skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that it's Apple hardware it wouldn't surprise me if it's doing some kind of authentication to check if it's a legit peripheral :-)
Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone
> insincere

I was not criticizing the Morpheus CPU. I was using it to make a tangential point about other possible design choices.
Also Norwegian and Swedish.

Romania also had some spelling reform, albeit it was more motivated by a desire to distance itself from a communist past and not cleanup of tech debt.
Great point. Thanks for the correction.
I used to have an English lit professor who could read and conversationally speak Old English. To my ears, it sounded like a Lord of the Rings style movie, or the Silmarillion come to life. Very musical in a sort of imaginary elvish kind of way.
i kind of get where you are coming from but denying access to knowledge/reality is not helpful.
I know they are aiming to be a real language but isn't this effectively an art project? In that sense, it is very effective at pointing out how English-centric programming is. As a non Spanish speaker, I instantly felt what those learning to program must feel when they don't know any English. Utter confusion.

It does seem like it should be trivial for every programming language to have a localization file for keywords to be rendered in a local version on the user's machine. Though then you still have to deal with variables and comments.
Is there any way of knowing how much YC made on the IPO? Ballpark/order of magnitude?

Always curious to see what a win looks like from the accelerator side.
The goal with those 'related' lists is to get something more meaningful and interesting than HN Search results (which are pretty good already). That's a high enough bar that it takes judgment and taste to know what to include.

For sure we want to get beyond "mods do it manually" as the strategy. I'm not averse to trying out an ML/AI approach—the nice thing is that all the relevant data is public, so anyone could build it and we could all try it out. But my personal inclination is to build something that would rely more on the community.
Yes exactly, I usually listen to it when studying. With it on 25% volume and noise cancelling headphones it tunes out the world very nicely while avoiding dead silence.
I have no idea how he coped knowing that he was bound to get caught. Whenever I told any white lies as a kid I felt SO exposed, nervous and vulnerable. I wonder how on earth he could live his life for nearly a couple of decades knowing the was bound to get caught. Was he torn apart by anxiety, or was he just a “LOL YOLO” type of guy?
I would agree that 30 seconds is getting towards the upper end of what you can pull off. But I believe that it can be done, if you manage your body language, hand gestures, facial expressions, etc. properly. Now if somebody stood there for 30 seconds doing the "blank expression" thing, then yeah, it's starting to get awkward for everyone.

Anyway, here's a thought: make a game out of it. Next time you're speaking in a group setting and this comes up, (when it's a situation where nothing of substance is at stake), try and see how long a pause you can engineer before somebody starts doing the "intentional cough" thing, or says "are you OK?" or whatever. Maybe do it a few times and see what you can work up to. Maybe 30 seconds is a bit more than can be managed. And to be fair, it's probably context / audience dependent to some degree as well.
Touche, you win this round, friend hahahah
What should the Perl community do about the MST problem?
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lots of discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800481
> solve....is to tax

You won't solve sh*t. Just like the other gazillion times new taxes were introduced to solve something.

Well, I mean, unless your goal is to make the poor even poorer.
Who not both? Just because it’s normal that low level workers are fired and get nothing doesn’t mean that’s how it has to be. Severance could be generous enough to make this work out.
You are the source of one of the articles citing the many things that Lambda School grads should know for a basic interview that we don’t teach.

In the past I have offered a bounty for you to point out even a single one of those things and you have never been able to do so.
AD: Agreed! I'd look into BDD as an exploration and specification process (it's not just a testing methodology!), it taps into the goals of your users and features that satisfy those goals. See my comment below for a crude example.
cardano is completely distributed PoS 46 billion market cap (5th largest crypto) - I'm not sure what you mean by "yet to be proven"

it also theoretically supports 1MM tx/second - to put that into perspective VISA does somewhere in the ballpark of 2k tx/second (but theoretically can do much more than that I'm sure)
Reminds me the intro of https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-c...
and https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xdayg/iphone-zero-days-insi...
If the goal is to ensure money keeps flowing across every nook and corner of the economy, I don't see how this would work.

Have there been studies on a tax ruleset that looks like this:

Everyone taxed at 50% of yearly income, no special cases.
Additionally every dollar which would put individual accumulated wealth greater than (yearly minimum salary in dollars * median life expectancy in years) taxed at 100%.
For me, the difference is that people can handle the idea of getting sick and dying. It happens to everyone eventually and there's nobody to blame. People are much less happy about deaths that are directly tracable to someone's decision (e.g. continuing to use a vaccine that will kill some small number of people).
As someone who has had to move often for work and school, renting has been pretty good for me and my partner. What would the alternative be?
I think "for" works better linguistically when taken in the context of a "for-each" loop, where my mental pseudocode becomes "for each of these, do this." It's a touch Yodalike, but it gives me a clearer expectation of what's happening and how long it's going to happen than I get from a C-style for loop.
I don't see how that works. If such an instruction exists, why couldn't an exploit developer use it to defeat pointer encryption?
It's well known that Singapore is not a free country. Many people idolise it for being supposedly a success story in economic development. Which is fine in itself I guess, but what many people do is then jump to pretend that Singapore is not an authoritarian country, in an attempt to justify other areas in which it had success.
"Bitcoin mining is a great way to monetize energy that has a low market value and would likely go to waste."

Mining BTC is literally a waste.

There is no value creation at all.

Though some individuals may value it - it's not actually useful. The world economy does not grow one bit due to BTC or BTC mining - lives are not improved, products are not developed or made, or enabled etc..

Even if BTC were a very useful currency, it would still be wasteful to use considerable electricity to support it, because it's not necessary - it just happens to be the mechanism chosen to mine new coins.
Why do you feel like the developers of a project _need_ to do something to prevent people from using it. What exactly can they do in your opinion?

(PS. I'm genuinely asking, I would appreciate an honest reply)
There is both a pre-tax and a post-tax GINI co-efficient - it's not fundamentally part of the co-efficient.

This is further complicated by taxing at source (e.g. if your employer had to pay tax prior to giving you your pay, that likely wouldn't be counted).

Different data sources use either the pre-tax or post-tax figures.

See Page 26 of http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/59073146799250871...
Paying less attention to YouTube also solves this problem.

People still can't figure out that not watching YouTube solves all moderation problems?

Google doesn't care about those posting on YouTube. They care about advertisers pulling their money if whatever content infringes on THEIR priorities.
One argument is that the approximate models of nature we know of (general relativity, electrodynamics) are very simple. So it seems that the underlying unifying theory shouldn’t be some huge complex monstrosity. But maybe it is
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR).
At least a few banks have been running like this since 5+ years ago, and at least one collaborated with AWS which led to this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-workspaces-desktop-c....
No doubt it works great - but I'm not convinced this addresses the claim that it's "essentially a key logger". With your suggestion, they're still getting the data.
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-ios-...

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...
> sharing an article resembles saying "I heard that X"

That can absolutely be the basis for slander and defamation though.
I think this is also why its so important for founders to talk about their general background, professional experiences, and product domain. Understanding the constraints the advisor is working with helps the advisee effectively process or ignore their advice.
For whatever reason, anchor tags in Github don't work without enabling javascript. This bugs me no end, but there doesn't seem to be any workaround for it.

Why the heck we need javascript to navigate within a page is beyond me.
All evidence suggests people will be at least as well off getting an mRNA vaccine for the second dose after an AZ first dose.
> where there's just enough wealth that the imperative to keep everyone happy takes precedence (vs the imperative to stay at the top or keep everyone from starving on either side)

Maybe
I've started writing a one-sentence description of what we'll do to demo the feature to stakeholders. I find that this approach tends to leave much less room for confusion than the user story formula.

Also, "Can I fit it into one reasonable sentence?" is a surprisingly good litmus test for whether the task is right-sized. Not necessarily in terms of implementation effort, but in terms of scope.

User stories might be good for a Scrum product owner who's trying to juggle a more nebulous set of ideas in a product backlog. By the time the work's ready to hand off to the dev team, though, you should be able to come up with a something more concrete and concise.
I'll admit, Ponzi schemes could be considered centralized by definition. It might be more accurate to describe it as a pyramid scheme -- because investors become a part of the scheme, actively seeking more investors from whom they hope to recoup their investment -- or a pump-and-dump, focusing on the market component.

Re: Bitcoin as a digital payments, my complaint there would be that Bitcoin is not structured to return transaction fees to people buying Bitcoin as an investment.
>Why is there forever the assumption that the universe is governed by a simple set of rules? What if the universe is actually an enormous java program with a 10,000 line Utils.java file?

For a given set of observations, the simplest set of posits that explain those observations are more likely to be true as there are fewer ways to "bake in" the observations into the model.
I wanna agree with this. I've seen a bunch of those animations before..e.g. https://www.deviantart.com/kirokaze

and it would probably be great to give the original artists a shout out.
Laws aren’t immutable and right now this is just a proposal. We’ll have to see what its final form ends up being.

> will likely just result in technological stagnation.

Nothing in this stops any kind of research nor does it ban its use. It just limits how effortlessly you can invade people’s privacy and discriminate against them. It may very well help research in underinvested areas of AI, and it’s ethical consequences.
I work on TTS (created https://vo.codes) and my impression of the Mozilla project was that it was incredibly understaffed. Unrealistically so to ever lead to any kind of product or platform.

Maybe this new organization can accomplish the goal of easy and open trainable TTS. I'd really like to see it.
Transforming Tajikistan: Between a Soviet Past and a Tajik Future
It's a cool demo. Though, to my ears it's still a bit far from my dream of having something cheap or free I can feed more niche books I like and use to create an audiobook version of them.

https://vocaroo.com/1oOjiLNCagur
I sold a month or so ago. I'd rather not hold the bag in the end, but at the same time I figured this thing can keep running so long as Tether is there to prop it up.

Tether just printed another 2 billion USDT today, and didn't they print another billion USDT a few days ago?
Yes we need parts from China, but those parts are cheaper than what we could possibly manufacture ourselves. We don't have to do the dirty work ourselves. We have Chinese henchmen for that.

The answer isn't getting rid of China, the answer is to create a competitor so that China cannot screw you over. Instead of letting China become a middle man for goods produced in Africa just go to Africa directly.
I would pay another thousand to retrofit USB-C or even microUSB onto my OP-1.

The choice of mini-USB, the RAZR charging port, in 2011, was a bit baffling to me. I have to buy another cable each time I want to charge and use it.
Oh it's not about contradiction, I'm just curious where the 300€ value comes from.
not quite

>Hospitalization data for 129 of the fully vaccinated cases is incomplete, Sutfin said. But for the 117 people for whom hospitalization records are known, 11 were hospitalized.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/04/06/v...

"However, since February 1, eight people with vaccine breakthrough have been hospitalized. DOH is investigating two potential vaccine breakthrough cases where the patients died."

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Newsroom/Articles/ID/2720/Cases-of-CO...
The thing to realize is that you're causing these issues in your own mind, which means you're free to not cause them.

Meditation might help, making a distinction between you and your mind allows externalizing and observing the mind in action.

Once you have managed that, consider giving retrospectives a shot. Simply walk through whatever situation you want to learn from backwards (starting with most recent events help) in your mind as an observer.

The problem with confidence is that it's a side effect of knowing and trusting yourself, and that takes real world experience.
You read me right. We stigmatize low income people as “addicts” and throw them in prison. People have pain and other issues which will cause them to seek drugs and other solutions. That’s a fact of human nature. We shouldn’t classify that as good or bad based entirely on a person’s access to healthcare. But we do.

My second point is that we have a system where the capitalist incentive structure is driving the drug seeking. People need these drugs to “function” only in the sense of attaining better wages or holding a job. That has nothing to do with medical need. It is capitalism perverting medicine, defining mental health as employability seems misguided at best.

Lastly, neurolink. Do the the math.
I remember a while ago some disgruntled folk at US army base started shooting at and killing a group of other army men. In other instances some folks were radicalized online and killed a bunch of random citizens.

US has top notch intelligence.

A lot of Israel operations are done through recruiting and paying dissidents. Iran is a big country and their rulers have made many internal enemies and aren't that competent in general. Israel is just using this weakness to incur as much damage it can either to the infrastructure or by killing civilians (eg. scientists being exploded in front of their homes) without any apparent consequence from the so called "free world".

So should we celebrate how those who radicalized these mass shooters online have such sophisticated cyber capabilities?
And how should that be more natural, as they claim?

A human eye is just a lens. With very well studied geometry.

The brain can do amazing feats, e.g. make bend/warped parts of images it sees straight again. A friend of mine who's 20 year old LASIK is coming apart, unfortunately, experienced it first hand recently.

But it can't see behind objects.

So if the occlusion changes as, they claim, there are two possibilities:

1. The camera was moved.

2. The scene geometry was distorted. That is possible in a computer but not in reality.

I.e. the result can never be more natural than what you can already model with a 2D fisheye projection based on human eye geometry.
If you have a beard, thoughtfully stroking it works too.

I joke it's the Windows 98 hourglass cursor of personal interactions - they can't tell if you're thinking, or have just locked up with no hope of continuing.

Pauses and silence are OK, to a point.

Absolutely. And you will, in almost every case, come across as more intelligent if you're silent while thinking, than if you try to fill space with content-free filler. It can't go on forever, but 20 seconds of silence is far better (and far more useful to put a response together) than 20 seconds of "lips in neutral" noise.
I'm not sure I've ever found a non-textbook science/math/philosophy book where the last chapter or two wasn't entirely skippable. There seems to be the point where the authors start stretching past what they really know and into more speculative, almost like they are planning the next book. I don't blame them, but it's not what I'm in that book for always.
As opposed to how many students? This is very much true, you are a known, proven liar, and your 'bootcamp' is beyond predatory.

You lie about placements, you lie about your number of instructors, I will take the word of every one of your students over the PR speak you spout repeatedly.
The premise is that it's not reasonable to expect a community maltreated by public health and law enforcement for decades to instantaneously reverse themselves and comply with those authorities' dictates when, at long last, those dictates are finally motivated by something other than abusive and too often outright lethal prejudice. As I noted in a response to your sibling comment, this implicitly expects people to act on the basis of knowledge which, at the time they have to choose their actions, does not yet even exist. It's an easy mistake for an armchair historiographer to make, but that it's easy constitutes no excuse.

I'm not even going to address the suggestion that gay bathhouse culture in the 1980s is somehow to blame for COVID anti-maskers in the 2020s.
There are weird favorites going on with Show HN. I wonder how one pays to get to the top?
Of course time is a commodity. A (potentially false promise of a) dollar in one year is less useful than a dollar tomorrow which is less useful than a dollar right now.

If you do believe interest is theft and time has no value, you can act as a kind of Robin Hood by putting all of your money into bonds from Goldman Sachs, the US government or whoever you deem the worst perpetrator of this theft. You'll literally be stealing from them!
Again, you're trying to change the topic. We are not talking about colleges. We're talking about whether ISAs can fail, and they can.

But to answer your question, I have two relatives that successfully discharged their student debt due to financial hardships. ISAs have no similar process, short of hiring a lawyer and hoping for the best.
This much was clear in January 2020.
What court case in this example? The accused were dead.
I'm subject to CGNAT, my ISP will charge for an IPv4 address (but only £5 p/m) and I like to host random things but I'm in no way interested in paying $25 a month for that.

For the tickering/testing I want to do (a single IP is fine), a more reasonable alternative is wireguard and a cheapo VM. Or a managed version of that because sometimes life is too short: https://hoppy.network

There are probably plenty of other similar solutions using other VPN technologies, none of which got a mention in this advertisement.
Without any evidence this is just speculation. The reality is, there are many popular political YouTube channels that represent viewpoints all across the spectrum and this is an easily verifiable fact. I am yet to see any evidence that YouTube is motivated by anything other than money.
We Need an Elected Monarchy
Reading the code base for the projects they provide to you should be enough to get by on. Management should provide you with accounts, permissions, repositories, maybe some docs, but the best way to learn is by reading code. The code will speak to you, I promise.
I think it's easier when there's a single polity that represents the "entirety" of that languages speaking community. Nobody controls English in the same way - I'd say the US and UK have equal claim to being able to formalize language changes, but good luck getting 2 billion people to follow them.
I would approach it from the opposite direction. Physics starts with that assumption, not because it is believed to be fundamentally true, but because we're curious about how far that assumption can take us. And while not the same as simplicity per se, there are additional assumptions, such as that the rules are uniform over space and time, and that they concern phenomena that are amenable to naturalistic inquiry.

The surprise, and perhaps why it continues to be a pursuit, is just how far it's taken us. My reading of history suggests that in the 17th century, scholars assumed that the inquiry would either run into a dead end, or merge with theology. Neither has happened yet.

It certainly doesn't prohibit humanity from dropping any of those rules and exploring the universe in alternate ways, so it's not a great loss if physics sets some boundaries for itself.
TTS tech is so accessible that product developers should consider integrating it within their product for the sake of visually impaired and not leave the product to the mercy of operating system's accessibility features.

I feel the biggest causality of online advertisement is accessibility, Those with eyes (eye-sight) are more valuable to the mega corps than those without and so Internet is full of rich graphics; making the lives of those without proper vision miserable.
So from this (and some other places), it kind of seems like ARM has been competitive for a long time, but for power and temperature saving its been fighting with one hand behind its back. That's intriguing in its own right, but I'm still confused as to what the actual differences are. Like the M1 runs as fast as current gen x86 processors, while running cooler. How?
Your comment made me think about some interesting aspects of moderation, which I'll post in case anyone else finds them interesting. (None of this is about the GP comment—I'm just speaking generally.)

Even if your claim is true, it generally works better to lay out a weak moderation case rather than to make the strongest one.

Also, the stronger the case you mount, the higher the odds that you've misinterpreted someone.

Those are two separate issues, btw. The first is about effectiveness, the second is about risk. Taking on higher risk for lower effectiveness is a bad trade, so I try not to do that.

Intention is notoriously difficult to assess, especially online. If you make claims about someone's intention, they will usually say "that wasn't my intention". That just distracts from what was concretely wrong about a comment. Moreover, the community—which is the jury—is less likely to support claims about intention than specific things one can point to in a post. So again, it makes moderation less effective while putting it in a riskier position—another bad trade!
Excellent point! Seems like some are more interested in pushing their own beliefs and morality on others rather than examining the evidence of what makes effective (or ineffective) public policy.