skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past 24 hours, Binance has still had nearly 7x the volume of their nearest competitor. They don't need to operate in markets that show any hostility towards them. That has always been their strategy, and it's served them well. They are by far the largest exchange. Having to hire whole teams of overpriced lawyers to babysit each high maintenance market would just slow them down.

I'm a US citizen, so I don't really care what happens with Binance, but they started being openly hostile to US users maybe 6 or so years ago, for obvious reasons. They don't care, and they don't need to care. The weird part to me IMO is how aggressively some US citizens have still tried to use Binance, which means creating fake identity documents, using VPNs, and risking their account getting locked if they make any mistakes.
Bourgeoisie Middle-Management
There is a sickness that afflicts all companies. They are detrimental both to the bottom-line of the company and to the experience of the rank and file employee who does the actual work. They are enemies to both the shareholders and the individual contributors. They are entitled, inept, and ineffective. They have no interest in growth. They have no interest in meritocracy. They have not the strategic leadership abilities, foresight abilities, or planning abilities of that of the executives and board. They do not have the technical skill set of the individual contributors. They have no respect from clients, or partners. They are disillusioned; they think the executives need them for the organization to function and that those who report to them need their leadership. They bring not clarity to an organization, they bring confusion and ambiguity. They celebrate this ambiguity and take credit for the achievements of the board, executives and individual contributors. This is the only thing that they do properly. They take advantage of the situation and credit for things that are not of their own doing. They deflect all responsibility. They truly have no purpose. They do nothing. Just a line on an excel sheet that could be erased with the only effect to the bottom line being increased profit. They work against the company's goals.

They are the bourgeoisie middle-management. They are not creators of value as are people who create companies, and they are not shepherds of value as are those who fund the companies and those who do the ground floor operations. They are parasites, and it is time they be removed.
I’m an engineer who has enjoyed psytrance since the 90's and I’ve sometimes wondered how the two relate, if at all. In some aspects psytrance could be better described as sculpture in motion rather than music. The process of making it also feels more like sculpture than the live, in the moment creation of music on an instrument. Regarding the two, I visualise psytrance as form, motion, colour, etc., with a lot of slowly shifting, but often nested, repetition much in the same way I visualise computational processes.
> If a function can realistically raise a "KeyError" the program should be properly written to accept this at some level

By definition, it is, because there is defined behavior for unhandled exceptions.

If you want to—and this is a valid preference—wrap all exceptions thrown at a lower level and present an API where they are part of the return type that must be addressed by code to pass typechecking, then you do that and return actual values of an appropriate type (you can still use exception types, if you wish) instead of raising exceptions.

Exceptions which you force client code to handle to typecheck are not exceptions, they are return values and should be converted to explicitly that, rather than adding checked exceptions.
Girlfriend has lost her entire sense of smell after covid, I'm really hoping the future has an answer to that.

It's taken the joy out of a lot of things she enjoys, especially cooking. She's seen a few ENT doctors and they all claim it's not coming back without any clear solutions.
Wick: Functional, reactive, WebAssembly on both client and server
I have the same cpu. It’s crazy to think I’ve had it for almost ten years. Sometimes I feel like I want to buy I new system but I really don’t have any reason to.
Everyone wear AR glasses will be recording the event. The recordings are streamed for 4K4D processing and streamers can watch the event remotely.
Te white in white paint era
More importantly how was one person able to log in and download all that data without any alarms going off
Perfectly happy is maybe a stretch, but there are a few bills I still write checks for. These are a small stick it to the man because these companies charge a "convenience fee" for paying by credit card, and the only other payment option is check. I can't believe it doesn't actually cost them more to pay for a person to open my envelope and process my payment, so it's pretty clear a "convenience fee" is just a cash grab, so a check it is. My bank gives me checks for free, and the postage stamp is cheaper than the fee. And yes, I'm aware of the security issues, but so far I've had my credit card numbers stolen not checks.
A DSLR.
It can be useful data cleaning method when used judiciously, but I'm surprised its at the top of HN
WHat do you mean by levels?
I see no white (well the key names are but you don't see them until you click. Purple on purple is just not readable. Purple on white as the text on the page is would be much better.

The keys in the game are grey on black. 9OK shades of purple) Safari Arc and Firefox tried
Eh, millions of accounts hacked via credential stuffing on one platform because of reused passwords? I don't buy it for one second.
BoA has a market cap of $219.83 Billion. The unrealized losses are more than half of that. That's... concerning.

When I hear statements like "the lender has strong liquidity with consumer deposits and higher capital," I immediately think about a run-on-the-bank. If I had my money there, and I read a statement like that, I'd be discreetly moving it elsewhere.

The article concludes "this is a problem only if you have to sell them." That doesn't seem like an unreasonable scenario.
How far away would it be? Would it still take millions and millions of bats or is it now within the realm of possibility to infect humanized mice and get SARS-CoV-2 out the other end?
Which is, in fact, a demotool made by sceners and released at a party (check their about!) Just like Shadertoy and others :)
Ahh, got it. Yeah, I suppose it could be a notable increase in the per-bot cost. Though considering each Twitter account typically needs to be "legitimized" with a phone number, it might not actually be that much of a multiplier.
I didn't mean for it to be a throwaway comment. I just didn't feel like going to deeply into it, thinking it was obvious to everyone.

While I'm personally more aligned with the democracts in the US (I'm a socialist in Europe), I do see the same kind of zero-sum thinking from both parties. "The loss of the other side is a win for our side". This is not sustainable as it leads to ever more polarisation.

I wrote about this in a little more detail recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37860952
> you could get time signals from GPS (or GLONASS)

You forgot to mention Galileo ... GLONASS may not be politically attractive :)

But beyond the GNSS ecosystem, there are of course other interesting options:

Safran STL[1] which uses LEO sats. Apparently it works well in places where you can't get a good GNSS signal (i.e. indoors without an external antenna). (This was previously Orolia STL, but they were acquired by Safran).

Most national time labs also offer a leased-line service, e.g. NPL (UK)[2]

There is also a very niche (read: VERY expensive) commercial timing-as-a-service product from a company called Hoptroff[3]. You license both the service/connection plus their software clients, so the $$$$$$ add up. Definitely one of those "if you have to ask you can't afford it" vendors.

[1] https://safran-navigation-timing.com/product/stl-option
[2] https://www.npl.co.uk/npltime
[3] https://www.hoptroff.com/
There's a million of those. Certainly, having a few dissidents is _expected behaviour_.
Along a similar line, the only book that I've found that has goes through a careful derivation of the divergence theorem using Lebesgue integration is, "A Concise Introduction to the Theory of Integration," Second Edition by Daniel W. Stroock. I prefer this one to his later book, "Essentials of Integration Theory for Analysis."

Does anyone else have a good reference or book on the topic?
Simple and likely very effective, even with non-robo callers whom I have never experienced calling twice.

I am using https://gitlab.com/xynngh/YetAnotherCallBlocker right now, but my country wildcards doesn't protect me against spoofed domestic calls - Forking and extending with this approach might work! TY
we support both consumer and business! some business use cases include working capital for SMBs, merchant advance, BNPL, trade credit, etc.
Internet Spectrum
Better Java LSP is beneficial not only to VSCode users, but for all LSP-powered editors too.
I mean this seems to be rapidly changing. A lot of the AWS guys I know are learning on their ARM instances. A few even run them in prod.
I see your post.

- Greg
Maybe it matters if when you originally contracted it you were breathing in through your mouth vs nose?
> Is there any reason to believe that the interaction of multiple agents (using the same model) will yield some emergent property that is beyond the capabilities of the agent model?

If you write a short story it's often better to split it into parts (make an outline, write the story, edit the story) than if you would try to do the whole process at once. The same can be true for LLMs I suppose.

In an LLM sense this would be like the different system prompts are sampling different parts of the training distribution, but I'm not able to validate such a claim or know if someone has validated it before.
I remember trying to replicate a sine scroller at age 9, not having the slightest clue what a sine wave is, I just let sprites go up and down linearly on a C64 and couldn't for the life of me figure out a way to make that a smooth wave until years later :D
As I wrote, this is a skilled job and they are apparently in very short supply here in the UK, where most houses are made entirely of bricks and even many taller buildings use a lot of them... so they can make a good living, indeed. Maybe not as high as you suggest but pretty good.

Actually, many skilled trades in the UK can make 50-60k a year, bearing in mind that these are technical qualifications, no university involved (whereas the system pushes everyone towards uni)
As the resulting combined system of anything you use a book, search engines, wikis, and forums as part of is unlike the raw source information by itself sure. The ChatGPT "AI" isn't an autonomous thinker performing its own actions based on reasoning of what's fed to it. In all it's in no different than any of our previous systems in that it's "just" (still very useful) compression and next-token-predictor which is so good at prediction it is able to be used for tasks we previously thought we'd need an actual AGI to accomplish.
The asymmetrical architecture in the 7950x3D unfortunately results in similar (but less extreme) issues to e-cores. Only one CCD has a big cache, while the other clocks higher. So, it can happen that processes which love the extra cache end up running inefficiently on the higher-clocked smaller-cache cores, or the other way around, where clock-sensitive processes are throttled by running on the 3d cache cores.
While I don't like paying personally, I think the long term solution for any service is you pay for the service provided. The current free everything is nice at first, but quality suffered horribly and incentives are not aligned at all.

Also, when paying,I become a real customer in the EU, with all kinds of consumer protection getting enabled. E.g. they can't randomly ban you anymore (even if that's more a google thing). TBH, I don't see big tech accept this without a fight, but they won't have much choice if they don't want to wake the courts and regulators

Whatsapp used to be a paid priduct, and it worked better than it does today.
There is a lot of crypto usage possibility without the need for NFT proliferation. The only necessary "NFT" may be licenses granting access to decentralized cloud software platforms on a perpetual or monthly subscription basis.

Wouldn't it be ideal if open source apps and platforms could go beyond the slow and risky traditional donation model, not have to be entirely user-hosted or hosted by a paid company, and fully accessible to non-technical users? Imagine social media platforms not susceptible to the pettiness of absolutist employees and owners, MMORPGs not debilitated by IP holders, cryptographically secured cloud software that follows the needs of its users. Perhaps like communes such projects are forever limited by the requirement of a modicum of participant interest and cost-sharing.
Wont FedNow make debit cards obsolete?
Ask HN: What's the most beautiful web game you've seen?
I'm looking for examples of web games with slick animations and / or an elegant aesthetic. Think 'Two Dots' or 'Monument Valley'. Bonus points if your example performs well on mobile as well.
A 15" desktop?
Yes but I was talking about the game - I ignore cover designs partiually for this reason.

Springer-Verlang textbooks and gollanz fiction are much better - pretty plain black (or simple pictures) on yellow or white
It's really easy to set up FreeSWITCH to do that. I prefer FreeSWITCH to Asterisk because the XML config is way easier to grok. FreeSWITCH peeps also made Signalwire and it's pretty nice.

One problem with this method is that your burner will still accept incoming calls from any number, so you'd lose caller ID information if you want to make sure only your VOIP server can call you. Of course you can just set it up to send you the caller ID through some other channel - like a text message.

But anyway you can make a really simple lua script that looks at a text file to see if the number is allowed, then forward it to your burner. In FreeSWITCH you just do something like <action application="set" data="allowed=${lua(allowlist.lua)}"/> and act on that variable accordingly. Then you can use whatever command line tool you prefer to add and remove numbers from the file.

If you need some help, drop a burner email and I can reach out.
Non-issue.

>"All of these are unrealized losses are on government- guaranteed securities," Bank of America's chief financial officer, Alastair Borthwick, told reporters on conference call discussing third-quarter earnings. "Because we're holding them to maturity, we will anticipate that we'll have zero losses over time."
Sorry for making it sound as an insult, i should have phrased it differently.

Since php scripts are meant to be run once per request memory leaks are not an issue - any build up gets “reset” once execution ends. There are however shit frameworks that have circular references to objects and do all kinds of crap that builds memory up - easily avoided by parallel queue consumers.

Threading and async are non issues given my statement above, hence me blaming on the dev’s skill and not understanding what the language does.

For instance, you dont normally start a background process with an event loop to handle stuff. You start queue consumers at set intervals that run in parallel, or scripts that process batches of code - thus mimicking parallelism in a classic multi threaded app. This way you reduce the blast radius, are guaranteed that at least some data will always be processed and avoid memory leaks alltogether. No need for “conscious” async since its async by nature.

However there is nuance in everything. Would you be able to provide a specific example of where you end up with such issues so i can better detail an example of how i would approach it?
Such an engineer take. There’s an xkcd about this that involves a wrench.

Let me explain, “the Russians shot one of our satellites out of orbit and say they will continue if we keep providing internet to …, let’s stop” is much more likely than “1 down 2300 to go! Whoop”
There's a difference between the random chance dynamic I'm talking about, and sending a message to a slack channel.
Matthew Berman has a good series on AutoGen with tutorials and demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10FCv-gCKug

However from his examples (and his own admission) it seems that AutoGen isn't benefitting from full GPT4-level performance even tho he's pointed it directly at OpenAPI GPT4 (and other LLMs). The back and forth between the agents does not produce great results even tho similar prompts pumped directly into ChatGPT seem to give better results.

Anyone know whats going on?
No, there is no confusion here at all (for a Python developer). I would consider it a code smell though as the whole problem is completely avoidable by better naming.

By the way, there is a vulnerability (Prototype Pollution) that is only possible due to this behaviour in JS: https://portswigger.net/web-security/prototype-pollution
It's probably the most widely chosen language for new projects today across the board from enterprises to startups.
It's time to normalize services generating random passwords for users. Literally a password field with a "Reroll" button.

Users shouldn't have to dick around with a more complicated 2FA system just to protect themselves from password reuse.
'Osint' Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosystem
can we have a /dark next?
100% disagree.

Imagine how much better off our society would be if every adult was grounded in the fundamentals of political science, ethics, economics, and philosophy.

An educated electorate demands higher quality candidates. The populist demagogues of the last several decades wouldn't have stood a chance.
> Don't understand this one. I'm checking this all the time, for instance test runners. Unless you meant older logs from before you opened the page - that one is indeed a bit annoying in some cases

That
In my case, we did. But I know the space well, as I work in immunology.

Plus, I was frustrated because our local hospital offerings were far from the state of the art.

In case of a metastasis, even more so, as adverse events are less of a concern.
Yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way buying a 9th gen Intel chip and having literally zero upgrade path on the same board.

My plan is to get the 7700X bundle, which for $400 with board and 32GB DDR5 is a steal, then when AM5 is replaced get a new CPU from the final generation.
> No, not random, a choice honed by thousands of years of natural selection.

OK, you have just stated that you do not use logic when making decisions about your life long-term but instincts. I was searching for logical reasons to behave empathically. With a strict, mathematical logic, if you will. And I don't see it.

> Do you have evidence for any part of this statement?

Do you have evidence that most people on Earth are involved in a volunteer activity that has no benefit for them in this life? AFAIK it's the opposite: true volunteering is a rarity. (Although following instincts is of course popular.)

> For one, all of the reasons I've previously stated are, in my opinion, solid reasons for behaving with a long-term view.

I disagree. From the natural selection's point of view, it's true. From the point of view of one person, it isn't.

> To me, "ordinary science" is all there is

I fully agree with you here. However, our current knowldege is not all there is.

> and I would expect that if there were some higher being that created the universe, we would see evidence of that being

This is a naive view of such entity. The world might be more complicated than this. For instance, some religions explain that it would not want you to know this, because you should have a free will and your own path to grow and not a path of a follower of a god.
> He's not living in a stereotypical apartment

I think the parent is referring to Niles' brief stay at the Shangri-La, not the Montana.
Square moved to charging a percentage on Canadian debit swipes last month:

> Square’s processing fees are 2.65% per card present transaction, 2.9% + 30 cents per paid Square Invoice and Square Online sale, 3.4% + 15 cents per manually entered transaction and INTERAC debit cards are processed at 0.75% + $0.07 per tap or insert

Unsure if this is pushing new Interac costs to buyers or a profit grab. It was just 10 cents flat per swipe, so anything over $4 and you’re worse off.
I can imagine companies like Disney going for this, as they insist on having cast members that have the purest of pasts and will not cause controversy with parents who are entrusting Disney with their children's time. It's like a vice clause for VCs' LPs. What better way to avoid controversy than to hire an actor who cannot cause controversy, by not actually existing.

Not sure if that's actually ever been an issue for a company like Disney, and I'm sure that the supply of actors they have access to is broad enough that it's impossible for them to find someone who will comply with their requirements. But who knows, maybe they'll go for AI talent too.

Ultimately my hunch is that AI actors will be used to save on cost, not to reduce controversy.
Elon is solving a revenue problem with $1/user/year? That will assuredly cost some real users too? Please. You have this exactly backwards.
It took me a little while to get this joke.
> Stinks of manipulation.

Yeah, we're all paid by BIG FIAT to descredit crypto on a technical news comment site.
he still goes with "and generate a blast capable of killing hundreds,". there is no proof that there are hundreds.

btw, map of rockets that failed to make it out of gaza https://i1.wp.com/www.theyeshivaworld.com/wp-content/uploads...
Most cryptocurrencies were designed that way, but some have a so-called tail emission making them disinflationary. One even has a completely linear emission of 1 coin per second forever since launch.
As long as rates eventually go back down before boa runs out of money this really isn't an issue. Of course you point out that they very well could run out of money but imo boa is easily in the "too big to fail" category. It would be bailed out if it faced major trouble, possibly even just the fed deciding to end the high interest rate era and "solving" the whole thing. Certainly bankees would be saved as they were at the other failed banks which removes most of the incentive to run the bank.
I personally see Bitcoin itself falling apart because it lacks the critical ecash property of untraceability, meaning it is the original non-fungible token. Regardless of how many honest verifiers are following the protocol, it's always possible to build a parallel system that judges which transactions/flows are legitimate or not according to completely different criteria - eg AML. This is happening slowly from both the bottom and the top - from the cryptocurrency industry with "blockchain analysis" and from the incumbent financial system with slowly creeping KYC rules. Right now you can still squint, use a mixer, and perhaps a less regulated exchange - just as ten years ago many people blissfully thought the whole thing was "anonymous". But the writing is on the wall. As soon as the more regulated exchanges start routinely rejecting transactions based on the source wallets' provenance, anything that's touched those wallets will become less desirable. Everyone will be drawn to the attractor of heeding the augmented rulesets to make sure they're not receiving tainted coins, and the currency will essentially fork.
I believe there’s something up their sleeve.
Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will
lol, the other obvious explanation is that 23andMe is simply lying about the cause of the leak.