skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Actually there is legitimate value in saying that all parties should receive the same punishment.

I'd say that parties--when proven guilty--should receive similar punitive action relative to the scope of the issue.

But I don't see it as "HSBC got off lightly, so everyone else should too." I see it as "The DOJ dropped the ball with HSBC, and there should have been company-breaking fines/sanctions and those who knowingly assisted the cartels should do real prison time for money laundering and associated RICO charges.

That should be the standard, not "oh gee, HSBC got a slap on the wrist so no one should have to take responsibility for actions supporting global narco-traffickers (whether or not such drugs should be legal is another discussion) and state sponsors of terrorism.

If a case is handled inappropriately, the solution isn't to handle all similar cases inappropriately -- the solution is to do it correctly the next time and the time after that and the time after that, etc.

Being a chartered bank (or any corporation) is a privilege that can and should be revoked if those privileges are abused as HSBC did.

Or are you standing up for the banking system being allowed to knowingly profit from the death, murder and misery of other people?

The irony of HSBC's origins as the funder the opium trade in China isn't lost on me. But that was ~150 years ago and times have changed.
>Will anything ever persuade us to stop?

Improvements in society, job prospects, meaning of life, and community?

(In other words, don't hold your breath)
I also don't understand the difference. Some cost a few 0,1% less, some more. When you try to compare they differ in many tiny things like paying for professional tooth cleaning once a year or paying for a a certain periodic checkup or not etc. Hard to do objective comparison without much work and exacly knowing what you need. I'm still in the one my father decided for the family when I was a kid xD
ah it is one of those projects that everyone gets excited about, but it dies out due to impractialities and economical factors
Yeah, it reads a bit like "We are all sick! Just ask hypochondriacs!"
It was extremely popular! There was an endless supply of VB6 bas files that you could cobble together your own progz with, so the bar of entry was pretty low. Hell, I had the AOL 3.0 client with admin tools installed (star tool, and rainman?) when I was like 14? You could dig around staff pages and see warez uploaded to random hijacked keywords.

It's amusing to think back at how hilariously insecure the entire platform was. Really crazy in retrospect. I made so many friends then, don't know what you have until it's gone.
If a lot of people are shitty in the same way we can try to find out what causes that and fix it.

There's a reason "you're not a real women" isn't an insult, but "you're not a real man" is. There's a reason men live 3-10% shorter than women and commit suicide several times more often (in my country 8 times more often). And there's a reason divorce law is absurdly sexist.

This is not to say "women are evil", there's no secret conspiracy to reinforce the gender roles, no "matriarchy" nor "patriarchy" keeping the status quo. It's simply people repeating what they were taught about life to their children because "that's the way it should be".

So the fix isn't to "find better spouses", the fix is to make people better human beings and live the way they want.
But what about noise ? Is it really accurate in a real world environment ?
Chose those with a panicked look in there eyes, who want to limit scope when asked and ask ahead of how "last years projects went".

Ask who is willing to do documentation, do not chose anyone volunteering for that.
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Yeah, back when I was using Windows, I had RAlt mapped to Compose with WinCompose, and RAlt would get stuck occasionally when the system was under significant load, so I’d need to manually disable WinCompose, tap RAlt to clear its spurious down state, and then enable WinCompose again.
Quitting to build a startup is not really considered losing a job. It's like taking a new one on loan.
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iPhone 13: viewport, screen size, CSS pixel ratio, cross-browser compatibility
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/wiki/Open-Book...

you should have a late night design session anyway. it sounds fun
Go for a walk along the canal...

I enjoyed working in Kings Cross for a year or so, but it is a slightly odd place. There are some nice small pubs and restaurants etc (better than the ones near Old Street, though less numerous) and loads of great concerts at Kings Place. The whole railway lands development area is weird but if you avoid that then it's quite good.
Yes plastic and gold teeth cost extra if you insist on it for example. There are certainly also problems with special fee medicaments that doctors subscribe because they get a nice business trip to Hawaii in exchange. Not perfect. But still you get basic needs covered in everything, even if it needs brain tumor treatment by Heidelbergs particle accelerator or similar expensive stuff if your doctor sees it as required. And you might pay extra 20€ for extra breakfast or so.

At least it's not going to bankrupt you unexpetedly
my gear has toslink as well
Sorry, but this seems too strange to be true. Are you sure you didn't miss anything?

Particularly strange since moving train (i.e. vehicle) is about the most common way doppler effect is explained in textbooks- it's not like you need any big "eureka" moment to get to this solution either.
This makes me a bit nervous for the participants though.

If I send you a private message, the message is encrypted along that private channel - but it's also stored permanently on the blockchain unless I'm mistaken.

For something like WhatsApp or Signal any possible future technology is not a concern - as long as our encrypted channel is secure right now that's good enough for what we need (TLS is similarly fine if it's fine right now). With this design, private conversations will be held encrypted forever in the chain, waiting for a day when the encryption is either broken or vulnerable to brute force (e.g. by a future quantum processor).

I realise this sounds incredibly paranoid, but with Google's Sycamore and whatever else is being cooked up in other labs, we know the tech is coming eventually. The only question mark is really over the time horizon of getting there.

We assume that a functionally useful implementation of Shor's algorithm for breaking RSA cryptography is beyond reach in the near term, but that's only an assumption, and ignores the possibility that an orders-of-magnitude-better classical or quantum algorithm for factorisation remains undiscovered.
Not the previous poster, but probably the best meal I ever had was in Ísafjörður, a small fishing village in the north of Iceland. A wife-and-husband team does the cooking, their son is the server. It serves traditional Icelandic fish dishes in an unassuming old wooden hut (previously used to store manure, or so they told me) on long tables/benches. Everything about it looks about as unpretentious and plain as you can imagine, but it's amazing if you enjoy fish.
Electric air taxis to make their debut in Brazil’s most congested city
I was a little kid in the 70s, and it would be hard to overstate what a big deal Mister Rogers was to kids between the ages of about 4 to 8. I had a relatively happy childhood, and even I practically thought of him as an additional parent. His goodbye message to the kids who grew up with him is touching: https://youtu.be/kFVPkn37iFM
Eweber.
IMHO it’s a shame that Lightning didn’t become the standard connector for USBC. There’s a reason for that: socket fragility.

The socket is the most expensive part of the connection and when it breaks, it’s bad news. If you’re lucky and the bean counters didn’t overrule engineering over a microcent saving, the socket is on a daughter card otherwise you’re stuck with a one-port-down device, or an expensive motherboard replacement.

Instead, the Lightning connector is as stupid as it gets, worst issue is pocket lint you can easily remove with a toothpick
... what if you could "follow" a moderation source, the same way you choose to follow user, or a group of users? (Disclaimer: I do not know much about how scuttlebutt in particular handles any of this.) This would have the curious effect of separating the moderation from the platform; several moderators with varying opinions could make their own decisions, and the sum of the opinions you as a user have subscribed to determines the relative "trust" for a piece of content. Maybe you could choose moderators that align with your personal biases, or seek out those that more aggressively combat something you find annoying or offensive? But you could also switch those out on a whim, if your trust for that particular admin changed over time. Like, you aren't stuck with their decisions, you're just leaning on them to help you make yours.
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I would have said in hindsight it was not the best time to get pregnant or that your wife could do a side business too but YMMV :)
What is considered a true Social Learning EdTech Site?
Usually the scam is just a pure pump & dump with no sophistication: Trader A sends 50,000 an alert that small-cap XYZ is going through the roof, then XYZ really does go through the roof because a large subset of 50,000 people buy it at the same time.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover but, as a system of finding good stuff to read, it sure beats reading reviews.

Almost every book on amazon has endless 4/5 star reviews, obviously written by professional writers.

It's likely no coincidence that a lot of best-selling books (in the UK, at least) are now authored by people a who are already famous for something other than writing.
So you acknowledge that there are markets for the drugs "deadly poison" as you call them.

So would not the better solution be to regulate and tax the markets? To allow legitimate business to operate in the markets, leading to better, more consistent and safer products for consumers of those products and eliminate the black market and the criminal actors that operate in the shadows.

The war on drugs has been a complete and abject failure from every angle one could objectively look at it, unless you're goals are to have overly militarized police forces that consistently violate peoples rights and brutalize and imprison non-violent people. Current policies have turned patrol officers into thugs that rob innocent people (e.g. Civil Asset Forfeiture), that use fabricated pre-textual traffic stops and unreliable and/or faked drug dog "signals" to violate peoples right against unlawful searches.
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I don’t remember if the paper lists it among its limitations but it’s worth noting there is a pretty sharp continuity in Billboard’s methodology around 1991 (they didn’t really include any rap before that) that will warp this kind of analysis if you don’t control for it. This is sort of known among musicologists of pop music and often glossed over by this kind of research
Since you mention India, would you consider curry to be a kind of soup? I believe the relationship is similar to that of burgers and sandwiches.

A curry is "just" a soup with spices. But if you walked into a restaurant and ordered "soup of the day" and got a vindaloo, you might feel deceived. If the waiter assured you that a vindaloo is ontologically a soup, I doubt that would be much consolation.

Sometimes in language, if you use a general term (A), when a more specific term exists (B subset A), then using that general term A carries the meaning A\B, because if you had meant B you would have said B instead.
"...drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated"

Isn't that kind of the ultimate point of an "autopilot"?

It's a misnomer and I'm still unclear just how useful one is which isn't developed enough to let you achieve that.
I highly recommend Cercle channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96MGcsi7GQ
Great view, nice music.
> but perhaps does not because lightning's connector has preferable RF sensitivity profile

... or because Lightning has a commercial "preferable profile" - it's another form of lock-in, and at the hardware level no less; such an extremely desirable feature, from a commercial perspective, is very, very hard to give up. It would open the door to a world where phone accessories are effectively universal, and surely we can't have that.
You can takes lines of reasoning like theirs very, very far and reach what and reach what Einstein called "Spinoza's God" -- a God indistinguishable from or identical to nature (or a God of whom nature is a part). At some point you do have to abandon human-like motives for the "why" and replace them with the laws of nature (chance has no place in the traditional forms of this system of belief, hence "God does not play dice").

A lot of big-name European thinkers in the 19th century (Goethe to name one stand-out example) found Spinozism an appealing compromise between traditional atheism and theism.
(and already with a Pi4, those resource-hungry plugins are no problem anymore)
Great to see a newsletter signup. Email subscriptions are absolutely my favourite way of controllably staying in touch with the internet.

Unfortunately the signup form is broken!
Jason Calacanis has an interview tonight with the founder of the Frame Work laptop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVZhCTx6Tc&t=34s (starts 13 minutes in)

I checked out the site and found one problem with it. I had no way of knowing both the screen resolution and whether the hard drive it ships is SSD or not.

It is a very intriguing idea though.
Any (non binding) ETA? :)
Because natural selection doesn't optimize for longevity.
Scotland has some of the best beef in Europe.
I don't really know what you mean, those are just facts, among many that exist whether I read about them or not. And American politics is fascinating to me, so I enjoy it.

American democracy is not out of the woods just because Bidden won, he has a healthy popular vote majority, but wafer thin control of the Senate. The two Democrat senators currently blocking reforms are from Republican leaning states so they're motivations are not typical for straight Democrats. Things very much hang in the balance at the moment. Republicans are busy gerrymandering their districts, so we could soon be back to Republican control of the House despite solid popular vote majorities for Democrats, at which point we can probably kiss goodbye to the US leading the world against climate change regardless of who's president.

Can I assume, that you don't know any of this because you enjoy "turning off your computer"? Then why comment about something you deliberately avoid learning about?
Wow. Figure 1 tells it all -- and highlights how unstable CNNs can be. I can't help but think that in a "real" environment a more traditional facial recognition algo would also be used simultaneously, for example measuring landmark distances, which would be likely to give a high probability of a match.
So did you check if the simple solution outperfomed it?

In the real world there's often more noise and variance and additionally, part of the benefit of using those techniques is that you can arrive at solutions that are about as good without being an expert in every single thing.

I'm sympathetic as this is a showcase and if their general method performed as well it does show it can learn the data well for other comparable problems without easy solutions. I know I often test my models on verifiable problems as a sanity check..
It's very easy to "make it work" while fencing with compiler warnings by just copying things around instead of developing a clear sense of memory ownership. I've seen myself fall into this trap. The upside, coming from C, is that you don't have terrible memory safety issues. The downside is that you have the same data copied all over the place and (accidentally) allocate like a mad man. Managed memory is not inherently bad or good.
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Over the years I did move the stand-off screws but didn't need to make new holes, plenty of holes were already there. I changed the power supply many times but it always fit, I think it's standard... Fans are on the mother board, there are no fan mounts directly on the case?
> Fractally wrong people are often immune to the stopped clock rule because they are not exactly stopped clocks. More like clocks losing a random number of seconds a day, in the wrong time zone of the wrong planet, in the wrong solar system.

That's a wonderful definition.
It is accurate description of group projects in school.

Real teamwork on the job does not work that way, unless management sux. When management checks out and stops managing/leading, it can descent there too.
Hey dang, I always find these mentions to past threads particularly useful.

Should it become a small feature to add to HN? Perhaps a sticky comment on top of the others?
Not just early thrash metal, I have a fondness of early hardcore punk like Minor Threat, early Raised Fist EPs etc

I think I find the raw energy just more credible than the hyper produced new stuff.

Also in that vein, oftentimes when I discover bands I slowly gravitate towards their older releases. Not always, but really most of the time
Except that's not how this tool works. It only does a single pass over the modified blocks as far as I can tell.[1][2]

[1] https://github.com/benjojo/hot-clone/blob/6a019efe28bdbbeeb1...

[2] https://github.com/benjojo/hot-clone/blob/6a019efe28bdbbeeb1...
Should 'everyone' incl. the cousin Ray be on one single platform?

Platform size matters here, Because when 40% of the population of a under-developed country are one social platform and use as a gateway for Internet it becomes a viable genocide aiding tool, Because when 70% of the population of a developed country use one platform it becomes a viable election interference tool.

When a private entity has accumulated such power, then it goes against the ethos of democracy.

People made noise about FB being used to commit genocide and it is now proactively blocking friend lists in countries where there could be targeted violence, Agencies investigated FB's role in election interference and now it's taking proactive approach to vet political ads.

Constant vigil over such powerful private entities and calling it out is the last option left to defend the well-being of the society at large.
You dont want to live in the UK because the media obsession with the Royal Family?! That's hardly in the same category as the GP's concerns.
Oh, this is interesting.

So in theory one could create a web app client over this, and allow people to host their own client instances (locally, on their laptop) or to provide semi-centralised nodes.

Why? Because this would overcome the limitations of Scuttlebutt for storage and syncing on mobile devices... yet the underlying data is decentralised and individuals could always avoid the website and access their data directly.

But really why? Well the UK is busy legislating the "Online Safety Bill" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safe... and I run large community websites with user generated content. The proposals place a large burden and liability on me as a UK entity involved in facilitating people talking... it's designed to address Facebook and Twitter, etc but it does not have a threshold and the Gov argument is that it should apply to every piece of user generated content that isn't a review on a product.

I have no intention of accepting the liability involved (the paperwork is fine, the liability is not fine). Instead I am planning to solve this with tech and am looking at options - which I'll select from if the bill passes in it's current form.

Specifically I'm looking to decentralise and distribute, to encrypt and avoid any central ownership or authority... to disempower myself but to enable the community. But I don't want to do this in a way that enables someone else to exert control over the communities, I'm proudest most that I wasn't a dictator so have no intention of creating one in my absence.

The thought of a decentralised and unstoppable backend is very attractive.
I'm really interested what you mean by middle-gray color palette. Do you use one of the downloadable color schemes or do you fine-tune it yourself?

Usually i find the default/light options too bright and the dark options too dark.
nice. i had a quick scan through the docs but couldn't see what OS it runs. maybe it's just something basic? i would love to get syncthing installed on something like this so i could just manage books/articles on my laptop or phone and have them sync across to the reader.
i have a boox ereader which is running android so its easy to get syncthing running on that through the app store.

i have a hackernews app installed as well which is great, but I'm thinking it would be nicer to have a second ereader just for books, something that is quicker to boot up, and remembers the last thing you were reading etc
You could also let Tom the traindriver sit there and have him guesstimate the speed.
Yes, NextJS does the same. After re-reading my comment, I don't think I was clear: our reasons for moving to NextJS were the two mentioned, not because it was less complicated than our Webpack config from 7 years ago. It's not less complicated, it's different. NextJS does some weird things under the hood to make it seamless (like CRA does) but it can make things even more complicated to go with nonstandard Webpack rules or Babel presets/plugins. Overall, I think any JS application written in this day and age is going to be a tooling nightmare--NextJS included. In our case, it's not bad enough to force us away from JS (or TypeScript) yet.
>Memory usage was going to be fiddly no matter what they built with.

That is true. I do find however the explicitness of the Rust way of dealing with memory, whether it be lifetimes, who can and can't mutate it and who the memory belongs to, makes it much easier to reason about the right way of doing these things.

In C++ the same is often possible, but there is no way to have guarantees at the interfaces. Const is a promise that your function won't mutate something, it doesn't put any restrictions on the caller. Pass by reference doesn't guarantee that the reference will be kept alive.

Go (I guess with no experience there) probably has fewer footguns, but how explicit is memory management?
I self host a couple of services via VPS’s from different providers. I’ve had one that every now and then just drops offline and I’ve never been able to figure out why. Checking old logs never revealed anything out of the ordinary. It just drops packets and then rights itself after some indeterminate length of time. I never once thought about looking for a resource monitoring tool that recorded data - even though I use the logs every time it happened.

Thanks for the heads up about this tool!
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The animation at 16:30 is beautifully designed.
Not only greenfield, but the problem domain is much better understood. A lot of architecture choices are made in the early days of a project when the problem isn't sufficiently understood to make the choice correctly.

I'm a huge fan of writing the first version of anything as an problem-exploration prototype, intended to be discarded and rewritten. As Fred Brooks said, "you're going to rewrite anyway, you might as well plan for it" [0]

[0] paraphrased from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks "The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. […] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."