skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been pondering the state of being in my head, which I noticed I often end up in “by default”. It takes effort to refocus of my mind out of what seems to be somewhere in the frontal lobe out to the rest of the head and eventually the whole body, but it is possible and seems to be worthwhile, calming and (anecdotally) correlating with positive physiological effects.

Unlike Piotr, I didn’t make a connection between this state and flight and/or freeze response—this is an interesting idea that might adjust my understanding of this phenomenon. This article contains a lot of food for thought.
In your example, the money flowing into the market would need to come from regular people rather than crypto speculators, which would be much less lucrative.
Not at all. I believe a Penning trap could have an oscillation mode which causes a single species to reach extremely high densities for short periods of time.

I'm hoping to try for a density record with my prototype. It may not happen, but I think I can get higher densities than NIF.
I like your response, and I will take a look at that book since you're probably the first Jew who's tried to argue with me in good faith on this matter.

But to respond to what I can, yeah, exactly. Your great-great uncle could try to assimilate in a non-Jewish country and hope they trust him, which they may or may not given the history of organized Judaism, or he could colonize Palestine and screw them over. He chose the latter, now some people (not me, I'm not Palestinian) hate him for it. Given human history he certainly knew there would be attempts at further expansion in the future, so they hate him for that, too. Why is any of this surprising? I feel like if you believe your great-great uncle deserves a pass you must believe that Palestinians were either uneducated or grossly immoral and bigoted for wanting to keep their land because that would have meant possible death for Jews. And if you do believe that then that could be a really interesting discussion.

Overall though it just seems easier to me to accept that he screwed someone over to get something good. My ancestors have done that plenty of times.
If we use ASCII 7-bit char codes, 'w' is 0111 0111, and '7' is 0011 0111.

7 characters of 7 bits each gives a grand total of 49 flippable positions.
The concern with machine learning systems seems to be that they are fooled by silly things that a human wouldn't be fooled by in the same situations. Probably just an emotional/sense of normalcy thing, but easy-to-create visual designs being enough to cause a fatal car crash is disturbing when a human behind the driver's seat would not fall victim to that. That's not a "reasonable" mistake, but expecting there to be a thin wire stretched across the road when there are several people acting like there is, is more "reasonable."

There might also be the expectation that for problems easily solved by a human, any competent AI should be able to do "at least" those things.
You are insane. As the rest of russiagaters.
> Now... for a regulated system of tokens (eg currency) a developer can’t do that: they are legally bound to accept fiat currency even though it is not redeemable for any “real” equivalent (eg gold).

This isn't true in general. Legal tender status is very loosely an obligation to accept for existing debts, but it is not an obligation to accept it as, say, a means of accepting a offer. So unless they are giving you goods first, and the looking for payment (which certainly is not the norm for digital goods), they are under no obligation to accept currency.
This book looks great.

I'm looking for some easy and beautiful way to generate audio visualization; the books' TOC doesn't seem show much.

Can someone please tell me a bit more what I may get from that chapter?

Thanks
Why tedious? It's a short, accurate, semantically unambiguous description of a non-partisan concept; speech expressing hate. It's the global minimum in tediousness for expressing that and much narrower and more objective than "undesired content".
and not all of the flip results are valid in domains, reducing the set. E.g. if 0111 0111 gets flipped to 0111 1111, that's not a valid character.
If the NFT is just a pointer to a digital good, can't they have multiple "first" NFTs all referring to the same digital good?
> He's an airline pilot and he just has tens of thousands of dollars invested in various crypto things that he heard about on YouTube and he's made a ton of money on it.

"made a ton of money on it." Until he has sold those assets and turned them into a major, stable currently like USD in his bank account or a diversified collection of other assets, they are as reliable a store of value as Enron stock was in July of 2000.
I wouldn't learn any programming language for the sake of it, some list of reasons.

I also wouldn't learn one because its the best tool for the job. The best tool for a job is the one you know best.

I'd learn a language based on it's practicality to keep the lights on at home. Where I live in the US, that's Java, C# and Javascript. Of course one can go beyond that, and really diving into many things is fine, but if you focus on one of the "big 3" first, if you do want to stop branching out, you're left with a geographically broadly applicable way to feed a family.
I met my co-founder as a result of him posting a Show HN and my comment on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262380

We've been working together on Toughbyte, our second venture, for more than six years now: https://www.toughbyte.com
Preface: I'm not endorsing NFTs nor do I know much about them and personally I would never buy one.

> Why can't NFTs be done without a blockchain?

In the physical world it is rather involved to check wether eg. a painting is the original one and not a copy. A simple way to define original is that it came first, before any of its copies. In the digital world the blockchain acts as the canonical timeline. You or anyone else can always tell what came first.

> Why do you need to dump tons of CO2 into the atmosphere just for this purpose?

In short we don't. The author of the article conflates blockchains and PoW:

- There are blockchains that don't rely on PoW

- The ones that are currently PoW might not be PoW in the future

- The ones that stay PoW might solely use non-CO2 producing methods in the future
Yea, the arrangement is to create enough poverty via expensive drug enforcement to lower labor prices for the private sector.
Tim Hunkin started showing his "the secret life of components" : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGrpLw1W3P1_BC4J-Hpytww
> For green tea, the nicest taste I've gotten by far is from very short brews with medium temperature (~80C) water with large quantities of tea, drinking 2-4 infusions from the same leaves.

The so-called gong fu method of preparation.
Not enough non-credentialed jobs available plus sky-high rent without enough support for the poor.
Very proud of Ireland today!
Stop using margin, use Spacer component instead
Probably somewhere where human labour costs less then soda.
FTR, I also do that for regular shell scripts.
Have you looked into Realm? It might fit your use case

[0] - https://realm.io/
> Apple get's crap for gluing everything together,

They get crap because the phones cannot be easily repaired and go into a landfill instead.
ffmpeg's default mode of operation is to decode the input and re-encode it. Unlike the default of re-encoding, "copy" is extremely fast and doesn't involve loss of quality from the input because it's just, well, copying the streams from the input to the output. The downside is that you can't do lots of things when you're just copying: making any changes to the actual video or audio, or even cutting video accurately at non-keyframes requires the standard decode/re-encode steps.

Typical video-file-related reasons for using the "copy" codec would include just switching between container formats: MP4 vs. Matroska vs. AVI vs. whatever else. As long as the new container supports the types of audio and video you have, just copying them will save both time and quality. Or maybe you want to alter the video but keep the audio untouched, or vice-versa. Or you just want to add a track to something and not disturb the existing ones.

Even doing "copy" for all streams and using the same container can be useful, even though nothing would seem to change in that situation: "remuxing" like this is often all that's necessary to fix a wonky file.
Can I get an internship? :)
Shitty people do shitty things. Shitty people is everywhere. Identify them and leave.
Wouldn't it be possible to create a new type of index in Postgres (or maybe it already exists) which would take all the data of a column and simply lays it out in columnar format in memory, with all the benefit of compression ?
> never cared once or have wanted to

Would you care if you could buy the same apps 30% cheaper?
https://opensea.io/accounts/JohnnyUtah269
Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
Earley Parser
It is mentioned in the Royal Chemistry Society link [1] not to use pre-boiled water, since it has been degassed and will taste ‘flat’. This is true in my experience. I also tend to shake the tea vigorously if making it in a thermos to introduce some enlivening aeration. Admittedly, I only bother with these embellishments if making tea for others.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140811033029/http://www.rsc.or...
Isn't it interesting though that the people who don't have the technical understanding of why most cryptocurrencies at the core are unsustainable, just as the housing market was in 2006 are still the ones making money on it?

When betting in any market understanding people and psychology seems to be more important than understanding the product.
Better not look at climate change then!
That’s not brewing tea.
How do you cast generic values you're sure are numbers?
Wear sleep mask to ensure light doesn't degrade your sleep. It must be comfortable and not move around when you're sleeping. So a silk one is better than the thicker ones sold as travel sleep masks.
Fixed-pie fallacy.
In my opinion security, devops and all other teams have common goal. Namely help company to create sellable product. Being insecure and undeployable are both fatal flaws working against this goal.

Sadly, as any specialized department, security tends to loose this perspective and pursue own goals e.g. emulate external auditors, instead teaching the rest how to work with them efficiently or enforce whatever new shiny security standard is, without consideration of fit and impact.

Of course the same problem can happen, when devops install k8s to support two instances of blogs or developers incorporate DDD into creation of simple CRUDs.

My company is currently working as a vendor for customers in highly regulated area. Customers have own IT, however they are unable to do anything meaningful in reasonable time, because of completely over the top constraints put on the developers (definitely bigger than required by regulators and not well thought).

What's funny the more customers are happy with our work, the more their security pushes us to adopt their own standards. Then our security tends to support them because they are clearly "superior" to us (namely more tight).

Clear case of ceasing to cooperate and focusing on own area.
There's not much evidence that the loss of the Library of Alexandria constituted much loss to human knowledge. This idea seems to come from Carl Sagan's Cosmos. While there a lot of good things to say about him he's not much of a historian.
It's not really engineering either because he's not calculating tolerances, generating specs and safety factors. It's still fantastic.
If so, then it would actually be legally and morally ok for the artist to do a «double sell» as I describe in my original comment. It would be like i.e. selling a signed copy of a book to one person (the NFT) and the underlying copyright (the sales contract) to another person.
It looks pretty good overall but there are quirks that would make it impractical for me and, I guess, for many others:

- parentheses are basically rounded square brackets, which makes the two too similar,

- - and + are not vertically aligned,

- single quotes are slightly curved while double quotes are straight, this is inconsistent,

- zero is not dotted or slashed and overall way too similar to uppercase o.

Fira Mono FTW.
Why not though? It reminds me of this project: https://nas.sr/قلب/. It’s an Arabic programming language and apparently their script allows for elasticity, even within words. Perhaps the Latin alphabet just sucks for aligning?
DevOps has nothing to do with you writing YAML or not.
The point being made is that it's trivial to create a proof of ownership system without using the blockchain.
At a glance, the 'capital i' and 'lowercase L' look the same. That'd be a deal-breaker for some.
As below, the quality of the hardware encoder can be different from something you can get otherwise. So I don't see a problem not making it a default for ffmpeg.
I use a CLI app that is used like this:

`command get/set [long directory]`

Because of that long directory part, I use the command history instead of retyping the whole thing. I probably already lost a cumulative total of hours executing `set` instead of `get` by mistake.
> * Write things down - I refer to this as a superpower.

Can you elaborate more on this? Would love to understand how writing things down have been beneficial to you.
What if the person who buys the art/NFT off the artist then sells the art to someone else but doesn't sell the NFT?
As Covid-19 vaccines arrive, Europe looks back at swine flu side effects
I think you're looking at the device and misreading the key feature.

It's not a "surge protector". It's a "powerstrip".

They key feature is that it's an extension cord with six outlets on it. It only has a power switch and circuit breaker because everybody else's model has those things and they only add a penny to the cost.
The author cares. They got real cash for signing a meaningless token.
Ask HN: Go or Rust for Designing APIs?
I am a bit confused whether to use Rust or Go for designing APIs. I googled a bit but many articles described their performance as almost same. Also, they both are type safe. I want to use one which can be scaled easily over long term.
I would think that a stable state, because it leads to itself, and is therefore led to by itself, is therefore not a garden of eden?

Though, a state which is stable, and which no other state leads to it, would be interesting.
> Which allows banks to remain an uncompetitive

How exactly is a bank uncompetitive with this regulation?
As the article states (and references):

> Weinstein regards the conventional requirement of writing a paper to be flawed, since he questions the legitimacy of peer review, credit assignment, and institutional recognition

He wants the prize without the scrutiny or hard work.

I cannot listen to Eric without constantly feeling like I’m being shafted. He’s a bullshit artist.
It's getting really tired how unreliably scientific results are reported in the mainstream media.

Is anyone building a (crowdsourced) fact checker to validate these kinds of claims that I could install as a browser extension?
One awesome thing that took me a couple of rebuild-my-config cycles to discover is that you can put your configuration elisp in Org files (wrapped as code blocks) then use org-babel to load them.

Then comprehensively documenting the config is trivial and your init.el is just a bootstrapper for the Org files.

Idea shamelessly stolen from the Yay-Evil[1] "distro"

[1] https://github.com/ianpan870102/yay-evil-emacs
No, the NFTs are a separate thing which apparently has some sort of sentimental value. The digital artwork is still whatever it was before. I could sell an NFT for my cuckoo clock. It has nothing to do with my cuckoo clock.
FWIW, the "implementation of Earley parsing that handles the epsilon case as given by Aycock et al" was implemented Python, as the library "SPARK" - http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/spark/ . For a while it was in the Python distribution, though under Parser, not Lib.

SPARK embedded the grammar in the docstring, which influenced the PLY parser to do the same.
Accelerated encode in particular is very likely to give inferior quality and a more limited range of encoding options, and also introduce a situation where those factors change from machine to machine (say, based on which codecs and options your particular GPU supports). Of course, if speed and resource consumption are the key factors then it can definitely make sense to use them, but probably not as a default.
That's something each of us has to determine for themselves.

I haven't yet, in my many years of "being on the web" encountered a single website with the truncated password problem described above, so for me, it's a weird statistical anomaly to be ignored.

If you have been burned repeatedly by some such websites, you will have a different outlook, and will generate your own passwords accordingly.
The huge USD value of this market seems odd. It either points to how rich these cryptocurrency holders are, or how illiquid their market is.

It’s all very well having 18.78Ꮆ (gorgcoins; ~$687,441) but if all you can do with them is buy 18.78Ꮆ of Cryptotchotchkees then it doesn’t seem like such a big deal.

I guess, if you’re stuck with an exit, what you really need to do is to make some kind of a market for some new product that can only be bought using gorgcoin. Then you’ll finally be able to sell your gorgcoin for USD, and buy a lambo / Patek / heart operation.
Because not everyone is the "economically rational agent" that just wants to maximize profits as much as they can. May be you disagree, and think most people are and it's strong enough to be a normal distribution. (I am not sure it is, but i sure hope it is not a normal distribution and there are enough people outside).
Seemed like a good start to an argument. I don't see the blockchain power use as a consequential issue for NFTs. From what i understand its just a concept that can exist on any blockchain based system. Also, the vicious cycle he refers to would apply to a small niche of the digital market.
The race to put out content is real in any new market. I hope this becomes a sustainable way for artist to make a living. At this point it seems open ended in where this lead to. I can imagine NFT's being a thing in games like Destiny, Warframe, etc(whatever genera bucket fits) where devs can release unique assets.
I wonder what an NFT from 2021 will mean in 2121. Is this a fad or the beginning of new paradigms? Will that peice of digital art exist 100yrs from now or even be verifiable?
here as well. And worst thing is: every month there is a paper, for which I could write one page on its faults... and I'm struggling to produce anything, because everything "doesn't work" (in the sense that it can't reproduce/best the crappy papers of the past 5 years).
The world is full of dangerous value traps: money, status, likes, power, attention, etc. where the trap seems like a good idea to encourage something important but has a dark side which destroys it instead.
You are trying to rationalize a sadistically lavish display of spending money for something that honestly insults ordinary people intelligence. NFTs are just like generating random numbers and then bidding who of the rich will give more money.

Art progresses human knowledge, spirit and soul it has embedded intrinsic attributes that makes us better people. NFTs do not have any of those. Jack's net worth according to google is 12.6 billion USD. (12600 million USD) so on top of that you say hey let me get even more ... in way that can be characterized as most idiotic thing I can imagine, why? because, you know we can.

All this in time of pandemic when millions lost job.

This is exactly type of thing why Nick Hanauer said "The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats".

Owning history? Seriously?
In a 1000 years no one will care about Jack, Bill or Elon or about any other "look how rich and smart I am". What after 10000 years... or 100,000 years? For the universe that period is just a blink of an eye.

So, no mate, you do not own anything in this world, you are just here for a moment of time and then you die.
Look into Chinese tea infusion methods in particular the gongfu tea ceremony[1]. They stuff a tiny clay teapot pretty much full of tea leaves and do several very short infusions. The first infusion is usually undrinkably bitter and thrown out. Everything after that tastes great though.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongfu_tea_ceremony
You are presupposing that there is a material difference between these two. Whenever you have a discontinuation of your conscious experience (for example, when you go to sleep and wake up), you can view that as one person disappearing, and a copy waking up in the morning. In fact, unless you believe in a transcendent soul as the seat of consciousness, it must be equivalent.

So, when you step into the teleporter, you can perfectly equivalently think of the person that will come up at the other side as a "copy" of you, or "future you". Let's say that the teleporter doesn't affect the local copy, it just creates a remote copy. What reason do you have to care more about the local copy than the remote copy? Why are you imagining that hacking the body up into tiny pieces, sending the pieces, and reassembling them would be any different from just killing the local copy and sending the information away? You'd still die and another person would be assembled on the other side.

Now, if you do believe in a transcendent soul (I don't), things get much more interesting. In fact, teleportation in this way would amount to experimentation of this hypothesis. If humans have unique souls given to them by some god at the moment of birth, then copy teleportation should not be able to produce two copies - either one of the body copies would not be conscious at all, since one of the bodies would not have a soul, OR the two bodies would be completely different in personality, as one would have the original soul, and the other would have the new soul, which would be a completely different person. For the "move" style teleportation, the risk would be that the disassembly process kills the body and causes the soul to be separated, so that the reassembled body ends up being soul-less and doesn't function, or is inhabited by a different soul, so it must act differently.
I had a quick poke around to see if it's possible to implement something like audio filtering on Android, and found just about exactly that question asked over at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15385797/hook-simple-aud... TL;DR no, for obvious (albeit annoying) security reasons.

I'm not even sure if it would be straightforward with a rooted device either.
I love tea. I hate talking to other people who love tea. Here's the recipe for tea: tea, hot water. You can experiment with leaves and blends and temperatures and vessels. You can put whatever you want in it. I don't care if you take your tea with mustard. Use the combinations you enjoy.
Morally is complicated if they are not transparent about that from the start - the social expectations around this are not fully developed yet, but preventing the holder of the NFT from displaying the work (by selling an exclusive license to somebody else) would probably be seen as wrong.
> brain is part where memories etc live?

As far as we know. But we really know so little and there's a lot of interesting work being done regarding the networks of nerves in other parts of the body.

It's extremely likely that the brain is where most of the memories are stored, things like your name and age and so on. It could turn out that a lot of other types of memory, like muscle memory or emotional memory, are more distributed.
While there’s some truth to what you’re saying, the taxi drivers at the train stations/airports are the worst parasites. They’ll stay there all day waiting for somebody naïve enough to pay triple the regular price.