skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The country of Netherlands has a higher population density than the actual town (with grid streets and medium size lots) I live in.

Throw in the mostly empty county the town is in and Netherlands is ~35 times denser.

The same things aren't going to apply to such a different situation.

Of course cities in the US can do better, but lots of things just aren't going to be very practical in most of the country by area.
Two things which seem to be overlooked here:

- When working with frequencies alone and ignoring the phases you kill half of the entropy of the signal.

- Further more, when only the positive half of the frequencies is used and the negative half is mirrored with the complex conjugate, you kill half of the remaining entropy of the signal.
DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
I wonder how much resistance there was to these changes.

In my country every new bike lane is a new battle. And after some initial progress, it seems governments have given up.
Are you implying then that copyright is not routinely abused? Big companies do this all the time (eg, Google v Oracle or the Unix lawsuits).

There's fan fiction of almost every character you can imagine. Can you name even ONE fan fiction you'd rather consume instead of the original author's work?
How would you value the product of a startup, or some open source software that doesn't make any money but the creator wants to use a copyleft license for? Also, how would this work internationally? Would you have to pay a proportion of the value to the US government even if the US is a small market for you?
Apple Car: everything we know so far
Real estate prices in the metaverse are booming
What is your opinion of the analysis from LastPass themselves?[0]
It seems to have been some internal alerting that went wrong, which does happen from time to time.

> Our initial findings led us to believe that these alerts were triggered in response to attempted “credential stuffing” activity [...] We quickly worked to investigate this activity and, at this time, have no indication that any LastPass accounts were compromised by an unauthorized third-party as a result of these credential stuffing attempts, nor have we found any indication that user’s LastPass credentials were harvested by malware, rogue browser extensions, or phishing campaigns.

> Our investigation has since found that some of these security alerts, which were sent to a limited subset of LastPass users, were likely triggered in error.

[0] https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/unusual-attempted-login-ac...
Never answer those honestly. More than half the time they aren't there to "help management understand how to do better", rather to purge people who aren't happy. "We don't need employees who don't love it here."
USDC != USD.

Pegged to it doesn't mean it's the same.

While USDC is backed by Coinbase and more trustworthy than Tether. A lot of it is still going to uncharted territory.
What about the Y100K problem?
I'm no longer convinced of the need for row or record polymorphism. It encourages passing around types that have no clear domain or purpose, so I think it inhibits understanding in general. Do you have any examples where it's indispensable?
Before you are dead, you might want to be able to get a cash advance from a publisher even though you might die before they sell enough copies to recoup their investment.
> that was probably criminal copyright infringement

sounds more like "Fair Use", unless you imply the painting was made for the purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.
As in: they painted it right before selling and used the image to advertise the house to young couples.
And curves! The natural, flowing, yet carefully considered geometry of the intersections (basically, design affordance) is really something unique. The Dutch have spent the last ~50 years getting the fundamentals right (something cities all over the world are doing now), so now they can focus on sheer refinement.
They "lost" money by investing in GOG’s online solutions (whatever that is, some extra online features?). Not by selling games.
It is an early hire but it doesn't have to be shares. It often has shares because a lot of these guys can't pay market rates.

10% is a little high. Even for a 3 founder startup without investors, it's about 33% each. "Founding engineer" isn't exactly a CTO or tech lead title. It sounds like position where you take a similar workload to the CTO, but at a higher salary, lower responsibility.

Contractor roles are common as a lot of startups don't want to deal with the legal implications of having a full time employee, firing costs, etc. It's easier on a low budget too, just to contract enough MVP and then spend a couple months raising the first round of investment, or marketing the product.

I liked contractor roles because the time/pay ratio is excellent and the risk/equity is as well. Do note that 90% of startups fail. Joining something with even 50% equity might not be a good deal, especially if you've never worked with the founders.
I think this has been common in certain circles for a long long time.

Bashing "n00bs" was all the rage even 20 years ago.

I don't have a judgement on this cultural approach. I just point out that it is not something of "these days"
Interesting -- I wouldn't have thought of that.

However, I usually use an approach that isn't all that different: Initially, just make some notes explainig what the document you write should contain.

I use org-mode style nested bullet point for this. This is also nice because you'll have to start with defining "goals" for your text: What should it explain? Which points are most important? Are there "gotchas" you should keep in mind?

After that, I start expanding on those bullet points. Also, there will be a couple of iterations of "refactoring" until I'm sure what the best way to structure the text will be. Having written down the basic goals first -- and thus having a more complete overview in mind -- helps with that, too.
Thanks. And you’re right, I think I was spitballing for one minute.
Agreed - Germany has a similar north-south issue and NIMBYs protesting against construction of new high-capacity power lines aren't helping.

The alarmism is misplaced, though. There's less excess capacity these days than some are comfortable with and more investments are needed (and ongoing), but we're far from risking blackouts or being reckless. Grid planners are a conservative bunch.
File descriptors are fundamentally polymorphic, they can be files, pipes, sockets, signalfd, eventfd and the list is ever growing, everything is a file.
For 10 years, I fooled myself into believing I could think my way out of severe depression without medication. It wasn't possible in my case because the physiological and psychological effects were far more extreme than any change of mood or exercise could influence. Then, I took a particular medication and it was like the clouds parted for a couple of years but its effects faded.

I have what could be characterized as treatment-resistant depression. Currently on my 16th antidepressant with a 4th adjunct and they also aren't working.

TMS was suggested but requiring 30 minutes 5 times a week for 6 weeks, followed by 3 more weeks of every other day. This is inconvenient for most people.

Also suggest was ketamine, however it's not widely available here. I'm onto my 4th psychiatrist within a year because of a lack of bedside manner, lack of professionalism, and/or generally lack of a coherent, tailored treatment strategy. I'm finding psychiatrists appear to have worse attitudes and least evidence-based approaches compared to most clinicians. I heard a quote that stuck with me "What's the only medical discipline that treats a body system without examining it?"
> Before spending shareholder's money on an expensive project she should have checked if it makes sense to spend money on it.

What’s your experience turning failing businesses around? I’m not a huge fan but I find it conspicuous how successfully the CEOs who created the mess have shifted the blame to the one who was hired to fix what was known to be a failing business at the time.
That is kinda how modern software works…

Bugs everywhere but things mostly don’t crash
Why Anno Domini again? If we want to be future proof surely we can't base the calendar on mythology.
If you mean as a shebang (#!/bin/sh -eu), I would suggest switching to using "set" instead, because the shebang will not be interpreted if the script is ran as "sh script.sh" (as opposed to ./script.sh).
If only we had enough memory to store six digit dates
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/02/all-those-myths...

See excuse #3, "our population is too spread out"
When communicating non-critical data-loss to teammates, I like to do it with this haiku:

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

From https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html
Thought experiments are inherently thoughts.

The argument is actually that copyright encourages more public works without regard to quality.

Copyright should be for a fixed number of years so that everyone receives equal benefit and that time period should be closer to 10-20 years rather than a hundred.
The NYT is using a near identical defense in an ongoing libel lawsuit from James O'Keefe.
Same message in FF 78, but works after reloading the page and choosing Ruffle (Flash).
MetaSynth is a pretty cool riff on a visual frequency-based DAW. (Paid, macOS only.)
Yes. They removed a lot of the fun definitions in the nineties, but by popular demamd they were brought back!
so, to be clear here;

You're suggesting that Copyleft licenses should be _public domained_ after a short period of time, or the copyright owner should pay a tax?

So, let's take say the Software Freedom Foundation. They should declare a value on the GNU Tools - and if say Microsoft is prepared to pay that value then all GNU tools should be public domain - meaning they can be used in say Windows (as closed compiled binaries?)

Alternatively the FSF needs to come up with some % of value to prevent MS from using their work under a closed license?

I mean, copyright works both ways right? It's equally protecting those that want to commercially profit from their work, and also those that don't want it to be used in a "non freedom" way. So, assuming most GPL authors aren't swimming in cash, this would make more-or-less all GPL'd works lose their freedoms?
Well one major difference is that a person could ruin their cards or bend them.

There is also the grading system and you can't really make the card go up in grade, just down.

The whole boom in the 80s really started because boomers came into their prime earning years. When they were kids baseball cards were mostly to put in their bike spokes to make a clicking noise or thrown around so cards in great shape were in short supply. Most importantly though they were not coins or stamps that their parents collected.

I use to listen to a radio show 5 years ago for card collecting that the whole show was basically people calling in and the host telling them the cards were not worth anything.

This past year though is the all time high for sports cards but we already well off the peak.

The problem with NFTs is they came along at the peak of the everything bubble so the prices have nothing to do with reality. Digital collectibles make perfect sense and are no less goofy than anything else people collect.

Not something I would ever buy but ultimately nothing is as goofy as the price of an original Mark Rothko painting. To me that is the gold standard of collectibles and the rationality of the collectibles market.
Seconded. It also comes with Import-CSV and Export-CSV. And cmdlets like Select-Object and Where-Object.

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Stopped"}

Looks pretty close to what's being described.
There is hardly or no resistance to these changes. The only vocal group would probably be shop owners fearing loss of traffic, loss of revenue. Well, it didn't pan out that way.

Also, during the time of the transition there was a very vocal parents group ( mothers iirc ) who protested all the traffic deaths.

And everybody uses a bike, even our Prime Minister.
Altered brain chemistry influences the physical prevalence of the receptors that those chemicals act upon. Those adaptations can take some time.
Definitely!

See the article’s points on «forward- and backwards-compatibility» and «content adressable code».

The latter has implications for library and package management. Someone expanded quite nicely on it elsewhere in this thread.
Yea, I really want a wallet which is advertised with ashes of people. /s
> Use Vimium and test your web applications without a mouse

Or just... Test it without a mouse? I don't get why Vimium is recommended here. While its a cool extension, like a fraction of a percent of the users of your web application will be using it.
Taxes (and tax deductions) are generally one of the best ways to align incentives. If it's a binary condition then you have tons of derelict content that should really be public domain, but because of the big ticket well-maintained Disney content the laws are written to be "reasonable" for that content and it ends up unnecessary locking up all of the other content from the 1970s
Okay how about a new analogy:

Your web app malfunctions, and a diagnostic sweep suggests the code is compromised. It's cloud hosted and open source. You're part of a team and see various recent revisions that could have exposed the app to malicious use. Furthermore your cloud provider is upgrading their hardware. Your app has to come offline whilst it's patched. Its a critical service for some clients who are hounding you.

You ask for help from a professional to get things back and working.

They say, "It is due to an electrical imbalance in the computers."

In psychiatry people are analogously doing just that.

We know sure that neurotransmitters have a role in mental health, in the same way as engine oil has a role in a car. Right amount in right place is necessary, but not sufficient, for good operating. If I brough you my faulty car and you jept harking on about engine oil, I'd be miffed.

Incidentally I'm a staunch monoist materialist and believe brain states and mind are facets of the same phenomena. My gripe is with pharma marketing penetrating our collective psychology. Equating depression to monoamine derangement was a very attractive notion for all but in 30 years remains unproven, and not very helpful in guiding treatment.
>Another transportation mode which existed in the Middle East was the Trans-Arabian pipeline....

As wiki points out, TAP kept running until 1976. Technology changed with supertankers, so Saudi decided to stop haggling over fees and not use it. Same thing for ME rail routes - they all required investment, and most ME countries had different priorities.
On most forums, there would be a lot of comments asking it to be in English. But here's a perfectly interesting discussion that doesn't mention language.
It's a hard life.

I have often wondered why girls can join Boy Scouts but Girl Scouts is girls only.
Ask HN: Why do such things like smartphone apps even exist if we have web pages?
Regarding how advanced today web technologies are, and how much stuff we can do in our web browsers – why do such things as (most) smartphone apps even exist?
Even more: Most of these apps seem to fall into the category of providing a GUI for the functionality a server in the internet provides for it, so being a meaningless piece of software, where the creators have to program a different version for every platform, and are furthermore not allowed to do what they want, and have to share any payments with the platform providers, which get quite a piece of the cake.

Instead when directly using a web page, which can be used by every device, including desktop computers, they also would have access to the devices sensors, camera, microphone, audio, position, but would only have to program once, and would be free to do what they want, including payments going only to themselves.

So why do people provide (and use) apps, instead of proper web technology?
Except of some really special ones (like banking), this does not seem to make any sense?
i 'd assume it makes gigas
"fossil free steel" is a marketing term which means that (fossil) carbon is no longer used for reduction and process heat. This accounts for the vast majority of the carbon needed in steel production.
> I call strange what is strange to me, as my experience is the only experience I have of the world.

There's a difference between "I keep seeing hints of this strange model of the soul" and "I keep seeing hints of this model I find strange". The first one heavily implies the model is strange and it's a fact, the conversation start with that premise and it puts people who do not find this model strange on the defensive. The second one clearly establishes this is a personal opinion.
Can you define "liberated" here?

Because I'm thinking the effect is the opposite on things that are already liberated - I'm thinking specifically of GPL protected freedoms...
You miss my point. The Netherlands has really nice inter-city bicycle infrastructure, the thing my region lacks (it's easy enough to get around on quiet grid streets). They aren't in any way affordable, so we designate the US highway shoulder as a national bicycle route.

There's a not-yet-connected separated path growing between here and the smaller town ~10 miles away, but the local casino paid for a bunch of that!
I flip table rage quit my 15 year job at a university over a new C-suite from who knows where throwing HPE equipment/software/consultants at me for a big sort of project and finding them all so utter crap that I would be a part of that stupidity. I have my standards.
I know they do, doesn't mean I want to, and have cycled during Swiss and Scandinavian winters during a couple of years about 20 years ago.
No. They are spamming their own site with low quality questions.
Perdon my ignorance, but what do those do? Searching for it doesn't give me anything.
Yes. Flooding on my lot. Trying to get the pigs to dry ground. Floating islands of fire ants.
Cycling infrastructure is cheaper to build than not to build: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/06/cycling-infrast...
I guess.

The fact is, modern javascript is FAST. And with http3, and compression, you can make things load really REALLY fast. Much faster than in 1994!

And you have things like tree shaking where you can make the js tiny. Not speaking about wasm, that’s even faster, or putting things to web workers. Modern CSS is so easy to use. And of course CDNs are nowadays all around the globe. Chrome debugging tools are pretty good to debug slowness.

What I am saying by long way and repeating… it’s easier than ever to make a fast website!!! I know first hand, I made some websites recently, with really heavy logic on the FE in JS.

So why are all these websites so slow… ugh.

The tools are there! It’s not like it is inscrutable.
Fun fact: the number needed to treat (NNT) for SSRI, the first line medication for depression, is a whopping 11! The NNT tells us the number of people we need to give a drug to in order for just one person to receive a benefit. I.e. if 11 people with depression are prescribed SSRI, only 1 of 11 will benefit from it. At least that's what I was taught in med school. Psychiatry has in the past decades been a game changer for schizophrenia, bipolar etc. But I feel like there room for so much more to be done for people with 'mild' anxiety and or depression.
If money was already made, then it should go to descendants. However, I see no reason why further copies made after death should get taxed in favour of descendants for 70 years. What do they have to do with it anymore? What value do they provide to justify the compensation?
Science that cannot be questioned is called propaganda.

Silencing questioners and skeptics is just part of what is required to spread propaganda.
Burrowing into minutia: "The Rabbit"-type cork pullers are far easier and faster. These are gear-assisted, spiral pullers obviating the need for elbow grease. Stubborn corks still need the two prongs-type to coax them out (or in).
They’ve expanded a lot of services like CI, remote workspaces, etc. which appear to be Azure-adjacent and VSCode beats the pants off of Atom.
yes! although you don’t even have to modify the code per se if you have «content-addressable code». See other comments in this thread that expands on it.
3D Touch was one of the best technologies Apple ever created, & I still miss it
If it's any comfort, corkscrews do break. We went from three to one over the course of a couple of years, and the one remaining is not wholly satisfactory. (The part that pushes against the bottle rim is a little askew--it hasn't failed yet, but may in a while.) Perhaps I could start setting money aside for its replacement--a hegemonic fund.

And might I complain about the adjective "famous" attached to an essay by an author I've never heard of, and suspect most of the HN readership has never heard of? I'd settle for "noted", I guess.
No time to play with this at the moment but I suspect the problem is that the author didn't try generating the real and imaginary parts. You can't treat the magnitude the same way you treat amplitudes.

Also I don't see if the DC and Nyquist terms are forced to be real (otherwise the IFT won't be real)?
I'd imagine you can use a keyboard shortcut as well to open this menu, but based on the text cursor, rather than the mouse one.

I do this a lot is vscode to auto-fix issues and automatically add imports for the identifier under the caret. It's however frustrating in that it sometimes uses the underlying platform's dropdown widget, which doesn't respect my key bindings (Emacs-like, using C-p, C-n for up, down etc).
What are the use cases of generating different kind of noises (e.g. white, blue and red)? I've only heard about them as background noises to fall asleep or focus while working/studying.

Is there something ininformation or signal theory that benefits from creating truly random (or random but with some structure to it like blue noise not having lower frequencies) noise? As a chemist, I always model real-world noise with a gaussian distribution, so I don't really get where this could br used.
The problem is the system. You can expect one or two persons to act rational, but at the scale of 100s, 1000s, millions, it's just crowd dynamics following statistical processes, just as the market itself is.

If we want anything to change, we need systemic changes to what behavior is incentivized by the world we live in - and I can not think of anything that would do the job other than abolishing or at least heavily restraining capitalism.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Substack posts?
I disagree. The freedom to get in my car and go anywhere in the country, in the company of my entire family, no less, is priceless.