skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything Paul wrote about in this post resonated with me. He avoided any examples, and looking through these HN comments, it's clear why. A lot of people assume that his experiences are specific, but no, there really is a culture of shooting down crazy new ideas.

I can think of a few examples of crazy ideas being dismissed. I remember seeing this post where someone was trying to figure out if it was possible to verify that a photo was either undoctored or else that someone went through a lot of trouble to hack the camera hardware of a phone. The post started off in the vein of, "Here's this idea, and even though it sounds crazy, I can't convince myself that it's a bad idea." The peanut gallery had all sorts of reasons that it was a bad idea -- I think my favorite reason was that it would be immoral to try to provide this capability. Paul's essay suggests a few reasons that this crazy idea might have generated such a personal attack.

Crazy new ideas are uncomfortable. I'm reminded of "Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff, which describes the "croc brain" that protects the higher functioning parts of our brain by trying to discard anything that is uncomfortable. A crazy new idea challenges our worldview, so it's going to be uncomfortable.

There's a class of ideas that engineers are comfortable with: incremental improvements. If there's a framework in place to evaluate an idea, it doesn't make people so uncomfortable. By extension, if an idea is non-incremental, meaning it's a crazy new idea, then since it makes us uncomfortable, it should be rejected immediately.

I remember a conversation about the value of an idea. There's the school of thought that ideas are worthless -- a monkey with a typewriter can hammer out ten ideas before their breakfast banana. Another viewpoint recognizes that good ideas are important starting points, but after that the only thing that matters is hard work.

My feeling is that crazy new ideas are more like a lottery ticket: probably worthless. I don't know, maybe the peanut gallery is right. Since the lottery ticket is probably worthless, the easiest thing to do is to toss them all in the trash before checking them against the winning numbers.
They didn't need it, capitol police were largely on their side.

If it had been BLM, they would have shot to kill.
Walmart Health to Acquire Telehealth Provider MeMD
If I were the president, I'd start up a DoJ tasks force to prepare for anti-trust proceeding and start some rumors about nationalization of such "critical infrastructure."

Maybe the tanking stock price that results will force the Board of Directors to replace the top brass at these companies with someone much less brazen. If not, whelp, maybe there was some truth in those rumors.
Totally unrelated but why are you 20 versions behind? Is there some specific use case or just can’t upgrade for whatever reason?
> it just seems wrong to replace someone else's ads with your own.

I can see how it might feel scummy to do this, but on the other hand, from a rational perspective I'm having a tough time seeing what's wrong with it. If it's because it's taking away revenue from the party serving the ads, then replacing the ads is no worse than blocking ads entirely. If it's because the organization blocking the ads is directly benefiting as a result, I'd argue that's already happening just by blocking ads, just not necessarily in a direct monetary manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Revolution:_A_New_...

It's Sean McMeekin. He spends time on some things that are often missed. But the Revolution is of course a huge topic.
> I don’t understand why there is a flood of pure speculation in this comment section assuming that the design must be worst-case and trash.

The implementation is irrelevant because the fundamental idea is horribly broken.

"Default deny" and "safety equipment" are like oil and fire.

(If you really want to understand why this is stupid: Just go use some software with the FlexLM license manager and you will understand at a deep psychological level why this is a horrible idea.)
> They pass that on to the consumer. It's Comacst trying to indirectly charge their customr twice for not using Comcast's streaming platform.

I can also opt out of Netflix but I have to use an ISP. I'd rather go for a larger ISP market & stimulate more competition, with solutions such as small ISPs, municipal ISPs, & distributed networks.

The costs of NN are in the regulation, the extra laws that will include pork & more funding for government agencies. Also the ISP market used by everybody shrinks while the large content companies get a subsidy for flooding the commons, incentivizing these large content companies to grow even larger.

With the development of distributing computing, distributed networks, & open source/free software, there are new solutions on the table today that were not available a few years ago. I'd rather go with a bottom up effort to make the state of the art & my life better than top down legislation that only creates more government, more expenses, & does not benefit me.
Nah. There was quite recently a very interesting article about personality differences across sex on this very website.
But being suuper interested in "human biodiversity" without going through the upfront pain of explaining to the reader that you aren't trying to rehash a lot of old racist garbage is, well, a huge red flag.
People often argue the contrarian point that we wouldn't have good things if it wasn't for bad things, and that therefore, bad things are ultimately good. No Internet without DARPA. No instant coffee without World War 2. But think of all the great technologies we wouldn't have without the Nazis!
With Big Sur I finally did my first fresh install of macOS since Jaguar (10.2). It took me an entire weekend and while it’s nice to have a clean out I think I’ll just do a time machine restore when I finally get an M1 Mac.
> Separation of church and state should be followed by separation of companies and state.

Very interesting!
This is not new, though. So it may be a dream in the sense of people have been asleep?
Well, that's pretty awful, and I appreciate the counter point. However, I'd draw a distinction between the actions of a single person that don't equate to the large scale coordinated attacks of the same sort by Anti-NN groups.
Use cases for such [LD: Linked Data] metadata:

1. #StructuredPremises:

> (How do I indicate that this is a https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle predicated upon premises including this Dataset and these logical propositions?)

2. #LinkedMetaAnalyses; #LinkedResearch "#StudyGraph"

3. [CSVW (Tabular Data Model),] schema.org/Dataset(s) with per column (per-feature) physical quantity and unit URIs with e.g. QUDT and/or https://schema.org/StructuredValue metadata for maximum data reusability.

4. JupyterLab notebooks:

4a. JupyterLab Metadata Service extension: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-metadata-service :

> - displays linked data about the resources you are interacting with in JuyterLab.

> - enables other extensions to register as linked data providers to expose JSON LD about an entity given the entity's URL.

> - exposes linked data to the user as a Linked Data viewer in the Data Browser pane.

4b. JupyterLab Data Explorer: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-data-explorer :

> - Data changing on you? Use RxJS observables to represent data over time.

> - Have a new way to look at your data? Create React or lumino components to view a certain type.

> - Built-in data explorer UI to find and use available datasets.
I am a Scrum Master, because I decided that if I can't avoid Agile, at least I might learn to do it properly. So I got some training and read some books. And I was confused, because "this sounds nice, but is totally unlike any Agile I have actually seen as a developer".

Then I took my role, and tried to implement the first thing they taught us at the training... but the management said "no". So I tried a different thing... but the management said "no" again. I asked what's the point of sending me to an Agile training if they override all my decisions, and the answer was, more or less, "we are doing Agile this way". My options were limited to do "Agile" their way, or to quit my role and be replaced by someone who will do "Agile" their way.

So now we are doing Agile the way everyone hates and everyone does, with me in the role of the bad guy. Except our standups are 5 minutes long, because... that's the only part that remained firmly under my control. Otherwise, everything is the opposite of what the Agile trainings and books said. The management made a big announcement where they congratulated themselves for successfully transforming the company to Agile.

From my perspective, this answers the question why "true Agile has never been tried". The people who make the decisions, they want the buzzwords and some of the rituals. They do not really want to give up any of their managing power.

To try the Agile as intended... you would probably have to start a cooperative. Or be a very enlightened founder who can resist the temptation to use their power.
Yeah, I think the average European probably takes more time off than even Americans that think they take a lot of time off.

We get 32 days + public holidays, so you could take something like 7 weeks off with careful planning. Most people do. Because most people do, it isn't looked down upon at all.

A friend at a US firm said they told him if someone could take 3 weeks off then clearly the company didn't need them and there wouldn't be a job to come back to. Here it wouldn't be anything unusual at all.
“Bitcoin maximalist” is a pejorative invented by Vitalik Buterin circa the Ethereum ICO. It’s best understood as a laxative for one’s disposable income, prescribed by the Ethereum doctors to be imbibed by would-be altcoin investors.

Altcoin promoters quickly attached themselves to the term for financially motivated reasons, unsurprisingly. Notably it has little to no meme/entertainment value: its value is strictly limited to psychological warfare, and is rooted in sophistry.
I also often wonder how things like GMail sentence/phrase autocomplete will affect overall societal phrasing in the future.

I mean, I love this feature, and when I'm writing an email trying to find a mutually agreeable time and place for a meeting I don't want to think that hard about how to phrase it. But over time it feels like that part of my brain that can think of more interesting phrasing will atrophy.
It's a bit of a thing:

> The group’s modus operandi involved renting a yacht from a charter company with different passports in each case, paying all costs in cash, and then taking out the automatic identification system of the yacht and putting it in a remote control toy boat to make the renters think that the yacht was adrift in territorial waters. Meanwhile, the stolen yacht had already reached international waters.

* http://theislander.net/member-of-yacht-robbery-group-arreste...

Of course fencing a boat can be difficult, but I'm guessing they probably break it up for parts (engine, electronics, galley/kitchen, etc).
Probably a masters program / PhD if you’ve got a compelling argument as to why you would be a good candidate.
How long until Google shuts this service down?
What about basketball or run together? Unless you can get a measurement of extreme proximity
Context? Is this just about Tantacrul being brought on board to work on the UI?
There's no discussion, but the Rekt News feed is consistently interesting content. Seems HN inspired: https://feed.rekt.news/day
Out of every video Kurzgesagt has ever produced, my favorite is this one, which talks about a stellar engine that a type Ⅱ civilization could be using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3y8AIEX_dU
OK yeah that sounds like BS. Does that basically mean you can't even change employers unless you move 500 miles away?

And what even is the significance of 500 miles when it comes to software?
South Carolina may become the fourth state to allow executions by firing squad
Update: Turns out the Send/Sync article did receive an update giving more information/guidance... on GitHub... and not on the actual published website. https://github.com/rust-lang/nomicon/commit/8551afbb2ca6f5ea...

Update 2: The changes to the GitHub repository are only being reflected in the nightly Nomicon, not the main webpage. Link to update: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/send-and-sync.html...

Update 3: Perhaps they are being reflected in the main webpage, but with a delay (possibly once per language release?)
HSBC's Voice ID prevents £249M of attempted fraud
There's degrees in everything.

Permissionless--nobody can stop a transaction from taking place because of ideology.

Decentralised--the miners and the software devs have to agree on something to make a hard change. This has happened so rarely as to be a non-issue. When it does happen, the currency forks and those that want to use it can do so as they please.

BTC became LiteCoin, BCH, and BSV from hard protocol forks.

Ethereum forked from Ethereum Classic.

Hive forked from Steamit as Tron tried a hostile takeover.

Trustless -- Here trustless really mean visibility. I can verify everything is correct in the chain myself. I don't have to believe there are gold bars in a vault somewhere, but to a degree it also means I can trust there's no central authority that may be ponzi-ing or ready to abuse the protocol.
Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
It’s funny because Google does not use these standards to validate.

I keep getting errors from Google that some of my dataset’s descriptions are over 5,000 characters even though dcat:description does not have a size limit.

Of course it’s impossible for me to report a bug in how they index.
Not disputing your point at all - genuinely! But would you be fine if Google started serving you ads in your notifications?

I'm just rephrasing it, because for some reason it would be creepier for me if Google served ads in notifications - but that may just be me.
The other side of that is that we can't ramp EV production quickly enough to cause that swap out to happen any time soon, at least as far as I understand the industry.

If we are at 100% of new vehicles being electric in 2030, I'd be surprised but also ecstatic.
It reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out— One hundred and thirteen times a second.
> the basic problem that some people have much more disposable income than others

That's the basic problem? We tried communism. It doesn't work.

> And so: ads. Funding the open web.

Or to put it another way: Ads waste human life and productivity.

If you waste 10 seconds of Elon Musk's time, yes actually the world just lost more than if you waste 10 seconds of my time.

And if you let me pay $1 instead of wasting my time, then I can spend that time being productive for more than $1, adding more to the collective value of the world.

Wasting everyone's time equally is actually hurting everyone, because it means taking away the positive-sum value produced by exchange of values.

I'm not saying inequality isn't a problem, but man, you say that ANY difference in equality of disposable income is a PROBLEM? That's just a race to the bottom of caring or doing anything at all for other people.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Machine Learning with Seeed's ReTerminal
The celebrity market (or showbiz in general) is poised to be disrupted by YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok as the gatekeepers (production and distribution houses) have been effectively thrown off from their perch.
This is a great analogy, I might have to steal it.
The best content I get these days are from people who create content for free (hobbyists with personal sites, discussions on web forums, ad free podcasts, etc.). Getting rid of ads would make this content a lot easier to find, as it would get rid of all the SEO spam that clutters up the internet at the moment.
Most industrial compressors (IE rotary screw, scroll, rotary vane, etc) have aftercoolers, because the temperature of compression is pretty high.
The aftercooler causes most of the water to condense out.

So what you lose is efficiency, because it will take compressing more intake air to get the same yield of compressed air at a certain pressure/dewpoint.

(this is why you often see a lot of wet storage tanks for air - leaving it in the tank lets a lot of the intake air water condense at the bottom)

Aftercoolers remove a ton of of the water, and so you often get an 20 degree approach temperature.

Removing more than that requires some form of air dryer.
In German, the vowels between schwül and schwul were really difficult to do for me as an American English speaker. I couldn't ever hear the difference between rounded and unrounded vowels. American English vowels are only rounded in the back. u and o (and in the East the au in caught).
Jeff Bezos – Regret Minimization Framework (2008)
Downvoting this because it is not about beer.
They could also be wrestling, e.g., brothers and sisters.

So as with all sensing data: context is critical to interpreting the data.
I've never been able to get over Handshake basing their domain-claiming system on DNSSEC -- and when they launched they couldn't even claim their _own domain_ because .org was still signed with a RSASHA1-NSEC3-SHA1 key: https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/issues/399

It, uh, didn't inspire a lot of confidence.
PayPal tips reveal physical address of tipper [Tweet Thread]
horse staple battery correct? Now I have to change my password!
About the only thing practical thing that valve does is perhaps lengthen the time fir the tank to rust out. Any serious industrial installation winds up with a refrigerated water removal unit.
Companies wouldn't stop paying for advertisement if we banned internet advertising, they'd have to spend more in other advertisement spaces and now those spaces aren't funding the search which we'd have to pay for.
Also known as fractional reserve banking (the money can make loan more money than it has in its reserve).

If someone tries to do a bank run the fed will supply the bank with missing money, in part, because the fed was created by private banks to counter bank runs.
I'm mainly responding to the part of your comment noting jobs created and cheaper goods as an intrinsically net positive ("good") for society. I agree that the free market does not tend to create completely useless jobs, but such jobs can and do exist in a society. Most economies are not simply free markets, many are partly directed or interfered with (depending on your perspective) by governments. This can result in some pointless jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make-work_job) or mis-allocation of resources toward less productive work (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra).

Or, let's say the jobs created are for producing more cigarettes and asbestos. Do you think that producing more cigarettes and asbestos, which requires more jobs, is "good" for society?
That's a very fair point, I had not thought of it in that way at all. I guess they are two ways of approaching it -

1. Brave is replacing Google Ads with their own ads.
2. Brave already blocks Google Ads, they might as well make some money while doing so and add their own.

Funnily, I don't find either of these wrong, so I'm not sure which one to believe. I'd love to hear your opinion on it though!
It’s ok, but surprisingly feature poor since they only index datasets with structured metadata. I kind of wish they would compile all their metadata into a structured mega-catalog and allowed searching by api. Or just dumped it out as a dataset itself.
This feels like a weird compressor. The chart looks good but ìm not sure about the actual result
So google should give up 180 Billion in revenue because some idea you cant name might work?
but did he do it incorrectly, or frequently?
Black Legion (Political Movement)
Building a DIY centrifuge is a great way to become a Darwin award candidate.
Do you really think referencing brainfuck, a deliberately difficult language, is the right way to get your point across?
I can't beat 5 lines. Another goal: Find a state where it gives me a T piece. I've gotten all the other pieces

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> I can also opt out of Netflix but I have to use an ISP. I'd rather go for a larger ISP market & more competition.

It's not mutually exclusive. And I'll throw out there that the days of the most competition in the ISP space, the days of dial up, had these same provisions on the books. Since it was based on phone lines, the last mile providers were all full Title II Common Carriers, with these same provisions.

And what specific laws and regulations were a burden? Net neutrality existed already as rules on the books before being removed by Pai's FCC. I always here vague "think of the burden", but no one can point to the actual burden except in vague, propagandistic terms deeper than name dropping "regulation".
Why is the orange colour different on macOS?

I've noticed the same effect when I switch to Mac and browse HN (the top bar becomes unreadable).
Make flowcharts without touching your mouse
Centralization is a spectrum.
Proximity to success has no bearing on whether it was an attempt.
Brave does make money off of them - they get 30%, you get 70%, I believe.

And yes, the idea of sending BAT to websites directly was excellent. The website needs to have registered for the BAT wallet though. (Not a big deal, of course)
Audacity is licenced under GPL, I can't imagine a mainstream FOSS licence with more consideration for user's freedom.

Is it some FUD?
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As Spanish speaker I struggled myself with that one, sweating, and probably over correcting making the e super long beeeeach to be safe. :D
There was some GitHub pull request with Google Analytics implementation for Audacity posted on HN.
GPL-licensed Gadgetbridge for Android [1] allows syncing various fitness trackers to your phone without internet connection

[1]: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/
There was no sense of urgency because the closest to reaching the limit aside from Berkshire is several factors away. Also, Berkshire stock has surged ~30% in the past ~6 months which is far above usual performance.

Those aspects together probably allowed it to be deprioritized until it would be closer to being necessary (a classic tale).

It is rather funny to imagine Warren Buffett sitting there mumbling about stock splits and the incompetence of it all, and how in his day, you could buy a share for however much cash you wanted to without worrying about integers and bits and code.
Thank you for clarifying. I was responding in the context of the original comment that denied it was an attempted coup. Given that was the original context that started this, I think reading your comment in a similar light was not unreasonable since your distinction might have been implied, but not explicit. It was merely a miscommunication.

I too would agree that it was highly unlikely to be successful. Had it gone even a few large steps further in seriously injuring members of congress (also unlikely) I still think the worse-case outcome in terms of transfer of power would have been extra days of delay as appropriate cautions were taken to secure congress.
Can you please answer the question about the specific alternative approaches you are proposing?
This is just cargo culting the Dropbox "you could just use FTP" comment.
That instruction clears upper 4 bytes of the rdi register. Note the next instruction uses rdi in the address.

edi register is the lower 4 bytes of rdi. Instructions which write these smaller pieces zero out the unused higher bytes of the destination registers. This helps with performance because eliminates data dependencies on the old values in these higher bytes.