skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question (I'm not making the connection on my own, so please help me out): how does giving me the ability to instruct a social network to delete my information (and a law to enforce that instruction) infringe on the network's first amendment rights?
That would be a serious cut into their stock buybacks!
By doing something that is already possible, and has not broken their monopoly?
This is important. I have seen this a lot. Persistence. Many people keep pushing,keep pushing even if there is no positive feedback loop for a long time.
After a while, they beat time.
Kudos.
Good question. I have two kids, so there are some deductions. I don't know for last year yet, because the tax forms aren't yet submitted by my accountant (and last year it was a lot more than the year before). I calculate with about 59% take home pay. Give or take 2-3%.
Ah thanks, that's really good to know!
It looks like your only pricing tier is $10/mo - which is an _insanely_ cheap price in the scheme of things. Keep everyone grandfathered in at the current prices and raise it to at least $25/mo with a premium plan(s) at $100/mo and $350/mo.

I suspect that you'll pretty quickly triple your revenue.
Hey! We’re moving it to row crops to save herbicide. I miss Salinas but stoked with what we’re doing in the Midwest.
> TBH I don't see a future where RIIR every piece of software would make sense

It doesn't necessarily have to be Rust, and it's a process that may take decades. But I really do think that absolutely everything should be rewritten in a memory-safe language (i.e. not C/C++).

The vast majority of security issues are either stupid misconfigurations or memory-safety issues. And currently most security initiatives are undermined by the fact that they're resting on insecure foundations. Imagine if our computing platforms were truly secure. It would be a revolution, and IMO it's a revolution that's coming.
Thank you for the explanation!

I myself (not a native speaker) am very pedantic about setting all my software to enUS and turn all spell checking off. (I can't even stand the linter underline in VS for example, it ruins my focus, especially when it underlines as I type and then lags before disappearing at the end of the word)

The only place where I use spellcheck is e-mail at work to avoid typos.
Over the years I've learned to proofread my messages before sending them and touch typing helps a ton as well.
They're using a "clever trick" to approximately evaluate the overall gate from this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10749 which is computationally cheaper than doing a "brute force" simulation (which scales linearly in the number of gates), but it quickly becomes worse as you increase the number of gates. That's basically what it says.

It looks like Martinis' group thought a "brute-force" simulation for 54 qubits is impossible, and this appoximate and "clever trick" is the only way to go at this number of qubits, but IBM says that with some different tricks, 54 qubits is still doable (I'm just guessing what they were thinking, and this is the only plausible explanation I can think of).

Overall, a discussion which has nothing to do with quantum supremacy really...

Whether it is a factor of a million or thousand though, the gap between a quantum computer will increase exponentially as the number of qubits is increased. This is fact, assuming quantum mechanics is correct.

Actually, physicists have been trying to deal with this painful fact for quite a long time: it is also the reason why many body physics is so hard computationally and we spent almost a century to develop approximate methods to calculate even the simplest idealistic situations even with hundreds or thousands of atoms using density functional theory, quantum monte carlo etc etc.
The whole idea of quantum computation is to turn this difficulty upside down and try to use it into our advantage.
A Journey into Journey’s Sand Shader
You certainly can export a single node - just depends on your expectations. For example, the Indieweb has already done this in a way that I find acceptable. My blog (kickscondor.com) syndicates all the comments to every post (including deeply nested ones.) And it also captures a copy of all posts that I respond to (all the way up the chain going backwards.) This is sufficient for me. No need to export anything - it's already there in my own storage. You could also say that you'd need a snapshot of the entire Internet to provide context - but that's Just unreasonable.

I think the a Web itself already has had a 'network effect' larger than that of Facebook or any individual subnetwork.
Just watch _House of Lies_. Marty Kaan and Associates will kick the ass of your McKinsey folks.

This fantastic show really gets at what consultants are doing. It was based on a book by a real management consultant. They all have their MBAs from the good schools. You go to a company, figure out what the ceo wants you to decide and is paying you to 'investigate', and then support them with a complicated opinion with numbers and accounting details (that a lot of people aren't going to investigate too carefully or refute). Offer 80% of what they need at that time, and a continuing contract to figure out the rest.
I didn't quite understand how Dreamcast died. Recent studies and company show that piracy isn't that much of an issue. The real added value is the confidence you can have that the player can't cheat - which is good for online competitive games.

The Dreamcast was killed because of the PS2, according to Wikipedia (but I'm not knowledgeable about the issue).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

https://www.mcvuk.com/no-evidence-that-piracy-affects-video-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast
Agreed. I'm all for experimental economics, but let's not exaggerate the generalizability of a result. Better to see it as a particular form of theory that needs to be backed up empirically in more real world contexts.
I am also using TiddlyWiki, but I just use it locally with almost all the defaults and no fancy formatting.

It's a little different than a traditional wiki in that each "page" (called a "tiddler") is not really designed as a "page" that you view, but rather a snippet, which can be of any length. You can link between them and whatnot as in any wiki.

The killer features for me are support for

* code syntax highlighting

* LaTeX math with KaTeX

* adding in media (pictures, screenshots, etc. beyond just plain text)

* creating dynamic/aggregate tiddlers based on tags. For example, the code to create a list of links to all my tiddlers tagged with both `blog` and `ideas` is:

`<<list-links "[tag[blog]tag[ideas]]">>`
To use a RPG analogy, managers tank for the team. They produce visibility little output. Their job is to keep the team focused on what they do.

Without a manager, team members need to justify a $5 expense to finance, deal with back and forth iterative design with product team, argue that the hardware partner isn't delivering what they promised, deal with security expectations from bigger partners. There's a lot of unnecessary meetings in there and you don't want the people doing the work to be in them.

Without a manager, the CEO sits next to your back end guy, rants about bugs that the guy is already fixing, and pokes him for update schedule progress every four hours.

It is possible for middle management to get bloated, but this is sort of a response like we have too many meetings, therefore we need more people to handle meetings.
What's far more tiresome to me is someone picking a completely pointless fight with some detail of some comment as if the rest of the comment did not exist.

I've lived without a car in the US for over a decade. I no longer have a driver's license. I would like to see America become more pedestrian friendly and bicycle friendly.

I don't think you accomplish that by arguing that "Well, you just do everything exactly like the Dutch!" I think that's a lazy, unhelpful and disrespectful answer that actively ignores real and meaningful differences between the literal and figurative landscapes of the two countries.

It's not good communication to say "Just do everything exactly like the Dutch." If you want real solutions in the US, you need to think in a more nuanced way about what pieces of the Dutch experience you can reasonably use in the US, taking into account real differences between the two places.

Ignoring the differences between Europe and America very often comes across as open contempt for Americans and their presumed stupidity and laziness. It's not an effective means to promote actionable ideas.

No one is likely to take advice that they are just wrong and stupid and lazy and should wholesale copy a system that works well elsewhere without bothering to examine differences between the two places and trying to make some alterations that will hopefully result in a better fit.

Based on the comment I replied to, I feel like San Diego, California could try to borrow ideas from the Netherlands without a lot of critique beforehand. But LA has vastly different weather from Paris and a very different landscape and history of development. So, no, you aren't realistically going to replicate Paris in LA.

I will also note that they have been rioting in Paris. Paris is not some perfect paradise that has figured everything out and never has any problems.

Claims of European superiority are frequently overblown.
This press release contains a lot of trivial errors.

> Compatible Scanner (in the header menu)

should be "Compatibility"

> not sustainable to run a company and pay salleries

"salaries"

> it is not provide to provide

not "viable"?

> we think a paid upgrade is fair for continuously developing, improvements, and support

"for continuous development, improvements, and support"

> support a product indefinetly for free

"indefinitely"

> It creates an artificial frontier between users and developers.

"frontier" - word choice. "barrier"?

> Developer can not inform users

"The developer" (or "A")

I'm not going to keep doing this because I'm sure that this comment would grow too long.

It doesn't hurt to run a spell checker over your public facing material, you know. I'm open to hearing this developer's criticism of Apple, but given the lack of effort in publishing this simple press release, I'm not exactly opposed to this additional "frontier" standing between their software and my less-tech-savvy friends' and colleagues' Mac computers.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins $1M Berggruen Prize
> I could only wish he was replying email on this latest MacBook Pro and decide to throw the damn thing out of the Window. Calling up Engineers at midnight and demand this to be fix or redesigned ASAP.

I think part of Apple's issue is that Cook isn't that the guy at the top isn't a product guy -- it's the guy at the top could do (and from some rumors, possibly does?) his job with an iPad. I feel like, under Cook's tenure as CEO, the Mac has lagged, while the iPad significantly improved. Part of that is that the Mac was a mature platform when he took over, but a big part of that is that Cook can provide some of that Jobs-ian top-down product feedback that designers must listen to.
Why Devs (Should) Like Estimates
Hi! Also based in Germany. Send me a message if you want to chat.
>20 mph is far, far faster than "casual biking". Most people can't maintain 20mph much less 12mph.

Maybe if your country is flat as a pancake. If there's hills, then yes, people really can hit 20mph, even with casual bikes.
A lot of the time, the danger with unsafe code is doing a thing like passing a null pointer into a function that can’t handle null pointers, or using something before it is instantiated. So the interface should force those things not to happen (with the type system or a constructor or...). This doesn’t prevent the c code from being buggy, but it makes it much easier to use, since you can ensure that you’re maintaining the invariants.
> If I'm on facebook and want to export all my comments, that would require exporting all the status updates of the people who's posts I've commented on

The bill [1] is ambiguous on the definition of user data (§ 2(9)). There is latitude with this definition, from rich portability (as you describe) to bare-bones portability (simply metadata, e.g. X commented on Y's post on such and such data).

> There's no such thing as exporting a single node in a network, you need the entire network

Graphs are divisible. My export need not contain every user in Kazakhstan's data.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/431507473/GOE19968
Well done! I like the style and artwork.

Can you share how the business model for this sort of site works? I’ve seen a ton of this style (Unsplash, etc.) and always assumes it’s based on AdSense or similar.

Is that the case here?
Someone I cofounded a startup with has written a vimwiki->website publishing thing. It's quite a fun idea. https://github.com/ajkavanagh/vimwik-publishing-system
Because converting a type to a string isn't trivial. It needs to be defined for that type.

Rust does have a pair of traits that can be used, Display [1] and Debug [2]. Display must be implemented manually by the author of a type, while Debug can be automatically derived if all the members of a type implement Debug. Like this:

#[derive(Debug)]
struct Foo {

}

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/trait.Display.html

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/trait.Debug.html
Ask HN: What is your preferred ESP in terms of deliverability?
HN turned me on to Postmark for transactional emailing and I haven't looked back since then. So, I'm curious to know what the best Email Service Providers are for marketing email campaigns in terms of deliverability.

I have experience using:

* MailChimp
* Constant Contact
* Hubspot
* Autopilot

and I haven't really found one that gets it right as far as B2B deliverability goes.
Epic Games Store: Nearly one year from launch, how is it to use?
Haha sorry should've been much clearer, I meant specifically computer power benchmarking.

You perform busywork, if for marketing purposes usually of the kind or at least set up in a way favorable to your product, and on the presumption that it will in some manner transfer to real work.

The more synthetic the less likely that is, but it's still indicative of something and I don't see what you mean is so different here.
Tech: CRISPR-CAS9 and better bioengineering. It's slow going stuff, but hot damn, is it ever powerful. By definition it plays well with itself. The 'cross products' are tough to deal with, thus the slow going part, but when it does mesh, man oh man!

Geo-Political: Africa's rise. ~2.5 Billion people are going to be born in Africa in the next 50 years. By 2050, the median wage for a family in Africa is going to be ~$65k/yr (in 2010 dollars). Most families will have 2 kids or less there. Africa is transitioning from stage 1-2 into stage 3-4. From walking and bicycles to cars and planes. Those markets and those young people will be very thirsty for better goods, services, education, financial planning, democratic representation, etc. Generally, the center of global trade is going to shift from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean and the people that ring the old monsoon markets. Addis Abba's already has a metro system that serves ~700k people a day. The bullet train from Nairobi to Mombassa is already going ~300km/hr. Kenya already has a ~600MW geothermal power station (~1/3 of Hoover Dam). Nigeria's Eko Atlantic project is ~half done with reclaiming ~200 Manhattan's worth of land area from the Atlantic Ocean. It's 'Great Wall of Africa' is mostly done now and is proofed to the worst climate change can throw at it, due in part to the 8 weather satellites that Nigeria has currently in orbit. Africa is going to be where a young, vibrant, well educated, culturally diverse, middle class is trying to make it's mark and improve the lives of their children. It is most assuredly not a place of 'shit-hole countries', and The Import-Export Bank of China knows this. The West should know to shelve the racism, and fast, for the good of it's geo-political future and it's pocket-book.
> When was a Bloomberg subscription ever free?

I don't think anyone is claiming that a full Bloomberg news subscription should be free. He's talking about the practice of popping up a paywall after baiting the reader with a few seconds of reading time and a few free articles. This was introduced around May 2018.

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/05/03/bloomberg-goes-behin...
In almost every other context in which risk of physical harm comes up the overwhelmingly dominant opinion is that forgoing any means of reducing that risk is a non-starter more or less regardless of cost. Anyone suggesting that risk and cost/benefit need to be assessed is received about as well as someone proclaiming god doesn't exist in the middle of a church circa 1500.

As a safety heretic I fully agree with you that people can make their own decisions on helmet use but why should cycling get special treatment here? On every other issue of physical safety the HN gods have ruled the other way.
Yeah, super weird. Surely they could just slap the font viewer thing right there above the fold and be like, "this is it, here it is."
That's true, if you pre-sample you can beat the test. Is that the effect you think the calibration is having?

> Once you lose coherence, you have to re-calibrate

I didn't realize this, where did you see that?
That would be correct if the bytes were a string encoded in utf-8, but that's probably not the case for the output of a hash function.
This is actually a lot of what the Holacracy system does (though most business mags get it totally wrong in the US -- less so in the EU).

Unlike some of the fad "flat"/structureless stuff that just eliminates managers, Holacracy focuses on decentralizing those management functions that still need to exist (because management is needed, even if there are no managers) in roles and processes, and reducing the "Lead Link"/"Circle Lead" role in each team to something that takes ~10% of a person's time and is focused around the garbage collection for the team and helping the team get problems out of their way.
Thanks for sharing. Do you have stress or anxiety that some other competitor will gain market? Future technology change worries etc.
BSD is also an application desert compared to GNU/linux. It's always going to be a scale between user desires and security needs. BSD is rock solid but moves glacially slow. Most devs need more speed than that. Most users demand it. There's a reason despite the elitist attitude the Arch Illuminati take that people want Arch. It's a really stable bleeding edge release.
I have it set to only contacts. I'm looking at the share sheet right now: there is no one in that list that is within WiFi range. My wife: at work in Redmond. Dog walk girl: at school, in Redmond. My mother: 3000 miles away in Florida. My bluegrass pickin' buddies..., oh, you get the point. Me: at work in Bellevue, WA.

But you prompted me to remember: "Aha! AirDrop uses a different icon than what I see right now!" Observe the following:

https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/i...

Note the contact on the left, and icon: it's the AirDrop icon. But the rest have a Messages icon. That, I'm assuming, comes from contacts I've recently messaged and has nothing to do with AirDrop. I could have my phone on airplane mode, and those still show up.
...heavily covered in the media because he or she aligns with the orginization's goals (sell headlines) is not 'fake'.

"Heavily covered in the media", that's an interesting criterion for "whistleblower", and I'm sure it would serve someone's interests if it got any traction. Also "critical thinking" is now defined as "believing what the war media tell us"? This would be Orwellian, if it weren't so silly.
Website link?
> My blog (kickscondor.com) syndicates all the comments to every post

What does this mean?
As shown in sibling comments, it's pretty easily picked up on both statistically and just by reading their speeches that his are simpler. I'm not really a ML expert, so I can't necessarily comment to that making it easier to make a Trumpbot, but my gut reaction is that it would if for no other reason that this sort of text works better for generators like Markov chains.

For what it's worth, I don't like Obama - but it would be churlish to deny he's a top-tier orator.
By happy ending they mean less of a bad end.

These kind of effects have to be modeled using feedback with threshold models. Such as when a specific value exceeds a threshold, another effect, typically next feedback step, is enabled.

E.g. if temperature exceeds x, additional input of methane is added to atmosphere, if sea level exceeds y, then half of San Francisco has to move, if mean strength of storms exceeds z, ten global sea trade is reduced, if temperature exceeds w then droughts are increased etc. These are input to another feedback model which evaluates societal impacts.

Unfortunately such models are very hard to evaluate numerically. It is semi-discrete nonlinear optimization. Very chaotic.
Hi HN!

If anyone hasn't read Max Dubler's 2017 PetaPixel blog post 'No, You Can’t Use My Photos On Your Brand’s Instagram For Free'. I'd highly recommend it.

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/13/no-cant-use-photos-brands-i...

There is a huge amount of copyright infringement that goes on on Instagram, but to be fair to users there isn't really any decent framework in place to make sure they're reposting legally.

I built Sharefair over the last few months, it currently is only accessible if you have a creator account (currently limited by Instagram's new API). But I'm hoping to include all account types in the next few months.

Let me know what you guys think!
VSCode with calva extension seems better alternative.
They don't like the approval process and don't want to pay Apple 30%.

Useless article.
If a worst case to simulate on a classical computer is 2.5 days (per IBM's blog) then they should either:

1. Actually preform the experiment per their approach, compare the results, and provide tangible proof in the coming days.

or

2. Retract their claims.

In either case, exciting times ahead.

[Edit: Yes, I read their published paper[1] which only claims it is possible to achieve and does not perform the same experiment.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.09534.pdf]
There has to be conversation. There are some who just want to shut it down with 'bigot-transphobe' type spit-words. Gotta let it grow. Transcend the offended feeling.
Sure but what did they lie about to the FISA court?
From what I know is that you can peer the Lightsail (AWS-managed) VPC with your normal, default EC2 VPC via the Lightsail console. Then you launch EC2 instances in the default VPC for the transfer
Everyone should watch the series House of Lies, that completely supports this description ;-) It's the most enjoyable and subversive show about the world of business ever.
Same as a npm package is usually js code and doesn't require you to run the typescript compiler, a dist tarball shouldn't require you to run autotools but just contain their output.
How do you postulate a team's output without their manager or with a different manager?
Exactly, he generally seems to get dragged on by the guest, especially if they have a strong personality. Someone like Neil DeGrasse Tyson will call out Joe on make he starts saying bollox like the moon landing conspiracies. But then other people will go on the conspiracy path with him and let him spew shit neither of them understand.
My apologies for the tone. I should have said that the best route to understanding the issue is probably via the linked post - it worked for me.
Show HN: Like TikTok, but for Podcasts
I think this is also a good primer into golang inheritance and composition, which are major concepts in successful golang programming.
I run a data analysis bot that looks for patterns which occur prior to a price breaktrough on Telegram.

https://t.me/BitAssist

I monetize via a subscription-based model.