skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Anki a trademark? If someone wants to make a tool called AnkiSuper, is that allowed? I'm not a big fan of the UI/UX. So I am thinking of scratching an itch.
>To say that all cryptocurrency equates to gambling is just foolish.

Speculating on a volatile asset, as an admitted layman, based on non-news is gambling, period.

>bitcoin still has an average annual return of 350%

Utterly irrelevant to all of the buyers in at $15,000+.
Presumably the other key holders are in a different jurisdiction.
Jokes aside it's pretty silly comparing a 10 year market to a 50/50 game of luck

Sure anyone can lose money and it's a gamble, but it's an educated one, roulette is not
Entangled particles can be produced in a tabletop experiment, no need for an LHC.
The best indie book shops I’ve been to have a kind of dank cramped feel to them, it’s not nice.

Plus they carry used books, I always love finding the old math/engineering/music books. I don’t think B&N even carries used fiction.
You might also try my website (and soon to be app) Seedlang: http://www.seedlang.com. It is a site for learning German, and later this year Spanish, French, and English. It uses video flashcards to create different learning experiences, and ties them all together with a Anki-like review deck where any word or sentence encountered on the site can be saved.
>I'm not saying Bitcoin doesn't have speculative value, but you have to be already an experienced analyst and trader

If you buy and hold for multiple years, on average you will make 350% a year, very similarly to how you would see a certain level of average annual returns from buying and holding on the conventional stock market. The growth is being fueled by the adoption of a new technology.
> Ctrl+L feels as convenient as c+Enter

I learned to hit Ctrl with my palms, and never looked back. Do you use your pinky? If so, I agree c+Enter is more convenient than ctrl+L.
Yes. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2020/03/04/indias-apex-court...
Misquoting Futurama, "they are technically correct, the best kind of correct."
I picked the ASRock X570 Taichi since I needed 3 PCIe slots and it was on sale for ~$260. Very happy with it and yeah I'm not overclocking or using any of the quasi-overclock settings either.
That would qualify as a filter...
What can also help is linking to the related Jira ticket (or whichever issue tracking system you use).

And separate "cleanup" commits from commits that make meaningful changes. A commit that changes every line in a file because it's fixing incorrect indenting is fine. A commit that does that but also introduces a small functional change, makes that change invisible.
I think Mr Brinn hadn't seen the dumpster fire that is

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor
In this phase of blockchain/cryptocurrency a link is created between the two worlds that is neither cryptoanarchist nor anticrypto. We are seeing different strategies on how states are dealing with this. For example, Germany initiatives [1] are different than US state based ones [2].

Even if we don't agree, cryptocurrencies are now an unstoppable force. We can say that the worst case scenario for cryptocurrencies would be to share the same destiny as the BitTorrent protocol [3] where there is a lot of usage but is not popular. Cryptocurrencies are moving beyond BitTorrent fate because there are many financial institutions, regulators, etc that are connecting these two worlds.

Ironically, it is more practical to use stable coins for global transfers than the volatile currencies in the permissionless blockchains that host these stable coins [4], and also more practical and cheaper than a wire transfer between two US accounts.

I am not saying that cryptocurrencies are not used for illicit purposes also, or that there is some magic intrinsic value behind them. Just saying the in the political context cryptocurrencies are gaining territory.

[1] Germany on chain: National Blockchain Strategy Released - https://medium.com/@philippsandner/germany-national-blockcha... & Bitcoin officially recognized as a legal financial instrument in Germany: https://www.somagnews.com/bitcoin-officially-recognized-lega...

[2] State Regulations on Virtual Currency and Blockchain Technologies: https://www.carltonfields.com/insights/publications/2018/sta...

[3] File-Sharing and VPN Traffic Grow Explosively: https://torrentfreak.com/filesharing-and-vpn-traffic-grow-ex...

[4] The Rise of Stable Coins: Beyond Facebook Libra: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-stable-coins-beyond-face...
Its certainly posssoble but convincing all internet users to use your alternative DNS is difficult.

Why would Wikipedia.org register on your DNS if most US users will not get their new address as they're pointed to the Ethos DNS by default by their ISP.

See projects like https://www.opennic.org/ for a DNS alternative.
AWS Lambda with SAM local?
The top of the story features an example where human recognition was not sufficient:

> One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain, was having dinner at Cipriani, an upscale Italian restaurant in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, when his daughter, Andrea, walked in. She was on a date with a man Mr. Catsimatidis didn’t recognize. After the couple sat down at another table, Mr. Catsimatidis asked a waiter to go over and take a photo.

> Mr. Catsimatidis then uploaded the picture to a facial recognition app, Clearview AI, on his phone. The start-up behind the app has a database of billions of photos, scraped from sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Within seconds, Mr. Catsimatidis was viewing a collection of photos of the mystery man, along with the web addresses where they appeared: His daughter’s date was a venture capitalist from San Francisco.

> “I wanted to make sure he wasn’t a charlatan,” said Mr. Catsimatidis, who then texted the man’s bio to his daughter.
What's Figma?
The project here is quite neat. But I wonder if your idea would also work and ask myself how competent the forensic teams of airport security really are. Or even if they are, they certainly don't have a lot of time per device.

IT specialists are expensive and it would be shame if we waste that on something benign as airport security which was mainly established by paranoia and the wish to save face.

An what exactly are they targeting? Are they looking for howToBlowUpAnAirplane.txt? Just some industrial espionage? Just some display of authority? I don't really get what would prompt these measures.

Was there ever anything they found on a device someone took on a plane?
> everyone is in soup since encrypted data is easy enough to detect...

This is only half-true. Any secure encryption is going to result in ciphertext that is indistinguishable from random data.

In cases where the ciphertext is designated by a header or file format, then it's trivial to know that something is encrypted. Then there are cases where we can try to forensically determine that there's encrypted data via the existence of an encryption tool (e.g. VeraCrypt).

If you wipe a disk with random data, for example, then it would be relatively difficult to determine whether or not the disk is encrypted (implying that there are no headers on it). In fact, one method of wiping disks is to generate a random encryption key and encrypt a stream from /dev/zero to fill the disk (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Drive_preparat...).

This tool is making use of a VeraCrypt hidden volume which is a rather really interesting application of plausible deniability in cryptography. Essentially, this let's you have two volumes where both are encrypted, but each has a different key. In this setup, you'd put some files on one of the volumes to make it appear that it's your "used" volume. On the other "hidden" volume, you'd place the real files you want to keep safe.

In a case where the government is demanding that you release your encryption keys, you would give up the keys to the "fake" volume. Unless you divulge the keys to the "real" volume, the attackers wouldn't necessarily know that it exists.

Unless there's evidence of you using one (maybe chat logs or google searches asking for help on using it, for example), there's no reason for anyone to suspect you use it.

The VeraCrypt documentation explains the technical details (https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Hidden%20Volume.html) well enough.
>The Twitter and Amazon logos are infantile. The General Electric and IBM logos aren't. The Facebook "f" is more or less neutral, but the font chosen for the full "facebook" logotype wouldn't be out of place on the cover of an early reading book.

This seems very culture-specific. Hard, blocky typefaces like in the IBM logo don't scream mature to me--they just are what the main design preference of a bygone era was. The GE logo has squiggles that make it almost cartoonish, but it also clearly looks like something designed a hundred years ago. GE's ads 70 years ago were packed with color and cartoon characters[1], yet today they're held as an example of "mature" while flat design with solid text is immature.

I'm still unconvinced that this is anything more than "Old is good and mature. New design decisions are immature and bad for society." The same arguments were used against people reading books, people watching movies, rock and roll music, and so on. Within those realms, some things are steps back, but it's hard to say that they were regressive for humanity as a whole. Saying choosing a popular font is infantilizing is kind of stretching it. In 40 years, Amazon's current logo will make people think of grandpa's house and the good ol' days. 250 years ago, I'm sure someone was complaining about cursive replacing gothic blackletters being a sign of societal decline.

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/05/91/9805918dd46921330298...
That only means that the "named system" moves upwards, somewhere. It doesn't mean you don't have "pets".

P.S. I consider "pet vs cattle" to be a horrible metaphor that should be taken behind the barn and short like the diseased plague bearer it is.
How Singapore uses tech to manage Coronavirus
If you're only trying to slip by a cursory inspection, mount the second drive in your computer but don't attach any cables to it. Could be trickier depending on how drives are mounted in your laptop.
Using it to learn an alphabet effectively probably requires more upfront work (setting up and improving the cards) than you’d expect. It’s not just 1 letter = 1 card.

You want to memorise the entire alphabet as a sequence not just as individual letters. So you need cards of little overlapping sequences, like ABC, BCD, etc. The supermemo essays cover this scenario. With that work in place you’d learn it quickly.

As just separate letters divorced of any meaning, not hooked up with any other neurons in your brain, you’d struggle to ever recall it quickly.

This is a detail that people overlook and then wonder why it’s not working. (Not picking on you for doing that: I did the same before eventually reading way too much about it)
Whether something is gambling depends on what odds you're taking. If your odds are consistently better than 50%, then it's not gambling. Whether something is gambling describes your decisions, not their outcomes. An outcome never affects the quality of the decision: if you win a 1%-odds-to-win bet, the decision to take it was irregardless bad.
That makes sense for a full time employee. That does not make sense when there is no set schedule to begin with.
perhaps people do gitflow incorrectly? I've been using it for several years and, on teams of about 10-15 people, have rarely had merge conflicts. Feature branches should be short-lived and therefore avoid conflicts. Hotfixes pose a risk to conflicts, but that's their nature. Say you have bug in production code and you fix it via a hotfix and some other developer stepped on that code on the develop branch, you should have a human reviewing the bug fix's merge with the new feature in development.

I really didn't understand this post. To me, it seemed like someone writing a critical perspective of a process they don't fully understand. I know it's not because of a lack of documentation, git flow has been blogged about ad nauseam.

I have friends who use different branching strategies who complain constantly about the same pain points the author brought up. The only thing I agreed with the author with is to find a strategy that works.
As an abstract digital artist I find most of these not interesting enough for me but the real issue is a GAN cannot make images that are big enough to print without looking like crap or taking forever. A decent sized 30x30in looks good at 300 dpi which is 81M pixels. I need a decent computer and video card to work at this size. A GAN would need to be massively bigger to function at this scale.
Indeed PostgreSQL is a good example of fairly old software (>20 years) that is highly reliable and well used. How many people needing a database complain that they have to have something that has been written, and re-written, in recent years?
But i would argue that whoever had the idea with the 2x size grill has an ass where a head typically is
thank you, this is amazing
If you buy and hold during the last 2 years, how much would you make on average per year?
This site is barely accessible with a screen reader. Lots of unlabeled graphical elements, and no obvious way to change the country from T&T.
Google App Engine has been exactly this since 2008.
The trick is to ensure you are never near all the people who know the secret when there is the possibility of trouble. That makes kidnapping everyone harder.

Of course if you really worry about such things you shouldn't be trusting the other people you are working with either...
The next problem is of people making assumptions about other people based on their social media presence. How does he decide whether he's a charlatan?
s/you will/you would have/ please.
Past performance does not guarantee future performance.
A design tool: https://www.figma.com
That really doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Bitcoin is well known and widely used at this point, even if it hasn’t reached its maximum audience it’s approaching that. Contrast the stock market who’s potential is capped by a combination of fossil fuels and the solar radiation flowing into the earth, which we’re no where near using efficiently, and you can see why they’re not at all in the same category.
sounds like a great new idea for phone scammers; try to con people into downloading their covid research project.
Haskell at 200 MPH: Interview with Arseniy Seroka
Also worth noting is that South Korea is considered to be a country with a serious gambling problem
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/11/119_255191.h...
This is partly due to the fact that upward mobility in South Korea is notoriously hard without the right connections and also the reason why the country went full YOLO on ICOs in 2017.

Still even with the current ruling only spot exchanges are legal and derivates are still not allowed which means koreans exchanges are still not allowed to offer shitcoin futures with 125x leverage.
How about evolutionary growth model:

- severe cases are quarantined

- mild cases keep spreading

- evolutionary pressure causes the virus to become less deadly

- deadliness drops to flu levels at which point it stops being actively tracked
That's why they're average annual returns, and the idea is to hold for multiple years. The same could be said about people who bought stocks and real estate in 2007.
I've used spaced repetition to help learn stuff in general. It's one of the most rewarding things I've done. Some general thoughts:

1. A lot of spaced repetition apps don't optimize for fast card creation. I like to make a card as soon as I come across something interesting, but the delay to get Anki started, and to create the card, etc just makes it frustrating. I wound up building my own app for this.

2. Cloze deletion is surprisingly effective. For those who don't know, cloze deletion involves taking a sentence, blanking the interesting parts out e.g. "The moon landing happened on _______", and trying to recall the blank parts. This is effective because it's a quick way to make cards, thus solving the problem of slow card creation.

3. I fared better with lots of small, one-sentence cards. My rule of thumb is that a card should fit in a tweet.

4. Subjectively speaking, using spaced repetition didn't just help me recall stuff in my cards, it also helped me recall stuff in general.
Lazy evaluation in Haskell: foldl vs. foldr
If the government succeeds in getting advanced ML/AI type software classified as arms (that idea comes up from time to time in the context of reducing industrial espionage) then in the US that would naturally lend itself to the argument that private ownership and operation of these sorts of surveillance systems are protected under the 2A.

The arguments traditionally used to prevent private ownership of the kind of arms that let you go toe to toe with a modern military don't really work very well for software.
> Even if we don't agree, cryptocurrencies are now an unstoppable force.

I'm sorry, but this is far from obvious.

> We can say that the worst case scenario for cryptocurrencies would be to share the same destiny as the BitTorrent protocol [3] where there is a lot of usage but is not popular.

Actually, the worst case is a crash and the whole scene collapsing in a mess of criminal trials and bitter recriminations.

Just because cryptocurrencies are 'legalised' doesn't mean a whole lot for the long term. In fact I would hope to see this sort of thing result in much more active enforcement of existing legal and financial protections, something the cryptocurrency scene has been unnervingly able to dodge so far.

> gaining territory

Not in many places. They seem to be seen by most folks I encounter as both passe (that was so 2017!) and basically as crimebux.

I'm also enjoying the frantic handwaving away of power usage concerns in the wake of the current rebirth of the green movement, post Thunberg.
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Not just the kids.

I was paddling with my 3 year old daughter by the shore while my 9 year old was playing with his cousin futher up the beach (and in front of the lifeguard station).

My father-in-law (late 60's) wanted to join the two 9 year olds who had swam a short distance to a sandbar, and were in knee depth water.

The old man got into difficulty, I dropped my daughter back with the family and asked my wife to have a look at her old man.

She said he was fine, he's been swimming here for years.

I recognised the pattern of short quick breaths and short quick movements. Each small wave was sapping energy from him.

I ran to help and reached him quickly. People nearby had recognised the danger but were too afraid of stepping out of their depth to help a stranger. Ultimately, nobody on the crowded beach was prepared to take any risk to themselves to help (which I can understand).

On arrival, I realised I did not know what to do. I held him above the water for a few seconds, which meant submerging myself for the same duration. He was now a dead-weight, who had lost all control. I repeated this twice more, until I felt there was a risk to my own safety.

I swam/dragged/paddled/crawled with one arm the short (12 meters) to shore. I was close to becoming exhausted myself.

Later that night over a bbq, the family asked why he simply did not turn around. The time between tiring, and panicking/exhausting he said was too short, and he was so close to reaching the sandbar.

My wife did not believe he had been in danger until that chat over the bbq.

He is alive today because one member of the family recognise the signs of drowning. Being inclose proximity to the lifeguard station which was manned, had no bearing on the outcome.
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Clothing is so overpriced. A name-brand button-up shirt or pair of jeans is not worth $55 to me. Buying the first shirt and getting the next for 50% off (so 25% off both shirts) is still insulting.

When I go to JCPenny, Macy's, or other stores at our dying mall (I think that might be all that's left), I head straight for the clearance rack. I'll buy those clothes for $10 or $15, or less.

It's a low price, and I feel like I'm getting a "$55 shirt" for $10.
It takes almost no time to reinstall an OS, install a few games from steam.

If you want you don't even need to wipe your install and have a bit more time to spend, you can dual boot and remove the other boot option temporarily from GRUB / MBR or whatever the windows equivalent was.

Or fetch out a few github repos if you don't want to install steam games. :)
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the basic math in his article wasn't undefined
I’ve been to one of the new stores. It should have been like that ten years ago.

I remember Borders saying they suffered defeat by not getting their ordering from publishers worked out correctly. They wouldn’t stock the right books based on demand and that was one of the reasons they failed.

Hoping BN can make this work.
Just tried to use it. What's with the Anki UX? You can't just install the mobile app and start downloading shared decks to use.
My favourite quote was:

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

I guess buying diary of a genius as a young teenager set me on a bad path.
HN worships AI - something of questionable value that has yet to deliver on its promises (self driving cars?) - and despises cryptocurrency / blockchain - something that went from 0 to $250 billion market cap in a decade. The delusion is stunning.

Keep commenting about how the entire industry is worthless, blockchain is a scam, the entire world is being conned, etc. etc. etc. Be sure to call a self-driving car to come pick you up after work.
Wouldn't they see that the laptop have 2 drives on their x-ray scanner ?
These aren't being properly submitted under DMCA, Youtube is proactively matching audio to submitted samples.
Unlike "This Person Does Not Exist", this artwork does, I should think, now exist.

Is it possible to create artwork that doesn't exist?
yeah it seems like it's almost standard in the US; I can't get those options here, even with a full package of options. I know of automated cruise control and braking, lane keeping systems and such. It's just that manufacturers will always equip as little as they can in a market. US might be helped by regulation/NTHS/insurance. I think there was a fuss about how the same models in Mexico are just a bit cheaper but come with much less safety due to less regulation/pressure.
The nature of the source is the reason they are correlated in that particular way (that is effectively what entanglement is achieving, at least in this simple example). In particular, the source in the classic Bell inequalities produced particles that had opposite spins (guaranteed by conservation of angular momentum).

But that's effectively just a description of the problem. It doesn't really help you come up with a local hidden-variable theory of QM could produce the same "correlation" vs angle curve.

The problem (in computer science terms) is that you need to come up with an algorithm (which for a given particle (A or B) takes some state (called lA or lB), and an angle parameter (oA and oB)) that gives you an output which has the statistical distribution which agrees with QM if you randomly sample lA and lB values. In other words, write an algorithm such that the "correlation" of Measure(oA, lA) and Measure(oB, lB) is always equal to precisely -cos(|oA - oB|) without using global variables. It turns out this is (provably) impossible.

NOTE: In the real experiment you're actually measuring in 3D, so the angles should actually be unit vectors and the angle difference is actually (a function of) the dot product.