skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been using this for a few months now, as I got fed up with emacs-specific configuration when using org-mode. There's also a plugin to integrate it with Anki, all thanks to solid package base of VS.
I don't need to assume axioms to tell you if a measurement I remember taking is consistent with them.
Archived version (the link currently gives a 404 error): https://archive.is/FYtiV
A new use for AI: summarizing scientific research for seven-year-olds
You can also borrow money using your stock as collateral, avoiding selling it and paying tax.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2021/11/11/how-americ...
It doesn't for normal people. The only people who would receive any backlash from this change are the trolls and instigators.

Well, I suppose a certain percentage of people with poor communications skills will find themselves blocked unintentionally from time to time, but I would hazard that would be uncommon.
It's legal where I am (requested)
Strongly disagree. The playful nature that Alan Watts conveys ideas with completely blew my mind. He combined so many influences. Entertaining or not by his own admission, it’s a hundred, a thousand times more accessible. At its core it is also so much more transmissible back to the day to day life as an organism on this planet. I still have yet to encounter anything like it. The stuff you list right here reeks of long study in a library to me. There are gurus who sit for hours every day meditating, eat their single bowl of rice, clean the temple, sleep on hard stone. And there are gurus who drink, smoke, and laugh, wandering the countryside. A thousand ways indeed. I know which path I prefer. I think of Alan as the latter, whatever he may have said. Play is at the core of the deep lessons, for me. So him straying towards that side rings much more true.

I would start with this short series of animated Alan Watts lectures by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvrfnE7Q-0w, listen to some of his lectures (the ones where he’s drinking are often the best), read The Book, and then just have fun with all the other books/content he put out there. Alongside it, dive into the deep texts, Zen, the Vedanta, etc.
Recording sensitive information then relying on your perfect performance to remove it is flawed opsec. Not to mention a waste of time, as our great ancestor mentions.
> It will inevitably be abused, loopholed, and twisted by the most powerful to preserve the status quo, and it will be the middle and working classes that get screwed by it.

as opposed to our current tax system? afaik, it's also "abused, loopholed, and twisted by the most powerful to preserve the status quo, and it [is] the middle and working classes that get screwed by it."
I agree they could have added HAVESTS to the EHLO reply.
Nobody gets promotion for maintaining free SKU.
On the other side , not annoyed.

I transitioned from free gsuite to paid a few years ago. For my twelve (12) bucks a month, i get 2tb of storage, great mail services, all the docs i can write, etc.

When i compare to individual apps wanting $10 per month, this is probably my best monthly spend on my list. Fitness apps are the worst.

My main gripe is services that don't work with a paid account, like nest and home automation.
Jesus cause he was clearly crucified.
I would also love to a more responsive subtitle format! I've seen some really wonderful custom jobs where people use different subtitle colors for different speakers, place subtitles near the speaker in the frame, etc. I think there is a ton of room for improving the expressiveness of the medium.
Although I am not a mathematician, and this article isn't actually about math, I had a realization in college that the entire number space really is stored between 0 and 1. In this space, 1 is actually 0 and 0 is infinity.
They're a good step but they're really a step in a different direction, even though capabilities are at the heart of how plan9 does permissions as well. Plan9 capabilities are more like kerberos tokens, so you get them from privileged services and then can use them to perform privileged actions.

Linux capabilities don't really change any of the issues around namespace security because they don't inherently provide a way to elevate privileges without setuid.
The GDPR-compliant export tool they offer should also encode your albums, I don't think it will be easy to port them somewhere else, but it should be possible
Soda… At least it’s not lead paint!

Saying something else is worse doesn’t make your thing good, or even OK. It has to stand on it’s own merits.

And the debate is about what kind of influence this app would have on children, parents and their relationship. Way too early to tell if it’s a “positive influence”.

Of the several dozen families I’ve seen raise children in various communities, children not doing chores has always been the symptom of other parenting / respect / behavioral issues. It’s not like everything is all roses except the kid complains about chores. There’s always something deeper going on in my experience.

This concept is a band-aid at best as it doesn’t attempt to address any of the deeper issues that might be causing kids to not do their chores, or the issues of parents not wanting to (or not being able to) parent effectively.

Still, I agree you can make a ton of money selling band-aids.
> In software, a programmer calls a sort function from the supplied library. An engineer writes the sort function, and can tell you its complexity and why the algorithm he chose (or invented) is the most appropriate one for the particular sorting task, and what the cases are where the sort will perform poorly, and why.

Designing and analyzing algorithms is usually considered the work of computer scientists, I would think. Software engineers are something different.
I made an incredibly simple Safari content blocking app for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liberate-website-blocker/id121...

~$750/month lately. $32.5k lifetime and have spent <40 hours conceiving, implementing, and updating it.
Yeah I'm also confused why making multiple unrelated changes is celebrated with a special gitflow. Two changes == Two PRs.
I think I pay $60/year for Protonmail, and at least $30/year for my email forwarding service.

$72/year for gmail seems reasonable given it includes drive.
I really like PCIE x4 making this GPU unsuitable as an upgrade for older computers. And the fact most manufacturers decided to slap 3 huge Fans on it to make it look like serious card.
I’m loving all the Postgres submissions on HN over the last couple days. My professional experience is mostly with Redshift which is only Postgres-like.

I was not aware of BRIN indexes. Am I correct in assuming those are suitable for analytical workloads? Is the data implicitly sorted in a BRIN index or is there a mechanism to optimize the storage layer for BRIN indexed data?
I believe there is a plugin for tiddlywiki.
https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/PvoDxAWgziE
Examples where computers are actually made to save routine manual labor seem to be few and far between. Mostly, computers of today are a form of nuisance (as described in this sad blog post[0]). These stories could have happened in the 1980s, and be just as impactful. You would think we're long past this, but it's AD 2022 and whole industries seem to only start noticing that automation exists, is possible, and is relevant to them.

I think that in many regards, automation is more or less fully used only in the IT industry itself, and maybe a couple more where computers actually are front and center. A lot of others, after having bitter experience with computers, seem more skeptical, maybe justly so.

Startups like you say seem to crop up now and then, but it seems to me that while you could have some dolce vita as an individual, this approach won't make a company rich.

[0] https://tonsky.me/blog/tech-sucks/
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments? You've been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we end up banning such accounts.

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.
RobustPhysical Adversarial Examples Against Traffic Sign Recognition Systems
It’s slightly more nuanced. In the case the FBI compelled Microsoft’s US operations, with employees based in the US to access data stored on a server in Ireland and to hand them over.

GP is wondering if no US employees had access to the data directly if US law would have Microsoft US order Microsoft Ireland (which is a wholly owned subsidiary) to transfer the data to the US.

It’s an interesting question. My non-lawyer take, even if they can force Microsoft US to make the request ultimately Microsoft Ireland is an Irish company operating under Irish law. If the data transfer to Microsoft US is illegal, they mustn’t do it.

A situation where this already happens is technology transfers. If information is export controlled (mostly military related), a foreign non-EU/non-NATO owner of a German company can ask and demand as much as they want, non of their employees will ever see that information.
I would've expected for them to change to be "4 GB VRAM is not enough for 1440p Games" and marketing the new card for 1080P.

Though I guess removing this marketing statement completely avoids publicly stating that it is a compromise directly.
Fsnotify – File system notifications for Go
You are assuming the very logic applied at the time of measurement was, is, and remains true. What if the laws of logic change every few minutes?

Perhaps your are not aware of how low level we are talking. Epistemology relates to how we know what we know.
Having a dividing line between the worker and the programmer is where the problem lies. There's tons of jobs where it makes sense to have the worker write a script to automate, which would make no sense for me to come in and automate for them.

This is why I think some basic forms of programming should be standard. You don't need to be a specialist to get a lot out of it.
> The integrity of our vote is much greater than any of the issues you brought up.

The integrity of our vote includes ensuring every eligible voter is able to do so without obstacles. As far as I can tell this is currently the primary threat to the integrity of the vote we are facing.

> Every issue you have against a national ID can be solved easily.

Great let's solve it then! As mentioned actually solve those issues instead of hand waving them away and I'll be pro-voter ID. But as far as I can tell no one is trying to solve them, especially not the people currently pushing voter ID.

> As many have mentioned the USPS could serve as the backbone

Not everyone has a USPS nearby. Not everyone has a car to drive there. I don't accept denying these people the vote.

> "Someone think of the homeless and disabled elderly, how will they vote" when we all know the reality is they don't.

Your reality is news to me, and I don't accept that it's okay to make it hard for anyone to vote just because you don't think they want to.
> Texas has a wealth tax?

Every US jurisdiction has at least one; it's called “property tax”, a wealth tax that has very broad exceptions (i.e., everything except real estate.) Texas has the 6th highest of the 50 states + DC.
Uh no, not as opposed to our current tax system. My entire point is that a wealth tax will be circumvented, just like our current tax system. If it was up to me I'd get rid of the income tax as well as a whole bunch of wasteful government programs.
Spotify has exposed me to some really good bands or musicals that I love now - it even put on an anime OST that got me hooked on the show. It's almost creepy how well it's figured me out, but it certainly lets me enjoy new music without having it be a part-time job to discover it.
From the meditation, no. Unfortunately, that was during the season of my life when I had very young kids, and I was dedicating myself to work. Consequently, I struggled with devoting time to sitting and not thinking. I was trying to bootstrap a good practice, so Zen retreats were a great way to force myself to do it. It wasn't sustainable, though: where I lived, there was no local group (the retreats were >1hr away). So I didn't actually do a ton of meditation.

However, I feel like the retreats were a positive for me, albeit not in the same way that meditation might be. Sitting, walking, and doing "work practice" (the term they used) mindfully gave me a great perspective shift. I found doing dishes truly enjoyable and worth my effort even if it wasn't changing the world.

Maybe I enjoyed it so much because of my personality. Or maybe the retreats helped me appreciate silence and downtime, thereby changing my personality. I can stand in line at the grocery store without needing to be entertained by my phone, which is a herculean effort for many people I know. It's too hard to say :)
There’s a reply somewhere on here about something called “Cloud Identity Free” — seems like you can ditch the G Suite apps but still keep the SSO sign in.
Here's how I do it...

- subscribe to iCloud 2TB plan

- all photos on my wife and my devices are auto uploaded to the cloud

- i run a synology nas that downloads and organizes all the photos in a directory structure YYYY/MM/DD.

- a hyperbackup task backs up the (encrypted) photos to Backblaze B2.

That way i have my photos in apple's cloud, on my nas and in another cloud.

What do I use to download/sync the photos from iCloud to the NAS, you ask?? It's an awesome project called "iCloud Photos Downloader" - https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

I have it running in a docker container on the nas and it periodically syncs and keeps itself up to date, no hassle. https://hub.docker.com/r/boredazfcuk/icloudpd
With org-roam you can create neat note graphs as well: https://imgur.com/a/9oyHMCt
Actually, next time, why not try focusing on the pain? I do this sometimes when I run. Instead of trying to ignore the pain, really focus on it, and sense what it is about it that’s discomforting, and when you realize that it’s not going to harm you in any significant way, it kind of loses its power over you and you sort of accept it and keep going.
More smaller microservices bring along a combinatorial explosion of failure scenarios.
Before wave of train thefts, Union Pacific laid off some of its police force
There has been some motion on the democratic side towards support for Voter ID that is free, universal, and easy to get:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/democrats...
If you are on house arrest, are you allowed to get groceries or go to the doctor? Serious question.
You know there are illnesses out there (this is the season) that aren't COVID? My daughter had a temperature & sniffles and a negative test 3 days and 5 days after symptoms started. She just had a cold.

We wouldn't have sent her back to school as early if she wasn't showing negative.
Each video has a comments section, and some of the early videos did get the types of comments you're talking about. I put the answer on the comment page and (in some cases) updated the videos. But I updated the README in the repo and improved the videos, and it stopped being an issue pretty early on.

Now all I get in support requests is the occasional account management email, and those are pretty streamlined at this point. (I could eliminate nearly all of them by creating a proper account management page, rather than directing people to email me, but given the number of requests I get, the cost of doing that is way higher than just handling it by email.)

It helps that the screencast is aimed at more advanced developers. But that's also why it didn't end up being viable in the long term, I think. That and the "long play" format, I suspect.
There are Korean and Japanese bathhouses in SF as well actually. Also a Korean one in San Leandro.
Please do not post flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Back of napkin calc as a sole prop:

* google has risen by over a trillion in value since I began using google apps for my custom domain w/ gmail and linked search.

* I was an early adopter of "google". Via data donation efforts as an end user, I have contributed substantially to google. Estimate: My lifetime value to google is greater than the average user by an order of magnitude.

* Avg. val of each of 10 billion homo sapiens at ~$1T USD: >$1,000 per homo sapien.

* Est. val of my data contribution over two decades of full time use: >$10,000.

* google, based on this inequity, I will settle for a lifetime of free grandfathered service per my status quo. Alternatively, I will continue to documented my grievances regarding your malicious, targeted, experimental negative emotional contagion data abuse practices -- with higher USA authorities -- until you are dismantled per long-established monopoly laws.
Criticizing political leaders who are (in your opinion) underperforming seems like a healthy state for a representative democracy/republic form of government.

If the leaders of your party are (or hold themselves to be) above criticism, that’s a sign that something is deeply unhealthy (as we’ve seen recently).
Elon didn't make his fortune in a vacuum. (Well, his rockets might operate in a vacuum, but you know what I mean.)

If someone succeeds in a country like America, it is because they have benefited from the roads and schools and legal system etc. that the government has put in place, paid for by taxation. If Elon is more wealthy than most people, it means he has benefited more from these services than them, and thus it is natural to expect him to pay more.

The question then becomes "How does society determine how much to bill Elon for?", and there are valid reasons to propose taxes based on income, or wealth, or consumption, or land, or some combination, or some alternative ways of generating revenue, such as only taxing corporate profit.

Ultimately these practical questions are for the people and their elected representatives to answer, but if the answer is "Money in your bank account is taxed, but money in your non-profit charity's account isn't", then Elon is welcome to jump through that hoop to reduce the money that goes to the government.
That’s actually pretty cool. Wish I found an excuse to need to do that.
In industries that successfully self-regulate we find that good products that follow regulations out compete those that don't. In those cases politicians also tend to avoid adding regulations in order to not disrupt a working system.

In industries that don't successfully self-regulate we get politicians that force a regulation in order to have good product out compete bad ones. It is especially common with lemon markets where information asymmetry between buyers and sellers is a significant reason of good products being unable to fairly compete with bad ones.

The value of personal information is a notoriously lemon market where the buyer, ie users, are not aware of the actually cost to themselves or to whom they are selling their information. One of the first requirements in GDPR is fixing part of this by forcing companies to disclose to whom the information is sent to. Secondly it partially address the cost aspect by forcing companies to disclose how the information get used and thus what the real cost to the user is. A bit like how banks need to disclose what the interest of a loan actually will be before the consumer signs the contract.

What makes privacy issues an even bigger issue is that the cost is not carried by the party who decide and benefits from the choice of analytic software. This is similar to environmental issues where the cost of a decision is not carried by the company that made it, but rather by those around them. Environmental issues is a typical example where self-regulations do not seem to work, as the end consumer has no information if a certain clothing item is made from child labor or by a eco friendly operation. A regulations job there is to put down some minimum standards that everyone need to follow, including information disclosure so that end users can actually know what they are paying for and how much.
See also the Three Little Pigs, wherein we note that a pig will eat anything, including a wolf that is still digesting the pig's brothers.
Thanks. This is Google, where nothing's ever finished, so when I logged in and tried to find out the answer to questions like this I saw:

"Support availability is rolling out to our G Suite legacy free edition customers over the coming days. If you do not currently have access to Support, please check back in a few days. We apologize for any inconvenience, but look forward to connecting with you shortly."

I look forward to some support for the service I've used for 15 years and what to tell the 5 family members who use "G Suite" (aka Google Apps) to handle email from my domain.

Do you know if there's a list of which services will/won't be avaiable after this process? Seems a bit random. Google ads but not gmail..but you can use gmail to point at another email service presumably? Can I still use the google apps I paid for? Does my user1@mydomain.com sort of work like it would if I'd use a hotmain account as my android account? But...if I did that, wouldn't I have access to gmail still? I sort of assumed you would but perhaps not.

One thing about G Suite accounts is Google never got around to making them act just like normal accounts; I cannot review android apps with my account, nor can I share paid-for apps with family members. Will this functionality magically appear after I cancel?
Ask HN: Existing framework to build/control a UI from a workflow?
Before I build something myself, I wanted to check if there is anything already out there that does this.

Essentially want to build custom apps by designing them in a visual workflow builder to define the interactivity.

Imagine being able to drag a "Prompt" activity, define the content you want to display to the user, and the options for how the user can respond (ex: show Yes/No buttons, or other choices), and then have a decision activity that can evaluate what the user chose and branch to some other UI - like another prompt dialog, or a file upload dialog, or a form, etc etc.

The more activities that you implement the richer the app you could build.

Right now I am leaning towards using "node red" as the workflow engine, and building a bunch of custom nodes that represent all the UI functionality I want - and then implementing an app host in Angular or React that will integrate with the workflow - probably via web socket messages.

So at the end of the day, this App Host UI is receiving commands from the workflow as far as what content to display to the user, and then sending back what the user is doing with the UI to the workflow so it can send follow up commands.
Only one test per address. Multi-family homes are sol. Top on their FAQ is "sorry to people living in apartments. Put in a request."
Identical situations, VIP dyndns, all Nexus phones, 3 Pixels and google apps. On the plus side, I can't think of any other free service I use. (Damn, just remembered I use the hobbyist license for fusion360, they are slowly crippling that but not a big bang).

What are you going to do for DNS? I just got static DNS for home so I guess I could host my own DNS but the custom gapps domain mail will be a hassle. Maybe just forward it to my other @gmail account?

Luckily I never trusted this to stay free (for all 10 years I think), so I never used the calendar or drive, just the email.
It's in the pipeline but I'll admit it's not high priority at the moment. We are trying to make sure there's product market fit and people finding value in our product before building out these additional features.
> I hear more criticism about democratic leaders from democrats than republicans

Arguably because the democratic establishment is closer to the republican establishment than the democratic base.