skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sediment of the Dominy Formation sounds rather ominous. It seems like and increase in sediment flow could damage hydropower infrastructure, it could lead to unpredictable water diversion as "lake" levels drop, or it could contribute to increased water evaporation as more sunlight penetrates the water and heats the sediment.
You need a compiler and a bunch of other build tools. Why not git?
> Bureaucracy is so absurd sometimes.

Kafkaesque, you might say.
yeah, impulse response would definitely be a good starting point.
This particular author seems to be frustrated by some repetitive and minimizing comments from HN in past discussions of their work. Part of the discussion used to be people sharing that twitter threads are annoying and not discussing the contents. [1] And there was a pattern of a few HN comments minimizing past posts saying "it's nothing new" as well as twitter bot spam. [2]

Edit: They also posted further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634289

The original article can also be seen if you just go their tumblr homepage as they made a copy of it.

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440695609913053194

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310434318490034176
Maybe the buyer disputed the charge accidentally? I sold an item with an invoice over 6 months ago and had zero problems. I took tons of pictures of the item I was selling and documented all my correspondence in case of a dispute. Buyer sent payment, and I sent the item. Case closed.
That's my point, and by extension, to say that life could take forms that we don't even understand, is flawed, because what life means is whatever definition we want to give it. Do we not understand our own definitions?
Technology can have good and bad uses.

If they do not make them FOSS in public, then the Conspiracy will invent their own and use it for bad uses only.

Furthermore, even if a program is written, you can decide not to use it; that it is written (as FOSS) means that you can read its working, now that someone else wrote about it. You can also execute it on a computer, if that is what is desired. Also, if it is well known enough, then hopefully if someone does use it deceptively against you, then you might be able to guess, or to figure it out (although it might be difficult, at least it might be possible if it is known enough).

I have no intention using such a thing, but someone else might figure out uses of it.

(For example, maybe there are some uses that can be used with movies, for example, if the original actor has been injured for an extended period of time (including if they are dead) or if they want to make up a picture of someone who does not exist. (Although, they should avoid being deceptive. For example, include in the credits, the mention of using such a thing.) Even if it is considered acceptable though, some people will prefer to make movies without it, and such a thing should be acceptable too anyways.)

(I think even in Star Trek, in story, in some episodes they made deepfake movies of someone. And even in Star Trek, both good and bad uses are possible. Or, am I mistaken?)

Nevertheless, there may be some dangers involved, but there are potential danger with anything; if you are careful, then you can try to avoid it, hopefully.
> And no, a git tag is not a release.

Why not?
I got one of those emails today. Obviously phishing. I called Paypal to confirm and also forwarded it to phishing@paypal.com.

Don't click on random links and don't call random phone numbers.
Doesn’t a howitzer shoot multiple middles at once? (Or are they shot in quick succession?)
This author has a history of bending the truth.

Last time around, we were told the story of Heather Wallace, a Waco, Texas woman who was arrested after her child walked home. That Reason.com article stated that Wallace’s child, Aiden, had “agreed to walk home,” after which Wallace was arrested for child engagement.

I am a reporter and I cover crime. I was skeptical of that story, so I contacted the McClennan County Clerk of Court, and I paid for a copy of Ms. Wallace’s indictment.

It stated that Wallace had forced her crying child to walk home — on the shoulder of a busy highway.

I have no doubt that Heather Wallace told the article’s author (who runs an advocacy organization…) that her son Aiden wanted to walk home, but that is not what Aiden had told the police.

Wallace pleaded guilty.

Government overreach can be a serious problem, but I would be very hesitant to draw that conclusion from any story by this author. Particularly this one, since you can’t independently verify the facts. If you are going to credibly report stories about crime, you can’t anonymize the names of people who were allegedly arrested. That is not journalism. It’s storytelling.
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I don't know what's worse, the low information videos YT shovels on us or the low information articles with auto-play videos and horror bloat.
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That's wishful thinking. I live in central Europe and the local government here runs woke ads on public transport. They are trying to change the German language to be more woke too. It is everywhere. Nobody takes classical left wing politics seriously anymore so it's all become intersectional now.
needs a volume control
> The same logic applies to all right-wing parties. "America first" might sound good to an American surrounded by other Americans, but it won't be received well in an Internet forum where many people are not American, and won't become part of the global discourse because it's completely irrelevant to the vast majority of humans.

There's a lot more to conservative thought than "my country first". Right-of-centre people from different countries can find many things to agree on other than that. Even when it comes to that topic, many (but far from all) people on the political right believe that "everyone ought to put their own country first", and people from completely different countries can share their agreement with that principle, even if sometimes its application leads them in opposite directions.

Consider issues around gender and sexuality: in most countries in Africa and the Middle East, and also several large countries in Asia, you'll find the clear majority of the population to have rather conservative attitudes to these topics, by Western standards. On those issues, I think it is likely that right-leaning Americans are closer to global majority opinion than left-leaning Americans are.

Coming to religion, a conservative Shi'a Muslim in Iran and a conservative Orthodox Christian in Russia likely agree on a lot more than you seem to think–despite their obvious disagreements on theological questions. They may think that their agreement that the government ought to promote and favour conservative religion is more important than their disagreement over which one. They may even be willing to agree, "I'll support your theocracy in your country if you support my theocracy in mine".

Conservative religion is a lot stronger in the developing world than the rich West, which is another way in which right-leaning Americans are likely closer to global majority opinion than left-leaning Americans are.
Couldn’t they include two checksums; one for compressed, and if that fails, decompress and check the uncompressed content?
The man's face on the left...I haven't laughed this hard in days
Happy Groundhog Day, the AI Edition
And similar explanation https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2021/12/08/fixed-post-money-s...
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Chrome extension to write emails using GPT3
Hey HN!

I made a chrome extension that uses GPT3 to write emails.

I'm a sophomore and I was writing cold emails to startups to get internships. I hated writing them then I built this.

I would love to hear if you like it and if you think this has potential to build further :)

Here's how it works:
You type in some context in the gmail window.
The extension uses GPT3 to write your email
Then the email is injected into your gmail window

Here's a demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gm7ILCKSws
I haven't yet seen a compelling reason to think it is either Chinese or an espionage craft anyway,other than news reporting "the Pentagon sure thinks so"
Yes, that is true, though similar erosions of democracy also happen in well-established democracies like the US and UK when there are wars. I think there is clearly still an aspiration towards western-style liberal democracy even if there are many gaps in how it's implemented.

I think this aspiration is the fundamental problem for Putin. He sees it as encouraging things like the ousting of Yanukovych, which he desperately wants to stop from being repeated in other countries within his sphere of influence. He already almost lost Belarus in a similar way.
People have been screaming about Tether being a scam for almost a decade now and it hasn’t crashed.

The market can remain insane longer than you could remain solvent in that case.
Yeah, yeah, Evropean, we get it. You know that even SJC grads eye-roll at that stuff, right? One of them even does in this comment section.

Anyways. Even then -- typical Great Books curricula still sample from a tiny subset of literature that fits the mold of "greco-roman civilization". It was chosen by a very particular set of people at a very particular point in time. Some choices work more or less well enough. Others not so much.

The choices for what to emphasize in Natural Philosophy and Mathematics are mostly bad imo. They reflect what a 1920s humanist might conceive of as a Great Book in those fields. Which is to say, mostly weird and sort of mired in a very particular 1850s Oxbridge sensibility that most people don't even realize is being read into the whole project.

And here's the issue: those guys had well-informed opinions on what to emphasize in Philosophy and History. We can agree to disagree, or not, whatever. But in Mathematics and Science, they were barely following the plot or even already ossified in their own lifetimes. And that was a century ago. The choices there aren't a matter of opinion. They are just... bad.

>> > Russell... yawn

> Are you serious?

First of all, the text listed is his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. It's literally a 1920s textbook on Mathematical Philosophy. It is what it is. Doesn't really belong in a Great Books curriculum, imo, but the indignation at the idea that it's a yawnfest (too verbose) is kinda weird. It's... a textbook. Yawn.

Second, the indignation at Russell being a yawnfest in general made me LOL. Principia Mathematica is WAY less readable than the yellow pages.

Third, if you're including Russell as part of your coverage of Foundations -- but also excluding Goedel and Church and Turing and Hilbert -- then you're doing it horribly wrong! Russell is the foil in this plot, and a horribly pedantic and boring one at that. Not that a Great Books curriculum would ever treat Russell as a foil ;-)

Fourth, to the stuff you probably assumed was being included from Russell: I also found Russell's History boring and at some moments annoyingly preachy/opinionated for a History. Even his more red meat-y opinion stuff is... important for understanding the development of a certain strand of modern intellectualism. That's not meant to be dismissive; I'm in that strand!!! But let's just say not what I'd spend my best years pouring over.
Sounds like you’re in the market for the EV mini.
This is what HAProxy does. At least the reading then dropping privileges. The admin writes the config themselves (or uses their own tool).
Because eveyone is aware of Tether since 2015. It’s a known unknown, risk is priced in. And anyone with a brain has exchanged it for much safer USDC.
I play a new Bosendorfer and it’s a crazy good experience. Nothing like a Steinway though. I just don’t like Steinways but obvs not dissing them.

Violins feel markedly better at about the $3K, $5K, and $15K levels, but I’m so bad at violin that my $1K antique is perfectly fine. But bows, strings (and separately the E string) also play huge roles. Much bigger than say guitar strings for that instrument.
There is a special kind of engineering that goes into luxury cars to get the windows to make a pleasing sound when you roll them up. That's the kind of engineering it takes to make a shower that only produces comfortable temperature water.
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> I see the conscious as part of the meat sack that acts as a witness, a journaller of what the rest of the meat sack does.

That's not what our best current science about consciousness tell us. It tells us that consciousness is part of the process of what "the rest of the meat sack" does; that it's not possible to separate out a "witness" part that "journals" what the rest does. It's all one process.
Diagram at the beginning of the article putting Opus at over 2x computation complexity of mp3 is misleading (if not outright wrong). Opus is lighter than mp3 while delivering similar fidelity at almost half the bitrate.

Opus decoding consumes ~10MHz of modern CPU core per one 128kbit stereo full-band track, or ~30MHz of Armv8. This translates to Raspberry pi3 at 1.2GHz decoding ~30 stereo tracks in parallel on single core.
Maybe they did - gathering intelligence or probing for an exploit, etc.
I should have mentioned this was more than 4 years ago. I remember having to use a Choice State to hack together my own looping mechanism.

Considering how much progress has been made since, and even though I haven’t gotten around to try App Composer for myself yet, I would tend to agree on both, with two caveats.

First, after Amplify, I am wary of any and all AWS "It just works™" claims.

It seems they have a hard time figuring out what "easy", "simple" and "straightforward" mean. And I say that as someone who very much appreciates Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge & co, and really wanted to like using Amplify.

Second, considering how expensive those can be to run, I would think twice before using them in a "high"-throughput and low margins scenario, and definitely appreciate there being alternatives.

Regarding Workato… I’d never heard of it. But the description they picked for Google and their landing page makes it clear who they’re appealing to and on what grounds. Sorry you have to deal with that.
Probably a bit harder - the GoldSource engine had simple graphics (no shaders) so I imagine the rendering could be reimplemented with WeGL or similar pretty easily. Counter-Strike Source on the other hand has DirectX shaders which I'm sure you can get working with WebGL or similar... but nowhere near as easily.
This is a good list! Another fun quirk: because x86 is a register-memory architecture and allows all kinds of variants of reg/mem operand encodings, there are a handful of equivalent encodings with exactly the same lengths (and just slightly different ModR/M bytes). You can take advantage of this to do software fingerprinting or, in my case, steganography without changing an executable’s size or semantics[1].

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/steg86
I received the same and the invoice came from an individual named “Shin Deryl”

They couldn’t have chosen a worse scam. The email included Paypal’s anti-phishing footer (including a warning that official emails from PayPal include the customer’s full name) and the invoice was for Bitcoin.

The email was addressed “Dear Customer” and I’d rather douse myself in napalm and run into a bonfire than buy cryptocoins.
Can you reactivate the Google form to add a groundhog? I had a pet woodchuck (Winnie the Woodchuck) who would like to contribute :)

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Has anyone been able to negotiate this out of YC deals?
Right. I’m doubling down on your point. We’re singing in chorus.
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I don't think the Hunter Biden laptop issue was so egregious. I believe it was only suppressed for maybe 48 hrs or less on the major platforms. Enough time to get somewhat of a handle on something that very much looked like it could be Russian propaganda and coming from Rudy Giuliani via a tabloid rag (not a single one of those 3 have a shred of credibility or dignity left). Especially considering that the FBI had warned the platforms of possible Russian disinformation in the coming weeks.

The Hunter laptop still looks rather suspiciously like part of a Russian campaign the same way the hacked DNC emails were likely part of a Russian campaign. Several compromising photos seem to be taken from the laptop camera (does anyone actually take photos that way?) as if the laptop was perhaps compromised by hackers. Also, several photos appear to be of Hunter completely asleep or unconscious. Seems like a weird thing to be taken and end up on your laptop.
Maybe I should have phrased it as “exalted” rather than “expensive.“
Because no banks will work with them and the US gov’t is constantly trying to track them down - and has a stranglehold on USD banking in the world. Read the NYAG report, it’s pretty crazy.
The other mother in Coraline is such a great villain.
The sibling comments have good points, but the actual reality is that any project that wants to stay alive and attract new developers in 10 years should probably start introducing Rust about now. Linus to his credit picked up on that.
It seems like this is something that happens in every high school. Our School was a Quake 1 map however.
Jobs that ChatGPT is most likely to replace
Indeed. They are complementary. Batteries for rapidly cycling storage where efficiency is important, hydrogen for long term or rarely used storage where efficiency is less important than minimizing capital cost.
> It requires a SATA m.2 which needs an AHCI controller on-board.

That doesn't sound right. AHCI is a software protocol for communication between the operating system and host bus adapters. If it's a M.2 SATA SSD, then the host system needs an AHCI controller or equivalent providing SATA ports (such as a SAS HBA, which provides SATA compatibility but is rarely wired up to a M.2 slot).

Or if it's a M.2 PCIe slot in a system that predates widespread NVMe support, then it needs a PCIe SSD that implements AHCI instead of NVMe, in which case there would be no SATA involved anywhere in the chain—just backwards compatibility with software expecting the usual SATA drive behind AHCI controller combination.
I understand why the State Department hyperventilates over "Chinese offensive capabilities" but no normal person ever needs to. China is not a threat to everyday Americans.
The longest structurally valid x86 instruction is 26 bytes, from some research I did a few years ago[1]. But as others have noted, structurally valid does not mean that any x86 CPU will accept them: they’ll all produce #UD or similar, including these 16 byte ones.

[1]: https://yossarian.net/res/pub/mishegos-langsec-2021.pdf
Opus can encode a packet in real-time at 10ms per packet at 48kHz using a 66MHz MIPS32 chip. Decode is even faster and can be done on a 33MHz ARM7 with CPU left over. Decode of Opus (nee CELT) is sufficiently fast that you can unpack it in real-time on an audio thread callback on Android.

TOA is citing about 300kilobits per second which is roughly 30kilobytes per second which is too much data for a 33MHz ARM7 to be able to process let alone do anything to it.

The reason for "The Triangle of Neglect" is that your chips are either under 100Mhz (often significantly as you are on bare metal) and this is too much data or above 1000MHz (you are running Linux) and nobody cares.

ADPCM was more useful back when chips didn't have hardware multipliers.
Just a reminder in the US "health care" system, insurance will never cover any treatment considered experimental even if it is shown to be remarkably effective.

This is what people keep voting for.
I find it amusing that all of the local proposals for the garden involved wild money-making schemes that would have required massive changes to the property, yet the locals feel like the best insult they can come up with is that this guy is a rich American who only thinks about money. And is clearly not making any.
But normal people are getting Raspberry Pi's. Some people by using rpilocator and patiently waiting for units selling at MSRP to come into stock at official retailers, and impatient people by paying inflated prices to scalpers. But anybody who wants a Pi can, to a first approximation, have on today.

And not to beat a dead horse, but there's good reason to believe that this situation is temporary and that supplies (and prices) will stabilize sooner than later.

All of this "the market for Raspberry Pi is dead" stuff seems like pure hyperbole to me.
I would prefer that u64 as u32 and similar lossy conversions get deprecated in some future Edition encouraging people write try_into and thus take a moment to decide what happens when it won't fit.

But yeah, meanwhile the only difference in Rust is that you did explicitly say you wanted the conversion.

EtA: the pointer as usize conversions will presumably get deprecated once Aria's provenance experiment is solidified. So that's a precedent for deprecating something like this where the risk outweighs the convenience.
Self plug, but for most chains you can check out https://stablewars.xyz/ to track stablecoin market caps across different chains. We show $29B tether, but difference in values for Ethereum are likely because we discount uncirculated funds, e.g. bridged assets.
Oh, no. The other extreme wasn’t Step Functions. It was AWS Lambdas stringed together through DynamoDB Streams, SQS, SNS and S3 triggers, all obscurely tied together in a murky single-file yaml template deployed by JAWS (now the serverless framework, which has definitely made some much-appreciated improvements).

But something

- offering a clear visualisation

- and allowing to simply integrate with third-party APIs

- without having to deal with some’s quite obscure documentation

while at the same time

- easy to monitor & debug

- offering versioning

- allowing to just write a few lines instead of going through pointy-clicky drag-and-droppy mess

Yes, that was lacking. Reminds me of Zenaton (https://zenaton.com/). I can only wish you to be more successful than they were.
There are GPS guided model airplanes which are absolutely nothing like cruise missiles because they fly so much slower.

There are ducted fan model airplanes which are absolutely nothing like cruise missiles because they aren't GPS guided.
FYI - Tether stopped even pretending it actually represented that anymore, and NYAG dig up plenty of evidence that it was never actually even close to representing real money. They didn’t even have bank accounts back in ‘17!
Would love to learn more and help with this project if you need extra work done
Well cat owners openly acknowledge that some cats are quite evil