skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haha yeah see if it made it past the review board (which didn't give a huge damn back then), then people WOULD pay 99p for it. Insane
I love Affinity a ton, too, and have more or less ditched Adobe for all my creative needs. Affinity Designer/Photo/Published easily fills the Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign toolkit for almost any designer's needs. I am satisfied with Figma for UI and UX design, and it seems to be the enterprise solution du jour as well. The only tool missing for me is a comprehensive motion design tool, for which I have only dabbled in alternatives to After Effects (which is amazing software).

If anyone's interested, I've found Cavalry to be really good so far but not really intended for footage if that's your use case. Really great for UI motion, however.
You could, but that really isn't any different than "I don't want to come (for some other reason)."

There's a difference between "don't want to" and "can't do".

But, we have a pretty tight-knit group of friends, most of whom live within walking distance, and due to kids, we usually just have dinner at somebody's house. We're boring white collar suburbanites, I guess.
I arrived at college in 1990 with my trusty Amiga 2000 in hand. I then quickly discovered the school's Unix workstations. I have to admit that the Amiga soon after started collecting a lot of dust.
Sure, but this doesn't impact my point, which is that relatively few mistakes don't impugn the design system. Other things might impugn it, but a few mistakes don't, that's all I'm saying.
Some grisly perspective from the linked video:

"In 18 months, she saw more patients die than most nurses before COVID saw in a career."
I don’t think they ever said they were making one.

In 2018, they explicitly said it wasn’t happening:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/72023-linu...

And even as early as 2014 they never explicitly committed to it:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/626-affini...
I love an ambitious project like this.

It's a tall order, but sometimes projects like this take off.
One has a simple, free, and pretty readily available solution to prevent death. The others are not that black and white.
I love this series of Quanta's. They have truly excellent coverage of real, modern mathematics results of the type that are very hard to explain outside of their own field.

Speaking as a former mathematician, I don't think problems are being solved any faster lately, but we hear about it more outside of academia because this is something that Quanta has started covering.

As an example, you could look only at Saharon Shelah, one of the co-authors of this result and a giant in the fields of model theory and set theory. He has spent a career settling long-standing open problems, including Whitehead's problem and Morley's problem. Until this Quanta series, Shelah's work didn't get much coverage outside mathematics as far as I know, but results of this caliber are not atypical for him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharon_Shelah#Academic_career
All states have a right to leave the EU by treaty - it was inserted to defuse a previous bout of Euroscepticism that argued by analogy with the US civil war that union author a secession right was tyranny.

I can't see its use being refused: that would disintegrate the bloc. And there was no question that we (the Brits) wouldn't be allowed to, so the precedent has been set.

I would imagine a few tweaks to the Article 50 exit mechanism will be made next time the treaties are revised - there are some game theory problems in the current trigger mechanism and the timescales set down turned out to be too short in practice - but it's no longer in dispute on principle.
Agreed, a model of dedication to the craft
Newsom repeatedly and publicly thanked Trump for the USNS Mercy.

https://www.axios.com/gavin-newsom-trump-coronavirus-cnn-71e...
4. Suffer the fate of so many species before us and go extinct.

I no longer believe humanity is capable of saving itself. Our hypersexual narcissism are blinders preventing us from seeing that which we don’t want to see, but need to in order to survive. The continued idiocy around Covid is proof positive for what has been suspected for a while now.
Like any unregulated capitalism they will do everything to maximise profit. They get profit regardless of whether the original or the copy is being purchased. They get profit if a user gets scammed through in-app purchases.
New Candidate for Top Bank Regulator Sees Risks in Crypto and Fintechs
> For most countries, if you are a citizen but don’t reside there, you aren’t taxed in that country.

Is it true? To my knowledge, if one's home and the resident country have double taxation avoidance agreement, the citizen end up paying the maximum of the tax rate amongst the two.

Is it the case that the US doesn't have DTAA at all, or do US citizens always get taxed twice?
ANY time a supposedly insane person claims they were misidentified, it should AUTOMATICALLY trigger a detailed investigation, and I don't care at all if that is burdensome to the hospitals or police.
It would be nice to find someone to work with to create some amazing things at a fast pace.

I have somehow put together many skills (some at doctorate level) over the years that I can do almost anything... but I believe collaboration is key.
Sure, there are substantive differences between Crypto and Cannabis, the point I was trying to make is that Bitcoin is beyond the tipping point. The point that makes sense to bring it into the fold. Secondly, if the USA is seen to be focussed on legitimizing crypto then this would be a signal to NK / RU hacking groups that US Government Agencies are taking an active interest and including it in their daily operational scope. Given the tentacles of US enforcement, this could help limit use of BTC (not all crypto) for illicit purposes.
So is the phash code actually going to run locally (I.e. can dump it and figure out the function) or is it only running on icloud?
I think it's reasonable to place more of the blame on people who choose not to help (refusing the vaccine) instead of the people who don't have the means to help (unable to get a vaccine).
> He won an Emmy for it!

Isn't that a TV/movie price? For good acting?
I don't doubt they make good money off of their activism, but let's not diminish the extent to which they are activist rather than journalist. These are the OG "mostly peaceful protest" folks[0], and this is only one of the more conspicuous on a long list of egregiously activist takes that they've produced in the last few years.

[0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cnn-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful...
No it isn’t actually. I’ve already had covid and recovered, so no “science” is saying you should get more than one as a booster.

I’m only slightly joking about getting one dose. Although natural immunity makes me statistically unlikely to get or spread covid, there is thoughts that the vaccine might do better against the variants (and some thoughts it might do worse).

They say it wouldn’t hurt to get a vaccine if you already had it, but probably just one as a booster.

I want to get one dose, to not be on the side who thinks these vaccine have chips in them and will make you infertile, and to not be on the side that is crazy and thinks we should have zero risk in life that we get sick and die, and would literally advocate for not allowing healthy people to be out of unvaccinated, because with natural immunity and a booster and I’d be even lower risk than double vaccinated yet would still not be allowed to do things only vaccinated people would do, pointing out the absurdity.
I agree, that is pretty terrible. But the system is designed so that this guy can be voted out. Again, I'd say it's the people, not the design of the system, that is the problem.
2019 E-Stats Report: Measuring the Electronic Economy (U.S.)
> For example, being Pole, if I spend more than 180 days in Sweden, I now owe taxes in Sweden but no longer owe them in Poland. That is because Poland recognizes that, while I am Polish citizen, I actually was Swedish resident during that tax year. And have an agreement with Sweden so that it is clear where I have to pay my taxes.

The US has similar arrangements with many countries, and you are not doubly-taxed. You simply pay taxes at the highest rate of the two (US and <other country>).

Likewise, if you move to the US from a higher-tax country, and the US has a tax treaty with that country, in your first year in the US (assuming you move mid-year), you will owe taxes to both countries, but will only pay the US rate overall. My first year in the US, the US government paid me US$600 because in their eyes, I had paid the UK too much in taxes for the 5 months I had worked there.

The hassle is that you still have to file with the IRS, even if your actual tax liability to the US is zero.
The radically disproportionate ratio of blacks in prison vs whites in prison compared to their population percentage would like to have a word with you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/30/shrinking-g...
> In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective. More broadly, it may refer to the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Recuperation_(politics)
https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

>For certain kinds of 51% attacks (particularly, reverting finalized blocks), there is a built-in "slashing" mechanism in the proof of stake consensus by which a large portion of the attacker's stake (and no one else's stake) can get automatically destroyed.
I also found this video helpful.

A key point in the video is that when you are a student the reader is paid to read your paper.

When you are not a student - the reader pays to read your paper (or book). Is it worth their time or money?
> Suppose a variant pops up that's deadly to children, but the current vaccines protect against it. How would governments explain...

All sorts of mad things could happen. But this fantasy scenario is really quite unlikely.
Eh.. it's just more that you reduce the fuel density by having more frequent wildfires. It's not about increasing resilience.
The injections were only found to be efficacious in preventing severe illness. Everything else is conjecture at best.
There were other interesting findings too: in areas with high populations of cats they seem to settle into time-share arrangements with parts of their territory, they are not just purely "this is mine all the time".

This all gets messed up when new animals arrive or the habits if existing ones change, but it seems back into a new mostly stable pattern eventually.

I wonder what difference more human slaves being home all day over the last 18 months has made to all this, and how much disruption there is as we slip back into something more like older patterns.
Granted, there needs to be more efforts to curb child abuse. Even a little bit of news like this would probably kick a lot of child pornographers off of the platform (a good thing!). In the past, photos from a film camera had to be developed at a lab so it was likely that suspicious photos would be identified. It's assuring while also terrifying what implications this would bring. ML accelerated SoC's are becoming more of a thing but I'm probably sure it won't stop someone with a will and a slight bit of sophistication.

I believe a 58-year-old who worked at the Silicon Engineering Group at Apple got caught with child pornography. Perhaps Apple should dogfood with their employees. https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/hills-man-arrested-on-ch...
No- designing and depending on a vaccine based on a single gene is what will (has already) lead to variants. It's no coincidence that lambda has 3 separate mutations on the spike protein targeted by the mrna vaccine.
> The captain/navy didnt want to deal with the cleaning/disinfecting after the fact.

That sounds weird, like they weren't going to clean up after non-COVID patients? Is there a cite on this claim?
NY was ground zero in the US, so even without mismanagement it might have been the case. I work remotely with a Dr. in the Bronx and they were hit unbelievably hard early on. The hospital he worked at was surrounded with refrigeration trucks to store bodies.
As one is taught in philosophy 101 the Law and Justice are not the same and it's always been thus.

One way of at least improving the situation would be for laws that would allow for the victim to sue both the State and public officials separately. If police and other public servants could not hide behind the protection of State and could easily be sued for negligence then they'd be much more diligent. It wouldn't make things perfect but it'd only take a few instances of public servants finding themselves out of pocket to the tune of their life savings for things to improve significantly for the better.

There's no doubt that democracy is badly impacted by such events, and it's little wonder that people continue to lose faith in their governance whenever this happens. Anyway, I hope some smart lawyer will make the State pay very early for its irresponsible and horrendous error and that Spriestersbach is awarded the large compensation that he deserves.
I agree, but we can elect different lawmakers. Let's push Louis Rossman to congress for example. I checked, his congressional district is represented by someone named Jerry Nadler, who's been sitting there since 1992 and (I'm pretty sure) is out of touch of his constituents since late 1990's.
It only becomes a war when people are willing to do anything to “win”
Compulsory wearing a mask may be a good idea in some parts of space-time (a bus, a train, an airplane), not in others (outside). It's like going around naked on the street is a no-no, but on a dedicated beach it may be OK. "My body my choice" argument does not work here.

Compulsory getting a government-sanctioned liquid into my body is a completely different topic. "My body my choice" exactly. My part of space-time.

Also contagious disease does not mean threat to society. It's a weak disease for most people, something like 98% of people who get sick, get through.
If amount staked has no influence on inclusion or vote weight then what’s to stop a large ETH holder from splitting their wallet into several smaller wallets with the minimum staking balance and just gaining vote weight that way?
How to use structural pattern matching in Python
It was fun learning about bowling ball cores from my fiance's father. He runs a little pro shop out of his garage.

What was more interesting to me was the dual angle drilling technique he used, a fair bit of math involved: http://www.bowlersreference.com/Ball/Layout/Dual.htm
Probably. People don't like to see the homeless around their nice little neighborhoods so they come up with all sorts of weird laws to harass them with.
It actually wasn’t. Well I mean it was, but I mean if I get a vaccine, I literally will just get one dose.
This may be a controversial or unpopular opinion, but if you are expected to work more because a coworker is unavailable you are bad at managing expectations and controlling your career. When a coworker is suddenly unavailable, you may need to switch priorities but you should never allow a company to tell you to work more to cover for them. Shifting priorites can be an effort or morale drain but these things can happen for a multitude of reasons regardless of coworkers and should be managed the same way regardless. If jane got hit by a bus or joe left the company would your project survive? In any scenario you are expected to pick up the slack, you should be making it very clear the terms necessary for you to continue to be successful and especially clear what isn’t going to get done by changing priorities. This is especially true for things like increased on call rotation. Making it clear that that will effect other things and that your time is not free is crucial for managing expectations.
this seems really good. I always like to read code cause it gives a better idea how things works under the hood. when I first wrote a toy neural network I read everything I could on the topic, plus I was taking a ML class where the teacher was a big fan of implementing things from scratch.
Hi Anta

I'm (among other things) a fintech consultant specializing in payments; my company primarily works with Stripe, sometimes with Adyen/Worldpay/Xsolla.

Like you said, payments orchestration is nothing new. What differentiates you from any other middleman in the field?

I'll give you one example as a test scenario: A current client of mine is a small business incorporated in the US, doing business in both the US and South Korea with $10/mo subscriptions. They want to offer native South Korean payment methods in SK such as KakaoPay and Samsung Pay. I've had to set them up with Smart2pay (Nuvei) because, after months of negotiations, Adyen wouldn't take a contract with them because they're too small a fish to care about. In the US, they offer Paypal and Stripe but their current gateway middleman (Uscreen) takes an obscene cut and doesn't offer good subscription management features to make up for it.

Their current payment stack is inconsistent, hard to manage, lacks lots of admin features and costs them more than it should. If you can do something for them, I'll be super impressed :) (Email in my profile!)
Eritrea imposes a global tax as well.
Source code also is all about KiddoPaint: https://kidpix.app/js/app.js
You can jail someone for camping in a park, though. If they want to go sleep and shamble in the woods, go for it. Not on the sidewalks.
> neural

Oh boy..
I suspect the "great" Britain distinguishes it from the other Britain which is a nearby French province, ie "Grande Bretagne" vs "Bretagne". Ireland is still not British! The "British Isles" was a useful term for a dominant power while it lasted.
Does anyone have any idea how much of this could be done on stock Amiga hardware (without hardware upgrades)?

I’m not anti-upgrades—-just curious :)
Does "do whatever they want" extend even to something like doctors saying "you've declined to get vaccinated and acted like there's not to be concerned about, so we're going to not admit you to the hospital"?
IIRC they've already been running it on icloud photos for a year or two. Hashing local files is the step they're taking now
It's NOT a cryptographic hash.

It's the weights from the middle of a neural network that they're calling a "hash" because it encodes and generates an image it has classified as bad. Experts have trouble rationalizing about what weights mean in a neural network. This is going to end badly.
To be fair, I don't think any politician could seriously influence that number. Crafting sensible policies helps a bit, but infection is a matter of chance and how people behave.
Diving into DevSecOps Part 2
Google's wireless Nest Cam and Doorbell are now up for pre-order
$1 per image? That's going to be a really tough sell based on the quality of the sample images. Without a free trial I'll never get to see if this is any good for my own stuff.

("free" means no account creation needed even if the output is watermarked)
These cases are not the same. In one case it's being taken serious by an organisation which has a history of taking these things serious. In another case it was not taken serious by an organisation with a history of not taking these kind of things serious.

Why would anyone protest if Biden has already called for the resignation? "We are demanding that you do what you're already doing!" That would be silly.
> Isn't crypto a direct threat to their power?

It isn't since it doesn't change property relations. It is more of a "different asset" they could own and speculate with.

> If finance can't be tracked it can't be taxed.

Crypto-tokens are very traceable and most can be deanonymized by forensic accountants.

> If it's mainstream more and more people could potentially switch to crypto, which would reduce their tax collections.

It wouldn't and most people aren't savy enough in cybersecurity to avoid having their tokens stolen. (And most protocols don't have a chargeback or recovery mechanism)
Does someone need to provide a source proving that mistakes happen outside the United States?
Yes. Many. I think the conservators need to leave a strap on with the food, just in case.
> basically spitting on the SQLite projects decision.

That is a very emotional response given the SQLite FAQ itself basically admit the design is unfortunate. They just state it is too late to change due to backwards compatibility. So it is not crazy to suggest an opt-in flag to change the default behavior, although I can understand if the SQLite team does not bother.
A typo on my comment above. I said the R0 was below zero, when I meant to say the R0 is below 1, meaning the number of cases should decline over time.
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Sorry, that’s absurd. I cannot understand how you’re thinking about this, it is completely disjoint from how I think, and what I believe reality is. You might as well be talking about the sky being green as part of your rationalizations.
While this is a process that is believed to be happening, it is very hard to observe in real time. It takes comparing data between decades and more to notice changes in composition of animal bodies.
EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
Does the threat model include malicious system software on the endpoints? Or slightly differently, have you looked at any mechanisms to provide encryption when in use.
I'd say that the laws are mostly fair, but the enforcement isn't. The fact you cite is an indictment of the people in charge, not of the system (which allows those people to be replaced by voting).
Show HN: The ML API for engineers who don't have time for ML
Hey HN - spending time adding machine learning to your product is almost never worth it for startups.

Formulating the problem, managing training data, training models, serving them, etc... for a 10% increase in some metric just isn't worth the time. Using rules + heuristics, although not optimal, does a pretty good job for a long time.

There should be a better solution between rules & hardcore ML -- an 80/20 way to add ML to any product. Just slap it on top of the rules you already have, get that 10% gain, and never think about it again.

I built an API that does just that. It's used by a few companies to do everything from shopping cart recommendations to personalized landing page hero text. It takes 10-20 lines of code to implement.

I'd love for anyone in the HN community to kick the tires on this and let me know what you think. Docs are at https://www.banditml.com/.

You can even use this api key immediately without an account to test it out: 1e9d8ef7948e545d25f189addb17dae1.
> "they are walking off for extra bonuses"

What a bizarre characterization.

They're walking off because they're working in hellish conditions, watching people die with no resources left to help them.
I tried with https://github.com/racket/racket and for some reason it puts all the content of the subfolder "racket"/"src" in a vertical strip near the middle of the circle instead of spreading the parts evenly. How is each part arranged?
Great. Publisher is one of the only pieces of software I like.
Great question!

1. Scylla added Alternator Streams as an experimental feature in Scylla Open Source 4.3: https://www.scylladb.com/product/release-notes/scylla-open-s...

2. You can read about the current state of compatibility here:

https://scylla.docs.scylladb.com/master/alternator/compatibi...
Apple's Motion is worth checking out.