skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol ok bruh... I'll break this down...

> Do you think the state should give you money or leave you to your enterprise?

I haven't taken a dime from any government entity, including the unemployment pool that I 100% qualify for and have spent the last 15 years paying into. I also have ~4 other streams of income, so yeah, leave me to my 'enterprise, I'm good.

> Do you think that taking things from businesses was some sort of conspiracy plan against business owners

No...

> or the result of something terrible

Correct.

> plus bad management

Nah we run an extremely dialed joint that pays all state & federal taxes with all cash components (door cover, tips, etc) on the books. My round of ownership (I'm 1 of 3) dug the place out of ~$100k in debt from prior ownership (primarily to other local vendors, and the IRS) and hard course corrected the place inside 24 months time. I'd argue we're a great example of fantastic management – in this business and plenty of others.

> plus decades of no preparation

I've been in this business for ~5 years, so I can't speak to decades.

> even when the scientific community was proactively warning everyone of this problem?

This is so wildy out of pocket, I can't even respond with anything reasonable.

Are you suggesting that restaurant/bar/venue owners should fall to zero and grind it out on the streets because they weren't accounting for scientific research that presented the possibility of a pandemic that'd stop all economic activity across the globe for 6+ months, and their businesses for 2+ years? Are you high?

> I made myself resistant to THIS specific problem by decades of choices, losses and failures.

Like I said, I'm good. But I also have a responsibility to a payroll of 18+ humans, and I'm not a large enough piece of shit to tell them that I win, they planned poorly, I am superior, and to hit the line at the fuckin' food bank.

> and hopefully won't blame others for that.

Nope but you'll blame the ones drowning as you stomp on their heads and flex on them with your wild time traveling foresight that makes you better than all of them and worthy of watching their lungs take on water with an 'I told you so' attitude. Hope that works out for you, boss.
I could see CBDCs using blockchain solely because someone utterly non-technical, at some higher level in the bureaucracy, insisted that they make a blockchain-based cryptocurrency “so as to not get left behind” or “because we need to compete with Bitcoin”.

Clearly neither of those two rationales make any sense whatsoever - and they might even seem like a downright ridiculous suggestion to some readers of this response. If that’s you, then welcome to wild and whacky world of public spending.
I have been a Pinboard user for many years but switched to Raindrop (https://raindrop.io/) some time ago.
Pinboard did not see any update in years and the developer ignored my support requests regardless of me being a yearly subscriber.
There are better alternatives out there by now.
I'm glad I set up a git mirror on my own home server. I've been looking forward to giving this a shot all week!
Well it doesn't mean a quantity. I have faith in your ability to interpret, though apparently not without complaint.
The old testament says that Moses received the 10 commandements from god and he wrote them down on stone tablets.

The author says that people with a doctor degree are always right. Moses would have written that down as well but he had no space on his stone tablets left.
They've generally gotten faster over time.

The newer ones also have partial refresh modes that are faster still, but not quite as clean, which lets you trade speed for clarity. The fastest modes work for video (sort of) and at least the Boox have lots of configuration options e.g. different apps can refresh at different speeds, the refresh rate can vary when you start scrolling (in standard android apps that aren't optimised for e-ink, in readers you generally "page" through text) and can set it to do full refreshes after X amount of actions, or manually force a refresh.

But, as all the above probably indicates, if you have it on full quality mode, then there's a noticeable delay and flicker as it fully blacks out the screen to "clear" it and then displays the next page.

This is particularly bad for some of the color ones, as they seem to only be able to do each color layer in sequence.
For the cognitive aspect of depression a nice comprehensive and dense video I found is [0], key factors in slide at 24:10 and the reasons for this approach are at a slide at 23:00 including why a medication only approach is intractable in the long term.

[0]: https://youtu.be/TVgQ_tgWMyU
Oh.

That makes sense.

Herr Doktor just means Mister Doctor. "The Doctor is always right is the 11th commandment. Moses ran out of space to add that to the stone tablets (where he wrote the first ten)."

I think it is worded awkwardly. I also had trouble parsing that.
Thanks for the laugh. How accurately could we simulate physics/a universe if we simplified some of the constant values like how the fundamental particles behave. Not a physicist or a mathematician so be gentle if it's absolute cod's wallop.
My impression has been that this has always been the modus operandi for the gig economy. The disruption is pretty much always based on skirting around all the regulations, taxes and labour laws of the "traditional" economy and making large profits (although they don't even manage that) for the shareholders/investors and push all costs onto society.

I mean by not paying VAT they essentially get 20%"discount" compared to all other providers, or is it the drivers who have to pay VAT?
If history is any guide it involved an ice pick.
Ask HN: How'd you start your business while moonlighting?
How'd you separate your day job from your business you were thinking of starting and what is that business?

Thanks
After "don't roll your own crypto", we're witnessing "don't roll your own universe".

My, this escalated quickly.
That fact that everyone around me except for readers of HN think Facebook is evil for doing this, just shows how public opinion is still 100% formed by mainstream media (who have an incentive to portray this as some journalist saving legislation, not a direct payment from Google and FB to News corp).
Cash is doomed to be phased out and Covid has sped this up a lot. Eventually you won’t have the option to use cash.
A further short story by the same author, very short and very suspenseful, about a powerful AI facing an existential task: https://qntm.org/transit

If you like longer stories, then https://qntm.org/ra. "Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in heavy industry and magic in your home. It's what's next after electricity." Magic as an abstraction layer.
Yes you can get a good assortment of tabs for less than the price of a new release game. I never buy mtx in games but didn't feel bad about this.

Though, some players are a little sore over how they seem to be adding very specialised tabs in new leagues. There is of course a perverse incentive at play to design content to require tabs that can be sold to us.
There are some themes that are way more common than others. Falling into a void is a very notable one.

The only recurring dream theme I have is this: You try to walk somewhere and it's slow, like moving in tar. It's exhausting and takes ages to e.g. walk down the street to your neighbor. Sometimes I'm even crawling trying to pull myself forward. I've heard similar variations from others too, so seems to be common.

Oh and my late grandmother had the same dream ever night for most of her adult life. Trauma in childhood due to war. I don't want to know how this feels.
It's not accurate that only a very small minority would participate, the murder rate can go as high as 40-60 percent (e.g Waorani, among others). This is what can happen when there's no Leviathan that disincentives murder and when murder is status conferring instead of status reducing.

It's also part of the nature of our close relatives, the chimpanzee. See "lethal raiding".
The thing is, if a company wants to fire an employee they can usually find a reason. It takes extreme care for a person to work for any length of time at a company that wants to fire that person. The employee must change the behaviour that is causing the company to want to get rid of them. It is usually not expected people will change their behaviour and as such, HR and outside lawyers are always available to assist companies with these "problem employees".

It is possible that there are many employees who are committing "fire-able offenses" at many companies but because the companies are not trying to get rid of these employees, these offenses go undetected or no serious action is taken if they are discovered. That's life.

The question here is whether Google wanted this employee gone, and if so, why. It sounds like she was reading documents associated with the other employee on her team who was fired. We are not told of any actual damage that was caused.

The quoted statement in the top comment states "After conducting a review of this manager's conduct...". They have discretion over what they choose to do after the review. They wanted this employee gone. Why?
> We've had those type of character editors for years

Where exactly?
That's really cool; thanks for your work!!

I cant wait to see how Y'all figure out how to get those rock samples back to earth; that's gonnna be nuts XD
How to understand Linux “system calls” by developing a library?
The best way to understand something in software is do an implementation. So how could one go about developing a library for Linux "system calls"?
Some people like to call it Path of Excel.

I am the type of player who starts a new RPG, gets to character creation, and spends 2 hours on the wiki looking at all the classes and races and other options to make the "right" choice. So, obviously PoE appealed to me a lot.

If you want to give it another go my suggestion is always to just slavishly follow a fun looking build guide (from the current league! things change fast) you found online. It'll cut a lot of the complexity right out so you can learn to deal with the huge amount that's still left, then slowly add it back in as you customise later.
For me the most interesting part of the article was seeing how much of the semiconductor industry is still in Europe.
Nice gallery. I sold my Keyboardio Atreus. I think it was too radical for me and i didn't want to invest the time to adapt to it when in the end there was an aspect i didn't like (tiny space and enter keys, no numbers etc).

The Dactyl looks tempting now...
Block rewards are designed finite but also designed to end outside most peoples lives. So in short no one needs a solution. Block reward of 0 theoretically would be reached in 2140. Of course earlier halving will already have a similar effect BUT ONLY if the price does not at lest double every halving (4 year). Essentially this means bitcoin will allays run on inflation. The finite supply is a "lie" that just doesn't work the same way if the price per unite can simply multiply. You constantly add a smaller fraction of the total but suck out more and more value anyway. mining has never become cheaper if price/hash drops it just raises the hashing required to mine.
The people who hold BTC but dont use it pay (via inflation) for thous who use it so they have cheaper (still laughably expensive) transactions. They just dont care about that as long as price gains far outperform the inflation loses.

At some point it has to crash and wont recover because double-spends happened and the network can no longer be trusted which renders it useless.
If the price (real world purchase power not the price in USD) doesn't multiply for more than 4 years... the end is near. Likely the end would come before the 4 years are over.
historically hash rate drops the most 1-1.5 years before halving in sync with the price. it basically boils down to how good large miners are at managing risk. they need to have the money to keep mining while its not profitable. if a large player goes bankrupt it could create a chain reaction crashing the whole thing.

BTW, next generation blockchains like the XRPL have solved all of theses problems a long long time ago. The lead dev (ex btc dev) saw these problems ~10 years ago and it took them 1-2 years to come up with something better.
> As long as they're in a compatible format

Which (as far as I remember) doesn't include epub, the ebook format.
Many academic departments would certainly hire them - there are universities/departments who pretty much ignore such politics, and there are many universities/departments who would consider their stance as heroic and a bonus for hiring.
It's an absolute mess of a software, to get running and if you're not paying attention you'll install 15+GB of packages you won't need.

I've helped some friends with c++ assignments during college and with ROS they had to have dozens of terminal windows open running some command just to get things working.
It isn't. This is simple two-level scheduling that could be found in textbooks of the time.

You've quoted a discussion of the low-level scheduler, a.k.a. dispatcher. If you read just 3 pages on from that quotation, you'll find a description of the mid-level scheduler that dynamically adjusts priorities (in two priority classes) according to whether threads consume their entire quanta; a rather simpler dynamic variation mechanism than those of some other contemporary operating systems, which did things like calculating decayed estimates of recent CPU usage over the past few seconds, and certainly not "magic".

(Some operating systems have another level on top of those low-level and mid-level schedulers of high-level schedulers, that deal in things like scheduling jobs in batch, or performing whole-process swapping. OS/2 doesn't have that.)
I would assume it means they monitored the top-few dark-web marketplaces and forums where hackers are known to sell their goods.
> can simulate a universe

That's a pretty huge and unfounded assumption.
The kernel actually keeps track of this information in an internal "responsibility" field for each process. The private API to retrieve this information (which Activity Monitor uses) is responsibility_get_pid_responsible_for_pid, exported from /usr/lib/system/libquarantine.dylib.
Nah, I think the problem is I was talking about me but everyone else think I'm talking about them. I learnt a long time ago to accept that people are the they are. I don't try to analyse people. I just thought you empathetic people would find it interesting to hear how I feel. I guess I was wrong.
Well I guess the question is, if the US govt (or any other superpower) felt it was in their interest to take over / destroy the blockchain, would they be able to?

It seems to me if Bitcoin got to be of huge strategic importance to global finance, countries like the US would start to build out that power. The idea that the economy of say the US was at the mercy of other foreign governments would probably not sit well.

This applies to all large powers just using the US as an example.
What if uncertainty is just a kludge added to prevent multiple particles from occupying the same place at the same instant?
They have been discontinued. Also i've had a few degrade after a few years and one died of water damage.
If only they had nice switches...
$120/yr for the cheapest. I think I'll stick with $0 for Bitwarden.
Uhh.. Where do you think this number that you call "value" comes from?

It comes from the crypto exchanges. The value. Is the latest settled sale. So when someone sets a sell price and someone buys at that btc, is when the value is set.

So yeh. You absolutely need new buyers for its value to increase.
but wool is so itchy and scratchy, isn't it?
The CBDCs started with a great idea: to share the stability and security banks enjoy today with all citizen and retail sector in digital format, as public layer similar to internet, between what we have today (cash) and what the future maybe (web3). At the same time, the way you have right to use cash today (almost) in the way you desire, you should have right and possibility to do so also in the digital world of future.

Today, most of the digital money is actually a private sector coin backed by fiat: you send paypal coin to another person, not real euro, and exchange it via another CC provider service. Cross-borders are order of magnitude more messy. They have similar problems like other stablecoins and cryptocurrencies while a few of their main value added are the solution to the challenges of cryptocurrencies: UX, and security among others. The private sector also has an incentivized and risk-averse view towards the basic right, e.g. inclusion and usage. The covid crisis showed that we cannot leave it to the private sector and banks among others to ensure the financial safety of people. Bank-runs happened because people do not have trust toward private sector, and regulatory actions are reactive at best.

So enter CBDCs. Central banks wanted to provide the benefits while retaining control of money flow in country. Same incentives of old age into the digital world. But the challenge is that by providing a real CB backed currency one disintermediates the banking system. One reason not to break the economy without understanding the effects and the other reason being CBs themselves are not high tech and prefer to piggy back available distribution channels. So, CBs started offering two-layer approaches, which is almost identical to the today‘s financial model, mostly a technological improvement at best. DLTs replace Swifts of the world. Accounts will stay accounts, KYC stays in place, maybe some tools would be given to not require accounts for e.g. <$1k etc. External sovereignty threats, e.g. e-renminbi, is also a whole different story, taken the topic to the extreme, while still acting as a strong external motivator.

One could ask then what‘s the fuss then? So, there is a technological demand to build CBDC, CBs have all incentives for themselves to build it to keep control, banks get to have a modern payment system for themselves, but what would change for the end user? Lower fees? obviously the view is biased towards modern world, e.g. in broken economies any order is better than none, some wallet is better than no bank, etc.

Eventually, CBDCs in the first roll out are an evolution of the current banking system. There is no fuss about it, but rather finally there is enough momentum to align multiple heavy stakeholders on one strategy.

disclaimer: the views are my personal views.
For something cheap (20-30$) a lot of the older Kindles are pretty interesting (and modern enough after updating OpenSSL for TLS 1.3). After "jailbreaking" you're left with a pretty normal Linux from 2012: X server, awesome WM, dbus, upstart with commented shell scripts.
Evolution? We are rather different from those species that have adapted to colder climates. But there really is quite many ways to combat it. Move underground or even under snow, eat enough. In general have sufficient metabolism and insulation.
You have to make the pretty big assumption that it’s even possible to simulate a universe within the universe. Such an assumption is basically like assuming we could move faster than light, or reverse entropy. It seems unlikely to me.
I get where you are coming from, but I had a blast with Gothic 1/2 and Mass Effect 1. Running through haunted forests or driving or roaming desolate planets, under the double suns is a very special experience, evoking memories of Star Control 2. I can't quite compare those two with Krondor, that's why I have put Krondor into special 90s category.

(speaking of Mass Effect, a lot of people seem to love the second part, 'because it is so character driven', but I felt myself confined to corridor missions. The freedom of descending on a planet and driving it around was the most appealing part of ME experience, which was absent from 2 & 3 installments)
It only requires relicensing to GPL if the non-GPL software is "derived from" GPL component. Otherwise GPL doesn't apply except for the explicitly GPL licensed components.

At least with GPLv2
Supercharged Portrait Lighting effects – Short story in comments
Apollo: Immersive illumination is an iOS app for modifying the lighting of portrait mode photos using virtual point lights.

The app reads the depth data of a portrait mode photo and creates a 3D representation of it. Then, it generates data like per pixel surface orientation (normal map). After all data is calculated and gone through a pipeline of filters to improve quality the user can add light sources to the photo and edit their parameters e.g.: position, colour, intensity, specularity (reflectivity). All light sources cast shadows on the original photo and the user can turn them on/off and adjust their sharpness. There are additional depth related effects that the user can apply on the photo like: fog and background removal. All actions of the user are done in realtime, there is zero loading/delay in user input. It's like a game where the user moves lights over their photos.

Some highlights: I got an email from one of Obama's photographers with a photo of his dog edited with the app and an email from an Apple engineer working on the Photos and Videos team to say "well done" and "great work" .

The app is far from a success financially, portrait mode photos are not common even today. A lot of users also don't know what a portrait mode photo is - 95% of the one-star reviews reviews on the App Store are from such users. Most of them believe that a portrait mode photo is any portrait photo. I simply believe that the wording of this feature is misleading. Last but not least, a developer cannot prevent in any way non-compatible devices from getting the app. There is no Portrait mode requirement restriction in the SDK.

I believe portrait mode photos have a long road in front of them in order to either become mainstream or vanish. The depth information that these photos contain is not perfect in many cases. For example in selfies: hair and ears may be blurry instead of in focus, holes between the arms and the body may be are sharp instead of blurry, etc.

If this technology that involves both optical parts (multi-lens camera modules) and AI/ML continues evolving I believe that in a couple of years iOS/Mac OS will offer the ability to change the lighting of not only photos but also videos with immersive results. Actually, Apple did have a promo video demonstrating such functionality in their official Youtube channel when iPhone 7 Plus launched but it is no longer available.

Thanks for reading!
Yeah, it was my first thought!

Very Roko's basilisk.

Especially if it’s being downvoted by the AI.
It’s very good though.

To really throw it off and make it stay underwater or hop around, you must be quick to reduce the points and create negative areas via crossover.

But it’s impressive how it lets you draw beyond the boundaries and reacts reasonably.

Best iceberg simulator I’ve ever used. I had fun playing with it for at least ten minutes. I’d go so far as to recommend it for education.
I don't have a proper opinion on Wim Hof and his methods. On one side, he seems a nice, genuine person. On the other, I've read things that didn't necessarily add credibility to his methods.

Plus, his appearance on Gwyneth Paltrow's show (considered by many non scientific) was a bit of a downer for me.
What about shareable and forkable blacklist and whitelist for each user to explicitly opt-in?
You’re conflating the current person who was fired and did the public callouts with the person who has a Doctorate from Stanford and was fired or resigned because Google wouldn’t let her publish a research paper criticizing large language models. Let’s instead just not trash people we don’t know, and don’t have any firsthand knowledge of their motivation.

To me the story is that it turns out when you fire a fairly accomplished ethicist in a way that people perceive as unethically, a bunch of ethicists they work with don’t take it well - and in this case it looks like they went pretty extreme on it.