skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep PayPal is awful about this stuff. I have a friend who's deadname was leaking through PayPal reciepts. They couldn't change it because PayPal insisted on showing the name of the account holder which was validated through the bank account linking. To protect them I now manage the account they have people send payments and donations to. It's suboptimal but it's the only way we can be totally sure their deadname doesn't show again.

I knew PayPal was bad before, but I've hated them ever since that info leak.
Q&A does scale. As much as people shit talk StackExchange, they have done an excellent job keeping the platform high quality and it's leaps and bounds ahead of any other Q&A platform.
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Here here. As an exercise, does anyone remember an add they saw today on the web? One they clicked on? I rarely do.
$4M is how many minutes of revenue for the major telecoms?
That gallon of water to grow one almond or the 5 gallons for one walnut obviously does not actually end up in that almond or walnut. Only a tiny amount of water is in the nut itself, and so exported from the state when the nut is exported.

Some of it will end up in the ground and eventually become part of the water table in that region, eventually coming back out via wells to be reused.

A lot of it will be transpired into the air by the plant. Some of that will condense out and end up in the ground. The winds in those areas tend to blow toward the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east. I suspect a lot of that water ends up rain on the west side of those mountains, where much of it makes its way back to the farming regions.

Some will be broken down in chemical reactions in the plant, with the H and O being combined with other elements to form various compounds. It would take someone with a much more extensive knowledge of plant biology than I have to say what happens to those compounds and if any of the H and O used for them ends up as water again later.

I've never seen any analysis that actually looks at where the water goes after the nut is produced.
I don't live in CA, and I have no real knowledge of logging, could you explain more about the "greedy loggers" comment? I get that controlled burns are good, but is CA usually known for forests used for lumber? I thought most lumber was grown in the northern parts of America.
Manage Team, time tracking, timesheet, vacation and billing rate in Jira
I was looking at a project called Helium or HNT. The basic idea is that "miners" are running something like a mix between a WiFi endpoint and a personal cell tower. People can use HNT tokens to get network access and the miners earn the tokens by providing the access.

I thought it seemed like a pretty neat idea and was encouraged by the fact that this crypto project actually did something useful. As I looked into it though I could only find people talking about how to mine the token, or details about the price, and nobody was talking about using the network. I wanted to try the network myself, or see if I could get a device on the network and what the service was like.

It's a little naive of me, but at first I was imagining something like cell service being provided by this system. I was wondering what it would take to get my laptop on it and imagining having a network connection wherever for a low price.

When I looked into it though I didn't find anyone using the network. The limitations on the network were severe, if I recall correctly their pricing calculator shows you the price of network usage in terms of cost per packet, where a packet can send something like 16 bits of information. Their envisioned use case was a collar for pets to wear that could ping the network once a day, but to my knowledge no such collars had actually been created or sold...

Disappointed to find something that looked kind of useful at first glance actually resolve to something that looks kind of useless.
Off-topic, but I opened the above comment in a new tab (to read replies later) and got this:

https://imgur.com/a/pxz1qCS

Completely bizarre. Looks like a bunch of 0's got written into memory at random intervals. Is it flaky RAM on the HN server? Has anyone else seen HN content render like this? Reloaded the page, and now everything looks normal. Running memcheck on my laptop as a next step...
Seeing Hollerith[1] gives me Fortran flashbacks. Doing string manipulation in integers is a pain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant
Hold on a second. While I totally support self-directed learning, "Even Einstein got started in his spare time" seems to suggest that he learned physics recreationally. My apologies if you did not intend this, but just to clarify, this is definitely not the case. He earned a PhD from the University of Zurich, which is about the most traditional path in theoretical physics education possible!
There is a difference between "quit storing data" and "delete old data" when full.

Time Machine deletes old data. That is not a good backup plan.
That is a great list. I also felt the same about many of those technologies, but I never thought to put it so succinctly -- as you have!

For years, I never understood the point of Twitter. It felt like nano-blogging -- Why not just use a regular blog platform?. Later, I realised it is a single global open forum of "random" chats that are interlinked via @person and #idea links. So if a bunch of random people who don't know each other are nano-blogging about #idea, it's like they are part of a chat room called #idea. And, of course, you can cross-post to multiple @people and #ideas in same Tweet. And there is no gate-keeping: You don't need to ask to join an #idea and I don't think it is possible to block other people referencing your @name. Other social media platforms seem to integrate with the @people and #idea thing -- no sure if that actually came from Twitter.

Technology and concept aside, I still think most of Twitter is garbage content. /Once in a while/, I see a Twitter thread from an economist or hedge fund manager that is referenced by FT Alphaville (https://ftalphaville.ft.com/). And to be fair: A lot of interesting discussion about racial injustice in last five years originated as complaints or short stories on Twitter... then blew-up in more traditional media. Else... it seems like noise.

Related to your list: One thing I have never understood: Brand names create social media precense, like Coca Cola on Facebook. And people subscribe. Why? That is so weird. Coca Cola... really? I dunno... maybe they have fun photos on their Instagram. I assumed social media was for human-to-human contact, not business-to-human contact. I was wrong! Some of those brand names have massive social media following. Campbell's Soup! Tide Detergent!
But then you are encouraged to circumvent this by making backups.
Thanks, yes. I'm a firefox user and I had no idea about this. Just goes to show that these kinds of software should be more usable, discoverable.
Those two statements are not inconsistent.

The first statement isn't a suggestion that implausible sounding ideas can be dismissed on the basis of a lack of credibility of the person communicating the idea.

But I share in the dislike of an appeal to authority. The idea should stand on its own merits.
Bamboo and pawlonia empress make usable wood quickly for construction. Carbon taxes on fuel should be feeding tree farming.

I wonder if it's possible to vertically farm trees. Raised box beds where you can basically "wash out" the dirt at the end to get just the wood and the stumps, and then the "washed out dirt" is placed in the next box bed.
I have mixed feelings about stories like this. On one hand, making a big deal of the person's age puts emphasis on a detail that shouldn't matter. On the other hand, it shows people what is possible and to not limit themselves for either being "too young" or "too old".
The people who tend to take charge take charge not because they know more than you or they have better skills or they have charisma, they just like to be in charge. Most of them are idiots.
On a GPU you could do a parallel n-ary search. I.e. instead of making 1 test in the center, make n tests. E.g. 1 round of 32-ary search should be equivalent of 5 rounds of binary search. Not only do you avoid the branch predictor, but the memory access is also parallel, which isn't true in branchless binary search. If the width of the search is larger than a warp/wavefront (32/64), then you need to add synchronization and it might not be faster anymore.

GPUs aren't really built for latency though and this will waste a lot of accesses on speculation. You are probably better off with a good btree.
I'm not super familiar with Deep Learning, but based on the fact this is effectively extracting edges and the ConvTranspose2d layers I'm guessing it's some sort of Convolutional Neural Net?
I built something like this about 5 yrs ago, applied to YC and they said nope. This is the future, password sucks. The only issue with this is there's still a password in the background and you still have to register. My solution was no signup forms, no passwords. You click one button to sign up to a site, you tap your phone to sign in. This kinda shouldn't belong with Google tho, Google, Facebook wants to use this to keep you to lock you in to their ecosystem. A 3rd party that does only this with absolutely no lock-in is ideal.
This looks like a great tool to generate some Pokémon and Beyblade coloring pages for my kids. We went through everything in Google image results many moons ago.
https://archive.is/rgv6L

(as updated 2019, though I don't know if there are any differences, significant or not)
Just for context I was born in & have spent most of my life in the Midwest of the USA. My observation about cruelty was the double dealing on display with the governors quotes.

It implied that the data said it was the benefits causing the lack of employees when their own labor bureau was saying it was pandemic related issues.
You can. You can also create tokens that function the exact same as a password but with a customisable scope.
This is some incredible research!

I feel like Matrix really rides the line on design complexity. On one hand, e2ee, p2p networking, single sign-on, multi-homed accounts, arbitrary threading, etc are all extremely complex features to implement compared to what something like IRC requires.

On the other hand, I'm crazy excited about all of them (minus SSO, though I understand why it's there). The Matrix team is creating a complex product, but at the end of the day, it can compete with the best enterprise products out there. It can even beat them if you value data freedom.

Good luck to the team! P2P is a worthwhile challenge. I have no idea how there are enough of you to tackle all of these projects at once.
In complex legal issues involving lots of money, clients have a strong incentive to hire the very best lawyers. Even if a lawyer charges >$1000 per hour that's a drop in the bucket relative to the overall stakes. Thus top law firms play it safe and recruit from only top schools instead of taking a risk on lower tier candidates. So a winner-take-all outcome is completely rational and expected.
Yeah, the lone lady that works at my local town's historical society: mapping death certificates to grave stones, reading old articles from our town paper and studying census records is a real revisionist.

If anything, the kind of people I'm talking about are the least political information workers you'll find. And honestly, there's a chance that the decimation of paying positions in their fields is contributing to the problem of badly research clickbait books. When you have to making yourself into an internet phenomena to sell your self published book rather than take a salary job at a local institution, your incentives are all aligned to do something sensational.

Edit: Just out of curiosity because I so often bump into complaints of this variety, what in your opinion is good history? Which historians or academic periods have produced "good history"? What techniques set those periods apart from today's historians?
After the Brexit referendum concluded, the Leave campaign was officially found to have violated the law and fined. There were plenty of additional accusations that were never addressed. In the end, you can't undo something like leaving the EU even if voters feel they were lied to.

You can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_unlawful_campai... for some examples of the accusations.

I don't mention this to claim that foreigners are somehow worse - the US specializes in doing this at home if anything, even if we also love to interfere in foreign elections.
> dang detaching off-topic subthreads is the opposite of mods opaquely fucking around with rankings. He explicitly detached the thread, and posted that he had done so. That's a judgement call which you're welcome to disagree with and I'm not going to affirm or second-guess because I don't care much.

Yeah, you don't care about it much, it wasn't you that it happened to. I don't care that much either. I do care about this easily abused behavior, though.

> As to the other: we don't know how HN sorts comments, but I would be surprised if it was as simple as the highest-valued comments floating to the top. It is far more likely given what we know about moderation goals, that controversial comments are penalized.

I know, as do anyone that has experienced it, that they are penalized. If you say sane but controversial things around here you get downvoted, hidden, silenced. This sounds melodramatic, but think about what you are saying - HN is looking for boring, safe, everyone agrees commentary.

> So maybe your comment got 50 upvotes and 20 downvotes? The mods don't want us making huge subthreads about stuff which people disagree about, for the most part: they want some of that, but anything which is drawing a lot of karma from both sides is that much more likely to draw low-quality replies.

> Again, this isn't a comment about your comment: pretend I didn't read it, I barely did in fact.

With all due respect, I know. I can tell.

> But it certainly doesn't prove that dang put his thumb on the scale. The mods here seem to be pretty transparent about how everything works, without leaking actual formulas which are subject to change and could provide ammunition with which to game the system.

Yeah that's how abuse works, that's how loopholes work. Rules for me and not for you. Rules that are arbitrarily applied.

That's what I've never gotten about HN. You guys are so smart, but it's like you skipped politics 101.
I partial agree, it's complex. Meritocracy is better than ever and most things in life can be directly deduced to initiative, work ethics, personal drive, ambition and ability to have self control. There is an amazing book "Deep Work" that goes in-depth the work ethics of successful people.

You also left out the biggest and the most important luck factor - Physical attractiveness. There are several studies in the field of psychology to mundane daily anecdotal evidence of how attractive people have a lottery ticket. I don't see this as a negative thing - genetic diversity is literally how human's evolve and natural selection works.
I didn’t expect new heroes very often but just the dev team seems to be like 2 people these days
Much of California’s forest was clear cut by the logging industry in the 1800s. The “old growth forests” are preserved and form a tiny fraction of what once was.

California is no longer as big a source of lumber as it once was.
This is a solid point about Donald Trump. I owned the Trump board game as a kid. (Released in 1989! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump:_The_Game) We thought he was such a goof, but he was definitely a social media star before social media networks.
People build houses in forested areas. People buy second homes in the Sierra range. Now you can't do controlled burns...you're burning someone's house down.

California cannot do controlled burns. There is too much invasive development, and the State isn't going to tell NorthStar or Kirkwood to take one for the team by burning the Sierra deadwood down.
Ruins of Detroit:
http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit

Plenty of other ruins in the US:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20141208-amazing-photos-...
OK, I see the similarity in the word "steal". It mostly ends there though. Hillary points out a number of events that affected how the public perceived her with a belief that those perceptions were based on untrue things. This doesn't have much to do with our voting, voting mechanics, or the validity of the vote itself. She still conceded.
There are phonetic languages. For example, Hindi and probably most other Indian languages are written phonetically. What you write is what you speak.
I've used Pencil and had good results.
Isn't it about time we asked what the hell is wrong with this picture? You can't even use your own device to consume content the way you want.

The DOJ needs to break apart Apple. If not the DOJ, then Epic's court case.

Apple literally became the monster in their 1984 commercial.
> For example, if person decided to go to math/physics, it was required to pass 4 exams (2 for math, written and spoken) and 2 for physics.

I don't mean to derail, but what is a "spoken" math exam like? It sounds like my nightmare and I graduated with a STEM degree in a competitive program.
Well, 4.4 million acres burned in 2020 and 1.7 million in 2018, so were a third of the way to that 20 million already.
You can write JavaScript on static sites that calls apis hosted elsewhere. There are a lot of crypto apis out there. As long as they support CORS they can be used. I have a site with crypto prices and it is static. Some of those calls go out to apis direct and some go through a proxy I set up to get around cross origin issues.
here is the present source code for glibc where faccessat2 is used. What you say is true for some cases; if glibc is built for kernel versions below 0x050800 then it doesn't assume faccessat2, here it falls back to faccessat for some cases - and faccessat was added in 2.6.16.
But if you have flags other than AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW or AT_EACCESS the call just fails without doing the fallback. See https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/595c22ecd8e87a27fd19270...

TIL that this this glibc mirror is kept in sync with the real one https://github.com/bminor/glibc
What? You literally see what the sensor is seeing...light is still passing through the lens.
Elite schools are worthwhile if it isn't in it for the money like most (all?) elite schools in the US. In that regard the Soviet system were far superior.
> the notion that 'all the power goes to kids from those schools' is a little ridiculous as well.

It's really not.

"As of November 2020, of the 55 prime ministers to date, 28 were educated at the University of Oxford (including 13 at Christ Church), and 14 at the University of Cambridge (including six at Trinity College)."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_t...
I wish I'd paid more attention in the non-academic classes. Cooking, sewing, budgeting and everything else I learned in my home economics class are extremely valuable real world skills and I wish I'd taken more of them after the became optional. Calculus, physics, chemistry, etc have all been basically useless for me personally.
Surely it is saying exactly that? Changing the "but" to "except" I think makes it clear without changing the intent
Further evidence supports claim: SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA
> Nothing I’ve said indicates agreement with you.

Sure you have. You have dodged the question. Because you are so intent on dodging this question, I can only assume that it means that you don't have any disagreement with it.

When interacting online with people, I have learned that when someone asks a million questions, and yet will refuse to answer a single question themselves, it is almost always because they have no actual disagreement with that question/statement, and they know it, but they just don't want to admit it.

> How will using my own definitions

It will allow me to understand what your actual misunderstanding is. That's how.

There is no way for me to possibly explain anything to you in this situation, unless I know the actual source of your misunderstanding, and you need to answer that question for me to understand that.

The reason why I know this to be the case, is because in all my interactions with anyone ,in any circumstance, I have never encountered someone who is so incapable of understanding things as you are, therefore, my only option now is to figure out what you mean, to understand your misunderstanding. And to do that, I need your answer to that question.

If you continue to dodge that question, then I really have to go with the most likely explanation, which is that you don't have any disagreement with it, but just don't want to admit it.

You have asked dozens of questions here, and yet you refuse to actually answer this simple one yourself, which is absolutely necessary for me to be able to explain anything to you.
You are not shadowbanned, people probably just disagree with you
White "Elder millennial" here, who grew up in red states with a Boomer dad who tried really hard not to drop the N-word in anger around me, but I still heard it a couple times. The "programming" worked on me great. I was all primed for this post-hate, post-racial society. I believed it. Legitimately. I was dedicated to judging people by the content of their character. Men, women. White, black. Whatever. IDK how it worked on everyone else but if fucking worked on me. It worked.

My... I dunno, mid 20s? Were a shock as I discovered we weren't all on the same page. It's just gotten worse over time.
I've used Uniswap and IMO, the UX doesn't compare to the centralized exchanges. I think that will prevent mainstream adoption except for those who are pretty crypto savy. I'm also concerned that decentralized exchanges may have tough regulation applied to them in the future. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it seems like a risk to me. The charges brought against the founder of EtherDelta comes to mind.

That is interesting what you said about the shadiness of centralized exchanges. I wasn't aware of that. Maybe a more clear regulatory framework will help.

However, it seems like whenever more regulation is put upon traditional markets, folks just find a loophole in it and it makes the situation worse for retail investors (best price / HFT comes to mind, but maybe I just took the Flash Boys book too seriously). Anyway, I'm not sure what the answer is there. Curious if you have more thoughts on this.
The compression could be quite extensive, it wouldn't even have to be convertible back to speech if all that was parsing it on the other side was ML.
So much denial in this thread. It is far too late to prevent a megafire in California. Too many people. Too much invasive development. No homeowner is going to volunteer to have their home or vacation property burned down as a favor to the State.

Look at how the population of the Sierra communities has swelled in just the past few years.

You ain't seen nothing yet. The past few years are barely a preview of what's to come. The megafire will happen and burn for years. No insurance system can pay out for what will happen - losses will be carried by property owners with no recourse.
Cows do not produce methane. Decaying grass produces methane, whether in a cow or out.
Interesting, but they commissioned it. :) I'm curious if there are other assessments with different methodologies, different outcomes.
Without NN for a few years now, have any of the bad things promised happened?

It seems to me that there should be “social media neutrality” — the very real effects of corporate-sponsored censorship have caused more harm than a lack of NN.
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