skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FatFace criticized for telling customers to keep data breach 'private'
Getting rid of dark noise is one thing, the gain of each pixel is apparently a bit random due to manufacturing processes as well. You'd have to take a picture of a uniform white surface to calibrate that out as well.
> Was this all after the Epstein stuff came out?

What do you think "as a tool to rehabilitate his image" suggests?
Yeah, this is a bit narrative-y. You started the argument with the inclination that it's targeting "poor people" but then wrapped it up with the fact that it happens to software engineers too. It makes the line about poor people look like concern trolling.

It sounds like what you don't like is technocracy, which I can agree is harmful at times.
It's not too bad if you use a search engine to search the site and an adblocker.
Unfortunately, the price for the e-ink display is "€2,300".
There's plenty of history in America that the fines and punishments for these things are less than the money made doing them, unfortunately. The math is quite simple for any large corporation.
Yes, but a simplistic interpretation of meritocracy serves anti diversity narratives and feelings of victim hood.
Hahha wow! This is so funny, I was going to be posting my Show HN today which is a platform for teaching Spanish through reading, and I saw this! You beat me to it for today, I think.

I'm so glad to see there are other folks interested in teaching Spanish through input. Would you have any interest in exchanging info to talk about what we are each doing? I bet we could both learn from each other! My email is in my profile, in case you're down :)

Anyway, congrats on the launch, and the best of luck to you!
Canadian parents do this too, I’ve known several students whose parents bought homes to live in while they study. It’s not necessarily a naked investment ploy, it’s simply very difficult to maintain a certain quality of life for your children in rental accommodations. I’m not commenting on the ethics of it, just the suggestion it’s specifically a Chinese behavior.

Supply in KW is far more constrained that GTA. I bought here in 2019 after selling a Brooklyn condo and had to buy something under construction. There was nothing reasonable (ie didn’t need a ton of work) on the market.
A lie-detector that works is a trillion-dollar business. A great sci-fi novel that explores the implications of an accurate lie-detector is "The Truth Machine".

I've given a lot of thought to this topic over the years, and have concluded that the way to tackle this problem is indirectly. The problem with "truth" is that it is subjective. There is a better metric to judge: "false-confidence". There is a subtle but distinct difference between a lie and false-confidence. A lie is subjective, being a mismatch between what I believe and what is true. But false-confidence is objective, in that what I believe (regardless of the truth of what I believe) may not match what I assert. We can never know, objectively, if a person is speaking the truth. But we can know, objectively, if a person is speaking with false-confidence.

This might seem like semantics, but focusing on "false-confidence" rather than "truth" is quite helpful in highlighting the real problem that is being solved: communication.
Kubernetes Is Not Your Platform, It's Just the Foundation
I don't think that implies when he received it. I assumed that he could receive benefits at one point in time, and later use that "as a tool to rehabilitate his image".
I wish I could give this comment HackerNews Gold.
In my country truck drivers used to cause a lot of accidents because they were sleep depriving themselves. Now with technology every truck has a black box and their employers are heavily fined if they don't let their drivers rest enough.

I don't understand the outrage either.
Nah, they had a long runing bug where the client was -significantly- slower at transferring files than filezilla (or plain old CLI). They fixed it a couple years ago though and I'd say now it's easily an equal without all the baggage.
I would also like to know. Of course they violated rule number 1: make the university look good.
Not trying to convince you of anything but just wanted to share this with you. It has started happening...

Zug in Switzerland accepts crypto for taxes.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/switzerlands-crypto-valley-h...
> Yeah, this is false. Australians like living in a place that has safe roads, and support governments that keep things that way

(Counter-example) Approximately 70% of Germany's motorways have no speed limit, yet despite that and being very busy, they are still considered the safest roads in Germany.

Full disclosure: I don't support the lack of speed limit, from personal experience when driving in Germany it appears to encourage tailgating and/or generally aggressive driving.
I put a 10" eInk in a picture frame and it looks fantastic. Really waiting for the day when 32" becomes affordable.

WaveShare, come on, I'm looking at you.
Best of his generation, in my opinion. Ruby and Carlos should be at the top of your list, but there are so many to choose from.

Have you watched his recent work? Post-pandemic? He was always acerbic but now he spits out every syllable like he has a personal grudge against it. It's getting to the point where I'm actually worried about him.
Except we know his brothel was full of video cameras. He had dirt on a lot of people.
I've spent a lot of time in consulting and have been in and out of many giant enterprises. I've seen all the slick sales nonsense from Salesforce, Adobe, IBM, Tata etc. I've never once heard UIPath even be mentioned. Who are they selling to?
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Epstein and his associates have all admitted that there were hidden cameras throughout all of his properties which he used to record the activities of his guests for later blackmail and leverage. Epstein, Maxwell, Guiffre, his staff and many associates have confirmed as much.

Epstein also had known ties to multiple intelligence agencies.
I think you misunderstood. I had electricity just fine during the storm due to the wonders of working infrastructure and thus not being in a blackout.

But, for those without power due to a blackout, you can’t simply spend money and instantly turn the lights back on. You can either have already spent money to have backup power, or you have a problem. It’s like breathing, if your drowning spending money to be able to breath in 2 hours is useless you need air now.

Which is why electric grid operators need infrastructure not money to avoid causing blackouts.
I think it would be more intellectually honest to use the language "federal tax liability" instead of "federal tax payment." The former properly frames the issue to be a legal and tax system issue for Congress to address; the latter misconstrues the issue to be one of compliance.

Taxpayers who owe nothing should pay nothing; few sane people would volunteer funds to the Federal treasury. (Charitable contributions are much better spent elsewhere.) On the other hand, if a taxpayer like Zoom--or any other business--is found to owe taxes, the IRS should pursue them, and if they are found to evade them, criminal penalties should apply.
I actually didn’t give that any thought until your comment, but now that I think about it, I haven’t seen a single Amazon package being delivered to our section of neighborhood (east coast US) in a privately owned vehicle for maybe a year or more. It used to be fairly common, but I believe I’ve seen only grey-blue Amazon vans for quite some time now.
That is a really good idea... plus you have the image at the exact viewing resolution you want to share. 8)
This. Space based mining is going to be huge, and probably the real reason spacex exists, as colonising Mars doesn't really make any sense. Building our own habitats in space will be how we populate the solar system, rather than trying to live on a dead rock like Mars.
I see, I understand it better here, where the rests that you are mentioned are pictured explicitly: https://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Freebies/Intermediate/Bach...

In this software they are not shown, I suppose with experience one can omit things from the notation.
Well then yes, 2010 to 2018 is after he went to jail in 2008.
I’ve seen TSA open a bag because they see something on the scanner, see the bag is too much of a mess, and close the back up seconds later and hand it back off to the passenger without investigating at all.
There are some great musicians who have no formal training, but far more who actually do have formal training.

Musical pedagogy follows classical music out of tradition, but there are plenty of contemporary pieces available as well.

The thing about the classical pieces is that they're good showcases and practice pieces for the fundamental techniques of music (hundreds of years of development will do that), which you absolutely will use in your musical career, regardless of whether you're even aware of it.

The difference is that when you can read and speak music, you can read, understand, and construct music far more easily than you could without the named concepts, nomenclature, and writing system. It's no different from the power that language and writing in general confers. An illiterate person can make himself understood, but a learned person can do so much more with far less effort.
I've worked with Romanian devs a bunch around Cluj and had really good experiences. I'm assuming the talent pool isn't huge but seems very high quality.
Outstanding, do you know this would work with an Android tablet. I've been able to get midi input via a USB C hub, but it always felt a bit off.

I could always buy a used Surface tablet
Edible insect proteins. Disgust as an obstacle for sustainable production
Do we know who they actually blackmailed?
Except not every database was designed from the ground up to BE a file, that's one of Sqlite's benefits. A database is by definition a single, fully self-contained file. Unless you go out of your way to make Postgres, MySQL, MariaDb, etc. do this, that is very much not the case.

For SQLite, "copying files", rolling file backups, shadow volumes etc. are by definition valid strategies when it comes to SQLite.
Yes. See aluminium.

(Was very expensive before we figured out how to manufacture it cheaply)
'A lab leak isn't 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid': Washington expert who led inquiry into the cause of the virus reveals three Wuhan lab scientists fell ill in November 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9410163/US-State-De...
This. Moving stuff up and down the gravity well is expensive. Having an abundant supply of mundane metals already above that well would vastly improve launch costs, there being much less to launch.

The trick is getting asteroid mining, transport, and refining costs under $640/lb (current Falcon Heavy to-LEO cost).
bug or feature?
The key benefit is enhanced tracking.
I am not sure what you are replying to. My point was that 5G is not that huge of a technological improvement as 3G was over 2G or 4G over 3G.

The 4G speeds nowdays are fast enough that they are usually not the limiting factor in day-to-day usage of mobile internet. The advantages of 5G are not that big for the average mobile user, there are more drawbacks than advantages for using 5G, at least in the upcoming 5-10 years.

I said that it's capitalism marketing bs, because that's what it is: hyping the technology to more than it is for the sole purpose of increasing profits for telecom and hardware manufacturers.
That’s exactly what I have :).

Got a really good deal on one with the original carrying case manuals and a lot of the software although I’m missing a few disks that I want in particular. It also has a CGA video out I’m trying to get converted to something like VGA.

There’s a company that exists supposedly full of former engineers for the company providing support. Or at least I should say a website for a company. I tried reaching out to them to get some information on the missing software but unfortunately didn’t hear back. I wouldn’t be shocked if it’s abandoned but I would have imagined their domain / hosting expired in that case.

I also made some minor progress on reverse engineering the file system used on the floppy disks but haven’t done much in a while.
I tried this with a Raspberry Pi zero, and I basically couldn't get it to work. I noticed it also got very hot very fast.

Are there any challenges that you ran into while building your project
Solar canal concept could be a win for clean energy and water conservation
Really enjoyed reading this. Fantastic essay.

I disagree that the label is "moralist". The essay outlines various types of moralism, which I think is important to distinct them. Such as vain vs cruel and pure vs impure moralism.

However, regardless of all that, there are two important questions to ask when dealing with moralism. First, what's the motivation? Second, what's the method of implementation? A cruel moralist is motivated by self-validation in moral superiority, and a vain moralist is motivated by group-validation (vanity) that uses moralism as a tool (their method of implementation).

In this case, it is vanity that is the motivation, but narcissism in how they go about doing it. Moralism is neither a motivation, nor a method of execution.
Those entities with billions COULD do that, fully aware that it would utterly wipe out their billions in BTC assets. So why in the world WOULD they choose to do so?
I certainly didn't mean "build more homes, but only the low density kind".
Cloud cities are kept aloft by flimsy deals with sith lords. It's just physics.
Yes it's incredible that Pompeii residents had piped in running water to their houses and fast food. Slaves were able to earn their freedom and own property. This was over 2000 years ago.
Instead of “Politicans should not express views I don't like on social media” how about “Politicans should not express the view that ‘people shouldn’t be powerful enough to be snotty to/heckle me’ on any platform.”

It’s the “so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets” part that’s bad. Regardless of how you feel about her campaign to break up big tech, this is an appalling thing for a government official to say. I hate Twitter and Twitter culture as much as anyone, but “you shouldn’t be powerful enough to be snotty to a senator” is dystopian in my book.
lftp is -far- superior to sftp, you should check it out if you do a lot of scp/sftp/ftp.
No, and we're unlikely to find out. According to Acosta, he was let go the first time because:

> he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade," and to "leave it alone".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta#Non-prosecuti...
I think of the government part as largely an accident; my definition of fiat money is “money that has value solely because the transacting parties say it has, and not intrinsic uses” - historically the way to get people to agree something intrinsically value-less has value was by government decree, but there are lots of exceptions. I think of the Yapannese rei stones as fiat money, for example (though there is some question about them having inherent value). Basically any money that isn’t commodity money (or directly redeemable for commodities) is a fiat money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
I don't get it. Are you saying that unionised employees are unable to get stock options? It's meant in a literal sense? I thought this was about unions not liking stock options or something like this.

How can this be legal in america? Isn't it pressuring the workers not to unionise?
> Increased material availability would lead to economic growth and increasing demand.

Not for iron and nickel. Iron is the most abundant element on earth and the 4th most abundant in the crust. It's practically everywhere. Almost all of the cost comes from processing and transporting it. Even if there ever were a shortage, it'd almost certainly be more economical to mine it from the mantle or crust than fly to the asteroid belt and bring it back. Iron is really far down the list of elements we need to worry about running out of.

The article's kind of silly, TBH.
Since a bitcoin is a monetary form of energy, and since the bitcoin network is so readily available, we could build layers on top of the network to enable quicker conversion of monetary energy to electrical energy.
There are absolutely folks - usually parents without musical experience who want their kid to have it (often for status, as a "good" extracurricular) - who push the sort of perspective you're countering. Onerous practice routines and robotization of expression are indeed antithetical to joy, and often result in the kids quitting sooner or later.

But just because it is commonly misapplied and misperceived doesn't mean musical literacy is a bad thing. It has many benefits, just as regular literacy does - but it doesn't have a monopoly on expression or storytelling any more than prose, and indeed there can be bad writing and excessive concern over grammar as well. And, just as anyone who does live poetry readings often memorizes the words, actual musical performance should not heavily lean on the written copy - even in an orchestra, players should know the music well enough to also keep the conductor in their vision.

Lots of benefits of musical literacy are pretty similar to regular reading and writing - you can explore ideas from past creators, serialize and share your own ideas more broadly, and more consistently track something that you're making subtle changes to over time (ink on paper doesn't shift or falter as our memory does). But one non-obvious benefit - it's also critical to coordination for larger ensembles.

Musical expression is a joy, and a very individualistic thing. But the creations of an orchestra or similar ensemble require intense coordination - I believe this doesn't rob them of value, but rather adds another dimension to them. It's not unlike the difference between making a solo or small group project versus trying to build something as a company with more employees. People have to align on the basics so, as a group, they can achieve larger things.

A mantra I have for this is "Play the Indicated Pitches at the Indicated Rhythms", which I explain more here - https://gallant.dev/posts/play-the-indicated-pitches-at-the-...
Yes, this is exactly what I thought when I read the other piece. A battery stores energy to use elsewhere. Bitcoin just consumes leftover energy. The fact that it would be able to consume as much energy as we could ever provide to it is not a feature.
It's a matter of time, really. They are doing some pretty impressive modeling there sooner or later the difference between that and reality will be on the level of gold-plated plugs for your stereo.
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Summary: new method of ftl travel proposed that does not require exotic negative energy source. However requires orders of magnitude more energy than provided by a nuclear power plant, methods to reduce this have been proposed.
> I’m going to share my own personal anecdote because I think “it’s China’s fault” is both wrong and leads to the anti-Asian sentiment that is going around North America right now.

The root cause of the anti-Asian sentiment (and most anti-other tribe sentiment) is the loss of relative socioeconomic status.

For example, in previous decades, almost everyone in China was socioeconomically lower than everyone in Canada. You can insert any undeveloped country and developed country here, but you frequently saw Americans/Canadians/Europeans vacationing in developing countries, buying vacation homes, real estate to diversify, businesses, etc.

Now the populations in those developing countries has caught up, and they’ve caught up by taking some of the economic value that used to be provided by populations in the developed countries. See income/wealth gap widening over the previous decades.

So now you have people in developed countries having to compete with people from previously developing countries, and more competition means life is not as easy. And people get tribal when looking for who to blame. But really, the only tribes that matter are those who are able to capture economic value and those who are not.
The simulation I want to do involves manipulating the dipole strength, since it's deflecting solar wind, there's momentum exchange, if you fluctuate how much area you're blocking out you could get more or less drag as necessary.
According to that description, that titanium-gold mixture appears to be an inter-metallic compound, not an alloy.

While the hardness and corrosion resistance should be excellent, as described there, inter-metallic compounds are brittle and it is unlikely that a Ti-Au compound will have better properties than usual and cheaper tough ceramics, like silicon nitride or zirconia.

The most important advantage of metallic alloys over alternatives for structural applications is their much higher toughness, an inter-metallic Ti-Au compound does not have this advantage, so I doubt that it can find an application.
Data centers and cloud providers are optimizing flops per watt, not flops per second. Energy providers are finding that wind and solar have become incredibly cheap, and transitioning as fast as they can. It took us a while to overcome political hurdles erected by the carbon-burning industry, but it turns out this stuff just makes sense on an economic level.
Oh that's interesting. Rests are usually are not omitted in sheet music though, what does it look like on your software?
Connections to Epstein is not good enough reason. There has to shady connections. Epstein was hustler who lived from making connections. Short list of scientists who visited his Pedophile Island:

Stephen Hawkins,

David Gross,

Gerard ‘t Hooft,

Lawrence Krauss,

Lisa Randall,

Martin Nowak,

Frank Wilczek.
There is a bit of research going on in the space between programming languages and machine learning. Mostly it is about probabilistic programming and Bayesian methods etc.

However, using type theory to assist in writing models is something I am currently looking into. It is an interesting area that has the potential to propel the development of seriously large models.
Just shooting from the other hip, but isn't correcting for SES
something that can easily be done in the study, and is commonly done?
I'd say it withered due to the opposite trend, which largely focused on a woman being awkwardly hit on in an elevator and complaining about it. It turned out that some of the New Atheists and those they inspired were still European/Christian supremacists, although being atheists they defended it as Judeo-Christian/Western culture, rather than traditional heretic-hunting and Crusading.

It started with Objectivist Michael Shermer, when he started debunking the existence of poverty, racism and sexism rather than quacks and ghosts, was exacerbated after 9/11 when that group (and notably Hitchens) found that they would rather direct invective at brown people overseas than their own parents (it certainly paid more), and the elevator incident simply finalized the Incel tripod, leading into Gamergate.
The Virgin Islands locals referred to it as "pedophile island." By all accounts Epstein was constantly in the company of girls of dubiously legal age. I could believe someone might go out to the island initially unaware of what was up. I don't believe they could maintain a long association with him (as Nowak did) without knowing or, more likely, participating in the abuse ring.
What? That is not the premise of the XKCD strip at all. Not even close.

"When you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish', keep in mind, so does a handgun"
5G design is quite clean. But in real world networks an awful lot of backward compatible stuff is used.
A waste by your societal measures. It's easy to see it as enormous waste, for you

Speaking of "burnt gigawatts", if our society is still using coal to produce energy, are you blaming also Bitcoin for this? Too easy, sorry.