skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I am not suggesting that 2FA is a secret ploy by BigCos to make them needlessly important. It's perfectly possible to log into services without using your Google/Apple/Microsoft identity, even if they insist on 2FA. Use the email and SMS, Luke!
> Would be super interesting if we could create a GAN-based version of this for audio calls that could change your voice into a white male or whatever is necessary for the person on the other end to not impart negative biases on their hiring/investment/business decisions based on your voice.

Would only work for male -> female (and vice versa) changes. There is no vocal difference between a white male and a black male (or white female and black female); the aural difference is in the accent and actual regional slang, not in the voice.
My understanding is at a pop-science level, but it seems like once again the chemical energy overpowers the radioactive energy. The "free radical theory of aging" blames mitochondria for a lot of the damage our cells sustain. Mitochondria generate an incredible voltage gradient which generates and throws off a trickle of oxidative radicals which go on to damage the rest of the cell, occasionally even damaging your DNA, damage which slowly accumulates over the decades of your life.
Are there companies that ask a lot of leetcode bards in their interviews? That seems like overkill even for FAANGs though I can see why some groups might do so purely to filter by Math ability/interest.
I fail to see how that is better

If you walk up to my initial comment (which everyone seems to have forgotten about) - it had nothing to do with whether one was "better" than the other.

But rather, and exactly as stated in that comment: it was about the blatantly dishonest attempt, in the parent comment, to portray the situation as something that it obviously wasn't.
Google engineers should ask "Why." five times to get to the root cause.
> That hasn’t stopped some of these people from trying to blame corporations for inflation. Senator Elizabeth Warren has insisted that big businesses—ranging from grocery chains to private equity firms—have made inflation worse by “jacking up prices.” President Biden’s spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, has referred to “the greed of meat conglomerates.”

> If greedy corporations could “jack up” prices whenever they wanted to, then they would do it all the time, over and over. But they don’t. That’s because, well, consumers have choices, and when things get too expensive, they stop buying those things. Suggesting otherwise is silly.

> The inverse of this paper thin argument for “corporate greed” suggests that, until recently, corporations were not greedy, that, since the early 1980s, when inflation was really bad, corporations haven’t been all that keen on making that much money. Perhaps the senior senator from Massachusetts should spend a little more time in the private sector.

In fact, this can and does happen all the time. We have anti-trust legislation to prevent companies from working together to fix prices, but sometimes it happens anyways, and lawsuits get filed and companies get fined. If there haven't been any prominent legal cases lately it's not necessarily an indication that price fixing has gone away; it may just be that enforcement is lax, or that the companies have found ways to collude that aren't technically illegal or aren't flagrant enough to provoke enforcement, or that one company has simply bought most or all of its competitors.

Also, it's noteworthy that the healthcare industry is explicitly exempted from U.S. antitrust laws.
True. Getting great deals at thrift stores is information arbitrage, which is increasingly hard to do in the internet age. Before the internet, it could be a goldmine.
>Centrelink especially is so fucked up that people think that I made up my stories about my experience there. It's crazy beyond belief.

I know this is just an anecdote, but a guy I met who works at the DHS told me that, the online forms that people fill in are "printed" to PDF then manually entered into a database system from the 1980s.

The reason they don't update to a newer database with a proper API is because that would require taking the system offline for maintenance.
With auto play enabled Netflix would show a random clip from the movie/show. In about 5% of the cases they would play the trailer (which is really what you want).

If you turn auto play off, there's no way to play anything. You have to just start watching.
Most people will not give up family, friends and roots for a house in some third world country.

People have jobs where they live, they know the city or at least the country. The language is not a problem, they are familiar with food, laws, standards, processes.

I worked in many different countries before, developed and less developed. It's "fun" for a while, but in my experience people don't want to stay, they only stay temporarily that for career reasons.

Plus, how long will it take until the local folks will get mad because your kids are treated better (in the international school), you have a bigger house, enjoy a better life? There will be the same "those migrants are taking away our stuff!!!" sentiment that we already know here in the WeSt.
Agreed - I work in Australia and I've worked with a lot of complacent people but a lot of very good people too. I thought the complacent people was just Sturgeon's Law applied to people who work in technology.
> True, and a website could decide to issue its own certificates rather than get one from a CA trusted by browsers…

That’s quite different. In your example, if a website does so unilaterally, client user agents break. In the FIDO case, nobody else knows or cares which authenticators an RP trusts.

More broadly, I don’t get this conspiracy theory. You’re worried…the FIDO alliance will abuse their very limited power to…what end?

> If the private ECDAA attestation key sk of an authenticator has been leaked, it can be revoked by adding its value to a RogueList."[1]

The attestation key, which is shared among all devices? That’s rather different from what you said.

> That specific example may never come to pass, but I don't think we should assume that allowing RPs to put arbitrary conditions on the hardware we use is a power that won't be abused.

RPs already have such power. Today they use it to do things like require password complexity policies. Again, RPs aren’t the FIDO alliance; they’re the actual website you’re logging into.

Your repeated argument here is that websites should not be allowed to impose restrictions on how their users authenticate, which is hard to fathom.

In a previous version of this argument, I remember you essentially arguing that banks and enterprises should not be able to restrict what types of authenticators their employees and customers use.

I get it. You hate attestation. But “my employees must use a fips-certified key” (or “my customers must use a hardware key”) is reasonable and ultimately non-negotiable if you want people to use your protocol.
I asked HN a related question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27822489

I started with SynthOne on my iPhone.

Recently bought an Arturia MiniLab Mk II and am running Ableton live-lite it was bundled with on my laptops. <$100.

More recently I bought a used Mbox II audio interface. An eBay bargain.

Still more recently a Moog Werkstatt, Adorama had/has them for $149 because they’re closeout. And because it is a fn Moog.

And of course more cables came in today’s mail because…well because it is probably a hobby…if it isn’t a hobby it will do until a hobby shows up.
Cody's Lab has shown how to extract potassium from bananas.

Spoiler: most of the potassium is in the peels.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fmaZdEq-Xzs

10 kg of bananas.

6.56g flesh, 3.44 kg peel.

6.56 kg banana flesh -> 1.5 kg dried bananas (plus about 100 g corn starch, used to prevent sticking)

Flesh pyrolised in a charcoal kiln to 0.5 kg banana charcoal. Peels -> 0.12 kg.

Charcoal burned down to 67g (flesh) and 51g (peels).

Potassium precipitated out as potassium chlorate. 33g flesh, 41g peels.

Decomposing out oxygen -> 36g potassium chloride (potash) (combined, flesh + peels). Radiation was measured at this point with a Geiger counter, at about double the background rate.

Metalic potassium produced through an alkalai converter, though only at about 50% yield: 9g produced rather than the 18g expected. The initial potassium chlorate yield was also below that suggested by FDA nutrient standards. Cody discusses this in the video.

Slow-mo exploding potassium banana sequence at end.
This is a cool utility, but I feel that its existence is entirely predicated on not having a proper build system.

A proper build system should be able to be integrated with your editor or IDE, and whenever a save happens, a plugin for your editor/IDE, or a filesystem scan by the build system server, should activate a "quick build" using the list of changed files.

Of course, entr fills the niche where you want something to happen but don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a build system, so it had that going for it as well.

Disclaimer: I'm building such a build system. And now I wonder if I can design it such that it fulfills all of the roles entr does...
Companies will. We are in a new era.
I was surprised how hard it was to find nature documentaries that mostly showed nature and animals and not talking heads very concerned about the planet. I'm all aboard but it wasn't what I wanted to show my 1.5 year-old. I wanted her to see cool animals.

This was across a few platforms, had to really dig.
> the "use of it" is obvious, it's another protectionist tariff in a long, long line of protectionist tariffs

I’d be curious for contemporaneous accounts over someone a century later guessing what may or may not be obvious. Maybe a cabal of industrialists conspired. The Foreign Dredging Act does predate trustbusting. Or maybe there were military concerns. Not an issue in this particular case, but one can imagine outrage if e.g. China controlled the world’s dredging fleet and threatened to isolate America’s ports in retaliation for some Senator’s mean tweets about Xi.
> it still feels like a lot of shows/movies are a lot longer than they used to be when I was a kid

When I was a kid tv shows typically had 22 episodes per season. Flight Attendant wouldn’t have been made back then, but if it was it would have had much more filler. More likely it would have been about a flight attendant who is a secret CIA agent and defeats a different commie every episode.
His very great friend in Rome was called Biggus Dickus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrcbCW4y9Dw
>If necessary, many of these shortcomings can be offset by using the 3+ years you’ve saved to do an Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) at Georgia Tech (<$10,000).

Could someone elaborate on what this part means?
No, it is akin to a try with resources block:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions...
Housing can not be both affordable AND a good investment. It is currently being used as am investment.
You probably won't get something worthwhile for that money, alas. If you can get a secondhand behringer recreation of a classic synth at the right money, you might be close.

I've taught music technology for over 20 years, and getting a simple subtractive synth and playing with it is the best way to learn this kind of thing. The temptation is always to get something vast and massively complex (as the presets will sound amazing), but in terms of learning how to actually program a synth, a basic one is way better. Something like the Roland SH-101 (which behringer have made a copy of) will let you understand all the elements of it that you can then translate to the complex structures of larger synths.

I find cherry audio's voltage modular a great learning tool, if you take the right (basics first) approach - as it can get very complex very quickly otherwise!
Indeed, although I remember there used to be some commercial ones as well, from ads on The C/C++ Users' Journal and Dr. Dobbs.
Nope. See SG-4: https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.0-ps-20141009/fid....
> Yes, and in fact they were being closely tracked by the same private companies before the pandemic started and will continue to be closely tracked after the pandemic is over.

And their personal data has been, is being, and will be used for far less agreeable purposes than epidemiological research.

I don't understand the hysteria around 'Big Tech' when there are a million shady-as-fuck companies out there (SafeGraph et al., cell carriers selling location history, etc.) doing things that are so much worse wrt. personal data. I have to assume that the politicians making noise about 'Big Tech' are on the payroll, because otherwise---if they actually cared about their constituents' right to privacy---'Big Tech' would hardly be a blip on the radar.
> USA was inoculated for a very long time, because horizontal expansion over cheap land allowed for expansion of supply. That era is over.

True.

> Car and highway technology is no longer adequate to expand cheaply and still remain within viable commuting distance.

False. The US has mind-boggling amounts of land available. What's changed is the ability and desire to build on it. Used to be, the government would pay you (in land, anyway) to build a house. We gave railroads untold amounts of land to develop it.

These days, to build a house you pay the government for all manner of permits, studies, etc. -- and that's if they even let you build in the first place! Zoning laws prohibit new construction in overwhelming amounts of the country, especially in the most expensive areas. In NYC and SF, most existing buildings would be illegal to build under current zoning rules.

What makes building housing expensive is policy, not a lack of "cheap land".

I don't know if the same applies in Europe, perhaps not. In both Europe and the US land has long been the primary vehicle for intergenerational wealth transfer (think estates and productive land, not housing, though -- middle-class homeownership is an extremely recent phenomenon).
It's almost like when you give people basically free leverage (2% mortgage rates), they can buy houses for higher prices.
Sure, it doesn't remove all complexity. But I think it would result in a more intuitive interface all round.
Swedish sort of joke-sentence you get to learn in school:

"Far, får får får?"

"Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm."

English would be:

"Father, does sheep get sheep?"

"No, sheep does not get sheep, sheep gets lambs."

No, google translate does not make it unscathed through that sentence :-)
How do you know for sure it's isolated? Every phone has tons of blobs running in background and hardware itself is very much blackbox.
I have a similar story about a crazy hyperchristian scout leader from suburban SE Michigan in the 90s. I ended up getting de-facto kicked out for my atheism.
There are myriad fascinating documentaries that aren’t about hammering home a point of view about recent political or social issues. For a very accessible list of recommendations, check out this CineFix video:
https://youtu.be/0nisJRrsNmc
For someone who sort of justified a humiliating response to a mistake a few comments above, this seems really well done! Congratulations.
Please elaborate on why.
Great project.

AMPR has a lot of money thanks to selling a part of the AMPRnet /8 to Amazon, and it's fantastic to see this money actually going to projects (> 1M USD alone in 2022):

https://www.ampr.org/grants/

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/october/sale-of-amateu...
Exactly, Exactly the place where I'm living is behind
Doesn’t Rust place too many limits on what programs you can express to be a viable replacement for C? The premise of C is that you can more or less write any program. Not in the Turing complete sense that is always true, but in the sense that you can make any sequence of memory modifications and control flow decisions and the compiler will produce the corresponding machine code. With Rust, the compiler will only accept a subset of possible and safe programs, the subset that fit in the patterns that the Rust borrow checker can prove are safe.
I've gone and gotten a mid-career masters (or five). I went because I needed the self-validation. Terrible impostor syndrome.

I carefully evaluted every programme. I spent probably a year or two looking at different programmes, not through analysis paralysis, but because I was looking for programmes that had things that interested me and weren't either simply a shake-down for money or getting lost in proofs and theorems. I do better with project based work that builds up, rather than term papers and exams, which I am terrible at. I know myself, so I picked appopriately. My wife is the complete opposite.

My focus for picking a programme is always "show, don't tell" when it comes to "how do I demonstrate my knowledge in this subject." It is what works for me. Pick what works for you.

There are a lot of good master's programmes out there, but you really have to do your due diligence and not just rely on some website that screams "100 best online master's degrees!1!"

Look in to Open Classrooms, Thomas Edison, Structuralia, and several others just as a starting point. Don't get lost in the rigid academic weeds of North America. There's an entire world out there to explore.

It comes down to "are you looking for academic rigor that leads to more academic qualifcations later" or "are you looking for an education that will serve your professional needs." Most programmes are the former, and few are the latter.

I spent about $10,000 on my most expensive one. I spent 3K on my cheapest one. There was no difference between them in terms of what I got out of them.
My favorite variation of that is “a source familiar with X’s thinking”. Of course that is X.
I agree the most appropriate solution to this particular aspect of the problem is to replace the DA. The recall is actually scheduled for next month, but the city attorney initially sought these injunctions over 18 months ago. I was addressing what seemed like a point of confusion regarding the roles of the district attorney and city attorney, and providing some context regarding how things are playing out. I don't think any official in the city wants to bring back 1980's LA-style gang injunctions. But the district attorney is an elected, independent office whose policies are exacerbating an already extreme situation. He simply will not budge, and the mayor believes it would be counterproductive to use the city's purse strings to "punish" the office financially.

While Boudin can't be faulted for all the contributive policy problems, over 1300 people have died from drug overdoses over the past two years (his tenure began January 2020) and the rate is increasing. It's a humanitarian crisis with a legitimately astonishing body count which city hall is trying to get a handle on despite the Board of Supervisors' political paralysis and denial, and the District Attorney's counterproductive, ideologically extreme policies.

It's a rare, extreme situation where it's not hyperbole to say that practical matters of life-and-death are bumping up against abstract principles. And it should go without saying that it's not helpful to point out that "the city" (as an abstract entity) is reaping what it sowed. The city is slowly coming to that realization, and unwinding those horrible policies to the extent it can will take time, especially in the context of democratic governance, while in the meantime the body count is accelerating. In such situations it's not uncommon for the law to give some temporary allowance for dealing with exigent, extreme situations with clear outcomes that are undeniably horrible (i.e. it's not a matter of, say, racking up a monetary debt for bad finances, or losing a few prosecutions--we're talking daily deaths). And in that sense the strategy of seeking injunctions isn't as objectionable as it might seem on its face. We should be careful about applying a national policy lens on a very local matter. The folly and hubris of applying abstract, nationally-framed narratives to local matters is part of how city ended up in the situation it has.
If you compare person prison years, the U.S. is an extreme outlier. However, by prison admittances per year, we're actually not extreme at all, even compared to Europe. (Unsurprisingly by that metric we look alot like other Anglo countries, modulo crime rate.) IOW, what was extreme about the U.S. was the duration of jail sentences (i.e. severity), not the rate at which we used jail time for penal purposes. IOW, what was extreme about the U.S. was the duration of jail sentences (i.e. severity), not the rate at which we used jail time for penal purposes. That fallacious narrative is leading us down a perverse, equally extreme road--we're swinging from extreme amounts of jail time to no jail time.

Are you able to cite this? Per the World Prison Brief the US leads the way in incarceration rate, so I'm not sure how to square that with your claims.[1]

Per the World Prison Brief:

- The Highest in Europe on that chart is Turkey, at just over half of the US rate (368 vs 629 per 100k).

- It's not clear what "Anglo country" is referring to specifically but if we look at CANZUK for comparison, we can see the next highest rate of the entire group is Australia at 165. I'm not sure how that's comparable. You mention modulo Crime rate but for example Canada has more total crimes per 1000[2] than the US, just less violent crime. It's not as easy as an off the cuff answer because there are so many different cultural factors even between former British colonies in regards to laws that the data will generally skew wildly.

[1] https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_popul...

[2] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/Uni...
This is quite literally not true. Source: I have a film degree, took classes on documentary film.
I posted this elsewhere but here’s a nice video with a ton of documentary recommendations.
https://youtu.be/0nisJRrsNmc
Korg nts-1. Same audio processing of a minilogue in a raw pcb factor. you might need an external midi controller to fully unleash it's power but those are cheap, used.
No, that's not the universal case in the UK. My freehold gives me ownership of my house and the land on which it is built.

You're right that most of the value of the property is in the land and not the building though.
Its the Cantillon effect.

https://river.com/learn/terms/c/cantillon-effect/

Banks will loan some people billions at rates half of which they would give you, if they even gave you a loan. Thus they can buy everything for inflated prices.

We need to end the fed.
$god absolutely is not - modern profits [sic] are far from widely accepted, and the christian conservative south has traditionally considered black people to not be human, as a matter of god. That's part of the reason for all the burning crosses.

No amount of your nonsense will make forcing a medical procedure on someone, for profit no less, is wrong. I could also save peoples lives by harvesting organs from people, why should I not be able to require that life saving operation?
You don’t really own it. That’s just a legal construct. If you have to pay rent to the government (property taxes) to “keep” it then you don’t really own it
The key difference however being that finalization of an object is guaranteed when it falls out of scope, and not at the whims of when the garbage collector decides to run.

It would be a nonsensical idea to leave up to the garbage collector releasing an acquired lock on its own time. Such a situation could very easily cause a deadlock, as a program may be waiting on a lock that the garbage collector must release, but while the program is waiting on the lock, no additional garbage is being generated that might trigger a garbage collector run, nor is there any guarantee that even if that run does complete, that the objects you wanted finalized would be.
Pharo has provided images without GUI and IDE for a long time. They are just not a default download option.