skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im a professional tattoo artist and and I've been collecting pictures data in particular pretty extensively for over a decade... I have roughly 2tb cloud storage on each cloud service.. One drive and Google drive. Photos and videos and various graphic file extensions like.. Psd .Tiff .Actn etc... I've grown a bit professionally and so now instead of just dumping new art and photos of my tattoos and marketing graphics etc... I'm in desperate need of spring cleaning I plan to metatag all photos running them all through lighten cataloging them all and maintain upkeep moving forward from there. As you know both these services are as useless as tits on a bull, but it is what it is I have to work with one or the other or both.
Folder to Folder transfers need to be fast or this is going to be impossible ... Should I do all moving around if files folders etc. On an external HD? then re upload? And please for the love of God someone tell me that there is a tool service or software or poor unfortunate slave out there that can be used to automatically Catagorize photos... One that optically, can analyze each one and determine if it's a photo of a tattoo on a person's body, differentiating from photos of graphics, artwork, objects... Etc. Please help!! my poor habbits have ruined my digital existence.... MUST LIVE AGAIN!!
They don't keep the schedule up to date on the website. Two of the three Goodyear blimps were up for TV broadcasts this past weekend, and every weekend since at least the beginning of September.
> can you think of a single major communications protocol that was created after HTTP and is still in use?

Trivially, HTTPS.

Not to detract from your larger point, with which I tend to agree...
In full fairness, the Aztek was actually a great car with really decisive styling that wasnt a hit. The same designer actually penned the Corvette C7 and Camaro as well, obvious hits. Taste is defined by society and by those who push to create a wave with their splashes in the pond. It's really a 'You know it when you see it" kind of thing. I think that many in the software world also get lost on how to make good things by getting lost in the tools and insider baseball. For every one of his "silly" omitted functional design elements...there were actually brilliant chopped concepts that made way for the future. The iMac's lack of a floppy drive and Apple I/O, the iPhone's lack of a keyboard, the Macbook Air's lack of a Disk drive. All of these are the type of thing a more feature and function-focused product would not remove but in removing them the product was freed to be a better product. Not that all of his choices were good, but generally he really hit the nail on the head. Functionally the MacBook Air in 2008 with the optional SSD is the template for the modern thin laptop today and differs very little internally from say, a Surface laptop 4.
For easier reading in the browser:
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/cond-mat/0205297/
Literally no. Base layer bitcoin transactions (all the large value ones) happen on the public blockchain.

It's pseudonymous, but if you can attach an identity to one transaction, you have a good chance of tracing everything else they've done.

And even if you don't know who everyone is today, you might be able to deanonymize it at some point in the future, because all the data is public.
I didn't know they were down at the time because I don't use any of it.
Notably, all of those things are in fact, banned for people under the age of 18 or 21.
I am pleasantly surprised. Seems to be about 9% faster than Python 3.9 and whole 21% faster than Python3.8 [1] with performance improvements across math operations, regex and multiprocessing. Well done Python!

[1] Benchmarked with https://github.com/vprelovac/python-speed
Of possible interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijst4g5KFN0

This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.
I recall some discussion of this a while back. Someone from Intel mentioned that they were paying the contract house $150/hr so the contract house is skimming about $100/hr off the top and paying $50/hr to the contractor which seems really not right. Maybe Intel should look at working with more ethical contract houses?
All crypto bad because PW bad.

And I do not see how PS is greenwashing, since it is fundamentally changing the business. This is like going from burning brown coal to solar power, and then you would say solar power is just greenwashing.

I do not mind criticism, so give some.
This totally makes sense, but I'm always curious what the suggested mitigations here are. Even if I like watching Game of Thrones or other violent shows, it might indeed make me more worried of being murdered. But it seems like that's the tradeoff I (as an individual) take for consuming the content.

You can water down your booze to handle the drunk, but you're also ruining the flavor.
For context, parent comment is trying to decipher this heavily-PR-reviewed paragraph:

> During one of these routine maintenance jobs, a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally. Our systems are designed to audit commands like these to prevent mistakes like this, but a bug in that audit tool didn’t properly stop the command.
Oh, you're right, I thought Makrolon -- which I was using as a desk surface protector -- was acrylic but it turns out to be polycarbonate.
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No, it was from 1997 [1], not the Great Depression. It was intended to allow the minting of smaller denomination coins, but did not specify that in the text, so a textual reading will not forbid this usage.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3610...
just spent $230 for all issues to date T_T
Oh for sure. Being famous today in the US is not worth it.

Given how litigious the US is and how every surface of attack is exploited by the mob (offline or online) is simply not worth it.

My prediction is that people have a natural desire to be appreciated , so Americans might look to find some social relevance in other countries.

English speaking countries which are less litigious such as South Africa, Dubai, Singapore, New Zealand, the Caribbean etc.
We've also seen, sometimes in high places, the third way of "it's illegal and unethical but I can get away with it."
No need to get condescending.

> It sounds like you're implying that algorithms are not... using plain arrays and pointers?

Ok, but no, I did not mean to imply that. What I mean is that most programs are either straightforward linear scans over whole arrays, or working on data that was specifically requested by some index requested by a separate entity. Using a hashmap to lookup items faster is almost at the ceiling of complexity of most real-world programs.

And really, that's sufficient to do most things at max speed. "Algorithms" (meaning stuff like interval trees, Fenwick trees, LCA computation, square root decomposition...) is irrelevant academic exercise for the vast majority of applications (including kernels and games).

At the stage of using the most optimal algorithm (which is probably so simple that it doesn't deserve that name) we're still frequently dealing with factors of 10x to 1000x of inefficiencies - optimal code from an algorithms / asymptotic standpoint but just badly implemented.

> Sometimes it feels like this whole field is just people gluing together pieces made by other people, with no understanding whatsoever about how everything works.

That's exactly how it is. To people who want to do better I recommend to check out programmers like Casey Muratori (original poster of the github issue), and to check out Handmade Network community for example.

> There's no excusing for this behavior.

They didn't know better. Not particularly flattering though.
Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers are at the borders between Facebook’s backbone and the rest of the Internet.
Huh, interesting. You're absolutely right in that they definitely aren't de-factor excludable. They just feel very un-parsimonious, though I can see how they are progress nonetheless if they can form a cohesive theory.

I harbor some slightly more radical opinions in that I think the whole dark energy hypothesis is broken, hell I'm not even fully convinced that the universe is accelerating in its expansion globally, and therefore the big lambda term may be way off (there are many potential other explanations for the supernovae curves out there). But I'm an engineer not a pro physicist, so my headcannon isn't worth much :).
What I remember the most about Jobs' death are 2 things:

1) Most of the media did an heavy coverage of his death and legacy.

2) Exactly 1 week after his death one of my personal heroes died too: Dennis MacLister Ritchie. Almost no one paid attention.

From computers to micro-controllers, from satellites to abs breaks, Ritchie's legacy goes far deeper and wider than Jobs'. Almost every programmer today touches some of his legacy every day at work. However very few magazines and newspapers mentioned him. I suspect that, even here at HN, many programmers don't even know who he was.

I think that's sad...

* Edit: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created the most influential, revolutionary and innovative software system in history, the Unix operating system. He also created the most influential of all programming languages, C.
Trickle down cryptonomics?
We all must agree on the basic premise that them other dudes is jerks, at least. Since that is all we can agree on, and any debate is dissent which we can't have; then the sum position of the Movement becomes: "them other guys is jerks".

Its all fun and games, the important part being that the shouting is loud enough to drown out the pariah saying "folks, he's nailed up right now, let's go get a ladder and some pliers OK?"
> Also, I'm not sure how GCC compares.

Not favorably. Both projects have massive "backlogs," by naive metrics.

Maintainers for both are in a double bind: people get mad when you close their years-old issues because they can't be reproduced anymore, and people give you grief for not closing issues.
You can do that with a democracy. What benefits do crypto bring?
sure, but as an outsider looking in - the thing that erodes my faith in the currency is not the minting of a trillion dollar coin, it's the complete disfunction of governance that leads to a situation where this is even considered.

And the harm is already done on that front.

This is relatively low impact compared to other shenanigans.
> Our systems are designed to audit commands like these to prevent mistakes like this, but a bug in that audit tool didn’t properly stop the command.

I'm so glad to see that they framed this in terms of a bug in a tool designed to prevent human error, rather than simply blaming it on human error.
Little bugs in the way founders are wired as they move from seed to Series A
in the case you have the files offline -eg on a HDD- it is possible: edit/categorize the files then upload them via "rclone". https://rclone.org/drive/
make sure you will keep a backup before any changes!
This looks super cool! I just got an M1 MBA, it's fast as lightning. Its nice knowing a project like this is percolating and that in a few years when this daily driver becomes an extra machine there will be fun linux alternatives to try.
If you own any money, you also have "some of the same powers" that the oligarchs have. Maybe you can bribe a bouncer to let you into he club, maybe buy nice shoes and impress at a job interview.

It's just so little compared to the oligarchs that it doesn't matter.
The subtle detail is that making the 1000 Trillion Coin itself has no effect on inflation. However if it's used to pay off the debt, then that is what produces inflation.

The reason this distinction matters is that the President has the authority to create the trillion dollar coin, but does not have the authority to spend it. All he can do is grant permission to another authority to borrow against that coin, it's that other authority (the Federal Reserve) that would in turn affect inflation.

The argument is that since the Federal Reserve is going to end up doing that anyways, one way or another, that this trillion dollar coin itself really isn't the cause of any inflation to begin with; it's basically nothing more than a formality.
Hey, thanks for clarifying but what is appealing there is that you can use Postgres for backend and it would work with that. You have very focused solution on Google environment.
Which aspect of security do you mean?
Ah, I got it. Thanks!
The point they’re making is you don’t prosecute Facebook for something that we think is unjust but is not yet illegal. You make it illegal, and then after that point if anyone continues with the now illegal course of action then you prosecute them. Prosecuting someone for something that wasn’t illegal when they did it would of course be wrong.
> I agree that there's an awkward emphasis on how FB prioritizes security and privacy but nothing is deceptive here.

I guess deceptive was the wrong word, so whatever's the term for "awkward emphasis" :).
> He joked about how he would never unpack his bags upon arriving at a hotel because Steve would call him and say the hotel is shit so they had to move immediately after checking in. I think it’s those human connections he made that made him so great.

This is awful, no? There are people like that who can never be pleased. Usually narcissists. I fail to see where the human connection is in being a crybaby Karen.

Not to diminish Jobs' accomplishments, but it's one thing to say "he was a complicated man, achieved a lot but was difficult to deal with" and quite another to being up that story as a positive. That just seems like Stockholm syndrome.
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You're right, we should just give up and devote our time to other things.
I kind of wonder if HN will block me for posting the same comment, but it's so frequently relevant.

> By definition, bitcoin transactions are not traceable, right?

Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, has some things to say about the use of BTC in crime:

> Based on our research and discussions with industry experts, I have confidence in two conclusions: • The broad generalizations about the use of Bitcoin in illicit finance are significantly overstated. • The blockchain ledger on which Bitcoin transactions are recorded is an underutilized forensic tool that can be used more widely by law enforcement and the intelligence community to identify and disrupt illicit activities. Put simply, blockchain analysis is a highly effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool.

Source: https://casebitcoin.com/story/former-cia-director-finds-bitc...
Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower
why not? this hearing is not about monopolization, and fb cannot be singled out when it comes to regulations either
I already do. But that doesn't have anything to do with the validity of the heuristic.
How long has Etherium been "planning" to move to PoS? How widely used are other PoS systems?

Even beyond that, a PoS system is still, like all cryptocurrencies, functionally, a pyramid scheme.
By that standard the most unsuccessful agency would be the DEA.
As a bit of meta-commentary, the fact that anyone is even arguing with the points you're making is deeply disappointing to me.

It seems like there's an entire generation of folks out there who can no longer tell the difference between an open technology ecosystem and a closed one...
It is an impressive performance on her part. She successfully navigated several primitive attempts by senators to frame the intent of people at Facebook as malevolent. A typical politician move to try to create a fictionalized supervillain to attack - a vapid rhetoric path. She dodged that multiple times and directed the conversation back to the substantive issues of privacy, algorithms, content.
I'd be in favour of banning corporations from using fossil fuels by to mine POW cryptocurrencies before it gets worse in the future.
Really, what you are saying is 100% spot on, but seems to be misunderstood for some reason.

If presented with a difficult problem, there are people that go "nah, that can't be done, here's a long list of reasons why".

There are also people that go "That's going to be difficult, but maybe we can try A, B or C and I recall reading about this cool new tech that could perhaps help"

Be open to change and open to accepting that new things could be good and interesting.

I'm 43. Hiring engineers. Working with some 50+ engineers that are the absolute best I've ever worked with.
I’m entirely unconvinced that legislation is needed here. If remote-first is a winner, firms using it will outcompete those who don’t. Forcing businesses against their will to make an accommodation isn’t likely to put those accommodated workers onto an equal footing with those complying with return-to-office wishes. So you then pass more legislation as a bad patch over your first ill-advised patch.

Remote and in-office can both exist. If one is wildly better than the other, it will become dominant.
> which can be unlearned

Sure it can. But you are only ever going to see it among a tiny minority in any given population (animal or human).
Thank you, that is it!

I believe it was HN's Paul Graham who innovated wrt spam filters.

The provider I used was onto it (I used Mutt over SSH with them and all spam was in a seperate folder due to procmail IIRC but later they added spam and virus filters which you could customize), that was before Gmail existed though. They do the same, for free, but you pay with your privacy.
The opposite. It's a public ledger and all transactions can be viewed.
>> Congress can print money at will.

No Congress can not, the Federal Reserve can, which is not under the authority of congress at all really.

Congress can spend money, and Congress can Mint Coins (i.e this story) but it can not create federal reserve notes

If it spends more money than it take in from taxes it must issue Treasury bills that is has to sell to someone, Today almost no one wants to buy US Debt because congress is irresponsible like a child with a AMEX Black card.

So the only entity willing to buy US debt is the Federal Reserve who does so by money printing aka inflation of US Currency aka a tax on responsible people in society
> Comparisons, analogies, and metaphors are useful tools (...)

Whataboutism is neither. It's a logical fallacy employed to avoid discussing the problem or address issues by trying to distract and deflect the attention to irrelevant and completely unrelated subjects.
You have an interesting way of putting it. I pretty agree with your criticism although I would frame it as "having all the same problems that our large wealthy democratic national governments have" rather than "antithetical to democracy."

I suppose the only difference is our opinions of democracy as it's practiced.
The quote is from the “information” icon next to “Unmetered bandwidth” on the page you posted.
Anyone know what UI framework / stack / ? they are using for this?
Ross Ulbricht will be happy to learn this.
I feel like bubble sort is simpler.

repeat n times:
for i = 1 to n-1:
if a[i] > a[i+1]:
swap(a[i], a[i+1])

It's true you have to add and subtract 1, but you only have one variable, and of course the rationale for why it works is far simpler.
If Gay used to mean straight you'd have a point.
Dennis Ritchie's book on C is pretty well required reading for anyone going through a computer science program no?
Nobody cares about 1$ coins, people would care about a 1T$ coin.
>implying they can afford the down payment

>implying they have a car/can commute on public transport
As already said the test was about something entirely different. And the dangerous part was not the test itself, but the way they delayed the test and then continued to perform it despite the reactor being in a problematic state and the night shift being on duty, who were not trained on this test. The main problem was that they ran the reactor at reduced power long enough to have significant xenon poisoning, and then put the reactor at the brink when they tried to actually run the test under these unsafe conditions.
I think there's a lot of people confusing the bricks of functional programming with what you can build with them.

The interesting thing about 'monads' isn't bind and return. The interesting thing is the Control.Monad functions that build on them, and by making something that conforms to the monadic interface, you get to use them: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.15.0.0/docs/Contr...

Just like the special thing about iterators isn't that you can get the "next" thing. That's not impressive on its own. The magic is in the tools you get that can generically use and manipulate iterators if they conform to a particular interface.
I can say the same to you honestly. These posts are just misinformed and sad. I used to mine on a GPU.... that used way more power than any ASIC for the same computational block. What is there to seethe about? My holdings aren't dropping in value. lol.
But the original comment has specifically talked about the quality of the experience is important rather than just the quantity.

> I worked with someone my age who only strong skills are a large enterprise storage system. He is a dinosaur and his future is limited.
So this is really two peoples fault. One for issuing the command the other for introducing the bug in the audit tool.
I don't know the -f in rm -rf isn't a bug xD. I feel sorry for the poor engineer who fat fingered the command. It definitely highlights an anti-pattern in the command line but the fact that, that singular console had the power to effect the entire network highlights an "interesting" design choice indeed.
Take the example of a party - Vänsterpartiet in Sweden - which' up-and-coming politicians openly state their aim is to create a communist society [1] gaining close to 10% of the vote, nearly doubling their size. They are the biggest party among young women (18-29) [2], gaining ~24% of the vote.

These women are voting for a party which is fine with their up-and-coming party elite aiming to make Sweden a communist state. It is written into their program, not just some quote from a random person.

[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ung-vanster-vart-mal-ar-e...

[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/svt-novus-tjejerna-valjer...
The problem with the excuse parade is, that it has to justify itself. They have to be special, the avant-garde, selected through countless interviews to live well inside the castle. If some wandering apprentice can outperform them, the hot air escape from the "rockstar" developer, wrestling with complex code sitting inside the compound of a FAMG firm.

Then nothing remains, but embarrassed silence.
And the question, why this people are paid for, if they waste the customers money, aka performance of the customers computational platform and the outcome is so sub-par.
Which is why they are sitting all in one huge meeting today.
My problem with the right is that they do shrink the government, but also extend it in other ways. Personally I want an efficient government. I don't think that means slashing programs entirely, like getting rid of the IRS, but rather ensuring that programs don't bloat. They will tend towards that through bureaucracy. As the world becomes more complicated we will need more departments than we needed 100 years ago but we should always be ensuring that these departments don't get bogged down by too much bureaucracy. I feel that the conversation often lacks this notion and focuses on too simplistic of an approach. That's why I don't like people like Rand Paul. He's using a first order approximation which we can tell is not going to be a good enough approximation because he's using the wrong causal variables.