skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe can hardly implement a crud application, but they like to talk their heads off about the risks of AI - painful.
That's good to know at least. Honestly, I get overly paranoid sometimes about such things. It's hard to know what apps do in the background these days.
Unfortunately that solution did not work for me :<
It works reliably, but it does require WhatsApp to run somewhere else on Android (or iOS!), as it simply simulates a WhatsApp Web client (which requires the real WhatsApp to run somewhere).

So it doesn't really solve this problem if you connect to the WhatsApp instance on your phone and use that. I have WhatsApp installed on a Raspberry Pi for this with Emteria OS (Android build for raspberry pi)

Also, I believe WhatsApp Web being connected makes you appear "Online" all the time. While this is a good solution to hide your actual online status, it may be confusing for people you talk to. They might think you're ignoring them.

However, Facebook will probably use these stalking apps as an excuse to lock down any whatsapp web integration as some of these tools use the same method. So I doubt it will continue working for long.
>> My particular reason for speaking this way though is that this specific technology manifests that way. You'll note I called for this to be made a native query layer, because I'm personally pretty much over SQL and ready for the next thing to come out.

I agree with that, although since I don't write any SQL anymore, I don't really mind it, as such. But I think the reason Logica is compiled to SQL must be the pervasive association of "database" with "SQL" that you point out. Datalog in fact has its own execution model that doesn't really need SQL. Perhaps the people behind Logica felt that it would be easier for it to be adopted if it piggy-backed on SQL, the same way that so many languages target the JVM etc. I too think that's a little disappointing. But I'm heavily invested in logic programming so I'm glad to see _some kind_ of logic programming language at least created at Google (no idea how much it's used though).
correct. the part that seems to evade people's mental model of this process is that the exchanges know which orders in the book are theirs, but the customers do not, so there's no risk whatsoever of the exchange filling an order that works against their balance sheet. it all looks perfectly organic from the outside.
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These days as long as you promise financial benefits for about 10-30% of population, anything goes. That's why you've got so many populist parties around Europe winning elections. People don't care much as long as they get paid, can buy food, pay rent, and spend rest of the day browsing internet or getting drunk in front of Netflix.
Nope, they're artistic regulators
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00XAF4J04

I've stopped putting SIM cards in my smartphones entirely, but I still have one SIM I still need to receive SMS on.

I'll eventually put it into a rpi shield/hat/whatever and make an SMS to email bridge. Until then, this has amazing battery life.
I don't claim to be fully educated on NKOS physics. But here's how I see it, if it helps:

A statement like "If A implies B, ~B implies ~A" is true whether or not there is a god, or a prime mover, or even an A or a B. Doesn't matter; the statement is still valid.

Now, you can expand that statement with all sorts of niceties that are equivalent: "If (A and B) implies B, ~B implies ~A". You're limited only by your imagination here, and the number of true equivalences is infinite.

The list of true statements might expand at a consistent rate across a series of complicated, embiggening rules...reminiscent of the Big Bang? And maybe within that expansion you could see a train of As moving to the left sometime, like a photon going the speed of light, which might sometimes beget a "reaction" when encountering an expression like (~B or A) when they meet, that sends a train of Bs heading out the other direction.

If such interactions are complex enough, eventually huge structures can be created, like self-reproducing entities that eventually develop consciousness. To those entities, there is nothing imaginary about what they perceive and experience. Their universe has been created, simply because it was possible.

Disclaimer: I could be all wrong as far as Wolfram's view, but this happens to be my own and I think Wolfram is getting at the same thing.
Doesn't seem at the very open. Have to let the chaos shake out for a bit before any of that means anything.
> The state of AI in Europe is a sad joke and we already think about regulation.

Yeah, fuck people who want to think about and limit the consequences of what they are working on.

Like who would ever want to draft up laws around nuclear weapons before researching and developing nuclear weapons, that removes all the fun?
This is a good podcast that effectively curates and discusses interesting self-hosted applications: https://selfhosted.show/
That seems to mean every bit of your title is nonsense. You aren't benchmarking webasm at its best and 'magic pixie dust' is already nonsense on its own.
I know lots of really smart software people who avoided crypto because it didnt and still doesnt “make sense”. But we all didnt invest on the merit of the technology. We forgot the whole “how will people behave” part and lost out on millions.
Confidence also feels a certain way. When you are confident, there is a certain tightness in your chest that you “hang from” in a sense. You should feel confident that you could physically hang from this confidence were it to physically manifest. There’s a stability in stance, a sureness. And when your confidence wavers, this sureness and stability wavers.

While balance is key, there is merit to taking steps to stay in this confident body language as it translates to the confidence you have in your beliefs, actions, and statements. People can and do tune into this. When they are feeling a lack of confidence in whatever you are conveying, you surety can put them at ease. The only other thing for you to do is to make sure you are actually correct in being confident, because we should be confident and correct.
Occam's razor isn't a law of nature, a proven theorem, or even a testable hypothesis. It's a rule of thumb and a poor one for analyzing systems with extreme unknowns like the nature of the universe.
> Telcos don’t have the legal authority to block spammers. They are required to fulfill the call.

Can they block callers that spoof their phone number? That's all i need.
No.

German has significantly fewer irregular verbs than English.

It's ~200 to ~300. (French is double that?)

There's enough to be moderately annoying, but not that bad. Also (in my personal opinion), German irregular verbs tend to be not-as-irregular as English.
> There is no such thing as a net-negative technology

Explain to me the benefits of a gatling gun, other than being a more effective tool for killing humans. Is all of humanity really better off for all those that have been killed by this invention?

That's a lot of deaths that start out as a massive negative balance against. Tell me the overall improvement to society that the gatling gun brought us that was "worth" those deaths.
the reasons that XRP is considered a scam involves an ambiguous new standard that would require all securities and everything in the equities market to also be called scam. Things like there being a centralized issuer (like all assets except for physical commodities), things like all of the asset being created in advance which is called a premine (like all assets before crypto, except newly authorized shares which are then sold)

as XRP aspires not to be within the securities framework, there is still a desire of the market for more forthcoming disclosure and many people (including myself) don't like prior - but extremely successful - marketing of XRP/Ripple that didn't separate Ripple Inc activities from XRP use

but in the crypto space, scam is not defined at all and has complete dilution of any meaning. it is typically rooted in ignoring market sectors, in favor of a general all encompassing single cryptocurrency attracting all capital in the world at all times in perpetuity, so any crypto asset that dilutes some of that capital is called a scam because it slows down the desired world view. obviously people outside of the crypto space consider all of that to be an absurdity. the "middle" view is that there are assets that share a technology feature set that are simply bearable by the market, like any commodity or equity they can attract trillions of value even while a different technology matures that better matches an ideology of elitist enthusiasts.
... and they say security by obscurity doesn't work! /s
That just proves that Sunday school can’t do much in the face of a culture that overwhelmingly normalizes casual sex in TV, movies, music, etc. That doesn’t mean that societies committed to the opposite don’t exist. And many do—such as much of Asia. We can argue about the merits of say Bangladeshi society (where I’m from) but we have almost completely escaped the global AIDs epidemic.
Which seems to me exactly like the sort of thing that will work out great, until it doesn't.

Best of luck.
> Many programming languages especially more terse, modern ones (I'm looking at you, Rust) -- the symbols don't mean anything in English either. Does "for" or "fn" or "impl" mean anything to average English speakers? This feels more like a bunch of extra symbols like "==" and "!" rather than the anglosphere enforcing its dominance.

Yes, they do. When I was learning Rust it was obvious that "fn" was function. "impl" is a little trickier, but I read it as "implements" or "implementation of". "dyn" is "dynamic implementation of" or something like that. And "for" is the same in all the other programming languages I know.
I think this may create asymmetries between risk/reward for those (real) people making the decisions.

Think about it with a sports analogy. If I cheat and take performance enhancing drugs, there’s huge potential upside: I can drastically increase my salary. If the consequence was spread to the team rather than concentrated on the individual it encourages the individual to take that risk. Maybe the team would be forced out of the playoffs. So the team lost their (smallish) chance at a trophy but I get a (largish) chance to increase my salary. In rare cases maybe the individual becomes a pariah. Regardless, if the individual isn’t held disproportionately accountable it incentivizes bad behavior. I think there’s a reason leagues ban individuals for certain behavior.
I really haven't, maybe we can work out this misunderstanding. I think you really do need to hear a sincere perspective from the other side and I am happy to provide this for you privately. Reach out anytime!
What I don't understand is why they don't broaden the scope and work more like IPFS, with a thin shell for displaying video data.
I have one and feel exactly the same way. It was a kind of playful gamification of music, but that felt like a layer between me and the music, instead of a source of inspiration.

Plenty of other gear has clicked for me. I should really sell it to someone who will enjoy it.
Tether is how BTC stays at the top.
Really kicking myself for not joining in 2018.
That is crazy that there isn't a webapp and is iOS and Android only.
This seems to mostly be Prolog syntax, a thing which I can assure you has never been chosen to attract users.
What a fruitful reply
What knowledge/reality is gained from videos of Spiderman dry humping Elsa or grannies kicking people in the nuts? This is the typical kinds of content that YouTube has lined up for children. Do you really expect a cesspool like this to harbor anything of quality or value for developing minds?
Not Coinbase, the miners. The arms race dynamic makes electricity cost the only real limit on mining, and unfortunately the more a single BTC is worth the more kWh you can profitably burn to mine one.
I live in a part of Maryland with high teen pregnancy rates. Unsurprisingly, the pregnant teens are often the children of single moms who were also pregnant teens. Is this a coincidence? Even ignoring truancy problem, somehow I don't believe sending all these kids to wealthy gold-plated schools to get a "proper" sexual health education will fix the issue because my argument is that the messaging they receive at home through their parent(s) is 10x stronger and more influential than the school's messaging.
The problem with government regulation of AI is that the biggest threat is government use of AI. Rules for thee but not for me!
I wonder what the collapse of the 46 billion fake tether dollars will do to it too.

These exchanges could be a good way to short it for when it eventually happens, the only question is how to predict the timing.
Very well and succinctly put
The goal should perhaps even be carbon negativity. Structure our economic systems such that removing pollution pays.
Doesn't it have a different effect, though?

Let's assume you have a company like Volkswagen and the corporate executives have decided they play the game of not getting informed about some really shady business practices which are helping the company to earn good money.

Would it make sense for Germany to punish Volkswagen by any of the means you mention, thus weakening the company in relation to foreign car makers, vs. to hold all (or the relevant) executives responsible, seize all their assets, prevent them from working in any administrative position ever again, limiting their income to a certain amount. Like really sanction them.

The company would continue to run, shareholders would be affected minimally, the problem would have been corrected. Of course this is a blue-eyed look at it, but seriously, you also can't do the comparison you are making. They just don't have the same effect.
Yes. My Haskell code includes all signatures, even for functions defined inside functions.
Does a Bitcoin (for the $ value it represents) cost more to manufacture than an equivalent US $1? After all, a $1 of US currency represents some creation of work too, doesn't it?

Capital/currency represents someone doing work, something being dug out of the ground, something being created -- because these things cannot be created out of thin air. When the Fed creates money, it is doing so in tandem with some physical output of the economy (unless they are purely inflating unbacked by actual goods/services activity).

A US $ is not without cost as well, isn't that right? Currency is based on scarcity of something. Is it possible to have scarcity limited currency without some kind of work involved?
Definitely better than going to YouTube multiple times a day to search "lofi" and clicking on one of the newly uploaded compilations!
Definitely a defensible position, and one I agree with. This is not a rebuttal your point, but to the general conversation I would add: we should strive to be able to work well with people we dislike. (and where possible, strive to find ways to like those people too.)
Ask HN: Would like to control which companies would you share your data with?
and the flip side of that coin means that there is no H in WFH only, W.
https://legiblenews.com/ is a nice slimmed down version if you just want the news and not wikipedia
That's how many IPOs are, especially tech ones. Not unique to Coinbase.
There’s an article in the NYTimes today on the environmental impact of NFTs and I personally find the whole thing deeply upsetting. I care a lot about the climate. It’s maybe my number one concern long-term, especially as my kids are concerned.

I saw the buzz around NFTs, and thought - “hey, cool! A new way for artists to make some money directly from their fans.” Sounds great. Minted a few NFTs to learn how it all works.

And then I read incredibly distressing figures - some comparing the cost to a years’ worth of family carbon emissions. From clicking a button and waiting a few minutes!

I haven’t been able to get a straight answer on how true these stats are. But the possibility that minting a few tokens caused that much damage frankly makes me want to cry.

You might say, well, that’s stupid — but honestly, when you care about something deeply like the climate and you take pains to reduce emissions and do things to try and help — well, it’s incredibly upsetting.
There is no reason this app should NOT be opensourced. They should be defaulting to open per Play 13 of the US Digital Service handbook > https://playbook.cio.gov/#play13.
There's a full open API schema served by the API server. Tools can read it and build specific interfaces or validate requests before even sending them. And in general k8s is really just a big database of objects. Once you learn the core objects like pod, deployment, service, etc. it becomes very natural to interact with anything else--just find what object it is and interact with its attributes.
The third thing that sucks about I2C is a little thing called Clock Stretching which can completely blow up your latency when reading sensors. The last company I worked for had to design a sensor out because it would stretch clocks unpredictably for several milliseconds, which was enough to blow our latency requirement to maintain real-time operation.

https://www.i2c-bus.org/clock-stretching/
Your impression is correct.

The fact that it is an "old idea" is indeed unimportant, but what is very, very important is that large scale study over long periods has already been performed on that vaccination platform so we really do know a lot about it.

That means that the similarity to mRNA is a good thing in terms of any worries about unexpected consequences. Of course it also means that we know that the risk of any unexpected consequences for adenovirus vaccines is also very low.
They are tested and researched since at least 2004. Not for Covid-19 of course.
This is true of any company, crypto or not.
With a 4:3 display, it's obviously aimed at developers - yet they have a pointless 8GB option, and the AMD configs max out at 16GB?! It makes no sense!

My 5 year old HP Zbook has 64GB of RAM (I do occasionally use up to 48GB), but realistically 32GB is enough.

I'm in the market for a new dev laptop, and this looks like... except for the RAM that makes it a deal-breaker :(
Lots of great advices here; learned a lot myself.

The way I approach speaking in a group is to not have any expectations of the outcome of the conversation and only consider what I want to share without taking others into account. This might sound selfish but I found it more useful than the alternative.

If nobody is talking and you have something to say, you say it. If others are still quiet and you still have stuff to discuss, you keep going. But if you run out of ideas to share and others are not cooperative, then that group might not be the best one to be in that time. In that case leave the conversation.

Also remember than if someone is criticising your opinion or you. they have that right for themselves; and you also have the right to accept or reject their criticism. In this way the conversation will happen among a group of adults who are not afraid to talk about hard issues without taking things personally. But if someone is making it personal, don't be afraid to call it out.
Title has since changed to "Coinbase drops below debut price after hitting public market at $100 billion valuation"

Edit: now it's over 100B again
Cap-n-trade was a very successful program for reducing nox and sox emissions. If you create the right incentives, markets tend to find a way.
Bad laws become "bad" and get repealed when they become untenable to maintain. Cars, boats, planes, guns, drones, global financial system, crypto, social media, scientific development of our understanding of addiction - it all leads to the untenability of the current drug regime and the resulting progressive decriminalization we see.
Cropping.Rocks is a free online tool to perfectly crop and resize an image into all established Social Media formats in less than a minute.

This app is a MVP for our qCrop technology: a way to easily and quickly provide an image with a universal cropping hint, which is valid for any aspect ratio. The cropping hint is embedded in the image's metadata and then respected by an automated cropping backend.

qCrop is written in Rust and WebAssembly as a unified microservice and deployed as docker containers.
I totally disagree that we are predicting more stuff with fewer equations. The list of equations we have have exponentially grown since the start of the 20th Century.
It's less of a resource problem and more of an allocation/networking problem though.

Most problems worth sourcing out requires a lot of data, and piping that through a home network connection to a "meh" CPU and back isn't that useful.

Even if you spend time divvying it up, I can't imagine it would be easier/cost effecitve than just spinning up an AWS node to get it done.
The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)
Where you were in 2012?

Dart was heavily marketed as a Javascript successor by Google, this was even before ES5 changes, so Javascript was a even weaker language in terms of design, giving people were doing more and more full applications in the language.

The problem is, Javascript did a catch-up, and the Typescript technique of compiling to Javascript made it more appealing as a successor, not mentioning the design of the language (I know that Dart had this too, but having its own JIT it were more appealing in terms of speed back then).

Meanwhile Google abandoned the project that would allow the Dart VM and bindings to WebKit to coexist with V8. And now that only the Dart-to-JS path could be followed to develop for the Web, Typescript championed this path as it was the only way for them from the beggining.

So if you were following those events, you would know what sort of race i was talking about.

I agree with you that "Dart is doing fine", but is only doing so because of Flutter. As in, people learn Dart to target Flutter, not the other way around.

Im not implying that Dart is a bad language, or technology, because thats not true. Its only a problem of adoption, and it will have a hard time outside of the Flutter bubble.

If it were not for Flutter, Dart would continue is path to a slow death, not because its a bad language or technology, but because of how the events turned out to be, and a little bad luck.
We don't know what? We know that if a slow down causes a delay in people getting vaccines, there will be people dying from COVID.
Sorry to nitpick, but I am a regular listener to Deutsche Welle (dw.com). They have a nice weekly show called DW Africa. More info here: https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/africa/s-12756

Are you aware there are two countries that are casually referred to as "Congo" by non-Africans? (Hello Africans! We hear you loud and clear!) Sorry, this is a real issue for me. I am so tired of Western (and East Asian!) media using the broad label "African" to sweep 50 countries under the rug that have very diverse development histories.

To be clear: (1) Democratic Republic of the Congo has GDP per capita below 1000 USD per year and is one of the least developed countries in the world -- affected by unfortunate tropical diseases and civil war. (2) Republic of the Congo is doing much better! Neighbors, but a GDP per capita that is 2.5 times of DRC.

If you are aware of all of this, ignore this post. If not, please kindly educate yourself before posting about the so-called sad lives of people from "Congo" -- a place that has not existed for more than 75 years!