skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The golden ratio is something you can measure.

I'm talking about stuff like:

reality has fractal shapes -- eeehhh... it kind of doesn't

Circuit boards look like cities for electrons -- they look like cities for ants for me. But no, actually they don't look at all like cities, not the most recent smd circuits and there's no living spaces, no suburbia, no parks and so on on circuit boards, nothing like cities. Just roooughly looking like a city for a child, especially all the old stuff with big vacuum tubes and big capacitors.

Rivers look like arteries in a body -- no it doesn't look anything like. Arteries are tubes, rivers just go from high to low elevation and all rivers end up in lakes or seas. There's multiple loops, from your heart to your lungs to clear CO2, from the heart to the rest of the body to give O2 and nutrients; then most of the blood returns via capillary to the veins that make the reverse course and some of the fluids go into the lymphatic system. I mean, nothing like rivers.
Sure, if you look at a small picture from high above, it might look similar, but so would be trees and branches, roads or a peace of lint from my belly button.

Lightning looks like offspring lineages -- again, no, it kind of doesn't.
Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker
My post was already very long, didn't want to tangent into possible defenses which depend heavily on what exactly is in the code base...

Using log4jail as a recent example, I had a code base vulnerable to this attack, but it would not be expected that the application used a vulnerable version (we forked the popular code base), and it only was vulnerable in a specific way (which, to this day, no one has attempted to explot, as I have an alarm set up if that kind of input comes in in logs, and previously had the block at the WAF when we were vulnerable for the 4 hours it took to fix the issue.

Security by obscurity is not I good defense, it's a single layer, which buys you time. You need to have multiple layers of defense, and closed source might buy your team time to fix issues.. or make it viable to release the application while a third party takes a year on a security audit.
housing might depreciate, but the same is not generally true for the real estate it sits on
Can't GitHub ignore the second complaint as a duplicate? The quoted text explicitly says "if the complainant wishes to keep the material down, they must file a lawsuit" so simply re-filing the original complaint should not take the material down again.
He is a dictator who controls money flowing in and out of country, using the tax revenue to fund his regime and wage war. He can't tax or block bitcoin payments, or steal proceeds by forcing foreign currency sale at a very unfair exchange rate.

Bitcoin helps live without paying taxes and fund opposition without repercussions. In fact, cryptocurrency payments are the only way for Russians to fund anti-Putin opposition. So anyone who says that cryptocurrencies are useless, please, kindly, stop saying this nonsense. If you are lucky to be born in a first world country you simply don't know how easily banking can be used to suffocate a person in a (lawless) cashless society. Bitcoin is a hedge against that, and a powerful one.
Show HN: Jina NOW - A one line tool for multimodal search
My startup's just released this open source tool which lets you perform multimodal search in two lines. I would love to hear what you all think about it, or if you have any use case ideas in mind.

It even helps Emojipedia improve its results.

read the blog here: https://medium.com/jina-ai/jina-now-the-one-liner-neural-sea...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. The item was submitted by you now, by someone else 10 hours ago, and by someone else again 14 hours or more before that. none has gathered any discussion, so it seems reasonable that your submission should not be flagged as a dupe. Enough time has passed, it's an interesting article, and there's been no previous discussion.

Waiting 12 hours for a resubmission seems reasonable, it will certainly have fallen off the "New" page by then, and it's likely to go past the eyes of a fresh audience.

FWIW, I have no official standing here, just explaining my understanding from observations.
It was admittedly tongue in cheek and not a serious recommendation to end the friendship. Personally, for me it is important that my work has a positive influence or at least not a negative one. Sure, perhaps there is some pile of money where my conscience might fade, I will not deny the possibility.

I think the trust in software is heavily affected by badly behaving parts of the industry, especially the security industry that addresses mainly IT customers and I won't hold back against clear indignation of surveillance-ware chasing a quick buck by scaring people into a position where they believe they need it.

I also know enough about management and know what types of manager this enables. It isn't the productive ones. An employer has the right to demand performance from his employees and there are ways to do that without questionable software. But parts of the industry decided that it can use the opportunity of weak legislation to sell their scams. I believe this is a problem for everyone. But sure, in the long run legislation is necessary. That wasn't always the case and privacy and real security of users was paramount to developers.

The same is true for education btw.
> because what people do in their jobs have little to do with their values.

Huh? I've never seen a job as a way to earn money. I can't just sell myself. I can't work at a place that I don't ideologically align with, no matter the salary.

And one of my values is very simple: being respectful to your user is not optional.
If Taiwan only gets a B+, most countries must have failing grades.
Ocean life won't be ruined by this. The waters that they want to dump into the ocean are literally less radioactive than the ocean itself.
I know very little, but the amount of tritium involved likely decays into a trivial amount of helium. A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that there is 2.1 g of Tritium in 860,000 cubic meters of water.
Yes, 10 hours a day, I work at a FAANG.

Just pointing out the advantage. Clearly there are also disadvantages, and most people think the latter dwarf the former. I just want an honest and nuanced discussion.
Doesn't sound that dissimilar to what Google themselves do.
Prepayment fraud is somewhat prevelant, so most transactions are post paid or direct debit. Neither form has that problem.

Even when fraud occurs, the recipient is a known actual person. Know your costumer rules successfully prevent these kinds of scams to a sufficient degree.

Banks will also monitor transactions and will delay execution when there are signs of fraud. That's why so many scams rely on other methods of payment, especially gift cards, western union and... Crypto coins.
You do understand that those sanctions are not here to be nice to those rich people?

The sanctions are in place for moral/ethical reasons.

I'm not sure if I follow your problem. i personally would keep the and let them rot.
You're missing that it's recurring income over time, done on top of a day job. If the author was a developer, they would probably be making MORE money from being a prolific book author.

You're also assuming that people make $1000 a day doing "simple" programming. 99% of developers do NOT work for VC funded companies or FAANGs.
Why would you need to involve a smart contract to buy coffee?
And it's open-source, MIT License.

Crate: https://crates.io/crates/chitchat

Github: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/chitchat
Author here. I actually researched & published many privacy projects (https://krausefx.com/privacy), and deeply care about being in control over your data, and being explicit about what you choose to share.

- The data is stored in my own, private database, not connected to any service
- Much of the data visualised on that page, is data many larger companies already have about you. I figured, why wouldn't I want to benefit also?
- The data shown above seems very personal but doesn’t actually expose any real sensitive information. For example, disclosing your current location, your home address, or stores and places you frequently visits is sensitive and potentially dangerous. Even looking at the map of my movement data on my page, you won’t get any more information that what most people have in their public Twitter bio.

I made sure all graphs are non-interactive, and had all personal information stripped out.
There are definitely genetic factors in the risk that cholesterol poses to the body. We are finding more and more genes that impact either how we digest and process food, what we do with excesses, and how our bodies react to all this. Then there is all the work going into the microbiome and its impact on these factors.

We like to think that everyone is the same, but the more that people research this stuff the more complex it seems to be.
I know the feeling.

And yet. When I was young and poor, a friend lent me his 4-track recorder for just one weekend and I knocked out 5 or 6 songs to make for one side of a cassette tape.

I think being resource-poor made me creative-rich. Now, not so much.
You would be surprised of how many corporations in "western democratic" countries regularly use software to spy on their workers, usually in work laptops given to employees but I wouldn't be surprised at all if work phones were also bugged intentionally.
That's why we have things like paypal and temporary virtual credit cards.

Many kinds of fraud attack the fallible human element, not technology. And blockchains cannot change that, as you can see with a glance at crypto news.
I ran a site in the mid 2000s with about 2500 forums. The site barely paid the server cost.
I was no Facebook ofc.
I had about a million visitors per month.
So me not being able to monetize this circumstance lead to me manually fighting spam, which took up all my time. Plus answering support requests and continued development of the site as well as maintenance.

I can absolutely understand they automate that. It IS impossible to manage the volume of posts and comments. Even with hired labor Facebook can afford.

It's not all that simple as you make it to be.
How many moderators do you need to moderate millions of people's posts?
So it's ok if someone moves next to you, plays music all hours, leaves rubbish everywhere, and are generally annoying to live next to. And then the next week a whole new group of people move in forgetting any requests you made, but act the same way because they are specifically there for a fun weekend.

Also this stops you getting to know your neighbors and form a community and friends that live around you. Any improvements you make to the local area and street have the owner uninterested or pushing back because they do not want to invest in the area.
Actually, it is the SV crowd who needs to prove it is possible. :-)
"This guy told me my password gets blanked out automatically, check this out: hunter1"
SEPA transfers cost €0, which (still) is less than $1.
Author here. Yes, I agree. For this project, only 5% of the 383,000 data points were collected manually, the rest came from various data sources like RescueTime, Apple Health, Withings smart watch and such
The answer could or could not look like that. In practice people have done this many times throughout history totally without blockchains (or computers) for that matter (e.g., money transfer systems, exchanges, etc.).
I didn't explain possible attack vectors because it depends what the vulnerable code exploit does.. does it dump ENVs, and you have a secret there? Does it leak DB credentials? If it's infrastructure code, does it tell someone what IP addresses can attempt SSH?

I hoped by saying "a layer of defense" indicated that there was more layers
It's 15 grams of tritium in total, so it won't generate much helium.

Source: https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissi... [Q6]
Correct, crypto is great when you need an append only database with no root password.

Outside of that use case crypto is a speculative investment vehicle. Maybe BTC will replace gold as a store of value. But that is just speculation.
How to write beautiful Golang CLI
Welcome to marketing!
I was able to buy a tshirt I wanted using Ethereum as the only two options were PayPal (which is blocked from use in my country) and crypto.

I was also able to donate money to Ukrania in war literally in a Sunday night in 30 seconds, again with Ethereum.

Yeah, "dangerous nonsense".
The article's title could be the plot lead for the next Godzilla movie.
does Zoom do that, or is it "do not disturb" turned on automatically? (or an equivalent)
MPesa doesn't store your money in some kind of private currency with a fluctuating value. If you're thinking of it as storing "minutes" as some American cellphone providers would, that's not right.

You deposit and withdraw Kenyan Shillings, or your local equivalent, just as if it were a shilling-denominated bank account.
I wrote some chapters for Apress/Glasshouse or whoever it was many years back. By the end of the editing process, I had a "THINK OF THE MONEY" sign taped to the top of my CRT display. And there wasn't even that much money! I grew to detest the gig by the end of it.
Getting Started with (and Surviving) Node.js ESM
I think they have been pretty clear about what they think the upside is: decentralisation. No need to trust banks and governments.

Obviously you don't think it's a good trade-off, but they do.
If people used wire transfers for online payments the same issues would arise. Using Bitcoin natively on layer-1 for online payments is like using wire transfers. Semi-custodial or layer-2 options will compete with credit cards.
> Water cannot be radioactive

To start, seawater has more things than water. Both Hydrogen and Oxygen have isotopes that can decay and emit radioactivity, so yes, water can definitely be radioactive, by definition. For a relatively short time because is not plutonium of course, but it can be.

And, unlike Plutonium, the problem is that life beings are mostly made of water and we didn't coevolved with a such rare element as tritium is in nature. Water is freely allowed to enter and travel and has granted access to every part of the human body. We trade a big danger for other, but this does not mean that radioactive water can't harm us.
So, setting aside the backend’s own architecture, the heavier the clients, the more we are in a distributed systems configuration?
Author here = I actually researched & published many privacy projects (https://krausefx.com/privacy), and deeply care about being in control over your data, and being explicit about what you choose to share.

- The data is stored in my own, private database, not connected to any service
- Much of the data visualised on that page, is data many larger companies already have about you. I figured, why wouldn't I want to benefit also?
- The data shown above seems very personal but doesn’t actually expose any real sensitive information. For example, disclosing your current location, your home address, or stores and places you frequently visits is sensitive and potentially dangerous. Even looking at the map of my movement data on my page, you won’t get any more information that what most people have in their public Twitter bio.

I made sure all graphs are non-interactive, and had all personal information stripped out.
Decentralization does not require bitcoin. There are trust-based decentralized payment networks much older than the transistor. These could be digitized as well, but computing circles have relatively little interest in decentralization+trust.
"hey dad I invested all my college fund into dogecoin, we're going to be rich!"

"...uh dad... all my college fund is gone"
>You would be surprised of how many corporations in "western democratic" countries

True, but not surprised at all ;)
A hobbyist grade electronics lab doesn't need a lot of space and it's not super expensive either. You can get a lot of projects done with tools and components that fit in a shoe box.

Learning electronics is easier than ever before. You can buy smartphone-sized oscilloscopes for less than $200 or even use your smartphone or computer as an oscilloscope/signal generator if you work with audio frequencies. Or plug in a microcontroller board for a few bucks.

You can find textbooks (e.g. [0]) freely online which would've cost you a fortune back in the day (and still do if you want it on paper).

And finally... We still can buy through hole electronics components you can plug into a breadboard. They are obsolete for almost all industrial uses but still widely available. The supply is dwindling but most common components can still be bought.

I am a bit afraid of what will happen when we can no longer buy components in a large form factor that you can solder by hand or stick in a breadboard.

[0] https://archive.org/details/art-of-electronics-3e
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Coffee is just an extreme example.

The actual example I usually go for is selling/buying an apartment. I'm currently in Sweden, and I've gone through the process twice now. The contracts were several pages if clear text that even I, with my rudimentary knowledge of Swedish could understand. Good luck checking that everything is correct with a "smart contract" version.
The UK is a vast country, the idea that wind and sun are lacking in all of it seems a corner scenario. Plus it could always pay/exchange electricity with the rest of Europe.

This is just the brexiters bending backward to not be part of Europe.
It feels like a socially incapable person leaving a party where (s)he was wanted and esteemed because (s)he has deep trust issues.
Or more likely, because (s)he can't sit at an Arthurian round table of equals. Wishing to be the top dog or nothing.
> Then why not use it as a valuable source of the very expensive and non renewable Helium?

Same reason we don’t use nuclear reactors to turn lead into gold, even though we can: it’s far more expensive than it’s worth.
Meanwhile, the last few years I've consolidated on poetry and been pretty happy with it. How does hatch compare to poetry?

Ultimately, I don't really care what I use! But python's woeful package management and distribution is actually a factor in my decision criteria for when and how I use it.

If I control the system end to end? Sure, I don't mind messing with python and building something I deploy. If not, I don't want to deal with it or the headaches that come with the gazillion ways the runtime can be installed/packaged. In this situation I've been defaulting to go even though I'm slightly less productive in it.

I just want a community accepted standard solution that gives me an easy way to offer a pip installable package with its dependencies, or a way to package the runtime easily (cross platform) and move it around with my code so I can forget altogether about what's lurking underneath all that.
The Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
I was thinking more in the line of i2c, i2s, spi, uart, since I think all of those that you listed require very extensive circuitry to parse. (At least that's the motherboard makers' excuse to only include like 2 USB 3.0s and 1 USB 3.1 port and like two bazillion 2.0 ports)
Which is what explains this poor attempt at advertising. The post and this thread are more about showcasing his books, less so about income. Passive or otherwise.
That's not true. A bank does not allow universal and unquestioning withdrawal nor does it truly require user consent to complete transactions. Clever cryptography makes it possible to do both building on top of Bitcoin or whatever ledger has the desired security and feature set.
Transactions are broadcast with RPC. Once accepted and written to the ledger (ie: after a number of confirmations), you can verify the state of the transaction via your own local node.

It is impossible to completely remove the need for trust. We trust that our computers work as expected, that our modems and routers are not compromised, that RPC endpoints and software is running as expected, that the internet infrastructure in our country is sending messages correctly.

The blockchain isn’t a catch-all solution to our need to trust things in life. But it does allow us to, say, record and alter global state without placing it in the control of a single centralized intermediary.
This is true. I suppose what is important to me is that cryptocurrencies solve the problem that they set out to solve, but the problem they have defined seems to be based on a lot of shaky premises (e.g. a volatile, deflationary currency is useful) and set in a world that doesn't exist (one with limitless green energy and no fraud).
Leonard Susskind disagrees with you. See his lectures on statistical mechanics, he is very clear that entropy is a matter of knowledge about the system. It has to be.
This happens every time a volcano erupts. The main motivation for banning this tech is fear that it will reduce motivation for decarbonization. It is reversible. We should be testing the hell out of this technology so we can do it right when we do it. At present, there is no chance we will decarbonize in time.
A student publishing code derived from starter code / skeleton developed by course faculty is indeed a copyright violation.
Thanks again ColinWright, perhaps the duplicate url filter has been updated to include a 'no comments' flag.
Show HN: Jina NOW – lowcode solution for multimodal neural search
I swear this makes you feel like a genius, deploying a crossmodal neural search solution in a matter of minutes using three or less lines of code. Works on Linux and Mac, Windows support coming soon. Any feedback is appreciated.
Yes, there are. I know several.
> It should have been a goal, and it's necessary (doesn't have to be perfect, but absolutely has to exist) for anything wanting to be used as a means of exchange in a modern economy, outside of Mad Max situations and speculation.

Why are you the one to decide what should have been a goal? And aren't you aware that a lot of people do live in Mad Max like scenarios? Even in a modern country like Argentina the currency is in free fall, not to mention many unstable African countries.

Not to mention that Trudeau let the cat out of the bag, you can't even trust that teddybear of a country with your money if you say something the government doesn't like.
If this has been done many times in a way that solves my original question (decentralized escrow), there should be some concrete examples you can point to besides blockchain/crypto systems.
She is an xmonad fan presumably?
Could you please explain why you think this is being naive?

Same as GP, I don't see what interest Facebook would have in blocking this initiative. The impact the initiative would have would have very little impact on Facebook's business. Their moat is their userbase and no amount of good "public code" would change that.
What I learned from the life of Alfred Nobel is that inventions don't work that way. YMMV.
Facebook has a much more profitable revenue stream than you ever had, and as I mentioned, the ability to code tools to vastly improve the moderation workflow.

There is nothing wrong with automatic flagging, only with automatic action after that flagging.

And key here is, a way to legitimately dispute.

Your case is not a parallel case.
So you are saying that people only dislike the ponzi scheme because they didn't get in early enough. Is that your ethics or these other people's?

FWIW I do own some crypto money, but it's nothing more than a casino game with positive expected winnings to me.
How did you arrive at that number? Going by one of the comments in this thread it would be 760 TBq of tritium, which would require 76,000,000 m^3 of water to get below the 10 Bg/m^3 limit of the world health organization.

(granted I don't know where the 760 TBq figure came from either, I'm just trying to get some clarity)
Weird page. Did you actually experience this and give real inside or did you create that book by doing research alone?