skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and the spam is - as this tweet points - appalling.

Incentives. If the expected value of a single spam message is in the micropennies, then you have to send enormous volumes of them, which can easily be detected by automated tools.

Cryptocurrency changes this. Now an account hack can net the attacker millions of dollars. This means you can send many fewer messages and invest much more time in each of them.
Try tweeting anything mentioning metamask.
Activism.
Where has development dropped prices like that?

The densest places in the US have some of the most expensive land and property values. Even if it's old and crumbling.

People do development to increase the value of land. It's practically in the name.

The core opposition to development is all about "character of the neighborhood" and resistance to change. The value of land in SF is more likely to go down if they drive too many people out, than if it becomes even denser and bustling.
Toy Models of Superposition
> Where else would it be appropriate?

In the file picker and "Files" utility. "Files" already has a "Show hidden files" setting. Most applications now use a common file picker, because the file picker now has some security privileges - it can give the application the privilege to access a file otherwise not allowed.
I’m having flashbacks to that time I explained to my son why the sky is blue and air is clear. It’s clear that you are not grasping anything I’m saying.

I specifically put it there to be less dangerous than checking my speedometer. Driving safely late at night requires very little attention and for that matter, most of the attention isn’t directed at the road you’re driving on. You are basically scanning the road for debris, but also, and more importantly, scanning the side of the road for animals that might kill you by trying to cross an otherwise empty road. This is also very boring by the way, since 99,99% of the time, there is nothing there. By having it on the windshield, even if I shifted my attention for 500ms every 10-15 mins, to see what a sound was, I wouldn’t lose my peripheral vision and the situational awareness. There were times where the situation warranted taking it off the dash and giving 1000% of my attention, but that was rare at 3am. I’ve driven on the late night roads than most people will drive in their entire life, hell, I’ve even had military training on it.

Anything can take your attention from where it is needed while driving: loud passengers, music you’re emphatically singing to, other drivers, complacency, exhaustion, etc. knowing how to mitigate or eliminate those risks is the important thing.
I've not used Erlang much, really, but it seems like a really nice fusion of messaging across agents and immutable state within agents. Elixir has long been on my list of languages to properly pick up...
Github for some reason disables search engine indexing of wikis, not sure about discussions.
In all seriousness - there are already taxes on exactly this in many countries, and even the US has considered carbon taxes on this.

The big secret? Electricity costs money, and is taxed.

Basically - why fucking bother with trying to measure and assess these applications when there are already measurements on the root consumption - electric power.

Long story short - it's a pretty useless thing to be focused on - it costs well under $5 to charge a smartphone for a year's worth of usage. There are simply much, MUCH more impactful changes we could be focused on.

This is a waste of time.
Then build housing that is accompanied by parking, mental health facilities and rehab facilities.

Building _only_ housing, and leaving it derelict when the mentally ill eventually trash it leads to a drop in quality of life and safety for the entire neighborhood.
There are a couple companies or industries that seem to dominate large sections of the digital ad market for videos, podcasts, live streams, social media, or other content creator focused markets.* They aren't all VPNs, but VPN is one of the main categories for sure.

Not sure why these companies have a larger advertisement budget or why they are choosing those platforms over other more traditional ad opportunities.

Some examples:
Audio books / podcasts (Audible), shaving supplies (dollar shave club), sports betting (Draft Kings), crypto and crypto betting (Stake), VPNs (Nord), online classes / tutorials (Skillshare), etc.

*At least based on my own anecdotal online media consumption.
Nuclear Fusion 3.0
And most of the land zoned residential is zoned for single family only
Similar all over Facebook as well - I've reported hundreds of scams using the exact same verbiage and images in sponsored posts, purporting to be Tesla or SpaceX or Amazon or so-forth selling new crypto tokens, using hacked verified pages. Would be trivial to detect if they cared. But beyond simply not caring, they're actually making money.
We should tell this to Dubai's migrant workers.
Sadly still no support for variable blocksize.
>I don’t believe we need guns atm… but we are unsure of what the future holds and surrendering such a monumental right would be next to impossible to “undo” if the time ever comes.

No freedom has ever been won or guarded with the types of firearms legal under the 2nd amendment.

Ever. Anywhere.

Literally every single example you're going to reply with is wrong.

Not even the American Revolution was "won" using personally-owned weapons. It was won using artillery, naval vessels, mercenaries from overseas, and the first thing that happened when a patriot showed up for his patriotic duty with his pappy's musket was throw it in the trash and issue a soldier a Brown Bess or Committee of Safety musket so that the caliber, rate of fire, effective range, and operating procedures were the same amongst all soldiers.

Not in Vietnam, not in Afghanistan, not anywhere at any time has a conflict against a government either foreign or domestic been defeated using personally-owned weapons.

The few times in America where it was tried, post Revolutionary War, the tax/whiskey/voting rights rebellioneers were crushed under the might of a pathetically small standing army that used cavalry and artillery to intimidate them.

The various slave rebellions and civil rights conflicts changed nothing. Lawyers, peaceful protest, not-so-peaceful-protest, and public opinion changed things.

In terms of ethnic violence, everywhere, every time, in each and every case where a smaller population has armed itself to protect itself the only result has been the employment of mechanized terror against them with horrific results.

"Oh but the Warsaw Ghetto.." nope. The germans went in, received fire from personal weapons, left and leveled the ghetto with tanks and mortars.

"Oh but if the Tutsis had had rif.." nope. Both sides had rifles. When the Tutsis started scrouging AKs, the Hutus responded with grenades, automatic weapons, and bulldozers. The government didn't even do most of the killing, instead ordering the Hutu majority population to do it for them, at the point of a belt-fed machine gun. During the Kibeho massacre guns were too slow so they just mortared the sea of refugees with 60mm mortars. If every single Tutsi had possessed an automatic rifle with infinite ammunition, they would have all still been murdered. A rifle is useless against 60mm mortars and air-mobile military forces.

The only protection against tyranny is strong civic organizations and the rule of law. When those break down whoever has the most cash to buy the most heavy weapons, usually the government, wins.

The only thing the wide availability of weapons has done in areas WITHOUT strong civic organizations and the rule of law has been to turn vast swathes of Pakistan and Afghanistan into lawless zones of chaos and misery, ruled by whichever warlord can get the most RPGs or convince their followers to become suicide bombers.

Ten million personal AR-15s are useless against ten thousand mechanized infantrymen.

Firearms protecting rights is a myth.
Meal kits. But in none of those cases would it be weird to ask why (so many people on podcasts want to send me overpriced food I have to cook myself.)
It might be a couple of months. The open sourcing of Cloudflare workers was announced in May and still has not been released. [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-open-source-announcement...
If you want resource level permissions, or only some fields based on permission... This gets very hard when also having to deal with nested resolver calls that GraphQL makes easy. This is why I went back to REST, with similar object fields as part of the query, but no nesting of resolvers, so the logic is much more straight forward
https://missionlocal.org/2020/03/department-of-building-insp...

Ironically some people complained about Hui from the perspective of opposing development (signing off on things he shouldn’t have). But it’s two sides of the same coin - making housing so hard to build is what creates the market for “expediters” and the opportunity for corruption in the housing bureaucracy
Was there a Pope of Abortion Rights that pronounced such an edict? As a man, I haven't encountered this in an abortion discussion, but it sounds like something an asshole would say and I try not to hang out with assholes.
> is a very privileged world view.

I guess this is probably true. In every group I've worked for, it was obvious who the high and low performing people were. In the two companies I was at, with layoffs, there weren't really any surprises. Not surprisingly, this has remained a strong motivator for my work effort: if you're complacent or incompetent, you're the first to go.
https://archive.ph/bg2th
I, too, struggle to imagine "infinitesimal".
That makes no sense. Landlords tend to be opposed to YIMBY's, because allowing for more housing makes for a more competitive housing market, rather than one in which landowners dominate.
That’s what discovery is for in a court of law. Hopefully we all get to read the findings.
This has been going on far longer than any of his financial entanglement with Twitter, unfortunately.
It's crazy how people forget supply and demand concepts the moment we start talking about housing.

The argument that building housing is useless because it's often more expensive housing, is absolutely bonkers. It increases supply, it is positive for everyone, even those that can't afford it and it liberates a space for them that would have been taken by that high income person.
Hell if you wanted to go full Machiavelli, you might say that's in there to distract from the layoffs themselves - seems to work in this thread for instance.
Does this imply that you think that minority candidates that were hired were not as qualified as non-minority candidates? That's the only way I can parse your statement that these affirmative action hires were hired by one standard and then held to a higher standard when fired.
I recently had a preliminary phone screen with their HR and I told them to pound sand when they wanted me to do a coding challenge before even talking to the hiring manager to know if I wanted the job.

Even more happy with that decision now.
What do you bet a KPM for some manager somewhere is number of new verified accounts?
To quote a very wise cartoon: Why not both?
Ask HN: Where is today's Xerox PARC?
It's well known that Xerox PARC was a hotbed of discovery and innovation that invented revolutionary technologies like laser printing, OOP, ethernet, GUI computing, etc. Is there a current equivalent anywhere in the world?
Page 24 definitely doesn't, it's about Russia. Page 17 on the other hand

> During the past two decades, Chinese defense research has proposed the development of several reversible and nonreversible counterspace DEWs for reversible dazzling of electro-optical sensors and even potentially destroying satellite components. China has multiple ground-based laser weapons of varying power levels to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites that include a current limited capability to employ laser systems against satellite sensors. By the mid- to late-2020s, China may field higher power systems that extend the threat to the structures of nonoptical satellites.

The discussion of current capabilities is primarily about optical satellites (though it can be read to include other components), but it probably applies to giant sensitive phased array antennas too.
Patagonia founder gives away the company
From my understanding, doesn't Nyquist-Shannon assume you take infinite steps to refine the discrete steps into the final waveform?

Since real-world DACs don't have infinite taps, either increasing the number of samples per second in the original audio or the number of steps done by the filter will improve how close it gets to the original waveform.

Would that apply to the number of bits used to represent the level as well? I thought that was mainly useful to give some additional headroom when editing?

(Obviously there's diminishing returns either way)
If the layoff was done through the lens of racist consideration, and minority races were given preference, then the odds of a white or Asian person getting fired were higher.

That's already illegal. Even if you can somehow prove in court that "white worker X" would still be fired had he been black (already a dicey and likely impossible feat), just the fact that the employer already admitted that this worker was under more risk for getting fired due to his race, a-priory creates a cause of action against the employer.

If I say "I give preference to hiring men over women", and a woman is rejected and then sues, trying to show that I would not have hired her even if she was a man is arguing from a losing position.

The policy itself is racist and illegal.
My use-case is a mobile app. If you use those tools, you can't expect your web experience to be 'normal' :-/
Utah’s Great Salt Lake Is Disappearing, with Mounting Economic Costs
Indeed. Housing is a substitutable good. When higher end units are not available the wealthy occupy what would have been working class units, driving up the price.
Please don't feed the "male teachers are pedophiles" stereotype.
Some methods I use:

- Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlist - it's hit or miss and it gives me a lot of stuff I know about (and have listened to on their platform!). But, they also send me some cool stuff I haven't heard about.

- Genre specific subreddits - broad ones like /r/music aren't great, but more niche subs have a lot of good recommendations.

- Friends that also love music and know what I'm into - this one has the highest signal to noise ratio, by far.
I can't use Twitter, I don't know how to use it. Sometimes I do these "latest" searches in order to see if GitHub or something else is down, or when there's a breaking news of worldwide relevance in order to get to know what's happening. But even these searches are 95% useless junk tweets in between of some relevant tweets.

The "following"-thing hasn't worked for me for around a decade, there's just too much garbage in the stream or main page or whatever it is called.

And for a couple of months now I've noticed that when I use it on a device which is not logged into Twitter, usually because a Reddit post leads me to it, it has agressive Instagram-like tactics in wanting you to log in or sign up and in that state has the same aggressive, unwelcoming vibe which Pinterest has.

Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter.
I've used it to record oscilloscope captures. Especially useful since audio cards are cheap high res adc's.
Yes those must have been Starlink's. I was in awe the first time I saw that string of lights. And if you wait a bit, they come around again! They are in a low orbit and very fast relative to earth because of that.
Saying something is slow is meaningless if you don't compare it to something else. What avenue for reform in SF would be faster?

Huh? The article headline and the article are about the speed of housing approval, not about the speed of "avenues for reform in SF".

The reason he can take the issue to court like this is because the city's "process" is illegal.

That may be true but that's a different issue also. The original claim that SF's process is slow, not that it's illegal (even if it is illegal).
Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120
No, the core idea is that you want the incentives to be right even in bad situations.

So if your enemy has medics who he lets tend the wounded, even if they're your wounded, then you stay away from them. You want surrender and truces to be respected, so you don't make use of false surrender or truces as ruses.

But even though you respect such things, your enemy is still your enemy. Similarly, in this case Sally is still a criminal, but you want her to report crimes if she happens to be willing to do so for some reasons, so you don't exploit people's reports of crimes in order to go after those people themselves, unless the report itself is malicious or deceptive and is therefore not a report at all.
No, the countries in question have been recently threatened only by Russia.

The only other recent aggressor was by that point completely pacified Germany.
The Pampulha Church in Belo Horizonte is beautiful. The apartment block in the centre much less so.
Space programs have:

Improved global shipping (reduced costs, increased safety, etc).
Improve global crop yields with understanding planting times, harvest times, etc.
Reduced geopolitical tensions (way less secrets, no more dangerous airplane overflights, ability to monitor compliance remotely).
Enabled safer air travel (weather satellites, ADS-B).
Understand global warming (using monitoring satellites).
Made archeological discoveries.
Helped fight poaching in Africa.

These are a few of the outcomes I know off the top of my head. But yes, what have aerospace programs done for anyone?
could you point to some examples of this happening?
interesting, I'd love to know more about the employment-open source gap if you'd be up for sharing more!
Many lefties, myself included, see identity politics as a means to divide the working class and ignore class issues. It isn't only that, there are real idpol issues. However, fixing the class issues is how we will achieve better outcomes for all, including underprivileged minorities, but also poor white people. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Glad I'm not the only one that got the feeling this video impacted the entire VPN advertising space. All of us techies have been screaming this from day one and many tech-focused creators even talked about this publicly, but the ads kept going.
Tom Scott seems to be in the perfect position where he has the technical background to understand why the ads were wrong, but also has a much wider and more general audience that includes many other creators.

I'm guessing many creators learned about just how blatant the lies they were selling were for the first time from him and put pressure on their sponsors to chill with the fear-mongering. And even those that knew and lied regardless were probably scared that their audience now knew too, so shifting away from these talking points was in their best interest too.

TL;DR: Tom Scott is awesome and he did a lot of good by making that video
Lol!

Reach out to me at ramon.d.iglesias@gmail.com
The 1.7 million people in Manhattan's 37 square miles would like a word.
There are definitely scientific uses that might want to (ab)use FLAC to store sound-like data that would benefit from 32 bit.
Exactly

Voters are getting exactly what the want: talk about affordability, and action to prevent building.
There's a real use case for storing original tracks and masters in 32-bit and down-sampling for consumer use.
San Francisco is about as space-constrained as Manhattan but is significantly less dense
The Alps’ magical ice caves risk vanishing in our warming world
Good point!

email:
ramon.d.iglesias@gmail.com
Why would landlords want to drive down the price of housing?
The US embargo against Cuba.

And both council communism and Anarcho communism have long histories of communities actually practicing them. From gift economies in smaller indigenous communities to explicitly anarchocommunist zones in Korea and Spain in the 20s and 30s.

Anarchism is not the opposite of communism. It's the opposite of Stalinist communism, for sure. But anarchism is about the removal of unnecessary and unjust hierarchies. That's not in opposition with "and we should take care of everyone without a profit motive".

One could argue (and in fact, many scholars have) that the open source development model of Linux or other large systems are anarchocommunist in nature.
https://www.newsounds.org/
It's really unlikely that an extra million spaces for housing would not change the current market price.

But EVEN if this was true that there is someone outside waiting to move back for when prices drop just a little, then now we have at least a million more people that can afford to live in a city close to their work, instead of being forced out.

More housing is better than less. There are no scenarios where it's worse for market price to build more housing.
We do our best to spy on every detail of your life we possibly can, but look at how whimsical we are about it! :D

Here's another Google search link https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pernicious
China, I'm not so worried about. At this point though, Putin doesn't have a lot to lose other than his head.
SX is actively solving the light pollution problem.

A few satellites orbiting use far fewer materials to provide coverage of the entire planet than doing so terrestrially would.

As Starlink satellites age out they de-orbit. No space junk.

You’re welcome to propose & implement better solutions. Until then, this is the very best humans can do to lift all of humanity with minimal environmental impact.
> So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription.

Just to play.. I don't know, devil's take-advantager or whatever, if this gets popular isn't the 'smart' move to package your project as numerous components bundled up into one outer wrapper, with all other 'real' dependencies only dependencies of the component packages?

That can be a legitimate packaging strategy of course, that's what made me think of it: 'it doesn't work for ...'; then 'oh wait it works really well for that package(s)'.
> Errata

> Pages 165-166: replace all occurrences of "cheese" by "eggs"

Love it
Better. The real question is, is this way of soliciting donations better than another way of soliciting donations? Answer to that is not clear.
You're agreeing with him.
It makes sense, you've got the transmission lines, cooling water, and land already in place.
Equally impressive was that Joel was hired as a product manager (I believe the official title was Program Manager, but writing product spec nowadays is done by eng or by product managers) fresh out of school, yet he was able to come up with detailed and highly technical product spec - a trait that many product managers do not have, especially in a big company.

It also shows the talent density of the young Microsoft, just like in the young Google, or the young Facebook.

Edit: s/Project Manager/Program Manager/
Not gonna work. Has to be re-viewed first.
Unfortunately, the file picker doesn't create most dotfiles, and the point of the "hidden" attribute is to make them invisible on Windows which doesn't have this logic baked in.

I understand the logic of having display functionality in the file picker, but what are the chances that we can collectively convince Windows Shell32 developers that explorer.exe needs to display files prefixed with dots as hidden?

I think we're both on the same page that it's a hack, but it's a practical hack in that it avoids the need to involve unrelated third parties.
It’s the real users who never post vs bots who obviously post.
Ask HN: Anybody else hate Google Photos for its syncing and poor UI?
I've been using Google Photos for a good amount of time, and have had so many bad experiences with the app. It takes so long for syncing, poor UI, and looks cluttered like Google Drive. JUST MAKE IT MORE SIMPLE!
Remove nicknames.