skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I'm an indiedev and while I think that line of thinking, of re-using items between games, is pretty weak generally, I can see some use cases for it.

This already happens partly with asset stores like Unity's https://assetstore.unity.com/, where you can just buy assets to use in your games and multiple developers end up using the same assets. There's nothing preventing "popular NFT asset packs" from being a thing that, on top of helping devs make their games faster, would also end up helping indiedevs attract people to their games, since they'd be implementing certain NFT packs and users who own those would be more likely to check those games out.

Like I said, I think it's a pretty weak idea but it's not that crazy or ridiculous to imagine it happening to some degree.
The Mythbusters did a show on this exact thing with spraypaint, hairspray, and propane canisters. They didn't explode even when wrapped with flaming rags, but sometimes the released material would combust. In some cases the gas rushing out actually extinguished the flame.

You rarely by accident get a stoichiometric mix. With a slow leak into an enclosed container is usually how it happens. Otherwise there is too much fuel to O2 in the atmosphere.

People really need to stop trying to sound smart by thinking of imagined dangers. That is what stopped nuclear power, it's what's stopping hydrogen as a fuel, it's what's stopping gene therapy research, etc. Get over yourself.
> You are right about [Perl] and Python being scripting languages but unfortunately people use them for full applications that use 10 to 100 times the memory and CPU of what is necessary.

And honestly, that would be an improvement. The trend seems to be to write more and more applications in JavaScript with Electron [1], which I unrigorously assume uses 10 to 100 times the memory and CPU of an equivalent Python app (given Electron apps seem to most frequently make my fan spin or have some kind of memory leak requiring a force-kill).

[1] Now ranking higher on Google than the subatomic particle: https://www.google.com/search?q=electron (https://archive.ph/J2HYI)
I am a little bugged by how you tricked me into signing up, asked my details including a phone number but then made me book in a time with your team. This is deception in my opinion. You asked me whether I wanted a free trial, which I did. I signed up but now I have to speak to someone to get it
? Why not say that upfront then ?
Why is ocean shipping broken
> Which happens because black people are overrepresented when it comes to crime, which happens because they are overrepresented in being poor as dirt.

Have you tried to confirm this hypothesis, by for example looking at studies that examine the crime rate by both socioeconomic status and race?
Depends on the definition of deaths. Most people don't get tested for flu. Also, in many cases, died of covid means "had a positive test result within two weeks of death". That's ignoring the dubious reliability of PCR tests in general.
Not a HN thread but he posts monthly project updates very similar to this demo but often longer and more in-depth. If you liked this post you will definitely enjoy these too:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55bfp6ykOLayL...
Yikes, Pidgin was nothing like this in my experience. Rock solid for months at a time. Maybe you pushed the wrong button? What are the details of the platform you were trying to run it on?
There's one pesky question I have about Google acquiring YouTube. Most of the time I've seen acquisitions take over the product and adopt the product into their company. Usually changing the name or even adding a "by parent company". Both YouTube and Instagram acquisitions did not do that.

I'm wondering if internally what that decision looks like. Why is it still YouTube and not Google Video or TV by Google. or Google Tube. or Google TV.
I've been following Andreas on Youtube for quite some time. It is a monumental undertaking to write a completely new OS from scratch, and I admire his perserverence so far.

He has managed to make a worthy tribute to both UNIX and old Windows aesthetic style. And he did it almost all alone. Of course, Serenity OS is now a living, breathing community, just as it should be.

BTW, the guy has even ported DOOM, old DukeNukem and freakin' Diablo 1 to his OS. Mad respect to Andreas, Serenity is truly a work of genius.
The “donate via crypto” links at the bottom make it even harder to tell
> I have heard it is plausible that Dark Matter is merely another particle that fits in the standard model. I've heard it plausible that Dark Energy is e.g. a WIMP or other new particle in the standard model.

Whoever told you that was getting dark matter and dark energy mixed up.

Dark matter could be "another particle", possibly a sterile neutrino:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino#Sterile_neutr...

Dark energy however is definitely something else. WIMPs in particular are hypothetical dark matter particles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_par...
Sure! Debate is a skill, and I think the, to use your term, "anti-woke" side performed it better. Debate skill is not, however, equivalent to truth.

As an extreme example, imagine a child debating with an adult. The adult asserts that the moon is made of cheese. It's entirely possible that the adult could "win" that debate by any reasonable measure because most children are (understandably) terrible debaters. This being despite the fact that the adult is clearly wrong.

Now, it's certainly harder to debate well in favor of a bad idea. Given two equivalently-skilled debaters (eg two random adults), one would expect the cheese-moon position to be soundly trounced. But given a proposition that's much more contentious (like "Cancel Culture is Toxic"), I think it's pretty easy to "win" despite being (imo) incorrect.

This is possible because I judge the best debater only by what was said in the debate, but I judge whether cancel culture is really toxic or not from years of information, experience, and many points and nuances of argument that none of the debaters hit on (or didn't hit on in depth).

Hence the disparity.

(And, as an aside, I love how IntelligenceSquared handles this when judging the debate: they poll the audience before and after the debase and whichever side moved the larger percentage of the audience to their side "wins").
The list of people speaking at Handmade Seattle as well as the topics sounds absolutely fantastic. So many conferences are either too corporate with presentations that are mostly flashy marketing, or they are technical but there's only like 2 or 3 people giving a genuinely solid talk. This conference looks like it has everything, great speakers and great topics.
Probably makes more sense to do compressed or liquid methane for ground vehicles. Easier to synthesize and cleaner burning.
Instagram Stories and flash cards having a baby
US total market ($VTI) and International total market ($VXUS).

You could slightly bet on value ($VTV) for having better current profits (P/E 20 means effectively 5% real interest w/o growth) and typically doing better in rising rate environments (many banks in the index which have better profits on larger interest rate spreads).
Yes, a lesser known feature within Preview.
I had never heard of Data Fabric before. Now that I have, I'm not sure they can exist without each other. In fact I would imagine that the metadata accumulated by through the data fabric would/could end up driving the data mesh implementation.

Perhaps apps and services will end up having to go through data-coverage and data-quality verification steps before being released. Analytics (and caching, joins, etc) as an after thought is unacceptable in this day and age.
The US federal government doesn’t run elections. The individual states set the rules, and they are run based on those rules at a hyper local (sub city sized) level.
> This is not a situation that anyone is discussing.

It's exactly the situation that was articulated. Or at least the most plausible version of what was said.

> What is being said is that I can take a piece of BSD code, modify it as I see fit, and relicense the assemblage as GPL

That is probably false. The BSD code itself cannot be relicensed, since nothing grants you that permission. Courts have not expanded the idea of compilation copyright to software linking, so far as I know, so that is an open question. However, even if the "whole assemblage" had a compilation copyright separate and apart from its independent components, it would not change the fact that the BSD-licensed component is BSD-licensed.

> if I go through that code and add the prefix "GPLisbetter-" to every variable name, can you use it under BSD?

Yes. We call this kind of thought process "jailhouse lawyering" and it is almost universally disastrous for the proponent. Courts readily see through arrogant people's attempts to outsmart their own common sense. CTRL+H will not provide you the magical ability to relicense a copyrighted work you do not own.
I was always under the impressions, that they keep the samples frozen in some big "freezer", and that they don't poke them around and "play" with them... so opening an unknown vial of an unknown sample of possibly smallpox, having the sample analyzed, and all the procedures needed for that, seem (to me) more risky than just keeping the freezer running.
Our software is subscription-based, and our customers love it. They get a predictable cost over time, rather than large costs every now and then. We can afford to include features that otherwise might not be justifiable in terms of new sales.

On the flip side, one of our competitors who hasn't switched has been struggling for years and a recent new version almost killed them off as many customers didn't feel they could justify the $10-20k or so to buy the license to the new version.

A key part of our success is that the subscription price scales linearly with customer activity. There's a fixed base price per active user, and in addition there's a cost associated with certain actions. This means that the subscription price scales with the customers activity and hence income. If they have a slow month they have less income but pay less, if they have an active month they have higher income but they also pay more.

FWIW our software is primarily installed on premise, but we do offer hosted service as well (base cost is different for the two cases).
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Portuguese marmelada and British marmelade are so different.

Marmelada has a texture similar to a grainy pate and it is very sweet.
>For most people every interaction with Apple goes through a human.

No they don't. For a lot, sure. Most? No.

These people the interact with are part of the faceless attribute, they're usually pretty robotic interactions. But yes, they're a great part of Apple. To talk to a human.

>All in-store with an Apple employee.

They will usually say: "Okay let us take a look." and "Okay we took a look. You need a new X."

It's not the most faceless, but it is one of them. It's nearly impossible not to be faceless in this market.
If I had to guess, it's because they're presumably transferable in a way that would be hard to cheat, making digital reselling easier. It would help create a secondary market for tickets, the primary use case would presumably be scalping. For that same reason, I couldn't imagine why any ticket vendor would be inclined to go down this path.
Filecoin is a cryptocurrency that is used to incentivize IPFS pinning in a decentralized way. There, you have a reason.
> ... I don't think state-sponsored attackers are a major problem ...

The small and new nature of the Monzo makes it an attractive target.

An attacker may well use slightly smaller, slightly less established business to other, more established businesses, as a pivot point. Since this is a 'bank' it will have some connection with other institutions. It does not need to be SWIFT or similar to be exploited.

> ... don't think state-sponsored attackers are a major problem. Those rarely need the money ...

I disagree with this too. State-sponsored APTs may very well take advantage of financial gains, both to enrich the attacking country, and throw off investigations. (e.g. DPRK, Iran)

Just my opinion.
I wonder if an app on a phone could do this?
> Ethereum should inspire anyone interested in the future(s) of the internet, because it demonstrates, powerfully, that new protocols are still possible.

Yes it should. Hence the reasons why there are alternative blockchains that not only aim to supersede Ethereum but they are specifically designed to scale and handle more applications and use-cases with cheaper transaction fees and are also EVM compatible.

The only reason that they have decided on something unscalable and expensive as Ethereum is because they missed out on Bitcoin. So the Web3 crowd decides to hype it everywhere.

I still cannot use Ethereum to buy my groceries. Therefore it is completely useless for that case.
Does Stripe detect something like privacy.com?
Strongly agree, and furthermore the phrase "a bubble" only works as a metaphor if we associate debt with empty air, and therefore the metaphor only works if we are talking about debt. But the article says that people's savings increased massively during the pandemic, which would be an ahistorical prelude to a bubble.
don't understand what OP is saying.

you hate your job so...you're quitting the industry, but you're still curious what people like to use for their API work?
> Batteries are great for storing electricity efficiently

In some cases not even that. Modern Lithium-ion batteries are quite good, but self-discharge still is 2-3%/month. So, if you want to store for months (say charging a battery using the summer sun to heat a house in winter), you easily lose 10% to self-discharge, in addition to what you lose between charging and discharging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-discharge#Typical_self-di... says NiMH batteries even lose 30% per month.
More like the current game for negative real interest rates. Suddenly anything that holds equivalent value 10 years out is worth much more than current $ which will depreciate by then.
Fun way to waste your time.
I hate having to make accounts for every fucking forum, so I don't. Didn't even have an HN account, but thought that was so cogent I would create this throwaway
And we also burn coal and other lovely stuff for energy.
> Python is not only a scripting language.

The Python (programming language) is. Ok, if you want to get pedantic you can talk about the language vs interpreter vs ecosystem? I'm not sure what you are getting at.

> It powers many many websites including Youtube. It's a full power limitless language.

Lots of things "power" Youtube. I'm not sure how that's important to point out.
>I'm astonished there are people that think like this on HN

you're just probably not aware that Daszak's Wuhan coronavirus gain-of-function program included human testing. It is actually specified in the clear on the EcoAlliance's NIH approved grant for the Wuhan in 2014.

In 2018 he tried to double dip by going to DARPA for money for the human specific virus genetic modifications of the type that later were found present in the COVID-19 which supposedly magically "naturally" appeared right near the Wuhan lab (and thousand kilometers away from its natural brethren) in the late 2019.

I'm astonished that some people on HN still believe in the "naturality" of the COVID-19.
God this is amazing. I made this masterpiece by choosing the most ridiculous replies that halfway made sense, and ended up with this masterpiece.

https://toldby.ai/UiyTLzXKsEa

Yevgeny's eldest daughter's speech is particularly moving.
>>> ripe for disruption

Agreed. Am not usually one for "Facebook for Pets" type ideas. But a Google Cloud for Pet Microchipping sounds like a home run. Honestly, just sounds like a fun hardware and software space to work on. From startup perspective, seems like they would capture very powerful data sets as well if they get active pet location tracking ;)
Are there big issues with the current system that exists today to prove ownership of a property you bought? Is real estate fraud common enough?

I never went through buying property before so I honestly don't know, but most of the people I know just hired a lawyer and got it done and it was never a thing they had to think about afterward.
Think of it as an ensemble for blending your normal NN features (ex: RNN for time/clickstreams) with a model that can also leverage useful graph features (document citations, app logins, chemicals connecting, social graphs).

We think a lot about security/fraud and digital journeys, where NN + xgboost are popular in general, and graph is used seperately (or upstream) for looking at broader structure. GNNs help blend these models. For example, in analyzing malicious user accounts (ex: misinfo on twitter), we already get many time/nlp/etc scores for whatever events/entities we look at, and use the social network structure to ensure better propagation/blending, similar to why boosting and ensemble methods became popular to beginwith. Feel free to DM if interested, we are quite excited by this space and working on some things here.
These are good insights, I get the sense maybe that you may be tracking your predictions or at least are revisiting them more than most people. The common behavior is to forget just how uncertain the past was.

Or summarized: first things seem impossible, then they seem obvious.
Do you have any citation on why "Dask doesn't consider their distributed version" to be ready? If it is your own view, then that's ok.

I think dask is in heavy usage in real production systems. Let me cite one such usage here, from Capital One (no affiliation, just referencing a big bank for 'production ready' purposes) https://www.capitalone.com/tech/machine-learning/dask-and-ra... (also not necessarily suggesting any rapids/GPU usage, you can decouple it from the article)

And note the article is from Nov 2019. Two years is a substantial amount of time for further improvements.
I realize this argument is probably tongue-in-cheek, but if we were to take it at face value it would be interesting to factor in energy costs required to feed/house/etc. the programmers for the additional time it would take to implement a given system in C vs python, and how often would the code need to run to make it balance out?
So, Yandex. That's pretty much what it is today.

Except it's Russian, so the propaganda conditioning kicks in.

And please just fucking ban me, my devices, my IP, I'm begging you.

I'm limited to 2 posts per half a day or so. I'm trying to quit this hellish addiction. Yet I'm shadow banned, still posting, but not banned.

Because that would somehow be worse than this? Same thinking as life imprisonment being better than the death penalty, I guess.

Well, I'll say it, this is torture. One day I will be free from this hell. And all of your running this site are a bunch of cunts who deserve to die painfully. Just my opinion (I'll skin anyone alive with video proof at affordable rates, contact me).
There are only a very limited number of paintings that people actually care about being genuine. And mostly they have long histories. The vast vast majority of paintings are only worth their effort for someone to create again today. NFTs will almost all be entirely worthless in a years time. Almost anything sold as a collectors item becomes worthless after the first sale.
>But I'm not the one that wants to restrict what people in poor countries can or can't do with their money. That's you.

Sorry, but if you're gonna make false accusations about me and put words in my mouth, i will end the conversation here and never reply to you again. Good day sir.
> If your argument is that insecure devices are ok for most people, you’ve already lost.

Quoting things out-of-context is really bad.

What I meant for that amount of security is the kinda of security where if you lose your device from your sight consider it already compromised. People that needs that amount of security will not be better with the Apple's new security theater.

Android devices are sufficient secure if they're up-to-date (this is not always true, sadly). iPhone devices are secure when they're up-to-date (more likely) and not suffering from the 0-day exploit of the week (that is happening more and more frequently). Arguably every iPhone user would be much better if Apple started to take software security more seriously, but they prefer to increase their profits by making screen repairs harder "in name of security".

Just to make it clear: you don't need to have "Apple certificated repair shops" replace the screen to have secure bio-metrics. The Google Pixel 6 shows this, you can change the screen, this will disable the bio-metrics until the device is re-calibrated (that doesn't need special hardware). Once re-calibrated the device will wipe itself, so there is no security issue here [1].

But even still, this is probably too much. 0-days seems to be so bountiful those days that buying a 0-day seems to be much cheaper than doing custom hardware, even when the hardware itself is not authenticated. Still, if you're gonna do it, do as Google at least.

[1]: https://www.gsmarena.com/google_quietly_releases_a_fingerpri...
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You don't need that much storage. You'd really need at most 12h of peak power, but probably closer to 4h.

A 10k km HVDC line is enough to draw power from places 90 degrees apart in terms of latitude. Similarly, between the east and west coast of the US there's around 3h of a time difference.

Chile is planning on building an even longer cable, so it's entirely in the realm of possibility:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/15/chile-wants-to-export...
Why would an airgapped system face any different security threats just because the intruder came in on a USB stick, phone, malicious application, compromised hardware, etc?
But I think the hard part is not just synthesizing the DNA, but instead assembling the various proteins into an actual virus.
It's interesting with these wrap head lamps, which have 40 COB(Chip on Board) LEDs, is you see spiders everywhere at night. And other large animal eyes with a Tapetum lucidum look 'strange', not like normal led reflections.

It's a bit unnerving/cool that you'll see 10 pairs of eyes looking back from the lawn you might have just been lying on.

https://www.amazon.com/Headlight-Rechargeable-210%C2%B0Illum...

I'd be looking at something like that, at least as a first run over the room. But perhaps to augment. It allows you to see spider eyes at 5+ meters.
> Companies waste tens of thousands of dollars every year on SaaS products they subscribe to but don’t use. And when I say “don’t use,” I literally mean zero logins for paid users during a subscription period.

We have a SaaS product, and we see that as well. Usually our sales folks will have a look every now and then and see if there's a lack of activity.

Almost always it's the result of someone quitting or losing their job, and our software gets lost in the handover of responsibilities. I've heard of several cases where sales has effectively re-sold our software more than 3-4 times to the same division in a company over the years.
It’s a bit like saying the world would be better off if we went back to pre industrial revolution practices.
The landing page is quite noisy, what with the marquee text and the top and bottom text banners, etc. I would recommend simplifying things a bit and going with a cleaner look, right now it kinda reminds me of the style of websites in the early 2000s. Of course if that's what you were going for carry on lol. The actual editor itself is quite nice, good job!
So the crypto-hype train is now claiming it's the new web. The article is wishy-washy language that leaves you excited and unclear. I wonder how much of a dollar boost this will give crypto currencies before the next thing shifts attention and garners excitement.
Would you give some clue on what do you mean? I didn't use any meth for that if that's what you guessed.