skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For years they made the news with bots that seemed to have direct defense/militaristic use.

Not too long ago, or at least the last time I remember them hitting my news streams, was when they demonstrated a bot capable of handling moderately complex warehouse tasks.

If my reading of this sequence of events is correct, it is probably no coincidence that foreign investment came in after applications shifted from tactical militaristic use that would likely be restricted to the US & allies, and now also includes applications more generally applicable to uses outside of warfare.

It seems that military applications may be compelling, but plowshares are more economically interesting.
Yes, the Fallback Mixing requires the Brave browser, since it pipes the request through the participating user's machine (only if the user has first opted-in to the feature).
Thank you for the support! Followed your advice and just created a Twitter account.
It redirects to Google. So the effect (including tracking) is identical to just doing a Google search.
I'm so old, I remember when it was conservatives that supported segregation!
True. But at least it happens for each compile per developer which is a far smaller number than for each use per end-user.
Do side by side comparisons. I haven't seen any of my searches (admittedly only the few I checked for this) differ from Bing's results in results or result positioning

It's unfortunate really as the owner guy keeps saying they use multiple sources but in all of my tests.. they're all Bing. I don't care about using Bing, I do care about being deceived (slippery slope, thin end of the wedge, etc etc)
I’m working with a startup at the moment that has put all their investment into their customer facing app, but almost everything behind the scenes is built in spreadsheets and low code tools. Can’t spill too much about the company, but think something like “get flowers delivered within 30 minutes via a fancy app”, but not flowers.

Without building in this way there is no way they would be growing at the rate they are - they would still be writing their MVP (they are now valued at >$100m in year 3, and are still supported entirely by spreadsheets as the investment in terms of focus is towards anything customer facing - they know they need to sort everything else out, it’s just everything has to be prioritised). Also their ops are still evolving so quickly that any investment in writing code to support ops is likely to slow down ops change (who need to be able to respond to issues nobody has seen before).
The first entities that are likely to achieve practical quantum computers will either be governments or big tech companies like Google. And it will be a big deal, so there would likely be several years of warning before it could be at the point where it would make sense to use it to steal someone's bitcoins (I guess the original Satoshi coin address would be the biggest bounty). And in the time period between when the big development is first announced and before it's practical, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency projects can do a fork to a new digital signature scheme that is quantum proof (such as LegRoast) so that anyone who is concerned can move their coins to a new secure address. So while it would certainly be disruptive, it wouldn't necessarily spell the doom of Bitcoin.
How do they fare on the 'tank man' test?
Researchers discover how the intestinal epithelium folds and moves
For others: Andrej Karpathy is the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla.

Was on front page yesterday for a presentation on Tesla's Autopilot / Autonomous features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDTZQdo6H8
> What if your users prefer the look?

Then they're SOL. Maybe a competitor will come along with the exact same features/pricing and a robust theming engine, then we can talk.
I thought the digital divide will be a serious problem. It is in fact a problem now but not how I thought about it.

I thought, in the future, everybody has a computer so it will be a part of basic literacy. Most of our generation will be obsolete because we can't stand a chance against people who all had computers in their home at their birth.

Then, the smartphone was invented and most people were just satisfied with that. Now there is even less people who know how to use the keyboard than our generation. No matter how hard you try, you can't beat the efficiency of keyboard by palm-size touch screen input device on writing.

In the late 1990s to 2000s, there were so many personal text web sites, public forums and chats in my language, Japanese. Now it's all gone. There is no place in the modern Internet I can enjoy serious text-based communication in Japanese. Because, everyone use the smartphone now and it's so inefficient to write a serious text with it.

I also didn't anticipated the huge rise of SaaS. A software that depends remote server to function. I was the believer of P2P technology in 2000s. I believed future network will work on top of P2P mesh network. It failed for various reasons but mostly too inefficient to scale.

Then I see the rise of cryptocurrency. It's horrible. Nobody really cares about the technology. People relies on SaaS wallet service rather than hosting full node. It's the worst hybrid of server-client and P2P. Inefficient and still has authority. NFT... it doesn't even host data in the blockchain! TITAN... it's not a stablecoin. It's just a ponzi-scheme-coin.

I hate the smartphone. But right now, it's really hard to avoid programming job that doesn't involve the smartphone. Even if I don't directly need to deal with it, it still indirectly support the smartphone, further helping the spread of inefficient input device for the writing.

I lost all hope for the future right now. It will be even more orwellian world. Most of the computation will be done in the server side and our computer is mere thin-client to the server. Everything is censored and regulated. I wouldn't surprise we lost the ability to write freely.
Related... his recent presentation at CVPR is quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOL_rCK59ZI&t=28286s
Early 90s?
Networking: ATM to the desktop, QoS everywhere, apps reserving capacity as consumers.
Software: 4GL, low code, data definitions which trigger code generators.
Add to this the paradigm of intelligent agents doing your programmatic bidding.
This is a great idea. I also tested this out with "Alex Jones", some engines show articles criticizing him above his own website.
Build n native apps, make them look the same and pretend it's cross platform. :-)
Looks cool! I sort of hate the UI though. Everything is so spaced out, on my screen i literally don't see the results. I see two top results, and 3 videos _(it's not a video search..)_, and that's it. Those top results i'm not sure if they're paid or not - so it makes me feel unsure if i'm seeing any real results or not.

The page seems to waste space. I'd need a compact mode to use this search. The UI is difficult for me.
so in other words, who knows
Beware the lock-in and make sure your roadmap is compatible with low/no code. But definitely doable, I know of several really good examples.
Rebrands have the tendency to get a lot of unwarranted hate in my opinion, but they should be celebrated. Small details sometimes seem trite or inconsequential, but a brand and logo has so many stakeholders in the way it looks and what it communicates, so any small changes can become a big deal for a lot of people. I think Backblaze have made a nice update, and they should celebrate, because in redefining their brand, they probably have redefined and recommunicated other elements of their business internally.
>Hence, it is reasonable to conclude that the U.S. government believes that some of these objects are not human in origin.

Huh??? How is that 'reasonable' to conclude.

>This leaves two possibilities: either UAP are natural terrestrial phenomena or they are extraterrestrial in origin.

Or a third option: Something else we aren't clever enough to think of. Maybe it's a sensor issue coupled with active human imagination. Or... something else entirely.
Fair point. So maybe we should say that our sun would occasionally be a part of the galactic arm as the pattern morphs and re-forms. A fun concept.
Your intuition doesn't really mean much, and it's super easy to finger wag at parents who don't raise their kids the way you think they should. Even easier if you don't have kids of your own. Judging parents is much easier than actually raising children.

Our 4 year old (now 5) was depressed and anxious for months during lockdowns. Why wouldn't she be? People aren't meant to be cooped up together all day like that, and she needed space from us as much as we did from her. Space we couldn't really give her in our tiny home.

By the time she went back to school she'd been home, away from almost all other kids except her baby sister, for like 8 months. That's basically forever in 4-year-old time.

As to screentime, you don't know anything about those other "parents". If I let my daughter play educational games for 20 minutes so my wife and I can actually have a conversation over dinner, what's the problem with that?
Oh, that's totally different from what you posted about before. OK.

Allow me to quote me, to clarify this part, then.

"when [they aren't] a great fit for the host language"
Ethics as a Service to Rule AI and a Space Nation
GitLab team member here. Thanks for sharing!

We also wrote a blog post about GitLab 14: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-modern-de...

One thing I'd like to highlight from the blog: "Thanks to GitLab’s open core model, more than 10,000 merge requests from the wider community have been merged into the product since January 2016."

Thanks to all the community members who have made this milestone release possible!
What Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
I can’t see the article through the pop-overs, it jumps to trying to sell me magazine subscriptions

EDIT: hitting the back button brought me to the article
Better link: https://apnews.com/article/california-health-coronavirus-pan...
https://archive.is/PNWcM
Joining Hypergrowth Startups
This article is hot garbage. Boo on Avi Loeb and boo on Scientific American.
Iran's Press TV website seized by US government
The "possible link" is that the author thinks 'Oumuamua might be aliens, and UAPs might be aliens, and therefore the two might be linked. That's it.

There, saved you a click.
ublock origin.
Would love to hear someone’s take on TechLead, especially someone informed from working inside a FANG.

I’m trying to be less judgey generally, but there were a few things in the one video I started to watch that had me giving some wild side-eye so I stopped watching and never went back.
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global community
I’ve read the article twice now and I’m unclear on the link. Is it simply that these UAPs are appearing after the Oumuamua came by? Like the coincident time of the UAPs post the 2017 passby?
This project is similar to Art Blocks and BeyondNFT, with the following distinctions: unlike Art Blocks, it’s not curated (no invitation required) and is fully on-chain (no external page generator needed). And unlike BeyondNFT, it’s not reliant on externally hosted metadata.

Creators can publish JS modules (lambdas) on the Polygon blockchain, and issue them as publicly mintable NFTs. For every minted token, the contract returns full HTML page via getHtml(tokenId) method. In this way NFTs are fully on-chain.
The project is live on Polygon, Kovan and Rinkeby. The source code is uploaded to Polygonscan and Etherscan. Also, NFTs are viewable on OpenSea.

I’ve implemented a Mandelbrot NFT as a first showcase, it’s currently featured on the landing page.

I’ve also posted a few related articles:

1) On the topic of on-chain generative NFTs in general: https://taras-evt.medium.com/fully-on-chain-generative-nfts-...

2) About building Mandelbrot NFT: https://lambdanft.medium.com/mandelbrot-fractal-nft-fully-on...

Let me know what you think in the comments!
It turns out that the stars further from the center don't take as long as one might think. Observations of this phenomenon led to the development of the theory of dark matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
Not only do many people still reuse keys, but there is also still a huge amount of bitcoin in P2PK outputs, i.e. with exposed public keys.
yeah Views is awesome. I've been using Wordpress for years now because that's a requirement for the agency that hired me. But I still haven't found a good replacement for Views.
There’s some interesting thoughts in the latter half of this article, it’s much more compelling to read the author praise and explore the new than criticise the old.

I’m disappointed by the paternalism though - the author underestimates children - as a 10 year old growing up in Europe it was abundantly clear to me that when I played sim city I was building a particular kind of modern American West city - the ground wasn’t even green! The criticism of the game’s claimed “realism” rings hollow given that the front of that game box has a giant alien robot on it.

I’m also disappointed that someone who is so invested in the topic of cities would handwave away the existence of suburbs as simply “white flight” - again, growing up in Europe we have plenty of large sprawling wealthy suburbs and white flight is definitely not one of their causes. My understanding is that it was a minor factor in the creation of the American suburbs, with the automobile and baby boom being key. It’s hard not to see this misattribution as an attempt to push a biased political narrative, given that the author is an activist.
Bitcoin transactions, or more precisely transaction outputs, are little scripts that are executed in a VM. To spend a transaction output, you have to "solve it" by providing it an input which makes it return true. The most common transaction script checks that you possess a private key through a signature check, but it's possible to make more complex scripts like the "Pay To Multisig" script. Of course, Bitcoin scripts are quite limited and, unlike Ethereum smart contracts, they are non-Turing-complete and can't store state.

Permissionless just means anyone can create transactions because there's essentially no way to block someone from doing so, unlike say a transaction on PayPal.
Anonymous accounts can have a reputation, too. I have been on HN since 2008. I wouldn’t like to have this account burned. In a way, I do have a reputation of not posting total shit, since I’m still here.

Same is true for many communities where users gain popularity and trust if they participate in a meaningful way.
His boss has a passing interest…
Your ad blocker is doing its job as the whole article is just an ad for Avi Loeb’s book
I welcome the return to brands using serif fonts.

Nothing against sans serif, but there are only so many times you can see Helvetica or Gotham!
After optimizing my diet, sleep, and exercise, I learned my mood and energy levels were always primarily related to two things:

1) Working hard but nothing to show for it. If I get stuck too long on a problem, I now work on a simpler problem or take a break. Otherwise I just wind-up depressed and tired.

2) Interactions with people. I am aware of when interactions with co-workers, family members, etc. turn from energizing to energy draining and then either end the interaction or ask them to avoid this topic in the future.
Walked into new multi-campus hospital; fiber and an ATM core. Didn't take much to configure and start up an IP instance, some token ring I think, and associated support daemons. It worked very well and left me impressed. Oh, and synchronizing two sniffers to actually force our management to apply pressure to AT&T when it wouldn't acknowledge dropping packets.
This is the all-in price (covers a container and spot on the boat).
> reporting accurate facts and leaving "contextualization" to someone else is good journalism

How is that good journalism? If you're writing a piece about something that you feel people should be outraged about, you need to provide context. Otherwise, any number will seem absurd when talking about operations at an industrial scale. People have zero grasp of how much garbage and waste is created. Providing that context is key to the story.
You haven’t missed anything of substance.
Not gonna have two different signing implementation. Same security concerns apply to Debian too, of course.

Having 130+ packages to rebuild for a critical security update is no fun.
LOL! You have a good point. :D
It's not a bad use of tax dollars to directly benefit tax payers.
Holy cow! I just came up with this theory and started proving it like... 2 months ago. Crazy how these things line up sometimes.

One thing not included in here: given tests on human response rates to sound, it is very likely that grouping frequencies together based off a harmonic series is done "before the brain." (ie, that bird is this set of frequencies, that tree in the wind is this other set)
If this becomes food, it will definitely become a diet. We'll have vegeterian, vegan, microbian, etc.
No, only high altitude detonations produce strong EMPs and carriers, like most high value military targets, are shielded even against those strong EMPs.
Bitcoin's script language is very restricted, claiming that Bitcoin has been doing "smart contracts" is disingenuous to me. I wouldn't call a bitcoin script as "smart". Ethereum was born because of this
This is quality "many people are saying" content.
I don't think you are correct. The entire point is to prevent treadmill use so children cannot run it. If it only prevented the viewing of run stats how would that keep kids from activating it?
>As noted in my recent book Extraterrestrial, I do not enjoy science fiction stories because the story lines often violate the laws of physics

And there it is. Shame on the Scientific American
This is not true

ARM: https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/specu...

There are also a bunch of mitigations for AMD.
Even if they charge you €200 for a scratch that didn't do, insurance is usually at least €50 a day, so you'd need a scratch every 4 days or more to justify it.
Definitely beta.

I installed using dotnet tool install -g --version 2.3.141-beta-g9aa8b4e9b5 Microsoft.CST.AttackSurfaceAnalyzer.CLI

None of the CSS components load when launch with asa gui.

This one needs to bake a few more months.
> "In fact, there should be a quadrillion ‘Oumuamua-like objects within the solar system at any given time, if they are distributed on random trajectories with equal probability of moving in all directions."

There is always the possibility that we only observed a very, very rare event. Just by enough very rare events being possible, it is bound to happen that we observe one of them one day. All in all it just reminds me a bit of p-hacking/data fishing.
Which low-code tools make it easy to get your data out if you decide to migrate? Which make it impossible/expensive?

Any domain examples you can share where it's been successful?
That's what having a trustworthy timestamp solves. A key is revoked at a known time, so being able to know if a commit was signed before or after the time of revocation lets you know what the key to use to validate should be.

If you don't have trusted timestamps it is a little harder to trust the git commit timestamps. Those can be altered and you need to add additional checks like comparing with what your code review service says (which can be altered..) or requiring that timestamps increase for each commit (which has edge cases..)
More Bay Area homes are selling above asking. Is it demand or 'cruel' pricing?
You think they're betting on it to just skip ARM and for it to be the next big thing?
One thing I'm confused about: Does SiFive "own" the RISC-V IP and is just publishing it under open licences at the moment, or are they just the biggest and most promising company to work with it ATM?
Bubble – The best way to build web apps without code
Alphanumeric mode (which is 45 symbols: [A-Z0-9] and nine special symbols) is the only QR mode that's reliably supported among all scanner library implementations (latin1 is part of the extended mode, Unicode & raw binary get detected with implementation-dependent heuristics).

The encoding is great, actually: 4n bytes will get encoded into 6n alnums (base45 symbols) which are 3n * 11 = 33n QR-bits. A loss of just 3% (33/32 - 1). This works because [ alnum1 alnum2 ] by spec must get packed into [ 11 bits ] in the QR message bitstream.

Wrote an explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27592936
I have a few websites and receive payments from Brave Rewards almost every month. They pay me in BAT, but since I don't care about BAT or can use it directly, it gets converted to my local currency, which I then can use to pay for stuff.

It's a mistake to assume something is nonsense or bad just because crypto is involved. Provided that you can convert it to something usable, it doesn't really matter if you're paid in dollars, BAT or something else.
It certainly is, for my personal site though I made a conscious effort to reduce js to zero and css to minimal (no bootstrap, etc.) I clock in at a 94 on web.dev, and could get that to 100 if I removed the single web font I use. It's also a hobby, and the point where the nice-to-haves of other people start creating work for me, is the point it stops being fun.

For a service or brand, it's probably a good idea to deliver a dark mode at some point (especially one that people are forced to stare at for extended periods).
The Reality of Attractiveness Bias
They pretty clearly only talk about instant answers there.

When they say over 400 sources it even links to [0] a page about instant answers.

What do you expect? That I hack into ddg and give you their source? Try some searches for yourself and see that the results [1] are basically identical to bing [2] and other engines using bing[3], when compared to different indicies[4][5][6].

[0] https://duck.co/ia

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=monkey

[2] https://www.bing.com/search?q=monkey

[3] https://www.qwant.com/?q=monkey

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=monkey

[5] https://search.brave.com/search?q=monkey

[6] https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=monkey
The specific claim is that if the US is acknowledging these objects publicly as real and denying they are of US origin, then it is likely they are not human in origin, because if they could possibly be adversaries, this would not be being disclosed.

This is sound reasoning, but is based upon the beginning assumptions which are not yet fully determined to be true, and if determined to be true would not rule out non-human, natural origins.
HN community should stop promoting Elixir. It ruined many companies by depriving them of talented developers and it also ruined the careers of many developers by preventing them from becoming talented.

Pure functional programming makes it easy for beginners to avoid mistakes but it limits their growth and prevents then from learning about proper blackboxing and separation of concerns.

You cannot learn blackboxing without co-locating logic and state. It is an essential coding skill.
It's a little more gray when the person making the decision is facing a recall election and the subset of taxpayers befitting are a demographic (property owners) that is proportionately very likely to vote.
Wait, is pork "red" meat or not?
Ugh! Those sites will do absolutely nothing to teach you how to make something like this. Thebookofshaders and shadertoy are about solving a puzzle "given only a single function who's input is the position of the pixel being draw, draw a pretty picture with math". That is not remotely related to the techniques used to make something like this paint program.

I don't have a suggestion for the paint program in particular. There are a few S.O. answers that cover painting linked here

https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-qna.html
Real stuff isn't highly valued.
Wonder what percentage of landlords are big corporations vs. mom and pops who invested in a multi-unit instead of a 401k.