skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I have been working on a very stupid idea for some time now, that actually started as a social fart sharing app, record your farts, etc.

Then, I needed a way to make sure people were actually sharing farts, and not other noises (like burps or dog barks).

So, ML to the rescue. Train on a corpus of real fart audio and other sounds.

But then, I needed to make sure the farts were not copies or derivative works.

So, audio fingerprinting.

Then, I figured why not throw in blockchain (does not need to be distributed to be able to use the buzzword), to ensure the verified, original farts could not be tampered with.

Now, I believe I have a way for anybody to create unique content that can be ‘converted’ into an NFT.

Investors?

Possibly you!
There is! When creating a link, just check "Collect customers' addresses."
Congratulations on another cool product! I happened to build something to scratch the same itch a couple of weeks back, using Stripe Checkout, iOS Shortcuts, and serverless functions: https://baildon.co/writings/contactless-pos
I came into this thread thinking I was going to cross-post the earlier Cosmopolitan/APE related posts, but dang, someone beat me to it, both on the username AND content front?! Thanks though, saved me quite bit of googling.
My sister worked on high-def colour e-ink screens in the early 2000s. Patents suck
Look at all these people throwing around the word "evil".

The fun thing about that word is that people can't really define it, or rarely go to the work to do so. Virtually everyone defaults to "I know it when I see it" which is a statement that basically says "my biases or identity or viewpoint will dictate it".

Evil is that which threatens your survival in some manner: directly by force, indirectly by threat of force. Survival is itself not boolean, it is basically a rolling total of percentile risk.

And most importantly, that perception of evil is specific to your point of view, and your individual existence in the world.

To point back to the article, it specifically mentions Muslims and the Israeli-Palestine conflict, which very clearly demonstrates the perspective-based essence of the perception of evil.

Palestinians think Israelis are evil for starving them and bombing them, a constant threat that reduces their collective individual survivability.

Guess what, Israelis think Palestinians and Muslims are evil because they lob missles at them, send their own bombers, and several times attempted to invade and destroy their country.

Well, gosh, two sides that think the other side is evil. That is war and conflict. It isn't always going to be Axis vs Allies with one side using gas chambers and the other side rolling in gallantly on tanks.

War sucks.

Evil is relative.

But these days, nuance is dead.

So a bunch of people thought some new hire's views were "evil", that is those statements promoted an attitude that contributes to a subculture of hostility against them and reduces their survivability quotient.

So they get him fired, so from his perspective a bunch of radicalized thought police fired him from his job denying him a good salary for a long time, directly threatening his survival. Guess what, that makes the thought police evil.

The fun thing is when you get to modern civilization ramping through its resources faster than is sustainable. Participating in society is degrading your survivability. You are evil to yourself.

And if evil is simply a representation of risk to your survivability in the great game of life centered on the global biochemical reaction that is life, there is no universal evil, and there is no god.
Yeah but you taking a corporate software gig with “lifers” is like if Tony Hawk was only allowed to skate with his old nash board. It’s going to get boring real quick. He progressed past his birdhouse days to invent the 900. Do the same in your company and champion experimentation and innovation. If you feel like an outcast, ask yourself why. Change starts with you.
Sounds like a good reason not to work for a big company then.
> graphene

Graphene has its own set of problems. Namely, it can be toxic to humans. [1] And who knows what massive quantities of graphene in concrete will do to an environment 10-20 years after the building's construction. Even demolition with explosives will probably be problematic due to potentially massive clouds of nanoparticles it could create.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039077/
Out of curiosity, why do you use the word "novel"?

I'll happily concede he wrote a werewolf story, but since it was never available as a book, I would not call it a novel.
> If you want to tell people "I had this idea first!" this also isn't the forum

This is a good forum for it since it is for showing new products.

If this violates a patent, I definitely want to know.

If it doesn't, then there will be no problem, right?
It's five years. Not 5+ (according to their website).

I don't have to provide a counter example because that wasn't even remotely the argument I was making (that no companies really do this because their objective is to SELL NEW DEVICES).
new sloagan for Google: "we make money out of bloggers .... in any capacity".
And yet here we all are with umpty billion Qualcomm SoCs floating around and nobody complaining about how Qualcomm's chips don't work well (except, of course, in comparison to Apple's).

The hard reality that Linux kernel driver model stalwarts must face is that the only measure that matters to these companies is profit margin, and the economics just are not in favor of upstreaming their drivers. So knowing that, do we continue to yell into the night or do we implement a solution that doesn't leave umpty billion devices without kernel security updates?
Well, in practice, it's not either-or, the vast majority of users get to have both 10+ companies "bloat", as well as 10 album's worth of music.

The base model of an Apple iPhone comes with 64GB, which is probably more than enough for the vast majority of Apple users — all the bloaty apps one might use on a day to day basis, all their pictures, and all their music. For an extra $50 you get 128GB. This is more than enough for the vast vast majority of Apple users (yes I'm aware that there probably exists dozens of idiosyncratic power users who might need even more). In fact, if you're the kind of user that's going to blow past that, it's probably because you're storing more-than-average 4K or 8K video and RAW images, where shaving down app size is probably not going to help anyway.
> I'm not there anymore because I think it should be their responsibility to take responsibility reflective of their size and impact. I lost faith that the leadership agreed.

I fully agree with you, and I don't think that there's any going back: the founders don't care about this, a CEO generally only takes a principled stand on things like this when it's their baby, but Google is not Sundar's baby.
Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
And how about Duchamp’s Fountain and Piero Manzoni’s Artist’s Shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
Switch is an offline experience. Microsoft doesnt believe in offline experiences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E983349p7Q
I would like to know what is the algorithm that divides recognized objects into these sets

{trash bag, tin can, squirrel, leaves, small branch, frisbee, small stone, snow drift, speed bump, ...}

and

{deer, jogger, bicycle, basketball, curled tread from trailer of 18-wheeler, rock fall, a door (that fell from a truck), a toppled traffic cone, tree trunk, armadillo, crevasse, ...}

I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface, of items that a) should just get run-over, and b) should be avoided or emergency stopped.
Probably easier option is just redirecting an asteroid bigger than Chicxulub impactor. But the point is that even that is not enough to eradicate life.

As I said, you would need something like Late Heavy Bombardment or Venus like greenhouse effect and even that may not be enough.

Based on the Moon craters Late Heavy Bombardment would include:

- 22,000 or more impact craters with diameters >20 km (12 mi),

- about 40 impact basins with diameters about 1,000 km (620 mi),

- several impact basins with diameters about 5,000 km (3,100 mi)

It's also important to highlight that everywhere were our ancestors appeared soon after megafauna population got reduced by 20% - 70%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#/media/Fil...

In the last 100 years we just entered path to near total eradication of megafauna. E.g. wild mammals account now for ~4% of mammals biomass.

Complex life is nowhere near as robust as simple life forms.
I'm not sure this article does a good job of highlighting "the problem with reinforced concrete" than it does "the better attributes of material x with y over concrete". Reinforced concrete seems to do exactly what it's intended to do for the designed life of that intent, with some very well known trade-offs coupled with some brilliant strengths.

Sure, compared to other materials it might not be as: long-lasting, cheap, sustainable, but as in all things it seems one can only pick two.
“This is going to last 1000 years!”
…
“It only lasted 50”
…
“I don’t know if it is really a problem…”
well there's a couple suggestions on that line but my edit window seems to have passed
At least the family has some proof of life. Maybe the videos can help push for his release.

Although I'm sure these aren't the reasons YouTube approved the ad(s).
It was more of a silly demonstration showing what's possible and less about being practical. :)
I would also add:

5. The module system is very primitive.

6. The testing framework is extremely barebones.

I agree with your assessment, Julia is great for crunching numbers etc., but I wouldn't write a whole application in it.
I get away with being "The grumpy Scotsman", it's got the point that I don't even get invited which took some work but wouldn't have it any other way. I am still held in high regard at work and part of the furniture now. I just don't do that forced shit. It's not my personality.
I don’t think Facebook constitutes free expression. Ideally, I’d like to see a decentralized protocol which Facebook, Twitter, and even Parler can build off of.

But while Facebook does not constitute “true” free expression, it does allow a very large number of people to voice their opinions that will lose their voice in its absence.
> Isn't "generating binaries" just as bad for other interpreted (interpeted-ish) languages?

Python is famously bad at this. I hope Julia's proponents don't stop at "look we're only as bad as Python".
The times were simpler when you could judge people by their actions and not have to ask who did it beforehand.
Graphene isn't persistent though - it burns.
Not gutting the company quickly enough to satisfy shareholder short-term financial gain.
Is there a way to automate emailing the user an ebook or any other digital good?
Alot of those activist employees actively suppress non-progressive talking points on hn. Can I prove that with data as Dang has asked me to do...? Only if I have access to the logs is my answer.
Curious on this landscape globally especially in regions where there are no doctors.
The product looks cool at least from the video.
Yep and even that zinc coating has a lifespan.
I would not consider the contents of crates.io to be “vetted software”. If the burden is on the developer to carefully evaluate literally hundreds of dependencies, which may each be written in their own package-specific micro language of macros and present in several versions, then I think that’s a pretty substantial cost to bear. More likely, that expensive, unglamorous work will be papered over and ignored.
Thank you so much! Can't wait to hear your feedback about Payment Links.
“The Net” Trailer (1995)
It's an app for group audio chats.

Each chat can be one speaker, a panel, or a group conversation.

Special features are large groups (up to 5000) and the "curation" that isn't really a feature but affects popularity and engagement.
There is a brazilian tribe (piranhã) that knows no concept of quantity besides one, two an
d many. Also, in their language, verbs are not flexed related to time. This is probably du
e to their lifestyle that needs no long planning, discussions about the past or managing m
ultiple instances of the same resources.
And perhaps importantly: the board can't incentivize the execs. Not alone.

Alphabet is still majority-owned by the founders as of 2019. In practice, the board is advisory; 100% of stockholders who's names aren't "Larry Page" and "Sergey Brin" could vote the same on an issue, and the issue will carry in whatever direction Larry and Sergey say it should if both agree.
The big reason why Rust is getting hype is that it's hitting the niche of C++ but doesn't suck to integrate. Ever wonder why so many C++ "libraries" are "header-only"? Yeah.

Even if you declare your lib API 'extern "C"', when you call into C++ code you need a C++ runtime that is exactly what you compiled the C++ code with and it has to speak exceptions, templates, name-mangling, etc., exactly like the compiler you compiled that C++ library with. So, you always need the exact compiler to integrate C++.

With Rust, it's a library just like if you compiled it with a C compiler.

The fact that Rust fixes that long-standing C++ suckage, in my opinion, is THE killer feature that's making Rust "popular".
Not just hardware but even older Windows applications run way better on WINE than on Windows 10. Microsoft doesn't care about reverse compatibility or long-term support for consumers.
Alcohol is a very strong depressant, your nervous system will adjust to it and will be over stimulated if you cut it off abruptly. A minor symptom of this would be anxiety... severe symptoms could be psychosis, seizures or death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome

There is also a positive feedback effect called Kindling, from sudden withdrawals, which makes subsequent ones worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindling_(sedative%E2%80%93hyp...
Thrilled to hear it, and can't wait to hear your feedback!
Yes, I even tried to read some of his blog posts under that name before I came across urbit. Didn’t bother finishing any because they were interminable and objectionable in about equal measure. I’m aware of the posited connection between his views (including the whole feudal thing) and urbit; I guess I just don’t see the need to be afraid of a shadowy presence behind the project, given what it is.
I think the problem is people cry whataboutism as a way of silencing dissenting opinions rather than engaging in a discussion rebutting the premise(s).
Unions don't stop dictators from buying, but can stop companies from selling to dictators.
No, it was overconfidence in "full self driving".

Musk says this with a megaphone to his 55.9 million followers: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18510828/tesla-elon-musk-...

But Tesla privately tells regulators that "full self driving" is only level 2: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39647/tesla-admits-current-ful...

And Tesla privately says that Musk's comments don't match engineering reality: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a...

You can't have it both ways.

The most responsible thing Musk can do is to publicly admit that "full self driving" is no such thing and change the name to something more realistic.
Someone already beat you to it https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/nyc-man-sells-fart-for-85-cash...
Thanks for your response. I'm trying to understand your position here, and I'm really not getting it.

Aside from the obvious problem of their being living people who experienced the holocaust (so they still exist), this example seems to imply that I'm saying that there's no need for empathy and respect for the people who came before us. I don't think that anything I've said implies that. Instead what I'm saying is that the dead need no protection and can receive no pain or insult. Anything we do for "them" is really for "us", because they do not exist.

>Because it’s a simple matter of recognizing other human beings and respecting their cultural achievements and desires. Just because they don’t exist anymore doesn’t mean they weren’t humans worthy of our empathy.

You seem to be implying that not honoring the wishes of the dead is an empathic failure. How so? I can empathize with someone's wishes, understand where they are coming from, and even respect who they were. None of that implies that I owe their desires a place in the world now. And in fact as modern people we MUST make choices about what pieces of the past to revere, revise, or pave over. Otherwise the world becomes a mausoleum to the past.
Totally! We couldn't agree with you more.
You can mute individual applications in windows volume mixer (right click speaker icon in the taskbar, click open volume mixer). I don't know if there's a Mac equivalent but I would be really surprised if there wasn't.
"The board" is Larry and Sergey, from a realistic voting power standpoint. All of this is ultimately their fault.
Doom has thought me how to navigate a city with nothing but a paper map :).

I thought GPS had rendered this skill obsolete, until I found myself in a foreign country with a non-working smartphone one day.
Nowadays, a lot of products go out of production and are replaced by the next model before they have time to settle and get a consumer reputation. It sometimes feels like they do only 1 production run per model and then bye-bye. So, quick and "good enough", "as good" or "not worse than others" is good enough :-/
> The author states that "one of iron’s unalterable properties is that it rusts" yet further on acknowledges the existence of stainless

Even stainless steel rusts, just more slowly. Roughly 10-100x more slowly, judging by https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1124/ML112490377.pdf and https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/23/8705/pdf.
You are free to leave.

It used to be you were innocent until proven guilty. Attending a white power rally isn’t a crime in most places (freedom of assembly).

Assaulting law enforcement and damaging the Capitol is. If you have evidence, report it to law enforcement.

If the person does nothing while at work, there shouldn’t be a problem. You are not their judge. This is precisely why we have around privacy, what your company can ask you, etc.

You can save your boss the time and quit. You can save even more time by asking for the full background of every coworker of yours and determine if they live up to your standards.

Better yet, make your own company comprised of only people who meet your definition of acceptable people based on their political and social opinions that they don’t even share at work. Be careful though, you’re likely to get sued for violating employment laws.
I get responding to this with something like "YouTube's processes are broken." What doesn't make sense is "YouTube is happy to profit off human rights abuses."

YT must deal with probably hundreds of new ads a day. They stand to gain nearly nothing from running this particular ad, and stand to lose quite a lot, even from a pure corporate-self-interest perspective. Which is more likely: that YT said "screw human rights abuses, gimme the cash" in full knowledge of what was going on, or that some contractor who had already reviewed a dozen that day and maybe hasn't even seen the news articles clicked a button without proper due diligence, and YT hadn't factored "what if a developed nation's government openly advertises human rights abuses" into its oversight processes?
It still appears as problematic as ever to me because a judge is pretty much the last person I would trust to decide what is and isn't evil.

I can't even imagine how a hypothetical well-intentioned judge who wanted to apply that provision correctly would proceed. The judge would basically have to choose between imposing their own personal view on good and evil or declaring the provision nonjusticiable.

Maybe the license could include a mandatory arbitration clause with an arbitrator who shares the author's values, but that still sounds like a terrible idea.
Is it true, though? It seems easy to make this up, and get everyone riled up.

But it seems like it could be true, too. I'm just wondering how to verify.
Once you know about spalling, you see it everywhere. There's a train bridge straddling a high-traffic road in Philadelphia that is crumbling year after year, and I think the freight company that owns it still hasn't done anything about it. We just have to hope there's no traffic when it eventually fails.
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The Wikipedia page you linked to doesn't make the claims that you are. It says that Babb volunteered for the FSA to help migrants, and that her supervisor Collins asked her to keep notes on her work there. Collins seems to have later shared the field work notes from her, as well as others, with Steinbeck when he was doing research. There's no claim that he read (or was even aware of) her manuscript, or that he dissuaded her work from being published (it says her publisher decided not to publish it after The Grapes of Wrath was successful).

People can read the summaries of both if they like; there doesn't seem to be a lot of overlap other than they're both about downtrodden Okies trying to make it out West.

Edit: Also worth noting that Steinbeck's nonfiction account of migrant workers in California, The Harvest Gypsies, was published two years before Babb began her volunteer work with the migrant farmers.
What happens in the ensuing power vacuum? See: The US in Iraq, Libya post-Ghaddafi, etc

It also sends a very strong message to Putin that the US may not want to send
I don't mind ads in content by creators who are getting revenue from it. It maintains many interesting channels.

But ads on content where all the revenue goes to google without a penny being sent to the creator? That's not tolerable.
"If you don't stop doing this, many of your employees won't come to work tomorrow" seems like something that could cause a large company to change its policies.
If you like hard sci-fi ish anime:

Akira (just in case you haven't seen it).

Legend of Galactic Heroes (it's on crunchyroll, the new one, hardcore anime space opera stuff)

Jujutsu Kaisen was absolutely killer the last two seasons. (typical shonen but done really well)

Code Geass (mecha plus nation state subterfuge)

One Punch Man (really really funny).
It depends on the kind of work-organized events. My previous company organized free concerts, from pop to classical to jazz, as well as family events such as Theme Park Day. Aside from company-wide events, there are the large team events (~50 people) that included day hikes, museums, activity camps, and plays. I've enjoyed many of these despite having responsibilities outside of work.
Another bubble bursting? What’s next? NFTs perhaps?
Silicon Valley's Social App and Teen Obsession
there's an effort to replicate Magit in VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kahole.m...