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LittlePeter··on Chainalysis CTO said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money
Hmm what would happen if I sit down, eat some Taco's and when it is time to pay, I claim I have cash only? Aren't they a creditor in that case?
LittlePeter··on Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
Garfield maybe
LittlePeter··on All the stupid startup/app ideas I've had so far
this guy bashes
LittlePeter··on Show HN: Refurb – A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases
Not sure why you are down-voted...

Instagram and Dropbox, both used Python.

LittlePeter··on Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI
That is a nice insight.
LittlePeter··on 11 18 25 13 19 11 1 2 1 22 15 22 14 1
If Ukrainians are shooting themselves in the foot by doing memes about bombings, how would you describe Russia's invasion? How will that be judged?
LittlePeter··on Ubuntu: “How are we improving Firefox snap performance?”
snap is the new systemd

I dunno, I am only slightly inconvenienced by it, not enough to run apt uninstall snap though.

LittlePeter··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
It was transformative _because_ it was a downgrade.
LittlePeter··on Ask HN: Why don't we have 3 day weekends yet?
On a side note, has anyone ever negotiated an effective raise by asking for 100% salary for an 80% employment?

- "We're sorry but your salary range is above what we are willing to offer."

- "I am prepared to accept your upper range salary for 80% employment."

- "Deal!"

LittlePeter··on Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust
You are right, I probably misunderstood. But now I am curious, what is the use case for formatting just a range of lines and not the entire file?
LittlePeter··on Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust
> We still don't have format selection

And you never will. From https://github.com/psf/black:

Black is the uncompromising Python code formatter. By using it, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting. In return, Black gives you speed, determinism, and freedom from pycodestyle nagging about formatting. You will save time and mental energy for more important matters.

LittlePeter··on Google Colab Pro is switching to compute credits
Barely two weeks after Stable Diffusion release, we use SD as its acronym? That's fast.
LittlePeter··on How far can you go without a message queue?
Off-topic: in the order book updates example, the top of the book is updated using one field per message:

echo '{ "symbol": "AAPL", "bidPrice": 174.1 }' | rpk topic produce book-updates echo '{ "symbol": "AAPL", "bidVolume": 1000 }' | rpk topic produce book-updates echo '{ "symbol": "AAPL", "askPrice": 174.2 }' | rpk topic produce book-updates echo '{ "symbol": "AAPL", "askVolume": 2000 }' | rpk topic produce book-updates echo '{ "symbol": "AAPL", "bidPrice": 174.0 }' | rpk topic produce book-updates

However some top of the book update can result in an entire level disappearing. In that case, both price and volume changed actually at the same time, yet according to this example it will be broken down into two messages? This will lead to inconsistent state of the book when I read it between two messages. Or did the example just happen to show one field per message, and multiple fields per message are possible too?

LittlePeter··on SSH tips and tricks
Back in the day `aws ec2 get-console-output --instance-id $ID` used to contain the public key that can be extracted using regex. Not sure if this still works.
LittlePeter··on Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
Yup I use ad blocker.
LittlePeter··on Satellite images of damage done to Saki airfield in Crimea
> Ukraine is bleeding them as fast as Russia

Proportionally maybe yes. But count-wise Russians are losing more soldiers than Ukrainians.

LittlePeter··on Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
Off-topic. What's up with that giant meaningless Ethereum logo image occupying 90% of my screen. Why are websites doing this?
LittlePeter··on Political betting site PredictIt to shut down after CFTC withdraws approval
I don't understand where N-1.1111 comes from. Isn't it enough for all the shares to add up to less than N-1 for there to be a profitable bet?

If all no shares add up to S < N-1, then gross winnings will be N-1-S > 0, which when multiplied by 0.9 to get net winnings will still be positive.

LittlePeter··on Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
What is tabular data precisely?

I can represent an image as a table of RGB values. I can represent hierarchical data as a table of unnested values.

LittlePeter··on Ask HN: What are some reasonable right-leaning news sources?
https://ground.news reports news and their left/center/right coverage. I guess you can extract some right-leaning news sources from there.
LittlePeter··on Aforementioned
Thanks, I learned something new.
LittlePeter··on Aforementioned
On a similar note: respectively. Stop using it. "To variables a and b assign values 1 and 2, respectively".

Who ever is getting confused here if "respectively" is left out?

LittlePeter··on Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
The charts in the article are PNG images. Yet the text in the charts is separate and is superimposed on the chart in precise position.

How is this done? Is the journalist manually CSS-positioning the text? Is there a library? An internal Economist tool?

LittlePeter··on Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges (2014)
There is "onderdoorgang", which shows similar images as in the OP: https://www.google.com/search?q=onderdoorgang

But I don't think I ever used this word... I'd say tunnel I guess.

LittlePeter··on Checkbox Olympics
A deep learning model on the blockchain should be able to figure out cheaters from mouse movements and click intervals no?

But yeah you are right.

LittlePeter··on Checkbox Olympics
r/mildlyinteresting, but would have been better if after the race you were shown your rank among other participants.
LittlePeter··on Where are all the crypto use cases?
"incoherent word salad" is a tautology... "word salad" is already incoherent.
LittlePeter··on Solend is now voting to reverse the decision to interfere with $170M position
game-theoretical optimum maybe
LittlePeter··on Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
Thanks! To contribute at least something to this thread, here are couple more prediction markets where you may or may not bet for real money:

- https://manifold.markets - https://www.unitarity.com/app - https://futuur.com - https://predict.hypermind.com/hypermind/app.html - https://www.metaculus.com - https://polymarket.com

LittlePeter··on Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
I am aware of maybe 3 or 4 prediction markets. Can you provide some names?

Are you betting or cleaning data and reselling it or displaying it and earning income via ads?

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