skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's friggin rad. Are you at liberty to share a little about the domain that you're targeting with it? You've got to want the size/performance/etc. pretty bad to ditch every library that wants `libc` right?
Less scary than relying on ATC in the US.
If you start reading accident reports from the US for GA then it’s its surprisingly frequent that the conclusion is pilot should not have listened to ATC.
I think it’s to do with the privatised ATC towers just being lower quality than government run towers in other countries.
Absurdity abounds in the field, in my lengthy experience.
I'm sure that the advice from mountain rescue comes from many many instances where they have to save someone who brought no backup, paper or otherwise. Yeah, I'm sure YOU will bring a powerbank, and an extra device or a paper backup, but too many people wouldn't.
The video isn't nuts, but it's mostly focused on clearing up a common misconception around what "break even" means. It discusses how ITER is not going to be powering the grid in 2025 (strong agree) but I don't see any discussion of the commercialization projects (of which Commonwealth is the strongest) or discussion of timescales anywhere near 2100.
That’s exactly what this is useful for - stopping simple manipulations and forgeries which are a problem now.

People have been using digital photos with nothing already for a long time in court.
I cannot recall the number of times the “Apple is a hardware company, not an ad company” argument has been put forward to suggest that Apple will somehow behave better than Google.
Based on a link to the slides for that thread this appears to be a different vulnerability.

https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/youre-muted-rooted

Looks like Zoom is just having a bad week.
> Western countries don't really have the infrastructure, housing or education necessary

Why do non-Western elites send their kids to Western countries for university educations?

> increasingly not alternative ways of competing either like creativity, influence or equality.

Which non-Western countries are competing on creativity?
I was thinking of tiered pricing, someone who just has a personal blog, probably 10 bucks a month. Others would cost more.
Renaissance Art and the AI Apocalypse
https://signalsandthreads.com/ by jane street
Slides on the vulnerability if anyone is interested.

https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/youre-muted-rooted
RIP Trance.fm
I noticed this when looking into coffee grinders.

A commercial one is a problem at home unless you make 20 coffees a day because it is going to retain a lot of grinds (not a problem if you have a lot of throughput, it won't go stale). It will also be noisy and big.

A prosumer one should be quite and good for not retaining grinds, but would be bad for commercial as it wont be fast enough (ten times slower), and you you don't want to wait grind for every shot. Also a prosumer one would look nicer probably.
Suppose sqrt(2)=a/b, a reduced rational. Then 2b*b=a*a, so a is even. But the right side has two a's therefore two 2's, so b is even. Contradiction!
I am sorry, I have no idea why you got such an answer, you could try this other one "lambdaway at free.fr". Maybe a problem between the "free.fr" mail server and yours. You could also write in this open page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sandbox. Just click on the word "sandbox" in the title "lambdaway :: sandbox" to open the frame-editor, paste after the existing text (don't erase it) and save.
I call this inflation by other means. Constant quality items are increasing in price.
Just do what academics do and name the cocktail after yourself.

If you're worried about making money, having the name will almost certainly make you/your bar much more popular and bring in business.
The business model of Unattach seems problematic though. Folks with storage issues are the ones who will not want to pay to increase storage for their Google account (not judging) but they would pay for a service to delete attachments?
There's plenty of work to go around: workers today are no less busy but far more productive than they were before any automation. It's just that instead of a bunch of farmers and a handful of blacksmiths we've found more things to do and have careers that span the gamut from yoga instructors to robot technicians.
> People governing things together (currently called DAOs). Code you can trust. And so on.

Didn't the first DAO cause a fork of Ethereum? And isn't the most important part of investing understanding what you're investing in?

Apparently these contacts as code are so complex in practice (DSLs require understanding it and all its dependencies.) they tend to be foot guns, waiting for someone more dedicated to find and exploit them.
I wonder if this has to happen in US so that people start treating privacy as a real issue and not tinfoil hat rant type complaint. Whenever I try to engage in this conversation, 'I have nothing to hide' is a very common refrain. At that point I typically ask for their phone to rummage through. Oddly, that is the moment they hesitate. It is not ok for me to have this information, but a faceless entity connected only by an app? No problem. I fear for the human race.
Dynamic Deformables: Implementation and Production Practicalities
Apologies, added a disclaimer now.
Bring it on baby! But seriously, if we know it’s a sure thing then California should start building catchments.
There are many programmers, myself included, that are under no illusions about the deficiencies of their own favorite languages.

Most languages are Blub. Where we the programmers at large fail IMO is that we don't recognize that no language is universal. Some are good at X, others at Y, another group is only good for Z. But we all want to pretend that no no no, language A is perfect and you all are sheep for not seeing it and sticking to languages B, C and D.
If you're in your own neighborhood then you should be able to re-route yourself once you see traffic ahead.

Personally, I don't ever use GPS unless I'm lost. When I'm going someplace new I plan the route using mapping software before I get in the car. I sketch a quick map of the important parts of the routes (particularly street names, major intersections, exit numbers, etc.) Sketching this map commits the major details to memory, then I put the map in my pocket. If I need to refresh my memory then I'll pull over to check my sketched map. I only need to use GPS if I find myself outside of my map. In these cases I'll pull over to use the GPS to locate myself and plot a route back to my planned route. I never use turn-by-turn directions, because I think driving like that is unsafe.

I know this is unusual. Somebody once called me a psychopath because I don't listen to music or the radio while driving either. I don't want to zone out while driving, mindlessly following turn-by-turn directions or listening to some song. I think everybody else is just too cavalier about distractions while driving.
GE sold their appliance division in 2016[1].

[1]https://www.ge.com/news/reports/done-deal-ge-sells-its-appli...
It is a bit of a lemon market, because no one can tell (or few can) from the claims, looks, etc. how reliable it will actually be.

I am keen to research stuff online more. I avoided buying the more expensive "Zip" water system, and instead got a RO system and my own chiller. An RO system is mostly plastic and pipes, with most of the $ going into the cartridges. So good value for money. Ugly... but it is under your sink so who cares.

It was cheaper (about 1/3 of the price all up), and all the Zip users bemoan how unreliable it is. I also remember anecdotally how many times I have seen an out of order tap of theirs in an office or other place. They also don't filter quite as well as an RO (but they do filter well enough if taste is the concern).

You don't always get better buy paying more, or going with the famous brand. I think you have to research all the things.
> CSAM was a blatant attempt for breaching user privacy and classification with third party agency hidden criteria.

I feel like there's a good amount of FUD about this, so for anyone who might not know: All online file hosts do CSAM matching against known CSAM images, regardless of the client OS(s) you're using. In Apple's case specifically, matching only happens to images you've uploaded to iCloud Photos.¹

¹ https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
We are probably on the same page here but I would describe it differently.

For me, there is a whole separate prioritisation and design process that runs ahead of the Kanban board. So by the time work arrives on the board, we have a pretty good idea of what we need to build.

The difference is that in waterfall, by definition, we would build what we’re told. But implementation of a design should instead be an ongoing conversation/negotiation between the high-level designer and the low-level implementor. And that can result in big changes to the high level design as problems, inefficiencies or new ideas come up. That is the “hands on” management I mentioned.

My way of working is heavily influenced by DDD. Design can only get you so far, and any process that imposes a top-down structure is IMO likely to fail.
Cognitive Offloading: The Memory Benefits and Drawbacks of Using Technology
Not necessarily, if you accommodate for inflation.
Hi Slater. Do you think this should be a "Show HN" instead?

By the way, if you did not click the link, it's a completed textbook and you can preview sections of it.
The next retro is the place to discuss why these retro do not yield to any measurable improvement, and agree on a better process/schedule that works for your team.

If your point is that your team processes are sooo perfect and sooo amazing that there is nothing to criticise, review or change, I'll have a hard time believing that.

If your point is that no matter how much time you spend on these meetings, nothing changes, I'd argue that you need to spend even more time and energy on them on them as you clearly haven't figured out how to efficiently gather, analyse and act on self-reflection of you team processes. The retro itself might be the starting point of your thought process since it seems so "useless" and yet is absolutely essential if you don't want an external "manager" to do that job for you.
That’s not true. A lot of people wait until their phone no longer works to upgrade.

And also, something being a cash cow at the moment does not mean that thing will continue to be one. Since the iPhone 6ish, iPhones have become “good enough”; there’s not much to differentiate each model from the previous as there was with, say, the iPhones 3GS and 4. The iPhone 13 just doesn’t have much going for it compared to the 12.
Dunno about Sweden but lots of compensation stuff triggers financial reporting requirements for obvious reasons.
NthLink VPN found to be using same pre-shared keys for all users
Doesn't matter what the technical justification is, it's a business move, not a tech move. It's about the customer's willingness to pay, and it looks like for Slack, companies are very willing to pay.
Usually repairing costs are incredibly high. So you usually end up buying new one and creating more waste.
> "On the other extreme are degrees that, like GP identified, were never meant to be economically sound. They focus on intellectual ideas and curiosities, rather than skills actively needed by the economy. Government subsidy here would be little more than subsidizing hobbies and other activity that do not provide economic returns."

The risk of defunding these programs is that you can't confidently say whether many of these subjects might become useful in the future.

Many research areas in linguistics, for example, may not have direct economic benefits right now, but could be useful far in the future if humans have alien contact (like the film "The Arrival"). Less speculatively and outside of science fiction, many pure math discoveries have ended up as useful in cryptography and computer science. Astronomy and astrophysics could yield commercial applications far into the future, along with other fundamental scientific research.

Outside of science and more into the arts, history has been influential in recent times to the decision-making of various political leaders. Social science research can be important for the welfare of a country, in the creation of effective evidence-based policy. The support of artists and writers can improve the political influence of a country, when influential works spread to other countries. Focusing on economic returns right now is too narrowly focused on the short term, and ignores the longer-term benefits for a country.
Do they do tear-downs and rate the engineering? That's pretty much the only way to determine how likey something is to last without using it for ten years.
Quorn is a very interesting piece of sociological/science history. People were deadly serious about the risk of food shortage. What that led to included the 1 child policy in china, and the Indian emergency (forced sterilisations) in the 1970s which wreaked immense harm on society at large, and probably the economies of both countries long-term.

The Quorn engineers did amazingly well. A small minority cohort of consumers showed them it can cause mushroom-sensitive/intolerant people a bit of harm and so it got a "not safe" label which is a shame. If they'd managed that better we might well have achieved a remarkable shift in protein source efficiency worldwide.

You can put C.M.Kornbluth and Fred Pohl's "Space Merchants" and Isaac Asimov's "zymoveal" in his "The Caves of Steel" as well as the "Soylent Green" in "Make Room Make Room" by Harry Harrison into this box: the zeitgeist was very definitely "we are heading to a world with more people than we can produce protein for" view. As late as 1981, Alasdair Gray's "Lanark: A novel" has the idea that desperate times cause desperate protein measures.

As it turns out. we're going to peak at 11b. the corner in rate of growth (2nd order differential?) is pretty clear now.

Quorn was patented. They expired in 2010 (according to the very fine article)

Rank Hovis McDougall food scientists really ought to be known better. Amazing work. When you think about prior science in bio-reactors at scale, you go back to WW1 and the acetone production by Weitzmann which solved the explosives shortage, and relates to the post WW1 Palestine/Israel decisions, and to Penicillin: (WW2, unrelated) which was being made in the UK in of all things, china bedpans, before the Americans worked out a flow process in bioreactors at scale.

Weitzmann is famous for a science quote which is something along the lines of "I have only so far made 1 litre. But in principle if I can get this to work I can scale it to 100 Tonnes or more, per production cycle"

Edit: here's the quote:

Weizmann told Churchill: “So far I have succeeded in making a few hundred cubic centimeters of acetone at a time by the fermentation process. I do my work in a laboratory. I am not a technician. I am only a research chemist,” said Weizmann.

Weizmann continued: “But, if I were somehow able to produce a ton of acetone, I would be able to multiply that by any factor you choose. Once the bacteriology of the process is established, it is only a question of brewing. I must get hold of a brewing engineer from one of the big distilleries, and we will set about the preliminary task.”

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest...
Wow that was quite fast. Check out the subreddit then like someone else mentioned: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/
How does the article relate to CSAM? Unless Apple is going to target ads on users that flag
But you can't save it, happily. Try the sandbox http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sandbox, please without erasing existing text. And you could freely install your own lambdaway wiki, see http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=download . Just a feedback would be nice.
Everything about how much life sucks for visual effects artists may be true, but I'm not convinced it's any worse than everything that comes beforehand:

> In today’s Hollywood, compositors, along with all of their colleagues, are often left to clean up all of the messes left by writers, actors, directors, producers, and all of the other name-brand talent.

"Clean up all of the messes" sounds awfully derogatory. How about the fact that on-set you might have 50-200 people working at any given time, so doing anything that will delay the next shot by even just 10 minutes can be astonishingly expensive, and not every problem can be predicted in advance. Not to mention things like the sun setting. If something can be fixed in post, it's because it's the better more efficient option, not because people meant to leave a "mess".

> is being left to a post-production workforce that is disparate, overworked, confused, and exploited.

News flash: the production workforce is just as disparate, overworked, confused, and exploited. 16 hour days and 6 day weeks are standard for everyone involved. Not saying this is good either, but setup for each day and shoot takes so long (just think the hours spent in daily hair, makeup and wardrobe for actors) that days need to be 16 hours long just to get in a reasonable amount of shooting.

Visual effects may be difficult and suck, but everything in production is like that. I just don't like how this article seems to frame it that the regular production side of things somehow has things easier.
That's trademark.
More readable link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1558081281396727808.html
Yeah i think we need to protest with our wallets and take some of these “news” agencies out of business.
The threat of that had already been greatly reduced by the time Chrome came out. Firefox was quite dominant, and IE had become much more standards compliant.
Something decided that it was better for me to be here than not be here. I think it was God, but I'm not always sure what He expects, so I'm just trying to be better today than I was yesterday.
Last time I checked, it was illegal to take more than $10k out of Russia per person. Even private plane passengers were thoroughly checked for cash (something completely unheard of before). And yes, governments all around the world have, and will arrest your cash.
A privacy respecting OS on google hardware is just controlled opposition. Please don't buy a new pixel if there is any other option (and there are a few for most use cases).
>It’s a big problem that this has been creeping into how we treat people like children at continually older ages.

Isn't this a bit flimsy? Eventually, we'll treat all people younger as those who have room to grow -- isn't that to be expected? "like children" is relative.
While in cryptography there is never 100% we tend to expect crypto not to have have serious known flaws and require great amounts of compute power, time and energy for brute-force attack. E.g cryptocurrency is "safe" because cost of attack is too high and require too much resources.

On other side this Sony Camera-DRM is not just useless, but dangerous especially since Sony have well established track record with backdoors and cryptography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-29-hackers-obtain-ps3-priva...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/411221/backdoor-accounts-fou...
No screenshots in the readme of a project like this immediately makes me forget it and completely lose interest.

I surely can’t be the only one. It’s a no brainer - especially for a CSS framework - to include visual examples.
Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break (2017)
I trust the experts on this.

Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life.

"That’s not a slippery slope; that’s a fully built system just waiting for external pressure to make the slightest change."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...
Habitual crutch use reduces leg strength[1].

[1] Socrates.
The truth is that these are all meaningless titles once you consider people change jobs. Some people won’t accept ever going to a lesser position and stay at a company(unless forced out by circumstance) but those who switch generally experience some reshuffling in “rank” when they leave.

If you left the company you work for right now(other than to start your own company) you could find yourself as a staff engineer(one level below) somewhere with an accelerated path to the next level maybe, or in an equivalent role, although this is more difficult just because there are fewer positions and more filters to being hired.
Ask HN: What are examples of activities/bets with asymmetric upside?
For example, usually asking someone out on a date has huge asymmetric upside. You might hit it off and end up being in a happy relationship. If not, you'd just be a little embarrassed and maybe awkward with the person afterward.

Investing in call options on AMD in 2014 or Tesla in 2019 also had huge asymmetric upside. It was clear that these stocks had massive risks, but while the upside was potentially huge, the downside was capped at -100%.

What other examples are there?

Also welcome examples of things with asymmetric downside like texting while driving.
This is literally one of the subjects of the article.
No, that is what I am talking about. As one of the points below have mentioned more succintly- utility of a degree in terms of monetary renumaration is already determined by free market forces. For degrees that are determined as less useful, I find that there is no reason whatsoever to burden the tax payer with a bill so that "so and so" can satisfy his/her intellectual curiosity.

For degrees that are determined as less useful from a market perspective still one could make a case that there is a need to provide funding at graduate i.e. at the PhD level. I would give you that since most PhD students do go on to make significant contributions to scholarly literature therby vastly increasing human understanding and frontiers of knowledge.

But clearly this is not the case at undergraduate level. Sorry but the argument that tax payers should foot a bill just so that someone can satisfy his/her intellectual curiosity does not sound convincing at all.
Really? Generating crytographic public keys, encryption, decryption, signing, ring signatures, Merkle Trees, cryptographic hashes, all this depends on blockchain? WOW!
>If you're in your own neighborhood then you should be able to re-route yourself once you see traffic ahead.

How does this answer the other commenter's point?

If the grocery store is 2 miles away, wouldn't you rather be routed an alternative route at one mile distance away by GPS that "knows" there's terrible traffic congestion the remaining two blocks of the current route? Especially if those two blocks are after a couple of turns which block your view of them?
Best regards to the anti-cryptocurrency commenters: you had a good run ;)
SpeakUp: Silent Speech Interface; Low Cost; Arduino; Machine Learning

Project Summary by Varun Chandrashekhar: "I have designed and developed a speech interfaced for the paralyzed, which they can use to communicate without speaking. This device detects speech-related electrical signals from the throat and converts them into letters or words that we recognize using machine learning models."

SpeakUp - ML Based Speech Aid to Enable Silent Communication
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/Varun_Chandrashekhar/sp...
If the OS refuses to provide the DRM'd byte stream to non approved software and the hardware refuses to boot an OS you own, what are you going to do?