skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not an economist or banker. Other people will have better answers. I’m sure there’s a lot of excellent stuff we can use in existing systems. But I just don’t hold it as a precious untouchable thing. People tell me they are scared crypto is dangerous, but we’ve already been badly hurt by the current system I’m not gonna apologise for trying something else.

I think a key idea to pursue is how we could provide privacy for individuals and transparency for institutions/corporations.

And I think it’s important to try ideas. Try something, anything. Accept that most things will fail, that 90% will be shit. Break things, take things apart and rebuild them, remake old ideas anew. Take the same energy i have to getting mods to run in a game, or monitoring the rain in my garden and doing it to money and banking and lending, community currencies, universal basic income, trust networks, etc.

That’s not to say don’t be critical, there is a lot to question and weird speculation(imo a result of the abusive financial system we live in, it didn’t just appear with crypto) but hackernews could do with more hacker mentality on crypto imo. It’s a massive design space for people to try out their ideas for money and debt and gift giving and public services and taxes and where digital worlds and communities meet real world politics and institutions and economies.

I’d like it if my bank was hentai death metal themed not hsbc blandness. And that I can build my own savings account logic on top of it that automatically sends half the profit to animal charities. I’d like to be able to spin up an instant bank account for my new guild of strangers around the world at the click of a button so we can share materials and grow together. I’d like my money to be pictures of dogs not pictures of a president or queen.
I don’t think these ideas are silly, dangerous, or impractical. And it doesn’t require the permissions of tradfi. Just public and private keys. Wild.
Many of the links under "things you can attach eBPF programs to" are broken, unfortunately.
I propose this one instead:

https://i.redd.it/5e9h3s9tokw71.jpg
You want someone to pick gifts for your family and friends?
do you struggle with bottom-up-Haskell? I always associated Haskell with a very opinionated top-down process
You already posted that link earlier today, and yesterday, and the day before.
Once a day is more than enough. Thank you.
The cat 6 is fine, it's the power cable that's an issue. Realistically in this scenario it's fine too, it should be branched off of a GFCI. The only issue with the network cable is that it picks up static from lightning and blows some equipment, you can put Ethernet breakers on both ends though.
I was using a Key 2 LE until about four months ago.

It saddens me that I can't continue to use Blackberry devices. They were amazing.
For me reddit defaults to "search in current subreddit", with a link to "Show results from all of Reddit" at the top?
Usefulness and helpfulness are far better metrics, and such a high false positive rate is clearly causing issues in respect to those

How exactly do you plan on codifying usefulness and helpfulness?

A high false positive rate is not necessarily a bad thing and may instead be the catalyst for additional tests to confirm the first one.
The tests accuracy may actually be 100%, which is great because it avoids a child being born with a fatal genetic disease. Would you prefer a high false negative rate that misses these diseases instead?
They are OK, but I remember when they decided a Nokia phone was better than an iPhone.

Tests usually have subjective criteria that determine the ranking.
Wirecutter advice seems dubiously linked to how much they can get paid by their "winners". It's not all bad advice, it often seems quite good, but it has the same corruption as top SEO blogs.
That is the same book the author of the post mentions at the top of the article.

No need to re-recommend it. We read the article :-)
PVC-U cable ducting for 240V cabling is the norm here in NZ, just helped my dad lay about 60m of it from the house to the office. I doubt it's going to be the end of the world.
I miss when cell phones had built in IR and you could do this with an app.
You said it better than I could. I am a US citizen, and most of my middle/upper-middle class colleagues simply cannot imagine that their society is the result of many hundreds of thousands of people following totally arbitrary rules, and that if people don't follow those rules their society will collapse. They think that US cops (who for the most part can't be bribed by citizens) are normal, and non-US cops who accept bribes are somehow exotic or abnormal.
They wll show you 49 YouTube results though facepalm
I like to think of bitcoin as solving the sybil problem via proof of work. Because if you just gave every "account" coins, then somebody could just make multiple "accounts" and get more than they are entitled to. (I know bitcoin doesn't have "accounts" but bear with me.) By it's very nature it is wasteful.

Question: Has anybody tried to replace proof of work with social proof? Let every participant create their own fiat or scrip out of thin air. The different kind of scrips are not fungible with each other. Often scrip would be used like a voucher. You acquire it on the market and then return it to its emitter for goods and services. I can imagine digital companies or successful streamers to have their own scrip, but also local and national governments, or banks. If Joe normal emits their own scrip, well then it is at first worthless. Same as if you make your own shitcoin.

BUT the twist here would be that you can endow other scrip with your scrip's value. If you are a celebrity with a lot of value, you can put a little bit of your coins in the coins of, say, an environmentalist project you want to support. Suddenly their printed money can buy things they need.

In a way, it is the anti-bitcoin. Bitcoins are hard to generate, and the algorithm is strict with no room for negotiation. If somebody has a lot of coin but the majority doesn't like what they are doing with it, tough luck. Social scrip would be trivial to generate, and it's value is due to the services I provide to others, or the value transferred by others to my scrip, so a part of it is permanently up to negotiation.

Probably it is a crazy idea. I'm still thinking about how to make the "imbueing" work exactly while keeping the value stable (the current idea is some kind of page-rank algorithm). I'm also not sure how to incentivize people to keep the ledger running if there is no mining. But maybe somebody is already further along with this idea.
You need to update the root certs, which is generally possible with most BB devices.
Consumers laments the effect of consumers consuming too much stuff.

Maybe buying more useless stuff isn't the solution???
Can Paper Replace Plastic? A Packaging Giant Is Betting It Can
This is true.

But, the important issue is that no one else is producing high quality search results either.

When this changes, Google can kiss his profitable search engine goodbye. But this is not an easy engineering challenge.
The folks at Frys (particularly in hardware) were a useful resource (and good source of shop talk) all the way up until Fry's faded into irrelevance. They helped me sort through a good number of hardware-related issues
I think you mis-read my comment. The irony is that people are actually closer than ever to their family (or house-mates) due to COVID, which is pushing suicide rates down.
"Bri'ish" is the pronunciation by those living east of London of the word those just west of that city who use RP pronounce as "Bwwwitish".
It's pretty much a part of the bytecode spec [0]. The stack model has only 4 or 8 bytes long operands. Yes, it can convert int to byte, as method signitures actually need the cast. However a operation involving two bytes (say add, sub, shift) would result into an int, and requires a downcast back to byte. "b+=anotherByte" sums b and anotherByte and then downcasts it automatically.

The memory layout of the classes is quite immaterial here as the operation do happen within CPU registers.

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se12/html/index.ht...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_bytecode_instruct...
It looks like SDL's public symbols are all global in lime.ndll so LD_PRELOADing SDL should do what you want. Of course it is possible that lime.ndll was built with -fno-semantic-interposition or equivalent in which case the functions might be called directly without going through the dynamic linker or even (partially) inlined.
Bitcoin's electricity use 8 times higher than Google's and Facebook's combined
Not the OP but my understanding is that you're probably fine if that metal conduit is grounded. If you're stringing ethernet around outside you want properly grounded surge suppressors on both ends.
So then I suppose the Earth flag will be for the people who are willing to share the Earth, and the non-Earth flags can be for those who do not wish to share.
They do love clogging the logs with useless messages, though, as anyone who’s opened Console can testify.
Too bad page rank became the bastard child of SEO bots instead of the novel, mathematically innovative tool it was.
>assuming the vaccines are effective and not causing the issues (perhaps they are...?)

The numbers on vaccine complications are almost certainly underreported, you could surmise this just by observing how they have made every effort to shut down any negative media about it to prevent "vaccine hesitancy".

Perhaps it's not the vaccines even, but mistakes during administration from undertrained or exhausted medical workers (i.e. malpractice). At any rate the media appears to be making no fuss about the increasing number of young people getting heart attacks.
that's not accurate they just force you to buy the most expensive storage option there is
I ditched google (including my alphabet stock) a few years ago.

They're become so big and bloated they think they know better which is death to innovation.

DDG is my default search engine one every device and has been for ages.
It shouldn’t. That’s why I asked the question.
Fair enough, and it's what I do currently - but the minimum set of inputs for this action should just be

- move cursor to split point (in fact this should be optional and we just default to mid-way split)

- input io event (e.g. shift + double click on a non-interactive page region)

as opposed to the much greater mental complexity of manual window management + distraction of OS wm animations, delay - I can only remember 7 things at once, after all, and if I do manual wm management I run the danger of seeing some other app that I had open and it leads to another 45 minute distraction from what I was trying to do :)
Well a lot of people were avoiding medical care (precisely because of Covid concerns), so this makes some sense. Couple that with the increased death rate for younger people and something has happened to worsen the health and outcomes generally for that population. Cue wild speculation and theories.

Not sure how your first two sentences above aren't speculation. It's like you're preemptively attack all the other speculation as "wild".
The issue is that the tests portray themselves as being accurate (in the sense of low false positive rates), and portray the result as “your baby has XYZ rare syndrome” instead of “your baby has a 15% change of having XYZ rare syndrome”. If the test providers stated the false positive rate for their results more clearly, parents would be in a better position to make informed decisions.
> Also, how can a search category be SEO’d into ruin? Isn’t search engine optimization supposed to produce “better results”?

No, SEO is supposed to get your particular website higher up in the rankings, regardless of whether or not the results are better for users.

"SEO" is just a nice marketing term for "figure out how the search engine works and trick it into listing your site higher". It's learning what metrics a search engine prioritizes, and then playing to those metrics.
I have worked on an enterprise application written in Delphi full-time for 6 months.
"it made me pine for the days when you could walk into a shop and a knowledgeable salesperson would ask you a few questions and pick the right stuff for you."

THAT is retail. The craptastic experiment we see these days, online and in meatspace are scams masquerading as retail. I miss Sears.
Where do you live that insurance companies send inspectors ‘round? I’ve owned 2 houses for a total of over 25 years and never had an insurance inspector visit nor heard of them visiting anyone else for a renewal.

Is this common elsewhere in the world?
Googling “torch normalize -1 1” gives “did not match any documents.”
We've been inundated with British television and media (and even British-sounding actors in American productions!) to the point that the apartment interpretation was the only one I understood without reading further.
That such an terrible comparison. I mean seriously, the whole car industry is transitioning fundamentally both in terms of EV and in terms of technology including self driving.

Just looking at past sales numbers and ignoring these transition is insane.

Transitioning millions of vehicles to EV is an incredibly hard task and has massive cost and massive constraints do to battery, battery materials and chip availability.

I'm not gone say Tesla is not 'overvalued' but just saying F-150 sells a lot therefore Tesla is overvalued is bad argument.
I find the idea that excessive sugar intake messes with all sorts of our systems entirely plausible - we definitely aren't designed to consume the quantities of sugar that we on average do consume; and especially not non-stop for years and decades.

Teasing out all the causal chains will be hard work, though. Metabolism is really complicated. Sugar increases levels of insulin; fructose kicks liver into overdrive; how does that excessive metabolic activity work out in remote parts of the body such as the brain?
We could replace the contract company 'Federal Reserve' (not gov't agency and no gov't employees) with a growth rate formula. Let me know how readily they take that idea.
An overlay with UI instructions would be useful. It seems like clicking dismisses all dialogue rather than progressing to the next line, while the pace at which text in a dialogue box advances is incredibly slow. Maybe that's a quirk of the 1994 game (which I never played), but it makes this version almost impossible to follow.
The pragmatic answer is: because the law says so.

The technical answer is: Verizon can't hear what you're saying to your mom, so they don't know/care the content.

The social answer is: ultimately there's no real difference between the two. If you use your Verizon phone to make harassing calls to your mom and she reports those calls to Verizon, or if you do something else that violates your agreement with Verizon, they too have the right to terminate your service:

"We can, without notice, limit, suspend or end your Service or any agreement with you for any good cause, including, but not limited to: (1) if you: (a) breach this agreement or violate our prohibited usage policies..."

Now, because you pay Verizon, and Verizon likes money, they may be more inclined to tolerate certain behavior as long as you pay your bill on time. That's their choice, though.
The ability to make yourself do something that you consider good but yields no immediate pleasure is real, useful, and can be cultivated.
> which does independent testing of products

Can we have some independent testing of web search engines?
I can see the judgemental interpretation, but I don't think that's what the GP intended. I read it as "most people suffering from addiction benefit from accountability, one form of which is the in-person responsibilities of work."
There's a very cool 3Blue1Brown video [0] that helps give you an intuitive feel for Bayes Theorem.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGCoVF3YvM
Easy to blame some “suit” but when the rubber meets the road, Googlers want their RSUs to be valuable maybe more than any other group. Zero incentive to put user experience first at any level of the organization.
If they increased prices, they would stop being supply-limited.
What complex situation you are referring to? I've used it in robot localization/filtering algorithm, and things can be simplified by assuming the process is stochastic.
I like Haskell, but my Haskell skills are weak. I experiment in the REPL to see what works and then write functions in an editor. Also, I like writing pure Haskell code, and when I need to do network or file access, etc., then I find appropriate code on the web that I can learn from. So, my use of Haskell is fairly simplistic. I even wrote a very short book using the small subset of Haskell that I am comfortable with and use for my own projects.
Do the mods do that?
A tweet about this very article caught my eye yesterday, and I'm glad HN's taken notice too.

https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1477382805583716353?t=...

'For a disease w a 1-in-20,000 risk, a test w a false positive rate of 1% and a false negative rate of 0%—an insanely accurate test—would identify 1 correct case and 200 false positives every time. Or would be wrong 99.5% of the time.

This isn’t “bad tests.” This is… baserates.'
Can I just legally claim the Earth? Under the Outer Space Treaty no nation can claim a heavenly body, but it doesn't discount a person from doing so: thus the selling of Moon land was born.

So, I'm laying my stake right now. Right here. I am your new Galactic Overlord.

I will give you all 14 days to pack your belongings and leave. I have sold the Earth and a new hyperspace bypass is being built and your continued presence is an inconvenience. I will leave the plans posted at Alpha Centauri for you to read at your leisure. I also put them online here:

http://alphacentauri.milkyway.deptoftransport.universe/earth...
The Physics of Wile E. Coyote’s 10B-Volt Electromagnet
> hold my fag

> American talk about being "bummed" (in the UK bummed=anally penetrated)

But isn’t “bum a fag” still acceptable Brit phrasing?

Also reminded the Cannondale bicycle company (American) used to have a child trailer called “Little Bugger”, where in Britain bugger is principally associated with buggery, but in America, could be swapped with “ankle biter” or some such nickname for “child”.
Text Aesthetics: Command Line UI/UX
Ah best buy sales incentives. It reminds of the time I watched a salesman force the wrong case on an old lady's iPad, cracking the screen, and then blaming her for it.
You’re talking about precision (true positive / true positive + false negative) but that’s only one part of the story.

There is a real human cost to having a child born with a rare genetic disease (and I would argue is immensely more stressful). You can easily adjust the sensitivity to the test but at the cost of detecting actual true positive cases. The correct response to receiving a positive is to do another test to ensure it’s not a false positive.

To say 84% wrong is clickbait and used to elicit a legislative response (FDA regulation), which will help the reporters career.

The actual ratio to tell if something is “wrong” is accuracy
(True positive + true negative) / (true positive + true negative + false positive + false negative)
besides "show hn", and "ask hn", there should be a 3rd category: "inspire hn" where we open-source and workshop brilliant ideas that are just waiting for some genius to come along and implement them. @dang ? :)

a spreadsheet ui for a higher-order jupyter notebook where each cell is a jupyter notebook or cell, and calculations flow into and out of cells like Monads or Arrows, would be genius !
In the USA, Consumer Reports exists to help deal with this. It's a yearly fee to subscribe, but it's as unbiased of reviews as you can get!
Solana is a VC-backed centralized money grab.
To what extent is this a supply side problem? What's the counterexample high quality health website that Google should have included?

Part of the problem is surely how Google's ad model influences the success or failure of various kinds of websites, but a deeper problem seems to me how anybody qualified to share medical information freely would be acting against their own interest.
> as well as places for diseases to mutate into more dangerous variants

My guess is that most of the round trips create less dangerous variants, but most of the time they fade away and nobody cares about them. Only the more dangerous variants reach the news.
Can I just add that the internet promulgates a meme that in Scotland and Australia "cunt" is used all the time in spoken discourse.

It isn't.

It obeys the McNaughton rule: would you do it (say it) in front of a policeman (your mother).

It's used for humour, by a small minority. It's used to offend routinely. It's not normal to ask for things by saying "oi, cunt.. pass me the salt"

If you want an american version of this, propose people start casting the same meme with the N* word. I think you'll find this falls flat.
I suspect the change we are seeing is that Google is now using a neural network to (re-)interpret the search query.[1] Presumably that neural network also calculates some sort of neural hash for document/paragraph/sentence similarity. The upside is that it can correct more typos, intelligently drop irrelevant terms and understand the meaning of the query to some extent. But the downsite is less precision when you know exactly what you want. It sometimes even seems to ignore the quotes syntax for exact string matching. Very frustrating and very poor quality control.

[1] I bet they train these models based on unsuccessful queries as inputs (in which the user did not click any search result), and then the final search query after which the user left as desired output.
- is used to exclude search terms. Try putting -1 in quotes:

https://www.google.com/search?q=torch+normalize+"-1"+1
You probably implemented it in a wrong way. On my machine, a JSFiddle version is 3.5x faster, while in your benchmark, it is 1.4x faster.
This is why we can't have nice, or at least affordable but slightly less than perfect, things.

I really enjoyed reading the article just as someone who likes writing and reading. It was very engaging and I enjoyed the process he went through from having an idea to finally committing to it and I especially liked him commenting on things like choosing materials that fit in his car.

I also really am enjoying the comments on HN from knowledgeable, experienced people who know whereof they speak and I appreciate your comment because I spent years homeless and I've studied housing issues and lack of affordable housing is a root cause of homelessness in the US.

So this is a real issue and I'm reminded of the fact that after racist White people burned down "Black Wall Street" they then began interfering with the rebuilding by trying to pass more stringent fire safety codes when building codes had nothing to do with why it burned down. It burned down because hateful people torched it.

And I wonder how we solve this. I wonder how we balance all those concerns of not squelching creative impetus and not squelching a desire to add something cost effectively with real world concerns that "If you do it that way, people die or you burn out your Ethernet card (or whatever)."

Seems like with the internet being a thing, we could find ways to balance those many issues. But so far we really aren't.

People in the know are often comfortably well off. They have no problem with saying "Well, pay the few extra bucks to do it right." and the result is some people are sleeping in the streets and it falls on deaf ears when you try to draw those connections.

It's frustrating.