skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, this one is hard to digest because I know a lot of the HN community loves computers (myself included). I'm sorry if I came off acting superior or smug. Nonetheless I stand by my comment and I think it's interesting to contemplate the limits of computers because it's a common metaphor for understanding many different aspects of the universe and I think you made this discussion much more personal than it needed to be. Sure, I disagreed with someone's belief, but I don't think I said anything personal against that person.
Not to mention the other liberties taken with modern pixel games, like non-pixelated particles and effects, character portraits, etc. These modern games don't look retro so much as they look simplified
For example, we don't want the physical world depicted in Ready Player One (the book).
I dont find this perspective is so outrageous. I think many people are thinking this me included.

Here is one possible outrageous belif (that I dont 100% belive but find it interesting to think about):

Aging cannot be cured because death is a required experience of life. So when we will stop aging we will also stop living. In the end if we have enough time to do almost anything then all choices are meaningless thus making life and living boring and flat.
What I have read is that the plant operated only for a total of a few days each year before the nuclear reactors was closed down. Karlshamnsverket was built in in 1970, and the south of Sweden had a nuclear plant in Barsebäcks until 2005. It was the combined effect of both Ringhals and Barsebäcks that created the market situation where Karlshamnsverket operates regularly all over the year when ever demand goes up.

Given the amount of hydro Sweden have, it is a bit of a black mark on the country that an oil plant actually get to run as much as it does. Its worth noting that Norway doesn't seem to use a lot of oil based peaker plants. I wonder if the oil that get burned in Sweden actually comes from Norway.
Important concepts. Key thing that has changed in privacy in last couple years is that de-identified data has recently been made into a legal concept instead of a technical one, whereby you do a re-identification risk assessment (not a very mature methodology in place yet), figure out who is accountable in the event of a breach, label the data as de-identified, and include the obligation of the recipients to protect it in the data sharing agreement.

The effect on data sharing has been notable because nobody wants to hold risk, where previously "de-identification" schemes (and even encryption) made their risk and obligation evaporate as it magically transformed the data from sensitive to less sensitive using encryption or data masking. Privacy Preserving Data Publishing is sympathetic magic from a technical perspective, as it just obfuscates the data ownership/custodianship and accountability.

FHE is the only candidate technology I am aware of that meets this need, and DBAs, whose jobs are to manage these issues, are notoriously insufficiently skilled to produce even a synthesized test data set from a data model, let alone implement privacy preserving query schemes like differential privacy. What I learned from working on the issue with institutions was nobody really cared about the data subjects, they cared about avoiding accountability, which seems natural, but only if you remove altruism and social responsibility altogether. You can't rely on managers to respect privacy as an abstract value or principle.

Whether you have a technical or policy control is really at the crux of security vs. privacy, where as technologists we mostly have a cryptographic/information theoretic understanding of data and identification, but the privacy side is really about responsibilities around collection, use, disclosure, and retention. Privacy really is a legal concept, and you can kick the can down the road with security tools, but the reason someone wants to pay you for your privacy tool is that you are telling them you are taking on breach risk on their behalf by providing a tool. The people using privacy tools aren't using them because they preserve privacy, they use them because it's a magic feather that absolves them of responsibility. It's a different understanding of tools.

However, it does imply a market opportunity for a crappy snakeoil freemium privacy product that says it implements the aformentioned techniques but barely does anything at all, and just allows organizations to say they are using it. Their problem isn't cryptographic, it just has to be sophisticated enough that non-technical managers can't be held accountable for reasoning about it, and they're using a tool so they are compliant. I wonder what the "whitebox cryptography" people are doing these days...
I assume you trust both of them, or you wouldn't have designated both as executors. One of them will have to step up and take the burden (assuming you didn't name them co-executors that need to act jointly?). And assuming they both view it as a burden, they can decide that for themselves.

IMO problems between honest people arise when an estate drags out due to large non-monetary assets like houses, causing legitimate differences in opinion. If they both just want to sell it, that's easy. When one wants to keep it to live in, or if there is a lot of land and someone wants to subdivide to get more money, then you get into arguments. Or other intangibles like if one of them ends up spending a lot of time personally taking care of you, what's that worth post facto.

FWIW I don't know how the probate process is in your state, but you could look into a living trust to keep the process easier and more private. States that have adopted the uniform probate code are pretty straightforward, but ones that haven't can get somewhat tedious even for uncontested estates (eg publishing a list of all your assets in the public record).

TBH you probably have a gut feeling of whether your kids will work together or argue, and if you want to head off problems the only way is to talk about it ahead of time and plan for the things that will cause friction.
I think you're right. Idiocracy was much more Judge's critique of the lazy morality ("It's irresponsible to have kids!") and lazy voting ("burrito coverings") of the yuppie class. These days, you can even see wokeism being lambasted ("Welcome to Costco, I love you.").
I think we know where this is going.

It takes until an unsilent majority gets affected. Right now, they think they will be unaffected for longer than the minority are. They are in for a huge surprise.
Here are all of the double-meanings / associations I can find in the DeepCreamPy name:

DeepCream sounds like deep dream, the AI technique

To cream is slang for to ejaculatw

Thus, "deep cream" would be to ejaculate "deeply". In general, "deep" is a richly evocative word in the context of sex.

"CreamPy" sounds like "cream pie," a type of pies, the pastry. Pies themselves also have a sexual connotation, due to the widely popular and influential sex comedy "American Pie" (it gave us the word MILF, for example).
Jawdropping. So this is the 33 degrees I've heard people throw around. Thank you so much for elaborating in such a detailed and insightful way.
El Salvador Is Pinning All Its Hopes on Becoming the New Cryptoland
One advantage of telling the truth is that you don't go to prison for fraud.

When evaluating this kind of conspiracy theory, it's important to consider the number of people who would have to remain silent for the conspiracy to survive, and to consider how much it would cost to keep that many people silent. In this case, it's at least a few dozen so I think it's fair to assume that such a lie would not survive very long.
I've long advocated something generally like this, for patents and other IP as well. I would propose a longer initial term (~30-50 years) since the nature and value of IP has changed significantly since the 1700s. I would also put an upper limit on it, since the most valuable IP is now held by immortal corporations.

The hard part for copyright is tracking what has been renewed and what has not, without some kind of registration system, which I don't think we want to add. Without this, it would make it very difficult to know if the work you intend to use/copy/distribute is protected or not.
Humans could live two years longer: Cut air pollution
I never heard of this before. What kind of enhancing does the AI do?
Gamblers fallacy. A 1:150 chance of a Carrington class event happening in any given year does not mean that one will happen every 150 years.

Earthquakes (e.g. cascadia) are different. Tectonic strain is quantifiable.
Just one of the many reasons I self host my password manager. Bitwarden hosted via HomelabOS.
I'm a firm believer that the transition to mirrorless needs a new mount. I get that pros want to re-use old lenses, but lenses can be sold.
It's illegal in some places, like Ireland for example.
Session Replay for Developers
I'm not sure we can concretely say there was no compromise.

However, at the moment I'm not satisfied that a compromise has been demonstrated, either. As near as I can tell, nobody has reported a compromise, just suspicious emails. That's not enough evidence to prove a compromise.

LastPass' response, so far, adequately covers what we've actually seen.
Although the author couldn't do it, the problem is obviously solvable, and not even that difficult.

Theory: https://rjav.sra.ro/index.php/rjav/article/view/40/29 [PDF]

Matlab code (under the Functions tab): https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42919-p...

This is for the 1D case, but since the Fourier transform is separable, it works identically in 2 (and any N) dimensions by performing the transform sequentially in every dimensions.
Also, the deployment of radar, which (among other things) played a large role in finding German U-boats.
> This movie is ripe for a remake where the world is stupid-Left instead of stupid-Right.

What makes you think it isn’t currently both?
> So much of our technologies have been built or adapted to enhance and/or fulfil our desires, including sexual desires, it is puzzling to me why you think women are somehow excluded from this. Your post smacks of a modern puritanism.

It's a question of venue. There's nothing wrong with the tech itself. Don't bring this up on HN. We have enough trouble fighting the stereotype of the misogynistic porn watching computer nerd as it is. Women are overwhelmingly offended by pornography (particularly hentai, which is very commonly focused on incest and pedophilia), and especially in a setting that is supposedly professional. Of course there are always exceptions to any rule. It just really bothers me to see the casual locker room conversation here that is so toxic to having an inclusive community.
Thank you! Corrected and credited.
That kind of troll talk is very rare here and unnecessary. Don’t know what else to say tbh.
But this was much later. The transition from a car centered city to a bike/walk-centered city started around 1980 in Groningen.
This song in particular? Not much. The entire conversation, assuming it was more than 5 minutes of listening to the song? Perhaps whether or not you can get along with the person. I'm not saying that's what was going on: I think it's entirely possible that it was just some general weirdness. Or Stewart had already decided the person wasn't getting the job & wasn't going to waste time on tech talk when they could have a pleasant conversation about something else. I don't know, but I think there are other plausible explanations than the "weirdness" one. But massively wealthy tech founders are often an odd bunch, so "weirdness" certainly wouldn't surprise me.
Ask HN: Costs of Running Signal Messenger
Curious how much a service with 50 million users costs?
Part of the reason the classes are pricey is to make sure you really want to do it before you take it

That said, they also have loads of discounts available (especially if you're a customer or partner)
In this sense any diversion would have a "field" so saying "diversion of the field" would be redundant. As a definition of sport, it is much more likely that "field" means the outdoors (there probably were not many indoor sports at that time).

However, this shows why this dictionary is not actually good for modern, practical use, IMO.
I was reading through Aarons blog this week, like his writing style. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis
You see them sometimes, but they're not road legal and seem pretty pointless when everybody already has one or more bicycles.
Creating prototypes in general is not necessary for 99% of JS code. Using completely cloned/closured functions will perform just fine for the majority of use cases... And the code there reads very simply... Just a function that returns an object that has functions.

Or you can simply separate out functions into utility objects rather than attaching to the specific data object, and performance should be the same as using prototype, without any of the special syntax

This model of programming is also much simpler, I'd argue. There is no use of "this", everything is explicit. Especially in JS, "this" sucks because the semantics change depending on whether you use function declarations or arrow functions. And "this" will also reference the caller, so changes if the function gets passed around. Much more obvious to pass an explicit argument to a function than to rely on "this"

I do agree there are use cases where prototypes are more useful, performance sensitive games/server code etc. But pretty rare that you can't take one of the approaches described above. And people writing performance sensitive code aren't generally also going to be the newbies. Additionally, could have had syntax sugar for functions that wired prototype without the new/class paradigm, which I argue just adds unnecessary verbosity to the language.
There's little resistance now, but how much was there 40 years ago when these changes were just beginning?

I'd love to know how Dutch urban planners overcame the automotive mindset after WWII. Resistance to the status-quo is fierce in the U.S. The former mayor of my city (which is considered very progressive) rails against even minor concessions to improving bike and pedestrian infrastructure. At our planning meetings, he counters any mention of the Netherlands with a loud "our city isn't Amsterdam!" and people go wild with applause. The pro-auto train of thought ends exactly there. It's as willfully ignorant as it is soul crushing.
The minute hand shows progress vs. digital time.[YouTube]
Obligatory reference to 'A Fire Upon the Deep' [0] by Vernor Vinge, in which programmers-at-arms on board starships do indeed trace their ship clocks back to ancient computer systems and Unix in particular

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
Good point. Smalltalk is a source of inspiration, though I am unaware of how it handles math expressions in particular.

The solution as I see it: You’d have to enforce using parentheses (in line with «explicit over implicit»), alternatively enforce an ordering of math expressions so that the operators with the highest precedence has to be placed first. This might even be beneficial in tail call optimization, since it minimizes what has to be kept in memory (for the compiler as well as the human reader).
I agree. Worked well for me. Hugo + Netlify. Automated ci/cd, fast site, etc.
Ahh, I’ll call bs on that. Reiserfs was an innovative fs at the time; in the current space, btrfs is in the same space. Stuff like tail packing and very good performance on small files (emails) made it a good fit for specific workloads.
But the original commenter literally feigned confusion, as if the term might have referred to people who deny that the Earth has a climate.
I thought this was straightforward like in the audio domain? [1]

Now, not all noises of the same amplitude spectrum are created equal. For instance LFSR sequences are only ±1 yet they have a white spectrum. The difference lies in phase.

I wonder if generating random phases, then putting it through an optimizer to find lowest crest factor could work.

Oh, and can someone chime in whether void-and-cluster masks guarantee that all values are covered, just like in Bayer mask?

[1] https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm
I liked the book Eccentric Orbits about Iridium
Sold to me. I have an F, an F2, and a D850, and most f mount lenses will work on all of them.
Sadly does not work on Wayland only environment.
I love when someone uses the label "This is misinformation" but then also has to rely on that they're judgement that it is misinformation is more accurate than yours. Well what makes that true? Suddenly you are qualified to judge that but not us? Well what makes that the case? Is it you being on the side of the majority?

If it's scientific credentials and experience that qualifies you, then there are also just as many qualified people with credentials that disagree (on the side of your so-called "misinformation" so ultimately what this has come down to is that any information you disagree with has been labeled "misinformation" or neither you nor the other person is qualified to judge what is misinformation or not and all you ever can trust is information that comes from a Big Govt organization or CDC/WHO like group). At which case, then why critically think at all and have any discussion whatsoever?
Yea, but while accurate it was terrible. Idiocracy is funny, Don’t Look Up was not to me.
For starters, how likely is a data loss? SQLite may lose a transaction if the server shuts down or the application crashes, but this doesn't mean the db gets corrupted.

Secondly, even if that happens, the fact that the database is a simple file on the production server, makes it easy to back up and restore.

Thirdly, a "traditional" db is no proof against loss either...sure, the production server with the SQLite can go down...so can the container running Postgre.

And lastly, actually most services are doing perfectly fine when a data loss occurs. Take a message board for example. Worst case scenario: A post isn't written and someone has to type a few lines and emojis again.
Density works also locally.
Knowledge is not a binary. The world is not a mix of "true" and "false", especially not in the realm of analyzing future outcomes.

You need to not only get multiple analysis, but normalize them, give them confidence scores and then interpret them - and you may interpret them differently than their authors. You may entirely discard some.

How do you get a confidence score? Sure sometimes we can analyze the history of an analysis such as with political polling where we have someone like Rasmussen who has done it for a long long time... but you still need to account for changes in their own process. If Rasmussen gets a new head data scientist tomorrow, does that alter our confidence level?

"Just use math!" is about the same as saying "Just don't be wrong!". Math is a tool, not a magic 8 ball.
We should simply make mind reading technology illegal, full-stop.

If we do anything less than criminalizing it outright, it will turn into something “voluntary”, but opting out will exclude you from certain events, or you’ll have to pay some sort of premium to maintain your privacy. This will have the side effect of making you seem suspicious.

I simply don’t want any entity, public or private, knowing my thoughts, at all, for any reason whatsoever.
I'm optimistic that we'll be around in 8k years, but less so that anything written now will survive regardless of how we record timestamps. Posts regularly come up here of sites shuttering with little to no notice and we're increasingly seeing a migration to app walled gardens which are actively hostile towards open standards and by extension archiving. The ancients were on the right track carving their histories into stone.
I wonder how this correlates to business success.
I imagine getting your representatives to author and pass legislation for this (which will include raising money to pay for it) will be met with more opposition than you think. I think this because I don't think it serves the public interest :)
As iconic as the movie is, I think articles like these do it a disservice by trying to bang out a political narrative based on it ( Trump bad ). Yeah, there are similarities ( both Mountain Dew Terry and Trump have trademarked names ), but we are nowhere near the level of idiocy presented in the movie and hence statements like 'it is a documentary really' are, at best, a hyperbole.
I found https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.scintill.duotp and https://github.com/simonseo/nyuad-spammer/blob/master/spamme... only after extracting the secret from a throwaway Duo app's storage.
Ask HN: What is good open and flexible system for managing configs?
Hey all!
let's say you have a lot data-sciency models in production (that for example forecast stuff) where each model relies on a bunch of hard-coded config parameters that you've found through some e.g. hyperparameter tuning etc. which you dont wanna rerun every time the production model runs. I end up hard-coding these values either directly in the production model code or put them in an enum/json somewhere.
However, I wish I had some "config parameter management tool" with a pretty GUI and API that allowed me to store the parameters in a central database which a few features:

- allow for programmatically writing new parameters

- allow the production models to programmatically query the parameters they're supposed to use

- do versioning on the parameter sets, as it's useful to keep the history of parameters for backtesting/reporting

- have some logic of structuring the parameter sets thrugh grouping/tagging and/or a hierarchical model so all sets are not just one big mess

- finally allow of course for different parameter set structures, as different models have different parameters

- ideally a GUI

I didn't manage to find anything like it online, are you aware of anything? How are you dealing with that topic if it's an issue for you as well?

thanks a lot in advance!
This one is missing (NSFW): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creampie_(sexual_act)
That's absolutely true but this is one of the many things that's "just handled" and abstracted away to the point of invisible with Stripe, etc.

As a founder of my third startup with 1,000 different things to worry about I can't imagine adding this to that list.

You're absolutely correct - even though the IRS released tax guidance and policy on cryptocurrencies in 2014 it's amazing how many people in the cryptocurrency community are unaware or willfully ignorant of the tax implications. When I've brought it up the overwhelming response has been "Yeah right taxes LOL" usually followed by some kind of ad hominem attack or anti-government rant.
Per the Flynn Effect, people are getting smarter. The source of the problems mentioned in the article is not increasing stupidity, it's a breakdown of the relationship between the elites and the masses.

You see this clearly in the article where the author complains about sharing a country with deplorables with nutty beliefs. You see it in the elite turn against free speech: elites wonder aloud "is free speech a good idea if it leads to Trump or Brexit?" For their part, the masses seem determined to de-rail the train out of boredom or to spite the elites.

Increasingly, people view their countries or cultures as farcical or unjust, without a legitimate claim to exist at all. Civic virtue has either disappeared or is no longer recognized. Someone like Robert Mueller represented the old school. The reward for his diligent work was ridicule by both political factions, with Trump's attacks and Democrats' insinuations of senility. The politicians we apparently prefer are those who can reliably generate viral content.
> If a community wants to make it hard for new users to get on-board and it is totally for expert users, what's wrong with that?

I don’t know / not worried about that.

I’m just saying the person’s point wasn’t that there should be change just for themselves.