skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I transacted in, say, cans of beans, would that also undermine sovereignty and control of the economy?

From what I seen in my country's past the government will always get the blame and is asked to pay when people get scammed, then the goverment adds new laws to prevent future scams.

Say you borrow some money to buy a house and you use a foreign currency, and a year later that currency doubles, you get screwed. This actually happened and people asked the government to fix it. Sorry for poor details I don't like financial stuff so avoid it if possible

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-swiss-franc-surge-crushe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_(Ponzi_scheme)

It's obvious that giving the power to crash your economy to a foreign group is losing sovereignty, what happens if some hackers or government crashes bitcoin? I suspect the government will be blamed as usual because it did not see it coming and prevent it.

As long as the government is not imposed by a foreign nation or some Illuminati then I would say the majority of the population should also take all the criticism not only the institution.

IMO if the population wants the government to protect them from scams and foreign financial group playing with their money then it is what it is, a weakness of democracy, where majority rules.
The whole concept of "originality" does not make sense to me, tbh. Who cares?

If you as a member of an isolated tribe in the amazon rainforest, with no contact to the outside world, come up with a movable-type-style contraption to impress patterns onto woven cloth, that's a creative thought - and your fellow tribe would consider it "original", even though you do not know that a few hundred years earlier, some guy in central Europe had that idea before (and some Chinese guy even earlier). You are in no way less an inventor if you come up with something that has been thought of before, but forgotten.

We should start celebrating creativity (new ideas) instead of originality (uniquely new ideas). The quest for proving or disproving prior art is ultimately not moving us as a society forward.
That is not what GPT does.
Also, some interesting perspectives on Linux unikernels: https://www.bu.edu/rhcollab/files/2019/04/unikernel.pdf
But we know what happened even with actions taken. In my city all hospitals were saturated, there were so many dead people that the army had to help and move corpses to an old ice rink. And that was stopped only by a full lockdown. I don't need to measure the exact magnitude to know that without taking any measures, it would have been terrible.
Remember Bitcoin appeared in the context of the 2008 financial crisis, when the US government effectively authorized the bailout of massively-overleveraged banks and put the burden on the taxpayer in the form of a diluted currency. When you look at things from that perspective, crypto becomes the only way out (or one of the only practical ways out) for people who don't like having to carry the burden of moronic bankers and of the ones who have the control over money creation. I would also like to live in a world where none of this is necessary, but we don't.
Show HN: Changewatch – see what’s changed between versions of policies
I want a unikernel that runs as a process with no special privileges. Huge bonus points if its portable to many common operating systems.

Since recompilation is necessary anyway for unikernels, syscalls could be replaced by function calls or some other user mode thing instead of trapped. It would allow entire containers to run as processes. Not that interesting for cloud, but very interesting for distribution to endpoints or self-hostable apps.
My point exactly. The dictionary editors must have noticed that "environmental crisis" entered into common parlance, and didn't fit the pre-existing definitions of "crisis", so they had to invent a new definition to be able to cover it.

Besides: The definition is a really bad one, as it's circular.
That reminds me of a Wired article from 5 or 6 years ago:

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/can-draw-bikes-memory-definite...
It's basically a `if (random() > threshold) POST cookie-less-origin/telemetry-{{ telemetry_enabled() ? "enabled" : "disabled"}}`.

I don't consider this telemetry. It does not keep any data on you, track you over time, or even fingerprint you.

I think this is a great way to get an approximate usage stat, while preserving privacy, respecting the no-telemetry choice, and keeping network overhead ridiculously low.
Sure, everybody should get a prize.
> But say you know the name that's redacted belongs to a small group

True, but sometimes there is no way around this, because redacting part of the text visually, so that it is clear where and how much was redacted, may be a requirement.

If there is no such requirement, one can always just replace the part of text like so:

This is the original text that I am going to redact now.

This is [REDACTED] now.
Chocolate Consumption and Noble Laureates (2020)
Correct, thanks for pointing that out, I edited the original comment.
Hmm, not that I've taken a second look, I noticed that I added a hidden image hosted on their servers when I implemented the ads. It's used for counting the ad impressions, but it looks like it drops a 1-day valid cookie as well :/
The landing page is a spyware honey pot for cloud ads. Try it in Chrome and then visit a site with Adsense. I got AWS ads.
We chose `delayed_job` at Avo for it's simplicity and ease of use.

https://avo.cool
Ah. I was thinking of a comparable scale for liquids and fluids, as in, say, cooking. I can't decide if recipes that are obviously translated exactly from wierd-old American-and-British units but expressed in metric are more infuriating than ridicuolous or more ridicuolous than infuriating; probably six of one and half a dozen of the other: "Take 138 g butter and 267.5 ml milk..." No, for fuck's sake! Take 140 g butter and 250 ml milk! Or 150 and 300 -- i.e 3 dl. Sheesh...
> you could probably rule out (and mabye rule-in, determine) the redacted name, based on font-size, kerning etc in the document.

Depending on what you're redacting you can eliminate this variable.

For example when I want to redact a piece of sensitive text in a video often times I'll make the solid black bar longer than the text being hidden. This way you can't infer the length of it based on the length of the bar. Of course this only works when you can extend the bar in such a way where it won't hide non-sensitive info that's important to see. In practice it works well, for example for redacting browser history just make the bar the entire width of the browser URL bar and for API keys or secrets often times the key exists as an env variable on its own line so extending the black bar is no problem.
I think it's called MAMAA instead of MAGMA these days.
Wikidata modeling for books is quite non trivial, there is a distinction between the "underlying work" and its "editions and translations" that adds complexity for typical use, and isn't even totally clear at times (e.g. is X an "edition/translation" or a new creative work that's merely "based" on a previous one? It depends - different people can answer the question differently! Is manifestation A the "same edition" as manifestation B?). Even Wikisource.org, which is a Wiki project, hasn't managed a comprehensive integration with Wikidata as of yet!

Regardless, the OP is doing some great editorial and curation work, and this is something that many other ebook resources don't have. It's great stuff.
>Settling the payment exactly when the goods are delivered is often not practical.

That's what OLX, most popular "person-to-person marketplace" in Poland does (is there a word for it?)

If you use delivery, the funds are kept in escrow by OLX until you confirm or dispute.
The more of your own wealth tied up in a crypto asset, the more you have an interest in ensuring no manipulation occurs. An exact inverse to the speaker's thesis. Crypto is underrated for it's incentive solutions from a praxeological standpoint, not just the technical/cryptography one
This project came about because we kept getting emails from companies saying something along the lines of “We’ve updated our terms of use. Click here to see the new version”. This was very annoying, as most of these emails would, at best, include a summary of the changes, but most often not give any indication of what changed, leaving you to hope there’s an archived version you can compare the new version with. We made Changewatch to help people see exactly what’s changed between versions of policies in a simple, human-readable way, so that they can know precisely what changes they’re agreeing to.

We’ve started by monitoring things like privacy policies from large tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., and over time we’ll expand the number of policies we track. Changewatch currently only accesses the UK versions of policies, but we’re planning to support multiple locales per policy in a future update.

Sites like https://tosdr.org/ do a good job of breaking down the meaning of different policies, but don’t solve our problem of knowing that something we had agreed to had changed, but not precisely what had changed. Some companies, like Google, keep archived versions of old policies, and include diffs, but this is by no means the norm, and in those cases Changewatch provides an independent verification of their claims.

We experimented with several ways of diffing natural-language text to try and find one that yields an intuitive and readable diff display. We ended up with a two-stage process where we first compare the two pieces of text by paragraph, and then by word. The resulting diff matches nicely with the original text structure, which helps with readability and comparison with the original document.

We faced several challenges with the scraping, some of which aren’t solved yet. For instance, Facebook (seemingly) randomly serves our scraper either the UK or the EU version of their privacy policy, even though we’re accessing it via a UK-based proxy. This results in policy revisions being created where the only changes are the differences between the UK and EU versions of the policy. Hence why Changewatch doesn’t currently track Facebook’s privacy policy.

Thanks for reading. We would love to hear your comments, feedback and suggestions.
>Google don't kill services you pay for

Yea kind of disagree with that. Feel kind of sorry for those who paid for google stadia, google glass or google onhub....
Parent company is a mainland Chinese. Does that help?
Also Too Much Middleware where every problem has been attempted to be solved by adding in a new generic library and you have a tangle of interdependencies between them with very different interfaces. Then you try to update one.

Also any custom work to an engine where you still want to pull updates. I think on one project it would take one poor person two weeks to merge a new version of UE3.
Would you be able to give a ballpark figure for the extended licenses? I'd rather not get into a sales funnel before knowing what kind of numbers I should expect. In particular, I'm interested in being able to use the full set of icons rather than being limited to 100/project (and having to track that).
It was discrete in time and there was a limited window of time to take action. We’re already too. It’s also going to affect humanity in ways much stronger than any amount of smoking ever could.
>Especially outside.

Who wears masks outside? That's never been required in the UK.
How would one sell that / do jobs like that actually exist? I'm trying to imagine the conversation where I would suggest that without the framing that I should be allowed to work on my own projects on company time because I'm not being productive with most of my working hours.
How has your eBay buying gone?
Journalist won’t be indicted for hacking for viewing a state website’s HTML
We already use cairo/freetype/skia to do essentially all the document rendering in software (not for the Qt prototype though), so that's not a big leap to get that blitted out.

Incrementally then using more of html canvas to speed things up might be next.

Most of the work is going to be having the GUI (toolbar/notebook bar, menues, sidebar, dialogs) browser-native of course.
Maybe Calculus Made Easy by S. Thompson (more recently revised by Martin Gardner, but that new edition is under copyright). Maybe Hardy's Course of Pure Mathematics. However...

Modern books use, in some areas and cases, more modern notation and approaches. That's helpful because math is not just knowledge but a language for communicating that knowledge.

If money is an issue[1], either of those Gutenberg texts (re-done with LaTeX), or the OpenStax calculus book are perfectly adequate. There's also no reason you couldn't use an AP Calculus review guide, or Schaum's Outlines, which aren't free but are in the <$25 range. Combined with resources like Youtube math channels, Wikipedia, Mathworld, and Sage and Mathematica (version 12 is freely available for the Raspberry Pi, though it'll be limited by hardware performance), anyone could learn calculus from the most dull and stilted and antiquated-notation calculus books ever written.

Math presented in a slightly obtuse way that doesn't lend itself to instant understanding might actually be better, as it forces the reader to think about the concept more, increasing retention.

Nobody needs Spivak's Calculus. I think it's a bit like the subtle meaning of Frost's Road Less Traveled. Everyone self-rationalizes about how their favorite math book is obviously the best, but in reality most of them probably learned the core of that subject from a different, less elegant book. It's not that it doesn't matter at all; better presentations might avoid an occasional unnecessary struggle over a concept, or lead to faster intuition of a visualization here and there, but it ultimately doesn't matter very much.

However, if you can buy a book (or pirate it) and want a modern digital alternative less like OpenStax or Stewart's, and more like Spivak (which sadly is only available in scans), Velleman's Calculus isn't bad, and you can supplement that with a modern analysis book like Tao, Pugh, or Abbott.

[1] Unless you are flat broke—in which case there's no reason even the most IP-respecting person should feel guilty about raiding libgen for learning material—the cost of a textbook approaches irrelevance when you'll spend 50, 100, or even more hours working through it. The opportunity cost of that time at minimum wage is many times the price of the textbook. What are you trying to accomplish by finding something free? Nobody needs to buy expensive textbooks anymore, but if you're opposed to paying money for textbooks on principle, you might ask yourself why.
This kind of thing happens when the bottom falls out of an industry. Amazon, Walmart.com, and Alibaba/Aliexpress are totally destroying independent retailers.

Overall across the economy most fraud is committed on the way down, not the way up. The same happens as economic bubbles collapse and financial entities scramble for some way to inflate the books.
I concur. Consulting is probably a great path. You might not program all that much, as you'll be focused on solving the problem, but you can get paid a lot.

Here's a great playbook from patio11 on this topic: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
Even better, I checked the actual HTML received from a few recent campaigns - no Sendgrid tracking either at link or image level, luckily! :-)
A lot of people don't even know you can print to a file instead of paper. Not sure why you're surprised about that, after all the standard method for all formats is "save as" or "export" and it's reasonable to assume those two options include all possible ways to save a file. It's a UI quirk that goes against user expectations.
The English language is lacking in some words and so a whole bunch of things get lumped under the single word of "love":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

* https://iep.utm.edu/love/

For Aristotle (Rhet. ii, 4) and Aquinas (STh I-II,26 4), to love is to "will the good of the other"; it is an act of 'reason' rather than emotion. That is how one can "love one's enemy": it's not necessarily that we find pleasure from them, but rather we desire that they (e.g.) reform their ways.
"We only share this information as necessary to provide the service" That statement would be reassuring... but for the fact it fails to accord with your privacy policy, clause 1.
Delayed Job seems to have been abandoned, a better alternative that is a fork with many improvements is https://github.com/betterment/delayed
Ask HN: Just got some 3090 cards, any profitable project you can suggest?
Just replaced my cards(becoz out of warranty) with 3090s and they are very expensive... Any profitable project you can suggest?(No Mining)
My skills:
Building custom machine learning models
Rebuilding paper's models

The projects I can think of:
1/ renting out the gpus (as far as I know, there are no service to rent out only the gpus but the vms)
2/ providing a deep learning api.
My argument is not premised on if Crypto creates a superior monetary system or not, but rather any government seeking to protect its most guarded powers will squash it.
It's like saying that more aluminum you own the more you have an interest in ensuring no manipulation. Same for oil. No idea what praxeology says about it but it's definitely not what happens in the real world.
Indeed, that tends to change again in your 1000030’s.
It is listed as one of the many pre-existing conventions and agreements (in this case, from 1885) which are not affected by the treaty.
As I noted elsewhere, in large quantities it would be stored underground as compressed gas.

The world uses many millions of tons of hydrogen a year. There are already 1600 miles of hydrogen pipeline in the US. So, while materials must be chosen carefully, materials compatible with hydrogen obviously exist.

Transportation is not the only, or even a particularly favorable, use case for hydrogen. Pointing to it to paint all hydrogen uses as inadvisable is not honest, especially in a thread where we're talking about reduction of iron ore, not cars.

Hydrogen is a greenhouse gas in this sense: hydrogen consumes OH radicals in the atmosphere which would otherwise go to destroying methane. So, indirectly, hydrogen causes warming by reducing destruction of methane. The effect is not large, however. Carbon monoxide has a similar indirect effect.
CFR was something like 1% early on, and higher in Wuhan where there was a partial collapse of health systems. World population is >7 billion, so 1% gets you 70 millions deaths.

If hospitals collapsed and treatments hadn't been found, a not inconceivable 2-3% fatality rate would get us to "hundreds of millions".

(This estimate is unrealistic in other ways though, e.g. communities would begin imposing their own and hoc lockdowns if hospitals were overwhelmed, and global spread might have been slowed.)
Democracy, as opposed to oligarchy, is where the people are ultimately sovereign.

Sure, laws apply to the ones disagreeing, but in theory, the government serves the people, not rules it.

Central banks however, have a large amount of control over everyone's financial life, yet the signal from voting is only very dimly forwarded to this institution, and there are limited checks and balances governing it.
Very interesting read as for some reason I've been fascinated with old code pages lately.

Can anybody point me to some more resources about this general topic? The Wikipedia articles about code pages are all so generic and uninformative.

Or maybe answer some of my specific questions: When was the first DOS with support for Icelandic shipped? When for Hebrew? Why are there three different code pages defined for Greek and were they all supported by Microsoft/IBM?
As you can see from the blog post, those tracking settings are/were disabled. As a developer I know that it's easy to leave wrong default values on checkboxes so I went to first disable them (it was enabled by default) -> enable -> disable.

The tracking pixel was added in test emails as well as in the actual emails nevertheless.
> Vala/GTK could be an amazing app development platform

Freedesktop folks should just standardize on Cocoa. With sufficient momentum, Windows would follow.
I honestly doubt that deconvolution can fully restore an image after blurring. Do you have any links that supports your claim?
TV isn't anything like real life. Was there photo or video surveillance? If not, how good was the description? Was the perpetrator still near the location? How many people do you need to search to find a match? How many cops and how much time do you expect to be assigned to this?

Like I said, even if the police do find and arrest this person, it's still up to the courts to prosecute. It's a lot of work between the court proceedings with testimonies and evaluations to get a conviction. Some regions like California are very reluctant to bring charges and just release them instead, which is why police will avoid dealing with the matter in the first place.
The harassment route sounds like more fun.
Perhaps they hired a bunch of ex-Frys employees?
Interview for the senior positions if they're coming your way, as long as you're not misleading anyone about your actual experience, you'll be fine.

Relevant thread from this week: How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303891
This is exactly the reason I expect more countries to follow suit. Without regulation to prevent scams, the shovel of the Bitcoin rush is lawyers. Unfortunately, the global nature of cryptocurrency makes cross-border scams easy and hard to litigate, which means the only regulation that will work is an outright ban.
My copy/paste stopped working after trying this out.
Should have specified that more, sorry for that. Webpack, for better or worse, has most of the current dev mindshare and tons of plugins, stackoverflow questions & random blog posts. If you need some integration for <fancy thing>, your chance of finding something working for webpack is far higher.
You can build/support everything with gulp just fine if you don't want to use webpack, the question is: Why exactly would you specifically choose gulp and not, for example, esbuild?
≥ there's social consequences for making other programmers "look bad" and increasing management expectations

This isnt that serious, is it? At my previous job (a large company) we even had one so-called 10x programmer (which some people claim doesnt exists, but I saw him with my own eyes), and it wasn't such a big problem overall. He was assigned more difficult tasks or more tasks, and that was it. (Although yes, his salary wasn't 10x).
For a while (maybe still now?) it was cheaper to buy external HDDs and 'shuck' them than to buy the standalone drive. Some people took the obvious decision to get a free upgrade by replacing the internal drive and returning.
Chocolate is better and cheaper than coffee, and might even be better for overall health in the long run than coffee. Whenever I'm at Trader Joe's I make sure to buy whatever is on sale and is as close to 100% dark chocolate as possible.
Stadia isn't dead, it's alive and well ( i use it, there are new additions in February, new promos and the games i already have run). Apparently there are also plans for the future, but we'll see about that.

OnHub:

> In December 2021, Google announced that OnHub routers would no longer receive any software or security updates. After December 19, 2022, other features would be disabled like updating the Wi-Fi network settings, adding additional Wi-Fi devices, running speed tests, or using Google Assistant.

That's a decent timeline and after that the devices will still function albeit in a very limited way.

Google Glass was never out of beta, was it?
Sadly saving doesn’t work.