skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have concerns about unencrypted storage of personal photos, I’d request you to check out my project: ente.io[1]. It is essentially Google Photos, minus search capabilities, plus end-to-end encryption.

[1]: https://ente.io
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Good ray tracing is expensive and still requires a lot of asset preparation. Difference between what RTX can do realtime right now and production quality final renders is massive. I think there will ultimately be quality wall for realtime tracing that target ms/frame versus mins/frame for HQ renders. After which hacks like this must be used to further close distance by adding layers of additional details that really sell photorealism. TBH I doubt RTX could reproduce even this quality for many years, if ever.

It's not just about murkiness and lighting quality, this is akin to adding the last 10% of polish that usually takes 90% of the time. It's also the difference between amateur vs much greater proficiency level. Having access to the assets of scene in 3D max, someone with a basic training can replicate base GTA scene, the enhancements shown here takes years more experience. The amount accessibility and saved labour is tremendous. It's why even VHS video is still more photo realistic than 4K RTX. Real life has a lot of minutiae and interacting details beyond resolution and good lighting models.
> where the output of the transaction leaves the participants with the same number of coins, but the addresses have been mixed to make external tracking difficult

Wouldn’t the simple solution be tagging coins that exited such a tumbler?
So were ajax crud web apps, 25 years ago.
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There are degrees. When someone is shooting at you and won't stop, eventually you have to shoot back.

And the fact that you have to choose an individual case where the US is wrong (and that it is exceptional) and compare it to entities blackmailing dozens to hundreds of people who will wind up with some of them dead and who have done it repeatedly demonstrates that.

Or perhaps we can talk about the beatings at the Erdogan protests?

Back to internet, even with the best security, how many entities could really stand up to a concerted attack? What everybody asking for OpSec that can stand up to this is really asking for is complete loss of sharing and trust in any group entity. I'm not sure people really grasp that solid security implies lack of sharing. Do you really want HR to require an ID with every interaction? Do you really want the line slowdown while every Karen fishes out her Target fob from her purse before she can check out?

At base, you need at least a minimum level of trust between entities to operate. If someone is preventing even that, you will eventually have to do something drastic to them.
Signed. Thanks for sharing.
> This brings us to a recent brainwave from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC). In a recent report to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, it asserted that encrypted messaging services - like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal - are used ‘almost exclusively’ for illegal activity, an assertion that would merit an eyebrow raise from many of my friends and business colleagues who use both Signal and WhatsApp as their preferred messaging apps.

> The ACIC went on to state, “These platforms are used almost exclusively by SOC [serious and organised crime] groups and are developed specifically to obscure the identities of the involved criminal entities and enable avoidance of detection by law enforcement… They enable the user to communicate within closed networks to facilitate highly sophisticated criminal activity.”

That is so far beyond ridiculous that it's disturbing.
But the stock market is a secondary market, you exchange second hand titles, you are not an investor, so my point is that if people are just here to speculate on the value it’s not very different and the underlying doesn’t really matter.
> Here I don't see how Deno is solving this , all the APIS seems again so barebone.. instead of having 1000+ dependency from NPM you'll have 1000+ dependency from remote URL

With Deno you can already do a lot with only what is provided by the main executable. Here's a subset of the available subcommands:

bundle: Bundles JS. While it doesn't do everything that webpack does, it already provides enough to deploy SPAs.
coverage/test: Builtin test/coverage framework.
fmt/lint: Builtin lint/formatter.

IMO these provide basic tools that are likely necessary for any JS project, yet with Node.js you need a few hundred NPM deps to achieve the same functionality.

Not to mention the builtin Typescript compiler. Starting a few of years ago, I don't even consider the possibility of creating a Javascript project without using Typescript as the main language. With Deno you have it builtin.
> HN is a great community, but it has a very narrow perspective on the world.

Don't you say? Isn't everybody out there writing rust on neovim?
Time to upgrade my firewall.
"But it's even more mind-blowing how many vegetarians believe fish can't feel pain, so while they reject eating pork, beef or chicken because the poor animals suffer, they still find it fine to eat fish."

I know this trope, but I have actually never met a vegetarian who think like this.

I know vegetarians who eat fish, because it is further away, from humans, DNA wise. Or in general they just feel fine with eating fish and they do what they feel fine with, which makes sense to me. But I never actually met a person who believe fish (or animals in general) can't feel pain. I met many who are ignorant of pain of others, yes, but I never met one who actually believe that. Is this a US thing?
I think in most cases it's fairly obvious. I moved to a country that mainly use Whatsapp, and you can't miss it. People will tell you that they "Whatsapp" you, they ask for your "Whatsapp", your bank advertises customer support on Whatsapp, your local barber has the Whatsapp logo on his door, your colleagues want to add you to their Whatsapp group, your landlord sends the bills on Whatsapp, ads in the metro have the Whatsapp logo…
Given that there's been a massive shift in allocation of spending due to the pandemic I would take any claims like this with a now expensive grain of salt. Let's not forget at the start of the pandemic toilet paper was going for $1 a roll.
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Like the concept of "you can only upload photos from the camera in the app" (I love constrained challenges) but (for me) it's broken because you can then apply filters and overlay text in the app itself, completely missing the point of the constraints!

(Signed up via the Testflight - found some niggling UX issues; reported them via beta feedback.)
Because you can not dismiss the URV (and the Plano Real at large) as "just creating another currency".

If URV was "just another currency", then it would have failed like all the previous attempts have. But Plano Real actually controlled inflation, de-indexed the economy and public debt, etc.
I use rssbridge for sites without a feed, and the feediron plugin for ttrss for sites whose feed is incomplete.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron
https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss
As a kid I killed all my time with random flash games. Even though flash is gone you can still access virtually every good flash game with flashpoint - https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Between this type of searching and GPS tags, image libraries are such a joy to maintain and use compared to 10+ years ago.
They know. It's probably me who's wrong then. I saw that quote in the article and assumed that's what it was talking about.
There is. But the problem is that all employers are bad so none of them will lag behind when they loose good people.

The truly good employers are a rarity.
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I see a ton of comments on this post that indicate how much power an individual can have. Many people point out negotiating from a position of power, for example by doing good work, or by being prepared to leave for a more remote friendly company. Honest question: Why do you think involving lawyers would improve the situation? Why do you think this is a matter of employment law?

For what it's worth, I worked for a company where most software engineers were unionized. The union accomplished almost nothing on behalf of employees besides taking a chunk of their pay check and otherwise complicating situations that people are able to work out themselves.
And indeed it is. Nordigen's product for example is free; they make money on upselling an optional product on top.

https://nordigen.com/
I believe that Sun (and SGI) machines using 13W3 connectors need a monitor supporting Sync-on-Green (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video_sync).

Used to work at a place a long time ago with SGI Irix boxes connected to LCD panels; Iiyama panels supported SoG at the time and were the ones we used. Hope that helps, good luck!
But he also has his own personal website on his own domain that aggregates or points to his work on other platforms. He didn't say not to use those external services, just don't fully depend on them.
Oh man, TIL that on HN, when people talk about 'dead links' they mean something specific and different to what the rest of the internet means when they talk about dead links.
I haven't heard of RQ before, but on first glance they look pretty similar.

The main difference I see is that meesee workers are always setup as python programs, whereas RQ workers are separate programs. (calling a `rq` program insead of `python3 my_worker.py`)
Though looking at the docs tells me that RQ can do the latter as well.
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Given that it's a CRT wouldn't it be max resolution instead of native? The 800x600@160Hz would also be driven natively I assume.
I couldn't agree more. Anyone got a tldr to share?
Argh, when the rest of the Internet uses 'dead' in the context of links to mean broken, why would HN use it to mean something else?
Excuse me, but what's this "bad ecosystem in npm" you're talking about? Every single JS lib, pipeline tool, framework is on npmjs.com (react, webpack, bootstrap, expressjs, and 100'000s others). It's the ecosystem that every contender would love to be.

And the lack of a "stdlib" is exactly how and why npm started over ten years ago, via the community-driven CommonJs initiative (JSCI, connect/express.js, the package.json format, middlewares, etc). The idea being that the core packages on npmjs.com are the stdlib on top of what Node.js/CommonJs provides.
IMO any stress can lead to burnout stress, at some point it just kinda clicks and nothing seems to lead to anything better anymore, you start feeling like it's only going down. At least that's how it started for me. Imposter syndrome was getting stronger the less work I was felt able to do.

The main reason I know it was a burnout is that I never really found back. I am done with tech, or rather done with 40 hour weeks, done with unrealistic deadlines, done with so many things actually.
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Tone and discourse. We're not debating the merits of vaccinations here. We're talking about how this way of making conversation is ultimately toxic.

> There's way too much flat-earth- holocaust-denial- style arguments from those who "just don't want to be told what to do".

This is how you want the discourse to look like? Somebody puts an argument, and gets labeled flat earther.

Do you know Gell Mann amnesia? I shared an article the other day on facebook and got it flagged as "out of context". As it happens, it was something not out of context, just slightly against the mainstream. What do you think this did to my confidence in the mainstream?

And before you say that my article must have been wrong, let me remind you that the mainstream was against wearing masks 12 months ago. Hell, CDC was against wearing ffp2 masks... I don't know, 3 months ago?

Civil discourse and tone are much more important long term than just winning conversation points. Sure, go for points if you want. But every time you say things like "flat earth", you take a small chip out of the boat we're all in.
I hope crypto continues to open eyes on the current state of the stock market.
Romantic prepper fantasies. With a couple hundred people, the bus factor of a tech society is wildly negative. Meaning, you'd need miracle spawns of workers already trained to keep up with just maintenance.

On Mars the whole thing would just collapse and people suffocate once the parts shipments from Earth were disrupted for a substantial period.
There's no signing power. A ring signature is just a signature made with a set of public keys for one of which you know the corresponding private key.
Elixir's standard library is so pleasant to use. Coming from the JavaScript world it is such a breath of fresh air,
In the US, honestly, yes. I've had the same experience in two different states at this point and friends who relocated from other places have reported similar. I mean, you can literally order a small still that you use on your stove top from Amazon!

I think it just depends on the sort of people you choose to spend time with.
Searching with text tags seems a bit odd, couldn't you search-by-example with image embeddings? or is the scale too large for an ANN to handle?
Do we have a gui installer for Guix these days? Last I checked, they didn't.
That is a good one. I'd also like to add (if my memory serves me right)

- Savage Money (Christopher Gregory, 1996),

- Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy (Daniel Usner, 1992),

- Money: the True Story of a Made Up Thing (Jacob Goldstein, 2020), and

- Lombard Street (Walter Bagehot, 1873).
> It is often said that Open Source Software is not sustainable, because it has no inherent business model, but I believe there are other pressures that leaders experience which when left unchecked may lead to "burn-out".

> I'll briefly describe what I believe leadership means before introducing each of the pressures and how they may be experienced. It's my opinion that the examples apply beyond Open Source Software and the technology industry. I will then sum up the pressures and make a case for sustainable leadership.
Nociception and consciousness in plants are actually a matter of debate. There are some recent reviews addressing both topics:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-021-01621-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-021-01642-0
"I believe strongly that a monetary system that's provably scarce, programmable, completely decentralized, permission-less, trustless, higly divisible, borderless and very easy to transfer has the potential to revolutionize how we store value."

But is adding massively to global carbon levels needlessly...
But I can take my laptop from my living room to another room if I need more peace and then bring it back to show something to my child and I can bring it anywhere I want without much hurdle... laptop is my mobile computer...
Unfortunately, Snorri Sturlson was no historian. What he wrote down was a Christian reframing of Norse mythology as political and religious propaganda, leaving almost no trace of the original, native mythology for the historical record.
> Adding two lines so that a random Hacker News reader can understand the README wouldn’t be enough for a nontechnical audience to understand it.

I disagree, it would be enough for a non-technical audience, since it would give enough information for them to do *research* and find out more information.
> To publicly insult someone meant something far more serious when there was a social expectation to put your life on the line for the insult.

The only thing changed in most of the world today, IMHO, is that you are shot in the back instead of being shot in the face.
You're doing this for personal or business expenses?

I'm curious to check this out, do you have a GitHub repo/account?
Are you sure you can apply it like that? My understanding is that there is no Facebook Global that you can fine citing these revenues but some local braanch Facebook CountryName will get the fine with only local revenue. Therefore expecting fines of 1.7-3.4B is somewhat unrealistic I beleive.
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Erm, with all the current sanctions against russia already in place and more probably coming, I doubt that threat would have a big meaning now.
A gui installer would be fun, but an installation process that fixed all the weird quirks (like with LANG settings) by default would also go a long way to making it more approachable.

Guix is amazing, all the awkwardness aside.
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They say their lawyers approved it, so I assume they verified they were getting credentials from higher ups who had the authorization and not just rank and file employees.

>Plaid told Motherboard 12 people participated in the test and that it was vetted by the company's legal counsel. Plaid added that participants' login credentials have since been deleted and that the test was only open to friends and family of existing Plaid employees.
As an optimization mechanism, failures of the market can be either one of two things:

- It optimizes the wrong thing, or

- It fails to optimize what it intends to optimize.

Externalities fit into the former category. Business cycles and some types of path dependence (e.g. Keynesian demand deficiency) fit into the latter.
All of your examples require signing an NDA.

The only service that doesn't require an NDA instead has all these weirdly crippling requirements that no other MPW has: the bloated mandatory SoC, RTL2GDS, no direct access to the pads, etc.

It's really sad. They fixed the one big huge problem with the state of MPWs, and then obviously said to themselves "hey, we did too good of a job here, lets crap this up a whole bunch to counteract that."
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> I think theres a middle ground

What you've highlighted is a lack of education about what different abuses mean. There is no difference between tracking and targeted advertising as it exists today. There is no difference between selling your data and "using it to show more relevant ads" as it is today. The fact that some people mistakenly believe there are differences is tragic and the fact that a company can lie to everyone in this way is a travesty.
Edit: nevermind https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringsignatur... cleared it up.

Zero-knowledge proofs/cryptographic accumulators are used to verify each coin is spent at most once. Any of 11 coins could have been spent, each owned by a different single key.

For some reason, I thought Monero was basically ZCash plus using ring signatures to make traffic analysis much more difficult even if the zk proof system were broken. I was completely mistaken.

Edit 2: Sorry droffel, I wasn't fast enough editing away my old understanding of how it worked and asking what I was missing. Thanks for the explanation.
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Why does anyone wants a Gui installer? It's a real question, not trolling. For example i would never use the Gui-Debian installer, instead i use the expert-text installer it's faster and not at all "expert'ish".
I'm thinking of small prototypes or production runs of one or two pieces - had a situation last year when we needed to interface between a TCP connection on one side and a 12V trigger signal on the other - just a microcontroller with an optocoupler connected on one pin and an ethernet controller on the other side. We ended up spending quite a bit, between lockdowns, the minimum order, and our (my!) own messing up the circuit. Ended up just barely making it in time.

If we'd had this thing, we could have rapidly prototyped this board, discovered the mistake and made appropriate changes within a couple of days, instead of having to take more than a month...
It's a gradient. I saw this play out recently where a top engineer dictated he needed to work remote three weeks a month. Management was OK with it but were clearly disappointed because he is an incredible primary contributor, manager, and is part of the cultural bedrock of the department. Their argument to him was that his career development would be stunted, to which he replied "no, I don't think it will be." and left it at that. He's now working his remote schedule, so we'll see what happens. I guess the point I'm trying to make is maybe 5% of the company could pull this off. Nearly everyone else management would be far less inclined to accommodate.
I really would like to see a Gentoo equivalent based on Lisp/Scheme, but as far Guix seems to be not even near. I just looked for no-multilib option (only 64bit of libc), custom compile flags or similar, but didn't find anything.
First of all, the only time there is no negotiation is if you don't have a choice.

Will the company fold if you leave it?

I have personally been in this situation and even then I have negotiated because the owners were only able to put so much money and above that they would prefer to just cut their losses and dissolve the company.

> If you can leave the next day there's no much room for the employer to negotiate anything.

No, you just decided to give them your terms and allow the company to only approve or deny them. You take away their ability to negotiate with you in response to your demands but you did not take their ability to make their own decision. You did not dictate anything.

You would dictate if you had actual power over the company.

You are not really a dictator if they can refuse your offer, are you?
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If you are looking for better social care / safety net for you and your children it's pretty much the thing to do.
What client is that?
It seems like the obvious way to do it, to be honest, and clearly is much more scalable and flexible. So if the results are good enough, why not?
Gain mastery over some field and start chunking. This idea of chunking is something that was discovered when measuring the intelligence and memory of chess grand masters. It was found that they did not have higher intelligent or better memories. Instead what was happening was that they had started chunking their knowledge and thus could process the data (chess board) much faster and efficiently and this allowed their minds to work on doing something new, since all the obvious moves where already intuitive for them.