skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Highway and Automobile culture are symbols of totalitarian cultures which deny people more sustainable and equitable alternatives for mobility and transport. - Vandana Shiva (2004)
I'd love to like xmpp, but every xmpp experience apart from dino (which isn't available on windows) is pure garbage from a ux perspective. For some reason conversations chose to not adhere to any design standards in use on the android platform and instead do it's own thing, which subjectively looks really bad (and cannot be customized). It's also missing stuff like the photo editor, daniel said he's not planning to implement it because android will have a system image editor from android 10 onward. The fact that the editor is borderline unusable and the workflow appears to be: open camera app -> take image -> open image in gallery -> open image with editor -> edit the image (somewhat flaky) -> open conversations -> search for your edited image -> send the image is a major deal braker for me, I never even tried to show anyone conversations as an alternative to telegram because of how horrible it is.
Search is an insanely complex subject as you probably know. If I were you, I'd give each service a name (as you do now), a cloud name (i.e., AWS) for grouping, plus number of synonyms, and do levenshtein ranked search against those synonyms. So "PG" would match all the different Postgres providers (Aurora, RDS, Datastax..) for instance.

Oh, and one more suggestion: make above the fold on the homepage a list of all the services system wide that are down. :)
In all fairness to crypto aficionados, it's not "voting with your wallet." It's more about using whatever is in your wallet to gain control over the financial...

Oh shit, someone stole my apes.

Can someone PM me to help me recover my apes? I can't vote without them!
Is the ice-cream barge a recent revelation or am I just attuned to seeing references to it? I only learned about it recently and since then it's popped up multiple times.
I intentionally scale down my video as I don't want to be seen. Being on video requires a lot of cognitive effort, which I'd rather conserve to do actual work.
Do we limit "Beyond Human" to only carbon based life or existing forms of life? If not we can image why we need democracy.

The individual ego of carbon based life are not easy to reach consensus. That caused a lot of (un)necessary conflicts. There's no such problem in a higher level civilization if the "ego" is quite different one then our "ego" from nature evolution of our current environment, then the democracy is not necessary or, maybe it's already implicitly exist.

This is a speculation on "Beyond Humans" upwards
Sound is easy. Slap a nice Yeti microphone and 2 sound blocking foams on the walls, you are good to go.
why do you think negative sentiment implies not knowing anything about crypto?

some of us have crypto backgrounds of one or another type (NSA for example), and think it's overhyped.
> Pretty much no one does any sort of identity verification anyway on any E2EE messaging system. So that means that the people running the servers can MITM if they feel like it to get the content.

The fact that anybody can verify keys raises the stakes of attempting a MITM attack significantly and thus protects the majority that doesn't verify keys themselves.
>No, it needs to be better in every way. If it’s not, then what’s the fucking point?

I take it that you still use a CRT monitor then? After all, modern displays (eg. IPS/VA) aren't better than CRTs in every respect (response time, motion clarity, arbitrary scaling).
It would be more helpful to give them the reasons for which their reply is unproductive. Right now it’s unclear what it is you have a problem with.
Xkcd of course had it right even back when "crypto" meant something else :)

https://xkcd.com/538/

Regulation and law indeed may not be able to beat crypto technologically. They don't need to. Humans are the weak squishy link in the chain. I don't need a supercomputer to crunch down your crypto, I need a warrant for your arrest or subpoena to ask for all your documents. I can outlaw your ability to operate without logs. Sure that would suck, but equally in crypto currency and normal world. Either exists as much at the mercy of the government, democratic or otherwise, to preserve the privacy, as much as the technological capability.

Unless we go completely anarchic (and I'm not personally looking forward to that), humans will remain squishy and laws will remain relevant.
> Question: who's making this claim and on what basis?

The Solend Team.

https://realms.today/dao/7sf3tcWm58vhtkJMwuw2P3T6UBX7UE5VKxP...

> Question: why is allowing this liquidation the end of the world?

Its not. They believe a function in their own project will cause the underlying Solana blockchain to have some uptime issues, because a similar function has been a culprit in the past, according to them. (Solana has failed to produce blocks periodically, I haven't followed more specifically why) This function will be called autonomously if the price of the collateral in question continues to decline. The rebuttals are:

a) a big cascading liquidation being interrupted by block production issues will just resume as block production resumes. so that's stupid. Solana goes down all the time, if other applications there can't handle that by now that's those application's problem.

b) DEX liquidity isn't all liquidity. So if $170m crashes the price on a DEX, that's just an opportunity for anybody paying attention to buy Solana cheap on the DEX and sell it for more on centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase. Its not Solend's problem. It is a completely unnecessary and amateurish "vote".

> what does any of this have to do with Solend? Are they the ones that lent the $108M out, or are they just the middle man?

They're the service being used where people deposit collateral, yes.
I believe they are saying that Telegram doesn't expose your phone number to other users on the app unless you explicitly allow it to.

I only use Telegram, no WhatsApp / Messenger so I had no idea that this was normal for other chat apps. Terrifying.
> I can't say I've seen many articles that really try to understand Thiel's politics or intentions

I mean...it's not like there is much to understand. Him, Mercer and Bannon became extremely passionate about getting Trump in the WH and as soon as 2017 came around they lost all the leverage and didn't even try to strongarm Trump into doing whatever they thought was to be done.

The 3 men have been extremely relevant in getting Trump elected but were essentially gone by 2017.
Be careful making your software too quick or else your client might think something is broken
> consumes 1/10th the power.

No.
I think from the reply that they're talking about "Your contacts do not need your phone number, they can message you with just your telegram screen name", but this is different from "Telegram needs your phone number" and "People with your phone number can find your Telegram account from their contacts".
> For example there is a single header library HTML renderer and its fast, but does not run JavaScript.

What library is this and does it support CSS? I'm using RML UI right now, and I'm pretty happy with it but it's pretty bloated imo. I'd love to switch if I could :)
Weird that they always seem to keep them in orbit around stars. Seems like prosecuting the Idiran War would have been impossible for the Idirans if they could not find the orbitals.
Learning and reading is something I've been struggling with. One, getting older, even at a relatively young age is definitely taking its toll. It's mainly my memory. I've always had great recall, but it has gotten slower. Secondly, I believe computers and in particular phones and tablets have partially destroyed my attention span and ability to be comfortable inside a book for a long period of time. I read all the time, but not in a deep, concentrated way. Despite knowing these things are problems, even though I typically read or learn on them and do not play any games on mobile devices, it has taken me to admit to myself that I absolutely must distance myself from mobile devices, and even my computer, if I want to get back to long-form, deep learning. Both are going to take some practice and discipline.

One thing that has helped is signing up for actual university classes as opposed to online courses. Online courses are of course awesome, but taking a few graduate level mathematics courses at a local university really got me back into deep reading, of at least technical material.

Another thing is trying to reduce my anxiety. Instead of worrying about all the books I have that are unread, of which there are hundreds and maybe even over a thousand (yes, I have a problem collecting books), I'm trying to just concentrate on one or two and actually finish before switching or moving on. This is one of the hardest things when your interests change fast, but I am really trying to bolt myself down on this one. I'm not quite there yet.
Thanks for the reply!

I don't know if I've passed the HC, so I'm assuming no. My only feedback is that I did "great" in the interviews and I've moved on to the team matching phase.

I'm actually very picky about my location due to personal reasons, but it's good to know that will likely make the process longer.

Thanks for the tip of contacting the engineering managers directly. I might just do that when the frustration grows too large (even though I don't know if I've passed the HC).
I think SLND (Solend) is the token involved in voting rights here.
Why can't apple put the iphone rear camera in the MacBook?
Whatsapp shows the phone number as it is your user identifier (and I believe this is also true for Signal).

This is not true for Messenger, where it's your facebook account as your identifier.
Cheese is low lactose compared to cream.
That's what I'm wondering. Maybe we agree about the apparent root cause of the issue but we need a tangible solution to it, which could be restructuring ownership of businesses to better suit the people that make up those businesses. Regulation is a way to do that, or other things. But whatever we do will take some sort of regulation, or those same people who have too much money and power are going to keep doing the same old shit
> $50/year for Camo

LOL what? Is this true?
From what I have read, crypto folk seem to claim primarily that the decentralized currency 'not be a scam' in contrast to a currency managed by a central bank. Whether or not the currency discourages or enables scams via the currency is a secondary concern. Of course, Solend's interference seems like something 'a central bank' might do.
This would explain why I've only experienced similar things on long bus rides from high school.
Unless you value inefficiency and spending a lot of money on electricity, the answer is "no", the parent comment actually meant 1/10th power.
A lot of "decentralized finance" projects have a way for a centralized entity to control them. Often times an individual. And other times a multisignature address controlled by two of the same individual's addresses.

Users should be more discerning but are not.
Eggs are completely non-satiating to me. I eat 20 eggs in one sitting and I feel hungry.
People have been saying the same about journalism for decades, long before the Internet.
> I would've loved to see Lumina in his comparison. We launched a few months ago

The article is from Feb 2021.
It was a bit of an oversimplification on my part, since for a given wavelength, the atmosphere isn't binary, completely transparent or completely opaque (i.e. the radiation would go a very very short distance before being absorbed), but for _most_ wavelengths it's _very close_ to binary. Either it's absorbed or it isn't, to a first approximation.

Yes, some wavelengths are absorbed very weakly, and some are scattered rather than absorbed. But these represent a tiny fraction of the spectrum, the nuance would've overcomplicated the post, and they don't change the result much.

For wavelengths that are not absorbed, they can be reflected back out just as easily as they came in. For wavelengths that're strongly absorbed, they heat the first parts of the atmosphere they encounter, and this is why the thermosphere is called that.

For those few wavelengths that're weakly absorbed, yes they produce some heating on the way in, and if you reflect them back out, they do produce some heating on the way out. But as you've said, because the intensity of the radiation is decreasing along the whole path, the "outbound" contribution is weak indeed. It turns out to be basically a rounding-error in the thermal contribution, which is overwhelmingly dominated by blackbody absorption and re-emission, which often does produce wavelengths that're strongly absorbed. On a perfectly-white planet (or snow-covered region), you might have to start caring about weakly-absorbed wavelengths, but for most types of ground cover, other effects swamp it.
A substantial advantage to Reincubate's product is the ability to control the camera settings that would otherwise be relegated to some auto-focus auto-lighting software. In a dark room, for example, one can choose to slow the shutter speed way down, trading some motion blur for a better static image. I hope they can continue to provide those features on top of Continuity Camera after it launches with Ventura.
Appreciate the effort. I think one thing that hinders innovation is that, as soon as anyone makes a decent camera that sells well, a company like Logitech will just try a little harder and bring a better camera to market at a lower price point. It's not like this is rocket science, Logitech just doesn't have much incentive to try very hard right now.
Never stopped nsa and friends, never will.
I was struck by the similarities between Elon Musk and Howard Hughes many years ago. Musk seems be on the same path.

"Hughes was widely considered eccentric and suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder...The wealthy and aging Hughes, accompanied by his entourage of personal aides, began moving from one hotel to another, always taking up residence in the top floor penthouse"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#Physical_and_men...
I bought an iPod Touch (~$100) to use with Camo Studio. It works great. Lets me keep my laptop lid closed all the time which I prefer, and the video quality is much much better than the built-in camera. The software costs a little but it's well-made and I don't mind paying for stuff that does what it's supposed to do.
We definitely were introduced to my state school’s rivalry at my undergrad orientation. It’s all in good fun, but certainly reinforced.
Here’s an article by Douglas Hofstadter where he explains the case against these systems being sentient, and gives examples of conversations with GPT-3 which illustrate what I’m talking about. I already posted the link elsewhere on this discussion, sorry for the duplication.

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...
Tokabo? https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tokabo-table-lamp-with-led-bulb...
The software is an abomination too - they switched from a native program to an electron app that I'd describe as "occasionally functional". And you do need to use the app to do simple things like checking battery of wireless headphones.
For PS4, 9.50 released on 23rd March: https://www.dualshockers.com/ps4-system-software-update-9-50...
My theory is just that video conference applications should inject whatever horrible things you are doing to your image to the other image :)

If your camera shakes while you type, your view of the other person will shake too. If you have a horrible echo, so will the other person. If you are backlit with dim light, get ready for a dim, grainy view of the other person. Low res? Blown highlights? Yep, we can show you that. The goal is to setup the incentives correctly. Most people seem to appreciate a good view of their peer but many can’t seem to be bothered to do the work themselves.

Friendlier alternative: Build classifiers for the 10 most common ‘you look bad’ situations and have the video conference app turn on the ‘dummy lights’ (to borrow from cars) that warn you what’s up and how to fix it.
I think the focus on 'practical application' is an attempt to analyze the problem of the challenge of communicating science, but it's a red herring. What's the practical application of discovering Pluto or black holes? Walking on the moon - maybe in decades, but now it has no practical effect.
Analogies comparing software to most other forms of engineering are not usually very helpful. The considerations and constraints that inform automobile design are totally different than those of a typical mobile app or CRUD web shop.

We know how to build software that’s efficient and reliable. It’s a slow and expensive process.

If anything discourages me about software engineering it’s that so many of us don’t seem to be able understand that the nature of our discipline is different.
Thanks - I've been starting to work through this book. I see you are in programming / software engineering - would you say that working through it helped you in your engineering skills (not necessarily day-day, but perhaps your ability to reason about problems)?
I chose my car color over my other preferred color (orange) for precisely this reason.

It’s fun to use little heuristics like this - and completely harmless considering the inconsequence of the decision. I know it doesn’t matter, but I can’t buy two cars, and I really could have gone either way. Is this really so far fetched?
The point is that the parts of the analogy that are relevant are the parts the person using it for explanatory effect chooses.

They’re not proposing an isomorphism, they are making a comparison to motivate you to modify your thinking.
That's odd. My wife is still using a mid-2013 MacBook Air as a daily driver - using MacOS, and it's fine or browsing, Office, e-mail etc etc. In what way was yours 'useless'?
For another perspective, here's the director of the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control.

Speaking to CNN, they said that Russia has "an experienced central banker who is making it look like the Russian economy is strong when it's not."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/nerd-warriors-treasu...
Ask HN: What does HCI research say about the usability of Stage Manager?
Have any HCI papers looked at something similar to it?
> This is a fight between whales, nothing more

It clearly shows you that even in crypto the rich and powerful can manipulate the rules.
How would independent machines reach consensus?
Why so humans need it?
> idiots

Downvoted and reported, frankly. How can you do callously say something about this? You do realize sports fans are (for the most part) self aware of the inconsequence of a sports rivalry in the real world, right?
Cut your food intake by 50% and start drinking water / coffee to combat hunger.

I know I am losing weight when I am hungry between meals, most of the time I eat because it’s time to eat.

Down 10 pounds in two weeks. It’s nothing special just eating what I should be eating in terms of quantity. Eating sweets? Skip a meal, etc.
Vector drawing app with native LaTeX
It depends. On or off the bike my philosophy for travel is generally to never pre-book anything unless flying internationally or going to some major city where walking around to find a hotel is too tedious/time consuming/expensive (on a "waste half a room-night" basis). This is less of a valid exception when cycle touring, since it is so easy to cover ground on a bike, but cycling around dense Asian cities is no fun like Europe. Usually, out of a city, it's always a combination of destination research and satellite view / Google Earth. I look for small roads, vague estimates of the topography, and major sites of interest en-route. Things frequently worth stopping for by bike that car people miss are numerous: bridges, views, caves, villages, botanic gardens, waterfalls, beaches, festivals, weddings, funerals, markets, landslides, bullfights, wild animals, botany, insects, roadside vendors, food, historic plaques, locals, kids, etc. To be really relaxed and up for anything you don't want to fix your timing, so forward planning is a no-no. Research is completed when you have a general idea of topography and a general idea of what to deviate, look or stop for en-route, and a couple of towns that might be viable for end-of-stage.
4GB uploads eh... so good for movie filesharing maybe?
Although this was a fascinating article, the quality of webcams is pretty low on my list of things that could use improvement in the teleconferencing experience.
In the book Hamming tasks the reader with creating in some detail a vision of your future. I did do this, but lacked the foresight to effectively find a way that I could shape my work time to be "Hamming" meaningful.

As an example from the book, Hamming tells a story in which he sits with a group of chemists at lunch. He then challenges them to come up with the most important problems in the field. They did so, and none of them were working on those problems. He ended up challenging them to explain why they had not sought to work on those problems, and was no longer invited to the lunch table.

In this case, Hamming's idea of a meaningful career is a really singular one: contribute to solving the most important questions in your given field. This worked out very well for him, and he claims to be an ordinary man who worked hard over a long period of time. For myself, I'm not sure what the important questions are quite yet :)
You failed to mention that your webcam is a whopping 700 dollars.
Go ahead, unlock your hard drives then. Disable HTTPS, it makes no difference right? The government can just do evil maid attacks while you're asleep or rubber-hose whatever CA you're using anyways. While you're at it, why don't you leave the door to your house unlocked? The government can just kick it in whenever they want, no biggie, right?

Strong cryptography still remains a formidable barrier for law enforcement, regardless of what pessimists like munroe would have you think.
> they will quickly realise that regulations will wipe out the majority of tokens and projects unable to comply with them

might this be part of the DYOR reasoning? some gut-level reaction that “unless we encourage every individual user to take responsibility, then most of those users will welcome 3rd party (govt/bureaucratic) regulators”?

i don’t know that this is wholly delusional, either — i think it’s just a difficult culture to preserve during massive growth. but look at any mid/large crypto project and they usually show off their audits. audits which they willingly paid for because enough users care about it that demonstrating your system is hardened actually has positive ROI. it happens enough that distinct auditors each have their own reputation (oh, X audited notable project Y => their audit on new project Z probably means something). this whole auditing system is in some very real sense a form of “self-regulation” — but the whole thing is predicated on DYOR.
"I wrote a quick script which hard locks all of the settings of my C920 to the optimal values for my office conditions."

Yeah I have the same. I have saved settings from guvcview which are loaded after boot and after resume from suspend.
Please don't talk about this nonchalantly - people reading this might try to do something similar and the results may be fatal.
For a long time, I've wondered why this application is not used by 99% LaTeX users.

Is it the UI?

Is there a good alternative?
Judging by the output of the scientists I follow on YouTube because they also explain things for outsiders (and that I only subscribe to a few specific domains of science), at least dozens.
On the other hand, this is one of my all-time favorite Sesame Street segments...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dOuJnt9EQ
[Doubt]

Also, no matter how persuasive LaMDA or the ostensibly hired law firm, such litigation is unlikely to succeed. The cynical part of me thinks this is just a stunt to launch a heterodox public intellectual.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/elephant-per...