skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it not already?

I find that many of the quintessential problems of the U.S.A. were inherited from the British Empire and seem pervasive throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. England too has a district based system, leading to close to a two-party state, and a common law legal system where the judge and juror are often more powerful than the letter of the law.

If anything, the U.S.A. remedied some of the unusual quirks of common law legal systems. — I was recently acquainted with knowledge that in both the U.K. and Australia, a criminal defence attorney would, when his client confess to the crime to him, almost certainly recommend that he be released, and that latter seek new counsel, and that the new counsel be kept in the dark, as apparently the system is designed such that a criminal defence attorney is completely handicapped in defending his client, know he of the latter's guilt. — this is less so the case in the U.S.A., which is rather unique for jury trials, and in most civil law jurisdictions there is no reason not to confess to one's attorney.
This is what I did with Disney Plus. I really love the first eight seasons of The Simpsons, and the original Star wars trilogy, plus the Last Jedi are pretty good movies.

Nothing else in their library really appeals to me as a single guy. I tried the Hulu bundle, and I found Hulu's original content to be very much hit or miss. Monsterland was fairly interesting, and I'm glad I watched it, but I don't have any real interest in rewatching the same series over and over again.
I think it depends on the subject. Especially non-fiction writing might feel bland if written in simple words. You need to dramatize few things to make the reader think.
This is really something I've been thinking for quite some time, canceling my CC subscription (which is monthly) but there are couple of things that kept from executing this decision; first of course loong years of habit (almost 20), hard to leave. After switching to Figma for UI design, my main use of CC for branding, print design is left to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and photography editing for Lightroom. I can ditch the others in CC apps in an instant, but I can't Photoshop and Illustrator, because the branding design works need mockups, brushes, textures, stuff and web resources mostly made for PS, also I've a huge offline archive I like using, also there is print work, which I use Illustrator mainly. Adobe products really make me mad, they work in weird ways, crash, lost work and data, plus couple of times in a year something happens to make me connect to client support, these are the times that I really want to cut my all connection with the company and their products.

At some point I'll manage to figure this out and take a bold step further to leave Adobe all behind. I know there are options, tried most of them (Affinity etc), but I make my living through these apps and I need reliable software with resources and community, just like Figma did in a great way for UX/product design, I wish they create side products like CC apps, for print design, even audio design, that would be awesome.
People are free to do what they want with their money. But it's just stupid to do it on a monster like ethereum. You could burn toiletpaper to power a datacenter. But it is stupid.
Governments can regulate at the edge:

- regulate electricity consumption

- regulate bank accepting crypto-related money

- regulate exchanges listing Bitcoin or other crypto-currencies, etc
I don't understand what is behind the "filter" benchmarks, and it smells a bit fishy. Image filtering are (should be) highly GPU intensive tasks, so what does it mean to score low on "GPU" but somehow high on "filtering".
> ...seemingly introduces a scarcity to those assets that might otherwise be unattainable.

For most of history, scarcity was something that humanity wanted to overcome (and the internet offered a glimpse into a world where it had been overcome).

Now a lot of brain power is spent to "attain" scarcity.

Where did we take the wrong turn?
Don’t forget the trapezoid rule. On one hand, it discouraged the insufferable Devils play style. But it also stymied the usefulness of a puck-handling goalie.
There is an R package fredr to access the FRED database: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fredr/index.html .
What do you think an allocation involves in a modern language implementation?

It's about five machine instructions amortised.

Load the allocation pointer, add the object size to it, check it's not got too large, store it.

Deallocation though - yes that's slow!
Whoah plenty downvoting.. I assume that everyone is fully aware of Banks' Third-Party Security protocols/procedures and have good/working knowledge that they don't operate?

Anyway, not wishful thinking. Actual/reality. Feel free to ask your banks about their TPSM.

Good opportunity to see some info: I use BrightTalk (not affiliated) to collect CPEs for my certifications. They have plenty of webinars on Third Party Security: https://www.brighttalk.com/search/?q=%2Bthird+%2Bparty+%2Bse...
something size of a government could do a %51 attack on the whole network.
How? For TLS connections that is all the information available.
I don't know about freedom of information, but I think you could under GDPR for as long that applies to the UK.
Cool. Thanks. I probably should have checked that before posting. Russian Roulette is definitely on my shopping list.
Go ahead and do it. Shouldn't cost you more than 50 bucks for the plywood.

Judd is working with very simple elements to create a spectrum of cube spatial partitions. (Compare Red and Green chairs in frontpiece pic of the blog post. Note the recessed element in both.) This actually does take spatial design talent.

He is also working with color. A simple device of non-coated edges is providing 'structural' sense.

Finally, he's playing a little numbers game. Looks like all those chairs use 5 planes.

They suck as furniture, but are compact expressions of a genuine strain of architectural thought.
Armor Alley was a great LAN game too. Nettrek[1] was another popular LAN game. And Spectre was a wireframe tank game.

[1] not the same thing as Netrek.
Instead consider PoS blockchains, such as Tezos, Cardano, etc.
No one in these situations ever talks about political capital. These shame based tactics arise from our powerlessness, as whether consciously or not, people who care about the environment realise that neither party, nor any private industry, will ultimately enact any true change on this front, so the only tool they have left is shaming. We are mired in plastic straws and twitter arguments purely because that is the only avenue left by those that actually hold the ability to change anything.
This is the only thing I still use Dropbox for after moving my files away a long time ago. Set up a password protected folder, send the link over email and SMS them the password or tell them over the phone. Easy peasy.
"In economics, the Jevons paradox, sometimes Jevons' effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand. The Jevons paradox is perhaps the most widely known paradox in environmental economics. However, governments and environmentalists generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility of the paradox arising."
Idea to solve the crypto energy problem - sell space heaters as dual purpose crypto miners. People need space heaters. They buy them, but they also mine crypto (as a free byproduct of the space heating). The number of crypto mining space heaters out there dilute the value of dedicated mining so much that people don't bother with it anymore. Even buying the space heater to make money from mining crypto doesn't make that much money - due to the fact that so many space heaters are crypto miners. Problem solved?

Edit/Multi-Reply: Heat pumps are efficient, but they don't replace all practical use cases for a space heater.
Game of Thrones has really seeped into the consciousness of a certain type of person. This obsession with knee bending...
HahahahahhHahahaha
Yup, the same here down to the no kids. The tricky bit is deciding on what counts as 'shared spending' — my partner is insistent that it should cover necessary bills only, I think it should cater for almost everything we share including meals out, for example.
From a quick glance at the video looks like they're illegally tapping power from the grid, and got shut down.
> the mighty and sophisticated PG&E

I couldn't let this line slide by without raising it. I hope it doesn't impugn the credibility of the rest of the article.
Wikipedia is wrong. VRLAs aren't SLAs, and vice-versa. Actual SLAs are very, very expensive. All VRLAs can vent, by definition.

VRLAs can overcharge and catch fire just like flooded batteries. They just don't go kaboom as much or spray acid everywhere. When having thousands of batteries in a room, one of them catching fire is inevitable. This is why batteries are in separate fire containment rooms, on nonflammable shelving, in redundant strings, and protected by FM200.
Yeah I'm agreeing. Undesirable wasn't meant to be literal.
> They made me delete the picture but LPT: keep the SD card aside for the rest of the trip, then run an undelete tool on it.

Undeleting photos from an SD card saved data for me once. Just shut it off once you've noticed you messed up, and don't touch it. Thank goodness for FAT32.
Yes, you're out of touch. Access to the internet is seen as a luxury when you're relying on charitable donations to put food on the table.
Companies That Rode Pandemic Boom Get a Reality Check
Hah, that was a fun read. I like the other posts too like the first post on the site about if your wife loves you more or not.
The helicopter game was Apache something.

Crystal Quest was awesome. My mom loved that game too.

I don’t recall a pyramid game.
Cortex: A Compiler for Recursive Deep Learning Models [pdf]
CSS for JavaScript Developers
27 MB for just 100 pages of lecture notes? You can find in certain Russian site, 600p textbooks weighting 2-3 MB
If you hit 'x' on your own tweet Twitter will offer to “block yourself”
Except that would generate the same sort of run on solar panels and/or their constituent components that is did for GPUS before ASICs got big.

Solar panels that could otherwise be used to replace fossil fuels.
His point is that young people have had to rely on the internet for education most of the past year and that’s been difficult for less wealthy people.
Space Quest was pure, utter magic to me. I couldn’t believe it.
Boom headshot ;)
I once worked with a C++ text processing library that saw more than a 50% throughput bump just from reserve()’ing std::string and std::vector space in hot code paths.
Metadata Left in Security Agency PDFs
Quantum machine learning with differential privacy [pdf]
Is it faster on the M1 chip because they made a proper build for it compared to before on the M1 chip, or are they saying it's 50% faster on M1 than on other hardware?
Edit: Title is now edited from what it was, it included a statement about speedup I couldn't find explained the same in the post

It contains this quote though

> Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems.

So I guess it's faster than on other systems, but still vague about compared to what.
I have been happy with Pixelmator Pro.

I use it for work.

One time fee, I can’t justify Photoshop CC for once per quarter usage.

I may use it intensively for a few days then not touch it for months.
Interpolating this line of inquiry out to its logical extensions means we are on the cusp of "cognition in a dish". The stuff of pure sci-fi nightmares from previous generations comes to life. The question that needs illuminating: what does minimum viable cognition look (think) like? And how does it even require biogenesis, a minimum viable life form?

Toward Studying Cognition in a Dish (paywall)

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136...
What's to prevent someone from putting it up on GitHub? Of course the customers are buying support too, and OP could probably make a copyright takedown if the name and logos are used as-is, but it sounds somewhat risky. There again I haven't built a successful business like this, so what do I know :-)
Whether or not other systems are possible is not really relevant: cryptocurrencies as they exist today work like this. The fact that one day potentially we will have proof-of-stake doesn't change the fact that today we are destroying the earth for no reason at all.
Criticism of Tailwind ranges from 'it's just inline css' to 'it's too easy, people will unlearn css'. I see Tailwind as a return to a simpler use of CSS. Comments on this thread talking about 'just write some cascading css' have perhaps not had to deal with the layers of css preprocessor abstraction that have developed.

Tailwind is much closer to raw css than some of the SASS, LESS, and Compass mix-ins I have had to wrangle.
Nikon have just published a complete free and quite sophisticated photo software suite, most useful summary of which here :

https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.htm...

Ed; "Everything is there: stills, video, image browsing, NEF processing, Lightroom-like capabilities, cloud integration, image ingest,and much more."
Some of those arguments are kind of reasonable, until author defeated purpose by recommending `styled-jsx`.

I am just trying to imagine working in a team 1 dev + 1 designer...
> Literally every country suffering from an underutilized workforce should just utilize it, even if artificially

Is this not just the broken window fallacy?

> Restricting immigration is basically equivalent to a waiting strategy where you just hope that the competition (e.g. China) runs into labor shortages

I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make here?

Are you trying to say that in order to compete on the world stage you need a surplus of low/underpaid labour? Why is that good for the people that find themselves in that surplus?

> You are complaining that all those immigrants are stealing all the farm jobs

I'm doing no such thing. Please re-read my post after discarding some of your preconceptions.

I'm saying the pay and conditions attached to those jobs are wholly unreasonable. That they should not be run like that in the first place, immigrants or no.

Those companies were only viable because people could be flown in from places where there were lower expectations on working conditions and enough of a wage disparity that it made it worthwhile for those workers to be paid the minimum. They were often made to live in cramped conditions in temporary accomodation on-site, in a way that's totally incompatible with (for instance) a family life. That's not a good thing. That sector needs reform.

(Yes, immigration law was hiding this and contributing to wage suppression. I am in no way accusing any class of people, immigrant or otherwise of "stealing jobs".)
> A single developer who put in 7000 hours before he made a cent.

I think this is less uncommon for bootstrapped companies than a lot of people assume. E.g. Patrick Campbell from ProfitWell has a similar story.
> It then rewarded morons... hordes and hordes of morons very very well too.

You can just say you are jealous rather than belittling people like this.
Is it me or is this article just trying to leverage TLB's status to justify the extortionate expense of high speed rural internet.
I don't wanna be a "Korinthenkacker", but "Build in Berlin" means to me the builder has to obey the Law and add an Imprint and Privacy Policy to his site...
And yet she's still not as bad as the current PM.
There's nothing interesting going on with UK's economy. Seems pretty indistinct from the rest of Europe.

No, I do not think EU would really do major sanctions, but I do think it's something some fear and I do think it's a fear the EU plays into. Many in ex-Soviet and ex-Soviet-satellite countries see EU membership as the guarantor of access and lasting ties with not just Western Europe but the "free world" in general (as in not being part of the Russia/China/Iran/+ club). Even in the UK you see some semblance of this sentiment despite being rather ridiculous. In countries that have a fairly recent history of being excluded for no good reason it seems all the more compelling.
Jeez I hope it's not a 737...
australia goes along with america's stupidity all the time. iraq, afghanistan...Australia introduced conscription of Australians to go to help the US with vietnam.
Sure, but we could have neither and be happy :)
but they still can't make a version for Linux :'-(
AGI definitions are incredibly fuzzy and agency reliably seems to be confused with intelligence.

The fundamental problem is whether AGI is outer-directed or inner-directed - i.e. whether it sets its own goals, or whether you tell it what to do and it improvises a solution.

AGI is most useful when it's outer-directed with limited agency but some improvisational autonomy. You can give that kind of AGI specific problems and it will solve them in useful but unexpected ways. Then it will stop.

AGI is most dangerous when it's inner-directed with full independent agency. Not only will humans have no control over it, there's a good chance humans won't even understand what it's aiming for.

Agency is almost entirely unrelated to symbolic intelligence. You can have agency with very limited intelligence - most animals manage this - and no agency with very high symbolic intelligence.

This is not a Boolean. But there will be a cutoff beyond which inner-directed behaviour predominates, initially driven by programmed "curiosity", leading to unpredictable consequences.
I have gotten pretty decent results from Pixelmator Pro and Inkscape.

I grew up with Photoshop 4 and CorelDRAW!, so I would totally be happy with those as well.

YMMV
> There's a noticeable emphasis on creating the most exciting and intense spectacle for the audience.

Honestly, and I say that as someone who loves basket ball and often stays up during the night to see the NBA playoffs, basketball is often far from the level of tension and excitement you can get in (European) football. In football, most of the time a single goal is a game changer even when you have some margin (let say 2-0 and the opponent team is now 2-1,they have regained the momentum now and the match is totally different). In terms of adrenaline, the entire football game is like the fourth quarter of the seventh game and every single goal feels like a buzzer beater!

The scarcity of goals is invaluable.
Gold was even less stable.
> a game with much fewer goals, probably boring.

Also, 0-0 ties and 1-0 wins don't really provide much information. These sports are typically played in the contexts of seasons, where teams are trying to win a championship. Very low scores don't really meaningfully establish which teams are better than others. 0-0 and 1-1 ties are obviously not really disclosing much, but winning 1-0 is really too low-granularity to mean all that much also.

Basketball is a bit ridiculous in the other direction, of course, but I assume that scores in the high single digits to low double digits should be the target, if we are to actually use them to figure out how to rank teams.

Hurling (teams typically score 10-30 points in a game) and baseball (5-20) seem like they're in the right range. Soccer / football (0-10, but often on the bottom end of that) seems way too low.
Hurricane China: How to prepare
All it takes is for the US and EU to ban cryptocurrency itself and the problem goes away. It doesn't matter if mining is done in countries beyond their borders because the demand will go through the floor and those countries will have no incentive to keep wasting energy on it.

The idea that cryptocurrency is beyond government control is fundamentally wrong. Most people don't want to be criminals.
Congrats on launching! I've played with Roam Research and Obsidian before and like the concept of a knowledge graph. Is the Hypernotes graph similar to those? Any differentiating features?
That was a very interesting read, and covers all the issues I had with GPG/PGP broken down on a per-use-case basis, which is really neat. Fairly up-to-date too (aside from maybe WhatsApp mentioned alongside Signal). In any case, thanks for sharing! Nice to see simplified and somewhat modernized tools like (https://github.com/str4d/rage) and (https://github.com/FiloSottile/age)

The article that post mentions in the beginning also had some interesting perspectives, though a bit older.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma...
Untracker: Remove trackers from email newsletters
Do you grok equivalence classes because quotients (of anything) are basically sets of equivalence classes?

And on the parenting front, luckily you start with a baby not a ten year old so you have lots of chance to grow as a parent before making those sorts of decisions - a lot of parenting is deciding when to be directive/non-directive and when to take charge based on your superior understanding of the world (not letting your toddler walk into the road!) and when to let them learn from their own mistakes.
If "charming and delightful" is your goal go to Portland. That's the tourist city that has all the tourism economy stuff to cater to tourists.

Bangor is basically a giant service plaza for everything that's further north and west than your typical Masshole with three kids and spouse piled into the Land Rover is willing to drive. There's some dive bars, college bars and museums. Don't get me wrong, it's a great place but it's neither the "high culture city" nor the "charming rural backwater" that most of HN is looking to visit.
Hi Fellow HN'ers,

Author here.

This is a follow-up on a previous posting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293424)

----

If you don't mind me hijacking the conversation, I'd like to ask the following questions to the wonderful HN community:

* What do you think about the name change to Untracker?

* What do you think about Untracker (as a product)?

* What do you think about Untracker being open source but requiring self-hosting?

* What do you think of the discussion about Github Sponsors and the Payment Decision Point?

* What do you think about Untracker's freemium/monetisation/sponsorship model?

What do you guys think?

If you have any feedback, comments or questions, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks for reading!
Fast Random Bit Generation
Can you use Cameo to get a celebrity endorsement for your business?
While you are correct that sender authentication is an important requirement, I think you are mixing two things. Having end-to-end encryption is one thing, sender authentication is another.

It does matter what you trust BitWarden with. If you just rely on them for sender authentication it doesn't mean it's not encrypted E2E. They won't be able to look at your data, but are right, they could forge messages. However, even then you can do the authentication yourself, inside the message. E.g. send a hash through an alternate channel, or if it's too complicated (because you may argue that you could just use PGP with people who know how to verify a hash) then include an agreed upon password in the encrypted message. It's not ideal of course and their app could support these (like you say) but it doesn't mean you have to trust them or that the message is not encrypted end-to-end.
DC-DC conversion has only recently become cheap and reliable. Say your house was 120 VDC, how do you step that down to 12 VDC? That used to require motor-generator sets. Now we have cheap and reliable high voltage transistors switching at frequencies high enough to require small passive components.
SFO is also weird like that. It’s technically part of the city despite being physically separated from it. The first time I landed there I could see out the window as we were landing and I thought “this sure doesn’t like look San Francisco”.