skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I helped to write a series of tests that had to create a 200:1 funnel. There was some debate over whether it was less brutal to cut, say, 20:1 and then 10:1, or 10:1 and then 20:1, or perhaps add another stage and cut 10:1, 5:1, 4:1. For every argument for early cuts there was an equal and opposite argument for late cuts. But I think every cut was still equally cruel, since multiplication is commutative.
Do you think everything the US diplomats and presidents said can be open to the public? When US is negotiating with other countries for "the greatness of America", Trump only says pleasant words which is completely legal in both countries?
I had an old website hosted under www. When it was decided to build a new website, to preserve the old content, the new site was built without a leading subdomain.

The problem was that chrome cached www as the default for anyone who'd visited the old site, and had started hiding www from the address bar.

I used Caddy to redirect all requests to the subdomain free site unless the request came with a referrer from that site, fixing the caching and allowing for free navigation between and within both the old and new site.
Exactly. I’m surprised that this point about the legal ramifications isn’t higher up in the thread.

Things get complicated real fast once you move from peddling virtual to physical currencies. I fail to see how the US wont use the same laws to shut them down the way they did to the liberty dollar.
Is this parody? It reads like the kind of thing I would have written in highschool to take the piss out of an annoying teacher
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And has the potential of being tracked by said companies and service providers
There are certainly families and communities that will want to live somewhere that has parking for two vehicles -- which is fine, because that means there will be demand to build such housing, and it will be available at a price that reflects the cost of doing so.

But what's the excuse for passing a law that prohibits the alternative? Can't we have both?
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I'd argue for not trusting a cryptosystem that requires you to use a particular vendor's CPUs. Open standards and independent implementations at every level should be table stakes.
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That’s an impressive number! USGS employs around 8000 according to Wikipedia.
> I can't speak to why it was originally defined, but since the Referer [sic] header has existed for decade

I can remember my Dad getting a mail from someone he linked to that was about to move his website and politely contacted his neighbors on the internet to allow them to update their links.

Very useful at that time.
Yeah, but imagine the possibilities...

Programmable colors.

Programmable taste.

We already do this with genetically modifying food, why not do it with code?!
You can find free OSM PBF data sets. eg. https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/california.ht...
> But I would be receiving a physical object, correct?

Incorrect. The lockdrop is for completely virtual Kong token.

> Yeah, this is an example of a problem that becomes much more likely if you share "printing rights".

Correct, as elucidated above. Likewise each Kong self generates its own private key by design, as outlined in section 2 of the paper. By design, the key is non-extractable.

> Ultimately, I remain unconvinced — this is as proposed today a centralized currency that is almost strictly worse than a government currency

We can't inflate Kong infinitely unlike every other paper fiat currency. We can only print Kong for four years. After that the only digital Kong produced is via lockdrop.
The more you "favor" particular degrees, the faster you you saturate the market with new graduates. The eventual outcome being those jobs are no longer in high demand, nor pay a decent salary
It's a really nice property to have, though-- often on the path of authoritarianism is being threatened and having to pass various kinds of loyalty/political tests... if you could prove your vote this would just help that along.
In a long range configuration, LoRa has a theoretical max throughput of about 140bps (bits) and that's assuming only one device is transmitting and no packet loss.

Human speech has an average rate of 39bps.
Yes! I just placed an offer with the sofer (Hebrew for "scribe") for more scrolls just yesterday. It's still an occupation. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofer )
Could you elaborate on the "better texts"?

Can you give some examples and why/in what respect they are better than (David) Patterson's books? Or are those "better texts" the Ars Technica CPU reviews and manufacturer datasheets that you mentioned in the subsequent sentence?
Correct. It's an industry term for a class of chips.
In my view, I’ve been surprised how much the world has already been willing to attack the problem. More conservative fossil fuel exporting countries like the US and Russia are resisting, but more left leaning and fuel importing countries such as most EU members and China are riving ahead with reforms.

Perhaps as importantly very low carbon and carbon neutral energy and transportation options are becoming cost competitive with fossil fuels right now, without subsidies, and look to be continuing efficiency gains. It’s not inconceivable that carbon free becomes the standard for new vehicles and power plants purely on economic factors in the near-ish future. As that happens, the political constituencies that benefit from carbon tax and other emissions reducing schemes grow and you get a positive feedback loop.

I know I sound a bit Pollyanna ish, but I wasn’t always- I actually expected the word to keep emitting because the near term human costs were high.Recent data on the cost of these options coming down has convinced me otherwise.
They’d probably get sued if some of those portraits were of people still alive today.
On that second point, a perspective note for non-US people who don't realize: Sweden has about the same geographic area as just California. Only covers about 5% of the whole contiguous US.
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We've sold and are selling products to customers. That seems to constitute utility for someone as well as fit into the definition of a "business".
> Excuse me? How can you tell it's a homeless person doing it?

The kind of homeless person who can get clean clothes, a shower, and a shave on a regular basis (let alone a car!) is already doing better than a lot of street people. It's good that those people have options, but catering only to them will not solve the problem, nor will behaving as if the other sort doesn't exist.
And how much real functionality will be sacrificed to this war?
We have several elevator operators in our building. They sit at desks in the service lifts and manage entry for people who don’t have card access to the resident lifts.
I happy to see you got a chance to put your tools/experience to good use helping people. It's horrible what is going on down there with the fires and power situation. I decided to get my license as something to do with my Father, a local club(Delta Amateur Radio Society) was offering a ten week course. I was very surprised at how technical the course and subsequent exam was, I have since moved out to a farm and have not set up my station yet but am currently on a LTE internet connection with a solar backup.

After reading your blog on the fires I think that may have been just the nudge I needed to get back into it.

VE7XML qsl KM6NHH(I messed up my cs in my earlier post!)

Ps just looked up your call sign, its interesting that in the US your licenses expire after 10 years, here in Canada its a lifetime license.
I like that channel, but it really bothers me how they never list any sources in their description. That should be mandatory for all educational channels, IMO.
Couldn't read that in Hong Kong because GoDaddy automatically redirects me to the hk.godaddy.com domain, which doesn't have that article.

Update: If you are like me and can't see the article at your localised GoDaddy.com website, you can (hopefully) select United States at the bottom of the page to force GoDaddy to serve you the US site.
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yea, these days both are equally bad. i mean, apple has the UX on the ipad such that when you say no to updates or to remind you later, it presents you with a login page as if to confirm that’s what you’d like to do but instead installs the updates anyway. you have to look at the bottom of the screen to click remind me later a second time for it to listen to you. before my ipad just up and died, i would pick it up in the afternoon only for it to just then install an update it had downloaded and one i never remember allowing. pretty inconvenient to set there for 15 minutes while it updated when i wanted to use it.
FUSE for macOS is no longer open source
Out of curiosity, how much of your background is in economics?
What is the specific use case of the low bitrate long distance radio? Very basic news dissemination? FidoNet like message relay?
I didn't compress an actual image from 216GB to 17GB. Instead, I created the highest resolution image already as a set of tiles (each one 5000x10000 px). Then I tiled them further in two additional zoom levels, until I got 4x8 square tiles of 1250x1250px. From there I worked backwards merging chunks of 2x2 tiles.

The figure 217 GB comes from the cumulative size of all the pandas DataFrames containing the whole dataset (as mgspack files). The lossless compressed figure comes from the total size of the highest zoom level.

It didn't take that long, it was mostly done overnight (so around 10 hours in a i7 server with 24 GB RAM).
> there isn’t much control over counterfeiting, etc.

Correct, this is the primary challenge of creating sound cryptocurrency and indeed why we go into length about the hardware we use in section 2 of the paper.

> Make a currency exchanger that exchanges bits with a scan of your device, instantaneously, and you’ll have my attention.

Can you elaborate?
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Without any context as to whether it's worse than the encryption in eg WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, this is a pretty useless comment.

Is it "not particularly strong" against nation state adversaries? Or can any script kiddie with a toolbox break it?
Too nice.
If there are more cars than street space for them, the street space is too cheap and the government needs to charge more for it.
You might want to let Motorola know since DMR needs needs multiple orders of magnitude(2-4 kbps) for their voice codec.
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On the other hand, if Keybase continues to grow, network abuse (spam and harassment) is something they'd have to solve eventually anyways.

This has just forced them into coming up with a solution now rather than waiting a few more years when the network's larger.
How to avoid a dystopian future of facial recognition in law enforcement
EMPs aren't really a plausible weapon. Sure you can detonate a nuke, but by that time, you've already launched an ICBM, so you're screwed because of mutually assured destruction.

If you want disrupt an electrical grid, there's a lot of easier -- and less likely to have an obvious calling card -- than setting off a nuke.

And if you're thinking about some other type of EMP weapon, forget it. They're not practical. While a theoretical weapon, they're not a realistic one. It's fantasy.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwxq4v/we-asked-a-militar...

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/world-wont-end-danger...
Cartographers are still needed to design the maps. GIS and map data people have a different skill set than designers, and a lot of careful thought goes into good maps.
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Land only captures all the surplus when construction that increases density is prohibited. What people are really paying for living space, not dirt. A thousand square feet in a ten story building is pretty much just as good as a thousand square feet in a single story building, but the ten story building has ten times as much of it, so at scale more supply lowers the price.

There is also demand for "smallest available unit of housing" which naturally costs more if it's required by law to be larger.
I don't think it is a proxy to how smart someone is. I will take point (2) tho.
Which makes me wonder: who would wake the knocker-upper so they go wake other people on time?

Turtles all the way down. Or maybe a rooster?
If you click on e.g. Bombardier, you find the explanation that this job still exists, it's just called Combat Systems Officer.

Looking through the list, it can pretty much be divided into "hard manual labor replaced by steam engines" and "old word for an occupation that still exists today".
> If this was his intention, he failed miserably at it. As I said above, I have no idea what his interpretation is.

Sorry, but this is a lie. As hard as you might try to be an unfair adjudicator of this conversation, the parent has made it pretty clear what his intent was, as you point out in your desire to avoid engaging in it:

> and I have made it explicitly clear that I have no intention of discussing this topic on this thread.

And there it is. You don't have to say something explicitly to mean it. I've repeatedly tried to tell you that this isn't something you can just mention and pretend to not engage in. The very mention of that anecdote was a nod in the direction of misogyny. You don't need to go through the history of the parent to make a confirmed, attested judgement on the parents character, that one statement he made is good enough to prove that.
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Don't use the web on your phone.
If someone could pull this idea off--or a similar idea around physical cash it could be a huge boon in countries like Venezuela that are primarily cash based still but the local currency is very weak.
Every narrow field has to figure things out that other fields already know. In volunteerism circles, it's not unknown that too intense of a sense of purpose leads to burnout.

My first case of burnout came from a job where my biggest complaint about the CEO was that he didn't know the difference between urgency and panic. His "motivational speeches" were a gut punch every. single. time.

Here was a group of people smart enough to be three years too early to market but couldn't manage people to save their lives. Hindsight is 20/20 but I insisted this at the time: if we slowed down and worked on quality over quantity, we would have lasted longer. We had no competition.

Nobody was eating our lunch. We just couldn't say 'no' to anybody, and so we were constantly writing checks we couldn't cash. Everything was one rung down from Deathmarch, all of the time. I believe this is the company where I first learned the term "The Long Emergency".

Just... take a second. Calm down. Go outside for a couple minutes. Sleep on things. The clarity you gain will make up for a lot of your so-called lost time. It'll make you more effective, which is more important than being efficient.
And most of the produce is exported. California wouldn’t have a water crisis if only Californians used the water.
The cache is the only[1] core-private memory in x86. If you think about the cache as the local storage, there's automatic memory-to-memory DMA between cache and shared main memory :)

[1] Of course there is some architected program state including the registers, fp stack, flags, and various other processor state that can be saved/loaded but let's keep to byte-addressable storage
For a long time, during most of the post war building boom row houses were banned. Most places have relaxed that for new construction.
Switches have MAC addresses.
No amount of math, science, and verified algorithms are going to make someone else value your digital currency... you are still having to trust other people to maintain a somewhat stable value of the asset.

Since this is always going to be true, I am probably going to go with the best bets based on track record... I will use the currencies that have held pretty consistent value over the last 100 years.
When I worked for a small company writing mapping software (non-Google/Apple) we actually hired a full-time cartographer to correctly style the maps and help us with the human interface challenges of displaying map data. A UX generalist may not necessarily have this kind of expertise. I'm sure there aren't many specialized positions like this open but they do exist. I imagine the big mapping companies hire multiple cartographers.
We therefore need to reverse the technological progress that made these jobs obsolete in order to create more jobs for obsolete workers.
Solar is probably a bad example because it's likely to be net profitable.
There is a term “human race”
> However, working in tech in a crowded cubical farm in a massive company, for years, on a topic most people don't care about

That's not the only way to have a tech career, though. Maybe that's the highest-paying option for most people, but you can also do remote work, work for a small company, work less than full time (if you're good enough) etc. Basically there are ways for regular people to have not-super-stressful tech careers. It doesn't sound like there's a way to do that for PhD's unless you're already independently wealthy.
Ask HN: Any good apps for time-zone syncing with remote colleagues?
I'm a team lead in a 100% remote team and I have a ton of calls across 20+ timezones with customers, team members and partners. Been using worldtimebuddy.com for timezone syncing, but it's not perfect. I spend an average 10 mins scheduling a call, which adds up to a lot of time wasted. What time zone app or workflow do you use ?
I disagree both with the premise that denuncing realities of the industry that go unnoticed in a relevant context prevents intellectual curiosity (I believe that as long as it isn't a bandwagon, it actually triggers interesting discussion), and I disagree with the slippery slope argument you present, as it seems quite unfounded.
Here in Japan it's getting difficult to hire for some jobs. One of my local convenience stores just closed because they couldn't hire enough staff to keep it open. I thought it was fairly interesting because there was a kind of local wage war between it (A daily Yamazaki) and the 7-11 across the street. The 7-11 won.

I'm very curious how this turns out given the deflationary economy. Will this drive inflation I wonder?
> ITP now downgrades all cross-site request referrer headers to just the page’s origin

What is meant by cross-site here? Does it mean a different eTLD+1, or a different origin (as used by CORS)?

Specifically, if I make a request from https://www.example.com/path?query to https://api.example.com will the referer header contain the "/path?query"? or will that get blocked as well?
On the flip side of the anecdata I signed up for a thing that could prove I am me in case it ever became useful then they added chat to it and something to do with git and then started spamming me with some cryptocoin bollocks
With my luck, in about 5.5 years when my kid is done with his bachelor's degree.

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I think you're using the word "risk" idiosyncratically. Student loans are unsecured, and most people are done with them by the time they're 23. If they're dischargeable in bankruptcy, for a lot of people, it's irrational not to default on them; the bankruptcy is gone long before your credit history matters.
Have you ever tried applying to remote jobs? You don't necessarily have to move to get paid well!
It's one of the reasons I use OpenStreetMaps, despite it's shortcomings.
Cash doesn't really require verification in most cases, if it looks good its probably good, your possession of the notes is almost certainly enough. You're not really looking for anything other than an obvious counterfeit note.

Whereas Kong requires verification because literally anything could have happened to the note that you can't determine through mere visual inspection (all the things I noted). That forces you through the awkward and painful flow of verifying each Kong note via NFC.
You looked it up, wrote a comment about it, and still didn't explain why this was a fiasco.

So I looked it up too: in 2014, U2 made a new album, "Songs of Innocence", and Apple pushed it to 500m iPhone users without asking. It was just suddenly on their phones. The twitter-o-verse got angry, because sending a tweet is easier than pressing "delete", and because the album looked badly amidst their carefully curated collection of dubstep remixes. Newspapers wrote about the angry twitter-o-verse because they hadn't gotten the memo yet that people are always angry about something on twitter and it's not news and nobody cares.
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“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes going down the highway.” -Andrew Tanenbaum

... or a carrier pidgeon with an SD card, it would seem :-)
Can a Kong manufacturer build custom secure element chips that leak key material? It seems that a lot of Kong's security comes from the security of the little HSM, and if you don't trust the manufacturer then a lot of it seems to break down.

In addition, the paper cites the cost of decapping and side channel equipment as part of what makes double spends impractical. Given that they're fixed costs that undoubtedly many governments and labs already own, it still seems like it could be worth it for some people to extract Kong keys.
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Running into problems on MacOS Catalina 10.15.2 (MacBook Pro 2019 16" model). My mic isn't being detected for some reason. I tried messing with the settings and running the "Latency Calibration" but it just says "We were unable to measure the system latency". Can't determine what's wrong as GarageBand and the System Preferences both show it as working.

Also, just a minor bug I found - if you have a song already loaded then it will play on top of the test tones in the Latency Calibration menu.

Edit:

Some other thoughts. It would be great to show the tuning somewhere while the track is being played. I keep forgetting to tune my guitar until after I've selected the track to play.
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But why would a distro package software that one uses? And why would people use software they cannot easily install? You need some way of breaking the deadlock.
I agree. I couldn't find any statistics, but my impression is that in math, 4-5 years would be typical. At the school I went to, if you started without a Master's degree, 8 years would be roughly (give or take a semester or 2) the maximum amount of time one could spend on a math PhD, so there's no way it can be close to the median time.
Inscrutable may have been a little strong, but just having a re-test here shows me a nine argument curl call in some paths. I'm not saying you can't inspect it, but there is a lot going on there.

I think we're in agreement that a huge binary client is worse, but I'm suggesting there may be a middle ground with a small/simple open source client just for the key management aspect. That said, it does of course rely on people actually looking at the source of such a client ;)
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