skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wild west is a really bad metaphor for internet governance at any time. Firstly by sheer weight of numbers it's China and India who carry the users. Secondly it never had a deregulated state, ever, since before ARPAnet telecommunications were fully regulated state or post monopolised regulated by the outcomes of the RBOC lawsuits.

This "we need more wild west" is a fantasy. It ignores pretty much all current governance and community consensus processes everywhere. Not even John Perry Barlow believed his own quote applied to all things all the time.

The IETF is not the wild west. IANA is not the wild west. BGP speaking is not the wild west.
(Most) browsers actually start displaying an image before it's fully downloaded. In fact, many image formats/renderers are specifically designed with this property in mind, like jpeg which will render progressively less blurry versions of an image as the browser receives progressively higher-frequency components of the Fourier transform.

While the bytes are there temporarily, just like with all the other methods discussed, chrome at least eventually give up on downloading the "whole" image and displays a broken image sign in place of the Mona Lisa (and presumably prevents it from being cached and deletes what was there)
Oh, I always interpreted as as a guiding principle for system design.
If it happened in the worlds most used client OS 20 years ago, it's clearly not impossible it can happen again. Not that much has happened with computers since then.

I remember being like you, believing no virus could come from an image or other data. I have been proven wrong enough times since then. We keep assuming things as programmers and sometimes we get it wrong and then there is a new wulnerability.
I'd settle for free speech and no censorship .
It's a service every company needs and most aren't willing to build. This is in large part because most companies don't have the security expertise to handle sensitive data so it makes tons of sense to outsource. Even the companies that do have that expertise may not want to invest their resources outside their core business.

The important thing to consider is how much would it cost you to build/deploy a solution to send and request signatures from clients? Lawyers, developers, and security professionals are all needed and can quickly push the cost to build much much higher then paying for a service.

As for the valuation, it's also high in part because the market segment is so large.. anyone and everyone doing business online is a potential customer.

Disclaimer: I work for HelloSign. My experience here is from having seen many companies try to build it themselves only to return as customers a few months later.
Ten Million a Year
Wowgirls – Beautiful Sybil Fucking with Her New Boyfriend
Sure, and I know someone who got like 80k inheritance and he bought a jet ski and a car, crashed the car and sold the jet ski within a year.

Not all developers can retire within 25, but what I'm trying to say is that a significant fraction of EU developers can, if they learn and are smart about their money, either retire very lavishly at the normal retirement age or retire 10-20 years earlier with a bit of luck/extra effort.
Reminds me (pun not intended) of Funes, the Memorious (Borges short story):

A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a lozenge-all these are forms we can fully and intuitively grasp; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a pony, with a herd of cattle on a hill, with the changing fire and its innumerable ashes, with the many faces of a dead man throughout a long wake. [...] With no effort, he had learned English, French, Portuguese and Latin. I suspect, however, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of Funes, there were only details, almost immediate in their presence.
this reminds me of a paradox in trying to perform bot detection on social media: the closer bots get to being human, you also deal with humans who act like the bots: posting repetitively about the latest crypto scheme for example

so tik tok and instagram and even phones themselves apply skin-smoothing filters by default, guess what, that makes it harder to distinguish deepfaked videos from just heavily filtered genuine videos

I dont know how to convince people to be less bot-like, but social media is making it easy on these scammers by making beautification filters the norm
Can't edit anymore, you're right, I typed an extra 0 -- he actually makes $5k per year on Spotify. I was up too late and not thinking correctly. I think the $50k was his total across all services.
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There's been no shortage of "I bought an EV, had an ICE rental, and can't believe how horribly awful this awful horrible car is!" articles in the last decade, just find one. They're all the same.

They tend to go on about noise, vibration, the awful smell of gas stations, and a variety of other common and tedious complaints. Ok, yes, we get it, you're smug and have to prove to everyone else how amazing your purchase was, but must you write the 500th version of the same article?

Or you can just accept that every vehicle is different, every vehicle has different quirks, wants to be driven/ridden differently, listen to what it tells you, and go from there. Yes, you can flog an Insight around a twisty road on the paddle shifters, but... that's not what the car wants, and it's not very rewarding to try and make it drive like something it isn't.

An EV isn't an ICE isn't a PHEV isn't a hybrid isn't a rotary isn't a...

Even among theoretically identical vehicles, they often enough aren't, after enough miles. I drove buses for a while, and they tended to be purchased in lots - two of this, four of that, etc. Even among the "sister buses," they were different. Some were smoother, some seemed to have more power, some were wired differently. Know the quirks of each bus and you were going to have a fine time. Miss that 947 really benefited from turning off the AC compressor off a stoplight, and you would struggle to keep a schedule on the weekend. But man, that was a sweet cruising evening route bus. On the campus circulators, 926 and 927 were best run in first gear - they were big four cylinders (something like an 8L 4-cylinder) that were really prone to shifting into 2nd, and then getting stuck lugging along barely above idle instead of shifting down to 1st if you were on a bit of a grade. Keep them in first, it was fine on those routes (first was a pretty tall gear on them).

And it goes on. Instead of whining about what a vehicle isn't, enjoy it for what it is, listen to it, drive it how it wants to be driven, and you'll have a good time. It's just not good for clicks.
It's not just you. I have a terrible time trying to get through technical / programming books, they put me to sleep. Not everyone learns the same way and that's okay. I have no problem getting through huge fiction books, so it's not a "book problem".
Presumably the point of the strict typing forbidding aliases here, is to force the developer to realize/acknowledge that SQLite does not in fact have separate internal native types with these names.

It's like the modern C convention of avoiding "int" in favor of u8/u16/u32/u64. Rather than pretending "int" is a separate thing, you have to explicitly choose and acknowledge the concrete primitive type you're really getting, and explicitly opt into the semantics that use of that concrete primitive type implies.
I had this exact problem.

I set a single New Years Resolution goal to build this muscle: 12 books in this year. I’ve read 22 now.

What compels me to keep reading is the Reading Insights Streak feature in Kindle. It’s like a little reminder I can always check on to see if I’ve read today or not.
This seems like... obviously a security? I seriously hope they're registering with the SEC for this.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp

>1. An investment of money

check

>2. In a common enterprise

check

>3. With the expectation of profit

Probably? Why else would they be buying a team for?

>4. To be derived from the efforts of others3

check.

edit: I took a look at their "Flightpaper", and in it they acknowledged that some parts of it might pass the Howey Test, and they recognize the possibility of regulatory oversight

>This funding model requires extensive SEC regulation oversight.

However, they're pretty light on details on whether it would actually be approved by the SEC or not. Also by the looks of it they haven't registered with the SEC right now, but they're already raising funds?
One of the things I dislike about DocuSign is there’s no linkage to the document used to create the PDF you’re supposed to sign. I was once sent a DocuSign email by a large/seemingly reputable company, and I read through it to make sure it was what I expected. It wasn’t — they had edited a key provision, in a way that favored them.

Most people don’t read through DocuSigns, partly because the platform makes them difficult/impossible to word search. It would be great if every email from DocuSign included a Word doc of the agreement you’re being asked to sign. Otherwise the platform can be manipulated by unscrupulous people who take advantage of how hard it is to review documents on the platform.

You might be able to argue that you had not truly assented to the modified provision, using emails exchanged back and forth to show what the parties had agreed to prior to the DocuSign email. But it would be an uphill battle to prove this, so it’s always better to not have your signature on a document whose provisions you don’t agree with (IAAL).
I like to enhance games with log parsing too. Been playing muds again lately and writing logs with the mud/telnet client (tintin++) to be parsed/spat out in tmux splits, which works great

(as an aside, I started looking and testing mushclient, which is adored by many. nick gammon has been upkeeping it for years and it offers a ton of features/settings)
Note that you don't have to have a JSON-typed column in SQLite in order to do JSON-y things. In SQLite, JSON is just "text that happens to contain JSON", and JSON functions are just functions that operate on "text that happens to contain JSON".
It’s interesting that they would present statistics and then say “statistics are flawed so you can’t draw any conclusions”. If the number of reported incidents went down, even if retailers only report 10% of incidents, wouldn’t that still indicate a reduction? Are they suggesting that there’s a hypothesis that cases are going up yet, for some reason, people stopped calling the police?

It feels like a case of “we wanted the stats to show one thing, but it didn’t, so let’s cast doubt on the stats.”
But Julia doesn't have a good story for anything else besides that.

You can take a Python web server process, have a request call a task that uses NumPy and OpenCV and scikit-learn, get that back, and you're done, all in the same language.

Julia's community does not seem to have aspirations beyond high-performance math code, which is great for its use, but I'm not going to learn Julia just for that when I can implement the entirety of a development pipeline in Python and have all the other niceties that come with it.
Wow, I can’t believe the minimum NBA team value is $1bn. Crazy market.
All of the things where this legitimately applies are things that aren't really happening on the internet. They're happening in some specific place.

Are there pedophiles abusing children in your country? Then go arrest them. They won't be posting anything on the internet while they're in prison.

Are there pedophiles abusing children in some other country? That is that country's problem, not yours.

Nothing about the internet has to change in order to do this.
Which means that it will probably happen this year, too. And every year after this, thanks to the global catastrophic weather changes.
If that's what he's doing it sounds awfully cheap!
I've literally heard from Tesla owners that one of the perks of owning a Tesla in a densely populated tech-heavy area is all the industry networking you get at the service center.
Local Group Pools 0.3% of Asking Price for Thing, Claims to be Serious
Rhetorics come and go.
Not 'fancy c' and 'fancy epsilon,' disrespectively? (which is a new word but one I think we should spread).
Google Made Firebase Bad
The key difference between this method and the traditional "completing the squares" technique is that there's no guessing involved.

Students get frustrated with trying out different numbers to get the right sum and product. It's easy for them to make a mistake or think they made a mistake.

This method is more mechanical and also looks easier than just chugging on the quadratic formula.

Is it dramatically better than well-taught and well-practiced traditional methods? Probably not, but I like it. It does seem slightly better, but then I'll never have to crank through a worksheet of these.
neural net papers are overrated
That seems so different to my own experiences. I think I can visualize fairly easily and it's very much a 'mental' thing, distinct from 'seeing'. If I had to describe the location it would probably be a few inches behind the eyes with a sensation not dissimilar to mulling over a problem.
I read The Phoenix Project a while ago, and it was pretty good to understand what DevSecOps is supposed to mean. It also convinced me that simpler processes are better and you add layers to those simple processes only if they are necessary. Sometimes you should accept that a more complex process might help track metrics better or might be logically better, but the simpler process is easier for everyone to grok and in that way easier to communicate about. It's been a few years since I read it but it was also entertaining to read in more of a story form than in the usual technical or managerial language.
You know the market is overvalued when an iteration of Runescape gold is "worth" multiple trillions.
Would you mind sharing the investment finance cert you read?
If private arbitration is not forced upon you, then there is no problem. Thus, it's not a private arbitration issue, it's forced and unappealable private arbitration issue, which is a different matter (not the thing itself but how this thing is applied)
Is this not the virus' modus operandi? for Most people it is mild but it kills a few, therefore this is not helpful information.
If we're sharing awesome Mario-related work by Tom Murphy, I have to include a link to his video "Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c
For working on bicycles, my favorite tool by far is the DT Swiss Spokey Pro spoke wrench [1]. Beautiful, ergonomic, pricey, and worth every penny. It completely transformed my attitude toward wheel building and truing. There are very few activities I do that are more meditative and satisfying than putting together a great wheel.

[1] https://www.jensonusa.com/DT-Swiss-Spokey-Pro-Nipple-Wrench
Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote
To clarify, it's "evil" as in the problem of evil [1] – not necessarily malicious but instead anything involving suffering. This is also how "evil" is used in the essay Photographing Evil by Robert Adams.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
This is actually quite good for Bitcoin.
In general, what is a good language to parse game logs?
When the fourth Covid-19 wave is expected to hit South Africa
In the US we have the Saugus iron works which ran from around 1645-1670. It’s a fun visit.

https://www.nps.gov/sair/index.htm
Yeah. If you couldn't afford the Constitution, how are you going to afford an NBA team?
Can self reported data be relied upon? People only know the life they know and don’t necessarily know it could be better. I often find the Scandinavian ratings on these questions to be suspicious. Personally I found life in those countries to be boring and soulless. Everything was fine but it lacked spirit or something - I’m not sure what the right words are. Since then I’ve viewed their high responses with skepticism as I think the majority of Americans would not find life there to be some amazing utopia.
It is pretty handy in a related concept - rotating stereoisomers in organic chemistry
I don’t know- I’m still convinced the police artists are wizards. I don’t think I could verbally describe anybody well enough to draw a good likeness even with a photo in my hand. Yet those artists do it.
people should also try https://marktext.app/ , it's free and open source.
I sometimes get portions of songs stuck in my head for a day or two, but otherwise no music unless I'm really tired. The depiction of hearing someone else's voice when reading a letter from them always fell flat with me.
Even still, e2ee isn’t desirable in the industry. See Slack and Teams, the most popular IRC replacements used in the corporate world. Neither are e2ee.
Alt hyphen on macOS, hold on most all mobile platforms.
I hope you (or your client) chose to cease all dealings with that counterparty...
Mostly by building a product and competing in a market where the leaders have horrendous products. HR, Compliance, Corporate Training Software, Healthcare, etc.

In terms of pure tech and UX, its almost a disqualifier to have good tech or good design as ironic as that sounds.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. That there is money to be made on industry solutions is not in dispute.

The point in dispute is that decentralized blockchain based solution makes any sense. Other than to attract VCs who don’t know any better to give you capital, blockchain offers no competitive advantage to an upstart or really a competitive threat to the incumbents.

Further I see no desirable “differentiation” for a customer to be interested. It doesn’t in fact even solve a customer problem. It’s just noise.
I'm happy you're enjoying yours.

I replaced a really old Brother laser printer (10 years old?), thinking surely a state-of-the-art, high-end inkjet would outshine it. The ink does seem to last forever, but the print quality is so much worse than laser (for text/vector graphics at least). And I always have to run the "clean print heads" before I can get a clean print, since I only use it every month or so.
Schizophrenia is more common than people think. Happened to a family member but medication calmed the voices and they are steady now. I wonder what it takes for people to accept they are not well though…
Isn’t it the case that as viruses mutate they become more infectious but less deadly?
Back in physics grad school it surprised everyone else that I not only pronounced 'ξ' as "ksi" rather than "cascade" or "squiggle" but, more amazingly, could actually write it like ξ rather than a squiggle... I still don't really get why that's impressive.
Ask HN: What knowledge is still circulated in spreadsheets?
I came across this super cool website (https://admits.fyi) which helps people choose gradschools.

The owner of this website had a lot of spreadsheet data which is a common knowledge, and made a beautiful web interface around it.

Do you know of any such examples of data circulating around in spreadsheets?
I have a backup Yubikey as well as backup codes stored in an encrypted file and backed up to several different devices.
One of John Nash's first papers deliberately used every Greek letter.

For the film "A Beautiful Mind" I used this paper for writing on his dorm room window. As luck would have it, a widely circulated publicity still showed Russell Crowe intent behind "0 < Pi < 1" taken straight from that paper.

Suffice to say this was divisive within the math community. Half of us can't imagine Pi meaning anything besides, um, Pi. The other half didn't even blink.

Someone shared with me a hilarious email exchange within the Berkeley math department, wondering if the math consultant was deliberately trying to make Russell Crowe look bad.

I got the chance to edit an interview with John Nash for the DVD extras, where he bragged to Ron Howard about using every Greek letter. I left that in.
One aspect of aphantasia that I haven't seen mentioned yet is memory of Chinese characters / kanji.

I absolutely cannot for the life of me visualize any* of the characters I can easily read and write. However, there is a trick I can do for the ones I can write: I can trace the strokes in my head in the correct direction, order, and proportion. And I have to do it by imagining the muscle movements I would use. Although I can't visualize the result, it's the closest thing I can get to seeing anything in my mind's eye.

*Almost true; exceptions exist like 十，人，个，大. But something as easy as 车 is too complicated for me to visualize, but very easy to mentally trace.
Much better format of the mean and variance approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXO86wKeDY
You know, as crazy as this sounds, I do believe eventually, some iteration of cryptocurrency will succeed in a massive way.

They keep stress-testing different systems to see what's possible.

Most of them are terrible ideas, but it only takes one to succeed.
The cost of that PC failing can easily be 1000x more than a common one, so it's worth it.
what, sure if initiating the save as.. triggers this endless download thing

but the initial load is the image and opening up dev tools and finding it in the sources/cache and saving it from there, chrome knows it's 56.1kb or whatever and just saves it out of cache, done.

Interesting but what was the point they're trying to make?
> I can hear music pretty much perfectly in my head. I can stop it, rewind it, separate the parts... and I can transcribe it into my music software

do you see the notes of the music in your head, as music plays? so it’s like memorizing lines from a story or play?
The article frames the issue in way that's too black-and-white. Providing a backstory isn't necessarily bad storytelling it's just very difficult to get right so that most prequels, backstories, and flashbacks do not turn out well. It is absolutely a fair criticism to say that Hollywood uses prequels to milk existing IP and there are endless examples of cases where a vague or mysterious backstory was preferable to the one some studio decided to canonize. That's not always the case though.

Rogue One worked because it provided plausible explanations for points about the original film that didn't seem to make any sense. It seemed impossible that the Death Star could be destroyed so easily or that the rebels could find that flaw so quickly. Now we see why. Solo fell flat because nothing about Solo's past, as depicted in the film, significantly changed how we see his character.

I suppose Joker worked for some people because every version of the Joker is different so you could look at Joaquin Phoenix's Joker as a stand-alone character driven to insanity through various things in his life. It surely didn't work for anyone who expected an origin story for a version of the character that would eventually turn out anything like Heath Ledger's Joker. It's just not possible to draw a line from one to the other.
I started learning assembly a few decades ago in high school to learn how to write computer viruses. Not there yet, though :p

Nowadays I re-learn with different motivation: to write old school console (NES, Sega, etc) games: https://www.assemblytutorial.com/. C doesn't fit those architectures well, so you have to learn assembly.
Are there provisions to prevent it being used to locate government critics?
Not only are there not provisions to prevent that, it's the implicit purpose of the law!
I think what OP is referring to with the bicycle example is that even when asked to draw a simple line drawing of a bike people connect the wrong pieces together in a way which makes no sense, while if they’re looking at a bike in front of them they can easily connect the proper components with lines.

https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on...
This seems like a good a place as any to ask: what's the current state of C# in Godot?
Stop being a fun police. The internet allows us to be free from the government.