skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the other side of it too: some people would like to be carbon neutral one way or another, and with net metering laws under attack everywhere (because the government would like to tack on tax on your own generated power) DIY powerwalls are an efficient alternative if you don't look at the risks involved.

Once you add risk into the equation it gets a lot more complex in a hurry. But that's the main driver behind all of these 18650 recycling projects. I built a fairly large pack for an e-bike (170 cells), the batteries cost some money but the peace of mind that gave was well worth it to me. But I actually can afford it. If you can't it isn't long before you realize that electronics are cheap but cells are expensive so if you can get a cheap source for cells suddenly you can build that powerwall. But to do so safely will more than offset the money saved on refurbished cells. And the workmanship requirements are also not exactly easy to come by and all it takes is a little mistake to have a fairly spectacular result.
This is incredible. Great work.
Why though? Did they just figure they’d grant one, and he just went ahead and accepted? Or is there a reason he needs one that wasn’t explained? I know that people sometimes shop around for a passport from whatever EU country for reasons, but Serbia isn’t one. (With all due respect to Serbia)
...I guess unless you're one of the minorities, or speak the "wrong" accent. Then all of a sudden you're not welcome anymore.
“They seem to be one of the least xenophobic places out there nowadays.”

Have you ever been to Serbia?
Here's some I like:

(alot of AI/tech/future related links)
https://axisofordinary.substack.com/

(Tyler owen, economist polymath)
https://marginalrevolution.com/

(interesting education ideas)
https://losttools.substack.com/
> You get the same amount of work done

Not necessarily. I work with a lot of legacy spaghetti code with many layers of unnecessary abstractions which requires navigating through the code a _lot_. I have set up my IDE and toolset to make it easy and fast to navigate through the mess. Whereas some of my coworkers haven’t and getting to the same result takes much longer. This is just one way that tools can actually speed up your work to get more done.
Everything? Write your own distributed database? I'd much rather use opensource.
"No, but maybe" is how I would answer this question myself. Maybe there is a working framework I'm unaware of - but in my experience using Clojure the last few years is that the concept of frameworks is not in the culture of the Clojure community.

You compose your stack of smaller libs and build your own framework so to speak. The right questions in this context are; what http server to use, what routing lib is decent, what is a good lib for my database, what is a good lib for generating html from the server. etc.

If you wanna start using clojure as a web server. Start with 'ring', and you can recieve http requests. You quickly realize you're missing stuff to do what you need and will go searching for libs. You'll find great libs out there for anything you ordinarily need for a web-server setup.
Have you ever used a dictionary?
Would not happen. Musk should have established the factory in EE where the local labor would bend over to him.
I recently found an excellent series on YouTube called Darknet Diaries, which I feel many HNers would be into.
Probably not (at least by this breakthrough). You can't model a 3-or-more body gravitational problem as coupled harmonic oscillators.
Parent did use the weasel word "reasonably"
Nanny cams do not need to be disguised as not-a-camera.
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I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but why is the story titled "Lena"? Not the HN title---I realize that matches the linked article. My question is why 'qntm' decided to give the story that title, while using "mmacevedo" for the URL. From what I can tell, "Lena" doesn't appear anywhere else in the story.

My best guess is that it's a reference to the scanned Playboy image that was used as a standard in early image processing work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna. But if this is true, I'm surprised it isn't mentioned in the article where the article discusses the meaning of the story: https://qntm.org/uploading.

Is there a better answer?
Maybe. I think "too high" is probably subjective to each person.

But, I'm in the camp of "if it's too high, just stop using it". I think this isn't different than most things. If I think the price of electricity is too high, my option isn't to say "well, your price it too high, so I'm going to use electricity for free".
Most countries don't tax their citizens when they live elsewhere and have no income in the country. There is one notable exception.
The remote control that came with our Samsung TV has a small solar panel on the back. You just leave it face down when not in use and then never seem to have to charge it via the USB.
You clearly don't seem to see the difference between the condition of Jews today both within the state of Israel and outside of it, and the treatment of Jews in Europe after the rise of Nazism in Germany and elsewhere.

And you know what? Africans had nothing to do with it
> If we take this to an extreme, doesn't content just not get made?

I'd argue that _content_ is a fairly gross word that we've all come to use because we're in the industry -- "I need some _content_ around my ads so that we get some impressions". There are plenty of other words that are less marketing associated and more clearly connotative with creatively produced material - article, report, essay, story, paper, proposal, manifesto, gallery, video, photographs, exhibit, website, blog post - even material. _Content_ is efficiently produced filler. As such, yes, in the extreme less _content_ gets made, and in the absence of _content_ there is organically more of the latter category.

You can still make money on the internet without ads. Ads have in recent history been an easier, higher margin route. If the entire online ad industry fumbles, will we be substantially worse off? I don't think so: the number and size of websites would for sure shrink, but those left would have a much higher signal to noise.
Most "content" is not made with intent of monetization. Having less cash grab "content" and more genuine expressions would not be a bad thing.

If centralized hosting of such "content" becomes unsustainable then that's even better.
I guess in Germany/Switzerland/Austria he'd be "Stefan Wosniak" :)
Youtube premium also pays out the content creators you watch in lieu of the ads you don't watch does it not? At least that was my understanding.

If so it's not just the infrastructure cost which itself is not trivial for a site like youtube.
Hey other states, can you elect a few more Ron Wydens? He's been doing a ton of the heavy lifting lately. Every time we hear about the intelligence community egregiously violating civil liberties, it's always Wyden.
Python is not "readable" to anyone with eyes.

Using whitespace as scope definition is a war crime.

(same goes for YAML)
As someone who works in this industry - no, thermoelectric heating does not stand at the brink of commercialization. The fundamental issue with thermoelectric heating is that you need a material with high electrical conductivity but very low thermal conductivity. zT is a metric that measures this ratio. Conducting electricity but not heat is a weird property for a material to have and no one even knows if zT can be raised much from where it is today. Even if it could, it would probably be expensive, so you'd probably want to use thermoelectric cooling for things like on-chip computer cooling, not to cool your whole house.
React isn’t all or nothing… you can upgrade bit by bit, extremely incrementally. But if you’re mix and matching frameworks and paradigms together then yes expect to not get the full value.

It’s like judging Django when only using it for its utils package and saying it’s “all or nothing”. Django isn’t really all or nothing either but you won’t get its full value if you just use it to supplement Wordpress for a single endpoint or something.
The uprising begins!
Central, augmenting existing electric forced air with existing ducts. Similar sized home.
I rather they kept the original spelling because that's his name, but only if Serbs can figure out how to pronounce it. Which, in the modern world, is a reasonable assumption for names written in the Latin script.
Youtube and friends only have themselves to blame: the tighter they turn the ad screw the more people they push to ad blockers. We went from a single tolerable, skippable 5 seconds ad segment to multiple unskipable very long segments in just a few years.

I say this as someone who pays for YouTube Premium.
The people that create the content you consume only have so many hours in the day, just like you. They need to pay the rent, buy groceries, get their kids braces, just like the test of us. It seems immoral and unrealistic to expect that for free. Consume it and support them or don't consume it and don't support them but the attitude that you're entitled to it is a little slimy.
Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
Except US I think almost all other countries dont tax only for citizenship, residency is also required
Aren't these all VERY tightly integrated? They can sell merch and sponsorships _because_ of YouTube in the first place?
> At most, polymorphic code inspired by malware.

If it quacks like a duck...
Usually lobbing on this side of the pound is considered corruption, and even though there are several politicians that get away with it, there are also several others that have had to face the courts.
News: I like https://www.newsminimalist.com

Not updated in a while but here are a few interesting YouTube channels - https://notes.oinam.com/awesome/video
I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)
You would never confuse ice with lice despite the similarity.
Didn't he give them 6 months to do this a few months ago?
Oh, you're definitely asking that.

supposed to be, right, let's stop talking about this before I violate the unwritten rule of good tone trumps everything on HN.
even mentioning politically sensitive topics is not risk free in some places.

expecting this from every conference could potentially put conference organizers at risk for criticizing their local laws or culture.

at best this information can be shared by global institutions. so the PSF could issue their funding accompanied by such a statement
Unifiedpush to save the day!
And an XMPP server with Conversations can be the basis for it: Https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/conversations/
Hate them; don't want to do them.

You want to know how I code, I'll show you some examples, a repo, an app I wrote. But spend more effort than you do on the interview? Spend five hours on some dumb undergrad programming assignment that you use to screen applicants for using the wrong null pointer constant or some shit? Forget it.
That's right but if we consider the recommended amounts, it is improbable that they would be able to store so much.

I grew up in a house from the 12th century that was a priory. There was only a small associated dependency that had a decently large cellar (about 70m2) but that couldn't have been enough to store veggies for the number of monks that lived here (the main house is 150m2 on 2 level plus an attic)? I know that for sure because I had to clean it and remove all the crap that the old neighbor had stored in it (including wine barrels and lots of potatoes, I also found WW2 ammo cache, whoops).

Also, we stored quite a bit of our own veggies and it is challenging to keep most things in good shape; if you are lucky, you may get decent stuff by the end of January but then all bets are off.

What I am saying is that it is very easy for us to argue about those things with all our modern knowledge and capacity but it is unlikely that they bothered with veggies in the winter back then.
Which is exactly why they stored potatoes and grains, made cheese and salted meat. The veggies, if they were any, were the cherry on top, not exactly a staple.
Sounds kind of similar to https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo/
> Video hosting is expensive and needs to be paid for somehow. Any competitor will have the same problems as Youtube does.

Nope. PeerTube and the like is an alternative.
Seems like the kind of application that should (be required to?) have 2FA

Wish my bank had real 2FA and not text message based...
Eritrea? Since there are actually two exceptions, although one is definitely less notable than the other.
I obviously don't know why Wozniak personally wants Serbian citizenship, but it is worth noting that Serbia is a good second passport for anyone that already has a US/EU/CA/UK citizenship. This is because Serbians have visa-free access to China, Russia, and a few other places that Western citizens tend to have more difficulties with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Serbian_...
This is neither here nor there, but Serbia is an EU Candidate, likely to get membership in the coming years.
> There is one notable exception.

There are two actually.
Tangential question: Could a country force its citizenship to any person on the planet like that?

‘From now on, Mr X is now one of our citizen, with all the taxes/restrictions it entails’
> Just thinking about only my push notifications yesterday

See, the gist in the letter is this sentence:

"As with all of the other information these companies store for or about their users, because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information."

Do you really think that a foreign government is interested in push notifications when issuing a demand to disclose data from a phone?
That does not answer the question. There is floatplane and Nebula, but beyond those where will be the content be hosted and will those revenue stream actually cover those hosting/development costs and running the site?

And on other hand if users are paying you something, would they not expect not to have to watch through mediocre sponsorships?
I think you should not highlight all the possible moves.
Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
It is cost issue. If American can build 1K drones like that, Chinese and Russians can do easily at 100x due to their industries bases. Amercian lacks those industries within America right now. You hear a lot of Made iN China components slip into F35. So the cost for Americans are just too high especially with coming dedollarisation and persistent high inflation. It doesnt matter what Americans build as defense to drones attack, the enemy combatant will just outproduce and swamp you directly and/or slip in another ttacks during those saturation (e.g. surface base unmmaned speedboat with tactical nukes/thermo right at the center of Ametican warships/carriers. From what I have read, it is already developed and tested. We shluld be seeing American spanish armada wipeout in coming decades if WW3 happen.
> The CEO categorized it as a “security vulnerability” during our discussion on GitHub.

Have you tried making a HN post or otherwise bring attention to this? My impression is he got a bunch of undeserved clout, especially in light of how things turned out subsequently.

> Many of my classmates in Malaysia were from Singapore and wanted to escape from the strict education system so I’ve always assumed that education is better there (in some sense, I understand it’s not for everyone).

Oh that's new to me, I didn't know that's a trend (Singaporeans going to Malaysia to escape the education system).

> I actually tried applying to some SG universities but was rejected (I have terrible grades)

Sorry to hear that. Something I have learned much later in life is that whereas schooling rewards individuals for being "all-rounded" and naturally caps the returns for being good at something (at most you can get 100 or 4.0 or wtv), in the real world, the returns for being really good at something (as you seem to be) are really uncapped.
Suppose you use an anonymous app for messaging. The government sees the conversation ("good day to you") but doesn't know who is on one side (perhaps both).

So they ask Apple "who exactly sent or received on their phone a push notification for 'good day to you'?" Or perhaps "who sent or received push notifications from secure messaging app around 8:24:39.124 pm, 8:26:12.322, etc.?"

Apple tells them, and now they know the identity of the "anonymous" recipient. Replace "good day to you" with any text disliked by any format or current or future government.
I can pick my nose and it's not a political statement. I just needed to pick my nose.

I can make a cli tool to deploy something faster and with the boilerplate logging/monitoring.

What political stance am I taking? Do you think I intentionally made one?

Or is this the same as "silence is violence"- by NOT making a statement that I am making a statement?

Honestly, it's exhausting. I just want to help where I can personally and have fun, it's not deeper than that.
Yeah, pretty much. I was well acclimatized, but there's no making up for that lack of oxygen.
It's apple. If they can't lock you in and milk you it's not worth doing.
Yet another reason to be a happy GAPPSless LineageOS user
Nvidia Toolkit for RLHF
I suppose this makes sense — the property has been deemed "proceeds of crime," and it stands to reason that the sale of that property to mount a legal defence would be akin to using "proceeds of crime to defend that crime." I guess its no different than holding a suspect in custody during the trial, except its property.

Duggan is facing some serious charges and I imagine the seizure of the property, errors in the affidavit notwithstanding, is sensible.
It's pretty safe to assume this is not the case, countries don't "trick" people into citizenship for this. Plus Steve would know the implications of accepting this citizenship, and could challenge it and not pay a dime if there were hidden clauses.
That one notable exception also charges a tax for renouncing citizenship.
Every place is a tradeoff. The US can be inaccessible through sheer travel cost too.

And it is absolutely true that it is a western double standard. Football tournaments in gulf states and all.

I was more upset the top comment in this thread is "shitting on human rights is just a difference of opinion" apologetics.
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The US is certainly an outlier, but domicile taxes are not at all unusual, especially at high net worth.
There are downsides to that. For example, this is how me, my parents and my siblings ended up with different surnames on our passports. They all started as the same surname, but then got mangled independently during translation...
I think the problem is also that a lot of committees are too detached from some of the groups they deal with.

I once was invited, as a member of a European drug policy group, to a FSF conference in London with the aim to get more grassroots organisations to use FOSS - flights and hotels paid for by the FSF. When there, we were informed that we could later send our receipts for hotels and flights to the chair of FSF Europe to get reimbursed just a few weeks later. If not for some very generous attendants who lived in London, a lot of people would not have had a place to sleep; I personally paid for a few return flights so people were not stranded in the UK. First: grassroot activists usually don't have any sponsors or disposable income. Second: the takeaway message "use Linux, use Firefox" could have been sent instead of the invitations and people could have learned the same, spent that time on working for their cause and finally have saved themselves from a precarious situation. Third: The guy in charge spent much more gossipping about RMS at the paid for meals than on the announced content of the conference. Bad style, especially since some attendants just had spent much more productive time with RMS a few weeks before (and probably still tried hard to get the images of him clipping his toe nails during the meetup out of their head - at least I did).
It's a huge problem for both privacy and the open source ecosystem that Apple and Google mandate use of their own notification system for apps to be included in their stores.
Examples in the MLX Framework
It's funny because in Croatia we don't do that, but it's an almost identical language. I still remember reading old ex-yu comic books with New York spelled as Njujork and so on. The problem is that you can't really capture the pronunciation since english has more sounds and serbian and croatian are phonetic limited to 30 letters, Stiv Voznijak doesn't capture it correctly, that's how you get the harsh slavic/russian accent. There is also a tricky situation with trying to keep the original like we do in Croatian, for example we can't read asian or arabic symbols, so it doesn't make sense to keep them, but we usually use the english transliteration which is to me also a bit silly.
This isn't the first time I've seen a discussion about "double negatives" still being having negative meaning in English.

Last time, someone described how this is quite common, but that the opposite - "double positives" were always positive as there's no negation.

Then someone else replied: "Yeah, right!"
My 6yo loves the computer with Paint 3D app, GCompris, TuxRacer and few RPGs from DOS era.
Yesterday I've watched again "Enemy of the State" from 1998 and the movie was entertaining but the fact that the evil force is coming from just one bad actor felt so naive compared to real life that it was tragicomical.
it should be noted that this species is not actually in danger of extinction, as they are common in the pet trade and seem to be easily bred in captivity. Obviously a tragedy that wild populations are hanging on with these tiny populations but the species will survive in captive form, which can form 'reseeding' populations when their natural environment stabilises to sustain a breeding population
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477197
It's a bit weird, but I'm going to guess it was said in jest.
The app developer will still send them to Apple / Google though so the data will still be available to snoop on.