skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there can be intermediaries which provide the response and still rely on the blockchain as a source of truth

But then you have to trust the intermediaries. You can verify their claim, but doing so is so costly it's what made you turn to intermediaries in the first place.

> I can cryptographically authenticate the origin of the response.

A blockchain is not needed for that, certificates can do that.

> zk proofs (…) the latest version of the blockchain's state (…) cost of carrying the whole history

Knowing enough information about the latest version of a blockchain's state to validate responses would require either that you trust the third party which would provide the hash of the last block to you, or that you follow, blocks after blocks, what's added to to ledger, verifying each block's integrity and all. I'm not saying that's not doable, but that it either requires some boot-up time or to be online all the time; i.e., it more or less amounts to running a node which is what we seem to agree is not something most people / end devices will do.
You make a good point. Yes, some people can really benefit from a
helping hand onto the ladder.

But I'd hate to encourage anyone to climb on, only to see them freeze
in fear, and get stuck when the only way is up.

I think there are three things one should always bring to psychedelics or
potentially life changing traumatic experiences

- some experience

- a question

- a friend
Related:

The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20849180 - Aug 2019 (3 comments)

The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12328870 - Aug 2016 (2 comments)

The Theory of Concatenative Combinators - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11490051 - April 2016 (5 comments)
Yeah; I’m not claiming either IntelliJ or visual studio are viable replacements for Xcode when you want to make an iPhone or Mac app. My point is that the engineering quality of both visual studio and IntelliJ is dramatically better than the engineering quality of Xcode.

Building a good, reliable, fast IDE with modern features is clearly a task other software teams have been able to succeed at. Xcode has no excuse for its bugs. It feels like the result of demo driven development - where features are worked on just enough to demo them - either internally or at wwdc. But it takes more work to ship a good product than it does to make a snazzy demo. And, for some reason that work just doesn’t seem to happen in the Xcode team. Not since Xcode version 3 or so.
They put profit over planes.

But they're MBA culture. They suck at everything. Including making profit.

The fact that finance is kept secret really, really helps with hiding the complete idiocy the management class tends to have.
> a university degree can be obtained by mere compliance or demonstration of learning

Exactly. It “only” shows you can & willing to at least understand the requirements, internalize them well enough, and comply with them. It shows your capability of understanding & working together with other humans.

Which is key.

In my impression, almost always the knowledge you receive at the uni is not really pertinent to any actual job, and anyone can have PhD level understanding of a subject without having finished high school.

It is the capability of understanding and working in a system that matters.

Similarly with a chatbot. Using it to game interviews in ways described does not mean candidate is stupid, or something like that. It is, though, a negative signal of one’s willingness and intrinsic motivation to do things like internalizing job responsibilities & procedures, or just simply behave in good faith.

Mental capacity to do mundane things is often important when it comes to, say, maintaining a nuclear reactor.

> just a tool

> it’s really good for rapidly getting a bearing with a certain topic

Perhaps. Personally I prefer using Google, so that I at least know who wrote what and why rather than completely outsourcing this to an anonymous team of data engineers at ClosedAI or whatnot, but if it is efficient to get some knowledge then why not?

It’s using it to blatantly cheat and do the key part for you where it becomes questionable.
Escitalopram is generic, as are most of the common antidepressant drugs; I'm not sure what the cost is in the US, but in the UK it costs the health service about five cents per dose. Psychedelic therapy is (for the moment) inherently expensive, because established protocols involve a lot of clinical time before, during and after the treatment to protect the safety and wellbeing of the patient. There's simply too much uncertainty to perform a meaningful cost-benefit analysis, but it is plausible that psychedelics could be more cost-effective for more severely and chronically unwell patients who have not responded to other treatments.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760680/

We don't yet know enough about the safety profile of psychedelics to draw any firm conclusions regarding side-effects, because of the very small number of patients who have participated in clinical trials. If even a very small proportion of patients treated with psychedelics experience serious harms - and it's very plausible that they could, given the subjective intensity of the experience and the vulnerability of the patient cohort - then that could outweigh the more common but less dangerous side-effects of SSRIs. There are also potential risks that might not be apparent in carefully controlled clinical trials but might materialise in real clinical practice, for example the risk of patients with undiagnosed psychotic traits being prescribed psychedelics.
Well, Konami released both Arctic adventure and its sequel Penguin adventure.

I got more confused when I saw the slot machine
The default view reorders the bytes as far as I can tell. It's mentioned in the help, but I don't really get how to make use of this feature. Maybe I tried it on the wrong kinds of files, but I found the default view confusing.

But it is a really cool tool, if you have to figure out a binary file format looking for patterns is certainly very useful.
Dutch domain registrar SIDN moving infrastructure to AWS
Dutch domain registrar SIDN plans to move part of its infrastructure to Amazon AWS in an effort to start selling its registry software as a service.

https://tweakers-net.translate.goog/nieuws/218152/sidn-wil-d...
If the code to write is repetitive, then just write some code that does it; no AI needed.

Presumably what matters in this project is correctness, not how many unnecessary cycles you can burn.
It seems trivial, but I do actually think the average thing is the core of our disagreement. I suspect our different interpretations of questions like that are at the root of our different viewpoints. I don't think either of us are going to change or mind here, but I appreciate your perspective. Thanks for sharing.
> I’m not sure why anyone would want a job they clearly aren’t qualified for.

Money, obviously.

Software jobs in particular are magic in this way - the pay is way above the average, and performance metrics are so poorly defined that one can coast for months doing nothing before anyone starts suspecting anything. Years, even, in a large company, if one's lucky. 80% of the trick is landing the first gig, 15% is lasting long enough to be able to use it as a foundation of your CV, and then 5% is to keep sailing on.

No, really. There's nothing surprising about unqualified people applying for software companies. If one's fine with freeloading, then I can't think of easier money.

(And to be fair, I'd say it's 10% of freeloaders, 10% of hard workers, and in between, there's a whole spectrum of varying skills and time and mental makeups, the lower half of that is kind of unqualified but not really dishonest.)
Perhaps reading the source code for SBCL, https://www.sbcl.org/porting.html provide some of the answers you seek.
> Good point that the algorithm tries to compensate for the perspectives, but I’m sure it still comes down to a popularity contest.

It isn't clear if polarization score have only one dimension where it would be great to capture US culture wars but fail to capture nuances outside of that or if it's more complex than that.

> Generally, the platform determines the algorithm of which note wins, so that’s centralized. The algorithm depends on what kind and how many users vote and how. Those users exist on the platform which requires registration and can deny any given user. Centralized.

Yes, not perfect but still better than the traditional media oligopoly.

> Further, no guarantee that the actual algorithm in production matches the one made public, but I guess they have no reason to lie here.

The algorithm and the data are open. It is reproducible.

https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes

https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/download-data

> It’s not just me telling, the tweet has been up so far and community note does its best to awkwardly convey the controversy that would’ve been otherwise completely lost due to the ill designed way community notes work.

I checked the tweet (https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1745921315498811752) and at least now the community notes show a different content:

> Original video, which provides a better look at the plate (鄂F1573警),indicates that the video was shot in Hubei, China.

>

> https://x.com/ken2009_/status/1227476618014330880?s=46

Many here are biased against Elon and Twitter for political reasons so they are too quick to pass judgement.
I used it in, what, 2004? 2005? It was pretty good, especially compared to today's typical corporate on-prem search options, e.g. Sharepoint or Confluence, both of which are almost certainly inferior to a physical filing cabinet.
Almost definitely just that it hasn't been trained on such data, rather than the task being inherently difficult. I tried Llava 1.6 on an image with Swedish text and it parsed a large and clear Ä as A while the other letters were mostly correct.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813704 - Oct 2020 (15 comments)

Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14544191 - June 2017 (8 comments)

Binvis.io – Visual Analysis of Binary Files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077222 - Feb 2016 (9 comments)

Binvis.io: visual analysis of binary files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140249 - March 2015 (1 comment)

Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3449743 - Jan 2012 (20 comments)

Others?
interesting. thank you too.
Yes it does, definitely for me, depending on the route. But I have great imagination, my internal renderer can project a new house construction in 2 seconds but can also in 0.1s project gnarly consequences of the fall right here right now. With experience you get better but I've never lost it, just became better at managing it (this is the growth part I mentioned).

Indoor routes are generally very safe due to frequent bolts, outdoor it depends, with bolts easily 4-5m apart, not so much. I still talk purely about sport climbing with drilled bolts, not trad climbing where you put expansion devices into cracks yourself or wedge tiny metal bits and pray intensely you won't actually fall on them.

I don't want to go into detailed climbing & fall physics but if in such a route you fall just before next bolt (or during an attempt to clip into it), you can easily swing up to 8m down, hit a ledge, part of rock with serious force, or just be smashed against rock face hard (if you are in overhang then all is fine obviously, just belayer will fly hard). Broken/twisted ankles, wrists etc are not that uncommon in such situation, or worse depending on position, usage of helmet etc.
PDF is a fabulous format. I mean, it’s an awful format in so many ways, technically speaking, but the net effect of having a self-contained static file in your custody stands in blissful contrast to the user-hostile dynamic/SaaS website that can be taken away at a moment’s notice. PDF/A is the true PDF - it strips out most of the dangerous cruft.

Anyway, if you like weird PDF hijinks, here’s a polyglot PDF/A CSV file that is also its own original soundtrack as a polyglot Amiga soundtracker mod:

https://www.lab6.com/6
I think you're confusing mysticism with abstraction. The Cloud is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies and services, and for the way people interact with them. That interaction isn't "mystical", it simply happens through so many obscuring layers of abstraction that most people don't understand what is actually going on. But the cloud itself is very much a real thing, or, to be more precise, composed of many things that are very much real.

By contrast, ectoplasm is a pseudo-scientfic term for something that has never been demonstrated to exist under controlled conditions, and has a long tradition of association with known charlatans. The two aren't comparable at all.
Urs Hölzle, hoping that he will accept the proposal this time (I've read somewhere that he refused and they went with Sundar, sad).
Context dependent indeed!

My nephew and I both have it.

I just seem like a weird guy to the average person, and sometimes people will even get offended if I mention that I’m autistic.

My nephew, on the other hand, is what people think of when they think of autism: Arm flapping, making stimming noises/hums, echolalia, etc.

And boy do I just adore that kid.

His sense of humor is one of a kind.

Anyway… I wish there were subcategories like there are for Depression or ADHD.

People getting mad at me for misunderstandings gets old.
I somehow got to Mega Evolution which I got from megalodon and some pokemon, but don’t ask me how to get to Pokémon.

Anyway, once you get that kind of a modifier, anything’s game for megaification.
This is where I got cognitive dissonance. Can both actually be true at once? If not, which one is wrong?
No, it wouldn't. Like most companies, the US "is" what it's people do. That's where the actual value is. From plumbers fixing pipes to soldiers fighting in Africa to carrier groups in the pacific. The buildings and assets inside the US support that, but actually represent zero of the value.

So essentially nothing can be liquidated. There's exceptions, like raw materials (from gold to oil), but not many.

The problem is that the other side, valuing the US as the total value of oil in US soil, plus all other assets, is also bullshit.

You also can't sell it or buy it. For example, the natural resources of North Korea far exceed it's GDP. And yet, if I go to 10 banks, and offer kim 10 times North Korean GDP, could I buy North Korea? No ... they would not sell, nor would North Koreans honor the sale if it was made. So the value of all state organisation ... is zero. But for most countries that is the only thing valuable about them.
It's not my joke. Perhaps the joke makes some people feel uncomfortable. Jokes can be like that.

If a NATO member had only 4 (four!) fighter jets ready for use out of a fleet of 128 (one hundred and twenty eight!)[0] we should also feel uncomfortable. That's not something to joke about.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-luftwa...
Touch interfaces are awful and a step backward.
Datalevin: A simple, fast and versatile Datalog database
Your circumstances may require changing to produce more compassionate circumstances for other human beings. For example, buying your twice as expensive clothing half as often. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Except it can. The way it does that is by printing and taxing. Both can be used to pay debt and are "taking income streams" / "seizing property" in disguise.
I can bet that some 2 min 50 seconds in baseline took by byte -> String conversion. Java is pretty bad at this, especially if default Charset is UTF8. Even using ASCII at Files.lines() call may improve performance dramatically.
All leaders work directly with bytes. All other tricks is just for sub-second improvements.
Did solve similar problem with log files.
Umberto Eco also has something to say on that subject – On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...
This has been a push for a while. It is pretty hard to explain the nebulous distinctions between AR, VR, MR and XR without coming across as a self-important pedant. Spatial computing is a much clearer umbrella term since it describes the core feature that is unique to this family of technologies.
> returns on that investment are uncertain. “Bankers and investors and utilities are thinking, ‘I know there’s a great value here, but can I quantify it?’

Maybe it's time to stop thinking like this. If it means that carbon-free power can be generated /and/ it can supply vast amounts of power for millions of people then it should be done. The usual ditherers need to understand that ROI will not save the planet - and bankers - from a slow and unpleasant death.
It's you posting it here, not your friends from the RAF.

As for flight readiness: that has nothing to do with how many children von der Leyen has.
Postmodernism posits that everything is bullshit when you look hard enough.

Unfortunately the bullshit is useful when building things.
But at what point do 'consequences' start to negate the 'free' in speech?

I'd argue you have reached the limits of free speach the moment there are consequences for just the speech.
THat's true - if you submit both a link and text, HN's software will (usually) convert the text to a comment. I take your point that that wasn't exactly what you intended, and I'm sorry for misunderstanding.
Workers are consumers. A healthier working class and a more even distribution of wealth provides increased purchasing power. If all you can see is what you'd lose and not imagine what you'd gain, that's a fault of imagination, not the proposal.
Completely aeree. I keen computation steps (which create csv files) separate from charting steps. I use make to orchestrate pipelines. I also keep everything under source control, and insert git commit ids into every chart. This ensures that all the analysis and charts can be linked directly to the code used to produce them.
And Umberto Eco expanded on that with On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...
I'm afraid it was probably just random.
The system doesn't have to detect it the processes themselves are able to describe this: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man2/rtprio.2...

Even with that available, scheduling things optionally is not easy. You always sacrifice latency for throughput (or the other way around). Any gains across the board we keep getting in the base kernel from time to time.
Microsoft open-sources Eclipse ThreadX real-time operating system
Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere ARM64 Servers in the Data Center
You mean perversion, because he had many women?
Sega Flux: Home Planetarium
Star Trek DS9's "Past Tense" has our heros sent back in time to the sanctuary districts of... 2024.
There are "levels", but people ignore them. The status quo is that everybody gets put in one bucket called "Autism" regardless of if they're unable to live independently or are multi-billionaires like Elon Musk.

That is not socially useful.
Alternatively, an external vetting company which provides on-site, locked down locations for doing LeetCode problems in and then publishes their results online could be very useful. The real trick of course would be trust.
Yeah if one tried to find rot in academics, I think applied particle physics is one of the furthest from it. The scientists are super allergic to unfalsifiable theories that they start to doubt themselves when prediction is off by nanometers.
I'll be the pedant then and say that how I understand it is that AR is just adding things, VR is when it replaces things entirely, MR is more than AR because there are digital and physical elements to interact with. XR, then, is an umbrella term that encompasses all of the above. Spacial computing vs XR as the phrase to use? Sure.
There is a Chrome addon called SquareX https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kapjaoifikajdcdehfd...
The founder is pretty reputed in the Cybersecurity field.
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Show HN: Blackbell – Create booking websites and marketplaces, without code
Hey HN!

Blackbell is a business software for local services SMBs, think service providers near you who offer services by appointment, mostly in person: personal trainers, doctors, cleaning companies, dog walkers, home services etc.

E-commerce SaaS to sell physical products are very mature (Shopify…), but there is still a big gap in serving this niche specific needs in the market. The reality is, most service SMBs use nothing (pen/paper is our biggest competitor) or try to mix various no-code products together (not so easy to maintain).

We’re trying to fix it. We combine in one no-code product (SchedulePro) a number of essential tools: website builder, booking forms, scheduling, payment, CRM, orders management, email marketing, a business mobile app and more. ( Stripe was a big inspiration, in providing a suite of interconnected core tools )
It took a lot of work and time to make our products simple to use and bring a coherent product to life. We are small but kinda battle-tested with 600,000 online bookings, 96% client satisfaction, with one of our top clients achieving over $10 million in sales.

We're launching a product (AgencyLink) for freelancers and agencies who work with service providers in our niche and need to develop booking platforms. Originally, we made it for ourselves, to help an agency we acquired sell hyper-local service marketplaces (ServicesHub) in the UK.
That small team of four generated $3,000,000 in revenue, mainly because these tools helped them create platforms (without code) very quickly for the clients, do fast account support, and handle billing efficiently. So today we make most of these tools available..
We offer partners who onboard clients 20% referral recurring revenues.

Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Ember.js, Vue.js, and React Native (via Expo). We use Stripe and Wise for payments. A cool tool we built is Powerblocks: one-click import for HTML/CSS into our visual editor, inspired by Canva. We have Webhooks APIs and more to automate some flows, and a Sandbox env.

Looking forward to your feedback and ideas, especially how to kickstart working with freelancers / web agencies, looks like a big new world where lots of products compete for attention!
Indeed, I was copy-pasting the parent poster's words so as to
faithfully respond.

Enlightenment, Modernism and Post-modernism all being distinct things,
no-one parodies their confusion better than Monty Python; What have
the Romans ever done for us?

Is Post-modernism the end of Enlightenment? Maybe yes, but not in a
'bad way', simply that post-modernism is the last stage of
enlightenment, when a developmental stage has attained self-awareness
and self-critical capabilities.

First we had to become enlightened in order to see the limits of
enlightenment.
"This is a huge difference from BitTorrent where the only way to get content is to run your own software, and when you download something you also share it, by default."

As far as I understand this isn't a solved technical problem - but mostly a cultural quirk and probably just due to how the early torrent clients were configured

There is for instance a major Chinese torrent client (that name escapes me) that doesn't seed by default - so the whole thing could have easily not worked. If IPFS clients don't seed by default then that kinda sounds like either a design mistake or a "culture problem"

I've always wondered if there was a way to check if a client is reseeding (eg. request and download a bit from a different IP) and then blacklist them if they provide the data (or throttle them or something)