skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all humans dropped dead tomorrow. What is the change?

We’re still coming out of an ice age. So temperature is will go up. It’s just a matter of how much.
> I mean, the very fact that we're on TLS version 1.3 and not SSL 1.0 should be clue enough.

But we still conduct a lot of business online without issue. If we followed the line of reasoning that you're suggesting, then we would still be doing things as they were done prior to 1995. The fact that we're not is testament that these systems largely work. Voting is not a special case that requires us to not make use of tried and tested technology.

> Are there significant benefits and incentives to set up a puppet government?

This is an example of the "begging the question" logical fallacy. You're just assuming the conclusion is true when that's not necessarily the case.
Apple M1 – Benchmark and Specs
That's incredibly telling. Wow.
I lived in Zug, Switzerland, also known as the "Crypto Valley", for a while between 2018 and 2019. The investors in my startup are based in Zug, as are many other large conglomerates (Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, Glencore, etc.). My apartment was a short walk away from Crypto AG's headquarters.

Zug is a very strange and interesting town, brimming with the sort of energy you'd expect from a little tax haven (also known as the "Cayman Islands of Switzerland"). It's now well known for the cryptocurrency foundations located there, from Ethereum to Tezos to Cardano.

Of course, at the time Crypto AG was founded, the Crypto Valley had nothing to do with cryptocurrency, but how interesting that cryptography was a key export since so long ago. To think I lived so close to a covert CIA operation — I had no idea!
Addendum: I know I'm being very critical of Notion here. I just want it to be good so I can actually use it. Because, let's be honest, despite Notion's shortcomings no other solution has even managed to get close.
I'm too cheap. I would see a paywall.
Fun fact: chiral molecules affect left and right circular polarized light differently.
Any other method of verification makes zero sense, it is bizarre the Qubes folks would think otherwise.
"maebert knows how to market" should cover all bases without making any assumptions about the details of what "maebert" is.
Accelerate is also available (and highly performant) on ARM as well. I was not able to beat it with anything on ARM, including hand-coded assembly, at least for sgemm and simple dot products, which are bread and butter of deep learning. It actually baffles me that Microsoft is not offering linear algebra and DSP acceleration in Windows out of the box. This creates friction, and most devs don't give a shit, so Windows users end up with worse perf on essentially the same hardware.
> Or set a range of probabilities for the velocity value of a MIDI note.

The velocity MIDI effect already let you randomize all note velocities by a user-controlled range. This just lets you set random ranges per-note.
Glad to hear you are finding TypeScript useful too!

Just to expand on the conversion, whilst all of our apps (and hundreds of services) were migrated from C++ to JS, we still have much more C++ on the backend than we do JS. Thankfully it is not a language monoculture ;-)
Nice generalization there, unfortunately you're wrong.
There is no end to the control, groupthink, and thought policing demanded by the political correctness control freaks. They don't want debate, polemism, or freedom; they want power, compliance, and brainwashing at all costs. Anyone who doesn't immediately profess all of the proper, fashionable beliefs is an enemy heretic to be expunged instantly. It's illiberalism masquerading as liberalism; "circular firing squad" and such. Bring back liberalism, dernit! Edit: Even here, voting and flagging are used indiscriminately as cudgels to silence dissent and create disenfranchised, dissidents.
What’s a good thing is that different people can do things differently, according to their priorities.
Google Photos still feels like the safest way to keep an archive of thousands of images across my family, agnostic to devices. I’d rather have High Quality backups than losing the originals on some outdated hard drives.

The ONLY thing I can’t believe Google Photos doesn’t have is duplicate detection. Even a poor one would do wonders.
Hydrogen is taking off because, first, there's already a global demand for many megatons of the stuff each year, and second, because the cost per kWh (equivalent) of storage capacity for it is extremely low, compared to just about any other scaleable way to store excess electrical power.
Of possible interest:

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html#Section_14
It's not clear to me why you think I'm suggesting the answer is to have people move to coastal cities. That is almost certainly not the answer.
YES. The Elektron sequencer is the first time I ever felt stepping out of a computer might make for a more powerful, fun sequencing experience. It's a joy to use.
If plugins A, B and C are present in a given signal path, and ordered [ A, B, C ], then you cannot parallelize their execution. A must run first, then its output is fed to B, which must run to completion, and its output is fed to C. Using a single thread for this is the only sane implementation.

If you have plugins A, B and C spread across 3 signal paths, then you can certainly run them on different cores, which Ableton (and Ardour and almost any other DAW at this point) will do, by virtue on running each signal path in its own thread. The signal path/thread containing plugin A will execute on a thread/core, independently of the one containing B or the one containing C.
MIT Analysis of Michigan Votes Reveals Unfortunate Truth of U.S. Voting Systems.
Cars are every bit as dangerous as guns. But no one here seems to be in such a panic with Tesla or self-driving cars.

I feel there is a bit of undercurrent of Luddite sentiment going around here. Lots of people mentioning how "primitive" a baby monitor is or should be. But is it? It's an LCD video screen powered by modern advancements in battery tech connected wirelessly to a CCD video camera, with sensing technology to detect when a baby is crying and even provide other information such as room temp. None of this existed 20 years ago. Not to mention that between now and back then, baby monitors went through a long phase of being hot garbage. Many still are garbage.
I am hopeful that the whole UK energy grid could be exclusively run on lithium-ion batteries for extended periods, and charged exclusively by buying renewable from overproduction, and have the sum be cheaper than nuclear. I am however skeptical, and I suspect the skepticism is very similar to the other side who think nuclear is not economic viable compared to batteries.

However we don't need to chose as long as we both agree that the grid need to be carbon zero and the cost to the climate from fossil fuels need to be added so that either nuclear or lithium-ion batteries will be guarantied cheaper than continuing running fossil fuels plants when wind/solar are not producing. As long that is true then the market will figure out which one is cheaper, and the consumer can enjoy the cheapest energy grid which do not burn fossil fuels.
We are humans. You gotta work from that premise.
But what about Yandex?
1. LCD does not run on a battery, like this. Greatly improves aesthetics and flexibility of placement

2. LCD will never look the same. You can dimm it all you want, but in evening you'll still have a backlight. I have Samsung Art Frame TV, which tries to do the same. It's closer than most things, but nothing like an e-ink display. It's night and day compared my (2) eInk tablets

I'm fairly sure 32" and above has only been available for 3 or 4 years. With a low volume, niche product 2300 Euros is really not unreasonable, particularly in a commercial setting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64anPPVUw5U
Probably almost everyone over the age of 13, at least in the US. Just like how most people still know what CD players are.
Honestly, I would not recommend this book to somebody who wanted to learn Ruby.

I wouldn't recommend this to somebody who had a serious project or task to solve.

However, I love that this added flavor to the Ruby community. For years afterwards people would hide Easter eggs like "chunky bacon" in their conference slides. It was a fun inside joke to share with fellow Rubyists.

I mean, Python has references to Monty Python skits in their stuff.

Sometimes it's just fun to be silly.
I was interested until I saw that price. I'd rather just buy the paper and tape it to the wall each day.
Rather than think of leaving as a sad thing, think of it as an affirmation of the other things in his life.
Dump excess wind-originated electricity into organic-solution redox flow batteries (because we don't care how big and heavy utility-grade storage is), and we're easily looking at 50-year lifecycles before the batteries need major maintenance, which currently consists of electrical controls, pump and container integrity. I don't know the lifecycle of the organic chemistry yet, as its discovery was only published this year so they haven't had time to perform accelerated aging tests upon it, so maybe the solution might have to be replaced sooner than 50 years, but based upon what I saw in the paper I suspect not. With appropriate civil engineering (pozzolanic concrete, basalt rebar), the containers can be built to last 5+ centuries.

Build enough of these redox flow plants on the grid, pour in enough excess from all kinds of renewables, and hopefully in 3-7 generations our children won't worry about coal-originated mercury poisoning from eating "too much seafood".
People stockpiling guns may have fantasies about a thousand years of anarchy after an apocalyptic 'SHTF', but their belief that this is likely doesn't actually make it likely.
Applying NLP to the internet's most prolific traders
In 2020 people are talking on the internet more than ever, and the chatter around investing is no exception. Internet trading forums like /r/wallstreetbets receive hundreds of thousands of comments every week and while many of these comments revolve around popular memes and figures, other comments offer new perspectives on how to value companies that experience explosive growth or scandal.

While some people may consider these internet sources as amateurish, otherwise "traditional" investors are beginning to appreciate the unique perspectives offered by these internet communities, as noted in Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-26/reddit-s-...

It has become clear that people are paying attention to the conversation; however, without applying some structure to the comments it can feel like a tornado of emotion, and the overall sentiment is unclear. I realized there needed to be a better way to keep track of the changes in coversation, and that's why I decided to build marketstream.io.

Marketstream.io applies NLP to social media streams to categorize the all of the many ways people talk about the stocks that they are trading right now--whether people are talking about buying stock, or making bets with option plays. On top of the NLP platform is a responsive user interface that allows you to spot the trends that are happening in different areas of the market, and watch as trends change in real-time in reaction to today's turbulent news cycle.

Marketstream.io was released in early November of 2020 and is still in alpha, but I am already enjoying the bird's eye view it offers. I am now focused on getting feeback from users and adding more features that can help people make better decisions about how they'd like to trade.
> there's not single Bible to read to learn all about it, is there?

There is. The reference manual:

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/welcome-to-live/

It is incredibly well-written. Possibly my favorite piece of technical writing ever, and am myself a technical author.
Hope people realize the connection of power utilization to gdp growth. And that uranium and nuclear in general offer truly astronomical potentials - and the fuel is universal on earths surface.
many-requests is the name the package was registered with on pypi.org. So you install with: pip install many-requests.

That installation creates a folder named many_requests inside the site-packages directory on your PYTHON_PATH. It uses underscore rather than hyphen because modules/packages must be legal Python names. A hyphen would be parsed as subtraction.
Hopefully this works decently in Firefox.

Unlike Notion, which still gets confused by a mouse middle click, and instead of opening a new tab inserts your clipboard contents wherever it feels you clicked on the page. Likely in the middle of the URL you clicked on.

But it only happens about 1/2 the time. The other half of the time it works properly, opening a new tab.

This is pretty much a complete blocker for using Notion, as randomly adding your clipboard contents (can be passwords, sensitive conversation pieces, etc) is a security nightmare. :(
Contact us is mailto: link, if you don't have a default mail handler in your browser that maybe the issue.

Fixed the 404s and included GDPR.

To see the cost a free account needs to be created first.

The page Usage explains what the SDKs are for, you don't have to use them if you're ok with using _curl_, etc.
We need to begin building that smart charging/discharging capability into electric cars now, then.

We need to establish the regulatory and user interface standards around this ideally before we start manufacturing tens of millions of EVS each month.

It might make sense to also unbundle electricity for consumers, charging the live wholesale rate and indicating the pricing via apps, alerts, or indicators on the meter itself.
Interesting thing is that nuclear has the exact opposite problem, it’s extremely consistent.

You can’t easily vary the output of a nuclear plant (maybe these will be different, but I doubt it), they take days to weeks to spool up and down. Which makes them only useful for base load.

Ironically pairing them with grid storage would be an enormous help, because then you could use the storage to rapidly respond to demand, while your nuclear plant ramps up and down very slowly.

In short nuclear also isn’t a one size fits all solution for power production, and if it needs to be paired with storage in a carbon free world, it makes you wonder if it’s really worth all the trouble compared to wind and solar.
> - Ditch Electron for a more focused/lightweight webassembly+canvas implementation

Actually, that's exactly how Figma is built—their desktop app just wraps their web version while hooking into file system APIs provided by Electron/NodeJS. See https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-....
Yep, and when they're not - they never hit the public markets. They get snapped up on a referral instantly.
After re-reading your original comment, there doesn't appear to be enough detail to say one way or another whether we're in agreement. Specifically, you didn't mention or address the issue of tests enforcing coupling between different components.
Well. No offence but you are such a... moron...

Imagine you know your baby has potential heart precondition. Imagine you had a huge argument with neonata cardiologist explaining to you how unresponsible it was to get pregnant (37y with lupus).

I would pay every money to monitor my baby.
I would throw out anything that would fail once.

Sorry. Have to go. Have to feed my 4 weeks son.
Another direction to take this would be to include in a smart mirror

https://www.howtogeek.com/414647/how-to-build-a-smart-mirror...
https://www.electricmirror.com/smart-mirror-savvy/
I'm guessing its programs like these which make some Senators completely ignore experts on the whole backdoor into encryption thing. They don't know the difference they just see results from the NSA.

> Crypto’s international business was purchased by a Swedish entrepreneur, Andreas Linde, who said in an email exchange with The Post earlier this year that he was not aware of the CIA’s ownership when he purchased the assets. Export controls imposed by Swiss authorities in the aftermath of public disclosures about Crypto earlier this year have threatened the company’s survival.

If Andreas Linde is not a cover that's pretty fucked up. They couldn't have just run the "business" into the ground?
This about sums up most Monty Python and Rick & Morty references as well.

A lot of nerd/hacker culture falls into this kind of recognition of unique humor and wit, then squeezing every little drop of joy out of it until it's as empty as a Garfield cartoon.
> It seems like the most secure method (albeit impractical) would be to have a "what you know" challenge built into the yubikey, like a pin pad or dial. At that point though, one would probably have to worry about other attacks, like physical intrusion and kidnapping as well.

This isn't uncommon for Bitcoin hardware wallets, fwiw.

But the problem is that the short what you know challenge isn't very secure if the edge device is compromised and can't impose rate limiting or maximum-try limits.

I think for auth I'd rather have yubi/fingerprint + password. Yes, the host could still the password, but even if the yubi is completely backdoored you still have a credible amount of security.

It would be better still if the fingerprint mechanism were cryptographic. But it's probably pretty hard to fit a lot of fancy code in such a small device, -- and security is something of a lemon market (see also zoom's "end to end").

I think people should be extremely wary of efforts to turn U2f devices into single factor authentication. If intelligence agencies haven't compromised yubico or at least developed a good program to substitute devices in the mail-- then they ought to be fired.
Metal will be optimised. They said in the presentation that a game running on Rosetta would benefit from these optimisations, offsetting some of the slowdown resulting from the translation. So games that spend much of their time in Metal calls should be fine. Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, which will start next week.
Similar story for me. I am an Engineer (the non software type). I work at an industrial plant. We use SAS pretty extensively for data analysis, time series analysis, multivariate regressions etc. As well as for BI type stuff (reports, graphing, adhoc queries).

For a while R was being pushed pretty heavily as a SAS alternative. My org paid R training courses etc. I found R and SAS pretty comparable at least the R packages we looked at (dpylr, ggplot2 etc).

I know about Python, the programming language I used PyGTK back in the day to build GUI apps. But it would not be my first thought for doing data analysis work. Does Python even offer something like R studio/ SAS Enterprise Guide and does it have a trending package?
Why wouldn't you implement a service for the 3rd party that itself requires the config, then? If a caller of the service needs to know how it's configured for some reason, you should probably be exposing it as a property of the service, not sharing the config directly.
I have a somewhat related question:

What is the current best practice way to parallelize reading many parquet files on S3 using pyarrow? Deep down, it's just lots of HTTP requests.
> Remember after Trump’s election it seemed like half of New York was reading The Hillbilly Elegy?

The New York Times (yes, the Times) pointed out after Trump's election stunned the press that (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/media/media-trump...)

>Whatever the election result, you’re going to hear a lot from news executives about how they need to send their reporters out into the heart of the country, to better understand its citizenry.

>But that will miss something fundamental. Flyover country isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind — it’s in parts of Long Island and Queens, much of Staten Island, certain neighborhoods of Miami or even Chicago. And, yes, it largely — but hardly exclusively — pertains to working-class white people.

In other words, it isn't just a question of the Times (and the TV networks, and pretty much all of the rest of mass media) completely ignoring the rubes out in rural Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (which all, strangely enough, unexpectedly voted for Trump), but their ignoring the residents of their own city, just across one bridge.

(Of course, as you point out, such open-mindedness didn't last long.)
Definitely one use case for IPFS I'm personally super excited about.

One objection that I'm sure will come up is "what if people stop hosting a package you depend on":

That's where dedicated package hosting services (like npm) can come in and provide a reliable source of these packages that's fast and always available (potentially for a price). The benefit over the status quo is those services will be commoditized, so they have to compete purely on price/reliability, since as a user you don't have to care where the packages come from in a content-addressed system.
How to do your own PR and get featured on BusinessInsider
How you can get featured on Business Insider, Entrepreneur etc through your own PR means.
Ableton Live is my absolute favorite piece of software right now. It fills me with a joy I haven't felt since I first learned HyperCard or Photoshop. It's just marvelous. In fact, it's so good that it makes it harder for me to finish music since I keep tinkering on things. But I can just sink hours into it without noticing the time pass.

It's so easy to get jaded with software these days because of freemium apps, dark patterns, social media apps hijacking human psychology to drive up engagement, etc. Ableton Live reminds me that software can be beautiful and empowering, and how good and natural it feels to just pay money for a well-crafted product.
https://ente.io/ is a privacy focused alternative to Google Photos, and came up in HN a while ago.
They need to understand that to anyone right of center, this comes across as a conspiracy to silence all dissent. No matter what you think of Steve Bannon (and even most conservatives don't think highly of him), that's a very bad look.
Nemeio: The Customizable Global Keyboard
I never understood why people used this service. I'm not a professional photographer but I care about image quality. Google's "high quality" option really means "16 Megapixels or less" which is lower quality than most modern cameras can capture, so by taking advantage of unlimited storage, you're sacrificing image quality.
The article is about how ad vendors are allowing for people monentize disinformation, but that seems to me to be entirely the wrong take. Breitbart et. al. are grifters. The disinformation economy is real and vibrant, and they're just catching some of the extra cash. For every Breitbart or Newsmax link shared, there are seven or whatever to a blog or PAC or campaign that is not monetized.

At this point I think the game is lost. I mean... we just had an election which came out (absent higher turnout) more or less exactly like the last one, to within a percent or two. And half the country genuinely believes it was stolen by fraud to the tune of hundreds of thousands of ballots across at least four states.

How do you come back from that? I don't think we do. I just don't know what the endpoint is going to be yet. But disinformation is no longer just competing with real facts, it's won the war.