skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In fact it seems i gravitate to this state at regular intervals. To some degree i have dealt with it by accepting it as part of the struggle of life. Also i found that just as much as i gravitate to this state there is also something within me that unlocks it and eventually puts me back on top. When my personal life is draining i am at a higer risk. When there is low psychological safety in my team, im also at a higher risk. Jogging helps, even the smallest run will do. Don’t worry, you will find your way out and perhaps learn a thing or two about yourself. It taught me not to judge others for being unproductive but just be a helpful uplifting colleague whenever i get the chance. We all struggle at times.
Yeah, sadly. But good you say it explicitly and it a fair spin(?) -- I just wanted to point out the IMO damage that license does, not blame the authors/BBC.

In Germany it's the same with the "Mediathek" nonsense. Shows paid with public money can only shown for a ridiculously short time -- no freely accessible archive.
How do you know they're not already getting hacked hard?

The US, China, the EU, what do you think their cyber warfare teams are doing all day?

And the US / UK / EU are usually more transparent when stuff gets hacked; transparency is not something Russia or China is known for.
Small bug: occasionally there are multiple matching pairs, although only 1 works (screenshot: https://ibb.co/JpRp0Pm)

Additionally, the auto rotation itself is mostly confusing, could be better to enable manual mouse rotation.

Cool game nonetheless!

Edit: The bug seems to be that shapes with different "DNA" can still be isometric in some cases: https://github.com/0xf00ff00f/rotator/blob/master/demo.cc#L4...
It's entertaining to think Putin would spend time to write such a long and biased article although it's obvious by its contents that that's not the case. (ex: a person that avoids technology like the plague mentioning using open-source documents)

I'm curious why the need for this sort of attribution is needed. The same sort of thing used to happen in the past in Romania with our glorious leader's wife...

As for contents, it reads like usual propaganda with a clear goal, justify Ukraine/Russia are the same people with a perhaps distorted view of history. Reading it is a little useful exercise in structure and manipulation
Should it be limited to just elite or everyone all the way down? Not trolling you as it might sound but how do you draw lines between elite and not elite.
I usually have my browser taking up half of screen when I’m using a ultra wide screen
Looks great! Maybe add a small time penalty for guessing wrong? It's currently way faster for me to try ~7 combinations (takes about 5 seconds per round) than to honestly figure it out.
That’s a pretty small market that in no way justifies pumping enormous amounts of VC cash into putting convenience stores out of business.
Exactly. However, in the world of those who long ago fell prey to the "red vs. blue" or "left vs. right" false dichotomies, there is only the question of "what side are you on?" One is not allowed to point out hypocrisy or plausible hypotheticals where the exact same decision-making in the future will be turned against those for whom the decision-making is currently convenient.
It's not about your posting identity, but missing important communications that was sent to an old address. Now your email is your authentication second factor in many cases, it's also lockout prevention.
Thank you for posting this! A fun (if not slightly sad towards the end) list to go through. Just trying to wrap your brain around some of the timescales in there (not that you really can but it is fun to ponder it) is crazy
I encountered the same bug and it was also a donut kind of shape, maybe something to do with the closing of the loop?
In Finland we get Marabou in our stores, but our local competitor Fazer (still privately owned) is miles ahead. Marabou got a little edge when it came to market with combos with other chocolates like Daim. It didn’t take a long time until Fazer made flavour combos from their own lineup, and they took back the throne.

If you have a chance to try Fazer chocolate then try it (sometimes stylized as Karl Fazer).
when I saw this link, I was hoping it would show an elegant solution to bypassing Lenovo BIOS supervisor passwords. A used lenovo I bought recently had this pop up after the sitting too long (battery totally discharged I presume) Alas, looks like this is going to the trash (minus ssd and ram of course)
Feels like the article is slanting this Alex guy as a hero of sorts? I don’t like the tone of the article and wish I hadn’t clicked on it now..
Whilst I agree with everything you say (quote?), you’re not meant to bank with unexplained or unsavoury sources of funds. Eg storing money you stole from your murdered is not better than money laundering. Iirc some of the CS clients fell into this category and the bank was very keen to not ask questions.

I’m pretty sure there is a bank somewhere in the Alps where Kim Jong Un has a little bank account under an appropriately obfuscated identity. Probably more than one. Whoever opened it from the bank’s side probably knew something is up but chose not to ask questions. And they are providing banking access to North Korea’s dictator.
Nice. It’s very fun and quite hard.

If you are looking for tweeks consider calling it Shapdle and put them in a row, and color yellow if close and green if right (only slightly joking :)
Prosperity comes from Investments, not Consumption
Interesting, it reads a lot like the USAP participant [0] and field manuals [1]:

[0] https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/P...

[1] https://www.eol.ucar.edu/system/files/usap-field-manual.pdf

You can also find guides for Summit Station (a US/Greenland research base) https://geo-summit.org/documents; in fact most of these bases have publicly available guides and it's fun comparing what facilities are available compared to what you have at your own base. I remember watching the Australian WIFFA [2] movie this year and thinking that damn, these guys have a brewery? Sadly it turns out that got banned this year [3].

Though somewhat funny that it recommends finding an interesting rock to make a belt buckle or gift, that's an absolute no-no in Antaractica.

[2] https://www.wiffa.aq

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-28/antarctica-alcohol-cr...
It is the case in the US (or has been since I was a child in the 80s) so I find the quote weird. You are supposed to walk opposite traffic for the reason described. It is standard guidance every I have lived (a large chunk of the US).
Pretty cool!

A really useful feature would be setting the number of travelers.

Good work!
" at multiple startups around 650K USD/annum " fo sho fo sho
Only switch your computer off when you go on holiday. Put it to sleep otherwise. Keep your IDE open at all times. Have it auto start when your computer boots up.
So if one server is asymmetric one way (the uplink is slow) and another server is asymmetric another way (the downlink is slow), you can use that to narrow down the possibility space and get an answer that's more accurate than just talking to one server or the other?

It works as long as all your uplinks aren't too slow or too fast...
The worst apples will always find a way to protect their privacy, while the innocent majority of people is having their privacy invaded against their best interests.
Spokane Was the Next Affordable City. Now, It's Too Expensive
Ask HN: Best bank for US based startups?
My Mercury Bank application was just denied due to the country where I’m located (Southeastern Europe). No extra information provided - bummer.

So, I opened up an LLC in the US and I’m looking for a solid and reliable bank where I can easily integrate with Stripe / PayPal and do all things online (international wires / payments). I do not mind traveling to the US to open the account in person, as long as I can do majority of the upper mentioned things online.
Needs a bigger community. I know this project but still use Figma because in Figma I can simply use pre-created Elements from e.g. Ionic or Angular Material
> That's never been the case for a member of government working against their own government (left or right or anything)

Will you elaborate on what you’re trying to say here? Are you implying that a different legal framework is applied to government officials than that applied to civilians?

> You can't keep someone around who works against the very organization they purport to work for.

I understand where you’re coming from on the one hand, but I can’t help but feel this is an extremely dangerous sentiment on the other.

“Working against” can be defined very broadly, and at least in some circumstances, people in the public arena are there to do exactly that, but this is usually framed as working for something. Elections tend to shift who sits in those positions.

To someone with opposing viewpoints, it may be seen as “working against”.

If this staffer had rolled their own truck out to join the convoy, that’d be one thing. But automatically equating a donation to an act akin to the same seems like the start of a slippery slope at best.

Would you feel differently if this individual had donated to the party affiliated with the goals of the convoy instead of the convoy itself? At what point does donating to a party become an act worthy of discipline? It’s worth noting that I’m not familiar with any rules/regs specific to a public official and the donations they make, so I’m genuinely curious here.

Don’t get me wrong: I in no way align with the goals of this convoy and admit to feeling a tiny bit of satisfaction at what happened here.

But if I take my personal feelings out of it, the whole situation makes me very uncomfortable.
> They should just cut off their mobile data.

I understand that one of them has a Starlink dish set up on his truck.
> how this concept will (like that of any other gig-economy company) be realized in any semi-equal society (aka no slavers state). Essentially you'd probably need 2/100 people working for that, nonstop

It can work, just not in a way that Silicon Valley VC bros want it to.

Most countries already have a legacy version of this system in place: the post office, as well as a few private courier companies. Those systems' "tick rates" are typically one day - packages are collected at depots/sorting offices early in the morning, assigned to couriers who then spend the rest of the day delivering them.

Increasing the tick rate of such a system is possible especially with smaller goods as well as being able to take advantage of more "depots" (for grocery deliveries, supermarkets are essentially the depots) - the costs will obviously be higher, but not prohibitively so.

The problem with the current delivery services is that it's fragmented - every company has their own couriers, restaurants/supermarkets, etc where not only is the supply & demand unbalanced, leading to situations where one company's couriers may be sitting idle wasting time loitering (leading to potential antisocial behavior) where anothers' might be overloaded and delivering a poor customer experience with regards to wait times. The system also has the overheads of people staying idle which is currently subsidized by treating these workers like shit and denying them employment rights/benefits.

A single marketplace providing an API for moving goods from point A to point B priced by weight, special requirements (refrigerated transport, etc), timeliness and the current state of the market (dynamic pricing) could work. This will allow the system to maximize the efficiency of the people on the ground, being able to consolidate deliveries and reduce waste (bikes or vehicles sitting idle, couriers loitering around, etc). This could be operated by the existing postal system and even use this same infrastructure for mail/package delivery.

The above system would undeniably cost more than the current VC-subsidized services which also underpay their workers and treat them like shit in general, but not by an exorbitant amount. Its costs overheads would scale linearly though which is a bad fit for VCs looking to monopolize the world, however as a public service similar to the post office it should be viable.
Yes, so more like an Oregon Republican party staffer donating to the Ammon Bundy standoff in 2016. And then the Oregon Republican Party ask that person to resign.
It sounds silly but then I read and watch stories of americans crying out for their old ice cream brands which went from milk based to something completely different based. All done in secret.
Do the infants (less than a year) sleep automatically as in, you put them down on bed when they are tired and they go to sleep by themselves? Or do you have to make them sleep with lullabies, holding in arms, rocking them, humming, white noise, on your belly, etc etc until they finally fall asleep?

My 7mo son slept all by himself only twice in his lifetime. I wonder if everyone has to make their babies sleep like we do or they sleep by themselves.
The article feels a bit like they just re-wrote the Wikipedia article on NTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

Which... I know editing Wikipedia is hard, because of the moderators, but if you think you can do better than a given Wikipedia article, please consider just fixing the Wikipedia article.
Sometimes the initial rotation hides a part of the shape.

Also, I have always wondered if there's a way to translate these shapes to strings for quick "mental algorithm" matching. Something like, "5, left turn, 3, right turn..."

I guess you'd need a normal form. The first turn can be defined as always "right" or "left," and subsequent turns can be right, left, up or down. The first turn that's "up" or "down," can be defined as "up." That leaves two ways to read any shape, but that's an uhh constant-factor overhead. :)

(I can't think of a way to define a normal form reading direction that wouldn't involve potentially reading an arbitrary distance in before having to re-start the other way.)
Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.

The fist hand account of the most important figures of the 20th century, rich with details from his incredible memory.
You're arguing using logic against those who, as I've said elsewhere in this thread, are fully ensconced in the red vs. blue, left vs. right, us vs. them primitive human false dichotomy.
This is a fun little game. I find the small movements confusing, though. Maybe a fixed camera (isometric?) would work nice.
It's telling that none of these cities respond to higher housing costs by legalizing missing middle housing (https://missingmiddlehousing.com) across the entirety of their metro areas. They're pursuing the same scarcity policies as other polities and getting the same results.
Sharpened Cosine Similarity for Neural Networks
Another day, another answer to "what is Bitcoin good for?"

Earlier today we were discussing the false-positive rate of Google Drive's copyright-scanning approach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30404587. What do you suppose the leaker's false-positive rate on "fraudsters and corrupt politicians" is?

The article does admit this:

> It is not illegal to have a Swiss account and the leak also contained data of legitimate clients who had done nothing wrong.

Moreover, almost all of the examples in the article seem to be cases of "ex-con nevertheless is able to open bank account". Isn't that a good thing? Do we want a criminal conviction to implicitly include a lifetime of exclusion from the financial system?

The sole exception seems to be "an allegedly fraudulent investment in London property that is at the centre of an ongoing criminal trial of several defendants, including a cardinal," which is to say, the accountholder may turn out to be innocent. This suggests that the whistleblower's false-positive rate was upwards of 99%.

So, if you've done nothing wrong but you don't want your banking details to be leaked for journalists in hostile countries to comb through looking for something they can pin on you, maybe Bitcoin would be a better alternative.

Not a hosted wallet like Coinbase or Binance, though. They're probably almost as vulnerable as Credit Suisse.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375671
Buy a fridge and you can order order within 24hrs.
Are our best days behind us or ahead of us?
I’ve used produce delivery services before and rarely have I received a quality that isn’t decent. These people don’t benefit by providing poor service, don’t benefit by providing poor produce.
Sure you can document the ecological impact, but who's measuring the economic/cultural/social impact (positive and/or negative)? How do I measure an airline-sized carbon impact against a billion cat videos? Is there even a framework for that kind of accounting?

Until there is I think no amount of documentation is going to change people's behavior in the large. IMO the article is much better when citing specific impacts like noise pollution and water rights abuse.
Privacy is on a spectrum, but is also compounded by time and once the cats out the bag it can be impossible to turn back. In the example given of Alex Cazes he could change the from email but the damage was already done - there's no way to recall the emails already sent that led a trail back to him.
As a student, I wasn't able to work a 9-5 job, but 5PM-10PM and weekend work was a good way to make money. The alternative for many people with other obligations besides work isn't to simply work comfortable hours, it's to lose their job entirely.

Also, at least in the US, you'll often see different crowds shopping at night compared to during the day. The privileged person has a flexible work situation or a partner who goes shopping during the day, but someone who has has inflexible commitments during the day appreciates the opportunity to be able to shop at irregular hours.
Anecdotally, skin cancer is a real killer that got my outdoorsy uncle in the not that sunny PNW before he turned 60. Australia has a very stringent hat wearing culture because of their above ozone hole. The sun can take as much as it gives.
I am also using Zoho for a custom domain for a while now and it's been quite good. Customer support is decent and usually get a reply within a day or two if via email.
> German grocery stores are not as nice as in the US

I've used both and German stores seem to me to be ok. US stores are also ok although the quality of fresh produce seems to be less good and generally the fresh baked goods are much worse.
This is brilliant! (Especially after the rotating puzzle post yesterday, exactly what I needed!)
Thank you! (I managed to get 14 at 8 seconds but damn this is pretty hard)

feedback: Sometimes the shapes get too occluded by it's own body. Not sure bug or a feature. Also could be fun to increasing or decreasing difficulty curve depending on performance
Seems like the author is making a reasonable point to me. The risk profile for a gmail email address and a custom domain email address are different and developers may benefit from understanding this difference.

I don’t think he’s attacking the character or intelligence of people who use custom domains, he’s pointing out a gotcha that they may not be aware of.
What previous resource intensive activities are these data centers replacing although? We used to ship far more paper around by parcel, and store them in temperature controlled rooms and shops in dispersed locations be it books, legal documents and more. Things that used to be air flights are now video calls. Videotapes, DVDs and video stores replaced by efficient streaming. Photographs stay on digital media instead of paper media. We fell trees and had 'paper' data centers in the form of pulp mills, which are also resource intensive industrial plants in remote locations.

Yes we still have paper and lots of it, but now it's significantly reduced.

When you look at the internet and the telephone compared to what we replaced it with, the internet comes out far, far ahead in environmentally friendliness.
As a thought experiment: even though it's impossible to meaningfully answer "how long can we spend on this without losing money on it?", imagine some omniscient Business Analyst does the math and confidently declares, "I expect this button to increase our profit margin by $300k p.a.". Presumably, the developer now has the commercial guidance to announce, "My salary is $200k, so yes, I will create this button in the next 12 months, and it will be my only job to oversee The Button as long as it exists, and the business still gets to keep $100k p.a. Great planning session."

Estimations and prioritization systems are entire complex fields we could debate. I'm not trying to do that; I'm saying that asking "how long can we spend on this without losing money on it?" will not be a productive addition to most (all?) discussions with developers/product owners/executives/clients.
A completely different kind of rice. I love regular white rice, but find disgusting the texture and flavor of brown rice.
In my opinion, most of these ventures will fail (or be consolidated) because they aren't charging as much as they could for the service. As a result most of their business is probably delivering pints of Ben and Jerry's to people after all of the stores have closed.
surprisingly difficult, only scored 1 the first try!
Why does this feel like projection?
Tried on Android chrome. I select two shapes which I'm pretty sure match and nothing happens. The only thing on the screen is a "code" hyperlink. Is there supposed to be a "accept" or "go" button or something?
Seems different this time.
The 70% thing came from a business development official in Loudoun County, a person whose job is to promulgate misleading boosterism. It doesn't make even a sliver of sense to someone who thinks it over for a moment.

Cooling is a major data center cost, but it's not 40% any more. All of the major datacenter operators claim a PUE of 1.11 or less. Facebook has been the most open and vocal about how they achieve this, for example at https://tech.fb.com/hyperefficient-data-centers/ (scroll down to "Systems").
FWIW - growing up in Ontario, Canada I was always told to walk in the direction of traffic. It seemed odd to me to turn my back to danger, but that’s what they taught us.
> What sort of basic checks should one perform after provisioning a server or making a service available?

Automate everything, as in the provisions. Even if it's a one-shot job. This way if something does go wrong you can go look back at the script and it will give you an idea of where things went wrong (misconfiguration, etc).
10 Hours of AI-generated 'djent' heavy metal
> Please speak for yourself.

Why the attitude? It's disingenuous to infer they were stating anything other than their opinion.
I would also agree to this in MANY fronts, not just software. As a kid I dreamt of building a robot at ~6 years old. Just this past weekend, I helped my God-son build one (a solar kit for kids) and it was on sale for $10.

Things are generally more affordable now than they used to be for the masses, and more easier to achieve and prototype, in less turn around time, with 1 day shipping, or the mall-ification of society.

Cool stuff really.
I grew up in the states and was always taught to walk against traffic. Not sure where they're teaching people the opposite.
Damn, that's surprisingly difficult. But I think I shouldn't be allowed to brute-force answers (that's really tempting in the current design) and I'd probably appreciate if shapes were standing still, since the movement is distracting and barely relates to the skill being tested.