skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It strikes me as hopelessly naive to think that keeping a personal phone number private is the only reason a user would want to be able to sign up for a service completely anonymously. The question is not whether knowing a user's number is worth $X, the question is whether _anonymous access to your platform_ is worth $X; a question that applies equally to both innocent good-faith users and to spammers/phishers/etc. If your platform is actually worth anything, $X is not going to be a small amount.

And yet many people seem to earnestly believe that a tiny token fee will be enough to deter spam, despite clear evidence to the contrary (see for instance how Twitter's "verification" fee has completely failed to stop bots from overrunning the platform, many of which proudly display their blue checks).
Those are all pretty specific avenues you can use to capture users!

Perform cheap/reasonably cheap (for your goals) advertising, like in Arts and Culture type newspapers, billboards or building-side ads.

Digital ads on social media like Instagram and dare I say TikTok, geotargeted in the areas your app is bringing up the most events/where your highest quality users can even potentially be.
> If you look up "all of Earth's water in a ball," [2] it's about a quarter the size of the moon.

Are you sure about that math? According to your [2] the diameter of the water ball is 1384 km while the diameter of the moon is about 3,475 km. The volume of the water is less than a tenth of the volume of the moon: ((1384/2) ^ 3) / ((3475/2) ^ 3) => ~6.3%
They're catering to their market. The flipper zero already has games on it. This is taking it a step further.

Additionally I'm sure people will discover loads of use cases for this add-on that has nothing to do with gaming.
And a partial answer to this, my memory being jogged by the linked article's mention of Autodesk Animator (which I spent a lot of time with as a kid), is that Autodesk Animator includes a font SIXBYSIX.FNT appears identical to the Atari's 6x6 ROM font, to the extent I can find examples to compare. Ignoring the riddle of this or that Amiga game, this is a perfect link between VGA-era DOS games, for which I'm sure Animator (Pro) was often used for art, and the Atari ST, because Autodesk Animator is a direct descendant of the program Cyber Paint on the Atari ST (another program I spent a lot of time with as a kid), both programmed by Jim Kent. It's perfectly possible that one of the ST ROM fonts hitchhiked along in the conversion from ST to PC and started cropping up in PC games.
> does not require the strict discipline required in a monolith

How so? If your microservices are in a monorepo, one dev can spread joy and disaster across the whole ecosystem. On the other hand, if your monolith is broken into libraries, each one in its own repo, a developer can only influence their part of the larger solution. Arguably, system modularity has little to do with the architecture, and much to do with access controls on the repositories and pipelines.
Could use an optical sensor like the Timex Datalink watches from the 90s[1]

Could set the earrings on a phone screen and transfer the patterns over. Sounds like a fun project.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
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I think the vast majority of people in any country would prefer a Head of State that is chosen by popular vote rather than by Royal Sperm.

Changing an icon may cost a bucket, next to nothing, although monarchies are usually very opaque (regardless of what they pretend, we still don't have an account of all European monarchies properties and investments). However, the entire coronation pantomime is bizarre in a country still suffering from the Brexit fiasco.
A Library can just be a bundle of code. Suppose you're parsing xml. There is no fucking reason for that code to be in its own process, and it does not need to do anything with messages.
Exactly. It's like if I take a rental car for a joyride. That shouldn't be illegal.
Thank you for correctly citing Wright's law, but I will say that Moore's law is very much over-cited. Moore spoke only on number of transistors per chip, not anything about transistors per dollar or transistors per unit area.
which one? can you edit and elaborate your question?
Related:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-20/why-40... | https://archive.today/iEhZq (Your 401(k) Might Retire Before You Do)
Learn how to do cold reads of people and situations.

Cold read enough, and with enough vagueness, and you'll be right enough of the time.

You could also ask: "How can I be like William of Baskerville?"
I don't recall ever reading about a tulip ETF, though, that could be kind of interesting
Maybe you didn’t read to the end, or maybe the page was updated after you commented?

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Also nice to mention that some of those are connected and some are not. For example I have a personal account (that I did not create but appeared magically at some point; it behaves as totally separate), a work account (main work tenant) and three guest work tenants that share the password, but don't share the 2fa. For some apps you chose the tenant, but not for all.
> Using phone numbers allows for the kind of user discovery that most people expect in 2024

Do people really expect to still exchange phone numbers ?

Fundamentally I don't want people to call me nor SMS me (that's for spam only), most messaging services will allow contact exchange through a QR code inside the app, and if everything else fail an email address will be the most stable fallback.
One thing I miss from Google is a reliable built-in calculator. I know I could just use some other calculator app but the habit of just typing stuff into my address bar is hard to shake.

Kagi also has a calculator, but for a lot of queries it gives questionable results, for example for `210/8` it returns `105/4`. Technically correct, sure, but almost never what I want.
This is true, and there are some other usages, but it’s still not widely used and in my opinion it should be
Darwin Online has virtually reassembled the naturalist's personal library
Ask it to make paper clips.
If you’re the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, definitely.
Out of curiosity what data centers environments commonly have racks less that 42U?
On the other hand, Broadcom is dominant in high end network gear. The only real competition was Tofino which Intel killed off.
Making something appear as if it might be an open source library, but is actually just a wrapper to a paid hosted service is endemic in the Python world in general and the LLM space in particular.
The game aspect helps try to get around rules against import.

“See! It’s just a game console”
Could you elaborate on how this is related? To me, the 80/20 rule and the 1:5 matter ratio seem like entirely separate concepts that coincidentally share the same ratio.
We don't even know why Titan, alone among the solar system's moons, has a thick atmosphere. The idea that we could know how much carbon has been transferred to a subsurface ocean over the course of the moon's lifetime is pretty fanciful.
Interesting I didn’t know that, I’ll have to learn more. I had heard about stuff like that in N. Korea but not Cambodia.
Thank you for the clear response - was hoping to elicit such an expert :). That all makes sense. I’m most interested in #3, as I obviously wouldn’t want to make them liable or connected to the patent in any meaningful way… will have to look into that.

The hope is/was that, since this is a cheap patent taken out by a non-profit micro enterprise, the stakes are low; if it eventually gets infringed it wouldn’t be the end of the world. So in that context, I wasn’t expecting any serious liability passing to them.

Also if anyone has resources for #2 I’d love to hear them :). I guess this is a huge field on its own now (I think IBM invested w/ Watson in legal research?), but I’m definitely going to try to find public datasets anyway. Or blogs, guidebooks, textbooks, etc…

…something tells me the question “which patents are good” might be take a while to answer comprehensively! Better start soon, I guess.
> This is just unfortunate if it has been implemented like Telegram and it seems it has.

Yes, agreed. This doesn't stop an adversary who knows your phone number and identity (such as a surveillance state) from linking communications under your username with your real identity.

It just means that people don't need to give their phone number to someone just so they can communicate via Signal.

I think this can lead to people having a false sense of security.
> There can only be one!

They Live

;)
On a related note, if you're a renter and utilities are included in your rent, be sure to check the lease if there's a clause that prohibits high electricity consuming activities like running a home media server, a cryptominer, or growing certain plants.
I find the idea that (at least part of) the government identity is tied the "personal authority" of the ruler a bit bizarre ― even though I grew up under an absolute dictatorial regime.

Even during said dictatorship, the absolute ruler avoided to tie anything to his personal identity, or even that of the ruling party; even though the lines between party and state were blurred elsewhere.

So to see that this is happening in one of the world oldest democracies never ceased to astonish me.
I’ve wondered what it would take to be able to create energy arbitrarily. Gravity and mass and light seem to be suss in that context. I’ve been having a laugh to myself about the aether, a comment in here mentions Hinduism also. But if there’s some big goo of stuff, then could it be that the ‘perfection of the universe’ (sorry I know that’s a loaded phrase but chill) is what can emerge into reality from that goo?

If there wasn’t symmetry or whatever, then it couldn’t get to us. Kind of like the atoms that make us would have remained as mud instead of standing up and looking around?

As someone else says encrypted vs plain space. Figure out some suss things like what’s going on with light and some kind of arbitrary infinity awaits? And those things are suss because they’re operating at the interface/affected by both ‘worlds’, like flying around in atmosphere; suddenly there’s sound barriers and what not. Which is why (I think) we scratch our heads and wonder like, what’s the deal with electrons?
My mind was blown a night or two ago when Groq had end-to-end answers in ~0.25s. All my GPT-4 developer friends minds were blown too. Then we got sad the next day, when it became of crapshoot of 10-20s end-to-end latency, due to the hug of death of too many users and too few instances. I applied to their API but didn't hear anything back. I strongly believe that a zero-latency computer experience unlocks a lot of the natural human creative flow. Constantly having momentary pauses ruins my train of thought.
I for one really enjoy Hackdays. It's a chance to do something not in your normal line of work and experiment in a different area, or with different people, sometimes even different places (but often remote pairing).

A couple of hackday projects were proof-of-concepts that eventually made it to prod, in a very organic way. Other teams would learn what was done and adapt it for their needs. They do sort of play out like R&D playtime. I was so lucky to have started my career at companies that actually did software Research as well as Development.
What I learned from ambitious rich kids
Thanks for the reply. It’s ok I’m trying to keep my karma under 1000
What they need it for is simply that it's the way the system has always worked, because Signal started life as an encrypted replacement for SMS. The point was that you could switch from the standard SMS app you were already using over to Signal (which was called "TextSecure" at the time) without having to change your habits, because sending messages to people's phone numbers was simply what people did then. There's nothing nefarious about it.
For software engineers, the only numbers are 0, 1, and infinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
I never thought about this before, but the volume of water in the atmosphere must be huge too, right?
Really enjoyed the writeup!
Here you go!

SELECT
page,
url,
payload
FROM `{table}`
WHERE
page like '%{site_domain}/%'
AND
url like '%[EXAMPLE.COM]%'

---

There's no LIMIT on it b/c I actually need all the results.
Google DeepMind alumni unveil Bioptimus to build first universal biology AI
43" LG 43UQ75

WebOS is slow, picture is fine and I even updated FW on it... using USB thumbdrive. Never connected it to the Internet even once.
There is old-now-unused "nickname".
Could you elaborate on why? Isn't it more economically viable than purchasing separate memory?
How do you square this with the fact that you likely used dozens of libraries from third parties?
The first I heard of a Bloom filter was when I was tasked with implementing one in iBooks. I used a Bloom filter for search.

My recollection is a little fuzzy now but as I recall, as we parsed each pagination of the ePub, we would hash or index (the first three characters of?) every word on the page. Each page got its own bitfield or some such structure to hold these hashes.

When a user typed a word to search we could potentially eliminate a large percentage of the pages of the ePub. If a page had no hash matches to the hashed search term then we knew the word was not contained on the page at all.

A best-case example might be searching for "Jabberwocky" in the book "Through the Looking Glass". Very likely all but one page of the ePub will fall away.

As is pointed out in the article, if we did get a hash match for a page it was not a guarantee the word was there — but then we would drop down to a more standard string compare to find not only if the word truly existed on the page but where it was as well (or if it existed in multiple places on the page).

The worst case was of course entering a search term like the word "the" where potentially every page would have to be exhaustively string-compared. But that kind of falls in the lap of the user — why did you search for "the"?
That is so much more work than simply not getting the latest update. Imagine if sth like IntelliJ put everything behind feature gates instead of just telling you to download an older version…
Controlling Hydra regeneration: the role of noise in morphogenesis [video]
"...on the morphogenesis of Hydra and its modulation by external electric fields. Note the remarkable induction of reverse morphogenesis."
I always feel like this sort of point is gaslighting me. Or, like, arguing from the perspective of like the third reinvention of the pitch for bitcoin.

When I first read the bitcoin whitepaper well over a decade ago now, there was none of this detailed segmentation of the target use case, it was just gonna be decentralized digital transactions for everybody.

Fine, I get it, people figured out long ago that it is a more niche thing than that. But can we stop pretending that it has always been obvious that its current niche was always obviously the only one intended and that anything else is a "straw man"?

It really has a ring of "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia" to me.
One would imagine that by 2024 there would be a solution for every dynamic language package manager for shipping pre-compiled native extensions, _and_ for safely allowing them to be opted out of in favour of native compilation - I don't use dynamic languages though so don't really know whether that has happened.

My overriding memory of trying to do literally anything with Ruby was having Nokogiri fail to install because of some random missing C dependency on basically every machine...
DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open LLMs
between finite numbers and infinities. Plural, please, the discerning mathematician keeps a stable of infinities ;)
> In contrast, an uncensored browser is hosted remotely, streaming its interface as video to the user, effectively bypassing Internet filters and blocks, which is particularly beneficial to users living in countries with stringent government controls.

So we stream our browsing habits to a third party who can collect all my data, including which sites blocked by my ISP or national firewall I am accessing. No thanks. I'll stick to a VPN or TOR.
> It is a matter of great sadness to the Dutch people that people in the rest of the world are not able to live in cycle-friendly environments.

Just flatten the land everywhere to make it as easy to implement as it was in the Netherlands, and hey presto!
Because of what Google did with Google Talk. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...

XMPP is underrated. A lot of people are imagining Pidgen in 2011, but the protocol has been extended, the actively developed clients are good, and it avoids the heavier parts of Matrix (both client and server side.) I wouldn't be surprised if Slack's replacement when Salesforce inevitably fucks it up will be XMPP based rather than Matrix.
I'm not smart enough to say more than this, but it'd be interesting to see what Noethers theorm would imply about a universe with no conservation of charge.

Wikipedia gives examples for other conservations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law?wprov=sfla1
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." - Sir Author Conan Doyle

1) Pay attention.

2) Ask the writers' questions: who, what, where, when, why, and how.

3) Read.

I also agree with this[1] comment - meditation promotes mental clarity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39448694
To be fair, a lot modern mainframe deployments juggle multiple VMs/LPARs at this point so you can juggle all sorts of transaction processing/batch processing workloads in a single cabinet. Hell, IBM will even sell you extra cores to run Linux VMs if you want, without paying more for support on top.
You sound like an LLM yourself, to be honest. Prompt: Generate a vaguely-related aphorism, using solely the title of this article.
SELECT
page,
url,
payload
FROM `{table}`
WHERE
page like '%{site_domain}/%'
AND
url like '%[EXAMPLE.COM]%'
only relevant in Alabama's jurisdiction
What are you talking about? The whole article implies that they're gonna decouple activism from teaching. Just apply the same playbook to religion? Oh what's that? It can't be done? Ah, I see. Maybe that was the meta-point behind my whole rant after all. You wanna have religious schools? Fine. You want (non-religous) activist schools? I guess that's fine too. But the notion that we're gonna get rid of "activism" and not touch religion in teaching/education/academia strikes me as absurd.
Why? Do you really think banks haven’t realized commercial loan debt isn’t lined up for major losses and haven’t securitized and hedged with CMBS credit default swaps? The article talks about the models assume historical losses - but this is an exact replay of residential subprime modeling. You would have to be a very dense portfolio manager to not have your own risk models aside from the regulatory mandated models for losses. In fact from my years trading on a major commercial and residential desk leading up to the financial crisis I emphatically know they all do, and even more so after the crisis with the roll out of relatively boned headed reg collateralization models. With SVB eating in it with unhedged loan portfolios in the rates spaces you better believe risk managers and the government have been poring over portfolio exposures to rates and credit shocks. The commercial mortgage bloodbath is executing in extreme slow motion over what’ll likely be a decade. No one is being caught unaware and unprepared.

That’s why it’s clickbait. The reaction here is exemplary. This isn’t doom this is the bread and butter ebb and flow of a banks loan book but without any sophistication on the reality of how banks manage these sorts of things. The regulatory loss provisions aren’t the only line of defense and it’s not even the first line. It reads as if banks were caught unaware of this looming crisis in commercial mortgages and there’s some unthinking machine responding only to the bare minimum regulatory requirements. The hand wringing about the financial crisis, as if no one learned anything and bank trading operations are run by total morons… if only they would listen to a bunch of programmers things could be different, etc.

Doom sells subscriptions, engagement is driven by dire headlines and articles that twinge out anxieties. The mechanical realities are boring, and are covered in trade media not general financial news.
The Fed (the central bank in the US) didn't exist before 1914. The government did. They aren't the same
Your rights as a shareholder of Microsoft are strictly delineated. You cannot, for example, walk into a MS office and take one of their computers (or any other equipment). You cannot claim any of their gross revenue, only what the board decides to release as a dividend. You can vote, but only at specific meetings that comes with their own highly evolved set of rules and regulations. You claim is actually fairly vacuous by comparison with most understandings of "ownership". You are literally a "shareholder", not an owner.

And so it is with Bob, metaphorically speaking.
Here is the text of the law:
(I paraphrased the recourse portion)

If the death of a minor child is caused by the wrongful act, omission, or negligence of any person, persons, or corporation, or the servants or agents of either then (people can sue)

You need all three elements:
1) Death
2) Child
3) Wrongful Act/Neglience

If 1 AND 2 AND 3 then ACTION

Trial found 1 true, 2 and 3 false.
Ala SC said actually 2 is true, but 3 is still false.

Your reading makes no sense. “Yea its a child, so it doesn’t matter if there was negligence”. No. You need all 3.

They said: “We find lower court was wrong, 2 is reversed and now true. Since this now makes clause 3 open to discussion, we affirm that they were right in saying 3 was false. As a result the case is dismissed.”
I usually find myself reading RTNGS for common hardware like computer stuff. For more niche things like piecing together a live-looping, with-sequencing, synth/music performance setup, I watch a lot of Youtube videos.
Gemini Advanced now allows you to create, execute and edit Python code
Any chance you'd consider making a version of this as a browser extension for paid subscribers?

What I really want is this functionality on unsupported websites/documentation. It would be killer to "ask" kagi a fact about the article or docs I'm already reading, even if it only traverses/parses the single page.
Naively, I guess that non-digital signal decoding is trivial compared to digital signal decoding where the signal might be indistinguishable from encryption without a reference spec or unencoded sample.
i'm in a similar situation. cofounded a VC backed company, then worked in product in data analytics. started applying for jobs and getting limited responses.

currently rethinking careers and connecting with folks interested in starting something.
Hey! I know who this is! It has been too long. Call me up if you come to NYC!
Wait, wouldn't a football field be a unit of area? How many elephants per cubic football field?
Having proved the contribution of these second and third order terms are between plus 10 and 20% over the range of interest we will multiply by a constant 1.15
The FTC is already investigating: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/202...

I think we (the developer community) need to start pushing back against this abuse, it's getting out of control.

The thing that bothers me the most is I caught this $14k charge b/c I'm a small fry and that money matters to me. How many big accounts just wouldn't notice that? I can't help but think a very non-trivial % of all cloud revenue is just obscure fees that nobody notices - engineers doing the engineering, accounts receivable pays the bills, and the cloud providers get fat.