skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty cool! I do have a bit of a problem with forgetting that I was productive and assuming I am just not doing anything meaningful everyday. I also came across the idea of a "done list", but for anything, not just home stuff - I implemented it as a simple app[1] so that I can get points and track my week on a nice graph (inspired by Duolingo, I want to make a daily goal setting eventually too) :)

Your project reminded me of that.

[1] https://doneth.at - might be buggy and not very performant, I implemented it just for myself. I do hash passwords though ;)
i second this. i recommend, for anyone who is interested, reading their write-ups on the ea forum to get a good intro on the problem (and how they work):

- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fd96FtLFACeAshqJP/...

- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ErKzbKWnQMwvzRX4m/...

or my interview with lucia coulter, one of the co-founders:

- https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/interview-with-lucia-co...
Plus Codes (Google Maps)
* RBS (Types)

* single line method definitions (def ... = ...)

* case...in

* pin operator

* rightward assignment (42 => int)

* use of the above to destruct arrays and hashes ( x => { b: foo } ; foo #=> 2 )
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Hah, I was thinking the same thing and jumped to comments to see if someone else mentioned it. I actually use this quite a bit in Magit.

Magit is genuinely amazing.

Thanks @tarsius!
> Commented-Out code (git exists for a reason)

I tend to agree, but with some uneasiness.

I don’t often review the previous commit diffs when working, if I don’t know it is there why would I find it in git?
You are moving the goalposts. I described a mechanism that addresses link rot in the current NFT ecosystem. The hash-based method allows an owner to efficiently prove what content was associated with a rotted link with overwhelming probability. Using this basic building block, one could construct a process that allows an NFT owner to update the link stored on the blockchain.

If you are concerned with changing an NFT's content or debating philosophically about whether that should be allowed, I don't have an opinion. I don't own NFTs, nor am I convinced they will stick around. My point is that the NFT ecosystem will likely evolve to create technical solutions solving many of the problems mentioned in the article.
May I please subscribe to the raw images of ANY space telescope...

I mean *WE* /paid/ for them... I would like to access the data provided in real-time.

Where can one get the raw images?
Show HN: Chrome extension that gamifies productivity by the minute
Hey HN!

As a CS student who has trouble staying focused while working, I made a Chrome extension that gamifies productivity by the minute, using a Pomodoro-like timer.

- Earn a mint for every minute worked (and block sites like Facebook, Youtube, and/or Hacker News(?) while working)
- Earn mints for completing todos from a personal todo list
- Spend mints on rewards like watching TV or treating yourself to dining out

I hope this can help others stay productive and would love feedback!
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For a while, we had news of Thiel, De Gray, Alphabet etc looking at blood swaps, cryonic preservation, free radicals, etc. There were also trends around ice baths, low calorie diets, etc. Did anything ever pan out? Is anyone still doing serious research?
It isn‘t “religious mumbo jumbo”. I didn’t even mention religion. Information encoded using multiple senses will form different and more lasting memories for most humans. I think you managed to agree with what I wrote and dismiss it at the same time.
Here is one similar study (I don't think is the right one though):

> Intravenous nicotine and caffeine: subjective and physiological effects in cocaine abusers

> The subjective and physiological effects of intravenously administered caffeine and nicotine were compared in nine subjects with histories of using caffeine, tobacco, and cocaine.

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11160635/

Since this study exists, why is it so far off the other study exists? I don't know why it got funded, or to what end, but I'm sure happy it did. We need to study drugs more, not less.
I'd star reading something about making gasoline from CO2. For example https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gasoline+thin+air Note that they never add "and a lot of energy" in the title of the post.

I'm not a big fan of this idea, but there are a few serios groups doing some work in the area. (And a few scammer too, beware of overoptimistic claims.)
But tennis courts are very common in America. Every high school around here has at least 2. Many parks have them. The fitness center I go to has 2 external and 1 internal tennis courts.
I'm pretty sure the exams to become certain levels of somellier involve passing a taste test, and for the highest level it requires picking out very specific info about grapes and vintage. I could believe that a random person off the street wouldn't tell the difference between white and red, but it seems highly implausible that an actual expert couldn't, because in order to even become an expert they'd have to be proficient at a harder task.
Sorry for not being clear. Should have written "when I start writing Rust" at this point. I have been using Rust personally since 2016, and professionally since 2019. Most of our codebase is naturally still in C++ (we're not aiming at "rewriting the world"), so I can frequently feel the difference between the two languages, which is why my preference is so clear-cut.
I can see someone who isn't convinced you're a fair operator taking the volume and detail of response as defensiveness, and that can look suspicious in a context like this.

They aren't right, but I can understand the perspective.
This explains the breaking change: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/12/separation-of-p...
I bought it and explained to my kids (7 and 3) that it's "daddy's game" and they can watch me play it but can't play it without me. My 7 year old daughter helped me up through about the first 1/3rd of the game but then quickly it became too hard.

It does a good job of introducing concepts slowly but they are in fact hard concepts if you're new to them. It is actually a bit of a challenge for adults too.

Mechanically, the game is good but a bit finicky to set each piece in place. That means the time between "I think I know what to do" and testing it out is a bit too long. Overall, I find it pretty fun though. (I also backed the spintronics kickstarter)
What about the netherlands sending a strong message to Apple that they will not be bullied by foreign companies trying to exert their will on it?

Doing business in a country means you need to abide by the laws of that country. If you don't like that you're invited to go away.
> I'm actually wondering why: no leaded paints in EU?

The dangers of lead paint have been known for over 100 years. France banned it in 1909. The League of Nations adopted a treaty on it in 1922. The US declined to join the treaty due to industry lobbying and didn't get around to banning it until 1978.

By declining to ban it the US cost itself $Ts when accounting for the developmental delays, lost IQ points, health problems, increased crime, lost productivity, remediation, etc. All so that one tiny corner of the chemical industry could have a little more profit.
I highly recommend, just twist the bag 2 or three times and slap the end under the bread.
People will think twice before using GCP. I know I'm.
Psychic spies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project

"The Men Who Stare At Goats" is a delightful book that was made into a film about the subject.

More practically, bouncing bomb: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb
The difference is how the CCP effectively encourage and cover for this type of stealing, for example how the HSR contracts were structured, which was daylight robbery of all of the technologies from the different leaders in the field.

Chinese companies are also aggressive in marketing stolen technologies but because of incomplete knowledge and expertise, end up in sub-standard/broken products, such as the capacitor electrolyte issues around 10-15 years ago.
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The major issue with this model is that the offended person has options that are a bit less hostile and assuming of bad intent than "calling somebody out".

Unfortunately, we seem to be in a place where bad intent is taken for granted and merits an aggressive reaction rather than placing any responsibility on the offended party to be civil and open-minded in their response to be perceiving offense.

In the case of "burning a fag", our hypothetical American has the option of inquiring about the meaning of an unfamiliar idiom rather than jumping straight to calling out the speaker.
The EC, or more specifically the EC firmware, is the bane of my existence when it comes to shitty laptops I had to deal with in the past.

On some laptops you have zero fan control exposed to the OS like on the PC motherboards, so you need to pray the manufacturer implemented some sane fan curves that makes the fans silent when idling but keeps the CPU cool under load and has some hysteresis to prevent the fans from ramping up/down (pulsating) too often or it gets annoying.

Spoiler alert, most laptop makers got their fan curves totally wrong, and you had no way to manually adjust them. I ended up returning about half a dozen otherwise good laptops in my life due to shitty fan curves with no manual override that would just pulse their fans up and down with every JS heavy browser tab opened and closed.

I wish Microsoft had forced the laptop makers to expose EC fan control to the OS so that the OS can control the fans (like how MacOS does) through a standardized and documented API that would also work in Linux. If you think about it, it totally make sense for the OS to control the fans, instead of the EC, as the OS knows far more about the system usage and patterns, vs the EC which knows just the current temperature and CPU power/load.

I feel it's better nowadays than it used to be, newer laptops from reputable makers like Dell and Lenovo from 2020 upwards seem to have some effort put into the tuning of their fan curves and have less jarring transitions.

Also, another pain point, AFAIK, the interaction with the EC is the reason why most modern laptops' sleep is broken and they don't really sleep and start burning in your backpack.
I don't think you're entirely wrong but I think there is a big question of how prone an algorithm is to gaming and what measures the company provides to adjust it. For example, a simple chronological feed has drawbacks — your buddy in Europe posted something while you were asleep — but it also has advantages like not directing people to click-bait.

The fake news glut came from several areas where the major social media companies really weren't even trying:

1. Provide true negative feedback mechanisms: Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. rewarded content which got clicks without having corrective mechanisms which actually worked. That provided a big incentive to crank out cheap agitprop since there was basically no way where you'd lose money as long as your costs were low enough. That also lead to a glut of ripping off other people's content, which appeared to be pretty safe as long as you weren't ripping off a major media company. They have a bit of a feedback loop now but enforcement is still quite lax and the algorithms will continue promoting things to strangers even after a lot of people mark them as junk or block the account. Not promoting things on behalf of your friends (e.g. Twitter making Likes public) or otherwise tamping down the “recommend this to other people” signal would be a good way to reduce spread without preventing anyone from seeing content they're actively looking for.

2. People could open accounts pretending to be media sources or authoritative in some way and on the off chance that the companies eventually did something, they'd just re-open a new one. A lot of the impact of fake news sites could have been reduced by requiring non-personal accounts to list verified ownership, country, etc. and other pages owned by the same entity — that'd both make it easier for people to see that Red White and Blue Breaking News is actually some random person in Macedonia and it'd increase the consequences of breaking the rules if you had to, say, burn something like a Dun & Bradstreet number rather than just creating a new page or getting another burner email address. It certainly wouldn't solve every problem but increasing the costs of bulk content-mill operations would make that business less profitable without preventing more legitimate businesses.
> Has anyone realised yet that almost all of this folly? I suppose not when there is money to be made.

Yes, of course everyone realizes that no filter actually works in practice. But they are not built to work, they are built to give the smallest impression of working. Tumblr doesn't need their site to be absolutely clear of nudity to attract investors, they only need to give the impression that it's absolutely clear of nudity and that they are trying to keep it so.
You can start with the simple features of a language and use them to introduce the more complex features.
It’s really sad to think about how well NASA works when you consider how little funding they get and how hard they have to fight for it. It’s honestly quite ridiculous.

I know a lot of military industrial complex boils down to being nationwide jobs programs, e.g. everything to do with the F-35. But NASA? I don’t think they’re anywhere near as close to being a “jobs program”

Off the top of my head, I really can’t think of many things NASA as a whole has fucked up.

Challenger & Columbia. Challenger wasn’t a NASA problem, it was a Politicians & Bureaucracy problem. As I earlier mentioned… the people responsible for my initial statement of “how well NASA works” knew that disaster was highly likely with Challenger launch. But bureaucracy didn’t care. Haven’t read into Columbia so won’t comment.

So why the hell do they get so little funding… it’s depressing to think about. My cynicism doesn’t think James Webb success is going to bring in much more funding. SpaceX, understandably, is likely going to take more & more space related contracts.

I still think NASA deserves much, much better treatment.
Beat me to it. Always replace your lead pipes.
It is also very easy to fall into the trap of assuming you know why it was put there, only because you found out one reason.

Being aware of this, it is easy to assume that, no matter how many reasons you can think of as to why something was done, there might very well be other reasons you don't know, at that point, it seems to me, the options are either accepting the risk or never changing anything.
Actually one of the reason SS was not cost effective anymore because of the added complexities required by the DoD.
> After a while you'll notice you are sending everything back.

What about shipping costs? When you're buying something the seller is usually paying for that in bulk and including it in the retail price to boast "0-cost shipping". Surely buyers can't possibly afford sending everything back.
Why is agreements between American tech companies and authoritarian states about censoring content justified? Would you not have complained if China or Saudi Arabia were doing what Israel is now doing?
Gotta know exactly what is behind those mosaic pixels.
I know CDK20 is a difficult target, otherwise presenting results where your best hit is at 9μM would be pretty disappointing.

It would be interesting to see the Kd values for the other CDK family members, there's no mention at all of specificity in their paper.
The platform no longer exists, it was "CD-I", a pre-internet hybrid CD-ROM format with extensions for real time streaming. Intimate experience with that early real time streaming got me on the original Sony PlayStation OS team in Tokyo.
To add from a different perspective, long-form content also doesn't guarantee organic traffic: https://ahrefs.com/blog/short-form-content/
Low key this can be opportunity for micropayments; if website knows your interests it can offer you to unlock some of its content for something like $0.20. I had similar idea like this but not for web advertising but for micropayments and content unlocking.
As a note for anyone interested in doing this, imagemagick by default doesn't support heic, you need to build it from scratch yourself for it to work (at least I needed to on ubuntu 20.04) literally did it yesterday for a little sideproject:

https://github.com/matthewaveryusa/tesseract_dockerfile/blob...
> To be honest I would consider "X went to Y at time Z" to be a sensitive information

It's not personally identifying information.

> Whether you care about privacy or not, that's another issue

Lol, that's quite the false dichotomy you got there.
As I understand it, their decision was between working for Thedacare or being jobless.
Is that any kind of excuse? Supply Chain infection is a sidechannel way to infect YOUR network...what's your intellectual property worth? What's it worth if through the unintentional infection you find yourself figuring out how to get cash into bitcoin to pay a ransom?

Relying on an ancient card and drivers seems like a cop-out...they managed to create the solution once, they're obligated to do it again, lest your company's bottom line hinge on a house of cards an intern cobbled together for another company 12 years ago, that only works with the September 2008 drivers.
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> Surely buyers can't possibly afford sending everything back.

What country you live in with so poor online protections you can't return things within the return window without incurring extra costs for doing so? Sounds broken.
> Facebook locked her account for 24 hours for making a "violent threat".

This is due to years of old media digging through Facebook posts to write stories like "Child kidnapped after threat on Facebook and Facebook DID NOTHING". This led to more and more calls for FB to "do something" to "keep people safe online". So they started to run all posts through the AI prescreener and well, these are the results.

But hey, they get to at least say that they take down X billions of posts before any other human sees it.
These images would not be your typical jpg taken in the visible part of the spectrum. I’m not sure it is cost effective to host these image data for random people to download without any post processing. If you are dedicated enough to understand and post process the data yourself you can probably get access to the data for free
Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero
There were several wineries with free tastings in Sonoma when I went before COVID. And that was during a busy holiday season.
> It seems you just have a negative view of the technology or a vested interest in the established world of finance

I have neither.

BTW half of my family lives in South America and I'm in Italy, we have no problem in sending money back and forth and it is cheaper to use a bank than exchanging via crypto.

Also I cannot ask my 85 years old grandma to join Coinbase or Kraken or whatever, but she has a bank account and it works pretty neatly (and yet again, it's waaaaay cheaper than Coinbase fees for example)

That "Filipinos in the UAE" is bullshit. Their problem is not about crypto vs banks, their primary problem is the UAE.
Such "laws" or rules of thumb should always be interpreted in light of reason. There's nothing reasonable about paralyzing yourself by entertaining random risks or possibilities for which there is no justification. That's as silly as the idea that science is about doubt as a matter of method. It isn't. You don't go around arbitrarily doubting things for no reason because you have somehow convinced yourself that such willful doubting produces knowledge. It doesn't. It produces an incurable skepticism that destroys science. Doubt is the effect of having learned something credible that conflicts with a prior belief. That doubt might prompt us to verify these conflicting bits of information in order to establish some kind of certainty.

Chesterton's Fence is a criticism of reformers, revolutionaries, and burn-it-all-down types who want to make changes without making an effort to understand why the thing they want to tear down is there in the first place, what purpose it is serving, and the consequences of doing so.

Responsible jurisprudence does this all the time. When judges are presented with a case that puts a law into question, they look at the origins of the law and make an effort to determine the costs of eliminating that law because the good of a lot of people may rely on that law being in place. This doesn't mean they don't change the law if some people would suffer as a result. It just means they are aware of why the law exists and what purpose it serves as well as the relative costs and benefits of doing so (principle of double effect). Naturally, as you have said, we do not have perfect knowledge, so obviously we can merely do the best we can. A person is not obligated to do the impossible.
But it also makes it impossible to compare things. A lot of these articles switch from tennis court to football field to school bus to width of a hair. I would be ok if they wrote something like “100m long which is about the size of a football field”. But I really hate that they omit the numbers. I have no idea how many tennis courts fit into an football field and how that translates to school buses. And I bet most people don’t know either. But I know that 30 meters fits 3.3 times into 100 meters. This kind of writing manipulates people and keeps them dumb.

The same happens in politics. They often omit that when they write that something costs 100 billion that this is actually over 20 years. Another time they bring up a number that’s over 5 years 1 year. Whatever is more convenient for the story.

All this writing seems designed not to educate and inform but to keep people dumb and to appeal to the emotions the author wants to effect.
I am more than a little concerned that since the miniaturization and commoditization of spy hardware (miniature microphones, cameras, and wireless communication), that run-of-the-mill consumer electronics are being bugged by default. Given the cost is pennies or just a couple dollars, from an espionage perspective, it'd be worth it to spend a few hundred million or even billion putting bugs into literally everything and letting the market put them into the homes of all your political targets in other countries. Then the problem is just sifting the data, which is easy with the massive amount of computational power that every nation state has these days. That's a great dystopia.
Is it like a book club for scientific papers? The title had me think it was a curated list of papers, but the read me seems more focused on chapters of an organization that is centered around Meetup’s.
But worse (in one sense) is better (in another, related sense). The obvious contradiction is arresting and drives home this underlying point rhetorically. It is an excellent title. Literalism is for manuals and specifications.
4x CX6-DX in a dual-socket Rome.

Its mostly an experimental platform, never intended for production, to shake out issues that we'll see when next generation platforms show up with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5. With a current single-socket setup we'd be limited by memory bandwidth around 500Gb/s or so, but 800Gb/s should hopefully be within reach from a single socket with DDR5 based servers. Especially since the limiting factor now is the traffic on the xGMI links between the sockets is unbalanced.
What a heartbreaking waste of talent. Trust takes a lifetime to build. But can be demolished in an instant.

I think what happens is more funding comes from the private sector. It's just where the money and momentum are. MIT feels more "industry" oriented every term. That old spirit of intellectual tinkering for its own sake seems to be fading away.