skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crystal balls are back in fashion, along with smoke, mirrors and
ectoplasm. Centennial recurrence perhaps.

Note the disclaimer of all practitioners who dabble in the dark arts;
this is for entertainment purposes only.

An artist friend recently wrote an essay [1] associating AI art with
"soft propaganda for the ideology of prediction". An interesting
phrase I thought. Is prediction an ideology? Is blind faith in "AI"
ushering in secular denominations of crystal botherers?

It's a feature of the interregnum, similar to that of the 1920's
perhaps, that we grow ever more desperate to peer around the corner of
time, and so ever more credulous of techo-spiritualists, mechanical
mediums and silicon psychics.

[1] https://hyperallergic.com/772848/ai-art-is-soft-propaganda-f...
Indeed, literally no one is saying people can't use these words if they identify with them either, it's just about using the most inclusive terms in the general sense by professionals trying to communicate with broad groups that will include edge cases.

This isn't even a "gender" issue, saying something like "people with a uterus" when it is the most accurate term helps cis women who have had hysterectomies know it isn't relevant to them. Of course, we should always inspect the impact of words: (e.g: maybe some people won't know their biology to know if they have a uterus, so we should clarify for them if that's a potential case), but the goal of being accurate rather than just making assumptions based on gender is obviously reasonable and beneficial as a base idea.
An entire movie fits in 49 tweets
Ha, I bet a fair number of transsexuals are tired of transsexuals using them as a political tool.
Any hotel could be a haven for drug dealing and prostitution.
I dont care what the business majors come up with, as long as they do it in their own building.
That’s clear from the article, which is about the nontrivial task of making tens of terabytes of data available on IPFS.
The incorrect 3 were related to the Omicron variant -- not bad for armchair* analysis!

* My take from reading Tetlock's book is that superforecasting is essentially painstaking analysis by laypersons based on common rationality followed through diligently. If among the only things this process fails to predict is mutations then this is actually very encouraging.
Agree. I was offered a green card and a 6 digit salary to move to the US. I declined and instead moved to Australia. One of my best decisions ever.
I mean where did you even expect to go if you were inside an illusion? Another illusion?
> Cause trans men are born with sake exact biology. Same exact pregnancy risks and then some additional ones.

Can't trans men have penises though?
I would say I strongly believe in the new definitions, have I been unreasonably upset in my responses?

I think I've articulated my position and held it firmly, but at no point did I feel upset about people who disagreed.

I don't believe I called anyone a bigot or was any more rigid in my language than folks who hold a more traditional meaning of the word in their minds.
That's like saying canonically people don't have two eyes. Some are born with one less or more.

It's an edge case.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/
No. JavaScript does that all the time.
What is this revisionist history? It certainly happened, I saw it for myself with my own eyes.
What Do We Know About Teaching Kids Math?
I’ve been interested in IPFS for a while now but I’m still unable to come up with a good explanation of how it’s different to regular torrents. Does anyone have any examples of stuff you can do with IPFS that you can’t with torrents?

Seems like over the last 5 years they haven’t really done anything but add crypto buzzwords to the project site.
Why not? We're talking dice, not coins. (Unless you're saying the superforecasters are doing coins and not dice, which makes sense.)
> What made it win?

Initially, ignoring the wisdom of the time that said OFDM was no good for indoor channels. The research project was eventually shut down due to lack of commercial interest, but the research leaders had enough faith to immediately start their own company (Radiata). Later, commercial success for Radiata came from being in the right place at the right time.

> Were there any close competitors?

In the research phase, not that I was aware of. In the commercial phase, Atheros. The story I was told after the event was that Cisco had decided to buy whichever company came to market first. Radiata came to market 2 weeks before Atheros and so Radiata was acquired.

> Was infrared close to being the winner?

It could have been, but specular reflection in IR channels causes inter-symbol interference, which limits the data rate. If someone could have solved that problem then IR might have happened instead of WiFi.

> I'm also surprised big enough FPGA was already around.

At the start of the project FPGAs were not big enough, so we had to partition across multiple 3000 series Xilinx parts. Bigger FPGAs had been released by the end of the project, so the transmitter fitted on a single XC4025 FPGA, using manual placement. The 4025s were brand new and Xilinx (as always) were difficult to deal with, so we had to beg for devices and they magnanimously granted us 3 or 4 chips.

At the time there wasn't much sense of occasion, as we were busy doing the work and none of us knew how big it would get.
DuckDB is the open source project, based on the MIT open source license.

DuckDB Foundation is a membership-based organization to push the awareness, adoption and development of the DuckDB open source project.

DuckDB Labs is a commercial entity spun out of CWI that provides consulting services around DuckDB. The founders of this organization are the original creators of DuckDB [Mark and Hannes].

MotherDuck is a VC-funded startup that has a formal partnership with DuckDB Labs to develop and market a serverless analytics platform using DuckDB.

Hope this helps!
What’s that old saw?

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread.” -Anatole France
Agree. I had a build pipeline pulling down an internal package to build into a `.pex` [0] file for running a Python program in a release pipeline that did not have access to the internal package repository. I came up with this solution because the typical virtualenv that you might build locally does not appreciate being copied wholesale to another system (iirc it had some absolute paths).

One day the release pipeline broke because a dependency's authors published a new version containing a wheel for a newer ABI, though the older ABI was still supported. My build pipeline pulled the one for the later ABI because it was compatible, but the release pipeline environment, which could not be upgraded, did not have the newer version of gcc required. It was a nasty introduction to the fact that one Python package version can have multiple published wheels targeting different C++ compilers!

But the worst part was not that I learned something new! It was that I wrangled with both pex and pip for a few hours trying to figure out how to download a wheel for an older ABI as both tools resolve the latest compatible by default. The options to do so are ostensibly there but the effect was not. I definitely could have made some mistakes but in my mind it shouldn't be _hard_ to get it right.

I ended up downloading the wheel for the internal package in the build and copying it directly into the artifact. The release pipeline resolved public dependencies and installed the internal package from the local file.

[0] - https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> life on the sunny side

Yeesh
> It's more compatible if you want to access a usb or serial port.

Yep, that's the case I had in mind.
Nobody said she "should" freeze her eggs, and the fact that you jumped to that assumption is extremely creepy.
Maybe I'm just not getting it, but this just seems like gambling by any other name.
271 years before Pantone, every color imaginable in an 800-page book
Makes sense. I must say I’ve seen an improvement in ddg results over time.

But, I have a separate browser instance for work where I’m logged in and use google for the extra benefit of customized results.
How does one hold a hatchet with a ham fist?
big platforms follow a concept like we've had for public places. Just like you cant visit the pub naked. The solution is to rent or buy your own turf. Just like the privacy of your hone you can go wild. Rules still apply but those are covered much better by the legal system. A platform can still rent space to you and they can chose to promote your content but if alternative aggregation is available their moderation can just be shooting from the hip
Listen, I'm sorry that you have apparently been burned by friends who didn't call you enough in the past and now feel compelled to pass judgement upon other people's friendships, but you don't get to tell me, somebody you've never met, who my friends are.
> it’s actually excluding the women who can’t give birth

Not out of the group of "women", so "Are women who can’t become pregnant men?" doesn't make sense.

EDIT: and indeed the creepy arguments centering womanhood around periods or pregnancy, which do actually exclude women who can't give birth from womanhood, tend to come from a subset(!) of the people that also are strongly against such language, not the people for it.
Uhh.. super irrelevant--being web scale is the most important attribute.
Maybe no license fees to use 271 year old colors in your Photoshop files?
If you're selling Taylor Swift tickets with a floor of $20 you are definitely selling out any venue.
If they're providing better results than actual crystal balls or tarot cards, isn't that progress to be (cautiously) celebrated?
Mastodon Twitter Crossposter
Note: The linux manpages cover the syscall interface of the linux kernel, not the glibc implementation. You can check the glibc source code yourself, but glibc will set errno for multiple reasons outside of the raw syscall, including for time overflows.
> It imples some choice has been made, by someone. Who is doing the assigning? And it happens before birth, if we want to be accurate.

It's on the birth certificate, so it is assigned. There are some efforts to remove it, so perhaps that will change.
Mate, you live in a bubble (as everyone else). There are over a billion Windows PCs out there, how many of them do you think have hyper-v enabled? Keep in mind that even among the small minority of users who have a hypervisor installed VirtualBox, VmWare and Qemu are a lot more popular than hyper-v.
This is not true as I can confirm that none of ToolJet’s team members including myself do not have ability to downvote on HN. Looks like it requires certain karma threshold.
Wouldn’t the expected number of correct answers for random guesses of rolling dice a number of times be (1/sides)*rolls?
There is zero ambiguity or confusion in the changed language. The bio parts are super clear.
Isn't that true of anything shared on a network?
And you're absolutely right but the problem right now is, people aren't moving to Mastodon because it's a better service as far as UI and UX are considered (which are the hallmarks of a good product).

They are moving to Mastodon because of disagreements with the owner of Twitter for the most part. I was on Mastodon before anybody knew what it was and I mostly found out niche communities and it was good for people who liked that sort of thing. But now, the move is based on hate towards the ideologies of certain people (in this case Elon Musk) instead of the incompetency of the software itself.

I do not agree with Elon Musk's many ideas and I'm not much involved in the Twitter drama because I'm not a user either but as far as I can see, Mastodon's current popularity is based on the ability of people to hate Elon Musk, not Twitter.
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

Install this and than look at the bottom of the page. :-D
The controversy about what counts as 'intersex' is mostly pointless, as far as I can tell, as the term neither has (nor requires) a precise definition. I think in this context it makes sense to include any condition that blurs the edges of the gender binary as traditionally understood in society. If you look at the details of e.g. Klinefelter syndrome from this perspective, it's not difficult to see why it might be seen as part of the intersex spectrum:

>broad hips, poor muscle tone and slower than usual muscle growth, reduced facial and body hair that starts growing later than usual, a small penis and testicles, and enlarged breasts (gynaecomastia)

It's by no means a settled matter what does or doesn't count as 'intersex'. I suspect that few reputable researchers would waste time engaging in such a pointless debate over terminology. Some relevant points in this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5808814/

All that said, one can, if one wishes, cherry pick the smallest available estimate of the number of 'intersex' people and thereby dismiss the issues raised by these people on the grounds that they're small in number. I'm not sure how much scrutiny the logic of that rhetorical move would withstand.
If you can just look at words differently... then the people being "accommodated" can just do exactly the same thing, in this case, and there is no reason to waste time energy or resources doing any of this.
Consider that the next time you see a wheelchair ramp.
Thank you for the comment. I hadn't spent all that much time thinking about this from an AML / KYC perspective up until now, but I recall in years past when I wanted to make a bank transfer from Colombia to the US, it felt like I was holding my breath for the money to eventually arrive (and this was bank <-> bank, without crypto involved), given all the paperwork and questions asked.

The money did arrive successfully by the way, but I just took away from that exercise that banks are really, really strict about money transfers and the origin of monies. This all has me thinking that getting crypto back into the banking system -- to the extent it's easy today -- might only get harder in the future.
This is very nit picky. The entire web works by severs “seeding” data to the client, so by your logic you can’t “put stuff” on the web. The difference with torrents and IPFS is you can have multiple servers seeding the same content, and not be dependent on any one.

I’m not making any predictions about how long Z library stays up, but the illegal seeding of movies and tv shows has remained very strong until today.
What is the official name of that product?
(Because JS has no integers)
LibreX

https://github.com/hnhx/librex/
My view is similar to yours, but I think slightly more neutral:

It seems to me that the words in question ("man", "woman", etc), were used to refer to both biological sex and gender for centuries under the assumption that they always co-occurred. The conflict has arisen now that we've realised they don't always co-occur because different people have taken different views on which of part was primary or definitional. Neither view is inherently wrong. But taken together they're hugely problematic because we're using the same words to mean different things, which is leading to lots of confusion.

(there is additional conflict as some people have decided that we ought to not talk about one or other of biological sex and gender at all - which one depends on who you ask of course)

Ultimately the solution will need to be a second (and perhaps a third) set of words that are clear in their meanings. I don't think it really matters too much which word means what, so long as we all agree on the meanings. Possibly it would be better to ditch "man" and "woman" entirely so nobody feels hard done by that other people can use them but they can't.
“was previously fired from her job for sleeping in her car behind her place of employment.”

The cruelty of managers never stops surprising me. As long as she is doing her job and is presentable etc. what’s the problem? Worst case just ask her to park her car somewhere else?
I think the trick, if there is one beyond luck, involves the ability
to draw conspicuous attention to the occasion one is "right", while
distracting from the all the other off-target pronouncements.
Yep. I appreciate how there are so many open source projects whose interests align to naturally work together at different layers toward a future of better curation:

1. Open Library providing a database of book titles, authors, and other metadata (unlike Goodreads, etc. whose databases are proprietary).

2. Internet Archive, Google Books, and Hathitrust scanning books and making full scans available for download as copyrights expire.

3. Project Gutenberg, PGDP, etc. transcribing scans and unscanned books to digital text.

4. Standard Ebooks applying a consistent style guide and providing additional cleanup and proofreading, attractive covers, and more detailed HTML and EPUB metadata.
It's gambling for information discovery. Rather than gambling for fun.

You see some of this in sports betting, but it is distorted by fans, and sport-outcomes are not really important.
You know: I'd rather not. It would send me an even nastier wave of downvotes and flaggings. Commenting on this was clearly a mistake. Please carry on.
Ask HN: Private Video Hosting and Transription
I'm looking for a product that allows you to record google meet / zoom meetings, transcribe them, and privately share the results with my company. Ideally it would be possible to click on a section of the transcription and be taken to that part of the video. Would also be nice to link to a portion of the video/transcript from an external source. Integration with notion.so would be a plus as well.

Does anyone know if a service like this exists?
use language to disambiguate

That's the ultimate issue here. Different groups of people want to disambiguate some terms and conflate others, and there is not enough overlap between these groups to reach a common ground. At its core is a struggle for power with the meanings of words representing territory to be won or lost.

Orwell wrote extensively on this topic and left us with some pretty stern warnings which we as a society continue to ignore. And while everyone fights over this stuff we are ruining the planet and risking catastrophic consequences both environmental and political.
Whenever people make this big deal about undermining the meaning of biology by using gender identity as the center of everyday language, all I can think is it's literally no different to adoption, which we all accept.

An adoptive parent is a parent. We don't specify "adoptive" all the time, and it'd be rude to refuse to refer to adoptive parents as parents because they aren't biologically related to their children in the same way.

We have done exactly this kind of language change in schools over that issue too, teachers often prefer "guardians" to "parents" in some contexts these days because some children won't live with parents, things like that. To pretend this hurts people is just counter to these examples we see in reality, it's just trying to use the words that apply to everyone, not just the most common case. The cost is so small, the attempts to push back on it seem actively spiteful, because there is no reason to contest it generally. The thing it brings to mind is the "but marriage means a man and a woman" argument from the attempts to stop marriage equality.
I just read "l'anomalie" from Hervé le Tellier, Reading that post made me think of that book, I recommend it.
Turned this into an iTerm color scheme to play around with the colors if anybody's interested: https://gist.github.com/memco/83edcaf20123dbe6ab3f19bef7e8a1....
It's worth asking whether anyone is actually being excluded merely because the words aren't generic enough.

We can accept that a very small portion of the population doesn't fit into the definitions we commonly use without having to abandon them. It's obvious with good intentions but it seems like a silly hill to die on.

Why can't we just accept as a community that when you say male/female there will always be a little [*] attached to it for the exceptions?
Rust's HashMap and similar containers have clear() and many of them have drain()

Drain is interesting, because it resolves the other problem if things are in the collection which can never be retrieved from it. Drain gives you each of the things in the collection, one at a time, to do with as you wish, the collection is now empty. So this means even if the collection has a dozen SillyNonsenses in it, all of which insist they're not the one you were looking for whenever you go looking for a SillyNonsense in the collection, you get all twelve of them out in Drain, and can examine them as you wish.

Of course if you just wanted to fish one thing out and then throw the rest away, you can do that, once you drop the result of Drain the rest of the things being drained are dropped.
See also[0]

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-introduc...
LMAO. Amazing to see this trash (the OP's link) posted on HN.
But the gender-inclusive language is not clear. It was downright confusing to be honest. If I were pregnant, anxious and trying to find info online, I wouldn’t want to wade through that either. The purpose of language is to communicate clearly, not to make you feel included.
A friend of mine recently joined signal, and she had a bunch of contacts message her saying they didn’t know she was into take drugs…
If you use Emacs in Vim mode -- I'm not much of an Emacs user in general, but lately I've actually tentatively taken to Doom Emacs, much to my own surprise -- is Mastering Emacs still useful?
The content is the address, no central issuer of the tracker file needed just the CID content ID. Also since the CID is a hash of the data it can be used to validate the data :wink:
Strictly compared to containers, the big advantages are reproducibility and lower overhead.

Overhead: Windows and macOS can't run Linux-based containers natively. Instead, there's always a full Linux virtual machine running in the background acting as an intermediary and host for your containers. Nix can conjure arbitrary native development environments on a per-command or per-terminal basis, giving you all the performance of directly running tools without the risk of clashing with systemwide software.

Reproducibility: Nix provides much stronger guarantees about the exact versions of software you're running. It effectively gives you a lockfile for your entire dependency chain, all the way down to libc. Containers tend to be more stateful: everyone on your team may be using the same Dockerfile, but if you build an image from it two weeks apart, you're probably going to get very different outputs due to things like your apt-get update step returning new versions of packages. This doesn't happen with Nix.

The beauty is that this isn't either/or; you can actually use Nix to generate OCI container images which are thus fully specified and repeatable.
Looks like this is a command line RSS reader system(?)...
By building one. Still testing the hypothesis but I believe it's possible, and it will work. xD
For 2, isn't that some weird logistics? You have to bring them to court, convict them, then you can search the vehicle?
I am French and I live in France.

For some time now I have been wondering why the little pieces of truffle were tasteless when the dishe as a whole smelled so strong.

Now I know.
Interestingly a major band I saw last night, Crowded House, just came out against any kind of demand driven pricing, and forced TicketMaster to refund all premium ticket charges.
Yes, been using devbox for a while now. It's great. This seems like a direct competitor or? Have anyone compared them?
Beyond Blame (2013 article by SBF’s mom)