skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue isn't "brute force power" (which python doesn't really have compared to CL if you look at the language itself), but rather the quality and completeness of numerical routines and GPU support. Matlab was very popular for early ML because it had the former.
> There are lots of fascinating blockchain projects though

Do you have a list? Here [1] is a 2018 article from The Register titled "Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence", and here [2] is a 2021 article titled "IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources" saying that

> “There is not really going to be a blockchain team any longer,” said a person familiar with the situation.

> Expectations for enterprise blockchain were too high, they said, adding that IBM “didn’t really manage to execute, despite doing a lot of announcements.”

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_find...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-blockchain-revenue-misses-job-c...
Participating in illegal activities does not make the coin more valuable but rather makes illegal transactions possible and criminalized the bit coin trade and hence soon it will become regulated.

So it is not like a bank transfer which is legit.
But genetic evidence is often enough to convict by itself. A false positive is far more likely to land a conviction than an embarrassment to the prosecutor. I mean we live in a world where DNA evidence will easily override solid alibis.
This post had me at "solves the problem of massive disk space usage with Docker."
Seriously!

Quantity data is not a substitute for quality data.

Give an engineer a qualitative data point and they'll find a way to invalidate it.

But give them a million invalid data points...
I don't agree. I am active in different areas of the crypto space. You would be surprised to hear how few (big) bitcoin owners own traditional stocks or participated in the GME pump and dump.
You could say it differently, instead of impoverishing Canva value prop, by noting that many teams don't really need advanced design features, and speed of execution matters much more for daily tasks: Canva really excels in that.
This. Smart contracts have lots of possible uses such as removing brokers (housing deeds), flattening distribution (there's one musician selling on etherium via a smart contract) etc.

Projects like particl [1] are creating a decentralised, anonymous marketplace with very low fees. Imagine being able to sell on ebay or amazon and only paying pennies in listing fees.

This is an early stage in crypto but the trend is inevitable.

[1] https://particl.io
That's an extremely flawed argument. If you can't explain it to a layman then you don't understand it. If you can't tell whether it's a gap or a fracture -- you can't get a conviction.

"It just looks like it" is not a valid reason.
Except that it doesn't. You still need someone to put up and maintain ATMs, apps, exchange-sites etc. that allow for quick and easy transfer and exchange of bitcoin. People think this is all easy until things go wrong: Who do you appeal to if you get scammed? What do you do if you pay someone online with bitcoin who then just doesn't deliver what you've ordered? Who do you call if someone attached some kind of skimmer to a bitcoin ATM?

Don't get me wrong, there's so much wrong with the current banking system, and I really hope someone or something manages to disrupt it, but Bitcoin is no solution to that.
If you call foo with an int or with a double, then it gets inlined.

I don’t think they can inline foo as you’ve written it because the variant could be valueless by exception.
See https://github.com/zxing/zxing/issues/1345 and https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/233322/finding-a...

TL;DR someone apparently cloned ZXing Barcode Scanner, added annoying ads, uploaded it to the Play Store with the same name. Soon enough the malicious clone got taken down. Legitimately pissed off people who installed the malicious clone are leaving angry reviews for the non-malicious original (presumably because the malicious clone is gone from the Play Store).
Still, a raging 80 kg human can be a handful to deal with.

Exactly how big a handful becomes much clearer when someone close to you spends long enough manic and without sleep, then goes psychotic.
How does this square with Tesla's "green" mission?

Bitcoin consumes annually the electricity output of a small country. Surely if they were serious about tackling environmental issues they would not be investing in Bitcoin?

This news itself has pushed the price up over 15% today and no doubt enables another warehouse full of machines to start working 24/7 to mine more bitcoin...
Cool as cold ?
Fair - although I'm not big on shifting the blame from people only relying on headlines to form an opinion. That's on them, so-called "clickbait" or not.
Of course prosecutors will favour expert witnesses that will help them get convictions. Why isn’t that obvious?
Deflation is supposedly bad because it encourages people to hold their money instead of investing it into businesses and new products.

The problem is that it is a prisoner's dilemma situation, where capital holders do not want to be 'encouraged' to invest their money even if it might be a net benefit to society as a whole.
Drauger OS Distro Developers Are Looking to Make a Linux-Based Console
That would seem to be a category error. One of those is race, two of those are nationality.

Whether or not that’s a good idea depends on context. When you’re talking about matters of race, invoking race night make sense. When talking matters of nationality, invoking nation might make sense. When talking matters of nation, invoking race does not make sense.

Naturally, invoking nation as a means of stereotyping and discrimination is a terrible thing as well.
The fact that someone else might be worse says nothing about this issue.
Author here! Yeah, that menu option was super useful to find, too. I've not really used this shell script for a while (I spend a lot less time in coffee shops now because Covid) but I still use the option-click thing regularly.

I hope it continues to be useful to you!
Show HN: I made a one-line API for OpenAI's new CLIP image classifier model
Hey HN!

My name's Erik, and I took OpenAI's CLIP zero-shot image classifier
https://openai.com/blog/clip/
and API-ified it.

It takes in a list of images (local .jpg or .png, or URL) and a list of natural language prompts and returns similarity and probibility distributions for those images compared against the promts. It's basically a general purpose CV model that doesn't need to be trained.

You can currently use it from Python3 and Node.js with a single line of code (+ an import).

If you want the fastest time-to-use, run this google colab notebook:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xe8dB_azJ78Gbki7Gif...

I've been building dev tooling and infra products at Booste for nearly two years now. TLDR on my career is that I'm a self taught dev, and because of learning on my own, I end up spending a lot of time building abstractions around the things that I find to be a big pain, so others don't need to do the same. Recently I've been building Booste as a "Twilio/Stripe for ML" to handle the productionizing step that plagues most AI startups.

This API was inspired by a collab I did with the folks at Roboflow https://roboflow.com, where we used CLIP to judge MS-Paint style drawings against cards-against-humanity like prompts. You can find it here:
https://paint.wtf/
With it we built everything from the AI judging part to a NSFW and hate speech filter on the images, just by adding prompts.

Now you can do the same on Booste.

Jump on, play around, and let me know what you think!

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Shameless plug, it's on Product Hunt right now too. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/clip-api-by-booste
OP was claiming that this article offers proof that Frontex is systematically breaking the law and that's what I was responding to.

I am not familiar with all the wrongdoings that Frontex allgedly participates in, nor am I particularly interested in that topic. If they're doing illegal things, there should be no problems suing them, supreme courts or not.

There's one thing that I'd like to address though: you said that Frontex wants to control the border(s) without helping migrants. The latter is not part of the mandate of any border protection agency that I know of, so it's no wonder they won't want to invest money into it.
Declouding my life – Replacing Google Photos with locally hosted services
Google wants to connect everything you own to the internet
have you ever seen MATLAB code?
EVs Force Carmakers to Reinvent
The AI of the first Winter had nothing to do with ML, rather expert systems and symbolic processing.

Python is starting to look like the Lisp of the second Winter.

https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
Dokku is worthy of a look. Great support for buildpacks.
In lieu of just linking to studies, I'll link to a great Slatestar Codex post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
Godot 4.0 optimization progress report
API with NestJS #28. Dealing in the N and 1 problem in GraphQL
I have trouble seeing how Bitcoin would make a reasonable vehicle for everyday transactions as long as it is so volatile.

Last week you could've bought a Model 3 for ~1.92 BTC. This morning you'd be spending ~1.58. That is a substantial change, and one side of the transaction would be taking a bath on it.

Certainly as btc usage becomes more widespread the value would level out and the volatility would decrease. As it is though, at least personally I couldn't see using bitcoins for purchases while the FOMO is looming and I'm thinking "what if it goes up and I save 20%?"
Self-sovereign identities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity) are one attempt to address this issue.
John Chambers, Former Head of Cisco, on Silicon Valley Exodus: We're in Trouble
> the compiler has no way of suggesting to you

Of course it does. And since Scala 3, it does suggest to you the imports you need for implicits. And IntelliJ does recommend imports even for Scala 2.

Regarding cats, the codebase has been restructured, so that you won't need the implicit imports (or not as much at least): https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/30/implicit-scope-and-ca...
The trick there is that the Type class instances were moved to appropriate companion objects which are searched by the compiler by default and thus the used doesn't need to do any manual imports.
Bitcoin is an excellent currency for all sorts of illegal transactions.

Buying or selling drugs online? Odds are you're using in bitcoin. Running a ransomware extortion scheme? Odds are you're using bitcoin for payments. Running an international wire fraud scheme? Odds are your drops are paying you in bitcoin.
How long before some hacker modifies the default vehicle sound to something ungodly...
> pumping a silly cryptocurrency joke called Dogecoin

The irony is thick in this Tesla article.
Platform Speech Governance and the First Amendment: A User-Centered Approach
I'm a huge fan of offline generation of these kinds of things across the board— one that I'm found surprisingly tricky is OVAs. You can create your rootfs in a loopback, and use qemu-img to turn that into a vmdk, but there's not a lot of documentation or helpers/validators out there to assist with producing the XML ovf metadata, and if you get it wrong in any way, vmware just coughs up a generic error message.

One thing that is quite helpful as an example to pick through is the 40MB yVM from here: https://cloudarchitectblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/yvm-down...

Anyone else got tips or resources for this?
We skipped season 3 and I missed season 4! https://next-season-of.com/atlanta/

:)

The data does seem to be pretty solid in my random other searches though.
> I'm not so sure we should be allowing challenges to expert witness, with no evidence

Any challenge is "allowed" in the sense that the parties can try to convince the judge there is a flaw.

The question is one of burden of proof: should the expert prove they have a trustworthy result, or should the expert testimony stand on their credibility alone, and the defense scramble to poke holes into it armed with incomplete information.

For a system that can put people into jail for life and that acts as a direct extension of state power, it's obvious the latter can have disastrous consequences. Effectively, any one who acquirers the "judicial expert" title can put people in jail at their whim.
No idea. My completely uneducated guess that probably makes no sense is that they have thicker cell walls (or whatever they're called for plants)?
Solus 4.2 Linux Distro Released
See 'the secretary problem' [0], which is a more sophisticated version of the above. It's a process that can be summarised roughly as follows.

Given a pile of CVs

Read approximately 40% of them (actually 1/e, or ~0.368)

Dump that 40%

Select the first candidate that is better than the ones you have just dumped

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies function without a ubiquitous internet

as in: someone’s will always have computers linked together

networking cant be shut off, ubiquity can

end users dont need todays convenience of always knowing their balance, it can degrade to going to an internet cafe or bank to check your balance

and transact with your notes

transactions can be made offline, transported offline like files and eventually sent to the network again for inclusion in the blockchain

someone has to go back to the internet cafe / bank

like the merchant at the end of the day

the only real issue is the initial hashrate drop if all major mining nodes were disconnected and couldnt reconnect. so up to the first few months, for bitcoin exclusively, could be stressful, but then difficulty will adjust for the remaining computers and accept transactions at the expected speed
> but how do I know bitcoin governance is better?

if you live in an affected country you may ponder about this while you see your money evaporate in front of your eyes.

or you can buy BTC to get your money in an exchange and distribute it into stable coins.

yes, one may implode, right now our national currency has imploded, whatever their governances are doing it's better.
Moirai was one of PC's most disturbing games, and now it's gone forever (2017)
I love the idea but one of the challenges I’ve found at quite a few companies is a difficulty across the organisation in understanding the true cost of infrastructure: I’ve experienced situations in which putting the $ upfront causes people to focus on the $ amount.

Do you have a guide for how this information should be used most effectively? I’m thinking of co-workers who would request a change that reduces the monthly cost by $10 but the time it takes to go through the code review and make the change and test it... by that point any $ cost saving has been spent on the time it spent in code review.

My instinct is that perhaps rather than reporting the $ or % change, instead projects could have alarms / limits on cost increases, but I’m not so sure if that is really tackling the problem.
Not unique, and if anything, becoming time-tested.
> But Google certainly could hire and train humans to follow a process for reviewing and assisting in resolving these cases. They don't. It is doubtful that they cannot afford to do this; I haven't checked their annual report lately, but I'm guessing they still have a healthy profit.

They'd waste 99% of their time with spammers, scammers, and attackers trying to social engineer account access. There's no reason to waste a human's time on that.
~10 downtime per month. What is happening at GitHub?
Cryptocurrencies cannot be bargained with or taken over

Sure they can. They are artificially inflated all the time - look at tether.
Pistol grips are a common interface, they don't have a significant tactical improvement on their own. It is massively beneficial to have all/most weapons a soldier might be called upon to use to have the same basic setup though.
Temps vary throughout the day.
GSuite != Google One, which is an add-on to consumer accounts. GSuite makes you a different account that has different access to services.
The last time this happened, it was after they shipped the phone app.

I wonder if they have a big feature underway or are just migrating more infrastructure to Azure?

EDIT: Either way, some postmortems would be appreciated before more customers have to look for a backup solution...
I'd like to encourage you, 5 minutes after you learn about someone's existence, not to wish for their death, execution, imprisonment, and /or disenfranchisement. The real world is too complicated to judge correctly in that time.

As well, please remember that the comment guidelines exist at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You make it sound like the currency has actually been debased, which has in fact not happened. Hyperinflation is a problem yes, I have been to countries while that was happening, like Brazil, or when the banking system was shut down. The US has around 1% inflation which is not the big problem for poor people.
Fascinating to hear about Travis. Allegedly he could drive a car! But there's speculation that the Xanax he was given that day might have been the cause of the attack. I also wonder if he was getting a proper diet.
In this context, it's referring to Central Asia and Siberia. Not a great term though.
Bitcoin Holdings by Public Companies
How does this work? Simply log into messenger?
‘AWS optimized Postgres distro’ is perhaps underselling it a bit, while being broadly correct. The magic is in the storage engine which powers instantaneous failover, point in time restores and the newly released ‘serverless 2’ product (which would be ideal for the parent has)
Tesla invest $1.5B in Bitcoin plans to accept BTC as payment
Same compiler? Same configuration? Same OS? There will be variations in the output. How much variation is reasonable?
As a counter to being a pyramid scheme, we've seen the 4 year moving average price of bitcoin continue to trend upwards. That's more than 10 years and the price hasn't collapsed.

Bitcoin governance is performed through mining pools signaling their opinion on proposals, we saw this with segwit and larger block sizes. As a relevant example Ethereum currently is going through a proposal and one pool has been vocal in being against it, another vocally for it. As a result miners have moved their hashrate accordingly.
At these kind of scales I don't see how it's that much different form government. The rules are different, the norms are different but governance exists.
this doesn't really make sense to me. most people have pretty simple tax situations. no matter how much you pay your accountant, there aren't many loopholes for a W-2 employee to exploit. "easy tax filing" doesn't have to mean that the government guarantees an absolutely optimal filing (how could it? it's not clear to me that it understands its own rules without ambiguity). it could instead mean that your return gets prepopulated with the most obvious filing strategy for your situation. for most people, the obvious way would be the same as the optimal way, and people with weird situations could keep doing their own taxes.
I sent bitcoin to a coconut tree recently. People just dont get what is possible here.
I used to have similar project called WhenEpisode.com. I was generating landing page for each show with the title "When is the next episode of...", it was catching some google traffic.
Require a credit card on signup.
Love it and bookmarked. Was always tired of reading through the production backstories of a show just to find when the next season is starting.
No, more mining equipment wouldn't lower the fee. It would just lower the income you make from mining. Bitcoin targets a block of a limited size every 10 minutes. If more people are mining it adjusts the difficulty to bring it back to 10 minutes.

I agree that Bitcoin will not scale to handle the global population. People will be on spread out over many different projects and people able to route through them. Of course this will all be hidden from the end user. I do believe cryptocurrency is the future of money. Most people will just be holding stable coins pegged to the dollar and they won't even know that it's a cryptocurrency. They will just refer to it as a dollar since it's abstracted away.
The insight here is, why not both? Old economies lurched from hard/gold-backed currencies to fiat. Why not build an economy that exists on multiple layers, and has both options? Use fiat to make short-term transactions and investments. Use hard crypto to fund the things you think are so valuable, they are worth overcoming the deflationary pressure for.

Moving away from all-or-nothing systems is kind of the point.
I noticed that code search seems to be broken too - hasn't been working for 1-2 hours.

Search still works for issues, repos etc, but not code.
How do you find good psych people? Showing my bias but it’s a genuine question. I remember in school all the psych and social psych folks being total jackoffs in blowoff classes.

How do you find people you can take seriously? Who don’t just quote psychology today and act like it’s insight? Like I know the field is professional and has skilled professionals - but how do you find them?
Forget that and forget runway modeling. They told a friend (former with benefits now actual friend) of mine, who is demonstrably a cute and hot girl she "could never be a runway model because her butt is too big." while her French friend has an imperceptibly-slightly smaller behind is acceptable. TBH, she has a perfect, bitchin bottom. What the actual? That industry's standards are beyond insane.

Let's suspend societal expectations, dispel myths, and look at different types of exercise.

Diet and exercise alone will never make any woman "look like a man." Only steroids or seriously-unlucky endocrine dysfunctions can do this. Not working out at all makes a woman subjectively appear less healthy, less defined, and less attractive, IMHO.

The stereotypical "flat-bottomed, upper-income, undefined physique" etiology is the result of excessive "more is better" cardio, yoga, and so forth is offset by a lack of significant and efficacious weightlifting recruiting type IIB muscle fibers, and converting IIB into IIA. All that running on the treadmill or elliptical doesn't lead to strength or muscle mass, it leads to endurance and joint degradation. IIA is tiny in volume compared to IIB. "More is better" is worse.

Short duration, high-intensity weightlifting until failure is the most efficacious activity to classify as exercise, with a limited amount of cardio to maintain practical endurance without converting too much muscle fiber. This applies to both adult men and women. If anyone wants to be healthiest with least cost, time, and net effort, this sort of approach is preferable. And tell the gymrats: Pain and time don't win merit badges, results do. Hopefully, they'll respond: "do you even lift, bro?" :]

That's my (100-80)/10 cents.

PS: Body by Science by Little & McGuff (2009) obliterates many gym tradition superstitions, factoids, and popular misconceptions with evidence, experience, and studies.
I think Google is so used to trying projects and cancel the stuff that fails, that they are not really good to _make_ things not fail anymore.

They fail in stupid ways (like this) and then cancel Stadia and then celebrate their "failure culture".
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Google is evil, etc..., but just a PSA: people often overlook emails in their backups. Don't trust your provider to not fumble the ball and lose them (or lock you out of them).

If you're ready to add another layer of tin foil, don't store emails long term on an IMAP server if your emails leaking would be a problem for you (a la Sony or Clinton).