skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USS San Francisco crash-type problem was discussed some while ago on HN. At the time I questioned how this could happen when one would expect a submarine of that sophistication to be equipped with both sonar and gravity detection.

Detecting changes in gravity is common practice in mining surveys (ores often have higher densities) and geological work, so for me why the sub collided with the seamount remains a mystery.

I cannot believe subs of this class don't have such detection on board so could someone more knowledgeable about the subject than me provide an explanation.
I guess there are tradeoffs both ways.

I will gladly accept that downside(?) of having to give 3 months advanced notice for the upside of not being fired arbitrarily on the spot whenever my employer feels like it.
A 2TB SSD is available on Amazon for roughly the cost of 2 AAA games.
+1 Can't wait for GPT-3 to start disguising opinions as facts
Privacy is a human right, LEARN IT.
I let go of my US citizenship
Mercator Origins: an open source scuba sat nav
Checkout my open source project that's going to transform scuba dive computers and going to make the underwater world accessible to people with physical, mental and psychological impairments. Twitter handle: @markbjones (first post on twitter and first post on hackernews - let's stand back and see what happens...)

I'm on the job market having applied for 150 jobs in the last 8 months - IoT and physical computing is my current big interest. Check out my linkedin profile for more info:

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I could never get into that podcast even though I have a strong interest and want to delve into the empire's history. In being disappointed by History of Rome's "sequel" I doubt I'm alone. Though I will check out this specific episode since I'm intrigued by this book; thanks for the heads-up.
Personally, I prefer almond milk in my cereal
The value is really not in sharing code, but rather sharing developers. Instead of having to assemble and keep happy a diverse group of specialized professionals, you can just hire and fire a bunch of cheap JS folks, who are easily replaceable.
I can't seem to find the source but I remember William Gibson arguing in an interview some years back that corporations were already artificial intelligence, organisms even, serving their own interests and survival rather than the benefit of any person who is part of it
Generally curious, how do you measure: "the findings suggest that video calls can improve a pet parrot’s quality of life."
There's also kind of a grey zone in there of "no, I can't buy it, but if I was a major car manufacturer I could." I wish we had access to all the good stuff as retail customers, but that's just not how it is.

(This is especially frustrating on the EV conversion front, since the best parts are usually unobtainable except from salvage vehicles. The products specifically made for EV conversion are usually rather underwhelming compared to what the OEMs can get.)
Well, you can pinky promise you won't do anything bad with that level of access. In fact, you can double pinky promise. That's like 100% more promise.
This article really hit home today.

I spent about 30 minutes typing up a recent experience and how I felt. I deleted it because my urge not to impose is too strong.

I need a dog.
> With several of them at $4,000 and more ... to justify those prices.

Those are nice looking ones. Some people spent great amounts of money to buy a nice phone number or a car plate (at least in Russia or Armenia for example).

A car plate\registration number like M888MM 777 will cost you 10M rubles ~122k USD.
The fact you can describe almost anything in words is because that is what language is for.

A representation of something is not the thing itself though. Unless you are also claiming that words describing a picture are a picture, and words describing an elephant are an elephant.
Let the pet make as many phone calls as it wants. What could go wrong?

Honey, Why have you ordered 400 packets of sunflower seeds in Amazon?
> Don't they usually store a hash of it? And doesn't it therefore for the most part work exactly the way you say it ideally should?

Putting aside the banks who literally do store the password because they have security procedures like "Please enter the first and fifth characters of your password" even those that do store a password hash still need you to submit your password to authenticate.

So, like the lyric says, you tell the bank your password. You hope they just use it to authenticate you and immediately discard it, but if bank security lapses are anything to go by they're probably logging it "for security" and there are definitely employees able to snoop the decrypted plaintext passwords from customers on some internal teams.

That is what Augmented PAKEs fix, it's really hard to do well, and of course banks see themselves as infinitely trustworthy so why would they bother.

This mistaken sense of self-worth applies to your credit card PIN by the way also, of course banks and thus bank employees can know your PIN, which means when a purchase is "secured" by the PIN that rules out some local pickpocket having made the purchase, but as well as you it leaves open the possibility that it was a bank employee or their co-conspirator.
Apples and oranges. I'm talking about real usage. You're talking about people exchanging house money for more make believe money.

Crypto has been positioned as the decentralized alternative to Visa and SWIFT. Their real human users number in the tens of millions daily.

The point remains that if the tech falls apart even with 10-20k real daily users, how does it ever scale to 10-20M daily users?

Also, Bitcoin transaction volume peaked in 2018 and has been trending down for a while :)
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I've been consuming YC content for the past 3 years and still end up forgetting or not focusing on a principle, yc-tips gives you daily emails and actions to actually implement what you learn
Who's invading who if the federal government collapses? Has Arlington, VA been amassing guns and ammo this whole time, just waiting for the federal government to fall so they can invade Washington DC? I'm sure it's a failure of my imagination too, or a faith in humanity, but I don't see roving hordes forming and raiding the countryside like something out of mad max or a zombie movie the instant the federal government falls. At which point my county, and its sheriff is the closest government, holding down order.
I remember seeing a service that did this over email a couple decades ago.
> many things ... a 2000 word essay written at a 10th grade level

That is one thing, not many. And it's also a fairly specific thing. I don't know about the general population but personally my need to acquire such an essay is fairly low. I haven't had the need to buy one in the last fifty years, probably never.
I don't know. Not to offend you but in general I consider leadership roles to be more easily replaceable than IC ones. Fundamentally, it's the ICs that usually have all the intricate knowledge of the details. That is something I'd argue cannot be handed over in just two weeks, in particular to just anyone.

On the other hand, the leadership folks I interact with always make only super high level decisions. Rarely does it get intricate. It's more important to know how to quickly assess the big picture and how to communicate. All lot of what a leader does and makes them uniquely leaders is not something that's based on acquiring company specific and product and infra specific knowledge accumulated across several years.

I rarely care if my manager leaves beyond the fact that I have to build trust with someone new. But ultimately they aren't super in the weeds on anything mission critical.

An engineer that can jump into an incident and immediately identify the problem on a code path because they have worked on it or around it intimately at some point does make a difference, but also just having a detailed mental model of how the system pieces interact is super crucial. Bus factor is a thing, even though it rarely is catastrophic. Lead time can help here.

Of course leaders leaving also is a challenge, but it's because of their unique charm, ability to grasp issues quickly and make sane decisions. But none of this can be transferred to a new guy, in 2 or 4 weeks or 8.
>> (It takes some time here, before the reply link appears)

Yes, I think that happens when threads exceed a certain size, perhaps also when replies come at a certain rate. I believe it's a measure put in place to cool down hot heads revving up to a flame war, or something like that.

Or maybe it's just a measure put in place to avoid people kicking a programmer for an error she made in decades-old code >:P

(Thanks for the advice though, it's good advice and useful for programmers at any stage of their evolution).

P.S. I kept thinking of what you said that Kowalski said regarding Colmerauer's knowledge of meta-interpreters. I'm really curious to know and there's a couple other questions I have he might be interested in answering so I plan to write him an email and point him to your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34243808).
Do you know of any good source of CAD files or even just schematics for DIY PXI modules out there in the wild wild internet?
I tried that, the boss thought it was a negotiating tactic.
The Fairchild Clipper, released in 1986, was also a 3-chip solution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_architecture
Oh, processwire looks interesting, first time hearing about it
He didn't. Like he admitted, it's not possible to do so with any sort of accuracy using on chain data. There are over a billion Bitcoin addresses but this might overcount the number of users since wallets are typically composed of multiple addresses, or it could undercount due to the popularity of custodian service where multiple users share the same addresses.

The best we can do are surveys. According to this one[0], there are around 34 million Americans that have a cryptocurrency wallet. I suppose the world wide number of users is a lot higher.

[0] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/us-adults-crypt...
>Gold didn't reach its current adoption over 1000 years.

I didn't say it did, you seem to have misread my post.

>It always had the current adoption rate.

>The % of people who want to own gold was near 100% even thousands of years ago.

I dont know how you could possibly make a claim like this and defend it. Source?
Everybody who takes climate change and environmental protection seriously uses vi or - if they have to - emacs. Every time a VScode session is started the average global temperature goes up by %NaN degrees. Every time a new version is launched the smoldering heaps of electronic waste on faraway beaches rise by a few metres.

People die, people are suffering. Whole ecosystems are collapsing and you're using VScode...
> More frustratingly, disabling messages from unknown contacts doesn’t appear to be a feature.

On the android client you find this option under privacy. Pretty sure it never hasn't been there
Sounds like a great idea, but much of the bias in news is by way of lies of omission. For a recent example, last month BBC ran the headline "British woman, daughters, killed on road north of Foobar city". From the headline, one might never come to the conclusion that their car was shot by a passing vehicle, which then turned around and returned to shoot some more even after their vehicle crashed. And even the accompanying article did not make that clear until very deep in the article - and even then omitted much context.

Similarly, a few days later security forces went to arrest the perpetrators of the attack, and were themselves attacked with Molotov cocktails and large stones thrown from a high floor. They returned fire, and one of the attackers, a 15 year old boy, was killed. The BBC headline read "SpecificCountry soldiers murder 15 year old Foobar boy". No mention was made of the attack on the security forces, nor of the attack on the car to which the security forces were responding. At least, not in the first few paragraphs that I read, which mostly concerned themselves with other incidents in which Foobar citizens were hurt or killed by SpecificCountry forces, with absolutely no context.

Nothing published was an outright lie. But the omission paints a bias by itself. How could this AI-powered "unbiased news company" form an unbiased version of events, when the relevant information is not even provided by the sources?
America’s Civil War

Dismissing your every denial in advanced, I will provide you with some brief overview and history.

You think the government is your enemy, and they are hapless incompetent tools.

When it is Muslims Russians and Chinese, Americans talk such talk. When it is white American men rape murder extorting for power, Americans are submissive and eager to propagate an alternative more favorable narrative.

These have over decades built pyramid schemes of extortion among you.

Arizona territory created this problem over thirty years ago. White terror gestating in sheriff Joe’s prisons, infecting the military and law enforcement, using the rest of America as a breeding ground for their corruption. Arizona’s military strategic think tank was unwitting nursemaid to a psycho terror horror men’s minds will refuse to comprehend.

California territory, Texas, New England, Florida, and midlands are their own distinct territories.

The most unscrupulous of American power heads ARE IN PRISON. Or comfortable in homemade safe houses, living like spooks.

Through controlled condemned men protected by concrete and rebar fortifications can rape murder and hostage your children (in their own lives, without needing to keep them chained up somewhere.) these will gang rape cops (or marines, or navy seals).

Whitemanistan America is the most dangerous place in the world for lawful US military assets over the past five years.

Power pays thought controlled Americans in sex. Protects their secrets, teaches how to maintain controls.

Americans like their controls, and will argue that no one has proven they aren’t wonderful, or indistinguishable from bullshit since no one really believes in this anyways.

Controls really know how to talk to Americans. They use silly mini-me voices and make bad things sound like other peoples fault.

American is being extorted and controlled by bubbling idiots who sound cute, dancing in the backs of our minds.

All this while you argue that it is even possible, or could go on this way without your smarty pants noticing.

Controls are spreading the word among your communities that the Jews are the secret state of boogiemen. Insinuation of their corruptibility will be highlighted as a distraction from your own. The irony of a conspiracy to conspiratorialize a conspiracy of others to sew mutual undoing. Though control is powerful make believe.

When the enemy are the secret voices within, all one can really do is tend to one’s own incompetence and avoid being an instrument of corruption.
Most folks reading this will have the internet. It makes conversion easy. If you don't, charts help get most common things converted.

Easy.
Should be noted the source of this information, Good Food Institute Europe, was caught retaliating and spreading a culture of fear among dissenting forces in the organization. [1]

Whether you trust data from an organization that crushes dissent through illegal retaliation is up to you.

[1] https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/changes-to-recommen...
Jup jup.

"PHP is used by 77.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know."

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php
what does absolutely awful mean to you? i've made green and black tea in the same way and don't have a problem with either, but i've learned in my years that i'm much less averse to bitter than most people.

so is bitter what you mean by absolutely awful?
> Edited to add: healthygamer literally has a discord room with a channel just about taking photos of walking outside to prove you went and touched grass as an initiative to have an entire community cheer about people going outside

Man, anyone that needs an influencer type to tell them to leave the house is in a bad, bad situation in life.
It’s still too large and too heavy, I’d prefer the 5 size and weight.
No it isn't. If you sell 1 million vehicles of 5 brand or 1 million vehicles on 1 brand, you clearly save a huge amount of money not to have to design 5 different cars and 5 different production lines, 5 different versions of the software, 5 different companies that each have their own overhead and so on.

Tesla makes the same Model Y on 4 different factories and produces more of them then all SUV that VW makes on their platform. And VW produces it in many more different plants.

Having multiple brands on one platform is only an advantage if you somehow think that having multiple brands increases your sales.
Wait till the parrots get addicted to social media and start to develop mental illnesses.
“You” works the same way, for the same reason: originally it was only plural (and “you” started to be used as a singular later than “they”).

Notice “skate” versus “skates” in these cases:

- Alice skates; Alice is a skater.

- Alice and Bob skate; Alice and Bob are skaters.

- She skates; she is a skater.

- You skate; you are a skater.

- You skate; you are skaters.

- They skate; they are a skater.

- They skate; they are skaters.
And also what part of finance is essentially gambling. "Hey I want to make this bet." "Sure we will sell it for this and it will pay out this..."
What will be the difference with Premium?
No, this is the on-chain transaction data ("real usage"). The transactions you are referring to ("exchanging house money for more make believe money") is the exchange volume which does not appear on chain and is a lot higher ($18,000,000,000+ for Bitcoin yesterday).

I'm not sure why you say transaction volume peaked in 2018, it didn't. You can zoom out from the graph I linked to and chose the "All" timeframe. There's a lot of variance but 2018 wasn't the peak.

> The point remains that if the tech falls apart even with 10-20k real daily users, how does it ever scale to 10-20M daily users?

Second layer systems like the Liquid network.
Or just rent a temporary phone number and lock the account with a password so it's yours forever.

Costs like $0.2
"Radar is useless underwater."

But sonar and detecting changes in gravity (caused by the higher density of the seamount) aren't.

The seamount should have been detectable.
Explicit checking of the appropriate instantiations is something for more or less official interfaces, not for every internal predicate. For those official checking via must_be/2, can_be/2 and the library(si) (all in Scryer) is often all you need. (The SWI-version conflates must_be/2 and can_be/2).

But you could save your beloved cut with minimal effort by using dif_si/2 (voir https://stackoverflow.com/a/20238931/772868) just before the cut. In this manner you would get instantiation errors for exactly the cases you cannot handle.
Animal milk outside of not being ethically sourced, could really be a better product if it came lactose free and fortified with Vitamin D by default.
Plenty to improve in food production, sure, but the current move towards hyper processed foods is dumb.

They can take the animal meat (and eggs, and dairy products) from my cold dead hands..
Parrots are very expressive, and if you live with one for months/years, you'll learn its moods. Not hard to see how a parrot responds to something new.
"Addicts" do not consume drugs out of their own free will. They are addicts, their condition is out of their control. The dealers have free will and willingly choose to ruin society.

This is a little too simplistic. You have to ascribe them the same responsibility and agency you do dealers. There’s always causes, but choices are the decisive factor equally for both. An unfair application of that principle doesn’t help anyone.

Really you won’t go to SG for that reason? Wow, that’s kind of extreme. What about UAE?
There are privacy settings, you know?

Did you set every option to 'Nobody' or 'My contacts only'?
No, axioms are part of any truthful mathematical statements.

If A, B, C … then Y is a self contained true statement. You can’t simply say Y alone is true because without A, B, C, … it’s not true.

People tend to assume A, B, C etc when they say things like 1 + 1 = 2 but that’s just a quark of language. Words like him or they work because people can work out the specifics from context.
They sell cosmetic services for their app I wonder how that classifies as scam? It's also a market so user sell to each other, is that scam too?
Okay... I see this is going to be a tough one.

You're not adding an intermediary. The broker and the exchange do different jobs. Coinbase is an exchange and a brokerage firm. Under the current arrangement, Coinbase is providing its customers with both exchange and brokerage services, so Coinbase customers are paying for both. If Coinbase was providing exchange services to brokerage firms, and these brokerage firms were providing brokerage services to retail investors, these investors would still be paying for both services (directly or indirectly), but prices would be lower due to competition among brokerage firms.
You might want to use water with high level of iron though. My grandfather used to use arsenic to brew cider because its local water had really high levels of iron.
Nothing new here, but from all these years of experience, the only practical applications for crypto that I've encountered have been attempts to extort money from me, to defraud me, or to simply speculate. Future of money?
What the hell, we are looking at essentially millions of matrix multiplications done on powerful GPUs. And we're told this is what the brain does. Which is supremely stupid, since as Bernardo Kastrup has emphasized many times, our brains are completely UNLIKE those systems.

The hubris in Big Tech right now is truly pathetic and imho a sign of a real disconnect with a sense of meaning and purpose to human life.

In fact recently I was listening to a podcast with Donald Hoffman,. where he mentioned brain studies done on people with split brains etc and how these people did not even have a single consciousness. So even the assumption that we have like one "AGI" program running in our brain is not at all what goes on in our brain.

Likewise Iain McGilchrist pointed out how the left and right brain hemispheres are two kind of attentions to the world, and almost two different type of consciousness in us.

I quit listening to Rupert Spira many years ago but I found this interaction between him and Donald Hoffman really insightful. DOnald mentions the brain studies in this podcast:

The Convergence of Science and Spirituality | Donald Hoffman & Rupert Spira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafVevceWgs
https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/200367-window...

https://superuser.com/questions/1210470/multiple-recovery-pa...

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/sbhd4g/thanks_mic...
The paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3544548.3581166
But out of all the programmers I know, there are only certain ones that are embracing it, and the rest are still stuck in "I tried it and the code wasn't exactly what I wanted - it's all hype" land. And I think for one of the reasons you say: programmers are vain and believe everything they do requires great intelligence. A lot are still missing the forest from the trees.