skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh nice! Love that you color the characters in the editor appropriately as well, that makes working with it a lot easier. Would it be possible to have space be #00000000 by default?
Creator before founder.

I would not be shocked to see more new startups founded by creators. Creators have their hands dirty and know what the problems are, and they already have the grit to persevere in their respective fields. Couple that with tech talent, and you have a recipe for greatness.
Honest question, how does one stumble upon internet communities anymore, let alone one like this? I feel like personal blogs via HN is about as far off the beaten path as I'm able to get these days.
s/Unicode/Computers/

Same thing really.
A couple nits:

1. This is a theory paper. They haven't actually performed the gate on hardware yet (or at least there was no data on that in the preprint). They need to experimentally show that directly doing the gate has lower error than decomposing it into the existing two qubit gates.

2. The article reads like this is the first time anyone has tried to do Toffolis natively. Neutral atom people also do native Toffolis [1].

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16036
In the new economy, the numbers don't matter - only perceptions. Line goes up!
Computer nerds suddenly became attractive when Bill Gates made his first $billion. Before that we were pariahs <g>.
Looking at a chart of registered voter affiliation by party at https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-20... shows the percentage of voters identifying as independent to be roughly similar to the size of the groups identifying as Democrats or Republicans. The chart immediately below that does show leanings among the independent voters as nearly evenly split between the two parties but even accounting for that doesn't really seem to support the idea of there not being a center?
Local demand is much larger than foreigner demand, catering just to foreigners leaves a lot of profit uncollected. If foreigner demand is unlimited, then sure, all the capital will simply chase their money, but it’s quite impossible where foreigners make up a small minority of the population.
I should have been more specific. The paleo diet specifically prohibits grain and dairy. My understanding was that this is an unscientific idea of "what our prehistoric ancestors ate", because homo sapiens is at least partially adapted to eating those foods. Is my understanding not correct?
Is the world ready for digital receipts?
Ask HN: Beginner to Competent in Python: How would you approach it?
Hello fellow HN users,

I expect to start a job soon where the main backend language is Python, with parts of Ruby and RoR in the stack. I have been a Ruby dev and have a beginner-level familiarity with Python - having read more than written.

How should I go about increasing my competency in the language to a decent level as fast as possible. I am talking about general fluency and knowledge about Python and not specific to the tech stack of the company.

I am sure there are excellent Python devs here and also devs who had to ramp up on the language for their job. As such, I thought I should get some guidance from the community.

Appreciate all opinions and pointers!
Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring for Fintech Engineering, Sales, and CS (Remote)
Does anyone know if significant Greenshot blur is irreversible, or know of any cases where it was reversed (and which level)?
In Safari on iPadOS and MacOS, after a minute or two of downloading, I got the following message:

Application exit (TypeError: Cannot convert "undefined" to int)

The page did finish loading and compiling in Chrome on my Mac. Menus, text input, etc. seemed to work but were sluggish, just as the standalone LibreOffice was for me on my ten-year-old MacBook Pro. (It works fine on my M1 Mac mini.)
You shouldn’t stop trying at age 20 (or 30, or 40...), as long as you are earnest, not too much bother, and aren’t worried about not always getting a response.

If you show interest in people’s work, especially if you have questions, corrections, etc. that demonstrate that you are engaging with it seriously, even “famous” people are often happy to respond (but people certainly also often don’t respond to cold emails, for a wide variety of reasons).
If the curation is bad, will people keep paying their subscriptions?
You could already do that in 2011, just had to install Flash with CrossBridge, use Chrome with PNaCL, Silverlight,....
We're expecting a baby, and in hospital waiting rooms we've been approached by a few different companies hawking cord-blood storage (in Singapore).

After some brief research I concluded it was probably a waste of money for us as donors, but it's probably valuable to donate for someone else. I haven't yet asked our obstetrician whether that's an option.
The Hubris of mortals. Something tells me we are going to see some real horrifying stuff when Silicon Hills moves on to its MVP showcase for resurrecting the dead.
I've spent a few hundred bucks over the last couple of month snapping up components I want for projects whenever I notice them in stock. FPGAs, gate drivers, etc. Anything and everything seems to be randomly affected.

Been doing a lot of retro computing projects because the eBay parts are still there for the most part.
RNP: Powering end-to-end email encryption in Mozilla Thunderbird
I have only great experiences with DO support. Really fast and helpful. I even got some free credits ($50?) at some point for a small inconvenience .
HTAP with Azure Cosmos DB: Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Processing
Maybe a few decades ago? Today it is more like a rich old balding Shanghainese guy with a young Ukrainian model wife.
I've found a solution to this - you need to use the internet in any language other than English. You get much higher quality results that are not so full of ads and SEO and all of the other evil stuff which is going on. Its not perfect, but if you search for "pancake recipe" in French or German you have a much higher chance of being linked to some "old internet" style blog rather than some food.com bullshit.
I have not seen it yet: go study abroad! It's a rare opportunity. Moving abroad becomes harder and harder as you age.

The advice here is great, but there's one caveat: don't focus too much on prestige. No one seems to care about this outside of university. Prestigious jobs are no different from regular jobs, so chasing them is pointless.
Today I learned! It's rare enough to read it, and I wasn't aware of the secondary definition, or the fact that the meaning was usually coupled with the preposition, if present. Thanks for the education!
If you consider the parties which have proven their incompetence, you have to include Democrats & Republicans.
Google AI: Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training
Then you can also see that what GP implies about econ academic practice applies at most to pop science articles and financial analysts.
Yeah, I would personally stay very far away from ibogaine.

However, from what I understand, there are reputable clinics which have medical staff trained in dealing with emergencies, along with resuscitation and monitoring equipment on hand, who do a very thorough medical exam beforehand to make sure you can handle the drug, and make sure to give you the right amount of pure ibogaine.

That's very different from doing some mystery substance you got from a street dealer that they claim is ibogaine and that you have to risk doing on your own.

The people who go to ibogaine clinics tend to have serious addiction issues that might have already led them close to death, or have ruined their lives and/or the lives of their loved ones, who don't see much of a future for themselves anyway, and who are desperate to try anything to rid themselves of addiction and hopefully get on the path of fixing their lives. So they may not feel they have much to lose by trying it, despite the risks.

It's definitely not a party drug, though.
Not every game's goal is to build an immersive world. And polish and scope are related but not the same thing - in fact the argument is often that with a small core you can afford to polish what you have a lot more.
You can take coverage from News publishing sites through sponsored content. Here is the site which you can consider https://www.connectedtoindia.com/.
I realise you're trying to help, but this is still not right. The top result for "quotes don't give":
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/never-give-up

Does not contain:
"quotes don't give"
"quotes dont give"

Nor does the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Yes, as someone pointed out, there are tokenized versions down at the bottom, but that exact string does not exist.

So first of all it's just not true.

Second of all, if your consumers are all complaining the results do not match what they are searching, it might make more sense to listen. Adding quotations marks like that to find an exact string should be a huge red flag that the user is only interested in that string – why then would "it's in an offscreen meta tag of a cached version of the actual site" be anything other than a bad result?
There is an employee run arcade where I work that I am the de facto maintainer of, and the hardest part to keep up is the multiple 29" CRT displays. Specifically, their chassis (control boards in the pack) tend to need frequent repair.

Pulling the displays out of the cabs to work on them is also a huge pain. The size/weight has been mentioned here a few times; imagine having to pull a giant one out of an abdomen-height hole in a cab, and putting it back in without resting it on the plastic shell framing it.
They still do, the Excel engine is the native one.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/advancing-e...
As fascinating as it is to drag someone over coals in such an incredibly acidic way as you did. Perhaps Newegg's (clearly deserved, if this article thread is any indication) reputation means that the person you replied to simply has zero faith in the company to actually follow the procedures and promises that you've brandished as gospel?
A good native toffoli is a useful bootstrap for magic state distillation, which is relevant to long term error correction costs.

...but since they haven't actually experimentally validated the gate, it's a bit early to say it would actually help. The control error in coupling 3+ qubits simultaneously might just wipe out any benefit over decomposing into smaller gates. That being said I'm not an experimentalist so my knowledge of control error scaling in an ion trap is roughly 0.
The criticism of OO is more Java and Gang of 4 related than anything.

Two things get the enterprise devs of the mid 2000s going:

Badmouthing Oracle. And complaining about refactoring someone's mess of an abstract factory.

Especially I would say since microkernels just became incredibly widespread After Docker. Encapsulation is just not as necessary as it used to be.

In C++ the whole encapsulated structs thingo works fine.

It's there for when you need it, and you don't need it when you don't.

Gang of 4-esque programming is okay when it's necessary. Sometimes you are making something with a 100 different buttons and you just gotta do it that way.

However, for every project that needs all those factories and such, there's probably 5-10 where straight procedural/functional programming is perfectly fine.

Or in the case of many data oriented applications, or when formal verification is needed, probably just straight better.

Just do your abstraction with subroutine signatures and scope.
The PRUs in the beaglebone are way more flexible to be honest. Most of my effort with the Pico PIOs is squeezing everything to fit inside the 32 instruction limit.
5 Reasons Why I Hate Reddit
Yep... You need to have a personal army on the scale of Brad's Wife to get real help sometimes...
Exactly!

My only issue with Gmail is, that I want to move away from google. But i just love the Gmail web client & mobile app.

Imap support could finally help me having a nice, non-google email client
> It's a person nonchalantly talking about killing homeless people as a viable solution to homelessness.

Do you have a link or not? You're running in circles about he-said-she-said, but the only concrete info you shown so far boils down to your own personal extraordinary words you're trying to pin on some random person.

I mean, how can anyone tell whether you're making everything up or not?

Don't you have a single link to show for?
Glad you liked!
The job needs to be done. Definition of dirty work. If it’s an unattractive job that must be done, need to pay for it.
Completely agree, 'eqn' was a pioneering achievement followed by TeX and Mathematica
There are a number of researchers now who believe that the risk of MAOIs is overblown, for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30255284/
And three million youtube videos for "funny noises compilation" featuring various farts
Have you ever read “I Am A Strange Loop”? You may enjoy Chapter 5, “On Video Feedback” if I recall correctly.

I have a hunch you’d enjoy it :)
A lot of the time this stuff is just coordinated by HR for marketing/recruiting. It’s not just a SV thing (plenty of companies have these awkward forced “Yay I love it here!” posts) and not even just a tech or corporate thing (even fast food restaurants will do stuff like this), but I guess it is an American thing.
That's very true. It's be nice they'd suggest such potential niche uses instead of emblazoning "arithmetic!" or "VQE!" on the press release.
It's happening to them too. Returns fraud is booming business.

Not trying to excuse anything, just explain why some people are getting crappy used products (sloppy returns QA) or aggressive customer services denying consumer rights (burnt retailer). Ultimately it's all on the retailer, but it's also a cost we'll end up bearing.

Criminals ruin things for everyone.
Linode holds a special place in my experience. I switched to DigitalOcean for better sbapshotting and even cheaper cheap vps'es, but I only have very good memories of Linode.
They are making the app for young conservatives, who are more likely to have non-straight preferences. So while perhaps there are fewer young conservatives than young liberals, they still make up a market that can be served.

I’m sure Thiel and company are smart enough to do appropriate demographic research, even if there are only half as many of them, they still make up a large enough market.
Nowadays, 30 years ago my AI professors where trying to keep their classes open and stuff like neural networks where optional lectures.
Devils advocate

If the RMA department opens the box, sees a giant honking sticker that says "REPAIRED: YES [ ] NO [X]"

Your argument is that they'd simply see the sticker and assume it was repaired, without reading the contents of it?
Why you should take notes while reading non-fiction
Prices will stay high as long as buyers are not paying out of pocket. Once they have to pay more out of pocket with rising mortgage rates, they will notice that they weren't able to afford it in the first place and people will need to get rid of what they can't afford to keep paying.
Complexity is a death by a thousand cuts issue. I suspect most people complaining are going to have a hard time enumerating the many small sources of complexity they encountered.
Is this /s
Google want you to search on Google to see ads and be spied upon, not use a direct url.
> I challenge you to find one nazi flag there.

You mean in the videos extensively edited and cherry-picked to hide any reference to Nazi flags or any hate symbol?
Quick, easy formal verification tools that programmers can use on the spot from the IDE are hard to make for most languages because most languages and their compilers weren't made with such thing in mind.

I guess Rust might be heading somewhere interesting with tooling, with tools like Flowistry existing (https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry) showing what is possible. It's a plugin that can compute backwards / forwards static slices for you, straight in the IDE as a VSCode plugin. I think you need an external program that runs a full program analysis to do the same in C++.
Hardware -and- software. It's a massive, massive challenge. One with questionable demand.

Meta doesn't really have a good track record here, either. But ten years is a long time...
300 MiB. & … "a bit" — it takes nearly 20 seconds on "Gigabit" fiber. (312 MiB in 19.22s, or 136 Mbps.)

Runs shockingly smoothly once it starts, though.
> ASCII is enough to write English, or, at least, it used to be back when ASCII was a multi-byte encoding for Latin!

I know of both the over-strike method for traditional typewriters and extended ASCII. But I have no knowlede of a ASCII (extended or not) supporting every sign commonly used in English. Granted, it is not as significant as other languages missing whole letters, but signs like ”,“,—,–,’, which are often replaced with simpler ASCII alternative (",') or their combination (---,--).

Over-strike, from what I remember wasn’t implemented in any well-spread way with standalone ASCII, although I could be simply not aware of it. It gives us then a few more characters rarely used in English language in loanwords (née, naïve, façade).

Skipping diacritics with uppercase letters on displays with too little space happens with Polish language too, so I am aware of the practice.
>My suspicion is that any broadly successful community aggregator will have enough people holding belligerent, incompatible views, that one could never feel truly safe participating there.

I'm of the opinion that this is fine. Rather, the better approach here might be instead gatekeeping and exclusivity. Now, before you tear my head off for that, let me elaborate a bit.

Much of the issues of existing communities, seem to me to stem from an inability to deal with scale. A single heretic isn't a problem, but when the heretics outnumber the believers, they can then proceed to dominate the community. One potential solution I've wondered about is entry-restrictions and finer grained restrictions on permissions for a community. For instance, a community might be public view but member-only for posts/comments, with invite-only membership. Or perhaps memberships have to be approved by N randomly selected members.

The catch of course, is that what I propose is also yet another contributor to the death of the open internet, much like discord is doing.
I'm the developer behind Redact.Photo [0], instead of blurring or pixelating the image, I've added an additional step to improve data security. See "how it works" section on the page.

1. Image is scaled down to create a mosaic effect

2. Pixels are moved around a random offset of x and y axis

3. Blurring is applied

Adding black bars over information will always be better but this does result in more smooth redaction that I think cannot be undone because of the randomisation step.

[0] https://redact.photo
PCCG aren't spectacular to deal with. They sent me a Ryzen chip that had a single pin broken due to Auspost chucking it over the gate to my door (something I offered video evidence of!)

After threatening them with the ACCC (and CC'ing the ACCC IN the email to prove I was serious) they "generously" offered to send the CPU back to AMD to be "repaired"
Kind of.

You still need a runtime library, which should be integrated by C++23, lets see.

What C++ has better than Rust on this regard is that C++20 at least shipped at the necessary vocabulary types and compiler magic, so the plug-and-play story across runtimes (HPX, C++/WinRT, kokos,....) is much more sound today.
If you can find an agent to buy one for you from another country, you could get close, with a 3:2 aspect Huawei monitor: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/monitors/mateview/
> This is untrue in the US. Nothing is stopping you from contracting a tontine among friends. You just can't sell it to strangers.

What I mean is there isn't a feature where you can easily open a separate account and share it with them, or let them deposit to it, that doesn't involve separate money transmitter apps/doing your own accounting/being married to them or knowing their SSN.

Hmm, you could sell something like one under Reg CF as long as it's not an "investment company", I think? I've seen some weirdly structured unaccredited crowdfunds, there was one that sent me $200 of products for $250 equity investment, seemed like a good deal to me.

> This is untrue in the US too. Where do you have to do this?

That's how id.me works. Just using a picture of your passport doesn't provide a liveness check, though other places will just ask you more questions off your credit report instead.

> People of moderate net worth should avoid assets like venture equity like the plague.

Hopefully that lets rich people do it then, since they can easily have negative net worth (via loans against illiquid assets.) But accreditation has more than one way in, and not all of them are about assets - income or a stockbroker license are enough.

The math behind "risk" in MPT/Sharpe ratio based advice like you get from robo advisors is not that good though. It treats it like it's symmetric but downside risk of your early assets isn't that important (your income will replace them), its diversification doesn't help as much as it says (correlations go up in a down market), and once you have moderate savings you should be taking a lot more upside risk than it recommends.

Target date funds are the right answer for retirement funds but not for everything. Even if they were, the more uncorrelated alpha the better even in the MPT model.
i still get access at age 45; I think what changes is not the propensity of people to answer but the audacity of people to ask.
Don't worry, an all-knowing God will get it.
There is a CppCon talk where they use co-routines to deal with exceptions, Swift style.
I'm actually surprised by how many comments here are supportive of this knowing the route google is heading with tracking and market domination tactics.
That's not what your link says. The claim there is that MAOIs are less dangerous today than in the past because the tyramine content of food has been significantly reduced. In particular cheese, which it says was the only food associated with fatalities due to hypertension, now presents much less of a danger than before.
> Although, you have to give him credit for a few well-justified bans from figures sometimes seen here on HN...

That's like praising someone who threw out the baby with the bathwater to give him credit on an outstanding work filtering water of any residue.
I get the same feeling, Rust seems to be going down the path of "#[feature]" collection.
It is web-based, yes. I was aware of WebRTC but assumed I would need a least to host the server myself. I'm looking at the links you provided and they seem very interesting. Thank you.
I haven't because I really have no idea if any of it is any good. I just sort of muddled through it all.

I've been slugging through a re-write of the server from python to JavaScript because the Python code base is all out of support now and I expect Google to pull the plug on the 10 year old App Engine tools that its built on.