skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds exactly like you would expect of the next shitcoin.
Ok, maybe I had a different interpretation of the scenario OP presented. I read the "solid block of average color" as simply an average of 2 colors, not a weighted average. So black text on white background would always result in rgb(128,128,128) (#808080) regardless of how many pixels of each color you had in the block. The only things that leaks are the color of the background and of the text but these are already known from the surrounding parts.

This makes sense for purely aesthetic reasons because the pixelized block will not stand out against the combination of background + text around it. A white page with black text would have a gray fuzzy area where it's pixelized.

If a weighted average is used and you can determine the fill factor of the text inside the box that would be some information leakage, as small as it may be.
I disagree with the 'most' premise as well. Totally a false signal. In my view, the opposite is true. The top performers tend to commit less. People who are genuinely passionate about coding don't tend to put that much effort into the more pedantic aspects of the process; they're more focused on big ideas such as the structurally important parts of the architecture.

The developers who make a lot of commits are often more concerned with optics and they will argue for hours over unimportant tedium while sometimes missing the big very important ideas (the ones which will have real impact and flow-on effects for years to come). Basically they can't tell the distinction between what is important and what is not. They can't tell apart bureaucracy from value creation. Obsessive focus on commit size and other tedium is a key signal that someone doesn't know what is really important. They tend to be conventional thinkers (driven by peer pressure and peer approval) and their idea of productivity is distorted by false consensus (like the one this article attempts to instigate).
The fact that Telegram isn't enthusiastically censoring everyone who even looks like they might have the wrong opinion is what makes it such a unique treasure. Feature, not bug.
The cs101 is faster (and smaller), you can try yourself with gcc.
This is an excellent point and perhaps the right answer.

Most of these problems exist because the one place we trust to manage our resources never pivoted on these things. In fact most banks are barely crawling out of the dark ages.
>I’m not sure we watched the same films, because the CIA certainly doesn’t look capable in the Bourne series.

Bourne is the hero and is also CIA, and at every turn they are able to keep up with him. You leave with the impression that good guys can join the CIA and curb the necessary evil the CIA is involved with.

Do you think more people leave thinking Bourne and thus the CIA are badass or that the CIA are evil and need to be destroyed?
Are there any non-Proof-of-Work blockchains in real use? (don't say ETH)
Repetition legitimizes.

Repetition legitimizes.[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MzKx0fKg5o&feature=youtu.be...
Protecting great apes from the unknown effects of Covid-19
What do you mean? In the EU every car insurance has to cover minimum 1 million euro in personal liability and 5 million in 3rd party liability. My own with Aviva covers 5 million euro for personal and 20 million for 3rd party. But car insurance typically doesn't pay healthcare bills since healthcare is nationalized, so it's very hard to imagine how payouts would be anywhere near those sums. You'd need to crash into multiple buggati veyrons to get close to the maximum liability limit. I'm paying £400/year.
I know how LoRa works, I just don't have the money to make my own open-source version at a price that could be affordable!

The problem specifically is that on some chips you cannot control the frequency hopping manually!
Currently this is compounded by the outrageous cost of living in any city and the heavy discrimination towards the homeless. Further away but still canada Ontario is $1200 cad for a 2 bedroom and $900 for single, that's at it's cheapest point. However If you're paying for it by welfare be it disability or Ontarios version of unemployment - you'll be denied. Doesn't matter if you have the money upfront and guaranteed, landlords don't want people who are homeless. Government housing is a 2-5 year waiting list. There's people right now on disability whom can have rent covered in its entirety, apartment complex landlords refuse. Yet some wonder how homelessness continues.
Thanks for your feedback! Really appreciate your time and effort.
Wow this is hacking in the most literal sense: using something in a way it was not designed for. Even avoiding nyquist problems by abusing some mirror effects if I understood that correctly.
It's a horrible movie, from a sailor's perspective. I cringed/facepalmed all throughout it - he doesn't do a single thing an actual sailor would do (at least in a timely manner). The only way this movie would be acceptable was if the character was actually teleported onto the boat in the beginning of the movie with no prior sailing experience. So much stupidity.

One of my "favorite" moments was when he tied the liferaft to the sinking boat and went to sleep in the liferaft. And there were similar facepalm moments from beginning to end. I was so disappointed to see him rescued at the end of the movie. Drowning would've been a fitting, well-deserved ending - he was trying so hard.
Yes, I read German. But this is not a singular event that has never happened before. Here is a report from 2017 that sounds familiar:

https://www.welt.de/regionales/bayern/article161869919/Klini...
If your kids shoot up a school, look in the mirror to find the problem...

And people wonder why people like cash...

Bad conscience because you are neglecting your children? No problem, just use www.socialsentinel.com ...
Thank you for replying. It’s a 650 page document, and I must say I admire you for having read through the quite wordy prose therein.

I can’t commit to reading it all through to understand how to model whether human action warms earth, and how to understand the accuracy of any such model.

The document appears to be aimed primarily at rulers of states, and to be in a big part about how rulers could create “global equality” and the like. In which of these chapters can I read to learn how to model whether mans industry is warming the earth up or not?

1: Framing and Context

2: Mitigation Pathways Compatible with 1.5°C in the Context of Sustainable Development

3: Impacts of 1.5oC Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

4: Strengthening and Implementing the Global Response

5: Sustainable Development, Poverty Eradication and Reducing Inequalities
How would it work if you had a VPN and a private certificate installed on your browser?

1. Traffic encrypted in browser using SSL

2. Traffic routed to VPN server

3. Traffic routed to target web server over public internet*

4. Back to VPN server

5. Back to browser

*I assume at this point the Kazakh government can intercept the traffic and decrypted the HTTPS traffic, but that would itself be garbage because it's been encrypted by the VPN. Is this correct?
I also switched to TeXLive on Windows recently, because lualatex runs significantly faster there.
> EFFORCE Tokens are ERC20 Utility Tokens based on the Ethereum blockchain.

No pun intended: an energy saving platform based on an energy inefficient blockchain. I should expect them to choose another blockchain or wait for Eth2.
lisp can already be typed
Some great points! I built a project similar to this (think online lectures but it never went anywhere) in spring when the pandemic hit. I highly recommend building a platform like this if you have some spare time. It involves lots of interesting engineering/architecture challenges all over the stack. IMHO, from a technical viewpoint, it's mostly integration work, as all the really hard parts were already done by excellent 3rd party tools and libraries. You'll probably have some kind of RTMP bridge (nginx [1]), wrap ffmpeg for transcoding and play it back using something like Shaka player [2] where the segments are being served by some kind of caching reverse proxy. It took me a few weeks to get a prototype running inside a K8S cluster where oAuth-ed users could publish RTMPS streams which could be watched by other authed users via HLS in a somewhat scalable way. It was surprisingly easy to build this using Elixir/Phoenix LiveView.
Some thoughts on your comment:

> - Probably the hardest part of running these things is managing outbound bandwidth costs.

This. As others noted, you may be getting around this by using something like Hetzner's/Scaleway's/OVH's offerings. However, I think they won't be too happy if you really use that much bandwidth all the time. You can probably forget using IaaS of one of the bigger cloud platforms unless you negotiated some special terms.

> - You'll almost certainly need admin and moderation tools soon.

That's one of the main reasons why I did offer a public instance. It's probably best to host a platform like this in a non-public context such as members of a single org. Just look at what happened to Firefox Send...

> - Please don't keep using RTMP [...] and its security is, uh, _weak_.

Yes it is a bit of a pain to work with but AFAIK you can wrap RTMP inside a TLS session which is supported by OBS. I think I just exposed a stunnel instance back then which forwarded it to a nginx instance which handled auth/auth and forwarding to the transcoding backend. This way you won't leak any streaming keys or video data. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If you have any additional pointers regarding RTMP security, I would be highly interested!

Also, as others pointed out, SRT may be just around the corner. I think we're in for some interesting times as LL-DASH/CMAF and similar technologies are more widely supported. Additionally, there are interesting projects like [3] going the WebRTC route for delivering low latency streams.

[1] https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

[2] https://github.com/google/shaka-player

[3] https://www.ovenmediaengine.com
Aren't the op's 70Mbps from 4G already plenty for 4k?
The End of Manual Labor
For me one of the main drawbacks of Telegram is that group chats are not end-to-end encrypted at all. That's a huge disadvantage.
looks like a typical ICO scam from 2018
You'll have to back up that assertion, I'm afraid. Bruce Schneier refers to it as "enormous environmental waste" in https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_an... .
>At this point, we know that it's not enough to hire brilliant C programmers and have them exercise care.

I mostly agree with your points. In my experience (never worked at FAANG), the brilliant C programmer hypothesis is almost untested, since most companies hire mostly average C programmers. It's only logical that non-brilliant programmers will be working somewhere.

Even if a company has a few brilliant C programmers on staff, they won't be able to find all the issues the mediocre programmers produce.

This is why I think it's about time that any safety critical industry should think of retiring C in favor of safer alternatives.

Rust would personally be my favorite since it solves most of the really terrible issues around memory management in C and C++ (mediocre programmers not being able to compile due to the borrow checker is a feature).

Of course Rust doesn't have the necessary certifications yet, but industry would be wise to contribute. Such efforts are underway (Sealed Rust by Ferrous Systems), but I don't see big aerospace, automotive and industry sponsorship here, i.e. those who would benefit the most.

There is a safer language that is certified that is often ignored, which is ADA. It's actually quite modern in terms of features since the 2012 release. It has some other concepts than Rust for safety, but that doesn't mean it's worse. The heavy lifting in terms of design and certification here has been paid for by the DoD and aerospace companies, so there's no reason other industries couldn't use it.
Why would anyone buy a car when they can walk?
A couple months ago he wrote this:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4qjd/whatsapp-data-securit...

"Six Reasons You Should Delete WhatsApp"

Maybe it's just a series of clickbait junk targeting popular apps so that the many happy users of those apps give him plenty of interactions. I bet he's watching the metrics right now.
Yes, absolutely. With Bitcoin people protect their hard earned savings from rampant inflation present in many countries. With Monero people regain their right to financial privacy online.
I believe this is one key reason why so many use FB and willing to give up their identity including others; to keep track of their pictures.

I believe with the advent of the digital picture age and $15 128GB SDCards. People have so many pictures they can't manage, they will rely on anything that gives them a bit of control with minimal effort: FB w/ facial recognition.

I believe the singular aspect of what a camera should be able id faces. Then embed that info in the metadata to be pulled later.

The caveat to that is it must be kept private, never be uploaded onto a cloud and metadata encrypted.

Although like others, I have GBytes of pictures but the only ones precious enough to keep track of are the ones with faces on them. Object recognition, yeah kool but if I could query: find all pics of my son. BAM! be very happy.

So to give up my idea I'll never implement:
1. ID faces but only locally.
2. Embed face info as metadata of the picture file.
3. Crawler that walks regularly through all your pictures AND videos and ID's faces.
4. A natural query language to find all pics by relationship, name, age, sex, time and date

Re-reading your question, failed to initially understand. sorry.

Your question has already been answered: Google Lens. Matter of fact, i just used it on a tree I couldn't ID so I took a pic of it using Googl Lens and voila with their long reach search arm, BAM! I found it. I've done this many time befores with the Lens app. So not sure what more you can add to what seem to already work as your looking for?
Or you block the stalker and the stalker then has to keep buying new SIM cards.
So... energy performance contracting with the word "blockchain" glued on the end.

This is not the first time people have proposed this, someone even pitched this to our research group not long ago.

The basic idea of broadening the investment base for EPC is like any kind of crowdsourced investment to cut out the middleman of institutional investors (instead of giving my money to a bank to invest in EPC, I do it myself). With the same downside that individuals are usually much worse judges of projects than institutions, so what you gain in reduced costs you lose in high risk.

Then comes the blockchain bit, which suffers exactly the same problem of every project I've seen like this which is there is no technological way to tie the tokens to the energy use. Saving energy cannot 'generate' tokens, therefore you have to come up with a contract that ties the energy savings value to the value of the tokens. In which case there is basically no difference to just using cash since all the 'security' of the arrangement comes from contractual obligations, which are easier to create and more reliable to enforce using regular currency.
Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
Why pixelate something that isn't real password?
It has the AM/FM trust problem wherein a business will always trust paper contracts and lawyers over Fucking Magic like this.

Edit: Good example, estate transfers and mortgages are a potentially quite good use-case for blockchain. Why is nobody using it? Because it's Fucking Magic.. nobody with a sensible risk profile is going to replace a "contracts and lawyers" process that works well-enough with Fucking Magic.
Harder to dispose of, though. You'll need to be in league with a crooked farmer, slaughterhouse or livestock mart if you want to sell the animal alive. You can sell Christmas trees on the side of the road, no questions asked.
Horrible movie (see my other comment[0]) but I'm wondering this as well, and what measures are being taken to ensure safety for mariners. Ideally you'd either ensure that the containers sink (easy/cheap), or that they stay afloat with an AIS transponder (difficult/expensive).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25331098
Out of genuine curiosity which country do you think isn’t involved in their country’s food supply? I can’t imagine any government staying out of something so core to a nations id. I’m asking though, I’m not sure!

I’m very much opposed to the farm bill in current form, but because I oppose the industrial agricultural practices which it supports - and the processed food such dirt cheap corn yields. I think food could stand to be more expensive for all but those least able to afford it. America wastes 30-40% of all food produced according to the FDA [1]. The waste alone is enough to feed most of the human population. But I digress.

With that said my understanding of the farm bill is that one of the pillar purposes of its creation by FDR in the new deal was to control the cost of food.

[1] https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs
related: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/
(how to store MIME type in file system extended attributes)
"Dangerous goods" is an extremely broad category that covers both environmental concerns and handling/storage concerns. A shipment full of batteries or deodorant/paint spray cans is not really dangerous if it gets thrown into the sea, but firefighters need to know that in case a fire breaks out.

And you don't want to place something like pyrotechnics next to tires next to ammonium fertilizer as it was in that warehouse in Beirut.

tl;dr: "dangerous goods" classification is most important for on-shore handling and safety considerations, not because of environment concerns in case of an at-sea loss.
Ask HN: Have you gone from Editor A to Editor B and then back to Editor A? Why?
A can be anything - vim, emacs, vscode.

B can also be anything.

So I want to know if you were a big constant user of something (like Vim) for many years and then you went from Vim to Vscode for some years but returned to Vim again.

If you went this path can you share your experiences? Why you left Editor A first? Why you returned to it again?
Perhaps. Or it'll be like civil engineering or something, where the fundamental principles really stay similar even as technology/theory dramatically improves.
>> If gradient descent is limited in its ability to learn representations, better
methods for this purpose are a key research direction. Current nonlinear
alternatives include predicate invention (Muggleton and Buntine, 1988) and latent
variable discovery in graphical models (Elidan et al., 2000).

Hah! Fancy seeing that here! Predicate invention is a main line of my PhD
research.

Briefly, predicate invention is the ability of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP)
systems to learn their own inductive bias. It is in a sense similar to feature
learning or learning-to-learn. ILP systems learn logic programs from examples
usually by searching the space of programs defined by a set of sub-programs,
called the background knowledge (BK), and a language bias that determines the
structure of learned programs. Predicate invention then means learning new BK
and language bias to change the program search space while searching it.

The reference in Domingo's article is the first description of the concept which
was for a long time more theoretical than practical: ILP approaches could only
perform a limited form of predicate invention, e.g. could only invent BK programs
of fixed structure or could not invent recursive programs etc. Things changed in
2013 with a new approach, Meta-Interpretive Learning (MIL). MIL systems are for
the first time capable of unconstrained predicate invention, including the
invention of mutually recursive programs. Full discolosure: my PhD research is
on MIL.

Here are some more recent references on predicate invention in MIL:

Meta-interpretive learning of higher-order dyadic datalog: Predicate invention
revisited (IJCAI 2013):

https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/13/Papers/231.pdf

Bias reformulation for one-shot function induction (ECAI 2014):

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/Papers/metabias.pdf

Logical minimisation of meta-rules within meta-interpretive learning (ICLP
2015):

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/Papers/minmeta.pdf

Like I say this is my field of study and as you can probably tell I'm very
excited about it so I'm happy to answer questions- email in my profile.
Apple Inc. definitely was not in the top 1 worldwide companies when Woz left.
I don’t sympathize with advertisers much but they must have lost so much money for basically nothing over the years with inflated metrics, malware served DAUs, outright clickfrauds etc. Google and scammers were the only ones who benefited out of it.

And still they don’t have any option other than to surrender to Google and Facebook if they have to reach their audience on web.
Not OP, I've only written a tiny bit of lisp, but this looks pretty similar.

I'd probably suggest SICP: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html if you want a "lisp intro"
Oh I agree it is an interesting and legit question for cryptocurrency.
If the search/advertising and the browser businesses were independant, then making those decisions would be easier. Now, there may not be a browser business without a search/advertising one.
Local Development Is Dying – and It's for the Better
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Because "token", because "blockchain technology", because "democratize", because "environment".
Bharat Band
Most would sink yes. Ideally all containers would be ensured to sink, except for those containing materials hazardous to the marine environment, in which case they should contain floats (activated upon being thrown into the sea) and an AIS transponder.
Exactly,this could have been amazing with The Chia Protocol, which has the same mission of substituting mining for farming and reducing energy waste