skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: ouch! - it was a moderator who added "Show HN" and that was totally our mistake. I'm so sorry for scolding you for something you didn't do!

Newsletters can't be Show HNs. Please read the rules—they mention this explicitly: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. I've replaced "Show HN" with "Tell HN" above.

Also, if you're getting these stories from HN then I would ask you to link to the HN submissions.

We totally support the goal of bringing attention to great stories that haven't gotten significant attention yet. Other people have worked on this problem (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23392049), and in fact we spend a good deal of time doing the same thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). But it's not good for community to sever the links to the source where you found them. In fact, at first glance it felt exploitative to me—a bit like kicking the ladder out from under you—but on reflection I'm sure that's not what you intended.

If you include the HN sources the way that polote has done here: https://hnblogs.substack.com/p/hn-blogs-24121, that would suffice.

p.s. It looks great and I'm going to subscribe!
Because there is state?
Again, this thread is not about BTC, and limitations that are specific to BTC (like transaction rate/speed) are irrelevant.
Because they’re amoral grifters who are looking to cash in on fake outrage.
From the linked Wikipedia article:

* Eight years passed until Weinstein released a draft paper of Geometric Unity on April 1, 2021. The paper qualifies that the author "is not a physicist" but an "entertainer"*

By his own admission definitely more clown than physicist.
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* 1: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987
* 2: https://gfi.org/resource/cultivated-meat-lca-and-tea-policy-...
Nicely written. But, as predicted in the responses on the blog the rebuttal is going to be "but I watched this video..."

The basics here are very strong for me: run larger tests (which btw, are still too small) and the numbers become at BEST equivocal. Run small tests, you can get some "stunning" evidence it works.

Stunning, because 6/10 vs 5/10 is an apparent huge leap in efficacy, when in fact, its a single flip in the margins. 6/10 is probably 5.01/10 when you do it to 100+ test subjects. 60/100 vs 40/100 would of course be more interesting, but the likelihood of 6/10 converting to 60/100 is actually low: it was most likely a single flip, not a statistical flip of a cohort. Thats what the bigger studies appear to be telling us.
truer words were never spoken

cryptopals was the reason I got into security, everything just pales in comparison.
Taxing behavior that you want to discourage is an oxymoron or at least it creates a perversive incentive in which the government taxes something but doesn’t invest and even sometimes hampers alternatives because it values the tax income.

Subsidies aren’t much better either in many cases…

We see this with EVs now where countries and jurisdictions are looking for ways to make up for the lost tax revenue due to ever and ever increasing EV sales.
I was down until the on-prem thing..

Still, I wouldn't be surprised about insane wages for COBOL. You make money at the bleeding edge of tech, or way back on the tail end - scarcity breeds profit :-)
I was thinking about that the other day, as I passed a major art museum: Has a modern museum ever suffered a calamity that damaged much/most of its treasures?
I guarantee you that you engage in activities that provide far less benefit to humanity but use far more energy than cryptocurrency.
Many organizations writing GPU-compliant software are not actually "writing CUDA" but they are either using key libraries which area using CUDA (e.g., TensorFlow) or it is a layer deeper (e.g., I use a deep learning library, the deep learning library using CuDNN, CuDNN uses CUDA.)

Other orgs are using something written in another language that compiles into CUDA.

Either way, to replace CUDA, that middle component needs to be replaced by someone and ideally it should be the card manufacturers themselves (IMHO.) I cant imagine any small/medium organization having sufficient engineering time to write the middle component and keep them up to date with the slew of new GPUs, OS updates, or new GPU features -- unless it is their core business.
Most of the time, because they can't capture leads with a freely accessible rss feed.
To increase the "fractal dimension" of anything, just EQ up the high frequency components. White noise has great fractal dimension, lol

Can't wait for this to be on joe rogan
Why is that what really matters? Having fewer children makes a big difference which is invisible by this metric.

What really matters is the negative impact on the environment. If we half emissions per capita but 10x the population size mother nature isn't congratulating us.
I was being extremely precise (because I believe the problem is extremely important).

So, my interpretation of "Tribalism is the underlying cause of most of humanity's bad behavior", focuses on the words "the" and "most", as well as the general idea of what ails humanity. I would say that this aspect is extremely truthy and extremely important, but I believe it is even more true that the particulars of consciousness itself is THE root cause of all the world's problems...and not just in a "well duh, no shit" sense, but in a this is where humanity should be focusing its very best minds sense. I believe the problem is blatantly obvious and well known, but for some reason we seem unable to take it seriously.
Understand that you can't solve society-wide issues with technology alone.
I was using GNOME when 2-D workspaces was a supported feature, and when it was removed, people told me, "don't worry, use an extension; the feature isn't really gone". The problem is then the next time my distribution updated to a new version of GNOME, things broke, and I had to scramble to figure out how to get a working desktop environment again.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The one I always use is Kolourpaint. Installable via apt.
You put so much hard work into getting this done for me Hack unknow on telegram and it really paid off. Thanks to your focus and determination in going extra mile and managing all of the complexities of this project
he had a 457 in 2013 when he wrote this. You can draw from that as long as you are no longer working for whoever you had the 457 with.
I last experimented with CUDA.jl a year ago, and it was very useable then. This is a good reminder to re-evaluate the Julia deep learning ecosystem. If I were working for myself I would definitely try to do more with Julia (for machine learning). Realistically, python has such an established base that it will take some time to get orgs that are already all in on python to come over.
totally agree. while I'm optimistic that arm chips will be more open in the data center and embedded space, looks like mobile arm id becoming more proprietary. Intel could shake things up if it starts to work on riscv and brings some of its graphics and wireless tech over to it.

while it is nice to have a powerful phone, it really doesn't need to be any more powerful than what is in a tv set.
I came to the same realization that Apple doesn't seem to care when I started learning how to build apps on iOS.

Coming from Android, I was used to having high level conceptual guides on the core building blocks of the framework. In the Android docs, I found detailed explanations of Activities, Fragments, Views, and other major components. It was relatively easy for me to get started, and the system was designed to be extensible. Google even published blog posts regularly, which I could use to learn more about design decisions.

When I made the jump to iOS, though, it was difficult to find parallel documentation for what I was looking for. At the time (this was 2015, mind you), I couldn't find anything beyond API documentation for ViewControllers, Views, Core Data, etc. Most of the major documentation existed on third-party sites like NSHipster. Not to mention code signing. I'm pretty sure I'm one of handful developers at my firm who knows the system well enough to explain how it works...and that was after 2 years of working in iOS full-time.

I doubt that Apple will prioritize the developer experience on their platform anytime soon.

Edit: In case anyone wants to see the difference...

- Google's guide on Activities: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/in...

- Apple's guide on View Controllers: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_control...
i honestly feel people are allergic to rtfm
More like pissing on the sand castle and getting mad when nobody wants to play.
Give me an SSD and an OS distro on a thumb drive with USB3.0 support, and you get the same guarantees computer security-wise on literally any UEFI secure boot enabled system.

Fast updates are enabled by heavily locking in what user's are able to do with them. No exotic checks to be done.

I am not impressed by Chromebooks in those regards at all. Different strokes I suppose.

I might give you the screen, but to be honest, most of the time Chromebooks find their way to me it's because they're broken, and I'm everybody's computer guy of last resort due to high tolerance for frustration. All of them have had their screens or MOBO's rendered inoperable. Further, I philosophically reject anything that cannot be side loaded or is so locked down you can't load software onto it from external media.

Yes, security people may love that, but in reality, the entire point of processors is to run code. If I can't get my code to the processor that needs to run it without hostage negotiations, then that is not a useful machine to me. That is a niche PoS. Which all power to those who need it as such. Just isn't high on my list of things to actively purchase.
The key word there is 'supposed'...

Theranos, B. Madoff, and others seemed to feel that was just a suggestion :-P

Also, businesses are not required to buy their stock back from you, so they are not 'backed' any more then crypto is.

If a company goes broke, and you hold common stock - you get nothing

edit:s/there/their/
To be clear, this law was supported by all parties except the far right party (UDC/SVP) in Switzerland.
This entire debate is a red herring, considering many states don’t even have 30% first shot coverage yet.

Get your damn shots, ffs.
I use mspaint seriously for mock-ups. Because you can’t do too much you dont waste time on perfectionism you can just do enough to communicate a design. It’s a brain hack. Lack of features (and vectors) is a feature!
Why are you delaying the content to newsletter subscribers?

Considering the source of your content, and lack of attribution; now it's looking shifty.
This is from 2018, I'd be curious to hear if anything has changed in the past few years.
No, you’re like a year behind on that rebuttal. Go look at the doses they are recommending. They are talking around 25mg, and it’s demonstrably safer already. Efficacy is less clear, but very compelling. The issue is the refusal to do an RCT, probably because it would wipe out billions of dollars of it succeeds.

Merck announced a $3000/dose drug with billions in preorders just a few days ago. They aren’t interested in seeing if $3 ivermectin, which they also make, works.
it’s not impossible. just harder. also, remember that hn has a bit of an echo chamber effect. I’ve been downvoted over time for expressing unpopular opinions that turn out to be mostly true. i don’t care. i’m here with an open minded and will listen to the other side arguments.

X is dangerous and must be stopped is not an argument. You need to articulate why it’s dangerous and exactly what you mean when you say that and when you say it must be stopped.

also, crypto is not going anywhere. If you cannot see that maybe you should start looking into it a bit deeper
>IRCCloud publicly tweeting mean things about Freenode
Mean things like telling the truth?
Please allow me to express my shock that you can even formulate this statement.

Can you not see the dangers that, as you are profiled, and data gets correlated across providers, you will be subject to levels of discrimination you can not foresee ?

Some simple examples:

- You live at a certain location and looking to move ?
A certain provider will decide not to show you jobs if
you happen to live at a certain neighborhood
( Already happening...)

- You live at a neighborhood somehow less respectable, or respectable but where inhabitants are
considered more prone to have car accidents ?
-> Your car insurance will be more expensive

- You are deemed to cruise through McDonalds once in a while ?
-> Your health insurance will be more expensive...

- You happen to be correlated to a certain group a people due
to data location ? Even if you do not know these persons ?
->You are likely to be inquired by the police if you know anything or have seen anything ...

-> You share when you have your meals or you consume less meals ?
- You will be classified as probably part of a certain religious group

- You spend a certain time in a certain hospital department ?
-> Your current health status will be shared with your current employer, dooming your chances of promotion...

-You spend a certain amount time at certain bars, entertainment venues or restaurants within your town ?
-> Your sexual preferences will be inferred...

Privacy guarantees,liberty and peace, plus societal opportunities are the defining fights of these times.
To see a statement like this, frankly inspires both
sadness and concern.
'The Deadline: A novel about project management' by Tom DeMarco

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (sequel to the Phoenix Project)

Makers by Cory Doctorow

Daemon & Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

The Blue Ant trilogy (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History) by William Gibson

Omnitopia: Dawn by Diane Duane

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Reamde by Neal Stephenson

Lock In by John Scalzi

Rascal Money by Joseph Garber
The assumption used when you move the pollution to the end user is that environmental regulations does not exist. An product produced through coal power with little regard to the environment is assumed to be cause the same emission if produced where the end user is.

In order to calculate the actually virtual emission value of the consumer, one would first have to convert the FizzWhizz Mk 3 to the emission values as if a real factory in your location produced it.

If we assume that people will always export the manufacturing to the country with the worst environmental standards, having any environmental standards above the worst is pointless and have no impact on the environment. It also give little incentives for countries with a lot of high export to reduce emissions.

One could try to adjust this with tariffs that reflect the environmental costs the manufacturing country, but right now that is not a very popular concept.
Analyze Companies Financials in Seconds
That’s a web based version of photoshop!
$6000 is the annual limit for contributions

There is no limit for conversions. See also back door roth and mega back door roth.
My favorite Bitcoin joke: "so it's full of fraud, scams, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, and is heavily used to buy drugs and contraband... so this means it's a real currency now?"
My edit includes some details. Basically, the warranty was too short and when audio (except HDMI out) broke, I couldn't get it fixed.

There was also the matter of the secure boot nonsense, where if you press the wrong key on boot, secure mode would be re-enabled. With secure boot re-enabled, the only image that would boot would be a ChromeOS installation image, which would wipe your linux install. So you couldn't re-flip that secure boot bit without losing your linux installation. This bit me once, before I got better about regular backups..
How Big Is Ethereum?
All Bitcoin private keys and Altcoin private keys
It’s good to see more research and development funds being invested in alternative consensus mechanisms beyond PoW/PoS.

Solana looks interesting given it’s high transaction throughput and novel PoH algorithm - assuming it can scale in a decentralized way beyond the support of its foundation.

Though, unfortunately it still seems quite challenging to run a Solana validator (which ultimately defines the health & decentralization of the chain). The current specs and docs are pretty daunting last I checked; hopefully that can be improved in time.

Edit:

I found this article to be a good introduction to the idea of PoH. It appears Solana is a mix of PoH (the novel high throughput validation mechanism) and PoS (used to incentivize validation and penalize negative behaviour).

https://lsmod.medium.com/what-makes-solana-the-fastest-publi...
Indeed, I use them almost interchangeably. When I'm trying to do something on my Ubuntu box, I often find that the RPi crowd has blogged about what I'm trying to do. And vice versa.
> "fire broke out in Ashburnham House"

They should have seriously considered naming the house differently.
this is ridiculous. If either Horowitz or Andreessen are into something there is usually a pretty good chance that the thing is going to be big. pay attention.
I have not watched the video but think I may be able to help with the comprehension aspect from reading,

making videos of all sorts of stuff has been normalized

To be less wasteful of your audiences time one edits the video to remove the lowest information content segments.

When you are generating the video you may have some notion the last segment was subpar so you flash a red flag in front of the camera lens and start over, when you think it was good enough you flash a green flag.

For post processing the software scans the video and edits out everything that is not the last interval before a green flag.

I would not be surprised if it could not also recognize quiet periods with low visual activity and optionally edit those out as well.

But as I have not watched the video... I dunno
This is the sort of software that could help drag me and kicking & screaming into the current reality of sharing projects ... but really I would still rather someone else did it all.
Most recruiters are a lot like lazy real estate agents: the useless middlemen who only care about their commission. I bet most of them buy email addresses and bulk spam them in hope someone replies.
The problem with referenda is they are effective as breaks on an out of touch legislature rather than problem solving tools in and of themselves.

In a democracy you have to horse trade. You have to compromise. If 51% want X and 49% want not X, then you don't implement X, you implement 51% of X, or alternately you give the opponents something else so everyone walks away a little happy and a little unhappy. The idea of total victory as a result of getting 51% jeapordizes the republic as a whole -- that's how you get secession and create chaos, by locking people out entirely instead of giving them some of what they want and some of what they don't want. Referenda aren't able to do this. They aren't able to put people into a room and say "OK, we will put a bridge here and to gain your support we'll move the library over there". That type of consensus gathering process is critical to governing, which is why long lasting forms of government require closer to 60% or even more, e.g. they add various hoops and checks and balances to prevent the 51% from forcing their way and excluding the 49%. These anti-democratic measures are required for democracy to work.

This is similar to leading a team. If you have 10 devs and 6 are strongly for something and 4 are strongly against, only the bad manager chooses to steamroll over the 4. The good manager will find some alternate compromise to get most of those 4 onboard, because you don't want to lose a large chunk of your team and need a broader consensus than just 50% +1.
Genocide Vaers “Backloads and Throttles” Death Data Again
Don't worry about it. Sea level is rising 1-3 mm a year, temp has only increased .04 C per year the last thirty. We can easily adapt.
Any comparisons with Scribble?
I was being sarcastic. AKA Don't forget why you left NY!
I have seen an increasing amount of Ivermectin promotion recently, and at face value it looks worth pursuing. My biggest concern is the overall shady nature of many of its proponents, and specifically when I see posts or individuals that in the same breath have a strong anti-vaccine stance that and are promoting Ivermectin. Obviously the two things have nothing to do with each other, and frankly I can't understand what the agenda is there.

Its promising to see something in Science which I hope has a higher bar, although I'm not familiar with the blogs section

Edit:
> An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine. All content is Derek’s own, and he does not in any way speak for his employer.
PoH is essentially just PoW: more blocks mean more time has spent. I don't know why they just named it something different. Since SOL is not really decentralized, the validators can communicate a lot faster. So that's the difference with a usual blockchain where the latency is higher.
I can't believe IRC folks are _still_ using three-letter agencies as a justification for their management like 30 years later, in the face of not using SSL for decades and private messaging passwords to a user/bot named NickServ. If you want to hold onto a (more passionate) version of what IRC used to be, be my guest, but lets drop this useless rhetoric. Please stop LARPing freedom fighter.
MC Hammer, on crypto: Can’t touch this!
> Name one that is an ACTUAL monopoly? Facebook? Apple? Google? Amazon? Vertical integration is NOT monopoly, and thats what many of them are doing.

I think we should be less interested in whether these companies are literal monopolies and more interested in whether these companies represent a net harm to society (or even more narrowly, to their respective competitive landscapes). I don’t posit an answer, but I think this criteria will lead to more fruitful discussion than the fixation on monopoly.
Solana has an interesting technology. It's sort of a modernized Ethereum. High transaction rate, low transaction cost, more scalable, and proof of stake. Features Ethereum was supposed to have by now, but still doesn't.

Programs can be stored on the blockchain. They're written in, of all things, Berkeley Packet Filter bytecode. (No, they don't run inside the Linux kernel. I hope.) Programs can be written in Rust and compiled. How secure this will turn out to be for their "smart contracts" is an open question at this time.

So far, I can't find any working applications for Solana that do something outside the crypto space. Like, say, replacing domain registrars. There's some kind of identity service, but it seems to be tied to Twitter. There's The Media Network, but it doesn't work yet. ("The Media Network is an open source, decentralized and censorship-resistant live streaming hosting protocol. More coming soon.")

Not seeing "AirBnB for Solana", or "Uber for Solana", or "offshore realty for Solana",
or even "concert ticket scalping for Solana". This is a problem. It doesn't really do anything yet.