skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to consider that mining has traditionally been gently and benignly disregarded by most of the media interest in crypto. This is not an accident, the miners are very aware that calling attention to themselves would reveal exactly how suspiciously the valuations in crypto are constructed, and they've done a fantastic job of deflecting attention (with enormous help from the unbelievably clownish behavior of certain exchange operators) and acting like the adults in the fun house.

Serious scrutiny of how exactly the hash rate in Bitcoin is generated would not reflect well on the ecosystem, because of the amount of outright corruption involved, as well as theft, that goes back a decade. A couple years ago an operation was uncovered in Thailand where something on the order of 100 million dollars worth of mining equipment had been found burning stolen electricity from government enterprises, IIRC primarily public schools, and one of the investigators involved speculated that this was likely less than 10% of the illegal mining that was happening in their country, let alone the recognized legal stuff.

Consider that similar things are happening all over the world, not just Thailand, and even entire countries (DPRK) participating due to total systemic corruption crossed with no questiins asked access to natural resources and national treasuries, to be spent in any way they choose, and an investment in destabilizing the world economy - or at least evading financial controls - is well worth the cost of subsidizing mining both within their borders and beyond. You've also got quasi crackpots in charge of places like the government of El Salvador who are also helping to support this ecosystem.

Miners, I will conjecture without offering any support on the bet that eventually this will be found out and publicized, have been sitting on a warchest of nearly free coins mined long ago, when almost nobody was looking for corruption or theft of resources, and when block rewards were multiples higher to boot. The argument that miners have barely made a profit because of the adjustable difficulty level has always been an open lie due to a willingness to completely disregard the mining done using off market access to electricity and facilities, which was rampant in the early days and is still a significant chunk of the hash rate even today.

Miners can continue to slow sell their coin bases because they have effectively paid for them for over a decade at a massive discount to "market," and since the only major source of downward price pressure are the miners themselves, they can prop the price up for as long as they like by simply selling fewer coins into the market whenever there is an adverse social signal that they need to counter with a " honey badger of money doesn't care" price signal.
To avoid being a hypocrite, I have no landscaping crew. I'll consider one once they're using battery-powered equipment.
Can you share how y'all made it fast? Obviously it can be made fast because multiplayer online games are living proof but I'm curious what it takes to get there or what's missing in my mental model.
Thank you! Great advise.
Did you use a fake name and a prepaid debit card to make your purchase? Well I’m glad I did though they can just track me based on relatives that also use the platform if they really wanted to.
I think that this study was conducted a couple of years ago when this was a more common symptom.

My guess is that any antiviral is going to have similar effects since they all do the same basic thing which is to inhibit viral replication.

I'm surprised more people aren't getting Paxlovid. In my experience it worked great, and there is a study out that shows that it reduces the chances of long covid.
Just goes to show that "cancel culture" isn't unique to any political persuasion. Very, very few people have impartial principles.
>"The demoscene died" is a trope that means that the original demoscene feeling is gone for many. If you got into the demoscene in 2005, I doubt you experienced it first-hand, but I am sure you have read about it.

I was in the Demoscene (US) and wrote many demos and intros in the 80's and 90's. I don't write demos anymore, because the pressure to support my lifestyle means I write code for money now, but I do get the same feeling when I watch any of the many demos put out month after month by groups that were around back when I was coding demos, and new groups that have sprung up in the decades since. It still gives me the same wonderment when a C64 learns a new trick. It hasn't lost the excitement for me at all to view an impressive new thing. If anything it's gotten better with time and there are what seems like just as many demos coming out now as there were back in the 90s. I may even fly over to Europe someday to visit a demo party.

>In my personal opinion, after the end of the 90s the demoscene devolved into a "L'art pour l'art" incrowd which is great fun for some of its members, but less so for the general public.

I'm not sure what you define as art, but there are still plenty of demos coming out that push the C64 and Amiga past any limit people thought possible. PCs have evolved and basically have no real limits now with the latest Nvidia cards, but the 64k and lower compos are where it's at on the PC, it's still very impressive what can be done in a few KB. New tricks are still being discovered. New ways to do cool new things are still emerging. It's not necessarily "art" as much as it is clever programming, but maybe some people consider clever programming to be an art?
Came looking for this answer.
Good thing it's unrealized!
Also, SVB filed to raise equity capital thereby saying to the market they needed to raise money and we’re trying to do so. They could have been selling some of those liquid bonds at a discount and taking gaap losses.
I wish they’d make a 15 passenger version for all the large families!
Luckily humans can't see phase or polarization!
The one driver I asked said he loved it
For a one-sided, unbounded distribution when you still want to observe changes without being susceptible to outliers.

If you're monitoring response timings on a server, for example, the median might be very close to 0, and it won't shift unless a majority of the distribution slows down. If you take a winsorised mean, you can trim useless long response times that mess with the mean, but still see if e.g. 1/3 of your responses are suddenly slower than normal.
How do you know? Where can you check?
As hackers, it's our job to solve problems with the tools we have. Each part of society plays a role, ours is building technology to ensure tomfoolery like this doesn't go rewarded.

If there was a software that allowed creators to upload to every video platform at once with the click of a button, more platforms would take part of the market share.

Maybe there already is? Maybe it's not so great? This seems purely a technology problem that we as a community could help overcome.

Frankly I'm sick of youtube and how cosy it has got in a position of power.
One of the fascinating things about statistics is that in some ways it's more an art than a science, and the question of "when would I choose to use this over a normal mean or median" is a great example of that.
This is understandable as it shows an incredible lack of critical thinking on the student's part. Being an effective lawyer means not knee jerk reacting.
can you guys launch a web gradio demo until the transformers PR gets approved? i'd like to play around with the model
There’s a button to skip it, though you might have to first click on the input box to get it to show up.
Yes, the financial trade-offs for getting a PhD versus simply earning median software engineer salary is extreme. So much so that most people should only consider the PhD if that trade-off simply isn't a consideration.

Somewhat more problematically, "a pretty respectable level of knowledge and ability for CS research" is table stakes for just about every grad student in a CS program. This is especially true at better programs. You might be sadly surprised just how little your industry programming experience is valued in academic CS research - in my grad program, being highly skilled in multiple programming languages was assumed.

By better program, I mean programs like an R1 university CS research program - I am specifically excluding terminal, MS-only CS programs in that statement. Many of those terminal, MS-only programs are actually credential programs for career changers (people who want to upgrade to a SW engineer job and had unrelated undergrad majors).

You might want to look at how the papers and theses you have been enjoying were produced. I strongly suspect that the writers were mostly grad students working under a current professor who had grants to support grad students to do that work. There probably isn't much (any?) demand to hire programmers to do research programming work - that is what research assistantships pay students for.

Maybe a good analogy here would be think about someone who has a physics undergrad, has worked in applied engineering in the energy industry for 16 years, and is now interested in being hired into a university role that allows that person to do more of their day-to-day work directly in particle physics research. What physics department is going to hire that person? Why? Keep in mind there is a verifiable surplus of physics PhD postdocs looking for that gig . . .

All this isn't meant to be overly discouraging, just my thoughts. Honestly, just keep a list of universities you wouldn't mind working at and once a week or so, browse all their job listings to see if something fits your interests and apply if it does!
For some reason another poster with the correct answer was downvoted here. VisualBasic was indeed based on Microsoft's QuickBasic (and QBasic).

Microsoft even released VisualBasic for DOS which was QuickBasic with a text mode UI component.
I will choose the planet with the temporary buffer over the planets without any buffer; thanks. All the time
In the days of flash it was far and away the collection of games on Orisinal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal

Unfortunately the site is no longer up with flash having been sunsetted, but you can still find the collection on the internet archive or other places. It takes a little more effort to set up than it used to but they are still playable if you're dedicated.

https://archive.org/details/orisinal-morning-sunshine

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I have an unfinished personal project of a game built with the Rough.js library for a hand drawn feel (everything is drawn programatically, there are no sprites or images) and I think it looks not bad. Since I had a baby it's kinda on hold indefinitely, but it is playable on desktop and mobile, and I almost finished a decent level editor for custom courses:

https://squigglegolf.com/
Unlike the situation in which everyone jumped on the same headline within 5 min before any evidence or footage was even identified and then had to walk back from it?
yeah, Sponsor Block...the bane of VPNs, website builders, and shaving clubs everywhere. This has gotten so pervasive I cannot blame people for blocking it. You're watching a video about physics and it transitions Einstein needing to protect his privacy with a VPN..the segues have gotten more subtle and annoying.
def safe_navigation(obj, path: List[str], default=None):
try:
for key in path:
obj = obj[key]
return obj
except KeyError:
return default

Yeah. I thought it would just be a try-except, but that turned out pretty ugly.

But really, how do you know if your path is missing or the object at the end of the path is None, without using exceptions for communicating this?
2008-2009. BoA is in the Too Big To Fail tier, unlike SVB and First Republic (which got bought/absorbed by Chase, which is another TBTF)
What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing
> I highly doubt you read through the relevant bits and instead jumped to argue further:

What do the relevant bits you cited have to do with you providing evidence that the research on long covid is high-quality or conclusive? I guess I should define conclusive while I'm here:

1) conclusively defines and scopes long COVID symptoms and disambiguates those symptoms from symptoms of other conditions.

2) conclusively determines the cause(s) of long COVID.

3) conclusively determines a treatment.

We already know, even from your links, that there is little to nothing for 2) or 3), and we can argue that 1) still isn't well-defined to this day.

Here's another direct reference for you from June of this year: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/long-covid-symptoms

Begin Quote:

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Long COVID as “the continuation or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with these symptoms lasting for at least 2 months with no other explanation.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adds that Long COVID includes a wide range of ongoing health problems that can last weeks, months, or years. The condition can affect any part of the body, and serious cases may affect multiple body systems, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, skin, and brain.

End Quote.

If the definition of symptoms includes any "new symptom" after 3 months "with no other explanation" and if it includes a "wide range of ongoing health problems", then it's pretty clear no one has conclusively scoped out what long COVID is and what it is not. "Oh, I see you're sick and we can't come up with a reason why. Let's chalk it up long COVID!"

And, of course, the best quote: "Long COVID, the condition where symptoms that surface after recovering from COVID-19 linger for weeks, months, or even years, is still a mystery to doctors and researchers.".

So there you have it. Thousands of research articles, no conclusive set of symptoms, no conclusive causes, no conclusive treatments, and still a mystery to researchers.
Sorry if my line of communication is hard to understand. The selling/buying process can be standardized because for the bottom 90% of homes in a market they are no different from a workflow perspective. Yes, they are all "unique" but the process to buy and sell is exactly the same and they can be mostly treated as a commodity from that perspective.

In this scenario the upper 10% of homes by list price will not be treated as a commodity and probably need a more specific touch in the buying/selling process.

I hope by breaking it down for you its easier to consume.
Cant beat the probabilities (over the long run)

Excellent visual explainer. I'm going to chk this one out on my laptop st home. (Only criticism is that its awkward on a phone, but most stuff on phone is awkward)

Thanks for posting this
Back in the day, NVidia's OpenCL implementation beat AMD's OpenCL implementation hands down. Even die-hard AMD fans who were determined to tough it out would eventually sniff out that the grass was greener on the other side and switch teams. It was excellent advertising.
The tradegy is that most of the games I world suggest were in Flash. A generation of art lost due to bad standards. A time where the demo scene sat alongside the web creating these constricted dedications to tiny bandwidths.
"Leave Visual Code crap alone".

Except that the vast majority of new and even old developers moving to VSCode prefer it over janky 20+ year old IDEs.

I like working on multiple ecosystems and not having to re-learn the wheel for each.
I see commentary that all their R1 vehicles so far are essentially for building their reputation, not financially beneficial, and Rivian will start making money for real when the R2 releases in a couple years. And maybe on the Amazon van.

I don't know if the numbers support that, but I think the R1 is definitely a steal even at the current prices for the amazing package you get. The problem for Rivian is that most people don't actually want all that value i.e. track racing ability and off roading ability at the same time. So the flagship vehicle builds their brand but a lower priced compromise vehicle would be needed to make money.
They also benefited from a large ecosystem of third party contributors, whom were not (at least, visibly?) considered as stakeholders when Hashicorp implemented this license change.

I'm pretty sure no-one contributing to a product's ecosystem likes it when the previous agreements related to IP underpinning the ecosystem is rugpulled out from under them.
Sapolsky has always been a vocal critics of free will. It is discussed at length in his other books.

His entire career has been researching and publishing the biological basis of behavior
Using opt-in for features that worsen user privacy or security is gross behavior. It should be disqualifying for any company that handles sensitive information and they deserve all of the blame for the negative effects that follow. Trying to weasel out of that blame makes the company even more sleazy.
I think you're conflating reusable bags containing unpurchased products with women's purses.
> What does [to give color] mean?

"1. To add flourish or provide an interesting accompaniment to something."

"2. To embellish or exaggerate something so as to give it the appearance of truth, credibility, or plausibility."

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/give+color+to+(somethin...
The real competition on modern hardware is the 64K and lower competitions. Doing something interesting in 64K or even 4K is how you really show off programming skills on modern hardware.
I'd never thought to visualize a year! I have a weak - not non-existent, but weak - ability to generate mental images, so it takes focus and concentration to do so. Whatever image I might create would be contaminated by these examples, so I'm not going to try it now. I will try to remember to attempt it in a few months, just out of curiosity.

I will say that long years spent in, or associated with, academia means that the start of a year is irrevocably associated with September or so. January is 'meh', but autumn is alive with fresh possibility.
True value is zero, so the closer to that the more real.
> But I have yet to hear a plausible argument for how this translates to intelligence

I don't really mean to argue one way or the other but I also haven't heard a plausible argument in the other direction. Usually it's just a description of what's happening in the model as if to prove that it's definitely not intelligence but I haven't seen or heard an explanation of what intelligence is and why the actual processes of LLMs are definitely not that.
In considering the hypothesis of history fabrication through object crafting one has to assume that, whoever would be involved in such an activity, would have a lot invested in it and not be a mere dilletant.
Furthermore, if such activity were to be carried out with the intent of preserving wealth and exerting control over populations, it would be plausible to assume that the activity would be carried out by a specific lineage and would, thus, span multiple generations.
Just as, say, families that specialize in wine production or ancient furniture restoration, a traditional business of historical artifact production would procure materials and store them with care, so that when the need arose, all that was needed was already handy.
If carefully considered, the hypothesis of producing specific artifacts to make for an augmented reality that then is sold to the general public could actually be pretty easily accomplished.
GDPR recital 26 covers your question.

Excerpt for the second part:

> To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly. To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments.

So they don’t call for an exact probability, but if you can prove you did appropriate threat modelling and put controls in place to counter those threats you should be fine. You are literally doing more than most companies if you manage that.
SV and First Republic were rounding errors. Previous actions would be in 2008, when they outright said they were not going to let any of the big banks fail.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke...

Scroll down to the “Too Big to
Fail” section.
Ah, I see. Still, I'd just catch that exception and move on because it's obvious you won't have anything more deeply nested anyway. Blowing up on `None` is an easy short-circuit.
Do you have a reference for this? Was it ever actually considered? Or are you just making things up?
> are who I think actually have the background, empathy, capacity and lack of financial masters to actually lead AGI discussions.

What does double actually mean?
My guess is they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. Seems like the products they sell would be very useful to said companies. Wouldn't want to air any of their dirty laundry, it's PR not a reporting/review perspective.
Doug Demuro also has a very in depth review I highly recommend: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWCqJl0BEs
Can you name other projects in this space? I’m genuinely interested in looking at available alternatives
It's also literally the MVP for pg's toy lisp implementation.
> x.get("key") or {}

This has the side effect of replacing falsy values like False or 0 with an empty dictionary instead of giving you the actual value. For the exact intended behaviour, you do need to explicitly check for None instead of using a short circuit trick with or.
Ironic that even this blockchain still had some centralised aspects:

“In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) said its team is aware of the malware abusing its blockchain, and is actively addressing the issue. The company said all addresses associated with the spread of the malware have been blacklisted, and that its technicians had developed a model to detect future smart contracts that use similar methods to host malicious scripts.”

I thought one of the big drivers for people using blockchain is the decentralised nature- resistance to censorship etc. Seems like this one isn’t a great long-term choice for malware as it’s not censorship resistant (as evidenced by the blacklist).
> Fedora garbage

Care to explain ?
They were struggling with Intel 10 (14nm). That led to the change in the leadership. Are they struggling with Intel 7, 4? Or future Intel 3, 20A, 18A?
Not only that, Best Buy purchased Musicland / Sam Goody / Suncoast in 2001. They then unloaded it as a debt-ridden zombie just a few years later, after cannibalizing their supply/distribution network and customer base.
The cliché saying is "and nothing of value was lost". It's never been more true than in this case.
It doesn’t help you inherently solve the problem per se, but what it does allow you to do that is distinctive is keep the human and the loop that can assist the agents to solve problems.
To some degree it can also keep problems in the logic chain from snowballing, and causing the overall objective to fail because there’s invalid logic in the sequence
Have you already been introduced to such concept as password managers?
You shared your DNA data on the internet, time to review your security fundamentals.
“Inspired by the iconic Doomsday Clock…”

The Doomsday clock is iconic. A 90s emoji on a garish slider, not so much.