skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck. I'd love to see a major major major step change in the Snapdragon 7c/8cx (aka MS SQ1/SQ2) segments.

The uppermost end of the 8cx has a 66GBps memory pipe, which is on par with the memory bandwidth of the upcoming gaming-focused Steam Deck... but I'd be skeptical it will perform as well, will have near the oomph. Looking forward to finding out!
I wouldn't worry about shipments into town. Suez was out for like a week and the world managed more or less just fine. LA port is backlogged to the wazoo but nobody is starving because of it. My understanding is that the Vancouver situation is only 1-2 days old so far, so there's probably not that much reason for alarm unless damage to every single artery turn out to be serious. Worst comes to worst, the US road is still open.
Satellites discover huge amounts of undeclared methane emissions
It seems November is a hard month of rain in certain areas. When I was in Kuwait in 2018 they had a record flood on November 4th greater than anything in the modern history going back to the late 18th century when they civilized the area. Then on the 14th there was a flood that was 3x greater than the one on the 4th.

I was also reading that this week southern Egypt is having an extreme problem with flooding that killed 3 soldiers.

There are a bunch of videos on YouTube about it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kuwait+november...
> Have you tried to implement row- and column-based security on direct access to cloud storage? It flat out does not work.

It is a solved problem. Essentially you need a central place ( with decentralized ownership for the datamesh fans ) to specify the ACLS ( row-based, column-based, attribute-based etc.) - and an enforcement layer that understands these ACLs. There are many solutions, including the ones from Databricks. Data discovery, lineage, data quality etc., go hand in glove.

Security is front and centre for almost all organizations now.
That's the logical hypothesis, but the article we're commenting on seems to show that it's more complicated.

FTA:

"The logical case for why the Fed’s activities cause wealth concentration is that low interest rates and high levels of QE tend to boost asset prices, such as stocks and real estate, which are primarily owned by the wealthy. By making homes and stocks more expensive and unaffordable, it widens the wealth gap between those who owned those assets before the Fed began its QE vs those who were not yet significant asset holders when this occurred. There are other more nuanced arguments, but let’s start with that one, because that’s the main one.

If that’s the case, and QE is indeed a powerful force for wealth concentration, we should see that the nations that have the lowest interest rates and that have performed the most QE relative to their GDP, have the highest levels of wealth inequality, right?

In reality, we find the opposite.

...

The regions that did the most QE relative to their GDP, and that have had lower interest rates for longer, have less wealth inequality, not more, as measured by the ratio of the mean wealth divided by the median wealth.

If the prior theory was true, we should have seen the opposite. More of a correlation, rather than an inverse correlation.

...

I’m not making the argument that QE reduces wealth concentration, because that’s not the case either. Instead the point is, it’s complicated. QE and interest rates by themselves are significantly uncorrelated (or even inversely correlated) variables vs how much wealth concentration a country has, when comparing between countries.

That is an uncommon view, but that’s simply how the math works out. Clearly we need to look at the nuances."
> If it takes a room of robots following simple instructions a billion years to act as an AI that reads Chinese, are those robots a collective intelligence? Can it be scaled up to consciousness?

No, because of the article you linked to. Chinese room argues AGAINST the existence of consciousness/intelligence arising from following symbolic instructions.

Here is a quote I like by John Searle:

> Computational models of consciousness are not sufficient by themselves for consciousness. The computational model for consciousness stands to consciousness in the same way the computational model of anything stands to the domain being modelled. Nobody supposes that the computational model of rainstorms in London will leave us all wet. But they make the mistake of supposing that the computational model of consciousness is somehow conscious. It is the same mistake in both cases.
> 2) I was thankful for him and also amazed at how simple it was in 5 minutes to explain something that seemed to have eluded me for 5 years of highschool. It made me wonder alot what other difficult subjects could be easily taught by just a good explanation.

I didn't understand what functions are/ how they work, my brain absolutely refused to understand, until i started programming. Then i got it in 5 minutes.
brave://settings/shields and you can change the Trackers & ads blocking setting to disabled.
How many smartphones these days are not running iOS or Android?

Even then, nothing keeps the vendors of alternative smartphone OSes from implementing a FIDO platform authenticator.
Could it be the cuisine? I have yet to eat anything that tastes as it should in France.

I know French cuisine is famous, but eating anything tasty in Paris without being a local is one hell of challenge.
Direct rewards for anonymous data. I can see a problem with fake data spam.

One way to solve that problem is to not reward users for their data.
You write the domain (ipfs.io) on a blackboard with a chalk pen then take your nails and scratch the board.

(jk.)
I mean this with no snark at all: go look at a map of BC. For a lot of that province, three roads going in and out is luxury, must be a big city or something. Go not terribly far north of Vancouver, and for a lot of populated areas there is the road.
I'll admit both that I thought you were the original poster and that their methodology is available in the links, though not discussed in the Wikipedia article. However, their methodology itself backs up what I say, that they are only measuring perception of corruption. They are explicitly based on opinion, not any actual measure of corruption.

Here's the first criteria for a source from the methodology. It must

>Quantify perceptions of corruption in the public sector

Beyond that, as mentioned I did read the Wikipedia article, and your personal attacks are unnecessary.
Here: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/
The Death March is not a usual circumstance. In usual circumstances, different practices are indicated.
Related link for those not already aware of it:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg-_lYeV8hBnDSay7nmphUA

Leo is a British/American boat builder reconstructing a 111 "classic sailing yacht" up in Port Townsend, WA. He typically releases 1 video per week, and they are often wonderfully shot & edited visual meditations on the nature and practice of manual construction. Things have become a little more uptempo musically since the move to the boat yard at PT, but there's still a delightful sense of calm, steady skillfull work throughout.

And even on this much smaller project, yes, steam boxes were important when forming the new hull. [ EDIT: I got this wrong. No steam here. ]
Yeah, that's kind of my thought here too. It honestly feels like the only reliable way to make huge stacks of money with calls/puts is knowing stuff that ought to qualify you as an "inside trader".
This issue of dependencies is exacerbated when a popular library has old and unmaintained dependencies 2-3 levels down that have security holes, and taking them out is a huge refactor.

I hope the JS community is moving away from this model, and I think a good example of that is DayJS.
The tomato plant is huge! It seems quite foliage heavy though, do you think that's because of the commercial nutrient blend you used? Have you also looked at modifying the recipe at different stages i.e. during growth, flowering, ripening?

What climate zone are you in (if you don't mind me asking)?

I'll be growing a bunch of things in Spring and would like to make a setup like this. I'll keep an eye on the project and likely contribute if you're open to it
You can do the same with levered ETFs or futures, if you want to be levered to the hilt, at least do it with instruments where you don't run the risk of ending up losing everything even if the equities go up.
Vancouver has a port. Getting a barge there strikes me as a better solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Vancouver
For example, Facebook is dying because they focus on engagement and ignore enjoyment. You can measure engagement, so it fits neatly into a key result, but enjoyment is hard to measure, so the entire company is blind to it.
compass, map with geological features, gps if that still works, pick up trucks, drill machines, saws, axes, rubber pipes bundles, nails, eye glasses, insulin/thyroid medicines years worth of supply, fertilizer, ....
The media has been conducting a half decade hit job on crypto and people bought it.

To quote someone smarter than me on Twitter - the world was FUDded out of the biggest investment opportunity in their lifetime.
Will this be a significant impact to most people living in Vancouver?

All land freight can come from the US. COVID doesn't affect this.

International freight will come through port.

Agricultural communities just outside of greater Vancouver are cut off from each other. Canada restricts milk products and eggs, so I expect these will run out. What else do people in Vancouver relay on from the Fraser Valley? Toilet paper?
UBI isn't unemployment. Less desirable jobs won't need to pay more: income will be in addition to UBI.

The only jobs that will need to raise their wages are those that were exploitative to begin with: the ones that rely on people not even having the resources to seek better work.
It's not that he shouldn't express his views in a blog. The part that feels shifty here is that he's not disclosing his position in the space in his articles. I think most people are at least somewhat susceptible to "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." so a disclosure of interest is useful to frame thoughts on a topic.

I didn't know about any of this until @capableweb brought it up. It explains a lot more about this series of blog posts.
What the $1T Infrastructure Bill Means for EV Charging
You could consider using the admin policy for disabling the Tor functionality: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/454
> Now if I put a million dollars in the bank, I lose wealth due to inflation, so I'm incentivized to put it in a fund or something now, which is a lot riskier than bank interest.

Yes, people investing in productive enterprise is actually better for real output, prices, and generally overall welfare.
I imagine this headline will be used by pro-gaming folks in just as disingenuous ways as anti-gaming folks use their studies.

IMO, everything in moderation. Video games are fine unless they dominate your life, in which case you’re probably overdoing it.
You can go even deeper: given that your simulation follows a set of known rules from an initial state, what does actually performing those steps even matter?

Is the consciousness given existence because you perform calculations on paper, or does it exist already within the fabric of reality and you're merely exposing it?
So i'd put parametric vs. non-para on a scale. It can be done in terms of the final model parameters, even -- but this may seem initially weird.

If the parameters of the predictive model are a weakly compressive function of the dataset, then your method is non-parametric. If your parameters are extremely compressive it's parametric. Subject to both being low-loss models of the data.

Why? Well a non-parametric method is basically one which "uses the data points as its statistical model"; and a parametric method fits the data to a prior low-parameterised model.

Eg., linear regression essentially fits the data to a normal distribution = parametric on the mean/std, ie., pdf(Y|X) = N(ax +b, stdev). You fit (a,b) and thus essentially are just "finding a mean".

Eg., knn just remembers the dataset itself.

So there's a scale from "linear regression to knn", ie., Weights = (Mean, Stdev)... to Weights = (X, Y).

The terms parametric and non-parametric are fairly overloaded, so this way of characterising the distinction may either improve or worsen that.

Either way, my point is that NN model with a very high parameter count is essentially best analysed as KNN on a weakly compressed feature space. In that sense it is an incredibly obvious and simple algorithm.

Incidentally, NN can just be linear regression or KNN if you set it up appropriately. So NN is an alg. which runs "from knn to linear regression" depending on, eg., activation-fns, how hard you regularise it, etc.
One difference is that while broadway only works with GTK programs, Greenfield theoretically should work with any Wayland-supporting program (including apps using GTK 3 or 4). I wonder what options there are for running an X11 server in a browser..
Past threads:

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17573142 - July 2018 (22 comments)

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913825 - June 2016 (54 comments)

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061744 - Feb 2015 (43 comments)

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2897277 - Aug 2011 (10 comments)

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861825 - Aug 2011 (36 comments)
> And JWT's don't solve authentication which was the actual problem people were looking to solve. For a prototyping server authn==authz is more than fine.

Re-read the OP

> Unfortunately, to do anything complicated, you will need to write server-side queries that verify that the user is allowed to do what they are trying to do.

this is authorization, not authentication. Your assertion is false at first place.

Your comment makes no sense by the way. You'd have the exact same issue with another authorization scheme, the credentials need to come from somewhere.

There no such thing as "prototyping servers" in the wild. Only blatantly unsecure open source servers.
No, I'm not going to watch an hour-long video for the answer. The intro seems to be saying that "domains" (undefined) are related to CS, and also related to measure theory. That's... not much to go on...
When I was in Russia I recall seeing "Chery" (Chinese car brand) as well at the very low end. I'm almost certain that one doesn't meet crash test or other requirements for the US market.
Also, more people are in the back woods these days for recreational purposes rather than pure necessity, which also confounds the numbers. The relationship between safety gear and risk taking attitudes seems to be relatively complicated, and none of the sources I’ve read have managed to pin down whether or not safety equipment reliably produced more risk taking behavior.

Still, if I was in the habit of going further afield than your typical day hiker, or lived in a remote area, I think a rescue beacon would be a minimum requirement. An inReach gives you rescue functionality and GPS, so it’s kind of a win win.

The rumors of a satellite enabled iPhone might change this calculus again. Time will tell on that one.
Show HN: A SaaS tool to turn your followers into supporters
Really? Wages are spent so to not depreciate.

Those that use debt to buy assets, hence face interest costs, could suffer terribly if interest rates outpace the value of their assets. An asset price crash would burn then badly (as happened in London property market, if memory serves, in the 1990s)
The code:

'use strict';

var isOdd = require('is-odd');

module.exports = function isEven(i) {
return !isOdd(i);
};

https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even/blob/master/ind...
I agree that maybe allowing market downturns to occur is probably a good thing.

That said, an equally reasonable interpretation of your observation is that maybe inequality is not itself a problem. More inequality doesn't necessarily mean that the poor are worse off than they would be with less inequality.

I wonder if we are collectively making a mistake to treat stock ownership as wealth. Stock prices going down reduces wealth inequality, but does that actually help anyone?
-O0 turns off optimizations on most reasonable C compilers.
The issue is most companies do a background check where everything listed on your resume is verified, so the dates of employment will be listed and overlapping dates would be a red flag
HN has decided to completely fail at crypto collectively. They are missing out on the entirety of the Next Big Thing .
Ungoogled Chromium, or even base Chromium is good enough
It even has one dependency, package is-odd
BC Ferries has a multitude of travel advisories in effect due to the high seas and winds, so reliability is a concern. Vancouver has 2 ferry terminals, and both are subject to the conditions.
This feels like a rabbit hole, my my.
> there isn't a way to opt-out as far as I have found.

Navigate to: brave://settings/wallet

Set Default cyrptocurrency wallet to None, and set Show Brave Wallet icon on toolbar to off
The idea that we often over-engineer based on our training was first brought home to me by this piece about situated software:

https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situ...

Basically: fit for purpose can be simple.
Show HN: Outage Bingo
I'm not necessarily claiming that all abstractions are bad. I'm say that (as a general rule) engineers should be more willing to duplicate code.
I am not familiar with any complete refutation of his work. Some questions here and there
> But if checks are built in there is no way to remove them

Sure there is: you have a compiler which recognizes uses library functions and makes code generation decisions based on whatever information is available at the call site.

And this is easier to do for built-in functions, whose definition you can assume from the spec.

The simplest example is constant folding. If isEven is part of the language, a compiler can constant-fold isEven(0) to true even if no inline definition of it is visible.
Why does it need a blockchain? What kind of blockchain will it use? Public or private? What will be the consensus mechanism (PoW or PoS)?
I think you got your Davids confused. Honor Harrington series are written by a David Weber.
With help of some admin form builder/boilerplate, yes, this is absolutely possible with high quality.

Thanks for the story from real experience.
Why does hn love this fud so much? I haven't read anything that wasn't completely intellectually dishonest from him.
It seems to be a common feature of startups nowadays, thinking of Uber and many others: disruption by just burnin money
> How many smartphones these days are not running iOS or Android?

Those that fight the duopoly and allow user freedom: Librem 5 and Pinephone.

I really hope that it could use an open standard. Then, it's probably fine.
The Case for Gaming and NFTs
I used to feel that same way. But after reading HN for a while I got used to ignoring the items that don't interest me. But I've always been drawn to things outside my area of expertise. Full disclosure: I'm an ex-sysadmin, current "devops" type person. Waiting for RSS to make a comeback
I use blockers, best decision I ever made. However, ads have nothing to do with YT not wanting to waste bandwidth by streaming 24/7 if nobody is viewing it. Netflix does it (the first I noticed doing it), Amazon does it. I'm assuming HBOMax will get to it.
Undetected, China Bought Italian Military-Drone Maker
Some are and they are overfitting those cases to an entire technology. It's understandable to see that nuance get lost on Twitter, but disappointing to see on a tech forum. It's like discounting email because it enables nigerian prince scams.
My use case may or may not have been part of the intended initial focus of Budibase, which was to create an MVP to test and refine an idea. I am not a dev, but I was able to find my around it for the most part. To me, it was like an updated, easier to use MS Access alternative. When I was stuck, I joined their Discord chat room. The founders were prompt and informative in response to my questions. Congratulations on the launch. To success. Ace.
https://archive.ph/iqrGC
Facet raises $13M to add photo editing features Photoshop can only dream of
> Divorce seems to be like a stab wound people carry around for years

This is a great metaphor. That’s exactly how it feels.
Is inequality the base thing we care about? Or is it only an instrumental way of accessing overall welfare, which is the thing we actually care about?

If the latter is true, it seems like causing recessions in order to reduce inequality is at least somewhat akin to to cutting off the nose to spite the face.
I was experienced this issue with my spotify app. Initially thought, it was my internet issue lol.
During the week between 22nd and 28th Dec 2020, it shows a spike. Not an ordinary one, but more than 100x the regular figure! 19,960,098 downloads to be precise.

Edit: whoops, 100x
Swipii, Glaswegian (Scotland/UK) Cashback App, is closing (16/11/2021)
> Plain language descriptions of algorithms and theorems are the best writing of all

Be careful with this. Understanding "edge cases" for an algorithm is just as important if not more than the core idea. With "plain language descriptions" you tend to get the latter but not the former which is _very_ dangerous.
The many skeptical comments on this thread are well founded, however the idea that video games positively correlate with well-being seems to resonate with my own experience.
When I have downtime nowadays, I often tune out by listening to podcasts while playing video games on my phone. I jokingly refer to this with my wife as “dial tone mode”.
This doesn’t take the place of reading; I read a lot of articles and books, both fiction and non-fiction. I reckon I read much more since I acquired a smart phone and basically carry a library in my pocket FWIW. But I don’t think reading serves the same function as dial tone mode.
I suffer from depression and anxiety. When I’m not reading, I don’t usually sit around and have wonderful ideas. Instead, I listen to the often nasty voices in my head telling me there’s something terribly wrong with me and my life. This is especially true if I’m stressed out.
Dial tone mode feels therapeutic to me, and iPhone video games are a part of that. I’m quite aware I could be wrong, even about my interpretation of my own experience. But so it seems to me.
We're just the nerds who push the nerd-buttons. We don't need to understand how it works, or why it should be this way not that way, or what the margins are. Just push the nerd-buttons and the damn thing work like it does in my head! All the hard work has been done by the ideas people who had to do all the creative stuff and make all the hard decisions. Now it just needs to be put into the computer-thingies and work!

/s, obviously
Does it run games? :)
Brave Wallet supports that use case. Only use your Ledger and connect it to Brave. That will delegate signing of transactions to the hardware wallet. The private key does not leave the hardware wallet.

It's all about being a Dapp browser. The use case is getting access to Dapps.
I dunno ... I have seen multiple people skip sleep and exercise so that they can play. And then everybody else had to deal with sleep deprived cranky them.
please don't put words in my mouth. I said no such thing.
When you said NFT I got triggered. Then I realized this can't surely be the NFT I'm thinking about haha.
I didn't read the study, but the article talks about the number of cases during a four month period.