skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the process is to run a full backup weekly, and keep four weeks of backups. This mimics the old rsnapshot system, but sends the data directly to S3. In this particular case, the total amount of data is only less than 50GB, so the cost of a weekly backup is not great. The goal was to eliminate the dedicated backup server which ran pull backups via rsync/rsnapshot. Having each host back itself up to S3 directly is cheaper than paying for a backup host (including the time spent maintaining the backup host itself). As far as I understand, borgbackup requires a dedicated backup server.
Crazy. At the very least, a plug-in à la vim-surround is a clear improvement.
Agreed. The pricing is set such that they're able to get about say $125 from each patron. For those who try to game the system, for example sticking to just the bites, that is also fine. They will make sure there is no way to leave without handing minimal ~$50 by the end. That might not sound like much, but said patron got a union beer and some spam chunks which costs roughly nothing. In fact, that is preferred. Give us $50 and gtfo!
So you think that you, personally, should be able to decide the proper definitions of words?
> Occam's razor would dictate that the simplest explanation for an extremely fast rise in numbers of dispersed communities evangelizing the teachings of a person is that such person existed and espoused those teachings, right?

No? A large number of dispersed communities cannot have all been exposed to the hypothetical founder directly espousing their own teachings; the phenomenon you seek to explain actually precludes the explanation you're trying to give.

A rapid rise in dispersed groups following a set of teachings has to be explained by a large number of people espousing those teachings in parallel. It makes no difference whether those people got their knowledge as disciples of an individual person, as members of a committee devoted to a supernatural force, by reading the same book at the same time in different places, through the grapevine, or by independently adapting their teachings to what their audiences want.
Set in a haunted, ancient-yet-avant-garde Athens where people cut each other up for kicks...

No thanks, I've had enough of Cronenberg for one life
So you refuse to acknowledge my points, then?

I shouldn't expect too much from people who refuse to see the larger issue and instead get lost in the weeds.
Clearly illegal, but honestly very impressive. I really don’t think most people are ever capable of running a fraud so large. This guy is like the Einstein of stealing money
Cool, do you have a link?
That was also my first, and only, shader experience (www.soniplot.com)
What Is a Wildcard Person?
>That the different gospels (including, but not limited to those that become later cannonical) contradict each other one

Can you please share more about this? I haven't seen any credible contradictions among the Gospels - but I keep hearing credible people reference it.
I see a bunch of evil people murdering, raping, and pillaging (all extremely well-documented). And you're defending them, complaining about other people comparing them with fictional villains. I don't see how calling war criminals names is somehow dangerous. Maybe they should try not raping and murdering civilians and invading a sovereign country.
One of the details that I'm not seeing in the article is does this apply to State prison, Federal prison, or both? Based on my experience in Federal prison I expect that it's more targeted at State prison since I often talked to other inmates that were vocal about the atrocious rates they experienced while in those systems.

In Federal prison the phone and e-mail system is still pretty bad, but not as bad. We often joked that it was like going into a time machine nearly 25 years in the past where "phone minutes" were still a thing and they even invented the idea of "email minutes".

On the note of "email minutes" they actually charge you for the entire time you are in the system which includes wrestling with their UI/UX which has obviously been "fine tuned" to be as abusive as possible to drain your email minutes. They also remove basic features like copy/paste and in general most of the basic typing features you take for granted every day like holding CTRL or SHIFT to navigate between words or type over existing words. This is again another cheap tactic to ensure that generating text output is as slow as possible. There are similar tricks that are used to slow the progress of reading messages. (FWIW printing messages is somewhat possible and costs about $0.70 per message since you can't combine them into multiple on the same page and the font size during printing is large)

Entertainingly this creates a class of inmates that are highly adept at navigating this stupid system and can churn out messages faster than anyone else combined with decent typing skills and knowledge of all the failures of the system. It's not a bad "hustle" as it's actually pretty impactful to help people send messages to their loved ones.

Fun story! While I was doing my time I setup a script that uses puppeteer to scrape the front page of HN itself and tried to get the most interesting stories per week. It would then generate a PDF and email it to my friends who would print it out and send it to me, so I actually had a weekly digest of HN in my inmate mail. Originally I didn't know how absurd the rules would be about keywords and such (spoiler, they're not very strict and mostly only concerned with overt things) so I had a mapping of words that would get modified like the word "Hacker" became "Wacker" and "Auth[entication]" became "Lock" as a way to avoid spooky headlines like "Hacker Steals Authentication Codes" would become "Wacker Steals Lockentication Codes" - it was crude and ended up not being neccessary so a friend of mine modified the script to remove it upon request. I had originally wanted to hook the whole thing up to a printing API to automate the process (the entire thing was thrown together a week before I had to surrender) but the various printing APIs weren't really capable of handling the rules for inmate mail about page limits, colors, labeling, etc.

Ask me anything!
My predictions:

- Putin will still control Russia on December 31st, 2023.

- Several countries collapse economically, which leads to a humanitarian crisis in one or all of these countries: Pakistan, Lebanon, Haiti, Ukraine, and Yemen.

- Finland and Sweden join NATO finally

- China has a deep recession

- Dianne Feinstein announces retirement

- Apple's AR glasses will not be announced

- No Apple car will be announced

- US starts ramping up production of military hardware for possible war with China and its allies

- A major terrorist attack in Europe

- A major supply chain cyber attack
A very easy target of what?
title: Accelerating zk-SNARKs - MSM and NTT algorithms on FPGAs with Hardcaml

Any reason the title deviates so much from original? Is it because of all the cool acronyms and code words? Here's a decoder:

zk-SNARK: zero-knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge

MSM: Multi-Scalar Multiplication

Hardcaml: OCaml lib for hardware: https://github.com/janestreet/hardcaml

NTT: Number Theoretic Transform
This is misinformation. Saudi Arabia is not well regarded when it comes to religious freedom, and it has a law against apostasy (when a Muslim renounces their beliefs), which is a capital offense, but they don't classify atheists as terrorists.
Musk runs his businesses like a dictator. Well, OK, it's no secret multi billion companies is not where socialists go to hide. But he can't have it both ways: if he chooses to run his companies this way, he can't complain we pin the bad stuff on him. He is not only responsible, also clearly involved in making those choices and decisions.
I'm kind of curious about that. If AirTags rely on nearby iPhones to capture tag IDs as they pass by and relay them to Apple, will a ramp worker with an iPhone in his pocket start seeing shorter battery life?
For Malamud's similar case about building codes, the logical verdicts might be that privately-created text aimed at being building code does have copyright protection, but that it does not have the force of binding law until it has been put into the public domain by the government through agreement with the copyright holder. Getting a test case for this would be quite difficult though, as inspectors are notorious for exercising autocratic power and getting away with it.

It might also lead to the terrible situation where states just give up on building codes, but insurance companies continue to require them, creating de facto law through the backdoor of involuntary contracts.
Can you share anything about your stack or process? This looks beautiful!
What about https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298298360_The_birth... ? (Tel Dan stele & Khirbet Qeiyafa)
The day Apple makes automated emergency calls mandatory in my area is the day I will quit using an iPhone.
The holidays are usually a quiet time for public transport systems - the lack of commuters more than counteracts the increase in tourist-like trips.
haha, to be fair, that's exactly the kind of thing a lot of Facebook/Google employees would say unironically in a face to face conversation about ad tracking
Remix Culture
How is the Chinese government going to control the flow of information in China once all phones do this and traffic need not leave the Starlink network to allow communication between endpoints?
Fair point, I changed the title!
> It's fun & satisfying to think about,

It's neither fun nor satisfying (edit:for me) to think about. It's theoretically impossible to design and run an experiment which would either falsify Copenhagen and not-falsify Many-Worlds, or falsify Many-Worlds and not-falsify Copenhagen. Unless we can do that (we can't) then arguing about Copenhagen vs Many-Worlds is just navel gazing.

I'm fine with arguing about interpretations which are experimentally distinguishable from Copenhagen.
Rather than using matplotlib, you could try either pygfx (https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx) or fastplotlib (https://github.com/kushalkolar/fastplotlib) to make higher performance graphics using Python.

However, it won't solve your problem of Python not being fast enough doing the calculations.
Too much credit for Elon based on current and past evidence.
Please report back. Make sure it has at least a couple absolutely absurd items otherwise it's not funny.
I thought he was extremely nice to wait that long. That's 72 hours more than these abusive corporations deserve. I actually wish these people would just publish these vulnerabilities out of nowhere to force them to deal with it or go bankrupt from liability. Any damage caused by such "reckless" disclosures isn't severe enough punishment for their surveillance capitalism business even existing in the first place. There should have been no data to be compromised in the first place.
A nice link to the video, but skip ahead to 17:20.
>1. A visual programming language. In 2122 you'll be able to use 2D or 3D space for your program, not just a 1D character stream.

We program in 2d character pages already.

Visual Basic and Delphi were mainstream GUI builders in 1997, a quarter century ago.

We have the Unity engine if you want 3D.

>2. A natural language programming language. In 2122 you will no longer have to learn to program.

VisiCalc, Lotus 123, then Excel made declarative programming usable by most people in the 1980s.

>3. A simple parallel programming language. In 2122 a program for 1,000 cores is as easy as a single-threaded program.

Multithreading is tricky, because it rewrites the physics of programming. Causality generally goes out the window, unless you use locks, which defeat the threading by bottlenecking it. Systems that refactor into immutable data don't have to use locks.

>4. A universal optimizing compiler. In 2122, all languages will be as fast as machine code.

LLVM, a universal backend to compilers, is being used on a wider basis almost every day.

>5. A 1000x lossless compression algorithm. In 2122 diskspace and bandwidth are no longer constraints on anything.

The laws of physics make this level of compression impossible. However, disk space and bandwidth are much, MUCH cheaper than they were in the days of 300 Baud dialup with acoustic couplers.
preach

the wiki page for the car has a couple interesting things -- Tom Gage and Alan Cocconi are the dudes in the video (I think):

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

The tzero is a handmade electric sports car designed and built in very limited numbers by the U.S. company AC Propulsion in the early 2000s. It was the direct predecessor of the Tesla line of electric cars.

i guess when Gage and Cocconi (and others?) didn't want to commercialize/productionize that particular prototype, Eberhard and Tarpenning went off to found Tesla to do it.

JB Straubel then told Elon Musk about the newly converted, now lithium-ion powered tzero and arranged a test drive. Musk also encouraged AC Propulsion to commercialize the vehicle. Tom Gage, however, again deferred in favor of working on their electrified Scion xB called the eBox. But he put Elon Musk in contact with Martin Eberhard which led to Elon Musk's Series A funding of Tesla Motors in April, 2004 and their hiring JB Straubel.

there are so many 'founders' and commingling of various projects and ventures, it's difficult to keep track.

when i lived in palo alto back in the day (2005??) i remember some local crazies doing '100-mile range electric car conversions (of gas-powered cars)' - like, either showed up on Meetup.com or flyers or farmers markets. bet a bunch of these early e-car people would have some fun stories.
It never occurred to me that the user installed content blockers don’t apply to in app browsers. Thank you for pointing this out.
I’ve got a pair of these: https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html on either side of the house - local to where the bulk of the pixels are (2 x megatrees and a matrix). And a couple of recievers out from there to other points.
Is the feature mandatory in any area? It’s basically fall detection rebranded as crash detection.
Love your youtube channel. However, you should consider releasing a version of the game without this effect being on by default. Maybe it's just my mammalian brain scared of snakes...but not being able to see clearly where you're going is disorienting, unnerving and doesn't feel comfortable.
I haven't been so successful like you at business, and faced same situation of lack of passion. I realized that in order to be passionated again, I should try new things. I found new niches like listen audiobooks, hobby rc cars, life optimization, learn new web frameworks... And feeling really passionate about some of them right now. Sometimes you have to be open minded and just try new activities. It helped me a lot.
Ah, okay. That explains some things. He's the one saying it, and I guess some folks bought into it and believed him.
I was on a date and suggested we go to this ___ & ___ place that I hate that thought she might like it. She replied like "Eh places with an ampersand? Let's not". I thought I was the only one who knew that. The ONLY exception is Smart & Final.
> However, most of the time, the founder is a real person.

Yes, the founder has necessarily to be a real person. But not the one from which the tales are made. For example, all greek mysteries purported to come from a real teacher, but in most cases these were gods, i.e., not real people.

There is really no evidence of a christian sect forming in Jerusalem at the time of the supposed death of Jesus. Christianity appeared for all purposes in the Greek Asian Minor, pushed by someone who called himself Paul, and all the writings we have are from Greek-speaking composers. The idea that Christianity goes back to a Jesus and his followers in Judea seems to be a romantic idea used by the real founders of the movement to make it older than it really was.
frequent melatonin wreaks havoc on your natural sleep system

it's great for jetlag, but not as a regular 'mild' sleep aid
I'll just leave this here for y'all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotelephony_procedure#Proce...
If the bar needs fake books, please point them to https://hipsum.co for hipster generated content. Pabst.
I am not defending them. I also don't mind calling them names in general. You don't have to figure it out right now.
> I'd wager that the scammers here are more wealthy than most of the people they are scamming

Ohohoho noo they're not. They are definitely not. Probably the one sitting at the top, but not the telecallers themselves who do the actual fieldwork. These are just poor youngsters who can't find jobs because of how ridiculously brutal India's labour market is.
Cool idea!

I immediately thought of a concern which is already highlighted in their FAQ:

> What if attackers blacklist the canarytokens.org domain? Doesn’t that work?

> This would work! That’s why we suggest that you download the canarytokens docker image and run your own server. (You can grab the source to build it yourself from here)

This seems like something that could be highlighted more prominently, since the main site makes it so extremely convenient to use a hosted token (where some knowledgeable attackers can avoid triggering the canary).
I think part of my point is: In the context of each of his businesses, there isn’t really much bad stuff, in fact his businesses are much better across most metrics than his competitors.

Twitter might be the exception here because its early days.
I appreciate the user-focus move of displaying the CFG as a slider, but its a fine-grained value. That makes the app unable to replicate a specific render shared online. I suppose this is a tradeoff :) I just wish there was a common UI element that combined a slider and value display...

Also, would be nice to share some binaries on GitHub!
Show HN: Delfi Chrome Extension to Bookmark LinkedIn Profiles with Short Notes
Hi! I built a Chrome Extension called Delfi which lets you bookmark LinkedIn Profiles with short notes along with. You can access these saved profiles and notes in the extension popup after pinning it. More details added on Github Repo.

It is now published in Chrome Web Store.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/delfi/begilfboibei...
On a surface level, this is true. Vast majority of the code that makes VS Code is MIT licensed.

But the configuration of what marketplace is used and what extensions have access to the privileged "proposed API" makes huge difference in what Microsoft/GitHub can provide as user experience and what other developers can do.

See this great post for detailed explanation how Microsoft created a closed ecosystem around VS Code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657709
What’s the over/under on Tesla renaming it to “Otto Pilot”?
> There are far less contemporaneous sources for Alexander the Great than there are for Jesus of Nazareth.

Tell me you're completely uneducated about a subject without telling me you're completely uneducated.
I doubt our water reaches 4C, and if the air temperature were that low, there would be some serious issue.

That said, the /r/becomingtheiceman (WimHof) subreddit regularly has people taking a bath in a tub with ice, snow, or ice cubes to cool it down (or take a bath in a partially frozen lake). Never did that myself, though.
To add to this, the states robust to entanglement with environment were dubbed “pointer states” by Zurek since they are the quantum states most closely analogous to the “pointer” of a measuring apparatus showing one particular result.
Civil RICO
It was already invented on late night scam infomercial The Prayer Clock https://theprayerclock.com . It has James Earl Jones shouting bible verses "every hour, on the hour".
I bought that book a while ago, and it reminds me of the old days when a lot of the leading lights in the open source community were a bit more of a personality. I enjoyed it, he's obviously incredibly bright and knowledgeable and he makes the subject understandable and fascinating. Until you commented I had never run into another soul that knew about him much less had read the book.

Check out his youtube channel it's a wild ride! Good example video from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq963c6Fl5E

(I know it sounds like I could be Nick with all this praise but I'm just a guy that appreciates people with interesting obsessions that may benefit me some day).
This must depend on the kind of work you're doing. For any kind of mildly serious with a compiled language, a laptop is still woefully inadequate. Its still difficult to find a laptop with 32 gb of ram, let alone 64. But working on a large c++ codebase, I routinely max out 32 gb and compilation still takes roughly 5 times as long on my high end xps compared to my workstation.
> being a reliable company workers and breadwinner is definitely highly valued, but not being a high achiever the way American culture, for instance, would value

I've always thought academic achievement and money mattered quite a bit in Japan. I've heard the phrase "high achievement, high income, high stature" as a description of the traits desired/expected in Japanese men.
It'll probably never go away, but just be layered over like civilizations. Eventually our software is probably going to get so complicated that we just build new software to interact with old software to avoid ever fully shutting it down. Like building a fresh highway on the oregon trail
There were multiple levels of "VF" (visibility filtering) at Twitter, including things like manual de-trending of particular topics, and banning accounts from showing up on search.
I remember the show Halt and Catch Fire also had an Amiga 1000 in an episode, but they didn't bother to show anything resembling Workbench/AmigaOS. https://i.imgur.com/uaqzrEk.jpeg
And unless this ski town is home to an unusual number of clumsy iphone users, this pattern is likely happening wherever Apple has rolled out automated 911 calling in regions with outdoor active sports.
> another clear example is how John identifies Jesus with the Logos, a Greek philosophical concept.

I don't think this example is so clear. First, "logos" is a common word that appears hundreds of times in the NT. Second, "the word of God / the LORD" is a common and important occurrence in the OT. John's argument is that Jesus was the one delivering these messages, as he existed beforehand to do so (see John 8:52-58).

Third, just because it was a Greek concept, doesn't mean John is intending to apply it here. An easy example is how the Septuagint always translates the Hebrew word "sheol" to the Greek word "hades". Even though hades is a Greek philosophical concept, the intention is not to apply that concept; it's just the word that the translators decided is closest to the meaning of the original.

With that said, there's no question that the early church beyond the twelve wrestled with and eventually incorporated many Greek philosophical concepts into their belief systems. We just don't see clear evidence of that in the gospels, I don't think.
• Ditch proprietary platforms for communication (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok WhatsApp, LINE, Discord, Telegram). Consider XMPP with OMEMO, Matrix, IRC, Mastodon, Discourse, etc.

• Ditch proprietary code forges (GitHub) and offer at a minimum an email to send patches for folks not interested in creating accounts on your platform.

• Enable 2FA, and email support and bitch when SMS and TOTP is only supported through a proprietary app. Buy a hardware token if you can afford it and it's not a massive inconvenience (and message support to add that too).

• When meeting new contacts, share a VCF file so we don't end up in a situation where the only way to contact you is a closed platform that now imploded (Twitter) where email is the lowest common denominator

• Add or reenable your Atom/RSS feed for your content. Consider following others to break out of algorithms.

Bonus:

• Give Linux an honest go this year (or BSD, OpenIndiana, or other 'weird' FOSS option)