skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alaska gets all the people who struck out in the lower 48 so of course it's a little more spicy than it should be.
What makes you think they believe it?
Regarding Getty's "aggressive acquisitions", some interesting background turned up in this recent NY Times obit for Daniel Wolf:

Daniel Wolf pulled off what may have been the greatest legal art caper of all time: Over the course of two years in the early 1980s, he quietly amassed some 25,000 classic and contemporary photographs, buying them from the world’s most renowned collectors on behalf of his client the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

He was so secretive that none of the sellers knew about the others, or about their buyer — a stealthiness that allowed him, and the Getty, to pay about $17 million, “less than the price of a moderately good Cezanne still life,” said John Walsh, the director of the Getty at the time, in an interview with The Los Angeles Times.

...

But nothing made quite as big a splash as the Getty acquisition. It not only gave an institutional imprimatur to collecting photography; it also soaked up a sizable chunk of supply, making the remaining works on the market much more valuable.

“Suddenly, absolutely overnight, 25,000 of the rarest photographs ever taken were off the market,” said Weston Naef, who helped Mr. Wolf plan the acquisition for the Getty and later became its first curator of photography. “It would be like someone removing half the gold from Fort Knox.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/arts/daniel-wolf-dead.htm...
What makes Unsplash so special? I've browsed it in the past and yea, it has some really nice pictures. Why would artists post their work (for free) there instead of another site?
In a way.-
I found the Hammerbacher quote there, and it piqued my curiosity.
A multi-year long, expensive lawsuit over a hobby project isn’t what anyone signed up for though.
The first thing I read was "yourFuckingISP":"BSNL" and I was like yup that's right. :D
Why do people contribute to open source?
The funny part is the image itself isn't even on the blockchain, it's centrally hosted somewhere. The token is just a pointer. You can ruin it by having the actual content taken down, wherever it is.
No, I think you are the one missing the point. This is clearly for people to post unsolicited DP's that they have received from others. The sentence you quoted is tongue-in-cheek.
Some Rambling About Structured Text
And Pizza Hut rebranding to Pasta Hut in the UK https://www.marketingweek.com/pizza-hut-rebrands-to-pasta-hu...
I do wonder about the suicide rate, with this in mind. (ie accepting stuck in some situation and ending it vs trying to get out and getting murdered in the process)
Does it bother you when Germans say "zis"? German has no "th" sound, so "zis" is what they start with before they practice. It's similarly grating to Germans to hear their language mispronounced by others.

And yet, English has an "f" sound. German has an extremely consistent spelling and essentially all "v"s are pronounced as "f". We share (the latin) alphabet, and English has absolutely no authority, given how inconsistent it is.

Given that, I will say the voiced "V" when speaking English and the unvoiced, as necessary, speaking German.
This isn't even breakpoint debugging though, this library simply makes your print statements "easier" to write, at the cost of having to install and import a library.
In my mind those are entirely reasonable trade-offs in exchange for hundreds of millions of human beings being free and allowed the power to defend themselves and their loved ones. If anything that shows how insanely responsible the overwhelming majority of gunowners are, that there can be hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of hundredss of millions of people, and that it makes such a small difference in the number of gun deaths compared to countries with draconian laws.
Big fan of Mikrotik, I have about a half-dozen scattered about the homelab.

Made a decision long time ago to go all-Mikrotik instead of ubnt, definitely glad I made that decision several years ago.
The majority of these prominent mass shootings we've seen so far have been using legal guns.
For the S&G of r/woosh:

In the latest tz, it's currently:

05:44:48 UTC+14
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
> but "Volt" like "Wolt".

Not really, it would be pronounced like the v in Vincent, not Wincent.
A quick look at the intro page was a bit disappointing. You immediately get how ic works because their examples include the code and result.
The author's thesis is that the "hard stuff" decreases over time, and gets commoditized as the field matures. My experience aligns with this view.

For example: you can theoretically do better than a seasonal ARIMA model for time series analysis. But in practice it's very difficult, and you probably don't have the amount of data you need or even an economic justification. The improvements will usually be marginal, expensive and not worth it.

Most teams developing a new product or doing research - even within large and ostensibly sophisticated tech companies - won't usefully or economically outperform something like Box-Jenkins.
wow, that's a glowing recommendation. Thanks for the kind words.

We have a long way to go to catch up with Firebase on most features, but of course we are benefiting from all the hard work that other OSS tools have already delivered. Postgres does most of the heavy-lifting, PostgREST is amazing, and Netlify's GoTrue server is a key piece of our architecture.
The knowledge and initial introductions in online events can lead to hugely positive outcomes in the future, so in terms of ROI I think online events are probably far superior, but when I think to my top 100 memorable experiences I've had at events, not a single one of them took place online. Sure, I've met plenty of people that I later became friends/collaborators with in person, but all the memorable stuff happens later in person.

Just a few recent off the top of my head:

- Paddleboard breakouts at East Meets West

- Asking Vinod a question about next-gen registers at Program Synthesis Conference

- Animated discussion about cpu design over beers post conference in SF

- Talking to a startup about IOT management on the roof of an Accel event

And some ones from 10+ years ago:

- When I was a college student sitting on a folding chair and chatting with a nice woman about the startups pitching at TechCrunch40 (turned out to be M Mayer)

- Drew pitching me on Dropbox before launch in Cambridge (boring, I thought)

- Nate pitching me AirBedAndBreakfast in Mountain View (loved the idea from the get go)

The only things that have come close to being memorable online were some recent Teamflow ice breaker type events we did at Our World in Data around the virtual campfire.
That methane would have been released to atmosphere had SpaceX not purchased it. Methane is a byproduct of oil extraction in many places, and two years ago the law in the US stipulating that the methane must be recovered was rescinded. I don't know why the EPA did that, methane is a potent greenhouse gas.

So what is actually happening, these Starships are burning the methane into CO2, which is a far less potent greenhouse gas than is methane.
It is respectful to at least attempt to pronounce names from different cultures

In many cases, it is unnecessary and only makes the speaker look foolish.

"Hyundai" is pronounces its own brand name differently in American and Korean TV commercials. Is Hyundai being disrespectful to Koreans?

The goal is to communicate. Making communication more difficult is the opposite of the goal.
The traditional terms is "lights off factory" or "lights off warehouse" because if there aren't any humans around why bother turning on the lights? You already have some warehouse systems automatically move goods to human pickers who just reach into the bins and put the items there into the box that gets sent to the customer. These AS/RS systems can already look like robotic warrens, I imagine when we don't need humans pickers any more you might see even more density in warehouses with layers of picking arms one on top of the other. You'd still need maintenance access though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieva...
A few lines down:

>You’re done! Now send the NFT link back to Mr. Creep and laugh all the way to bank.

Presumably "Mr. Creep" is the sender of the DP, and not the person using the site and minting the NFT.
> Cars? Probably not.

Why not cars?
Who is pinning it?

https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122?s=19
That is how many societies do work today, including societies inside the United States.

Absurd example? It happens every day. Every day parents cut their children off for falling pregnant in some way that's unapproved, and every day parents support their pregnant-without-permission child.
Indeed, if you're putting something up online you probably just want to make it easy for users to switch rather than reuploading

Offline personal archives and tools to create them I expect are permissible (IANAL)
When I see something like this, I'm always curious of the details on demographics, population density, economics, and the other data to know what's going on.

For example, the population density is 14.0/km2 (36.3/sq mi) and their ethnicity is primary Norwegian with a large part of the immigrants from other European countries.

This is very different from most places in the US. For density you'd need to look at Utah or Kansas. These two states have more ethnic diversity than Norway, it appears.

Note, I only point people to the data so we can try to start to look at why we have cases like Norway. And, this is only a start and the easy data to pull from Wikipedia. It's not meant to paint the reason for or picture.
We've restricted ourselves to "only" using at most 3% per year[1], which amounts to about 20% of the budget[2].

[1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/the-economy/economic-po...

[2]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/prop.-1-s-gul-bok-2... (page 14, used 2019 budget for corona reasons).
They do exist already, sort of. Fully automated pallet racks and automated warehouses for small articles do exist. They are very capital intensive so and scale not really good.
Yes. The stock ships may be scenery objects running in optimized positions/places. Realworld data would not be optimized.
And, to be more specific, gun-ownership culture in Switzerland has nothing to do with the idea of personal self-defence as it does in the USA. Rather, it is related to hunting and target-shooting sports.
It's not the complete story, I'm not going to write a dissertation here. Just was aiming to show one stark contrast to show how broad the gun ownership reasoning can be, outside of American reasons.
In practice, if a name has a common pronunciation within English, you show respect by using that pronunciation when speaking to native English speakers.

Otherwise you just cause confusion. The adapted names have their own history.

If you insist on saying København and not Copenhagen, you get to have a little pretentious discussion explaining what you meant to every person you talk to. Ditto for Folks-vagen.
> the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to spy on me.

That is, indeed, far worse. I guess the "spying" is kind of impliied in the banality of adtech the quote deals with ...
RUD was <1km, likely around 100-250m (speculation) from the flash in stream. Debris probably at most a 1km radius around, and this is land they bought and will clean up (obviously).
It might not be a breakthrough that takes us to Mars, but saying that an 10x improvement over existing versions isn't a breakthrough feels a bit unfair and a bit narrow minded. In this space it's obviously an breakthrough, you just don't happen to be interested or directly affected by it.
Given where they are today would they need to do to cause you to believe they have changed?
Or they can skip the hiring a lawyer step, because it's a hobby project, and post something to Twitter and hope it gains momentum. Like it has.
They keep looking at it like the whole thing is about hackers and not crappy software
How to use the same low latency tricks as the Tonari mirror in other applications. E.g. cloud gaming, conference calls
The question will be whether the Series S/X version will run well enough to be worth buying.

I'll be keeping an eye on it. My dad always wanted to fly but never learned, and the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator has looked so impressive that I've debated whether a Series S/X and MFS might not be a fun gift for him to setup in the living room. Certainly more cost and space efficient, even if he only uses the console to play that one game.
I think there's a category error here. The PhD and the tinkerer are not doing the same thing when engaged in the same problem.
Thanks for the edit! I remember doing it way back when it was a flag, using chrome://flags, but nice to see it's now available through the options.
That's way too charitable a reading. See context (Twitter, coverage): it's clearly intended as a tool for victims of cyber-flashing, to be used _without_ the consent of the person sending the photo(s).
I was joking the other day but when are we getting regenerative crashing ?
I assume you do online shopping ordering tomato seeds with it.
DDG will straight up tell you what your ip/geo location is, just search "ip address"
One of the authors of Bebop here:

- The benchmark code is present in the laboratory directory of the repository.

- We don’t compare to Capt’n Proto because it does not have a stable web-based implementation, at least not one that has the features that make it so fast natively, so there is nothing to compare.

- Flatbuffers are fast but have a notoriously awful API to work with while also creating their own non-standard data structures in languages like C++. Bebop generates standard type-safe code.

- Bebop doesn’t try to compress data other than strings. This is because we don’t want to be responsible for compressing trailing zeroes when faster compression algorithms exist that can be down after encoding. Also most data is tiny.

- Bebop supports discriminated unions and has a much more robust type system than Flatbuffers.

- We’re not convincing anyone to use our stuff. It was made for us and open sourced because it was useful; we don’t need people ripping out their current serializers if there’s no pressure to do so.
Same boat here, I had a VW and sold it about a year and half ago. I will not be buying one again, they've lost me.

But also, I don't really appreciate what any of the car manufacturers have been doing (location tracking, internet connectivity, subscription services, etc). Since I sold the VW, I haven't bought a car, and am currently without a car. I don't plan on buying one anytime in the near future.
On the other hand, raising a stink on Twitter seems to accomplish the same goal, and is free. As much as I dislike the pathology of modern social media, it does seem to be an effective tool for individuals to defend against businesses, big or small.
Maybe they grew tired of Americans pronouncing it wrong

Americans learned how to pronounce "Volkswagen" from 50 years of Volkswagen's own advertising. They didn't just make it up on their own.
Sounds like when you say "good old family values" you mean "the specific values I imagine my recent family to have had".

That's massively different to a lot, a LOT, of other people's family values.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-12/warren-bu...

This metric is awful as well. I'm out of stocks and will be for quite some time.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iDFYG8plPsz...

That graph says it all.
> There are a lot of sharks swimming in the capital markets with deep expertise.

I would argue that you have proven my point - if I have a bunch of money, I can pay for expertise/management that is going to net me a higher return.
> not 'they could be working in better fields', it's 'the entire structural incentives of capitalism are messed up'.

Can't both be true, I sincerely wonder?
If I’m interpreting this right, it means the bitcoin market on bitfinex is a bit over 3x more sensitive to sells than to buys? And the possible sell volume on coinbase before slippage is tiny.
Sounds like a great project. I've bookmarked your blog so I can follow your progress.
Because it has obvious markers for guided evolution and Cas9 edits.
'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
Do you have a source for this? I have been reading a fair amount on information theory, cybernetics, and Wiener lately, and I haven’t seen this mentioned, at least not yet.

In fact, the sources I’ve read said he was quite enthusiastic about helping out for both WWI and WWII.

For example:

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-absent-minded-father-of-...
I have no idea. I posted the comment as a sort of PSA a la "forewarned is forearmed." If you want to successfully leave an abusive relationship, you need to be aware of the risks and plan accordingly.
How to pronounce jalapeno?
Watt? Joule?
their job is not to protect you, their job is to protect their masters from you. You are the enemy.
> You can't make a car by building the chassis out of smartphone batteries

They're called Structural batteries (or [micro]structural super/ultracapacitors)

"Carmakers want to ditch battery packs, use auto bodies for energy storage" (2020,) https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/11/carmakers-want-to-ditch...
"They" has been used as singular for centuries.
> vulva surgery - which is legally “female circumcision”

So, are you saying it's now also outlawed male mutilation too? Because, circumcision serves zero positive purpose and has many negatives.

I don't remember "choosing" to be circumcised, parents weren't even religious it just "kinda happened" nobody "knows why". My kids are NOT circumcised and never will be unless they choose.

Trans alteration on the other hand is a rare, personally chosen procedure - only chosen after due diligence and failure to do the procedure often results in self-esteem issues and sometimes death (suicide). Very low percentages < 1% ever change their mind about it.

It may not even be accurate to say it's a "choice" rather than just the way they're born/wired and an inevitable outcome regardless of what age it occurs.
I think that would be under the deliberately excluded category of winning the lottery. It's so unlikely that it's pointless to add it.
Norway also has zero Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants

(Note, I only point people to the data so we can try to start to look at why we have cases like Norway)

edit: to defuse the snark in my reply as it's not fitting for a HN debate - presenting cherry picked data points and saying "I'm just presenting the data" is still making an argument just through which data you have chosen. Not explicitly stating your argument just makes it weaker.
Ulcer provides a pretty startling example.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...
Game Boy Bitcoin Mining
I sometimes think about those kinds of security problems, anf I think he underestimates how easy it is to make any machine infection persistent

> But such an attacker would not only have to breach my development machine, such an infection of the release scripts would be awfully hard to pull through. [...] I of course do my best to maintain proper login sanitation, updated operating systems and use of safe passwords and encrypted communications everywhere.

1. Get the local user exploit at the machine. This is the hardest part, and requires most luck. But let’s say it happened for some reason.

2. Install malicious sudo and get root access. Clean up right away once you have it, because malicious sudo is a huge red flag.

3. Install a subtle exploit to persist on system. Try to avoid modifying existing binary files - maybe add .so file into unusual location, or add a fake plugin into a package.

4. Backdoor so file used by release tool. Maybe tar or sed or something like this. It will be trivial to add a caller check and invoke evil payload if we are inside the release script.

The scary part is how is it is to permanently persist on a modern machine. I can easily come up with half a dozen methods which no automated tool will detect, and which would be tough to spot by manual inspection.

Our developer machines are infinitely more vulnerable than those cloud servers we are working hard to secure. One mistake is all it takes. I probably don’t have to worry about it because no one cares very much about the stuff I do, but this is a very scary thought. Makes me wish I used ostree or fuix or some other system where I at least have a chance of spotting the backdoors.
Please tell us how you built your vast empire while starting with only a meager $1mil loan from your father.
In a similar vein, the Duke of Westminster was asked if he had any advice for young entrepreneurs wanting to match his success. He replied:

> Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror
I have to read through yours which indeed look nice from a quick scan, but if your goal is firstly to save typing file paths, I presume you instead considered just having a shell mapping to do that instead of needing to instrument aliases for each command? Here's mine, which I get by hitting ctrl-s anywhere in any command line: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/zsh/com...
NFTs are following the same trend as 2017 ICOs. Bubble is going to pop at some point. The survivors will be the projects with real long-term value.
First in the Nation Carbon-Free Hydrogen Station to Open in New York
Could PayPal make this the customer's problem, by only allowing them to exchange or spend settled funds?
Just don’t click the bait. Read the top HN comments instead.
New technique to get people to click the
+1 to this from someone who learned the math behind ML in a PhD and was looking forward to being a gatekeeper :)

My favorite academic paper ever [0] was a comparison against a bunch of dimensionality reduction algorithms and 100 year old PCA was tough to beat!

Glad I was able to pivot my career out of AI and ML. My PhD wasn't at Stanford, MIT, et al so I couldn't find any jobs doing the "actual research" - if they existed at all outside academia.

EDIT to add another funny "frustration" paper more directly related to ML [1]. I consider DR is more of a data analysis thing.

[0]: van der Maaten, et al. Dimensionality Reduction: A Comparative
Review https://members.loria.fr/moberger/Enseignement/AVR/Exposes/T...

[1]: Dacrema, et al. Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06902.pdf
"Americans" here referring to Volkswagen USA's marketing department, rather than customers?

https://youtu.be/kkdmz0XRrS4?t=26
One difference between the stock market now and 25 years ago, is back then a hot tech company might IPO at a $1 billion valuation, and a stockholder could buy in and ride it up to $100 billion. Every $1 put into Cisco at its IPO in 1990 turned into $500 by 2000.

In recent years, Facebook did not IPO until it had a market cap of $100 billion. Stripe was just valued at ~$95 billion and there is little news on the horizon about a forthcoming IPO. Even considering inflation, hot tech companies are IPO'ing at a much higher valuation than they did 25 years ago. So the old stock market where you could ride up hot tech stocks in the public market is not the modern market. This also affects the returns on investing in the NASDAQ index and other indexes.
Volkswagen Wintage to stem the outrage.