skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot again for taking the time to fuel this discussion!

After reading and rereading all comments here I'll try to generalize those findings.

Once the number of weapons starts growing without proper control you hit a first threshold that ticks weapon deaths: two groups begin being significant, those that are armed and stupid and those that are armed and violent.

If the number of weapons keeps growing you reach a second threshold, that boosts weapon related deaths by a lot: the group of people that are armed and violent and stupid starts being significant, a really dangerous subgroup.

You can keep boosting this argument adding other kinds of people: desperate, psychos, stressed.

Probably arming too much people that are stupid, desperate, violent and stressed... you end up with a big mess, like in some hotspots around some US cities.
Taxes is the answer you are looking for - you can pay your taxes in USD. That is what underwrites its value.
The problem is that even if they remove the "must be female" requirement from documents, it's still going to be enforced because that's their goal. How did the industry allow such sexism and racism to penetrate?
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Fun.
> This is why I don't understand companies who argue that unions just make it harder for people to improve their conditions by making it impossible for employees to communicate directly to management.

In a well functioning company where managers and employees are well-treated, the Union is at best an extra step, and it does actually prevent direct interaction in some cases. That said, it a badly run company that exploits its employees, talking to management is dangerous for workers.
"Money laundering" is just hand waving. Not the case. If it was, it would be easy to prove.
Alternatively, it's "opinionated", which is often a great selling point for libraries.
I know where you're coming from. I just turned thirty, and haven't done nearly as much as I wish I had. For me, I mostly just wish I had worked harder, but also some of the social/romantic things you mentioned. My sole qualification for posting is that I successfully avoided feeling awful at the transition to 30.

This is not really about "turning 30". It's about regrets. I won't pretend these are invalid regrets; "we all make mistakes", while true, is not a very good excuse for any particular mistake, no matter what anyone says who is trying to cheer you up.

But regrets are a universal problem. There's only one thing you can really do about them: try to do better in the future. Think carefully about what you could have done differently with the information you had then, but don't dwell on them. That will just turn into another regret down the road.

Make a plan. Execute. "Just do it" is another awful cliche, but has a large kernel of truth to it.

Even if you know this intellectually, the tricky part is getting yourself to believe it, down in your gut where you actually act on it day to day. If I ever figure out the easy way to do this, I'll write a book, but I don't think there is one. Thinking hard about what you want from life will probably help. That's the closest to advice I can do.
The number increments get more significant the further from 100 you get. 75 IQ is under the fifth percentile -- definitely not common.
food, land use and agriculture makes up 24% emissions. energy use is 25%. see the graphic I linked.

to say "we should be primarily focused on energy" is ignoring an equally large factor. fossil fuels enabled the food and agriculture industry to grow in the climate destroying behemoth it is now.

we need to restructure our diet and address food waste and production.

we are all earthbound means that we all need to act, individual and corporation alike, because all our fates are tied to the reaction of the earth.
Another really interesting one is mina which is looking to do a constant sized state with smart contract abilities.
Depending on which scale is being used, it looks like 75 IQ is between 5-6 percentile of the population [0] so I think it is more exceptional than common, but I’ll grant that it is borderline and somewhat subjective.

[0] https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx
Are there alternative ways to achieve equivalent levels of freedom without that particular price?
eBay does the same shit, but they force a password reset on you instead.

Have to reset my password basically once a month because their heuristics are absolutely dogshit.
If a crime has been committed is one such line, and were the author to do this kind of stuff repeatedly, there's another such line there. But if we hang everyone on the first offense, there will be no one left to hang anyone.
I think that's it. They might consider three use cases: 1. normal usage multiple times a day, 2. grandma using it once a month, but always from the same device at the same location, 3. people using as an anonymous/burner account (likely from a clean/incognito browser session, maybe using a VPN, without phone number on file, etc.)

With the current implementation, 1 and 2 still mostly works, and they don't care that they make it impossible/inconvenient for 3.
It is a Ponzi scheme. It serves only as a transparent, immutable, and complete ledger of the fraud that took place.
Going from trust the programmer to requiring volatile semantics for each access is quite a stretch. I would say you are part of an extremely small minority.
I use tmux's scroll/select/copy/paste with vim bindings

Alacritty has this too, but I have never tried it because I use tmux.
2020? Big deal. IBM has been around for serious time. Like I said show me an Indian company that was a tech giant for analysis on the way down. No doubt IBM has got work to do. But tata ain't no ibm. Furthermore my take stands up for Indian know how not crapping on it as others have done here. It's just that indian companies nowhere near have ibm corporate legacy. As for ibm: it wouldn't kill you to try to innovate again not react and buy innovation even if Watson was a bust
I don't see a B2 at your link?
Ditto.

I'm a satisfied Fastmail paying user for years
> This is no different from getting emailed a similar picture, it’s not hard to track where it came from if investigators are so inclined, unless privacy measures also available in web2 are used.

This. Simply.

The road to hell is once again paved with good intentions. From email, to the blockchain.
Fastmail is not a zero-knowledge service. Unless I'm missing something, anti-encryption laws seem to be irrelevant, since they don't really change the position at all.

I suppose hypothetically if Fastmail was a zero-knowledge service that law might mean they need to break it, but it's not a zero-knowledge service so the issue doesn't arise.

You're going to be hard pressed to find a service provider which ignores valid warrants. Such a service provider would need to either operate unlawfully, or not hold the information (ie be zero-knowledge).

Even Protonmail, the bastion of email privacy, has supplied the IP address of a user in the face of a warrant.[0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
Yes, it is true. Many years ago someone showed up on python-dev with a very ambitious patch for improved string handling and especially slicing. He had some impressive benchmark numbers to back up his claims. The patch was rejected because it was large and would have made the string.c file double in size.

What goes in CPython depends on whether Guido and his seconds likes it or not. And if it is their ideas and their implementations it is treated differently than if it is from outsiders. Then sometimes they suddenly change their minds and something that previously weren't ever going to happen gets implemented. JITting which, apparently, now is on their road map is one such example. Works for them and Python continues to be a great language, but frustrating for contributors.
Eating kaolin isn't common but in Georgia you can still find it for sale in local gas stations. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicin...
by definition, there is no middleground that can the same level of freedom while also offering less freedom (via censorship)

now, IPFS (not a blockchain, obviously) gives node owners control over the content they want to host. it's definitely not as free as a traditional blockchain, but it's probably closer to what you're looking for
No, it’s a contract guarantee. It says, except for the first parameter, I make no guarantee on the order of these parameters.

def verb(object, **adjectives)

is the pythonic way to pass an “options” dict. It doesn’t make sense as positional parameters and makes for a worse API.
Being able to take an item out of one game and move it into another game sounds like fun but keeping track of the ownership is a tiny problem compared to having the appropriate assets to draw the objects cross-game never mind implement the attributes of the objects. (And not let imported object "break the game")

If you had it all in a unitary system like the OASIS from Ready Player One it might be possible but unless all the games are under the same framework it would take a lot of coordination.
The monopolist can just buy the competition that you jumped ship to. Now your choice is between A) the services that are too terrible to be bought out, or B) services that are not taking the buyout because they are irrational. Incompetence or insanity.
have old gmail account

no longer have associated phone number

Do have backup email (primary email).

Do have password.

Google doesn't care. Won't let me log in, won't send an email to the primary account for recovery, etc.

I've written it off. Essentially if I'm not paying someone for it, they don't care.
the real problem with NP/PA is now what they know. It is that they don't even know what they don't know. There's a large body of basic science, biology, that a doctor has to acquire that helps underpins a lot of the clinical medicine they practise. It's not just following guidelines and algorithms. It is understanding why the guidelines are, it is understanding why what looks like a typical case isn't, but is that one rare thing you absolutely can't miss.

Honestly, if not for the weirdness of the US system, mid-level providers shouldn't exist. But we are where we are. There absolutely is no room for independent practise for mid-level providers.
Sorry, but it's not at all common sense to me. Where is the line? Am I allowed to cut down a tree on the property I own? Or is that stealing? I brought up the extreme case of breathing because it is literally putting carbon directly in the air.
Anthropic principle makes sense only for the past, not the future. We live in a universe with certain rules that make life possible, but there is no guarantee for the future. So why do the rules stay the same? The Bolzmann brain argument seems more probable.
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Interesting. It reminds me a lot of old ASCII fonts for DOS. Some of the things I noticed when reading through the text in the example image:

The tails on the letters "i" and "l" are an interesting stylistic choice that work to help the conjunction in the monospace flow, though it adds ambiguity when the colors are darkened. In particular, for the comment that reads "recursively apply parent blueprints", my eyes kept wanting to see some of the "l"s as "k"s when I read over the words slowly, despite having no trouble reading the words normally.

The "B" also is very similar to 8 since the top left of it is rounded. The "&" also looks similar to B/8 as well.

Take this with a grain of salt since this is just a first impression. I haven't tried this for writing and editing code yet, so things may be different in practice. Overall, I like the style. It's also rather readable considering its small size.
Depends on your string really. If your string are immutable (as in C#), it's not the same amortized cost and you end up wanting to use a StringBuilder almost every time. It's not premature optimization - it's just the standard pattern for performant coding.

But I see your point - I inadvertently gave an example that is performance basics in some languages and fine tuning in others.

The lock example is perhaps more relevant.

Another good example is appropriate caching. Often services want to parse something (e.g. an ini file) and cache it in memory. Caching the right (fully parsed) format will lead to a highly performant configuration system - taking less than 1% of CPU time - but let some juniors do parsing on top of the caching layer rather than underneath your caching layer - and suddenly your config system is 5-10% or your service CPU and is a target for optimization. Most of my daily work in growing juniors is patterns like this, nothing a language would help with.
You're right: the EV is 2.5 (my guess was pessimistic). For (almost all) 6-word sets, there's a single word you can use to delineate all six words, which gives an EV of 1.83 if that word is in the set and 2 if it isn't.
They're supposed to have paid customer service for non-business users too if you pay for Google One, no idea how effective that is.
If TOTP or Webauth is offered at all, usually it's some garbage like SMS. Twitch, eBay and Amazon all three are really disgustingly pushy with it with some bullshit excuses.
Now there's a blast from the past!

I used WABI in the mid 90s because everybody and his dog used the MSFT .DOC format for sharing documents. It worked but not particularly well.

Thank the Lord that today we use the more neutral .PDF format that Linux, MacOS and Windows can all use. Yes, I do know that the .PDF format is owned by Adobe, but Adobe's attitude to everybody using it isn't a 'dog in the manger' attitude like MSFT had with their .DOC format.
Shared accounts are a nightmare too. Google makes it a pain for a team of developers to share a single "test" account completely seperate from their individual accounts.
I actually totally agree with your approach, but not the technology stack choice.

I think if you're at the MVP/solo-team stage then a single server that you push the app too with Ansible/Puppet Bolt, run via systemd, and then monitor, is even simpler, easier and "cheaper" (in time, which is money) than having to learn and use the HashiStack.

My app compiles into a single binary thanks to Go's binary packing feature. Does deploying a single binary reeeeaaallly need the entire HashiStack? Seriously? Do I need TWO operating systems (the host's and the container's) to run a binary?

Honestly I just think people over think this stuff and are easily swayed by cool features.
Show HN: Shoot the neural network before it shoots you
Depending on the approach that can work, although there are cases where trying to making encoding a literal would be too restrictive (imagine a system that dynamically loads parser plugins, which isn't as uncommon as it sounds), so a literal restricted to ascii and utf-8 would prevent someone from parsing latin-1 or idk, protobuf bytes.
I was (first and primarily) focusing on the environmental impact for the reasons I explained above, but then (secondly) asking the NFT shills to explain exactly how NFTs solved any problems that couldn't be much more efficiently and less destructively solved, because I know they can't and won't answer. Their silence on the matter speaks volumes about their lack of integrity and competence.

Some people simply don't have working bullshit detectors, and those are the ones who need to be influenced emotionally instead of logically, because that's how they were influenced by scammers in the first place, and no amount of logic will change their minds.

When I wrote that, I hadn't even seen the ridiculously cringy part about "Your super-fans can collect NFTs of your published content" and the link to https://papyrusnft.io/ yet, but all I can say is "just wow".

You've REALLY got to be gullible to fall for that kind of unmitigated bullshit, but unfortunately a whole lot of people are. I mean, the background color and stock artwork and ad copy on papyrusnft.io is just mind-bogglingly tacky and ridiculous, but maybe it serves the same function as the frequent and obvious mis-spellings in Nigerian Prince scam emails.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...
the food supply also shouldn't be a free market.

People speculating on food prices/availablity (or even worse, hoarding it to influence price) is usually not taken very kindly by the population or goverment because of the results in massive social upheaval.

Food is actually subsidized to an extent, because not having your basic needs met usually results in massive undermining of the power of the state.
Usenet had killfiles and email has spam filters. Decentralized systems (and some poorly-run centralized systems) need client-side filters and it's time for the crypto/blockchain/Web3 community to start developing them if they want to be taken seriously.
> how you regulate this so companies don't gouge "owners" for aftermarket services.

For starters, it's not aftermarket! since the tractor belongs to JD, and it is licensed to the customer, and it failed to work because a wire got wet (shitty design), and only JD can determine and repair it ... that should be JD's cost, not the owner's.

>harsh truth

A harsher one: JD has a monopoly and is using it to strangle its own small business customers. Feels good to see it get run past Sherman - better to see it get run over.
I don’t think it’s that at all. I’m a single man and most of my friends and close colleagues are women: it is abundantly clear to me that most men treat friendships with women as a gateway to more. If you treat women in the same way you treat men, i.e: you do not consider friendships to be a gateway to romance, it is trivial to establish, grow and maintain meaningful friendships with women whether you’re single or married.

The fundamental mistake straight men make is that they value the potential of a romantic relationship above the likelihood of a meaningful friendship.

Have I missed out on a potential relationship? Probably… but if that’s the price to pay for these friendships I have instead then I’d pay it over and over again.

Treat women as people and not prospects and it’s trivial to be friends with women. If you want to date, go on a dating app or a dating event or something dating specific. Let women choose to be romantic prospects.
Show HN: Maroofy – Search for songs that sound similar
Hey HN!

So I’ve been working on this project where you can search for similar-sounding songs.

Basically, you enter the name of a song in a search bar, and it will use an audio-based search algorithm to return a list of other songs that sound similar.

Since the similarity search is audio-based, it attempts to prioritize songs with similar melodies, beats, and feel, irrespective of their popularity.

Here are a few example searches for similar songs:

- Fetish (feat. Gucci Mane) - Selena Gomez: https://maroofy.com/songs/1563859943

- Faded - Alan Walker: https://maroofy.com/songs/1087732055

- Bandit - Juice Wrld: https://maroofy.com/songs/1577864923

- L.I.F.E - Remady & Manu-L: https://maroofy.com/songs/1170014710

- A chill instrumental track: https://maroofy.com/songs/1592077074

It’s still a very rough prototype, but thought it would be nice to share it here to get some early feedback! :)

Some current limitations:

- Sometimes, the results may contain similar songs that are duplicates under a different name
I suspect what will happen is an exhibition of Magnuson-Moss warranty act.
correct. except the person doesn't even know when they don't know. and that's the most dangerous part. If you at least know what you don't know, you can re-direct to the right resources.
Ah ha, thanks, I was thinking "ventricle" referred to a region of brain tissue - and yet I know what a heart ventricle is, so I feel dumb. Something about the casual objectivity of science writing paired with such dramatic images made me unsure if what I'm looking at is as wild as it seems. And it is!
I don't think it requires a toxic level of jealousy to be wary of an opposite-sex friend with whom your spouse talks daily and discusses "very intimate details about our personal lives".

But hey, that's just me! I recognize other people have different types of marriages and don't judge them or consider their relationships toxic.
You may do that in C++, too. It would look, literally, exactly the same. It would compile, and run, identically. And, it would be exactly as error-prone as the same code compiled with a C compiler.

Extra support in the language for automating PImpl types could be welcome, but might not offer enough benefit to offset the complexity.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It is an excellent point that while two people may have no issue with it, their significant others wouldn’t be out of line to feel awkward about their partners turning to members of the opposite sex for advice and sharing intimate details.
I did this at an internship of mine. You aren't really going to be hired for "please fix our script's performance", but you might end up finding a place where you have the opportunity to do this kind of thing.
I see the appeal in using them to skirt regulations and travel in the bike only trails or to go into dnr lands or non motorized trails but they are also like 50-60lb bikes. Super heavy and not a lot of fun to just pedal without assistance.
It's like a corporate sharia law.
You are never safe from these shenanigans, not in Switzerland and not in Germany.

If you absolutely must have email out of the hands of low to mid grade government entities you need to implement the technical solutions yourself. If you want more, just forget it, if they want your mail they'll just get it at your endpoint anyway.

(also, "most email is unencrypted in transit" is a very out of date take, I've checked all correspondence I've had with medical practicioners in the past 2 years, and all where at least TLS 1.2 on the transport, close to half 1.3 - and i was sent around quite a lot last year)
I don't disagree with you at all. That's why it's the future, not the present. I started buying Bitcoins when there were no hardware wallets, and I know many people who lost them in different ways (me too). Building up a debit based system when our current financial system is credit based is super hard and risky for the early investors.

You can just wait until most bugs get fixed and these features get implemented in the next 10 years. You'll have less upside potential, but another mature system to choose from.
Yes? Monero, at least, has definitely worked and it's the currency of choice for anyone that wants privacy.

There's no better endorsement for Monero than the unclaimed bounty to crack its privacy and its usage by cybercriminals.

Monero is used more in "the real world" than any other cryptocurrency.
I wrote this project a while back. You are the gray cannon playing against a untrained neural network. Sometimes it learns quickly how to shoot you (about 6 shots in average), you should shoot it before it.
One of my favourite things about the Schumann resonances is how humanity effectively did an experiment on them: the Starfish Prime nuclear test several hundred km above Hawaii dumped a load of charged particles into the ionosphere, destroying several satellites in space at the time, and, yes, changing the spectrum of the Schumann resonances.

This article made me very glad for Faraday cages!
Developer time needed has an environmental cost too. It's not at all clear that optimising server usage will always be worth it if it requires more developer time even from an environmental perspective.
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> If you Google the term + blockchain

You may want to re-run that search without "blockchain". It's an _extremely_ common phrase in information security. Like - NETSEC 101 sort of stuff.

> It's not a term used in academic blockchain literature as far as I aware. It's not used in the Bitcoin whitepaper.

I don't even...