skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt we will win anything from this. Some advertising provider will provide an easily-runnable proxy and say "we give you double CPM if you give us the logged-in user's email address". Now you have even less privacy.

Third-party requests with cookies made it easy to start tracking people across sites... but there are other ways if that is made to stop working. Given how much money flows through the advertising industry, I am sure someone will pay for the week or so of engineering to make advertising more invasive.
From reading the wiki page, and a few others, I think that the main benefit that was being marketed was that the monorail design could turn with a smaller radius. This would allow you to put track in places where you couldn’t put a traditional two rail track. The gyroscopic effect made it so that the cars themselves could lean (and I believe do so automatically) more than railcars of the age.
That's like saying that the Ubuntu kernel is based on code for Linux.
That's what the 'A' in APR means. It's pretty clear.

If I take out a £100000 loan with an APR of 2% and pay it back in full at the end of the first year, then the total amount I pay back is £102000. Apart from any early repayment charges, the original total term is irrelevant.

When taking out such a large sum, over such a duration for buying your home, the total amount to repay is not the important aspect. It's not like taking out a loan to buy a car or a holiday. You don't have the option of choosing between buying now with a loan, or saving up for a few more months or years to buy without one.

Affordability of the regular repayments over the duration of the loan is the key thing.

There is absolutely no way I would take out a loan of that size with fixed interest in the way you describe. It would be far too expensive, and give the bank too much power.

I'm relying on the fact that I can make large overpayments in order to own my home outright halfway through the original term. That couldn't happen without an annual interest rate. In fact, the most logical thing to do in that situation is to stretch the loan out for as long as possible, so that inflation makes your repayments cheaper.

For a rough example -

Imagine you bought a house for £100K 5 years ago, the interest is such that over 20 years it will cost £150K total (e.g. 3.5% over 25 years).

You have probably paid about 30K, taking about £15K off the capital.

You sell the house for the same amount you bought it. With annual interest, you owe the bank £85K, you give them that, and use the spare 15K for your next home.

With a fixed price, you still owe the bank £120K. You give them the £100K you got from selling the house, and you somehow have to find £20K to pay them the rest.
Poorly.

Unless you game the system, that is. If you ever see a "hero", they're either incompetent but putting in extra effort or setting up the events.
Here are a couple that have changed my life:

- Learn the basics of how to meditate. Any of the top guided meditation mobile apps is enough to get started, as is an hour with a teacher.

- Learn to create a WordPress blog. Doing this was the first step on my path to becoming a developer, learning about online marketing and even meeting some of my best friends!
Interesting idea, I like the sound of that.
Currently I use uBlock Origin's "Block Element" function to block "non-ad" components of websites that bother me (HN orange top bar for example). Something similar that was "trained" based on my/crowd input would be an interesting start.
> The group I was in was a mix - probably 40% of people who definitely were going through a tricky time in their life (if wearing a T-shirt with “nobody loves me” may be any indication of that). And most of the remaining ones were the happy looking bunch.

My session felt similar, the older people in the group seeming to be dealing with ongoing issues from past experiences, whereas the younger people while very sincere about the whole thing seeming to be mostly there more for spirituality as a lifestyle reasons. They all seemed happy and extremely supportive of each other.

> With my “effects” of the hyperventilation being the cramps, and the “funny” moment during the debrief, I didn’t get any enlightenment :-) I won’t really call it a scam - since most if not all of our perception of the world is defined by the brain chemistry, much like with drugs, I can see how this may have some effects - especially with some preconditioning. If it helps someone - why not. Placebo is a powerful mechanism.

I'm very curious, have you ever taken a significant amount of psychedelic drugs followed by sitting in a quiet dark room for several hours? My intuition suggests not.
Sublime was the leader before VSCode and it had python plugins. VSCode is popular because it works so well with TypeScript
The British military have the same problems.

It's disgusting how a prestigious military force has been reduced to a pitiful size reliant on contractors to install airconditioning units, weekend warriors who fly in and out on short tours and vehicles that have had "extended life" programs instead of making new ones.

Meanwhile the Russians and Chinese have been building next generation ground, air and sea units. The UK have two aircraft carriers which were designed in the early 2000s.

Sure we have our own innovative equipment but as the article says, they are operated and maintained by civilian technicians.

Are the technicians going to fly in to a warzone or if push comes to shove pickup a M4/SA80/G36/FAL/Famas and fight when the Russians come rolling through the Fulda gap.
The Great Healing
Sure. To sort of preface this here by ruining my credibility, I was once previously witness to an "actual" UFO, before I was in the military (in the company of several others including a police officer, however still unexplained). Anyway, the thing I was talking about was much less "that kind" of UFO than something with components I may be able to explain but which I did not then and still do not today completely recognize. What I and others in my (infantry) unit saw were vehicles with a kind of very low frequency pulsejet propulsion system in the night sky above a certain large Iraqi city, flying in from the south (ish) and making a big U-turn before flying from whence they came (ish). You'll have to trust me when I tell you these were yellowish flashes from some kind of fuel detonations and not flight lights, given the flashes would appear bright, expand quickly, and then fade out over 1-3 seconds while maintaining a static or near-static position in the sky. However unlike any pulsejet system I've ever heard of, these flashes would occur only about once every 5-10 seconds, albeit at very regular intervals. They were also completely silent. There were no other flight lights of any kind, and they only ever flew at night. Through nightvision, we could very briefly see the fuselage streaking forward after each explosion, but otherwise not visible. I suspect they were painted black, as were many other kinds of aircraft we were accustomed to seeing (including of course some otherwise completely normal-looking civilian-ish aircraft whose operators would rather everyone simply forgot existed). The object through thermal optics were almost exactly the same, with the explosions visible (as hot), and what must have been the fuselage briefly visible streaking away from the explosion (also hot, though nowhere near as hot as the explosions). I never saw these things drop or fire munitions. But also neither were they ever seen to have been fired at, which I mention only because that's what we first thought it may have been, however incredibly unlikely, until we noted the interval regularity and these sightings became a not-uncommon occurrence in the night sky. However I did once witness some "normal" jet aircraft (flashing white flight lights) vaguely shadow one of these objects through it's U-turn and continue on at a slower speed after it. Just to be clear: I can't be certain if the flashes were actually propelling the fuselage forward, so I don't mean to imply the "streaking" was any kind of discernible acceleration, but rather just was the only other visible component of this thing at any time.
That's a pretty big claim. It potentially means the theory got close to a unified theory. Can a real physicist chime in?
A friend's parent raises bison. He was checking the herd out from horseback. The bull decided "fuck you in particular" and charged. Bison can hit 65 km/h. Average horse with rider galloping is ~45km/h. He would have been in trouble if his dog didn't distract it in time for him to get away.
New to me as well, but referenced here :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory
At what point does spamming the tracking endpoint with crap data become the next tool?
Honest question: What's the distribution of savings going into your portfolio in those 10 years?

Quick napkin math doesn't grant you any "great passive income" from "$200" and "extra pennies" for 10 years.

I'm not trying to be rude, but with incomplete data you're sending both the signals you want, as well as completely opposite signals. The latter suggest that in reality you just made a lot of money for the last 5+ years, which completely invalidates what I think you wanted to convey.
It's a matter of proportions. Everybody had copies in the 80s but it wasn't perfect replica and infinitely feasible to distribute, so creators didn't care too much. Some did care.. there were copy protections of various kinds (IIRC Nintendo cartridges has some checks).
Ask HN: Are there any online courses about composing electronic music?
Want to try myself in writing some music, but applications like Fruity loops scare my with it excessive functionality. I want to start with some basics and maybe finishing with kind of assignment to write a actual track to be evaluated by pros.
Ask HN: What do you use for bulk search engine use?
Hi everyone! I'm trying to run a query on about ~10M searches and haven't been able to find any info on how to actually do this in a legitimate way. Are there any services you've seen or can recommend? THANK YOU!
That's probably just Hollywood Accounting, where everything makes a loss so you don't have to pay out to anyone who signed up for a share of the profits:

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

e.g. Apparently the Lord of the Rings movies made losses using these rules...
New programming languages aren’t usually examples of novel advances in type theory. They’re usually just novel combinations of existing features. They’re still “bleeding edge” in the sense that they’re what the industry will be using in 20 years.
Not the OP, but I think they were joking; the argument that Hollywood was making when the VCR came out was that because of how easy it was to make copies, there will be no more film industry, they're going to be broke, and it will be the death of media.

And of course that was ridiculous; the film industry still does well, despite (and some may argue in some cases because of) piracy.

EDIT:

I forgot to point out that because of how easy the copy-process became with VHS (and most of the other subsequent video recording and distribution media that followed), it greatly lowered the bar for regular people to start making movies or other kind of art projects. Stuff that these movie studios argued existed purely to pirate media gave the regular person access to a lot of the same tools that were previously prohibitively expensive for the average consumer. For example, I used to make home movies as a kid with my VHS camcorder, and used a VHS bootlegging setup (two VCRs, one hooked into the record input of the other) to edit them.
Sum algebraic data types in C
User Support in Krita,:)
My experience has been that the divide in culture tends to coincide with union/non-union workplaces.
This is objectively better than the face on Mars.
That looks interesting; adding that to my to-read list. Related to stealth, but less technical, is Ben Rich's "Skunk Works":

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0751515035/
Ask HN: How do you manage multiple projects and tasks?
I am having hard time managing projects and tasks.

How do you manage multiple projects and errands?
Contrast that with today in Canada, where telecoms are trying to sue big box retailers and their customers because they sold blank Android STBs:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/best-buy-staples-canada-com...

It’s like the 2003 RIAA dinosaurs have been resurrected.
most spy satellites aren't geostationary?
Maybe uMatrix is blocking them somehow? I've never seen an ad, even on channels I don't follow or subscribe to. My rulesets are very strict, but you're right, if they really come through the video stream I don't know how I'm blocking it.
Comprehensive GNU Readline Shortcuts Guide for Vi and Emacs Editing Modes
>I don't care if gamers nor teenagers want it, as long as developers make money and people like me use it the business model will work.

But it won't, because if 'gamers' and teenagers don't want it, people like you won't be enough to support it.
Unpublished Stanley Milgram data casts doubts on his claims about obedience
A busy public torrent is a bad predictor for me because my main bottleneck for most traffic seems to be after my ISP (i.e. their uplink or their international connection - possibly due to shaping and not a hard limit) not the 'last mile', so if a torrent has a single peer that's local then I can get multiple times larger speed than usually. Though with fiber in most cases speed can be ignored, as it's simply "enough" or limited by the server capacity on the other side.
My thinking was, hey if I can learn to fret my guitar chords with my left hand, than I can learn to use the mouse. I also hold the knife in my right and fork in my left.
Beside the question of "Why", looking at the Glassdoor reviews doesn't inspire confidence.
I wouldn't consider that "piracy", and certainly at the launch of the DVD player it wasn't considered piracy either. It may have been turned into an infringement by the DMCA, and it was a breach of the DVD-CSS licensing agreement by the manufacturer, but not actually piracy.

And of course other countries than region 1 were unsympathetic to it, as it prevented them from watching things.

(It was this that taught me the heuristic that if you want a piece of consumer electronics with maximum format support and convenience features, it should be the cheapest and most Chinese version you can find; expensive e.g. Sony kit is heavily loaded with "protection" antifeatures.)
The only reason I can think of why region locks were even a thing is that there was probably a price difference for DVDs depending on region - $15 in the one country, $5 for the same movie elsewhere.
I'm using NextCloud for that. Nextcloud can be basically used in local-first mode (mimicking dropbox).

My phone automatically uploads all pictures to the NextCloud.
Then there are apps. For instance I use Nextcloud with the Music app to stream my own mp3s from my Nextcloud to my phone running Ampache.

There are also collaborative editing tools, and various options to edit all sort of documents in a web UI, and always the local editing fallback (or the opposite way, as you see fit).
> they can't understand the ethically reprehensible decisions they make

Selection effect. Those who thought through what they were doing quit. Those remaining are happy to turn a blind eye for a paycheque (out of greed and/or necessity).
> The UK have two aircraft carriers which were designed in the early 2000s.

That's sparkling new for an aircraft carrier tho, and it's two more seaworthy carriers than Russia has.
Learn to sit "zazen" (seated meditation). Even 30 minutes is enough to convey the basics of posture, breathing technique, and context; actually practice a first meditation for 10 minutes; and briefly discuss afterwards. I received such instruction following my cancer diagnosis about 7 years ago, and have made meditation part of my daily ritual ever since. It's been transformative.
I think they were at the same school but not in the same class. There's a theory (more fun than plausible) that Hitler was influenced by Wittgenstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jew_of_Linz

One of the problems with the theory is perhaps that other children at school are unlikely to have known about Wittgenstein's Jewish ancestry: his immediate family were practising Roman Catholics; one doesn't normally advertise the religion of one's grandparents.

Of course if Hitler also denied remembering Wittgenstein that would be another problem with the theory. The linked Wikipedia page doesn't seem to mention that.
Meme's are just inside jokes shared with a larger group (be it sub communities on the internet, or basically the entire internet). The creative outlet for regular people was the same, just on a smaller scale.
It's fun to see the contrast to paper magazines.

Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful. I used to read ads in magazines and I still sometimes do. It doesn't give me a bad feeling, at worst/best I'll just emit an indifferent "huh", and proceed to the next page.

And I've never, ever seen a single internet advertisement that wouldn't make me irritated and start gradually boiling my blood. Early Google-style ad boxes were closest to bearable so far but I still never read them nor showed any slightest interest in them. They were just kind enough to not irritate that much but merely be mentally blocked right off the bat.

I can't stand a web page with ads yet I would find a magazine boring without them. I don't think it's the ads: I think it's the presentation and the media that differs between paper and web. My eyes can wander to an ad and then back to text quite easily on paper, but my browser can't fit several columns of the article and a full-page ad on the same screen. This either-or proposition interrupts my reading and causes agitation. On paper I'm in control, on web I'm not.
> This implies that metal objects were the principal features of these times, when they are simply often the most visible and long-lasting remnants.

I'm not an archeologist so I probably lack a lot of context, but I assume metal requires more advanced technology to acquire. It seems kind of logical to me to name a period after its most advanced technology.
* All content mirrored on IPFS or Storj or whatever

* All transactions on the content made available and properly structured into a DAG of signed documents

* Make the API public and open source so people can run their own peers (basically, federation of access points)
archive.is

Copy/paste url

Doesn't work 100% of the time but usually does.
I (and I think I speak for most of us- so this is clarifying for later readers) don't object to ads as long as they are not trackers.

The next anti-tracking technology should include fake tracking.
I've started to think that we, as individual humans, are far more of a statistical phenomenon than we would like.

I predict that at some point, once the mathematics have been distilled out from quantum mechanics, and extended to n-dimensional "particles", that humans behavior will be predicted by some sort of a n-dimensional wave equation (with values of n in the thousands or hundreds of thousands).
If I've understood correctly, the compiling step is verified but the parsing and assembly steps are not, and no bugs have been found where valid input would have been compiled to valid but wrong assembly. I didn't see a statement about this on CompCert's web site though.
I've earnt that as a monthly figure as a London contractor.

There is a market if you're willing to play the game.
I wasn’t quite alive when this happened so I have to go off of the stories my parents told me (but neither are tech savvy and would have no reason to lie), but when VHS was first a thing in the early 80s, my parents had two VCRs (they had a Betamax in the late 70s too I think — they aren’t tech savvy but my dad loves his gadgets) and used to go to the local video store regularly to make copies of the tapes. Apparently there was a whole informal trading ring of tapes amongst the teenage employees and the rich yuppies in their 30s (my parents and their friends).

The net result was I had tapes copies of lots of the Disney movies that didn’t come to home video, in some cases, for more than a decade after I was born.

I figured out how to program and dub tapes on the VCR when I was 3 or 4, my first real interaction with technology.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I helped run a massive Direct Connect hub off the Georgia Tech/Georgia State Dora backbones my freshmen year of college.
Then the solution is to stop consuming things with unacceptable levels of advertisements. Unfortunately, given what the situation is on television channels, movies, and social media these days, that level is extremely high for most people.
It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title, visited the museum earlier this year, the model is a bit hidden in the back of the museum. It is a great museum and they have so many interesting things there.
You likely aren’t running VR on Stadia, either, as it doesn’t support VR.
Because one likes the features available only in Chrome? I haven’t check recently and don’t know if this is still accurate, but Chromium used to not have the PDF reader and DRM support (for Netflix, etc.)
> I've been running my own mail server for 20+ years ...

Out of curiosity, where does your MTA live? Do you have a VPS? VM/instance at a cloud provider? ISP with static IP? Other?
Doesn’t it depend on the size and variety of your dataset?

I can see “random” performing well in a set of <1000 videos, all on similar subject spaces (eg “memes”, or “python”), but recommending relevant stuff gets much harder as the amount of content grows...
If it's not targeted at tech savvy users (even then, most tech savvy users wouldn't care) and you don't feel any moral/personal drive, don't bother.
Which on Windows is basically IE11 (not an environment I really want to develop in).
Why is Turing complete important here?

You can easily generate a static document with ads, doing the heavy lifting on the server.
These are 5 games between Deepmind's AlphaStar and probably the best human Starcraft player. They are analysed in detail by a pundit who is also a good Starcraft player.

I find it awe-inspiring to see how AlphaStar has mastered so many aspects of this complex game, especially impressive is that it seems to have strong high-level strategies. Previous versions of AlphaStar often had glaring deficiencies, but on these 5 games, not really.

I can remember Kasparov vs Deep Blue, then AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, and now this is another level again. If computers can win at Starcraft, then what games can't they do?
The hour when I learn a lot is when I talk with my grandfather or elder people. They have a lot of knowledge to share.
Just to clarify, as I said it was not an ad tracker, all data was ours and ours only. It was 1st party tracking using a 3rd party service that was blocked by ad blockers. Anyway we don't use cookies for *.mycompany.com, and it was a session-less website.
Dutch startup Blendle tried to do this, working with national newspapers to sell articles on a per-article basis. NY Times was one of their investors.
A new Quantitative translation of dog-to-human aging
> M4/SA80/G36/FAL/Famas and fight when the Russians come rolling through the Fulda gap.

Not to be a downer, but judging by the most recent European land war (the one in Ukraine) just picking up a "M4/SA80/G36/FAL/Famas" won't do that much in terms of stopping the enemy, you need kick-ass artillery and a kick-ass air-force, otherwise you're just sending those men into a meat grinder. That, of course, if we don't engage in a nuclear war, in which case the discussion is totally different.
If I wouldn't tell my salary to my parent or friends, I won't tell it to some random recruiter. They get lies when they ask for salary.

The people you _should_ tell your salary to are colleagues at similar levels, especially those from often-underpaid groups (immigrants, women, etc.).