skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think making tools for transparency of financial information with privacy for the individuals is very beneficial to our democracies.

and I think tools that help people coordinate/unionise/collectivise around shared interests is good for all of us who are working people.

we dont have to be totally cynical and an accelerationist to believe there are flaws with government and money. I dont think the western democracies are collapsing, i feel like i have decent representation where i live. But i think things could be done better, ive also witnessed massive wastes of resources in local government, corruption and collusion.
I dont think the systems we've inherited from pre-electricity society are going to be the absolute best we can ever come up with. this is hackernews, where people praise saas startups and hobbies and research on new gpus. but damn you if you think we can come up with better money or government.

I think people are just skeptical of the intentions of those of us working in the space (which is sensible) because of the money and the memes and the absurdity of the energy around the crypto space. but i dont understand why people are so doom and gloom about it, 99.9% of the people involved arent living in a bunker waiting for the collapse of society, generally the eth devs ive met are very positive and optimistic and like you say, believe we deserve better.
> "Succinct counting blocked Bloom filter"

Incidentally, for people who don't know this already, if you want to just generally Google about these data structures and learn about them, the search term is "succinct data structure". There's been a lot of interesting work in this area. And they are not lossy in general; obviously lossy structures are interesting but there's some mind-blowing non-lossy succinct data structures as well.
You’re being unreasonably optimistic. It’s wishful thinking.
Why are college loans some of the only kind that can be signed for by your parents, yet not dischargeable via bankruptcy?
I don't think it's about selling yourself, but rather choosing what impression you'll leave with people.

When a new opportunity or problem comes up, do you want to be the engineer that many people dread talking it over with? Or do you want to be the engineer that makes people (at least slightly) excited to discuss something with?

Do you want to be known as the engineer who sucks energy out of the room in brainstorming sessions, or the one who can help the group "see around corners" either from your personal insight or from fostering a sense of directed curiosity within the group?

You're right that it's not necessarily the best programmers who create the most value/make the most money for themselves, but I don't think the counter position is "you have to become a giant phony and sell yourself".
> That’s why Brave New World is a much stronger prediction.

Agreed, but I fear we get the best from both worlds.
Right, because if there ever was a subset of humans that has never been corrupted, it’s the clergy…
Trove does this for Australian newspapers

https://trove.nla.gov.au/
Some people are dicks though, and those people need consequences for their actions.
This reminds me of how the London Underground used to be much cooler, but the trains have raised the temperature of the clay surrounding the tunnels sufficiently that it never cools off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling
Passive heating and cooling is one of my favorite features of Earth Ships. I’m entirely enamored with the concept, but I don’t know how the climate impact of building these — better or worse than normal homes? You seem to make a lot of cement on-site.

Anyone have experience with these types of homes and can offer perspective?

https://www.earthshipglobal.com/
This. Friend of mine worked at a company that did COBOL to Java compilation, with the intent of producing "maintainable" code, and he reported (after several years of work) that this just wasn't possible (for them).
Definitely take a look at fp-ts [1]! It's mentioned at the end of the article, but I want to emphasize just how cool it is.

[1] https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts
> I can turn on my DSLR, zoom, focus on the subject, and get a shot in under two seconds

To be fair, I can probably do that on my DSLRs as well if they're left in standby mode -but- there's a certain amount of weight and bulkiness inherent here that moves it out of "why is a phone better than a compact" territory because I damn sure can't fit any of my DSLRs into my pockets.
If you're a Googler, and accept a transfer from Austin to San Francisco, then what is your reaction when they tell you, "No adjustment in comp. We only adjust based on performance, not location"?

Location-based cost of living adjustments (in both directions) have been the norm since time immortal. By all means, make the argument. But I don't think it's very convincing one. Regardless, from a purely practical standpoint, I don't think the market will ever see it that way either.
There's what, 5 countries that might pay better? USA of course, which has its own share of problems, Canada, England, Switzerland. Maybe one of Netherlands or Germany if you're lucky.

No easy choice there, unfortunately.
And all those other countries let international flights come from Wuhan. Countries aren't forced to accept inbound flights.
My 10 year old lexus is valued at $0. Hmm.
YouTube tried that and people found ways to abuse it immediately. Organized groups started going around getting chennels they don't like banned on false pretenses.
> I work at a job
> I got fired
> If I'm skilled enough I don't think it would be an insanely hard task for me to find another job.
Recession is another thing but general layoffs can be fixed it you decide to pick yourself up.
How much of this do they teach in the average public school?
If you buy meat at the grocery store on Tuesdays at 40% off, should you return some of that savings to your employer? Let's say your kid gets a scholarship, do you accept a pay cut because you don't "need," the money to pay for their tuition? If you sell your house and move into a smaller condo with fewer expenses, do you inform your boss that you no longer need all the money you are being paid?

If you command a tech salary but someone can still convince you that your work is worth less because you have found a way to make your own costs lower, and that you are somehow obligated to pass on your savings to your employer...well, I should get into recruiting.

Sure, the company could offer you less when they hire you, but if you are actually physically remote, the discount isn't based on your discretion or circumstances, they're just making an excuse to offer you less, and you can take it or leave it. There is no principle at work.
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Exactly. I've always said that in the US people don't really care. Even for "important" things like the million woman march, it is fun to do something for 1 day/weekend and then get back to life, all things forgotten. As long as everyone has a flatscreen, Netflix, an iPhone, a decent car and can take a vacation, no one gives a crap. Despite life being materially worse than other times in the past, it is still better than most of the world. People rise up when they have nothing to lose. That isn't the case and won't be for quite a while.
Perhaps, but that wasn't true in the project I referenced. (perhaps I didn't make it clear that I wasn't generalizing)
Don't be surprised if that takes, er, a while to happen
It was news to me. I hold USDC because I thought every USDC was backed by a US dollar. That's what all their statements said. I don't even know what commercial paper is. Why did they find the need to back some USDC with that? Is something wrong? The lack of communication is troubling.
Is it? From my vantage point we are just serfs on the plantation.
Man, tough crowd here. And someone who's been following precise timekeeping tech for 25 years now.. this is really cool! I think it's great some smart engineers have built a new reasonably compact and low cost very precise bit of timekeeping hardware. Thank you for sharing it open source!
And then there is the question if your GUI framework is even allowed on iOS. For example, Firefox can't use its internal render engine on iOS, but is forced by Apple to use Safari's library.
> One of the main reasons I have a DSLR

I can't fit my DSLRs into my pockets though which means they don't get carried everywhere like a phone or compact would.
> Democracy as implemented is stupid.

> I want to vote on policy I care about and understand, not a person I've never met who I can't necessarily trust that's meant to represent me.

Representative democracy is designed as a compromise between giving power to the people and giving (what's perceived as) too much power to the people.

In the case of a true direct democracy, many fear the ignorance and apathy of the average voter, and wonder if the majority rule would lead to tribalism and repression of minorities. That said, the few actual examples of direct democracy don't really seem to have borne these fears out.

In a way it comes down to how much (or little) confidence you have in your fellow citizen; "the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter," and all that. I veer towards misanthropy, so from that perspective direct democracy doesn't do a lot for me... seems like there's no perfect system.
Hi, author here.
Feel free to ask me anything!

Diffx is an attempt at making a library that

* requires as little boilerplate code as possible

* does not require rigid patterns for how to change the state

* has great devtools

* works great with typescript

* works great with react, vue, svelte and angular
Not in telecommunications, but I do know that there are synchronous comm networks that don’t require any kind of sentinel / delimiter because there is a guarantee that the voltage will agree.

My signals background mostly comes out of music, so somebody else probably has a better answer. But any time you need to convert between digital and analog signals relatively seamlessly, ie, introducing minimal processing overhead, you’re going to run into these kinds of issues. In that regard, you can think of telecoms as a CPU, and just like in a computer, you need a system clock that the entire architecture agrees on.

First likely application that comes to my mind is VoIP.
Here is a decent visual explanation of the relationship with relative humidity: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&...
Its been a minute since Libra was in the news, is it still being actively developed by FB after many of their initial partners dropped out?
But it was a fairly consistent state of nature; as far as I know, those were old practices, and the ecosystem had adapted to them.
Consistency has really gone downhill in macOS, but thankfully if there are menu items for those actions you can override the binding in the settings app.
Show us the functionally equivalent OS that you and/or your friends have written in a safe programming please?
Maybe, but that's what comes to my mind first. The media/NewsCorp basically program the country to accept whatever they want passed, seemingly overnight. Most people are quite apathetic politically too, or just willing to accept whatever they hear on TV.
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That statistic alone doesn’t say very much. How does the number of killed per worker compare to other countries? The fact that 50-60 die doesn’t necessarily contradict others’ claims that they are overly focused on safety.
Its not their particular name. It's their inconsistency in using it.

I think previous iterations of existence use names to transfer karmic information for individuals, but we're now at the point that the system is understood well enough by the systemised to game the system itself.

I often wonder about the importance of naming things. Its also a key problem in Computer Science.

Namespacing is useful up to a point. Value can change depending on context.

In the first season of The Crown they make you notice that the Queen double 'Elizabeth'ed herself.

But if the value the name had no longer applies given the actions of the namee carrying out other actions instead, is the name still meaningful or valid or just historically valid or muddled?

I think there's more going on here than you think.
I'm curious: what's the use case for microsecond-precise timekeeping?
> Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all.

Some of 'em, yeah. Others where the lens has to come out of the body before you can take a photo, somewhat different.

(And yes, I suppose you can leave them powered on to keep the lens out of the body but then you're risking scratches or mechanism damage when you put it away and they also aggressively auto-power off.)
SOFTWARE:

https://symless.com/synergy

https://alternativeto.net/software/synergy/

HARDWARE:

https://hackaday.com/tag/kvm/
How so? What part is unreasonable?

I was specifically questioning things like where is the hot water coming from, people without tubs can't figure out how to save water, etc. Those claims sound overly pessimistic and simplistic to me.
I believe the intuition depends on context. In common jargon Wet Bulb isn't widely understood!
Is the Brain-Mind Quantum? Theoretical Proposal with Supporting Evidence (2021)
An important distinction is that these companies generally do not and have not ever described location-based pay differential as cost-of-living. They are pretty consistent in saying that the differential is due to hiring market competitiveness. If they choose to hire in a particular market (because they have an office there), how much does it cost to make sure they get the people they want in that market?

This is somewhat but not entirely aligned with cost of living, and there have always been clear examples of better and worse markets - eg engineers in London are not that well compensated compared to their cost of living.

The big losers here will be people who lived in a HCOL location and yet still had a long commute to an office. They have no tradeoff to leverage if they decide to leave the high-pay salary market.
Although I use Cookie AutoDelete and open GMail (which I didn't whitelist) in a separate container, GMail still remembers me somehow. I have to manually go and clear all the saved data in the Firefox settings to actually reset everything.
Probably thrown and then multiplied by itself, with plenty of insects to eat
> Press it at any time to take a photo immediately,

The internet three days after Apple do this: "APPLE PHONES CONSTANTLY VIDEOING SURROUNDINGS, 1984 IS HERE"
Papagayo – open-source lip-syncing program
I remember a comment from a similar discussion a few years ago;
Huxley indoors in our homes, Orwell outside on the streets.
Thanks, it's nicely parametrised and easy to browse; shame they decided to require free registration in order to actually view anything though.
This is really amazing to learn how the ancient civilizations handled the warm weather.

I hope we can use this further in warm countries!
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You understand "asset with equivalent fair value" is not the same as actual dollars? Every other asset has a risk of its price changing. It may be worth $1 today but it may or may not be worth $1 tomorrow.

Maybe you knew all along USDC wasn't actually backed by real US dollars. Apparently Coinbase and its customers didn't. And given the ongoing slow motion disaster of Tether, the actual backing of stablecoins is important to be very precise about.
Someone send one of these to CuriousMarc — he is peerless in working on these vintage high precision test pieces.
I can't imagine living in a place where everyone is constantly moralizing about things like "media diversity". How exhausting.
Julian Assange: US extradition bid gets a legal boost
I like what Anders Hejlsberg says here, but still wonder why he is not pushing for F# adoption/funding/tooling etc. I'm in no position to judge such an accomplished language designer in any way, just curious. Is it ego? NIH? Or that other thing (Whose name someone else can surely provide) about not being able to see the solution if your salary depends on the problem.
To add to the parent comment, make a list of people you'd like to stay connected with and add an event to your calendar a few times a week (I do two). Those events are to reach out to one of those people on the list and catch up with them. You can't follow a thousand people like you can one Facebook, but the conversations will be richer and 1000 close connections with distant people probably doesn't provide deep connections anyway. This has been good for me.

Another one I heard in Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport is to hold "office hours" in which you're available for conversation with anyone. What's nice about these is that you can schedule them during downtime like a commute or a regular walk, so you're not losing any extra time.

Might come off as robotic, but scheduling regular conversations with those who are closest to you is really nice and makes sure you're always in communication.
This seems to be a theme of the pandemic.
YouTube had differentiated moderation for each user based on personal preferences set by the user? I don’t recall that.
There are literally not enough humans in the global workforce to moderate all the content that goes through Facebook's properties. Instagram alone has over 20k things posted per second.
Yeah, I can imagine...
As a German living in Australia, I’m shocked what happened to Germany.

Politics turned to Left-wing/Green party vs AFD and there is no middle ground anymore. The FDP basically disappeared and there’s a cliff in society over things like the refugee crisis and Merkel’s “everyone is welcome here” politics.

If I’d ever come back to Europe, I’d settle in Switzerland. It just is the better Germany(at least to me).
Ask HN: What Is Today's Best Analytics Product?
What is everyones favourite cross platform analytics? In particular tracking events and users flow.
The article deals with this in a later section and has an interesting discussion about the tradeoffs. Note that you don't have to ship Chromium with every app, you can also go use web rendering engines supplied by the platforms.
> if you live/sell in a country that respects software copyright/license, then you can sue them or get a cease and desist for using it against your license (say prohibiting commercial derivative or violating your copyright without authorization)

Prohibition of derivative makes your software not open source

But you can use trademark, instead of copyright to prevent someone else to sell copies of your app. Sort of what Red hat does but that doesn't prevent clones with a different name to pop up.
Co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström is a Swede and so Skype always had a clear connection to Sweden. But yes, Estonia also deserves a lot of credit for Skype of course, as the development work was mostly done there.
Yeah, according to Streeteasy West Village is about $1900/sqft and UWS is about $1400/sqft.
A more realistic answer is: To be honest, if I was a local civilian, and someone is doing terrible things to me and my people, I don't think I cared too much about whether the people terrorizing us is a mercenary or "a regular soldier" deployed by a country. I want my own "a regular solider" or mercenary to do worse to the other side.
"You say you don't want to go out for drinks with me
because you're 'cutting back on alcohol', yet curiously I found in our chat log that you two years ago, almost to the day, said, and I quoute 'Thos cutting back on alcohol are just pussies, I will _never_ [your emphasis not mine] cut back on alcohol, life's just to much fun drunk! =DDDD lol'. So I guess you are lying and just don't want to hang out with me anymore!?! :´( I fucking hate you!"

Like that?
I looked at the source code for UnixMaps.jl. It seems to call :jl_mmap (exported by Julia's underlying C++ source code). I wonder why this style might be preferred to, say, calling libc directly?
Fresh example of what you've been already forced to pay: https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-reveal-h...
AlphaGo is not merely a brute force calculator and neither is GPT-3. They have conceptual representations. That is the advantage of deep neural networks, the ability to form concepts, as biological neural networks do.
Seiko offers a GPS clock in a conventional-home friendly form factor.

First introduced in 2013, the Seiko Space Link GPS clock has proven to be a global success. It is the world's first clock for home or office use that receives a time signal from a GPS satellite, thus delivering atomic clock precision. It measures time to within one second every 100,000 years. Equally importantly, it can be used anywhere in the world and can be installed in almost any situation, so long as it is around 15 metres or less from the open sky. The technology is beautifully practical. 4 times every day, the clock receives a time signal from the GPS satellite network and, when conditions are ideal, adjusts automatically in around 10 seconds of receiving the signal. Between these signal receptions, a high accuracy quartz movement keeps the clock on time.

Wherever you may need it, Seiko Space Link is there, silently marking the passage of time with an elegance and precision that is redefining the world’s perception of what a clock can be. A new standard of excellence has arrived.

https://www.seiko-clock.com/products.html
In Elixir (and Rust too IIRC) example code in comments is checked by the compiler.
I believe “pay” is subjective here. These are paid in geopolitical tokens. Libya is a major “exporter” of refugees to Europe, and control over that “trade route” is itself a major “token” to be traded for.

Lest we forget “we came, we see, he died”
Crytek confirms Egregor ransomware attack, customer data theft
> No, that means first do your own, and then start bitching about others, because other way I do not see how are we better then those criminals in article.

There's the proverb "sees a speck in another's eye, but does not notice a log in his own eye". No major country is innocent, yet dismissing them all as equally bad is wrong and unacceptable; they do allow comparison, and Western countries come much better for their record of wars over last decades than some others.

First doing their own is like asking to postpone space exploration until all problems on Earth will be solved. Not to mention that space exploration helps solving Earth problems; postponing flying to space can thus be indefinite, as on Earth you can almost always find problems. Western hemisphere only recently had a situation with no wars; you can then always point to smaller conflicts. West has to improve, yes; however that doesn't mean we shouldn't hold some non-Western countries as more accountable for bigger international problems.
If that’s the language it can be any asset. Doesn’t mean it high quality AAA rated bonds or government notes, bills, etc.
A simple Google search will answer your question about commercial paper. As for why they would do this: cash management 101. Why let cash sit in an account when you can make interest on low or no risk, short term debt?

Crypto/defi/etc is high risk and requires you to DYOR. If that makes you uncomfortable, this space may not be a good fit for you.
This looks cool. I don't see a Privacy Policy -- is any session info sent back to Padka? If so, what?
When I started programming, the first mistake I encountered was ignoring the spacing rules in Python, thus creating errors even though the code was correct.