skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically why bitcoin maximalists are bitcoin maximalists.
Show HN: Real-time pencil sketch rendering of meshes and SDFs, in WebGL
I have a little trailer and an older small SUV. I also have a house built in 1920. I would _really_ love a pickup. The trailer is a pain when you do as many runs for supplies as I do.
Home inspectors in the US are barely useful.

If you really don't know anything about houses (or feel as if you do not), then having someone walk you through some of the things you may have to face living in a particular house is probably a good idea.

However, even as just an enthusiastic amateur, I know more about home construction and repair than most home inspectors. When I bought my current house I skipped the home inspector, and hired an electrician, a roofer and a structural engineer. It cost me more, but I got seriously informed reports about the property, not just boilerplate fill-in-the-blank PDFs telling me that one of the windows rattled.
Uhaul rents pickups for $20 a day plus mileage in Seattle. Let your friend know so he can point everyone there.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks killed a bunch of anarchists.

But yes, there is anarcho-communism. Most folk don't know of libertarian socialism. See also Murry Bookchin and the Kurds.
You don't need a vehicle to do anything. You can just walk or bike. If you need to move a large load, lift some weights or ask your friends to help you. People in egypt built the pyramids without vehicles. Vehicles in general are bad for the environment and are just plain unsafe for the driver and for others.

Snark aside, why would I buy an Audi A3 when I already have a Honda? My truck is much more capable than your A3 and was probably much cheaper. Regarding safety, it's actually really safe because I only drive it when I need its hauling or towing capability.
Oh what now
APL: Systems that are literally fully visible
Data Makes Your Tools Smarter
Very good points. I had read your other comment saying the same and it makes a lot of sense; the service databases likely are the "true" network since everything else can be changed around it.

> The staff apparently didn't think they could just take a backup of the data and move it over to the new network.

I doubt we'll ever find out if it's because they believed freenode ltd owned the data or just didn't want to deal with the inevitable legal battle that would certainly ensue. Sad that often times it's just the person with the stronger legal team that wins in these situations.
> That mutual coexistence is now tipping out of balance. Fungi are surging beyond the climate zones they long lived in, adapting to environments that would once have been inimical, learning new behaviors that let them leap between species in novel ways. While executing those maneuvers, they are becoming more successful pathogens, threatening human health in ways—and numbers—they could not achieve before.

Still early stages, but signs point to fungi becoming deadlier.
Is there a Logo based curriculum/problem-solution set that can be used to introduce young kids to programming?
Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming with Clojure
It would likely be a lot easier for someone from within the BBC, CBC, PBS, or another public broadcaster to convince their employer to contribute to the models. These organizations often have accessibility mandates with real teeth and real costs implementing that mandate. The work of closed captioning, for example, can realistically be improved by excellent open source speech recognition and TTS models without handing all of the power over to Youtube and the like.

It would still be an uphill battle to convince them to hand over the training set but the legal department can likely be convinced if the data set they contribute back is heavily chopped up audio of the original content, especially if they have the originals before mixing. I imagine short audio files without any of the music, sound effects, or visual content are pretty much worthless as far as IP goes.
What happens, for example, if (or when?) this company gets acquired by a malicious actor? It would've built a user base that bought into its mission statement, actively believes they're making society safer, as well as conditioned to get rewarded for following instructions to do so. What happens if this is weaponized for economic or political gain? This is a recipe for even worse and prolonged events than what's happened on Jan. 6.
How do you hide that much power consumption?
15th paragraph:

> Not all of our vulnerability is the fault of medicine preserving life so successfully. Other human actions have opened more doors between the fungal world and our own. We clear land for crops and settlement and perturb what were stable balances between fungi and their hosts. We carry goods and animals across the world, and fungi hitchhike on them. We drench crops in fungicides and enhance the resistance of organisms residing nearby. We take actions that warm the climate, and fungi adapt, narrowing the gap between their preferred temperature and ours that protected us for so long.
Nestor Makhno, on the other hand, is generally recognized as an anarchist, and yet he too had argued for centralization of power.
I believe Casper (Ethereum's PoW protocol) uses the second strategy.
Ok..so were you cut off from access or did your own employee decide to enable two-factor authentication, and since you had neglected to set that up for quite some time, you were locked out?

Because that's what I heard.

Lol.
Where do the rest live?
> Switching our road transport to electric will probably save more children, and the adults they will become, from a lifetime of lung problems and premature death from pollution

The sizable majority of modern car pollution comes from particulates that come off asphalt, not emissions from engines. It's still important to go EV to reduce carbon, but that doesn't improve local air quality. Modern internal combustion engines have pretty minimal pollutants in their emissions.

Getting older cars off the road is the major way to improve emission pollutants. Beyond that, improving air quality to any significant degree requires either fewer cars on the road, or less heavy cars on the road. Asphalt particulates scales quadratically with the weight of the car.
Whats a community? How can it ignore the longest technically valid chain if people come and go, centalized "reference" websites change hands? The Bitcoin is the longest chain, most work burned, it's the definition and trivially verifiable by anyone now or 1000 years from now (if it retains the majority of humanity hashrate)
If it's done without any attempt to comprehend why someone would make the choice, to interrogate your assumption that "vanity" is the only possible reason for it, then yes. It's a prejudicial evaluation rooted in your caricature of someone's nature.

Of course, it's an elective choice, and in that way very different from prejudice founded on appearance. But the incomplete analysis, and the contemptuous reduction of the target's motivations, are in common with racist tropes.
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This is a fantastic story. Your capitalization of BACnet and your use of /C confuse me. BACnet IP? BACnet MS/TP?

I assume you didn't write a BACnet stack from scratch so I'm very interested in what the "server" was running.
You can get a free copy on my web site https://markwatson.com or use the Leanpub link if you want to pay for it.

Github repo: https://github.com/mark-watson/Clojure-AI-Book-Code
You can't inflate a coin by creating another coin. The markets for each coin aren't going to be identical, as each coin attracts a different set of buyers.

In other words, there might be people who would buy ETH, but never BTC and the other way around.
I think that Sayre's law applies here. "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."
I think you're just being cynical in thinking that it matters. As much as this is meant to promote French culture, it's seems like it's more meant to just give kids some money to spend on recreational stuff they might not otherwise be able to enjoy.
"The Citizen [app] CEO apparently wants to reframe their company as some sort of vigilante justice machine"

The app was literally called Vigilante until they were forced to rename it.
Well, yes. But in case of a Hilux or an L200 you often don't need to.

What I wanted to say is that a 'station wagon' is useless for half a year in some climates. And it doesn't make any sense to keep two cars, one for 'summer' and one for the 'rest of the seasons'.
I had one interview, where the people were asking detailed questions about how a particular tool worked. i.e. when this error occurs in the DB, how do you fix it... I am a SW dev, who likes to work with DB not a DB admin. Had they asked me 'When you get a code dump how do you debug it?' I would have had an answer.

As in all interviews they asked me if I had any questions. Each question I asked their answer was that my question was not relevant. I told HR I do not want the job, not that I expected an offer.
The Luddites Were Right
There is libertarian communism, and some actually outright reject authoritarian communism as actually being socialism.
The self-referntial part is not the biggest problem, in the past money was created to fund an army which then made the money stronger in a virtuous cycle.

Its biggest flaw is that it removes the friction from switching sides, and makes it a subject of politics. BTC was created to be the opposite, to take the power back from politics
The answer to that question is not quite as straight-forward as you might think. In many ways, this experiment/post is about figuring out the answer to the question of "what is the best the hardware can do".

I originally started running these tests using the c5.xlarge (not c5n.xlarge) instance type, which is capable of a maximum 1M packets per second. That is an artificial limit set by AWS at the network hardware level. Now mind you, it is not an arbitrary limit, I am sure they used several factors to decide what limits make the most sense based on the instance size, customer use cases, and overall network health. If I had to hazard a guess I would say that 99% of AWS customers don't even begin to approach that limit, and those that do are probably doing high speed routing and/or using UDP.

Virtually no-one would have been hitting 1M req/s with 4 vCPUs doing synchronous HTTP request/response over TCP. Those that did would have been using a kernel bypass solution like DPDK. So this blog post is actually about trying to find "the limit", which is in quotes because it is qualified with multiple conditions: (1) TCP (2) request/response (3) Standard kernel TCP/IP stack.

While working on the post, I actively tried to find a network performance testing tool that would let me determine the upper limit for this TCP request/response use case. I looked at netperf, sockperf and uperf (iPerf doesn't do req/resp). For the TCP request/response case they were *all slower* than wrk+libreactor. So it was up to me to find the limit.

When I realized that I might hit the 1M req/s limit I switched to the c5n.xlarge whose hardware limit is 1.8M pps. Again, this is just a limit set by AWS.

Future tests using a Graviton2 instance + io_uring + recompiling the kernel using profile-guided optimizations might allow us to push past the 1.8M pps limit. Future instances from AWS may just raise the pps limit again...

Either way, it should be fun to find out.
Do they actually have to explain this? Is this part of the Colorado law? I can’t find anything about that.
I think it should be the default certainly in cities and much more the default in suburbs than it is now.

For the main point was that roads weren’t built for cars - cars co-opted them from people. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Ben Thompson had a wild take on this

https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1395766118304780292

> A creator sells a Ticketed Space for $5. The creator, who people are willing to pay for, gets $2.80. Twitter, who facilitated the connection and created the product, gets $0.70. Apple/Google, who leverage OS API control into a tax on all activity, do nothing and get $1.50.

> Imagine people arguing in 1998 that Microsoft deserves 30% of all software sales with zero alternatives allowed lmao
That's fine for training your own model, but I don't think you could distribute the training set. That seems like a clear copyright violation, against one of the groups that cares most about copyright.

I'm not sure that is a clear copyright violation. Sure, at a glance it seems like a derivative work, but it may be altered enough that it is not. I believe that collages, and reference guides like cliff notes are both legal.

I think a bigger problem would be that the scripts, and even the closed captioning, rarely match the recorded audio 100%
API for video streaming solutions (Self hosted or Cloud)
Computers bootstrap every time they boot, but few do it securely every time. The more complexity, in that incremental validation, the more likelihood there's a flaw.

Take iphone for example, it's bootstrapped by keys within the tamper-proof hardware tpm, then all software is incrementally validated from there. Yet jailbreaks still frequently appear.
Yep. It's a logical fallacy: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-...
The app was actually originally framed this way and named "Vigilante". It's been bad from the beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_(app)

https://www.businessinsider.com/citizen-vigilante-app-crime-...
Yeah, people seem to forget the "pain in the ass" factor.
The author is poorly informed. Splits have happened and do happen, there's about 3 or 4 direct Bitcoin forks but they have little use. Social consensus is what ultimately controls which blockchain is viewed as the legitimate one. So if some plurality of rich stakers wanted to do a hostile takeover of a network, the community could create a fork where the oligarch coins are frozen and continue from there.
This plot seems ripped straight from Nightcrawler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film)
No, but it's been about 10 years since I've watched linear TV.

That doesn't seem like any better of a user experience though. Sure, you don't see ads, but your show is still interrupted and now you end up missing bits and pieces of whatever you are watching. I don't really see any more value in watching 4 minutes of the middle of a random show than I already see in 4 minutes of ads.

Either way it's pretty rare for me to see ads these days, because I only use services that offer a paid ad-free option.
Apple and Facebook's Feud Reveals Americans Like Privacy
I think the argument is less that the grill on a truck is especially bad in the case of a pedestrian collision, and more that the limited forward visibility provided by a high front grill results in a greater likelihood of not seeing pedestrians directly in your vehicle's path.
Rural home ownership. When you own 10 acres and want to make use of it, there's always a project to do. I've owned my current 10 acres for almost 3 years, and lived up here full time since last October. Prior to moving, I spent every other weekend up here (other family lives here full time).

There has hardly been a weekend since I bought the place in that time where I don't have some project that involved some amount of construction material. Even just a weekly shopping trip can fill up a full sized truck when you live 30 miles from town and do all of your shopping at once. Also, I have 4 horses on the property (not at all uncommon here), so that alone justifies the truck since I have to go get a few thousand pounds of hay every so often.
Exactly, the problem is that they keep lowballing it because these ranges are somewhat not so much public knowledge
> as some sort of vigilante justice machine

Public safety departments everywhere are in denial how absolutely, utterly, batshit pissed off people are about property crime.

If police never investigate or arrest a single person or do one preventative thing against people breaking into your car, your house, stealing your bike, scamming you on the phone or on the web, taking random crap, no matter how big or small, you're going to prefer vigilante justice.
I can't remember how I got to this, but somewhere there must have been a blog post on this May 3rd talking about dibond aluminum printing, which lead me to this company

https://www.whitewall.com/us/metal-prints/ultra-hd-aluminum-...

I had been considering to use them, but forgot about it. They seem to have pretty good tech, offering many different types of printing methods.
It's not quite the same: in cryptocurrency even stakers/miners cannot break or manipulate the consensus rules themselves. They only really have power in a small number of decisions (most significant is the power to censor transactions in a 51% attack). This is not the same as existing financial institutions where the powers that be have in principle much more power. In practice the main power associated with the community is in those voices which are most heard: this correlates with wealth but not necessarily strongly. These are the ones who have most power over what consensus rules are used (much like in democracy).
GP is not talking about the model but about the training data set.
I like the business model of offering to print it via vistaprint (which might give them a cut).
Generally it's the hassle of getting it because in car-centric American cities, the rent-for-a-day renting process isn't streamlined. Rental companies aren't convenient (or possible) to walk/bus to so you need to get there somehow. Which means you need a main car already, or you have to bug a neighbour/friend and do it on their schedule and not yours. The ability to be like "oh, I've got a spare hour here, I'm gonna go grab that lumber I need next weekend" isn't possible anymore.

So at the end of the day, you need a car, period. I live in a midsize American city after living in a major Canadian downtown and wish we didn't need the car (we both bike a lot), but I really do. And personally, an electric pick-up is gonna be mighty appealing for my next car in however-many years because it removes the main reason I've never gotten one before: gas. I can only imagine how big a win the lack of gas is gonna be outside of America where gas is hilariously cheap.
Wow, Ford is hitting the commercial market before Tesla did!
> Why does this matter? It seems to be obvious to Lee why this is problematic, but it's not at all obvious to me.

There's "freenode" -- the network, the volunteers, and there's 'Freenode Limited' the company, which owns the Freenode domain and trademark. The latter were being held by christel, and she seemed to have sneakily sold them to Lee because she needed money (she seems to have lied to the rest of team about the details of transfer, the rest of the team only learned later about all that was handed over to Lee when lawyers got involved). By virtue of controlling the domain and having access to the website, Lee seems to have put ads on the site... this rubbed some folks the wrong way. They all had a foreboding feeling of things to come and tried to get the domain firmly under their control... to which Lee resisted. Lee does own the domain, he paid for it fair and square after all, so he's got that going for him...

But at this point that's the only thing he's got going for him.... because Freenode is an IRC network with community roots that wants to remain community-oriented and away from commercialization and pesky shell ads, so Freenode is no longer what it used to be, Libera is, and Lee is now left holding a dud.
In general I say these friends are found as we suffer together through school or summer camp. For those less-fortunate, or who fall out of friendship, I can see an app like this being useful for some. I’m more likely to make friends incidentally, doing something where the focus is not to make friends. An app whose express purpose is connecting people like this might be trying too hard? Maybe not—-dating platforms are useful, for example.
I made some temporary friends during my MMORPG days, time I now consider unhealthily spent.
I hope your project works and helps people find friends—-good luck!
You shouldn't trust driver assistance features, Bay Area tech or not. They're there to assist you and decrease the burden of constant throttle / steering wheel management; you should still be constantly monitoring and ensuring the driver assistance tech is doing what it should.
Both pickup trucks and SUVs, electric or not, are a public health hazard. However, only one of those has deliberately tried to run me over.
> Some conspiracy theorists would like to disagree.

Applies to nearly anything. Listening to conspiracy theorists is a very low rate-of-return activity; nearly tautologically.
> 'More recently, the company raised alarm for operating an SUV labeled as “private patrol” in downtown Los Angeles, although company representatives insist the vehicle is not engaged in security work.'

Seems that they really want to be a private security company that augments/replaces the police. I'm morbidly curious as to what would happen if it was allowed to do that.
I guess... how long does it take to determine this? I have a transaction on a PoS PoS (lol) chain, and then... I guess... I've given my goods away for some coins. Now... it turns out my coins are lost because it was on the weaker chain?

Not trying to be disingenuous here. Is this occurring in a matter of a few blocks, a few days? Does this bring crypto closer or further from potentially being an actual currency one day?

I tend to think this centralizes things (PoS as opposed to PoW). I can't imagine I'd want to put my money into some whale controlled currency personally. But I'm not sure that part has really changed considering I think of PoW as relatively whale controlled (and rather centralized, and against all of the generally accepted Keynesian economic theories).
You rationalize it by asking: am I competing with Apple or building on top of them? Does my business exist to steal share from Apple, or does by business exist _because_ of Apple.

If its the former, you find ways of not “feeding the beast” to serve your growing share. Airbnb turned off Google ads. Snap built Spectacles. Facebook built Portal. Spotify built Car Thing.

If its the later, you bite the bullet and chalk it up to business expenses. You appreciate the wonderful world you do business and grow by innovating on top of the platform ie) more apps, more app features, etc. This is the path of Twitter. Or you can choose to be bitter, which is the path of Epic, Match group, etc. In the end these are the losers, IMO
I'll take some fiat, some proof of work, and some proof of stake. That's a better risk profile than only having 2 of 3.
With a name like that you don't need to wonder what's going on in the CEO's head. Why is such permitted in civilized society?
Presumably above the Earth or in the case of burrowing birds, in the Earth.