skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the positive intention but please don't do this. We generally don't allow bots to post to HN because signal/noise ratio goes down under this sort of repetition.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
What you're saying is enjoying in the fine details. However you can do that only if those details in different parts of the page are not too correlated, so you can zoom in one part of the page, without it really be dependent on some other details somewhere else. In some situations, like say in comic books having to constantly zoom in/out totally kills the artistic impression that you'd have with an actual 2 pages book opened in front of you. Only having a bigger screen can really help with that.
You could even create a NFT of the exact same picture, probably.

But you'd expose yourself to a lawsuit because you don't own the copyright to the original picture, and if you sell for a high enough price, it might actually be worth the bother to the copyright holder.
You can still find some pants that have the waistband at the actual waist, but they are unfortunately few and very far between.

I like these a lot:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-worker-pants/55...
And in wool:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-worker-trousers...

Wear them with button suspenders, so comfortable. Why did suspenders ever go out of fashion?

Otherwise, find a good menswear store or even a tailor to custom make you proper-waisted pants. It's worth it.
Can companies be held responsible for damages from data breaches?

If they could, it seems like it would incentivize more caution about what data is collected, and more investment in the security of that data.

I also imagine an insurance industry, where the insurers then have expectations about what kinds of security must be in place to get reasonable premiums.
Generic Truvada costs between $1600 - $2200 a month without a discount. GoodRx brings it down to about $600 - $1200.
Sorry this is incredibly offtopic but do you keep a blog?

I find your comments here across a wide variety of programming languages and usually find them interesting/informative.
Hah. I like that.
Interesting point. But as far as websites go, we all suffer from their horribleness, yet they keep getting worse.
> it requires far less intelligence for an individual to survive in today's society than it did to survive 20,000 years ago.

Survive, perhaps yes. But to simply process the world around you? How much mental stimuli did you have sitting in the forest and doing menial labour much of the day, collecting and discerning berries which you were likely taught to eat by your parents/community anyway.

Versus the mental stimuli of a 24/7 worldwide news cycle. We may feel much of our media is superficial, and indeed compared to reading a great book it is. But at the same time I've researched the local real estate market and did some calculations. I got updated on a complex political scandal in my country (Netherlands) which affects multiple institutions and puts our governance system in question and relates to the last 10 years of political history. I've listed much of the evening to Punjabi music. I browsed an online market with thousands of articles with designs I'd never seen before to look for a friends' birthday gift. I read about the discovery of Neptune by way of mathematical deduction even before it was actually observed. I watched a Tik Tok dance. I watched an hour of two elite competitors in a 4X strategy game (Supcom) tournament. I read about a blind person's eye being repaired, but needing years of training to be able to process and understand the new stimuli. And I spent a few hours playing a space exploration/rpg/colonybuilding game, managing a fleet and a number of colonies.

In all of this I posit I did vastly more mental calculation than the guy in the forest. And it's just an ordinary Sunday, a day of leisure instead of my job which is a constant mental challenge, even if somewhat soulless at times.

Hell, even spending time in a large supermarket making permutations of tens of thousands of meals. The average supermarket has 20-40 thousand items. Processing prices versus weight/size/marketing info, is likely a bigger daily mental hurdle than picking grain and grinding it into flower and baking bread and eating that.
Himalaya: Minimalist CLI email client, written in Rust
"Bringing emails to the terminal is a pain. The mainstream TUI, (neo)mutt, takes time to configure. The default mapping is not intuitive when coming from the Vim environment. It is even scary to use at the beginning, since you are dealing with sensitive data!

The aim of Himalaya is to extract the email logic into a simple (yet solid) CLI API that can be used either directly from the terminal or UIs. It gives users more flexibility."
The link currently contains an anchor to the bottom on the end; here's the link without that: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)...
> Just as in music, you don't want to add an equalizer ruining the original intent of the artist

You might not. Does that mean that music should only be distributed in proprietary formats designed to prevent anyone from plugging in an equalizer?

What about the naturally different frequency response curves of different speakers?

What about room acoustics?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3GCUBZSITZCYS/
>It rejected Uber's claim that the company itself was not liable, because, it argued, its drivers had the status of contractors rather than employees.

Another absolutely fantastic aspect of the gig economy, absolutely no sense of institutional responsibility from anyone. Just a giant game of musical chairs where everyone can point at everyone else.

If a hotel discriminates because of disability or race or whatever else they risk the reputation of their entire business and trivial legal claims. If someone gets a racist Uber driver it's going to be 'they're just contractors dude, we don't know them!'. Shareholder capitalism at its finest. All of the profits, none of the accountability. I guess that is widely considered to be social progress nowadays.

Yet another reason that Uber has given countries to make them treat their drivers as employees.
Two mins and thirty-eight seconds of pattern meditation
12 years ago was 2009.

Web 1.0 was from ~1991 to ~2004. So the original Space Jam site was Web 1.0. Web 2.0 was from ~2004 onward. So 2009, when don-code had this movie/website party with his friends was Web 2.0 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Hmm, pants with bold stripes you say ?

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

But then these pants also fit the character.
And those Vikings are of course highly anachronistic. And wearing something closer to the criticized "Drab barbarian clothes."
To be clear - does the NFT come along with the publishing rights?

Because that would make it different than regular NFT.
I wouldn’t call MS access a DB that is accessible to non programmers, it’s a local DB with rather limited capabilities and performance.

You can create a front end for non programmers to use for any DB, in fact MS Access when it was still part of Office could be used to manage remote DBs such as MSSQL.

Now most of that functionality is embedded in Excel you can load and update tables fairly easily with external data sources.

MS Access had a bit more functionality similar to some of the Oracle enterprise applications stack for local app development but it simply died when excel became more feature rich and when companies needed more than MS Access could offer.

It basically came to the point where there was little real use for MS Access.
If I can vent for a second, this company has no leadership. None. Things may have changed in 2 years, but I doubt it. I was messaged almost daily by random employees asking wtf was going on with the company. They were afraid for their jobs. Practically no one respected the CEO, and he was the only C-suite exec. There. Was. No. Leadership.

There was no company wide communication, and all communication channels were made private, and if you sent an email to more than a couple people you were directly rebuked by the CEO. Nobody felt like they were trusted, and the norm was for most engineers to have absolutely zero idea of what was happening in the company outside of their direct project.

Teams were constantly at odds and pitted against each other, and the CEO never resolved any conflicts between teams or employees. The company (at least the software side) was treated like Thunderdome. Some team leads and office managers took care of their people, but most people were just beaten down. I don't think I'd ever seen a less motivated, more dejected group of software developers than I did during my time there.

IMO, this kind of bullshit clown show starts from the top. And as long as the top doesn't want to fix it, it won't get fixed. And since software almost invariable ends up reflecting the structure of the organization that produced it, you get this kind of security shit show.

I hope this is the last one and they get their act together. But realistically I can't believe that'll happen.
Great post, I enjoyed reading it.
To take these ideas further, Permutation City, by Greg Egan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
“ NFTs do not confer ownership—Morris cannot prevent anyone from spreading the meme, nor can the new owner of the NFT. But it certifies authenticity, like a digital autograph from Morris herself.”

I still don’t get it.

I said this here about bitcoin years ago, and was completely wrong though. So many nights thinking about putting together a rig, but laziness, or doubt, prevented me from mining.
This is nearly that, except the distributed ledger says who owns the particular 'UUID' (not actually a UUID). So we don't have to trust you to be honest with that database.
I can't believe the Department of Internet Money as depicted on South Park in 2008 (where viral internet stars went to collect their earnings) turned out to be real. Blows my mind.
Show HN: I built a pytorch image transformation visualizer. Thoughts?
The torchvision transforms package is kind of hard to understand so I built an app to develop and visualize image transformations.

I threw this together mostly for myself but I'd be happy to build a more permanent tool if others find this useful.

See it here: http://bit.ly/3wlDohX
The fact that it's biased is irrelevant. The question whether it will get close to any point is quite complicated, though with it being essentially a random walk with drift the chance that will get above its initial point is probably less than 1.

This's got nothing to do with ergodic theory though, but feel free to use that word in whatever weird distorted way you like, I literally can't seem to stop you.
This is not like painting actual Mona Lisas, but assigning serials to virtual things, like copies of a Mona Lisa picture, to create artificial scarcity.
We can't quite go from "it happens with a due process and judge approval" to "state loves doing it". The highest user seems to be Florida with "9.4 orders per year per 100,000 residents", which hardly confirms the "loves" part.
Please price estimates for car repairs in dollars and cents and state it's only an estimate all the time.. with variations possible depending on what's discovered that might have been missed it that particular context.
I feel confident enough that I don't have to look this up, but I might be wrong. Most women in the US surely aren't raped right? Not even 0.1% of women in the US get raped no? So I don't think you need to forcibly vaccinate people because of any rape risks.

Most people who are sexually active are voluntary so, so let's just assume people are not talking about sexual assault when talking about an active sex life.
We've been down this path before with vaccines. Often what seems promising early on doesn't pan out long-term.

This is why clinical trials are so lengthy. You have to operate at the time-constants of biology and the human body rather than political or business time-constants. The former are far longer than the latter.

BTW if you get a COVID vaccine right now, you are literally a clinical trial subject/participant. COVID vaccine clinical trials do not end until 2023 in the US based on FDA documents.
I was about to comment along these lines. One thing is digital art, but a screenshot? Uh, something is fishy here, but maybe not and I'm missing something that is making this valuable? IDK
Only public profile data was leaked, and your phone number if you've enabled looking up your profile by phone number. Facebook's privacy checkup flow will walk you through these settings: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/checkup
Interesting because the average transaction size, quantity of first party sales and quantity of resales have all fallen off a cliff over the last few weeks. I guess the memo hasn’t made it all the way to Dubai haha. [1] Probably more money laundering haha.

Good for her though!

[1] https://nonfungible.com/market/history
No, these memes are widely circulated and are even monetized through sites like knowyourmeme.com. You could mint an NFT of a meme you didn't create, but it won't sell for much, because people will know it's not minted by the creator. In this case these NFTs are only valuable in sofar as their provenance is verified.
As with any vaccine the ideal outcome is the general population is vaccinated and we develop a herd immunity. For a deadly disease like HIV spending the effort to eradicate the disease would be for the best, but like HPV vaccination there's a moral judgment tied to it that will prevent some people from accepting everyone should be vaccinated.
The XML-based surface syntax for HTML5 can seamlessly embed data from arbitrary XML namespaces. It's just a matter of supporting this feature in the browser.
Then stop and search and looking through phone for encryption software and so on... It's looking bleak
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I'm working on exactly that, using k-anonymity too. I expect to release my tool within 24h
Hahaha, underrated comment
Thank you for the feedback. I added FAQ to the README and answered this question: https://github.com/fishy/https-bot/blob/main/README.md#this-...
In the details it says there are only 2,529,621 compromised accounts added?
I'm confused ... You downloaded the zip file? That's just as bad (legally) as unzipping it.
Whiteboard-Style Coding Interviews Might Not Be as Bad as You Think
Penetrative rape outside of prison is incredibly rare in the US. What inflates
statistics is counting any unwanted sexual contact reported in surveys as sexual assault. So you answer “yes” in a survey to “has someone ever touched your boob when you’d didn’t want them to” or even “has someone ever kissed you without your permission” and now the press is counting a failed make-out escalation as a “sexual assault” and then it’s a small lexical jump to “rape.” Never mind that the “victim” would never themselves call it either of those things or even think of themselves as a victim of anything.
This is nice but it not a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It's not a massive ask to install MongoDB.

Unifi stuff is quite cheap for what you get for a simple reason: Each one does not need to run a webserver and all that stuff. This means that the pretty stuff has to run elsewhere. For a single site you can use a phone app and for multi site setups and MSPs you have the controllers.

The controller can be run on a Windows PC with a next next install or a Linux box with pretty minimal setup requirements.

It sounds like you might want to go the app route otherwise if you are an IT company (I own a 20 person one - so also small) then find the one screen doc with around 10 copy and paste instructions once you have say a small Debian or Ubuntu minimal installed. You could also run up a Win10 VM and install the Windows distro quite easily.
Odessa Helix was really good, a combination spreadsheet and database, and the extensive the scripting language was pretty much straight HyperTalk (AppleScript).
Treatment is both expensive and taxing on the body, the drugs can cause renal problems and even renal failure. Multiple drugs need to be taken, they'll need to be switched up, and you'll need regular blood work to make sure that they aren't destroying your organs. You're going to need to see expensive specialists regularly for the rest of your life. You aren't going to only fill a prescription and take a pill and have that be the extent of your treatment.

There are several different and relatively large populations for whom complications can arise with treatment, like those with weakened immune systems, organ transplants, kidney disease, the elderly etc.

If you're wealthy and in otherwise good health, then yes, HIV is a relatively solved problem for you.
I’ve wondered why Julia hasn’t found more root in places where MATLAB is the primary software used for simulation, just as a way to save on licensing. From what I’ve heard from managers, that cost is not insignificant.
As an aside, “New-POS” was an accurate moniker in more ways than one...
Last time I looked into this (admittedly several years ago), TP-Link had a really poor reputation for not patching known security issues in their firmware.

Not sure how much I’d trust their products unless they’ve really done a 180 in terms of security in the last year or two.
What's the energy consumption to make this moderately complex organic compound? If it takes more energy (largely generated from fossil fuels - and generating CO2 itself) than it removes... it's not going to be viable. You must have >1:1 otherwise you are better off doing nothing at all.
And what a relief it's been for the rest of us non-NFT Ethereum users. Gas fees were even under 100 Gwei today!
Almost certainly not haha, and good luck with enforcement. Remember Reddit’s reaction when the EU tried to “ban memes?”
code is at https://github.com/andrewarrow/AsciiByteToBase9/blob/main/ma...
From my experience I disagree, even violent crime not always gets followed up. It's usually down to who committed it, who reports it, what is the chance of public outrage if ignored etc. It is maybe different in other parts of the country, sure.
Experiencing this right now after doing the same but for the Biden Harris campaign. Unsubscribing seems to have little effect on the number of emails filling my inbox.
I'm saying "civil" means not saying "armies of losers". More or less by definition. If you're not trying to build bridges with most people most of the time, what are you doing exactly?

Again, my only point, is that your idea that calling them losers will do anything except trigger a double-down is hurting your own cause.

Also, HN is a niche echo chamber similar to those others you mention, in many ways.
We can assume what they were implying, but it seems like a legitimate question.

Also, Ubiquiti is an American company, right?
Start with the white papers: https://www.allcryptowhitepapers.com/

It would take you a few weeks, but it's totally worth your time (not like actually investing in crypto).
We should just start selling PGP private keys. NFTaaS
Actual content is nice! But the ToC ain't it, chief :)

https://i.imgur.com/SRftzxv.png
> The only reason there are so many tools to do so is because it’s so hard

What exactly do you base that on? Have you written any PDF or postscript utilities?

Images are easily located in rather discrete chunks, and they are conveniently stored in standard formats like JPEG. Preserving the layout of text output takes a bit of work, but otherwise extracting text and images is just about a necessary first early step in writing any PDF viewer. And I do believe even very early PDF viewers allowed arbitrary copy/paste of text.
Another question, then, if I haven't overstayed my welcome.

Did Egyptians consider themselves a distinct nation under thousands of years of foreign rule, or did they consider themselves Romans at some point, then Greeks, then Islamic, etc (obviously not British)? Or did they always consider themselves an independent nation?
No you were right about Bitcoin but wrong about the rationality of markets.
Making money via marketing, with a possibility of tax evasion / money laundering, which is even better.

Edit: Sorry commenter below, I edited my comment without reading the responses, and now your looks redundant, but you were first.
See "Collectors rights" in the platforms ToS: https://foundation.app/terms

he Collector’s limited license to display the Digital Artwork, includes, but is not limited to, the right to display the Digital Artwork privately or publicly: (i) for the purpose of promoting or sharing the Collector’s purchase, ownership, or interest, (ii) for the purpose of sharing, promoting, discussing, or commenting on the Digital Artwork; (iii) on third party marketplaces, exchanges, platforms, or applications in association with an offer to sell, or trade, the Digital Artwork; and (iv) within decentralized virtual environments, virtual worlds, virtual galleries, virtual museums, or other navigable and perceivable virtual environments.

Collectors have the right to sell, trade, transfer, or use their Digital Artwork, but Collectors may not make “commercial use” of the Digital Artwork.
Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward (2007)
That article is...wow.

> But as my colleague Robin Hanson has pointed out, dwindling populations create their own inexorable logic.

“have their own inexorable logic” seems to stand in for “cam be scaremongered via naive assumption that trends extend to infinity”.

> If the Japanese population shrinks by half, to 65 million or so, what’s to stop it from declining to 30 million? Or 20 million?

The same negative feedback pressure that is why the runaway growth that was the concern when people projected then-current trends forward ~50-60 years ago didn’t happen, either.

It’s much more plausible that global human population is approaching the horizontal asymptote of a logistic curve than that the slowing of global growth points to a shift to permanent population loss that would be an existential threat.

One obvious factor: strong non-family economic support systems are one of the strongest predictors of low natural population growth, but shrinking populations strain thlse systems, reducing their long-term viability. There are many more negative feedback mechanisms at work, too.
If you want to pay the minting fee sure, I doubt that people could care to buy your knock off though
I agree that my topmost comment was a little loose, but that wasn't targeted at any individual person. Having the relationship between correlation and observed to you is not a dunk (I hope).

The preponderance of evidence I've been exposed to does not show a strong positive clinically significant effect of mainstream kindergarten, the one Head Start study you referenced notwithstanding. For example, here is one study that finds in the opposite direction. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/003465430935918... This is the sum of what I was trying to get across, in so many words. Sorry if the way I said it made you feel bad.

I don't really want to cite studies at each other all day. I honestly don't have time for it and it's a little too amenable to cherry-picking. If there is a well-regarded summary of the literature that you're aware of, I'm happy to read it. But this really isn't that big of a deal to me, so please don't feel obligated to respond.
NFTs are also great for money laundering!
Frankly I wonder at how big some of these peoples' houses are. My single seven year old Nighthawk router covers an entire 2300 square foot home and penetrates the brick walls to reach halfway up the street.
As I understand it, only one company makes the generic right now.

As others begin producing it market pressure will hopefully drive those costs down.

It’s also worth noting that some insurance companies have recently begun classifying it as preventative medicine (as it should’ve been this whole time) and covering it at 100%.
List all the vaccines with negative long term side effects that don't appear within 4+ months.