skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might have to excuse my tone. I am from Ukraine and its disheartening to see Western people jump excitedly at the concept of war.
No, I am not bothered by someone having an accent when speaking a second language. It's just a thing, not a good or bad thing.
Jack Welch got pretty rich and he wasn't the founder of GE. Perhaps you mean non-founder and non-executive?
> The other problem is much more fundamental. How do we create crypto that maintains stability without having to resort to typical "stable coin" strategies like holding other currencies and selling/buying them to artificially adjust the value. Is it possible to create crypto that would maintain its value in the long term in distributed - no central authority manner while discouraging pyramid investment schemes.

The value of a cryptocurrency is mostly tied to its adoption. Future adoption is uncertain, so there is naturally a lot of volatility right now. If adoption stabilizes, the volatility will likely decrease markedly. In fact, since many cryptocurrencies have a fixed supply (or the supply follows a predetermined set of rules), one could argue that they could end up less prone to speculative pricing than fiat.
Denisyuk is one of the fathers of holography (his hologram technique was one of the first to allow white-light viewable holograms, also called reflection holograms). Along with Gabor, Leith, Upatnieks, and my professor at the MIT Media Lab, Steve Benton.
How to access data dynamically in Java without losing type safety
one of those times, you wish every working man knew what efforts are made into bursting unions. And then reflect internally, are unions bad for a company to put in such an effort to keep their works unorganized.

once unions disappeared in america, the working man lost wages, political representation and so on.
> Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Unfortunately this isn’t just limited to the over 40 crowd. People are willing to believe whatever affirms their beliefs. Growing up on the Internet does not change this.
HTML into PDF Rendering for HTML Code Notes in Software Development Projects
Google’s new experimental app is a powerful AI document scanner for Android
The timing of this paper is remarkable to me, given Baltimore’s recent decision to permanently stop prosecuting some non-violent crimes.

They made this change after apparently finding that violent crime dropped 20% once they implemented these policies temporarily due to COVID-19, while most other cities experienced increases in violent crime over the same time period.[0]

I will be interested to see if these results continue to be replicated in other places.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/03/26/baltimore...
My 2cents:

http://checkip.amazonaws.com/

http://whatismyip.akamai.com/

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
This reminds me of the "fake" uber drivers who were texting me last election to vote yes on their hand tailored, virtually immutable proposition 22. Unfortunately this sort of easy stuff works on so many people. Prop 22 passed with 58% of the vote and they won. The cynic in me says Amazon knows they won't lose.
Different pollution, not necessarily more. Tuning the engine for more fuel efficiency generates more nitrogen oxides (above the legal limit in this case) and less carbon dioxide.
This is exceptionally hilarious considering the Washington Post's (Bezos' paper) perspective on voter fraud this last presidential election.
It's a very arrogant comment indeed. A human's permitted CO2 output should not depend on how much she/he contributes to science or even the GDP.

Anyway, earth could very well sustain even 20 billion people according to Martin Rees (in "On the Future"). It does require that we really reduce our resource usage, however. Going vegan, using virtual reality instead of travelling etc.

Luckily the trends seem to indicate we won't reach more than 11 billion (which is still way too much at today's resource usage) before the numbers go down.
Can you take that and convert it to LaTeX?
All grossness and legality aside, as someone who didn't know much about NFT or the minting/selling process, this was surprisingly the easiest to understand guide about it I've seen anywhere, in plain English that most people could understand.
Nothing for "Voltswagen" in the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) yet.

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli...

Don't see anything in Germany either:

https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/basis.kopf.form
What is? I see quotes used this way in written communication fairly commonly.
Principles of Data-Oriented Programming
Historians use the term frequently.
> Greece is a EU member state. The whole EU would react to such a thing - which is why Turkey would never do something that dumb.

That's exactly because EU members would react that Turkey doesn't do it and preparing for this scenario is exactly how you prevent it.
Solar-powered edition of this article:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-l...
Watch out Subaru.
That's not enough to fund it, if this link's budgetary data is to be believed https://www.thirdway.org/memo/five-problems-with-universal-b... (scroll down to the graphic under the section "UBI is incredibly expensive"). You'd also need to cut down medical care programs.
Thanks!

> magic link

We have this one available here:

https://supabase.io/docs/reference/javascript/auth-signin#si...

We don't have OTP, but that's a great idea - something we can add to GoTrue (https://github.com/supabase/gotrue)
How amazing of a false flag op would this be? Amazon can't really be this terrible at social media.
I had a MK6 GTI and I loved it. Once VW has worked the kinks out of their electric platform I'll definitely take a look at them again.
Might be partially true but young people with no critical thinking skills fall for it just the same.
At the risk of stating something obvious, Wikipedia's article on the Carolingian Renaissance is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Renaissance

The term I've seen in books I've read lately is "Early Middle Ages" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages#Early_Middle_Ages).

"Dark Ages" is arguably applicable to the time around 500-800, although the other problem is that there's also another commonly referred-to time period known as the Dark Ages, the Greek Dark Ages, from around 1100 BC - 750 BC.
I would also love to find a book like that. But, I doubt that it exists -- probably the world was always like this, but, it seems like there is just too much going on, and too much context to try to grasp and consider.

One example of just one thing that's barely been reckoned with in mass public discourse, a tiny thing and an unfathomably huge thing, is the impact of national and corporate intelligence agencies on the world over the past 200 years, during the time when any nation could project force into pretty much any other via easy global travel.

Every major country has not just spies, but significant resources they can bring to bear in terms of psychological operations and embedded operatives across the political spectrum. Just one small example of this kind of thing is Operation Gladio[1], which had massive ramifications for the political landscape in Europe in the last 50 years, and there are countless things like this that we do and don't know anything about.

Just the USA has had a hand in so many bizarre and hugely important events, and then to think that Russia, China, Germany, Israel, France, the UK, and any number of other countries have operated in a similar fashion since WWI or earlier? Yikes!

And that doesn't even touch on the corporate side of it, with its roots going back to the gilded age or earlier, where unions and putdowns and murders and all kinds of nutty (but secret) behaviour was just... normal.

There's just so much we don't, and may never know, and even that stuff is just a tiny portion of the picture. The kind of open and secret economic games that get played, power and relationship dynamics between countries and their leaders, their wealthy families, the networks of people who meet through family and upbringing, grudges, debts, ideological choices and pragmatic ones -- it goes on and on and on. And then the technological changes!

But, I would really love to read that book if you find it.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Not sure why your comment was dead, I vouched for it. Here's a Wikipedia reference to back you up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold....
That's an excellent representation of a Dutch accent
Good - by preparing seriously in this way (if they go through with it) and browbeating the Germans and Dutch to do the same there is a possibility that Europe will not offer a post Putin Russia an easy out from whatever dire crisis overtakes it.

At the moment three divisions could waltz into Berlin and hold the whole project ransom, unless the yanks stopped them. The yanks can stop anything, but as the last whitehouse living person showed - the yanks can be fickle.

France must orchestrate a serious military capability in Europe for the sake of global stability, and it must do it now. The Germans must pay for this. Poles, Italians and Greeks could staff it.
Amazing what can happen in a mono-ethnic society
Agreed for sure, but even the younger generations seem susceptible to believing whatever they read on Twitter, etc. There have been countless times I’ve seen people share info as de facto truth when they simply glanced at a headline Twitter pushed them without bothering to read deeper.
Because structure makes up a small percent of an electric car mass and batteries make up a big percent of electric car mass.

Let's say that it's 10% for structure and 30% for batteries.

If you decrease energy density of batteries several times now they take up let's say 90% of the car mass and the only thing you saved was 10% :)
Those guys were only publishing under the CC license to make a profit (by lawyer/court). I think thats wrong to abuse the CC license for profit this way.

Another detail of that scheme: Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. So if you mirror/copy Wikipedia content, in germany you will be sued by "photographers" who won't enforce their attribution on wikipedia but will on your site (to make a profit, see above).
It's more of a Homebrew issue, which is likely what the OP hit. (incidentally I just hit a similar-but-unrelated Homebrew Python environment issue)
According to a loose interpretation of Plato in The republic referencing the story of The Ring of Gyges anonymity basically ruins people.

IMHO we'd need what we can't easily have, single-confirmed-identity-accounts for everyone. If Tim Berners Lee had been more of a pessimist, a historian, and a psychologist he might have baked in some end to end encryption with public/private key pairs and account centrality. But he didn't. I'm curious if the USA or any state power could have required an SCIA for everyone. Maybe it could have come from Apple? I could see some kinda of pre-AOL online thing being baked into MacOs, maybe.

But yea, Facebook tried it and people made a fuss. We really kinda need it. It being a lack of wide spread anonymity for online personas. Invisibility really does bring out the worst in people.
google apparently has trouble when you search for ‘voltswagen’
It is a way to indicate that you are not asserting the label, somebody else is. So it is actually a very useful way to indicate uncertainty. Amazon has deep pockets, and people don't want to be sued.
Typically the capital city has an English name, which is often not just pronounced differently but also spelt differently from the local name. But for almost every other town English speakers use the same spelling, or a transcription of it, and aim for something like the local pronunciation. So for France, there's "Paris" and "Strasbourg" and that's about it. For Germany, there's "Berlin" and "Munich" and that's about it. But for some reason loads of Italian towns have their own English name: Venice, Milan, Naples, Florence, Turin, ...
It's fine that you're asking for insight into some specific point of view, but do you feel that comparing Chinese hegemony to US's pertains to what the person said?
> The response - “ugh what an a-hole, who inherited his wealth”.

I don’t see any comments calling the donor a pejorative. The other comments are accurately pointing out the article is wrong about how he obtained his wealth.
I should clarify that I was looking for an "offline" API/library that I can use against a local copy of the Lite database, but this is great stuff too.
I can't tell if you're just ignorant or being disingenuous.

When you buy a gun from an FFL they submit your ID (SSN, name, birth-date, etc) to the NCIS system that basically checks that you answered all the questions on the 4473 truthfully. Then the seller tells them what kind of gun you're buying (long gun vs handgun) and assuming it's all clear records the specific serial numbers on the 4473 which they then file and keep for 20+yr. So there exists a record of who every professionally manufactured gun was first sold to.

Of course nobody would tolerate being subject to those record keeping requirements for private sales. But nobody wants to get the pigs knocking on their door asking who they sold a gun they recovered from a crime scene to so people want to be able to call up the NCIS system (without being a federally licensed dealer, which is an onerous process) and confirm that whoever they're about to sell a gun to in a Walmart parking lot isn't a prohibited person.

Over the years there have been numerous proposals to open up the NCIS system. They've all included requirements about recording serial numbers and retaining records and are a comically bad deal for gun owners so of course it goes nowhere.
How has that not been done?
Kludge Kingdom
Yes, there are definite applications for Holographic Optical Elements in this area. We are hoping that access to a 3D Hologram Printer will make development in this area even more accelerated. Thanks.
The religion analogy is great, because that's what this is.

Wealth, privilege is now original sin for a lot of people. There is no real way to get out of it. See here. Even giving it away means you stay guilty. Never mind the guy didn't even spend his money on anything. Just having it is sin.

I think the only way you can get rid of this original sin is by donating to climate change efforts or BLM or something similar. But I'm pretty sure even then you will be thought of as the inheritor of priviledge.

And this, by the way, is how bolshevism is born. Like actually.
Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor
I had some auto-tests for VPN app which were relying on similar web-service to check own IP address. One day service become unavailable and autotests got broken. IIRC it was (https://canihazip.com/s)

I decided to solve this task in a fast and reliable fashion, so I made a tool which discovers own IP address using major public STUN servers: https://github.com/Snawoot/myip

Program issues parallel queries to public STUN servers to determine public IP address and returns result as soon as quorum of matching responses reached.

Works fast and reliable, especially compared to services requiring HTTPS:

user@dt1:~> time curl https://api.ipify.org
45.152.165.44
real 0m2,515s
user 0m0,030s
sys 0m0,019s

user@dt1:~> time curl ifconfig.co/
45.152.165.44

real 0m0,131s
user 0m0,011s
sys 0m0,008s

user@dt1:~> time myip
45.152.165.44

real 0m0,084s
user 0m0,012s
sys 0m0,012s
look in America who does the most shootings by race, remove those shootings and look how safe America would be if we removed blacks and hispanics.
Who do you think has more time and money to contribute to this kind of thing? Union organizers who are already overwhelmed just trying to reach the people they're trying to help, or the company which delivers almost everything to almost everyone and made more money than most countries' GDPs?
I believe that quote actually predates the modern era of AI! Here is an article from 2013 referring to it, as being in the then-current version of their textbook:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man...

Look at the other claims in this article from 2013 for comparison:

Consider that computers today still have trouble recognizing a handwritten A.... In Hofstadter’s mind, there is nothing to be surprised about. To know what all A’s have in common would be, he argued in a 1982 essay, to “understand the fluid nature of mental categories.” And that, he says, is the core of human intelligence.

I would say the modern era of AI was kicked off with AlexNet in 2012 and hit its stride a few years later. So, I believe this quote and this article are really referring to pre-GPU AI techniques.

Basically, the predictions from this era just underestimated the value of scaling the data. Modern AI has several impressive achievements. It can certainly recognize an A. Image recognition and voice recognition are now critical parts of real products that help people in their everyday lives.

At the same time, it's true that current AI techniques might not get us all the way to AGI. We'll just have to wait and see. But I think it's important to recognize that we have had real progress in the modern AI era that has seriously outperformed the pessimistic expectations from ~2010.
Unless you don't consider it major, I think you're missing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that just happened 6 months ago, with a huge ability to spiral out of control, cause a humanitarian crisis, which Turkey will definitely get involved in supporting Azerbaijan. There is now really bad blood between ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis, and Armenians still live in Nagorno-Karabakh, currently only safeguarded by Russian troops. That situation is still a tinderbox until an actual resolution is achieved and generations have passed.
I think the question is what need does further economic development satisfy for the totality of the population.

UBI can ensure no one has an unmet need for basics, but many people with nothing to do would likely lead to unmet fulfillment and security needs. UBI is unlikely to fund digital nomads in the short term, and unbounded travel isn't for everyone. The classic work for independence mindset that drove early settlers also becomes permanently non-viable.

I'm a fan of UBI, but I think it brings us closer to asking the question of how do we structure a society where a 40 hour work week is optional? what will people who are satisfied with the basics do?
I want to believe, but everything I've read about them insists that the tech isn't anywhere close to ready to roll out.
Show HN: GUI for editing Markdown front matter
Honestly I don't understand why we can't have cameras installed at ALL voting-related facilities.
Sure, I'll bite. You said AMA, after all. So please tell us your story briefly.
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The Shiller CAPE is probably a better metric for judging the S&P: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Yes. My last 5 sneakers were New Balance Made in USA. I believe New Balance is the last brand of USA made sneakers, so I support them whenever I can.

Not all of what New Balance makes is domestic but they do have the Made in USA line available. Would love to have more options but thankfully these are quite good.
T-Mob Kills Its Streaming TV Service 5 Months After Launch, Gets Cozy with YTTV
I use Jekyll to generate a few sites. One I'm working on has over a hundred pages so managing the front matter became quite a chore.

So I built an electron application to help with that.

It's still in the early stages but it's already been useful. It gives a good overview of all the data, correctly parses the data types, allows quick editing of individual fields, and can set an attribute in bulk.
This is a great point - I often forget about powerline Ethernet but it works great. I still have a couple 1Gbps units in a box somewhere and used it successfully years ago before doing proper cabling. This would be preferable to mesh WiFi if the ac wiring will let you get away with it.
A good point; I didn't mean to imply that they would always upgrade infrastructure where income was high. Just that they would try to avoid it by any means necessary where income was lower.
> Going vegan, using virtual reality instead of travelling etc.

Heck, a trillion or more, if we all agree to be suspended in tanks and fed by tubes!
This is the best evidence yet that this is indeed an April Fool's prank.
Yes, keep on eye on HN posts, especially mobile browsers often have a very jumpy experience - common issues are various permissions pop-ups for things like cookies, and weird reflow issues as you scroll etc. Would it be helpful if I provided specific examples of crap laden or janky websites?

This is such a common issue HN site guidelines actually have a rule for this:

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. ..."

I've become more and more convinced the AMP haters just have total blinders on to the crap that websites spew - or are browsing with ad blockers or javascript blockers or something.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

There's a lot of unrecorded relationships, but family and intimate partners make up a pretty big chunk of the homicides in the US.
Merge commits for single-commit PRs helpfully record which PR # was merged if you need to review/audit the PR sometime later, if nothing else.
A full blown social media crucifixion and cancellation to appease the frothing masses. Then [user] can reap the feel good vibes of knowing that even though they missed out on the Summer of Love, they were there when VW got served.

Good grief, no one believes in contrition anymore. No one even believes in the past or the future. They were always this way, they're this way now, and they always will be! There are no mistakes, only lapses that expose your "true" eternal character.
Right on time for Amazon's union vote!! I support people's right to organize, but warehouse workers are in for a rude awakening. Amazon's warehouse "partners" are just like Uber's drivers: intended as stopgap labor before AI can stock shelves/pick items/drive cars; except that stocking a warehouse/picking items is orders of magnitude easier to accomplish than autonomous driving. I look to Amazon to start shedding jobs by the tens of thousand in the near future.
Amazon's own spokesperson called them fake. From the article:

> “It appears that this is a fake account that violates Twitter’s terms,” the spokesperson said. “We’ve asked Twitter to investigate and take appropriate action.”
>> non-tangible idea of "reducing pollution"

That's exactly the problem with the public's understanding of pollution [1]. If they can't see people dying in front of their eyes, they won't believe it...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/fossil-f...
Is this illegal? It should be illegal.
I agree with your main point.

> People need to be trained

But, hmmm, I don't think a call for education is a solution. That's basically whack-a-mole. Stupid people are born every minute, there's no stopping stupid. Better to put bumpers on them and keep the rest of us safe.
This is terrible news for end users.