skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identity politics is the result of some people failing to catch up with the constantly changing status quo of what is acceptable. This has been happening forever, except now it happens in broad view, with a huge audience.

To which I, as someone inherently accused of being the very embodiment of identity politics, can only say: I'm very sorry if my existence and other people's acceptance of it seems like ideology to you. The previous status quo seemed ideological to me too.
This kind of conformist, authoritarian culture will end in full blown fascism. Any deviation from the preset, socially accepted norm will result in cancellation. It’s already very apparent on social media. Sadly many people are tugged along because they are told it will result in a better, fairer, world. In reality, all the deviants who help us evolve will be quashed.
If they really wanted to hide it, there are some nasty obfuscators for JavaScript: https://obfuscator.io/
I think the author was comparing R and Python, not Python and Jupyter.
> it should be the computer's job to aid the user

Most languages "aid the user" with better error locality by requiring the user aid them with far more type annotations. Lack of error locality is presently a downside of relying on pervasive type inference (at least in both OCaml and Haskell).

I expect there's room (and responsibility) to improve, and so I do accord the language some of the blame. But error locality can be recovered by adding back some of the annotations that another language might require, and it can be optionally deferred until the locality is desired. I don't think it's right to say that that's requiring more help from the user than the baseline, and I think it's right to place some of the blame on the user misusing the tools if they're not adding enough annotations to get the kind of error locality they want from the tool they're using (as noted in the article, the author stopped doing that, although it may've been an overreaction).
I thought anyone can publish to arxiv?
I'm curious: The promise of Optane has pushed Intel's stock upwards. Did it's rejection by the market pushed the stock downward in a similar amount ?
Wasn't LinkedIn the one who used to access people's emails to farm contacts? They did it by testing the password signed up to LinkedIn against common mail services (Hotmail). If the users used the same password across both services then their email got trawled.
The readme does explain that you could censor it by blocking access the chain entirely, it's not pretending otherwise.

But by embedding the information into the chain, if you are just reading posts I don't know how snoops could notice. You just need to run a node that keeps up with the state of the chain; there's no obvious way for network snoops to know whether you're doing that because you are using Handshake to resolve domain names or to read messages embedded in it, since you can do all that offline.
It really feels like sanitizing user inputs is a new concept to Apple.
I wouldn't describe this as involuntary. The losing party can simply leave (be banished) at any point, rather than face the consequences prescribed by the group. There's no threat of violence or imprisonment, at least as described in this article.

If you take "involuntary" to mean "faced with consequences for one's actions within a group", then maybe it is involuntary, but that's not how the word is used with relation to anarchism as I've seen it.
This is precisely one of the dangers of vigilantism and mob justice. In a civil society, it is up to the criminal justice to pursue criminals and discipline them, not the internet mob.
> Julia is great for NEW ML research. But it has serious downsides for mundane or even above average production work...

This was how PyTorch started out as well.
I think this explains the problem, though If you could configure the battery type, a software fix would work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910710#29912483
Expand doesn't necessarily mean buys. It's a leveraged market neutral portfolio, so most likely built from a combination of the future and hedged options books. So would be a combination of buys and sells of derivative products. Even if the net position is larger.
Panelbear is truly great. I moved crontab.guru to panelbear in October and I’ve been extremely happy. The site does millions of page views a month but the analytics are still fast and responsive.
I'm unfortunately late to this horrible subthread, but:

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note these ones:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
FTX has tokenized stocks that trade 24-7
Yes, for party A to penalize party B for doing business with party C is an attack on free market competition which should be banned.
I live in NJ where weed is legal but you can't buy it (legally) so we are sort of in a weird spot.

anyway, it makes me really not care about ordering weed on the dark web from CA. if the feds catch it, its an ounce of weed to a residence, they don't care and im not gonna go in front of some federal judge on federal drug crimes. if CA or NJ catch it, its legal there, who cares.

but the site I use uses an escrow system where if you don't get the product or if you aren't satisfied you can file a complaint. i've never used it as i always have gotten what i've ordered but it is pretty odd.
They took it down in mid September of 2019, a previously public database. They still refuse to share the data with anyone, which is weird since the database was public to begin with.
IMO FuturesUnordered should stop executing futures when it sees a "yield". An explicit yield signals control should be returned to the runtime. FuturesUnordered does not respect this.
The metaverse will be filled with ‘elves’
Show HN: SimpleX Chat v1 released – the most private chat/application platform
Honestly? I blame the reptilians for this.
When EDA involves rendering tables or graphics, notebooks provide a faster default feedback loop. Part of this comes from the assumption that the kernel holds state and data loading, transformations, and viz can be ran incrementally and without switching context. That's not to say that it's not possible to do with a python repl and terminal with image support, but that's essentially the value prop of notebooks. Terrible for other things like shipping code, but very good for interactive sessions like EDA work.

Personally, I find myself prototyping in notebooks and then refactoring into scripts very often and productively.
PHP has improved a lot.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Grifts [OHM underlying economics are mostly a tragedy.]
It is you who does not know what he's talking about:

> UTF-8 has never been a 3 byte encoding

I never claimed that

> There's nothing recent about it

The non-BMP characters are "recent" because 10 years ago the non-BMP was not allocated except for some small areas. Also I said it "became popular recently", due to emoji. Before that, non-BMP codepoints were rarely used

> I don't think you can name a single file system that restricted UTF-8 to three bytes.

WAFL[1] (unless you "format" it as utf8mb4, which was only implemented a few years ago...)

[1] https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.cdot-fa...
I agree it's not honorable. But if he wanted to protect what he made he should have at least registered the trademark. By not registering the trademark you're saying that you don't care.
I think it was the norm for ransoms to be paid in gold or some kind of physical wealth back in the Y1K era.
Forecasts for +10C in Oslo Norway the next days, possibly melting all the snow and ruining skiing in the forests during lockdown, my best reason to go outside at the moment..
It's called interoperable css [0] or css modules [1].

[0] https://github.com/css-modules/icss

[1] https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
I thought the guy that led Wework captured Saudi Arabian oil money via a Japanese VC.
Windows Vista came out fifteen years ago.
IBM used to be good
If you are familiar with energy markets then by all means tell us the percentage breakdown of electricity consumed that is covered by long term contracts vs the spot market.
The prices of most of the (inflation measure) inputs have been increasing, with different delays and magnitudes; it's not just one or two of the inputs. At what point do you acknowledge that there has been a general increase in the price level? If you agree that there has been an increase, when do you think it counts as 'inflation'?

Inflation originally meant 'an increase in the money supply' (what we now call m1), which is what we've seen over the past two years. When the governments enacted their responses to COVID, many predicted 'inflation', and some denied it would happen. Does this count? What would 'count'?
For which, Slack or Twilio? We have a basic twilio account, paying $1/mo for the phone number, and $0.1/msg or whatever it is.

On Slack, we have a paid account at the standard level, we've had that for years.

One note, both Google and Apple detect that our number is Twilio, and won't let us use it for 2FA, sadly (our original use case).
I stopped reading after

"Handshake is an incredibly secure blockchain. While many other chains are easy to abuse, Handshake is not one of them."

The claim that Handshake isn't easy to abuse lacks proof.
I wouldn't say so. This is all opt-in, they're not forcing anyone.

This is just a private dispute resolution system, not too dissimilar from what can be offered by private companies on clearnet (think eBay).
The whole point of notebooks is to focus only on exploration of data, making some nice plots, adding some explanatory text, and NEVER think about software engineering.

A decent data scientist who also understands software engineering will sooner or later take the prototype code from the notebook and refactor it into proper modules. Either this or the notebook will become an unrunnable mess as it is developed further. Reusing code and functions in a grown notebook is just too fragile.
I believe this is what you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFET
I don’t understand the popularity of immutability and uncensor- ability.

What if someone posts naked photos of their girlfriend on this?

Furthermore it says you can block access to the chain completely do it doesn’t even do what it claims.
If there are 10 programs that will all be paid for by 10 years of tax increases and one program’s spending happens all in a year and the others across a range of times, none longer than 10 years, that line of argument is convincing to me that there is short-term spending in excess of taxation married to pay for it, even if no programs overrun their budget or get extended without new taxes to cover the extension.
Seems analogous to the discussion of which licensing type gives the developer more freedom: GPL or BSD. The answer depends on how you define freedom.
I work on wall st and, trust me, even the greenest traders know this. I think the author is trying overly hard to be dramatic in order to achieve his PhD certificate.
There's only one HomePod anymore and it's $100 (unless we're talking about non-US pricing). Still more than an Echo, but a lot more reasonable than the original HomePod was.
On my iPhone 6 with safari I’m just seeing an error message:

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred.

But from the other comments I get the impression that “button syndrome” has something to do with UX/accessibility. Tad ironic.
“It suggests the author never developed “Theory of Mind”.”

Interesting…Can you explain this more?
no. from what I know, you need two endorsements or have a certain academic credentials.
Very much this. There is no other payment mechanism in existence (correct me if there is) where strong consumer protection is enshrined into the regulation.

With credit cards I can have zero worry about fraud charges because I'm not going to lose any money over it and that's guaranteed by regulation, not by the goodwill of the bank (which could change any moment, the regulation won't).

Also with credit cards I have no worry about unscrupulous vendors because I can always do a charge back if they don't deliver and I get my money back.

I also fear no future payment mechanisms will ever have these kinds of protections, because these regulations come from a different era when the US was still willing to impose consumer protection regulations. That political climate isn't here now.
So then the labor market is functioning as expected.
This is the best article I've read on the topic here. Thank you for sharing. I'd love see a history of defi from the author at some point. It's such an interesting space, and the critics talking about how a use case for blockchain hasn't been discovered in 11 years seem to miss that defi is basically a fetus at this point.

And real-world applications for blockchain tech outside of finance have yet to be conceived.

For anyone interested in non-defi applications of decentralized applications, this talk by Vitalik Buterin is really good: "Things that matter outside of defi" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLsb7clrXMQ)
What about Apple, Google and Microsoft? At least I can totally avoid Meta in my life, because their products are completely optional and have a ton of alternatives. But I simply cannot avoid Apple and Google because of their total monopoly on mobile phones. Break them up first.
I've found myself in a data science group by merger and this(what type of artifact to ship) is a current team discussion point. Would you be willing to let me pick your brain on this topic in depth?
Two words: shift work

Another two words: algorithmic trading
Yes. I'd encourage people to not be afraid to check out random math topics from wolfram's site. I killed a lot of hours in undergrad that way and it's helpful in non-obvious ways.
I never see any electric cars on the road other than Tesla. To me, that means no other automaker has produced a compelling electric option yet, so I would not bet on significant ICE to E within the next few years (other than the increasing numbers of Teslas).
Typically how to use Tor and general OPSEC

For the longest time the best information obfs4 bridges (which are one step in masking Tor use to your network and ISP) was most easily found on the Dread forum there. Fortunately TailsOS uses bridges by default now. But when troubleshooting on clearnet I typically only found out of date stuff on the Tor subreddit. Was useful and better for me.
I like it. Ocean acidity is a problem in itself that needs to be addressed.

The cost is above that of capturing carbon at the source of emissions but below direct air capture schemes by a lot.
It's a fun page, but the gravitational acceleration is clearly wrong. You animated some balls in CSS, you didn't model gravity.

I think this might be a good example of using the wrong tool for the job. JS would work great for this use case. No need to try to force CSS to do it.
We are building a new platform for distributed Internet applications where privacy of the messages and the network matter. SimpleX Chat is our first application, a chat app built on the SimpleX platform.

There is currently no messaging app other than SimpleX Chat that guarantees metadata privacy - who is talking to whom and when. SimpleX is designed to not use any permanent users identities to protect meta-data privacy. See SimpleX overview for more details: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/master/protoc...

SimpleX v1 has big changes in E2E encryption (now with double-ratchet), protocol encoding (overhead in transmitted bytes is reduced from 15% to 3.7%), performance and invitation link size (no more long RSA keys in URLs, we switched to Curve448/25519 keys). See more details via the link.

We really look forward to you playing with it - you can connect to the team via /simplex command in the chat (myself or somebody else will meet you there) - you feedback and questions.
But how cheap is it to determine the leakage factor? I suppose they can just pour in the equivalent water and see if it leaks?
Owning your own home doesn't shield you from rent increases, because you're still paying rent, since as a owner you're not getting paid the rent thay you would otherwise receive had you rented your property out. This means you are paying that rent out of your own pocket. This may sound like creative accounting to some, but it's not. The cost is very real, despite not being observable in terms of cash flows.
Exactly why no one could pay me enough to accept the attack surface of a centrally controllable proprietary self driving car, and I ride motorcycles.

Imagine an attack like this one that did a supply chain attack on the next firmware update to all vehicles: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/tesla...
I might be able to hook you up with a part time contract, not the most glorious project (js/ts node, react) but highly flexible.

Let me know how I can reach out.
You can definitely do it without Linked In, but Linked In can really help. Everybody who interviews you is going to look for your Linked In profile and it will be a little weird if you're not on there.

Obviously this is just my anecdotal experience, but I've been on all sides of hiring at many different companies, at several startups and a couple of big corps too.
True reason is of course that the arbitration courts side with those paying the bills. Otherwise they would have few repeat customers.
Not an expert on the topic, but my understanding is that anarchy rejects governance in general - there wouldn't be any "elevated decision-making body". It's not as much "you can leave if you don't like it" as it's "if you're here then you can change things".

I'm not prepared to defend this but that's the view - if you have a system of governance it isn't anarchy so if the argument is "all systems of governance are at least partially involuntary" then that may be true but doesn't say anything related to anarchy
You said that "Some of the best information" is on there. What would be an example of that?

Every time when I was checking it out it was just marketplaces and otherwise just things I could find in the clearnet.
Too bad you can't go skiing, but I'm a bit more worried about plant and wildlife that "thinks" it's spring and then will get killed when it gets cold again later.
if they seize any powder, they might come a knockin'!
> I live in NJ where weed is legal but you can't buy it (legally) so we are sort of in a weird spot.

Isn't there a service in Maine where you can pay psychics to find your lost weed and bring it back to you?

https://www.incredibles.me/your-first-order-what-you-need-to...

> If you have LOST your weed, please feel free to reach out to us! Your word is good enough for us. If you say you LOST IT, we will FIND IT, GUARANTEED or you pay nothing.
Every Movie Villain Is (Still) a Tech Bro
Elitism about the term "compiler" aside, I've been reading through The History of the FORTRAN Programming Language and funnily enough compile in those historic CS contexts just meant what "to compile" means in English: merging things together. It's an interesting read whatever the case.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52320048-abstracting-awa...
I would also be interested to know this. All the recruiters I have interfaced with (granted, not many) have been crap.
Yes, it's a great anti-war novel, up with the best of them.
Thank you. I’ll check it out!
I thought this was going to be another OpenSSL bug. I'm glad it isn't.
There doesn't seem to be an involuntary component; it's a virtual court so 'brought to court' just seems to mean that proceedings have started. You can simply not show up anymore and sort of self select for banishment (once again, from a purely virtual marketplace, not a physical location).

Seems pretty anarchist to me.
> It is, but AFAICT the entire blog is just this post.

A solid start! I'm looking forward to the next one.

> I found it useful to set a timer and write about small things

I should try that. I do enjoy the deep dive into a topic, but then I will never finish/publish something. Also quite perfectionistic which doesn't help, but your strategy sounds interesting, will give that a go.

I like your short story format btw, it's nice, and interesting topics as well. Also looks like you are on a good streak, keep it going!
> I wouldn't recommend that in any part of any city.

It's pretty safe in Tokyo. Not every city requires you to be on the constant lookout for your own safety.

Perhaps you're used to cities with higher crime rates, and are projecting that onto every city.
Since 1940. Or 1958. Or is it 1995?

Why does the graph have 2 colors? Why is 1995 'zero'?
This would be problematic for existing applications. Even if you leave existing binary data as-is (in existing tables utf8 becomes utf8mb3), changing the meaning of "utf8" in only new tables is still very problematic. Think about logical dumps, e.g. CREATE TABLE statements which use the "utf8" alias. For example, any self-host application which runs a .sql file in its install process. Or spinning up a dev environment for a new hire. Basically, anything that contains a CREATE TABLE with the utf8 alias now has a landmine:

In older versions of MySQL, InnoDB indexes were limited to 767 bytes. Meanwhile, VARCHAR(N) can store N characters. So with utf8mb3, that's a max of 3N bytes worst-case; but with utf8mb4 ("proper" utf8), it's now 4N. This meant that VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 could not be indexed (in its entirety) in these older versions; the CREATE TABLE would fail if you try.

When you have a massive installed base of users, and those users have lots of dumps / install scripts containing "VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8", you simply cannot change the meaning of "utf8" in a minor release.

I fully agree that MySQL could have made this transition faster/earlier than they did, but I disagree that it could be done trivially or terribly quickly.
The big numbers ARE driven by only one or two inputs though. Without used cars and housing, the supply of which took a huge hit for Covid related reasons, the print would be much lower.
I've been very happy with goatcounter as well.

If you're looking for self-hosted the repo is here: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter
Oh I agree it's not quite the same as in the article. I was comparing to what the parent comment was saying about large pneumatic tube networks in ages past.
It's all of the above.

txtai uses transformers to transform data (text, images, audio) into embeddings. Those embeddings are then loaded into an approximate nearest neighbor index for search. On top of that, content is loaded into a relational database to support SQL based filtering. It's trying to get the best of both vector/similarity search alongside standard structured search using a SQL syntax.

This can be run in-process or via an API - https://neuml.github.io/txtai/api/

Components can be split up, for example there could be a server that vectorizes text into embeddings and another server that hosts the indexes.

There is also a pipeline and workflow framework (https://neuml.github.io/txtai/workflow/). This component has modules that assists with splitting data, transforming, summarizing, translating, parsing tabular content. Workflows can be used purely for transformations or as a driver to load data.
California is ‘revisiting’ Tesla’s FSD beta after ‘dangerous’ videos
Its funny how inflation is happening across the whole world, but people want to blame U.S. money printing which got us through the pandemic without an outright DEPRESSION.