skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was specifically asking about why crypto needs storage

Possibly because no one was using over 35TB for cryptocurrencies?? That's the most likely explanation. If you look carefully at the wording, it doesn't in any way state that cryptocurrencies are using up Dropbox storage.

Would you have even asked if you thought there was nothing suspicious about the claim? Dropbox's motivation is what matters when the claim itself is suspect.
> The management company may be considered to have economic nexus in a state where its fund’s investors are located if management fees are allocated to those states and economic nexus thresholds are exceeded.

Ha! One cannot even imagine the wave of litigation that will fight this effort. I don't see the States winning the cases either.
you'll never be in cicada 3301 with that kinda attitude my guy!

but to counter your point: people do have to write those libraries that you depend on. others have to validate them, and yet still others are doing their best efforts to invalidate them and attack them.

but you are correct that most people should not roll their own cryptography suites.
Who better to destroy constitutional rights than a plain clothes cop with a $15 laser?
No, you just have to follow the regulations. It's no "war on US companies" or anything like that. They wrote some good law (Albeit it has a few weaknesses), and enforce it now. And if you want to do business in the EU, you have to follow them.

I would say it's more a problem of the US companies, if they can't do business without violating EU regulations.
Exactly... As a general rule, all other things being equal, the more informed the participants in a market are, the better the efficiency of the market.

Advertising negatively affects markets because it leads people to make decisions based on things that are not necessarily in their interests, i.e. it leads people to make more uninformed (or misinformed) decisions.

In effect, it's basically exploiting a market externality: vulnerabilities in human psychology.

I mean, this is not always true. Sometimes, you might become aware of a great product or service due to advertising. But I am entirely convinced that, in general, the negative effects hugely, hugely outweigh the occasional benefit, just by observing how people usually make their buying decisions in their day-to-day lives (including me, I'm not immune to that!).
Apple didn't want to replace the keyboard on an m1 macbook I have. It was only a couple years old at the time. The guy at the Genius Bar just said no.
I have ZERO online bidding experience but have gone to a few in person (equipment, tools, livestock).

Some advice I received from a general contractor applies to auctions: You never lose money on a contract you don't win.

I've seen FOMO and pissing matches run up bids when simply putting a value on each lot you're after and sticking to it seems best.

Leaving an auction empty handed only feels bad for a few minutes and is easier the next time.

Once upon a time, at least in person, the auction house took there share out of the sale price (the buyer's share) but everyone where I am has charged it as a fee to the buyer for at least 15 years, so consider that when setting your number.

Anecdotes:

I've been in a bidding war, hit my number and stopped, had the exasperated Auctioneer try to goad me, and lost.

I've witnessed unbridled enthusiasm make equipment sell for 80% of the cost to buy new.

Once a bidding frenzy at a fur auction meant the price of squirrel pelts doubled and my colleague made $16K snaring squirrels that year. BTW: At least in the 90's, the People's Liberation Army was the biggest buyer of squirrel fur; I was told they were used to fringe hoods on winter jackets. That may have been as case of get the pelts no matter what.
My guess is that many people are either not happy or can see the benefits in a less-taxed jurisdiction but moving is not an easy thing. The pandemic might have helped them achieve this move (as many people already were displaced and lots of employees went remote).
Movies haven't done things bad out of ignorance for many decades. It's always a sound engineer or a director saying "no people expect a movie gun to do X nowadays"

Movie hackers don't work like that because nobody involved knows how computers work, even NCIS had dedicated Computer Consultants for that kind of stuff, but real "hacking" is boring AF, and most people are willing to put that kind of "reality" aside for a better narrative.
> The article doesn't make that entirely clear.

Yeah, articles like this frustrate me because there isn't much of an attempt to paint the whole picture. It's a catchy headline and a cursory examination to back it up. For example:

> The net number of taxpayers moving out of New York based on the preliminary 2021 tax-year data at the time was over 10,000 higher than the annual net average of 28,700 personal income taxpayers between 2015 and 2019

There's a turnover of people moving in and out of every state, every year. That the figure was around 1/3 higher in 2021 than in previous years certainly feels notable.

> The migration trend followed a net total of 112,400 taxpayers moving out in 2020, nearly four times as many as in 2019, according to the comptroller’s study.

Now what might have occurred in 2020 to cause such large numbers of moves? It amazes me the article doesn't say the word "COVID" once. In that context the 2021 numbers look like a move back towards the norm of previous years. But there's no attempt to examine that.
Proportional, in some general, statistical, but also hard to exactly measure, sense, to how much one benefits directly and indirectly from a stable, liberal state, including very strong private property protections, a legal system, standards and guarantees to encourage confident consumer activity, et c… maybe that, though, if not to literal services personally used.

(But actually not at all, given how low capital gains rates are—being rich is a bargain of a deal)
I think HashiCorp, as an infrastructure company, made a big mistake by choosing the BSL license (which was primarily designed for databases). Ultimately, this will destroy their community which in the long-term will also mean a lot of lost revenue...

It is also very interesting to see how this will play out specifically for Vault vs Infisical. So far, Infisical has been growing incredibly, especially after the license switch.
> There is a difference between "making money" and "capturing the entire thing because our growth-addled brains cannot conceive of not allocating all of the money to us".

Trying to capture the entire thing, in a way that backfires and gets them a smaller piece of the pie. Which is, incidentally, and answer to the question: A business might be obligated to act in its own interest, but this is the kind of thing that can result in worse financial outcomes, not better.
> Solar and wind don't leave a ton of radioactive material behind.

But they are not a plausible global replacement at this point, and - without radical storage technology changes - for the foreseeable future.

So really what you should be asking is, is nuclear cleaner than fossil.
Small businesses use this kind of advertising as much or more, proportionally speaking, as corporations. And with a virtual guarantee of worse data security/privacy practices when applicable.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/factorio-switch/ don't tell nobody
I guess COPPA doesn't count.
That's very nice to hear, thanks!

(even though I wish there was some breaking changes to be able to fix some of nasty bugs that have been there for years ahah)
Sliman Bensmaia, Who Enabled Prosthetic Limbs to Feel, Dies at 49
In addition to gleam, there's also ongoing attempts to add static typing to Elixir.
wp:weasel-words.

Faced criticism by who? Would it be by the sort of people who insisted it could only have a natural origin? When comparing quality we should recall that the NY Times had a journalist investigating the possibility of a leak at the WIV. They fired and replaced him with someone who announced that the idea of a lab leak was "racist". It doesn't seem possible to journalism worse than that!
https://archive.ph/mp4Bd
Market based sourcing rules have been in effect for many years now. Any litigation would have already happened.
I'm not the author, but my impression is that he wanted a single compiler that both compiles fast and generates fast code.

I think it's a good goal, although if you take into account total engineering effort, my suspicion is that having a separate interpreter and a compiler is an accepted (if not common) solution for that reason.

I think you're saying you don't need to compile fast to be interactive, because you can just use a slow compiler on tiny snippets of code, and patch them in. That seems like a fair point.

(Python doesn't count, because it doesn't run fast, but Swift probably does. As far as I know the Swift playgrounds use the compiler at runtime. Java doesn't fit the requirements based on "predictable, explainable performance". You can of course quibble with that requirement)

I do wish every language had a REPL and a compiler. And the interaction with language design is definitely worth exploring. I think Java and Swift have the tech, but I never really hear about people using them interactively, maybe because the languages themselves aren't great for typing in. (as opposed to R or shell or Lisp; Python could do better here too)
The press paints them almost as saints.
For the first one, maybe an Intrusion Detection

"Alert me anytime someon attempts to login to [SENSITIVE SYSTEM]

-

Can this do SPLUNK like log analytics?

"Give me a table of all activity of [TYPE] in [THESE LOGS/SYSTEMS]" (for whatever metric youre tracking)

"Give me a cron of uptime every hour for [system, site, cluster, whatever]"

"create a status page for critical systems A B C X Y Z"

--

I dont have any AWS infra to throw this at right now - but I do love this

As a Dir. Of DevOps in my career - these were very common questions thrown at me on the regular from PMs, C-suite, engineering etc...

So if this were a self-service query portal for teams with permissions/roles on what sort of questions could be asked from other teams that would be cool.

this is read only? It cant deploy/launch/buy services can it?
Zellij perhaps?
Don't know about New York but California has lost plenty of firms over decades. Aerospace used to be all in California, for example.

But California's GDP rises faster than most states and countries in the world so it's probably good the rest of the world gets our hand-me-downs...
It's working exceptionally well for Ireland, which is going to end up far wealthier per capita than England over time (an extreme inversion to the past). Ireland is one of the only nations in Europe with significant economic growth over the past 15 years, they have been drastically out-competing everybody else for growth. Luring in huge numbers of employers, while deriving your taxes from another source (income taxes, real-estate taxes), works just fine.

Texas, as an example, makes up for its lack of a personal income tax with other taxes. The state is thriving rather than imploding (which is not the same thing as having no problems at all), despite what its detractors would like to see.

I've never seen an example where taxation at a large scale (countries, states) actually turns into a race to the bottom. That's only a theory that has never once come to fruition in actuality. Whereas in actuality what has happened, is that targeted low taxation (eg no state income taxes) is a tremendous competitive advantage if you manage it even somewhat well (offset it with other taxes, and organize it to whatever your state/nation's competitive advantage/s are). Which is why Texas and Florida are expanding, while California and NY are not (despite their former massive advantages). Illinois should be a dramatically better place than what it is in terms of prosperity and quality of life, instead it has been in either a stagnant or moribund condition for a long time, thanks to their poorly managed bureaucracy and relatively high taxation (routinely in the top five in combined local + state income tax rates).
As mentioned, it was written by the mod author, and they're trying to explain that they're "not just charging for a mod" which is often a detraction leveled in cases like this.

(However, even if they were just literally charging for a mod, I'd be fine with it, Factorio has some of the best dollar for playtime money I've ever spent, maybe Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress come close).
It's called Dowsing and there's no evidence that it works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
Why do you think they offer those tax incentives? Could it be that it creates wealth and jobs for the residents of those cities? When AOC and her mob tried to force Amazon out of their NYC expansion and succeeded, Warren Buffet said "it's never a smart move to run rich people out of town".
Hospital data point to the same trends: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to...
But it was a contract for work yes? That sounds more like a pre-payment than a grant.
Doesn't Kubernetes require a CLA?
CI/CD Best Practices
This makes me soooo happy to hear because with all of the forks of LuaJIT post it not being maintained by Mike ~5 years ago, no one seems to carry the baton very well.

LuaJIT is truly an engineering marvel that more folks should adopt.

If it's actively being maintained again, hopefully that will happen.

What I don't quite get is the follow:

"Please note: The main LuaJIT author (Mike Pall) is working on unrelated projects and cannot accept bigger sponsorships at this time. But other community members may be open to sponsorship offers — please ask on the LuaJIT mailing list for any takers."

https://luajit.org/sponsors.html
They use some tools from advanced tech, but already have their own blacksmiths and carpenters who make tools for their farmers. For the long run, they will have to develop some type of mining or smelting operation from scrap metal they find (which will probably be abundant for a few decades if society really does collapse)
Packages: Powered Up
Also http://20k.org/episodes/voiceinside
It's "Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists", not "Even More Data Science with some Algebraic Topology Included for Data Scientists".
In-browser emulator allowing you to play said game:

https://archive.org/details/SpareChange4amCrack/
Of course you can train a neural network to sort numbers, but I'm talking about a general LLM which hasn't been trained to sort numbers specifically. Training a GPT network to sort numbers is not what I would consider to be a Large Language Model.
Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
The original article came from Bloomberg. It nicely charts out inflows and outflows from each state.

Generally, it's because of lower cost of living. But, there are other things mentioned such as bringing expertise to areas requiring more diverse financial needs, as well as quality of life/relaxed life style. But, almost all studies of this migration point to cost of living.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-asset-management-rel...
Unless you are extremely experienced with Factorio and want a challenge that will last you close to another 1,000 hours (at least) ... don't even attempt Pyanodons.

It's for a very specific type of hardcore player and very few people have actually finished it.

This is the flowchart for ONE science (space) ... one. There are numerous sciences.

https://i.imgur.com/JCVVTjn.jpg
I have no doubt that Signal is now compromised, since its board was overhauled recently and now includes people with a US government background. Yes, the encryption model theoretically remains secure, but 1) Signal now uploads your contact list to their servers and claims it is secured by Intel’s secure enclave, but multiple vulnerabilities have been found in that, and 2) if targeted, most users are defenseless against a malicious update. Meanwhile, WhatsApp, which is heavily used by EU citizens, claims end-to-end encryption, but it leaks metadata and also chat content is leaked through the automated backups that most users don’t disable.

The only question is to what extent Five Eyes members besides the US get access to all that. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any initiative inside the EU to protect users better, while also letting us enjoy an internet without behavioral advertising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment

sanction all users, in response to a fraction of a percentile sounds unreasonable to me.

filter crypto methods would be reasonable.
> Over the last year or so, I showed it to several people in the business who all felt it was not a good idea for white authors to be writing about this character in this time and place.

Despite all the "what do you mean by 'white'" feigned ignorance, deconstructing whiteness, and claiming there's no such thing as white people [1] or culture [2], they have no trouble understanding the term if it's to further the right cause.

Also noteworthy is that there was no significant rejection of "culturally appropriating" books from readers that preceded this - it is a top-down push of new norms.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/23/white-is-not-a-...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/18/opinions/american-culture...
Red Hat is also strictly against copyright assignment agreements in general, and keeps many under the GPL, so few Red Hat projects could realistically be relicensed like this to begin with.
Alzheimer's just had two drugs approved by the FDA for treating the disease. They're certainly not a cure, they only slow the onset of symptoms by removing plaques from the brain. The underlying factors that cause the buildup of plaques still aren't well understood.

That said, I would still put much more hope in the research into well-defined, specific diseases such as Alzheimer's than I would into aging or longevity research.

There are several reasons for this. First, the absolute bedrock foundation of all of medicine is human trials. There is no substitute for actually trying drugs in humans and seeing what happens. These human trials are possible (albeit extremely expensive and difficult) to run for drugs targeting specific diseases. They are functionally impossible to run for "aging". What would the trial test? Just all-cause mortality? That would be an impossibly noisy target, and almost guaranteed to fail. Not to mention that the trial would have to last an incredibly long time to test any benefit for younger people. No funding agency and certainly no drug company is going to take that bet.

The second reason is that aging is a property of the entire organism. Like, every gene and every cell is affected by aging. It's simply impossible that any one gene or one drug is going to have a significant effect on aging. Drug development is currently entirely oriented towards targeting individual genes and proteins. The reason for this is that targeting even one protein with a drug stretches the limit of our technological abilities. Two drug combinations are relatively rare and are typically limited to diseases like cancer that have well characterized causes at the molecular level. This is not the case for aging. Again, aging isn't well enough defined to even pick a specific gene that "causes" it.
Not to mention that Adam Smith himself made the point that there can be no free market in the absence of regulation.
people should remember that advertising was equally vilified at all times , whether it was on TV or print or radio. But at the time the EU was wise enough not to destroy its media economy. This time it's different
These are the same customers that only make 1 tape of the data. One facility I was at required 3 copies written by 3 different writers. These were in large robot operated units, so it was all automated by our front end. One copy stayed locally, the other 2 went to 2 different offsite locations in different parts of the country with the closest being in another town across state. Each tape had to be removed from the writer and placed into a different drive to do a read back for comparison. In the LTO4 days, we would catch lots of write errors like this. I wonder if the newer formats are any better about these errors? How I miss the old days of tar/mt commands, er, no, who am I kidding!
This reminds me the of the kids that Rick Rolled their high school. Seen on HN previously.
But what a scale this hack is!
that seems obviously falsifiable. California taxes are quite high and the state of California seems to be a great deal more successful than just about any other state in the nation. It seems like the test has been run and the results are available.
or, you know, read the documentation? why is this so hard? you shouldn't need stack overflow unless you run into something the docs don't answer
I would agree with most of that.

There still comes a point at which the notion that there are physical (as in real-world, manifested, measurable and discoverable) causes to dysfunctions rather than metaphysical or spiritual ones (and I'm including such phenomena as behaviours, social dynamics, and psychology as "physical", inasmuch as they exist within and not beyond the physical world). At which time the concept of moralising pathologies itself seems to become a pathology, hindering rather than assisting in resolving those issues.

The primal aversion model works where such knowledge isn't present, and as that aversion is itself likely wired deeply within our genetics and psyche, it's not something easily banished. But it is advantageous in general to override that tendency, most especially if one's goal is to actually solve the underlying problem, as physical causes imply chains of causality and opportunities to influence outcomes.
Do you have links to read up on this? I know only if personal finance; makes sense that it's not correct for corporate.
Strategic reasons. Makes zero sense for a country to be completely dependent on a overseas potential adversary.

We just saw the pandemic pause the car industry due to a chip shortage. The ramifications are rather obvious and finally someone is paying attention.
If you knew what DNA was and had seen a protein you could easily figure out start/stop codons. If you had only seen something similar it would be harder. If you had nothing similar, I don't know.

Coding DNA and non-coding DNA looks very different. Proteins are full of short repetitive sequences that form structural elements like alpha helixes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_helix

Once you've identified roughly where the protein-coding genes are it would be trivial to identify 3'/5' as being common to all those regions. You could pretty easily imagine a much more complicated system with different transcription mechanisms and codon categories, but earth genomes are super simple in that respect. Once you have those you just have the (incredibly complex) problem of creating a polymerase and bam, you'll be able to print every single gene in the body.

Without the right balance of promoters/factors/polymerase you probably won't get anything close to a human cell, but you'd be able to at least work closer to what the natural balance should be, and once you get closer to building a correct ribosome etc the cell would start to self-correct.
I have a large well for my water (machine bored - wells here have terrible recovery), when the pump went out a few years back I looked down the hole and decided no way will I climb down there. I bought a pump and used hoses and extension cords to lower it into the well from above, then a week latter hired someone to come out and do the proper install. They had the proper safety gear so they couldn't fall down the hole. More importantly they knew how to use the - I know where to buy the gear, but that is one case where improper usage will kill you before you find out you were wrong.
What is the species that is not native?