skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only violently agree with the author: koreader is incredible. When I look for ebook readers, running koreader is an absolute must. The nicest thing about it is how hackable it is, since most of it is written in Lua. When I got my Kobo Aura One, koreader did not yet support the colored background LEDs, and adding support for that was actually pretty easy. The koreader developers are incredibly helpful and it's just a great project.
But also arr100 isn't the name of a type as mentioned by the error message.
Looks like the top shaft is above the waterline
Science, science, and more science. The hypocrisy of the elites
It is not that simple. We already have a replication crisis; some data out there is wrong, possibly the one that refute some wild idea.

In the ideal world, everything would be replicated and retested at least a few times. Practically, we do not have the resources, and sometimes other interests come into play. For example, those of some industry to fund studies that refute some wild idea that threatens their business. How many studies on safety of sugar are paid by Coca Cola?
I experiment with ideas in Common Lisp from my phone: I use termux to ssh into a cloud machine (Digital Ocean, about $5 a month). I run Emacs with Slime and Sbcl on the remote machine, giving me a full power Common Lisp environment for experiments. Yes, the screen typing on the Smartphone is annoying, but with autocomplete via Slime, and Termux' nice screen keyboard it is quite acceptable (for experiments). I wouldn't write full programs this way, though ;)

I also have a little bluetooth keyboard, but it's more of a PITA, tbh, so I never use that anymore.
Thanks, i did not know about both of these!
They do seem like a step in the direction I have in mind!
I took a course on DNA computing and it blew my mind.

Representing Turing machines as mixtures of chemical in a test tube, and having an RNA strands behavior encode a program is precisely where I see biological computing headed. It was really wild how forward thinking the research seemed, but how primitive the results they could get was due to the limitations of biology.
The algorithm doesn't seem to be complete, it can't handle concave shapes with trapped water or trapped air. But that's probably too much to ask.

Edit: to illustrate the point, this iceberg had trapped air before it stabilized and removed all air, which is physically impossible: https://imgur.com/a/uiaW1qN
It's not an attack vector precisely because of that. Another scenario is the 1% could just then continue mining non-empty blocks from where the attacker left of which would make them the most accurate blockchain with regards to proof of work, this case is even more passive than the hard fork option if you are in sync with the attacker at the time of the attack.
They did this one weird trick! Doctors hate them!

I'm sure they'll tell us for just one easy payment.

Which is to say, it's probably just a simple lie - either one they are telling us, or one that has been told to them.
While I appreciate the intention, I think it's a bad analogy.

Can you think of a small piece of machine code that you could inject into arbitrary computers that would produce useful effects in some significant proportion of the computer population? (Don't think so...)

Computers and biological systems are so wildly different. Although perhaps you'd find better analogies comparing brains to machine learning systems. Eg. "Trying to find out how ADs work is like applying some simple numerical transformation on some particular part of a deep neural network and trying to find out what changes are produced".

Oddly enough.. I think ML researchers often do find little "tricks" that improve the performance of neural nets without being able to fully grasp how or why. It's somewhat similar to how we use and understand ADs.
combine this project (DIY eink screen): https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/ljq262/epdiy_eink_pc_...

with this latest release (Raspberry PI alternative board which supports eink): https://www.makeuseof.com/quartz64-e-ink-sbc/

and this solar powered, power first open source (eink) laptop project:
https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-open-source-autarkic-...

Vola!
You can unlearn the habit with time. Also, I've played roguelikes (such as CDDA) using dvorak and no numpad. Even with the movement keys spread out, it's not bad. Helps that they're turn-based games. I remap all the keys in Minetest and Xonotic.
Rant HN: Why I hate modern Google Search, a perfect example
hmm, I've run into a weird thing regarding a very specific scope in a Google API, time to look up the reference https://imgur.com/UNXa0wp

ah yes, two results, shouldn't be too hard to find what I need

https://imgur.com/0N5u7dz I click on the first link and oh shit, there is no information of value, hah that was a one-off doozy though, haha

https://imgur.com/vlmNvEJ Ok second link, of course Google is accurate on googleapis.dev becaus- oh shit, the only match for "read" when I CMD+F is "README". Ok, maybe if I go back to Google's cached results for both pages, I'll have something remotely relate- OH MY GOD THE CACHED RESULTS ARE AWFUL, NO!!!

this is why I fucking hate today's Google Search because I can't even trust what it shows anymore and I waste hours of time a day

and by the way, this is me being lucky because usually I have to peruse 10 results before I realize that the 100,000 results returned are all bullshit
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could have had a part in it, I'll fully admit. I know it lessened the tension in many of us, not just the trouble makers. I wasn't a bully, but also to advantage of not turning up to assume classes. honestly though, I can't speak highly enough of it, it was just what I needed after the first school.

i hope that was that a deliberately joking use of the word 'compound' to refer to a school? (though probably how I felt about my first school emotionally).

we had very few expulsions at the first school during my time there. but I can remember several instances of kids bullied until they had to leave. honestly it all seems so unjust and barbaric looking back.
Why people are not talking about this?
https://youtu.be/WHcMfi4P4YY
Case in point, while it is nice that Microsoft is now playing with Rust, it is quite far away from offering this to Windows developers, https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml

Advocacy should always be tempered with a bit of hard reality check, otherwise one just ends up scaring possible adopters away.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that grouping school children with others kids their age is hugely damaging.

The major figures in most kid's lives are parents and teachers, who are in an authority position; siblings, who have a complex relationship that often turns competitive; and their school friends.

Kids are missing a chance to socialise with children who are older than them, learn from adults who are not in an authority role, and to care for and mentor younger children.

Instead they spend all their time with other kids who are have they exact same emotionally immaturity as they do. You get feedback loops of bad behaviour, and put them in bubbles where their peers and their psychopathic games (like bullying) make up 100% of their reality.

The only consistent counterpoint I can think of are cousins, who are typically slightly older or younger, and are outside of kids' normal peer groups. As a result these are often very positive relationships.
It's a tricky one...
On the one hand I think teenagers (and some adults) don't always know they are being jerks / making others uncomfortable. And for them it might be fun to pick on others. It can be a thrill and give them an ego boost.
They might not get how damaging /horrible they are being or might not care.

On the other hand, some people may have no experience of defending themselves particularly against non-verbal attacks.

I remember my response to a guy picking on me in highschool was to wait until class finished and then I started a fight with. I won. And he never bothered me again.
But honestly I had no clue how to defend myself verbally. And it's taken years to learn how to be better at that.

I think teenagers would gain from learning how to negotiate better with their peers/handle people better. It's the verbal abuse that's a particular issue.

Encouraging people to be decent along with civic classes may help too.
This is an application I made for my own use, and which already made me discover a lot of things, like the various kinds of attacks, the fact some big companies use my server as a CDN serving a JS script on a sensitive page, that some old game I had forgotten were still played, or that there were some readers for my blog...

I've reached a soft point where the application is very useful to me, and ergonomics are right IMO.

I have big ideas for a next version but the work could only be "justified" by other users.

And I have no idea whether this application will even find users past me and two friends.

So, HN, do you find this useful ?
I think it's well established that negative experiences impact most people more highly than positive ones, even if logically they are of the same degree. Based on your conjecture I suppose this would simply mean this lingers, informing the brain how to react in the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/your-money/why-people-rem...

“Put another way, you are more upset about losing $50 than you are happy about gaining $50,” the paper states.
Nano is what Bitcoin hoped to be
Are those 70% of premined coins still held by a few? Or have they spread to more hands meanwhile?
A notion of simulation implies control and, as such, free will and time flow. And since we do not know about the latter, the notion of simulation itself is a pure speculation.
For me it was the HGC. Just kinda sucks that they killed it right before the new season was supposed to start because I was really getting into it. Killed my whole interest in the game.

I know it wasn't profitable but that just kind of says it all. When I was a kid and fell in love with Warcraft and Diablo, I really don't know how much of that soul of the company remains today.
This is the explicit aim of prediction markets: to incentivize people with real knowledge to place bets, implicitly leaking information
>Regarding physics for example, give me the last theory that went against the establishment and took a generation to be accepted.

Everett branches ("many worlds")?
"particularly against verbal attacks" that should be.
This is one of the reasons why NVidia went with Ada/SPARK for their security critical firmware project.
I'm really not a fan of facebook and don't even have it, but...

If they are forced to pay for the links, they should be allowed to ban them. Otherwise it's just a tax for one single company to sponsor newspapers.
Even the Mercury News is acknowledging how hopelessly inept VTA oversight is:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/18/bill-would-scrap-sout...
Ask HN: What are some usecases of real-time collaborative programming?
Eg: repl.it

Is the experience chaotic? Somewhat like letting the co-driver control the car simultaneously?
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Bitcoin Is Venice
I also stopped using OneDrive when I discovered it automatically categorised uploaded files based on their content, including pictures. Aside from the creep factor and this making obvious that they have full access of everything, it also was not particularly accurate as expected from yet another AI system.
Democracy is the worst form of government besides all the others.

Science is the worst form of knowledge gathering besides all the others.

Kelvin is a good example of a dogmatic blowhard in science. We may have named a unit after him, but all these years later people still remember how much folks like him pushed miasma theory rather than the idea that all the shit in the Thames gave you dysentary.

The folks in power weren’t going to suddenly replace all of the streets of London with proper sewers. And teach everyone to stop shitting in the street. That’s just too _uncomfortable_ to think about. So at first nothing happens. But science allows for the result to be written down, someone else goes “ah fuck shit gives you dysentary” and now blowhards like Kelvin are dead and there’s enough weakness exposed in the power structure, your ideas get put into practice. Cause it’s a good idea, it’s obvious, and a lot of the people who used to have a stake are dead.

It’s highly far from perfect. But there are very few mechanisms that are able to affect change after folks are long dead and buried.
I used to dream vividly at night and while awake I was always the most calm and rational person in the room until a couple of years ago when I ran into financial (and love-related) problems and then struggled for years with extreme anxiety. I lost my capability to dream/remember my dreams.

After having mostly fixed those problems I found that I was still anxious and unwilling to live in the now, always fearing the future or regretting the past. My dreams were nowhere to be found. For the longest time I felt like I was living in a nightmare.

These days, to some degree, I have returned to being somewhat calm and rational. Last week I've been waking up every morning, either in the middle of a vivid dream or at least with some recollection of what my dreams were that night. It's so soothing to have my dreams return. It makes me feel even more calm and rational (my favorite state of mind).

Cognitive therapy for a short while plus meditation helped me, it seems.

Forgive yourself. Love thyself. Take care.
> In Germany, a Herr Doktor is always right (they have forgiven Moses by now for not having space on the stone tablets, but it really is the 11th Commandment)

> Pro tip: don't look in the kitchen when governments brew up safety critical systems. I was scared to fly over Germany for a while...

The author has a lovely writing style for this kind of content.
Lift Renew http://www.theredfork.org/lift-renew/
Lift Renew gives ideal skin by boosting the formation of neo-collagen that starts disappearing after the age of eight or ten. Babies have basically 20% of neo-collagen, which makes them have sparkling and gentler skin. Collagen type I starts overriding neo-collagen with age.

http://www.theredfork.org/lift-renew/
That's a large part of my view on it.

Even if no one "believes" in it, and the value essentially freefalls, BTC or something like it is still useful as a short term settlement device in lieu of taking suitcases of cash over a border or similar. You buy the token, send it to someone, they cash it out. People on each side (maybe the same person!) take a cut.
You know what's new that hasn't been done before? Your government giving money to me (not a citizen) in an effort to popularize your currency.

If President Xi wants to gift me some digital Yuan to spend how I wish (so the Yuan becomes more accepted outside China).. I say hell, why not?
Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski has closed his AI church
No Bitcoin is not a Ponzi. A Ponzi scheme has a very particular set of characteristics. Bitcoin is not even a pyramid scheme. It does not require new buyers for its value to increase.

It currently is highly speculative and manic market, possibly a bubble.

The quality of your link speaks for itself, it reads like schizoid scribbles.
c) assuming they have ISO C++ minutiae level of language understanding,

https://herbsutter.com/2020/02/17/move-simply/
Presumably meant to say “Proof of Stake”
At that point, I'd argue it's not a bug, it's a feature.
exactly, how many people care about the TOS? most of the people I know use their phones like zombies, just clicking on the apps and to any "OK" button they see...
Do you happen to have any source for this? I try to find information on Dropbox removing individual files, even supposedly "illegal" files, from one's account but can't find confirmation so far.
It's interesting as well. If block rewards+transactions fees over confirmation period is lower than value of transaction it will lead to 51% attack being actually profitable. And actually even the transaction fees don't matter. As you can still collect them in 51% attack.
I agree, the only troublesome part is where corporate interests use their large numbers to force board elections.
Koreader is excellent. On kobo the default nickel is very wasteful of space with huge margins. And for some reason ereaders all hate left justification, even though that’s the norm on printed books.

Koreader solves all of that. I love the “style hacks” section that lets you very precisely override many layout details in the book, or even define your own. Even its status bar is much more information dense and useful than on other readers.

They don’t cater to the lowest common denominator user so it isn’t for everyone, but if you are unafraid of slightly more complex and powerful software it is superb.
A speculative execution bug? I like the sound of that.

Another HN once theorised / joked that the speed of light was the maximum value an integer could store and planks length was the smallest floating point number.
Unless we are talking about a job with inherently long term health risk and/or ilegal activity with prosecution risk I would be willing to put up a year or two in order to secure a life long financial independence. 2M USD is enough to confortable spend the rest of your life doing what you really want to do.

But hey, maybe is me
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Sadly true: deprecated in RHEL 8, removed in RHEL 9. Although we'll continue to develop and ship virt-manager in EPEL so the majority of people will still easily be able to install it.
This link summarises most of the major criticism of Dropbox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Dropbox

There's enough there to not trust Dropbox with my data.
> At D-Wave

Great to hear from somebody at D-Wave - how is that project coming along? As far as I'm aware it got some real hype some years back, with names like Google and IBM looking to invest in the company/product? I've not heard so much since in the news? I hope things are running smoothly over there, it was for sure one of the more promising approaches I saw.

> [..] much as people originally saw GPUs as being for gaming, there's a lot of room for creative individuals to explore the capabilities of the system and see what other uses it can be put to.

I suspect the killer application could actually end up being neural networks. You now have billions of parameters and you are trying to determine as quickly as possible some set of parameters that lead to an output through several hidden layers. You have some robustness to noise and actually you really don't care so much that the answer is not even the final answer, just that some progress towards the final answer is made. My guess is that we're probably at least 10 years away from having neural networks accelerated by QC, more likely 20-30.

> We have a cloud IDE now with excellent visualization tools, and it's free to get started. You should definitely go check it out, considering how interested you sound; it should be very educational. Any developer with some basic Python skill can learn how to fire off toy problems to it, the hard part where you need more of a statistics and hard math background is in mapping real-world optimization problems to the Ising model we use.

I took a very quick crash course in quantum computing some 5 years ago (maybe more) and worked on some toy problems. I should check it out again. I guess you're now at the stage where you have some re-programmable setup? Or is this a simulation QC machine?

I would love to hear from you about what some people have been able to do in terms of applications.
I think you're unclear on the concept of "heirloom".
Entire generation where? Let's say I saw exatly 1 guy with a chromebook through my life, and likely chromebooks weren't even officially sold in my country. And still Chrome is the most popular browser here.
I don't know, it feels like a different category when imposed from a company & overnight.

There was an "Austin Powers" at an old workplace. Imagine being that guy, with a perfectly normal if uncommon name until one day a trailer for a new comedy spy film comes out…

Obviously not much you can do about it with films, it's possible to happen, but I'd find that _much_ more annoying that getting tall jokes.
How about a co-op of scientists pooling money to rent the kinds of AI chips the big players are starting to put out? I’m sure there are holes in that argument too; but c’mon, this is hacker news. If we don’t try to overcome the hard challenges then what’s the point of this community? ;)
If you draw death, it often flies intimidatingly across the screen. https://imgur.com/a/bVh5iAt Start drawing at trapeze vertex left to the head.
The threshold isn’t just “it’s possible”. There needs to be some evidence. All sorts of things are possible, doesn’t mean we go around thinking they are true, or even assume they are potentially true.

It’s not Impossible I’ve murdered someone, doesn’t mean I should be presumed a murderer.
One less middleman that can only add extra delay and extra fees.

Also, removes part of systemic risk since "digital currency" is held at central bank and not with retail banks, then it decouples transactions/accounts from deposits/lending. Currently, if a major bank fails because of lending issues, there's a push to prop them up since them failing would also cause immense harm to all the businesses who just transact through that bank, if this is decoupled, then the economic system would be a bit more stable during crisis.
This is some bullshit right here.Most of us spend $10 a day on crap.Why is paying for software that is useful so "I cant justify it?".

We need to realize that paying for software is something we have to do otherwise we will end up being the products.
Well that’s the question and the reason for the block war and the BTC/BCH split.

I’m not sure myself. Attempt to drive people towards LN or other “second layer” solutions for payments? Or deliberate attempt to create a high fee market for miners? Or attempt to keep bandwidth and storage costs down to lower barrier to entry for mining, to keep it more decentralised?

Certainly the decision to keep the cap has caused the move from “digital currency” to “digital gold” / store of wealth.
Sending it to two parties is still just as bad as sending it to 200 parties...
It's a bit of a tragedy to be honest. We/I lived through both developing social networking and big data, and it's pretty clear that the community made huge mistakes that both hurt loads of people and we can't really take back or clear up at this point. Bad things happened to innocent people. Bad people got power over good people and did bad things with it.

AI has at least as much potential to be dangerous, ethical constraints on it are important when you consider the failure of common sense and community good will for SN and BD. However, every berk going latched onto the idea that they could write some sort of rubbish about "applying type 1 and type 2 thinking in AI design" or "why robots can't really be people" and have founded community dedicated to promoting themselves and getting money at the expense of insight and real work and real constraints developed by people who know what they are on about and can really help.
The wumao and supporters of the CCP have been pushing this racism nonsense for a while now to try to divert criticism against the CCP. It’s unfortunately very common.
As an advertiser who knows that FB is far and above every other attention based ad platform

Yes but you run an ad agency[1] so it's in your interest to talk it up. I think I'll take your comment with a pinch of salt.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25624296
This is what Canonical tried with snap packages. We need an open source variant of this system. I don’t think this exists.