skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I would not find this kind of life hack approach to reading satisfying. On occasion certainly but I pick up a book explicitly to inhabit it. I don't pick up books I don't wish to become apart of and have become apart of me. The first 200 pages of Moby Dick were phenomenal to me. The book really drops off when the chapters atomize into non-fiction and lose the story. But I was not going to miss one word of what happened to the Pequod or the friendship between Ishmael and Queequeg. It doesn't really pick that story up as I'd like but I wasn't going to risk it. Parts of 'Les Miserables' felt like a slog but it was worth it to truly inhabit the world. I'll probably never read a 1,000+ novel ever again but I wouldn't have read it any other way.

For a reference book sure. They are often best digested out of order.
This is more a mania with dogecoin. Of course set off by robinhood traders and elon musk tweets.
That's almost what I was looking for.

I wonder how long before Akamai kills it.

Main downside is that it doesn't support multiple devices
Never been much of a fan of Facebook, but at this point it's basically turned into the McDonald's ball pit:

A pile of colorful, air-filled items (mostly ads) that lures certain people into coming back because they have nothing better to do than dive into some filth. Adults aren't allowed (no conversations, content, or political views that management doesn't agree with - "it's safe because look, everything around you is squishy and we don't allow things with sharp edges"), and if you spend time there, you're probably going to leave smelling like excrement.
An honest question, understanding crypto and its true viability as a non-fiat currency or an anti-inflationary digital gold is simply above my pay-grade.

I'm wondering if there are any smart plays out there to take advantage of the volatility and/or the inefficiencies in the blockchain that has zero directional delta exposure to the underlying crypto-market.

I'm talking about the exploiting the inefficiency of some crypto-proxies like GBTC or MSTR that had 40-150% premium over their stated market value of their BTC holding at one point. Or similarly, doing some kind of long black swan tail trade (on both 500K and 5K BTC scenario) that minimizes the theta burn as much as possible to 0. Or even sympathy trades involving other physical commodities/precious metals. These are my current vague ideas. Would love to hear more from much smarter folks than me!
You see lots of demos of this, I think because the algorithm is interesting but also pretty easy to implement.

As an approach it seems to do a decent job with either very small changes (e.g. slight change of aspect ratio) or uninteresting images, but aesthetically the results seem bad on most interesting images; I suspect because targeting "low information" regions of the image removes tension that is needed. Often a simple crop is much better, it seems.
Only covers US W-2 labor. So perhaps that’s why. If only X% of labor force is elligeable and Y% of your FTE base is devs and Z% of their time is legitimate incremental novel work (defending one of those audits requires pulling GitHub/Jira/technical documentation support) then $11M is perhaps a reasonable number. YRMV.
Gosh dang this is amazing.
I code in Java, Scala and Python using an IDE just because I like to not remember the documentation to the code.

I know plenty of people who don't use a formal IDE. This "I don't use an IDE" is a stupid flex.
If you don't like taxes why wouldn't you move to a country that doesn't have taxes like Somalia?
Is it because taxes pay for security and things you use everyday like infrastructure?
> Bitcoin will probably not be useful as a every day currency, but more useful as a store of value and long term investment.

March 2020: "Bitcoin loses half of its value in two-day plunge"

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/bitcoin-loses-half-of-its-va...

March 2021: "Bitcoin surpasses $60,000 in record high as rally accelerates"

* https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/13/bitcoin-surpasses-60000-in-r...

Do you want the adjective "stable" in there perhaps? Store of value:

> A store of value is essentially an asset, commodity, or currency that can be saved, retrieved, and exchanged in the future without deteriorating in value. In other words, to enter this category, the item acquired should, over time, either be worth the same or more.

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/storeofvalue.asp

Well, at least it hasn't gone down (yet?).
As I understand will get more difficult to mine as it aproaches its 21 million cap.

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-happens-bitcoin-after...
Last commit was 7 days ago: https://github.com/vugu/vugu
A house? A modest apartment I can see, but a house seems a bit much
They really need a more nuanced word than inflamation, since there are no flames involved, just an immune system and chronic infection.
https://www.yubico.com/support/download/yubikey-personalizat...

you can do a lot with a yubikey but idk if you can actually change the U2F secret
The Rust Foundation – Privacy Policy
Well, construction and everything that goes along with that for one - electricians, carpenters, plumbers, roadwork, and painters need restaurants and grocery stores, who can appreciate theaters and parks, with require maintenance,all of whom need hospitals, fire and rescue, police, and so on.

The hard part, IMO, is getting the whole thing started.
In #2, why is the path hardcoded to /? One of the things I've considered somewhat important in my similar work (on Orchid, using HTTPS+WebRTC) is the ability to "embed" a VPN as a sub-resource on some existing website.
Every time you eat, the body enters a state of heightened inflammation. This is well documented. Please don't spread disinformation.
Note that is 25mg of psilocybin, not mushroom. Dried mushrooms contain about 1% psilocybin, so an equivalent dose of dried mushrooms would be around 2.5g, an amount that's definitely high enough to cause hallucinations. Not sure if this is what you mean by purified vs non purified.
There's a middle ground: some is probably beneficial in certain cases, but you can have too much of a good thing-- then it's an issue.
Your right. That’s why I couldn’t find the reference
I think there are multiple social media sites that consider giving addresses and personal information to be ‘doxxing’ regardless of whether or not the info was found in public databases. Twitter, Wikipedia and Reddit being examples.
Look at it, feel its affects.
There's a difference between - "anything can be turned into an non-compiling pile of crap" and "this ecosystem comes as a pile of crap".
Yes folks. Facebook is politically "neutral", or so they say. Hmm.. I'm not sure everybody. I'm really not so sure about that.
It doesn't look like it can do structures, either.
This is fantastic, good find!
An automatic 30-day Facebook ban, this will get you.

- Even if you posted it “privately” through Facebook messenger, yep, that’s too a first: 30-day ban.

- Veteran FB bans.
SpaceX couldn't offer the prices they do without state aid. Their prices are held down by overpriced military contract launches. So much so that several space agencies ( EU, Russian, etc.) have said that SpaceX are not competing as a private company but as a state sponsored company. This is not the move from state to private launches but the merger of Defense contractor's and NASA's budgets. SpaceX is being used to prop up US launches against foreign competitors. That's not moving out of Defense but keeping it close to heart by throwing money at them.
> why I feel so much healthier when I'm fasting regularly.

Considering this is Ramadan and fasting is pretty much on-topic, I notice a big difference between the religious fasts and the self-regulated ones.

The ramadan fasting without water seems to result in a net weight loss between the morning and the first meal.

On the other hand, people like me who do drink water/electrolytes, see our weight go up in the day from drinking water to compensate for the hunger.

A small part of what you experience might just be reaching adequate hydration and dropping salt levels to a more healthy level over the day.
Is there an opposite of this, where it will expand an image size?
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I like consistency. For consistency's sake, the western media should prefix islamic-nationalist political parties around the world (that would be most political parties in all islamic countries) with "islamic-nationalist".

But perhaps you're not that into consistency, in which case I can empathize why you're okay with the status quo.

Also, please don't generalize. Not everyone is "proud" of india's diversity. I much prefer how the homogeneity of countries like Japan and China has enabled them to quickly progress. I believe i represent the views of a silent majority in india.
Radio > IoT
Running a content site with a premium ad network (Cafe), they seem pretty affirmative about RPMs dropping later this year once Chrome phases out third-party cookies. They aren't really saying this will only happen once an alternative solution is found.
I just thought the implication of the copy was funny, wasn't really making a serious comparison of every possible use case and threat model for pen and paper versus this tool. Each has its own advantages.
This contract is to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface. They get from Earth to lunar orbit with SLS/Orion.
Can you list some of these shuttle companies? What are the most popular/reputable ones?
Was in a massive Sjogrens flare. Stopped eating for a month. Collapsing aside, my inflammation was fixed.

Did a month on sweet potatoes. Very boring but same result.
I’m saying all else equal. Totally agree there are a million reasons to change jobs.
There's some interesting work going on in the AES to support synchronised audio over wide area networks, either through better recovery of PTP clocks distributed through WANs or using PTP with GNSS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7tCCKYDx4
Anecdotally, I've seen this. Overpriced real estate that sits, sits, and sits, and then the willing buyer arrives (and it's not FSBO-- so it's probably driving the seller's agent mad). I live in a globally competitive market, and discussion of real estate must always be framed with location context.
I think the idea is that the fueled-up Starship in LEO would have already have most the payload inside since it launched. The only thing it would be lacking is the astronauts, so they can come in a much smaller vehicle.

That said, this contract has astronauts boarding Starship in lunar orbit, not Earth orbit.
It'd be pretty interesting to train an ML model. You could generate a bunch of training examples: downsize lots of images, then use the upsized versions as targets.

It's not quite the same thing as superresolution, since it's seam carving.
Shotbot – DIY tiny cocktail machine
Because Elon has multiple massive companies. The leader of Intel just does Intel.

He is more well known for Tesla.
if you hate 3rd party cookies you hate floc too. It’s the same concept, except google controls this one.
The fundamental problem here is one that the law cannot solve: we as consumers have become addicted to free tech apps that use us as the product in order to make money. That addiction comes with a price, and no amount of legislation can shield us from ultimately paying that price if we refuse to give up our addiction.

The only thing the law could really do to "fix" the problem would be to outlaw the "free app that harvests people's time and attention to make money" business model altogether. And every lawmaker who voted to do that would be voted out of office by all the people who are angry that they can no longer have their free apps.

The root problem is not "Big Tech". The root problem is us.
Digital license plates now in 3 states, with more on the way
> Perhaps there is an argument to Bitcoin being a kind of "digital gold" even if it is all but useless as a currency.

Gold is less useful than most people think:

> In a 2012 paper entitled "The Golden Dilemma",[1] Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey examined some common assumptions about gold. First they looked at gold as an inflation hedge, analyzing gold returns from 1975 (the year the U.S. came off of the gold standard), through March 2012. They found that, due to its real-price volatility, gold had not been a good inflation hedge over the short- or long-term.

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/will-gold-save-the-day/

It's only of note because of historical accident and it's use in certain cultures (along with silver as well). The Incas had piles of gold, but only used it for jewelry and such, and not as a currency.

* https://www.tourinperu.com/blog/inca-gold-culture-invasion-r...

If we didn't have the culture references of the Gold Standard, I don't think most people would accept a shiny rock as anything special. Or at least gold (Au) specifically, and not any other Period 6 element:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_6_element

Is there perhaps something special about Group 11 element (Cu, Ag, Au) that they should be treated as "currency"?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_11_element

They are certainly useful from a tooling perspective in some ways, but beyond that?
Not to deter from the point but DDG also returns Google Earth as a first result of the search for Earth. The algorithms can be (and are) manipulated; it's called SEO. Fun example is an image search
of "white couple".
wouldn't it be funny that they allocate funding for UAP only to realize that its aircraft from another department, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_...
Reviving my old throwaway account to confirm that I indeed thought of "fleshlight" immediately after reading the announcement. Keep in mind that the average coder is far more likely to read Reddit daily (where this reference comes up surprisingly often) than to do things that require a flashlight (own a house somewhere remote, etc)
https://memberstack.webflow.io/
Parkour.

It's great physical exercise, I get to spend time outside, set challenges / gradually achieve them, and express my creativity through movement.
Apparently K.A. Applegate is the second most prolific science fiction author. That's amazing and hilarious. I think a bunch of Animorphs were ghost written though.
Somalia has some other issues.

That being said, I would happily move to a country with 0% income tax, such as Monaco or Oman.

Alas these countries do not allow free movement of people through their borders.
I think there was some expectation as the previous version of the blog was open source. But I agree that it shouldn't be expected. My blog isn't open source and I don't feel the need to open it.
That's good to know that the familiar ql libraries will be available if / when venturing into using Lispworks, potential compatibility issues aside ...
God is love.
Love is blind.

Ray Charles is blind.
Ray Charles is God.
Private journaling is likely to end up encrypted forever and not accessible to the families of deceased persons. Sure, it could be argued that it was encrypted on purpose but one never knows. Someone may suddenly pass and their loved ones would never get access to this piece of their work even if the author intended to share it and never got to leave the encryption key (they never expected their sudden departure)

Sure, this same thing could be argued about electronic mail, computers and other encrypted devices but I feel something deeper would be lost a lot more often.

Imagine Kafka used an encryption tool on his work or countless of other silent authors whose work only came to life after their death when somebody else discovered it.
In fairness, so does the average programmer.
Yep,

It seems reasonable to suspect that there's a lot of duplication in the human brain - as demonstrated by the periodic articles about people who function normally with brains compressed/shrunk to a tiny percentage of normal size. And I guess that duplication comes from the multiple systems all able to provide a similar function.

For example, man with 10% normal brain size: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...
After almost a decade of use I moved away from Simple Note (originally with notational velocity...) to Standard Notes over a year ago (their obligate unencrypted cloud storage was a deal-breaker for me. I use standard notes for a more or less unfiltered brain dump, so security is my #1 priority), and have been pretty happy with it, using it cross-platform. The support is pretty good - the forums (well, the slack) are quite active.

There're one or two minor issues (not being able to search within individual notes, and some scrolling bugs on iOS iirc that I need to report at some point), but given that I'm using it across 4 platforms (iOS/macOS/Windows/Android), it seems to be working really well.

And the lead developer seems quite sincerely committed/principled to the software's principles, which is nice.

edit: I haven't tried out Joplin/Obsidian, which people seem to like here. Oh gosh I think I'm ok for now - my current solution solves my problem.
It's a common strawman argument to paint the argument as black and white, that either you want taxes or you want zero taxes. When in reality there's many shades of grey. The majority of people that complain about taxes don't want zero taxation, they just want to be taxed fairly, with proper representation, and for the government to make proper use of the money they do take, with accountability, before demanding more from the citizens.
I agree, the tech stack under pen and paper is very light compared to computers. But it's only as secure as your physical security.

With an encrypted hard drive and a strong key, the files remain private even when the physical security is breached.
That is not what parent meant, but I think it is reasonable when you are in the car.
Slightly unrelated but for people that don't know, the "Black Futures Lab" which is an organization directly tied to BLM, is being funded by the "Chinese Progressive Association." I don't know what this entails but it's nice to see that the Chinese are interested in progressivism here in America.
> It's difficult to see this as anything other than a selectively enforced policy

I have seen no presentation of acts similarly situated with respect to the policy which have been treated differently. What is the basis for the claim of selectivity?
Disagree. I'm here looking for clean code to redirect Chrome users to this message.

After all this site claims "The website you WANTED to visit redirected you here." and yet it doesn't give any clues how to do that properly. And no, I'm not trusting user agent values.

If I find a valid and good way I'm completely onboard for redirecting.
> Maybe we don't all need to read the original Darwin, but I do think there is a serious gap in most peoples' knowledge of how the natural world actually functions, how all the components in an ecosystem are interdependent and necessary.

Yes and there are many great contemporary books that cover just these things, from Gould, to Dawkins, to Wilson, to Dennett, to Sagan. It is rare that the originator of an idea is also its best exponent. Though given the praise of its accessibility and interest here I'm willing to give Origin another thought.

> Our failure to keep people educated on these matters to a base level has probably seriously contributed to the ecological catastrophe we are experiencing

I'm not sure this is true. Environmentalism was basically born in the 60s. Conservation some 40-60 years before that.

People used to believe all kinds of ridiculous things about the health benefits of smoke, heavy metals and oil. Americans nearly extincted the buffalo for its industrial uses. An Australian tycoon almost extinct an island chain of penguins and seals by reducing them down to oil which was sold round the world. I could go on as there are many stories of human exploitation of the natural world that go back to ancient times (read about how Roman silver mines in Spain reshaped the Earth into a hell hole there) and beyond.

We are honestly probably at peak -people caring about the environment-. It obviously has to go a lot further if we are to avert disaster and stop the extinction event humans have been driving for 15,000 years. But we are hardly at a nadir for people's understanding and love of the natural world.
Yeah, I believe Seam Carving paper did this. Pretty simple, find the low-energy path and do linear interpolation between the two neighboring pixels (I think it also introduced some tricks to find n low-energy paths at once to avoid inserting into the same path again and again).

But like the top comment pointed out. This algorithm is easy to implement and interesting, but in real-world examples are not better than salient object detection + cropping.
Well, unless there are technological improvements in processing speed that allow for future decryption, right?

Food for thought though, for sure.
I don't get it. Couldn't you also just... not record any cohort information that is sent to you? (Admittedly I have not looked very deeply into FLoC.)
> And I am sure people started to label me as weirdo for not having Facebook.

They probably just don’t think of you. That’s the more likely scenario. People who engage with social media will stay in people’s minds more. If you’re not on there or not engaged, people will likely just forget about your existence. If I’m not connected to someone on social media or they don’t engage at all, there’s quite a bit of me forgetting they ever existed. After all, it’s not like we all see each other in physical spaces all the time. (Even pre-pandemic)
Scientists Now Understand the Origin of Water, Including on Alien Worlds
And what's Firefox, chopped liver?
That's more related to a problem known as infilling. Generally throwing out information is a lot easier than generating it. You can do some statistical things by sampling other points of the image into newly created "gap" but it will probably look bad if fully automated, at least on big changes.

There's an obvious version of the algorithm in that direction. For one line "seam", it's easy enough, you just pull data from either side. But repeatedly applying it the more often your new "seams" end up next to something already estimated, the less real information there is - I suspect this becomes visually noticeable pretty fast.
Is this something that could be built on top of MLIR Python Bindings [1]? I don't know enough about any of these projects, but I worry that NVIDIA will be doing something proprietary and against an open ecosystem. It seems like you could build the entire python toolchain on top of python with MLIR bindings and support numpy acceleration that way. Just curious if this is the right thinking?

[1] https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Bindings/Python/
Oh sweet summer child, it’s so refreshing that you think big famous companies always act logically!
At least in the United States, I don't believe this is true. Years ago I bought a laptop for a too-good-to-be-true price on Craigslist. As it turns out, the laptop I purchased had some kind of hardware lojack and I had a uniformed police officer and detective show up at my door, and later found myself responding to their questions at the station. When all was said and done, I was without the laptop and receiving $50/week until the full amount of $700 was received from the thief.
It's also a bit of a cult. They even chant at launches ("USA! USA! USA!") and do serval other things which are straight out of some pretty horrific textbooks on human psychology and (mis)management.