skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too! It's like another way of looking at the whole subject that I never thought of before. A refreshing different perspective where you can get outside the blinders of the usual debates and really think differently. I'm looking forward to reading this guy's books. He seems seriously entertaining in a way that's also going to enrich me by reading him :)
> It's a scale with a billion dollars on either end, and we were asked to believe a small office of internet trolls from Russia tipped it. BS detector engaged.

No, we were not asked to believe that, at least not by anyone worth listening to.

You're missing the point. The attempt to put a finger on the scale is threat that warrants a response. It doesn't matter if the scale was tipped or not. It's like if someone shoots at you and misses. Would you have no problem with that? Should you proceed like nothing happened?

Similarly, the capability to make an attempt is also a threat. It's like if someone hands you a time bomb, are you going to carry it around and act like it's not dangerous, just because it hasn't gone off yet?
> "Infrastructure Engineer" being the kind of person who makes bridges and roads and so on.

Reminds me of an old old joke.

There are two kinds of Engineers. Mechanical Engineers who build weapons, and Civil Engineers who build targets.
Cryptocurrencies are just as bad as the fiat they replace. The problem with fiat is that people use it as a high score to measure their own status/rank.

But it is also needed to pay people. But people only work if they get paid. You run into the money shortage problem that caused so much trouble in 2008.
Yeah and that bonus is taxed 35-40% and there is a health care premium of around 17%. It is a net positive for german society
Not so happy. I'm often searching Signal messages for information etc.
What you are proposing is to create an educational system where both an IMO medalist and the special ed student both receive an A in math?

If they have both mastered the material set out in the national curriculum and achieve the set number of right answers on the final exam, why shouldn't they both receive an A in math?

I majored in math at university and we had lots of students who had gotten an 'A' in mathematics, which included everything from a kid who represented his country at the IMO finals to lazy kids who had barely scraped over line. So even today their range of talent was massive and that 'A' grade in itself offered very little indication how well they would actually go on to do.

A High school grade in itself cannot be granular enough to identify those "1-in-million people", so it's pointless to even try to use it for that. It should be an indicator of how much of the curriculum you have mastered. If you want to further identify extraordinary talented and passionate future mathematicians (or historians or doctors) within that cohort, then you're going to need different tools.
We need a cooling technology that doesn’t emit hot air to the environment to prevent urban heat bubbles.

https://nuscool.com/our-technologies/ presents an interesting candidate: Membrane-based water capture followed by evaporative cooling. No chemicals, lower energy requirements and no emission of hot air. Produces potable water in the process.
As we inch closer and closer to the iPhone 13's possible reveal, it seems like the hype for the new Apple smartphone continues to grow.
https://www.mcdvoice.org/
"Points" means something like "elements". When you write

\x -> f (g x)

you are defining a function that explicitly specifies how each "point" `x` is to be mapped. When you write

f . g

you don't mention any point. You are abstracting away from the notion of point. That's why it's "point free".
On Konica-Minolta printers the password is almost always the same. My school IT admin explained that they're pretty much always rented or "bought" with a mandatory support contract and the contractors get really annoyed when the admin password isn't the default one, since it's supposed to be "their" password.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you handle 2FA and companies that require a phone number(eg. my bank)?

Do you have to constantly cycle through numbers, do you have a VOIP number?
So I suppose your solution is for people to just die of cold in the winter, and from the heat in summer?
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As covid-19 has been shown to spread through animals, fingerpointing the blame for mutations at unvaccinated people is a farce and preventing them is an unachievable pipe dream.
> Chat is all about what happened recently and not about what happened weeks/months ago.

While I agree in principle that email should be used for things that are not ephemeral, chat is used for a lot of things where history becomes important like

- A command a coworker pinged you which has some special flags for a build

- A doc that was shared with you
Thanks for that comment, looks like a really interesting project, I'll read more about it!
I came here to hahaha at the same thing
Might you share your (approximate) location, to give us some context?
> Excuses are made and explanations are given as to why in this particular case an exception needs to be made to the “Code is Law” promise

I really wonder what Ethereum investors think of this. A "precedent" was made. Crypto has yet to come to the real test with governments, courts and the physical laws of humans. With Bitcoin, it can be stipulated that changing the network is impossible or unheard of; but that's not the case for Ethereum.

It doesn't help, also, that the network is being "processed" by a few elites (or pools of wealth) that could be, potentially, identified and made to obey the "government/s".

This is not the case of Bitcoin where the introduction of KYC for mining will require a hard-fork. Bitcoin (the core chain) has never undertook a hard-fork (which is why a lot of Bitcoin forks are out there).
"The person who fiddles with our stuff on AWS"

I've held multiple titles doing this. Titles doesn't matter, because nobody respects what the titles implies.
I think you are mistaken about Ethereum being classified as a security. This is just a quick Google search for the first result but:

> On Thursday, June 14, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Director of Corporate Finance, William Hinman (Hinman), announced that the commission would not be treating Ether or Bitcoin as securities. The SEC’s announcement is in line with the recent comments of SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, who recently noted the difference between cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, saying that cryptocurrencies as “replacements for sovereign currencies” were not securities, while digital assets revolving around a venture are often securities.

https://cassels.com/insights/sec-declares-bitcoin-and-ether-....

Maybe you meant to say that it just escaped being classified as a security, but as far as I can tell it's a commodity at present.
Thanks for pulling those out. I enjoyed them. It does remind me that even before AI we had this kind of tortured phrases just in product descriptions of, for example, Chinese products. Like as a child I had been given a clone Rubik's cube labelled the Turrible Tetrahedron.
WebGL is only good for shader toy, ecommerce and Flash like games from 10 years ago.

I wouldn't bet on a technology stack frozen in 2012 hardware capabilities, where I cannot be certain if the users can use my 3D renderings at all if they are misfortune enough to be on a mix of hardware, OS or GPGPU whose browser decided the best thing to do for user's safety was to switch to 3D software rendering.
> I can say that Singapore is one of the milder places to live. It never ever gets particularly hot

Singapore is almost exactly on the equator. UV readings get up to 11 each day (extreme), whereas the most I ever saw in say SF was 5.

Your experience is one experience, mine is that it's a sauna every day of the year. I've experienced extremely hot days in terms of subjective experience of WBT as explained in article. My gf, a local here, also decries the heat. I personally cannot go running before 5:30pm. I got a major sunburn on my back at 5:30pm the time I tried running shirtless at east coast park. Granted, I am pale.
Even the newer ones aren't that new - Rust, Go, Kotlin, Julia are over 10 years old at this point. TypeScript is 8.
The default, if I'm reading the article correctly, is to not disappear messages. What's new is the ability to disappear messages by default for all conversations, instead of having to remember to set it for each conversation.

For some people (e.g. journalists) this is exactly what they need, because forgetting to set disappearing before sending a message could be problematic, and I'm glad they added this feature for that use case.
None of the cryptos are sound money ("money not liable to sudden appreciation or depreciation in value") except stablecoins on Ethereum. Bitcoin can easily lose 80% of its value in a month and no one would be surprised. Bitcoin is the biggest speculative bubble of all time. It absolutely has no utility (imagine if Bitcoin disappeared now - what would the world lose?).

The actual real exciting stuff regarding the cryptos is here: https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/
Well, then you don't got into the settings and configure a default disappearance timer, as the blog post describes. If you don't want to use this feature, don't use it
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@coverbuild is literally attempting to be the Apple of homebuilding. They are making quick progress with modern prefab modular homes, starting in LA. I have no affiliation just an appreciation for efficiency and repairability/sustainability.

https://twitter.com/alexisxrivas/status/1423400137091518466
Tezos for example has the problem of missing liquidity. So they voted for protocol level liquidity called liquidity baking. A little bit of inflation is used to incentivise liquidity providing. It's an experiment but it shows the power of governance. See https://liquidity-baking.com/ for current liquidity.

For sure it will always be voted on something that is good for the chain or for the token. When its good publicity for a chain to vote for charity-baking you could solve human problems.
An internet forum isn't a math journal. You're leaving out the possibility, and the necessity, of relating to other people. Perhaps this thread would help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27162386.
Have you considered using a fan instead? Nights of 25c are completely bearable with a fan.
Anything is fixable in that regard e.g by having subsidies for adding insulation first, planting trees. The trees that give shade in 2050 should be planted now.
It is hard for WebGL to pick up, when the tooling is even worse than OpenGL for 3D debugging (use the native ones they say), and you are at the mercy of the browser to choose between software and hardware rendering depending on the client's hardware setup.
I see nothing today?
as the app is open source, isn't it easy for someone to just create a fork that causes the messages to not disappear on the receiver end without the sender having any idea?

I'd think a better idea would simply be to accept this as reality, and have a config entry or utility that lets you batch delete messages marked "ephemeral" (or better in this context, "unimportant").
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Show HN: Bagua - Efficient Distributed Deep Learning for PyTorch Written in Rust
> machine learning

Did you mean apparatus scholarship?
To be honest, I’m pretty familiar with the top VPN providers and I’ve never heard of ExpressVPN. When I Google it, I immediately receive so many explicit ads for your service and a bunch of obviously promoted blog posts comparing garbage VPNs to your service. Creating a VPN protocol from scratch is ambitious and going to take some pretty heavy hitters to join and contribute to this protocol to gain trust in a pretty guarded community.. maybe that isn’t your intended customer though.

You say WireGuard was designed “for a different use case”.. that’s an extremely cryptic (buh dum tiss) thing to say. Do you seriously envision Mullvad or other VPN service providers adopting your protocol? At face value, I will conjecture and come from pessimistic point-of-view: this more of a niche feature of your product, appealing to a type of techy mindset where shiny new tools are somehow better.. which is playing with fire when it comes to encryption for privacy..

For anyone reading this, don’t listen to anyone here. Just go to https://privacytools.io and use those providers.

I would love to see Lightcore and ExpressVPN listed on that site someday.. good luck
There used to be an API you could use to create & manage advertising campaigns. This no longer exists.
Snapchat has this, it is cozy.

It's a simple swipe on the message, and either party can unsave it. Of course my ex-girlfriend just saved everything.

Snapchat's UX is (was?) really incredible for privacy, and did a great job of mimicking the IRL experience, they just didn't bother with E2EE unfortunately.
The thing is - I really like counterfeit consciousness in some contexts - where the AI is being used deceptively.
There are 100 years of uranium reserves available. Nobody is looking for more. If they were, they're probably going to find it.

Exploration programs are expensive.
Do you have a screenshot or a sexpr I can eval to produce the red squiggles in my Emacs?
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I wonder how much of this demand is because people don't use fans anymore. I find many situations where people turn on the AC could easily be solved with a fan. But few people own fans anymore, and they're not sexy or profitable products to sell either.
Oh, I see. The other exchanges were much worse so BitMEX couldn't be shadiest and scummiest around. I stand corrected.
rather than go through the headaches of installing irix 6.5 in an emulator, allow me to demonstrate the actual headaches of irix 6 on indy with this exciting textual simulation: (messages are recreated from memory, and may not be perfectly accurate, imagine logging in for the first time after a fresh installation)

indy% ls<enter>

objectserver exited with signal 11 (core dumped)

...
...
<enter>
... (20s)
...
<CTRL-C>
...
<enter>
...
... (30s)
<enter> ... <enter> ... <power off> ... <power on>

bum buh dum dum, tsh!

...in truth though, the indy was one of my favorite workstations (possibly edging out the next). i was lucky enough to first encounter an indy when i was an intern in the 90s. later after i was hired full-time i had an indy on my desk. software i worked on shipped to all indy and challenge owners on physical CDs as part of sgi's webforce suite! :)
> [1] I know Telegram has a bad rep due to their home cooked crypto and maybe other stuff, but I like the app, I vaguely trust the author, and it works fine for me.

Is that because you assume the NSA aren't reading all your messages or you don't mind if they are? Because the whole problem with dodgy crypto is that it still seems to "work fine for me" even when it isn't.
Which transform are you using?
A lot of math has a practical motivation and some people learn better if they are acquainted with it.

I would consider it hostile to your students if you were a maths teacher and withheld practical applications from your students on purpose.
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Yes exactly. Do a bitwise AND / OR, and count the number of bits that are set. From this count, you can estimate the number of entries in the set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Approximating_the...

HyperLogLog (and variants) can do the union part as well, and need much less space than Bloom filters thought. For large sets, that is. For cardinality smaller than e.g. 100, Bloom filters are better.
> I think it's fair that if you've purchased specialized mining equipment, you expect the ROI you were promised. Doesn't seem strange.

* It uses GPUs.

* ROI in terms of ethereum is basically irrelevant. Real ROI depends on the bouncy crazy chart.

* Was there not enough warning before the changes?
> especially in poor tropical countries that don't have a stable infrastructure to cool most people during such a heatwave

Like California? They already can’t keep the lights on with rolling blackouts happening every year. If one of those blackouts happens during a severe heatwave, it could be serious. Not to mention the serious economic cost of having a third-world quality grid in what should be one of the union’s most prosperous states.
Show HN: I built an open source CMS called Berowra: https://berowra.xyz
Hi friends! I've always found CMSs a challenge in the past, whether hosting them was painful or they cost a ton. No fun :( I wanted to make a CMS that was a little more fun and that you could use for a couple of minutes and then have the job done :D So I built Berowra: https://berowra.xyz (named after my grandparent's home town).

First up, I built Berowra on Deta Space. The CMS will run in your own sandboxed 'personal cloud' in Deta Space, without the need for maintenance by yourself, for free (the best part IMO). You can directly view & access the data Berowra stores through Space, which gives you a nice look into how it all works. I think that hosting Berowra on Deta Space strikes a nice balance between the benefits of a self hosted CMS and a hosted CMS, which I'm reallly happy with. I used Flask & Python to build the backend and then plain old HTML with some Tailwind tossed in for the frontend :D

Here are the key parts of Berowra:

- Content is stored in collections to keep things nice and organised
- Seven different data formats available: string, date, number, markdown, colour, string array and files!
- File hosting for images, videos and more
- A well documented API that is organised and supports filtering

I've open sourced Berowra at https://github.com/sampoder/berowra and would love to hear what you think about Berowra! This is probably this biggest programming project of mine, it's been a journey for sure!

Thank you :)
Oh damn it. Now everyone knows, and my secret plan of getting rich from investing into AC / heat pump vendors is blasted.

More seriously, yes, demand for ACs will grow. My wife and I have long ago agreed that we'll be installing a proper AC system in the place we're planning to move to in the next year. This summer, we're on a rental, but after the first summer heat wave I decided to buy a portable unit[0]. It's been life saving.

AC is no longer a luxury item. Not with what's coming for us in the next years. Not by 2050 - by 2025. The summers won't get any easier. At this rate, by 2050, air conditioning will be a first-need survival item.

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[0] - In particular, one of the few portable units that support multiple ducts, allowing it to be put on a balcony to reduce noise, and create separate supply/return and intake/exhaust air flows so that there's no pressure drop inside the apartment. Such unit is almost as efficient as a traditional, "fixed" air conditioner. Most portable units unfortunately suck (and not just air).
I've got a Powershot and the problem I find, compared with my phone, is the time it takes from "oh there's something" to actually being able to take a photo - for my phone, it's maybe 2-3s (if the Camera app isn't already open; more like 1-2s if it is.) For the Powershot, it's always 10s+.
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Interesting, this is similar
(and much more thoroughly researched lol) to an idea I've had myself. It runs a dessicant dehumidification process along with an evaporative cooler. I wanted to try a more DIY version of this by using a dehumidifier to pump water into an evaporative cooler. I live in a dry area though so I'm never in need of dehumidifcation myself shrug.
spinbot Tortured Phrases -> "tormented expressions"
There is a HN user called "whoisbuilding" who makes a post like this every months. These are the posts in the last two months:

* Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27748680

* Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (August 2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28036070

Hopefully, that helps.
>This is your problem, right here.

Nah. There's no problem here. This is the most common behavior in any place corporate or not. Humans resist change. However specifically for corporations, it is very very very rare for a company to allow a rewrite because of two reasons: First the company is often way to busy with creating features and solving problems then to do a code rewrite. Second it is in direct conflict with the bottom line. Business people don't see the necessity so there is huge resistance.

When a company allows a rewrite it's 99% of the time only to serve a new feature or fix a flaw that no longer can be ignored.

>Premature modularity is a poor man’s substitute for simple-then-refactor.

Do you have any evidence to back up your claim or is this just your opinion? Using words like "poor mans substitute" doesn't lend any credibility to your claim. For example I can say the opposite and we can go in circles forever: Writing unmodular code is a garbage technique only done by junior developers who can't abstract things and by a good number of senior developers who've never learned how to code properly in a modular way. These guys don't even understand the true meaning of a module.

See what I did there?
If nearly half the text is bolded, what’s the purpose of the boldface? I feel like there’s a 51% font attack brewing within the article.

Regarding the content, the class allegory itself can go the other way as well: the core developers can be thought of as the workers, the miners are the owners of means of production etc.

The one point that’s relevant is the rule-making: the DAO hack hard fork has proven that Ethereum’s boasts of decentralization are dubious at best.
I definitely used Snow Leopard, it was released in 2009.

This was a problem in Snow Leopard and probably the two next releases as well: I always upgraded as soon as possible.
> Maybe you meant to say that it just escaped being classified as a security, but as far as I can tell it's a commodity at present.

Indeed it is today considered a commodity. This is broadly what I was getting at, yes.

I encourage you to review the Howey test however as it is the framework ordinarily used for making this determination. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp
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That is somewhere between 3 and 4.
This crisis may be of a more spiritual nature than is evident on the surface.

How much is enough, when is enough enough, what is my purpose for existing, how can I be of service while not being taken advantaged of, and without unreasonable demands?

There being an energy imbalance in the world comes from somewhere. It could not have come, at least not so fast, without an imbalance in the human psyche for the last couple of hundred years.

There is a need for reckoning, though it needs to start from within.
It's a lot of money but it's a matter of perspective and situation whether it's prohibitive. If energy/emissions are more expensive, the upgrade would pay for itself sooner rather than later; other countries have generous financing aids; you buy a house assuming that there'll be expenses like that in the upcoming decades (and planning the money correspondingly), ...
Oh, another tidbit of understanding has to do with the size of the battery. Volume grows with the cube but surface area grows with the square. Therefore, a smaller battery would be easier to cool or may not need any cooling. A larger battery would need it. An EV car battery is a magnitudes larger than your cell phone battery.

It is supposedly why elephants have big ears. Cooling.
Majority should decide. Majority decided. Majority will decide. I completely agree with this.