skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have holidays that commemorate the birth and death of mythical gods. This holiday has merit. Try to remember the fact that we don’t have slavery anymore, and it’s a human right to NOT be one. It could’ve been you next.
New high-resolution view of rabies virus, revealing potential vaccine targets
Why is this question asked? Any context?
Guys working on satellite communications and radar installations operating in the W band, probably. I mean, compared to a satellite a million bucks isn’t a huge deal. Can’t fix the electronic once it’s in low earth orbit.
AI will be gate kept.
Sounds like construction!

Seriously, though, I do think soundproofing is significantly underused and even undertaken in most residential construction. And at times have thought anyone for increasing density needs to start there.
A quick reminder about our current knowledge of the universe's composition:

~5% of the universe is made out of the stuff we're made of. Sugar cubes, ice, doll houses, lithium, etc. Most of that is burning hydrogen and helium down in stars.

~20% of the universe if made out of dark matter. We know little about dark matter except that it, well, falls down.

~75% of the universe is dark energy. We know almost nothing about dark energy except that it falls up ... maybe?

Whatever million+ year old civilizations may exist have probably figured out something more about the other 95% of the universe that we know is there. Let alone all the other stuff we'll finally be detecting by the year 5001.

Even if we do decide to announce ourselves, devil may care, what are the odds that anyone out there would even be made of the stuff that could listen to us? It's not that we're in a dark forest or at a crowded dinner, it's that we're anemones talking about the other side of the tide pool.
Bitcoin fell below $20k – and why it has further to go
Ask HN: Should I stop using air purifiers?
I've been using 3 air purifiers for about a year now. The problem I have with them is that they are so high-maintenance (much more than I expected). If I don't replace a filter after two months or less, I will get allergies (stuffy nose) because of the particles getting re-released back into the air. Has anyone had similar experience and/or decisions? I've been following the advice of just adding more ventilation and cleaning the house more often. I honestly find that less annoying.
afaict you're making a distinction without a difference.

afaict the Java etc programs could be re-written using null where you used nil — please explain why you think that isn't correct.
Some day I'm gonna figure out what Eggdrop is.
Disagree. There are already substantial differences between noise isolation in different apartments, but that does not lead to better isolated locations being louder. It is usually the opposite, i.e. what one would naively expect.
I’ve worked for a few dev shops now where the entire company uses Apple but over 90% of the customers interfacing with the software are on windows.
> It’s not like Musk’s personality and tweeting was unknown. His political leanings shift and all of a sudden he and his behavior is intolerable? Please.

Well, at least you're finally willing to address my points about their letter not being about the morality, instead of hoping those points would go away ;)

When his political leanings "shifted", that's when his behavior started going against the company's own rules and actively damaging the company. Now, you might believe that the former is okay, because he signs their paychecks -- which is just another way of saying "might makes right" -- but I don't know how you justify the latter to yourself. That's another point you keep dodging: Musk's behavior is actively damaging the company.

You can shift the blame to "cancel culture", if you want, but the fact remains that certain behaviors can, and do, affect any company not just in terms of morale, but in terms of its ability to do business. This has been well known for ages and has, in fact, been exploited by one extreme of the political spectrum. It only got labeled "cancel culture" when it got turned against that extreme.

And that's the political aspect of this whole conversation that I was trying to avoid, because discussing politics with strangers is about as pleasant as a root canal, but since you can't let it go, then let's go: yes, regardless of whether the letter itself was about the employees' morality or not, certain "political leanings" are, in fact, intolerable.

When you say "all lives matter", for example, that's where you cross the line into outright racism. It's not like "all lives matter" is a new thing someone invented yesterday and that's why people are being fooled into taking it at face value. It's been around for quite a while, and it's extremely easy to understand that it's only ever brought up as a response to "black lives matter" and why that response is racist.

Racism should be intolerable.

And that's just one of the things Musk did on Twitter. So yes, regardless of whether or not this letter is about morality, his shift in political leaning should be considered intolerable. If you really think that "racism is not okay" is something that is being forced on everyone in SpaceX against their wishes, then you're basically saying the majority of SpaceX employees are racists.
> I would not qualify entry level MacBook Airs as “high end”

They aren't high end, but if we're comparing to other laptops, $1000 is far from entry level. Entry level is $200-250, and mid-level, probably good machines tend to start around $500; for $1000, you usually get either good specs or nice aesthetics and sometimes both.

Of course, for some users, the $250 laptop has more than enough computing power for their needs (as long as it has a half-decent SSD, cause windows 10, and I assume 11 can't stop thrashing a spinning drive and there goes your perceived performance; I've never dug into it like in this article though, swapping in an SSD is good enough)
You'd have sent a tiny fraction of the messages you text now. Plus, you must include the hidden cost of all intermediate machines and infrastructure. I am not sure if it could end with a draw...
US employees at Astronomer.io get Juneteenth off.
Perhaps they are talking about Saylor's publicly traded fund and Tesla buying large amounts of crypto.
Those particular NFTs include the copyright. (Not all NFTs do.)
Add in South Africa and Nigeria. Massive there, massive. There will be real pain as a result, a lot of kids are going to miss out on new shoes and birthday presents for quite a few years. Mention of crypto will likely precipitate a family fight - I do not see a way back from this.
I thought the underlying of a crypto coin ledger entry is the heat generated from the electricity consumed to calculate the hash of a meaningless number?
Mine is about $20 a month, a couple $5, a couple $1 per episode, one $3.5.
Played with 0.00% some orchids went bankrupt (why is that a bad thing?) still collected 400000+

Central Bank is pretty much useless.
Your comment seems to carry a tone of dismissal, may I ask why?
Forex and PayPal’s international payments aren’t free, Patreon doesn’t see those profits.
Exactly those are the choices I'm willing to make. And I just see most even low-income people waste so, so, SO much money on the most stupid of things that I always think to myself man, with my spending habits it must be so easy to pull of.

Your last point is very good as well. I wouldn't want my wife to do nothing, just not slave off at some stupid corporate 9-5 job lessening her, mine and our children's quality of life. There are so many options for quality remote work these days.
Hot take: If you can follow the posts here, you can make 300k in the US

Check out the salaries on levels.fyi

And no, it is not reasonable to make 100k in the Midwest instead. Unless you're buying like $50,000 worth of gas and eggs per year, you're going to save WAY more in the SF Bay Area and reclaim years of your life by retiring earlier
Do you have a resource you recommend instead?
> unlimited growth is followed by resource exhaustion and death.

This is only true in the physical sense if the universe is singular *and finite. Which it appears not to be.

It is never true in the sense of technological, economic, and societal progress. There is an infinite amount of growth possible in those areas. Because that kind of growth leads to more efficient use of resources, or the discovery of new resources and knowledge which extends how far we can go. And this repeats in an endless cycle.

Take virtual reality (metaverse) for example. That would allow for massive expansion of the virtual space in which we can operate and massive reduction of the physical space we need to occupy.

As another example, we could eventually learn how to gather up all the raw material (hydrogen) in so called “empty space” and use it to manufacture a new planet. There is nothing in the laws of physics preventing us from doing this. The only thing we lack is the knowledge of how to do it.

So there really is no rational basis for the kind of pessimism you are advocating. So long as people are allowed to critique existing ideas and develop new ones, we have an infinity of progress ahead of us.
> We aren’t that kind of people.

The US illegally invaded Iraq, overthrew democratic governments all over the world, etc. Why wouldn't anybody think that the US would have gone further if it had the means? Sure, they wouldn't have nuked half the world, they would just threaten it.

> I’d never be convinced otherwise.

Well, then this is a moot reply anyway.
I highly recommend Ascension (2021)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ascension_2021
To the extent it has grown previously? Why would the factors above in dragontamer's post not apply there as much as the west?

e.g. it's not like Indian celebrities haven't been hyping crypto like western celebrities: https://www.ndtv.com/business/bollywood-stars-endorse-crypto...

"The West" has about a billion population also (370m USA+CA, 600m Europe minus Russia, 30m AUS/NZ). That's not inherently a reason for crypto have potential for another boom cycle here, nor is it inherently the same in India.
I work remotely for an american company from outside the us and have no idea what juneteenth even is.
Good riddance

(Also: still massively overpriced)
Apple does not advertise that Macs don’t get viruses. The only people who claim Macs don’t get them are people who are uninformed.
Java. <3
Easy anonymous file sharing using I2P technology
Compared to my parents and grandparents generation, my life is filled with leisure.

Basic everyday necessities took up so much of my grandparent’s time when they were younger. A meal would take hours to prep. All the veggies to prep said meal grown. And then the many hours spent cleaning, maintaining, and improving the living space. Social obligations. They basically just worked all day long to just live. Leisure were for festivals, holidays, and the rare moments where there was everything was done ahead of schedule.

I can—daily-exercise with my hobby sport of choice, eat at any restaurant of any cuisine at my choosing, watch and read more media than my grandparents couldn’t even imagine existing, and talk with strangers around globe.

It’s all perspective. We’ve definitely improved as a society. We can do better though. But we still have come pretty far.
All patreon customers are also only charged once per month no matter how many creators they support. The main difference being that since Patreon has people pledge specific dollar amounts instead of trying to figure it out month-to-month like Flattr the average Patreon customer has much fewer creators.
On only one interaction maybe you is correct. But not on 1B interactions.
This is absolutely not the case; such comparisons always leave something out that isn’t important to the person doing the comparison but would in fact bloat the price on the PC side if it were truly equivalent.
I don't deny that the market crash is a factor. Regarding the merge, unlike two years ago:

- The proof-of-stake chain has been running for a year and a half.

- They've tested every combination of five execution clients and five staking clients, and they all work.

- They just migrated a large long-running public test network to pure proof-of-stake, and it went well enough to have been considered very successful if it had been the production network.

- There are two public test networks left, and if those go well too, there's nothing left to do besides the production migration.
And will anyone care when ETH is trading at $5
I guess, would watching an animated head avatar in 8k or a Light Field display be a better experience than watching lower resolution video?

I wonder whether the experience would be too undermined by artifacts from e.g. your coworker's cat, for which the system doesn't have a model, wanders into frame partway through a call, and suddenly the system must dynamically either (a) 'downgrade' to just video (b) be able to create a new model for an arbitrary new thing on the fly (c) create some hybrid of partial video data with part viewer-rendered animation or (d) your coworker looks crazy interacting with something the system hides from you entirely.
> just wait until this type of thing is deployed on demand and at scale

South India averages 4 movies a week. Each movie has like 5 songs. So in a year you need lyrics for atleast 1000 songs. Sure, lyricists are creative artists, but not that creative. So you hear a lot of catchy songs which have some AI input. Here’s a song with 45 million views - I don’t think a human wrote all of it because it’s mostly garbage, but very catchy, so most likely AI augmented.
https://youtu.be/MJmxdlCtFWU

Only an AI would write something like - 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2, i love u 2 really i love u 2.
Because of the shear size of advertisements this past year on the subject.

In the USA, you cannot get "more popular" than a superbowl advertisement. And there were dozens of Superbowl ads on cryptocoin this past year.
Well it’s a bank holiday… But I don’t consider it an actual holiday so I still go to work.
I hope you are wrong.
They probably made actual money even if it was through scams. Which is what the VC wants after all.
> But if it's true, there will be far more important things to worry about than the schadenfreude of scammers getting their comeuppance.

Thanks for the analysis. Could you please elaborate on this last point?
>Audio buffer underruns galore

AFAIK, this was also due to the disk IO scheduler used in Linux.

Back in the late 00's, audio or video playback would skip on Ubuntu if you had a torrent download on the same HDD, an issue not present under Windows or MacOS.

AFAIK, desktop Linux distros now have different schedulers to mitigate this issue, but back then, that made it impossible for me to use it.
Speculative execution and branch prediction are adaptations to compensate for C's failings as a description of desired semantics.

But they are thoroughly ingrained into the technology, and will not easily be rooted out.
Let’s take DoorDash for instance. They couldn’t make a profit on food delivery during a world wide pandemic when everyone was ordering in and staying at home.

We can say the same about companies that made open source software and we’re going to make money via “services or supper contracts”. That hasn’t worked out well for mLabs or ElasticCo.

Most startups are just Ponzi schemes.
Biodigital, yep.

We also close the office a full week from Christmas to New Years.
This sounds like the same level of understanding about copyright law that led one NFT group to spend $3m on a rare Dune art book thinking it would give them the IP rights to the art.
The demand of digital cameras is down with new iPhone. Someone buy one new thing and do not on other, this is inflation neutral.
The solution for this is to have the donation system pool transactions together. Instead of a single transaction for each creator you donate to, you make a payment into a pool that you can then allocate funds from to various recipients. And instead of individual payments to recipients, you send a single lump sum once a month (or if perhaps less frequently if donations are sparse).
"with crypto the floor is zero?"

Yes, because there is no intrinsic value with Bitcoin. If a company has real estate and machinery or whatever, there will always be some value there.
Man, that would be sweet

Right now we theoretically have that, but in practice it's a Kafka-esque bureaucratic nightmare to partake in social services, and once you fall of the Employment Train it's extremely hard to get back on unless you have connections or very valuable skills

I wonder what society would be like with a perfect safety net.. I'm kinda worried we'd end up with horrible ghettoes full of disgruntled people like the future in Judge Dredd, but I want to believe that society would adjust and we'd value connecting to other people, learning, and enriching ourselves
Interesting, also anyone could modify the GAI so to disable the safety measures, just ask the GAI how could a bad actor change the code to allow you become evil?
It's not that easy. My ISP assigns static IP. As for not participating in subreddits - you can't really know which subs will popup on your frontpage, one might argue that you only use subs you are subbed to, but that destroys the point of forums as a principle. Where not forums designed to facilitate discussion rather than echo-chambers of propaganda?

It get's weirder than that, one of the top subs actually asks for your... SKIN COLOR https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-peop... otherwise bot removes your comment instantly.
Yes... It has moved away from founding principles, only reflects a cosmopolitan city elite's understanding of the country, moved to more, lower value, content on more channels, become significantly politicised and is a classic example of a comfortable organisation "spending other people's money".

The BBC in the mid 90's to early 00's was absolutely amazing. Add in Channel 4 as well and despite having Sky, 90%+ of content I watched was on BBC2 and Channel 4.

BBC Three doesn't belong as a channel on Freeview because it's target audience watches via different means anyway.

BBC Four belongs on Freeview because its aging audience watches Freeview as it's primary means.

It's content hits are now far more infrequent too - too many serious cop dramas and other dramas from the same small pool of writers/producers that they like and have had previous success.

It's tragic but it's just poor value now too.

It needs a boss who pushes out the political influence and focus, realises that the people of Islington aren't representative of the vast majority of the country, and recognises they aren't in competition with Netflix, they're in competition with the previous version of themselves.
PR is not facts.
This is exactly what I do in my residential home — winter heating — the only time I'm mining (Monero, typ) is when my heat pump can't keep up. I have my main miner eject heat onto my feet/workstation in lieu of an electric space heater.

From my own energy monitoring applications, I recon about 40% of my winter heating needs are met in this manner. I DO use a heat pump for heating between 40°F-60°F, but the efficiency of such a device rapidly diminishes as the temperature falls below freezing. Below 20°F, an average heat pump begins to be LESS efficient than simple resistive heating.
I think you could say Friedman is technically right, if you consider wars which decrease output changing the quantity/output equation.

His philosophy proven again correct in my view. I found Yellen's comments staggering - having to apologize for not seeing inflation coming - after the US increased money supply 40% from 2020-2022.

What other pretty basic economic realities are not being considered by our leaders?
And it's going to be a good decade for those kind of startups, and a bad decade for the smoke & mirrors tell-a-starry-eyed-story VC-funded kind. Aside from funding or lack thereof, the changing relative prices that come with inflation dramatically change the structure of markets, which is going to make many old ways of doing business obsolete and open the door to new firms.
Would love to see the war brought to ruzzia, not to Ukraine.
The woke mind virus seeks to protect itself.

I don’t see how bitching about your boss’s tweets constitutes discussing working conditions.
It commemorates emancipation for slaves in the US, and I would say most people didn't know about it until last year or so.
I mean, I could probably use Pocket for that, which Kobo already integrates with. It seems to do a decent job of getting stuff from behind the paywall.

But no, I don't want to setup a Calibre workflow because I don't want my Kobo flooded with the stuff. If we estimate 15-18 articles per normal issue, that's 18 distinct files that Calibre would pull down instead of just one EPUB that I can read and discard when I'm done with it.
Pandas does a lot, and often times most of it isn’t needed. Basic functionality like Map, Reduce, GroupBy, InnerJoin, LeftJoin, CrossJoin, row or column generators, and transformations between columnar and row based data structures, are often needed but come with a heavy weight library that is not performant when it counts.

Because I needed these operations, I wanted to work with Numpy directly, and didn’t want to write custom implementations each time, I created a library to do it. It also has constructor methods for Python Dicts, any kind of Iterable, CSV, SQL query, pandas DataFrames and Series, or otherwise. As well as destructor methods to generate whatever you need when done. It tries its best to maintain the types you specify, and offers a means to cast as easily as possible. All functions return a single type to allow static type checking. And for performance, there is a “trust me I know what I’m doing” mode for extremely fast access to the data which achieves about a 10x speed up by skipping all data validation steps.

Everything it does outperforms pandas, except for the Joins. It does allow inequality joins and multiple join conditions, but the general solution used isn’t very fast. Anyone reading this who would be interested in improving these component would be welcome to contribute!

https://tafra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Not quite on topic, but most here will be familiar of the problem of autonomous cars and valuing the life of the driver vs that of a kid running in front of a car. (An autonomous car does have time to react, so do you crash the car, endangering the drivers or keep course and kill the child?)

I recently learned of a new perspective when talking to a lawyer and learning of his first reaction. Apparently here in Germany courts assume a certain degree of responsibility for an accident by you simply deciding to drive. So if there is a crash of two cars, it starts with a 50/50 culpability and the circumstances (who crashed into whom because of what) decide the final accountability. The argument is that you knowingly stepped into something with very well known dangers. You took a risk when stepping into a weapon.

The child didnt take any such decisions. As such you could (in theory) make the argument for suicide programming in such situations.

I only mention it because despite having talked about the scenario in university, this perspective never came up.
> My definition of low level is ...

This is a very deep and mature assessment. I have high expectations for the future of Ante. Higher than Rust, in particular, provided it supports some analog of destructors.
I find it incredible that there are people out their who actually think the price of Bitcoin, Ether, NShitCoin, etc. are actually somehow predictive of something.
I'd absolutely accept 10% pay for a four hour schedule, but I have been working for a long time and have built up enough investments to live on that and gains. It's nearly early retirement. I don't think I'd do it if I was young, though.
All it needs is a layer of contrastive loss at the top, to tell real Seinfeld and SAInfeld (don't bother checking, it's already registered) apart, and boom! Indistinguishable delivery.