jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You have to keep in mind that a lot of those highlighted "trivial" series of mistakes can be just the result of parallel construction, and what evidence really "did them in" can be completely different from what's stated by the prosecution. It is very easy to find tons of small mistakes once you already know what you have to look for thanks to an undisclosed huge exploit/honeypot/technically-illegal-seizures that you can use.

Proving this is hard by design, but a good example of that would be how they used the Hansa market as a honeypot by running the market themselves for months.

The entire investigation around Alphabay and how they got to the owner is a bit shady, too, and there have been tons of rumors of the entire official case being based on ad-hoc parallel construction.
The issue with depixelizing pixel art is that you need an AI that can identify semantically what the features in the sprite are. When you look at Mario you know you're looking at a stout little man with a hat, you can identify his eyes, ears, nose, hair, hat, moustache, shirt, gloves, overalls and shoes. Given that knowledge, if I were to depixelize Mario's sprite, I'll know the rough shape of his shoes and where the shading should go and what shape it should have, i.e. I can reason what the 3D shape is and how the 2D shape was derived from that. I'll also be able to identify which lines were put there to make sure separate elements can be legible and not make those thicker than needed. Or that his eyes blend with his hat simply because there aren't enough pixels to make them separate.

For simple shapes, like the background, their algorithm works really well, but for complex objects it fails, because it distorts details that were put in with very careful thought and completely depend on the resolution. Such small sprites rely a lot on being looked at by someone who can identify semantically what they're looking at, and any really successful depixelization solution will need to be able to understand what basic shapes the sprite is made of based on what it's supposed to represent.
I would urge you to, like I realised I had to a few years ago, get over it. Language is not defined by a dictionary or by history; roots and origins are truly meaningless. A word is defined by its usage; it’s one of the delightful things in the world for which it can be said that if enough people say something is true, it becomes true.

Uniqueness may once have been a boolean property (I cannot say for certain one way or another), but at present it is not.
It is documented by people trying to make an emotional point that it is ineffective. It is so obvious that I cannot believe intellectual people fall for the idea that because we find torture morally disgusting that is must be "ineffective." That is purely an emotional argument to make us feel better about our emotional decision. When does torture become ineffective? Why is it that threatening a child with going to bed early or a criminal with jail time to give up co-conspirators can be effective but "torture" cannot? Where on the spectrum does it become ineffective? Such a delineation does not exist and we all know it. If we want to ban it on moral grounds then fine but let's not delude ourselves. It makes us feel nice to say it doesn't work. No one argues it is this perfect mechanism, neither is sending your kid to bed early, but to say it wholly does not work is spurious.
I hope you at least wait until those standards are thoroughly supported "in the wild" because the wild provides the entire point of choosing Javascript. Even then, the argument that ES6+ will make everything better ignores that those standards layer more stuff on top of a lot of bad old stuff that isn't going away. And the community status quo is bad documentation, messy APIs and things breaking all the time. If I did not HAVE to use this stuff I would happily choose to avoid the frustration.

There is no competition to Javascript for programming browsers, but why should programming education always center on programming browsers? For education in particular, there are a number of languages designed for education and Javascript (even ES6) has never been one of them.

No accounting for taste, I guess.
Funny, I have done a lot of game/graphics related programming using python and panda3d, which is written in c++ and has nice python bindings [0]. Sure, you can't just do "import wheemakegames" but the tools are out there. The same is true for GUI apps. If you want to click on stuff just have them use pyqt or pyside. I think that teaching students about other packages and how software actually works together is very important. Having said that packaging a python program into an executable installer or even just an executable is a pain in the ass ("What sane person DOESN'T have at least one working python interpreter?!?").

0. http://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Main_Page
non-print link: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21639500-being-good-n...
Maybe I'm overreacting b/c this aligns with my interests pretty directly but this is outrageously cool + well-executed. And better yet looks like there's already a bunch of interesting users on there.

Completely eliminates the technical barriers to creating this type/genre of net art so it's gonna be interesting seeing the effect that has alone

How long has this been around?
That part freaked me out because that was one of the ways I thought I could tell authentic from propaganda. I thought people in power didn't know how to blend in naturally to forums and their comments always stood out, but it looks like they do get it. Now I'm worried that my propaganda/astroturfing indicators don't work as well as I thought they did.
It would be funny if you come up with a great blockchain startup by actually understanding the technology and implementing it at scale on a real problem and make more money than the trading hype cycle.
Strikingly similar to "karma". People don't care about some number, but their status.

When pg experimented with visually distinguishing people with high avg karma (an orange dot IIRC), many people noticed the changing status dynamics (a lower "cringed" before a higher), and it discouraged discussion between equals.
The important thing is not to confuse "flexible schedule" with "no schedule." If you have no definite schedule for your work ("Eh, I'll do it after I play a little WOW"), both your work and the rest of your life will suffer. But that doesn't mean you can't set a work schedule that meshes well with your life.
Regardless of how you want to parse a company's public statements and written policies, it's the height of naivete to think that a data host (ANY host) wouldn't share your data with law enforcement or has encrypted data in such a way that they guarantee that no one can access it.

If you have sensitive data, encrypt it yourself. Encrypt it on your local drive, back up encrypted data, encrypt it before uploading it to Dropbox. Doing otherwise is akin to not having a proper backup process: it's either because of laziness or ignorance.
What's the ETA for detailed security architecture whitepaper?

"(A)ll data is encrypted before it's stored on the backend" statement is completely worthless unless (at the very least) you also describe how the keys are generated and managed.
Also not directed towards you, but just because someone has programmed for a long time doesn't been they're particularly good at it. Plenty of people don't learn - it's not even a character flaw, some people just program for the job.
Banana radiation dose example really bothers me.

Assuming a human has about 140g of potassium [1], a single banana has up to about 0.5g [2] and a yearly radiation dose from ~140g of potassium is 390uSv [3], in order to get a banana dose of 0.1uSv [3][4], the banana's potassium would have to increase the total amount of potassium in the body by 0.5g for 365d / (0.5g / 140g * 390uSv / 0.1uSv) = 26 whole days.

Expecting the body to contain the extra potassium for more than a day or so is totally unrealistic and misleading. A proper banana dose would probably be in the neighborhood of (0.5g/140g * 390uSv / 365 d) = 0.004uSv (dose from 0.5g of extra potassium over a single day).

To make matters worse, the wikipedia article references the comic - that does not accept corrections - as a source.

[1] https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Potassium-HealthProfession...

[2] https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-much-potassium-is-in-a-bana...

[3] https://xkcd.com/radiation/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Interesting to read this.

I interviewed 3 different engineers from Mesosphere in 2015 or so at a time when it seemed like the company was tanking and everyone was looking for a new job. At least for the people I interviewed, there was nothing to be arrogant about. We were specifically looking for engineers with this sort of experience and none of them were close to getting an offer.
> the value that a shell adds over REPL is not insignificant

Could you expand on this? I've been thinking about using a repl as a system shell. The piping issue is solved easily by sh.py. The main problem I can think of is startup latency.
Drawing and painting well are both hard. Cooking well and fast is hard. The difference between those skills and programming is that you don’t have people discouraging strangers from even attempting to acquire those skills.
This article is junk. Is it a just a jumping point for peoples random thoughts on Bitcoin or Gates? Do we need an article every-time Gates says the world Bitcoin?

The Bloomberg video is a little bit more interesting. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-02-23/bill-gates-...

He makes the good point on the need to solve the remittance problem and we need to do something while we wait.

Otherwise he's not committal. If money means a lot to you, don't bet it. Blah, blah. Smart non committal words.

The Clubhouse interview is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFNb93q3CI
I don't know that Apple users are a minority audience for Sublime Text. They may even be the largest user segment.

Sure, ARM Macs may be a minority now, but it's hardly a wasted investment when the proportion is only going to increase.
Can you explain how technical disagreements about implementation of technology make FSF "on the wrong end of the movement for years"? FSF has valid reasons to be wary of potential threats to software freedoms, and they are extremely dedicated to their mission of providing and protecting said freedoms.

Also, you probably do not understand the mindset of this movement. It is not a priority to have the best and shiniest toys and instruments. It is about freedoms, and freedoms only, even despite this way will cause significant inconveniences. It is unacceptable to compromise even the slightest part of freedoms to provide better convenience. This path is not for everybody, but I'm glad someone walks on it, if only to be a safeguard against abuse done by major software vendors. And FSF is very successful in acting as such.

> because I won’t deal with their obnoxious contributor agreement process

This process is in place for a very valid reason, perfectly explained here [1].

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
That's an interesting resume. Gave me some ideas to improve mine. Thanks!
I watched that press conference. He was trying to give hope to people and was optimistic. He even said he views things in the glass half full positive way. Even Dr Fauci said that they don't disagree - he just wants to see more studies because he's a scientist. It's the media's fault for trying to sensationalize it. I have pretty much stopped reading the media. They have cried wolf too many times now.
You could just install the apk file straight out of github though
Twist or premium plan feature? ;)
What would the costs look like if the market scaled up by 1000 or 10000x?
I'm working on making Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) work with as many monitor setups as possible.

Lunar is a macOS app that can change your external monitor brightness and contrast based on your Macbook built-in display brightness (which already reacts to ambient lighting).

It can also change the brightness based on the sun position or can just add some hotkeys for you to change the brightness manually in case you are using a MacBook in clamshell mode, or a device without a built-in display like a Mac Mini

Lunar doesn't use dark software overlays, it actually changes the hardware monitor brightness/contrast using the standard DDC protocol that's been implemented in monitors for the last 20 years.

In the latest update, it also adds hotkeys for changing the monitor’s volume which was a very requested feature.

Right now I’m trying to make it work with all the esoteric setups that users have. As you can imagine, there are a lot of ways you can connect monitors to your device: hubs, docks, adapters, AirPlay, cables with missing wires etc.

While DDC works most of the time, I still have to implement all kinds of workarounds because the system doesn’t play well with those setups.

The code is a spaghetti mess of Swift because I didn’t know reactive frameworks for Swift existed at the time: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar
I was going to say the same, there seems to be thread after thread about ventilators, but are they a golden ticket to good health ?
I would love to see it being available for GitHub/GitLab. Personally I use Sublime Text now.
Judgement is pointing fingers.

What you are asking about is just drawing conclusions. I wouldn't mix those up.
Too little too late sums it up in Australia. Schools are still open (there are good reasons, but by the time those reasons become not-good, it will be too late).

At least the states and cities are taking over leadership where the federal level has failed.
> those measures must be scientifically rigorous, and based on the expertise of public health professionals.

This claim ("must be scientifically rigorous") isn't backed up by any further argument in the article, and I think that it's required to take the rest of the piece seriously. How could anybody make a scientific statement about the efficacy of mass surveillance? It's not possible to do a randomised control trial, and as far as I know the only data point we have is China.
It would just use SMS wouldn't it? So unless you also changed number, you'd still receive the message?
Or the content becomes the differentiator rather than the presentation.
> If you haven't yet read the one about Lesbia and her sparrow you're missing a great poem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_2)!

great poem and definitely with no double entendres!
>but bitcoin devs have ignored this with handywavy arguments.

Can you provide links to these discussions? I searched around on google and all the results are relating to bitcoin cash. I also searched the usual places that bitcoin (non cash) people congregate and turned up nothing.
Good point. The fact that Equifax is back to business is so disappointing - one would have hoped that the industry would get an overhaul. I agree with another commentator that the market structure is fundamentally different though so it seems, on the surface, that this could sink the ship.
We need the three laws of robotics now!
How do you feel about certain protestors being called terrorists?

People openly call for violence every day. People vote for it, it's what they want. Just look at the wars in the Middle East. Entire nations are calling for that violence.

Right now, society has the belief that violence by the state against people is sometimes justified, but never the reverse. Unless it's against a 'bad' state, then it's okay. Then they're freedom fighters.
Judgment text: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/27.html
I understand the deflation part, but my question really was is it an economy the size of the united states even possible if we stayed on the gold standard.
the problem is that as a Caucasian male even if i were to test positive for the same chemical and didn't realize the source I highly doubt I would have been detained for more than an hour or two
Yes - because 3taps had already been given proper legal notice in the form of a C&D letter (which was CL's right to issue as a property owner), and 3taps knew that it was no longer welcome to access CL.
Ah, I thought of the surgeon wanting a free market similar to car pricing. There's the MRSP that is high but not crazy; you can haggle but, overall, prices would go down so you wouldn't have to haggle in order not to die or go bankrupt ...
My guess is... Ramadan is a holy month for Muslims. Many terrorists are muslim. Terrorism increases around Ramadan. He is brown, many Muslims are brown, TSA on high alert for Muslims. He is setting off an explosives residue detector. Many terrorists use explosives.
Elance ? How would you use Elance vs. this ? I am really curious to see the correlation to see if I have missed something.
Hi thenduks,

thanks for this one! I changed the CSS as you suggested and updated the site, it's now scroll-bar free down to 1000px.
Their DNS is down.
My theory is that by opening up myself to the possibility of meeting a woman keeps me on my toes and harnesses my darwinian energy which I then channel into my work. Working at home in my underwear doesn't create this psychological situation.
Back in the day I tried applying genetic algorithms to corewars as a high school science fair project.

I lost. They had no idea what was talking about. Early lesson in the importants of communicating technical ideas.
> verifying solutions is much easier than finding them

If P = NP Bitcoin breaks down. Interesting.
This is basically saying "Bitcoin might not work because some nodes might decide to go start another currency."

That's a threat to any monetary system. With Bitcoin, as soon as nodes start breaking the rules, they are ejected from the system. The fact that a bunch of them could leave together and start a new system can hardly be considered a real criticism of the protocol itself.
You completely missed the point of my post. The issue is that when you have a monopoly or near-monopoly (oligopoly), the prices are primarily determined not by the cost for the sellers, but by the value for the buyers.

Therefore, unless the amount of value that each byte of cellular data transfer provides decreases significantly for a significant portion of the telecom companies' customers, the prices won't decrease, regardless of what changes occur in the costs to the companies.

That is, of course, unless the government steps in as it has in other countries and artificially fosters competition, so that the cost to the companies plays a more significant role in determining the prices.
This is more like the guide to a bad geek stereotype. Seriously, gems like Geeks tend towards packaged, junk foods just made me shake my head. Especially funny given how many diet and exercise articles show up on hacker news.

As another example I don't expect girlfriends to understand much about computers or be genuinely interested in the apps I write. I don't need a girlfriend to talk shop with, that's not what girlfriends are for. It wouldn't be a negative, but really wouldn't be a positive much either.
Sure,... I think I am realistic about the probability that the equity will be a windfall. But, at the same time, that's A reason why I take the risk of joining a startup. I want to be in the game. And, if I'm in the game, I want to maximize the potential reward. Thanks.
Geeks tend to eat "packaged, junk foods"? WTF? The great majority of my hacker friends are chefs, foodies and organic farmers.
This is not a girl's guide to geek guys. This is a guy's explorative writing on what he wishes girls would do for geek guys.

Seriously, how is it a guide to (assuming non-geeky) girls if he's candidly referring to Deanna and Bev.
This guide is brilliant. Indeed, girls are practically jumping out of their pants for guys who are generally available and are passed over by other women.
As you can see here, the real numbers are much less straighforward,

http://www.ascap.com/about/payment/royalties.html
It's almost like nature has code behind it we can fork and iterate upon
That's correct, but remember that stocks go both up and down. Back in the bubble, a lot of people got very burned: They tried to save the diff between short- and long-term cap gains and ended up losing far more because of variations in price.

To add insult to injury, many got nailed by AMT at the point of exercise. By the time they figured this out, the entire grant would not cover the bill to the Feds.
Why haven't you? Aren't they public?
Whoever downvoted the parent, how about replying to the comment instead?

We spent a good amount of effort analyzing CT, and if you believe we missed something, your reply is worth a lot more than a downvote & run.

It's odd how much effort is being put behind this effort, especially given that in this particular attack Google would have nothing to gain from CT (since all it can hope to do is tell them who issued the fraudulent cert, which they already know).
Living in a bunker gets old pretty quickly. No windows that can open either.
Lets better hope we never end up on the same team then. I have no patience for dumbing down shit to people who have no business writing code.

The ternary operator is a standard and it is in the language for a good reason - it can make certain statements smaller and involve simpler code (that is, less places to screw up).

Yes it can be abused, but so can everything else. The solution is not to cut out features but to cut out those who are not fit to program.
I find cinnamon tea (with no actual tea) to be quite tasty.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/health-benefits-cinnamon/
I think you've been spoiled by twitter-stlye "articles." 140 characters, bluntly to the point, with no appreciation for the arts.
This is going to sound harsh, but ...

With no contact details in your profile, and no links to anything you've done, you're not showing much initiative. have you read all the items here on HN about showing passion and initiative? About getting jobs? About networking?

About showing, not telling?

You've told use you're passionate, and you've told us you've worked hard. How about showing us the results?
OK this study has some perspective to aspartame converting to formaldehyde.

But what about the excitotoxic effects? I've heard aspartame excites nerve cells in the brain in unusually increased levels which eventually causes the cells to burst and die. How about the truth on that?
You realize that the XKCD example is a warning for those in your position not timr's :)

(I have it hung on the wall in my office for this very reason)
You know what? I was expecting, at the end of the article, that there would be a request for banking details to help this worthy venture get off the ground. Missed opportunity for comedy. Oh well.