skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that after they discovered the ECC encoding, they simply ignored the ECC data to extract the image. What if some deliberate (correctable) bit errors were scattered through the image? They have the code that implements the ECC algorithm. If I were them, I would have used it and perhaps even submitted a patch to binwalk so it would automatically recognize/decode the image.

Also, now that they have the image, they could try to override the geofence/fuse protections by running it on an SoC without the fuse blown, and a SDR-based GPS spoofer. Seems like a fun endeavor.
No but you are apparently oke with entertainment requiring face scans to access. If Tencent can do it it won't be long untill every large publisher does it.
It's not illegal for hedge funds.
There's a few places like this popping up in Western and Northwestern Arkansas. There are enclaves of artistic and queer-friendly spaces.
Ha - nice find. All sorts of the typical sad self-promotion you find on Quora.
Delta Is Now the Dominant Coronavirus Variant in the U.S.: Coronavirus Updates
No it's not latency, the controllers just don't work. The sticks drift and the buttons sometimes take multiple presses.
Is that front page all the jobs that are available? Is that why there's no search?
Isn't MIMO beam forming that modern wifi base stations use basically a phased array?

I guess the Starlink dish's ~1200 antennas is way way closer to a fighter jet radar than it is to a six antenna Netlink wifi base station...
IMO the recommendations are no good because they fundamentally take the wrong approach — rather than ask the user what they like, they try to guess what you like based on usage (which really doesn't correlate well — I watch a lot of garbage because I can’t find things I like, and I don’t have anything better to do.)

And they don’t ask because users don’t provide useful answers.

But users don’t provide useful answers, because rating things doesn’t do anyone any good.

I’m of the belief that if you can make ratings useful (catalogue all movies, including not on Netflix; give useful ways to view/update your lists; have direct relationships to recommendations), you would have dramatically better recommendations for dramatically less effort/complexity.

I don’t think you’ll ever get to “good” recommendations based on usage. The data is fundamentally garbage.

Of course, the other side is that Netflix isn’t interested in recommending things I like; their goal is to recommend things I’ll put up with. They just need 1 show worth watching and subscribing for every now and then, and N shows to keep me mildly amused to stop me from dropping it between good ones
I don’t think they’re denying that vaccines do not work at all. Have you watched their interviews or listen to their podcasts? They’re quite long but they are challenging the fact that vaccines aren’t the only way out and we need to consider alternatives and one of that alternatives is ivermectin. If you want to reach herd immunity, you want people to get immunity through different means (like getting vaccines and getting covid but with lesser symptoms. Im not saying go out and get covid but people are already getting covid and we need to lower their chance of hospitalization).
I hardly used them for a year, then I bought a new game and invited friends to play and now the buttons take multiple presses to register and the sticks drift.
It would be quite hard to be a gamer and completely avoid playing anything that Tencent doesn't at least partly own.
Virtual battery, there is an interesting project to do a similar thing with aluminum smelters where you heat them and operate at full capacity off-peak and then during peak electricity usage you run slower. Since a smelter consumes so much power this can significantly level the grid usage.
The article states that "authorities stepped in" and that this is at the very least some type of public-private partnership where "the gaming platform’s facial verification system" is "linked with big data from the central public security system".

My inclination is to assume this is compelled by the Chinese state.
They use oracles to get the trading prices of the various assets. The actual value is held in on-chain tokens and typically requires over-collateralization.
Wait a few hundred years and perhaps AI will be mature by then. I personally don’t worry one bit.
how apple handles anything pwa related
That is hardly OP's fault, since there is no way to be aware of others' HN reading behavior.
More of a problem is when your water heater is within your conditioned space envelope and in the cold months when you are heating your space the hot water heater takes that heat. Its not a huge issue but you do run the heater extra for the heat that's going into your hot water. If you've got an air source heat pump outside then its just an extra step.
I was a solver on a different team for the netflix challenge. Our team didn't win the grand prize.

I would have expected that a blog post would discuss how this was structured. Netflix contracted with innocentive.com, which is a website for solvers, and contracting to that website expanded Netflix's reach to a greater available pool of solvers. As far as I recall, all the allowed solvers for the netflix challenge _had_ to go through innocentive. I'm not sure if they would have been able to get the same level of improvement if they had not contracted with a set of potential solver teams like that.

The original challenge listing for Netflix is no longer listed at innocentive.com, but an industrious person may be able to find it on archive.org or somewhere similar.
“We mustn’t over-educate the plebs - next thing you know, those uncouth oiks
will be getting uppity ideas beyond their station and before one can utter a forlorn ‘gadzooks!’ the bally country’s gorn all wrong!”
> That might be true right now, but only a decade or two ago, Hui and Christians were subject to similar oppression.

I read you as postulating these facts:

- 10-40ish years ago, Hui, Christians, Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Mongols, pro-reform Han, and various other groups were subject to various repressive measures.

- Today, Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and other ethnic Tibetan groups are still subject to similar measures.

- Hui and Christians are not, today, subject to similar measures.

These facts do not support the idea the the repression of Uyghurs and Tibetans is due to religion. They very much do support the idea that their repression is due to dissidence. Uyghurs and Hui avow the same religion, but the treatment of one of those groups diverged from the treatment of the other. Why? College professors may have avowed no religion at all, but were sent to reeducation camps en masse. (Granted, more than 40 years ago.) Why?
> 1 - Work-arounds for interoperability with non typescript / legacy third party dependencies. (issue: ugly, non consistent code)

These "workarounds" are typically to use third-party or hand-rolled type defs. The other common case is to write and use typeguard functions that do runtime type checking but can contextually narrow types inside conditional blocks that use them. It's a little extra work, but the ROI is there, in my experience.

> 2 - Turn off strict type checking due to third party component compatibility. (issue: isn't the purpose of typescript type checking?)

I've never seen this done. I'd always take one of the approaches I mentioned above.

> 3 - Is type checking really needed for most applications? (assuming some flavor of CRUD with the occasional special sauce). (issue: seems a bit academic unless your working on a webapp for the mars rover)

The productivity gains alone make it worth it, IMO. Refactoring without worry that you forgot to maybe update one place is just so freeing. Amazing auto-complete and intellisense makes it so much easier to work with third party libs you're unfamiliar with. And the best part is of course that many simple mistakes get caught before you even run your code at all. It takes me less time to write TS code than it does to write the equivalent JS in even simple projects. A higher likelihood of writing correct code is valuable in just about any setting, not just space projects.
It is obvious why: the great developers in India start their own companies or immigrate. The bad ones work for outsourcing companies.
> CSV file format consists of one or more records, separated by commas. Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by commas.

Pretty sure that first sentence is supposed to read "CSV file format consists of one or more records, separated by newlines." Also if you're targeting this at total CSV newbies, might want to mention that fields can contain commas themselves as long as they're within double-quoted strings.
Personally, I’m not a huge fan of TypeScript. I feel it’s unnecessarily verbose at times. I used ReasonML for a while, and I absolutely LOVED it. I’m just bummed about the uncertainty of the projects future and adoption and the lack of alternatives that seem to make TypeScript the defacto standard.
How is that different to a bucket shop? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
If you take away all the buzzwords you’ll notice that the core utility of uniswap is the “decentralization” of services which are offered by the traditional finance system.

Yes it’s far easier for retail investors to play the role of the market maker but the financial services themselves are the same. Also realize that if defi becomes mainstream retail will still be pushed out by institutions as yields approach zero.

OP says “nothing like uniswap exists” but the goal is literally to democratize lending, market making, and currency exchange. (All of which exist in centralized forms)
While it was detailed, I disagree that it's a good comment, I think it's full of statements I consider to be actually false.

As I said, this is an example of someone forming strong opinions about something they don't really understand.

Since we're all familiar with the trope of non-technical people failing to understand the complexity and intricacies of what we do, it seemed like a good point of comparison.
The same rule applies to OS X laptops as well.
Retool Utilities are not yet supported on this screen size
Try using a laptop/desktop or a large browser window

webdesigner say what?
Can anyone explain why regulators wouldn't just smack this down if got big? I can't imagine you can create a mirror stock market without going through some regulatory channels.
Dendrites: The tricky challenge holding back electric cars
Thank you, PaulHoule!

I will try your advice and develop a "highly effective" strategy for me.
The post covers this in detail. JavaScript at Google was almost completely different from JavaScript elsewhere. The tools were different, the libraries are different, and even the language itself is different (jscompiler’s ES4-inspired type system).

It’s also a huge company with a gigantic monorepo (there’s papers about it elsewhere) and a lot of inertia.

It’s amazing what Evan and his team were able to do for front-end development at Google by building tools to bridge between Google JS and TypeScript.
> The rise in housing prices has mostly been canceled out (or caused by?) low interest rates. After you adjust for interest rate and inflation, the monthly payment for a house (ie. the price you actually pay) has actually gone down from the 90s.

Only if you ignore the tax side of things, housing interest payments are deductible where principal payments aren’t. That ends up having a huge impact when inflation and interest rates drop. It’s not uncommon for mortgages to be less affordable over time. A bump in interest rates without could really mess things up.
If people only want to produce games that require giving up your privacy to play, then you have to make a choice between giving up games, or giving up privacy. Ultimately those are the only choices available to you that don't involve bending peaceful people to your will under pain of imprisonment.

Perhaps a third choice, that also doesn't require resorting interfering with other people's private choices, with legal threats that emanate from the state's monopoly on violence, is to lobby to allocate a portion of public funds to subsidizing game publishers that respect privacy.

In any case, even a modest portion of the population choosing to avoid privacy-compromising game publishers would establish a market for privacy-preserving games. So this is really a matter of consumers educating themselves and making responsible choices.

The real problem here is likely the state stepping in to force all game publishers who attain Tencent's market reach to institute these kinds of measures.
Read the articles at http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
And find more information at https://www.ycombinator.com/library

There is a lot there on those two links.
Maybe if you jump from game to game and try to play the "latest and greatest" all the time. There are plenty of people who mostly play a few games or niche games.
Forward contacts and SPVs are two ways of encumbering share ownership without (necessarily) conferring all the rights of the underlying shares.
I'm not super familiar with this project, but it's described here:

https://docs.synthetix.io/litepaper
We assign those rights as a society and, more relevantly here, as a political system. The people who draft our constitutions and (like for all political norms) those who create our political discourse have more influence in defining them than the general population, but these norms have to be agreed to by a fairly large swathe of society to be effective.
The PRC government controls which organisations are permitted to publish games in China, so it's not as simple as just choosing to play some other company's games. Tencent et al are de facto arms of the government.
Funnily enough, almost none of that applies to Google.

1 - there is very little third-party JS at Google due to historical issues interoperating with the Closure compiler, as documented in the post.

2 - Strict type checking is used and continually made stricter.

3 - Yes, when you have thousands of engineers contributing to the same code base for some quite sophisticated web applications, type checking is extremely useful.
I understand what you mean and I feel sorry for taking the discussion in an unintended direction. I could counter arguments some points you show, but I don't think that would contribute anything to the discussion.

Apart from that, It is clear from my comment history that I do have a side. Nevertheless, calling me an "open source fanatic" is kind of rude.
> Much of DeFi — crypto decentralized finance — begins with a sort of willing suspension of disbelief about securities regulation.

Indeed.
I can see how this would be frustrating for you, but it boils down to a simple question: do you have / can you prove product market fit?

CEOs may only have an "idea" but perhaps theyve demonstrated a strong PMF.
I agree, however its utility outweighs that in a large org. It’s basically indispensable for frontend programming at scale. Having dozens or even hundreds of people contributing to a codebase without it (or equivalent) would be chaotic and painful.
Can you carry someone else's passport across an international border?
The standard of care and effort in human interactions begins with consent.
I really hope that someday someone builds some proper UX around network namespaces for desktop Linux. It would not be all that difficult to implement something akin to Qubes if you made NetworkManager namespace aware and integrated with dbus-launch to start the applications in the desired namespace.
Yea idk dang..

Clearly it was hyperbolic, but I think satya71 was drawing attention to some legitimate mixed messaging on the part of YC over the years.

I certainly had a similar (perhaps cynical/incorrect/unfair) reaction to this announcement.

Maybe that's not the reality, but the perception is something to consider, too.
How do we improve data management in machine learning?
Is it really? If I visited a traditional physical shop, I'd expect the staff to be able to recognise my face, but I probably wouldn't want them to know my credit card number.
This is a wonderful idea! (I like the name too BTW.)

Unfortunately for me, I've never been able to do freelance or part-time work because I've always needed healthcare coverage...and living in the U.S, it is much cheaper (but definitely *NOT* cheap) to get it through full-time employment. But, hot damn, if i lived in a country that provided healthcare, man, would i jump at the chances to do this kind of work!

Regardless, for those that can take advantage of this type of work, this is a great move! Kudos and best of luck!!
I don't see how that maps into the argument. First of all, you need to look into youth home ownership, not total home ownership, second of all you need to look into the rate of change and not the overall amount.

Beyond that, it's not arguable that you need to be into a so called 'elite' job to be able to afford homeownership in most of the country.
What are you looking for in a co-founder?
“If you are writing code that some other person is going to read and/or you are interested in having it behave reliably in the long run, I think a static type system is a must.”

Can’t this be accomplished with JavaScript? Assuming your interested in clean code and best practices.

“Coupled with good unit tests”

Can’t you also write unit tests in JavaScript?

“if the type checker does not complain, you can be very confident the code you wrote is working and will work for a vast majority of the cases.”

This is a false sense of security. “Compiling” without errors just tells me I did not do something dumb like assign a string to an int. Is this really the main issue devs have? From what I have seen no… Devs usually need to chase down and understand the code regardless of type checking.

Thanks for your perspective!
I would have loved to have had my mom get this. She had cancer and was in so much pain. When you ask "why the hell do they even make fentanyl?!" well she's one of the reasons.
Yeah, I would like to emphasize the fact that they're settled once individual contracts expire, be it cash or delivery.

I am yet to find a useful derivative that lacks a settling mechanism. How would you even price such a contract that lacks settling? Like why should it be worth anything at all?
I don't think that's true.

I've lived in rural states all my life. Almost all my family and friends have guns. (Hunting is a big hobby.)

I have never known anyone that shot a person. I've never had a relative or friend get shot (except one cousin who unfortunately purposefully shot himself.)

In other words, the number of guns don't cause crime.

Why take away cars from everybody because some people drive drunk? No? Why take away guns from people who use them responsibly?
And the web version of Gmail is slow to open with splash screen.
Super set of JS instead of a beging a totally different language, fix its main issue (lack of useful types for error checking and refactoring), adopted by many projects, backed by Microsoft and quickly releasing new versions: there is no wonder it's replacing JS where it can.
Strongly agree. Typescript is fantastic and extremely expressive.

I recently had to take over development of a fairly large legacy application and the first thing I did was convert the core of it to Typescript, that process uncovered a lot of bugs around handling of input/output especially lack of null/undefined checking. Typescript replaces a lot of the effort that used to spent on JSDoc type annotations and unit tests (of course tests are still required but it reduces the scope of possible input from any possible type to a smaller subset).

One thing that works really well with Typescript codebases is to push the untyped code (such as legacy libraries) and input validation to the edges of the application, and ensure the core is fully type safe.
It sounds very obvious, but there are some macroscopic medical phenomena that apply only to mice and small rodents. For example, I recently learnt that you can freeze hamsters and then "thaw" them in a microwave and they'll just wake and continue to live normally; this doesn't seem to work with humans unfortunately. Just imagine the applications, you wouldn't even need a regional hospitals; just freeze everyone and send them to a centralised mega hospital and ship them back when healed.

(As an aside, this was one of the first ever uses of a microwave.)
I struggle to understand why some random individuals realisation he's not that into movies any more is worthy of any attention at all?

Interests and tastes come and go with age.

Truly we live in the most narcissistic of times that people even feel the need to discuss something like this as if it were of any interest to any besides to author.
In China it is the law that minors have restrictions on playing video games between 10pm and 8am.

I suspect that on this forum there would be a mix of opinion about if that is a good idea or not. I mean, personally I think it should be up to parents to manage this, but I can totally see how some would have the opposite opinion about it. I don't think it's totally out of bounds as a concept for government to regulate this.

I have seen plenty of people calling for laws regulating mystery boxes for example on this very forum, and you could have the exact same parental responsibility argument there too.

The main difference is that in the US, were such a law passed, then tech companies would do some minimum amount of compliance such as requiring that you send a picture of ID or some such and then call it done. If minors manage to get around that by getting photos of their parents ID, well, what is a company to do?

In China the government doesn't care about your excuses. Children are playing your game anyway? Well, we are shutting you down then.

The result is this kind of thing.
Easy to say when you are not the one with cancer.
Lots of companies have turned JS into effectively another language with a subset of its features with internal libraries. Perhaps they aren't as academically interesting as Closure, but it's not that notable.

The monorepo aspect of the story just seems to just make doing this significantly more difficult for no discernible benefit. Isn't this the same team that made that 5 page issue on the TypeScript Github page complaining about a version bump?
Agree we need to be rigorous about this.

But in your example it's more sane if you flip it.

Survival rate from a new medicine may be 99.99% and only allows 1.0001 multiple of improvement. For severe outcomes, not allowing expansive language to describe improvements is a legitimate problem. i.e. if we insisted on this, it would be hard to motivate improvements in safety from 99% to 99.999% since they are "only <1% improvements".

So in cases like this I think of it in reverse: the death rate of 0.01% can be improved by 90% (or 10x) to 0.001%. This does run the risk of inflating the importance of the fix when the base rate is extremely low.

My rule is: articles which use multiples or percentages must give enough detail to exactly reconstruct the calculation method used.
Thank you, sharemywin!

> for me it's initializers.

Me, too. Initializers or constructors are often hierarchical.
It's a quote from the linked post
On one hand there’s cryptocurrency and the resurgence of Austrian economics. On the other hand, MMT.

Mainstream macroeconomics is a zombie. Posts like this, which don’t even address the situation head on, give even more evidence of this dismal fact.