skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just put DNS in a blockchain with some cost to buy a domain forever, and voila, problem solved.
I have no doubt that there are bad consequences to the attitude that anything which happens to anyone is about their race. I just don't think that this particular happening is an example.
I have a PhD in physics and more maths qualifications than I can shake a stick at; to me, multiplication is repeated addition.

I’m not sure what the teacher is trying to do here, but I do think the outcome of what they’re trying to do is far more complicated than the simple “multiplication is repeated addition”.

I also happen to have an 8-year-old going through third grade right now, and when we were talking through his homework, it was quite clear that using simple concepts he already knew (addition & subtraction) to explain slightly more complex things that he was learning (multiplication and division) was really useful to him. As I recall it being to me.

[aside] I think the maths schedule is more advanced now than it was in my day anyway - he only did multiplication and division this year, but he also did algebra and simultaneous linear equations now, as in:

a + b + 8 = 24

a - b = 4

“Solve for a and b”

Pretty sure I only did that in senior school (11 and up), not at age 8. No powers as yet (presumably they’ll come after the multiplication/division stuff), so no quadratic formula, but still...

[/aside]
That "jets of pollution" is the equivalent of a fart in the wind
Yeah, I don't know what the answer is. It feels like any attempt to design a solution ends up having to work around racism or, as you said in another comment, having to "take the devil's (racist's) advocate position". And sometimes the racism even takes the form of someone playing devil's advocate, in an honest attempt to make sure the solution is "realistic", but actually advancing the racists' position for them. The goal ultimately has to be to get to a place where we never have to think about what the racists will do because they don't have power any more.
That makes me think of the Seinfeld episode where he says only 5% of the population is good looking and 95% are undate-able.
I used this product a while back to do some scraping of a very annoying (and slow!) to navigate website and it was a life-saver. Still using the google sheets it helped me generate. I saw the value of this tool straight away and the UI was pretty reasonable, just a few quirks.

I would definitely use Axiom again if I ran into a similar need. Best of luck to your team.

My one suggestion: Let people touch the UI and get a handle for building in a sandbox page on your site--a web app that simulates the app over your own site's dom, for example? I was hesitant to start my trial because 1) risk of hostile chrome extensions 2) wasn't confident I could learn the tool quickly enough. I think if you had a sandbox demonstrator on your site that let people experience the tool, you could learn a lot about where early users stall out and also build confidence toward sign-ups.
> In fact, ALSA had just a very short period where typically only one application accessed the sound card.

For some definition of 'short period'. Software mixing via dmix worked for me, but at the time I've heard for years that dmix was broken for many other people. Not sure whether things are better nowadays.

The breakage seems to be caused by hardware bugs. Various authors had the stance that they refuse, on principle, to work around hardware bugs. I guess I understand the technical purism, but as a user that attitude was unhelpful: there was no way to get sound working other than to ditch your laptop, and hope that the next one doesn't have hardware bugs. In practice, it seems a large number of hardware had bugs. Are things better nowadays?
No, governments will decide the rules of the battle. In corrupt systems it will be choosing the winner, in a sane one it would make who wins inconsequential.
> Keep in mind that advertisers really don't care what your name is or where you live. They care that you are into action movies and buy fancy shampoos. The other stuff just creates trouble.

Google cares on their own.

And current advertisers may not care but who knows what kind of technology they may come up with in the future where that data might be valuable, having extra data has never been a problem for google.
I'm a long-time Google Music subscriber (at the original $8/mo price point) and had no idea that it even came with YouTube Premium until I realized I hadn't seen any YouTube ads in years.
people suck. embrace your inner misanthrope and avoid them as much as possible
- Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it

- It also doesn't seem too unlikely, given more and more talk of the possibility that "targeted" ads don't actually work that much better than non-targeted ones, and Google are in the best position to verify that. Switching to ad models that are not based on exact user tracking, as long as they have the monopoly position might be the best way to ensure future profitability before they lose their users due to privacy concerns. All the AI and other technical and other monoplistic (AMP, Maps, etc.) advantages might be good enough to beat any tracking-based competitiors.
more discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26326599
Modern casual sexual encounters are assessed purely on subjective ratings of the opposite party's sexual attractiveness (secondary sexual characteristics, behavior, social status, etc.). Furthermore, constant saturation into the full range of these behaviors and characteristics across humanity through the internet and dating applications creates a endless "could I get a better mate?" feedback loop in the minds of both men and women. You're no longer competing within a social group, you're competing within every social group.

Notice that the per the article, the population of "sexless" men has grown nearly three times as much as the population of sexless women. Fewer men are having more sex; it's practically on-demand for them, and they are usually tremendous specimens when compared to other men.

If you are not aware of this, I would bet that you do not know any men who are on the "winning" side of the new dating economy. If you do know men like this and you disagree with me, please elaborate.

I have heard a great deal of insight into "the dating market" ranging from the perspective of attractive athletes (both male and female) to the perspective of unattractive nerds (both male and female) and this pattern is clearly visible through their stories. The women tend to retreat from casual sex because they don't want it (and not only because the pickings are subjectively slim, but also because the expectations for them to 'put out' are very high); the men tend to retreat from casual sex because they can't have it.
I’m not suggesting that this fear is part of conscious reasoning.
52% of adults aged 18 to 29 live at home, the most since the great depression, according to this:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
Ah yes, there is Keith Devlin involved.... I am sure he enjoys it a lot to be in a position where he can write pedantic falsehoods while at the same time being taken seriously.

You know, most, if not all, mathematical objects of significance can be defined in many, many different ways. In fact, this is the hallmark of an mathematical object of significance: it keeps popping up in many context and can therefore be defined in any or all of these contexts if one enjoys doing so. There are far ranging context to define an object and less far ranging. I am quite sure that in grade school it is quite unhelpful to look for the furthest ranging context in which one could define multiplication. E.g, let us start in grade 1 with the definition of an algebra and derive everything from that.
I lowered the volume on the Lyra one and the sound is still clearly WAY MORE clearer than the other two.
Everything viewed through statistics takes the emotion and human element out of it.

This is statistically accurate analysis from dating sites and also the above article. It's not really something that's an opinion.

Much like how Americans are Obese due to readily available junk food, women have become less interested in the less attractive men.

Humans are more primitive than you would like to think.
No, not really. The modern western form of treating sex primarily as an entertainment activity is very much a new thing. Previously we had marriage and other cultural practices that aimed to channel these forces in productive directions. Now we just have PornHub and Tinder.
I used Mozilla's PDF.js https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
It is what firefox uses on desktop to show PDFs!
With regards to the existing footprint of Google, it's useful to keep in mind that Google and Facebook combined are already catching 74% of advertising dollars spent online, as per the bloomberg article shared here today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26325950

It's also worth noting that other groups have proposed systems that would not result in Google creating another monopolistic product line. Google did not seem very interested in such alternatives.
Internet 2D is easier
> That's quite the oxymoron of a title.

Not necessarily true if you've seen how much Google bends over backwards to protect privacy inside the company. Data is a liability, after all.
This study does not address hormonal changes, but I'd like to see the secular testosterone decline studied. Testosterone directly mediates sexual desire, so that should play a role.
A truck for locally produced food is not usually full nor efficiently packed.

Rather the farmer will grab a little of this, and a little of that. Whatever he can sell the day. This uses far more energy.

And don't forget the energy needed to harvest the food - large growers do it in bulk, small farmers will need to fire up the tractor for short runs.

A cargo ship uses FAR FAR FAR less energy than you might imagine. Even shipping something by rail across the US uses less energy than driving to the next city.
I argued no such thing. Allow me to quote myself:

> Indeed, authoritarianism in general and Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc in particular always starts with speech restrictions

Authoritarianism virtually requires restrictions on speech to come into its own.
>>>"the growing percentage who coreside with their parents all contribute significantly to the decline in casual sex. The authors find no evidence that trends in young adults’ economic circumstances, ... explain the recent decline in casual sexual activity."

Is the author suggesting that increased co-residence is not related to economic circumstances?
Therefore, not perpetually forgotten.
Announcement blog post:

https://material.io/blog/google-fonts-material-icons
> Between 2007 and 2017, more young women became employed, but there was no significant change in their mean earnings, and their total debt load actually declined significantly. Young men’s employment, earnings, and debt did not change significantly between 2007 and 2017. Both women and men became significantly more likely to live with their parents.

This sounds odd. More women are employed but mean earnings didn't change? Debt of young people has declined in the past decade? Despite this they're more likely to live with their parents? I'm in the camp of expecting financial independence being the strongest factor in this trend personally.
If the browser is supposed to send the information, what are they going to do with those of US who do not use Chrome? Are there plans to force firefox to follow the plan, and how will they prevent others from, say, making an extension to mess with the cohort numbers?
Ask HN: What advice would you give to a 20 year old?
There is no such place, and even if there were, your argument is essentially, "ergo, Decedo".
Government is and always has been the principal enabler of every single genocide, war, and mass atrocity in history.
Einstein said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
Support of hierarchical government is mostly the consequence of brainwashing, and insane.
The most complex machine of the Roman era was perhaps a water organ. (I would guess that for long historical periods the most complex machines were keyboard-controlled musical instruments.)
Of course, once you decide to iterate over uncountable sets, infinity starts to appear all the time.

This isn't the only case of infinite calculations that can't be computed in practice but that mathematics use all the time anyway; and it reflects quite well the fact that multiplying irrational numbers isn't something that one can do practice. There is no problem with it.
Dmix seems rather limited and doesn't come automatically setup for all audio devices. [1]

[1]: https://alsa.opensrc.org/Dmix
I think it's worth addressing this even if it's going to get flagged.

Hacker skills are a really long tailed distribution and the best are brilliant, the worst are just riding coattails. The ability to form an opinion about the implementation scope of a given variable for one of the many complicated functions required in ML puts you in some pretty rare air.

I work in security, where I need the breadth to argue the merits of the entropy of a diversification component or the choice of an elliptic curve in a protocol design and balance it with state level attackers - and regulatory policy and legislation, with the tedious compliance aspects as a theme.

The shape of the skills is weird. Where you need breadth first in a lot of areas, and depth first in ones that are not valuable outside very limited contexts. I can't vouch for where on the long tail the people involved in this controversy might be, but I don't like the odds on being dismissive of them.
Why would Apple be adding strings for such a change now?
Isn't the deadline realtime scheduler optional? How many distros do actually ship it in their default kernels? I honestly didn't manage to keep track of this.
One of the cited works [0] did look at the relationship between mental health and sexual activity, if you're interested.

They found that higher sexual activity correlated with greater levels of depression, especially in men. Sexually active women also correlated with decreases in mental health, but the authors' interpretation was that that decline primarily stems from higher rates of victimization among that population, which would obviously lead to negative mental outcomes.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10508-019-014...
Who are your top competitors and how do you differentiate yourselves? Esp re recent HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26239975
Python has this: https://github.com/google/pytype

"Pytype checks and infers types for your Python code - without requiring type annotations."
Interesting. Is the design something along the lines of "we want to keep people informed, but not be the sparking catalyst of mobs/witchhunts"?

I imagine if you have a valid reason and petition the court you can have the identity revealed?
Yes, these witches will definitely kill us all, so we must immediately burn them without any due process. Don't worry, this is definitely a one-off exception; we would certainly never extend the same claim to any other group or claim that someone is a witch with no actual evidence. We will totally provide you and people you care about with a fair trial when the mob comes for you.

Really?
Going back to the example I was thinking of, it's pretty easy to identify that climate-denying research is funded largely by right-wing organizations seeking to manipulate the public to produce a particular outcome, instead of seeking the truth:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/mar/0...

https://books.google.com/books?id=qbVcIc8w6w4C&q=climate+cha...

(paywall:)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-30/unearthin...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/robert-brulle-ins...

I, unfortunately, am having a hard time finding an overview of the methods used to influence the science (there's just so damn much noise in the results). The methods as I recall them, are to have papers cite papers that haven't been released in order to inflate the apparent amount of relevant research.

When the unreleased papers are released they will, of course, cite the papers that cited them as references, creating a referential-circularity that can't exist in honest academic research due to the fact that time only flows forwards.

If you have non-contrived and non-debunked examples of research organizations you would identify as left-leaning trying to manipulate public opinion through the dispersal of false science, I'm all ears.
Very relevant to the discussion: https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/
The last BTC mined will be 2140, but the decay is exponential. The reward will halve in about 3 years, and it is likely to halve again 4 years after that, and so on.
There are numerous accusations of dubious activity such as:

- Inserting affiliate links[1]
- They tried blocking ads, but then injecting their own[2]
- Taking tips for people without consent[3]
- Including Tor, but Leaking DNS[4] which is now fixed but a false sense of security is a dangerous thing

edit apparently [2] is not actually accurate, this seems to shed some more light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18744481

Not to say I don't have some respect for what they are doing, and for Brendan Eich's work, but I wouldn't say 100% blindly trust Brave either. It's had a sort of complex relationship with many people.

- [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

- [2] https://www.wired.com/2016/04/brave-software-publishers-resp...

- [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

- [4] https://www.coindesk.com/brave-browser-leak-exposed-user-dom...
The B-52 can be detected with COTS equipment by anyone who can solder and watch a Youtube video. The B-2 could not be detected by the most advanced radar equipment available to the time of its launch, and even today most equipment not fielded by or funded by Russia or the US could not detect it. Your mailbox key literally has a larger RCS than the B-2.
To me, ads following you around the internet about a specific thing that you browsed is just an example of how the targeting ad system is broken. A better ad system would see that you were interested in specific item and then advertise other items that mesh nicely with the use of the specific item. If you bought A, then there's better chances you's be willing to spend money on B too.
That seems quite likely for a Matrix like world though? If it gets better and better quality/experience with the end results holodecks/cortex plugs/etc and I can, without worrying about disease or money or dying or pregnancy in the virtual world, have 1000s of computer generated perfect mates doing whatever, would the vast majority of people still go outside or do anything meaningful at all? With gaming and porn and 'social' media we are already seeing some of that, but if it gets better, why would people do anything else?
You can have sex while living with your parents, no car or hotel rooms needed. Not having money to go out might be a problem to meet people, true.

Note that in many countries, teenagers owning cars (and related activities) are not as prevalent as in the US. When I was a teenager, almost nobody I knew owned a car, and we all used public transportation, so there was no (dating) car culture around this.
> It’s difficult to conceive of the internet we know today — with information on every topic, in every language, at the fingertips of billions of people — without advertising as its economic foundation

What’s difficult to conceive is how the currently bloated and monetization heavy internet could survive without advertising. An internet composed of relevant and useful information stored as light weight documents could easily (and used to) exist without advertising. Without ads we probably wouldn’t have millions of identical recipe sites with infuriating backstories, pop ups, share buttons, in-line promotions, etc. but we would still have people sharing their grandmother’s apple pie recipe on personal sites along with a few paid services that add real value instead of SEO garbage and social fluff.
That's a fascinating question! First, it raises the idea that human intelligence may actually decrease over time, especially as we offload our thinking to machines. It's hard to tell whether that will increase or decrease our intelligence or leave it roughly the same. I have a hunch, and it's just a hunch, that our intelligence will increase over time.

With regards to dolphins and crows - wow! What a find animals like that would be on another planet! Quite intelligent - but not technologically advanced. You raise an interesting question: assuming a planet has evolved life having the intelligence of a crow or dolphin, what's the probability that planet will evolve a technologically advanced life form? How likely is it earth is the only planet to have evolved such a life form?
Given that it supports ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK, I don't think it's like that at all. Assuming it works, it subsists of both all the other standards and a new one, keeping existing applications working with its own new advantages.
We Will Win: The Final Battle for the Internet
Or, maybe poor people have about as much sex as rich ones when both live with parents.
There’s a joke here in South America when you see a family walking around with many children....”no television”
Boredom leads to sex. From that, it stands to reason that less boredom leads to less sex. And entertainment is a way to reduce boredom.
When looking at any one variable they’re controlling for the others.
It amuses me when people wax poetic about a time long past, when people were chaste and pure. Ha! Hormones be hormones, and young people have been doing what they do for as long as there have been young people.
Yea, math tends to reuse terms and notation across disciplines in ways that adds confusion rather than clarity. It’s much better to think of infinity for example as multiple independent concepts than assume it’s all the same idea.
Can someome please make a search engine that doesn't use Natural Language Processing? I just want to enter keywords and get results. No fixating on certain terms in the query and no attempts to specialize or localize my results based on my data. I want an old-school search engine, not a digital assistant/answers machine.
Wow, that's awesome!

What you've described is literally our cloud product - we give people a sandbox with a virtual browser to use and get started (like browserstack). We're working out a way to scale it cheaply, so anyone can get started. Right now, it's a paid feature.

I'm very glad the feature we have planned is something customers would appreciate though, at least we won't have built something nobody wants. We made that mistake in the past...
Yes but I would say censorship has a greater negative effect. I would be willing to support censorship if it was guaranteed to prevent an inevitable nazi takeover. I do not support censorship against "negative discursive effects."
Maybe try k2pdfopt (https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/)
It is a Windows/Linux application though.
> Also learned about the power of commenting.

I was on a compiler team at Sycor writing a compiler that took a language like PL/M and produced 8085 code. It produced relocatable object files and a listing that was annotated with comments generated by the compiler. Additionally, the listing would include the number of CPU cycles each basic block. This was useful to the developers, who were all assembly language programmers getting used to writing in a higher-level language.

As they started to use the compiler they would often come to my desk pointing out incorrectly generated code. We would sit down and go through the code. Usually, about 3/4 of the way through the suspicious section, they would say "wait--this is correct. But the code is so wacky". We would point out that it is faster than a more standard way. Our boss would tell us "A compiler should generate code that an assembly language programmer should be fired for writing."