skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of particular interest to me is the accessibility plugin, which lets Unity game developers make their games accessible with iOS features such as VoiceOver and Switch Access.
Help me understand this...

It says it will support prefix search, substring search, and the like. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what the algorithm may be here? I don't get how you could do those things without making the encryption less secure and/or decrypting every record the fly.

Another interesting use case I found that isn't mentioned here is sort. I've had customers ask me to be able to sort the results by PII and we tell them... no, we can't do that because the field is encrypted.
Sure we are, if they don't conform to the spec then they can't get a CE mark; which then means it can't be sold in the EU and the device misses out on a 350~400M person market.
In other words: no, you can't make certain kinds of innovations without begging permission first.
Reminds me of one of my favorite drawing books as a kid. [Ed emberly's - Make a World](https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Emberleys-Drawing-Book-World/dp/03...)
Yes this.

https://www.darksky.org/
No, after expiration of the note the wire does not need to claim funds from the note. Only the user key is required.

If we as the manufacturer are perfectly untrustworthy, this is the final "backup" state. If we the manufacturer are partially trustworthy at any point in time, you can re-key the note then. In no case can we claim funds from the note ourselves.
I'm not really sure why people opine about not using the gold standard.

Especially crypo-enthusiasts or even libertarians (I consider my self tangent to both these groups).

Gold is terrible for the following reasons.

* Supply is unknown so your market cap value is volatile to any sudden prospected windfall. This one is ESPECIALLY bad if you are a central government. Why would a central bank want to be beholden (with respect to purchasing power) to some random gold find that devalues the currency unexpectedly? (see wiki article about Mansa Musa who just went around destroying local economies because he just literally threw his gold around.)

* Gold is not very divisible, in that there are real costs to trying to divide the mint.

* Gold comes with high storage/security costs (especially if it is your currency back).

* Gold isn't really that transferable, the stuff is a pain in the ass to actually move around.

Gold has two things going for it.

1. It has manufacturing uses that provide real world value

2. Through out time people have a perception that it should have value. This perception spans across cultures and geography.
Technically git is distributed version control and should be workable even if GitHub is down. You could fetch from your coworkers directly even for instance. We’ve really fallen a long way if GitHub is a single point of failure.
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Replace the statement with “I don’t want my currency’s value to be controlled by a central authority” and you’ll get >0 people.
France tried to limit work week to 35 hours thinking that all hours are equal and it would lead to reduced productivity and a need to hire more workers. It failed to have the intended effect except for factory workers. We are starting to have plenty of signals saying that 4 day work week is good for morale, happiness and not at all detrimental to productivity.
3G/4G/5G isn't a good example. Standards evolve, but the issue many people have is that this isn't a standard, but a mandate to use said standard. So people are concerned that the USB Consortium will come up with a USB-D, but new devices won't be able to use it until the EU updates their law.
"yesterday's news" - haha. always towing the Moscow line, aren't ya Vik?

Go back to Russia (Polagaya, chto tak ne svjazan v Glavset, kak horoshij pes, kotoryj ty est'.)
Stupid move by Germany, giving even more money to the US corporations. In fact, the EU as a whole is presently doing just that, those Next Generation EU funds will, for a great part, find their place in the coffers of the big US tech companies.

It goes like this: EU gives billions of dollars to EU national governments but with many strings attached -> an important part of those strings is related to digitisation -> the EU national governments redirect the money they received from Brussels to digitisation implementations -> US tech companies get even more wealthy, as there's almost no local European competitor that can compete when it comes to the cloud, hardware and even software (just think of all the EU funds that will go almost directly to paying Oracle licenses).

Similar thing happens with re-directing EU money into China's coffers, as most of the EV batteries are now produced in China and there's a big push at the EU level for us, EU, citizens, to purchase EVs.
So educated people who are good at math and don’t have a lot of disposable income tend not to be fooled by games of chance. Who would have guessed?
This is a bit off-topic, but I'm curious about what other think here.

I like the aesthetic of US cash. I find it elegant and pleasing. It was better before they made all the heads huge, but I have learned to live with it.

I cannot stand the off-sized, party-coloured money in Europe. I don't like how it feels in my hand, and I don't like how it looks, at all.

I suspect that I am in a very small minority!
Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex
I used to believe that but have started to serious doubt it. Some counter-arguments:

1. It's reasoning a'la "It's economically inefficient therefore it's less likely to happen". In my opinions, governments are absolute experts in implementing economically nonsensical policies, international conflicts included.

2. Any link between nations can be weaponized, i.e. imposing tariffs, banning imports/exports, and so on. The greater your dependency on me the more ways I have to harm you.

3. Such weaponization will naturally harm your own citizens but you, as a decision maker, will bear very little cost.

4. The easier it is for me to replace you with an alternative the more likely I am to use that against you -- this is classic BATNA. You don't like my export quota? So what, I've got more interest than I can handle and you can build your batteries without lithium if you don't like that.
It is only my claim that their interests are not completely aligned. US is much more energy independent and gepolitically secure across the ocean from whatever happens on the "world-island" [0].

Whereas Europe might directly suffer from instability and chaos, as well as loss of Russian energy supplies, the US would not and in relative terms becomes stronger if Europe is severed from Russian energy, and the continent is in conflict and chaos.

Europe having tight relations with Russia, economically especially energy-wise, is greatly beneficial to Europe and detrimental to US hegemony.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Hist...
Perhaps a better way to ask the question is:

If you had to choose between DB system A and DB system B which were functionally equivalent and the only difference between them is that system A required you to create and maintain indexes to get the same level of performance as system B does without needing this step; how important would that feature be to you when making the decision?

For me, I would choose system B over system A every day of the week and twice on Sunday. But if everyone else just says 'Meh' to that characteristic, then I don't want to spend much time promoting it. My system has a bunch of other features that I think are really good too, so if that is the case I would rather just focus on promoting them instead.
Oh my god that car prank you linked was incredible.
Joy is beautiful to work with in that it's _just_ enough. The scaffolding is great, the CLI is handy, and the API is very agreeable. Joy is (almost) enough incentive to start a project with Janet (like Rails for Ruby) even if I didn't have other plans to do so. Janet is also very nice as an aside, I just personally don't care for lisps syntactically.
> By definition it is now harder to innovate on charging cables simply because you can’t try something new.

Sure you can, because you have to support the standard but Apple could invent HyperSuperCoolRoundedCornerCharger and put it as an alternative, if it charges hyper super faster then the standard the customers will prefer it and buy the super expensive platinum Apple Genuine DRM protected charger and Apple makes money, customers are happy and if Apple wants to drop the standard USB they can just standardize their cool shit and it will become the new standard.
> … in Smalltalk there is no source code.

Good? Bad? Unimportant?

> … method is the basic unit…

Are there method definitions outside the context of a class?

> … not the language's grammar.

GNU Smalltalk?
Hiccup syntax for HTML is such a joy to use. It maps perfectly onto HTML, it is a breeze to write, and I haven't encountered anything yet that it can't express. It is one of my favorite parts of Lisp.
There are several companies doing photonic computing (some with commercially available or soon-to-be-available chips). Unfortunately, it's currently all for naught, as existing available silicon hardware accelerators can currently do the computation faster than anyone can stream the data into the chip. The more interesting problem is data movement, as usual.
I lived in California, near San Francisco. Not everything is California is terrible, but everything to do with SF DA is. SF got really really terrible - and it wasn't like that a decade ago. There are many opinions why that happened but I think "progressive" social engineering experimentation played a large role. I mean, if you decriminalize theft, you get a lot of theft. Who could have thought?
Agree and I believe I called it an effective monopoly following that quote.

But, it's simply not regulated today. You'd have a hard time proving they are pricing in this way as a means to hold the monopoly. They could point to their margins and say, "plenty of room for competition" but meanwhile you can't force other manufacturers to ramp up production without even fatter margins. They'd need margin + market share to break even.

It usually only when the market is very large, manufacturing is not complex, or when the original manufacturer is still charging a lot for generic (sometimes only a bit lower than Brand). That another manufacturer will ramp up production. Often times, even manufacturing a generic drug requires steep initial investment and can be risky.

Even for generics with multiple manufactures, "multiple" might be only a handful. When you compare that fact, to the pricing trends they follow, it then is an effective oligopoly. And while I don't believe it to be the case, the pricing trends I've seen sure do look like collusion. My experience is it's more like an indirect collusion, where company A employs folks that have worked for competitors A, B, and C. So when they hear "through the grapevine" that company B is going to increase prices 10% next quarter, suddenly everyone is increasing prices 10% next quarter (give or take). [This I've witnessed myself a number of times]
It seems kind of complicated to me, but i guess its a niche novelty paper wallet (as opposed to using a paper napkin with your seed phrase).

having the "cash" part might be a bit confusing too.
Grew up in Southeast Virginia in the 60's. Fireflies galore. June bugs also. Not anymore - haven't seen them in 40 years. Seems to me it coincided with aerial spraying for mosquitos in the area. There are still plenty of mosquitos however:)
Bitcoin's price has fluctuated because of the same market dynamics that play out everywhere.

Most people are panicky and hair-triggered, very few are patient. Especially with a new technology that has the potential to make outsized returns early on, of course, you're going to get a lot of gamblers entering and exiting the market.

This is why you see dips when headlines like "China bans mining!" or "Crypto is doomed, look at Luna!" are printed. It conflates things and uses people's ignorance against them (not unlike traditional financial markets/instruments).
Yeah. Op: fix this. I am trying to use your stuff...
Waymo is teaming up with Uber on autonomous trucking
Human rights is more than just political rights or speech. Hundreds of millions of Chinese lifted out of poverty is a huge win for human rights. When you're poor, you're not free. Having grown up with dirty streets and beggars, you can't possibly imagine how big a deal it is for me to see my hometown transforming into a modern metropolis, and how my grandparents-in-law (in a different city, in a rural area) finaly have... Wait for it... A fscking toilet instead of a hole in the ground, as well as free health insurance. To me and millions of Chinese, these matters much more than being able to vote for the president.

A recent study by the Democracy Perception Index shows that Chinese feel that their country is democratic. But this is ludicrous, how can this be? It's because Chinese define democracy by whether they believe their government works for their interest and whether they yield good results, not by how their government is elected. It's not just propaganda; this result is consistent with earlier studies by Harvard and York University, as well as by my own experience on the ground.

https://latana.com/democracy-perception-index/

The concept of 民主 is much more in line with the 19th century definition of democracy, when the concept was brought to China. It was only in the latter half of the 20th century that (in the west) democracy became synonymous with electorialism.

So, not commenting on any other countries. But in case of China, Chinese view democracy and human rights differently. I think we should let them.
But the feedback is heavily non-trivial. A tiny chance of a huge punishment deters significantly less than a huge chance of a tiny punishment.
Looking at the examples, the step between the last and the second to last of a series is much larger than the other steps. For example the butterfly.
You can and should have both. It's a form of defense at depth.

The theory of comparative advantage (David Ricardo) means it's worth specializing. But the counter argument (local resiliency) is also important -- but it may mean less efficiency in the short run, as a kind of investment against risk.

All that is fine, but it opens up the opportunity for short-sighted decisions (basically a mercantilist view that exports = good and imports = bad) like tariffs to protect local mfrs (which removes incentives for them to be efficient).

In short, like everything in life, there's not a sharp decision.
I’d say businesses that already spend $$$ on a 3rd party TTS service and know how expensive it is or have content but haven’t pulled the trigger due to the prohibitive cost. I wrote this on the Product Hunt page:
> “… read aloud apps (e.g. Pocket, Speechify, etc), UGC platforms (e.g. Medium, SubStack, etc), publications (e.g. Bloomberg, NY Times, etc), and e-learning platforms (e.g. Duolingo, Pearson, etc). We’re also interested in providing discounts to non-profits (e.g. Wikipedia, etc)”
> What about expelling a foreign occupying force? If the germans cared about national security, shouldn't they be looking in that first?

*looks over at Ukraine*

Yes, I'm sure the Germans are eager to expel American troops right now.
How does this compare to Loomis books?
references : cost of doing business; front-running; political nepotism; private equity; regulatory capture; machine-goes-brrrr
What would be the different effects on the human body of drinking 10g vs 100g vs 1000g (ml) of platinum or gallium?
Then you could ask how many people can easily detect fake bills?

But either way, checks aren't credit even if you say it is...
Azerbaijan and Armenia: How light cascades through two ex-Soviet republics
MAGA republicans.
Naturally all roles are different in this regard, however I don't miss rush hour, constant interruptions, and noisy environments. This all happened because everyone was going into the office at the same time. I don't get why companies like to create these types of bottlenecks by making everyone do the same thing at the same time.
I went to jail. When I got out, of the thousands of online accounts I had created over the previous 20 years I could only get back into about 3 of them.

I'm probably about to return to jail, and now everything is MFA, so I have no idea how to set this up so that my friends and family can get into my accounts. My phone will be dead within weeks, so I'm going to lose my number, which is a primary factor in many logins.
See also: "Please, enough with the dead butterflies": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948008
I think, declaring dividend is linked to their earnings report. For ex. last ER was on 4/28 and few days before that, they declared their dividend. So, its not given that there won't be any dividend in 2022 or so. Next earnings is in Jul, so we would get to know that sooner. As a side note, if any company declares dividend reduction or stops them altogether, I would expect the stock to drop like a rock. see AT&T in last year.

https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/INTC/dividends/history
edit: added history
> Competing with Intel is out of the question for any local chip company.

Why? Intell lost the mobile, and is currently losing desktop/server. RISC-V is more promising each passing day. If India can do this, why can't Europe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243674
My naïve take is liquid phase is higher energy than solid phase. The gallium here actually keeps the little amount of platinum liquid by diluting those platinum atoms into gallium-surrounding the platinum so it can’t solidify. Thus the catalytic effects are more like a liquid platinum catalyst than solid. Neat trick that probably wasn’t obvious outside of new methods.

Edit-also note, this may be more like alchemy. They’re seeing the atoms on the surface performing the catalytic effect but the platinum resides below the surface. So the nearby platinum atoms are making the gallium mimic platinum properties.
Very interesting idea.

I'm still wrapping my head around the multisig use, but there was one confusing point on the site:

> The stored Bitcoin is only claimable when the holder cuts the note.

"Cuts"? Does that word mean "issues" or "spends"?
PayPal Lets Users Transfer Bitcoin and Ethereum to External Wallets
Mmm...but scaling up is not the same in photonics as it is in digital. Everyone thinks of scaling in terms of digital, like Alan Turing, von Neumann, and later Moore talked about, if you have an amplifier you can amplify it with another amplifier, so as long as it's totally digital the signals can be manipulated at arbitrarily small scales. Not true for analog or photons or quantum, there's weird caveats and they're not well researched, this scaling works only for digital.
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Plus, I suspect that in a The West vs China war a country like Malaysia will think twice before choosing a side, and I'm afraid they won't choose the West by default.
For many Americans, SWIFT is harder than crypto. I don't think I can transfer via SWIFT without physically going to my bank here in the US.
Some of them - like prosecuting crime and dealing with rampant homelessness - would. Some - like restricting hard liquor sales - probably wouldn't. The key is not to choose correct tribe, the key is to choose correct policy. SF - and CA - government has been consistently terrible at that for years.
> The old one was fine, but it was only when I got the newer that I realized what I was missing — basically, speed.

Still using an iPhone 5S (from 2013), but mainly for calls, text, mails, maps, gps, and the occasional youtube video and web page. Works fine for my use case. To do real work I use my MBP (also from 2013). I do real work with it, honest!
Reminded me other joke. England decided to switch to right hand driving just like everybody else. But in order to ease the transition, they decided to do it in phases. First the buses, then the taxes, and then the passenger cars
> I think thats generally believed to be hot wallets for exchanges

Could you source that claim? I find it absurd that you think such studies haven’t considered crypto exchange wallets in their analysis…
Choose Your Own Adventure:

"DALL-E 2 has a secret language" (twitter.com/giannis_daras) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573282 (617 points | 6 days ago | 112 comments)

"No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language" (twitter.com/benjamin_hilton) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587316 ( 257 points | 5 days ago | 148 comments)
This article summarized by xkcd: https://xkcd.com/401/

Side note: this is comic number 401. Comic number 404 is particularly good.
I didn't check if that's the actual (main?) reason for the inflation we are seeing since before February 2022. But let's suppose it is, there are still some entities who have been earning tons of money during this pandemic so far. Maybe Amazon, Pfizer & co just need to be taxed higher.
It is less secure than your standard symmetric encryption. I guess they would use deterministic encryption in which 2 entries with same email address will have the same record string ( this leaks information to attacker ). Prefix search & sort can be achieved by using order preserving encryption. Not really sure about sub-string though.
CVS is abandoning a lot of cities: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/cvs-store-closures-to-shut-a... .
FAA Continues to Stall on G100UL
A follow-up by Paul.
> If authoritarian governments want to take away cash

If an authoritarian government is taking away cash they've already passed the step at which making/importing this kind of object is illegal

And if you can import this kind of privately minted note then you can also import foreign cash whose value people can trust without having to destroy it and for which they don't have to remember a password (for each note I imagine, it's not clear from the website how any part of it works)

There are use cases for these kind of tokens but I can't find one which is efficiently solving a problem not uniquely tailored to rich free countries

Just in case, by tokens I am (in this comment) just referring to the notes, not the concept of bitcoin in general
Thank you for the information. Just one question: what do you mean by "without a local client"?
PDF editor/annotator that doesn't upload document to server
If Tether collapses, you can certainly expect a panic in all cryptocurrency markets, but it has no direct means of manipulating Bitcoin.

Only 6.02% of their reserves are held in "digital tokens," the rest are held in traditional assets and cash: https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports (scroll down to "Reserves Breakdown").
The premise of this discussion is that those 1000 experiments would likely to be very scientifically vaaluable.
A lot of people wanted to cancel the moon landing program while it was happening, and they eventually did.
Found it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/v4jcmz/showoff_...
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So… they’d rather it be controlled by rampant speculation and pumping-dumping?
Taxes are a regulatory tool. IMO, it would be a lot more productive vs setting up bans on arbitrary guns or complex processes.

Raise the price, reduce demand and risk.

I’m not worried about amateur machinists making homemade weapons with bird shit bullets. The higher risk people in that category are people like Timothy McVeigh making IEDs, and we as a society were able to regulate fertilizer sales to reduce that risk.