skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can still read the Texas plate. Even knowing the default plate number is MD plus the year of joining the US doesn’t help to be able to read the Maryland plate. I’m not even sure why there is the faux-3D look anyway.
The Philosophy of Bitcoin [video]
Ohhhhhh... fascinating! Is there a good metric for how well sorted a list is? Maybe for every pair of elements, how many are in the correct order?

Given a random shuffle of a list, what are the chances that another shuffle would be more sorted? There's a life lesson in here, I know it...
I have found that asking others about their concerns helps me understand my own, and also helps build a rapport with the other, which itself helps your own confidence in your communication skills, and helps inculcate domain knowledge. The more you know where others stand on an issue, and why, helps you to draw parallels and distinctions with your own beliefs and positions on an issue. The rapport and conversational dynamics you explore help you tailor your message so that your words and feelings are heard and felt, even if not shared.

It's okay to say you have a point you don't know how to express. Talking around a topic is called beating around the bush colloquially, and in that common usage it's seen as wasting the listener's time if unwanted or unwarranted, but it serves an important function in itself. It's how you flush the ideas/birds out without upsetting/endangering yourself or others.

Believe in yourself, and in your ideas. You both are valid. Your earnestness in your desire to express yourself better is the social proof!

https://knowyourphrase.com/beating-around-the-bush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof
Oh My Posh: A prompt theme engine for any shell
It is part of the government. Its not “owned” by anyone, similar to a non-profit. It was created by the Federal govt.

It’s board of governors are employees of the govt.

Similar to most major corporations the “ownership” is highly nuanced. It’s roughly equivalent to three share classes, the govt has the shares that pay dividends and most of the voting shares. Chartered banks hold some shares that have some voting rights, roughly equivalent to holding shares in a credit union.

In some ways it’s a trust. As the beneficiary is the govt but it appoints a trustee and officially doesn’t own it.

Defacto it’s owned and operated lock stock and barrel by the govt.
This is a terrific idea and I’d love to see it.

The format of a regular post wherein people could post which city (or virtual space) they’re in and up to meet in x place at y time open to replies would seem to feel the most in HN spirit.

The regularity of a post and the lack of a formalized format would go a long way to make it casual and low effort. This is important as I think the more formal meetup with PowerPoint in company office looking to hire is not something I’d like to see repeated. This could be something different.
First buy ever?

Bitcoin.
I attended a Hacker News-adjacent meetup event at a pizza place in Osaka a few years ago. I'm not a "hacker" but it was a nice way to meet smart/lonely/bored people in a region where they are isolated enough to make meetup events really meaningful. I hope this kind of thing sees a resurgence post-COVID.
Show HN: Install GitHub release binaries from the CLI
This interview is quite the exclamation mark on the statement: Elon Musk is an engineer.
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I winced as I consumed this reading content.
Is it just me or the "seamless transition" in this much acclaimed, dissected and discussed shot is actually very un-natural movement of hands and legs by the actor -- and not "seamless" in that sense.

I guess it must have been a result of conscious body movements by the actor or a many-retake attempt to get to a particular "target" pose at a particular point in the run to make the "seamless" transition of shots possible in post. Feels unnatural and forced to me -- and distracts from what could have been a minor mind bending effect as we watch the movie.
...in Montana, and not from their jobs, but volunteer government roles; I kept reading to see when the subject of the article lost his job after losing his county post, but thankfully that didn't happen. Anyway, this is just another example of elected officials bowing to pressure from mob-lobbying.
The dots weren't connected between online organization in MT and the national trend of CPHOs quitting, but I'd guess as likely an explanation is burnout.
at deadline https://deadline.com/2021/10/alec-baldwin-movie-fatal-shooti...

Alec Baldwin “Discharged” Prop Gun That Killed ‘Rust’ Cinematographer & Injured Director On Set; Actor Questioned And Released – Update

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department confirmed Thursday night that Alec Baldwin “discharged” the prop gun that killed one Rust crew member and injured director Joel Souza on the set of the Western feature film on location in New Mexico.

Director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, died not long after being transported to a hospital in Albuquerque, NM this afternoon. Souza, 48, remains in a local hospital; his condition is unknown.
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“Mr. Baldwin was questioned by investigators and released,” a Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department official told Deadline this evening. “No arrests or charges have been filed.”
Check the terms - if you already own them, you're grandfathered into the Connect (highest tier) package for free (for now, at any rate).

I recently got a second hand remarkable, and absolutely love it, but not sure how I feel about them pulling this sneaky (however justified it may be). It's not that my assets are in jeopardy, but I'm slowly developing a whole new workflow, which I don't want upended 12 months from now if they decide to charge everyone...
Still down for me, although some Android notifications came through.
Buy and hold.

Best time to buy is when you don't hear about it on the news or when bad news happens.

Worse time to buy is when the news tells you bitcoin broke a record.
> nor any involvement with Alec Baldwin
We don’t know for sure though
The book mentioned in the article "Safe Haven" is a good listen. I have the audible version [0] and it covers a lot of counter-intuitive things. "Insurance" as a portfolio return enhancer is a core lesson I learnt. Although Spitznagel doesn't tell what this insurance is, deep out-of-the-money put options come to mind. Keep in mind that you need the accompanying PDF to appreciate descriptions of graphs etc!

[0] https://www.audible.in/pd/Safe-Haven-Audiobook/B09BDBLWP4
Walking the Streets of Moscow is a beautiful movie. The cinematography, the acting, the music, the cast, the story. Young Nikita Mikhalkov[0] is excellent as the lead. Almost like if Ferris Bueller's Day Off was Soviet Socialist Realism, or something. So much in that one film. I love how it's framed by the digging of the metro.

Haven't seen the other movies except The Cranes are Flying. Thank you for those suggestions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Mikhalkov
So the compiler actually can't optimize because of legacy errno cruft? That's hilarious...
I’d love to see these with the current “default” plate shown as a comparison. Some of the designs are nice, but many are just totally impractical from a readability point of view. The comparison between the plates would probably drive this home.
This sounds like it could provide a lot of value to many users, would love to see something like this! I had a service once that I tried to get a few people to use for this purpose, but having a lightweight one on the website itself would definitely be the best option imo.
How variable-length pattern matching is implemented in Nebula Graph
It sounds like they are making the claim that they can revoke access to data immediately, but they say you don't need to store the content on-device. I looked up "key displacement" and can't find any immediate references, though I'm not an expert.

My understanding is that if I acquire a ciphertext encrypted with key v1, I will always be able to decrypt it. Any "asynchronous" protocol will have this problem, right? I can be revoked access if I need a piece of the key from a trusted party or if that v1 of the ciphertext can be guaranteed deleted, but caching old versions of keys and files means I will always retain access to the versions of files I ever had access to.

Could someone with a bit more understanding shed some light on this?
I regularly troll pawn shops and thrift stores, you never know what you'll find there. For example, they usually have a bin full of vinyl. The staff pulls out any that are valuable, but what is valuable on the market has no relation to what I consider valuable. Jackie Gleason, for example, made many records that aren't available on CD. His stuff is great if you enjoy easy listening, old style.

A couple months back, the pawn shop had acquired what looked like an old DJ's 12 inch single collection from the 70s and 80s. $.50 per disk. I grabbed them all.
Just responding to say that I'm down to meet up with anyone in Austin, check out my profile/website to see if you may be interested!
> not a good look

nothing has 100% uptime, and you sure do not want to pay for something to try

nobody is so important that they can’t handle a little downtime now and then
which I mean - how did he shoot two people on accident with the prop - and not people who he would be shooting in a scene? Probably some strange circumstances makes it an accident but also seems suspicious.
I'm the OP and I just compared what Apple gets from the App Store (around $21.7m estimated in 2020 which I saw in Barron's, but it's probably an overestimation since I don't think it takes into account the 15% rate below $1m) to Apple's 2020 profits ($57.4m). It's really a back-of-napkin thing, just meant to show the similarity in scale, and how damaging it would be to companies if this revenue went away.
People are angry that politicians are using the vaccine as a weapon - look at countries with high vaccination rates where the restrictions continue. People are fed up. By choosing to publicly advocate vaccines, he’s stepped right in to the middle of that fight.

I think the article is quite disgusting in that it basically accuses COVID skeptics of extremism, and all the talk of crosshairs etc together wink and nod at terrorism. Not to mention the implicit blaming of the health system staffing issues on COVID skeptics.
The only reason I’m using a Roku device is because Xfinity Stream is only available on Roku and I don’t want to pay shit Comcast for an extra box. Talk about two companies everyone hates. I really hope Xfinity Stream makes its way to Apple TV but I highly doubt it with the bureaucracy.
A heavy water molecule has deuterium in place of hydrogen; the extra neurons make it "heavy." Most water has some miniscule amount of heavy water in it.
Ya, it could be more concise but I think that would require more prerequisites from the reader in terms of model theory and formal logic.
I don't see the value of gold if there is widespread chaos. Like a walking dead scenario, gold and diamonds are almost worthless. Guns, food, medical care is what's worth something in that chaotic environment. Of course we aren't defining the environment here.
I don’t need to google it when I own such a system.

My precision did not ship with ECC ram.

ECC also needs to be supported by the motherboard; all AMD Ryzen chips have ECC enabled but due to limited motherboard support: many are not able to effectively use ECC.

If you have the time could you share the output of `sudo dmidecode —type 17`?
> How do you get the ability to do this? I've been attending a book club with a small number of friends and even in these casual settings I wish I could communicate my ideas better.

It's hard. And it depends on the people. With the most logical people, it's easiest for me, I just slow myself down and break down my argument into small pieces. Like in the book club, you may be tempted to say "I think the author's secret message is X" and people go "huh?" But if I go - "there's a line that says A.. do y'all remember this line?" - they say "yes" - "well, this line jumped out at me as weird, because of B. Do y'all agree that it's an unusual way to say it?" - "yup" - "so I was thinking, why is this weird to me, and I realized the only way B would be true is if C were true. Does that make sense to you guys" - "yup" - "ok, so if the author is saying C is true, I wonder if he is saying it to teach us X. Does that seem crazy?" "nope that makes sense"

Basically, you walk people from A to B to C and then the leap to X is clean and people can follow the whole chain. If you just say "it's X" they go "huh?"

The reason this is hard is because you yourself may not know why you decided X, and others may not reach that conclusion for a ton of different reasons. So forcing yourself to articulate your own logic to yourself is step 1, walking others through it is step 2.

A related thing is - in my experience, you can NEVER over-communicate. Like, it's tempting for me to skip A,B,C because I read them, I assume others read them and must have interpreted the same thing, so it feels condescending to start there, but in reality it's never a problem - people either say "yup, it's great to know we're seeing the same thing" or very often "actually, we missed that."

I hope this helps. That's just one type of scenario. All this gets harder when emotions or egos are involved, so dealing with that is hard.

Actually one more tip - the art of TLDR - people often make their point in a rambling way, surfacing a bunch of stuff that is confusing. More is not always better, but to be able to synthesize it all into a digestible narrative is really important if you want people to get it.
It’s a crime to remove The Old Man of the Mountain from New Hampshire’s plate.
Is it really that consequential if your email isn’t available for a little while?
I mean by looking at the source code for the neural network someone can give an upper bound on how many steps will be required before the entire network halts and gives an answer and they can prove that their upper bound is really an upper bound.
similar. except it wasn't months, we didn't reach an agreement, I got back to my country and it was not an invaluable experience.
Sure does seem like you don’t have any examples to back up the assertion that democrats are equally anti-intellectual.

If you make that assertion, you can’t be upset when people ask for examples or evidence. It’s extremely relevant to the (as of yet) unsupported argument you made.
https://www.baeldung.com/cs/counting-inversions-array
What an amazing architecture. Shows just how ugly and deplorable modern architecture is.
Inner West / CBD Sydney here...
How close are we to a passwordless future?
Back for me now.
Dam that's brutal, to think that slavery can still happen here and now via essentially blackmail.
If this is the problem in the UK where education is cheap, it is even more of a problem in the USA.
Reflected on the experience, tried to figure out everything I could have done better, and then I started a new (startup) software project. I’m consulting a couple days a week to pay the bills.
But no-store makes the resource uncacheable by both intermediate caches and browsers.
More than half the population of CO was born outside of the state. I would be surprised if it was still a top 5 state for educational attainment when looking only at those born and raised in the state.
> It's okay to say you have a point you don't know how to express. Talking around a topic is called beating around the bush colloquially, and in that common usage it's seen as wasting the listener's time if unwanted or unwarranted, but it serves an important function in itself

Agreed. When I do that, I call it out explicitly. I often say something like this in a meeting: "I haven't thought about how to articulate this too much, but I agree it's worth discussing. Mind if I 'talk at you' for a min and see where it gets us?"

I wouldn't ever call it "beating around the bush" because it creates the impression you're wasting time and that's not what you should want, but saying upfront "hey I am gonna consciously ramble a bit and we'll circle up on the synthesis" often buys you some runway to do that.
Well this explains a lot. Couldn’t access my email earlier and now I know why. Fuck the chicken shit little script kiddies causing a ddos right now, bunch’a fuckin children.
The Upside of Pessimism
Huawei, SMIC suppliers received $61B of US licenses despite is on a blacklist
Don't know if all conceivable versions of "metaverse" are bad, but am pretty sure that any version based on private/corporate ownership of the infrastructure will be nightmarish.
Wielded w/o skill, the Socratic Method comes of patronizing and trite.

To stay respectful, it is polite to negotiate with all participants in its use.
That seems like a good trend to me. The app stores do incur serious hosting and review costs. Let’s pay for those.

I’d much rather pay Apple/Google a fixed amount per download and per app update than pay them a lifetime cut of my subscriptions.
I think a lot depends on having an onboarding experience that sets the expectations right. Good guidance text may come a long way already.

For those who don't know: Mastodon works differently in how you build your social graph than Twitter, where much is automated by the recommendation algorithms kicking in. I think that once one properly grasps how to go from 'empty timelines' to having some first fine people in 'following' the process of building further can very intuitive and be a refreshing and liberating experience where one feels in control.

As for ideas and feedback..

"follow suggestions [based on] most popular/proactive accounts in your language". I would be careful here, to not get to a point where Fediverse / Mastodon becomes dominated by influencers that are focal points of activity and sees this feature becoming part of their SEO marketing toolkit. While it may help uptake and network effects, it may hurt and degrade fedi culture over time.

You might consider integrating something similar to Trunk [0] so people can directly follow others that have explicitly expressed an interest in a particular topic and are open for discovery. They can peruse the timeline of these accounts and then checkmark the ones to follow based on that. This keeps social graph building natural and organic, not algorithm-driven.

As for "trending hashtags", another algorithm driven engagement feature. There may be a Hashtag Directory to browse, sort and filter and an indicator of post counts to each of them. Long inactive hashtags need not be shown, but the directory shows way more entries than just what's trending and doesn't directly push you to that.

Another idea might be to have account profiles be able to have a list of the top 3 or top 5 other accounts most valued by a person, in a friend-of-a-friend kind of way. Maybe it only becomes available once a mutual follow relationship is established, and allows further discovery of the FOAF graph.

[0] https://communitywiki.org/trunk
> It's the cost for the channel.

Except it's not. People don't download Uber or Netflix because of the app stores. Epic demonstrated unequivocally they could get installs without Google involved as an intermediary. The app store value at this point is singularly it their platform-specific monopolies, and the fact that you have no choice but to play ball to do business on mobile.

> The real world equivalent is supermarkets

It's nothing like that. I have multiple supermarket chains I can go to - I have only Apple and Google when dealing with mobile. Customers can choose either Apple or Google, but most businesses are stuck doing business with both. Not even Microsoft screwed over both sides like this.

At this point, Google and Apple have done far more harm to both customers and businesses than Microsoft ever had. It's beyond frustrating.
Something like this, yes.
I think you want something like university/school, without the overhead. but usually live sessions would be pricey especially compared to watching prerecorded videos. I do think the experience is radically different, it's important to have a group advancing at similar pace to you as well as routine.
Let's start with the hypothetical that a pregnant woman is expected to die unless her fetus is aborted. In this rare, but frequent enough situation, society must choose between murdering the fetus through action and murdering the mother through inaction. Who would you choose to murder?

Abortion isn't the only topic that people make a "moral" stance about, and in some ways it's the least interesting. It hinges on an arbitrary "It's alive!" moment that's not really debatable, so much as a gut feeling.

On second thought, it does illustrate the difficulty most people have in thinking about continua rather than binary variables. Aliveness is, to me, clearly not binary. The fetus is minimally alive at conception and becomes alive at birth, but during the pregnancy is neither fully alive nor fully not alive. Similarly, an adult with brain damage, in a coma, isn't quite dead, but is also not fully alive.

I think that if we discussed specific situations, nearly everyone would wind up agreeing with the continua. It's only in the abstract that they insist on their binary labels. That's been my experience, anyway. Everyone's ethics are parsimonious, until it's their friends, family, or themselves that are in consideration.
import ctypes

def mutation_sort(a):
for i, v in enumerate(a):
ctypes.c_int.from_address(id(v) + 24).value = i # for x86-64, adjust the offset for your platform
return a

def is_sorted(a):
prev = None
for v in a:
if prev is not None and prev > v: return False
prev = v
return True

is_sorted(mutation_sort([3000, 1000, 7000, 8000, 2000])) # prints True
That's precisely what I explained, yes.

I'm unsure why you presented the entire point of the conversation as if it was a gotcha, but assuming it was a genuine mistake I can only suggest that you read my comment again.
Meetup events (at least the ones I've been to) seems to be coming back online (UK Brighton area). Shameless plug for Flock #10 for anyone around Shoreham - one of the reasons to like it is the "No Selling!" rule.

[0] https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/helloflock/
See also the Natural Number Game.
Please, bring it on!
That's not actually the truth. You can go to F-Droid, or Cydia, Amazon or one of the dozens of SEA app stores that exist.

You have plenty of options. Your argument is basically that Wal-Mart is everywhere, so Wal-Mart should be forced to serve you on your terms.
There’s too much easy entertainment. People who were bored often had other people as their primary form of entertainment, now it’s much easier to turn on the tv or go to something on the internet. This has been happening for a hundred years, and younger generations increasingly lose the habits of their elders.

Also architecture of our houses and cities does not favor that kind of social interaction. People sacrifice space for cost but that just makes the cost per area go up.
The Witch-King Cometh – Designing the Lord of the Nazgûl
I really want to start collecting these things but seams like it could become life consuming
You pay for marketing.
Refusing to Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Digest authentication made sense back when HTTPS was difficult and expensive to set up. Now that Let's Encrypt (and others!) have made HTTPS hosting more accessible, it's mostly pointless.