skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Romans had statues why cant we have our own arts revolution
I oscillate back and forth between guix and nix. They both do the same thing really well. Nix is more mature, has some amazing capabilities, and is kinda annoying in spots such as documentation. I end up browsing users' repos for both.

Guix is more elegant in ways such as guile versus nix the dsl, although the haskell underpinning of nix is very useful.

If you're a linux user willing to put in the time and play around then both are perfectly usable as daily drivers but they're both learning experiences as well.

Hard to say which will win out, probably both, with excellent interoperability.

They really are the future of os managment, they simplify abstractions of state and naming
Just the opposite, during difficult times people rush to USD which bolsters 1 and 2.

That it's used widely and fungible is what gives it value.

If your own currency is destroyed, you use the one that has the most integrity that's relative to your country. For most nations the default would be USD. For Vietnam probably RMB. For Belarus either Euro or Rouble.

Then you develop integrity in governance and switch to a national currency.

A nations currency is actually a vert good measure of the competence and integrity of the leadership class.
Perhaps camels are going to save the day and help with transportation
> If I have someone who did the homework, learned the material, and can demonstrate it on the exams, and they find out that someone else in class got the same grade by cheating, aren't they justified in being angry?

They are justified in feeling whatever emotion they feel. That doesn't mean you have to react to their emotion.

If you had a student that felt they had a good understanding of the subject, but failed your test; they might assert that your test - not their knowledge - is flawed. Naturally they would have the right to be angry. So would you change your test? I doubt it.

> And am I not justified in being distressed to find that I am certifying someone as knowledgable (say,as part of an undergraduate program to become a person who designs bridges), when they are not?

So because someone passed a single test, they are going to go start building structurally flawed bridges? If that is the case, then there are much more serious issues than cheating.

What's more likely is that a successful cheater might pass your class and fail their career. You might be embarrassed or upset about it, but it wouldn't be that big of a deal.

The problem here is that an obsession over "accreditation" is being held as more important than education. The mission of a university has shifted from learning to credit, at the expense of everyone involved.
Europe has plenty of "luxury" brands, although few in the tech sector, admittedly.

But consumer-facing brands aren't everything. Germany's industry is famously reliant on "hidden champions": specialist mid-sized companies you've never heard of, producing, say, industrial pumps, chewing-gum wrapping machines, or large curved glass panels.
> The suggestion that there is some significant number of police killings that are going unreported - especially in the environment of the past several years - is categorically conspiratorial thinking. It fails the barest of sanity checks when you consider just how 'deep state' an effort would be required for that to be conducted at scale.

> Are there some unreported police killings? Almost certainly. Would there be enough to alter the central thrust of the above argument about the shockingly low incidence of police killings of unarmed persons relative to ~10 million arrests per year and some multiple of that in total encounters? Almost certainly not.

Axios is one of the most credible outlets to both the GOP and the Democrats. Then-WH spokesperson Sarah Sanders has praised Axios as a worthy outlet.

The Raza database just looks at newspaper reports for deaths by police. There is no nationwide standard for how police deaths should be recorded.

You are the one suggesting bizarre conspiracy. A nationwide conspiracy of local newspaper outlets reporting deaths.
> Engineering used to be one of the few fields where you could transition from blue collar to white collar even if you were a child from a poor family. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be very true, anymore.

It seems more true than ever before. Software engineering in particular is probably one of the least credential sensitive careers in existence, and is huge and growing faster than just about any other job market.

I sometimes wonder about all the complaining that goes on about software engineering interviews. In many (maybe most) other fields of comparable earning potential, the gatekeepers are 4-12 years of schooling and professional unions, not a few hours of awkward whiteboarding.
Thank you.

I actually searched Twitter with the phrases two beards and 2beards. I didn't think to use two braids.

Not sure if I tripped across his account and just didn't recognize him or what.
Apparently this is news to you: nearly all writers do not get to choose their headlines, no matter the topic area. This goes from newspapers to books. If you're basing those views on the headlines vs the explicit content in his articles and videos, you've very much got the wrong end of the stick here. He goes out of his way to repeatedly emphasize "but you can do it how you like and that's ok" in everything he's done purely solo.
Somehow Amazon already fixed this, even though they don’t care when it happens to other sellers.
This is true of most people regardless of their politics.
My concern with this is are you on 24/7 call. I’d be wanting some say in how these systems are set up at least to minimise that chance. But a bug in code that is not your fault could easily get your pager buzzing.
Unforunately we have one person saying one thing and a second person saying another. Unless we buy into recency bias - whoever speaks second is somehow more correct - we don't really know. Do you happen to know any source for some or all of it?
Systems build for enterprise usage, for example for banks, do have multi-sign accounts [1]. Each key can have a weight and you define a total that's needed to sign a transaction.

For example 8 keys where each has the weight of 1 and a signing threshold of 4 is required. That would mean form the 8 keys (persons) a maximum of 4 can lose their key.
On top of that you may still have a master key that overrides all.
Or you could lock 4 of the 8 keys in different places not meant to be used but just as backup for the 4 keys in use.

This stuff already exists.
See [1] https://xrpl.org/multi-signing.html

There are almost endless possible solutions that could be implemented if needed.
For example you could make a master key that overrides all others but requires an unlock Tx followed by an arbitrary escrow delay where funds are locked.
This would be useful if a master key is stolen. As soon as someone uses it, it would be known that the key was stolen so the people with the multi-sign key could move the funds away before the funds are unlocked.

You could also make funds move to a previously defined rescue address after a while of inactivity. So in case the key got lost the fund would move to another address you just have to wait. And if the keys are not lost the time is reset every time a Tx is signed. Kinda like a dead man's switch. So people can inherit your funds if you are unable to sign a Tx.

The possibilities are kinda endless. If there is a need for it it can be coded.
>I'm not aware of any mainstream movement amongst orthodox economists to revert to pre-Nixon policies.

That's OK, mainstream orthodox economists have completely failed to yield anything resembling pre-Nixon prosperity ever since.
I believe there was a short third season
If you’re a “professional” (engineers, lawyers, doctors etc) in any capacity; you will be given more - but for the majority of the workforce in retail, hospitality, services - you are much worse off; the European social support is geared towards a more even society.
Apple products are so overpriced that it is indeed a luxury. Windows is for the regular people because they like candy crash and Linux is for geeks.
"The 134 incremental crashes give rise to 31 incremental personal injuries in the vicinity of PokéStops. These account for 25% of the aggregate increase in the number of personal injuries experienced county-wide over the same time period. Based on data from the Insurance Information Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incremental claims for bodily injuries and the estimated loss of lifetime income imply a county-wide total incremental cost
of $988,621.

On a sadder note, our analyses point to two incremental vehicular fatalities in the vicinity of Pokéstops following the introduction of the game."
Yeah, it's not like this guy claimed to be in the belly of the whale for 3 days. Could you imagine the response to that title? Surely, nobody would have the gall to make up a story like that and spread it around like gospel.
> What if your family back home wants the, you know, dollars that you worked hard for in the US, and thought you were sending to them?

I'm not sure I follow the argument here. Why can't the family continue to use Western Union or one of its competitors to send USD remittances if Tether bothers them and Tether would in fact be involved?

> Well, that’s easy — you can cash out your USDT balance as US dollars at a Strike-operated Bitcoin ATM!

> How many Bitcoin ATMs are there in El Salvador?

> Two. ...

I guess it's possible, but this sounds rather speculative. Why on earth would someone in the US send Tether as a remittance? Unlike bitcoin, which will be treated as legal tender, tether will enjoy no such status.

If Tether can't be converted to USD easily, it won't be sent as a remittance. There may be some initial confusion, but I suspect that word of mouth about bad experiences would spread quite quickly given what's at stake.

The author also seems to be completely discounting the possibility that over time El Salvadorans may come to prefer remittances to be sent in bitcoin and used immediately to pay for things. No need to invoke tether at all in that case.
I may be projecting here but your nephews, if they are like some of my relatives, may not be neurotypical (for example they may have Aspergers disorder). If this is the case their behavior may be better understood in that context that a social one.
2.4 Ghz is a very busy spectrum, and most protocols use some form of collision detect to avoid interference, so it’s probable that the spectrum is particularly busy in that area with the clear line of sight and buildings at four corners. Imagine at least one WAP for every floor times four. And recall that the received signal increases with height. The issue could easily be interference from Wifi devices. And there might be some interference from the other bluetooth radios. There’s also 802.15.4 in the spectrum, which gets used for wireless sensors.

I’m increasingly surprised all this stuff works in that spectrum
Actual title, emphasis mine: Kentucky professor resigns ahead of vote that could have stripped him of tenure

Your inaccurate headline will need to be retracted, samizdis.
And this is a good thing for those that care more about language, culture, laws, infrastructure, and having their own unique version of them, than they do about the success and profitability of multinational corporations.

Diversity is destroyed if capital simply dissolves all differences and subsumes nations and entire regions, homogenizing everything.
China's 1.75T Language model; Tencent Wheel-Legged Robot; 16×16 for ViT
I make $15.60 an hour and I do ok.
Yes, and then you know what happens? Builders stop building because of dropping prices. Trees stop getting felled.

It's called a 'deflationary trap' and everything falls apart.

Nations need a stable currency to function, BTC is untenable.

There's not much to debate here because it simply won't work, it's Banana Republic kind of stuff. They'll never switch over to BTC as a nation it's pragmatically impossible.

If they had the ability to effectively switch over to BTC, then they'd have the ability to responsibly issue and manage a currency.
Why do you say that you're never going to be able to buy a house, but maybe will end up retiring before you're 40?

Sounds like, in lieu of anything else, you should try and buy a rental property or two. Start slow, eventually FIRE, that whole thing.

That said, yeah, the same sentence could then be applied but with time: "why retire when I have nothing to do with my time?"

I'm 30 and still don't have a great answer for either, whether it be time or money.
Is there a mobile-friendly landing page or screenshot somewhere?
The thing I love about this piece is that it almost gets at the core idea that so many organizational practices sacrifice the organization's nominal purpose (e.g. help the business get work done) in order to reinforce the social hierarchy/pecking order.

You see the same thing across many organizations large and small, including schools, hospitals, etc..
That's basic pedagogy, he doesn't assume a highly familiar audience.
Exactly. People are mistaking "The Economist" and the entities they represent, and their views for what is best for Europeans. I'd say it is a feature, not a bug, that they don't have giant corporations dominating everything.
> I use all three platforms on a daily basis and windows is 10x...

Are you using Windows 10X by any chance? Sounds like the way it should be.
You will be doing that every week when the system is designed to only be worked on during those planned windows, because that's what happens in these types of situations.

These windows are also when people discover how fragile their infrastructure is; when it doesn't come back up and now everyone is panicking and well past the planned downtime window.
The problem is that when you sign up for a tribe, you experience an emotional obligation and social pressure to adopt its beliefs wholesale, even if that means jettisoning rationality along the way.

This is an affliction that beleaguers both sides of the aisle.
> Apparently it's unlikely to be an accident, but it's a very ancient connection, via the chinese, who have in more recent times ditched the system.

China is a relative latecomer here and typically lags these types of ancient civilizational innovations, with the oldest being Mesopotamia and Egypt. In China, the seven day week was adopted in the late 4th Century A.D. in the Jin dynasty roughly 3000 years after it was adopted in Mesopotamia.

There are two theories as to the origin of the seven day week, one that it started in ancient Babylon and another that it started in ancient Egypt.

The concept of a "week" is directly tied to the concept of a sabbath (a special holy day to mark the end of the week). This, in turn is related to Babylonian numerical systems -- they had a base 6 system corresponding to 6 days of work followed by the religious day, and hence the origin of our seven day week. Interestingly, unlike in judaism where the seventh day is considered one in which work was forbidden as God rested on that week, in Babylonian tradition, the seventh day was considered unlucky for work and thus work was to be avoided. It is a fine line separating these different notions of a Sabbath and thus of the week.

Another speculated origin for the week was via lunar observations -- e.g. a quarter phase of the moon corresponding to a half-moon either waxing or waning with a lunar month being roughly 29.5 days, so 1/4 of that would be 7.4 days. But there are different ways to divide this -- e.g. a sequence of 7 day units followed by a sequence of special days tacked at the end or some other combination. You actually see these types of divisions in some ancient Babylonian calendars. But with a base 6 system, there are some nice divisions, e.g.
6 days of work followed by the holy day = 1 week

4 weeks followed by a holy day at the end = 1 month

the residual .5 day, can accumulate so that after 12 months, 12*.5 = 6. 6 special days to be added at the end of 12 months.

In the ancient past, you had different regions practicing their own calendar system and one of the first innovations of the first (known) empire in Mesopotamia was the standardization of weeks and months as different cities were brought into the Sumerian empire. Sargon I of Akkad is said to have standardized the week by ensuring that the different cities he conquered were synced up and observed the same set of extra holy days in what is the first (known) empire

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/0308018827898012...

However there is some linguistic evidence that the Sumerians merely borrowed the concept of a week from the Akkadian civilization, so the earlier Akkadian civilization is believed to have held the concept of a week first.

Once you have the notion of a week, it is not hard to name it after the sun, moon, and 5 celestial planets, as these were the primary astronomical phenomena. You can see these names in ancient languages here: https://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/hlwc/why_seven.htm
How to help students heal from math trauma
It's not a phase, mom!
My '12 Tundra had the backup screen in the rearview mirror. A huge innovation to me at the time. Everything else was knobs and buttons on the dash like yesteryear. That truck was awesome. A shame I had to give it up!
Europe is extracting less value from its people than the U.S. is right now. Hardly a bad thing
That was the original view. Looks like the English-speaking world changed to view it as two continents in the 1950's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas#Usage
According to the NGO sector it's because women in developing countries don't have the power to say no when the husband wants sex.
Thermally it actually does and the CPU begins to throttle.
Yes indeed!
Successful (caveat that term appropriately ;) versions of this prolog+floats idea have used interval analysis in the past.
Anyway, yep you can do it, and it is fun!
Why should research be private? OpenAI comes to mind. Also open source as a whole is in counter to this.
I agree that a hash of data != the source data, but these links seem to indicate that it is at least possible, if not already evident, that illegal images and content can be encoded into the bitcoin blockchain (and presumably other blockchains that permit similar writing to the ledger)

JPG of Nelson Mandela encoded into bitcoin blockchain:
http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...

Illegal porn and classified documents embedded in the blockchain (page 3):
https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/pdf-33/accenture-editing...

Original research source: https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
Ask HN: Is Apple really phoning home every time I start an application on macOS?
I'm not sure if this sort of question is welcome here, but I'd imagine it could allow for some interesting discussion beyond the scope of the initial question.

I'm living on an extremely restricted internet connection right now that completely drops out every few minutes (my ISP is Vodafone, fellow German users will know what I mean.) I noticed that when my internet connection stalls, but I'm still connected to the wifi, I'm unable to open certain apps. So far I've experienced it with VLC, VS Code and Firefox. I remember some time ago there were rumours that apple was actually sending usage statistics every time I launch an app back to their servers. If the connection is interrupted, the apps don't start. Is this actually the right explanation? If that is true, this would be so nightmarishly dystopian to me I'd consider switching back to linux. Thank you!
It's 'definitely not sane' to fix the amount of currency in circulation, either fiat or gold or crypto, arbitrarily.

It would be like saying 'we're going to fix the amount of roads we have' and 'people will be forced to use the roads more sensibly!'.

The only reason for 'fixing' currency would be to prevent bad actors from running the printing press. Now - this is actually a very real problem historically - however, it's a pretty crude solution.

The smart thing to do is manage your currency smartly - literally like everything else in civilization.

You need good Public Health Policy, you need good Monetary Policy.
My friend's brother is like this. It's pretty obvious upon talking to him that he has some kind of atypical neurology but his parents completely refuse this, and thus keep him trapped in his little bubble without getting any help.
On top of this, looking away from the subject of focus and absent-mindedly fidgeting are common behaviors of people with neurodivergent conditions like ADHD and ASD. Accusing those who seem to be putting some focus away from the test is harmful to every test taker, but significantly more harmful to neurodivergent people.
I don't think that will ever happen as long as "free market" is sacrosanct in the US. I think it would be possible to push the idea of a "fair market", that is one that has the benefits of free market competition without the disdain for the concept of regulation, but nobody seems to have attempt that yet.
I have to comment that I think women who want to date go to tinder as a very last resort and don’t expect a long term relationship there.
For serious relationships we tend to go to okcupid and bumble as they are wayyy less creepy apps.
At least where I live tinder is known as the one night stand app.
With 2 billion monthly active users… I think a response needs to be far more thoughtful than “Do they, though?”
You are right on the distortion. Even safety can be kind of out of the wibdow with people taking their insurance's approval as a GO sign for otherwise detrimental behaviors, like building houses in submersible areas.
> Why can't the family continue to use Western Union

They can, but this is a bad remittance channel.

> Why on earth would someone in the US send Tether as a remittance?

Per the article, this is literally the supposed use case that the CEO of Strike puts forward.

> over time El Salvadorans may come to prefer remittances to be sent in Bitcoin and used immediately to pay for things.

It's possible, but the past ten years of bitcoin failing at the merchant use case suggests otherwise. I won't say it can't happen; but given bitcoin's past repeated failure, I'd want to see it happening.
Man swallowed by whale on cape cod
So by mentioning conservative value you assume I’m on the right? I don’t agree that someone should be able to give some people a megaphone, but not others.
> I ran Guix on top of Gentoo

Could I ask you to compare guix and portage? I'm not an expert in either, but it looks like guix provides very similar source builds with easier binary caching/substitution.
There are organizations dedicated to trying to ascertain the error in reported police shootings. They have found what is logically self-evident but that you refuse to accept: no reasonable suspicion of outsized error.

> A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated approximately 1,200 people were killed by police between June, 2015 and May, 2016. Our database identified 1,104 people killed by police over this time period. While there are undoubtedly police killings that are not included in our database (namely, those that go unreported by the media), these estimates suggest that our database captures 92% of the total number of police killings that have occurred since 2013. We hope these data will be used to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing campaign to end police violence in our communities.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/aboutthedata

And I will once again reiterate that the suggestion that there are some great number of police killings going undetected in the present highly charged environment is itself a crime against reason.
This was a widely shared and delightfully counterintuitive idea, but it’s not right. The first source that comes to mind is Dan Luu’s summary, but it’s been widely reported (though sadly hasn’t spread as wide as the original claim) https://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/.