skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone seems to have missed that Apple specifically ban contractors like Teleperformance from doing this.

[include]
Apple spokesperson Nick Leahy said that the company “prohibits the use of video or photographic monitoring by our suppliers and have confirmed Teleperformance does not use video monitoring for any of their teams working with Apple.” Leahy said that Apple had audited Teleperformance in Colombia this year and did not find any “core violations of our strict standards.”
Australia is becoming a surveillance state
as long as there are any dirty megawatts, any clean bitcoin mining energy could be replacing it, assuming it is physically close enough to existing electric power grids.

all bitcoin mines are is a proof of investment for the purposes of divvying up entries in a decentralized periodic lottery where the probability of winning is proportional to ones investment in equipment and energy.

is it really truly impossible to efficiently simulate this (specifically the economics, so that existing players don't revolt) while maintaining decentralization in the consensus algorithm?

it seems like there could be a technical solution, but the harder problem is building political consensus in a decentralized world... sort of like getting the global economy off of fossil fuels...
The question is almost like asking a fish to describe water. It's the sudden lack of it that produces a really clear example. :)

Anyway, here's a random example that comes to mind: I have some sexps in a Lisp file and I want to sort them alphabetically. Each sexp (usually a top-level form, but not necessarily) usually spans multiple lines, so line-sorting won't do it. Since they may be top-level forms, there may be comments between them that would lose their context if their position relative to sexps were lost, so comments need to "stick to" sexps they're above.

How would you solve this in a random text editor?

In Emacs, I would develop a command that does what I need. At each stage of the development process, I evaluate the command's definition, and it's instantly available to be used and tested. I could even test the function on its own definition, if I wanted to be silly (undoing the sorting after testing, of course).

When I'm done, I save the command definition to my configuration, and it's now a permanent tool in my toolbox. I didn't have to recompile the editor and start a new process, nor did I have to submit a patch to an upstream and ask for it to be merged. Similarly to a carpenter (forgive me if it sounds silly), my editor is my workbench, and as wood is malleable, so is my editor.

So, here's the command I came up with (maybe not the prettiest implementation, but maybe not the worst): https://github.com/alphapapa/unpackaged.el#sort-sexps And using Emacs and Org mode, I publish it into this "unpackaged" package, which I then install into my configuration as a package, and other users can then easily install it into theirs, too.

I don't know of any other editor that can do all of this, certainly not so easily.
If you ask the cryptocurrency subreddit, the best thing to do with any money you have[1] is to buy ETH at any price and stake it (i.e. lock it in and receive interest until ETH 2.0 is released). I find that absolutely mindblowing given all the complexity you're pointing out + the fact that there is no date and no clear explanation of what happens to the funds in the event of failure. And on top of this the fact that most people are doing the staking through exchanges because they don't have the required 32 ETH to do it themselves, it looks like a giant disaster waiting to happen.

And somehow Ethereum is one of the most positively viewed cryptocurrencies out there. I don't get it.

[1] This is only a mild exaggeration.
Wire messaging app does this nicely, allowing to set the default time per conversation and showing a small non-distracting timer icon (progress bar) next to a message.
Luckily I can afford the bridge having bought Ethereum years ago.
Northern Europe here. This summer I convinced my parents to get a portable AC (for health reasons). The first time the thought even crossed my mind was probably three summers ago.

If the summers continue like this, much less get warmer, the surge here will be before 2030.
>So be careful what you wish for.

I see that as a good thing as well. If it is a problem to have all the wealth of a country in a few regions then it is equally bad to have the wealth of the world in a few countries.

It might have been painful for some Americans but globalisation has been a success for most of the world.
You're actually describing vaporware. Vaporware certain to not materialize is downright lying/fraud I think.
Reddit subs are still ok but I sensed a slow down, a little decrease in energy even there. Maybe the migration to the new UI bored people too. Strange
Couldn't AC work as a heat pump in winter, saving energy and maybe emissions in the process?
Ask HN: Investing in a startup using cryptocurrrency (not through an ICO)
Hey folks,

I am setting up a startup and looking to register it in the US (I am not a US citizen or resident). Have a few friends and family (again, not in the US) who are willing to invest in it. However, their funds are currently parked in some cryptocurrencies (mostly, but not all btc). Are there easy, legal ways for them to invest, using these funds, in the newly registered startup? One possibility would be for the newly registered startup to set up an account on an exchange, receive these funds in tokens, transfer into dollars. Is this possible and do you know if there is a precedent? Has anyone here tried this? Thanks!
If GTA 6 doesn't have chatbots, I will be very disappointed. This has widened the possible level of immersion in action-adventure games and RPGs immensely.
The two class cycles

workers cycle:
Commodity(labor) -> Money -> Commodity(food, housing bills)

Capitalists cycle:
Money -> Commodity(means of production) -> Money(profit/surplus value)

At least that is the bit that kind of sticked to me and made me realized in the west you want to do the second cycle.
Earn money by selling labor, live life as a cheap ass for a while use savings to become a asshole landlord.
Well, you are basically thinking of freicoin which is the oldest bitcoin fork.

It died because you cannot start with the currency. It has to be a local community project. There are lots of complementary currencies on this planet but only regional currencies end up successful.

Cryptocurrencies are problematic because they don't foster a face to face community. The idea is that you are taking advantage of a sucker 1000miles away from you.
hmm, not so impressed, ran it up and its a bit of an all or nothing ultimatum on boot - i won't be running that instead of my osx for a while yet...
It reminds me an article from the author of Paul Buchheit (gmail's creator), when he was beta testing it internally with Google employees.

Many of them were asking for email preview popups directly from the inbox. Instead of implementing it, he realized the need wasn't for a popup but for a wait to see your email quickly. The real issue was that it was slow when you clicked on an email, so he made it fast instead.
Don't worry, it's equally shit on Linux.
> I agree that many Youtube videos are tedious and needlessly dragged out, probably caused by focussing on time spent as KPI. Too many Youtube videos nowadays give a strong vibe of creators being made only for the money.

Yep, and honestly I can't blame them. But at this point every video I watch I immediately press '1' to skip to 10% of the video as a start, then correct if I went too far or if I haven't gone far enough.

The first 10% is usually spent on an intro which is entirely useless to 90% of the audience. e.g. there'll be a video called 'How to add a screen protector to your phone' of 10 minutes, at least the first minute will be a talking head asking if you remember how scared you get every time you drop your phone because it may have cracked the screen, explains how much that sucks, then explains that screen protectors reduce the chance of that blablabla. Stuff everyone knows, which is why they probably bought one, and after wondering how to put it on their phone looked up your video and clicked it... then after they explained the problem, they'll tell you that in this video they'll be providing an answer.

It's okay once but it gets super tedious. Imagine for every search on Google you first get a minute of speech on what the typical reasons were that you likely searched for this, and that this google search is going to provide you with possible answers...

That having been said, I see this on TikTok too. There'll be some music playing and a 'wait till the end' comment, and you're just staring at your screen and nothing happens until quite a bit later, and it's often disappointing too. At least on YT you can skip through easily.
I get triggered if a company mentions "diversity and inclusion". I just don't want to get onto this mission to make everything advertiser friendly.

Interesting is that so many account were not anonymous and also that they acknowledge that "it is a scourge technology cannot solve alone".

We saw dangerous censorship on the matter of Covid and other issues and I fear these mechanisms will be abused. This will certainly happen with a probability that pretty much equals 1.
I'd recommend looking at Project Catalyst out of the Cardano ecosystem.

Of course the proposals are still heavily focused on internal/ecosystem development but there's an increasing focus on building platforms for people in developing regions as well. There has generally been a heavy focus on improving connectivity and access to affordable financial services within the African continent however recently there's been slowly growing focus on other regions with large unbanked or under-banked populations.

With the amount of money that is allotted via the treasury for the Cardano ecosystem, Catalyst (and eventually proper on-chain governance when it evolves into that) has funding to comfortably run it's 6 week cadence funding rounds indefinitely at a rate of 15 million USD per round once it finished scaling up. As the network grows the scale will likely increase but regardless I think with the focuses the community has (particularly thanks to West Africa Decentralised Alliance) we'll see increasing focus on improving infrastructure and access in developing regions.

And while you could argue that many of the solutions proposed have some net positive effect flowing back to the ecosystem, generally the focus has been on connecting people rather than driving traffic to the network.

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Sorry if that got a little long winded. It's a cool project+community and we've been working really hard to avoid the toxic coin maximalist & self-centred behaviour that's become so incredibly common in the space.
China sentences Canadian to 11 years in case tied to Huawei
from experience with similar product (where we had similarly sounding way of entity resolution based on rule based fuzzy indexes and fuzzy matching, and it was working for tens of millions of entities on regular, though beefy, RDBMS more than a decade ago) - the issue isn't that much technological, it is that each customer/client has custom everything when it comes to ER, and thus scaling that business is extremely hard (that specific business collapsed primarily for that reason)
It's for a single axis curve, where the sensor is thinned and then bent over a form (presumably along the long axis), rather than a fully dished image plane.

If the goal is reduced complexity / thinner optics, I guess this can make the design problem easier even if it doesn't solve it completely? Although I have to assume that you'd end up with a host of new distortion/aberration problems.

I'm also assuming that this is only being considered for smartphones and not for ILCs? For ILCs, most lenses can be adapted by knowing one number -- the flange focal distance. Needing to also deal with image plane curvature would throw a pretty big wrench into that...
Those aren't "planning" codes, it's more rules and guidelines. Development is still largely free and left to the market so long as they stick within the guidelines.
I imagine once the first big wave where a nation hits the wetbulb temperature and there is a mass die off you will see panic in surrounding nations and they will scramble to a border. What will nations do with millions of people knocking at the fence wanting in? Uncertain times for sure.
Not all cryptocurrencies are securities. They don't all fall within the purview of the SEC.

Bitcoin is not is a security. Neither is Etherium. I'm not an expert on this area but I don't believe the SEC has the power to regulate them, unless they stray into naughty territory.

New Initial Coin Offerings are something that it can evaluate and deem a security, requiring proper SEC listing as a security; but the existing established digital currencies are not securities and do not require trading through brokers just like trading cash (or exchanging one currency for another) does not require brokers.

The SEC hasn't declared them currencies but neither are they securities. They are assets that you can trade with anyone. That's my best understanding of the SEC's current stance.

Future ICOs could also being avoid classified as securities if the avoided matching the rules that the SEC uses to evaluate whether an offering is a security. There's a checklist of criteria, including whether the asset is being advertised as something that people can buy and expect to make money on.

Ethereum launched as a network where you could perform functional operations more complex than Bitcoin, and was a bit before the SEC got its evaluation rules together (from what I understand), and so may have slipped under the radar; but it certainly wasn't a pump-and-dump scheme like many other ICOs have been.
Conversely I have a good DSLR with very good glass attached, as well as M4/3 pocket camera, and two phones. After the trip I dump everything into one Lightroom album and go through picking out the keepers without looking at the specific camera model used. My typical result is 80% DSLR, 10% pocket camera, 10% phones.
In my country you can ask a non-paying renter to leave after 3 missed monthly payments, but to actually get him out if he does not want to, that requires a court decision, and courts are slow. It may take months or years.

Slow justice is another form of injustice.
> Web tech gives you a greater degree of control: e.g., Emacs Lisp cannot put red sqiggles under text like VSCode does, but rather limits the user interface essentially to one large "textarea" (though in contrast to TTY interfaces, Emacs has good support for the mouse), but it is very rare for me to want web tech's greater degree of control.

Emacs can certainly apply red squiggles and many other rich text formatting, through the use of faces (which is how all syntax highlighting is implemented). Emacs also has a rich text-properties API through which any part of a buffer's text may be propertized with metadata. And it also provides overlays, which "overlay" text, also optionally with additional properties, without modifying the buffer text itself.

Together, these features are used to implement GUIs such as the Customization system with widgets, buttons, clickable links, collapsible sections, etc., as well as red-squiggle-style linting tools like flymake, flycheck, and LSP-related tools.
This is understood. However, Google from the very beginning aimed at attracting the best people, not just with salary, but with time for side projects and so on, it was a part of their culture that made it attractive. It's a 180-degree turn now, they openly became employee-hostile. This kind of pettiness may seem insignificant but it leaves a bad taste and make the best talent think twice about their options.
$100B+ invested across hundreds of decentralized apps, with exponential user growth, is absolutely product market fit - https://defillama.com/chains
Practical? Not really: EV conversions usually don't make economic sense, due to the amount of labor and custom engineering involved.

It could probably be done though if you really wanted to do it and have the time and money. The simplest thing on a front-wheel drive car is probably to tear out the engine and replace it with a motor, keeping the transmission. If you have a manual transmission, it would make that part easier.

Finding room for batteries can be tricky, but if you're only looking for 80km of range that simplifies things considerably. You might be able to put a battery box where the gas tank was, and maybe some more batteries in the engine compartment if there's room. Putting batteries in the trunk might be okay too.

Things you'll probably need: a motor, a motor controller, a motor-transmission adapter plate of some kind, a coupler to attach the motor to the flywheel or transmission shaft, motor mounts, battery boxes, batteries, charger, battery management system, j1772 charge port (if in the U.S.), battery boxes, cabling, some assortment of contactors, fuses, and manual shut-off switches, a vacuum pump for the brakes, and so on.

In modern cars you might also need to figure out how to work around the car's electronics so that all the major systems function as expected.
The Real Reason the Oakland Raiders Lost Super Bowl Xxxvii
AC is still a huge problem never mind the energy source: Hydrofluorocarbons, currently used as refrigerants, are 1000-9000 times stronger greenhouse gasses than CO2. They will eventually be phased out, but until then will leak into the atmosphere a lot.

https://drawdown.org/solutions/refrigerant-management
> The way that's written like Ethereum owes the miners a job strange

I think it's fair that if you've purchased specialized mining equipment, you expect the ROI you were promised. Doesn't seem strange.

> Ethereum functions on proof-of-work and needs some people to sell their compute time and electricity

So compensation for work. If not 'workers', you could call them 'investors', or perhaps 'sole traders', or 'merchants', not sure what the best analogy would be. To be fair, I don't necessarily put them in the same class as people making socks in a sweat shop on slave wage. The down-trodden Ethereum miner is not someone I lose sleep about.
If you look at the Nullsoft links I've posted elsewhere in this thread, they're using an orthographic projection.

The Siberian wildfires dwarf anything in North America.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

They dwarf anything I've seen in North America over the past 3--5 years or so.
Not surprisingly the taste of eggs depends on the chickens' meal. For example, the protein demand is often fulfilled by fish powder or soy flour.
Ethereum definitely was, they just decided not to enforce the rules. Gensler I think recently re-iterated as much. And I don't really care the classification, I care that they're traded in a regulated venue. After all the CFTC has clear jurisdiction over ETH and BTC today.

> The SEC hasn't declared them currencies but neither are they securities.

They are commodities and fall under the purview of the CFTC, and are subject to their regulation.

> Ethereum launched as a network where you could perform functional operations more complex than Bitcoin, and was a bit before the SEC got its evaluation rules together (from what I understand), and so may have slipped under the radar; but it certainly wasn't a pump-and-dump scheme like many other ICOs have been.

Nope, they failed the Howey test which is the legal standard for determining whether something is a security. This was because they raised capital in their ICO. It was at the SECs discretion not to treat them as securities. Just because something isn't a pump-and-dump doesn't mean it's not a security. In fact, one would expect most securities not to be given it's kind of illegal. [1]

I know it is today considered a commodity, however, it was always a security as determined by the Howey test. The SEC elected not to treat it as one at its discretion.

[1] https://bitcoinist.com/secs-gary-gensler-crumbles-when-asked...
>This isn't an accident.

No, it's because it's effectively the only option in the browser. If you are going to write front end code then you will end up writing JavaScript in some form or another.

And being popular doesn't necessarily mean it is accessible nor simple. If it had been I doubt we would have seen Python becoming the dominant language in education.
Yes. Some variants of ribbon filters are very fast, and other variants (which are a bit slower thought) need very little space: only a few percent more than the theoretical lower bound.

For static sets, ribbon filters and binary fuse filters (e.g. here: https://github.com/FastFilter/xor_singleheader) are very competitive. Both are based on recent (2019 and newer) theoretical work from Stefan Walzer, e.g. this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.04749.pdf
The issue at hand is which hardware device is exposed to the external network, not which software.
I always wondered if Zuck lurks here and shitposts like he did back in the day, enjoying stirring the pot.
Signal does the same FWIW.
> The last decades of politics

There was never an era where politicians didn’t prioritise their self interest above all else.
There is an overwhelming part of Google's employees in SV, but seeing this from the company's perspective: they're either going to have to take the battle with all other offices who now want the higher SV salary, or they have to take the battle with only the highest-paying office.

It'll be way cheaper--and hence the obvious corp strategy--to lower salaries in SV than increasing them everywhere else (because everyone is already "remote from SV").
Macroexpanded:

Jewish Problems (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28136729 - Aug 2021 (77 comments)

Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896047 - April 2020 (33 comments)

These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424117 - Oct 2017 (170 comments)

Jewish problems (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10923934 - Jan 2016 (95 comments)

Jewish Problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759642 - Nov 2012 (69 comments)

Jewish problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096793 - Oct 2011 (187 comments)
Can't imagine a negative second order affect of moving all government discussions to the public

/s
That's just the thing. Companies know that, at any given point in time, many people will be unwilling to pay those costs.

A family of four enjoying a large house in some suburb for a reasonable price may find the idea of living in a 2br apartment in SF, or paying a truly exorbitant price for a single family home in the bay area, unappealing.
Ah yeah, you seemed like you had some knowledge and interest about it. I agree it does seem like the early cell phone era may disappear in a way that retrocomputing won't revive.

This discussion did lead to me to find a particular touchscreen test video by Moto Development Group <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR1sJhtgkK4> -- their blog disappeared when they were acquired, but apparently their youtube channel [1] wasn't deleted. I used to link to that blog post to point out how bad the touchscreen drivers were in certain phones.

Anyway, if you have more questions feel free to send to tp at tompark.com and I can try to connect you with someone who knows the answer.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/motodevelopmentgroup
Houses-vs-glass-buildings is a tough comparison, as a lot of glass buildings are office buildings.

And (pre-pandemic, at least) office buildings often have far less floor space per occupant - especially meeting rooms.

So here in the UK, where only perhaps 1% of homes have air conditioning, it's not at all unusual for office buildings to have air conditioning.