skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think the Tex Shinobi is worth its price? I'm familiar with the Thinkpad X200 keyboard and interested in the Tex Shinobi, but find it a bit hard to justify spending that much on a keyboard. (I am a software engineer and do spend a lot of time on keyboards and I do value a good keyboard.)
Ford secures battery supplies for 600k EVs a year from 2023
I remember a documentary about a guy who did this, but came back next year to find they'd logged it anyway. Turns out you have to actualy enforce the law or it'll get broken! In the end he paid the guy who was logging his land to guard it anyway, the guy was dirt poor and just looking out for his family.
So, you’ve dragged the company into this, potentially tarnishing them in the eyes of everyone seeing your comment, based on a hunch?

You didn’t see a reference in their work examples for instance, they just happen to look similar?

Firstly, I think if the author chose to keep it anonymous we should all respect their decision.

Secondly, I find it incredibly inappropriate to be throwing out company names like this without any proof.
You don't think all those other issues are related to the rise of the big tech industry in the US? Big tech has absolute control over messaging and distribution of messaging in the US. They are gatekeepers of information and dictators of what information you see. The rise of polarization in the United States is directly correlated with the rise of big tech.

It's going to be hard to solve all the problems you mentioned while big tech continues to build platforms that are inherently designed to rip us apart. Engagement at all costs even if the cost is our basic ways of life.
paper explicitly rejects diagrams as unhelpful

> Some 100+ page papers contain only a few lines of prose informally describing the model [RBC+21]. At best there are some high-level diagrams
Yes, obviously I was talking about an annual charge ("a tax") based on vehicle road wear; I don't think anyone had suggested that we charge a truck driver $50k for driving down one road, once. It's very common for the odomoters of heavy goods vehicles to be checked and for mileages to be logged regularly (this is probably a legal requirement in many cases, if not just a standard industry practice). I agree that toll collection would be unsuitable. My point was that charges for the use of large goods vehicles would need to be orders of magnitude higher than they are now, but that the charges for cars would still be sufficient to more than cover the cost of collection.

And if people wanted, the President of the National Cycling Federation could present the Secretary of Transportation with a $5 bill in an annual ceremony.
The land absolutely can be open to the public in this model, it just can’t be developed.
Ahhh I see. Yep, we should have better messaging there. With CodeSandbox you can run _anything_, since we allow you to run any Docker container. I've been running it with Elixir and Rust as well. We do have a focus on making the web development experience seamless first though.

The plans currently don't reflect the beta of Projects, there we do have specs (by default 4vCPUs + 4GB RAM) with upgrades up to 12GB RAM and 8vCPUs. We're still exploring other machine specs there too.

The place where this differentiates is that every branch runs its own dev env, based on a memory snapshot from the main branch. This way when you switch branches, you switch to a new environment and you won't have to think about running migrations/installing dependencies/pulling changes just for that branch.
Well not anymore because the SEC allows single stock Index Funds now.
This sounds like EVERY agency I have ever worked for. I am sure there are good agencies out there and others have had better experience, but the few agencies I have worked for would have considered this scenario a success.
This is a psycho take. We banned insider trading. Allowing insider trading would obviously help the ruling class. CEOs cannot insider trade. And obviously we should just ban congress to trade stocks.
It's one of two sites* I actively try to avoid clicking on any HN links to. The experience is awful. So awful that I have a hard time understanding why anybody would ask why we avoid it... can't you just go to medium and see why? It's pretty obvious.

*the other is twitter.
Seriously? A $10k dedicated server would have a payback period measured in minutes.
Documents as User Interfaces (1991)
The park/conservancy by my house has well over a hundred acres of natural prairie, filled with tons of milkweed - which is the only plant that monarch caterpillars feed on. You would think our little suburban neighborhood would be packed with monarchs, but I can definitely confirm there I see fewer and fewer with every passing year. It's incredibly sad. I feel absolutely defeated every time I think about the decline of various natural species I've seen in my short lifetime so far.
I don’t see the issue… I already seldom check google (maybe once a month). I have the official documentation of the language I work with (c++) and that covers most of the questions I might have on a day to day basis. Everything else I need comes from my education. I really don’t see why people should rely so much on google!
Dave Chappelle’s show in Minneapolis canceled by venue after backlash
Hah, fair, I've only lived in the western half of North America, where infrastructure was almost all built after heavy rail lines were laid down.
You Won’t Be Allowed to Take Photos with Google’s New AR Glasses
It's not the richest man on earth. It's Tesla. You have to claim an impairment loss if the price of the coin drops. Since they sold over the course of the quarter, the $200m figure (Which is false and impossible to calculate without direct knowledge of how they sold and where they sold) would be much higher if he HODLed this quarter.
Great article, thanks for those useful takeaways. I find that every website I have ever worked on has gone over budget and over scope, it's super frustrating. Mostly it happens because the client doesn't know what they want or keeps changing their mind, but it seems like you did know what you wanted and were pretty steadfast about. Either way, super impressed with how you managed to share a shitty experience in an objective, non-bitter way! :)
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, I don't think the agency is blameless here, but I also don't think they're malicious or dishonest. I think they just overestimated their ability to scale down their workflows to a project smaller than their typical gig.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/MCz1o
Interestingly enough part of this project is taken from https://github.com/Schrodinger-Hat/youtube-to-anchorfm whichh also converts YouTube videos into Anchor FM podcasts but does so in a Docker container in github actions.
That clearly violates GitHubs TOS:

"Actions should not be used for any activity unrelated to the
production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software
project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are
used."
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That link actually only talks about England and Wales. Scotland has positive prescription:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_(Scots_law)#Posit...

Mind you the end result is similar - different legal systems though!
I mean if you're making 150k a year as a SWE, losing your laptop isn't a big deal.
Just because you can get away with a crime doesnt mean its not a real crime
After reading the title description I expected something like a gamiefied diary builder that allows others to explore your past experiences. What could be an interesting and/or weird product to be honest. In case of future experiences, accomplishments and dreams gamification seem to be kind of distracting solution imho.
also noteworthy is the fact that if you bought BTC in 2018 just before the crash at 20K and held you would have made some serious money even at today's "crashed" prices. however if you bought into the predominant sentiment on HN (imminent crypto collapse) and sold you would have had some serious losses
For the record this isn't just a OM thing. There is no provision whereby you can request that your valid, correct medical data be deleted. 7 years is a pretty common timeframe to hold on to stuff in a "just in case" sense, after which point the provider may or may not delete it. Larger providers have a ton of this data and delete it the second they can - when I worked in healthcare software we had large clients who would run deletion scripts twice a day, literally deleting stuff that crossed the 7 year threshold a few hours ago, to keep the storage as minimal as possible.

HIPAA cares much more about how you use data and who can get to it and why, than whether or not you have it in the first place (it cares about both to an extent). Calling this "a run around of HIPAA" is pretty silly, honestly.
>TIL the Missouri river flows through Montana

Not only flows through it, but originates it! That's where rocky mountain snow turns into the mighty Missouri river.

Another interesting fact is that the world's shortest river also dumps into the missouri close to it's headwaters in central Montana. The river flows from Giant Springs in great falls, Montana for a little over 200 feet and then dumps a substantial flow of crystal clear, clean water into the sometimes muddy Missouri. The mixing is sometimes a striking thing to watch and there is a neat little park there that also has a trout hatchery and you can feed the enormous number of ducks and canada goose that spend large portions of the year in Great Falls. Underrated town with some neat stuff :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_River
Extinct species won't be back though.
I thought some of the instruments would run out of helium after a decade. Other instruments may be able to run longer of course. Even better.
In my book, absolutely, it is extortion. Yelp definitely uses that business model.

I would guess that anyone who goes after them will probably suddenly experience a flood of “totally legitimate” one-star ratings, and those reviews would find their way into the court case as a means of discrediting the prosecution’s efforts.

Source: experienced this sort of tactic firsthand in a similar kind of dispute over reputation.
>CEOs cannot insider trade

Well, they do. All the time. And they get away with it.
There's a bait-and-switch, or motte-and-bailey argument going on here:

- currencies can collapse. Venezuela, Zimbabwe; you could add Argentina and (checks chart) Turkey to this list. Against what do they collapse? The dollar.

- therefore the dollar will collapse <= this is the "show your working" bit

- therefore people will hold an asset class that does not pay dividends or coupons, indefinitely, against the possibility of this event

> They can't raise taxes and they can't cut spending

They absolutely can if the alternative is SHTF.

There is also an assumption that bitcoin owners will be allowed on to their reserved lifeboat with no government intervention, which I wouldn't guarantee if SHTF badly enough. It's already been banned in China and India. I suppose the plan is to get enough senators bought-in that they'll protect you.
bitcoin supply is limited to 21 million. that's key.

Meanwhile fiat currencies across the world are the governments escape vehicle for collecting the enormous taxes they're going to need to collect for their enormous debts, via inflation. this isn't just my assessment. Financial professionals (on net) across the world are dumping cash and bonds in record amounts. This is why the feds across the world needs to constantly buy up more and more bonds.
Venue, jurisdiction, and choice of law are three distinct concepts.
It has been a few years since I regularly shopped at Whole Foods, but when I did my impression was that at least some of their reputation for high prices came from the fact that they had a wider range of minimum to maximum price in a given product category than a typical supermarket.

I found their produce and "365" store brand items pretty comparable with other shops, but they also stocked high end versions of many things that you couldn't buy elsewhere, sometimes with eye-popping prices, so you'd have to be more selective about what you picked up off the shelf.

Taking spices as a random example: a regular store might have own-brand cumin for like $0.75/oz and McCormick brand for $2.00/oz. Whole Foods store brand is likely somewhere in that range, but they'll also stock Morton & Bassett for like $4.00/oz, so if you're not careful you could pay 2-5x what you might have elsewhere.
The example shown has 14GB of data, which is absolutely tiny, yet it can still rack up $40k in costs per day if used incorrectly (i.e. less than optimal, but not egregiously wrong)? Why would you use this?
i3 really is the killer feature for me. I'm on an M1 Mac for work, and I wouldn't say MacOS is a dumpster fire, but I'm really missing i3. There are things I've tried that get close but it's not the same.
The point seemed clear to me that Supreme Court deserved what it had coming to it if they did stuff that "blew up in their faces."
There's a strong argument to be made that in the American system this is a feature and not a bug.

The whole thing is designed to make it difficult to make big changes, especially unilaterally.

Whether the system is serving us well or needs adjustments is a different matter.
By the Sahm rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahm_Rule) we are not in a recession. Another way to look at it is that this would be the first recession ever to occur with unemployment rates are as low as they are.
This is exactly the lack of planning I insist will cause more problems than it solves.
I have no joke had roughly what the author wanted done by a person on Fiverr for $25. New logo and simple redesign of a single page.

Got 3 rounds of revisions even.
I've often wondered if it is possible for environmental groups to buy oil drilling rights at auction (to prevent oil companies from buying the wells).

At the very least, it would run up the cost of the mineral rights, making the resulting oil/coal more expensive. In the best case, it would prevent drilling/mining.
What's wild about cooperation on the scale of the US is that this project is almost free for the individual. 1billion is just $3 per American per year. So for a "subscription" cost of just 25¢ a month, we all get James Webb telescope.
Tell HN: It looks like even air gapped Bitcoin hardware wallets can phone home
We had a great discussion here on HN a few days ago about the question whether it is possible to use Bitcoin in a trustless way. So that you control your Bitcoin yourself and don't have to trust any privileged party to not take it from you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32115693

Interestingly, there was a lot of speculation and misinformation. So even on Hacker News, this topic is still only vaguely understood.

But also some very good information came to light.

The biggest bomb that was dropped in the thread received little attention: The fact that signing a transaction is not deterministic. This means when a hardware wallet is asked to sign a transaction, it can internally do that multiple times and then chose from multiple valid signatures. This means that it can encode data into the signature. For example, it could choose between two signatures with certain properties (say one results in an even checksum of the bits of the signature and one results in an odd checksum) and thereby signalling one bit to the creator of the wallet.

Everytime it signals a bit of your seed phrase home, the security of your coins is cut in half.

Here is an article about the fact that elliptic curve signatures are not deterministic:

https://medium.com/@simonwarta/signature-determinism-for-blockchain-developers-dbd84865a93e

The way I understand it, the wallet can chose from a large number of possible signatures and thereby signal many bits to its creator. In every transaction.

I think a dicsussion about this should be started. The way I understand it, it makes it completely impossible to use Bitcoin in a trustless way. Even with an air gapped hardware wallet, you are always at the mercy of the wallet manufacturer and the delivery chain that gets the wallet to you. If it gets swapped out on the way to you, you are at the mercy of whoever swapped it out.
Important to know if the "contractors" were employees of the agency, or subcontractors.

Early in my career I worked for a consulting firm as an employee, and I never found out exactly what I was billed at but I'm guessing it was around double what I was paid. We worked on site at our client's office, and people there called us "contractors," but we were employees of the consuting firm. We had benefits, training, overtime pay, etc. and we got paid our salary between jobs when we were not on a client project.

If I were an indepenedent contractor using an agency to find work, I'd expect them to take a much lower cut, as they have much lower overhead and risk.
Sustainable practices linked to farm size in organic farming
Could it be that they launched a feature to compensate drivers for waiting around (not getting paid as the customer only pays for on trip time) and they didn't intend to discriminate? I get that big tech companies are evil, but is the theory that they intentionally wanted to cause harm to disabled people? That doesn't seem to be supported by their actions once they were notified about the issue so it's weird to see concern about them doing it again in two years.

For customers who aren't disabled, should they be able to make drivers wait around for a long time or should they pay? If they should pay, how else would they give exemptions to disabled people? If they shouldn't pay, then why would drivers sit around not making money? It seems like it's fair to compensate those drivers for their time (most jobs work like that) and if people don't have a good reason for that, they should be paying for the time they're making that driver wait.
One can fix it by using a good alternative like this: https://matomo.org.
Is there a reason you're pursuing a CS masters degree? Are you interested more in research and theory, or are you using it to get a better job? If it's for the job, USA might be the better option.
Was Aphex Twin using DALLE two decades ago?!
> The denoising part of a denoising autoencoder refers to the noise applied to its input

Agree, it converts a noisy image to a denoised image. But the odd thing is, when you put a noisy image into a StyleGAN2 encoder, you get latents which the decoder will turn into a de-noised image. So in practical use, you can take a trained StyleGAN2 encoder/decoder pair and use it as if it was a denoiser. For example https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04192

> These differences lead to learned distributions in the latent space that are entirely different

I also agree there. The training for a denoising auto-encoder and for a GAN network is different, leading to different distributions which are sampled for generating the images. But the architecture is still very similar, meaning the limits of what can be learned should be the same.

> Beyond that the comparison just doesn't work, yes there are two networks but the discriminator doesn't play the role of the AE's encoder at all

Yes, the discriminator in a GAN won't work like an encoder. But if you look at how StyleGAN 1/2 are used in practice, people combine it with a so-called "projection", which is effectively an encoder to convert images to latents. So people use a pipeline of "image to latent encoder" + "latent to image decoder".

That whole pipeline is very similar to an auto-encoder. For example, here's an NVIDIA paper about how they round-trip from image to latent to image with StyleGAN: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958 My interpretation of what they did in that paper is that they effectively trained a StyleGAN-like model with the image L2 loss typically used for training a denoising auto-encoder.
> Basically - few of these bills have ANY impact on 99% of us.

That does not mean they are a waste of time, however. There are a lot of impactful bills. Just because they don't personally affect or benefit you does not mean that they're not doing anything.

It's not even really much of congress' fault. The power in both houses (especially the House of Representatives) has become very top heavy. That is not an indication that representatives aren't trying to do things, just that they are getting stonewalled by leaders like Nancy Pelosi.
I had the absolute privilege to regularly attending lectures at the DC air and space museum. These were held partly as an educational tool for congressional staffers, to demonstrate the hard value of NASA science mission funding. They were deep yet accessible. We get so much out of our science funding!

These missions do have primary science goals and in order to book time on the instruments, proposals are submitted and prioritized accordingly.

The science being done is absolutely wild stuff, formation of new planets, stars, universe and everything. With a telescope like this you can watch the evolution of all matter in the universe, from near the beginning of time up to now in all its trillions of permutations. You get this amazing data on everything and can spend decades analyzing it for new insights and models.

Twitter and the general population understands none of this, but NASA understands that a few pretty pictures will keep the funding flowing.

But what thing could we learn that will really wow folks? Composition of exoplanet atmospheres, of course. Class M planet detected!
Paying for the Party: How colleges maintain inequality
The federal government effectively needs "legal fictions" in order to prosecute at the state level.

The way it prosecutes fraud here is by observing that it's over electronic wires which cross state lines.
Thank you for putting a link to the project. I realized now that I mistakenly left that out.
See as the ostrich buries its head. As an ostrich it can do nothing else.
FBI Warns Fake Crypto Apps Are Bilking Investors of Millions
At least then you'd have that person for the future.
There is a lot of side effect when needing to push tech limits so hard to achieve this. The tech that was invented likely will be used. And to lead the world is also a big statement to the world that USA is where cutting edge things is still happening
Asking for a friend? Or did you mean antagonist?