skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re everywhere! I can take a photo on my phone and it’s instantly given convincing artificial depth of field. I can search my photos for the name of anyone I know and instantly all the photos containing those people show up. I regularly use voice assistants, translation, and can dictate full length messages while I’m driving in my car. Neural nets can even drive cars now!

This stuff is already making massive impacts, and yet it’s still in the early stages. The meeting in the article was less than 10 years ago. Just imagine in 20 or 30 years from now.
The Alt-Currency Martyr: Before the Feds Feared Bitcoin, They Feared e-gold
I don't think they do in Australia... how odd.

As far as I recall this article is accurate. They send two small amounts and ask you to type it in to confirm it came through.

https://www.paypal.com/au/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-confirm...
SQL injection where exactly?

db.execute('select * from t where name = ?', ['Joe'])
What i find particularly scary is the run on the banks scenario the author outlines. this really smashes the idea that bonds are the safe thing to get your money back.

I know a lot of bonds have been selling, that's why the fed needs to buy so much every month, to make up for all that selling people are doing. Personally, i'm surprised even more people haven't been selling bonds.

With the threat of inflation looming so large, and the enormous money supply that has increased in the last year. All those country's debt problems for which the only solution is inflation: it's the only thing that's politically feasible.

I'm a totally risk averse investor and as such, I avoid cash and bonds like the plague with the exception of a modest emergency cash reserves.

Of course this is all linked to the rise of all the other assets classes. when the 100 trillion dollar bond markets sell off, all that money has to go somewhere: equities, real estate, gold and now bitcoin.
By "during covid", I guess you mean while isolating in lock down ?

I'd be more inclined to suggest it was the isolation, loneliness and stress of uncertainty that would trigger something like that. It was a dark time.

Curious if your friend started meditation hoping it might alleviate and already uncomfortable mental state, or they felt fine and just wanted to meditate for fun ?

I'm not a doctor, or psychiatrist but from the exposure I've had from my own practice, I'd imagine taking up anything other than a very, very, very light meditation course during such a stressful uncertain time could really expose one too a bit too much sensory overload.
That was before the era of VBIOS-signing. You straight-up can't boot any VBIOS image that's not signed anymore.

It was also before the era when PROM fuses were used to permanently disable hardware at the factory. So like, nowadays when you do something like flash Vega 56 with Vega 64 firmware, or flash 5700 with 5700XT firmware, it doesn't actually turn on any cores anymore, they're permanently disabled now. What changes is things like memory speed (Vega) or power limits (5700) that are used to artificially gimp the cards and increase the performance difference beyond the actual core count, as just disabling cores often doesn't give enough difference anymore to be marketable (Vega especially was very bottlenecked by other parts of the card other than the cores).
Not the first time they've ignored issues in myGov. This guy tried endlessly to contact them about a XSS vulnerability to deaf ears:

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/revealed-serious-flaws-in-...
Great idea! I feel the personal configuration space is ripe for innovation.
+1 for Rails. Also Django (Which came out around the same time).
"wishing that things were different than the way they are."

That's actually one of the best ways I've heard it described.
... but this is how actual retail works.

Real-world Billy doesn't hold the "license to sell electronics," but the various mall management companies - of which there aren't very many - do in fact exclusively control the real estate in the shopping malls. They don't charge Apple a percentage of sales, but they charge them some amount of money for simply having the store, regardless of sales, which can be even more: if you look at the latest MacBook in person at the store, go home, and decide you want to buy it from apple.com, the landlord still gets money from Apple.

The various mall management companies make, quite literally, billions of dollars a year. The landlords who own non-mall property for the Apple Store downtown also make piles of money. And they don't need a license, nor do they need to convince anyone that they're protecting anyone. They just own the land.

And Apple also sells products through various other retailers, like cell phone companies, Best Buy, etc., each of which work out deals of various sorts. You generally can't buy an unlocked, no-contract iPhone from a cell phone company. You get an iPhone with a contract that commits you to spending way more money than the cost of the phone.

Arguably, Apple's role is a lot fairer; there's no scarce resource like properly-zoned land in a populated city on which the App Store was built. Anything that happens on the App Store is entirely Apple's doing; anything that happens in a mall or in an existing retail store is partly the owner's doing and partly their good fortune to have put themselves there before someone else did. If someone wants to compete with iOS and the App Store, they are free to build their own version from scratch - nothing Apple did is stopping them. If someone wants to compete with a shopping mall, you can't just plop down a new shopping mall - the land is in use. If we think Apple doesn't deserve to take a cut for use of their platform that they built, the landlords certainly don't deserve rent for use of land that they bought.

(Which is, to be fair, my own personal opinion, but the market doesn't agree with me, and there's very little point in me pouting at the market.)
FWIW, I don't think MCTB works well in audiobook form. The book is extremely dense and needs to be read in depth, even unpacking the meaning of a single paragraph can take some effort. It's something that you really want to have in written form if at all possible.
I have significant experience with meditation, and I tend to agree with Lieberman in this article. Trying to pin Megan's condition on meditation alone is sort of like blaming your mother for lifting up the carpet to find that's where you hid the mess.
I added SAML support to an application once and I feel “not as easy as it seems” is a good description for the entire standard.
You can kinda sorta make private variables in Python with some namespace abuse:

def make_get_private(var):

. . . .private_var = var

. . . .def get_private():

. . . . . . . .return
private_var

. . . .return get_private

get_private = make_get_private("spam")

You can't readily modify private_var after it is set in this case, you could also make and return a set_private function as well. I imagine you could do a whole module like this and then have it create it's functions at runtime to produce this "private" namespace. It would be a mess though.
If everything did that, the profit from doing it would be almost nothing, as difficulty increased. It would also be wildly more expensive than just a simple piece of nichrome wire, and you also now have to have a cellular module and a significant amount of continuous data traffic over it.
Stunning Photoreal Renders in Blender by Blitter
What more information could a doctor have that the drug regulators lack?
It's possible for bond rates to go negative. Just because rates are near zero now doesn't mean there isn't room for further movement.
Google to cut app store fee by half on developers' first $1M in sales
Useful webinar.
Your description of dukkha reminds me of a concept in Stoicism. Early Stoics formalized "pneuma" as something of a "natural order" or "holy ghost". The teachings were that one could avoid self-destructive behavior by not fighting an intrinsic flow to the universe.

To frame this with what I saying about Nietzsche- his criticism might have encouraged one to wrestle with natural order. Or perhaps stated that passivity with regard to the state of things is undesirable.
React Native/Expo

Mobile app development used to take a lot of effort with separate builds for iOS/Android and low code reuse. React Native changed the game and made building mobile apps easy and much less expensive.
Honest question: can you explain the practical advantages of ZFS over LVM + Ext4? I understand that ZFS combines a filesystem and package manager, but why should I, a humble OSS user, care?
It's not about it being religious, but about it being dangerous, or in some ways a hinderance/harmful to the self.

Kind of like how self harm is forbidden. Vamamarga is psychological self harm, in a sense. Aghoris then take that same principle to the next level.

The problem is people fetishize, or in other ways make arguments and ideas about Indian origin things within the context of religion. That has in my opinion done far more harm in understanding the philosophical approaches of Dharma than any other misconception, including translation errors.
The whole point of SAML is that you can manage your users for third-party applications in your normal user store instead of needing to provision accounts in multiple places.
Hopefully lombok dies.
This is really dumb but I was watching my pupils using a REPL yesterday. They didn’t know about readline so I showed them what up, down, ^A and ^E did.

I felt like I had done them a disservice for not sharing this sooner.

Readline is fantastic. I wish even more OS components were standardised (e.g. Firefox tabs and Inkscape dialogs just being windows; let my WM handle the layout.)
“Nobody wants bonds because the yields are too low” is basically the same statement as “nobody goes to that restaurant because it’s too crowded.”
No, it's not a "dangerous thought process" it just means that we expect you to do SOME research and understand the thing you are critiquing. Is that too much to ask??
> posting a car review composed of nothing but accelerating the car on a highway

"Hello, Geico. How much to insure a Huracan?"
I hope he paid that lawyer on time.
A therapist told me that, for those who suffer from ocd, meditation can do more harm than help. Especially for those who suffer from more rumination-based variants (ie “pure-ocd”).

I’ve had mixed results - my personal observation is to treat it like a psychedelic trip: only go in when you’re in a good mental state.

The odd thing is the typical therapy for ocd is cbt (cognitive behavioral therapy), which, despite intersecting quite a bit with meditation, is very effective.

Yoga always feels beneficial.
Thanks for good information.
Show HN: Karaoke Nite – Karaoke with friends and family on the web or in VR
That's what this article is about, yeah, NVIDIA is confirming they screwed up.

It also appears the VBIOS on MSI's 3060 cards didn't include it either, I'm not 100% clear but I'm guessing you need both here. I've seen other discussions where people report flashing it on EVGA cards and then it increases performance to the expected levels.
Lilly Presents Trial Data on Alzheimer Drug Showing Promise
To be fair, when the Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell decision to grant freedom for same sex marriage, there wasn't an uprising or even a protest that drew any attention. It's an issue that has been accepted by the public at large, even the religious crowd at large.
Trying to speculate on the commercial bond market is exceedingly difficult and risky. Even the experts often take a beating. But using certain sectors of the bond market as a savings and retirement mechanism can be quite effective. Consider US tax-free municipal bonds (munies). They are safe, with defaults at a miniscule percentage of corporate bonds. And many are backed with third party insurance against defaults. Their returns are multiples of US Treasuries, CDs, money markets and savings accounts. And all distributions are tax exempt with the exception of any capital gains. Not very exciting. Sort of like watching grass grow. But it grows and grows. My own investments in this area are with: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...

edit: And by investing in munies you're also investing in US infrastructure. Munies fund all that stuff. Bridges, fire stations, schools, roads, water treatment plants, ports, electrical grids, etc, etc, etc. Might even make you feel like a good citizen...
> I'd rather take the occasional having to wait a few days to sort out a fraud charge than have to be inconvenienced every time I want to send or receive money.

Bank of New Zealand online banking doesnt seem that inconvenient, or different, from the American system. add payee, enter amount, click pay then confirm.

https://www.bnz.co.nz/support/internet-banking/payments/addi...
Don't they support USB-C charging? I compared the other days all their models, those that rated at 65W all supported USB-C charging.
This argument doesn't work when the Federal Reserve, an entity unconcerned about ROI, is purchasing bonds out of thin air.

They now own $7 TRILLION of US govt bonds. This number was less than $100 billion before the GFC.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/01/the-federal-reserve-holds-...

So, yes, no investor wants bonds. Why would you buy something that's a guaranteed loss? It's increasingly just the Fed.
Indeed! The CCP's time has past for sure. Nothing good can come from them at this point.
Some of the larger anime houses fit the definition pretty well.
The one I use comes with a biofeedback headband, so there is a real use for it. The rest just play sounds which seems fine.
We measured it at some point and the numbers were around 1-2% CPU usage increase per 1 profiled process at 100 Hz.

Did not measure memory overhead, but it should be pretty minimal, less than 10 MBs per process.
No need to sign-in, you just scrolled to the bottom of the page to see the answer. I don't remember it being slow either.
Yes GitHub has this problem, but it's not a GitHub problem, it's an oauth problem.

Oauth is better than the previous state of the art (either app-specific passwords that can do anything you can do or else literally just your own username and password), but it has a huge UX problem around least privilege.

In general it's very opaque what the requested permissions can be used to do. Some companies get this pretty right but there are tons that don't.

Let's say the requested permission is very straightforward like "append rows to your existing spreadsheets". It's also generally impossible to grant access using oauth to just a subset of whatever resource it is, like only spreadsheets A, B, and C, but not X.

I wish sandstorm had caught on much bigger than it had, it brings a fine-tune grained capabilities-based auth system.
Don't forget Baron Black of Crossharbour. Thanks, Conrad! /s
A possibility, sure. Not a very likely one, but don't let me keep you from your doom-and-gloom :)
We still have junk like PoLi [1] which asks you for your internet banking credentials, and government departments use this.

I'm looking at you, NZTA.

Can't wait for the PaymentsNZ [2] effort to be fully implemented and widely adopted, so I can finally use real APIs to access this data, with low privilege throwaway tokens.

[1] https://www.polipay.co.nz

[2] https://www.apicentre.paymentsnz.co.nz
They appear to be: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/health/covid-vaccine-left... The lack of mainstream coverage was intentional (I guess they've decided it's time to go wide):

> Mr. Massoumi said he had taken several steps to ensure that the service will be equitable. That has included turning down early media requests from mainstream publications and instead promoting Dr. B on Zoom calls with representatives for groups like Black churches and Native American community groups, given that the pandemic has disproportionately affected nonwhite groups.
I suppose a forty-year bubble is possible but it seems like a novel idea to my mind.
> Much of the value of attending a...concert is that nobody involved knows how it's going to turn out

You have a point for sports, but concerts? They have their moments, but for the most part, it will be the same set list and the same performance they did in Cleveland a week ago.
Tangential, but Gitlab is pretty terrible when it comes to managing permissions.
Image search by content, improved language translation, Siri/Alex/Google Assistant, automatic content moderation to name a few.

With that said, I generally feel like my life has not been impacted greatly. Siri can barely tell me anything other than the first paragraph of a wikipedia page or today's weather. I don't search my photos often. I don't translate languages often, and I'm not in a back office in charge of moderation.
Rails + Heroku circa 2011... I became a professional web developer and launched a startup mainly because of these technologies, so quick and easy.

Yes, with Uber and equivalents around the world, I have zero reason to own a car. My driver's license expired years ago and I can't be bothered to renew it.
Interesting piece on it here. I wasn't aware of these terms.

Basically, by definition it is about breaching Hindu societal taboos, unless I am vastly misunderstanding this brief summary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-hand_path_and_right-hand_...
Have you ever eaten a pine cone?

Pine needles "contain more Vitamin C than an orange" (I didn't see it specified if that's by gross weight or dry mass) and make decent tea, and many cultures still boil and eat or cook with pine cones.

Modern crops are amazing, but we are literally surrounded by new and forgotten sustenance. It's not always pretty, tasty, or toothsome, but it's there if you have the time and will to turn it into food.

I'm also reminded of villages that "modernized" by trading their old fashioned cast iron cookware in for aluminum and began to suffer from anemia as a result. Iron is abundant in the crust, and eating mineral-rich clay is still practiced by humans and animals around the planet, but their solution was to put cast iron charms in the new pots for luck. It's possible they were in iron-poor areas, but if they were swayed to abandon their traditions by the appeal of commercial marketing, it seems likely they mught also eschew any dirt-eating practices they once might have had.
I would assume they would be. Miners price hardware based on the hashrate, resale value is nice as a safety but serious miners aren't figuring on dumping all their hardware the first time price drops a little bit.

Take a look at the data compiled by Tom's Hardware and you'll see the 3060 Ti has a 51% price premium over the 3060 on ebay. That is the "mining premium" in action. The 3060 is a bit slower on paper but it mines pretty much as well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-pricing-index

As such, if the mining cards mine twice as fast, they're twice as valuable to miners, and they'll pay twice as much for them. Pricing them less than gaming cards is leaving money on the table and completely unnecessary when they'll sell anyway.
I think you're basically agreeing with the comment you replied to. They're saying people who are financially secure (possibly like a software engineer) are less incentivized to work hard. Someone who really needs the money is more incentivized.

If you got the same pay whether or not you showed up to work each day, you'd be less incentivized to show up.
Clubhouse is for normies. You can't expect them to produce great content.
The fact you mention one must Jail Break to even have hope of maybe enjoying all their property rights, implies some kinda of Economic tort. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_torts)

And no when you buy something it generally involves the transfer of all rights in real/tangible property. Please notice I said generally. Copyright is one of the few exceptions (also it's not real property, but intellectual). However, you are allowed to make copies of Books and CDs, although how one may distribute/reproduce said copies is limited under copyright. Also when you buy a copyrighted work you can for instance open the cover and see that it states it's copyrighted.

However, again a book is the tangible property not the copyrighted idea/work. Copyright does not give them the right to stop you from writing/drawing or using a highlighter or doing anything else to the book. The copyright does not extend to the pages, glue, ect... of the physical book.

Treat Apple's iPhone as a book. The words on the page the OS. The paper and binding ect.. is the hardware. However, Apple's book if you try crossing out words or writing new words on blank pages (aka empty memory) the book tries to stop you from doing that unless Apple approves those words. However, Apple does not advertise this as a book that they can choose what you can and can't do with it. They just call it a book. Apple is doing two things here they are interfering with your use of the book, and not telling people that they interfere with your use of the book when advertising it. They get away with this because most people only read books they buy.
I’m not sure if CAS is even partially SAML compliant or even related to it at all, but the way CAS handled it was that for every service ticket issued, the authentication service was supposed to ping a URL destroying a service ticket. It didn’t have very good fallback (eg if it couldn’t successfully reach the service ticket destructor endpoint, it wouldn’t attempt to retry).

Perhaps the safest way is for apps is to verify periodically if a SAML session is still valid, if there’s a mechanism to do so.
> FDIC insurance maxes out at $250,000

That's PER checking account, and if they are joint checking accounts, then the max is $500,000 per account.
Huawei plans to start charging patent fees to Samsung, Apple for each phone sold
I cannot see in the dark, and I live in a city that is not very walkable. Before Lyft, I just didn't go places at night. So, yeah.
That's called monkeypatching and it's a last-resort hack, not something you'd just use willy-nilly in production code.
AIUI there's nothing wrong from a Stoic perspective with "talking yourself into caring" about stuff, especially as it seems you were just getting into the ideas. Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus did it a lot, and it seems to have worked well for them.
No they don't. They acknowledged they released the beta driver themselves that didn't have the mining brake.
It's even worse than the HTML scraping. Banks will do literally anything if the instructions arrive by fax or mail, assuming you get the account number correct. The practical security of banking is ridiculously bad.
Extensions were the other 10x thing with Firefox. Even now browsing the web without them is torture.
"We could do something called the American Equity Fund. The American Equity Fund would be capitalized by taxing companies above a certain valuation 2.5% of their market value each year, payable in shares transferred to the fund, and by taxing 2.5% of the value of all privately-held land, payable in dollars."

He is talking about taxing unrealized gains, which is quite unfair. If the share price of a company doubles, it doesn't mean the company has extra cash to buy back shares for redistribution. Same with land. I feel property taxes today, as a percentage of market value, are insidious precisely for that reason. Increased demand for housing in my area doesn't mean I have more cash to pay taxes. Not until I sell the house and realize that gain.
Well, how about this, if we use pow4' to be modular exponentiation, i.e. mod15 o pow4? (of course then changing mod15 to take Z -> Z so the types line up)

Then the desired statement showing commutativity is

pow4'(mod15(x)) = pow4'(x) = mod15(pow4'(x))

where that last equality is trivial because

mod15 o mod15 = mod15

so

mod15 o pow4' = mod15 o mod15 o pow4 = mod15 o pow4 = pow4'

per associativity of function composition