skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google became huge with the public by providing a way to search for data; and they became huge as a business by using this mediation to sell targeted ads.

It's only after they had become truly huge that they started actually serving data directly (news snippets, song lyrics, factual answers, maps, reviews etc).
Oh you can absolutely average rotation quaternions, even weighted.
You just use regular online computation of mean, express it in terms of linear mix operations (x k + (1-k) y) and then use quaternion slerp for the linear mix:

mean = zero_rotation_quaternion
wsum = 0
for w,qt in zip(weights, quaternions):
wsum += w
# regular online mean computation:
# delta = qt - mean
# mean := mean + delta*w/wsum
# express as linear mix:
# mean := mean + qt*w/wsum - mean*w/wsum
# mean := mean * (1-w/wsum) + qt*w/wsum
# i.e. mean is linear mix between mean and qt, with k=w/sum
mean = slerp(mean, qt, w/wsum)
return mean
You could imagine a semantics that produces different results depending on the order of inference rules.
This is a fair question that does not deserve downvotes.

Here is a recent LWN article that covers the concerns with Rust crates from an OS dev perspective: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/889924/321ac8bdd1fee9d9/
When Netflix starts showing commercials, that will be the trigger to finally make me cancel it.
Like the great majority of health advice, especially from governments, limiting salt is based on what is essentially either a misunderstanding at best or pure pseudo-science at worst.

First two studies I found when you google for Salt intake and all cause mortality. All cause mortality is in my opinion the only real metric that matters for this discussion. You can find studies on it increasing blood pressure temporarily but if it doesn't translate to death who cares (See Japan and Korea)

https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/492034#:~:text=No%20.... (In dialysis patients)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/

*Not really expecting this to convince anyone, so low effort, but maybe people can acknowledge biology is complex and we don't have any idea about what any food really does. Hence so many studies showing different results because the signal is so weak.
Canada has more housing supply per-capita than the US and many other western countries, but housing prices that are multiples higher (when adjusted for household income).

Many analysts have pointed out that Canada in general does not have a housing supply problem. Or not a particularly bad one.

What we have is a more generalized housing market problem: bad or badly regulated realtor practices, excessively low interest rates, and excessive speculative investment.

Foreign investment does not appear to be the cause, but it's a nice strawman if you want to win elections.
Europe Targets Self-Hosted Bitcoin Wallets – and Financial Privacy
This is really old (11 years!). There is a company called Mojo Vision (https://www.mojo.vision/) that is relatively far along with creating a full product out of this: https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/30/mojo-vision-unveils-lates...
Can you link to those trivial examples demonstrated in other comments?
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Show HN: JavaScript as a Database – Serverless Platform
Hi HN!

I’d like to share with you my project: JSDB.

Two months ago I had this thought while reviewing a PR on a web application. What if I didn’t have to write code to communicate with my backend or database?

It would be fun to just use arrays and objects like you normally do in javascript and have things magically save.

That weekend I hacked together something that used proxies and classes to ‘magically’ send data to your backend when you assign or access properties in an object or array. Using the same API you already know.

This means you can save data like this: items[x] = {a:2,b:false} and read data like this: console.log(await items[x].a) or console.log(await items.find(o => o.a === 2))

While sharing it with some devs I started to get comments like this? “Wow that’s super simple. Is it secure?”

So I started building a platform around this idea. A platform that allows javascript developers to write full stack applications, with the least overhead possible and just writing javascript.

Security Rules are JS functions, files are simply assigned to an object property, triggers are JS functions etc. Everything is javascript! Check the docs: https://javascriptdb.com/docs

Why?

Because there are developers that can write code using arrays and objects but are not confident with backend code.

I would like to lower that barrier and empower every developer that knows JS to be full stack with the least effort possible.

For experienced developers, less boilerplate means less bugs and faster product cycles. I like to think that JSDB is positively influenced by this post from Rich Harris: https://svelte.dev/blog/write-less-code

Aren’t there other platforms that solve this problem?

Yes, there’s some great efforts. Supabase recently had a killer launch week and I have tons of respect for what they’ve accomplished.

JSDB targets the javascript lovers, the devs that rather just write javascript and would like to avoid sql if possible. By design it will only work on javascript codebases.

Is this production ready?

No! It’s still an MVP, designed to show the idea and where I’m going.
That's also why there are limited spots for the hosted preview alpha (you can always self host).

If this sounds interesting check this demo: https://youtu.be/xs30II7HNBQ

Docs: https://javascriptdb.com/docs

Website: https://javascriptdb.com

Github: https://github.com/javascriptdb

Looking forward to getting candid feedback :)
That's fair enough. We can discuss arguments to a large extent divorced from who made them. This is often useful.

However, the quote in question goes a bit further, Chomsky says Eban started a specific strategy of using antisemitism to Eban's own ends, almost directly paraphrasing something Eban allegedly said. I think I'm entitled to ask what's Chomsky's source, and if there isn't any, than it rests on Chomsky's credibility which, well, isn't very much IMHO.

[EDIT:
On the Balkans, you can see Kraut's video on YouTube. This text has similar arguments though:

https://srebrenicagenocide7111995.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/n...
]
A designed process, very efficient at extracting the maximum price out of a stressful situation. It's a sad state of affairs in Australia right now.
The revenue equivalence theorem for auctions suggests it doesn't matter that much. Now, empirical testing has shown violations of this theorem, but the magnitude of the violations are not so huge as to really move the needle. Someone might be paying 10% more in a sealed bid first price auction than they otherwise would, but it's unlikely that it's more than that, and it may be a good deal less or none at all.

No matter how you transact, of the good is too scarce compared to demand, the price is going to be high. We've seen skyrocketing prices in the US too and we don't use a sealed bid first price auction for the transfer of houses.
Lebedev definitely qualifies here.
PARTS of blind bidding make sense, from an unfortunate necessity standpoint.

The primary scenario that comes to mind is where the neighborhood finds out Joe Outsider is the leading bidder, and they -really- don't like him for a reason they shouldn't. Blind/sealed bids help prevent Joe from getting specifically targeted for being outbid. (To an extent.)

I'd love for a better solution to exist though.
They’re not mutually exclusive. WhatsApp had viral growth and it used mainly for friends. If it doesn’t have viral growth how else is it going to grow?
The US has 2 squadrons of F-35s in Alaska.
My understanding was that it sat between the BMC and its boot flash and (assuming it was real) was designed to bit-twiddle regions of the firmware as it flew past over SPI. So basically streaming strpos() (or maybe even counting bytes) and then sending some alternate sequence of data.

That would require some processing chops to handle whatever speed the SPI bus ran at, and a bit of space to store the replacement bytes. Firmly within the margin for plausibility with even basic off-the-shelf kit. Honestly depressing really.
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Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times
King of the ‘Lunatics’ Becomes Bitcoin’s Most-Watched Whale
So again: if I have a comment section on my personal blog - can I remove abusive comments? Ban abusive users? Can HackerNews ban or downvote comments so they're not seen? Can TalkBack radio screen which callers it puts on the air?

You can write a law to do whatever you want, but the reason rights like freedom of association are enumerated is because things will go very, very wrong quickly when you undermine them. Freedom of speech is protection from government sanction for voicing your ideas, but freedom of
association is protection of your being compelled to act due to the arbitrary desires of others.

> If you had a lemonade store, in a mall, and you were giving away free lemonade, but you refused to give away lemonade to black people, then you absolutely would get in trouble with the law.

No you wouldn't. You'd be in trouble if you ejected people from the premises on the basis of race, but there is no case-law which requires you to give away goods and services to anyone. But this comparison is completely irrelevant because "your opinions" are not a protected class, nor would they ever be.
It depends on what you are trying to get out of the builder pattern. I think it wouldn't provide any benefit to you but hard to say without knowing exactly what you want to achieve.

e.g. if you want to remove all the stuff that you aren't using then nix already does that with a GC
> The culture of pretending that only non-Rust deps are deps is incredibly annoying and unproductive.

The reason that projects usually only list the non-Rust deps in their readme is because these need to be installed manually by the user in order to build or run the piece of software in question.

There would be no point in listing all direct and indirect crates that a project depends on in the readme, since that list is already in Cargo.lock anyway which is meant to also be committed.

Really don’t see any reason for this particular objection.
Noah Bradley has a reputation at VCU Arts (the public art institute he has a degree from, like me!) of being pretty myopic when it comes to the benefits of art school. Learning how to render things well is, in my experience, likely less than 10% of what art school actually is.

To his credit, he does a great job at listing resources that folks can use to learn illustration well, but don't confuse that with meaning it'll teach you how to make good art. There can be an ocean between those two things.
Yes, and the point is that this entertainment isn't virtual and that it actually pushes the entire civilization forward instead of causing a hedonistic stagnation.
The Supreme Court decision referenced in this decision involved a case where the information accessed was protected by a login and accessing the information violated the terms of service. The court ruled that is not a violation of the CFAA. I fail to see that it is therefore necessarily required that the page is not behind a login for scraping to be legal. There may be other issues regarding the type of information or repeatedly creating accounts to skirt account terminations which affect whether it is legal, but simply violating terms of service for accessing a page behind a login doesn't appear to make it illegal by itself.
Language pedant: you mean you brought it to life with AI or your imagination had died and AI gave you a workaround. Only Calvin saw Hobbes, and there’s fanfic where Calvin is older and has to remember to remember.

My imaginary things are still with me, at least as far as I can remember. I know they’re not really real, but it doesn’t matter. The memories are real.
Well, I can think of at least a few possible reasons. Not claiming those are right at all, but I do think they are the reasons why some people think/thought that scraping could be illegal.

1. It's hard to distinguish scrapers from DoS attackers, which we do expect to be illegal.

2. Depending on the use of the data after scraping, and the nature of the data being scraped, you may expect copyright laws and things like the GDPR to prevent any possible use of the data, so the very collection of it may be suspect.

3. Even for public data, a site may have Terms of Service that don't permit scraping, and some may expect to be able to enforce these
This is why Twitter is so vicious.
Sparseserver.ui – test the performance of Sparse Transformers
You can now load multiple transformers (each model has a unique sparsification recipe) on top of the DeepSparse server behind Streamlit, and it's open-source. This was battle tested on a 16GB of RAM with only 4 vCPU virtual machine. These compute requirements are enough to load up to 19 sparse BERT models in memory and compare their performance on question answering (P.S. they are really fast on just CPUs).
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
Turning housing into an investment seems like it was a uniquely bad idea.
With https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container, I'm trying to make a more standalone tool. Basically, a Go binary takes a reference graph and produces a JSON file describing a container image. This JSON file is then ingested by a Skopeo fork (it adds a new `transport`) to produce images (to file, registries,...).

Currently, it supports the dockerTools layering algorithm and is designed to work with Guix [1] as well;)

[1] https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container/blob/065e5b108650ee4c...
I'm pretty sure they didn't, as they camped in the red forrest.
Lima (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima) is the best way I've found to handle Docker on M1. Docker Desktop is a hog.

Their FAQs are pretty good, too (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima#faqs--troubleshooting).
Yeah, it seems the 2021 MBPs use a similar system:

"A high-fidelity six-speaker sound system features two tweeters for a clearer soundstage and four force-cancelling woofers, resulting in 80 percent more bass"

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/apple-unveils-game-ch...

I'm not sure what this "80% more bass" claim is in comparison to. But the 2019 models are definitely impressive. I'm looking forward to hearing the 2021 at some point.
Possibly that the higher number of crew & higher average effort means the internal resources can not last as long, and thus the NBC seal has to be broken sooner?

According to the wiki, an autoloader also improves smoke removal, which would also help maintain a safe NBC-isolated interior space.
> provides basically different versions of the same content.

Well yeah, they provide opinions about facts. They all select subjects from a given pool of "content" (ie. world/local events) and spin it their way. It's not like some greater entity force them to talk about a restricted set of "content"
You can't justify the lack of commitment to truth with "its the bias of the population". First of all: its not. Its the bias of the media itself; however, the population often manifests much richer judgement than simply reducing this complicated struggle to "good vs evil".

And even if it was: the media should impartially cover events. It should not manipulate numbers in favor of cherry picked narratives.

edit replying your edit:
But then; again, we should not create media based in wishful thinking. Instead, media should be based in facts. It disappoints me very much that so many people just accepts this blatant propaganda and sell these as if they are true.
Not a comment on the interplay, but Japan is well within WHO guidelines for sugars. In school, I heard that Japan reduced gastric cancer cases by 50% when salt intake reduced by 10%. Probably can’t repeat that same public health success again, but with nearly 5m individuals, the effect is strong. I’m not aware of as big a meta analysis for fructose.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34957192/
It would probably be protective. It depends on the power and frequency. I don't know what frequencies we get from solar storms, but I think 1GHz might be close.

You could just get a metal ammo can and insulate the inside with something (even cardboard works). If you want extra protection you could replace the rubber gasket with an emf gasket (or aluminum foil as a gasket, or wrap the can in it, or tape the lid with duct tape, etc). I believe magnetic insulators are the newer tech to provide emp protection, but I know little about that.
The flaw in that thinking is that it isn't the best people or ideas, it is the exclusive club that leads to opportunity, a curated fixed market.

Exclusivity is rarely the reason why something is innovative, in many cases it prevents innovation and good products. Due to bias it may overlook what is actually "good" compared to that which comes from a broader set and net.

Open markets where anything can be published, where the only exclusivity is the money pushing it, have more entries, more products. Sure there are more bad products but the good products are better than any controlled or curated market could produce due to this bias. Not only that, the bad products might be good one day and would have been curated out in other platforms. The top 1% of open markets will always beat the top 1% of curated markets, largely because what is good may be outside the bias.

An example of this would be games on Steam, from indies to large companies. The more innovative are always smaller, unknown or unexpected games where more risk can be taken.

Another example would be startups are better at many things than large companies, anything that involves research and development that may have some risk. Sometimes the companies that never get funding come up with the better solutions due to the scrappiness and non saturated funding environment.

The established players and curation systems or large borgs of bias, are too uppety to know what is good across the broad market. False fixed markets are a wall to new ideas and products. In the end curated markets have a weak spot, the larger groups will work overtime to limit the challengers that aren't in the biased path so they don't get beat by competition, they are ultimately anti-competitive at scale.

Open markets are democratic and bottom up, closed curated markets are authoritarian and top down.

In short, for products, exclusives suck.
I always think of the pointer as being a type which takes a type parameter.

so char** is just a pointer to char**. It's not the total levels that matter only the operations on this level.
In the case of Paris, it could also just be that the population of metro-Paris isn't actually growing much.

Toronto's population is growing at double the rate of Paris. And London, Stockholm, and Sydney's populations are growing even faster than Toronto.

No surprise that faster growing populations lead to worse housing supply issues.
You may notice that the US population has grown, and continues to grow, and the abstract group comprised of "people who rent homes" continue to grow, and to need more to rent. Corporations happen to be the ones filling this need now. Of course there is nothing that says they have to, or that it has to be corporations, nor is there any special noble virtue that we should ascribe to them beyond that of a prudent investment, nor is there some special reward beyond what they can earn in commerce. It is also possible that significant new construction, falling home prices, or general prosperity could make members of the group of renters leave the group, in favor of ownership.

Renting something bought by an individual (or a very small corporation) was possible and remains possible. But if there was enough of this happening, the corporations who rent might have serious difficulty finding a profit.

It is worth noting that, in a major shift, major home builders expect 50% of their business will soon be in built-to-rent neighborhoods, up from something like 6% today. This is an illustration of how prices are a signal used across the economy to determine what gets done. (Taylor Morrison Home's numbers, from this recent article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/built-to-rent-suburbs-are-poise... )

I refer to the US because it is closer to me. I understand that Canada experiences similar trends.
I don't think many people would dispute that a politician's primary job is to obtain lots of prestige and use it to persuade people. They certainly don't tend to be domain experts on every particular issue they discuss, although that happens from time to time.
I'm parsing logs with awk https://s.mkws.sh.
It artificially drives prices up. This is not a good thing for housing
It doesn't, the autoloader is right in the crew compartment (which is the whole problem with munition cook offs killing the crew and ejecting the turret). The thing that keeps NBC out while the breech is open for loading is positive air pressure inside the tank.

This argument only makes sense if the turret is entirely unmanned.
$4M tanks are defeated by a $40K NLAW. Much like cuirassiers cavalry who were rendered obsolete by muskets becoming rifles with increased penetration, it's not because tanks don't works, it's because it's so cheap to kill one and so expensive to make one.

Until very recently, 2 guys hiding in a bush couldn't kill a tank, you needed a predator drone, an helicopter or some other advanced system requiring heavy logistics. Now behind every bush and every road corner is a potential enemy able to defeat you. With >90% kill ratio for javelins, the tanks needs to be lucky for weeks on end to survive, and the ATGM needs to be lucky only once.
> Canada has more housing supply per-capita than the US and many other western countries...

Even in the Vancouver and Toronto metros?
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Just putting the links for other fellow HN users and spare them a few seconds while searching for the terms :-)

fnord, a word to indicate irony/humor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Data Management in AI: Key Success Factor
Do you audit the HUGE source code of the most vulnerable application you use, your web browser? It's a huge moving target with insane complexity. Didn't think so.

Do you audit the source code of the compilers used to build all the software you have installed?

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

Instead of avoiding dependencies, dependencies should be locked for a release cycle and audited with automated tools to instill confidence.
The article I read it in (in independent Polish press, cannot find it now) said physical exertion makes you more susceptible to radiation, and cited figures around the weight of shells which are apparently quite heavy.
Do you have data on how often neighborhoods come together as a collective and pool their money to bid on a property, not with the intent of actually purchasing but just to drive up the price because they don’t like the prospective buyer?
>Do you understand that what you are saying makes no sense? The general western media follows a coordinate coverage and provides basically different versions of the same content.

This is your authoritarian thinking, at least in Europe there are political parties that are kissing Putin's ass hard and deep, so there are groups that have media control that you can chose to follow. But even those can't pretend that the reality before their eyes is fake and instead try different tactics,

The Russian trol army is as pathetic as their real army, those destroyed tanks are real so you need some other bullshit excuse then west propaganda, I seen more competent trolls blaming NATO, Putin should ask you for a refund, then give you his favorite tea, really low quality trolling.
But, this doesn’t address his points from the end of the article about cheap drone swarm attacks on the top side of tanks.