skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$20m in funding means they have a serious business case - it sounds like to take down ESRI and the rest of GIS?

Does anyone on the team watch HN? Mind chipping in a thought?
If you have access to a computer, make a super-simple game with her - just an arcanoid. I had a very bright experience with this, and it can be done in browser DevTools.

At first, it’s just a big circle floating in the middle of the screen.

Then you make it move diagonally (x+1,y+1 on each iteration of an infinite cycle).

Then you figure out where the extents of the screen are, together, and make it bounce off, and this is where fun starts!

You add new objects for the circle/ball to bounce from, player-controlled pad at the bottom of the screen, devise new levels where ball moves in amusing patterns, breakable blocks and things like power-ups etc. You can add sound at some point.

All in all, this can be an extremely fun journey for weeks!
Unlike others, I think terrible crypto is often better than plaintext.

But they would have gotten an actually secure system implemented more cheaply with less code by just copying some example code from libsodium[1]. The author(s) went to a whole lot of unnecessary effort and the result is an insecure, embarrassing mess.

I would respect the argument of "oh, they're just picking a different point along the Pareto frontier between secure / high effort and insecure / low effort". But this is both insecure and high effort. People are piling on because it has the trademark smell of bad judgement.

Its also a great learning opportunity. Its interesting hearing about all the security problems people who are knowledgeable in the field can spot! I noticed barely any of these problems!

[1] Quick Reference, from the bottom of the article: https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/06/libsodium-quick-reference...
That would be a good hack.
Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939871 (185 comments)
Plenty of pubs competing with each other, and the pub culture is one of sitting and drinking slowly. A US bar is to a pub what McDonald's is to a restaurant - a very different business model that relies on pushing people through quickly.
> People need lots of things. The principal constraints on real estate are political. (The entire concept of real estate is a social construct.) Not physical space.

Even if (the amount of) physical space isn't one of the main constraints on real estate, any particular location may be more desirable relative to others, e.g. a gorgeous view, away from factories or highways.
Given that tattoos and piercings are often an expression of bodily autonomy and self-expression, I don't find it too shocking that people who've experienced abuse (and often lack of those very things as part of it) would gravitate to it.
> I added some genetic background. That definitely isn't it.

It isn’t “it”, but you sure as hell know that lipid metabolism has a considerable genetic component.

> Mother is on statins now in her late 60s.

Even with your lipid levels posted if you have even a touch of hypertension you will have an indication for statin in your late 60s based of CV risk.

Seriously I am happy that you’re physically fit and doing well not trying to diminish that - but I could not help but be amused that you’re flexing off of results seen in medical training. Granted some of us train in relatively healthy areas - but I trained and work with a patient panel with A1c often in the teens - so just the thought of gauging my own progress off that comes off somewhat sadly as ludicrously funny.

My somewhat tech related story was we recently had a transfer patient with an A1c of 127. The limit on these assays is typically around 20% - but apparently the lab interface in this case stores A1c as a signed 8 bit integer and a maxed out value as +max - after mentioning this the endocrinologist gave me a blank stare and walked away.
Repeated orders are turnover. Same thing.
Has this gotten worse in the last 20 years, though? I think it was similarly bad around 2000, and yet, Americans have gotten less healthy over that period.
Prototypical boomer. Rode the wave, cashed out big.
There is a massive alcoholism, binge drinking, and future fatty liver disease problem building in Britain. Massive. It causes me great concern from afar, I am watching family and friends whose only social outlet is to go and get hammered in the pub.

I loved my local (York, 1980s) and I loved being in the snug, and I love the friendlyness of a local, but you would have to be daft to ignore the massive, huge future cost/consequence of a culture which thinks socialising == booze

Here in Australia its a smaller problem. The big one is buying booze from the bottle shop to drink at home. It hits some people very hard, but its not quite the same as promiscuous group/peer pressure drinking in the pub like in the UK. Youth binge drinking is a life-long consequence activity.

Britain has been here before. Beer was watered down at the turn of the 19th century and Hogarth's "gin lane" is a parody of a real problem, the relatively cheap highly potent dutch jenever (gin) which was leaking into british society. Tax is now actively used as back pressure on alcohol consumption, just as for sugar. It's divisive of course. So was taxes on smoking.

Preloading. Shooters. Happy hour. Last orders. This is going to be why kids die young in the next 40-50 years.

Plus, the public spaces after closing time are a cesspit.
The overhead of containerisation is mostly in the learning curve for teams that are not already familiar with it (and the consequent risk of a poor implementation). A well designed build pipeline and deployment is at least as efficient to work with as your Terraform+Ansible.

If you have such a team, it can of course make sense to delay or avoid containerisation if you don't see obvious major technical benefits.

But those teams will get rarer as time goes on, and since we're talking about startups, honestly it would be questionable to build a new ops team from people with no containers knowledge in 2022.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making with your story - the technical manager wasn't 'hazing' you, they were simply trying to validate your cv against reality by making to talk to what's on there in detail.
Are you suggesting what he did was a bad interview practice?
>If America ever wants to solve racial tension, it needs to stop pretending that racial problems are fixed.

I clearly never said that. Please stop suggesting it and actually address my points instead of dishonestly changing the topic. You are causing racial tensions to continue and are the problem not the solution.

You are doing the exact thing you are accusing others of doing. Denying racism is occurring.

> This is utter bullshit on every level, and you should be ashamed of yourself for such intellectual dishonesty.

Telling white kids they are bad is the generic CRT I am talking about. You cannot deny this is happening. There are multiple witnesses and audio recordings of multiple cases. You need to stop your dishonesty.

You are getting off topic, deliberately. It doesn't matter if some people deny slavery or whatever it is your are rambling about. There is a type of CRT that is occurring and that is just a fact. Instead of accusing somebody of being in a Fox News bubble (which I don't even watch) maybe you should expand your news sources since they are clearly not bringing up all these cases that are happening all the time.
Ha. Babies absolutely do not always shut up and be happy walking/jogging/whatever.
Reminds me of a classic story about uber-banker JP Morgan getting stock questions from his shoe-shine boy, and so deciding to sell all stock sensing a crash was coming.

His reasoning was that if even the shoe-shine boy was buying stock, the market was saturated and had no-where to go but down.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5273325-j-p-morgan-tells-th...
"I wanted to succeed in academia I would need to churn out incremental research papers every year — at very least until I had tenure"

I sympathize with that track. It's essential the long-term version of "show your work". He would have spent at least 5 years, perhaps many more, writing papers based on small bits of his overall findings on shared caches in multi-threaded CPUs as a cryptographic side channel. Each paper would focus on a tiny bit of the problem, and eventually build up to a full foundation for the real work. All well and good, until some academic with tenure and a raft of papers to his name decides to go ahead and write the actual paper that needs to be written, and takes credit for the important results.
Let's name it for what it is: voter disenfranchisement on an industrial scale.
I assume you had the best intentions with this comment (it does probably apply to a lot of children) but it also is a top contender for that “HN comment of the day” ;)
Opinion: Structural editing is superior to the Vim grammar
I tried switching from jetbrains to various modal editors (neovim, doom-emacs, kakoune, helix).
The fast startup time and continuity when working in a terminal environment was very appealing,
as was the promise of increased code editing effeciency.

I liked the fast startup time and having the same keybindings to edit system config files but
I am not impressed with VIM style text editing. First of all programmers don't really edit text,
we edit code. VIM's grammar does not acknowledge this. It is centered around lines, words etc.
Code is a tree. A grammar/keybinds designed around traversing, selecting and modifying this tree would be superior for editing code IMO.

Of course I can install tree-sitter and setup structual editing based bindings but am I really
using VIM at this point? I don't think the VIM grammar is the future of code editing.
I think it is a bit overrated. I think editor designers should work on developing a grammar/keybinds
that center around structural/tree based editing.
I have found that IDE's tend to acknowledge this tree based
"reality" better than VIM.

I think this concept could even be applied to source control ie. git stores an tree-sitter like
representation of code instead of text. Your text editor handles formatting.
You could evaluate the interviewer that way, but IMO it's more valuable to evaluate the interview process since that will apply to everyone you would work with. If the interview is easy, expect to work with warm bodies.
Citing wikipedia, and cherrypicking one of the few pieces of research that partially argues against the effect in the massive article, is dubious.

The study you cited, indeed, doesn't deny the bystander effect that each person becomes less likely to help as more people are present. It just argues that in the most dangerous situations, the odds of someone intervening goes up slightly as the number of people increase. See https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/134891/1/Would_I_be_He...

I can tell you, my probability of intervening is lower the more people that are around. The total probability of someone intervening may go up or down based on a lot of circumstances. This is consistent with many individual research findings and meta-analyses, e.g. https://asset-pdf.scinapse.io/prod/2107050526/2107050526.pdf

As other people point out, it is rational and even helpful to be less inclined to intervene when more people are around and are likely to be able to help.
I love linux but the desktops are horrendously balkanized. I support the continued development of Unity in the hopes it destroys others. I mean, it won't.... but at least Linux is trying.

We had a solid 10 years of Apple neglecting OSX and more importantly Microsoft ruining windows with their tiles dual desktop. What did Linux do? pointless rewrites that added nothing to the fundamental usability of the desktops.

The opportunity has passed. We either hope that Satella moves Windows closer to Linux/Unix, or ... desktop linux fades with desktops in general.
not if you are retired, the way it works here the marginal tax rate of a pensioner could end up around 80% when means tested pension payments are taken account of.

For someone that has worked all their life and paid a shitload of tax I find that a little offensive and have no problem with them optimising their returns in their golden years.
Your comment reads a bit like this:

I am creative. If you are not, it is because you lack the willpower.

Funnily enough, it is the reverse expectation that is often placed. "If you can't concentrate, it's because you lack the willpower" etc.

I lived under this burden that something was wrong with me my whole life; that I had some character flaw that made me unsuccessful at things that other people find easy.

And then I was diagnosed with ADD. And then I was prescribed drugs. And then I discovered what it was like to be a normal human being. It turns out that it took just 35 milligrams of a single substance to allow me to focus just like other human beings can, and get through a normal work day like other human beings can.

The point of my story is this: people are wired differently. It is not a character flaw that someone doesn't have an attribute that you should think they have. It is not a lack of willpower or focus.

I have a highly creative brain. It is clear that there is something that causes my brain to make connections faster than most others. And, that thing also helps me make new and random connections in a way that most others will never experience.

This thing, this creative spark, is also my ADD. My brain is constantly taking me on weird and wonderful journeys. I don't choose it, it just happens. And the same thing in reverse. I don't choose to lose focus. It just happens. My brain is constantly making noise and interrupting me. It just happens.
Looks good — I’ve been looking for a low-level SR system not tied to a SaaS or Anki.
Thank you for the explanation Jecel, that makes it look as though it was always destined to be in the 'coprocessor' domain.

How is the Smalltalk-to-hardware project coming along?
I’m signing up to try it now… I find this exciting as I struggle sometimes to make Google maps or similar spit out maps how I want it to. (Basically picking address along the exact route I want a map of…).

I also have had to make maps to print out for events… this may fit the use case there perfectly.
Meta is pulling the plug on its crypto payments wallet, Novi
Nothing beats cutting down on distractions.
“* I’m looking to understand why Germany should have to manage its economy based on the aims of the rest of the EU and not their own*”

Because Germany has renounced part of its independence and sovereignty by joining the EU, so now it has to do the patriotic thing and think of that larger collective. As a point of comparison, should New York do what is best for New York, or what is best for the country? At least sometimes, we expect New York to sacrifice its own interests and do the patriotic thing for the whole country. As was pointed out many times during the crisis years of 2008-2013, many of the problems in the EU exist because of its partial and unfinished integration. It is very difficult to have a unified currency without also having a unified fiscal policy. As others have pointed out, the EU cannot survive in its current state, either it breaks up or it deepens its integration and becomes a United States of Europe.
Same here unfortunately. Strollers, carriers, carrying-without-carriers. All ending in tantrums very soon.
if you want out of the box Vue 3 component framework, try https://quasar.dev/
Personally, I think a lot more blame should be dumped on the gym industry.
Sure, the unhealthy food industry is primarily to blame, but keeping physically fit was something that people did everywhere: sports in the park, exercise at home.

Now we've ended up with a significant number of ultra-toned individuals (I think higher than ever in terms of percentage actually) that spend a significant amount of time making everyone else look bad.

This raising of the bar coupled with the fact that working out need to be done now in special locations that involve a lot more effort than doing 20 push-ups at home, many people have given up entire on exercise as it seems futile to them.
> Isn’t it fair to say that most of the biggest open source projects and/or most useful projects are developed by people employed by either universities or companies?

Yes, except that largely those projects are tangential to the "real" research. Larry Wall, creator of Perl and other useful things, is a linguist who was "studying linguistics with the intention of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it."[1]. Perl was just a side project.

1 https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/225
> Well, I dont think there's need for a personal attack here.

Correctly observing that someone is making false claims due to their allegiance to a brand name is not a personal attack.

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> they are still quite significantly faster for an ultrabook

The benchmarks do not support this claim.

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> and they do deliver the battery life.

Tom's hardware has them at 14 hours, the Surface Laptop at 17. Tom's hardware also says the Surface Laptop is faster. There are Lenovos with 35 hour battery life.

14 hours is pretty standard. The flagships of HP, Dell, Lenovo, and MSI also all do 15-17 hours. Apple's actually slightly behind the pack here.

Please note that battery life and CPU power are inversely correlated; you'll never find a laptop that's good with both, and if someone's telling you they have, they're lying to you

It's like saying that the car that delivers the most horsepower also uses the least gas. No, it doesn't, and you should know that.

In reality, these are both average middle of the road machines. They aren't particularly powerful when compared to one of MSI's beasts, and they aren't particularly battery lived when compared to one of those glorified tablets you can get.

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> could intel or amd or OEMs achieve the performance to power ration soon ?

They did five years ago, according to the measurements and evidence.

I have never shopped for laptops according to their "performance power ratio."
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Dude.

Buy caulipower brand pizza (either the pepperoni pizza or the cheese and add your own slice two of pepperoni.

Let thaw for 20 min.

Bake at 425 for 9 min.

Checks all the above.
>(Given Coinbase's debt trades comparably to Russia's [2], the smart money is betting users will get nothing in a failure.)

The intention of your comment is to paint coinbase debt as worthless, but after doing some research I came to a different conclusion: that russian debt isn't as worthless as I thought. Right now 10 year russian bond yields are at 9.15%[1], which is only a little over 6 percentage points above the "risk free" rate of 2.96%[2] for US treasuries. For reference that's about the rate for B rated US corporate bonds[3].

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/government-bond-yield

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y

[3] https://data.nasdaq.com/data/ML/BEY-us-b-rated-corporate-bon...
Related: check out this movie, younger HN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker [1981]

"During his investigation, Roberts discovers some advanced technology that the Digital Matrix corporation is using to hypnotize consumers into buying the products they advertise. He also discovers a light pulse device, the Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.) gun, that gives the illusion of invisibility by instantly mesmerizing its victims into losing all sense of time."

:)
>> Quantum Monte Carlo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Monte_Carlo :

>> Quantum Monte Carlo encompasses a large family of computational methods whose common aim is the study of complex quantum systems. One of the major goals of these approaches is to provide a reliable solution (or an accurate approximation) of the quantum many-body problem. [...] The difficulty is however that solving the Schrödinger equation requires the knowledge of the many-body wave function in the many-body Hilbert space, which typically has an exponentially large size in the number of particles. Its solution for a reasonably large number of particles is therefore typically impossible,*

> What sorts of independent states can or should we map onto error-corrected qubits in an approximating system?

> Propagation of Uncertainty ... Numerical stability ... Chaotic convergence, ultimately, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty
Their CEO (username: hinting) commented on this post about Felt recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587950
> Jan 6 was totally inappropriate, bombing abortion clinics is totally inappropriate.

Obviously.

> Defending people or politicians who support those acts seems like a strange position to take, to put it mildly.

I'm not defending it I'm calling it a red herring.

> Also, dude, these are your downtrodden forgotten rural masses: the trump rioters all paid their way to go to DC on a workday! Including hotels, airfare, you name it.

America is a rich country where many bartenders can afford airfare on a weekday. That does not change the power and economic dynamic between MGT's district and NYC/SF.
I build a product in this space and our traction is pretty good because we capture the data as well & follow customers with lots of infrastructure way down that very long last mile. We put in as much work into a handful of last mile solutions (that do scale quite well) as we do to our generic more generic Felt like base layer - admittedly Felt is much more polished than ours, but yeah we don't have a lot of traction on that self-service lightweight easy to use online GIS model.
I live in suburbia and gave up on food delivery years ago. The drivers would regularly get lost. I would provide directions on how to find my apartment building and unit number. They would arrive at the complex, and still get lost, having not read the instructions. Some drivers would call, say "I'm in the parking lot", and expect me to find them (there's 8 different buildings.)

It's cheaper and more convenient to pick the food up myself.
> Is it even possible to walk places in California?

California is vast, so there are many areas that are almost comically walk-proof, but there are also cities with a high average "walk score".

https://www.walkscore.com/CA/

I live in a SoCal coastal city of 60K which has a fairly low "walk score" of 43. The services I'd need on a regular basis are in the neighborhood of a 20-45m walk (one way).
Iron isn't harmful.
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Yes, Rubrics. You want standardized non biased interviews, right? "Standardized non biased" often translates into bureaucratic.
Why is this even here on HN?

I see no prototype, no torque output predictions for a prototype, and no documentation that it's even been built.

It reminds me of when I was part of a hydrogen PEM fuel cell start up in Cupertino 30 years ago, we had one guy who put together two pressure cookers with a coil of copper pipe between them and he was always trying to get us to forget our "worthless" quest and go with his sure thing free energy "engine".

At best this magnetic anomaly "device" might rotate like a radiometer, but wholly unable to provide sufficient torque to do any useful work.

If it even works, perhaps the "inventor" could make them to sell as curiosity pieces like a radiometer that can't do anything but rotate, and their ignorant friends could observe and exclaim, "Ohhh, free energy"!

Don't waste your time attempting to build this obvious hoax.