skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a European I actually think Snowden's primary motivation was opposition to US foreign policy and control of the world. There is no other reason to contact Glenn Greenwald in late 2012. In 2008-2012 Glenn Greenwald was primarily known as one of the harshest opponents of US foreign policy and someone who didn't shy away from defending Russia, Iran and other geopolitical adversaries of the US.

This isn't why he went to Greenwald, he did so to avoid American outlets like the New York Times, since before the leak they censored the illegal wiretapping story (Room 641A) at the request of the Bush Administration.

Snowden found himself in a situation where both the Government and the Media were in cahoots to cover up criminal behavior. At that point I don't blame him, going to Glenn and then fleeing to Russia was exactly the right thing to do. If he didn't the story would have been covered up and he'd be sitting in a dark cell right now, with none of us none the wiser.
look at the one man environmental hazard that was thomas midgely jr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

one man was so absolutely prolifically bad to the environment.
Part of article about "sharing excitement" I would rewrite:

Stop writing "it is easy - just do x" because it is plain marketing bullshit that people are compelled to add to documentation or website describing library/tool only for a reason that - they think they should do it.
Again, note this is about payments for people who have qualified for them either as a qualified worker or as a dependent of one while the recipient is outside of the United States, it is not about the status required to be the worker on the basis of whose eligibility payments are made.

Those are two completely different issues.
There's a pretty big difference between the two. Nuclear waste is always tracked and treated carefully. PFAS are on store shelves and in homes and in landfills and are entirely untracked. Nothing's being ignored, it's just an entirely differently kind of situation.
I think you do yourself a disservice here. The article is precisely about the positioning as being more valuable despite being the same. Leaving the user to connect those dots is still a weaker positioning.

It can be hard to select which is strongest. E.g. with DemoTime we could say that getting a video professional to edit your sales meeting into a highlight reel costs 100x as much.

But perhaps even more impactful is the additional demo-to-deal conversion rate that comes from people re-engaging, watching the highlights, and sharing with their boss.

It sounds hard to choose between these two. That's because they're already strong and concrete positioning.

I think some general advice is to pay close attention to the expression on buyers face as you mention. Then ask questions to set up the positioning.

The article doesn't touch on the bigger positioning mistakes (meaningless intangibles). Similar to the above both positionings were already better than average as they're quantified and concise. So actually it's a major improvement on something already quite strong.
The buy-now page doesn’t load on safari (so I can’t check out the price) - but in general if you do the heavy lifting by using existing free Python tools you’ll have a hard time selling a framework that’s supposed to make things “easier”. The promise to never touch html, css and JavaScript usually means you have to learn some other tool that it limited in features or scalability so at the end you invested a lot of time into the tool you could have spent getting some basic other skills. As a Python dev with very limited JavaScript skills I would usually wait a few years before committing to spend time on a “easy” framework that’s not free to use on your own hardware.
a guy who knew nothing about aviation

It's not that he knew nothing about aviation (he ran Denver International Airport), he didn't have first-hand experience as a pilot. But here's the thing - that's okay. FAA is a mess right now, and Phil Washington has experience cleaning up messy organizations. That works perfectly find for a Federal administrative position where you're generally only on the job for a few years and move on. You can argue that it's even fine in the long term - how much software or hardware engineering experience does Tim Cook have again?

Sometimes the only way to escape regulatory capture is to hire an outsider, at least temporarily.

Unfortunately the administration did Washington dirty by not properly preparing him for his confirmation hearing.
Thank you very much! I'll start building a Biosphere 2-like [1] system for climate and weather independent food production later this year inshaAllah. So I'm interested in such projects. I also want to open-source mine because I can't see how I can accomplish it all by myself.

Input: sunlight and (optionally, if not contaminated by nuclear fallout) air.
Output: meat, dairy and crops.

> I have an older iteration of the system working in an outdoor greenhouse without artificial lighting.

I think this should be possible with such a system, with full composting (including every biological waste, even human excrement), air-to-water devices, underground temperature and solar utilizing temperature control system and many more things, all in one massive greenhouse. I don't think hydroponics is the answer as it is highly fragile (system exists in sensitive equilibrum) or require chemicals (requiring global supply chain) or depend on complicated tech (many failure vectors).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Yes. Obviously.

A more insightful question is "were they ever cool?" It's hard to think of any company or figure, before or after the Twitter purchase, where them gaining a blue check made them "cool", or even fractionally moreso.
I started at the age of 7, on a Sinclair ZX81, a Z80 based system. Getting it to print things to the screen. Then eventually progressed to an Acorn Archimedes at the age of 9, where I started to figure out how ARM assembly language worked, which is built in to BBC BASIC. At the age of 11 I was already fluent in assembler. Then programming C at the age of ~14 or so, and running Red Hat Linux 5.1 at the age of 16.

But then I was set back at the age of 18, where I developed severe PTSD from a family abuse related incident, sadly. That was way back in 2001.
Show HN: What Is a Lofty Question?
https://youtu.be/q3HL_FImBQ0
I have tone memory on a bassoon. I described this in another post. It even translates to baroque bassoon, tuned half a not lower.

When I practiced pitch instrument did not matter. I could tell what note a sine wave was.

I never made any differenriation between what I had and absolute pitch. Functionally they wäwrre the same and I believe that if I would have kept it up for a couple of months it would have been permanent. Some of it still lingers. I can still tell whether a tuning A is 440 or 442. Sometimes i just know what note is being played, regardless of instrument. When that feeling comes I am never wrong.
> It's the modern conservative trick to make an outrageous claim, then link to data refuting that claim completely

Er, he's reporting on the claims made by environmentalists and the data he links to that refutes that claim completely is gathered by Australian marine biologists. How is that in any way a trick?

It's really extremely tedious how the response to academics making mistakes is ALWAYS to say, "look a conservative! run away!". What's the inference here, that people on the left don't care about scientists making accurate predictions? That seems pretty unfair to them.
It's still an unwritten story.

There seems to be suggestions that Wagner received ammo: https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1652747002013163529?t=...

If that's true, he's indeed just looking for an excuse to leave.
Your usage of the word travesty is a tragedy (and ironically, also a travesty)
Ask HN: I built before I sold, Am I Doomed?
I built a personalized cold message writer for LinkedIn. It uses ChatGPT + LinkedIn Profile to write messages.

I was so sure that this idea is needed that I jumped the validation part and built the whole product. Now the product has very slow sales and is very unfocused. Should I quit the whole thing and start again or do something else. Any advice would be appreciated.
Does anyone know if either the iTunes or Vudu digital HD versions are from the Criteron Bluray versions, or just upscaled “HD” from MGM? I’m suspect of the quality that I might get if I buy the digital versions vs just shelling out for the Qatsi Bluray Criterion trilogy (I know that physical is always leaps and bounds better than streaming digital but that is not what this question is about).
That's true. But Carlsen still leaving the possibility meant it was always going to be a match in this cycle. So if Carlsen forfeiting should have consequences for the way the cycle is structured it should be now, after the match, not instead of it

Btw, are you in any way responsible for analysis.sesse.net? I've been using it every day!
I would love some logarithmic y axes on these plots. As is, the faster versions are basically horizontal lines, making one think whether perhaps something might be wrong with the benchmark and the compiler just optimised everything away to an empty function.

Sinilarly, what's going on with the performance of bisect_left_c? (Second graph.) Why is the graph completely flat at first, only to then ramp up with a perfectly straight line? If you add some measurement points in between, will it turn out the high measurement on the right of the graph is actually a measurement error?

If this works it would make a nice python lib.
Can I run this on a intel Mac? And can I have a non censored version of ChatGPT with this?
I saw Koyaanisqatsi in the theater when it was released in the Netherlands (june 1984).
My voice learnt to speak seven new languages overnight with ElevenLabs
Just splitting matter into energy? Why would you ever use a Dyson Sphere, when you can just force decay your trash into pure energy.
We don't use nuclear waste to make non stick pans and water resistant jackets.
Summary:

A paperclip maximizer doesn't need to break any laws to turn the world into a paperclip factory. It just needs to (1) make a lot of money in the stock market and (2) use lobbying to get the laws changed so it can legally buy up all the world's land. After 20 years or so, humans will be unable to afford to continue to reside on their land, and will become homeless.
Dude neuroscience departments at pharma companies have been dropping like flies precisely because they are so fucking bad at finding new effective drugs for mental illness. Old shit like Prozac and Adderall doesn't do much for them financially, but most new psych drug clinical trials fail.

There's no conspiracy there, and in fact the absolute rot that pervades most of academic science is just as culpable for the incompetence part as the psychiatry side. I'm pretty sure drug companies would love to be less incompetent at making psych drugs.

And as far as therapists making money - well demand way outstrips supply and most people do combination treatment with drugs and therapy. So no shrooms would not make therapists go out of business, unless you've been deluded into thinking that's a magical cure for all mental illness (and if you really think it can cure all psychotic illnesses I have a bridge to sell you).

I don't think shrooms should be illegal but a lot of politics surrounding drug prohibition that have jack shit to do with the "mental health industrial complex". By the way therapist is generally not a very well paying job.
fwiw, there is an OpenAI assistant built into the Supabase dashboard now -

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-studio-2.0#supabase-ai--a...
> But a murder can also be declared cleared through what's known as an "exceptional means." For example, if a suspect is dead, can't be extradited or prosecutors refuse to press charges.

I don't see this as gaming the system. The police have done their job as far as it can be done. What do you want the cops to do in any of these cases? Are you accusing them of just stuffing random names into files?
Straw man fallacy. Your parent comment didn’t make that argument, only that resources are relatively more plentiful than the assumptions that many people make. I would argue the GP is correct.

Technological advances in the 1970s in agriculture (incl. genetic engineering of more nutritious yellow rice, artificial fertilizer from petrol products, improved planting density) allowed us to increase food staple yields. These improvements have expanded world food yields to double the amount of population that can be sustained by the current number of farm operations.

Fracking and horizontal drilling have made US oil/gas drilling (not just pumping of existing wells) profitable again. The explosion of cheap oil in the 2010s (and the cratering of oil prices in Trump’s term) was created by this technology. Fracking isn’t as cheap as the cheapest pumping in the world (probably Saudi light oil), so assumptions must be made about prices and when this technology can add to the world supply. But re-pressurizing existing wells (which is what fracking is) had been tried for 50+ years and only around 2005+/- did the technology work to make it become profitable.

Both of these are examples of modern technology that has bent the supply curve by breaking the simple, fixed assumptions of some economists. And no, no one thinks the supply curve bends infinitely.
This mobile app uses Whisper:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6443919768
Scientist Solves Nearly 60-Year-Old Game Theory Conundrum
I put 13-2 Release on my old RPI 3B+, and it's a breeze: FreeBSD
https://archive.is/JfRHj
>trying to link him to anti-US foreign policy sentiments

Being anti-US foreign policy is generally a good thing and the only reason you are going to leak to Glenn Greenwald of all people in late 2012.

Snowden also exposed that it was not Bashar al-Assad's legitimate democratically elected government that turned off the Internet in Syria in 2012. It was actually the NSA:

https://time.com/3107684/snowden-nsa-syria-cybersecurity/

No other "anti-surveillance activist" would have stood up Assad in 2012. Only Snowden dared to do that because he is a heroic world citizen opposed to US influence and control of the world.
Why limit this to unsolved murders?

How many police depts ignore property crime?

How many police depts have hour long wait times for 911 response?

How many 911 systems routinely delay or drop calls?

We had a story near here recently where a DUI accident investigation couldn't proceed because it took so long for police to arrive that the suspect sobered up enough

Or the woman who was hit by a car and the police took over an hour to respond

You can find these stories for every PD now

That said, NPR should be more honest an retitle this story to be about Oakland though, because that is what they wrote about
Although, silencing whistleblowers is as weak a strategy as security through obscurity.
How does reverse osmosis waste water?
Show HN: LibRapid -- A high performance multi-dimensional array library
tl;dr

I'm developing an incredibly fast library for arrays and mathematics, and I've implemented a few new features and made some improvements. I'd love for you to check it out!

Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/LibRapid/librapid/

Documentation: https://librapid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/cGxTFTgCAC

Hey everyone!

I am the lead developer of LibRapid (https://github.com/LibRapid/librapid/), a high-performance C++ library for array manipulation and mathematics. I've been working hard to bring you some significant updates and improvements to the library, and I'm excited to share them with you! These changes will make it even easier for you to use LibRapid in your projects and enable you to do even more with it.

Here's a rundown of the most notable changes:

CUDA improvements: We've fixed several bugs and made performance enhancements for the CUDA implementation.

Expanded support for BLAS libraries: LibRapid now has greater support for BLAS libraries, including Intel's MKL.

Test suite and documentation updates: We've updated our test suite and overhauled the documentation for clarity and ease of use.

Matrix Transposition: The library now supports matrix transposition with highly optimised, architecture-specific SIMD implementations and generic implementations for non-trivial types.

New math utility functions: We've added various new utility functions for complex numbers, multi-precision arithmetic, and more.

Matrix transposition and SIMD: LibRapid now supports matrix transposition and SIMD matrix transpose for SSE and AVX2, improving performance and memory alignment.

Random number generation: We've started implementing a new random number generation library.

Fast Fourier Transforms: LibRapid now supports fast Fourier transforms on 1D arrays, with more features coming soon! (We're using FFTW, so you can be sure you are getting the best possible performance)

Array BLAS operations: We're implementing BLAS functions that operate on our high-level array type, allowing you to access the high-performace, specialised routines without the tedious interface. (Many operations already use BLAS functions internally)

You can find more detailed information about the library and example code and usage guides in the documentation (https://librapid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

We're always looking for feedback and contributions, so if you're interested in using LibRapid or helping out, please feel free to create a pull request or contact us via our Discord Server (https://discord.com/invite/cGxTFTgCAC). I'm putting in a lot of effort to enhance LibRapid and would greatly appreciate any sponsorships to support my work. If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring LibRapid, please feel free to reach out to me to discuss your ideas.

We hope you enjoy the latest updates to LibRapid, and look forward to seeing what you build with it!
Thanks for the feedback! I experimented with using the matplotlib `plt.xscale("log")` function, but because the x axis already distributed by powers of 2, it to some extent is already a log axis (unless I'm making a very wrong assumption). I was curious about the behavior of the lines, and how they seem to ramp up in weird ways. I tried to mitigate by increasing the number of samples in the benchmark, but I haven't been able to get graphs that look as nice as the original article. I think to some extent though, that is because the `sortedcontainers` implementation is so bad. If the `y` axis was scaled better, you would be able to see a more linear increase in execution time.

Also, if you want to, the repo provides a build script for the C-extension so you can mess around with the benchmarks. I would love for you to find some bugs in my implementation :).
Even with no changes in tech the 'proven reserves' are way less than the amount of minable stuff out there as turning an area of land with say gold in into proven reserves involves drilling a load of holes in it and sending the drill cores off to be analyzed which is expensive and so only done on the bit you are about to mine.
I had a similiar experience watching Baraka as a young teen. It had felt like Humanity was some kind of mecanism propelling forward, and I was a tiny gear.
This. My linux distribution provides nano, but I still install it myself to get the latest version. If someone knows about nano and wants to use it, I don't get why this is a problem.

In fact, similar thing happens with vim. It's not installed by default on my distro of choice (mint). You have to apt install it.
Machine Learning in C
Now replace health science with climate science and see how it reads.

https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-02-23-%0A---%22the-fa...

edit: documentary might come back on ARTE in the future but in the meantime, if you understand french: https://video.ploud.fr/w/4d35ad9a-6eac-4708-aa62-3b754057407... and https://archive.org/details/la-fabrique-de-lignorance-docume...

It's usually subbed/dubbed in French and German.
> Apple have never bet such a huge chunk of their spending on a single tech that has been so resoundingly mocked.

I guess the 90's don't count anymore.
I consider this to be another great argument against the existence of "galactic civilisations". Every colony would necessarily become a the seed for a different civilisation and species in a comparatively short amount of time.

Isolation due to the communication delay (e.g. ~8 years round-trip in case of Earth to Alpha Cen) and the likely need for adaptation to the new world (be that by means of evolution or genetic engineering) would drive both home world and colonies apart quickly.
This will give birth to the next cycle of startups. I envision a lot of disgruntled ex-employees taking it to pursue their own enterprise, doing things again different than the companies before. This is a good thing.
It’s amazing that Energizer is still around given their product it utterly commoditizable.
Definitely. It has been a decade and my memory isn't perfect, but I think this was about as rare as focus sealers today, like where you get a pop up just as you were tapping somewhere else and thus either dismiss it or push a button that you didn't intend. The first example that comes to mind is Spotify pushing something like a year overview 0.2 seconds after the app opens when your finger was just coming down on the "my library" button and so you dismiss it and there's no way to open it again. Pretty sure this happens to me 2 out of 3 years.
I've definitely noticed worse service at many restaurants, but less commented-on seems to be worse food quality (lower quality ingredients and less consistent preparation) and a worse atmosphere (piles of takeout supplies in the dining room, ramshackle outdoor seating areas that were hastily built 3 years ago and never upgraded to something more permanent, etc.) both of which I am also seeing at many places I used to frequent.
> Leaking sources and/or methods gets people killed.

Is there any evidence of this being true or speculation?
Sorta. The problem is big corps do a lot of transactions in their account and can't predict when that $850k (or $850m) transfer is on the way in as their bank is collapsing. And even debits can't always be predicted, but I doubt big payments are pre-authed like that.

Not sure if a bank would be 100% protected if they had a script that checked their balance every minute and sent it to a MMF.
I think these are nothing but quibbles. In the end, the player who makes the least mistakes wins, and that was Ding. Ian had opportunities he didn't take, and so did Ding, but in the end Ding took more of his opportunities than Ian.

In the end, if Ian deserved to win more than Ding, why did Ding win?
Exciting to see some parts now (optionally) running on the GPU.
Why does the lead photo prominently feature a “racism is a sin” sign and the article immediately mentions PoC victims in Oakland? Isn’t the vast majority of PoC victimhood in Oakland intraracial? Not many Klansmen walking around Oakland. Annoying race baiting from NPR.
Sorry, that sounds closer to stenography than journalism.

> Do you have the same reaction whenever an organisation has a scandal and they ‘don’t want to comment on an ongoing investigation’?

Yeah, kinda
You need to see how people are using your software, how they are struggling, what they would like. See if you can meet with both some of your customers and watch them use your software. Try and meet some of the people who have tried but not bought, find out why?