skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does that have to do with gamestop? Anyone is free to sell a physical game they no longer want, at gamestop, ebay, craigslist, directly to a friend, etc. Same thing with books.
Not commenting on the article, but on the concept of delaying aging. A lot of philosophers worked on the idea of immortality, many of them coming to the conclusion that death was what gave life a meaning. Some theorized that an immortal human simply would not do anything as our seconds would be their days and being alive would end up being synonymous with existing and nothing more.
> AWS is a terrible value once you’re paying the price of a bare metal box each year (or sooner!)

You're probably off by about 2 orders of magnitude.

If your AWS spend is $10K per year or below, it simply isn't worth thinking about in terms of engineering time if you have real revenue.

Once your AWS spend crosses about $100K/year, it's time to pay attention. However, you probably want to be stingy about this as your engineer is in that range. Your engineers are supposed to be providing business value and looking at $10K/year costs probably isn't worth their time.

At the $1M/year mark, you already have an engineer on this full-time anyway so it makes sense to have some hardware you actually own in a colocation facility somewhere.
That hidden Julia s-expression syntax helped me start to understand metaprogramming in Julia. Along the way I found that it takes surprisingly few lines of code to turn the normal Julia repl into a more-or-less working Julia-lisp repl: https://gist.github.com/brenhinkeller/44051118c2f9d18b26dc76...
If consumer data was that valuable, RadioShack would have never gone under.
Those are pretty minor issues that will be fixed as arm servers get more popular
Just one data point, but I did know about Graal/Truffle,
but not about the smart contract development framework with the same name [1] :-)

1: https://www.trufflesuite.com/
I believe DNSLink works - I was able to get ipns://kickscondor.com/ working with a TXT record. Is that what you mean?
Last time I checked you had to have a server updating the IPNS entry daily or it would expire. Is this still the case?
See, the general assumption is. If its a white rich nation (except Russia) doing something, its moral. If its a rich ally of the said nations, its moral.

I doesn't matter what they do, commit war-crimes, liberate people from democracy(to free the people) and install dictators, fund terrorists, lie to the international community about wars, kill people in embassies, it doesn't matter. It is you who are at fault, for not being able to understand their deeper moral motives.

Everything that the enemy does, that is either illegal or it's just lies and propaganda to improve their image. They can do nothing right.

Now, With this context you can understand very clearly how to think and feel about who the terrorists are and who the bad guys are.
This was submitted yesterday [0], w/ discussion today.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25829966
Its not coins or tokens, but the blockchain that is already being integrated into traditional and decentralized finance. All the major financial players are working on some sort of smart contracts to reduce paperwork and more precisely the people that do the paperwork. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I feel I should clarify, for the sake of anyone that bothers to browse my profile / lurkers, I don't mean Rationality inasmuch as Jordan Peterson does[0], or any of the alt-right. I mean Rationality in the Humanist sense, i.e. the progressive Rational Wiki's left-wing approach.

[0]: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-d...
| skip to "Having safely established Jordan Peterson is an intellectual fraud" for a dissection of his proposed philosophies and why they are suitably shitty.
Bitcoin is far more energy efficient than today's banking system
“cApiToL aTtAcK...”

Y’all sound like idiots with this nonsense. It wasn’t an “attack.” It was a protest which turned into a riot by a bunch of idiots no different than the protests which have turned into riots all damn summer. Spare me your damn outrage.
CIELAB colours seem wrong in many gradients.
Obviously, the person helping is super nice and the people that are in that position are super nice as well. But what saddens me is that an older lady and her daughter are homeless, that should not happen in a functioning society.
If you can effectively cast your political opponents as “terrorists” you can rationalize denying them all sorts of rights and still get to call yourself a supporter of human rights. They did a similar thing during the Iraq war.
I totally feel you. It's certainly been really hard for us. 4 year old going crazy, me at my desk all day most days. We try to cover for the other one while they get personal time, but it's me with the full time job.

This past few weeks I've started work at 6am (it's 6:07 right now) so that I can create some more space during the day and give her time.

I give my son some focused attention / special time in the middle of the day and in the evening. It's important that he gets a good intense dose of me and I'm not distracted when with him. Without that he's feeling unwanted (why does papa work all the time?) and he acts out. He refuses to join us for dinner: "I'm working" he says.

I was burnt out. Right now I'm doing well.
Thank you for your contribution. Note the error in the one line comment you made.
I don't understand the need to rank violent events. Outrage against these violent events isn't a zero sum game that requires us to pick and choose between them.

Vandalism, trespassing, arson, assault, and so on can and should be prosecuted because they are crimes. Full stop. The ideological motivation of the perpetrators should be irrelevant with respect to prosecuting the crimes.

I do realize that the impact and repercussions of the events is certainly a point for debate, but that seems orthogonal to the immediate and critical goal of keeping the peace.
If you have decent automated testing, canarying, and monitoring, then yeah, releasing as frequently as possible means that usually a breakage is immediately narrowed down to 2-3 CLs. We release once every 2 hours, because it takes about 2 hours to cut, test, and slowly deploy one release. When we have a bug, we usually notice during the canarying process, and then roll back and fix it, and figure out how to test for that case.
Its basically the same as a torrent or a public key. You have to first trust the source of the IPFS hash but if you trust the hash you can trust the content downloaded with it.

If for example NYT tweeted an IPFS hash, you could trust the content was from them.
Got it, thanks for the reply. Are you familiar at all with Cardano / IOHK's IELE?

I get the impression from their documentation (https://developers.cardano.org/en/virtual-machines/iele/abou...) that it's intended to address that, but I'm no expert in this area.

I actually hadn't considered this issue at all until you mentioned it, but was aware that one of Cardano's selling points is a focus on verifiability (e.g. via their Haskell-based Plutus language for smart contracts), and came across this IELE after a quick search through their materials.
I'm sorry - but that's part of owning a business. There's gonna be stuff you miss, mistakes you make, etc. Coming someplace you've admitted you've never been before, and claiming they need to 'change' because you're upset is just silly. You have not idea how the moderation works here, so how can you claim it needs to 'change' or 'improve'? For example, look at the down votes I'm accumulating trying to explain this to you. Also, note we're responding to each other with no problems. So it would seem a bit unfair to blame HN...

As for 'check every site possible' - you should probably be checking the ones you care about on a regular basis. For instance, googling your company name (a 'vanity search'). HN is actually pretty small potatoes compared to FB, Twitter, Yelp!, etc. You might want to check those sites too. And I kid you not, there are companies will 'manage your online reputation' if you would prefer to just outsource it.
I know my choice of words was particularly unrestrained in this instance. I have done my best to use more appropriate language in other threads, but felt it was necessary here to better convey the degree to which these factors are far more significant contributers to my current mental state than "working from home" and "being on extended lockdown" ever could.
Extremely rare. Taiwan and Hong Kong are very different places beyond both being ethnically Chinese. Singapore is the preferred alternative given cultural and business similarities.
Terrorism is politically motivated violence.

https://wor.do/terrorism
It doesn't work like that. Cloudinary caches the transform so you only pay for the first time for the transform.
Of course, you do have to pay for the bandwidth but by then the image would be cached somewhere on the network or on the browser anyways.
This was an interesting piece.

I must say though that I don't love the a16z podcasts. The couple that I listened to were fairly bland. They need more personality/charisma etc. I find the TWIST podcast by Jason Calacanis much more interesting mainly because of his engagement/personality/authenticity etc.

I actually think I could do better with a bit a practice. @wennmachers ... hit me if you want to chat! (I figured I "go direct" here! :-)
How can you explain the radical leftists of the 1960's then? Somehow the Russians (Soviets) must have (I assume you believe it was caused by them) had a communications channel by which they could radicalize all those college students.
No need to wonder. Nalvany spells it out.
US woman who tweeted about dream gay lifestyle in Bali to be deported
Thanks for this clarification. I use Brave less because I am actually afraid to install extensions, because addition phoning to Google. Or how does Brave handle that?
Hey, we don't need to shame people for their interests. Whether it is Shareable image Manipulation or car alarm circumspection, everyone should be welcome in open-source software.
That cheered me up ! Thanks :)
Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
The point was to show that the trial was not about the money.
Of course free markets cannot solve all problems. And neither can socialism or communism or any -ism. A lot of pain would be avoided if people just minded their own problems and their immediate environment's. Alas, never the case
Neutron Radiography
Fame has a direct financial value. Any US president is among the most famous and well known people on earth.

trump will make more money from speaking appearances than he did from any of his businesses over the last several decades
not sure why you were downvoted. I instantly thought of Truffle as it relates to smart contract work as well
I've realized in the last few years that VC is fundamentally marketing. Getting pitched by the best founders and getting the biggest LPs is all about how well a VC can position themselves as a thought leader. That's why most of the day job of a VC is basically content marketing: blogging, writing surveys of the tech landscape, appearing on startup pitch competitions, getting quoted in the media.
> Even though Parcel gives you these things completely for free, out of the box?

Not only is it free OOTB, but iirc you can't turn it off[1]. So OP might be using it unknowingly. 0 config means just that, for better and worse.

[1] - https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1207#issueco...
I have severe agoraphobia, but I still have empathy, so it still sucks. This should be my time to shine but my friends are sad.
Long ago when I was in College I ate poorly, stayed indoors, and didn't exercise but played plenty of games, watched tons of shows.

In 2019 I had completed a 100 Mile hike through the alps, regularly worked out, and enjoyed a modestly active social life with my spouse.

In 2020 I ended up buying a game console and playing a bunch of games, gained 20 pounds, and had a baby.

Overall I'd say 2020 felt like when I was in college in terms of my physical and emotional health (aka worse than 2019). However I would give credit to the pandemic for simplifying parts of having children. My wife and I are both able to dedicate many hours per day to our baby and avoided the headache of having to host extended family during a stressful period.
Well yes, Python or js don't have pointer arithmetic but underneath that's what happens if you're dealing with an array

Zero indexing might look weird at first but I think it helps in most cases.
You can activate Google alerts, which will tell you whenever your company is mentioned online https://www.google.com/alerts
The QAnon "storm" narrative revolved around unnamed "true patriots" within some unnamed national security service rising up to overthrow the corrupt.. something.

Or at least that's the common interpretation of QAnon ramblings.

But the point is that there wasn't any centralised leadership plotting this. There was some groups (who did have weapons) who were absolutely planning this, but the protestors in general was much more decentralized in purpose and method.
The gradients offer good examples.

Take the blue–white gradient: that’s about saying “what happens if we take a certain blue, and lighten it?” Expressed otherwise: “given ‘blue’, what do people think ‘light blue’ is?” It’s predicting light blue, based on the shape baked into the colour model.

sRGB blending says “blue channel’s already full, let’s increase the red and green channels”. That’s tolerable, but not great. Most people will look at it and be very subtly discontent, though they probably can’t quite place their finger on what’s wrong with it. It’s just a little too indigo.

CIELAB does a terrible job of this particular prediction. People will tend to agree that its guess at light blue is actually a light purple.

IPT, Oklab and ICtCp have been modelled to know that, in order to lighten a blue, you actually have to add a little more green than red (increase the green channel more than the red channel), because that’s just how our eyes and brains work, how we perceive colours.

Or the blue–yellow gradient: it’s asking “what colour is half-way between blue and yellow?” sRGB thinks a mid-grey is, and CIELAB thinks mauve is: these two are quite clearly wrong. The interesting ones are that IPT and ICtCp think a sort of teal is, while Oklab thinks it’s a bit paler and not quite so green. These are the predictions that have been designed into the colour space. Who’s more correct? I dunno, actually. They’re both pleasant to look at.
You can hold the fob under your chin to increase its range, using your skull as a reflector.

It sounds crazy, but it works.
Interesting side note:

It seems like a lot of people in this thread have an interest in retaining a "replayable timeline" of their own browsing/reading history.

There's probably enough support here to gather a few contributors for an open source project.
America. There aren't sane minimums to the building code here. If you're lucky enough to be in a state ravaged by earthquakes the minimums require it to not fall over during one but still don't properly address acoustic isolation.
> Licensed engineer is liable. If you get 10 structural engineers working on a bridge, only single one will sign off on the project. This person needs to be licensed and is liable. But all 10 could have worked on the project and did engineering work.

However, your processes mutate so that the liable engineer can reasonably sign something and not get hung out to dry.

This means reviews, engineering change orders, signoffs, etc.--ie. all the bureaucracy that software programmers love to complain about gets turned up to 11.

"Agility" and "Liability" are directly conflicting goals.
I'm pretty sure 1-based indexing is here too. Should new languages use it?

Fortran was using 1-based indexing 15 years before C existed if I understand correctly?
Who is "equating"? They are different but both bad. No reason to excuse either of them in any way. No need to decide which one is worth prosecuting and which one isn't.
Well it’s not the libertarian conception of a free market. I’m not that kind of libertarian but as I learn more about their theory, a major complaint is that right now the wealthy use their money to influence the state to influence markets. The libertarians theorists would prefer the wealthy use their wealth to compete in the market, not use the state to force things to the benefit of one firm. That’s why they want a weaker state. So it can’t be influenced by the wealthy.

However lots of people misunderstand that theory and think the wealthy influencing the state is what libertarians want. I’ve not found any libertarian theoretician who advocates for that.
Seems quite natural to me. Who determines what's overhead? To me, 1 indexing is more mental effort.
left NYC for Singapore here, its basically Taiwan that speaks English. covid under control. happy to answer any qtns.
Helps how?
I was hoping for an interesting analysis of 0 vs 1 based indexing, but instead got a 3 page rant of HN-this and appeal-to-authority-that which adds absolutely nothing of value to the discussion. It feels more like a bottom-of-the-page angry comment to an article than an actual article.
What, you've never met a stupid engineer?
> It somehow doesn't feel like he's ramming this through on the last day of his presidency because he cares deeply about the safety and security of the citizens of the USA.

No, but it doesn't feel like it is being done out of spite either. I mean, there is nothing here that can't be ignored or negated by the incoming administration when any proposed regs are eventually drafted, so someone lobbied for this EO, but I don't see who this benefits enough to have been worth expending financial or political capital just to get draft legislation that they will have to expend more capital on to actually get enacted, and perhaps then a bit more to have enforced (it is a characteristic of such efforts to enact legislation or regulation that if you are clever enough, enforcement is something that the lobbying entity largely gets "for free" when their pet legislation is enacted).

Although it does seem plain that the amount of capital expended right now is likely smaller than if trying to get the incoming administration to get the ball rolling, but that just answers "why today" rather than "why".

Cui bono?
I'm pretty sure most of it is stimulus checks or spare change from shit jobs and nothing much to spend extra money on other than gambling on Robinhood. People on WSB think 29 = "boomer", gives you the flavor.
They'll stretch out the bug resolution until AVIF takes over WebP.
This would suggest that there is an imbalance and a lot more capital than startup projects though. Is it really that extreme over there in silicon valley?
You can post anything, except if you tell people their shitty posts are shitty. You aren’t supposed to do that, I have found.
I think it just comes down to where you want your index-out-of-range errors to occur.

Pretty much any language I can think of inits primitives with all bits set to 0. So either, you accidentally forget to set your index vars to 1 and out-of-range it there, or accidentally forget to take away 1 when accessing the end of the array. Pick your poison
Even his mid event video was the same. A quick "you need to go home" sandwiched between minutes of babel about how he thinks they are doing the right thing and that he loves them.
Only in your coocoo world. Every country cares about flow of information, specially if it is propaganda against their establishment. Do that in any country and you'll disappear. There's nothing special about China.
What we have now is the minimum viable product. The convenience features come later. If it weren't urgent, the MVP wouldn't have been shipped.

There are vaccines that are more shelf-stable in development. Merck is working on a pill version. All those features add to development time. The whole clinical testing process has to be re-run for each modification to the delivery chemistry.

A year or two downstream, there will be plenty of supply, competing vendors, fewer side effects, and greater ease of use. But we need something now, so the working prototype had to be manufactured.
For at least one of the papers in there a book of commentary does exist: "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine" [1] by Charles Petzold.

The Wikipedia article describes it thusly:

> Petzold annotates Alan Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". The book takes readers sentence by sentence through Turing's paper, providing explanations, further examples, corrections, and biographical information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing
But this is certainly a choice individuals should make for themselves. Philosophers take the liberty of deciding lots of things for and about "people" without ever asking them.
I guess my point about looking around my living room was that I wouldn't know where to begin if I wanted to avoid slave labor.

I mean, I think it's safe to assume that Apple isn't the Big Bad here in terms of overseas labor practices: It seems highly likely that a very large % of technological devices around me involved either 1) child labor 2) some form of forced labor 3) unsafe labor conditions 4) starvation wages 5) 14 hour workdays 7 days a week

It goes far beyond electronics too: I just grabbed one of my kid's favorite little plush puppy: made in China. It seems reasonable to doubt the quality of the work conditions in the factory it came from, but I just don't know.

I think about something like "Organic Food" and there are at least labelling requirements for things like that. People do, with some effort, manage to eat completely organic, even if there are some problems with labelling consistency.

There's nothing equivalent for "no kid/slave labor/fair wages" etc. You could buy only things made in the US, or other countries with fair labor practices, but the supply chains for components & materials to build those things are will be opaque & frequently have roots into the labor practices you want to avoid.

I'm not saying you shouldn't try to avoid products like that: If possible for a given product? Sure, go for it. But otherwise I'm saying that is seems like a virtually impossible task to accomplish
It's the use of violence and fear by a group of individuals to coerce the current leadership to change their policies and to undermine their authority.
Deported for conducting business without a visa. Lots of people do this. But selling it as a lifestyle comes with repercussions, no matter how unfairly they may be chosen.

I'm all for LGBTQ+ rights, but this fight ain't it.
For starters, it doesn't just kill old people.

And I'm not concerned with other people's opinions. I'm concerned with their actions. If somebody follows public health guidelines, they can have whatever opinion they want. If they're out helping transmit a disease killing millions and wrecking the economy, I still don't care what their opinions are.
clearly because of political astroturfing.

there I explicitly stated what you are insinuating with your simple question.

his/her point still stands; famous politicians gain wealth from said fame. can we stay on track here?
The board construction and component quality is exceptional and pro. Reminds me of HP gear (and later, Apple 2) of that time. Clearly created with pride - these are tech treasures.

Edit: Here's a series of Curious Marc videos about the clock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBIhzEZkWEA&list=PL-_93BVApb...
The answer to the question is "because people are buying them". It is as simple as a supply-demand economy 101. Why people are bying them? Perhaps even if the alarms are not effective they give owners peace of mind, which is good enough reason for them to exist.