somewhat outside my normal range, so actual experts may disagree.

There may be a few reasons. First, as another commenter has noted many cancers manifest late in life, after typical reproductive age. This is decent evidence that our immune system is in fact quite effective at killing cancer already. A rough estimate is that a human body experiences 10^16 cell divisions in a lifetime. Each division is a mutation and therefore cancer opportunity; not to mention the constant barrage of DNA damaging chemicals, radiation, and viruses. The numbers for precancerous mutations repaired (or cells destroyed) over a lifetime would be totally staggering.

The flipside of this is that a death from cancer after having kids doesn't reduce the prevalence of your genes in future generations by too much. You already have progeny after all. Humans are social animals and so there's maybe some benefit to having grandma or grandpa around. All that to say that (from an evolutionary perspective) there's not a huge, obvious benefit to having a super good immune system later in life.

There's also probably a balance between having an aggressive immune system and auto-immune disease. An over-eager immune system could attack normal cells as well as cancer cells.
Is that really an issue? When you rebase, git automatically figures out that you've cherry-picked something and will skip it.

I will occasionally chery-pick something from master, do my work etc. Before making my PR, I'll rebase against master and potentially squash/reorganize my commits. When the PR eventually gets merged to master there aren't any problems.

I don't think I ever merge without rebasing though, so maybe rebase has been saving me from any potential problems.
I'm seeing a lot of specs for that chip listing 64Gbit/s and some showing GB/s. I'd love to see some confirmation of actual performance.
Ah I see, I had envisioned a pad that was replaceable like an individual brake pad on a car
Can Dr Meaker make a drum and bass track with just a Behringer Neutron? [video]
Performance per watt on an M2 is better than anything else you can buy. Barely generates heat. Considering for $600 each and I don’t need to spec anything out and can just drive to the Apple Store any time I need a few more and it’s really useful for a home business cluster.
I knew it was fake, there would have been a huge rise in the stock market. Financial markets would have sniffed this out. The market never lies. If anything, this was an obvious opportunity to short it on prediction markets.
Any particular documents/tutorials you recommend? Feels like SAFE doesn't have a ton of either but I might just be looking in the wrong places. Like I admit I didn't try the Dojo yet because that sounded like a second round of learning not the very basics, but I'm also only eh at web development
I also get a permission error: but I think this (https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs250/fa10/handouts/lab2-ris...) is the same file, and functionally the same as the fa11 version?

I think RDNPC is what I was thinking of, but I can't at all remember what was perceived as "risky" about it. I may be overblowing something from memory. AUIPC is better anyways.
I don't think those are orthgonal though. For example, if a language lacks expressiveness, that can hinder its readability. But on the flip side, if it is highly expressive that can also potentially hurt readibility, especially if the reader isn't very familiar with the language. Although both are somewhat subjective (readability moreso than expressiveness), and context specific.
Rebase is pretty much just an automation for cherry-picking and squashing, and interactive rebase is the primary and most convenient way to put the branch you have worked on into shape before presenting it to someone else.

When I hear about people not using rebase in their daily workflow, I imagine myself 10 years ago when I barely knew git and couldn't really use it as a helpful tool like I do today. It's almost like looking back to before I started using VCS in the first place - somehow I did manage to not use one for years (even collaborated via FTP!), but now it seems impossible. Usually most of the useful magic with git happens before anything gets pushed out, and `git rebase` has a huge part in it.
Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick
pdb, the one shipped with python
By virtue of my role I have access to all sorts of data, even down to how many emails a day any given person might be reading or how many Teams calls they're in. I don't ever dig into this on an individually-recognisable level (because that is overreach), although I do look into anonymised trends & aggregates, because it is useful and interesting to know these trends across teams.

I also have access to other more obvious task-tracking metrics like the number of pull requests, or Jira task completion, or stack deploys.

I also have team calendars where team members plug in whether they're working from home or from the office.

It's fairly trivial to punch a bunch of this data into BI tooling to get an approximation of how work from home makes a difference to how much actually gets done. Is it 100% accurate? Certainly not. Would I ever use it for an actual performance conversation? Nope. But it does help as a component of the gestalt that is my understanding of WFH performance.

The other major component of my understanding is more direct. I go out for lunch with my teams or for beers with my teams, and I listen to what they have to say. I know that a reasonable number of my team members head out at 3PM to pick their kids up from school every time they work from home, because they tell me that to my face. The guy with the new baby is not 100% focused on work when he's home, because he's got tiny human to deal with.

It's also very important to note that performance is squishy and hard to quantify at the best of times, before you even get into things like Goodhart's Law. For example. employee retention is important and as a rate of turnover fairly easy to measure, and is a significant factor for total velocity, but causes of turnover are almost always orthogonal to the root cause of job dissatisfaction... More importantly, though, do we decrease the negative impacts of turnover commensurate to the loss of productivity by allowing WFH? Who knows!

I have way way way more that I could say on the topic, but I might be being a bit hypocritical by continuing to talk about it while at work. ;]
> How would you deny the SC status?

Maybe we should adopt the stance that it’s not a SC by default and have the people asserting that it is prove that it’s a SC.
The other day Jujutsu featured on HN, with git as a possible back-end. Describing itself as "both simple and powerful" with a combination of practices adopted from multiple tools:

> Jujutsu is a Git-compatible DVCS. It combines features from Git (data model, speed), Mercurial (anonymous branching, simple CLI free from "the index", revsets, powerful history-rewriting), and Pijul/Darcs (first-class conflicts), with features not found in most of them (working-copy-as-a-commit, undo functionality, automatic rebase, safe replication via rsync, Dropbox, or distributed file system).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952796
How does this work? Could I also get some background on you so I can contextualise this advice?
> I'm completely convinced that if you find yourself frequently rebasing/cherry-picking/reflogging you're using git wrong.

A lot of people want to use git as a checkpoint/backup system, and commits and associated changes reflect that. The rebasing/cherry-picking/reflogging is one way to update the set of commits on the branch in order to make a set of meaningful commits for the feature branch they're working on.
Perhaps a health bar that depletes as the good guy chips away at his evil plans?
Microsoft, why not)?

If you're willing to pay to have your privacy invaded, might as well have top of the line.
Oh for sure, but I'm guessing it's rare for an operator with modern aircraft to aggressively defer maintenance to the extent it sounds like is happening over there. Toyota has plenty of data about what happens to a Camry if it goes a few years with no oil changes (because people) but does Boeing have similar data to draw from?
Or at least go to kobo or any other non-shitty company, buy and download book and then download to device
You have two options. You can use the git-svn bridge or manage your own patches.

git-svn has a lot of good features that are specific to it, so it’s worth learning it like a new tool rather than a git feature. Get comfortable with it from some tutorials, then read the man page from top to bottom. It’s worth it.

The cheapo version is to git init and checkout of your source code, pretend it’s a git project, and then produce a patch for your branch at the end. You might even be able to use svn and git commands in the same directory? git for managing your private “work in progress” branches, locally, and svn to track upstream and submit work.
Looking at the details of the plan to secure America's IT infrastructure, it leads me to Secure Software Development Framework which then leads me to an Excel spreadsheet which then leads me to a tick the box exercise I can get from any generic consultant.

https://csrc.nist.gov/files/pubs/sp/800/218/final/docs/nist....

This is how big corp rubberstamps their security "review". As an American, I was hoping for the government to come up with a real solution. Like telling the big tech companies, that if America goes down the toilet, so do you. So stop with nonsensical security theater, and come up with real solutions. Like how to identify who is doing what. Real identity authentication and real logging. No more VPN/TOR/I can use any IP address I want then spoof a federal employee. No more I can arbitrarily change any setting/value because MSFT/UNIX doesn't believe in auditing.
> Not all the replication videos show the sample in the middle, see the Varda sample videos

Andrew McCalip himself says this explains everything he's seen.

https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip/status/1688741684316975104#...
After the 2nd. one.
how about you don't "nudge" i.e. attempt mass mind control in the first place. it's the same thing as dark patterns. involuntary experimentation on people, driven by analytics. if lying to people helps reduce car crashes by 1% and dog bites by 5%, let's roll out our lying operation nationwide
Well, I like how local bookstores go about curation more than Costco.

I don't know if we can say that a store with unlabeled aisles can be a source of curation.
Fovea-jitter is far from covering the width of your vision. They can overshoot by (maybe, I'm guessing) 2-3x the are of your precise vision and all jitter will be covered.
> But libgen doesn't have "Good night, Gorilla".

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=good+night+gorilla
If fake those researchers careers are over. Like, they'll have to go into programming or something. And they've also besmirched the good name of Korea, and their moms are going to beat the shit out of them for fucking up that bad. They've got a LOT to lose if this is fake, which is why I think it's most likely true. But hey, sometimes people just do crazy shit.
People value choice in their purchasing behaviour. I am not saying people are always rational actors, of course not. We are all influenced to some degree by ads, social influences etc etc

But the whole notion of "I just buy from one place and one place only without comparing anything at all ever again" is a bridge to far in my mind. So the whole "Siri send me whatever I tell you" I doubt will catch on with the majority of people. A niche maybe, sure. But not the majority of us.
We use the Libby app. Just need a local library card and kids can freely reserve and borrow ebooks to read on phones and tablets. Helps with voracious readers who finish reading short novels in the car home from the shops if you buy them a physical book.
I am sorry for being so flippant and unreasonable expecting to buy a digital book using my smartphone in 2023.
I made a rotary input device that provides software-defined "virtual" detents and end-stops, implemented using a BLDC gimbal motor. It can dynamically switch from completely smooth unbounded rotation, to having detents with configurable spacing and strength and "end-stops" that spring back if you try to rotate past them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA

It's got a round LCD on the front of the knob (wired and supported via the hollow shaft of the motor) and uses the flex of the PCB and strain gauge sensors (in the latest revision, simply SMD resistors whose resistance changes when stretched) to detect when the knob is pressed down.

It's open source hardware and software - https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob

HN folks might appreciate that it communicates with host software on the computer via protobuf-encoded USB serial messages -- nanopb is awesome for embedded C protobuf support, and having the defined schema, autogenerated serialization code, and compile-time type safety is so much nicer than ArduinoJson or hand-written binary protocols!

I'd love to get it hooked up to some real software eventually (video editors or home-assistant control are my 2 main ideas), but it's really just been a fun project to tinker with and try out some new ideas and parts I've never used before.
Is that really "most places"? I only ever heard of such weird laws happening in one country.
Impossible, wall street has some of the smartest scientists on the planet. They absolutely went through the research and determined it was a fake. Look at the AI boom, nasdaq rallied 40%. Superconductor would have had the same effect
This is the first time I've heard someone claim that cold fusion is flat-out impossible by the laws of thermodynamics, as opposed to just "very unlikely".
Fair, that's just been in my experience. It's still better than KRaft though.
>> When using the git commit command, we recommend always including two arguments: -an and -m.

This advice will mislead beginners for whom the article is written.
This is a very good article giving an overview of telephone technology and the technical aspects of fighting against spam calling, with comparisons to email spam.

I don't think the editorialised title (“computers are broken”) is particularly relevant.
We own a Volkswagen GTI. I don't know if it's fast enough for you, but it's no slouch and it's a totally normal sized car.
What do you think is easier, making a possible superconductor, or popping it on top of a magnet and seeing if it floats? The latter is an "experiment" only in the sense of an elementary school science class.

Why are we so obsessed with finding out whether the original authors did their homework? Science is not about crediting or discrediting people, it's about collaborating and standing on one another's shoulders to find out truths about the world. If LK-99 turns out to be a superconductor, it doesn't matter if the original paper was glaringly incomplete. If LK-99 doesn't pan out, it matters even less.
I can't edit the above, but it's actually AirBnB.
A ferromagnetic oxide featuring copper as the sole transition metal would be very weird. I'm not aware of any examples of the copper block demonstrating ferromagnetism without a more "conventional" ferromagnetic transition metal (from Cr to Ni and cousins).

But ferromagnetism has been demonstrated in black phosphorus:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003810981...

So the most likely explanation for the observation here is that the sample contains black phosphorus. But do all the samples contain black phosphorus?
Wasn't the original paper's sample a result from a broken vacuum tube? Correct me if I'm misremembering.