skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing taxes and bills are not what I consider high reward more like moderate penalty. And, no, I don't pay my bills: everything is auto-pay.
When you craft a solution around the needs of users, soliciting their feedback, then they might end up with something they appreciate.

When you force a solution on people and give them no say in the matter, then there’s a good chance they’re not going to like it.

Instructive case that reveals a lot about Soviet America.
I don't think I've ever seen a domain I've trusted less than "eth.limo"
Not a fan, but I may have to if things continue this way.
I wonder if this is a very narrow definition of failure. Perhaps few things are ever truly a failure, but more a partial success?
This is why I don't have much concerns about privacy. I own an Alexa and some HN dude tells me it's like having a one way mic that records everything I say 24/7 and transmits it to Amazon.

I agreed with him it's possible but I didn't see the problem and he didn't see why I didn't give a shit.

The title of the article is one reason among many about why I could care less about privacy.

I could see if you abuse your kids regularly or some other heinous disgusting crime in your home I could see how you could be paranoid about this, but from a practical perspective I don't think even criminals have to worry about it at all.
NSA is not law enforcement, neither is the Census Bureau and they do not require a warrant either even though they collect far more data.
Getting on Rails with ChatGPT
I think you'd rewire your brain "equally well" with either Haskell or Clojure.

I prefer Haskell's type system, but Clojure has better syntax IMO.
When an article makes such a grand claim -- $10 trillion in annual benefits -- that makes me skeptical. Top-down changes to agriculture have a bad track record.
You mean the expected payout is -$5, right? Otherwise the rational person with decent means -- even with a very concave utility -- would pay near $5 for that ticket, and this would be a Kelly-correct investment.

The discussion was specifically about negative-EV lotteries since those are the ones that require convex utility.
I still get goosebumps watching video like this from the rover in TFA. It's on another planet. It's mind-blowing science non-fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8YubgIA_8
How much of this is outdated practice? Shouldn't TCP/TLS be doing checksum and origin signing already?

In the days of FTP, checksum and gpg were vital. With http/TCP, you need more GPG due to TCP handling retries checksum etc, but still both due to MitM.

But with https, how does it still matter? It's doing both verifications and signature checks for you.
It's a good book, but with a heavy emphasis on design at the logic level.

(James Thornton, the author, is the engineer that helped Cray's designs become real, while at CDC. He focused more on detailed execution of the design, etc.)
Doctorow's McLuhan Lecture on Enshittification
Fault is not just loaded term, it literally means that you are to blame.

But even "almost always everyone is contributing to the crash / making the accident worse than it could have been" is pretty tall claim and would require a lot of evidence. Unless you count "leaving the house in the morning instead of staying home" or something like that as a contribution toward accident.
BlockTube, a YouTube Content Blocker
Just found about this handy extension and thought you all might appreciate it. Never thought I needed it but recently I've seen so many bs channels in my search results, when searching CERN for example.
And I'd rather stay in a country that cannot extradite me to the USA.
Anecdotal, maybe, but three of the apps I am currently running on this M1 Pro are quite old and work the same: Adium (last build almost 7 years ago), Slate (12 years ago), and Notational Velocity (13 years). Laptops go, but my .app bundles stay ;-).

I agree about Windows, though.
Anecdotal, and old now: I worked with an ex-NSA agent when I worked at a big bank who worked out of a some of middle east offices in early 2000s. He talked about how new agents often struggle with the size of data (even then) but most good agents work immediately to look at the lack of normal data. Criminals/targets have their own signal of data and by filtering traditional data patterns you're left with a smaller dataset of the targets you're there to find. He used the same patterns to find financial white collar cheaters in bank data.

(example: phones off during day, on from 1am-5am then shut off again, no facebook browsing at all, etc.)
> It's why a lot of young technical-minded people are attracted to it. You need to be quite smart to understand the premises of libertarianism, but simultaneously, insufficiently educated in fields like history and economics to grok why it'd be a set of failed ideas in the actual real world.

The other thing I’d add to your excellent comment is basically another social science gap (media studies) where it’s easy to read things which provide that quick hit of smug satisfaction and not ask how, for example, Reason has an entire business running stories about excessive government regulation and there are entire groups funded to generate academic-style publications supporting that mission. If you’re a 20 year old techie, you probably spend a lot more time sharing the “look at this idiot thing someone at the EPA did” post than checking the sources to learn what really happened, or that the writer gets a paycheck funded by donations from that industry.
Destroying money is illegal though.
Thank you for posting this. I can confirm, and there are new forms of stimulant medication (like lisdexamfetamine) that work better (at least for me) than Adderal (dexamphetamine + amphetamine) and Ritalin (methylphenidate).

The hard part: getting mental health support as an adult requires good executive function! Unless you are lucky, you will encounter suspicion, gatekeeping, and just general bureaucracy. ADHD's symptoms make it hard to actually get treated.
Novelty in Science – A Guide for Reviewers (2022)
>> From legal standpoint

Legal determinations come after our accepted rules are applied to the situation. Those rules ebb and flow dependent on the nature of the inquiry and the legal standard applied. Even seemingly irrelevant factors such as insurance coverage can be pivotal. Where both divers are covered by the same insurer, there is a higher likelihood that both will be found somewhat at fault. An insurer on the hook for both sides isn't going to spend money arguing forcefully for an all-or-nothing determination. But such things are totally irrelevant to anyone seeking to prevent accidents from happening in the first place.
I stand corrected on the current stats. I went with what the CDC had on a google search. It's aggravating that most sources don't show the entire picture.

Here's a chart showing that this trend is mostly in the mountain states and Native Americans are the largest demographic affected by this trend by nearly triple. Both these stats disprove the theory that social media has much of an impact on teen suicide across the entire nation, otherwise why wouldn't states like California and Florida have a higher rate? Residents of those states obviously use social media too.

https://www.charliehealth.com/research/the-us-teen-suicide-r...

>2015; the beginning of the social media era.

The social media area had been in full swing for 10 years by 2015. Facebook was established in 2004 and blew up by 2006. Twitter blew up a few years later.

The narrative that social media is the cause in the rise of teen suicide across the country is simply false. Native Americans in mountain states are bearing the brunt of it and causing the national average to spike. Instead of "tilting" to social media, we should try to understand why Native American teens are having such a difficult time and solve that problem. That doesn't draw headlines though, does it?
How can you have both brutal capitalism and regulated markets? Those are normally presented as opposites, as in, "we regulate markets to soften the impact of raw capitalism".

China isn't really a capitalist country. It's more capitalist than it used to be in the 70s, but as this refusing-to-liquidate nonsense shows, the basic rules of capitalism don't really work there. China ignores many things that are required to really do capitalism properly:

- IP rights aren't enforced

- Other kinds of property rights aren't enforced (see the ARM subsidiary that simply declared independence)

- Staying out of private business (see Ant Group)

- Many companies and industries are state owned

- Industrial policy is still the standard in China (compare to the USA)

- Markets aren't informed (rampant censorship, bad data)

and so on.
TDP is arbitrary, they actually calculate it with arbitrary constants that change per chip. So it is meaningless at this point.

See https://gamersnexus.net/guides/3525-amd-ryzen-tdp-explained-...
The short version as I understand it: amyloid plaques are a symptom but not a cause.

There was a theory floating around that they're a neurological immune response to viral infection but I don't think there's enough evidence to prove that yet.
We're talking the 2008 timeframe. When George Bush reigns and the biggest films are The Dark Knight and Iron Man. Halo 3, CoD4, and Crysis are new. Our latest generation of devs are just toddlers.

Stackoverflow is created.

The world is running on Windows Vista (XP actually, but that's another story).

Github is created.

Facebook pulls ahead of MySpace in user count for the first time.

Blu-ray finally beats HD-DVD.

People think the Large Hadron Collider will end the world when it turns on.

Randy Pausch's book "The Last Lecture" becomes a New York Times best seller.

First Android phone and iPhone 3g release this year with ARM11 CPUs. The App Store is brand new.

JS is still slow and Chrome releases to change that.

Amazon buys Audible.

Rust essentially doesn't exist.

AirBnb is founded.

Bitcoin doesn't exist yet (though the paper drops this year).

Memristor is finally proven to be possible.

The 46th Mersenne Prime is found.

USB-3 spec drops for companies to start working on.

Core i7, and Atom on 45nm are the latest CPUs (AMD also launched Phenom on 65nm). GTX280 and HD4870x2 are the fastest GPUs around and people are discussing how overpriced top-end GPUs are at $450-550 and complaining that these GPUs use 200-250w of power.

Tesla Roadster releases for about $100,000 and Musk launches the first car (promised to the actual founder) into space out of spite.
There aren't any manned missions to Mars on the horizon. Returning to the Moon possibly to stay is on the horizon for the next decade or so, with concrete plans taking shape and launch capabilities either there or nearly there.

I think we'll see what amounts to McMurdo on the Moon long before we see humans on Mars, and it really makes the most sense because the Moon is only a few days away vs. months away. If something goes wrong on the Moon supplies can be sent or people can come home quickly, whereas on Mars a major failure or health problem equals almost certain death with no hope of rescue or return in time.

The Moon makes more sense economically too. It's close enough for mining and/or tourism to at least offset the cost a little.

Elon's fixation on Mars or bust is kind of irrational and monomaniacal.
Right, but you need to be at a particularly high scale when you need to write code that directly interacts with a cloud provider. I can think of no use case where you are at that level that can also scale down to a home lab setup.

Yes, you can do slimmed down cloud deployments, but you're still not running the (actual) S3 or EC2 backends at home.

At most, you’re talking a K8s based deployment (for a workload that could scale up or down). But that’s also not at the level of working with Oxide directly. And I doubt Oxide wants to get into the business of selling access to their own public cloud.
like the national and maybe global economy will collapse and resulting economic shockwaves will screw over millions (billions?).

but robust houses, man. in the future. eventually.
Current data, if stored, can become a problem in the future if data analysis techniques improve dramatically. (Brute force, technological progress, etc.) Which seems... likely.
Unless you're running some sort of automated system to churn out vanity host names (like an Azure or AWS would to provide you an OOTB URI), a UCC/SAN cert is a better choice.

More restrictive is better than less restrictive when it comes to certificates.
Point by point:

1) If Electron fails, you are fucked on all platforms: a worse worst case than the fragmented lock-in of multiple native platforms.

2) JavaScript sucks, and as noted in other comments the "vast ecosystem of libraries" is even worse. Overcomplication is part of the problem, not of the solution.

3) Startup times and memory occupation add up, and then the wasteful Electron app causes more problems than it solves.

4) Platforms that appeal to ignorant hipsters tend to be used badly. Not Electron's fault, but Electron is a warning sign, well correlated with all sorts of problems.

5) Electron might be the "only" option if you are an ignorant hipster, chained to JavaScript and behind the times; but there are still plenty of competent people and reasonable projects that can adopt less super risky technology.
Both new and old articles are from the same lab. So they hypothesized it in previous article and now found signs of dementia in some of patients who survived. Still no evidence of actual transmission of A-Beta.
C-suite only flies Gulfstream.
This is so sad. Russia is becoming North Korea.
The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (2019)
It was a 90s era book I was originally remembering, so very possibly could’ve been that book. The one I linked above was definitely not the book, but also had a reference to the term.

It also might’ve been Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry
Yeah perhaps. To the point it’s just an unhelpful study on semantics?

On the weekend our high school robotics team learned three ways not to bend 1/4” lexan and then one way how to, that combined learnings from the failures.

I’m not sure what meaning or value that bullet point can have if we just redefine “oh well all those snapped and bubbled pieces were just partial successes.”
There is no evidence of actual transfer. It is just a possibile hypothesis.
I wonder why Search Engines are said to be getting worse?
At some basic level it will always just be about profit. Their safety “just” needs to be good enough to not get shut down. Cynically, talk of drunk drivers etc., is marketing to sell the story to regulators and the public.

More optimistically, at least it’s possible to diagnose these mistakes and work to mitigate them. The fact that we could now start treating auto collisions as seriously as plane incidents might be reason to hope.
Does it impact your friendship? I'd guess you may resent them if they kept a lot of money, especially when you need the money. Or you may start avoiding them completely when you're aware that you didn't achieve a given goal, no? I guess for small amounts it may work but on the long run it seems like a trap.
>First, there's no way to actually opt-out of tracking

You can just close the tab. You are not entitled to a website's contents.
You're welcome to see it that way if you want. But if you think you can get to know a completely new kernel, OS, etc in a short amount of time, backwards and forwards, you're equally as disingenuous. You can get by editing a few lines in a pinch, but you could equally just learn a few Japanese phrases. Proper understanding requires a deep knowledge that comes from practice and experience with subtle complexity and context.

(Japanese isn't so radically different from English, it mostly just has more words for more contexts. In many ways it's simpler than English. It would be harder to go from Java to Haskell, with their many different language paradigms)
It is worse than that - it first made the jump to cows when condemned sheep, infected with the similar prion disease 'scrapie', were ground up and fed to cows.
My biggest gripe is that they made it difficult to switch between which toolsets/targets by introducing an MRU list. Splitting them was good, but not allowing to just show all of them plus the All tests means the order is always changing and they are going to be several clicks away often.
I like it! I wish there was a clear toggle to completely disable audio input/output. I’m trying to practice while baby naps on me, so I can’t say or hear.
the correct answer is to cut the styrofoam.

https://www.amazon.com/Foam-Electric-Cutting-Machine-Control...
>Because Americans are so terrified of government that they can be completely okay with something terrible as long as it's private corporations doing it

That's not it. I think it is perfectly reasonable to set up a government with constraints and a culture of respect for the citizenry. It isn't about trust or no trust in 'government', because government is made up of individuals, and individuals have all kinds of motivations. I generally trust the government, but I am aware that any specific policy or decision can be a corrupt action for the benefit of some individual within the beurocracy.
Just because you don’t think you “have anything to hide” doesn’t mean it should be normalized. Governments change, policies change, leaks happen, one might be in a group that’s suddenly suspicious etc.
I'm not sure if this was intended to "flip the script" on the talented & smart, as this is sage advice for any entrepreneur. It wouldn't surprise me if the author was trying to give the "T&S" permission to do things without getting in the way of themselves.

I recently completed a project on behalf of a privately-held company in the financial sector. Big, successful, and very corporate. The owner (a single individual) was in town and spoke to a few leaders (biz, tech, marketing) in my group. His message: get in the weeds, learn the business, understand every function, ask questions, get outside your comfort zone, be persistent, act with urgency, and finish things. (Those were literally my notes from that meeting.)

He gave his team room to do the things necessary to let their talent & smartness be most effective.
> Is there any difficulty for lattice based method to be extended to solve MILP?

I don't think that continuous variables are an issue. Even when all the explicit variables are integer, we have implicit continuous variables as soon as we have an inequality: the slack of that inequality. There is probably some linear algebra trick one can use to transform any problem into a form that is convenient for lattice-based algorithms.

> How likely do you think this lattice type algorithm will overcome the difficulties you mentioned and eventually replace B&B, totally or partly (like barrier vs simplex methods)?

Very unlikely in the next 5 years. Beyond that, they could be the next small revolution, maybe. "Cutting planes" were another tool that had some good theory but were thought to be impractical. Then 25 years ago, people found a way to make them work, and they were a huge boost to solvers. We may be due for another big jump.

Lattice-based method are already effective in some niches. Branch-and-bound solvers are horrible at cryptography and number theory problems (those problems are bad fits for floating-point arithmetic in general), and lattice-based methods shine there. There are also some rare dense optimization problems that benefit from lattice-based methods (typically, one would use lattices in a pre-processing step, then pass the reformulated problem to a regular branch-and-bound solver [1]).

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48777-8_1
> And immigration on top to plug the gaps.

And there it is. This narrative that immigration hasn't been a constant and deciding factor in the development of the West (and pretty much everywhere else) is so wild. Stability of an insular population is the absolute exception of history.
It is the government though and the law makes no distinction.
lol, I mean I guess that’s one way to do it.
I think ZIM files contain way more data (like 80gb for Wikipedia) than a typical WARC, they're optimized for different things.
> I've glossed over florins, sovereigns, groats and all the other weird and wonderful coinage of the realm.

You omit the guinea. I read once that high-end auctions are conducted in guineas so that bidders from all currency areas are equally handicapped.
When you have a ton of responsibilities, having to deal with people who don't get the meaning of the word "no" is exactly what you don't want to deal with.

They should work on reading comprehension, it seems.
> There is a fundamental issue with our civilization and species: we have a scant few actual adults. I mean non-immature, non-self exclusively serving individuals who both care about others and have the capacity to do so beyond their immediate family.

This is it right here. We as a civilization have been so traumatized by the sociopaths and psychopaths that we've just given up an accepted their rule by terror.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Care about others in the face of their awfulness.

The fact that your compassion makes them mad tells you they know they are wrong. They see you as a threat to their ability to freely squeeze the world around them to death. Any amount of fairness to this group feels like persecution. They will only come to their senses when a more powerful force applies the same unpleasant tactics to them. Suddenly, we are all a united force against THAT evil over there... forget what I was doing yesterday...
Lack of current data produced can also become a future problem. What's the optimal data footprint?
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Private corporations in America regularly go bankrupt, lose tons of money, go out of business, go defunct, etc. The government does not. It's just not the same thing at all. Private corporations can be dissolved by government action. They can be handled much easier than the government.
I really like it!

It worked the first time after asking for mic permission.

But second time, I did have a problem with the mic button on iOS 16.6.1 getting stuck on but not taking audio input.

Pushing the button again (to cancel perhaps) did nothing.

Switching to tutor mode fixed it for another input.
Someone has to take one for the team
The exchanges and crypto trading firms take billions of Tether in the form of bitcoin-collateralized loans [1].

Alex Mashinsky, former CEO of the now-defunct Celsius Network, described how it works [2]:

“If you give them enough collateral, liquid collateral, bitcoin, ethereum and so on ... they will mint tether against it,” he said.

“New USDT is issued for such loans,” he added, and later destroyed when the loan is closed “so it does not permanently increase USDT in circulation”.

If true, this contradicts Tether's claims that it only mints USDT in exchange for USD-backed treasuries.

[1] https://www.dirtybubblemedia.com/p/examining-tethers-secret-...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/0035016c-29ad-4e6f-9163-2a17df490...
He was more in the perish than the publish business.
I believe Tesla Autopilot tries to do "scene understanding" and model what is happening but not sure how successful it is