skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been watching this thing from the start. I've not seen a lot of that.

The worst comments are gone. I reported some to Github and they removed the responsible accounts.

> People are outraged at being tracked

People are outraged at opt-in functionality. Whether it should exist is worth discussing (and, of course, how it should be implemented) - but lets not pretend that there is some evil move to "steal" your data going on here.
Audio transcription would mean speech to text. Once I get the json I need to do some modifications on it and store it in cloud as a json file. However to do that, I need to load it entirely in memory, make my changes and then write it to file.

The problem here I am facing is, when the object is loaded a lot of memory is used and the memory used is not freed fully, so the difference in this accumulates gradually. So I was looking for formats which can be processed without keeping the entire text in memory.
This is its best feature. It would simply end banking as storage of money also - banks would have to pay more interest if they wanted to compete against zero-interest but absolutely safe government money market checking accounts. There'd be no public interest in the government insuring them anymore, either.

Instead of choosing a bank, most people would be looking for access to the widest network of broker ATMs.

We could solve this stuff with very centralized postal banking also, so the crypto part ultimately isn't super interesting for me unless it solves some scale problem relating to speed of settlement, costs and/or allowing untrusted middlemen.
If you want to see Ubuntu 20.04 in action, check this.

https://vivek9patel.github.io/
“So, BBVA took over Simple. No one can access their bank account.”
IIRC, even they have been forced to increase enforcement of western IP rights over the last decade, because US has been pressuring them to (back before Trump and the whole trade war thing).

This is a generally applicable answer: IP rights hold power worldwide mostly because the no.1 country that wants them has military and economic dominance over most of the planet.
Only if you have it enabled.

But it wouldn't matter anyway, that other party in the communication could easily be somewhere with phone service but no data. Or someone in the group sms could be on a non apple device. Boom, Just like that, your communications have been sent to multiple carriers, including your own. Those carriers all pinky swear that they won't do anything bad with your sms though. So I suppose it's not that much of a problem. /s

Why would anyone use a public network to communicate in secret? If you have a need for stealth communication with another individual, (maybe you're a dissident or what have you), then you should use the proper techniques. And, yes, keep your data encrypted on your own iPhone. Do not back it up to iCloud. Or Amazon Photos. Or Backblaze. Or Dropbox. Or etc etc etc.

Oh, and never, ever, use Android. You likely don't have the technical know how to make a commercially available android device private.
I can see the reasoning behind this. People don't want to help Bezos get another holiday home; they would rather funnel money into local businesses for obvious reasons (like helping a little boy buy his team jersey or a little girl get dance lessons for example).

One caveat to the local alternatives is the friction involved if it's an e-commerce store where users have to register their details. Most will happily register, but some will find the friction unbearable.
> All the semitic languages omit vowels (although there are some mater lectionis).

I think it is just most. Maltese uses the Latin alphabet. Amharic and Tigrinya use Ge'ez which encodes vowel information. Also Arabizi, Arabic in Latin alphabet, is popular for writing local variations of Arabic.
I'm a millennial and remember the Geocities days, however in my opinion the internet is more open than ever. Anyone can get a cheap VPS, raspberry Pi, or a plethora of other hosting options and publish what they want. We have so many incredible open-source and free libraries & tools for building these things, and getting them out into the world.

This is really a cultural problem, not a technical or political one. And given how cyclical culture seems to be, I have little doubt that in a few years we'll swing back to a rich federation of independent services and content.
Last weekend, I went looking for a particular kind of garment. I wasn't hopeful, but I thought I would give local shops a chance. I did it by going around, looking in various local stores, and talking to people. I did this in four or so different spots. I spent probably three to four hours at it.

After that process, I was no closer to the garment I sought than I had been when I woke up. What I had learned from my efforts to shop local and talk to people was that the things I sought weren't carried by anyone nearby.

I went online, and found exactly what I wanted in under ten minutes. It arrived two days later and fit perfectly.

Speaking only and solely for myself, and narrowly about that experience last weekend, I fail to see what I gained. I already knew how to search for what I want. I talked to a few people and mostly learned that none of them could help me.

This raises the question of why I bothered with attempting to buy local when I correctly guessed that it would be fruitless.

I understand that for some people this experience of traipsing from store to store searching for what is not to be found is the most enjoyable part of the whole experience. Sometimes I'm not that person.
Do you want to live in a world where the best thing that can be said about the software you use is that it isn't worse than what other software was able to get away with?

Demand better.
All these attacks usually caused by two things, office macros and mimikatz.
Yep. If you listen to "hillbilly music" and "blues" from the 20s and 30s, or "rock" and "r&b" from the 50s or 60s, they are musically indistinguishable. The difference almost always solely lies in the race of the musicians or the target audience
I'm surprised we don't see more attacks on pipelines - both digital and physical. There are many folks out there who take issue with them or see them as a vulnerable part of our infrastructure.
You can still divide your salary by how many hours you work in an average year.
Indeed, they are rationalizations. Whether out of fear of the unknown or attachment to what he has. Our cognitive bias is such that losing something feels worse than gaining. I think some are more or less novelty-seeking by nature, but the environment around you has an impact.

If I think of it as a strategy it makes more sense, i.e. "doing the same thing has worked well and will probably continue to do well, so I'll continue to bet on it". That hardly demands all the extra pre-conceived notions, but people view challenges to their ideas as a threat when they've made them part of their identity.
What is your argument here?
It can also be a good idea to swap recursively. First swap the upper and lower half, then swap the upper and lower quarters (bytes for a 32bit) which can be done with only 2 masks. Then if its 64bit value swap alternate bytes, again with only 2 masks. This can be extended all the way to full bit reverse in 3 more lines each with 2 masks and shifts.
Show HN: A portfolio website simulating Ubuntu 20.04
You can probably cut down the default heap size, get it to use 32 bit pointers for a small heap, etc. . The JVM has quite a few startup options that you could use if the memory footprint of hundreds of tiny instances is a bottleneck for you. Might even speed things up a bit more.
Libertarianism thrives here and in most successful Silicon Valley.
Still, it’s hard to justify a grouse signaling a coming death by sitting on top of a house. That is magic to us at this point and such a tale would usually be met with skepticism. The things about the weather I don’t have much of a problem with.
Very interesting. I expected another Video Chat + IDE. There seems to be more. Nice.
I am not defending Apple here but perhaps they intend to make this a public entitlement or even an official API but they are working with Zoom to test it first.

We know Apple gives testing priority to certain developers, they mention it at practically every presentation they do. Granted those are usually for NDA’d features for making demo-only apps.
While I like Telegram, I'm not sure if moving from an app with end-to-end encryption to one that either doesn't use it by default (for direct messages) or doesn't support it at all (for groups) is a good idea.

I get the idea of avoiding Facebook, but Telegram can see your messages in plain text...
https://redd.it/an79j2

Never gets too hot, never gets too cold, doesn't rain at all for half the year, you can grow just about anything in your garden, there's natural beauty all around and you get get out there quickly and easily to enjoy it — beaches, snowy mountains, hiking, rolling hills...
Looking at the 99% times and memory usage, it looks to me like rust came out on top if you’re looking at best worst-case performance. Any idea why the tail latency was so much better for rust vs Java or c++? E.g. specific work that went into it or language optimizations?
Ursula Le Guin Books
From what I remember, the monolith part of 2001 came from Clarke’s earlier story The Sentinal, in which IIRC it was a transparent tetrahedron. Since the story and movie of 2001 were made simultaneously, I think Clarke/Kubrick ended up switching to black so it would look better on screen.
Responds to accusations of self-righteousness via a self-righteous pedantic critique. Too bad you can’t use the clown emoji on HN ;)
Lobsters' Invitation Tree
If you have a few minutes, you should watch this. Backyard eggs are not ethical either.

https://youtu.be/7YFz99OT18k

TL:DR; 1) loss of nutrients and problems for the hen when they lay unnatural amount of eggs.
2) lot of issues to these hens such as loss of calcium, yolk and other items stuck inside and causing infection
3) killing these hens when they stop laying eggs (and therefore the implication that their life was only to serve you and treat them as a resource.)

That said, since there are so many vegans out there that don’t have any medical problems, do you think the health problems you face when not eating dairy and eggs are because you are not eating certain food groups? Perhaps a health exam will find out if you have some nutritional deficiencies?
Book Review: Noise – A Flaw in Human Judgment
Simple.com transitioned to BBVA USA last night (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25674964) and customers can't access their accounts. BBVA's support phone number plays "I'm sorry, we are experiencing difficulties. Please call back at a later time. Goodbye." and hangs up.

They've been preparing for months and still managed to screw it up.

BBVA doesn't have a status page or even status tweets, so the hundreds or thousands of tweets this morning from Simple customers is the best source of information: https://twitter.com/search?q=to%3Abbva_usa&src=typed_query&f... , and the replies to https://twitter.com/BBVA_USA/status/1391030158895747076
Interesting, I didn't know that about Reich. Another leftfield hitmaker, Bill Drummond of the KLF, came to a similar conclusion, which prompted him to start a series of collaborative live music projects ("the 17" maybe the most well-known)
Quantum theory is about linear reversible evolution based on some Hamiltonian operator. GR is non-linear non-Hamiltonian theory (a naive Hamiltonian is zero); it has strange one-way solutions such as irreversible collapse of stars into black holes.

These two theories have very different mathematics and different concepts of state. Nobody has been able to connect them in a way that would be a "success" - a unified theory that explains both GR and QT in a consistent way.
> What's exactly capitalistic about this?

Squeezing as much profit as possible for shareholders while externalising costs. It’s a poster child when you think about it!
The new stuff. My mom introduced me to Hindemith and Bartok.
Why mask and then shift instead of casting to the correct type and then shifting, like this:

(uint32_t)x[0] << 24 | ...

Of course, this requires that x[0] be unsigned.
Defending Against Web Scraping Attacks
Or charity
Why would one choose the memory representation of the number based on the advantages of the internal ALU wiring?

Of all those reasons, the only one I can make sense of is the "I can’t transparently widen fields after the fact!", and that one is way too niche to explain anything.
China is not "poor" by any stretch of the imagination.
A Year of WFL (Working from Linux)
I personally predict that there is a 10 years window for any developing country to jump over the entry barrier to a technology developed state, once automation takes over developed world, the window will be closed forever.

For developing world, it sucks both ways, with or without global warming.
Throughput is a very valuable metric.
> Would be nice to have separate data lines, running fiber optics sealed in pressurized conduits for double tamper detection.

At least German Telekom has been doing this for ages for the trunk cables serving entire areas with analog phone service - although not for tamper detection as an anti-spionage measure, but rather to detect and pinpoint damage to the cables, e.g. from excavators, tree growth or splice seals degrading.
Would govcoins/CBDCs shift power from individuals to the state, or from the banks to the state? (I'm assuming you don't count the banks among the individuals you are referring to.)

Given the nature of bank regulations today, I don't think that the power-relationship between individuals and the government will change substantially with the introduction of CBDCs. Even today, governments set policies as to what kinds of accounts banks can keep open, and what type of business bank customers are permitted to transact using their bank accounts. Banks are required to report potentially suspicious activity surreptitiously to law enforcement agencies, and are required to disclose their customers' information and activity to the government when asked. I'm not sure how much more power individuals would be giving up.

What will change, however, is that banks would find it difficult to operate once a CBDC has been introduced in a country. Consumers would prefer to receive and make payments through an electronic system that charges lower fees. Businesses would prefer to hold their cash assets in a flexible medium that is fully backed by the central bank, rather than having to worry about extending credit to a commercial bank (which could become very risky after the introduction of CBDCs). Bank balances would be transferred to CBDCs on a massive scale, putting many banks in financial peril.

An argument might be made that CBDCs would speed up the demise of physical cash—which I wouldn't entirely disagree with. That is, however, a question pertaining to the slope of that particular trend line, not its general direction. The current banking system is already pushing us towards giving up cash; the pressures that are preventing physical cash from being eliminated are largely cultural and political, not economic or infrastructural. CBDCs' effect on the politics and culture of physical cash will at most be general and incremental.
Most of the time when I'm driving, I'm streaming music. I'd be okay if my next car had no radio as long as it has Android Auto or CarPlay.
The universities aren't the ones collecting the money. In fact, they the main targets of the extortion.

Most professors care mostly about prestige (reputation for being smart, wise or innovative) and would prefer to ignore or disdain the economic and legal aspects of life. OK, that is a little unfair: most profs want to focus on their specialty and sometimes don't pay enough attention to how their actions interact with the law and the economy to affect university libraries far away.

Academic publishers, e.g., Elsevier, give professors prestige in exchange for the professors' assigning copyright (legal ownership) of the professor's writings to the publishers with the result that a university library (which is typically far away from the publishing professor's own university) must pay the publishers to give its students and faculty access the academic literature without constantly running into the paywalls that people who are not students or faculty run into.
This is one of tge more annoying aspects of the Executive branch that just rubs me the wrong way the older I get. The whole infor.ation control aspect.

I do not like perception management, and for the definition of a set of public services, the Federal government sure does seem to do a hell of a lot of it. Nat Sec be damned, it isn't a blank check.

Furthermore, once you start doing things like creating mew classifications to ease up the logistics of getting people who can actually work with it, that sure sounds like you're abusing classification (using the word in the "bucketing info for special treatment" sense) far beyond the realm of what you should be.

Nevermind that it makes questions about the current state of DoD classification minutiae the best Fed bait on the planet.
"I'm talking 20th or 21st century classical"

I can't consider anything so recent to be "classical" -- it might imitate the style of older music, but to call that 'classical' makes the word basically meaningless, or that it's only a style (however that would be defined). To me, 'classical' means that it has survived and thrived across _many_ years.
Location Services being on systemwide sends your location 24/7 to Apple. It's not just GPS reception, it also uploads the list of wifi MAC addresses it can see, with signal strengths, to improve its location fix.
I used to default to Amazon because of this. But nowadays many shops don't need an account anymore, the browser can autofill that data and credit cards with 3d secure (basically 2fa) seem safe enough. Finding those shops to me is now the "hardest" part.
Microsoft does also contribute to the Rust project itself, alongside the other stuff folks are talking about.
I find it super convenient to turn on one of the streaming radio stations such as WFMT in Chicago. It eliminates all of the organizational overhead of curating the music that I listen to, and it's good enough. I certainly hear a lot of stuff that I've never heard before.

Also, re streaming, I have a throttled cell phone service, so my data usage isn't unlimited.
I think my preference would be that hardware manufacturers should give the ability to boot other operating systems. Then if people want to run their own software they can without forcing someone else’s OS to fit them. Then there can be no more arguments about not owning your own device, run what you want on it. Consoles, phones, laptops whatever.
In case it hasn't crossed your mind yet

Its the chinese
I'm wondering why it's only 38%. They charge a lot and mostly work with volunteers. It should not cost 62% of what they charge to run a website to host some pdfs.
I get what you're saying and that could very well be the case, but I think the 'pipeline' as a whole requires a lot of handshaking between the different stations. They would not be able to do this without their supervisory control later (or at least it would be particularly difficult). That alone could have caused them to shut it down.

Additionally, if there was a whiff of malicious software or unintended access I would imagine they would want to make sure it didn't get into other systems. That would involve isolating and possibly shutting down machines and equipment.

I guess we'll see when they release more information. I would imagine that we'll get more details since this is critical infrastructure.
I dont think wild-fires and homelessness gets better with less people. The latter gets a lot worse even, by increasing general pop/homelessness.
> One byte = one "character" makes for much easier programming.

Only if you are naively operating in the Anglosphere / world where the most complex thing you have to handle is larger character sets. In reality, there's ligatures, diacritics, combining characters, RTL, nbsp, locales, and emoji (with skin tones!). Not to mention legacy encoding.

And no, it does not use a "small fraction of memory and storage" in a huge range of applications, to the point where some regions have transcoding proxies still.
Perhaps because it's a bit non-sensical? Clicking on an ad because the picture looks nice in anticipation/hopes of being served more ads with a similar look? That has to be one of the strangest things I've heard regarding ads. This has to be a trolling post, doesn't it?
How is epic having an app that can be used to get offensive content different from the Apple App Store allowing web browsers?
The human species relies to some degree on people leaving things behind, new discoveries being one of the more important ones.

You don't need to leave something behind of course, but the species benefits from it.
I’d prefer a new Cybersecurity branch of the military with full funding and resources rather than Space Force.
If I understand your intent correctly both of these should be useful.

This is being written now and looks very promising
https://browser.engineering/

This has been going a couple of years now
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/table-of-contents
3) investigate and neutralize the groups behind the cyberattacks
I’m trying so hard to shop non-Amazon at the moment. But man they don’t make it easy. Deliveries not showing up for weeks after due date, shipping costing more than the item itself, painful payment solutions (at least take PayPal so I don’t have to go find my credit card!)
> I can assure you it's much easier to read complicated formulas in well written code than in conventional math notation!

I could not disagree more. The long names obstruct the shapes of the expressions, making it difficult to recognize common concepts visually. There's a higher need for intermediate variables (to avoid expressions becoming physically too long), and the intermediate variable names often need to be very long to properly describe their meaning (and may represent highly abstract concepts). Terser code can avoid trying to name these things that cannot be meaningfully named.

> If you were to use all one letter variable names and cram all computations into a single large expression, that would be considered by most to be poor code. There's a reason why, and it's been proven out in industry.

I agree that it's not a good idea to put everything in a single expression. But it's not a good idea to put every single mathematical expression in its own variable either, and in my experience the sweet spot lies much closer to the terse code.

I've worked with math-heavy code in both terse and verbose styles, and refuse to work on verbose math code again.
I don't think Bezos(or Gates, Musk, Zucker) reason in terms of holiday homes anymore. I'm absolutely sure they have a positive impact. They build spaceships, fight disease, and finance science.

Whether the net outcome for humanity as a whole is better or worse with Amazon is highly debatable. By writing

> like helping a little boy buy his team jersey or a little girl get dance lessons for example

you appeal to feelings and divert the discussion in the direction of "But evil billionaires rob children to buy a new yacht!" which is simply not true.
Trade agreements. You can play ball by whatever rules you like, but in order for it to be meaningful you’ll have to get people to play with you.
I think rearranging those words in almost any other order would’ve been superior: WLS, LSW, LWS
We have over a decade of data and experiences with this Sandboxed approach. The fact that you still use an iPhone/iPad over Android means you are tacitly agreeing with the approach.
Wouldn't you typically solve this kind of problem with rejection sampling? Pick a random ID - if it's already in the result set or deleted, try again. I suppose this cannot be neatly expressed in SQL though?
per capita is precisely the opposite of arbitrary; it's carbon per person.