skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What /u/mandmandam says below. But life is brutal and unfair. If you try to do too much to "give back" you sometimes end up doing more damage than if you did nothing. Brother, it's just hard to be a good citizen these days. Try to stay employed, try to keep your kids out of trouble, try not to suckle too much at the public teat if you can avoid it. If you do those things most of the time, as far as I'm concerned, you're golden.

Also, does it help to judge yourself with no more harshness than you do others? Do you feel the people around you who don't have the same self-doubt as you are being unreasonably destructive? If so... maybe give yourself a break.
Does it have a local version?

One of the biggest issues I’ve had with anything similar is that they’re “cloud only” and hence “online only”.
Western payment processors have proven in recent years that they will cancel/unperson anyone who doesn't fit with their political ideology. This is not the first instance of it happening. And it may not be any actual wrongthink; it may merely be perceived wrongthink or programmatically determined wrongthink.

Because of this, I strongly recommend connecting to Asian payment processors. Even Chinese is more reliable than western these days.
I think it's no replacing influenza, just taking a spot at the table, no? Influenza isn't going anywhere and COVID-19 still kills at something like 4x the rate of influenza even with the new more “moderate” strains. That's nothing to sneeze at. Also, there's no sign of “long influenza” like there is with Covid-19. It has ruined many people's lives, making them unable to work/live like they used to.
DNA is among the easier biometrics to great large quantities of without the victim ever knowing it happened.
If it needs to be given away, maybe to a museum belonging to the United Nations?
I'm not sure if there are truly extraterritorial museums, though.
We didn’t add any street lights in the city for 30 years due to budget constraints. U.S. infrastructure is, in a lot of ways, barely functional.

And I’m disinclined to risk my life to try to prove a futile point. Walking very far here is dangerous due to narrow roads, bridges with no sidewalks, etc.
I don't see how. PS5 sales are currently limited only by Sony's ability to make them.
You're right about the physical presence thing. I had this conversation with a friend of mine who's a short-ish woman in her early 70s. She's always had big, intimidating-looking dogs, and likes to joke that she "only meets nice people" because of it. :) I mentioned (joked, really) that the way I say safe on the streets is through a combination of maintaining situational awareness, and being a 6' tall white guy.

I'm sure there are social effects I don't perceive because I've been tall since I was a teenager. For instance, it's hard to believe that the average Fortune 500 CEO is 6' tall just by coincidence. Height also seems to predict overall financial success in an interesting way: https://news.utexas.edu/2009/12/15/research-shows-height-may...
I thought it had a PostgresSQL dialect. It it too buggy/featureless?

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql-interface
- Transitioning from an RGBI value of one to zero is instantaneous.

- If not instantaneous, it’s linear

- The phosphor’s response to the gun intensity is linear.
Breach of software maker used to backdoor ecommerce servers
Adult ads... My 4yo doesn't need to see a 50 Shades trailer.
factor in lost revenue due to market cannibalization for adobe? might make more sense
The real problem is that, practically speaking, you still need a car once you arrive in either Denver or Houston (because of the way American cities are built).

That implies renting a car at your destination if you ride the train, which eats the time and cost savings (and then some) of taking the train. So why not just use your own car and save the hassle?

Also, non-stop flights on that route have a scheduled time of less than 2.5 hours. Most flight schedules are padded these days to avoid fines for late arrivals, so it's hard to see that the train will be faster, even accounting for TSA. You'd have to make assumptions that don't really hold for the US--like getting to the train stations is faster than getting to the airport. For Houston in particular, the two airports on opposite sides of the city center make this particularly unlikely for a large fraction of the population.

Edit to add:
I also think that 4 hours is fairly optimistic for a train between Houston and Denver. That implies a non-stop train running at a constant 350 km/h or 220 mph on the great circle between those two cities. According to wikipedia, the fastest scheduled average speed of a TGV is only 280 km/h (with stops). So that's really closer to a 5.5 hour journey, which I think reinforces the point that it isn't competitive with air travel.
I've been using YouTube less because of ads. Partially consciously after a set of two long ads to send the message that this harms engagement, partially I just get annoyed and stay away naturally. If they're ramping it up.... crap.

It's not like there's an alternative and I'm not that fond of making the monopolist more entrenched by giving google, of all companies, more money in a subscription and tying the account to a real-world identity, also when considering all the other stuff google already collect on me.

(I've tried Nebula and CuriosityStream which many creators I watch constantly promote(d). Was done with the interesting content in one week and its size means there's very little fresh material, and also it doesn't run on the tv which I could work around with extra hardware if it were amazing but...)
Sounds like private health insurance.

Initial form questions like "tell us if you have ever been to hospital for anything serious?", you're thinking "I'm not sure if that time I dropped in to the GP 5 years ago with a headache counts as serious [same for other things that seem trivial over the years, just being sensible]".

You phone the insurer to check, they say "oh there's no need to put that down, it's not meant for trivial things, you'd have to write an essay in a small box if we meant literally anything conceivable; don't worry about it". You couldn't possibly hope to remember every tiny thing over the years anyway, unless you had access to your various written medical records held by various parties.

10 years of premium payments later you make a claim because you now have MS, you need support and treatment, a brain scan confirms physical issues, and..... "your policy is invalid because you didn't tell us about that time you went in about a headache 15 years ago". They still keep the 10 years of premiums though.

You take them to court. Your lawyer mentions that this is extremely common practice by health insurance companies. They don't provide you with any way to confirm if your policy is valid until you make a claim, then it's too late. You did what you thought you were supposed to do. The lawyer says most people who then take the insurer to court are unable to prove they were misled, and the insurer keeps the premiums you paid despite not providing any actual insurance.

Don't ask me how I know.
Not a fan of the British crown (why are they exempt from taxes during record high inflation)

The rest of your comment scans, but this bit seems weird to me.

What does the rate of inflation have to do, with taxation?

Some points:

- we are no where near record inflation, at least not in the US and Canada, and I presume the UK too. I recall 18% being thrown around in the 80s.

- changing tax policy due to inflation seems a weird idea to me. Inflation causes cost of living changes, but also, as a result, wage increases are fought for and won.

If anything, inflation needs to see taxation brackets moving upward to be fair! Not more taxation...

- look at all consumption tax. Inflation goes up, pricing goes up, so sales tax, gas tax, etc collected increases as a result.

I guess I don't get the inflation angle.
There is a magic the gathering like trading card game on ethereum that seems neat. I doubt it will get big enough to make sense, but having come from paper MTG as a kid and not being able to really digitally collect cards since... that would be super cool. You would actually 'own' the cards.
Very sad news, I guess at least they haven't bought Canva yet?
I was surprised to see this so low, the Wiki Game is a great version of this as you compete directly against others.
Well that's not good... It's also insane that biology studies are rejected for having too much math.
Ask HN: How are you accessing/caching frequently used secrets?
What does your access control look like?
Once fetched or decrypted, do you protect them in-use?
Does frequent access change how you do audit logging?
Do you have per-customer encryption keys?
Yes, for your hypothetical object, all of those parties would have a more legitimate claim than the British, and so I'd argue that any of them would be a step in the right direction (though more specifically, I'd say the tribes' descendants have the most legitimate claim).

By the way, there are many examples of colonizing European countries refusing to return things they took during colonization where that "we don't know who we should give it to" argument is much weaker or non-existent.

For example, Egypt has many items that are on display in European (mostly British and French) museums that it has tried to regain where ownership is not that complicated because the item was taken from Egypt by a European without complicated chains that might affect who owns what.

Maybe the most famous is the Rosetta Stone, which was found and taken by French troops from Egypt, then given to the British via some treaty, and the British refuse to give it back despite many calls from Egypt. You could say something like "oh well it's unclear whether the British should give it back to the French or the Egyptians"... but I hope you can see how that would be a stretch.
The crime of "money laundering" was invented out of nowhere one day. Society predates it by thousands of years.
Red Hat says staff can stay away from the office forever
rentaflop.com is a terrific domain name. with out jumping the gun, have you thought of expanding to services not related to blender?
Given the prevalence and longevity of GNU style short and long options, pretty much anything that doesn’t follow that is “out of compliance”.

However, you also called out some very specific commands that are that way for a reason. For example the order of options for ffmpeg matters very much, as that’s used to construct the processing pipeline. It does make sense for certain things to be custom, but that should only be done when there’s a good reason.
I bought some cats back in the day for $30USD, and I made out with a whopping 5x-10x over the years on those cats. I still have half my supply, and occasionally would get a purchase come through. I will remain hopeful for the resurgence
All well and good, until someone decides to lob a missile at a satellite and make a little Kessler syndrome, or launch missions with no reentry plans from a nation that hasn't signed your treaty.

I don't think it's a bad idea to be proactive about space cleanup, rather than reactive.
I've recently been using Markdown (to my utter chagrin) in order to update my resume and blog, and I'm just astounded by how much recreation of solved problems is going on in that space. I prefer JavaScript/Node so I've played with UnifiedJS (remark/rehype), MarkdownIt, MarkedJS, and others. It's honestly just absurd how over-engineered each project is.

If all you're producing is HTML - which is 99% of what Markdown is used for - having to deal with a raw AST in order to modify a document is like deciding to use Assembly instead of Python. Sure, it could be more efficient if you really want to spend the time, but it's generally a step backwards in every way.

I've personally decided that the only predictable, reliable and maintainable way to deal with Markdown is to extract the frontmatter, then convert the rest into bog-standard CommonMark HTML and then use JSDOM to do any additional manipulation. So instead of fighting with some wonky AST tree and APIs, I can use the DOM and standard web tools and code.

Markdown parsers will let you pass through HTML tags. You can define any tag you want. There is no difference between:

{% callout type="check" %}
{% /callout %}

and

<callout type="check">
</callout>

And anyone who went through the XSL trend of the early 2000s should know the long-term pain caused by putting logic in your documents.

<xsl:if test="price = 10">
</xsl:if>

Recreating this with {% if equals(1, 2) %} is just ignoring decades of lessons already learned.

Honestly, Markdown needs to be killed with prejudice. So much wasted time and effort getting it to do what people need it to do.
you... drive your car to a sanctioned drift event and use it.(?)
Hm, I went on coinmarketcap.com and filtered by PoW, and it shows Bitcoin (of course) and Dogecoin as being PoW with higher market cap. Next three are Litecoin, Monero, and Bitcoin Cash.

The last one I don't expect to work, because mining is about as profitable as Bitcoin, since both use the same algorithm, and the best relative profitability fluctuates between them, and they're both dominated by ASICs. But Monero deliberately avoids ASIC dominance.
> I don't see any reason to believe this, nor any justification of that statement in the rest of your comment.

I hope you're right but am convinced you're wrong. There's no straightforward regulation that we can put into place that affects only the affluent layers. The most successful global regulation to date, that I can think of, is the elimination of CFCs, which was enabled because of readily available replacements. The replacements for fossil fuels are not even close, requires replacing the majority of existing infrastructure, and the cream on top is that climate activists are persisting in phasing OUT nuclear, when we need it the most.

> Which approach do you think will cause less suffering: preparing for a dearth of resources that we can see coming before it happens, or waiting until people are dying of starvation en masse to start thinking about it?

I think the former option does not exist in practice. Why? Because when you have a significant drop in standard-of-living over a short period of time, people turn to populism and will reject the paradigm that forces them to have worse lives than their parents, even if it's to their own or others' detriment in the medium-long term. Perhaps not the affluent classes, but certainly the working- and middle classes (that by the way have already been significantly eroded in the western world over the last decades).

The third option is technological advancements - in practice, finding non-fossil replacements at a cost that societies can bear. This is what, imo, the wealthy and climate-conscious nations should spend their time and resources on, to pave the way for others to follow when the solutions have become cheaper. The US can play a big role in this, but so can affluent, socially conscious and technologically strong smaller countries. Most of them, however, are living in complete denial and are instead intentionally crippling themselves to prove a point that developing countries don't give 2 shits about.
Same. I honestly forget it has ads since installing firefox followed by ublock origin are the first two things I do on any computer I'm going to be using extensively. Over the years with different adblockers and browsers, some ads have squeaked through, but on the whole I've lived ad-free on the internet for almost two decades as well.
> Then it's puzzling to accuse someone of calamitous blindness when you are not even engaging with the point of the post you're replying to.

At this point, I'm wondering if you're just provoking me deliberately. The comment I replied to said the following:

> The promise of generalization that could lead to intelligent behavior has given way to people sharing amusing pictures or phrases that these models have generated, because that's what they do. It's cool, but it's basically become orthogonal to any AGI, or even AI with applications.

And then I posted evidence of concrete applications that are in progress at some of the most well-resourced companies in Silicon Valley. Absolutely groundbreaking stuff that more than prove sophisticated applications of contemporary AI are well on their way to being realized.

A lot of "histrionic phrases" to describe your reading comprehension ability are occurring to me right now, but I'll refrain from using them.
There's a really good book called Burn Math Class which highlights this fact very well, and actually helps with the learning process, making advanced math less intimidating.
Social Media Destroying Human Communication
I tend to like “game mode”, where the TV does as little processing it can só the image is minimally delayed. It also has the side effect the TV doesn’t try to “improve” anything.
Can’t wait for the idiots in Albuquerque to drift around even more.
yea sure, we'll all play along with this :)
Thanks, gorgeous wheels btw.
Sure, but GP made it sound like GCP doesn't have a free tier comparable to AWS which is simply false.
> It's behind the horizon. You people should learn by the history of the whole field that progress is always slower than the marketing hype, usually by an enormous gap.

I'm going to quote my original comment:

> seeds of AI that will terraform society and rapidly displace human labor over the coming decades
Somehow I think that's less bad than the ads for mobile games..
Perhaps you missed it, two days ago there was a thread (currently 195 comments), "A pair of Linux kernel modules using Rust".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32822082
Play fps games that have dedicated (community run) servers. Cheating is social problem, not technical. Centralized servers / matchmaking can never combat it.
Discord, Reddit, and Twitter are notorious for being infested with pedos as moderators. You're better off without them. And there are alternatives.
Meh. Most videos on the web are crap. Having advertising makes some kinds of crap worse. And even if all advertising revenue went away, enthusiasts will always post videos for fun. In fact most videos don’t earn any significant advertising revenue.

Personally advertising is a high cost to myself that I am not willing to pay. I even avoid restaurants that have televisions, or that play a radio station instead of buying music that has no advertising in it. (I also frequent a couple of places that are willing to leave the music off for me, at least early in the day before the lunch rush, and one that doesn’t play music at all. That’s a different story though.)
If you want to watch YouTube without ads on your phone, go to the website using the Brave browser -- it works perfectly.
God made movies 24 fps for a reason.
I've seen this before when I was setting up postmarketOS. It's an alternative to the crapware on samsung """smart""" TVs.
I didn't see this until after I posted a similar example. Yes, I agree 100%.
Can you take that shit elsewhere please? This isn't reddit or facebook.
An alternative is, of course, YouTube Premium. Their pricing always seemed very high to me, but now I wonder if it was meant to be in the context of this number of ads.
Do the same thing before or after they reduce government to the size where they can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub?
Autodesk has entered the chat.

To be fair, Autodesk hasn't gone full spyware like Adobe. Otherwise, they're similarly poor stewards of industry "standard" software.
Forgot one:

- An isolated lot pixel on a CRT is a circle.
Sure, but that doesn't make the difference between getting a lottery ticket and not getting one. If you have 1 ETH in the pool when the validator hits, you get the corresponding fraction of the award, minus the pool fee.
That's a tough combination. If it's powerful, how does it remain accountable. Sure, maybe a few election cycles are fine, but eventually it will degrade.
As long as the stress is on 'pro' when a noun and 'cess' when a verb[1]. The name of the city that I live in is normally used as a verb with the stress in the last syllable, but all the locals pronounce it with the stress in the first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun
From 2015-2019 I found this quote massively ironic as it seemed Apple had fallen prey to the same thing. They were trying to sell Gimpbooks with 2 ports and unreliable keyboards for a €1700 base price, and iPhones that were milquetoast iterations of past one's kept creeping up €75-150 per year. Their sales growth was cratering.

People love to say that reducing Ive's involvement is what righted the ship, but I feel internally there must have been way more management house cleaning that they so massively reversed course with the Macbook line, and the price reduction + increased innovation on the iPhone line.
Perseverance rover finds organic matter in rock samples on Mars
I really like this type of work. It makes me think of invidious for youtube, nitter for twitter and the other noscript/basic (x)html portals like those for instagram.

Bazillions of web sites should have such a www portal: noscript/basic (x)html
Hope "big tech" opens their eyes on the matter.

And don't forget, tables are semantic layout: https://webaim.org/techniques/tables/

In other words: basic html forms can do wonders, then augmented with table semantic layouts (don't overdo it though) it is even better.

A sad note for the end though: paypal is hostile to noscript/basic (x)html browsers as far as I know...
Crypto Policy “NoCoiner” Symposium 2022 videos are up
You also would have had to loot it before looting and pillaging became a war crime. If it's looted now and found, it usually goes back to the last owner or country of origin if it was from an archeological site.
It’s only invisible from the inside. From the outside it’s painfully obvious.
It was all just marketing all along :)
Thanks for the enlightening comment!
YouTube is mostly consumed on mobile and in their app where adblocking is more difficult.
Can't you then say the same thing about tourists? I don't get why digital nomads are worse than tourists for the country in any way.
Let's assume male heights are distributed according to a pdf p(x;μ,σ) for a given mean and standard deviation, and assume the female heights are identically distributed with a mean lower by two standard deviations p(x;μ-2σ,σ) (which seems to be reasonably accurate). For a given female height y, the odds a random man is smaller than her are given by the integral of p(x;μ,σ) where x goes from negative infinity to y. You then have to integrate this quantity where y ranges from negative infinity to positive infinity, with the measure p(y;μ-2σ,σ) dy.

It's easy to show this quantity is independent of either the mean or standard deviation, so I just numerically integrated it in Mathematica for a standard normal distribution, which again seems to be reasonably accurate for human heights.
Did he definitely know what he had found though? If you can discover something without knowing what it is then that opens up some interesting edge cases.
Cue Stan Freberg (do youself a favor and listen to the whole musical):

"""
Columbus: Hello there, hello there. We white men–other side of ocean. My name Christopher Columbus.

Native: Oh? You over here on a Fulbright?

Columbus: Huh? Uh, no,no, I’m over here on an Isabella, as a matter of fact. Which reminds me, I want to take a few of you guys back on the boat with me to prove I discovered you.

Native: What you mean, you discover us? We discover you.

Columbus: You discovered us?

Native: Certainly. We discover you on beach here. Is all how you look at it.
"""
Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Rock
So basically, as Ethereum gets more popular, the price of gas goes up. Eventually the cost of making a transaction will often become higher than the transaction itself, all of which you have no control over because it is all determined by how many people are using Ethereum.

If true, this seems insane.