skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but doesn't that essentially ask the government to back the whole thing? In which case, how is that scenario any different than life w/o cryptocurrency (i.e. physical cash + debit cards + credit cards)?
A related element is that apparently there was a large surplus of women at the time. The imbalance contributed to an increase prostitution and women getting stuck in unhappy marriages.
The Aviation Herald's coverage:

https://avherald.com/h?article=4f700fec&opt=0
> There is no chance 1.2B people will migrate to Europe.

Sure, some of them will flee to Mexico or Cuba (from Central Valley and Florida); some will flee Bangladesh to India; some of the migrants that end up in Europe will be from other bits of Europe.

But I suspect quite a lot of sensible Egyptians will look at the wrong kind of water being in the Nile Delta and reach a perfectly sensible conclusion, go to an agent and ask: "أود شراء تذكرة ذهاب فقط إلى أي مكان ليس تحت الماء حاليًا." only to accidentally find themselves shortly thereafter in Zagreb taking a crash course in Croatian.
That's a very childish attitude. "daddy doesn't brush his teeth so why should I?"

What is there to "believe"? No belief is necessary here. It's a cold scientific fact that if we don't drastically reduce the amount of Co2 we emit, the coming decades will be pretty horrible for billions of people.
They are awesome on paper, but in reality implementation is full of bugs and doesn't work as advertised.
https://prashp.gitlab.io/

Tutorials for things I've learnt during my grad research.
Popey/unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
The article plays to the idea that "the company is using its cryptocurrency as a way to amass millions of biometrics", which is factually incorrect. The company is using biometrics made private via advanced cryptography, which aren't amassed or stored beyond the testing phase, as a means of distributing the token widely and uniquely to each person once.

The explanatory arrow for their business is backwards. It's totally factually incorrect.
No, in the same sense that carrier/telecom deployed cheap phones, and more and more people online without understand what they are leaving on the table.

Then they'll assume the "internet" is really just "facebook" as there is no net neutrality in "currently poorer places" to use your vocabulary.

Then their Internet experience becomes paywalled, or gatekeeped and dependent on foreign businesses instead of local infrastructure, meaning that if USA demands/wishes to drop content or dns resolving such as youtube dropping Russian News regardless of opinion, it just doesn't follow Alphabet/Google's Narrative to the point of USA not having a direct hand in manipulating how searches work and such per demand of USA based ISP's such as Starlink, Amazon and etc.
That was basically the debate that occurred, the risk of not writing them down was also very large for the reasons you mention. It’s only a problem if that list is then viewed as a) what defines those rights and / or b) is an exhaustive list. Unfortunately, that is what tends to happen over time, hence the need for constant pushback on people who attempt such shenanigans.

As far as your other question, it comes back to coercion vs those rights. If some jackass wants to believe that, I can’t change those beliefs. But I can certainly support the right of self-defense or shared defense of the intended victim if that ideology is used to attack them.
Agreed, the Sculpt coupled with an vertical mouse has been a game changer for me
I mean, the youngbloods don't like venting helium either. Reclamation would be a huge win, but who is going to pay for it? We would like to pay for it, but we also want to continue working which means getting new grants and not going to federal prison.
Every sufficiently large company will have some job postings which are charades, but that doesn't mean that every job posting from a sufficiently large company is a charade.
That's not quite true. The car has to be inspected and gotten ready for rental.

Consider the amount of work involved for the owner in renting one car to 30 people each for one day and one car to one person for 30 days and you'll see the difference.
That seems like the same kind of timing mismatch I had with attending lectures.

There's latency between me being exposed to a topic and having enough understanding to ask questions about it, and after the time has gone by, the topic has already changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

I assume he was banned as part of a wider ban on RT and frequent contributors. I suspect the final straw was an op-ed he published demanding that Kiev provide forensic proof that war crimes were committed in Bucha and that Russian soldiers were responsible.
It doesn't bother me any more than a man using his body to do construction. People are often reduced to their objective and instrumental uses: building, cooking, coding, cleaning, and sex.

I think is it silly to carve out sex as different and sacred, and the one thing that cant be bought and sold.
These questions seem lost in ideology. The free software movement gave me an operating system and critical applications so I can do my work without big company garbage interfering.

Unfortunately there is a low ceiling to the utility of copylefted software as my experience in commercial software development shows that any commercially successful development based on copylefted software invites scrutiny such that one must constantly prove that every feature of the software can be directly linked to published source code changes. Any failure to do this can result in costly and distracting legal actions. Because this is onerous software developers who seriously wish for success and profit minimize exposure to copylefted source code. This makes it clear that freedom is a complicated business of trade offs and not a matter of ideological purity tests as the hype surrounding copyleft implies.
The parent comment wrote:

> [it's] support for any person to have autonomy of their body in whichever way they see fit, including making a living by selling access to it to other people

There's simply no way you can claim that doesn't include selling yourself into slavery. Not a false equivalence and an extremely common practice around most of the world until recently. Usually you were paid after your term of slavery terminated.

I understand why you're shocked. You just realized that you support slavery. The good thing is that you can change your mind and come around to not supporting the exchange of human bodies for money.
>> Tips should be made illegal

That's about as dystopian as possible. Telling people that they cannot just hand money to other people might be the end of the entire concept of charity.
>Were we successful because or despite of all of these did-nots?

I think that's a legitimate thing to ask, as the proverb goes:

>Many people will seek credit for success, but few will accept responsibility for failure.

The issue is that a valuable blogpost would go through each of those things they listed; and consider whether it was a good thing to avoid or not. It's fine to say "Don't stress about it" when you succeed, but there are plenty of start ups that fail because they don't have a business plan or they didn't successfully manage their network. What would be valuable is to share the insights you learnt on your journey rather than to flippantly celebrate your success. Anything succesful innevitably involves skipping things that turned out in retrospect not to be important - but the useful advice is how to figure out what was important ahead of time.

Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, maybe "you can still have a viable business even if you screw up lots" is something someone needs to hear. It's certainly true - you can actually succeed if you get the core elements right even if you get a whole load of things wrong.
Pretty sure this has been discussed time and time again, but…

> LimeWire Founder “Not Thrilled” That ‘Strangers’ Exploit the Brand for NFT Marketplace

https://torrentfreak.com/limewire-founder-not-thrilled-that-...

TLDR Only thing in common with the old lime wire is the domain
And multispectral images
Main one was our ability not to be distracted. Plus, setting up ourselves for a long-distance run from day one.
For reference $2mm arr is $40k revenue per person per month. A hypothetical 75% margin means $30k margin per person per month.

Very impressive growth and 100% something you and a couple people could live off of. It is not a moonshot tech company/etc though, so if you’re looking to build something big - these are not lessons you should follow.

Spending money on advertising, hiring 1 salesperson, etc would drive a lot more revenue and enable them to scale. That is likely not their goal. I very much preferred working for companies who were highly profitable and didn’t try to outgrow themselves, compared to the opposite.
Okay, good to know it's being considered. For a non-optimized diff then (zfs-diff, which just prints which files have changed, not what about them have changed), it would be the same approach? Scan all the metadata looking for keys with versions between the two snapshots, and print out the associated file names? Would that simple approach be likely to be faster than whatever rsync does to find updated files when doing a backup?
By that definition, it's hard to understand why the powerful don't just use their power to stop the legislation holding them back.

I think in reality there are many different kinds of power, and talking about power as if it's one simple fungible thing leads to naive and wrong conclusions.
Flip-side, an honest & competent purchaser can use "cooked" RFP's to try to weed out incompetent, indifferently-honest, cost-overrun-prone, etc. would-be suppliers, when they're forced to follow a "publish RFP and take bids" rulebook.
Were you profitable before you raised? Just curious if you wanted a bigger outcome or the smaller scale wasn't sustainable either
What a laughable response. Daniels' Responses and Twitter Threads and the way he argues obviously invokes more and more flamewars, raids and stressful situations.

It's very obvious if you take a little time to look into it, especially the techlore video, that these continuing conflicts are not good for the well being of Daniel himself and the Graphene OS community as a whole.

I say this, with genuine respect for his work and with worry about his personal well being: The world isn't gonna change for him and if he want's to escape this situation and enjoy a better quality of life while doing what he obviously loves, he will need to find better ways to cope with these kinds of situations and interactions.

It doesn't matter if he is 100% right and he's the white knight fighting the evil matrix raiders and spammers. These Twitter Threads are not going to make these raids any less likely in the future. I worry he's going to end up like terry davis. brilliant programmer, eccentric in his own way and abused as a lol-cow for /g/ and that would be a shame, because graphene OS is pretty sweet.
Depends on what you do with it. For our needs it great, low maintaince, easy to deploy and stable, but I do understand where you’re coming from. Kafka can be terrifying when it goes bad.
They used to have a lot near LAX that sort of functioned as you describe, not sure if that's still true.
Wow. Thanks for GLID-3. It was genuinely exciting for a few days but then I must admit latent diffusion stole my attention somewhat ;-)

What kind of prompts is GLID-3 especially good for? I remember getting lucky when I was playing around a few times but I didn't do it systematically.
This appears to be for user interfaces rather than hardware. What do they use this for that gives them a competitive edge?
At what point do you start seeing diminishing return on pixel-count with such a small sensor? (Or can you always get value if you're willing to bump up your exposure time)
> it has killed indie gaming

That's quite the take. I'd say Valve did more good for indie gaming than anyone else with the introduction of early access. Almost all the indie gaming being done in my social circles is through Steam's early access program. Before that people just didn't play indie games.
Looks like it might be time to download everything I care about and spin up a Calibre server finally.
You call Nvidia driver installation easy? Every bit of "ease" about that is hardly Nvidia's doing.
Yeah, it doesn't change the fact that their advertised features don't work as expected and is crippled with tons of bugs.
Anecdotally, I had never heard of this app, but it is relevant to the area i work in (product comms, business operations).

Was it difficult to advertise specifically to this audience?
The title really should say RISC-V rather than RISC. MIPS already is a RISC, one of the first.
Getting the ant to clamp onto the underside of a branch or leaf and then stay there until it dies is a bit harder to explain. However I am also inclined to believe there is a localized mechanism at play, such as locating the jaw actuation through connective tissue RNA. Even so, there must be some basic signaling and state detection at play. It's probably the biological equivalent of a music box that just plays the notes it's been fixed to play, but still interesting.
Interdisciplinary Investigation of a Mummified Bird
I like Linus's response for GPL v3. [0] GPL v2 was good. Version 3 is a little over.

In practice enterprises avoid using everything licensed under GPL v3 (e.g. Apple freezing Mac OS's Bash veraion), that blocks innovation cause good software usually backed by large amount of budget, especially those with GUI, like Windows, Android, Microsoft Office, Chrome etc.

[0]: https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU
From which programming language did you «get it»?
Did a specific language/system/book really impact your journey on programming?

I am a CS graduate and have been exposed to many different languages. In my day job I work with iOS and Swift as a junior engineer. Even though I am performing, I am not really «getting it» in the same ways I would understand things with C#. I have less experience with C# and .NET, but when I am exposed to it I typically understand what is going on much faster.

It might be because many books outside iOS actually tells you what is going on from the ground up and iOS books are «oh don’t worry about that stuff just know…». I feel the approach to other systems are more direct and hands on, while anything Apple is obfuscated a bit.

Have any of you had similar experiences? For reference I have experience with Swift, C, C++, C#, Java, Python mostly and C# resonnates the most even though I can accomplish more in Swift.
You don't offer up the biometric data itself, you offer up something anonymized and derived from it (think a hash of your biometric data).
I sometimes downvote comments about voting to help enforce moderation. What I think is interesting about the topic of commenting on voting on comments is that the vast majority of my downvotes are fat finger mistakes while scrolling.
> Because it was a social sledgehammer used to punish people's existence (homosexuals, for example) rather than encouraging socially positive behavior (like teaching your kids to read).

But that's not the only thing, right? For example it strongly discouraged out of wedlock childbirth and divorce, which in retrospect seem like pretty good things. Coming from an Islamic society where both are strongly taboo, it's been eye-opening to me to see the social dysfunction in the working class American area my wife's family is from. My mother in law's house is full of random teenagers who are drawn to the fact that she offers a relatively stable household compared to the instability in these kids' home lives. It's great that we got same-sex marriage, but it seems to me like that's the only kind of marriage some folks care about these days.

It's not just "prudes" looking at these moral trends with concern. Even center-left Brookings Institution has observed the collapse in marriage rates among the lower class, and how that's exacerbating income inequality: https://www.brookings.edu/research/middle-class-marriage-is-... (marriage rates for the top quantile have hardly changed since 1980, at 80%+, but have dropped from 60% to under 40% for the bottom quantile). Studies show that Asian Americans enjoy much higher income mobility than white Americans: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/make-y.... An Asian American kid born in the bottom 20% of income has a 25% chance of ending up in the top 20% of income as an adult. For a white American kid that number is just 10%. I strongly suspect that an important factor is that Asian Americans continue to have "Victorian values." We don't tolerate divorce and we ostracize people who don't get married. Many Asians come here very poor, but the kids have two parents and the families don’t have to deal with the massive loss of income and upward mobility caused by divorce: https://www.nber.org/digest/jul02/income-declines-after-divo...

Whenever we talk about "progress" we fixate on improvements for relatively small minorities. While that's not unimportant, it gives us a false sense that progress happens in a single direction. But our progress has resulted not only from breaking down specific possibly obsolete taboos, but breaking down the general framework for enforcing moral norms. That’s been replaced by the elevation of individualism and self determination to a religion. And it appears that this change has had costs. We have lost the ability to use social pressures to keep people from making poor and selfish decisions. The burdens of that progress of that are being borne by kids, especially kids from lower income households.
I applied for a job that a friend of mine was up for simply because they couldn't complete the job search until they had enough candidates. I went through the interview process to speed things up for him. Got interviewed by 9 people when we all knew what the outcome was supposed to be.

I spent most of the time talking about how great he was at his job just to move it along faster.
OK. But... some of us do need to use Cassandra? Some of us do need to use Kafka? Like, more than 5 companies definitely do work that requires that level of scale...

Of course bad engineers make bad engineering decisions, and most engineers are bad, but that isn't really interesting to point out imo.

> How much data do you have exactly?

Petabytes or exabytes at every company I've worked at, none of which are names mentioned in this article.

> But have you done the math?

Yeah.

I mean, I've read this before, so I'm gonna stop here. I get it. Engineers are bad at their jobs so they default to picking the technologies they've heard of instead of the technologies that make sense. But like... working with massive amounts of data is not that rare anymore. It wasn't in 2017, it definitely isn't in 2022.
this one? https://vineyardgazette.com/sites/default/files/article-asse...

if sea levels rise by two feet he'll lose a bit of land around the edges, but it's hardly "at sea level"
I'm personally excited by CHERI, and feel it is part of (sorry if these words annoy some people) computing "growing up". It's interesting (to me at least) that that is the only trick I can think of (along with general pointer compression tricks, like interpreters storing 63-bit integers when a pointers last bit is set to 1), where CHERI shouldn't be (fairly) trivial to support.

I'm happy to sacrific xoring pointers, the same way I wouldn't use some "cunning trick" to build my house with half as many nails, at the risk that any minor mistake installing any of those nails would lead to my house failing over.
Most of the conversation around this model seems to be about its direct uses.

This seems to me like a big step towards AGI; a key component of consciousness seems (in my opinion) to be the ability to take words and create a mental picture of what's being described. Is that the long term goal WRT researching a model like this?
Yup, I understood that. That's just the one I personally found the most surprising in your list.
"Foreigner" = risk to most banks. They'll leave, they'll take advantage of us, they'll have no income... I would think pretty much every country feels this way (Canadian banks are conservative). Trying to convince them to look at your original countries credit history for anything short of a mortgage is a problem. You can give them 1.25x your credit limit as a savings account and they'll probably give you a card. It's a start. Or you can choose a bank that has operations in your initial country as they're more willing to check the credit history.

It's a different country with different rules. Part of the fun of switching. Far worse it trying to go from the US into a different country due to the IRS/Annual filing requirements and how this tangles up foreign banks in US Tax-agency operations and reporting.
If anyone else was wondering why this was posted:

"No, NATO Allied Land Command leader wasn’t captured by Russians in Ukraine"

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/05/tweets/no-...
Millennial and Gen Z Nostalgia Is Bringing Back Chain Bookstores
You've still committed a crime even if the other party doesn't actively prevent you from doing so. You can walk into a store, and walk out the front door with a television and probably nobody will stop you. Additionally, you can walk into a bank and demand that they give you money, and they will give it to you.

In none of these cases are the companies condoning or supporting your actions. You can try the argument that the bank teller gave you the money and that it's bank policy to do so. But it probably won't work.

It's strange to see people bending over backwards to deny that this is a crime. Surely if someone manipulated your bank's computers to wire transfer your entire balance to another account, you wouldn't be asking, "what crime could [they] have committed?" You'd feel like somebody stole from you.
I think that is a bit of a stretch, as an OTP isn't maybe a "scheme" in the sense of IND-CCA2 and the attacker cannot force an encryption to happen by design.
> How is it "dirty" money when it is in the bank account?

Lots of dirty Russian money in bank accounts looking for invoices to launder against.
collisions kill people, not speeding tbh

that's not even entirely tongue in cheek either. speeding is very rarely the cause of collisions imo. As a disclaimer, I also believe drivers are solely responsible for accidents rather than phones taking partial responsibility when texting and driving is applicable, so maybe I am not aligned with the public on this subject in general
>"reverse discrimination"

I still can't believe this is a real phrase people use. Wouldn't this just mean not discriminating?
"sex work has pretty consistently been in a gray area of morality"

So was slavery, but we don't pretend that past moral failings should make us question our modern moral understanding, as you have just suggested we do for sex work.
https://jonathanalland.com

I’m actually really proud of it—I love the way it looks and feels. I wanted the site to be playful but still professional, and to feel "modern" without being flat. Feel free to tell me how I did.

Everything is handwritten HTML + CSS + Javascript; I avoided even using a build system. I did use some tiny Javascript libraries, but I gave myself a limit: the site had to contain more bytes of my own code than other people's code.

The site also supports back to IE11 and Safari 6, as long as Javascript is turned on. (And it works without Javascript in modern browsers.)
Ask HN: Tool for Mac, create database from filesystem
I need a tool that can recursively scan a folder on a Mac and create a relational database (could be SQLite, postgres, mysql, etc) containing the file attributes for all the files and folders found. I haven't seen any tool that does exactly this and was curious if the HN crowd knew of one.