skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those hashes have to be essentially unique to prevent blocking good sites erroneous;y, and as such are easily associated to actual sites when you’re the scale of MS or Google.
A frozen image is still an integration over time. If you could really freeze an image from a very small instant of time approaching zero, it wouldn't look like you expect. Light oscillates just like sound.

Anyway you can take a "still image" of sound, you can apply a Fourier transform.
What makes you say noise cancelling headphones are bad? Are you talking about audio quality, or bad for your hearing?
Where Racial Hatred Leads
Could I ask a question? As you are clearly someone with a deep knowledge QM.

Why is Bohmian mechanics so frequently dismissed? It's such a straight forward premise - there is an actually physical guiding wave and everything else falls out "normally". Instead pages are written about MWI and hypothetical agents optimizing their overall decision in universes they'll never see. And undefinable concepts of trillions of universes splitting simultaneously. And I'm not trying to be snarky at all, as I feel what you wrote above is one of the best presentations od the topic I've seen.

To be perfectly frank QM is starting to scare me about physics. To a layman which I am, Bohmian mechanics is so simple and straightforward it's almost "obviously right". The macroscopic analogy of Farady waves is almost a nail in the coffin (to a layman). Allow for non-locality of guiding waves, just like ripples on a lake and everything else is deterministic and matches all scientific observations. Events have probability for the same reason the weather has probability: because we can't measure with the sensitivity required to account for the complexity of the system and the difference in initial conditions.

And yet, I've never seen any write up against Bohmian. I've never seen anyone with deep knowledge on the subject discuss why Bohmian isn't the best interpretation. It's just dismissed as an "also-ran". What scares me is 20 years from now something will emerge making it clear that Bohmian is the "correct" interpretation. And then the question in my mind will be, "what took it so long to even be seriously considered?". It would be proof to me that physicis is being shifted from investigating and following up on the best explanation for data to instead becoming "lawyers" trying to find data to support their favorite pre-decided argument (ie their favorite QM interpretation).

Now all of that said, there is a reason why laymen don't make meaningful contributions to a field. Their are deeper complexities that make their intuitions wrong. But why are these flaws in Bohmian never discussed?

Would you mind taking even a few sentences to write up "what's wrong with Bohmian" that would make the infinitely more complex MWI a more likely candidate? I'm lost.

[1] - http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/tti_talks/deBB_10/bush_t...
I want to play the devil's advocate here, but one motivation for meetings generally, is a memory, in some managers head, of a three million dollar disaster that occured strictly because some trivial piece of understanding had not passed from one group to another. It was a piece of knowledge that the first team considered so obvious that it didn't even bear stating. But the second team had no idea.

"Jim", the CEO said to the manager after that incident, "you're a good person, so we want you to stay here. But if we lose another seven figures because the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing on your staff again, it's over."

But there are such better ways of solving that problem!!! Yes, probably, but we have to know that's a problem we're trying to solve.
According to wikipedia, a SID looks like this

S-1-5-21-3623811015-3361044348-30300820-1013

The 3 long numbers in the middle are called "Domain or local computer identifier". Further down it says that each of those numbers are encoded as a 32 bit integer. Assuming they're randomly generated, that's 96 bits of entropy, which is more than enough to uniquely identify every computer on the planet[1].

[1] There might be a few duplicates due to the birthday paradox.
Yes obviously. But practically it doesn’t matter as UDP doesn’t add anything except expanding the addressing to include port numbers. That’s like saying that we must always list all protocols below TCP: TCP/IP/ETH/Copper wire. It doesn’t matter because what you run IP over can be ETH, 802.11, pigeons, door to door salesmen, etc. Same with TCP/UDP: it doesn’t matter if UDP is implemented on top of something other than IP. In fact, if you don’t make a distinction between IPv4 and IPv6, two wildly different protocols, you don’t actually care what TCP runs on top of in a TCP/IP combo.
hopefully this trend will carry over into employment too - run a background check on a prospective employer before you decide to do business with them
You can also implement them both on a FPGA and take performance numbers that way.
> It certainly wasn't easy. It required rigor and discipline and review panels

In other words, it took... engineering.
Major U.S. cities are leaking methane at twice the rate previously believed
The reason this is not going to be useful is that every story I've read or personal anecdote I've been told about landlords involves the person's building being sold to a new owner. Usually the rogue landlord buys a rent controlled building that is barely worth owning so the current owner wants out, and the rogue landlord then proceeds to make the place as unlivable as possible for the current tenants in order to convert the units to market rate when they move out. I don't think many landlords are trying to trick people to move into their buildings just to harass them and throw them out.
Thank you for pointing this out, as a German it's kinda grating to keep on reading this kind of stuff, which also regularly frames the German nuclear exit as some kind of knee-jerk reaction to Fukushima.

When in reality the exit was already decided as far back as 2000, with the Bundestag ratifying it in 2002 [0]. A decision which was backed up by the EGG [1], a regulatory framework to facilitate and subsidize the large scale expansion of renewable energy sources that has been happening in Germany for over a decade now.

As such, I'd like to think we've been a bit ahead of the curve in terms of recognizing the problem and actually doing something against it. In that context, the still on-going use of coal ain't exactly great, but the reasons for that are way more political (miner jobs) than anything else.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomgesetz_(Deutschland)#Novel...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...
I think the difference is the sheer amount of personal data. In the era of the Tsars they tightly controlled what was reported in newspapers about war efforts etc, but that had nothing to do with everyday citizens.

These days, Facebook holds an enormous about of information about all of us, and lets advertisers (including political ones) use it.

A company like Cambridge Analytica could show me an ad saying "Candidate X supports position Y!", knowing that I too support Y. It could then show my neighbor, who is against Y, an ad saying "Candidate X is against Y". And if there's no oversight no one would be any the wiser. That feels significant to me, even if it is a progression of existing trends.
It looks like they can. Look no further than Huawei and ZTE.
There is zero demand since there is rocm support for tensorflow.
Possibly, but if for example you suspect it of being a space based weapon (one of the Salyuts did actually have a gun attached), and it needs to be recovered due to threat of a nuclear war...

If I were a pilot I'd find the idea of people shooting at me 'unpleasant'. Its an accepted part of being a military pilot though.

Plus why are you worried about piddly little thrusters on the way down? You realise what you have to sit on top of to get up there... :P
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This is England. Rent control isn't a thing.
> Leaving aside the fact that rental markets already have a highly asymmetric power dynamic, landlords in the UK already do have a de-facto mechanism for assessing tenants in the form of landlord references. They can also perform various financial checks, such as employer references, or asking for a guarantor.

These are just things they ask for though - there's no special legal power they have to ask for them - you could also ask for the same things from your prospective landlord if you wanted to, and you'd have the same information.

They'd probably decline to provide them and refuse to rent to you, in the same way as you can decline to provide them and refuse to rent from them.
What if I want 0.25 degree adjustments? Can we all make and use a scale that lets me do that? This is a non problem for most of the world’s population. And if it is a problem, we can fix it by creating thermostats that work in C and let you have half degree adjustments. That’s your billion dollar idea.
because the rumor has it that "Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft" and we haven't yet caught google in such embarrassing situation
Doesn't Chrome send your entire browsing history to Google as well?

Edit: I thought this was a well know fact and if it isn't I might have been to harsh about Google and Chrome.

Edit 2: Thinking about it and searching a bit I conclude that IIRC Google at least used to have access to your browsing history as part of syncing it unencrypted.
Is HN really toxic? I haven't noticed.
There's already Glassdoor (although it has become quite spammy - like LinkedIn before Microsoft bought it).
What if ICE thinks it's fake? What if they don't believe you are a tourist?

All of this relies on a judgement call by ICE, and many people do not trust their judgements. Not unjustifiably.
My wife is Greek, I’m Northern European and have lived in Greece for more than 10 years (on and off). This sounds similar to what I have observed except in my view it’s even worse. Greece is a massively corrupt country, on all levels, starting from government/politics and culminating all the way down to day-to-day life.

The Greeks have a tendency to blame the politicians for everything that goes wrong but it’s really the corrupt, disintegrating culture - that they are happy to espouse - that’s most to blame. After all, who is voting these corrupt politicians into power year after year? Terms like “the common good”, “strategic thinking”, “planning for the future” , “unity” are not only completely meaningless to the average Greek but actively frowned upon if not ridiculed. Populism holds sway and people are happy to vote for whatever powermonger ends up promising the most in terms of personal gain. Add to that a vast, monstrously centralized civil sector (the bureaucracy and time wasting here is of epic proportions) and one can quickly see why the country is in shambles. Of all the European countries I’ve lived in, I’d say that Italy is the most similar, corruption-wise.

Something funny: Greece is, I think, the only country in the EU where the “Communist Party” (a direct appendage of the Stalinist era with ties to CCCP) has significant power and is voted into parliament every year. The previous prime minister Tsipras was in fact an offshoot of these hardened communists.

Nevertheless, the country itself, outside the big cities, is beautiful beyond belief. It’s just too bad that the culture is so backwards with no sign of things changing for the better.
Agreed on the dev.to interface. It seems as if it was designed by a child who was late for school.
Half that energy will be lost in conversion to electricity, more if used to move a vehicle.

And recent PPAs for solar in that region are closer to 2 cents, which puts then roughly on par and the prices are still moving, in opposite directions. And if you have the sunshine but not the oil then it becomes a no brainer, why rely on another country with a history of manipulating prices to maximise their profit when you can generate your own electricity.
This is another lie. During the install process Windows 10 pretends to give the option to disable "telemetry".

The you visit the control panel and find that something like 50 "telemetry" options are still enabled.

This is deceitful and evil.
>Who thought that “1 cup of cheese” was a reasonable measurement?,

It’s easier to use a 1 cup scoop to grab something quickly than it is to weigh something out.
Vertical mount may require a change in airflow/fan direction.
I would love to see a source for this.
You don’t see how “even a citizen can take 3+ years detained to prove their citizenship” might be concerning to a green card holder?

I'm a former green card holder, now naturalized. This shit is terrifying to me.
I own a website development company with 180 employees and sadly the ADA has been very abused by ambulance chasing attorneys. I have had several of my customers receive scammy demand letters for missing minor alt tags and things like that.
>That being said, a four byte / 32 bit hash is enough to almost uniquely identify a website. There number of 32 bit numbers and websites is roughly the same order of magnitude.

Why not send less bits (eg. 24 bit) of the hash?
I'm not sure what to make of your linked graph considering there were no nuclear reactors shut down between 2005 and 2011 [0].

8 of them were shut-down in 2011 as they reached the end of their life expectancy, after having been operational for 40+ years.

Would you rather have us keep running old reactors while insisting how absolutely safe and secure they are?

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kernreaktoren_in_Deu...
Temperature sensors in thermostats are nowhere near as precise as you seem to believe. And unless you have calibrated your sous vide to a standard I am willing to bet good money its not anywhere within 1 degree precision (having tested this.. you’re lucky to get +/- 3 C). Also nothing in cooking requires the precision down to fractional degrees C. You’re not going to obtain it anyway, even if you think you are.

Everything you’re saying is all in your head.
Credit checks, criminal background check, employment history check, previous landlord reference are standard parts of a rental application. My landlord has tons of visibility into my finances and history with previous landlords. I know nothing about their books and only online reviews to tell me about their dealings with previous tenants.
"I confirm that I live in the US"

...sure I do
Why can’t the browser request the mapping of the hash to the malicious website that is known and then check if that mapping is indeed what it is seeing?
How does this work? The $2m valuation would be based on income from current tenants, would it not? Most rent control laws, and especially not the one in Oregon, don't retroactively change rents charged to current tenants.

That is unless the $2m valuation is based on a speculative estimate of how much rents will go up in the near future?
Pippins are usually light green(like Granny Smiths) and can be yellow too..with a tinge or red or orange as it’s cap...

no one knows the exact parent of Orange Pippin that used to be known as Cox(after the breeder) but it could have been a Pippin but Cox’s Orange Pippin is a russet/orange.

Having said that, I have a very old Apple tree that came with the house(this is in California) and is probably over 25 years old at least(if not more)...it looks like a Granny Smith but it tastes like a Pippin to me.(not entirely..still reminds me of my favorite Cox Orange Pippin from the UK. Nothing in America compares to Cox Orange Pippin afaik)...I don’t even pick it before first frost. After first frost, something happens to the tart flesh and the sugars as it comes to the surface. It’s magical. I never pick apples before first frost. Not from this tree anyways. I have a newer Gala and it’s ok. The first frost trick doesn’t work on it. I wish I knew the name of my green apple variety.
My sarcasm aside, you do have a point.

There could really come a point when the US and other countries truly makes this their primary global policy priority, and both make the sacrifices themselves and applies what pressure they have on others to make this happen.

My "nuclear attack" option is a caricatured and unrealistic version of this, but a humbler version can certainly happen.

Though the problem with these things is that we're talking about a Public Good. In the strict economic sense: I should do something that's bad for me, but good for everybody. These things strongly tend not to get done unless someone is forcing it done.

Which leads us to a world government. Which actually scares me a lot more than global warming!
Ask HN: How can we improve TUIs?
I've got a problem. I love Terminal UIs, or at least I love the idea of them. For the last ~10 years I've lived in the terminal, Tmux, Vim and Kakoune were my loves. Over the recent year or so, I have grown tired of the plain UI - I long for more advanced UI features. Nothing crazy complex, just UI positions not bound to character sizes, variable character sizes, better underline supports, better animations and etc.

So with wanting all of this I've largely moved out of the Terminal and into other IDEs. It's been nice, and pretty. Yet I can't help but feel the Terminal offered me so much more.

So this morning I had the thought - could the terminal be improved? Could a new terminal be written, with similar ease of development to that of a TUI, but also more advanced features? Maybe a spec that translated basic TUIs into pretty drawn screen widgets?

So I ask you: Do you think TUIs could be improved to give modern "pretty" rendering and features, while also keeping the most of the simplicity of development and interaction that we all know and love with TUIs? How would you see this done?
"non-local variables, or super-determinism, etc. Yuck!"

All of these things are less philosophically objectionable to me than the idea that all outcomes (in some sense) "occur" or that the true substance of the universe is an inaccessible, linearly evolving, quantum mechanical wave function.

I mean seriously - the latter is an enormous enlargement and modification of our ontology. Non-locality and super-determinism are actually much less objectionable. Indeed, before quantum mechanics, we were essentially _certain_ that determinism would win the day.

And we only need to jettison one of them, of which non-locality seems the most plausible. In that view, spacetime emerges from some underlying non-local dynamics. This isn't particularly hard to imagine (see a Smolin paper called "Nonlocal beables" or something like that).
Bob Ross is the only thing good on right now but I do have to say that while the quality isn't the best the stream performance is really nice and stable. Works great.
> N = No media things built-in, so you'll need to install VLC if that's a concern.

Is an understatement, if you play games expect to install the media pack or have many break. Some apps in the office suite also rely on them so if you use that you've created trouble for yourself. Also RDP client/server can't run hardware accelerated since that uses the video playback API.

> And for the HN community... lack of Microsoft Store means that you are not running Ubuntu on Windows.

Not true, the store is a front end and LTSB still supports appx: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual
You can’t copyright a cocktail, so what’s a creative bartender to do?
Sad but true. We already saw a ton of victim-blaming after Katrina.

If the US falls apart before New Orleans drowns, I really hope that the Monarch of the Grand City-State of Nawlins has the sense to allocate a lot of her budget of freshly-minted Fleur-Dou-Bloons to the Krewe of Sewerage and Water, because those pumps are about the only thing keeping the city from being a lake bottom.
> What channels can I watch?
Puffer re-transmits free over-the-air broadcast television signals received by an antenna located on the campus of Stanford University.

Is this legal? Aereo [0] had to shut down because broadcasters sued them for streaming OTA TV signals, which went all the way to the Supreme Court where they lost. Aereo even had an antennae per customer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo
+1 for Racket.
It will have excellent potential in the AI world.
> They'd probably decline to provide them, in the same way as you can decline to provide them.

The consequences of declining are very different for both parties. The landlord moves on to literally any other prospect because everyone else will provide that information. The tenant can move on to only slumlords, who will not insist on a credit/criminal background/reference check. Or they can be homeless.
That's what makes it asymmetric. You need a place to live and need them. They have ample supply of renters that won't ask questions, they don't need you.
Interesting. So why isn't an activist outfit like Generation Rent (the group pushing for this law) working on getting rent control? In the US everyone on the left takes it as a given that rent control is a good thing.
or perhaps from avoiding the draft, then making regular public criticism of the military service of opponents.
A father knitted his baby’s first year of sleep pattern data into a blanket
GP posted:

> Leaving aside the fact that rental markets already have a highly asymmetric power dynamic

You responded:

> They'd probably decline to provide them and refuse to rent to you, in the same way as you can decline to provide them and refuse to rent from them.

This sounds like the definition of an asymmetric power difference to me. Sure, I can refuse to provide financial checks or a guarantor, but that only hurts me. Asking for that information from my landlord also only hurts me as a landlord is likely to avoid me (and tell the other landlords he knows) and go with someone more compliant.
It doesn't help much for people visiting here in the US, but when I travel outside the country I use this handy rhyme:

30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cold
0 is ice
Not if there's an other layer of verification locally. Then you can allow a few false positives with the hash on the remote and they'll get discarded when the full hash is compared locally. That being said 32bits of information seems like quite a lot and can probably used to match the original URL fairly accurately.
Everything you type into the address bar gets considered for possible completion, right? And part of that quite possibly entails sending it off to Google servers which take a stab at finding completions for it. Your claim seems plausible at least.
I’m still hoping someone can prove me wrong: the unlicensed providing of nutrition advice has never caused actual harm to anyone anywhere ever.
You kind of get this already to be fair. Doing a credit check or lookup of any CCJs etc on potentisl tenants is standard procedure. It doesn't tell you if they're loud or will damage the property, but neither would this I guess.
Yes but the person I was replying to said

> Leaving aside the fact that rental markets already have a highly asymmetric power dynamic
> The thing about being able to have remote workers is that it works best when the company culture works in a way where everyone could be remote

Not really. It can make good sense for a company to generally insist on working from the office, but to make reasonable exceptions.

> How do you include them? By making everyone remote.

No, you just take reasonable steps.

> So now in order to accommodate someone you have to change the work environment for everyone

No, you don't.
Maybe I missed it later in the article, but how can you write this without mentioning the app? Consumers need to know:

> Even their tips have a way of vanishing: One app subtracts the amount the customer tips from the amount it pays the courier — effectively pocketing the tip.

EDIT: It's DoorDash. I was a little confused by the description of their trickery to effectively steal a tip. Basically you're tipping DoorDash, not the driver.