skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm curious what is your background to have this crazy to me ideas.
> Are you from some BRICS country?

Italian, living in France, nephew of WWII Partisans who have trained me recognizing propaganda, nazi-fascists and who pay them. At the WWII end CLN Alta Italia (general command of Italian Resistance) knowing very well that so called "allies" are just mostly other nazis have proposed to remain on mountains stating clear "UK back off Italy or we will be at war and you can't sustain two fronts", unfortunately USA with the south Italian mafia's and UK with the north and center fascists manage a well done propaganda convincing most to lay down weapons, however those Partisans know where the country will go and we now know they where really right.

New nazis dress suite&tie and talk in English, against British and Americans people of course, as the old one. They call themselves "world government" (try looking for that and new adolf hitler, now named klaus schwab, will pops up, he is the head of WEF in case you do not know) and have the same criminal plans. They choose a new enemy, instead of Jews the prefer Russians and viruses, while they real enemy is always the same: acculturated peoples who go obviously against them.

For Poland: surely Soviet's have done bad things there, and perhaps you do not know how they grab power in Russia, try looking for history and you'll discover that Lenin made a coup against the Mensheviks, the "real" socialist who have made the October revolution, thanks to Kaiser money in exchange to stop the war against them, the stalin have done the rest thanks to absolute power and UK crown money. However even stalin have choose hitler not the west because hitler have made concrete proposal to Soviets while UK have not sending powerless ambassadors with vague and constantly changed proposals. So Soviet choice was NOT criminal but logical. And I add just to keep going with history that years later France M. Petain, now appointed as a fascist traitor have had done a similarly logical choice: between UK crown criminals and the nazi the latter was better for France and yes, as a Socialist, one with a red flag, nephew of Partisans with a red flag I'm pretty convinced that at that time in France I would have been with Petain.

The above long part only to say how history is written by the winner who do their best to betray memory for their own interests.

Anyway thanks the CIA for having revived religious extremists in Poland that bring back human rights far worse that at Soviet time and made people, comparing the actual global conditions, poorer that under the Soviet.
Facebook lost 25% of its stock price in February from the announcement that it had lost 500K daily users out of 1.93 billion. That's 0.025%.
As always: Newegg link or it didn't happen :)
I agree. Indeed, conspicuous consumption is often about showing off that you own things that are scarce (the more scarce, the better) and non-scarce items have little value in this context.
A Man Who Controls Computers with His Mind
You actually remove the possibility of accountability if you are drawing the maps so that a party that behaves badly still has a 50% chance of winning.
But if the laptop is currently connected to a WiFi network with a known location, what's the point of scanning for networks to locate it? You already know that you're within range of a known spot.
MakerBot and Ultimaker Agree to Merge
Painful as it is, this is still just a correction. Reverting to more realistic valuations after a period of hyper growth and reckless speculation can hurt but it’s not the end.
I was using xsv a lot at work (it is so much faster than csvkit) but I've recently jumped to qsv, a fork with more features.

https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv
“Old Enough!” is a cute, amusing, and quite surprising show. It follows 3 and 4 year olds as they run their first errand for their parents. The kids are generally clueless about the cameras, and they’re wired with a microphone. They are usually sent on a surprisingly long journey, although along a familiar route, involving several tasks. FWIW, we’re childless & in our fifties, and really enjoyed the season.
>Was the cat checked for diabetes?

>Excessively drinking water, excessive urination, and renal failure are all co-morbidities for cats. Either way, kudos for helping them.

Those particular symptoms are common (in cats at least) to feline hyperthyroidism, which is significantly more common than feline diabetes.

Not saying it wasn't Diabetes, but Hyperthyroidism seems more likely.
You're 100% correct.

They shut down Vine. TikTok is now a billion dollar industry.

As far as I'm concerned, every product manager involved in that decision shouldn't be involved with Twitter anymore, because they display an astonishingly level of incompetence.
Note that for single resources, Chrome/Edge can do this now. There's a semi-hidden "copy this resource as Curl" option:

https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/copyas#:~:text=From%20....

When it works, it's effing magic! Spectacular for very quickly knocking out Bash scripts that test multiple APIs.
To some degree perhaps aggravated by people having less kids, therefore the kids they do have are extremely valuable to them, driving demands that the world be nerfed up.
Not in blackjack, you're playing against the house.
I first got involved in text classification in the early 00's and then the best you could do was "bag of word" models that counted the words in a document but didn't take the order of words into account.

This works great if you asking a question "Is this paper about astrophysics?" because the vocabulary used in a document is closely linked to the topic.

Pretty obviously though if you scramble the words in the document you can't reconstruct the original document, some information is lost, and there are some classification tasks that will reach an upper limit (asymptote) in accuracy because in taking the feature set you lost something. (If the task is "did the defendant commit the crime" the heuristic "Tyrone is a thug" works over bag-of-words, but there is no justice in that.) If that system is able to get the right answer for a case where the word order matters, it just got lucky.

You might think "wouldn't it be better to use pairs of words?" but then you run into another problem. You might have a vocabulary of 2,000-20,000 words and get a somewhat useful sample of all of those in a few thousand documents. The number of word pairs is the square of the number of words and you just can't get enough training samples to sample all the possible word pairs.

Sentiment analysis was an early area where bag-of-words broke down because

I am happy

and

I am not happy

mean very different things. You'd think now that adjectives like "happy" really are special and so is the word "not" and we could make the system somehow realize that "not X" means the opposite of X. You run into an asymptote situation there because there are a huge number of possible negation patterns, for instance you can say

I can't say that I am happy

and you can't even say "the negation structure has to be within ten words of the adjective" because there is no limit for how complex nested structures can get in language. The first few patterns you add "not X" raise the performance potential of the system a lot but patterns you add after that each make a smaller and smaller contribution to the performance and you again reach an asymptote.

Today we have all kinds of embeddings and they are a step forward but they also run into the risk of throwing critical information away, and in a multi-step system you are doomed if an early step does that. I've walked away from some projects where people required high accuracy and they were stuck on using word embeddings that would never attain it. You can think about information loss in embeddings the same way as you do with simpler features except it is a lot more complicated and a lot of people look away instead of confronting the problem.
I'm working towards building the best possible experience for hosting multiple sites on a single machine at a fixed price at https://acrobox.io. Abstracting Docker didn't make the cut for my MVP but it may be the right fit for some of the commenters here.
AFAIK, the Iraq invasion had nothing to do with NATO.
It was done by the US with some NATO (and non-NATO) countries joining it.
For example, France was strongly opposed.
"better experience" only if you aren't doing something latency-sensitive, like a video call.
> I… don’t really see how Buffet’s purchases in ‘98 bear on the discussion at hand? You can read his 2011 investor note and see what his definition is about. I don’t know if he classified silver as productive or unproductive at that time.

It's relevant because Buffett is prone to talking his book, and while he does walk the talk about fundamentals/cashflow in general, he almost certainly did not make these comments out of some deeply-held principle (he obviously would not have said these things in 1998). He is not actually the kindly grandpa image he is careful to cultivate and his comments are usually calculated. The context in 2011 was discomfort with the new QE policies and concerns about inflation. Buffett was not really concerned with "greater fool" assets in a moral sense so much as convincing his investors that (1) sitting around and hoping for gold to act as an inflation hedge (2) in the case inflation actually manifested was plainly inferior to just owning cashflows that would scale with the value of the dollar anyway.

(He was right, obviously)

> So for $1B of transactions in a year you might only need $1M of currency

I think that's an insane estimate. That's a money velocity of around 300. The US dollar typically has a velocity between 1 and 2. Nor is $1B in transactions anywhere near the reality for dark web activity.

Still, I tend to agree that illegal use cases limited to just ransomware and buying and selling drugs online, while not necessarily a "small" scope of activity, would probably support a fair price only in the hundreds of dollars.

But it's honestly probably graduated to more utility as a potent money laundering tool now that it is broadly recognized and in some ways "legit" in the eyes of regulators. It's just so easy for someone with dirty cash to buy coins and claim they mined them in 2010 and just now discovered the dusty old drive in a desk drawer. It's next to impossible to disprove or prosecute, and best of all it means you only pay capital gains (as opposed to ordinary income, which would be the case for money washed through a cash business). I don't doubt that kind of activity supports a price in the thousands, at a minimum... the UN estimates 2-5% of global GDP is laundered money.

As someone else observed in this thread, the main "value creation" of the fine art market is similarly money laundering and tax avoidance, which is the primary driver behind the facially ridiculous payouts for individual works at auction rather than "artistic passion" or whatever.

What is interesting about all this, though, is that if the speculative value evaporated such that the illegal activity was all that supported bitcoin, it would seem almost certain that regulators would bring down the hammer (at least to the extent that it would not be useful for laundering money anymore), which makes the "intrinsic value" kind of hazy in an ultra-bearish scenario.

Not that I think the speculative value is likely to evaporate entirely... this isn't the first crypto winter by any means, and historically speaking it's right on time (halfway between block halvings).
How about "pornography is OK but only if you're $RACE?"

The issue at issue isn't "can they moderate content" but "should content moderation be applied equally"
(M|P)aternity leave cannot ever make you immune from being let go. That would be insane. People are let go all of the time without any warning or cause. Especially executives.
Does Kendrick Lamar Run Afoul of Copyright Law by Using Deepfakes in New Video?
This have happened since 12.3.1 at the office for me (not at home though). Hope this resolves it.
I'd seen this one before but not the Djesus Uncrossed [0] one they mention here.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqISX2o0a4A
Also wondering - if I'm using several dynamic libs (.so/.dylib/.dll) is there a way to recompile them (given sources) and re-export their symbols from the what would be the main binary - this way producing single binary with exports, that still (through ctypes, cffi, etc. can lookup symbols)?
Fascinating... dare I ask, is that a hobby? A very unusual job?
I was going to say.... HN is full of politics. Not always the Red vs Blue kind, but there's political discussions constantly. At any given time several front page stories are explicitly political, and several more are implicitly political (e.g. cryptocurrency).
Exactly! Bitcoin incentive to NOT make it viable.

Instead of putting a Powerline there or building a smelter or something else, Bitcoin is easier and makes more money quicker.

This is not a good thing right now this is still bad. And as soon as you have Bitcoin mining there, no one wants to underutilize it because it is inefficient. Now your miner is motivated to run even more and get more money

Do you really believe a Bitcoin miner would accept being shut down for most of the day? Nope.
put it this way - would you have rather walked around with the IBM Simon in your pocket, or the original iPhone?
Skype fires executives, avoiding payouts after Microsoft buyout (2011)
Any reason they picked this specific plant?
Considering it forbids making interest, that would be a seismic shift, although it is interesting and worth looking into. Wikipedia makes it sound like Muslim countries are having difficulties sticking with the 'no interest' premise, though:

"Islamic banking and finance — the industry built around avoiding interest and other financial practices found in violation of sharia (Islamic law) — has been both praised and criticized by observers.

The industry has been praised for turning a "theory" into an industry that has grown to about $2 trillion in size; for attracting banking users whose religious objections have kept them away from conventional banking services, drawing non-Muslim bankers into the field, and (according to other supporters) introducing a more stable, less risky form of finance.

However, the industry has also been criticized for ignoring its "basic philosophy" and moved in the wrong direction over the decades — leading both outsiders and rank and file Muslims to question it. This has happened first by the sidelining the original finance method advocated by promoters — risk-sharing finance — in favor of fixed-markup finance of purchases (particularly murabaha), and then by distorting the rules of that fixed-markup murabaha, effectively delivering conventional cash interest loans following conventional interest rates, but disguised with "ruses and subterfuges" and burdened with "higher costs, bigger risks".

Other issues/complaints raised include a lack of effort by the industry to help small traders and the poor; the question of how to deal with inflation, late payments, the lack of hedging of currencies and rates or sharia-compliant places to park short term funds for liquidity; the non-Muslim ownership of much of Islamic banking, and the concentration of what ownership is in Muslim hands."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenges_in_Islamic_finance
It is worse for Earth plants due to long term exposure to solar radiation and direct meteorite impacts. Article states that Iron in the moon soil is Fe2, while on Earth it present as Fe3. Another major difference-is silicates and glass composition on the moon. Those are formed by micro meteorite impacts and very different from earth volcano samples.

So plants in moon soil had to adapt a lot more then expected. Also difference between actual moon soil and Earth's moon soil replacement for labs is clearly visible.
Etymologists aren't particularly good at fixing bugs, though they'll happily tell you the history of the word "bug".
Why do you use RIs and not sign orgs up for savings plans?

I know RIs are still supported though I'd heard they're intended to be deprecated by SPs (my source could be wrong)
This analysis shows again that it is difficult to roll a custom cryptographic algorithm and also that the level of security of a solution does not depend on the number of encryptions performed.

From the article
This is the only reason to study STV, to look at the interesting patterns. Likewise, I'm fascinated by a knowledge-graph pattern (I'm not sure if it has a name) where we use something like k-means clustering to discover less popular candidates who belong to the same cluster of voters who voted for the top candidate. I think the results would deliver good government, in that it would surface the maximum number of non-extremist ideas. But I think the math is too complicated for most people to follow, and so I think it would lack legitimacy. So I don't bother recommending it, except as a thought experiment regarding alternate systems.
Which would you choose now in retrospect?
You're thinking firing for cause. These two were probably told that they would no longer run their divisions, here's a nice severance package if you want to leave. What are they gonna do, stick around in a lower role?
This is some good irony right here!

Aside from the fact that there can be nothing more 'accurate' in fiction than the Author's own words ... the 'Philosopher's Stone' has mythological reference that 'Sorcerer's Stone' obviously doesn't.

And using American words for 'the toilet' that the characters may not have used themselves, is not 'more accurate'.

And it mostly has little to do with intelligence.

As a reminder to everyone - America is a very big place, with a lot of different people, often with different roots, migration status etc..

It's feasible kids from New England would adapt to the English version without any fuss, but beyond that, a lot of this vernacular would just be 'very foreign'. We're talking about kids with limited vocabulary to start with, not the guy with an 'English Accent' in the documentary.
Up to. What about down ? They stay for a month at 1Hz and then jump for 10ms to 5.4 GHz. Really impressive.

Cache 2+3 128 MB. Really impressive.
I thought gulf war syndrome was understood to be a ruse to get money from the VA... Maybe there's a kernel of truth here but that's what it became due to people abusing the system.
I find it interesting that you have not put any kind of limit on how much can be spent to operate this AI.

Or on what kinds of resources it would have access to.

Could it, for instance, take its salary, and pay another human to do all or part of the job? [1]

Or how about pay humans to answer questions for it? [2] [3] Helping it understand its assignments, by breaking them down into simpler explanations? Helping it implement a few tricky sub-problems?

Does it have to make more than its total operational expenses, or could I spend ten or hundreds as much as its salary, to afford the compute resources to implement it?

You also haven't indicated how many attempts I could make, per success. Could I, for instance, make tens of thousands of attempts, and if one holds down a job for a year, is that a success?

Also, just to talk about this a little bit, I'll remind you that not all jobs require getting hired. Some people are entrepreneurs. Here's an example that should be pretty interesting. [4] It sure sounds like an AI could win at online poker, which could earn it more than the fully remote job you're envisioning...

[1] : https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579...

[2] : https://www.fiverr.com/

[3] : https://www.mturk.com/

[4] : https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190711141343.h....
Me too. I finally settled on disabling it, but having it trigger with a keyboard shortcut.
If it 'can be done', why hasn't it taken off? How is this better than a typical crypto wallet other than 'blockchain'?

> https://pgpkeygen.com/

Usability failure.

> There is no recovery mechanism, the same thing happens to your NFTs if you lose your private key.

The difference is the private key file. With a crypto-wallet it is one less thing to worry about, unlike managing PGP keys. Private key file lost? You lose. Private key password lost? You still lose. Computer stolen with your PGP keys? You completely lose.

With a crypto-wallet all you need is your seed-phrase and that is it. Even if your computer is stolen you can recover it with the seed-phrase anywhere in the world.

> Why should I trust the free TSA?

> NFTers still have to trust NFT websites. NFT usually stores a URL of an image hosted by some websites. They are free to remove/update the image afterwards.

Depends on the NFT, like a blockchain domain name as that is fully stored on the blockchain and is trusted, even better if they are stored on a multi-sig wallet.

So in conclusion, it may be done; but perhaps it would fail to take off due to usability issues.
I would go with “map”
I don't disagree, but it is worth noting that those planned systems didn't become nearly as ubiquitous as was envisioned (and assumed) for them.

There other planned systems like those: The seven layer model, x500, SOAP, WSDL, etc.
Thank you, so much =)
> I'm honestly curious, how did/are bitcoiners using BTC and crypto tech to help people in these regions? What's the methodology? And also for actually spending/using the coins.

Start here [0], this discusses BTC involvement in the Maidan Revolution, and then the come back alive campaign with the Azov in the Donbas region in 2014, and then touches on the Government backed initiative by the Ukrainian Ministry of digital reform in '22. Ultimately, the Zelensky government backed the creation of United24 with BTC at it's core.

It's worth doing your own research, I can assure you it's really worth your time to see how effective open source technology can boot-strap itself so quickly in conflict zones. Ultimately, it's a testament of Human ingenuity and perseverance in some of the most daunting situations.

> Also, from your wider comment, by the way you phrased it, I can't quite tell who you're saying is shelling ethnically Russian men, women and children in these areas a crime against humanity, the Ukrainian military or the Russians?

Sorry?

Even if you were completely lost by what I wrote, are you seriously not aware of what is happening in Crimea, Kharkiv, Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol? It's Russians killing other Ethnic Russians on the Eastern and Southern parts of Ukraine; then turning around and saying it's Ukrainians killing their own citizens as we see Russian soldiers shell, loot, steal, rape, murder all over Ukraine without any hesitation or regard for Human life.

0: https://www.elliptic.co/blog/ukrainians-turn-to-bitcoin-to-c...
It might be basically the same process as today but with several big new ideas (some of which might seem simple in retrospect...)

The quality of the training set is also critical, more so than the quantity. Some of these clever ideas for creating a lot of training data without any work, such as "guess the next word" can't really capture semantics.

I think it really takes multi-task training, like what the article we are talking about is advocating. That forces the upstream part of the network to learn features that capture important semantics.
Every once in a while I like to remind myself that some of the rich, successful people out there are richer than what they should be, and they are at the expense of others.

I am not too familiar with the specific case described here, but I am very familiar with a few examples where something like this happened, and some other examples are so well known that they became public knowledge (e.g. Steve Jobs literally stealing from Steve Wozniak when he was at Atari).
I think he just recognizes that Trump is a money-printing machine for Twitter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ziglang.org
Thanks for keeping an eye on things dang.