skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The freezing and debanking of protestors is a shockingly dangerous precedent.

You are literally removing people's functional access to food, water, and shelter.
I was really hoping I could put pineapple on a pizza, because that's an emotion that's hard to put into words
The dystopian side is the lack of squares to protest on ;)

In all seriousness though, the project does look very realistic and I can't find any major flaw with it except that the glass wall will need to be a triple-mirror which is ridiculously expensive.

The other unknown is how an idealized architecture like this stacks against real-life humans who don't care to maintain anything if they're not paid for it.

I do hope they build it.
> I'm genuinely curious what their thought process is.

The thought process for VCs investing in crypto is simple: they get a huge discount on the tokens in the raise that they can turn around and dump on retail a few months later for huge returns. Instead of waiting 10+ years for a traditional exit, they can get liquidity in a few months.

As Chamath admitted on the podcast, even when they're on a vesting schedule they can sell the claims to future vesting prior to actually receiving the tokens.
I didn’t say anything about single player games.
Nice post! That looks a lot like what I already do, but a little bit better.

I have the problem that on bad days (distraction wise), I never start writing in the in the book either. So it doesn't get a chance to help then. I try to re-frame the whole job I have as "I write notes in my notebook", as actual productivity happens automatically from there...
Ask HN: Business Coach for CTOs?
As a CTO of a moderately successful startup I really strugle with self development, it's pretty hard to discuss problems and get new ideas, especially with remote work and lack of in-person meetups with peers.

Can you recommend a CEO/CTO/Executive coach that helped you?
> Whatever he needs to do, he just asks friends, coworkers

They say "Asking doesn't cost us anything.", but if I recognize a pattern of repeatedly asking for help without offering something in return (emergencies excluded), it may cost them my sympathy.
check these coordinates on google/apple/bing maps.
28.56795257061634, 77.28627687655779

this is in india and looks vaguely familiar to the image on the blogpost
> If the change is implemented, “the old meaning of time will become ambiguous,” warns Steve Allen, an astronomer at the Lick Observatory in Santa Cruz, California.

I'm with Allen. It's fine to drop leap-seconds; but then it's not UTC any more, it's a new time scale, and it needs a new name.

We've made this mistake before: in fact GMT has been redefined many times, and as a result the time interval between two GMT timestamps depends on which versions of GMT the two timestamps use, and so on the dates of the timestamps.

Allen has an instructive page on time scales here:
https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html
I made a move like this in the past through a recruiting agency. I was very specific about what I was looking for, and about 4 months later they sent me an oppertunity that looked like a fit, I interviewed then took the job.

Doesn’t hurt to be friendly with a few recruiters
The ones who made fortunes during the American gold rush were the people selling shovels, not the ones panning for gold.
Bloom Filter in Yara
a-ray-grass is a yara module that provides support for DCSO-format bloom filters in yara.
I would like to have an anti-cheat mechanism (that works), not a god damned security-nightmare rootkit that scans and uploads my private files to god knows where.
Certainly there is a cost in transmitting information, especially in short kind of paragraphs which involve abstracting away the working model of reality. I cannot turn this into unsolicited lecture on the 'iron triangle', activists, government, intellectuals. Neither can I detail Mr. Jacobson past follies published and debunked. Abstractions are opinionated by definition, so some gaps and perception of 'handwaving' is inevitable, that is the nature. I drew, in my previous post, an analogy that many might be familiar with, and that is that the more complex a problem, the most likely it will be over-run in costs and schedule. To make it even worse, throw into government management of such issue within its legal and societal dimension, and then still further, add international relationships.

Now to the point. Mr. Jacobson is known very well to produce utopian sounding headlines (and studies) [google may help with that]. He has been on this message for some time, and is being debunked by his colleagues continuously. My point of criticism is that it is stupid to even start discussing any project over short paper when it is claimed that 62 trillion is all it would costs spread over 150 nations. At best, this is a fancy back-of-the-envelope calculations, however, which I do not see to have any real-world value. If you disagree, give me a step one (if you accept 100% correctness of this estimate), that any one such nation should do right now. (rhetorical, of cause you or anyone else does not have a 'step-one' it is not how it works).

The issue is so complex on correlated across vast societal domains that to attack it head on and conclude something as naive as:

"By electrifying all energy sectors; producing electricity from clean, renewable sources; creating heat, cold, and hydrogen from such electricity; storing electricity, heat, cold and the hydrogen; expanding transmission; and shifting the time of some electricity use, we can create safe, cheap and reliable energy everywhere."

would be simply impossible. And to the degree attempted, it would be ridiculous. This conclusion has no connection to the reality, period. The authors, as usually, assume 'unconstrained choices', which cannot be remedied since they have no knowledge of the political, legal, societal and other dimensions.
>Although this was a gourmet meal, in many ways it was just as great as the store-bought hot dogs and macaroni salad we had eaten together hundreds of times before; the quality of a meal is really a reflection of the company you share it with as well as the long process and coordination it takes to get everything on the table.

This is such a strange phrase to me. I'm in the UK and it is always the case that processed, mass manufactured food is looked down upon. Store-bought hot dogs are a guilty pleasure or something you resort to as a time saving meal. Certainly not something that anyone would call great. Is the US attitude to this generally the opposite?
We need <italian-looking person> + <disappointed face> for that.
Very interested in what it sees in boote's void.
Although it isn't visible from the language level the JVM internally does have "derived pointers" which are normally stored on the stack and point to an offset within an object. The GC can figure this out because it has a map for what the stack entries mean.
Show HN: Marple – Interactive time series visualization for engineers
Hi HN, excited to share the project I have been working on for the past two years.

Marple was created by engineers for engineers. Marple helps them organize and analyze their sensor data in a more user-friendly way.

We’ve all been there: measurement data from an experiment or test needs to be analyzed but the only thing you have is a few data files flying around. You do not have a clue how to open or read the data. So what you do next is open your Python/Matlab/Jupyter Notebook/… and start coding in order to make some sense of the data. We didn’t like that process, so we started Marple to solve this issue.

Engineers tend to log data at frequencies from 1Hz to 10kHz and usually log hundreds of sensors at the same time. Data sets usually contain millions of data points. In order to make our web-based data visualization responsive, we had some technical challenges to tackle. We developed our own visualization engine based on PostgreSQL that is able to visualize millions of data points pretty much instantly. This allows us to create an interactive visualization environment which is perfect for data exploration, even for large data sets!

This is the second time we show Marple to HackerNews, but since then we made some big steps. We made a pivot to a cloud product and now offer a free version of Marple. Feel free to head over to our website and give it a go. Let us know what you think of it!
Again, trying to eliminate grief by decree. And then we wonder why everyone is depressed. If negative things are so undesirable, why do we represent them in the arts?
Because it becomes uneconomical to extract and process? And of course, eventually it will run out if we don't stop using it first.
> crypto down rounds are going to be hilarious

That’s optimistic. Best case is orderly resolution and/or fire sales to Wall Street. Worst case: retail investors lose money while executives and senior employees see prosecution.
Spirited away has a shiny fairground visuals but really dark undercurrents. Not my favorite even if technically is great. Mononoke is deliberately gross and confusing in some moments. Not for small children.

Ponyo or Totoro would rank much higher for me. Ponyo is really smart in many aspects. The Tomb of fireflies is a terrible and depressing black hole, but maybe a necessary experience. Porco rosso is the opposite, light and very enjoyable.

In any case this article is related clearly with the fact that Mononoke is again broadcasted in the movie theaters just this week.
> That might not be sustainable, but what business wouldn't give an arm and a leg to make $120M profits in just one year of operation?

$120M in profit-profit? Or $120M in revenues dumping tokens on retail booked as profit?
Game UI Database
and std::print is already voted into C++23!
> In all seriousness though, the project does look very realistic and I can't find any major flaw

Except, you know: all the infrastructure needed to build it in the desert. And maintained. And repaired
Between 100k and 125k you lose £1 of your tax allowance for each £2 you earn. Which greatly increases your tax in that window.
Uhm, these things don't really take away your control, rather, they shift it from you to you.

The software you boot sets up some state and then toggles a bit, and after that something can't be changed. The state is secure against much modification after that time, but not before that time.

The "you" that boots the device are in control, and the "you" that uses the device after that have exactly what "you" set up at boot time, neither more nor less. If both "you" are the same person, then there's no loss of control.

But of course they're often not really the same person. If you want to boot a Microsoft-signed image, the party that boots is more or less Microsoft, not you personally. But in that case, you also want to use that Microsoft-signed OS, right? So the shift towards boot-time control is then a shift from mostly-Microsoft use-time control to mostly-Microsoft boot-time control. Mostly Microsoft here, mostly Microsoft there, even if the two mostlies aren't quite the same percentage it's difficult to regard this as a significant loss of control.
Any astronomers or statisticians that can chime in here so I can know what my level of concern should be? Let's say on a scale from 'whatevs' to 'drop all hobbies so I can prep'.
> If "web2" hadn't shut off its own users from any semblance of ownership in the platforms, or had done more for privacy, web3 would have died in 2017.

Honestly nobody cares about these things. This is just a narrative that was grafted onto Web3 after the fact.
Building something like this in a democratic society is probably impossible. The reason is that there would be massive opposition to this and rhetorically powerful claims that the trillions of dollars this would cost in a Western society could be put to better use. Even if, by some Deus ex machina, one administration managed to get this project going, the next to come into power would likely can it.

Space is a perfect example. There's no technical reason we haven't established footholds on Mars and even the Moon, beyond the dilemma posed above. One administration would start a grand space program, the next would cancel it with partisan criticism, and start their own. And this has been going on for half a century.

Real progress back towards space only meaningfully restarted when private companies (or the owners thereof) started to become wealthy enough to fund their own space programs, without any regard for social criticism or worry about their leadership being canned next year if they don't get enough votes. Ironically this helped also somewhat kickstart governments back towards a focus on space as well.
Street legal and insurance (even driving to neighbour and dump rubbish as in the articles) existed for a reason. The cost might not. But the item is needed in case any accident happened.

It is not your home project with Bluetooth chip. It is moving machine that can hurt and kill.

Good fun I guess and help the totalitarian country one more us$ dollars. God bless America.
> Who cares?

The people purchasing these hot spots, who find their bankruptcy claims against Helium being inhibited by intentional breach of contract.

> not like a packet that's a result of sharing/reselling suddenly "weighs" more

It does due to peering arrangements. Data transfer having value is also Helium’s claimed value added. It’s awkward to claim it costs nothing to implement but has value that can be sustainably charged.
Looking at the Emoji list (in general, not from the link above) I can see plenty of emojis displaying concern, sadness, grief and other "negative" emotions.
The NSA and other three-letter US agencies will be all inside this chip, or have side-channels to the firmware update mechanism, obviously.

A secure operating system means nothing if the hardware itself cannot be secured, and the case for a new, trusted, transparent manufacturer of Intel-compatible CPUs and hardware in general grows stronger.
Observed this tactic in more mundane circumstances - our kids school has punishing traffic access, leading to gridlock and frustration when dropping them off. Certain parents however just drive right up to the access strictly forbidden zone in front of the door and park there, despite all the complaints and stares. For them, drop off is a breeze. I've often thought how much easier life must be if you don't care what others think of you.
It seems like governments around the world want to push people to keep their money in the bank. But this is an awful idea: first, in this case the government can track all your spending (even if the law doesn't allow that, they can ask the bank informally). Second, the government can always limit how much you can spend or withdraw.

For example, if there is a financial crisis, the government can limit how much you can withdraw from your account. Those with cash might be able to buy currency or precious metals, but those who trust the bank will be screwed.

But to be honest cash is not much better. For example, the government can introduce a cash reform, and also set limits for exchanging old currency to new one.
if (false) anything.

Musk insisting we live in a simulation is wholly incompatible with worrying about humanity being stuck only on Earth.
Tails 5.3 – Released: (July 26, 2022)
> The other unknown is how an idealized architecture like this stacks against real-life humans who don't care to maintain anything if they're not paid for it.

Well they'll probably pay for it. I don't know if the idea is to rent or sell housing there, but in both cases it's pretty standard to have provisions for ongoing maintenance.
Untrue. Most of Musk's "dreams" are ridiculed everywhere, and rightly so. Dystopia is dystopia, no matter where it comes from.

(Although, to make matters worse, MBS is a criminal and a despot.)
"This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately led to more than 12 million deaths in India and China"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_plague_pandemic
I guess an emoji could be proposed for grief, that is a tricky question in itself.
There is a system to go through to add new emojis, it does seem to be very hard work now.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

I was going to say something as intense as grief is too much for emojis, but it would mark the maturing of the glyphs.
I'm left wondering if this was a disappointment for you or you were expecting something else..

I started writing about 10 years ago, whenever I felt the need, coming to around 10-15 entries per year. Looking back through the entries, I can't say I'm a different person from the one I was 10 years ago, more like the opposite. The external circumstances have changed ofc, I've reached some goals, etc, but how I feel about myself and my reactions to life seem to have mostly stayed the same.
Regardless of the apparent lack of progress, I am still writing occasionally, whenever I feel like it.
They all laughed at Moviepass, but just look at a chart of its usage growth. Clubhouse too.
In other news, they also plan to raise minimum wage to NIS 6000 by 2025.

This effectively mandates electronic banking for all full time salaried workers by 2025.
>Perhaps you can strike a balance between the 2 options of the spectrum?

Exactly. This doesn't have to be one extreme or the other. I believe you can have a good job and a good wage.
no, that wasnt the point. I'm not even sure if your typical _western reader_ could distinguish russian from ukrainian looking at the screenshot
> reporting of cash transactions of AUD10,000 except buying a car.

I wonder if the exception is easily abused. "Here's a 1980's beater and a suitcase which does not contain cocaine, that'll be 30 thousand dollars please!".
Or the leaning tower of Pisa leaning a bit more.

Although Pizza is from the South of Italy isn't it, and Pisa is in the North.

Leaning tower of Pizza, you just know there's a T-shirt of that.
I’m in love with the concept itself! I’d love to live in something like this. I love the walkability idea and the mirror design on the outside.

Sadly, this is not getting built as designed and double sadly is it’s being planned by a PoS running a PoS government.

Also I feel like cities aren’t meant to be designed this way. If nobody lives there, people aren’t gonna want to move there. If nobody is moving there, there won’t be anyone living there. Defeats the entire purpose.

It won’t ever be finished, of course, but I’d be curious as to what incentives they’d offer for moving there.
They are glyphes. You don't expect the roman letters to individually represent all concepts.

In the same way, emoji are glyphes and just symbols. We will attach meaning to each symbol, combinations of symbols and context, and will express whatever we want with it.

Just like people say "this is the shit", and "this is shit", and it says litterally the opposite of each other.

E.G: we already use the eggplant to talk about sex.
Since when did due diligence on companies become "well one time Google made no money so obviously that means this company will be Google-sized because they make no money too!"
I bought a Kobo Libra 2 recently and it's fantastic. It only has buttons on one side, but the display is fast - it typically adjusts before I finish rotating it.
Curious as to the reason for the UK's position, given that UK timelords have a strong track record, but this:

> Britain’s argument is largely based on the desire to keep a link between official time and Earth’s rotation, says Peter Whibberley, a metrologist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK.

just seems silly. Bit more from Whibberley here [1]:

> There's no agreement internationally. Some countries favour ending leap second because they do cause problems. Some software in particular has great difficulty handling leap seconds. The simplest solution is simply to end them.

> But other countries say it's important to maintain the traditional link between timekeeping and the Earth's rotation and arguing we should keep leap seconds until at least we understand much better the long term consequences of ending them.

> Well, I'm part of the UK's delegation at this grand meeting that would discuss the issue in November of this year. So, it's my job to argue the UK's position but from a personal point of view, I don't have any stronger sympathies one way or the other. They're both very good arguments and the problem is, no compromise position. You had to keep leap seconds or you end them. Whatever happens, it's going to be very interesting.

> The UK government has considered the issue and it's theory is we should maintain this traditional link between our timekeeping and the Earth's rotation.

Some random googling turns up a document [2] which says:

> The UK has previously consulted official bodies and agencies with an interest in precision
timekeeping. None of these authorities reported significant problems arising from leap seconds,
while some scientific institutions reported strong support among their memberships for retaining
leap seconds.

With a reference to the article 'A British perspective of the future of Coordinated Universal Time' [3], which is longer, but doesn't really contain any more substantive points in favour of leap seconds. Looking for that also led me to a more detailed presentation on the subject [4]. Hmm.

[1] https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/what-...

[2] https://sciencewise.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DR-5.p...

[3] p. 51 of https://www.itu.int/bibar/ITUJournal/DocLibrary/ITU011-2013-...

[4] https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/oth/0a/0e/R0A0E0000960014P...
Show HN: Run your newsletter with GitHub as source
Wow cool article, didn’t know “fastener engineering” was a defined field. Was looking up snap buttons for canvas applications earlier (for boats etc) and there were more types than I was aware of.
Buttons and rivets are rather cumbersome/manual to set but certainly have their advantages.
What this article warns as the Apocalypse some suits that make computer use decisions for large organizations will see as features they want implemented.
I couldn't let my dreams be dreams, so I left the USA.
> no source for the $6.5k/month revenue

It's in a photo attached to the first tweet: https://readthegeneralist.com/briefing/helium

> Data Credits are used when onboarding a hotspot, asserting a location, and processing a payment. Onboarding hotspots, in particular, is intensive from a Data Credit perspective. Since Helium is onboarding so many new hotspots, this skews results, suggesting greater customer activity than is actually present. Data from The Decentralized Wireless Alliance removes these three uses, demonstrating the size of the Helium economy’s customer demand. By this measure, DC usage was just $6,561 in June.
The sentence is confusingly phrased. The "store-bought hot dogs and macaroni salad" were in many ways just as great as this "gourmet meal".
I don’t mind the bluntness but I think my analogy threw you off.

When Helium says things like: “The Helium Hotspot is a small hardware device that creates a large wireless network for devices that use Helium's network. Think of it like a Wi-Fi router, but for devices sending small amounts of data over long ranges.”

Is the $6k/month revenue from sending data through a “Helium Hotspot” or something else?
If we're living in a potato, the Gods might be hungry
Do you have concrete details?
I grew up in a 16 hectare commie superblock - every common errand could be done via walking - that includes medical services.

One thing I wish urban planners internalized is that you don't have to create an incredibly dense human pile-up to have walkability.

It's actually worse like that because even if few people have cars, the vehicles will still be a nuisance. Also the 5% that is in the habit of littering will be that more of a problem.

My neighbourhood consisted of buildings with an average total of 4 floors (including ground level) and a few higher ones dotted here and there with squares and playgrounds in between and this is what I consider an ideal population density.