skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So they can get a warrant to come into your house while you're not home and put a keylogger in your keyboard USB cable, or put a bug on the UART of your router, etc. Or just hacking your cheap Netgear router with one of the hundreds of vulnerabilities that exist.

That's actually not that weird.

If you are a suspected criminal and a judge give a warrant targeting you specifically, it's quite natural the police can now gather information on you by any mean possible.

It's not warrant-less, it's not mass surveillance, it sounds like regular police work. Or am I missing something?
No laws were broken, else they'd be in jail. It's how the big companies that HN worships get away with not paying taxes.

Morally dubious? For sure.
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What does that have to do with Switzerland? Credit Suisse is an international organization. When HSBC or Deutsche Bank are doing bad stuff that has little to do with the country where they have been originally established in.
Quiet, heretic! Who let this one in here to disrupt the omnicogitations of the vimniarchs!?
They are interfering plenty with non Chinese affairs.

Remember, saying Hong Kong or Taiwan as a caster at a video game competition organized by a US company will get you fired.

Or are we forgetting these incidents now?
How about for people who know what they are doing with time series?
This seems to pop from time to time, see my previous comment from nearly 3.5 months ago. Nothing has changed. No releases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27655998
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You can block these channels, you have to go to the channel page and click on the kebab menu (3 vertical dots). I've done it to many...
Spark is very very odd to tune. Like, it seems (from my limited experience) to have the problems common to distributed data processing (skew, it's almost always skew) but because it's lazy, people end up really confused as to what actually drives the performance problems.

That being said, Spark is literally the only (relatively) easy way to run distributed ML that's open source. The competitors are GPU's (if you have a GPU friendly problem) and running multiple Python processes across the network.

(I'm really hoping that people will now school me, and I'll discover a much better way in the comments).
They really do, and because of that they reach for over-engineered infrastructure solutions. I mean I get that you'd like to have some redundancy for your webserver and database, maybe some DDOS mitigation, off-site backup, etc, but you don't need an overblown microservices architecture for a low-traffic CRUD application. That just creates problems, instead of solving problems you WISH you had, and it's slower than starting simple.
Some parts of Marxism are incredibly strange. I advocate for land value taxes which is basically a big middle finger to land owners. Yet Marx will suggest people seize the "means of production" in this case the land. But there is a big reason why the evil white land owner had that land. He utilized it the most in the short term even if that means destroying it over the long term.

The reason why capitalism works so well for poor countries is that they have decades of growth ahead of them and capitalism forces growth at the cost of exploitation.
It's difficult yes. But for the right price, I can assist. Feel free to ping me.
My guess; Coinbase want their day in court to argue that Lend isn’t what the SEC thinks it is and this will allow them to build products with more leverage and complexity (and profit for Coinbase) in the future.
> Obviously instead we will continue driving full speed towards the edge of the cliff,

As of now, we're still increasing our speed. Global CO2 emissions go up every year.
Apple doesn’t even make computers or phones, they contract out for the manufacturing. Obviously they are never going to manufacture a car.

If they are talking to a company like Kia, it’s not to relabel an existing Kia family sedan. It’s to manufacture a custom Apple design. Whether or not Kia designs nice cars, they know how to manufacture them well (something Tesla is still struggling to figure out).

Who will be the Foxconn of cars? That’s what Apple needs to figure out if they want to bring a car to market.
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In just the past month, insiders at Coinbase dumped millions and millions of dollars of their stock in the company.

How many of them knew about the Wells Notice from the SEC before they sold, but before the news was public?

(Among the major sellers were not just the usual VC’s but also their General Counsel and their chief accountant.)

https://protos.com/coinbase-stock-250-million-in-one-month-s...
> First, the mechanic wanted to replace the fasteners, but he did not have any. He also did not speak English very well. Allegedly, the mechanic asked one of the boiler room personnel for new nuts and bolts, and was given permission to look through the boiler room's spare parts bins. He selected parts that he thought would work.

This makes it sound like the mechanic was out of his depth, if he didn't know about the importance of nut material in a high temperature application.

The subsequent failures in inspection are not excused, of course.
Many people here are not from the US. Why do you whatabout the US?

Maybe we want interference from neither country?
And truly I can’t imagine that they earn that kind of money with cars they earn with iPhones and Watches.

Cars are capital intensive products. Also they would need something that really distinguishes them from competitors! Can they compete with the heritage and engineering of say Mercedes-Benz?

Why would they be able to offer a better product? Taking into consideration that they lack dealer ships and service center.
Hong Kong and Taiwan for them are entirely internal affairs. Thus any comments on them are also internal affairs.
I like the minimap.

Pretty interesting to analyse which swing series lead to succesful winners judged by the data per player and player vs player.

Decent, I like it.
The inspiration [0] is written in C.

[0] https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
It is because this is Onivim version 2. The first version was based on VScode, which was not native.

You also didn't quote the important part. It should reads like this

> the quick and responsive feel of a native app, and the vast extension ecosystem of VS Code.

Essentially, you are in the market for onivim if

- You like vim

- You hate the sluggishness of VSCode

- Your workflow depends on specific VSCode extensions (may be because all your teammates use VSCode?)
Back in the day, moving your mouse made things look like they were processing faster.
I'm guessing the concept is more like stock lending fees. You short a stock by borrowing shares and selling the borrowed shares. You'd short USDC the same way, if you could borrow them.

The thing is that this really isn't an investment. An investment looks like this:

- You ask me for funding for a project. I give you funding, in cash or in kind, and I get (partial) ownership of the project. If it does OK, I get some money. If it does better than that, I get more money. If it does badly, I don't get much money.

A rental looks like this:

- I need a piano for 6 months. You have several pianos. You let me have one, and every month I can either give you $50 or return the piano.

Stock borrowing works that second way, except that instead of a piano, it's a share of AAPL. There is no project involved, but the share of AAPL lives in my house instead of your house, and every month you get $0.04.

Interest is also on that second model, so in that sense it's not different from interest. But neither is the piano rental.
That's the resource curse at play. I do want to believe that Sri Lanka was just a tiny bit more diversified than Venezuela.
first off, not all of them where inciting violence. you bunching them all up is part of the issue, the other being selective tos enforcement.

idk what else to say, keep standing and clapping.
Is the refresh time of e-ink display suitable for convenient terminal use? (I just skimmed the article.)

When reading an e-book, the page is typically refreshed 1-2 times per minute, while the typical CLI use is more fast-paced, not to mention TUI programs.
Talent shortage? Maybe it's your automated hiring system
What's so funny is - I was in a peer group of early btc founders who were starting random Bitcoin hustles and didn't care at all about laws. No one at that time had even approached the IoM about whether BTC was currency - nor would they have, because trying to find legal haven was the furthest thing from their minds. And so not surprisingly, the IoM didn't have a ready answer when I asked them whether gambling with Bitcoin was actually gambling. But the letter of the law was that gambling occurs _in the jurisdiction where_ the random chance takes place. So it really was different from hitting a local RNG, legally.

It added a nice little feature too, which was that every spin and deck could be stored on a separate server that would show them all at the end of the day. This was a little before "proven randomness" took off in btc casinos, but I made the RNG reports available daily for analysis (without explaining the whole infrastructure, obviously).

[edit] I just want to say that yes, you're obviously right, and yeah, I ran a casino from the IoM... without anyone knowing if that was okay or not... and it was just a moment in my life. of which I'm proud, I guess. I was living illegally in a small apartment in Alhama de Granada after violating my EU visa. hah. It was a great, great piece of software and I don't know if I'll ever write anything that good again. But it didn't really change my life or anything.
The critique is that the existence of the Big 5 itself is the result of misapplication of PCA for a task where a latent variable model would be required, the identification of personality traits.

To clarify, personality traits are "latent" in the sense that they are not directly observable in personality test scores, so any analysis of test scores that simply aggregates test scores is not capable of detecting personality traits. PCA simply aggregates data to reduce the dimensionality of the data but it can't detect latent variables.

Using PCA to detect personality traits is like using a thermometer to measure atmospheric pressure. What's worse, psychometrists seem to have taken the reading on the thermometer and proclaimed "Atmostperhic pressure is 25 [degrees Celsius]!".
This seems pointless. You can have a modern UI for neovim, they literally have a section on their github page showing you the alternatives. Pick Rust, not electron, and you won't have to do any funky config stuff.
Name changes should be refused or rolled back when the request ever so slightly smells like identity theft.
The first research paper focused on open-source vector database
This paper presents Milvus, a purpose-built data management system to efficiently manage large-scale vector data. It's accepted at SIGMOD 2021.
That doesn't mean there cannot be genetic variations on those attributes though. No two legionnaires had exactly the same size[1] but that didn't prevent building legions acting as a unit…

In fact, the whole purpose of the phalanx as a combat organization is to remove the weight of individual actions: you don't need “courage” (whatever that means[2]) to stand in a phalanx, because you're clumped up with every soldiers, and you have nowhere to flee (and btw those soldiers are your neighbors and relatives, so fleeing would destroy all your social life back home, putting an enormous social pressure on soldiers).

[1]: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
[2] https://acoup.blog/2021/02/05/collections-the-universal-warr...
It's really nice, and a great idea but the lack of basic thought on look and feel really puts me off.

I know probably some feel this is trivial and not as important somehow as the idea / execution but to me it's critical that something is beautiful as well as functional. In this particular instance, it isn't even anything terribly hard - just pushing some spacing around, font sizes, making sure there are consistencies between UI elements, etc.

Sorry to be That Guy.
I was thinking of the same, however when I look at large eink displays most of the time the vendor specifically cautions against using them in bright sunlight. Check waveshare etc.
I have been craving an e-ink laptop with a low voltage RISC processor for twenty years. It is impossible to open a normal laptop at night, after the kids have gone to bed, without becoming more awake than after a double espresso. I can't stare into a bright back lit screen at night. It often ends up with me sitting way to late up at night. At daytime, the often ridiculously bright back lit screen makes me unfocused and almost hypnotized.
Yeah the white ones also make the "paper" look darker:)
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If your money is worth less tomorrow you will spend it today.
If CPI inflation is really high, that means people will try to empty the shelves before prices have adjusted.

This is why moderate inflation around 2% is good because it stops hoarding of money and why inflation above 10% is destructive because people start hoarding goods.
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Interestingly, looking at the original thread on CC [1], most of the top comments on HN were quite positive:

> I'm looking forward to switching to Creative Cloud at work [...] Going CC-only makes sense for business.

> I love Adobe CC. I would consider it the first thing Adobe has done right in a long time.

> I've been using CC since it came out [...] it's fantastic [...] They've really turned around and made this pirate into a customer.

> I think it's a great move and will benefit independent designers and creators hugely.

> I think the subscription model is far superior.

A minority of users were frustrated and made flat-out incorrect predictions, as you mentioned:

> Adobe just priced themselves solidly out of the prosumer market.

> I wonder if Adobe abandoning traditional software licensing will spur new free software development.

> I hope antitrust regulators will look at Adobe with more scrutiny.

> Adobe is going to lose plenty of money and customers over this.

But again, these were by far the minority, even on HN. I would say that opposition to the subscription model has actually increased quite a bit since Adobe's announcement nearly a decade ago.

Internet history is fun!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663581
Platform designers have a lot of control over features that influence (nudge is the official word I suppose) user behavior. But lets not kid ourselves, in large part the social media activity reflects also the attitude of people who participate.

Open source and federated platforms like lemmy will not magically fix the problem( * ). But they come with two killer advantages: 1) They are open, transparent and evolvable, hence diverse people can work on solutions and 2) Don't have private data monetization as their defining business model which frees up potential to explore less antisocial possibilities.

These "big picture" aspects will take some time to play out in full. But if you have the time there is nothing preventing you from setting up an instance that would strike the right balance (pun) and create history :-)

( * ) What would a "fix" look like? well thats not a easy question to get consensus on, but a workable definition is that at least people do not behave worse than in real life (as in person-to-person contact if you remember what that is :-)
why cant you set up your own email server in under 5 minutes on a vps server you paid for with crypto and a domain name and call it a day? you own the server and a such, you are certain only you can see your side of the email. then do whatever shiny PGP or whatever and you are good to go. why is this a problem?
Can some here talk about Ulrich taking his place at Apple and possible link between Apple and Canoo?
There's no way Biden won the last election without manipulating mail in ballots. We all know big tech and the media helped Biden out big time.
Something people don't appreciate is at that temperature a jet of steam is invisible. When we think of steam we are often thinking of water vapour, really just tiny particles of water.
Sorry, I was just joking :-)

I find funny that they label modal editing, or vim compatibility, or whatever they want to achieve as a retro thing.
The History Guy has a good YouTube vid on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPuti-SL5o
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> Something which we might use twice every three months shouldn't be getting monthly payments from us.

Counter argument will probably be along the lines of "but we store your data even when you don't use it".

Anyway my local gym charges me monthly even if I go there only once a year.
How now somehow the hurricanes still happens, but they go in directions where those clouds are not, hitting parts of the world that can't afford them.
If you're a founder and your team quits then you might consider a job at USPS. It seems they're always hiring.
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As in, the interest you might earn on a savings account?

The rule is basically: "If you're giving someone else money in the hope of getting more money back later, it's a security UNLESS it fits into a list of exceptions, or if it meets the criteria to be added as a new exception."

So a savings account would absolutely be a security, unless it fits into one of the recognised exceptions. One of those exceptions is the existence of an "alternative regulatory regime", ie, there being some other framework, other than security laws, to protect people.

For a savings account, the fact that banks are federally regulated, and that deposits are federally insured via FDIC, means they don't count. But Coinbase's Lend program does not seem to be subject to any other regulatory regimes, so...

In fact, the very fact that they went to the SEC to tell them what they were up to and check if it was legal is a bit of a red flag. The SEC enforces security laws. The fact Coinbase couldn't go to the Federal Department of Enforcing Crypto Lending Regulations is a sign that this falls under security laws, because there is no stand alone Crypto Lending Regulations to enforce.
As I understand it, there doesn’t need to be a liquid market for something in order for it to be a security; just an investment of capital with the expectation of return through the efforts of a third party (the Howey test)
> The point of the book is largely that people within the same part of the world have widely varying outcomes, which, to a large degree, are explained by their IQ.

Except the data they use is not IQ (they are using AFQT Score because that's the available data) and they are artificially constructing an equivalent IQ. The original data doesn't even fit a bell curve (because there's no reason a given test should). For some reason, unjustified in the book, they assume that the AFQT score depends only from genetic factors and not from any kind of social determinism.
The fact that the book liberally jumps from AFQT score to IQ to “genetic factor” is an enormous issue which completely destroys the credibility of their work.

Also, in their book it is “to a large degree, explained by their IQ”, because they controlled for almost no social or environmental factors: only the “parental socioeconomic status” (also a made-up metric) is taken into account.
I agree, it's a waste of screen estate and focus estate, I can't see the benefit of a minimap. I usually use imenu in Emacs so any definition is 0.1s away with a keypress
I've had to do a 14 day quarantine in the UK at home, and frankly, it was a bit of a joke. Literally no one has ever checked we were actually at home, the amount of trust in the population is insane over here. We actually stayed at home the entire time, but I know people who didn't, they had to go to work to make a living and the fine was like a £100.

In contrast, in Poland if you are told to quarantine you will get occassional and random visits from the police to see if you are actually at home, and the fine for breaking the quarantine is insane, it's like 30k PLN(about $10k USD).
ECL is the devil. There's so little documentation on it, that you basically need to work for LNRS to actually get any experience with the damn thing.

If it had an SQL layer, I'd spend time evangelising it, but it's not worth learning another query language for.

There exists a world where it got open-sourced before Hadoop was built, and in that world it's probably everywhere.
The AI = no accidents: I can see it on rails and zero chance in the next 20y to have any AI that can drive in winter conditions, or even fog.

There is no way to build any 'minimal' frame for $1k with any material that's remotely lightweight. Heck, even the current battery technology is sort of low energy density. You get around 220Wh per kg (or 0.8MJ vs gasoline's 46MJ). A hundred kg would be 22kWh. With a lightweight body - 400kg (~900lbs) [price not withstanding], highly aerodynamic model on good asphalt - I'd say 250km (155miles in freedom units) is realistic - but then you need cooling system to charge them, unless you consider they can be hot-swapped (or willing to wait longer).

What you suggest is proper futuristic stuff taken from a sci-fi flick, none of it would happen anytime soon.
That's because the two things are not related or even comparable.

I do use OSS and I want open banking.

What I do not want is that lots of people lose money due to fraud or high volatility.
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> The phone check in thing is for enforcing the two weeks home quarantine for returned travelers and close contacts of confirmed cases.

So the government can effectively just inprison you in your own house, with no proof, no recourse and no due process, because they suspect you were near some guy at some particular time some days ago. They don't even ask to get tested first! How can people on hacker news of all places not see this as a massive threat to civil liberty is beyond me.
Hey, thanks for replying, your answer is excellent :)

Regarding the upright stance things, how do you see Alex the African Grey Parrot evolving towards becoming a spacefaring species without going towards an upright stance? He's smart, but he'll need to get smarter.

Regarding the upright stance thing, if you read again you'll notice that I qualified my assertion with "non-marine". Once we already ruled out the idea of marine organisms becoming spacefaring, there's no point arguing about things like whether giant squids can be spacefaring.

Naturally, I haven't answered your every point, because you made some valid points.