skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a guy who stopped saying how many Bitcoins he had after he mined few thousands (by then Bitcoin was skyrocketing to single digit dollar values!) I know he kept mining for years.

I know for a fact he only sold 2 of those since then.

Now here's the interesting fact: he wasn't early into Bitcoin because of the technology, but because he was a full blown lunatic crypto anarchist. The guy literally works at some low paying job and has a normal life and lives dreaming about a world where Bitcoin's a common way to trade goods.

Seriously, he's easily worth hundreds of millions since years and he lives like a normal dude and spends his time just blogging and being a bitcoin evangelist.
It costs a great deal in fuel due to atmospheric drag and supplies to keep ISS aloft for marginal return on investment.

When commercial space travel comes online, it will find more optimal locations for bases perhaps the moon and L1.
Gaming, apps that only run on windows, ease of use, stability/reliability.

I last installed windows on my PC a couple years ago after upgrading CPU/Motherboard, and since then it just trucks along with zero issues, every game I play works perfectly, and programs I use are easy to install and work reliably.

I have Linux on my laptop and it's nice not having the bloat, but it's also a huge pain getting things working.

Just today I tried to install DaVinci Resolve to do some editing and it's throwing library errors for some reason, why doesn't it resolve it automatically? Or better yet why doesn't the installer come with them like it does on windows? Linux tends to leave everything up to the user which sucks.

Also tried to play EVE through Steam, but it just says "unsupported OS" when I click play with no other help or explanation.

Everything on Linux feels like pulling a tooth, sure it'll eventually work after a lot of time and effort, until something updates and breaks everything again.
> * Enough storage at a reasonable price such that I "don't have to think about it"

Sadly for me only iCloud offers this with their 50GB for $1 tier. I basically need cloud sync to be a USB stick that’s plugged into all my computers simultaneously.
We're starting to go in circles, but here's your quote with the preceding sentence, emphasis mine. You're discussing an online test, not really a take home as described in the article.

> Take-home coding tests used to be rare, deployed only if an employer needed to be further convinced. Now interviewees are regularly given projects described as requiring just two to three hours that instead take days of work.

[Edit]

They should probably call it a "take home project" to be more accurate. It can include front and back end code, tests, documentation, design, styling, etc. etc. "2-3 hours," yea right.
Non-paywalled and not NYTimes

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/new-leak-shows-business-...
why? isn't getting the number from the website the right action? you can verify that you have the bank website, get the right number, and i presume even go to the bank branch to get the number in person, and then save the number as it should not change.

or are you referring to the call itself? i wonder why they need to do that.
He wrote like 30 books, if anything I would expect his ouevre to take up more than 3 feet of space if you had all of them.
If you see two people roll a d20 and get a 20, you get to say "wow, that was unlikely" to both of them, even if one of them privately admits they were going to quickly re-roll their die if they got below a 10. What matters is their actual behavior (identical in the example) not their intentions. The d6 vs d20 version is different because their behavior is different.
Trudeau government has also refused to share with Canadians where exactly the additional $600

How does this happen in a democracy? They say “nah, not gonna tell you” and everyone accepts it? No way to force them to disclose?
Populist backlash against globalization: A meta-analysis of the causal evidence
Nah, it's just good situational awareness.
Colleagues in workplace started buying and were receiving commission by referencing next client. Trained salesman visited home and used all dirty sales tricks and pitches. Until now I remember "don't say this vacuum is expensive, this is Mercedes of vacuum cleaners, everyone desires even a substitute of Mercedes", or "a salesman enters someone's home with an attitude that they own him the commission money". You grew up in Communism with an absolute shortage of everything and are unable to evaluate good value in market economy. Fuck this manipulative psychopats.
As other commenters have pointed out any given introductory chapter in a book on Bayesian statistics, including Jaynes’, is better exposition than this. I found _Probability Theory: The Logic of Science_ very easy to follow and very well-written.

I had a similar experience when I finally found a copy of Barbour’s _The End of Time_ and discovered, much to my chagrin, that it wasn’t nearly as mystical or complicated as EY makes it seem in the Timeless Physics “sequence”. Barbour’s account was much more readable and much easier to understand.

Yudkowsky just isn’t that great of a popular science writer. It’s not his specialty, so this shouldn’t be surprising.
Bank transfers are free in my country even cross country.

So cost is more convenient for normal bank accounts.

Yes, speed is a factor if there's a weekend in the middle, but this is a non issue. I literally never ever had a need to pay someone or send someone money they needed in the very moment as I was sending it. It's really a non-issue.

Another few bonuses for bank transfers:

- are reversible in many cases

- you can't lose any money if you misdigit a single character or send the money to the wrong account you have still time to revert or contact your bank and sort it out

- they are simple to use. You can go in person and tell the cashier of the operation. You can use your application or website

- as with your bank account is tied to your person, not to whoever holds some cryptographic key. Nobody can really point a gun at me and tell me I ahve to give him what I have in my bank, we all know it doesn't work. But a secret key to a wallet? Good luck holding it.

- if I die my family will get the money. This is much more complex to handle with Bitcoin if not borderline impossible. Whoever holds his password can do what he wants with that.
Cool! Mine can hear my neighbors garage door open when they get home from work and goes nuts because his bestie is about to be let outside. Took me a while to figure that one out, haha. "How the hell are you predicting when the neighbors dog gets let out??"
Hunter Walk: Without a 'safe harbor,' AI will be ruled by incumbents
Retaliation for charge back probably elevates this from a civil matter to a criminal one; you should totally contact your local DA. They might think it's fun.
I remember the diagrams in Crafting Interpreters and thinking what a great application of hand-done diagrams it was. So glad you did them that way.

Also left handed, BTW. If you're ever interested in going it even more old-school -- dip pens with India or Sumi ink are the absolute bomb. The ink is blacker than anything I've seen except perhaps in intaglio/etchings -- it can be made darker than fountain pen ink because there is no fear of clogging. Yeah, there's a bit of cleanup after every use, but very satisfying too, for some use cases.
The huskies Mishka and K'eyush have also been pretty popular over the last years. Videos of 10M+ upvotes, so obviously somebody's been watching. A lot are kind of painfully viewing owners poke their canines for likes, yet there are a few that are rather clear human language use such as Miska singing "Jingle Bells". Very obvious human word use and response to human communication for a task.

Youtube, Mishka, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtDFxm4Wupo&t=84s
TIL.

That's completely fantastic.

What was old is now new again.
Is it commited or pushed?

If I commit something locally, reset it and push to remote something else does it leave a trace?
This sadly doesn't mean that they are actually available. I haven't seen anyone saying they are using them. Obviously, that doesn't mean much either, but I'd at least hope to see someone post some performance benchmarks.
> Retail stores aren't usually on the hook for items that arrive non-functioning from the manufacturer -- the manufacturer is.

One of the great things about Australian consumer law: the retail store is responsible.
After many UPSes at home over the years, I currently have only 1 (a business-grade rackmount Cyberpower), and once it needs a new battery pack, I'll probably just switch to a surge protector.

My local electric is pretty stable, I no longer run servers at home that need to be up 24/7, most of my work at home is on a laptop with integrated battery backup, I can use my phone WiFI AP mode for backup Internet, UPSes are a pain to move between apartments, and UPSes have a small risk of dangerous battery leakage.
Play around with Tauri the last few months and I've come to the realization that I don't want to build my business on it. We have seen these before (Electron, Expo, Ionic) and they all suffer from the same pitfalls. Now if I have a web application and I'm trying to target mobile and I want to give my business time to develop a native application than I'm using Tauri over the rest of the crowd. A targeted business strategy can make this work, but you are doing so because you need speed not durability or longevity.
We’ve been living with credit freezes for over 10 years now, ever since a bunch of fraud incidents (thanks leaky IRS). Only ever have to deal with it when we need credit (rarely), putting in for a temporary lift. Bonus is we get zero refinance or CC offers in the mail.
This kind of response is exactly what I would expect of someone who is totally clueless about the industry. Being completely unaware of what dapps exist, what fintech startups there are, what protocols have been created, the research that has been funded due to blockchain technology, and more. As I said: completely ignorant with all criticism based on the news headlines you've read.
You were lucky, there is a reason why when VMWare Workstation and Virtual Box became good enough, around 2010, I never used partitions any longer.

The blame has been more on the Windows side than Linux, and special OEM partitions on laptops, nevertheless I no longer had to reinstall my computer, or try to rescue boot partitions.
Blood glucose is hard. Witness Theranos' attempt to do blook analysis without sufficient samples.

It apparently can be done from surface contact, with a special patch that measure interstitial epidermal fluid. Do these watches have that?
I thought the IRS popped a claim of $44b out of the hat [1], did this change? If they collect that, customers are bound to get pennies on the dollar.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/14/the-i...
Hot take: I’d rather buy another set of disks than use raid (0). And have manual backup.
And if we ever need it in future, all we need to do is slowly build up our civilization to the level of advancement where we can travel to the moon and... Oh, I suppose at that point we can just leave it there.
oh wow, that is incredibly dumb.
I heard this from Anna Martelli Ravenscroft in her presentation "Diversity as a Dependency" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOpdDxJzNkw
Those very same french fries may stop containing PFAS sometime in the future. However, the kids who loaded up on PFAS early in life may never be able to get the stuff out of their bodies. :(
Ha! Well, I’m happy to help troubleshoot if you’d like?
Pangeos the itinerant floating city – The Terayacht project
Sounds like "A Taste of Armageddon"[1], a Star Trek episode where neighboring warring planets decide to wage simulated war in order to spare expensive real infrastructure. Except in this imagination, the people declared "dead" were required to report to disintegration chambers within 24 hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
"An unanswered question" from 1951...

Applying that to any current situation is foolish at best.
I bought an OP-1 from teenage engineering years ago and fedex delivered it inside of the mailbox. USPS removed the fedex package from the mailbox and impounded it at our local USPS post office without ever notifying me. After 1-2 months of waiting/assuming the package had been stolen, I call the USPS office and asked if they somehow had the package in their custody/possession and, lo-and-behold, they did (in the "undeliverable mail room") and started lecturing me about how it was illegal for fedex to deliver a package into the mailbox, which is usps/government property etc. etc.

I called Fedex to try to rectify this and, as far as I remember, they either never answered the phone or told me they had no way of contacting the delivery driver (??).

I've always avoided fedex (and UPS, for that matter, since they destroyed two antique lamps that I ordered through ebay) since then.
i just want a HN social network :33
When we lived in San Jose, CA, we had stuff which never arrived quite often. Birthday cards and such especially.
Electron beams are not cost efficient in photolithography. And it is proposed to use electron beams to treat water or garbage?
Canadian university vending machine error reveals use of facial recognition
My salary is a traditional salary, I’m a W2 employee. It doesn’t matter what happens on the contract side, the billing rate, even if a client delays payment. The exec sponsor and program manager handle all that, my job is to write code and solve technical problems.
This is blowing up now, but the first report of this kind of issue that reached me (I'm the current Oodle maintainer) was in spring of last year. We've been trying to track it down (and been in contact with Intel) since then. The page linked in the OP has been up since December.

Epic Games Tools is B2B and we don't generally get bug reports from end users (although later last year, we did have 2 end users write to us directly because of this problem - first time this has happened for Oodle that I can think of, and I've been working on this project since 2015). Point being, we're normally at least one level removed from end user bug reports, so add at least a few weeks while our customers get bug reports from end users but haven't seen enough of them yet to get in touch with us (this is a rare failure that only affects a small fraction of machines).

13900Ks have been out since late Oct 2022. It's possible that this doesn't show up on parts right out of the box and takes a few months. It's equally plausible that it's been happening for some people for as long as they've had those CPUs, and the first such customers just bought their new machines late 2022, maybe reported a bug around the holidays/EOY that nobody looked at until January, and then it took another 2-3 months for 3-4 other similar crashes to show up that ultimately resulted in this case getting escalated to us.
It’s still August there. I’m not telling.
It says it's the Cruise ban and that the other taxis are now programmed to avoid emergency scenes (maybe using some kind of live data - didn't feel like reading in depth)
> What is the pleasure that I should be looking for?

It should feel effortless and an absolute joy to glide the pen across the paper. If writing with a BIC pen is 3/10 tedious, a well made fountain pen should be 0/10 for tedium.

It should be so easy, you find yourself able to write for longer without tiring than you usually would. Ink should always flow freely, control of movement seamless, hand comfortable and not even the least bit stressed/cramped, and the nib should not feel scratchy or catching against the paper. It should glide.

This is why I went all-in with a proper fountain pen after being frustrated with various other pens. On a budget, I have tried and can recommend the Jinhao 51A to get started. If you are willing to go all-in, Visconti and Parker makes amazing pens.

The Jinhao 51A is a clone of the Parker 51 which was a staple every-day pen for white collar work in the 40-50's. They are physically wider to fit large hands and the pen tip is fine and precise.

Good luck, I hope you're able to find something that works for you, fountain pens have very different characteristics. I own several and none of them are quite the same as the other.
Async stands are becoming popular. Post what you are working on in a slack thread.. I would suggest it. Another option is to schedule other meetings during that time with people from other teams. You could just stop going.
My first dog was a ¾ poodle ¼ cocker spaniel. She knew where the car was going; anticipated events from objects including leashes, combs, toys, and food; and deduced ever changing codewords for activities before moving a muscle.
Something minor I always wonder about when I read Mamba is the discretization.

All of the sources I see referred to as derivations of it have a discretization of the form

h_t =Ah_{t-1} + Bx_{t-1}
for the first line instead of the given one of the form
h_t =Ah_{t-1} + Bx_t.

Does anyone know why this is?
Yes, on newer Nvidia GPUs, power management etc is delegated to an on die RISC-V that runs its own firmware blob. Effectively they’ve moved the kernel driver to the GPU.

Nvidia when open sourcing their kernel driver, showed how to communicate with this blob, so Nouveau have done the same.
You charge for deleted file retention like it's any other thing that takes up space and let the customer decide how much they want to pay for. Some will want to pay for "5 years" worth, others won't care. To be extra good about it, maybe do it like borg backup and others and save the changes with dedup and compression. You can have literal years of file retention and have it take up less space than you think it would.
Kinda too late, it's a 10 year old project. Besides, scuttlebutt is the name of the water barrel on a ship, and is synonymous with gossip. As a gossip protocol originally written by someone who lives on a ship, I think it's pretty fitting.
Dignity should be intrinsic, not a result of labor. Of course, labor is today necessary, (and in a way will always be necessary by someone), so working is indeed dignified to the extent it helps other people.

I think chores aren't necessarily the terrible boredom. But having a robot as an option, you can do them as a sort of hobby if and when you want. That seems nice.

I think we also will need to develop maturity to deal with our free time, but it's probably not the disaster I've seem many claim (that we lose meaning) -- maybe their way to cope with an unfair world? or my way to cope with laziness.

The main thing is how to protect ourselves from rulers when we aren't necessary for labor. It seems like a difficult but solvable problem. Being able to choose how much to work (and play) is the dream!
Maybe it's because I have terrible and slow handwriting, or because I had a job transcribing audio interviews as a teenager, but I find it's the complete opposite for me. Writing makes me miss more because I can't keep up.
Yep, mine does too. Their hearing is amazing.
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UPS's are notorious for nuisance tripping GFCI's due to the extensive power filtering they usually have inside. It may not happen right away but is dependent on how 'dirty' your power is and on how sensitive your particular brand of GFCI is. All it may take is a neighbour using his AC or power saw and it could generate a spike large enough to knock your system offline (UPS filters spike to ground, leakage current trips GFCI which needs to be manually reset, UPS runs out of battery because no one's home to restore power).

This advice is specific to the US & Canada where GFCI's are calibrated to trip at 5 mA. In the UK, their RCD's trip at 30 mA so it's less likely.

If you read the fine print for your UPS and/or GFCI they will say not to use them together.

What about AFCI's? Well they are basically nuisance devices by design and most electricians hate them. Do not use unless absolutely necessary by code.

The difficulty comes into play because UPS's, servers, etc are essentially industrial equipment while the code is written for such common residential usages as plugging in a lamp (where a dog will chew on the cord, a good way to start a fire hence a perceived need for AFCI protection.)

What if you're stuck because you want to locate your UPS and equipment in an area where GFCI's are required (like a residential basement)? Well I won't tell you what to do in your own home but I'm sure you can devise a creative solution. :)
And can you drive a car a couple of days after taking weed without losing your driver licence?

In Germany, the limit of THC in the blood while driving is almost zero, AFAIK
But why do I need to write CUDA kernels? The CUDA kernels I need already exist, and I don't particularly care if writing them was so horrible that it required scratching your eyes out and sacrificing kittens to demons - I would care about the (re)writing effort only if I was considering other hardware that doesn't yet have the support that CUDA has as then I'd actually have to do that myself.
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You have to bring it to its smoke point and then wait for it to stop smoking. If it's sticky and amber colored it means you're not heating the oil for long enough to completely degrade it to a polymer coating during seasoning.
There’s nothing wrong with cheap pens, some of them are fantastic to write with. A lot of fountain pen enthusiasm just feels like tool fetishisation.
Rural areas' cricket population adds to the experience, but if you have to choose between rural and totality, choose totality.

It goes from quiet sunny day, to an insect rock concert, and back again. And if you're outside, you feel the temperature plummet, adding to the experience. All in under 4 minutes.

In the city you'll likely still hear some of that, so... whichever you do, it'll be great.
> Doesn't all the paperwork and restrictions make it an unsatisfying place to work?

Thanks to medical software (like Epic), doctors are asking this question too https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...
I found the magic! https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aggerganov%2Fggml%20magic&...
Also the UK is more "historically dense" than much of the US was (and is!).
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Don't even bother buying used enterprise APC units because firmware updates now require $$$.

NMC2 and NMC3 can't even install proper SSL certs without some shitty Windows-only tool.
https://archive.is/2pgB1
Yeah. I live in at least exurban area and I have some specific easements I negotiated when I bought. And, in practice, I have more. But if the neighboring owner really wanted to put up some barbed wire fences or the one or two owners along the river walk I often take outside of conservation land really wanted to clamp down, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have legal options.

Per another comment, some of it at least is that many people really don't want hunting (or destructive off-road vehicles) on their land but have no problem with the occasional person taking a walk on a more-or-less established path.

Even in the UK, I've had an issue with something basically identified as an item of interest on an OS map and getting yelled at for sticking my nose in a gate.