skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know everyone is on their high horse about copying code but if you were/are to copy code keeping it the same is super valuable because invertible when someone comes a long later googling it will take them to where it was copied from originally.
Whats the long term outlook on how to run a podcast business ?
This fully coincides with my experience. Every once in a while, I hear about how much DDG has improved and how its results are now better than Google. I switch to DDG for a few days, get fed up with the (low) quality of the results, eventually start adding !g to all my queries because I _anticipate_ the results to be terrible, and at some point, I switch back to Google. Every single time I try DDG, this happens. Without exception.

I know not everyone shares my viewpoint but I wish people on reddit and HN would stop hyping up DDG. It will likely never be real competitor to Google. I don't mean to blame them in any way. Even Microsoft, with all their might, still fails to match Google's capabilities.
Its the same nonsense you hear from fruit growers. "We can't find anyone to hire so we need the government to issue more temporary visas for foreign workers" (New Zealand)

They'll try anything except offer a fair labour price
I agree perceptions change when behind the wheel of a car. I have had drivers try to ram me on my motorcycle when lane splitting.
Ok. Thank you. This does help.
I can appreciate that.
I've been lucky enough to see Jamal live a few times and it's great. Some real gems in there. I really enjoy the variation and evolution between his recordings of the same tracks, if you can find them!
A lot of this stuff applies more to bad scientists, of which there are many.
Most of the wilderness is quite nondescript, though. There are far too many people for the few amazing sites. Compare to Norway, the Mediterranean coast and islands, the Alps, and the Canary Islands.
PS to yesterday's sibling comment: Today, the House voted on the same bill. It passed overwhelmingly 415-14.

The 14 representatives who voted "nay" to the celebration of the end of slavery came from exactly the usual suspects.

So, again, yes.
I noped right out of Neeva after setting it as my browser's default engine, opening an incognito window, and getting the finger when I tried to search for something. I'm not installing a browser extension for a search engine.

They have almost infinite ways of identifying my right to use their engine given that they're the one emitting the Open Search snippet from within an authenticated window; uuid hostname or uuid path/query param are the two which spring to mind
...you continue to talk after already revealing that you don't even know the basics of the topic.
Wow. Nice comment...

> This is akin to answering "how do I bake a cake?" with "open up a bakery, walk inside, and ask for a cake"

Only it's more like answering "how much does this cake cost" by purchasing the cake and looking at the receipt.
I did this course from a few days ago after finding it in a comment. It seems reasonable good enough to get a good landing page up and running. Talking about your customer problems and how to solve them was a new thing to me although as a service business I have always talked about my experience and skills.

The other good addendum to this course is the stripe https://stripe.com/en-sg/atlas/guides/landing-page-copy
These kind of remind me of ligatures. Not exactly the same since (as far as I'm aware) ligatures are always based on a direct blending/combination of the two character's shapes, but still similar.
There is concrete proof that trained fighter pilots saw and tracked something, and their ship's radar did too, and our gov says they don't know what it is.
Special shoutout to the National Film Board who’s shorts set the tone for my inquisitive life and who’s funding allowed all kinds of artists to add to our culture.
The Jack Johnson outtakes with Sonny Sharrock were a revelation to me. Well worth seeking those out.
My burb school rules are that they’ll only bus you if you are outside of 4 miles of the school as the crow flies. Even if there’s no possible way to walk there, my kids are stuck and I have no option but to drive them.
> it's nearly impossible to go wrong

It's a matter of time if one doesn't know to look for numerically stable algorithms. Or if one thinks performance merits dropping stability.

https://github.com/RhysU/ar/issues/3 was an old saga in that vein.
Your selective quoting really changes the meaning of my statement. The rest of that sentence makes clear that e-bikes are more like motorcycles.
Bad Apple Safari update breaks IndexedDB JavaScript API, upsets web apps
You can refer to the definitions of these terms. [1] It's best not to reinvent how these terms are used. There has been far too much of that, already.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/glossary/

PS Be prepared for a long read.
Seems like they just hacked the one affiliate, not the whole org. I don't think it was FBI undercover blow up the entire northeast oil supply type of conspiracy
"Tracking my hours" was a burden but having set office hours is such a gift.

Shifts aren't to keep you in, they're to let you get out.
I run an instance of searx[0] for me and friends. It is very easy to set up and will aggregate results across DDG/Google/Bing/plenty of others if you wish. Strips tracking parts of links and can trivially do other rewriting you may want. Easy to add filter lists to remove blogspam domains, pinterest et al.

Bonus; you won't leak your actual client IP to any of them. Comes with morty[1], which is a decent "anonymizing" HTTP proxy.
Supposed privacy wins completely aside, it's the best search user experience I've had in many years. You do run the risk of getting CAPTCHA'd but so far I've had 0 of that with the above-mentioned.

[0]: https://github.com/searx/searx

[1]: https://github.com/asciimoo/morty
I came to the comments solely to see if anyone found secret codes.

Edit:

Found the key sequence handling code

addToKeySequence(t) {
if (this.keySequence.push(t),
this.insertCardScreen.createShowDotsAnimation(this.keySequence.length).play(),
this.keySequence.length < 4)
this.insertCardScreen.createHideLogosAnimation().play();
else {
switch (this.keySequence.join("")) {
case "1337":
this.handleWpp();
break;
case "4242":
this.handleInsertCard();
break;
default:
this.handleInvalidCode()
}
this.keySequence.length = 0
}
}
Neat! This reminds me of urbit sigils[1]. The problem with urbit sigils is that they only support 32 bits of entropy because that's the size of urbit's owned real estate space. These hash avatars support 8 times the entropy and also directly map to a 256 bit public key although one may want to be slightly careful mixing the use cases without some other visual queue (this is a sha256 vs this is a pubkey).

[1]: https://urbit.org/blog/creating-sigils/
Your parent poster makes the mistake that is rife among Python programmers, which is to assume that in a delightfully simple[0] language like Python, it's "obvious" what a given piece of code does even without explanation. Among people who don't delight in the poor taste of Python's design and have limited exposure to its standard library, of course, it's not always obvious what a given piece of code is doing despite the belief to the contrary, so there are plenty of people who aren't going to pick up on the fact that requests.get doesn't just construct a GET request for the caller, but instead constructs such a request and then goes out and performs it, too.

Shame about the hostile reaction from others towards your question. Keep asking questions (especially things that are presented without comment), and don't be afraid that doing so will make you look stupid or that you should feel like you should be punished for it.

0. https://blog.imgur.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mocking.jp...
I believe these are persuasive arguments to trust policymakers less but not to trust non-professionals more.

Your work may be exceptional but the signal to noise ratio on public forums especially on subjects that have been politicized is just too high.

I would be curious to see what solutions exist for quality peer review that doesn't suffer from group think. Possibly providing anonymity for reviewers and cash incentives?
>I am continually amazed at HN's ability to reject reality in favor of some imaginary world that doesn't actually exist

Your claim is just absurd. In a successful use of parallel construction, the defendant and possibly even the prosecution should be unaware that it even occurred. Your experience as a lawyer is not a good reason to expect it isn't happening.

And though I agree that local use alone is likely rare, one of the common methods is for a federal agency to pass information to a smaller law enforcement agency. Additionally, using illegally collected evidence as a justification to pursue someone for an unrelated crime would still be parallel construction.
This should be the link
LudwigNagasena, to you it may be obvious ( as it was to me). However I discovered ( much to my disappointment) that it is not obvious to career 'scientists'. A fool with a phd is still a fool. What used to the domain of primarily religions (rituals, superstitions etc.) is now the domain of several offshoots, one of which is mainstream science.
Would it be safe to say that most of the websites overloaded with advertising/popups are trying to make money? That is why the adverts are there.

I see the proposal offers a value proposition for Unsplash and creators using their images. However I don't see how the the article solves the problem of advertising.

Websites overloaded with advertising/popups will still exist unchanged because they are attempting to convert visitor traffic to a revenue stream by using advertising as their funding mechanism.
Looking up the definitions of security, financial asset, debt instrument, bank deposits, and thinking about really what tether is and the statements they make about 'backing' I come to the conclusion that tether is an unregistered security. The fact that Tether may state they have no obligation to exchange tethers for dollars on demand can be discounted by their own statements about Tether's reserves giving value to the tether tokens and the general perception by the public on what tethers are and represents.

A tether token is a financial asset. It represents a loan to Tether in return for the promise of getting a dollar back when a customer wants to withdrawal dollars from Tether. It is like a bank deposit, which is also a financial asset (a liability of the bank), not dollars themselves. Stablecoins allow anyone to trade their 'account or claim' at the Tether Bank by transferring the entire account to someone for dollars or something valuable like bitcoin on the secondary market. Tether doesn't have to satisfy demand deposit withdrawals as much as a bank because you can trade your account to someone else who accepts tether. People only accept it because you can get dollars out in the secondary market. Tether's value comes from ownership claims and confidence in Tether to be the exchanger of last resort and honor claims on dollars for tethers. Tethers are fungible (they are all 1 dollar or represent the same claim) and they can be traded, therefore it is a security. Thinking about claims and trading and what are financial assets is more useful than Howey test.

Imo the Howey test is overused to explain securities with crypto context. People just rattle off 1,2, 3, 4, talking points (the questions) without really explaining fundamentals or connecting it. In terms of Howey, Tether the company is taking your investment dollars (loan) and investing it, they are in the business of making profits (they just don't share profits), but they are expected to repay the loan of dollars you gave them, and this repayment depends on the work of others (Tether investing wisely). Tether the company is in a common enterprise with anyone that holds tethers (loans them money).
I've had a lot of fun generating art from sha-256 hashes recently too! https://hash.jordanscales.com/ It's not materially different from just seeding a RNG with the hash, but actually reading bytes from the hash is just so... charming.
I read the book Driven to Distraction and it changed my life.
Lead author on January 31, 2020:

> ... the problem is that our phylogenetic analyses aren't able to answer whether the sequences are unusual at individual residues, except if they are completely off. On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered[1].

See also https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/science/covid-lab-leak-fa...

[1]: p. 3186 in https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-...
Prior to the 70s, rangers weren't law enforcement officers. This changed with the Yosemite/Stoneman riot.
Some discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26861728
Floating point math is IEEE 754 in pretty much all cases, so you should see this result in most languages. `math.log(1000, 10)` gives the same result because it's implemented using natural logs internally as it is in most languages.

In this case, there's only about six boundary cases to consider so you can just manually verify it works as expected.
It's aliens coming to exterminate the idiots that post here. It's about time.
Non-binary gender identity and roles have been present in human societies dating as far back as 4500 years ago[1]. The only thing relatively new in the last 100 years is the moral panic about it.

Furthermore, from a scientific standpoint, there's not really any such thing as a clean binary division between male and female. Chromosomes get messy, and even absent issues with the X and Y chromosomes themselves [2] there's some fun stuff with the SRY gene [3] and hormonal receptors in utero that can affect gender identity and presentation [4].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history
[2] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9396296/
[3] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20184645/
[4] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235900/
“As I’ve written more books I’ve realised there are certain things that writers and critics prize, and readers don’t. So we’re obsessed with things like coherence, consistency, neatness of argument. Readers are indifferent to those things” - Malcolm Gladwell
thankfully we'll peak at about 10 billion and drop from there

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/world/world-population-shrink...
What's the story behind that?
If you don't do that, the areas will be absolutely ruined by people just doing whatever they want.

There are literally tens of thousands of other campsites and trails to hit if you want to avoid that kind of thing. Hell, even in the more crowded areas, it's straightforward to head into backcountry trails and go from hundreds of people to none.

From personal experience: Multnomah Falls, in the Columbia Gorge in Oregon, is a madhouse. Tour groups get bused in, everyone and their dog (literally) is walking up to the top of the waterfall, etc. More than two million people visit the falls every year. But if you head past the waterfall, you'll only see a few people, and after five miles up the Larch Mountain trail, there's absolutely nobody except for the very occasional weirdo like me. And if you don't like the crowds even at the entrance, there are a gazillion other trails in the Gorge that are very sparsely traveled.
Manual Labor will incredibly benefit from shorter work weeks. More rest = fresher bodies = less mistakes.

There is a definite drop off point where a technician/mechanic/welder isn’t working at even 80% normal capacity, and that’s where mistakes begin to happen. And unlike software, mistakes can be costly to undo or perhaps even impossible.

The flipside of course is that their hourly wages must go up to match the decrease in hours worked. And overtime pay is a big motivator for many skilled manual labor jobs.
> how is this actually a problem?

Over-use damages our natural spaces.
Cookie banners are fine when done appropriately.

The one on https://gdpr.eu/ is very well done. It does not break the law.

It's an example of excellence others should follow. Unintrusive. As easy to opt out as to opt in. Clear buttons, simple language. Clear text. If you prefer to ignore the banner that's fine too. On desktop it's unintrusive and you can just ignore it. I tried scrolling, it just stays out of the way. Each button is clear: "Ok", "No", "Privacy policy". Perfect. (It could be better on mobile for size, but it's still easy to click away.)

No dark patterns, dirty tricks, misleading controls, no "yes means no" controls, no "visit our 1000 partner sites to opt out" insanity, no other dirty tricks. You will not "accidentally" end up tracked when you didn't want to be. You will not be misled into believing a 70% screen size, deliberately slow panel is required.

Panels on other sites are deliberately slow and harder to opt out of. They want you to be annoyed. That's because they want you to believe the GDPR requires stupid, slow, large, intrusive, complicated banners. So that you will tell everyone how bad the GDPR is. But the GDPR doesn't require those things. In fact, when you see a banner that says "due to the GDPR we must..." it is often a straight up lie, and parts of the banner are against the law, not required by it.

https://gdpr.eu/ - thanks for highlighting that great example. I will take that as inspiration next time I need a good quality, sleek, fast, easy, compliant and user-friendly banner.

Such banners are not required, though. My sites don't have cookie banners and that's fine. They don't track users against the expectations of the users. My sites do have optional logins, user identification, and use cookies for those things, but logins don't require cookie banners because people expect their identity to be tracked by the act of logging in. And, importantly, their identity used only for what users would expect. My sites do have basic request logging and monitoring too, as you would expect for security and ops, but again those don't require cookie banners if they are done respectfully.
ComEd in Illinois had a similar scandal, also around economically uncompetitive nuclear power plants owned by Exelon but also juicing profits under the guise of smart meters and grid resiliency.

https://www.npr.org/local/309/2020/07/20/893009659/breaking-...

https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-comed-scandal-shows-every-i...
It’s funny because that comment is far more true about the Black Forest to just pick a random European “wilderness.”
For some reason both my iPhone XS (iOS 14) and iPad (iOS 13) show a black screen with the pause, OOO, and compass at the top, some popups about moving the cursor, and nothing else.

Feel like I’m missing out :(
And the National Grasslands.
I was at Aaron’s talk. I recall Matthias took particular offense to it. There doesn’t seem to have been any movement on governance for Racket in the intervening two years.
I believe they are referencing this book: https://plumvillage.org/books/fear/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27509206

IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari (twitter.com/feross)

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Restoring the VE301W Volksempfängerin People Receiver (2006)
I think it will depend on how stable the culture is when it gets that far. Will our language become static, now we have the printing press and Netflix? We are still changing, where books and films from 80 years ago have not aged well due to social attitudes. But if it stabilizes, maybe the culture stabilizes, and maybe it can be stable enough for million year time frames. It might not even happen here.... maybe in a million years after the first colony or three has happened one of them will develop a culture capable of becoming galaxy spanning.

I think it is worth noting that a new settlement will not be completely cut off from its parent. I imagine a new settlement around Alpha Centauri will be greedily consuming Earth media for quite some time, delayed by just a few years, until it progresses far enough for its own exotic drammedys to be consumed by Earth.
I can agree with this. It's not ideal at all.
Canadians who got AstraZeneca vaccine can't see 'Springsteen on Broadway'
In California BLM land is popular for plinking because of the supremacy clause. Sadly people abuse the opportunity and leave filthy messes behind.
Stripe Reader may be a more accurate link: https://stripe.com/terminal/stripe-reader. This is Stripe announcing its own own hardware that developers can use to build their own point of sale payments experiences.
Isaac Newton was, perhaps, one of the most brilliant human beings that ever lived. But even brilliant people get stupid sometimes. Spending the later half of his life on alchemy was an unfortunate waste of human capital.
Last week I camped for the entire week in a national forest and didn’t see another camper the entire time. The issue is we have high demand national parks that “everyone” visits and lots of national forest and BLM land that is very sparse.
We have so much public land that's essentially uninhabited and in a wild state. A small amount is managed as parks, essentially natural tourist attractions. The fees, entry gates and infrastructure is not only to better accommodate and attract tourists. It's also to carefully manage the human impact on these natural areas. It's not Disneyland, it's a fragile natural ecosystem. The visitors can very easily destroy the very thing they are coming to see.[1]

[1]https://www.audubon.org/news/a-drone-crash-caused-thousands-...
Then you just say “no” to the meeting and don’t attend :)
The article says the looping versions also had the bug.
Gandhi famously had problems eating pulses - he had to get his protein from goat milk. Not everyone is blessed with your digestive system.
I was in Yosemite early this spring (before they implemented the advanced registration system). Even the backcountry trail I was on was crowded. There were so many people it felt like taking a walk in an urban park.
> even if you allow the interpretation of "egg which will become chicken" vs "egg laid by a chicken" (which is quite clever, I hadnt encountered that) you are still stuck with marginal difference between mother and child/egg in overall "chickenicity."

But that has no effect on the answer to the question. Given the definition, it is not necessary to identify the first chicken in order to know whether that first chicken hatched from the first chicken egg (definition 1) or laid it (definition 2).
(1944)
Notably, this is only true of 64-bit floats. Sticking to 32-bit floats saves memory and sometimes are faster to compute with, but you can absolutely run into precision problems with them. When tracking time, you'll only have millisecond precision for under 5 hours. When representing spacial coordinates, positions on the Earth will only be precise to a handful of meters.
Great work, nice to keep these golden oldies alive. That radio is now almost a century old, quite impressive. Unfortunately TV has gone digital almost everywhere now so there is little incentive to keep the oldest TVs working.

Hope the author reads this: the Rentenmark had already been replaced by the Reichsmark by the time this radio was produced.
I'm not so sure about your second point but I rather agree with the first. That's pretty good!
I heard someone describe steampipe as Dev DB ops. It's kind of stuck to my brain.
And there's more! Many government agencies are responsible for managing our huge amount of public land.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_land#/media/File%3AUS...