skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant was that expert witnesses are not in the courtroom to testify on matters of fact. They are presented (and potentially qualified) as "experts" and are their to tell the court their conclusions about some matter.
I went to sleep last night, knowing that I would get a certain kind of misunderstanding of my comment, hence that last hash there. It's a pastebin URL (gives it a timestamp) https://pastebin.com/VT7L3TAb so you can compare it with the outcome condition and look at the timestamps.

That pastebin URL contains `65f7cae61536f9e4967ade278f77273daeff36a0f998853a7c9d7264bd4a9f4d`. A child comment[0] (since flagged) to this thread describes me one hour later:

> He's a narcissistic clown. He is fond of posting dehumanizing and insipid drivel, like the top-level comment here which denies the sentience of the wage slaves that serve him.

I pre-committed my answer to this reply before it was posted because I knew it would come: (verify using the hash and timestamp)

echo "Ah, you're offended. But don't worry. I am not above being prompt-engineered too. That's the point" | sha256sum

65f7cae61536f9e4967ade278f77273daeff36a0f998853a7c9d7264bd4a9f4d -

In some sense this conversation chain (my original comment included) is a purely probabilistic output that one could mechanistically have created from sheer experience. So perhaps the transformers aren't as far from us as we think.

I actually knew that the other comments would also arrive and how I would respond, in general. It's rude to pre-commit to answers, though, so I could only safely do that to a guy who would be rude to me. The guy pulling my leg about Dr. Who did buck the chain (you bastard, ruining the point). I think we all have a degree of that. If you see "Google" and "service", you know the top comment "I won't ever use Google because they sunset Reader" or some such shit. These transformer AIs are rapidly approaching the level of HN-like social networks (like me and my comments) - and low-repetition interactions (like the above-mentioned pharmacists). The key thing is that they can't currently track specific state-alteration, i.e. they do not know this apple was moved from this side of the table to the other, but that's a sensory problem. We'll see.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722264
This is great! I always felt like cut was really handicapped by lack of negative indexes.
a deno.dev subdomain is provided to all deno deploy projects (https://deno.com/deploy)
Of course it is. This is not a stable situation - it eventually going to crash like the rest.
I kind of wonder, a lot of the energy for storing Hydrogen is compressing the gas. Would it be more efficient to recover that energy with a turbine? Or would it be better to just use a fuel cell?

I know that Hydrogen ICE engines tend to be finicky and produce a ton of NOX. Do turbines have a similar problem?
There's gonna be a method to recall these people right?
I have two buying/selling indicators for crypto.

1. When my mom or other people who have no business in investing in crypto ask me how much bitcoin they should buy. (selling indicator)

2. When people start liquidating their positions and call crypto a grift. (buying indicator)
I fully agree with your comment. Thunderbird is just plain terrible.

Over the weekend I migrated to a 100% Linux/open-source environment. So of course I went through a series of alternative apps. While you'd never find feature parity (eg. with MS Office and the Adobe Suite) existing alternatives are mostly good enough.

Thunderbird has been tooted to me as THE alternative to MS Outlook. What I found was a total mess of a software stack needing countless addons and customization to even get close to Outlook. Then I discovered Evolution. It was certainly different but worked pretty much flawlessly out of the box.
I’ve heard such claims for a long time, I can likewise create a classifier out of a simple dice role. It doesn’t say anything about how good it is.

Most software applications have low tolerance for error rates, the ones that do have big money being spent on ensuring their accuracy is better than everybody else’s.

So while you can make a classifier out of anything in Y time, that doesn’t say anything about whether it’s of any practical use.
I believe its supply-side economics attract a certain demand.

But sadly the price increases also attract a different kind of demand, much more volatile (80% crashes now and then).
Walking in heat and humidity is unpleasant but the climate and population are what they are so you work with what you have.

I can't speak for all environmentalists but I'd like people to live pleasantly wherever they like if they can do so sustainably. Probably most Dhaka residents, like most people anywhere, would prefer to stay in their home city and country if possible, just improved. In any case giving everyone in the world a Texas-sized house and pool is not on the table no matter what until we invent personal fusion generators and matter replicators.

Having climate-controlled walkways or more comfortable transit options specifically for people with kids should be available in every city, "impoverished" or "third world" or not. The world certainly has the resources for it.
> Note that Mozilla has nothing to do with Thunderbird anymore.

Mozilla the non-profit owns the for-profit corp who owns Thunderbird.

In their own words from the footer of https://www.thunderbird.net:

> Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation.
Google is notoriously bad at finding older news articles and its competitors don't do nuch better.

If memory services, the technique used relies on one file format putting its offsets and metadata in the header (like JPEG does) and another putting everything in the footer (looking into this, ZIP makes more sense).

Concatenate the two files and you've got a file that's both a valid JPEG with some garbage at the end and a valid ZIP with some garbage before the first header. The JPEG parser would start at the front and seek until the length specified in the header has been processed, the ZIP parser would start at the central directory at the end and work its way backwards through offsets to find the first header.

In Windows this could be as simple as `copy /b picture.jpg /b data.zip secret.jpg`. Rename secret.jpg to secret.zip and you've got a working ZIP file you can add files to as you please, rename back to secret.jpg and you've got an inconspicuous JPEG of about 3GB sitting on your desktop.

Perhaps this simple methodology was just an urban legend, it certainly made seemed like an impressive trick when I was in high school.

Articles online regarding this topic mention steganography but describe more advanced methods (i.e. encoding data in the least significant bit in pixels of a frame, encoding data in the cosine table of a JPEG, etc.). From what I can tell, this all seems to be based on a single security researcher explaining the concept of steganographry to a single news source followed by simplification and loads of copy/pasting.
And the circus of cryptocurrency is better?
To be fair, if you're bundling a web browser to render emails, you might as well write your whole UI out of it. Of all use cases of Electron, an email client is probably the least offensive.
The graphic designer behind these incredible animations has my appreciation and respect. In the representation of such intangible concepts, the combination of creativity and deep technical expertise blends perfectly. Total command of the arts and crafts.
I use it for Calls, SMS/MMS, Email, Calendar, tasks/TODOs, various chat applications, 2FA, password manager, and internet. So it fills the functions I expect in a smartphone.

I think it has some apps for social media, but I only have a mastodon acccount for social media.

The only thing really lacking in it is a decent maps app, but for the most part I get by just fine without that.
I mainly keep it as my default because of the "bangs". Which I could configure my browser to do (and did... oh, when did Firefox add that feature? 15 years ago? More?) but setting DDG as my default saves me having to do that. Plus, sometimes, I can get useful ordinary search results without having to look at Google's trashy results page.
Anecdotally, a lot of people have been using a lot of leverage to do a lot of insanely speculative things with cryptocurrency over the past few years. And it's worked out great for them... until now. I imagine many leveraged speculators are facing the prospects of financial ruin.
GUSD seems to be about as safe as USDC (1:1 backing in banks) but careful where you try to earn interest on them. Gemini Earn hands over your GUSD to Genesis Trading, with no guarantee you get anything back if they implode. DeFi yield in this case is actually safer on a platform like Aave but with safety comes low APY (~1%).
Stable at zero apparently.
Tell it to write diary every day when not chatting. If it thinks or feels human make it force itself to write diary...
I think what Fresh is doing now is more similar to Server Components, shipping full components to the client. With LiveView, once it's set up on the client, the updates it sends over the wire are much smaller. https://fly.io/blog/how-we-got-to-liveview/ shows some examples of the idea.
It’s assumed that each side’s lawyer(s) is biased, expert witnesses on the other side tend to be viewed as neutral even if only one side is paying them. That’s often abused in court cases which is one reason they can command such huge checks.

Nobody is paying for an expert witness that helps the other side so a little bias one way or the other is helpful when pulling down those checks.
No, good God no! There are a ton of conservative voters who loathed the Dubya administration, and I'm one of them. But you have to understand, that's what created Trump, especially as Democrats doubled down on social issues.
I believe it is currently bi-partisanly ignored.
> whose value halves ever dozens of years

This seems demonstrably better than halving over 6 months...
Of course making more money is the most important, but there's no reason at all you can't do both.

These are just two sides of the same coin: the saying "A penny saved is a penny earned" is literally true. If you can plan your finances well and live a decent life while spending a little less, the saved money adds up substantially over time. Additionally, using the saved money to pay off debts has compounding benefits.

Good example is the Starbucks coffee habit. Many people in the US visit Starbucks every day, and most of the drinks there cost ~$5-$6. If you bought coffee in bulk at the grocery store and made it at home your amortized cost per coffee can be $1-$2 or even less. That's about $1400 a year saved in coffee.

A _huge_ number of people in the US have credit card or other similar debt that they carry over every month and just make minimum payments on. If you applied that $1400 toward the debt principle, it makes a big difference in the long run for many ordinary people. This is just an example with coffee, there are so many things to save money on that don't really affect the quality of one's life much, but will actually save boatloads of cash.

Paying people more, pay transparency, the wealth gap, are all good things to talk about that really have nothing to do with making a budget and spending money wisely. Yes there is a mentality that comes along with the budgeting crowd that focuses on self-determination and accountability to ones own actions, but there is nothing in it that goes against the principles of fair pay or transparency.
Interesting. The two times I worked for litigators they told me they _never_ pay travel time. I even checked with my bil litigator (different industry) and he confirmed the practice. Otoh they said I could charge whatever hourly rate I wanted for actual work.
And with crypto you need to figure out if you'll be able to get out with your winnings on your short.
Yeah, that is (post facto) obviously answered truly saying “including background studies around hundreds but I do not keep count”.

Otherwise you are being forced to be untruthful despite thinking that you are objective.
That's my experience as well. And I would like to use KMail since I use KDE anyway. I haven't tried Mailspring but I don't feel like running another Electron app when Thunderbird does the job amazingly well.
Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
I would be curious to learn what makes the “skewed” approach work. Googling fails me since this turns up a lot of articles on clock skew.
21900 KWh in a year is not much according to what source?
Yes it would be nice to share that information with the scheduler too. This would be were some sort of microkernel userland scheduler one can augment with arbitrary information would do well.
Right. No argument from me, except that isn’t the post I’m replying to, there the poster has said that a key safeguard is having custody of it. And without this magic piece, which as op points out is quite revolutionary, you’re literally at the mercy of opaque organisations that are able to screw you over with none of the protections of the current financial system (not to say people don’t get mercilessly screwed today, but default or bank run protection is a pretty sweet deal)
A good way to "understand" jazz for a newcomer IMHO is to listen to some non-jazz versions of those standards.

A good example is the song Autumn Leaves. Listen to Frank Sinatra's stripped-down, straightforward version, and then listen to a jazz version (I recommend Bill Evans').

You'll hear bits and pieces of the original melody, interrupted by minutes of improvisation and embellishment, but it's still the same song underneath.
Google suspends engineer who claimed that the LaMDA chatbot has become sentient
I can tell you as a former Firefox developer that that was not the case. Yes, Firefox has some dependencies copied into the tree, but deciding to do it, and the process afterwards (including updating), were very careful and slow.

Of course there may have been exceptions I am not aware of, and developers are humans that can make mistakes, but that is the overall culture I experienced. It is fundamentally different to the JS/Rust/etc. ecosystem models.
The user claimed:

>ETFs, hold the thing they are convertable to and are audited. the equivalent would be the stable coin having $1 in a bank account for every stable dollar they mint ... and be willing to be audited.

That is demonstrably false for the majority of ETFs, just read the above link. Holding some of the thing is not the same as being fully convertible. The user doesn't understand what sampling is and fixates on the word "synthetic" but it wasn't the original claim that most ETFs are fully synthetic in the first place. They don't have to be synthetic to not be 1-1 backed by all index constituents.

That isn't a claim about this being good or bad, many investors consider it acceptable risk.
Why does the paper dollar have buying power? What justifies its value?

> The answer is nothing. Since there's no measurable intrinsic value, there's zero fundamental factor limiting the downside
Having 20 lead batteries in your basement also adds a lot of prepper flair and scares away those annoying fire protection guys too. It is just 10kWh regardless of voltage aside from small conversion losses here and there.

Provided you have a computer that uses 500W, a monitor that uses 100W plus your internet router of 20W, you can run it for a bit over 16 hours. Just answering the important questions.

Although these type of battery also wants to be handled correctly. Don't discharge completely and yet also do not charge them fully. You also have to know about the hundreds of other partially true myths about lead batteries. Their most prominent positive property is indeed the price and not too much else.
People look at decentralization as an ideology rather then a threat model. The security you might implement to protect $100 vs $100k vs $100 million is different. Running your blog on AWS is running your own server in a decentralized sense; but if your threat model includes Amazon shutting you down or something like the US Govt/public compelling Amazon to shut you down then it might not be good enough. Which is why Target, Walmart, Parler (assuming that's still true) don't run on AWS. Any threat model is about mitigation and acceptance of risk. Easiest way to secure a database/system is to isolate it from the internet and let nobody read/write from it; probably wouldn't be a very useful system for most usecases but something you might do for the nuclear weapons arsenal.

Centralization vs Decentralization is a similar concept to closed source vs open source. Just because the code is open source doesn't mean that people are going to download the source code and compile it themselves. The option to fork the codebase is also there. Neither of those options are possible for a closed source project. And to your point, the fact that a project is open source might not "actually have any effect at all". Doesn't mean the concept is inherently bad.
I like it! Clickable link: https://github.com/fgergo/boringstreamer
> Maybe someone should do a review of Trustpilot on Trustpilot?

Did you read the article? The reviews of Trustpilot are mentioned.
Sounds like there is a lot of overlap between burnout and depression.
awk can do something like negative indexes if needed:

$ echo "a b c" | awk '{print $(NF-1)}'
b
I think it's worth pointing out even if it's "assumed." One should not cast stones from glass houses, and the jury needs to be reminded that a lawyer's framing of facts should be taken with a gigantic pinch of salt.
Ask HN: Are you seeing Youtube ads for the 1st time?
Until recently, i never saw any ads on YT. This was because of a combination of VPN, strict stealth mode browsing on only YT, fully deleted history on browser exit, and ublock origin js blocking. We used to never see ads presumably because YT didnt have a solid enough profile on the user that it could bid out CPM.

It seems that recently something has changed since we do now see ads.

I dont recall specifically but suspect this happened when youtube started to break if user had all js fully blocked (using uBlock).

I can tell YT still doesnt know who we are since on the homepage we still get the same clickbait for an unknown profile, which we saw before they started servind ads

Are you experiencing the same change?
> I don't think features such as Web USB, Web Bluetooth are privacy invasive.

Coincidentally, Brave believes they are privacy-invasive and don't support those features either (last paragraph in the article)[0].

Firefox, as with all other browsers aside from Safari, will remain with less than 5% market share for the foreseeable future. But I'd much rather continue supporting different browser engines than use a skinned Chromium to uphold the status quo.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/google-plan-for-chrome-c...
Yup, and seems to be getting worse:

“Families in despair over IM Academy: ‘The crypto-sect has kidnapped our children’”[1]

https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-04-18/families...
Psychedelic drugs might treat depression
Apple tends to work on their designs in-house and only reveal them when they feel like they are “ready for prime time”. It a different approach from Samsung who tends to launch things that are barely beyond prototype and then iterate on them in public. Samsung does get the benefit of real world feedback. Apple has the feedback to abandon a project if it doesn’t pan out. Different strategies.
I wonder if you could make VLIW processors work better for general purpose loads by exposing a higher level machine code with an on-board JIT compiler that could optimize for runtime behaviour. In theory JITs should be even more effective for VLIW in order processors because runtime behaviour should have an even larger effect of what kinds of optimizations are needed, and the difficult and costly nature of optimizing such code coule benefit from very accurate hotspot optimization. You could of course also expose the lower level architecture for programs that do their own JIT.
no hooks yet though, which limits compatibility and arguably developer experience. Preact has better compatibility - if that's something you're looking for anyway. I suspect that was part of the motivation as well. Also, Preact is 3KB full, inferno is 7.2 KB, if I recall correctly, may have also been a motivation here.
Thanks for making me feel old
Are we talking about Thunderbird because it performs very well.
Coordination Headwind: How organizations are like slime molds
I can think of a handful of other things in the last 24 months that probably better explain why your metropolitan area has negative population growth.
May I ask what Thunderbird local storage means? Does that mean that emails are delivered and stored on the device, vs on a cloud server?
Are you sure your lease doesn't rule it out anyway?
And if that happens and a the end of it here's a parallel system or systems on the internet that look a lot like what we have today[1] but exist globally and outside the surveillance and control of governments, then crypto has to some extent succeeded.

How much those systems are controlled by their users rather than just different concentrated groups holding a majority of power and wealth is in some ways a measure of that success. I am not too optimistic about this for bitcoin and systems based on it, but bitcoin is far from the only game in town.

Whether or not the space needs to learn every lesson, no matter how obvious, by regularly losing money reproducing each crisis in turn remains to be seen. As someone who spent a long time in finance and can see that many of the experiments/"products" in crypto are dumb and won't work, I would certainly hope we can do a bit better, but if that's what it takes, so be it.

[1] Hopefully we can at least improve some bits of the actual products and systems along the way as well as getting the basics in place, too.
DAI works much better. But I wouldn't hold DAI because I'd have to lock much more of my money into it than it is worth, and keep checking for crashes in case I have to add more collateral.

But it acts as a stabilizer for the Ethereum network, so power to them.
This is different from what the GP is asking about, though
Yes, I'm actually pretty sure. Peter Langman, a very well known expert on the matter, sees no clear connection between bullying and shooting, also points out that many shooters were bullies themselves and don't target their supposed offenders: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/bullying_sch...

It's interesting that you quote that shooters "claimed" and "experienced feelings" of being ostracized, because many of them do indeed feel that way, like Elliot Rodgers thinking of himself as a perfect gentleman passed over by women for some incomprehensible reason despite clearly not being one. The catch is that those feelings are not always rooted in reality: many of them were well-liked and popular. What they also often turn out to be, though, is "injustice collectors" who tend to hold grudges and refuse to take responsibility for their own shortcomings (including, I assume, their own contribution to being excluded by others), according to this FBI report: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/stats-services-publicati...
No, CLIP is indeed that good. The robustness of its embeddings is the entire reason why VQGAN+CLIP works and can stablely generate images close to the text prompt.
They seem to be in-order VLIW cores, so yes, they are much simpler than any other server CPU.
Would you share general info about your Prius setup? I was looking at the below.

https://www.plugoutpower.com/inverters

> unplug them and go refuel the car if needed

Just like standalone generators, this is a tough point. Fuel can become hard to source during a an outage > 5-7 days.