skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe charities can use G Suite for free, plus I know for sure there is a setting where you can tell them to store your data in the EU, US or no preference. However I don't believe there's a way to tell them to use the UK specifically.
Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter from Light
I work with ML. Even a dense vector can be relatively high-dimensional (something like 128-D is common)
I'd love to use Geometric / Clifford algebra for rotations of these vectors; the notation is much more intuitive. However, last time I tried using this library, it insists on generating all the N-vectors, of which there's a combinatoral amount w.r.t. the number of dimensions. For rotations, I really only need bivectors (IIRC)

Is there a way to use Geometric Algebra for higher dimensions?
Couldn’t you apply this to all political scoops during a political campaign, when the reporter is on the opposing side —so all opposition reporters would not be journalists in this take.
When was the last time you read a news article about a topic where you are an expert, and walked away from it thinking that it would help laymen better understand the topic?

Journalism is a bit of a personal frustration of mine. It's so important to the function of our society to have an informed population, but we don't, and it's because of the consistent lying that is done by journalists that we don't. Maybe not solely, but the news is one of our primary sense organs, and it's currently broken, or perhaps worse: it's currently on psychadelic drugs and is telling us things that aren't real. If it goes on long enough, we're going to end up schitzophrenic as a society. I think that at the very least we are in the middle of a metaphorical psychotic break. I hope we recover from it, and I really wish that the journalists would at least try to help us, instead of blatantly trying fuel it.

And while we're at it: shut down twitter. It's the drug dealer give our sensemaking organs the drugs.
you guys really don't know that the virus if fake?
you guys really don't know that the virus is fake?
Laughing out Loud
What is particularly nice about hacker news is that this comment didn’t actually generate a notification. OP has to actively decide “I want to look at that conversation again”, and then navigate to it.
You're off by a century or two, but otherwise...

In all seriousness, the press has always been the friend of the powerful - whether moneyed interests, politicians, academics and so on. You don't write for the NYT or WP or Fox News or whatever you want unless your beliefs align with the interests of their owners, their advertisers, their lobby groups etc. And even if you may write for them, you'll absolutely not be editing for them unless your beliefs align with all of the above.

It's not some massive conspiracy or anything like that - it's just the way people and organizations work. No manager will hire or promote (or continue paying) someone whose opinions significantly disagree with their own, and the same is true of the manager's manager and so on.

Much of this is also highly related to the owners of the media outlet. There have been historical examples of moguls buying newspapers and requiring gushing reviews of any of their businesses, and vitriolic attacks of their competitors - political partisanship is a step down from that as freedom of the press goes.
> Looking back we had no idea how close we were to the end

This rings very true for me.

My dad died of brain cancer going on five years ago now.

He was diagnosed in 2014. They were clear the prognosis was not good. One or two years at best.

They removed the tumor as soon as they found it, and he returned basically to normal. There was a weird settling in of what it all meant and treatments that were meant to stall things a while.

But since the tumor was small, he was able to function and be basically his old self.

We had our first daughter in the fall of 2015. He was there to meet her. Everything felt like it was looking up.

Three weeks later, on my first day back to work, I got a call at 10:30. "The cancer is back." I took the day off.

At Christmas, he was definitely starting to act goofy and be more forgetful. We'd have to distract him so he didn't try to go plow the driveway or do things like that.

It became a question of "do we go up every weekend, or can we take this weekend off?"

And then at the beginning of February things started getting really bad and my mom moved him into a nursing home in town. That lasted for a little less than a week I think. Then it was clear this was the end.

So we came up in the middle of the week. Sat by his bedside for hours on end. Held his hand.

My dad had two things he'd always say about dying:

1. When someone comes to die, they need someone to hold their hand.

2. People need permission to die. Otherwise they will hang on way longer than they otherwise would.

So I held his hand for a couple days. And then on maybe the third evening, it became pretty clear he was deteriorating.

So I leaned over, kissed him on the head, told him that he'd done a great job raising me and my brother, and that it was okay and we'd be here till the end.

And then we watched him die. I think it was about 4am when he finally passed.

I never remember what day it was, but I do remember that Lent had just started and he died the morning of Transfiguration Sunday. Which the internet tells me was Feb 7, 2016.

There's a Deathcab for Cutie song, "Love is watching someone die." It's the truth. You have to love someone a lot to be there through that.

Anyway, to come back around, it all just went so much faster than you think it would. Especially towards the end.

It took a little over a month for "Dad's acting funny again" to turn into "Dad died last night".
Aliexpress is interesting. They actually have a pretty developed dispute model with a number of stages. Works "reasonably".

Amazon though - the scam level / trash level is just ridiculous.

The other thing - there are a TON of products that are the same, with only the brand / label different. I just did a search for fans, and 5 or 6 models had the EXACT same shape, look, everything, only difference was the name of the "company" making them. Not so useful when you are browsing around to have to wade through so much similar schlock, and weird they can't use AI to add a bit of differentiation.

I think they just don't really care at this point, and it's working for them sort of. I've switched a bunch of recent purchasing to home depot though - shipment speeds have been fine and more importantly accurate. I think some of the old school players may (finally) be catching on to what made amazon popular.
Thanks! I've sent you an email.
Alexei Navalny’s condition has improved
Again I don't get it. If a site wants to they can serve ads inline right now, without making client side requests to ad servers and ublock can't do anything about it. And first party cookies don't do any good for tracking so it doesn't matter if they come in the bundle. The ad trackers want to see where you go across multiple sites and there's no simple way to do that w/out 3rd party cookies (although you can use browser fingerprinting)
At the end of the day, they're just another competitor in the Attention Economy. Their coverage of Big Tech for example makes a ton more sense if you view it as going after your competitors, rather than some high-minded Truth Seeking.

I mean, it's not all bullshit, every participant has some differentiating angle they believe in, like Googles Organizing the World's Information, Facebook's Connecting People, NY Times' Paper of Record etc.
The Trouble with Disparity
> "It's a common misconception that free speech ... affects private companies"

Incorrect, it is the US First Amendment that doesn't affect private companies but the First Amendment != freedom of speech. Your statement is a uniquely American misconception.

Freedom of speech, as a philosophy, affects everyone. That's why the ACLU has historically defended some rather deplorable people; liberal principles matter.
Assange is on record dismissing both candidates in the 2016 election as terrible choices, and the DNC / Clinton documents WL released also included oppo-research on Trump.

Wikileaks publications preceding and during the 2016 campaigns weren't targeted at damaging Clinton, as much as the Clinton camp and its surrogates like to claim. It was about informing the public, which is exactly what journalism is supposed to do. What people subsequently do with that information is entirely up to them.
Understanding Web Performance Monitoring
Post-Quantum Cryptography for Python
The data could be better presented in a simple graph. Besides the website is sending a request twice a second for whatever reason and it takes quite a long time for data to update after moving the slider, can't even tell if data I'm looking at is correct or stale.

Not something worth repeatedly spamming Show HN with
Isn’t the perceived brightness depend on surrounding colors and many other variables such as motion, incident illumination, etc?

Those things cannot be part of a specification such as CIE or NCS.
root-and-branch overhaul sounds intimidating. I think it would usually be better to go with a gradual incremental approach. Still, an overview of desired changes from a user's perspective will no doubt be useful to whoever leads the dev team.
The Battle of Blair Mountain
With the increasing polarization, there will have to be some point. For example, right now, Fox News at least mention negative news relating to the president, and the NY Times at least acknowledge Trump's existence.

In the future, I predict the newspapers will be naked propagandists. If they judge that some thing someone says or does is going to be bad for their party, they will just ignore it outright or lie about it.

In 2016, Fox News had people criticizing Trump, and CNN were (unintentionally) signal-boosting him by letting him dominate the news coverage. In say 2024, I think that Fox News will fire anyone who says anything bad about the Republican nominee, and CNN will not mention them by name on air.
I generally agree with you that a lot of lineages, particularly the Theravada derived ones here in the west, might go overboard with body denial practices. The meditations from the Satipatthana sutra are great, but I feel like you can get caught in trying to prove everything is suffering if you don’t have enough grounding in other parts of Buddhist teachings because of them. Like all of the sutras it can point you in a direction, but we shouldn’t be caught up in them.

Personally, in my meditation practice, it was completely transformed and deepened when I began a dedicated asana practice and focused on giving my body what it needs to be strong and in touch with what it is saying.
Because you have a wave of far leftest SJW activity that is sheltering people from any critical thinking, making "safe spaces" where people become too fragile to engage with anyone of differing or opposing ideologies. Disengaging the context of words and giving them absolute meanings (e.g. the entire master/slave fiasco, as if the words "master" and "slave" or others have inherent evil, as opposed to the context they're used in, or the case with the Chinese word used here in the article).
Regardless of what you, downvoter, believes -

thinking on something outside yourself is helpful, even empirically. You might not agree with the specific flavour, but even something as bare and nonspiritual as Seneca can help.
That is one point of view. The other point of view is that when you give an organisation (government/large company/ngo/whatever) power to enforce controls on speech, that power could be used for good as well as ill.
On the Nightmare Trail of Lyme Disease (2009)
Well exactly - this is the problem. When reporting documented, verifiable evidence is treated as 'political activism by journalists', everyone should be worried.
I think they are the enemy of the people and our nation. Neither side can be trusted to deliver unbiased information and instead do their best to invoke feelings of fear, hostility, anger, hatred, but most of all fear in an effort to sell more commercial time/clicks/papers. And a large part of both sides look to their news outlet to confirm their bias and at the same time grow their bias based on the latest injustice/tragedy/incomprehensible outrage, further driving the (two) sides further apart, growing their hatred for the other side, fear that the other side is going to end their way of life, so on.

People still mostly believe what they watch and read, blindly. Especially when it coincides with their own views. And by making up more lies, more exaggerations, or making it seem like we are all going to die if Trump/Biden gets elected as the next God, they are perpetually making things worse with each story.

How hard is it to be honest and unbiased? Isn't that your job anyway?
You can test it out for yourself.

You don’t need to identify as a Buddhist to come to the conclusion that you are not your body.
Thanks for the links, I may find these communities useful in the future, but it isn't what I had in mind.

Apart from a SE-like platform, I can imagine a site where repair engineers collaboratively build an akinator-like problem classification algorithm.
One wonders how this method was discovered...
I tried to buy some higher end digital calipers last week and almost all the top reviews are instructions on how to tell if they are fakes or not. And the reviews from people getting fakes are giving the item one star which goes against the actual item’s rating.
Don’t Waste Your Time Buying Bitcoin If You Don’t Have These 5 Qualities
Numeric limits like this are far more common than you might think.

Besides the well known Y2K mitigation, there were some problems on day 10,000 when four characters to represent days since the epoch overflowed, mid 90s for Unix derived systems and I believe VMS as well. None were civilization threatening.

We also had Second One Billion in early 2000s. Also no public catastrophes.

Next big one is 2038, when 32-bit Unix timekeeping overflows.
Trump mentions Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, all the time. But of course journalists themselves also have power. The power to decide what information reaches their readers, how it is presented - that is power. Not bossing around mail clerks.
There's even a book on media analysis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858477

or, for those who prefer a shorter textbook form:

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/01130770R/PDF/0113077...
(confer analytical outline on ¶ 45, pp 18-20)

Ancient Aliens as pedagogical example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23721423

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqoyl2p8_lw
For those who would like to read, but stuck behind paywall: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/36666
A few months back I did a few experiments with this package. It allows GA-ish notation in a Python script by providing GA types and operators. It this didn't exists, you would want to write it yourself, and probably do is far less well.

I can't speak to performance. I was using it as a GA interactive calculator while I tried to wrap my mind around GA.
I've been purchasing pc parts from ebay and honestly I've found it at least as reliable and with better prices to boot.
Sure, I've had the opportunity, but as I said, I never saw the point of it.

I met my wife walking around in a park and commenting the art for display there. It was like 2PM in the afternoon, so the topic of drinks didn't really come up.
> you cant really jump to ANY letter on screen without vim plugin

There are Ace Jump [0] plugins for most IDEs. imo, easier to use and more powerful than stock vi navigation commands.

> huge majority of IDE users do not use keyboard shortcuts but browser trough its GUIs

Does it count if you "browse the GUI" without ever touching the mouse?

I use the "search everywhere" [1] dialog in JetBrains by pressing double-shift all the time. When I used emacs, I would M-x tab-complete commands all the time. Same thing.

Which requires more effort: pressing 4-ish keys to spell out an editor command you use only a few times a day or trying to memorize every arcane key combination?

Also, does tabbing in the emacs command buffer count as "browsing the GUI?" I think so.

I say it all the time, but I think a lot of power vi/emacs users have not touched a modern IDE in a long time. Everything is keyboard accessible nowadays, and I would argue vastly more discoverable compared to vi/emacs.

I also think that there is a strange magical thinking-esque hang-up against any UI that can't be drawn in a terminal.

[0] https://github.com/acejump/AceJump

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/searching-everywhere.htm...
Christian faith would have you believe it is God's will that you perish at His time of choosing. He also loves you.
>If your public administration software sucks, you are voting the wrong people into public office.

1. It's very difficult for voters to know how much a given politician will prioritize digital services.

2. Even if a politician appears to have a good digital strategy, will they implement it well?

3. Most decisions about public admin software are made by bureaucrats who aren't elected anyways.

4. Most elections will likely have more important issues than public admin software.
Although I agree it probably does have huge returns on investment.
> knowing that the universe will continue to exist long after I die

You can predict the future?
I was 28 when my dad died. He was 58.

It has definitely shifted how I think about life and what matters.

If I live as long as him, I've already passed the midpoint.

Really helps you put things in perspective.
The Market Will Crash Again. Are You Ready?
I think it's safe to believe op. It doesnt matter if op is right or not. The egg is cracked. It's never going to grow. It's dead. Stop wasting time asking whether or not the dead chicken egg is fertilized.
Agree. Not a religious person myself, but there are times in life when there are no answers, nothing that anyone can do, when fate is completely outside anyone's control.

When everything else fails, you have left only your strength of will against reason. And spirituality may be the only thing to give you that strength.
Ask HN: Source for high quality satellite imaginery?
I'd like to monitor progress of some local construction project, which is handled opaquely and very much along the familiar lines of political corruption.

As access to the site is obviously not possible, I thought, I could buy some sat images and make some visualizations over time. The question now is: where can I buy such images without breaking the bank (including relatively recent ones)? Maybe someone has encountered a similar question already and know some good sources.
I through it was 10 billion
Journalists are stuck to doing the whims of owners and advertisers. We don't have a funding model purely for journalism as a mainstream practice. We do have federal funding grants for certain journalistic practices, and that journalism tends to be excellent and also completely ignored, such as focused reporting on the intersection of indigenous nationhood and the USA court system. (If that reporting were more widely known, for example, we wouldn't have had the supreme court of the united states questioning whether or not native people are capable of managing cities or what happens to criminals when discussing whether or not half of Oklahoma is native land. These are well-trod reporting subjects by specialist journalists who are highly knowledgeable in the field.)

Investigative journalism still provides excellent explanations- The New York Times reporting on Clearview AI helped explain effects of the algorithm to a layperson accurately.
Unfortunately in many cases this will cause all of the parameters to be passed via the stack rather than in registers. It’s a meaningful penalty for the kind of people who would willingly select c++ as a language today (rather than, say, python or java).
> In the future, I predict the newspapers will be naked propagandists. If they judge that some thing someone says or does is going to be bad for their party, they will just ignore it outright or lie about it.

You're not getting this. Today this is a great description of the status quo.
I have also seen some work on doing collision checking for robot arm kinematics -- which is a rather nasty problem when done the traditional way.

[edit to add] Also all the classic RF transmission line problems that one would normally solve with Smith Chart techniques map fairly elegantly onto GA(2)
Is it possible to satisfy these criteria with non-Kindle ebook options?

* Good book selection, including more obscure and older books.

* Highlighting and notes automatically get backed up somewhere off-device.

* Paperwhite-sized backlit e-ink device.

I would really love to move off Kindle but AFAIK nothing else can satisfy these yet.
Power doesn't breed restraint.
This is the useful "lifehack" I've been using for a while - just put everything in the freezer. For sliced bread, it just needs a 10-minute cook in the toaster oven, and you'll never worry about bad bread in the fridge again... Food in the fridge still decays and it can be a headache if you left something inside. but food in the freezer has practically an unlimited life - may not be as good after a while, but not dangerous.
Seeing your child dealing with loss is the hardest. In my case it overrode my ability to deal with my own grief. Eventually (glossing over the irrelevant details) he came out the other side, and is doing fine. And once I didn’t have to spend all my emotional energy on him I could look after myself.

Your daughter is 17 which may give you additional concern. My child was a few years younger but he missed all of that stressful middle-class “get the right classes, right prep and right scores”. It was simply not possible except a bit of going through the motions. But in the end none of that mattered and he ended up in a place where he probably would have been had he gone through those stressful gyrations. So my unsolicited advice is: if you can manage to support her in stepping off the treadmill and dealing with whatever is the highest priorities for her, she’ll probably ultimately be fine.

There are unfortunately no guarantees, but many people do make it to the other side, however horrible the path may be.

A friend of mine lost his wife a few months ago (she had really stepped up to help me). His three kids each reacted completely differently and I am amazed at his ability to accept the needs of each one.
Ah ok, that makes sense.

I've sent you an email with from my personal gmail account. I really appreciate the help, thanks!
what would the solution you wanted look like?
> 1. It's very difficult for voters to know how much a given politician will prioritize digital services.

Sort of but not really. Just keep voting in progressives that believe in government until the bureaucracy gets the message that it pays to be progressive and fix things.
We use additional linters that check for security best practices like https://brakemanscanner.org/ https://github.com/djezzzl/database_consistency https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations
Thanks, the talk you linked goes into more detail.
I'm a bit surprised that you thought I only tried sending two pull requests. Those were just examples. I'm pretty sure I submitted 50+ by now, and a few were even accepted, but overall my conclusion is that it wasn't worth my time.
Seems IoST has that niche covered already!

https://iostindex.com/
I think these days shortcuts are often for experienced players who are happy with the difficulty ramp being a cliff.

e.g. in Bloodborne you can rush the Cleric Beast, spend the echoes to open the gate and go straight to Amelia. Something that using the standard progression route you'll do much, much, later. If you're good enough, this is great.
I don't think there's any meaningful distinction between the two. You can take facts which are not wrong and use them to argue any point, no matter how ridiculous. If that's grotesque enough, it's misconduct already, even if you're not technically lying.