skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not 100% convinced, but the video does make a very compelling argument that congress votes not being secret means they can be sold or be intimidated into voting against the interests of the constituents.

Food for thought.
Uni-Ball Develops the First Paper Pen Refill
> revolutionized

I have only seen "revolutionized" used in the context of commerce and industry. Whether the procession of such is negative or positive is subjective to one's own taste.

I think what you just stated is a negative. The net benefit is material, at the cost of everything incorporeal.

I believe the GP and I are in agreement here.
I use a custom CSS skin to make the text legible and accessible

I typically create new accounts for comments because there are no privacy controls (edit/delete) after a comment is old enough
It redirects to a Google search with the same query.
I'm talking from experience here with capability systems on microkernels. Capability-based security is a tool, not a panacea. Exploit chains these days are very used to having to jump through IPC channels to components with different privileges to get everything they need.

Edit: As an aside, rather than looking towards namespaces for an attempt at the same structure, seccomp BPF is the primitive I've found that creates the closest thing to the capability system you're talking about. That way you can leave a process with only recvmsg/sendmsg on unix domain sockets, and maybe mmap for memfds shared across processes.
>Do you use browser plugins or user scripts?

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl

I've also been writing a Godot app for HN off an on for a while now. It isn't ready for prime time but here's what it looks like[0].

>Also, what are your habits around HN?

I tend to lurk the new comments page. I check this site constantly, and use it as a distraction from more worthwhile projects. It's pathetic, this place is basically intellectual junk food.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/ciLRZO1
Reason for crypto popularity is mostly due to financial upside. If you remove that, web3 or crypto will fail
There are very clear correlations. The scientists aren't pulling the association out of thin air, it's observed. We have satellites that watch the atmospheric currents and temperature fluctuations, how those drag different temperatures of air to different areas, and back engineer why things are moving the way they are.

The primary example is the weakening of the Arctic air currents causing the cold air to escape. The Arctic then warms faster, and causes short-lived, dramatic drops in temperature in the north Midwest.

We do similar back-engineering with the dry spells on the west coast.

The largest computers in the world are routinely used to simulate the weather and predict changes climate change will cause, and we are getting more and more accurate every year.
This is specifically only for the iOS app. They already have "safe for ads" standards on the web, but Apple is requiring them to have stricter standards for the app store.
> Even on accounts where SMTP is available

I don't know what those accounts are but you shouldn't make statements that are only partially true.
I don't know, man. Why is living a counter-cultural life considered desirable? It's because there was this thing called the counter-culture in the 1960s and now it's considered cool. Seems like just another form of imitation to me.

For me this sort of discourse always comes back to the same basic truth: if you want to live an authentic and worthwhile life, you need to decide what you value and not just what you are rebelling against. This is the only ticket out of eternal adolescence.
I do use Dark Reader so I get an interesting dark mode for HN
Any silence longer than two seconds/48 frames (or any length I program it for). Programming for claps would be easy as well and I’ve considered it, but I thought just staying silent would be easier for Ben (guy in the vid) than clapping all the time. Mistakes actually happen incredibly often.
People SHOULD do a lot of things but ultimately distribution wins. If IE comes with OS, they'll use it. It's similar to people using windows or whatever OS is by default.
I would say the same about anything on the road that isn't specifically for safety/traffic shaping.

> They're not planted to catch your attention in ANNOYING ways.

Even some of traffic shaping signage are specifically designed to be that way.

More importantly, this is about a freedom of expression. If I want to yell about my fruit farm or hold a sign for your product; is that different? How does the freedom to express yourself contend with some idea of limiting "commercial advertisement"?
All interesting! Thank you.
Sorry, I was sloppy with my notes.
Get an AWS/Azure/GCE account and play around with the technology. There’s plenty of tutorials on how to set up K8’s etc, and you get free credits that you can use for testing.
200% browser zoom. otherwise i just use the site as normal.

It sits in the bookmarks bar on my "play" chrome profile, not my "work" profile, so i visit when i'm switched away from my work browser for a bit of downtime.
walmart has them otc
Same, I'm typically an afternoon and an evening person instead of a morning one.

I think it actually makes sense for software developers since it is quieter in the afternoon and in the evening compared to the morning. It makes more sense to do deep work later in the day.

Ideally, if I had more control, I'd just spend the morning, touching base with people and evening for doing deep thinking and work.
A16z is considered status quo in the valley with multiple gate keepers . Jack was hitting at them and Marc didn't take it light
>Google found this out the hard way multiple times!

I'm sure they've very sad about the $2 trillion dollar valuation all that data gave them once exploited and wish it had never happened.
If you've to win, you've to control the narrative. Owning media business is like an asset
The issue is that when I tested out various more dense solutions (DataMatrix, colour QR codes, or HCCB) I discovered that they are difficult to scan with most mobile scanners, meaning that while you can theoretically get fairly high data density on paper (no pun intended), you will struggle to actually reconstruct the original data.

But if you've figured out how to get even more density without making it difficult to practically read the data from the document I'd be very happy to hear about it and would gladly switch to that instead.
Did you read the article? It sounds like you’re in agreement with the author.

> Below are some of the ways that we might cultivate some ‘anti-mimetic’ habits so that we’re not constantly struggling to keep up in the hamster wheel of desire that most of the people around us are running on—and reinforcing the wheel for one another. I hope some of these tactics will help you step off and chart your own course a bit more easily.

> As nice as it is to ‘fit in’, there are other times when it’s necessary to exercise self-possession, freedom, and intentionality to choose a course of action that isn’t quite so mimetic — that is not primarily the product of social imitation but the product of our innermost sanctum: our conscience, our understanding of our vocation, our deliberate and fully ‘owned’ choice of what we believe to be true, good, and beautiful. It is through these kind of intentional acts that we become who we are.

> Being “anti-mimetic” does not mean being a ‘contrarian’ or refusing to imitate one’s peers. That’s what every hipster thinks he’s doing, too. “Everyone leaves the beaten path only to fall into the same ditch,” wrote the social theorist René Girard, the father of mimetic theory. This kind of naive rejection of the culture is not what we’re talking about here.

> Being anti-mimetic means have the personal freedom to counteract negative forms of mimetic desire — like the kind that leads to polarized politics, unhealthy obsessions, envy, hustle-porn, and never-satisfied striving for things that won’t ultimately matter to impress people who don’t love us.
For day to day searching i use duckduckgo by default on every device. Not a lot because of privacy, something about that company ticks me off in terms of privacy.

I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine.

Whether its their !bang feature or integration with apple maps or their various themes. (Heck even their no js, search engine option is very cool too).

In terms of quality of links and interesting content, i havent come across a search engine better then marginalia[0] for that. But then i search for weird stuff, so who knows.

[0](https://search.marginalia.nu/)
They detect VMs
Thanks for asking. It was a combination of studying the market carefully, taking measured risks, and trying to make myself more competent than 80% of my peers (I am not particularly smart and I learn very slowly, so I never expected to be much better than that).

I have always studied for one career path, and a backup. The thought about the backup was that if I couldn’t get what I wanted most, I would still have something I enjoyed. So I keep up on C but specialize in Go, which was a bit risky 10 years ago.

Another tip is that I have chosen areas that I like, but that are also somewhat challenging. For example, when I started out the first thing I did was learn assembly language because I knew it scared other programmers. Because I didn’t have a degree, I wanted to choose something that would make me irresistible to hire without a degree.

Finally, I thought for myself. When Microsoft called to hire me 25 years ago their own people were fleeing like rats from a sinking ship, because it appeared from the press at the time that Microsoft was losing the Internet wars. My own coworkers were selling their stock like crazy when I joined, and they said the good all days were gone. When I left four years later, my stock options had appreciated 1300%. It wasn’t that I was blindly supporting Microsoft, it was that I chose to believe my own eyes as opposed to what people who had nothing to do with the company were reporting about it.

When I left Microsoft it was during the dot com crash. I bought a small company that provided a service to eBay users and it made in the two digit millions over the next 20 years. My former friends and Microsoft were polite but uncomprehending when I did it, because there just wasn’t any concept of charging for websites at the time. I risk a small part of my retirement fund to buy the company, but not enough that it would’ve hurt the family drastically if I failed. Measured risk.
Questions about prime numbers are asked in one dimension.

The manual search is guided by a lot of very rigorous theory-of-experiment. It's not just trial and error, it's quite a bit more.
Ask HN: Can we just take a moment to appreciate how elegant C# is?
var list = Enumerable.Range(0, 20).Select(i => new { Foo = i, Bar = "hey" });

This is beautiful!
BG 1 and 2 were both turn-based. It didn’t automatically stop at the end of a turn unless you configured it to. But that’s the configuration I have, because that’s what I’ve always played with and prefer, from the day the first version of BG was released.

The lack of turn-based game play is why I avoid most other games.
story just repeats itself
And making stuff!: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/searzall-pro#/
Set an expectation that you plan to launch by some date and collect email id. If they are willing to share their email then that shows they are really interested.
Did you miss the evidence I provided? It's less than ~2% of the hourly paid workers. I know how the market works. That's why I also provided evidence that's not the case.

Also the alternative is having some of those people have zero income and no opportunity to develop skills.
What kind of work do you do where client-side rendering is better?
If it's all you've known, then it's still bliss -- it's just life.

Imagine there was a planet, not too far from ours, that was inhabited by humans that didn't age, never got ill, never did harm towards others, we satisfied with their lives, and lived in harmony with one another -- wanting for nothing. I'm sure comparing that to our "First World" would lead any intellectually honest person to conclude we're living in a hellscape -- something so horrid it would be sardonic to even call it "Third World."

Good thing that doesn't exist; otherwise, we'd be facing a whole new type of existential dread.
If I were to follow your activity, comments and posts, on Hacker News, I'd add the RSS feed https://hnrss.org/user?id=rolicia to Thunderbird.

If I wanted them separate:

- https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=rolicia (threads/posts/"stories")

- https://hnrss.org/threads?id=rolicia (comments/"threads")

I just posted detailed steps on how to set up something like this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697834 to follow certain keywords on comments or posts.

You can click on that link and see
I’m not advising caution. I’m advising prudence. Choose where it’s worth putting your energy. This is the “fight we’re you need to fight” bit I mentioned.

Me arguing with my father about politics during thanksgiving is generally fruitless. Taking some time the next day discussing our assumptions and benefits that are behind our different beliefs? Generally a better approach and we can easily agree or disagree on single points. I may not “win” but both of us will know more about each other and have more respect for each other. (Or less. At least we didn’t yell and drag relatives in.)
The time series of frame probabilities is of course highly autocorrelated, but I never bothered to model that due to lack of interest. From memory, a simple single-frame classifier was >95% accurate (this was quite a few years ago, mind you). In my small-sample and not very rigorous testing, this was higher than human rates. Turns out that on average it's pretty hard to tell an ad from content just by looking at the pixels of a single frame.

I am quite confident that it wouldn't be too hard to build an ad detection ML model that would have near-perfect accuracy. That said, an approach based on algorithmically detecting repeated segments of lengths consistent with ad spots would work just as well, if not better.

P.S. One thing I thought was really interesting was that the classifier -- that was only ever shown a binary label (ad/not-an-ad) -- learnt an embedding that grouped together entire categories of things across TV networks and geographies (studio news, weather, traffic reports etc).
appreciate your use of "first principles based modeling". in my program, that's what we meant by "model based", but usage in the AI community is quite different

your verbiage concisely captures what's so important about the concept
No one is free.

We're slaves to our dopamine reward system.

It's like injecting someone with heroin constantly for years on end and telling them: "you can leave anytime."
That's exactly what I remember about it too! No spinning beachballs there.

Meanwhile, my M1 Mini shows me the pinwheel frequently...especially when launching any apps from Adobe Suite or Microsoft Office...
I do in some ways! And yet... the overall tone of anti-this, anti-that, only dead fish go with the flow... it looks like somebody pulling furiously at the Chinese finger trap. You need to relax, you need quiet and calm to hear the voice inside that will tell you the way beyond whatever ugly game you're stuck in today.

Maybe it's for different ears than mine. I think the message there is basically good. My take is a little different - people should go beyond fighting the flow and just let the flow be irrelevant to them. Let it pass around and through you and feel nothing. Find something different in that quiet.
I think seconds and minutes are too short, right? The idea is that some significant time elapsed I think. Unless the context is some normally very short event, those are too short to be useful.

You would need more than just ten -- you wouldn't want it to read digits, you would probably prefer 'sixteen hours later' over 'one-six hours later'.

but yeah that's the general idea I'm getting at.
I have a nice set of Japanese chefs knives, and still use my victorinox on a regular basis. it's hard to argue with being able to drop it in the dishwasher.

my 8" victorinox will be 8 years old in march, and is still going very strong, quite the bargain.
An evil government would just drag them out of their house.
Yeah I’ve bought a variety of tools over the years and all of them kind of suck. You need to be some sort of master craftsman with infinite time to use many of the sharpening techniques and tools or have already almost perfectly sharp knives.
Even though I don't use their browser, I've found brave search to be able to filter out a lot of the blog spam for simple programming languages compared to ddg and even google, has anyone else made similar observations?
There are some bio HackerSpace labs with memberships open to the public.

London, UK https://biohackspace.org/

Brooklyn, NY, https://www.genspace.org/

Baltimore, MD, https://bugssonline.org/

Australia, https://foundry.bio/
"You're not a good fit"

<non sequiteur question>

"Wow what can I say"

The lesson I'd draw from this exchange is not <non sequiteur question> is true.

I'd draw the conclusion the respondant was sure they'd made the right call, you're not a good fit.
Here: https://hnrss.org/user?id=Jugurtha. This is a feed of my content on Hacker News: posts and comments. You can see this very comment in there.

This is yours: https://hnrss.org/user?id=minroot. You can see this very thread in there.
Whoa, that's a really wise and applaudable move.

BTW I really like pens from this company. I remember living in Japan in the late 90s and wondering what stone age country I was from, where we didn't have such amazing writing products available from the quality stationers, let alone the shack of a corner store.

Uni makes the best normally-priced office-stationery pens I've ever given away as gifts, to this day. I used to get them sent free for blog reviews but unfortunately ran out of time for that. Still a happy customer.
Are you sure you mean rheumatoid arthritis?

Osteoarthritis is the disease most often associated with old age, joint overuse in physically demanding occupations and cumulative trauma. Rheumatoid arthritis is disorder where joint cartilage is degraded through an autoimmune process, and can have onset as early as teens-to-20s.
I can’t support this mentality at all.

In any case these people are still humans. They have the same right to life as we all do.
Since there's a lot of FUD going on here, I'm hoping I can clarify. This has nothing to do with 5g specifically, but rather a handful of channels in a specific band (of many possible 5g bands) that was newly auctioned. And the problem isn't technical, but rather political. This problem has been solved using existing techniques and regulations and tools in various countries.

The political problem was that the FCC auctioned off the spectrum under the assumption that only half the licenses (the lower frequencies in the band), would have restrictions, and they would be lifted after a 3-year clearing period for satellite base stations to move to different bands. Now the FCC has realized that Landing instrument interference is going to be a problem, so they have to draft new regulatory restrictions. But this regulatory change is going to affect the market value of these licenses, and so the FCC is basically both preparing the new regulations (they are being modeled after similar regulations in Canada), as well as preparing to be sued by Verizon, and potentially AT&T, to try to recover some of the money they spent in the auction.

The regulations are coming, but due to the politics and legal challenges, they're taking longer than expected. So the FAA is publishing their drafts as a PR strategy to force the FCC to hurry up and finalize the regulations.

And it's working... I work in spectrum interference regulatory compliance, and we've been preparing for months for this rollout. Our software is already basically ready to deploy our compliance mechanisms within a days notice. All we need to do is a little bit of geospatial data entry on exclusion zones where transmission is not allowed. So we know that this nightmare scenario isn't gonna actually happen, but the threats have to happen in order to get the FCC to hurry the fuck up and finalize the regulations.
Apple is greatly increasing its use of swift so that seems like a strong bet to me.
How do you sharpen those serrated blades? I get function on serrated but I don’t really want a 150$ + knife to be disposable because it can’t be sharpened
> California is not a common law state.

My apologies, you're absolutely correct. I have no idea why I thought CA was common law. Probably after the divorce I got bombarded with information and it was all soup in my brain.

> I’m proposing avoiding the legal contracts that will not do you any good.

It's only an issue if you have kids and/or plan to immigrate to a different country. Being married helps there.
You're absolutely right. I think Elon is very acquainted with the hacker ethic, he's written a lot of code in his life. People see the celebrity businessman that he is now and they assume he hasn't written code.

He's a hacker that worships money more than open source software. There is a spectrum of how hackers balance riches and fame and being true to their roots of open source. I'd say Linus has done a very good job. Perhaps the best job you can do. Elon is probably at the other end of the spectrum, but not quite as far as the Google lads are. They're at the other end of the pool.
I'm still actively working on the project so I haven't documented things since they will likely change (to be easier to use) fairly soon.

At the moment you need to do the following (and the recovery procedure is a bit cumbersome -- there will be a GUI at some point for all of this since ultimately the project is intended for regular people):

% paperback backup [- or the file to back up] -n [threshold] -k [number of shards to make]

The command will print out the contents of the main document QR codes since at the moment the program can't scan the QR codes in the PDFs so you need to manually input the data. Note that the QR codes don't contain Base64 since that is not an efficient way of encoding binary data using QR codes. The QR code data is all encoded in Base10 (but the recovery code can handle any base data because I use multibase[1] prefixes).

And then to recover:

% paperback recover --interactive [- or the path to output the data to]

And it will ask you for the main document data (just copy-paste it, putting an extra newline after each segment) and then the shard data (you can copy-paste the "text fallback" segments from the QR codes) and shard codewords -- also with a newline after each section section. The prompts tell you what to input

"paperback expand" (create new shards from existing ones) works the same way (and also requires --interactive).

I plan to add support for just taking the PDF file and scanning the data from it directly but it seems a bit complicated to do at the moment, and I'm presenting a talk on this project next month at Linux.conf.au so I'm working on that talk right now.

[1]: https://github.com/multiformats/multibase
The hunter Biden laptop was censored, Hillary Clinton campaign paying for the Steele dossier, as was multiple things regarding covid: wuhan lab leak, vaccine adverse events, etc

I’m not 100% sure it’s google but yeah, it happens often.
Sounds like you've moved from searching one big proprietary search, to several negligibly-smaller, closed-source, megacorp-owned, proprietary service's searches. Privacy must not be a goal here.
Great answer. And you can use that as a launching point for your next job. If you’re smart, and the job is sort of easy, you can use some of your hours on the current gig to study for the next one.