skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite fair. Edited.
well it is irreversible - if it melts and the water flows in the ocean and mixes with the water there, there is no way to put it back. Of course if it cools down over the next few million years Greenland can grow a new glacier. But that will be a different one.
It reminds me of the quote from SICP whenever i a domain specific languages frameworks etc

"Establishing new languages is a powerful strategy for control-ling complexity in engineering design; we can often enhance ourability to deal with a complex problem by adopting a new lan-guage that enables us to describe (and hence to think about)the problem in a different way, using primitives, means of com-bination, and means of abstraction that are particularly wellsuited to the problem at hand." -- Harold Abelson
I don't see any reason why information theory has to be limited to encoded information in bits. It deals generally with a quantity p(x), with no qualification for what p(x) is. You could, for example, tokenize words and figure out how complex the language used is, given some measure over the distribution of words in the english language. Similarly, you could go higher and work with characters, and figure out the surprise factor of using bears, but again you would need some model or measure of the distribution of character types in english literature. Figuring out the entropy of a coin toss is fairly trivial, but figuring out the entropy of, say, a story book, requires coming up with a model of the distribution over story books, which is the hard part. In that regard, information theory is quite powerful and gives us the tools to do all of that, it's just that the models are highly non-trivial, or otherwise missing.
If you are going to post your link on a site like Hacker News, can you please at least make sure you have a one line description of what your product actually is/does on the linked page!...
Nicotine is a nootropic but had no idea it about this https://www.biopsychiatry.com/nicotine-mao.htm
> a way to appeal if you feel wrongly moderated.

Good. Otherwise people will pretend to be a laywer and talk about how _technically_ the rules don't say specifically what they did. Its a waste of time.

But really, in all my time on github and gitlab I have never seen an actual contributor violate common sense and common decency. The only shitty things I have seen have been anon users piling in on issue threads which have gone viral and in that case you just limit the repo to contributors only.
It is still de facto a colony, conveniently ruled by a spanish-supported dictator.
Same here. Have not been happy with a doc which can do it all, display, ethernet and charge.

This Dell one has served me best [0] but unfortunately no charge.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ethernet-Compatible-Latitude-Thu...
It's amazing and fascinating how many diverse explanations and personal narratives are present in all the answers. It shows how difficult it is to diagnose something as common and relatable as the situation described here.
Congrats to you for finally succeeding!
Just that your way of climbing doesn't sound quite fun. Spending 7 years working 14 hours a day, full of stress, and fail 20 times straight? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. I wonder how many people are doing the same things you were doing and are still not successful...

I got a simple question, was it worth it and what would you change?
Well, obviously the Trump/Clinton work is a reference to the Socialist Fraternal Kiss. Not obvious to the layman but clear to anyone with experience critiquing art.

Haha, this is fun. I can see why art critics like doing it.
Please re-read:

"We’ve passed through a racial uprising and a reckoning with sexism, and the cultural project of the moment is… innovating new ways to worship decade-old, BroBible-level brain farts? During a time of immiseration, investors are competing to throw tens of millions of dollars… at this?

These are the questions that go through my head. But that’s probably just “fancy-dancy elite art homo” thinking, right?"
How is that greenwashing? Those are private individuals, not corporations.
I don't spend the money I already make. Not sure what I would do with 10x money.

1% ungrateful complaining consumer out of 1 million users are 10k users. I don't like dealing with them. At 10x the business they might become 100k or more. I would rather have 10k high paying Saas customers and weed out the ungrateful ones there but to their face.

Currently we are working above the board with no dark patterns. We have one of the best customer service and refund policies across possibly all consumer internet companies. Our competitors have lot of dark patterns. To grow 10k, we might need to do shittier things which I don't want to.

I know there are lot of founders and executives out there who would be fine doing dark patterns for growth. But I am not and maybe that is my shortcoming and which is why I didn't want to grow in the Corporate ladder. If I own the company, I can have final say on these things.
I'm still using my N9, and I'm holding my SIM card in place using a big rubber band wrapped twice along the longer side of the phone :)

Lately the "main" button has been failing, and since tapping the screen doesn't get it out of sleep anymore, I can't pick up calls anymore. So to access the phone, I get out the SIM and re-insert it.

It's time to abandon it here too, but it was an excellent phone in use for almost 10y.
I'm not one to say anything good about Sparta, as I pretty much agree with what acoup has to say in his blog about them.

What I think is going on is not that people like what Spartans actually did, people are simply enamoured by their honourable and majestic portrayal in popular culture. What youngster does not fantasise of being that small and determined band of soldiers that holds off the hordes of brutal barbarians, only with their shields, spears, courage and martial prowess? Who doesn't want to be part of that 250 men that defy a whole empire, _and succeed_, immortalised in songs and poems? (I mean they all die by the end, but they do kinda succeed in their mission).

The way I think about it is that for me there are two (or more even) Spartas. The historical "Sparta" that were brutal oppressors, like a case study how _not_ to structure a society, lots of lessons to learn from it. And the mythical "SPARTA!" one, full of honourable dudes and courageous women, that we can aspire to be, even if they were not real. No reason why they can't coexist in our minds, we just need to be careful which one we talk about.

When people say they "like Sparta" I don't immediately feel that they are silently singling that they will be ok with slavery and secret police, I think they want to be strong people fighting to protect their brethren, and that's generally OK with me.
I don't know how much stock you put in this, but I always enjoyed the study that found that Genghis' depredations changed the climate.

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/war-plague-no-match-defores...
Ah, you were right and it was actually packages I was thinking of after all. Thank you and sorry.
“Internet mob mentality” doesn’t exactly conjure a positive image. It’s interesting to see a case where it is genuinely, unambiguously a good thing.
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good read.

I read this in my 15 minutes slacking off and it refresh my mind to continue working afterwards.
Yeah, and regarding using just raw IPFS hashes there's this comment further down the thread indicating not even that is enough (I know too little of IPFS to verify but seems legit): https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372169695277760519
Ironically, some people blame the failure of Sun on Jonathan Schwartz being too open and not generating enough revenue.

What killed Sun was classic innovators dilemma, they could have pivoted into making highly reliable x86 kit running Solaris and existing SPARC customers would have lapped it up, but they held onto to trying to sell SPARC for too long and by then their SPARC customers realised that they could make do with commodity x86 kit, just buy twice as much of it and shrug when it broke.

The bigger picture was that Intel got "good enough" and while SPARC performance was still better, it started to lose badly on price/performance and the software industry adapted to that by architecting and writing code suited to the Intel model of many cheaper machines.
You can post here anything, "that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.". Which means not everything must be related on hacking.
Namely, you learned that "an Assembly composed of all citizens" is not meaningful democracy if the class of "citizens" is defined so narrowly that this comes out to a tiny ruling class dominating a vast majority of subjugated people.
It's a unique social phenomenon that has been enabled by technology that some of us here helped create.
This is the risk of trying to summarize a big conceptual framework in just a few words. It leaves out a lot and its only hope is to entice the reader to explore further and discover that entire conceptual framework.

Even that conceptual framework can not describe what can't be described. It can only get you to experience again and again what can only be experienced until the moment that concepts drop off.
Imho the problem was exactly the opposite. Investing too much in the old symbian platform and not commiting to maemo.
Daaaamn, the music on here is insanely good
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He is saying that it may or may not be greenwashing if that's the take you want to have but either way it's not relevant to Hacker News. Not sure whether I agree or not, just trying to explain the parent comment.
In addition to Dive, there's also Whaler https://github.com/P3GLEG/Whaler which will print out a Dockerfile from the image, based on the metadata in the image.

You can also use Portainer https://www.portainer.io/ which will show the image layer details in the images section.
> The incessant celebration of Sparta in the culture of the West is truly abhorrent.

Socrates was killed for being a Sparta supporter in Athens (also for being a formidable troll). His loving pupil Plato went on to start the whole "Western civilization" thing. Make of that what you want, but for anybody who knows some history, your sentence will sound pretty confusing and contradictory. The celebration of Sparta is not some decadent modern fad; it lies at the very root of our civilization! We are defined by being Sparta supporters.
Do you see gold as a defacto scam?
What found interesting is I learned assembly first. Understanding C pointers and function was pretty easy from there. But C's notation for dealing pointers is non-obvious.

Random old school thought. BASIC has an unappreciated feature in that every line of code stands mostly on its own. It's either valid or it's not. In the case of C/C++ that isn't true. A line of codes validity depends on the lines before it.
I got a question for which I don't see the answer in the article.

What about employee compensation? Is it just a fixed salary or? Since I do not see any mention of going public in the article, so I'm curious what is the motivation for employees.
Killing ist not a part of the human experience.

It ist only the distance you mention that even allows you to glorify the ultimate dehumanizing act.

That it is even romantice in the context of child soldiers speaks volumes.
doesn't (a) mean the admintools should not be under the AGPL? i wonder why they couldn't just specify an appropriate license instead.

and does (b) mean that when i host focalboard myself, i would be allowed to hide the fact from my users?

what other benefit is there from not enforcing the AGPL against me?

if the AGPL is in applied to the unmodified version, then my users would get the original source and whether they got it from me or from upstream. so i don't see the benefit of nonenforcement
WeWork is not done and has been a big win for everyone involved
>Of course there's unaccountable and possibly foreign money bankrolling a bunch of rightwing writers.

Companies raising "foreign" venture capital isn't totally unheard of. If "unaccountable and possibly foreign" money bankrolled a bunch of leftwing writers, would that be unnacceptable for you too?
Do you convert the price for each location / currency to a round number, or do you keep it as a straight conversion?

E.g. Picking a $15 USD plan in the UK would bill me for £10.80, and fluctuate each month.
Yes. Satan originates from pre-Islamic Arabia, they were spirits that led one astray or blocked ones path. I think the interpretation doesn’t always need to be nefarious, either.
In that case it's a confusing point, given GGP calls this nothingness "the real innovation of the M1". GP is asking what the innovation is.
I'll check it, thank you!
DDoSers amplify attacks 37 fold using ~4300 abusable D/TLS servers
There is nothing stopping you from making a new lithography series of Picasso’s sketches, but they won’t be worth nearly the same as the originals.

The utility provided by the NFTs is in actually owning the “original”, not that it is not reproducible.
Ask HN: Should I learn Blockchain (smartcontracts) or AI (in general)?
Hello,
I'm late-mid 30, I'm a tech/dev by study and work. Every year I add a side topic in my learning list, 2020 was the year of finance and investment.
Right now I've two topics that gained my interest and I would like to explore more, but they seems too vast and I can't really decide what to tackle first.

One is Blockchain topics, most specifically smart-contracts or a way to play and make something out of the blockchain. I already studied the blockchain , I implemented it (more or less) and I've been in the cryptocurrency world for enough time to have missed big opportuiniteis for retirment (late 2016).
Another thing that I'm interested is AI, not with a specific goal, I would like to learn how AI works and how can one can create a SW that is able to write miningful text, or summary of text or stuff like that (note, when I went to uni we did ML and a bit of that stuff, still, it was not called AI).

What would you suggest me to do follow? and with what material to start?
the smart-contract topic seems more narrow and more easier to target, since it's a very specific topic. the AI i can spend therer years.
You completely misunderstood what this is. Short explanation: GameStop holders on r/wallstreetbets refer to themselves as "apes" and decided to crowdfund actual gorillas.

This is internet culture 2021 in a nutshell.
in usa yes
Exactly. Instagram is literally flooded with art of this kind, very high in quality and creative as hell.

<snark> Maybe, if you don't grasp too much of a chaos of a modern world, you just want one piece of art from one artist to contemplate and discuss with your fellow travelers, behind closed doors of your castles. </snark>
I think that last layer is the tarball with the source of the application they wanted.
Crypto nouveau riche... somehow worse than the real thing.

At least when someone puts pink velour seats in their Bentley they don’t claim it’s a revolution.
But virtually no individual puts his money into bars of gold. Gold isn't a good store of value for most people, and it's not because it's inconvenient. It's just that there are much better options out there.

So being a better store of value than gold isn't hard.
Yea but if you embed it (e.g. iframe), then do you technically need permission?
I would expect, and hope so, but it could be a grey area again.
Honest question, is it that hard to just adjust to 1-indexing? I switch languages all the time and they all have their different quirks and I find it really hard to understand why people cannot deal with for example 1-indexing. From the outside looking in it seems like one of the easier things to adjust to?
I was also pretty enthusiastic about the platform. Nokia big missed opportunity. My impression was that there was a brief window in history where they could've set themselves up as a rival to iOS and Android.
> Stripe has a good number of people who have 20 iq points + more ambition when compared to the equivalent person working at a competitor.

Lmao. Is that some kind of Poe's Law? Can't believe someone would say anything like this seriously.
> If you actually wanted to store value you would buy gold

Who actually buys gold to store value?
> Also, I am not really convinced of the merits of Vim for LaTeX. Most of my time writing is spent revising, which requires a lot of "random access edits," and I'm at least twice as fast at jumping to arbitrary locations on screen using a mouse as I am with vim (even with the usual tricks).

> (I tend to think of vim as something that was purpose-built for programming in C and with usefulness inversely proportional to how far a given task is from that purpose. While I realize that's not entirely accurate, I've found it a good heuristic. Programming: vim works decently for me. General purpose writing: not so much.)

I don't want to comment on the kerning stuff (I don't really know much about it). However, I found your comment about the merits of vim when revising interesting. Like you, I spend most of my time writing revising/correcting (often other peoples work), however my take on vim is just the other way around.

If I write a large text myself, it doesn't really matter what editor I use, it's when I revise/correct things that I love using vim. While you might be correct that you would be quicker to move to the appropriate spot using a mouse, I pretty much guarantee that all the gain is gone when you have to switch back to the keyboard to do your change. That's why I love vim for these kind of tasks, the moving and changing of specific text is such a seemless experience without even having to change the hand position on the keyboard. My productivity absolutely plummets every time I have to use word or some other editor for these sort of tasks.
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Just a nitpick but the Spartans at Thermopylae did not succeed in their mission at all. They barely slowed the advance of the Persian army.
How do they plan to determine exchange rates? How will they protect themselves and/or customers against volatility?
OP isn't complaining about the lack of an audience at Substack. OP is complaining about the huge amount of support (aka cash payments) given to already established players to join Substack (via pro) while giving no support of the sort to independent writers. OP also comments that this kind of support ($100kish) is what allows big writers to move to Substack as an independent instead of being tied to a job. While I don't support OP's premise of Substack pushing an agenda through Pro, I'm also not supportive of what essentially are the platform's bribes to famous writers, which the platform uses to market to independent writers as a way to make more money. But I believe that's standard practice anyways everywhere - YouTube Creators get paid to host on YouTube, while smaller creators aren't even paid until they hit thousand subs. But AFAIK, YouTube didn't pay any creators to join the platform outright like Substack does.

Edit:- didn't know Substack was a HN pet company
Not really. Cause the role of an encyclopedia is not to create facts but to archive most of the knowledge. Wikipedia goal is not to be controversial but to be mainstream. On the USA landing page you find no mention of a genocide. But there is a page about the native american genocide.
> There isn't really much hint of that at the moment

You may go the "not a real scotsman" way here, but you don't even see a hint?
You don‘t need a Microsoft account to download from the Microsoft Store.
Do your stuff in the morning, before work.

Give your job second best, give yourself your freshest morning hours.

Go to bed early.
> _and succeed_, immortalised in songs and poems? (I mean they all die by the end, but they do kinda succeed in their mission).

Battle of Thermopylae was a loss, not success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

> Result Persian victory[a]

>Territorial changes Persians gain control of Phocis, Boeotia, and Attica[5]
> I use it as a store of value. Because I expect that it will continue to significantly appreciate

Then you don't use it as a store of value; you use it as a speculative investment.
Gold as an investment? Yes (also art, wine, baseball cards, ...). Obviously gold does have legitimate value as an industrial commodity, but IIRC the price is about twice what it "should" be based on the industrial/decorative uses.
Its not very popular yet, but its 100% the future. I use it whenever an app is available on the store - easy, consistent auto updates is much better than each app nagging you to update independently. Better for devs as well because it gives you much more confidence that new versions will be adopted quickly.
It's likely that the "mob" who did this considers such action as a joke, they are not really people with good intentions, more like trolling intentions.

Even-though the outcome here looks positive, I don't think it's any good. They could as well have bought gallons of oil and spilled it in the ocean if it had been a good joke for them.
Richard Hamming (known for the Hamming code among others) has said that "information theory" ought to be called "communication theory". Obviously, communication theory is a field in itself, but I think the gist of his argument holds somewhat true in that information theory tells little about what information is intrinsic but instead tells about what information can be _learned_.

But I think the intuition breaks down. What is mutual information then? Classically, it is the information which can be reliably transmitted between a transmitter and receiver (given some model of both.) However, the unit is still bits.
I got it as a graduation gift and it steered me into this field due to giving me a real contact with Unix/Linux and tinkering. I had tried Linux desktop but as a young gamer the moment browsing the web for the day was done, it was time to fire up Windows and play.

The N900 was different. I didn't understand everything I was doing, but installing deb's, overclocking a CPU, installing Android v2.x, installing emulators, browsing forums for more tinkering (I could go on) was the thing that made me love computers more.

Last but not least, it had a killer feature any fresh 18-year-old with friends that had cars loved back then: FM transmitter!! Back when AUX inputs were still a rarity and bluetooth was pairing... pairing... pairing... just pressing a button and tuning to a channel to get crystal clear audio was AMAZING. That and the IR blaster made for some nice party tricks.
Just curious, where in Europe is doing a SaaS business "about government grants and consortiums"?
This is difficult to put across politely and constructively to people who are making an effort but unless you are influencing corporate, national and international policy, you aren't doing anything significant to help.

I know there is the whole "be the change you want to see" but there is also a culture of overestimating your own impact. The largest effect of your efforts is to make you feel good about yourself and your own life.

I'm not wasteful at all and have a small carbon footprint but I don't think that any of those choices are because of climate change. I'm also alarmed when I see people use climate change to justify big life decisions. Deciding to not have children is a completely valid life choice. But I think that there is a serious problem with your personal priorities and perception of the world if you want children and don't have them because of climate change.
Completely agree, I've seen the Milky Way just by traveling to a city called Eskilstuna, some 200km away from Stockholm, in the middle of the forest and away from settlements you could see the Milky Way much brighter than just a faint streak of light.
>Nevertheless, when you compare the UK NHS to the system we have in the USA, the benefits - especially for those of lower means - far outweigh the downsides.

Alfie Evans died. Sterling Raspe is alive. The UK has its own version of "staggering cost" in healthcare.