skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're posting pro-Binance, pro-China comments all over this thread

> company is in great shape, and customer's assets are safe

Do you have any proof of this? I assume that to know this for sure, you would have some insight into Binance internals?
I think sodium ion will dominate the next 10 years of grid storage unless a sulfur battery like this can commercialize fast enough.

The sulfur chemistries might leave all the solid state stuff in the dust.
Say, your house has 15 light switches on esp32 running Tasmota.

Do they all talk to each other in a mesh network, or do they all connect to your router in WIFI infrastructure mode?
Storage has nothing viable on the horizon, let alone in production. I will agree it's less risky--because risk is an unknown and thus a certain failure isn't a risk.
It's rarely a specific and conscious line of thought during the decision-making process. The more common case is making the working class feel like they're "just like" the wealthy—playing on the narrative that "anyone can get rich in America"—and then selling them on policies that actively work against their own interests, and for the interests of the wealthy. This step often looks like talking about things that would primarily affect the very wealthy as if they would hurt everyone. Things like "taxation is theft", "increasing taxes punishes success", "government small enough to drown in a bathtub", etc.
Screens aren't precise and aren't natural. If you have good enough vision or a bad enough screen, you see that it's a bunch of squares that try to imitate shapes, and even have spaces between them.

Also, the lighting looks fake. Even on good modern screens, there's a billboard feeling I can't ignore. I think that's your reflectance/emission point; it's not light reflecting on an object like literally everything you look at, it's an object blasting light at you trying to make it look real.
I would expect that, at least for companies that aren’t woefully poorly run and are in fairly competitive markets, creating more durable/repairable good will result in higher costs. I mean, if they could make a better device for less or the same amount of money, it seems they are just giving up a competitive advantage for no reason, and somebody would eat their lunch, right?

But of course the consumer gets the benefit of a better device. It seems really industry specific how the pros and cons would balance out. If anyone is making predictions for how it would work out for the whole market, I’m pretty suspicious that they are overstating their level of confidence.
> since Google's rise to mapping dominance, it has put the screws to developers with anti-competitive terms and rising prices. In 2018, Google Maps hiked the price by more than 1,400 percent, and many developers were forced to stop using Google Maps or go bankrupt.
> The US Justice Department began an investigation of Google Maps earlier in the year over concerns about car app bundling and anti-competitive terms of service.
>When Uber held its IPO in 2019, the company reportedly paid $58 million for Google Maps API access over the previous three years, and that was mostly before the Google Maps price hike.

I think things have changed since that suit. Let's see if the gov can do something.
No-one evicts a good, rent paying tenant in England.

Issue #1 is that the supply does not keep up with demand so rents keep going up. Issue #2 is that tenants don't know the law.
My dad did try “physically restraining me” by grabbing me before I could run to my mom after I would creep down the stairs in the morning to avoid him. It did not make things better so I would not recommend it, haha. I’m sure it was frustrating for him.

Anyway, thirty years later we’re good, and I would go to my dad way before my mom to talk about any sort of personal issue and such. Of course, every situation is different, hopefully it won’t take you nearly as long as it did for us.

I have found in my personal relationships in the past few years that the more I let go and stop trying to control things or take it personally when someone doesn’t act the way I’d like, the better it all goes. Of course, for some people that means the relationship drops off entirely, but for the more important ones they got a lot better.
All of the above.

It's free (along with everything in the "app store"), it's stable, it isn't infested with ads, and the browser and word processor work exactly the same for all normal users. The OS shouldn't matter much to regular people who just want a web browser and maybe a word processor.

It's really easy to use now. The installation process is far less arduous than Windows and you don't have to sign up for a Microsoft account or get nagged about not doing so.

I would really struggle to imagine someone having trouble doing all their normally-Windows-based (filesystem, office suite, web browser) work on a mainstream distro now, even for the most technically illiterate user.

If you're a power user though, it's like moving from a Corolla to an F-35.
No need to speculate, there were to seperate "audits", which were unrelated from each other, and only covered parts of the enterity of FTX. And Pager Matis' selling point seems to have been a Metaverse HQ...
My point is not "FTX's books were in good shape"; with the benefit of hindsight they clearly weren't.

Instead, my point is that an exchange saying that they passed a GAAP audit isn't the level of positive signal my parent seems to think it is.
Derren Brown did a re-enactment of this experiment for television in the UK in 2006 as part of The Heist, one of his many TV specials. He had results similar to the original Milgram experiment. You can watch clips of it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxq4QtK3j0Y

Edit: It seems that the full show is also on YouTube from Derren's official channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtMMsFoHuY
Have they really? Personal bad experiences?

Or is this just the prevailing narrative that's been sold to us over the past 30-50 years, and there are too few actual unions and union jobs left to effectively counter it?
Fair... but the competition needs a lot of years to catch up, I feel.

I had to use another map tool for a client in a country that didn't love Google.

God... it was so clunky horrible. All the stuff I thought was simple, like dropping map pins, and stylizing the UI... with the other map it took 10x as long, and just behaved poorly. We were dropping like 40k pins across a country, and the other service didn't even have like a smart clustering feature... so we had to create a bunch of filters and toggles -- rather than just being able to say "5k pins in this city" when they were zoomed out, we had to force users to selected the right filters and then just slow them scattered "blah" as they zoomed. Anyway, totally agree it'd be good to have more competition on this space... but like it's gonna be a few years before the competition pushes Google to do much more than just iterate.

Apple is doing a pretty good job with directions, but they still don't have the "business listings" or abstract searches done right.

A lot of tools out there are OK for directions, but without street-view... or even somewhat recent satellite view... the maps aren't up-to-date. Like... take an area in your city where you know there's construction. Google's on it, like almost as soon as the construction crews start. Apple... they're not far off, especially if there's a detour required. Bing... Open Street Map... forget it, it'll be a month or two, or longer, before they can plot around construction. I'm sure it's hard for companies to dedicate resources until people are using the tool, and of course nobody will use the tool until the dedicate resources. Google's ability to pull in business listings, and reviews, and good directions... it's gonna be a really tall order to get anyone else to dedicate enough resources to push Google farther.
Deep sleep with updates seems to keep the system updated - it’s the games that apparently wait until you want to play.
>The “nuclear is not economically viable” argument seen in recent years is dishonest from the majority of critics

No, that is a result of betting all eggs on monolithic designs. Most of the costs are fixed costs.
I think 98 SE was the first time I didn’t have to slipstream a floppy driver or something.
Was thinking about exactly same idea to automate my job last week. We just need something local to to train, like Stable Diffusion.
Looking closely, this only works if you know the font name, size, and weight used, or at least can guess it, manually, before feeding the pixelated version into the tool? Still quite fun, but not as scary as the headline made it sound...
Switching between business and academia several times I am really struck by this.

Meetings where the elephant in the room is not mentioned, because nobody wants to loose face. Really bad practice not commented on because (I guess, I am bad at this) some form of "mutually assured destruction". I will not point out your mistakes so you do not point out mine.

That, in case you are wondering, is from business.

I am really pleased to see people commenting here about business experience that go against my experience. And in my little group (of two, we could easily be five) we are straight with each other. But in the wider group? Rank incompetence, and dreadful mistakes that could be corrected if someone would point it out.

The point is technical excellence, good scientific practice, that is not required for being successful at business. It is al about "people skills". I.e. convincing somebody that they got what they were promised when they did not.

The university system in my country (Aotearoa) has been hobbled by people with business fetish. The meme was in the 1990s that "business is the most efficient". I believed it, until I saw the waste, inefficiency, downright lying and dishonesty, aghh I am triggered, that is business.

The same thing happens to some degree in academia (especially in commerce. My academic experience is science in the 1990s and commerce in the 2010s) but only "some degree". I see it at every nearly business meeting I attend.

I said before, I will say again, how pleasing it is to see comments here from people with different experiences than me.
British colonialism killed 100M Indians in 40 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978278 - Dec 2022 (45 comments)

British colonialism killed 100M Indians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33875569 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)
What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falowiec in Poland.
http://bash.org/?244321 Lol
And Facebook doesn’t sell user data either.

I know there are lots of people here knowingly redefining the meaning of sell in this regard, but doing so is really harmful to the privacy cause since most companies do actually sell user data so we need that distinction.
MIT isn't in the Ivy League. The Ivy League, which is an athletic conference, consists of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
Who Is Victor Bout?
Do the rates change? I thought it was usage that changed seasonally.
There is a lot of work where a human body + mind is cheaper and easier than automation and likely will be for the foreseeable future. We will need lots of human labor until you have embodied robots similarly adaptable to a human at <= $20/hr.

Automation puts downward pressure on wages/working conditions. But we must also consider globalization pushback and aging population pyramids that put upward pressure on wages.

Conclusion? Varies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028346
They did, in the US at least[0]. Just not for the saps who signaled any sort of loyalty to the company, those people got hosed. Nurses need to adopt the "f you pay me" attitude the hospital administration has, doing things like working without protective gear is a great way to tell your boss that you will accept anything he does to you.

[0]https://khn.org/news/highly-paid-traveling-nurses-fill-staff...
Reading it doesn’t it say they have completed the requirements to pass but haven’t actually passed? Seems like the kind of word play that should send red flags.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see them doing the task years from now - 20% battery left wouldn’t be an issue and by then probably easier to buy a new one.
Last time I heard 80% ratio is optimal for Java, but any dynamic typing language (JS, Python, Ruby) it's around 100% test LOC / code LOC.
Exposing Tether – Bitcoin's Biggest Secret (2021) [video]
No, often components are dependent on the stress they are under. If you have inconsistent reflow, or lots of rework happening, then each device will behave differently due to thermal contractions.
We consciously call those who use our services "collaborators", we're on equal-footing, to the point of not trying to say "service" (when it is). This week we just met with a potential group of users of our open-source software, that we also offer free as a service. In the area they are exploring it has some shortcomings, and is the newest of the bunch in terms of features, overall use in that manner, etc.

When we asked, "Why aren't you using X, or Y (you should consider them, they are good too!)?", and "What features are compelling you to use 'us'?", the answer came back "we like you, people, you talked to us, we know others who use your tools, and we like them too". Features, lack there-of, etc. just were not the clincher, even when we said repeatedly said "but we can't do that!". The important bit was they perceived they were joining a community of like-minded folk, who they liked. Not surprising, it's our mission to promote this very idea, but it was also the first time we heard it stated so bluntly.
Two hours a week between 11 and 16? I love this place. People speak with total authority about stuff they clearly do not understand.
If you haven't read "Seeing like a State" I think you would find it quite interesting. There was a period where urban planners thought that they could, starting from first principles, design the perfect urban environment. It wasn't just authoritarians doing it, but those were the places most able to continue to execute on a vision and disregard the pushback.
Speaking of pixelation.

If you're nearsighted taking your glasses off can blur the pixelation of a face so that you can get a pretty good idea of the person's appearance, especially if you are just trying to guess if it's really a specific person you are already familiar with.
It may seem that this is relative (and from a humanitarian perspective, it may very well be), but from a marxist perspective this is not a relative issue. While the owning class can have free flow of capital, any restriction on the freedom of movement is bad, as it creates low-cost-labor zones which the workers are unable to migrate from and can be exploited by capitalist enterprises. Advocating for free-movement of people is pro-immigration, advocating against it is anti-immigration. And advocating for forced removal of people (i.e. deportation) is both anti-immigration and anti-human-rights.
I'm not sure I follow on how that would stop you from forming a worker co-op. Almost all businesses who have full time employees pay for health insurance. Are you implying a co-op would make less revenue and therefore could not provide its employees insurance?
This is why with redact.photo I randomly shuffle the pixels before blurring so it looks like you can reverse engineer it but you’ll just get scrambled pixels.
A reminder that Milligram faked and selectively edited his data: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin... along with the equally famous and equally fake Stanford Prison experiment this was an "experiment" that had predefined results that has stuck around because it's what many of us want to believe.
You have a point. The current SCOTUS majority is only paying attention to stare decisis/precedent when it's convenient for their agenda
Somewhat ironically the current British Prime Minister who is of Indian descent recently proposed bringing in laws so that anyone expressing “anti-nationalist” views could be referred to Prevent, the government’s anti-radicalisation scheme.
They might both be right. The big4 aren’t really each a homogenous group, rather each country is its own partnership (I think the central registrations are all now in Switzerland).

It’s possible the USA Big4 will touch a crypto firm and… wherever Binance is based… they won’t.
But it later makes the claim that 7, 8, 9 sounds like "scared". ?
They didn't say that they passed, just that they claimed to "complete requirements" needed to pass. The financial engineering version of lying with facts like "assembled in USA from foreign components".
It seems to me that Human communication declines the more it becomes divorced from the threat of physical violence.

The peak decline will be when the possibility of consequences (social, physical, legal, financial…) for communicating anything reaches absolute zero.

Human communication is a great tool but must be kept in check, the goal of communication is to produce useful outcomes, not merely deliver messages and opinions.
Ooh, the Chebyshev basis is neat. I hadn't seen exactly that before. It reminds me a lot of the "shape control" technique[1] which is also similar to a basis function approach but has a bit of linear solving. Essentially, you get one point (usually at t = 0.5), and also the direction but not magnitudes of the tangents at the endpoints (G1, not C1). This is one of the better-performing existing techniques for offset curve, though does have stability problems (in particular, nasty behavior for a symmetric "S" curve).

Regarding collaboration with Freya, if she is open to it, please get in touch. I do have some ideas.

[1]: A New Shape Control and Classification for Cubic Bézier Curves, Yang and Huang, 1993, PDF cache: https://github.com/paperjs/paper.js/files/752955/A.New.Shape...
Why wouldn't you want an open specification to dominate? That means at least half of the market would be open to all comers versus proprietary monopolies. Otherwise you're just asking for a less free and functioning market in processors.
Sheep can live without hair. Also hair doesn't have feeling.
> VR has never been ahead of its time in that it’s never had a time. It still hasn’t made its way into any sort of popular acceptance.

So VR is still ahead of its time?
North Sea oil money didn't hurt.
Advanced in that it's POST instead of GET, and some parameters to boot

I'm not saying it doesn't take effort, I'm just saying it can and is regularly done

Regression testing with speed. If you test your features as they're added, niche-ness doesn't matter - you know about it and test it

A regression test quickly turns into a load test if you do them all at once

To be clear, I'm not trying to twist the knife. I understand why it wouldn't be done. I just won't pretend it can't

I've been trying to avoid this 'hindsight is 20/20' thing...

I'm not trying to lay blame - just offer thoughts towards improvement, and encouragement against some defeatist thinking patterns

A lot can be done with very little equipment/time investment
There are way too many academics, curators and theorists in the collaboration theories world. Way too many VCs and tech start ups have taken them too seriously.

It's like the old joke 'an economist can tell you a 1000 ways to make love but has never touched another person'. The reality with collaboration strategies (which I was heavily involved with last decade) is that it all about context, scale, the people involved, the goals, overcoming silos and rivalries etc. The technology enablers are not wildly important except to choose tools that don't impede.

Playing wackamole with 57 varieties of Slack channel to make sure you are not missing anything vitally important is not efficient collaboration and a huge time suck.
As long as the academic chattering classes keep convincing VCs to pour money into yet more collab start ups there will continue to be new generations of not very useful tools and the low bar of msft teams and email/doc culture will continue to survive. Glacial pace, groundhog day film like deja vu experiences in this world as I'm sure many have experienced on HN...
As an outsider, but generally appreciative of British culture's influence on me, I was (and continue to be) flabbergasted with Britain's inward outlook.

For the vast majority of British history, Brits were only wealthy when they traded outside. The trade took various forms such as East India company, trading outposts, industrial trade outside the island, colonization, financial capitalization etc. Britain ruled the seas (and still does behind America), and established English as the lingua franca of world business.

Yet, people keep voting for inwardness. Brexit, tax cuts for the rich, stopping skilled/semi-skilled immigration. This is completely and astonishingly backwards.

The only way Britain survives the competitive world is by trading more and making itself a hub of education, engineering, finance and global businesses. Constantly voting for restrictive trade, restrictive borders and disconnect from the rest of the world takes Britain closer to North Korea than to USA, China, Singapore, Australia, Canada - who are all trying to forge more relationships with the world.
Would be great to see this n a crowdsupply campaign.
If you're plugged into Not Just Bikes then I'm guessing you've heard the phrase "paint isn't infrastructure." Painted bicycle gutters are not anyone's idea of a solution here, more of a lazy DOT's way of shrugging at the problem without rocking any boats.

What I think we need to reimagine is having the only connection between where people live and where they go to school be a highway. That's unfortunately a fundamental construct in suburban design - subdivisions hanging off of bike- and pedestrian-hostile highways - and it shows up everywhere. Creating new rights of way might be doable in some circumstances. But in others, these things are going to have to stop being highways (or at least lose some lanes) in order to get genuinely safe, separated walking and cycling infrastructure along existing rights of way.
Twitter has reportedly laid off part of its infrastructure team
Same here! Out of curiosity, what are you using (iOS, Android, ...)?
Which disclosure was that, specifically? I haven’t seen any evidence of “anti-Christian bias”. If you’re referring to my comment, note that my position is that all radicals should be treated with concern, but their coreligionists shouldn’t be assumed to share their beliefs. In the United States the most common religion is Christianity so we have lots of people making various hate crimes using language derived from that tradition or expressing fears about Islamic immigrants seen as dangerous outsiders, so I’m only talking about risks to the country where the FBI is focused. The Mossad no doubt has a different perspective.
How do I obtain the all the executables in the chain?
>OSM doesn't offer every kind of data you'd want about an area

For various reasons, a neighbor and I were looking at some property data in both our town's and the MassGIS databases. Our town had info not in the public MassGIS database and both had more information than either OSM or Google Maps.

This was all public information and you can argue about how much should be readily available but it already is for anyone sophisticated enough to know where to look.
“Attacks always get better, they never get worse“ —Bruce Schneier
I thought that blurring a photo would set each pixel to the average color value of all its neighbors. Since information is lost, how could you reverse engineer a blurred photo?
Gimp switching to FLTK or Elementary / Enlightenment would be a fun thing. (I suppose it will never pick up C++ in the code base, so not Qt.)