skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not the token explicitly defines governance, the owner of a token does have some authority over any governance action involving a hard fork, because the success of the fork depends on the buy in from the economic actors.

You do get meaningful voting rights, but the governance process is quite a bit different from a traditional company.
LUTs are quite fun to play with. If you look for videos on "3D LUT Creator" you will find some cool things done using LUTs.

If you are looking for a great and free tool to create LUTs, have a look at https://grossgrade.com/en/
It is not easy to find IMO; I knew existed because I had used it and it took me ages to find it again...

Also, while I had no luck with 3D LUT Creator (trial) on wine, Grossgrade works fine :-)
I wonder if the "most private" way to do this would be to distribute as a jupyter notebook or some sort of local bundle/distro to run as a local webapp?
It's more like borrowing a few k against your house to buy stuff. It has its uses.
You mean how it was with Intel and Microsoft for decades?
Appropriately he has died just after a full moon.
Thank you! That clears things up considerably.
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
Prestigious to work for != company does good work.
Are you referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952040 ?
I feel like the biggest piece of this announcement was buried at the bottom of the article:

> We're excited to announce Tobias Koppers, the author of webpack, has joined the Next.js team at Vercel.
I mean, a few guys stayed in orbit on subsequent lunar missions, but you're right, Collins was the first.
Interesting paper. When I refer to "wake blockage", think of the turbines in the middle of a huge grid of machines. The energy in incoming wind on any side of the farm is mostly extracted by the outer turbines. The inner turbines typically produce ~15-20% less energy due to this effect. Also, the wind hitting them is more turbulent/"dirty" as it recovers back to free-stream velocity behind the front row of machines, which can cause abnormal fatigue patterns.

That's definitely of interest to me, although I think that manufacturers are interested in it. Many manufacturers are very conservative with installed/environmental conditions of their production machines and want to minimize risks, instead of potentially alienating a developer by suggesting a scheme that could fatigue turbines or have other unintended consequences. If anything, the paper suggests to me that if adopted, manufacturers could sell even more turbines!
Companies shouldn't be middlemen in the position to control speech in the first place. The entire webapp ecosystem is an attractive nuisance designed to disempower users in favor of extracting ongoing rent.
> Apple isn't harnessing magic here.
> Why does it need root?

To install it in the system python package directory.
> It doesn't support streaming yet, but it hits around 200+ down and 25 up on my phone, so it may get there.

Does that mean the 5g internet is really slow(DSL speed?) or do they actively block streaming? Is there another reason streaming wouldn't be supported even at a decent speed?
I once heard a salesguy say the following statement: "One of our customers accused me of selling them shit. But all we have is shit, so what do you expect?"
Exactly. You can't buy all the gold in the world at the imaginary "market cap". Or all of a currency. And if you did buy all of a currency, it would be worthless, because the whole point of a currency is as a medium for exchange. Indeed, that's how they take a currency out of service, as they did when they launched the Euro.
> I suspect the basic problem in espionage work is that being interested in it at all is precisely the reason not to hire someone to do it

Interesting way to put it, I hadn't thought about it this way. It sounds analogous to what is argued in "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" (about cop militarization and abuse in the US): that the people more enthusiastic about combat gear and working in a SWAT-like unit are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't be allowed in those units.
Wouldn't the fact that we know more about the CIA mean that they lie less, since there are verifiable claims to the contrary if they do lie? Like for example how the CIA can't claim it didn't infect Iran with Stuxnet without someone calling BS.
so is there any way to even estimate how much money was actually spent buying specific crypto coins?
The book was published in '14 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book) ) . The what if long form continued on for another four years.
Sugar-sweetened beverage intake and serum testosterone levels in adult males (2018)
The existence of their insane levels of funding and well known history of coups, lies, dirty tricks, and mass murder makes it extremely easy to believe US intelligence is capable of deploying computer bullshit lol. Of course, if there is credible evidence exhonorating them we can look at that.
Yeah, I meant the whole thing to pretty much be tongue-in-cheek.

That said, I'm very much aware of the onshore consulting that ACN does. And in my time in the ACN world, I was never once impressed with work ACN did - onshore or offshore.
This seems to be about supply and demand, not linguistics.
So, the apparent improvement here is that they just don't care about hosting and distributing Mac roms openly.
Second ave has little in the way of skyscrapers. It’s mostly residential and small shops.

But consider that tunnels are created through mountains (far heavier). Done right, I doubt it’s an issue.
A good demonstration of this by Ruben Meerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
> Let's not pretend

Who is pretending? The discussion is about the CIA.

When I discuss cats, there is no reason I should have to always qualify it by saying "yes, and dogs are cute, too."
I wonder what took the "IT department" so long then...
I too enjoyed clipboard sync and am sad it's gone, but it still works for the desktop → phone direction, and for transferring text in the opposite direction, I select it and "share" it with KDE Connect, which puts the text into a .txt file on the desktop and displays it. (In my case it's using a pager in a terminal window, I guess that's how my file handlers are set up?)

It's not as magical as full automation, but still better than sending an email to myself or similar nonsense.
This will be an incredibly useful tool for me. I subscribed with the coupon code, and hope to see you continuing to develop the functionality.
While I have no information to share on this specific malware, here is the NSA's TAO Chief on what makes their jobs harder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJb8WOJYdA
The aggregate outcome of government taxation is as a deterrent to sitting on piles of cash that year. Most fiscal policy via taxation is incentivizing the private property owner to create certain kinds of transactions in the economy, and if they fail to do so then the government runs a calculation on the remainder.

Thats the outcome whether any individual representative or tax policy expert would say that. The private persons operate within the existing world and have no utility in making an opinion on the purpose of tax, only reacting and playing within the system.

As such, it is surprising then that this family has not created transactions that would mitigate or nullify the state’s claim on their property.
Tee-Shirt
What a stupid T ... I want one.
thanks for lighttpd
"Rewrite", then.
I find it interesting that this and a few other investigations have been released around times of great geopolitical tensions related to Russia. I think there are legitimate questions as to how/where this activity was observed and what led them to investigate it.

Personally, I don't know how closely they coordinate with Russian intelligence services, but some of the samples they get and the background/context they get can only be obtained if you are very close to the investigation. The way they phrase things like "we found this in a multi-engine scanner" raise the hair on the back of my neck, since I work in malware analysis and you don't just run across these types of samples by chance. They are either doing IR for organizations that were targeted (which you would just mention), or they are getting tipped off on where to look.

Whether or not this is intentional, or just happens to be a coincidence, it is something to be aware of.

Examples of suspicious timing: Flame paper released while there were massive protests in Russia around 2012, Regin/Equation Group/Duqu 2.0 paper released during Ukranian invasion circa 2014/15, and now this paper also released while tensions in Ukraine are ramping up and after the fallout from the SolarWinds stuff.

I think it would be less suspicious if places like Sputnik (a known propaganda arm of Russia) didn't immediately start pushing a specific narrative when Kaspersky has these malware releases.
Sure, I dont focus on them because I don't believe that Mossad or MI5 are the reason why my country has been at war my entire adult life, but I have witnessed the NSA and CIA justify those wars-that-arent-really-wars time and time again. How much blood was spilled over the 'yellow cake' line alone? Remember when they lost that ten thousand page report on torture right before it was to be delivered? Or the time they dosed unwilling people with LSD or when they smuggled cocaine and fueled the crack epidemic, or when they...
There are plenty of other actors capable of "deploying computer bullshit". Why shouldn't one of them be the culprit here?
Labelflow, the open source image labeling and dataset cleaning platform
> You agree to not use the Site to: [...]

> advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose that is not specifically authorized;

Heh. I'd say this part is disconnected from reality.

A very significant number of posts and comments recommend aka advertise (in one way or another) various goods or services. Typically third-party goods or services ("I use this"), sometimes first-party ("we made this"). And this is what brings huge value to the website. I get it, ToS are about spam, but it's probably impossible to discern good and bad advertising in legal terms.
Biden's infrastructure plan includes similar verbiage.[1]

> support for broadband networks owned, operated by, or affiliated with local governments, non-profits, and co-operatives

Anyone know if it would work? Note that this is the bill getting criticized as not being about "real infrastructure" due to daring to have non-transportation infrastructure, like this.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
We are looking for people to validate our idea: Labelflow, the open source image labelling and data cleaning tool.

We are a team of 9 people with experience in image labeling and dataset curating to build quality datasets for deep learning. We were frustrated by the amount of scripts required to move the data back and forth between tools, and by the lack of control over our data, especially when we have data that can’t easily be shared.

So we started building Labelflow, an image labeling tool with all the bells and whistles, but with an open source backend that you can connect to your own data stack easily. Let me know what you think, and feel free to request early access to get up to 50% off when we release it in a few months!
International manhunt continues over $2B crypto exchange fraud
Impressed that he sees communication as one of his primary responsibilities. I don't think this gets enough recognition at distributed organizations, whose members often take communications for granted or fail to recognize how powerful it can be as a mechanism for more effective everything.

I was also struck by his comments about the preferred tool, email:

Email really ends up being a wonderful tool, and we didn't rely on face-to-face meetings.
They’re not built for the same capacity, however.

Ironically I think the city may shrink in the coming years, thanks to Covid and the upcoming fiscal crisis.
$365,000 a year? Your $1.29 bottle of water just went up a penny.
Go is much better and is actually still growing as a language. Elixir is declining already, it will barely exist in 5-10 years.
Plus providing the infrastructure for users to download the million of apps and updates. The tools Apple provides to even develop for their platform, like XCode and all the SDKs and APIs to even make apps.
And many other things Apple provides.
It is for a lot of executives, especially ones which are clueless about technology or who do not have a technology background but were promoted and told to "fix the TPS submission and reporting system!". These characters are typically corporate politicians who are great at talking but couldn't manage a team of 3 to boil a pot of water.

They love consultancies. It's a total roll of the dice if their projects are successful or not. I've seen it go both ways.
Discussed a few weeks ago:

A Blight on Soviet Science - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26513415 - March 2021 (40 comments)
Actually government intervention is the only way to solve it.

The problem is that in a city there's limited space to run the wires to each home.

Also if you want to have 10 competitors is really silly to expect having 10 fiber optic cables going to every home when majority of people wouldn't use more than one ISP at the time. Then 9 fibers will be then unused and degrading.

When Internet was reclassified to Title II, Wheeler specifically excluded Title II's provision that required existing ISPs to lease their infrastructure to competitors.
Back in late 90s, early 2000s we had tons of ISPs to chose from, exactly because of that provision.

This needs to change if we want to get competition back.

Or we would need cities to build such infrastructure which is even harder and more expensive thing to do.

Either way it requires government intervention.
UK to use health service app as vaccine passport
I wrote something along these lines here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23868839 (I quote below). Accenture tends to secure projects that are a little bit hand wavy in terms of requirements, because, as others have said, they are very close to the executives and are able to cater to what they expect. The comment:

> If you gave out a time and materials contract without clear acceptance criteria, testing requirements, and verification / support / warranty detailed, you probably shouldn’t be handling 100 million dollar budgets.
This is the money quote.

Big 4 companies (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) are historically accounting auditing companies. And their culture is heavily skewed towards billing their employees to clients per hour/day, or per unit of service, as auditors and lawyers have been doing for more than a century. It is not in their DNA to "create products" but to "render services"; that is, to sell employees availability. Boundaries and scope of those traditional services are typically clearer than building a new unknown program from scratch.

If you are hiring these firms for exploration of how do you work, how you should work, and a complete functioning system that sustains a big number of new processes that are not yet defined, you are in for a big bill; you better be sure that you have put on the time to think about what you are buying in written form. When you see big failed projects like those the problem lies in that no one stopped to research the complexity of the ask before entering into a contract.

Even then, these consultancies normally are very flexible when a contract is actively harming the client, and the client wishes to change it / stop it (it would not be good for the business to do otherwise, because you want to see more after this contract is finished). When these costs go out of control is because internal politics in the client impede the rational decisions of killing projects, changing command, etc., and the sponsor keeps feeding money into the project to save their ass.

Source: worked in big 4 for years.
Actually one would expect the leverage of controlling the market to provide enough funds to pay emerging players multiple times their likely expected result of rolling the dice and trying to compete to continually fend off would be rivals. Absent interference in the market one would not be extremely shocked to see the same dominant players in social media and dating 20 years from now.
We’re all in this together: Dr Fauci says world has failed India as Covid surges
> Wax is made of hydrogen and carbon.

Too bad he doesn't explain where the energy in the wax came from like Feynman does when explaining fire:

https://youtu.be/N1pIYI5JQLE

Paraffin wax is derived from petroleum, so like the wood in Feynman's explanation, the energy is from the sun via ancient photosynthesis.
Solana Szn Hackathon – $1M in crypto prizes and seed funding
Ok. I'll bite, just to see where this goes. Please name 3 productive uses for the number. Then apply the same methods to show how they're useful with both USD and gold. Thanks!
Collins also spent a lot of time outside of radio comms.

If something had gone wrong on the dark side of the moon, we might never have known what happened. We'd have had a perfectly cheerful conversation with the command module pilot, then a comms blackout, then nothing... With a lot of coordination, the lander crew could possibly have returned to the command module without Collins's support to find out what happened to him (and hopefully found a CM still in a condition to go home).

And for all that, he reported in his autobiography that it didn't bother him.
Google puts NY GDP at 1.75T, and Paris GDP at 785M (in USD).

So more than double?
If the 999,999 were worthless at the time they were initially transferred, then there is no taxable event.

Now if they become worth $1 each and he sells them at that price then it is a taxable event. The threshold may have changed with respect to gifts but if the coins were worth $1 at the time they were initially transferred there may be a taxable event, I think it used to be $50k was tax free.
It's easy, depending how to ask question:

Checks and Balances CSV:

==============================================

Tourists,Cash Register,Bell guy

30,0,0

0,30,0

3,25,2
Two reasons:

1. Legal contracts are supposed to be as detailed as possible so there's as little room for disagreement as possible when taken to court.

2. It's better for companies if users don't take the time to read and understand their terms, and beyond a certain length and complexity they will just scroll through and click yes.
No response needed, but I think it's interesting that you (and others) use safe language to describe the perpetrators, like "nobody" and "nextdoor groups", when really it's just other white people.
The Richest Men Are Brawling over the Moon
See if you can acquire information without taking up space.
Then why shouldn't we apply this same standard to government projects? Any time a government project doesn't go perfectly it's used an excuse to scrap the very concept of government since "they can't do anything right".
This is turning into an american problem not just for transportation reasons.

For example, take the general culture of outrage. Over time has permeated into the right to have free-roaming kids.

The US has had high profile cases of parents sent to jail , because of twitter gestapo reporting. When the pendulum swung too hard on this direction, there was also pushback: concerned parents lobbied to pass laws enshrining the right of parents to make the determination of when kids can roam freely.

The answer is more complex, but certainly there is an american angle to it.
> Government intervention is constantly needed to keep a free market in balance

"Constant government intervention" is incompatible with the definition (literally) of a free market.
Is Your Low-Code Platform Reducing Backlogs or Just Shifting Them?
Developers, or publishers already do play a yearly fee (~100USD ~100Euro) to Apple in order to publish apps to their app store.
> how much extra time and distance is covered/experienced traveling to an event horizon?

I'm not sure what "extra" means, but a general rule of thumb is that the time to fall goes like the 3/2 power of the radial coordinate you are falling from. (Strictly speaking, this is the time to fall to the singularity, not the horizon, but for falling in from large radial coordinates, which will be the case for virtually all cases of interest, the difference is small.) The only technical complication is that this rule is true if the time and radial coordinate are in units of the Schwarzschild radius of the hole; you then have to convert to conventional units. A couple of specific examples:

Black hole of one solar mass, observer falling into the hole from a distance of 3 million kilometers (which is about 4.3 times the radius of the actual Sun--the distance is chosen for reasons that will appear in a moment). This makes the radial coordinate 1 million, 10^6, in units of the Schwarzschild radius of the hole (which is 3 km), so the time to fall will be 10^9, 1 billion, times the light-travel time across that distance, which is 10 microseconds (10^-5 seconds). So the time to fall will be 10^4 seconds, or about 3 hours.

Black hole of one million solar masses, observer falling into the hole from a distance of 30 billion kilometers (or about 5 times the semi-major axis of the orbit of Pluto around the Sun). Here the radial coordinate is only 10^4 in units of the Schwarzschild radius, so the time to fall will be 10^6 times the light travel time across that radius, which is 10 seconds (a million times 10 microseconds). So the time to fall will be about 10^7 seconds, or about 4 months.
There are alphabets not derived from Greek (but stil on the Phoenician/Egyptian family):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_script
It seems to automatically select "pay off ASAP" (probably a bug). You can turn this off by resetting the monthly payment and then it seems to work as expected.
Except the fat goes out of your body and the candle is going into your body.
Yeah this is correct. I was able to use a Magisk module to whitelist the KDE Connect app in Android 10 and it worked fine.

This is only for rooted devices so it's not really something most people are going to be able to do.

https://github.com/Kr328/Riru-ClipboardWhitelist
Same here. I was intrigued by both writing style and then the way the diagram was drawn. Scrolled up and sure enough i found it's from Randall Munroe, as expected :)
Isn't Japan known for tearing down homes after 25-30 years? Are commercial buildings built to last?
Rethinking Fedora's Compiler Policy
Related study, which I found interesting, that confirms the weight you “lose” is excreted primarily through your breath:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287046#Tracking-th...
There's a hell of a lot more.

Michael Faraday's "Chemical History of a Candle" is a very readable masterpiece on the subject, despite its age.

The Engineering Guy has done much to revive Faraday's work: http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday/
How bizarre. I've never heard of a framework with built-in telemetry, much less opt-out. I'm surprised this doesn't limit its reach in certain industries.

And this isn't just for their official hosting service? That would be much more understandable
Last years Chang'e 5 mission was essentially a robotic Apollo mission. This decade does look to be promising for Lunar exploration.
It's been some years since I played with it, but I think vMac worked on PPCs? If so, then you could run vMac inside of Sheepshaver and get 5. If the early version of Virtual PC works in vMac, then you could get 6.

If someone knows of an emulator that would run under early 90's DOS, then you could get to 7.
Ah yes, with "heat" I meant a nice fire.