skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemini [0] is one. It's basically a vertically integrated HTTP(S)+HTML+CSS+JS replacement for the indie web that solves a lot of issues of modern web stacks... by doing away with most of the features that aren't needed for a 1998-style Web. It's meant to supplement WWW and not to supplant it.

Gemini is purposely designed not to be extensible, and to omit features that would allow the plagues of the 21st C, such as user tracking, fingerprinting, resource-hungry and bloated clients, excessive interactivity via JavaScript etc., to be a part of the user experience.

Despite that, it's pretty usable. Creating a Gemini site is not terribly complicated, and if you don't want to use Gemini's native markup language, you may use something like Markdown instead because many Gemini clients support that. Interactivity may be added via server-side processing, just like CGI.

One of the most technically impressive/surprising solutions in Gemini is how they leveraged TOFU [1] and TLS keypairs to provide an optional decentralised user identity protocol that effectively obsoletes the need for SSO - because the browser can automatically log you in via your TLS keypair.

[0]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use
Large corporations and states have increasing inefficiencies of scale. I remember reading an article posted on HN about a guy who got paid $17K for a static HTML page.

Full Time Employee is a funny institution in many countries. Leave a comment below if you had ever (or regularly) been asked to report 8 hours a day on a time sheet even if you actually worked 4.

You have to find different project codes to make it “look right”. If you feel bad and bring up to your manager that you have some downtime, it becomes their problem and they have to find you more work but then you might be overloaded other times. So most people don’t rock the boat, why bother?

So around the country, most FTE jobs in large corporations are like this. People sitting around the watercooler or in meetings, getting lunch and doing one or two things per day. Government employees, too.

With the rise of automation, we’ll have even more productivity. Hopefully with UBI people can start being more honest and work 20 hour workweeks, and spend the rest of the time with their family or pursuing hobbies.
Because there still exists informational asymmetry where the platform/exchange owners (and all employees privy to that information) still have material advantage over their customers but can now manipulate them easier than they can in traditional systems. With traditional systems, you have to purchase shares with your real name and thus regulators are able to detect patterns easier. In DeFi, these guys just spun up new anonymous wallets each time and if they were slightly better at it, they likely never would’ve been caught. Getting to parity of current insider trading detection in DeFi would require massive data analysis constantly keeping track of which wallets make suspiciously timed trades, leading to the same financial surveillance and de-anonymity DeFi wants to solve. One good tweet is not enough to validate the whole system.
…moments before the asteroid strikes.
Disjoint-Sets have a very cool implementation whose amortized time complexity is extremely slow growing. It is not quite constant, but even for a disjoint-set with as many elements as there are particles in the universe, the amortized cost of an operation will be less than or equal to 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure
I'd go further and call it the neoliberal party. Business isn't necessarily evil. But selling out the people to huge multinational corporations is evil. Giving away our resources and institutions to corporations while screwing over small businesses is a problem. These are the same corporations that are their donors, that they buy stocks in and get cushy jobs when they retire.
I've been on both ends of a scenario like this, as a client and also as the manager. Both situations suck, but they happen.

I actually really like the redesign, one thing I'd change is make the blue color a little less cold and a bit more inviting - but current one still works well.

However, the amount of money it cost is absolutely ridiculous.
You don't have to establish product market fit in order to provide services to your own institutions. It's a great idea to piggyback on your own needs to create services that could be expanded to the general public.
It’s famously administered to all nfl quarterbacks. Tom Brady got a 33.
Most people have insurance but the ones doing the crashing disproportionately do not, either because their prior crashing resulted in a requirement for expensive bonded insurance or because their habit of crashing made their insurance prohibitively expensive. I think some places also won't insure drivers who don't have a license, which also correlates well with drivers who get drunk and crash into things.
Google has YouTube, Apple has Apple TV, Amazon has Prime. Microsoft is the only trillion dollar company with no streaming service and I think they want one .
They’re not as mysterious as implied. They’re essentially private hotels, with restaurants and bars. You know the other members and the staff, and they have social events, so it’s like a hotel where you’re more likely to bump into someone you know.

The dress codes might sound odd to someone from the US, but really a jacket and tie is not an abnormal dress code for nice London places in general.

If any of my close tech friends want to visit a London club some time I will take them to mine for lunch or a drink. They aren’t that secret!
I think ChromeOS is the hardest. Having a computer that completely reinstalls itself from the cloud when the user 'inadvertently' breaks it, is huge for schools.

For companies it's not a big deal because their users know what responsibility is. And you can fire them otherwise. Schools don't have that privilege.
Getting a wood stove. The incoming mini Ice Age is going to be nasty, especially in the northern hemisphere.
Do you know about:

* HyperLogLog? Convenient for doing approximate counting across huge datasets.

* SkipList is another probabilistic data structure that allows you to skip ahead N elements in 1 step. I believe ClickHouse uses it.

* Bitmap index organizes database pointers into a matrix of bits. The bitmap scans simply skip over the zeros. This type of index gets in trouble if you have high cardinality, though.
Never brandish a gun. Proper training means going from deep concealment to shots on target in a few seconds, maximum.

Your cited statistic is one reason open carry is a Bad Idea; it puts you first in line to be eliminated. Concealment, all the way.
You do realize in general persons on the road have a positive impact on the economy if they survive their travel right?
I made https://github.com/mamcx/tree-flat as flattened stored tree in pre-order that allows for very fast iterations even for childs/parent queries. Is based on APL, so not that novel.

I also like a lot the relational model, is not that much represented so I making a language on top of it: https://tablam.org.
I frequently carry my laptops by the body one handed, which probably doesn't help. I also (used to) travel a bunch, so the laptops end up getting stuffed into and out of densely packed bags. In most cases though, the hinges are just badly designed. In one extreme case, the hinge's mount points on the case were all in a straight line in line with the hinge's line of rotation. As a peer post pointed out, just the stress of the lid's friction lock + 1-2 years of constant use tore the hinge right off the case.

The Framework has a proper cross-brace on the hinge, the hinge mounting points are metal, and I can inexpensively replace the case or hinge if either breaks after the warranty expires.
You still have to make decisions about your own life. Are you going to settle down in region that is expected to dry up or be hit by mega-storms?
Because mass action has proven impossible due to moneyed interests and politics. So while you could and should what you’ve said I think the goal of the question is to understand how others are hedging their bets
No it doesn't. The US government doesn't force military vets and retirees to quit smoking and eating donuts.

I don't think a single one of the many countries with socialized health care for all does this.

They may pay for education and awareness of the risks of smoking, and they may highly tax cigarettes to dissuade you. But they don't force you.
> “One interesting aspect in the studies we examined was how strong an effect adverse life events played in depression, suggesting low mood is a response to people’s lives and cannot be boiled down to a simple chemical equation.”

If a little alarm bell is ringing inside your head that "something is really really wrong" you are not alone.
> but it doesn't generate true novelty in any human sense.

Few humans do either, even great artists create from, or react to, the art they experienced in their life. At the end of the day this is a rather metaphysical question. A Go model is trained to play Go, not create new games.

> on a genuine understanding of say, my personality

That is exactly what they are trying to do. The purpose of many recommendation systems is to uncover the latent variables and categories that you might like. They are not just averaging what you listened to. It is feasible (but very unwise) to predict certain users like to listen to happy upbeat tracks on Fridays, and sad songs sung in Romance languages on Mondays.

Each time you skip a track or relisten to a track (implicit feedback) or like a track (explicit feedback) you are giving it information, which might be more than just the interaction (the timestamp, the IP address location, how quick you were to skip the track etc.).

On the other hand, the purpose of those systems is simply to optimize what generates the most short term income, in which case, you get 'boring'/simple shopping recommendations that on average make more profit.

Systems have tried to predict model the human experience, but in the past there have been epic fails so nobody is trying to explicitly do that anymore. The classic example would be stores deciding teens were pregnant and inadvertently alerting their parents. Nobody wants to see ads for Amazon's in-house toilet paper brand just as they are about to get up to go to the toilet.
The entire space of probabilistic and sublinear data structures is fascinating. From hyperloglog for high cardinality uniqueness counting, to Cuckoo filters (similar to bloom filters), or Count–min sketch for frequency counting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Probabilistic_data_st...
A ton of highway accidents are people changing lanes going way under the average speed of traffic. If everyone was going about the same speed there would be fewer accidents. If everyone is going 75mph and you decide to go 40mph, you're putting yourself and everyone else on that highway in more danger than if you just went 75.
rope - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28data_structure%29
skip list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list
And then you have companies like HP that outsourced to India, East Asia, and Eastern Europe and then found that they could have 24-hour employment shifts through timezones. Shared integration and testing infrastructure got reused between teams working on different aspects of the same problem. Support requests got handled by whatever team was online when the request came in, and written up and handed off to the next if the clock struck 5pm.
Curious as to the predictions of a coming mini ice age you’re referring to. Do you have something I can read?
> The agenda for LGBT rights movement? Marriage equality in law. You’ve got a clear goal.

I think a lot of people wish it was that simple. Instead, the progressive trans movement has crept into sports, prisons, spas, toy aisles, etc. which far fewer people agree on a straightforward answer to. It's unlikely the LGBT agenda will ever focus on something as simple as marriage equality and then be "done", since far too many people are making money on finding new issues to push for.
"Former Coinbase Employee First Ever Charged in Crypto Insider Trading Scheme"

There, headline fixed, first changed maybe, first committed no way.

Also, how quickly we forget about Magical Tux. Or is it not insider trading if you're on both sides of the trade?
I'd argue that if the human sees a line that the computer didn't see any advantage of at all, then the engine is just wrong.

The more likely outcome if the engine is 'correct' is that it sees the line but thinks an alternative one offers a much greater advantage.

The computer can't condition this information on what you or the opponent is likely to do though. For example, there are lines of play that an engine can generate where you can checkmate in 60+ (even examples where the number goes into the hundreds) moves but only if you play every move absolutely perfectly, this kind of strategy is very brittle, a human might make adjustments to preserve the general idea of the line of play but make it more robust to error. The engine might also generate lines of play that have one or two flaws, but the engine thinks it's very unlikely that the opponent will find those flaws, because the population of games in it's database tells it that very few opponents see them. As the human you might see that your opponent is taking a certain line of play to try and get some sort of positional advantage, and that they are more likely to see the flaw in the engines line of play because the goals are in direct opposition to each other, in this case you would not choose this line because the computer is unable to condition its lines of play on the quality of your opponent.

IMO this is the fundamental reason chess masters around the world don't feel threatened by the computers yet. The way computers play chess relies on past information, often this past information is generated by humans. Humans are also able to generalise the insights that engines can find creating more robust strategies that are hard for engines to beat, until the engine adds it to the database.
Heathrow has always operated badly.

For example, they don't do one-stop-security at all for transit passengers. Fly from UK/EU/North America to Heathrow to somewhere else? Heathrow will re-check your carryon luggage and put you through the metal detector upon arrival as if you came in off the street. The only exception is if Heathrow is your final destination.

Major EU and North American airports don't waste their time with already screened passengers from trustworthy countries, but Heathrow is too disorganized to organize itself to save all this time.

https://blog.aci.aero/dont-stop-me-now-how-one-stop-security...
I'm from Yeovil, Somerset! I have a fair idea about 'leccy here.
yes - Big 4 Auditors. For some reason, people also use Big 4 to refer to big technical implementation/System Integration consulting shops too, even though there are clearly more than four: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Accenture, IBM, etc. Cognizant and Capgemini are creeping up there too
Conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is super interesting data type (and algorithm), especially when it is implemented for complex data structures like JSON: A JSON CRDT is "[...] an algorithm and formal semantics for a JSON data structure that automatically resolves concurrent modifications such that no updates are lost, and such that all replicas converge towards the same state (a conflict-free replicated datatype or CRDT)." [1].

[1] A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960) b Martin Kleppmann and Alastair R. Beresford.
All the criticisms seem basically true, they just don't make any sense.

Since their job is mostly to own all of the companies out there, they own most of the evil companies, and therefore they must logically be "The Most Evil Business In The World". Doesn't take an ounce of investigative journalism.

But as long as their job is mostly to own all the companies, they can't do much dumping of stock, for ESG or other reasons.

And when your job is mostly to own all the companies, then sure, market fundamentals don't matter by definition.
Amazon can’t suggest a “product you might like” if their life depended on it. They have 19 years of purchase history for me spanning thousands of product categories. Want to know a category I’ve never looked at or bought from Amazon, women's handbags. What’s near the top of the suggestions right now on the homepage for me? You guessed it!
This kind of response always baffles me. This is not you setting up an owncloud instance, this is a country setting up infrastructure, on which it can spend millions (and on which it currently spends millions without ownership.)

They can afford professionals.
I think there's a hint of truth in his supposition though. The gun lobby enjoys significant popular support from the general public who want to buy guns, but they also receive support from the gun industry that want to sell guns. The intersection of these two interests is protecting Americans' right to buy guns from American gun manufactures. In this, the gun lobby has been effective.

However the gun lobby has been generally ineffective and uncaring when it comes to protecting Americans' right to import guns from other countries. Collectors like importing guns, but American gun manufacturers have little interest in that. For instance, the NRA doesn't seem very upset about the Norinco ban, even 20+ years ago when the political/strategic situation between America and China was not on the minds of many. Another example is 922(r) compliance concerning domestic/foreign part counts; notorious among gun collectors as inane, arbitrary and pointless. Yet there doesn't seem to be much drive from the American gun lobby to get this fixed.
Carbon capture is a good point for carbon storage part of the environmental movement.

And total Acreage burned per year continues to increase.
Year - million acres burned
2015 - 10.13
2020 - 10.12 (over 1 million on the dixie fire in CA alone)
2017 - 10.03

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf

Thats 21% of all federal land in 3 years! * total federal land in USA = 640 million acres.

For contrast in a good year YNSP might controlled burn 1,000 Acres.

It is all going to burn.

We need to find a better way to capture carbon.
There is a world out there where people pay 15~20% of their annual income to buy a computer

seen under a different lens: you think that an effort a person does over 3.65 days to afford a computer is expensive, while many people would have to accumulate the effort of 73 days to afford it.
Can you? How about controlling for mileage driven? Older drivers are e.g. more likely to be retired and drive substantially fewer miles due to not commuting.
The Centralization of dYdX
That's the big four accounting firms. They're referring to the big four consultancy firms (which arguably isn't just four, and EY happens to be in). Also, Accenture was the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (which is involved in the Enron scandal).
More like 7%. But that’s for a completely custom design from scratch not just reprocessing an off the shelf design.
> Ukraine also got couped.

Except that's not how Russia tells it, that's what actually happened.

On February 21 then acting Ukrainian president Yanukovych signed a transition deal with the Ukrainian opposition, brokered by the EU and Russia [0].

That should have been the end of most of it, but it wasn't, later that day Yatsenyuk, aka "Yats our guy" from the Nuland tape, and Tyahnybok, who both agreed and signed to the deal, went on stage on Euromaidan and then declared how "That's not enough" riling up the protesters to demand more.

Klitschko, who was constantly trying to keep the peace [1], and was Merkel's aka the EU's choice [2] was completely left out of that. More context on that in the leaked Nuland call, where she rates Klitschko's governmental experience not high enough for such a position, thus their go ahead with "Yats is our guy" and "Fuck the EU".

That situation escalated then so much, that by the early morning of February 22 the leader of Right Sector announced how they had taken over, and secured, the parliament and several other local government buildings [3].

It's exactly that part the current "Russia lies" narrative always leaves out, by claiming Yanukovych just randomly fled from a completely peaceful protest.

After Yanukovych fled, Yatsenyuk announced their new post-coup government to rather frosty reception on Euromaidan [4].

As a German I was actively following the situation back then, that's why I still have most of these sources. But since then so much information was straight up "deleted" from the web. It used to be extremely easy to find violent footage from Euromaidan on Twitter and YouTube, not anymore, all deleted as "Russian propaganda" so the "peaceful revolution, there was never a civil war" narrative can keep getting pushed without too much of an factual opposition.

Another, rather concrete, example is Yatsenyuk's "Open Ukraine Foundation", that went online shortly after the coup, it's partners page had all the usual US regime change actors bluntly spelled out [5]. First the foundation changed from his name, to his wives, and ultimately that partners page vanished completely, too blatantly incriminating.

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/yanukovych-signs-transition-...

[1] https://youtu.be/5bPKFto1AFY

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-merkel-will-k...

[3]
https://www.unian.net/politics/888104-verhovnaya-rada-admini...

[4] https://youtu.be/wegtWNIFX1Y

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20140302111543/http://openukrain...
Where did I claim that? I only corrected your statement about her watching a video while driving.
Ask HN: Are there small companies outside finance sector that pay like FANG?
I do wonder about that question. Once people see the images, you have to ask them what percent of the federal budget they’d be willing to put up for it. I bet it would be an order or magnitude more than it actually cost. $10 billion in my mind isn’t much at all for a civilization-scale science project. If you ask me, I’d put up $250 billion a year, putting it at about 6% of the federal budget. (I’m just thinking aloud here.)
Yep. That's why my therapist said, “sometimes people are depressed because their life just sucks, so let’s see if that’s the case before we consider a chemical intervention.”

Notice two things about this statement:

"Sometimes." As in, not all the time.

"Before we consider.." As in, not ruling it out.
As far as I can tell, this sort of over-promise, under-deliver, bill-huge thing is pretty normal for these massive consulting companies.

Their big name experts come in, tell you how you're doing it all wrong and they have the best solution around for only $X million and they can deliver in 12 months. Management nods, gives the greenlight, tells you to cooperate fully with them.

Their layers of consultants then tie up a ton of your time/resources over the next 12 months figuring out what they actually should be doing, and why what the Expert said only has a passing resemblence to what's actually needed. So there's then rounds of discussion on how this and that change will be a variance, all billable extras.

After the 12 months is up, nothing is delivered in a workable state, it gets rejected, sent back for changes. This is all more billable variances, because of course it was delivered to the approved spec, and if you squint, and really push the definitions of words then it might vaguely resemble what it is that the spec said.

I've seen this play out multiple times.

The only surprising thing here (to me) is that Hertz pulled the plug while their spend was only $32M. Well done Hertz.

I can only hope that someone learned their lesson to stop using consulting groups for this kind of thing. I won't be holding my breath on that one, though.
If retaining the small clients is a business goal, you should have a (small) dedicated team devoted to them, that knows how to work in the way that these small clients need.