skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> noise pollution levels.

except for that damn backup "beep beep". Yes, I know the arguments for safety, and few of them are based on studies which show safety improvements

esp vs other options, like backup cameras. Or if the beep only signaled if there was an obstruction behind the truck. That would be a great use for computer vision. Someone standing behind the truck (or even just something which might be a person)? Beep. Otherwise, keep quiet. An alarm which is false 10x more than it is true is not an alarm.
Our overconsumption of meat is idiotic, yes. Not sure what that has to do with the merits of crypto, sounds like whataboutism.
Do we really need to be coddled this much or is the NYT overreacting? Choosing to mess with and break the main feature of this game (everybody playing the same word) because of one US news story (which is still only speculation at this point) seems so extreme. On the other hand I can totally see Twitter going mad and this “triggering” people of both sides of the debate if it had been left as the answer.
Cryptee is an encrypted, secure photo storage service
Massively agree, this has been annoying me for a while now. I'm only renting and the need for everyone to know my address which i'll only reside for a couple of months is so pointless. Also the need for people to see some utility bill to verify that i'm there is problematic when they're all in my landlords name.
Ah! I see now! Yes, we should alternate the direction of the rowwise pass, or pick randomly, as you demonstrate. This would be a great step to start a next post with.
>Where, exactly, does the money to pay for their additional salary and jobs come from?

A group of billionares? Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy?

You're making the study's point by arguing that helping one group must be a zero sum game that harms another group, even when a hypothetical situation explicitly states otherwise. You just can't get it out of your head. That's how strong the bias is.

It really is the entire point of the study. Ironic.
Personalization work but companies tend to overfit which reduces the benefits of personalization.

Let’s forget the obvious demographics correlation with products and just start with an example.

Simply knowing that someone is active on HN, I wills bet ads on tech product and services would be more effective on them compared to a random person on the internet. The problem comes when the personalization gets too personal and stuck in the past, like how Amazon recommends another of the same product category after you bought one.
It doesn't matter what it costs the University to educate a person. The market dictates that the BU experience should cost exactly as much as it makes the BU experience just barely worthwhile, and almost not, for the increase in human capital in the enrollee.

The piece of paper that says BU is apparently worth about $320k, which isn't entirely unbelievable. I bet it costs BU a lot less, but since the market pays that much, it can spend it on whatever and call it overhead, because why the heck not.
I'm trying to imagine how you would quantify how marginalized someone is. Black Americans have challenges, women in America have challenges, Black Women in America have challenges that are unique from either Black Americans or women. (When people talk about intersectionality, this is what they mean.)

How does being queer interact with being from West Virginia, or being poor and and having celiac.

There's just too many factors, you cannot just calculate them all, because they are not independent variables.
I was highly contemplating adding a joke about the autoban to my comment. Didn't take long for someone to mention Germany lol. But even though it is enforced in Germany, it doesn't help that most people (including police) don't know that these laws are even on the books.
I've used bitcoin as a currency in 2011, and now people keep telling me I shouldn't have because all I got for 2-million USD equivalent BTC then was a video game.

What's the point of a currency that doesn't scale and that everyone is too afraid to spend because of volatility.

Speculative asset, that's all you'll ever have there.
That everything is so fucked that selective ignorance is the way to live an happy life :)
In Hinduism, there's a four stage journey through life that's prescribed. You have these duties to discharge in each stage (such as marrying off your children) and until they are done, you are not supposed to be aiming for the goals of the next stage. I feel that's slightly less selfish than what buddhism prescribes.

Siddhartha himself left his wife and infant baby to seek a solution to his problems. I've never heard direct criticism of this act but there's a beautiful song called Yasodhara Vilaapam that talks about the sorrow and shock that his wife goes through after he vanishes without any notice or explanation. Selfishness is deeply baked into a philosophy that above all values personal enlightenment, no?
You can certainly find those people in the crowd. I'd be wary of ever claiming that you couldn't find "literally anyone" who believes something.

The problem is that "antivax" means just about anything these days, from people who think vaccines cause autism to people who don't agree with vaccine mandates for Covid.

Funnily enough, Merriam-Webster infamously updated the definition recently to include people who oppose mandates: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

Though I think mentioning this subject on HN risks it going off the rails.
Implement CBDC with Bitcoin smart contracts?
Would it be feasible to implement central bank digital currencies using one of the smart contract layers being built on Bitcoin?

I just read about Joe Biden's executive order (which may be a statement somewhat exaggerated) on Bitcoin[1] which mentions USA CBDC, and I've seen talks about CBDC from other nations, but I'm not sure if they realize how difficult it would be to get this production ready.

I'm wondering if the most realistic solution would end up being implementing it using Bitcoin smart contracts, which most prominent platforms at this point is to my knowledge RGB and then Taro*. Any thoughts on this?

* Taro might catch up fast since it is backed by Lightning Labs

[1] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/president-bidens-executive-order-on-bitcoin
yeah it's the technical name for the intuitive sort order you need for a graph of dependencies.
> I hope the international community can start looking how we can preserve those forests and all the species that they have.

I fear the "international community" is more likely to be the one eager to exploit those forests.

Your best bet is with the indigenous people, assuming they haven't been already genocided or mestizoized.
> The average person causes far more harm and literally millions of times more pain and suffering through their dietary choices alone than crypto miners ever could. And we don't even get a trustless financial system out of it.

Yes, the feeding habits of 7 billions people produces more CO2 than a virtual casino that benefits... millions? How is that surprising, and how can you try to paint that as worse?

And even though we should do more to change dietary habits of people who can, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything else where we can until this is done. This is classic useless whataboutism.

Also, we don't get a trustless financial system out of cryptos. We get the utopia of one.

> Crypto miners are not even a drop in the ocean when it comes to the fucked-up things that humanity does.

Crypto miners use as much energy as Norway. It's responsible for 78 million tons of CO2 per year, as much as 15M cars. [1]

Yearly emissions for all of humanity is at around 36B tons of CO2. So mining is 1/500th of all our emissions.

Since one drop is 0.05mL, your "ocean" is about half of a shot glass, or 5 teaspoons.

Or, the other way around, if our emissions are all of our oceans, then mining emissions are 70% of the mediterranean. So much for "not even a drop".

[1] https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/pal...
Paths and Comments in Bash
You are correct, of course, but equality can be deployed the opposite way as well. The law that says "no sleeping under bridges" impacts different groups unequally.
This same sound shift is why the escalator says babI-car and not baby-car
Ah yes I remember stumbling on this years ago when I was digging on something. Thanks for the reminder!
And machine learning. And JavaScript/Python.

Things that win always do one of these:

- reduce complexity

- decrease friction

- improve results either qualitatively or quantitatively

SQL is not dead or dying by any means. Its just not the only kid on the block anymore.
Harvard, or other universities, are not too different from other corporations. Why would they offer to pay for something that their customers themselves would pay for? After all, a Harvard degree is quite valuable, and who's reaping the benefit of it?

They want to make as much money off their endowments (savings) as they can, and spend as little of it as possible on things that they don't need to pay for. Note that while the endowment is huge, actually a large part of it is restricted in what it can be used for, by "generous" donors who put conditions on their money, funnily enough. Turns out that they don't want the money spent on just sending kids to school, they rather want to see their name on art in museums, on professorships, and on department buildings.

Harvard to take an example, has an endowment of $53B, roughly (https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy21_harvard_fin...). Approx. 80% of that has donor restrictions on it and only $9B is useable freely for anything desired.

Last year, Harvard's operating costs were $5B (roughly). To pay for that (roughly):

-- $1B came from student tuition

-- $1B came from funded research grants

-- $2B was released from the endowment

-- $1B in gifts, royalties, licenses, other income

In a sense, $2B spent from such an endowment is not too different from what you would plan for your own retirement. Admittedly, Harvard Management Company (investment arm) earns much better than average though.

It's a choice by these universities, how big they want to be, the ambition of their educational goals, and to some extent, yes their power and influence. They are no different than many corporations.

If you want altruistic behavior and free tuition, well, you want a slightly different system.
It's still a well-paying job, and still necessary anywhere there's a complicated database and a lot of money riding on it working as expected. But most older DBAs haven't learned any new technology or even database technology from 10 years ago... many don't even know how migrations work. Being a DBA that actually understands software development would make you a keen asset at any shop depending on large-scale SQL databases (which is.... most large companies). Distributed databases would also be good to specialize in, but the market is smaller.
You might never create any actual variable, you point to access/ reference reads passed to other functions. Of course in python it's only syntactic sugar but bit by bit culture will evolve.
Interesting idea from the article: that Agile methods “compartmentalize features” and risk creating “an assembly line in which no one, at any point, takes full responsibility for what the team has created”.

The author meant responsibility for the product’s impact on society, I think, but it could also apply to responsibility for technical decisions.
I was worried it'd be about that Tesla Cybertruck but was pleasantly surprised as well. The added visibility is genuinely smart design that will, hopefully, save lives. Not sure how viable these could be for long hauls but if they're for city use only, I'm very excited.
Only those that I have immediate experience with do I trust to have the intention of being unbiased. Even then I would be hesitant to assign a label such as "likely correct" to such a complex topic, unless likely here just means > 50%.
And what about when you could read the content of that memory filled by some "masterpiece", and visualize the structure of memory areas and realize those thorny-branch shaped (addr, op, op'd) flows of code called each other as interconnected chunks, drawing an ideal engine aesthetically built like a form of art hidden behind the apparent one...
I'd like to know why "stay-at-home cowboy" isn't an option.
I think it is a good idea in some cases, but not for everything. Keeping the blog posts under the blog/ route doesn't seem like digital pollution to me.
> It does not target US citizens, so there isn't really any concern here.

Ah, sorry I didn't catch the Socratic Irony you were employing until you served up this meatball.

This is the part where the interlocutor points out "but the first time most of us even heard about the Disposition Matrix was when it was used against Anwar al-Alwaki -- a US citizen!"
NoSQL didn’t win thankfully, relational databases are still the dominant technology.
I believe HM was derived from structural and purely functional experience.
Yes. Not everywhere, not all the time, but a lot of logistic companies have their platform on the outskirt of major metropolis where the trucks are parked and emptied. Then delivery within the city is handle via van.
> It's best to think of them not as saving accounts but financial instruments.

I mean I get that (not that a bank isn't a financial instrument...) but to what ends? The example I gave is should be clear, because of the large wealth of money that is. $54bn is no laughing matter. Stanford has $30bn. These are sums that completely pay for the operating costs of the universities and students. On interest. If the point is to be like dividend investors, it does not appear (at least from what I'm seeing) that they are actually acting like someone with a goal to live off of dividends. There's more growth than that. Or there's something missing that I don't understand (more likely).
Yes, but the bar needn't be to find the "best" first step. We just need to find a sufficiently large first step.

This is standard triage procedure, we don't halt all treatment until we've sorted through every possible procedure the hospital could provide. Instead, we look for areas that need our attention now and try to get them at the front of the queue.

Triage staff aren't seeking the best, most optimal first patient. They are trying to identify problems that need our attention.
Yes it is a misunderstanding. "spiritual bypass" is not considered a positive term or a correct understanding of the dharma. It is a term used by those who believe in right living and is applied to those who have reached certain attainment but who do not maintain right living. At least that is my understanding of the term.
> Can we always iterate from back to front? (What if our particle was smoke?)

What's the answer to this? How do you mix smoke and sand?
I wasn't depressed but had low energy levels. I started taking 24,000 IU a day and within two weeks I had way more energy, constantly elevated mood and just felt happy overall. I recently lowered the dose to 12,000 IU per day. I did blood test before that and I had super low Vitamin D3 levels and I live quite far up north.
I'm aware of Powder Toy and Noita, both of which are excellent, any other developments in this space?
Some of the most dedicated software engineers I’ve ever met have been working on it (transition to PoS) intensely for 2 years now and I heard from their own mouths (physically, in person) week before last just how excited they are it’s wrapping up.

None of this work has happened in the dark. The regular cross-team meetings, constant stream of commits on GitHub, etc. are in the open for all to see.

Next phase will be sharding and splitting out data availability from consensus strictly speaking, exciting times!
It’s a hosted service, not open source. The “pods” that run are open source
I just wanted to let you know that what you are doing is appreciated. More than once while researching something, I've been made aware of the fact that individuals making copies, is the most important factor in written works being preserved. It's hard to say how well digital media is going to stack up against paper, but it seems self-evident to me, the more copies, in the more media, the better.
No, he's not joking. In Eastern Europe, salaries are quite small.
I often find articles that don't have the date at all, and the information turns out to be really out of date. Is hiding the date some kind of SEO trend?
> Is the cloudflared smart enough to route connections locally? Hm, not sure how that would work.

Do you mean have cloudflared expose your local server locally? No. It's just a reverse proxy of sorts between cloudflare's network and your local server.

What you want can be achieved with local DNS, so that nc.tra3.com resolves to <cloudflare-ip> from outside and to 192.168.1.2 from inside. But you should probably also have a local certificate for this to be fully transparent.
Prices have stalled for about a month for the midrange at least… might be vendors watching where eth goes (it’s been stuck between 2700and 3k) and the Hong Kong shutdown…
I think we could distinguish between 'selfishness' and 'self-centredness'.

Mediation helps you become self-centred, which to the outside observer may be labelled 'selfish'. But it is really just the state of deep compassion for all being and perhaps the realisation that all is well (and I don't need to get caught up in your drama)
Wow.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or just stand, staring blankly with mouth agape...
A CBDC does not need decentralization, and can be implemented using a side-chain similar to Liquid (without the federation). Of course, you probably don't want to leave control of the sidechain in the hands of one person or party, else they could rob an entire nation and disappear, so a multi-sig like Liquid should be used, with each elected official having a key to sign.

The CBDC idea is terrible anyway. The only people who want this are authoritarians who want to control how people spend, control the money supply and enrich themselves. There is no benefit to regular citizens in having a CBDC over what they can do with either bitcoin already, or can do with cash.

A nation should just stick with part cash, part electronic money, but should back its currency with bitcoin and gold, and stop pissing away its value with constant credit expansion. If there's any purpose in a CBDC, it should be that the citizens of a nation can audit the central bank. I can guarantee this is not what politicians have in mind when they talk about CBDCs.
Crux Linux distribution – keeping it simple
Why not danblo.ws?
And for vehicle size, you can choose between milli, kilo and mega.
Food chains are a natural occurrence. It's the default way and if your disagreement with that is a biological maladaptation. But if you're only vegan for health reasons, that's respectable.

There is no sufferosphere, the supposed suffering is intangible. These farm animals were born to eat, reproduce, and be eaten - they had no higher purpose, and without humans wouldn't exist in the first place.
If you like tmux, take a look at zellij (https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij), it is a modern alternative that has a lot of nice features (either developed, or on the roadmap) that tmux is missing.

Have no relationship to it, just a happy "customer".
The other downside of Bitcask is that it requires periodic compaction operations to avoid continuously increasing disk utilization. LSM trees and B+Trees do this work "on the fly".

I'm not sure how big a downside that is in practice, but it might be unfair to compare lmdb or rocksdb with bitcask if bitcask is never compacting.
Oh, this will be great for interactive environment setup. Getting started with some of our current projects is like summoning Cthulhu and I could see us using this to set up a guided process for it.

I can see the resemblance to Notebooks/RMarkdown, but integrating it into a terminal session is a neat idea. I've not had chance to try it (I'm on Windows) but it seems really cool.
I’d be shocked if even one is.

A political mechanism defined on paper does not mean anyone will ever invoke it.
Pizza Hut tweets may seem silly. They are not.
Whilst it may not strictly be fraud, another common usage of the word 'scam', is 'to deprive of by deceit'. If it's unethical, then it's likely misleading - a form of deceit. You don't necessarily need to meet some legal line for it to be a scam or not. It just needs to be misleading, and capable of causing harm.
My name’s Corlin and I own corl.in

I sign up for accounts with emails like apple@corl.in and that lets me easily filter and organize my inbox.

But when I have to tell some customer service rep my email they get very confused.
Perhaps it makes more sense to have a few big vans over one big truck, when it comes to manoeuvrability in small spaces. A big van is more manoeuvrable than a full-sized truck can ever be, even with multi-wheel steering - you still have a honking big box that can't bend.
You should never judge an article by where it was published (some exceptions of course), only in the quality of the work. Impact factors are loosely a measurement of significance of the work, in terms of how broadly applicable they are to the fields of science. It is absolutely not a strict measure of the expected quality of the article.

Also, for what it's worth, most of the articles referenced in the Harvard Medicine review referring to dosages are from before 2010, so they may be out of date.
Indeed, specific files such as empty files but also many one or two bytes files are very recurring in many software sources. In the next version, we will include the MISP-warninglists such as the empty-hashes lists https://github.com/MISP/misp-warninglists/blob/main/lists/em... to warn about potential common files.

The tool can also work with the Bloom filter provided by hashlookup when the request to the API are not possible.
Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security
Yeah I also use it daily. itš awesome
agree, about to say this...
I thought the walk was most beneficial in nature, but of course in a forest you don't get much sun exposure.
"To the request to name a single brand based on personalisation, music brands like Pandora and Spotify are built on personalisation."

As I read this article, this meaning of "personalisation" is not the one used by the authors.

Tech companies like Spotify and Pandora are just intermediaries. They may help to "deliver" commercial product, or advertising, however they do not create the product referred to in this article. The article uses the term "personalised creative" to refer to product. Tech companies operate as middlemen and produce no content. They are dependent on others to produce it. This is the bait for computer users. Tech companies sell advertising services to companies that produce content.

Tech companies gather data about individual computer users, e.g., web browsing histories. This is "personal" data. Tech companies allege this makes it especially effective and therefore valuable. The studies cited in the article suggest this is claim is false.

Disney produces content. There is no shortage of personal data being collected and sold by tech companies which is available to Disney. The article highlights that, despite the availability of personal data collected by tech companies, Disney generally does not produce "personalised creative".

In sum, the article is not about what "tech" companies do, it is about what content producers do. More specifically, it is about whether, based on available research, producers of creative should or should not attempt to use personal data about computer users collected by third parties in order to produce "personalised creative".
No fan of the NYT. (or abortion) but I applaud this move on the grounds that the word is actually foetus no matter who says otherwise.
Interesting, thank you for replying!