skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can paint like a child, as long as you has the network of social relationships that Picasso had.

Artists provide often a connection between the rigid wealthy class and the low classes seen as more free to experiment. We can see it in Picasso, but also in Warhol or Bacon, for example. Context is everything, and in that context drugs, sex or friendship play a big part, so is not just as simple as paint anything and sell if for an obscene amount of money.

Today videogames and internet provide similar experiences of living a second life and hanging up with interesting people so making the same impact as Picasso as a new artist would be much more difficult.
Shouldn't the use of double hashing also delay it? Bitcoin blocks are hashed as SHA256(SHA256(x)).
Yeah but op was questioning real security model without context. I don’t disagree with you, security and threat models are highly contextual.
Isn't that case somehow similar to how Microsoft used to bundle IE with Windows? iOS isn't a monopoly such as Windows was, but you could use another browser engine on Windows and you can't on iOS.
Shouldn't that at least worry antitrust legislators in the EU and/or the US?
“UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay
Oh right, don't have experience with that sort. Seems like they would be tough.
I wonder: if somebody would silently break sha256 and was able to mine an almost arbitrary amount of Bitcoin would it be unethical to do so? (Or illegal, which would probably depend on the jurisdiction)

I feel like it would be slightly unethical but on the other hand you're not really defrauding anybody. You did actually produce those blocks, not by improving your calculator but by using some other method.
The point of the article is exactly the opposite.
A comment about one aspect of big tech, i.e IT infrastructure (think AWS, GCP, Azure, and now Cloudflare etc.):

I don't see this mentioned enough but it wouldn't be surprising if some companies will want to start owning and running their own IT infrastructure. Buy your own servers and setup a small data-center for a small to medium business. This will be a thing again. The pendulum has to swing, but the question is -- is there money in enabling this for companies that want to go this way? I expect some startups in near future to target this opportunity and help shift towards decentralization (again).
I wonder if you could file different small claims suits for logical parts of the money they are holding, like one for Q1 earned revenue, another for Q2 earned revenue, etc.

That would be more leverage in that they would have to send a lawyer to every one of them.
There is nothing stopping Firefox from saying x,y and z APIs are considered dangerous and web app only, and gating them behind the PWA install prompt.

I want Apple to do this as well to put pressure on google to fix their shit with letting these run rampant on the web.
Big tech started with expertise but moved to rent seeking. Amazon is not in ecommerce but in a seller market place. google/facebooks are in ads, etc.

The problem is not that you coffee store can do ecommerce, but that nobody can find your coffee store if it is not in amazon, or does not buy ads from google/facebook.
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There was a discussion in another thread about Apple stifling PWAs on iOS.

One point was, web workers aren't supported correctly.
If “accuracy” measures how well a player matches computer chess, then as players continue to study more and more with chess programs, you would expect their play to match the programs more and more.

Personally I find it odd to measure how well the players match the computer program and call it accuracy. The computers do not open the game tree exhaustively so they give only one prediction of true min-max accuracy.

When Lee Sedol made move 78 in game 4 against AlphaGo, it reduced his accuracy but won him the game.
I use Zoom and Skype but Zoom has not come close to replacing Skype for me. I have skype-in with multiple landline phone numbers in multiple states. Zoom does not offer this yet.
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> [Java/GraalVM natively compiled apps] fail to work properly whenever dynamic loading is involved (e.g. Spring framework)

What do you exactly expect if Spring/Java heads insist on late binding and religously exercise "dependency injection"? You can configure native-image reflection based on a closed-world assumption wrt what classes are known at compile-time, but TBH it seems futile if devs use shit-tonnes of annotation, dynamisms, and reflection magic. Or, as someone else here said, "in idiomatic Java/Spring code, behavior is expressed through anything and everything, except actual Java code."
Not at all, though it's great for that.
I dont know if this is what you are talking about but I have noticed so many times that when trying to recall an event I took a photo of, first image I get in my head is that photo. I try build the rest around that photo and it only works for very old photos/memories. For recent ones (e.g. photos of my newborn) I only see the photo in my head instead of the actual visual event.

This makes me sad when I try to remember seeing him for the first time, I can only remember a few things and lots of photos. Now to mitigate that, I still take photos but avoid reviewing them immediately. I would rather go through them later when trying to recall. When I review immediately, it feels like the photo overrides the visual memory of the real event.
It also brings to mind the palantír in The Lord of the Rings and Gandalf's advice that it's perilous to use devices of a deeper art than you know.

Tolkien could have just as easily be writing about today's internet and its disinformation epidemic.
The approach I like to take is to curate issues and PR with semantic titles and organize them by label ("bug", "enhancement", etc) or linking PRs to an already curated issue. This way automation can use these to generate the changlog for me on each release based on closed issues and unlinked PRs since the last release.

We wrote Chronicle to do that automation for us: https://github.com/anchore/chronicle .

The nice thing about this... since you typically curate issues during the development process anyway, if you're doing that right then you get a nice looking changlog for free! We use this approach with our core tools, Syft and Grype (some changlog examples: https://github.com/anchore/syft/releases/tag/v0.31.0 and https://github.com/anchore/grype/releases/tag/v0.26.1 ).

Always happy to hear new feature ideas and possible customizations for Chronicle (put in an issue and let's chat )!
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There are a few attached to some of the navigation.
I heard about one incident a few years ago. Were there more?
No. The big tech era won't stop. IBM got replaced by Microsoft. Microsoft got replaced by FAANGs, FAANGs will get replaced by other more ferocious animals.

The article correctly states that monopolies aren't going to last long. But what the author didn't realize is there will always gonna be monopolies because the way society is constructed and the markets works incentivizes building monopolies.

We are in the game of Monopoly. If a player lasts until the end of the game he is doomed to build a monopoly.
In city driving somewhere from 200 to 300 miles will be enough. For long trips, charge time is important and can be reduced by using higher voltage batteries. 10 minutes is still out of reach.
From the article:

> The exact point determined by data calculations is around 33 degrees south and 95 degrees east in the Indian Ocean.

From a 2016 study by oceanographer David Griffin:

> the plane could be located at 35.6 degrees latitude, 92.8 degrees longitude, consistent with their previous suggested area.

That's a difference of about 150 nautical miles, which isn't chump change, but not exactly a new revelation here?
I am still giving some occasional technical/maintenance support for some projects by dad wrote in the 90s and early 2000s
This tool is named deceptively. It makes it sound like Firefox has broken or missing support for PWAs. Firefox has great support for pwas. My team shipped our app as a pwa in May and it was easy to do and works 100% in both chrome and Firefox.

It appears this is more of a packager that tries to turn a website into a pwa and makes it install more like a native app. I may try it out, but the name is horrible and damaging to Firefox so I'll probably not ship until that name is changed.
Symplectic Geometry meets Geometric Algebra in 2D
A country gets the government it deserves.
And then some.

Elasticsearch restarting due to out of memory errors was a common occurrence at my last gig where we used it heavily.

The difference between Java GC and Go GC is stark. In several years, I've never had to touch a GC knob on Go, but in Java it is expected, and not usually worth the effort.
As long as there's a need for money laundering, Bitcoin will thrive if it is not shut down.
It's a bit funny, but not really. If I pushing my daughter in a stroller, and they blocked the way like that when it's already difficult to walk in the snow I would literally kick one to the curb. I'm tired of the sidewalk being used as a dumping ground for every possible thing.
So it is not even proper hedge... Kinda pointing out that many things are same shared investment bubble.
We also need to protest against the ongoing effort to misuse the web for fscking web apps nobody wants, to the detriment of the original purpose of the web as a hypertext delivery mechanism.
Cute that you think everyone can find parking in front of their apartment and that the cable won't be a trip and fire hazard.
Yes, basically a state organization that the public has no control over it and is following its own goals, often against the goals of organizations under the control of the public.

It's often taught in political classes and it isn't a conspiracy that there exists a "deep state" or "shadow goverment".

For example, the roman elite troop, the Praetorian Guards, can be classified as a "deep state", as they had their own goals and if they were not meet, then they would just kill the emperor. At the same time, the emporer and the senat had almost no control over the Praetorian Guard.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at jobs.

[A few years ago, the algorithm to determine the position was public. It was something like starting at the 4th position and dropping 4 places each hour, but I may be misremembering. Perhaps now they changed the details, but my guess is that it would be something similar and easy to guess if you track them for one or two days.]
I don't know if this is a thing, but chess players might also steer the game in a direction/position which their opponent hasn't studied much, but they have. There's a "social" side to this seemingly "mathematical" game, no?
Well I admire your tenacity. Most people wouldn't do that.
IMO the thing to watch for is regulations around what rules you need to follow to be compliant in how you operate your data center or physical servers. It’s very likely big tech will lobby for rules that appear to be anti big tech but actually will make it harder to operate independent from a big tech provider… think net neutrality (not saying I don’t think we need it just as an example)
Interesting! What are the projects about?
I did not know about PublishTrimmed and will try it out. Thank you.
How do I install a PWA on Firefox? Wanted to do that just yesterday to get offline Excalibur, but could not find a button.

(Desktop, Fedora - in case that makes a difference)
Great article. It sounds like the same journey I’ve been through - initially enjoying Django and it’s ORM, then starting to wrestle with the fact that the data layer is hidden from the programmer. Ecto really is the perfect abstraction, and it’s made me a better programmer when I go back and interact with the Django ORM.
When the 1% are excited about something like "green" know that it's about control for them. They poisoned the ecosystem not us. They love green tech because it means ruling over us. Not because they love the planet they exploit.
> So awesome!!111elf
Ha, I see what you did there! (elf is 11 in german)
What kind of semiconductors are being made using silicon carbide?

And what is the process node being used?

Will silicon carbide be useful for general computing appliances, CPUs, GPUs?
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How about this:

exponential in the beginning == this part of the function can be approximated by a function ae^xb where a>0 and b>1

vs.

first derivative bounded away from zero in the beginning == any function that increases, including linear functions with constant first derivative and polynomials with linear first derivative

Or do you think all increasing functions are the same..?
Why? Especially for small and medium businesses, the capital costs involved rarely make sense, and if you're leasing, might as well lease from a cloud provider which saves you time and people. There are many smaller players which are OK depending on uptime requirements - OVHCloud, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Scaleway, Linode, etc.
Agreed, they seem not to take you seriously so court seems the next step.

They locked it for wrong reasons, as you can prove you bought the cards in a normal shop with honest money. Even in a criminal case there comes a point that the suspect has the right to prove his innocence.

If for some odd reason they really cannot unlock your account as they claim, they should have no problem giving you back the money you spent on your account.
then deletes it

Is that built into python or does the developer call that cleanup? I ask because I recently switched from youtube-dl to yt-dlp on a windows machine and it left multiple temporary directories full of .py files to be cleaned up by other tools. I did cntrl+c out of it at least once. Perhaps I interrupted the cleanup routine? Is the cleanup routine expected to trap kill signals or is that on the developer?
Notifications from Web sites are spam.

Web apps that can be made resident on your phone home screen are another story, where notifications may be legitimate (e.g. chat apps).
Isn't casting to a struct pointer full of Undefined Behaviour? I believe you have to memcpy or bitcast and hope that the compiler optimises it out.
I believe this has been stated to be the core thesis behind Oxide Computer Company's business model.
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Or, ya know, just buying whatever hot new thing that gets invented and has traction.
Thank you for clarifying which parts you thought were off-base!

> When, according to him, half the country disagrees with him, he'll just move, and (the delusional part) he thinks all his friends will move too. Note he was careful to say that neither he/his wife nor his friends/family will actually be affected by this, but yeah, it's a reason to move?

He and his wife were both born because their parents and grandparents, endangered by a political movement seeking a journey back to the Middle Ages or a bit earlier, did move, even though they hadn't yet been affected (which is what he actually says about his current situation; your extrapolation to saying they will not be affected is unjustifiable and indeed directly contradicted in the paragraph you're quoting from). Their relatives who didn't move were all killed. This may add useful context to the situation. The same thing is happening right now in Kabul, a fact to which Aaronson alludes in the post.

> Yeah, right. a tiny group so far in the minority that it isn't even a rounding error

You probably aren't up to doing the same kind of math Aaronson does if you think the 32% of the population that opposes Roe v. Wade "isn't even a rounding error". It may be relevant that only about a third of the domestic population supported the political movement I mentioned above which killed most of Aaronson's extended family.

Your purported quote, "anything that is a threat to my identity is a threat to humanity, and by extension everything produced by humanity ... like Computer Science", appears to be entirely fabricated, by you. I can't find any evidence Aaronson ever said that or anything like it; certainly he did not say it in the post we're commenting on or in the comment thread below it. Perhaps you hallucinated it?

I think calling someone a "nutter" for the reasonable things they said would be far preferable to calling them that for unreasonable things they didn't say.
it's the opposite

I park on the street and live at the fourth floor, I can't charge overnight at home.

Even if there was a charging station, there are at least 100 other cars in the parking spots below my building. So you'd need dozens of them.

If Norway can, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, etc have to solve a ton of problems Norway simply doesn't have.
The shameless party in the open might be starting to start to end, nothing else.

They’ll need to become more discreet and pay the right people more. Legally different companies will be controlled by the same group of people like some pseudo shadow board. Nothing new, nothing innovative.

Don’t get me wrong, things will change but be the same where it really matters.
The article suggests it's probably just mass blasting to any open port 9100 (HP Jetdirect) on the internet. Hoping it's something more sophisticated, as the thought of random bosses having to police printers is pretty amusing.
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During the Zoom call, he should have shown the "Better" logo and broken the ice with,

"It could be worse!"
You are conveniently ignoring Lightning which currently power payments for an entire nation (El Salvador) and has plenty of capacity for more. Lightning scales fast and cheap, offering instant final settlement powered by the largest security hashpower wall ever invented. Try that with Fiat.
The ability to make self contained executables is important. LispWorks and SBCL Common Lisp make nice, compact executables which opened more use cases for me with those languages.

I tried pyinstaller a few years ago, but it does not support some 3rd party libraries like TensorFlow that I frequently use. That said, I like that they clearly list supported 3rd party libraries so it is a quick check if pyinstaller will work for a specific project.
It somehow reminds me of a sci-fi story (I believe by Ray Bradbury) about Martians being able to "see" sounds and music and the possibility - by injecting a drug - for humans to have the same possibility but only once in a lifetime and for a limited time, I cannot remember the exact title.
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>Hardly anyone needs 600 miles and no one seems concerned that it takes an hour to add 300 km because most people charge overnight.

I could do with a 200km range for my daily commute, but I also have a camping trailer that I'd like to use at least once every year for a 1000km+ trip. This is just not feasible with the current generation of EVs. I could imagine loading up the camping trailer with batteries to give me that 1000+ km range, though that will increase the weight and recharging at the destination is usually impossible.
Yes, there are. It depends on the program. For example here, no masters is required:

https://www.cis.mpg.de/cs-max-planck/

"During the preparatory phase, students take courses to build on their existing knowledge of core computer science areas. Depending on a student’s prior academic background (e.g., MS degree), course requirements may be partially or completely waived at the time of admission."

or here:

https://ellis.eu/faqs#can-i-apply-if-i-don-t-have-a-msc-degr...

"Rules in Europe vary. Some participating universities require a MSc, others accept BSc students as well (sometimes under specific conditions). You will find this information in the portal if you click on the list of this year's recruiting advisors."
I like evince
It's more relevant for power applications than computing. Motor drivers, charge controllers, voltage converters, or the switching parts driven by such, that kind of thing.
Big tech is big because we are globalising - because an app / website written in one country can be used in dozens of others, 192 if your i18n-fu is good enough.

Scale is something we have not really taken on board as we head to 10 billion humans. And when we look critically at the Big in big tech now, they are really bit-players with leverage. News aggregators, search engines, publishing platforms. The traditional "media" have had outside influence and this new globalised generation has that, but compared to what's likely to come it's nothing.

Global pharma, energy, transportation, new manufacturing, supply chain observability, consumer friendly finance. These things and more will have huge impacts - and all will have software at their hearts.

If that (software) is what we mean by Tech, then yeah, Google is a minnow to come.

But there is hope. Software (and observability) are incredibly amenable to democracy and independent monitoring, to smart regulation and smart outcomes.

It's a political challenge to manage the wealth to come - but look at how the USA handled the robber barons. It took massive system wide political change if it happened.

Don't give up. But Vote Harder.
> People should ideally stop using whatsapp and move over to Telegram as it seems to be the only one that has whatsapp UX parity.

UX parity?? Telegram's UX blows WhatsApp out of the water. Stickers, message edits, polls, location sharing, bots for public channels, audio chats, etc etc. It's not even close!
Had fun checking where the hyperlinks of that article pointed to.
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> looking at a 5000 year old sector that accounts for a double digit size portion of the economy

It’s a strange comment because modern banking is 400 years old and finance is a sector which has seen many innovations though its history. It’s even more amusing when you realise that PayPal, one of the biggest success of the dotcom era, is a financial company.

Finance is a sector dominated by very large institutions with a vested interest in not shaking the boat. There is often plenty of money to be made just by being more efficient and selling cheaper services. The European neobanks are a perfect exemple of that.
The article started by making some interesting points but it lost me at the wizard stuff.
Probably hard to unring that bell. It even seems like many "native apps" are now mostly just webviews with a very small amount of native orchestration, etc.
> That GPS signal is susceptible to fluctuations based upon which tower is “visible” (A-GPS). I’ve had it happen where I go through tunnel and the phones GPS thinks I’ve magically run a mile in the opposite direction. Some of my Strava traces look like they are all scribbles.

That might explain one of my rides having a spurious "cliff climb" where the altitude went bonkers.

That being said, I lost interest in Strava when they killed the Bluetooth integration with my Wahoo TICKR. That was just another of the incessant reminders of why I can't trust tech companies anymore.
No, not at all.

In Windows you can install any other browser you want (even if it ships with IE default).

On iOS, ALL browsers are forced to used Safari's rendering engine. It would be like installing Firefox and it uses Trident in the background.
Then take the J&J vaccine... Or Sputnik, or Sinovac, or Astrozenica...
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