skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused and can see why GP was too, this seems to be splitting a very fine hair. But I am trying to read and understand your argument carefully. You reject the left hump theory, but responded by saying purple is triggered by red cone response - which is what the left hump does, assuming the hump exists and is significant.

I feel like this argument may be playing loose with terms, and deserves more clarification before announcing disagreement. What does “close” mean when you say red is close to purple, what exactly is “purple”? Violet (pure blue) is a type of purple, as you said, and red-blue mix is also a type of purple, but they aren’t the same. With the right mix, they might be metamers, so the effect of the hump can’t be ignored in the fact that some pure blues might be indistinguishable from some red-blue mixtures.

It’s true and I agree with you that seeing most “purple” colors involves seeing some red. But that doesn’t necessarily justify rejecting the left hump theory. You are seeing some red with a 50/50 mix of 400nm and 700nm light. If there’s a left hump, you are also seeing some red with a pure 420nm source. Our perception of blue, and what defines the words “purple” and “violet” to the average human observer includes the experience of seeing purple colors on the blue end of a rainbow, colors that feel similar to the colors on the red end of the rainbow. This fact seems to be at odds with your claim that the left hump of red has nothing at all to do with it, doesn’t it?

OTOH, maybe the hump doesn’t exist, and only your explanation is left. What is the source of the cone response function image you posted to Quora? The one on Wikipedia’s entry on cones doesn’t have a left hump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

Perhaps red being “close” to purple has to do with both of them being at the ends of the perceivable spectrum - both get dark further from green/center. Perhaps it has to do with all color space diagrams of saturated colors always showing blended mixture gradients between the primaries, and not limiting the visualization to mono-wavelength sources - maybe like the number zero and the idea of capitalism - you can’t ever unsee it once you’ve seen it. Perhaps red is not “closer” to purple in any more meaningful sense than any other color mixture of primaries is close to a primary - maybe this whole discussion is only surprise stemming from the discrepancy of graphing colors in two different ways - one is 1-dimensional and the other is 2-dimensional.
Julia is in the process of replacing many C and Fortran numerical libraries with pure Julia implementations, because they have similar performance.
This is a distinction without a difference.
What happens if you don't show up? Do you get a nasty email, or a talking to through zoom?
I don't see how HIP helps with authorization?
That was a rhetorical question really.

Although I think we do need trimmed down easy to use personal/home mailservers/dnsservers -- which are easy to deploy and configure and totally inappropriate for running a Fortune 500 company -- and those need to be incorporated into consumer electronic boxes (similar to a home NAS) to make them easy to deploy to dramatically drop the barrier to ditching gmail.

I've also never had an issue with sender reputation -- but I have an .org domain and its run DKIM+SPF for years so the last time I got forged bounce spam must have been a decade or more ago. Sender reputation is probably a bit overblown and possibly even a bit of a lie by google to keep you locked into gmail. If you are in a TLD that people have to trust and have a domain which is secured, then your e-mails will go through, even if your mail volume is low.

Spam filtering is a bit annoying though, DNS blackhole lists tend to shitcan quite a bit of necessary e-mail that some neckbeard has gotten themselves in a twist over.
What i hate is the way they use 2FA.
You can Register e.g. a yubikey or TOTP app and then your New password becomes
Short pin you generate + secondfactor all in the Passwort field together.
My gut says that random trades have the same expected value as the underlying asset, but increased variance. I'm not a finperson, so learning why this could be wrong would be a learning opportunity.
In my limited experience, I have seen lots of tech that doesn't work, or that is just some design mockups, marketed as a finished product, in particular in th AI space. I wouldn't call it fraud, so much as optimism or confidence, but there is definitely a dark side to this kind of practice.

If Theranos made an "AI" document analysis software that presently farmed out tasks to people behind the scenes because the tech didn't work yet, while simultaneously marketing it as AI, I dont think anyone would bat an eye.

The big difference I see is that this was in the medical space so it affects human health.
The people of Madagascar would probably contend both "when" and "if", but they don't have time to discuss climate change, they are busy trying to find food.

Closer home, in California, there are 3000+ families who don't need affordable heating anymore, their home burned down due to climate-change related wildfires just this year.
CIA, NSA, Mossad!!! Tinfoil hat mode engaged!
Of course they don't. If something goes wrong with a service you don't want the people paid to bring it back online to also be dependant on it being up.
So...drop 8.0.0.0/8 traffic and move on? Port scans happen all the time, some are malicious and others not.
If there's one thing I remember about the Galactic Empire it's how their lights are always arranged in some narrow pattern across random walls.

Circular lights on white walls are maybe close to Kamino if you squint enough, but that's about it.
Yes, a crossover trial design would be one way to address that. For example, various side effects have long been attributed to statins. This was tested in a trial published very recently in a placebo controlled crossover design, which found that the effect attributed to statins has probably been overestimated[1].

(They found no significant difference between placebo and statin; but, by eye, I would be willing to agree with a skeptic that it looks like there is probably a difference that is just too modest to identify at statistical significance at this sample size.)

I should add that the original article being discussed is making claims that would not require any crossover trial to identify. If lowering cholesterol doesn't cause numerically higher suicide or depression, then the author's point is invalidated.

1 = https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.07.022
>Julia libraries are still wrapping Fortran numerical library

You say that, but Julia is rapidly acquiring native numerical libraries that outperform OpenBLAS:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/realistically-how-close-is...
Let's sue the USA? It's name implies that the states are united, but Hawaii and Alaska are not adjacent to the other states.
oh come on. I'm not going to do your research for you. Read the original TPU design papers.
It would be interesting to give the hamster some level of observation of the market and reward based on performance.
> so I could drop the 0 to 60 time to possibly under 1.5 seconds due to lower weight. Should see a similar boost in handling performance.

If only this were the case. 2 seconds is pretty much the hard limit for a street car with the best tires you can get. Anything beyond that requires those giant funnycar tires that deform on acceleration to add grip. Or a rocket.

> Maybe, if "Everyone" had EVs, and I bought a second hand used car with a dead worn out battery, I would intentionally replace the giant 400 mile battery with a mere 40 mile battery just so I can gain incredible performance, AND the battery would be 90% cheaper than a full size battery, a win-win for me...

I think, as other commenters have mentioned in this thread, that having a lot of cells isn’t really negotiable. You need both voltage (cells wired in series) and amperage (cells wired in parallel) to push the car forward. If only it were so simple. The trade off with fewer cells is pretty much necessarily performance and range.
It’s almost like motives and context have meaning
In other words, any crypto "investor" who thinks their success is a sign of insight and innovation is in reality no smarter than a random hamster.
It's easier than the author appears to suspect.

I wrote all my status reports for work, commit comments, and quite a few emails in 'monospace full-just' for many years. I'm not sure why I stopped doing it habitually, though I still do it sometimes when I notice my messages naturally came out close to it. It may be just due to using the web more often, which seldom displays text with a monospace font.

I don't recall anyone ever noticing, nor did I expect them to.

Seeing another commenter mention BBSes in the mid-90s, perhaps that is where I picked up the practice.

The metroid text seems to change width periodically in varrious blocks, which is also a property of the monospace-full-just text that I wrote.
I agree. There would be no issue if these were two separate companies - Google Inc (et al) would be doing their best to surveil you, while Chrome Inc would be doing their best to keep you safe from the prevailing conditions. But since it's a single entity offering you privacy and then doing the exact opposite behind the scenes, it's fraudulent. Understanding the technical details for how it works out the way it does just creates a blind spot where you miss the big picture, which is how Google managed to get themselves into this situation.
Stripe opens London fintech development office
> It's not a "weasel word", "Scientific theories placing a low enough probability (...)

If that was the case then go ahead and just show the theory.

Just provide a single evidence that supports said claim. Any at all.

Don't just handwave after claiming something is impossible, otherwise you're just intentionally spreading lies and misinformation.
All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005)
Wow, the app powering this requires a minimum of at least 1 high end NVIDIA GPU with at least 12GB of GPU memory with 8 GPUs recommended. All to generate some cartoon faces using AI. At least for that website. Dang.
And some are anathema to speak of even after exposure.

It's almost like we live in a world where the media exists to serve the business interests of billionaires.
I actually think that's less accurate. Google on the server side isn't in any preferential position, better or worse, than any other server-side analytics.

That's why I think this lawsuit is such bullshit, in that many of the "recommendations" in these comments are saying Google server technologies should specifically get called out (or worse, notified when a user is using Incognito Mode, which actually would be a gross privacy violation), when the whole point is that Chrome's Incognito Mode isn't any different that Safari or Firefox's Private Browsing, so why should Chrome call out something about Google's specific server-side analytics?
Might be more accurate to say that he's the grandfather of modern business productivity/sales advice works. I'd say that the secret grandfathers of modern self-help are Jose Silva and his Silva Mind Control, along with Werner Erhard of est and Hubbard's Scientology. It was of course highly influenced by that sort of productivity advice through Holiday Magic/Leadership Dynamics, but was also very influenced by Theosophy through a science fiction lens that turned everything once supernatural psychic.

That's how we end up with all of these mind-training, success-mindset works that make up most of self-help now. It's a weird culty stew.

edit: Mill is a more noble origin for modern self-help than it deserves. His descendant is How to Win Friends and Influence People which is altogether more wholesome, more akin to Scouting (note Carnegie's constant advocacy of Toastmasters.) Modern self-help is trying to convince you that you can hypnotize people, memorize books, learn languages in a month, build billion dollar businesses, and bend probability through sheer concentration and adherence to miracle systems and new psychologies explained in listicles.
If Protonmail deplatforms you for something you emailed, the blast radius is contained to your email, and not your Google Drive, YouTube channel, etc.
Ok, think I got it, the confusion is how we define "purple".

Yes, if we define it as "magenta" = mixture of red and blue, then it is pretty obvious that it would be closer to red than green and, of course, the left hump is insignificant.

However, in the TFA, it is defined as "purple is at the opposite end of the spectrum from red" (which is technically "violet" indeed), and in that case purple being close to red (by being perceived same as magenta) can only be explained by "red hump" = red-sensitive (L) cones being also sensitive to blue. Does not look you disagree with that.
I've never seen hyperbolic geometry on not grocery store mushrooms... maybe I should try not grocery store DMT.
Even if the vaccine(s) are 1000% safe, the fact that people are being coerced by the state to take them, on threat of having their entire lives stolen (no job, no entry to businesses, and soon probably restricted movement) should cause anyone with a few functioning neurons to recoil in horror.

If you simply offer me a product, maybe it's safe, maybe it isn't. If you INSIST on me taking it, and engage in vast, sweeping propaganda campaigns across all media, brutally censoring all opposition and criticism and attempting to brow-beat the public into submission via a campaign of fear and intimidation, for a disease with a minuscule fatality rate, you have utterly convinced me that there's something wrong with the product and I should stay far, far away. At BEST, Big Pharama is once again hellbent on pushing a sketchy frankenstein creation to rake in the cash. At worst, something much more dark is happening.

For almost a year, the "Lab Leak Hypothesis" was scorned as deranged conspiracy blather. Now it is widely accepted as mundane, mainstream fact that ethics-free phrama researchers, in China but with US funding, created this disaster. It took about a year for the media admit reality. Now the "conspiracy theory" is that the vaccines are unsafe, for a variety of reasons ranging from mundane lack of care to more sinister motives. How long will it take for the media, and the establishment, to be forced to admit reality this time? And how many will end up crippled or dead in the meantime?
A variant of #1 or, usually, #2: most of the time when you "buy" a digital good, you're really renting it out under extremely limiting terms.
People have lost access to Gmail and Google Docs for things they’ve posted to Youtube.
>A spillover from nature would look like SARS1.

Why do you say so? Co-evolving organisms/species and their cross-interaction in a large changing global environment is not a deterministic process, or rather is not a process that we can predict with any great degree of accuracy. What things would "look like" is extrapolation, not evidence.

In any case, my main objection to your argument is that you're drawing inferences from an imperfect dataset and them employing backwards reasoning "Well nothing else explains it except theory A". Sorry, but that doesn't satisfy me. I still want to see actual evidence of actual work being done in an actual lab that corroborates the hypothesis. It is pretty much impossible to keep such large multi-year scientific development projects secret in this day and age. There are dozens of people involved, past employees, lab assistants, etc, etc. I work in biotech (I'm not claiming to be any expert on anything) and maybe that's why I'm finding it difficult.
But the warning does say that:

Your activity might still be visible to:

Websites you visit

Your employer or school

Your internet service provider
It is important to remember Denmark socialism works in Denmark but couldn't be imported around the world.

"To implement the Nordic model, you have to have a society which is a high trust society, i.e. the government is trustworthy and not corrupt, you identify to your state and not to your tribe, you can trust your fellow nationals, and you can also trust to outsiders. This all stems from Lutheranism.

Calvinist societies are highly individualist and they distrust any central government, and they also tend to distrust outsiders. This is why US, Switzerland and the Netherlands have not adopted the Scandinavian model, while Germany has. Likewise, Catholic countries tend to be more corrupt than Protestant, and Orthodox countries even more corrupt than Catholic. This is why the Nordic model won’t succeed in those countries."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected (2018)
Flask project setup: TDD, Docker, Postgres and more – Part 1
that's the whole point! if randomness can give returns higher than most "financial gurus", what do they really know about the market?
They will hide it in either closing costs or a slightly higher interest rate.
3 words: risk adjusted returns. Crypto will outperform s&p 500 in any small period of time since the volatility is higher. still funny though
Js2Py – JavaScript interpreter and translator in 100% pure Python
If you expose sshd to the internet in the first place you are doing something wrong.
100% this, i made my account with gmail, it currently only points to protonmail.
Pinta is the Linux fork of Paint.NET and it's not quite as good, but good enough for quick edits.
It doesn't make sense at all. When I'm driving a car, let's say a Toyota, I expect that the car would protect me from its own failures (like: alerting me of oil or battery issues). But no way I would expect the car to avoid collisions with other Toyotas just because those are made by the same company.

The same argument could apply to firearms (shouldn't harm the holder, so the same firearm model shouldn't hurt other holders of the same firearm model?) and a lot of things.
I read the first few pages and no doubt it is an enjoyable read. If I had any interest in the game, I would have read the full thing. But there is no reason why if the same text would not have been any better without graphics and more styling?

Is this confirmation bias? the moment someone makes a claim of excellence, or genius, instantly number of people realize "how it hit them"!!
Is uBlock Origin being unable to update any more concerning to you?

https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?cont...
you just described angel/VC investments vs. crowdsourced investment/bootstrapped income.

there are thousands of ways to make a million dollars: you could ask one person for a million dollars, you could ask a million people for one dollar, or anything in between.

you could start a patreon & market it through youtube because I think the concept is right.
Nobody goes to journalism school because they were good at science (or math).
A recruiter is looking for people with 10 years of experience with Kubernetes
These people very rarely do their homework. I have around 3 years of experience with Kubernetes, so a recruiter contacted me saying that my profile "fits perfectly" the position. Which requires 10 years of experience with Rails (I have 14-15) and ... 10 years of experience with Kubernetes. FFS it didn't even exist at the time.

Have you ever received such ridiculous opportunities?
Thanks. It fell between the cracks on HN, and I didn't want to re-submit it not to be spammy.

Although we technically added multi Kubernetes cluster support. It was only GKE, and now it runs notebooks and workloads on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and DigitalOcean as well. I'm not sure it's enough of an improvement according to the Show HN rules to re-submit. Plus I'm reworking the landing page and docs to add more clarity on what this thing does, with gifs showing RTC and all.

Do you have any feedback?
When you lend your crypto you're transferring ownership, when you rent you aren't. So crypto loans only make money through interest while land makes rent well over interest.
You can't really just shop for privacy. If it is important you really have to do the encryption using software under your control on the end devices. For email this would involve local email clients supporting OpenPGP or S/MIME.

For a closed group like a business you can simplify things by having a self hosted email server kept in a secure location. Less secure than end to end encrypted email, but then, few things are as secure as E2EE email. It's hard to beat a medium where the encryption can be done completely offline.
For context, this article is about a new book, 'The Contrarian' about Thiel (I haven't read the book).

I've long been a fan of Peter Thiel's thinking. If you're unfamiliar, this talk from YC's Startup School 2014 covering the ideas from Zero to One is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k

But back the book this article is based on, I found this review of the book on Amazon quite insightful: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3PSWXNTHIHYNB/

I've never met Peter Thiel, don't know much about him personally, and don't agree with everything he says and does, but he's a complex and interesting character that I've learned a lot from over the years. I think we all can.
You can! :) just pay me the non-trivial amount of money. (or go here for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsi0CLxmjw)
I lost emails because of this, because after i changed my password, all the emails i had were encrypted. It was my fault, i'm not digging at Protonmail.

Use a password manager :)
So first they take complete control of add-ons by deprecating an old (admittedly creaky) system and replacing it with a nerfed one that can't even hide the tab bar; and by requiring add-ons to be signed by them to be installed. Now they'll let what's left die of neglect. Really poor and predictable.

edit: I've found of late that my accuracy goes up when instead of trying to predict the future, I just imagine the most dystopian development of a situation possible. Right now I'm imagining add-on developers having to pay Mozilla for the review of their extensions, and their placement on the site.
An object coming from the direction of the sun will be perpetually on the day side of the Earth, despite the Earths daily rotation around its axis.
That just calls the API.

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/web-ext-...
I personally use it all the time, for everything I don’t want to show up in an autocomplete context. I started doing this probably 8 years ago after I got annoyed Google would auto suggest misspellings I had previously made. I think they’re much better about this these days but at this point it’s an instinct for pretty much every single one off Google query.
> [incl. privacy ones]

I remember when all my privacy extensions were entirely absent and I accidentally surfed the web. I felt so vulnerable after that, as if I surfed the web bareback
This is where having hard data would help. Do the poor actually work multiple jobs? Do they actually have longer commutes? On average. And to be more specific, we can compare people who make 50k in bay area (poor) to people who make 200k (e.g. Silicon Volley SWEs frequently seen on HN).
"It comes amid a shortage of fruit and veg pickers due to the Covid crisis and Brexit woes."

This a feature, not a bug. The point of Brexit was to crush the bones of globalists who think it's acceptable to run society on the backs of a quasi-slave class that can't afford a decent life for themselves no matter how hard their work. This whole article is a bunch of hand-wringing because people doing hard, unpleasant work that (unlike most white collar work) ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE are finally getting paid well for it. The horror!

Regardless this is the Sun, and probably all of this is a flash in the pan and the UK will return to slave wages soon. Be nice if it didn't though.