skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually a point the author makes - he sees an AI as a tool for the artist, not as an creative subject on its own.
I found it highly interesting to read about a writer's perspective on text producing AIs. Especially the part where its output suddenly was "I don't know what you want me to do".
Part 2 - where he presents a sci-fi short film with a plot written by AI - is also a interesting read.
I think it worked pretty well for NPM where there was the high possibility of duplication between the modules you depend on and the additional modules required by them.
By the way, so-called 'diversity' should also protect right-wing conservative views, not only left-wing supposedly-liberal views; otherwise it's a crap. It should protect everyone's freedom as long as those views respect the law.
If the voting is anonymised, then how do you protect against Sybil attacks?

When you think through this, every voting system has a weak link in terms of verifying who is a valid voter. So you must have a centralized authority here. Thus a blockchain is useless.
If only there were Diet Pedialyte(tm)!
sounds like they'd be great then.
oh no! an extra grain in my recipe! lol you fucking people.
Indian car rental company makes false promises and turns off car remotely
It's scary to think I've been here long enough to know things others don't.. Or maybe "those that would know won't tell." Either way: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
> I don' get it, so the alt right speaker on the video was actually for Democrats ?

The Sweden Democrats are a right-wing, anti-immigration party whose spokespeople have over the years said some questionable things on the subjects of ethnicity and national identity.
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>The collective outrage over Facebook and its actions might result in a lot of talk, but it won’t really change Facebook, its ethos, and its ethics. Let me explain!

It's a glorified ad company. It will do anything and everything to collect people's data and sell more ads.
I had the same issue. Internet archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180222160101/https://github.co...
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For all the complaints about the hivemind, I see a broader range of opinions here than anywhere else. Perhaps the reason for complaints is that the visibly broad range of opinions creates an expectation that any reasonable opinion will be tolerated, when in fact some reasonable opinions will be suppressed by the community. In such a generally open context, this suppression seems particularly unjust.
Well, Wikipedia defines dead reckoning as:

> the process of calculating one's current position by using a previously determined position, or fix, and advancing that position based upon known or estimated speeds over elapsed time and course.

It still seems applicable, even if the hardware has advanced sufficiently that errors are minimized.
I make 3700 dollars per month after Swedish taxes, live in a big house 45 mins from work surrounded by beautiful nature, and pay about 400 dollars every month for the loan on the house. For me, that's a perfect life. More money than I need, and a great life / work balance since swedish culture is very relaxed and nobody counts hours at work. People work maybe 7 to 8 hours.

I should put up a web page with more and better info perhaps. You guys don't know what you are missing and there is a huge amount of tech jobs here. Stockholm is very hot in tech.
Cursor motion and bi-directional text (2012)
Funny that all it took was to re-compensate for the noise of the accelerometer on every step. Sometimes, simplest is best.
Of course it could well be the case that we have such an environment here _because_ debating politics is discouraged.

I strongly believe this, and I think the evidence is the content of threads where the mods gave people a chance. The volume, in both senses of the word, becomes extreme, with hundreds of angry nested comments.
It seems likely this is not the text for you -- especially if you already know graph theory. But I'm not sure why it's a topic for HN, given it's like a mandatory CS undergrad class.
Who is the target market for this site? The repeated use of the term 'jobs' implies some sort of payment or longer term collaboration, but the interface seems to look like an idea in the vein of up-for-grabs issues within FLOSS projects.
They are working on their own streaming service so they could stop selling retail copies. I'll admit this won't happen in the next 5 years (depending on the success of their streaming service).

They can stop selling the retail copies with the code included. That would pinch off Redbox, but upset customers.

They could stop offering download codes and instead allow people to register their retail copy to the streaming service with a copy of their receipt. Again, not very consumer friendly, but Disney is big enough to possibly get away with it.
> deep-learning models

What kind of models do you use ?
Exactly... there are many things for which not being connected to the 'net increase security a lot. You decrease the pool of crazies and crooks. However, once a stalker is interested in spying on your house... physical proximity isn't so much of a barrier.

"We begin by coveting what we see every day... Clarice"
Yeah that entire thread is a dumpster fire.
>But as my colleagues and I have manifestly demonstrated in our lackluster response to these efforts over the past several years, spending more money on something is kind of the American way, because spending more feels like doing more, measurable upside be damned.

The higher the cost, the higher value of the percentage skimmed off the top from insurance.. there is no cost incentive here from the POV of the charging institution.. this has nothing to do with 'measurable upside'
PIP, Anaconda, environments, ... too many concepts for a newbie. And too tedious for the experienced.
If I understood the article correctly, the devices that this article mentions communicate exclusively via the vendors server.
It acts as a constraint.

I doubt that really happens, other than for that very brief moment and tiny minority of users who are right around the threshold. The karma losses are capped, it's hard to lose meaningful amounts of karma without actively trying to.
Contextual: global setState, tiny Redux-like store and declarative transforms
Sadly all of this was solved years ago with Adobe Air (single engine, real automated updates, plus a more sane Javascript syntax with AS3). I haven't used it in years but I just took a quick look and the last release was today - https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html

I know there is a lot of Flash hate out there but Air+Flex(+FlashDevelop) was a pretty nice solution for building , debugging and distributing cross platform apps.
If I had to peg a date on it I'd use the date of the first atomic detonation at Trinity testing ground. That would leave a radioactive trace band around the world and definitely marks the emergence of hominids as a geological force.
When was this?

Back when I was an undergrad, I took one sociology class (on a different topic) and the faculty seemed especially sensitive about that sort of manipulation. I can't find a reference at the moment, but it had something to do with the CIA consulting with academics about their activities in South America in the 70s.

This was in 1987 at UT Austin.
"If you're that confident in your knowledge here, then using Rust wouldn't be a problem for you: you can go the unsafe route and just do the same thing you'd do in C."

That's what I didn't understand - why the author didn't just use "unsafe". There's nothing intrinsically bad about using "unsafe", you just have to test that code thoroughly. There's plenty of robust C code out there.
Such a definition is moot if you could sue for a court order then go to a dealership with a sheriff's deputy in tow and take just the part you wanted out of a brand-new car, and the dealer could in turn recover all of its costs for that now-unsellable vehicle from the manufacturer.

There would be a great incentive to warehouse and sell "spare parts". And they would have to be every individual discrete part, and every subassembly that can be handled as a unit. If you just sold engines, you might end up with an unusable nearly-engine because someone came along and picked just the parts they needed off of it. If you just sold engine parts, you might end up with an unusable nearly-car because someone picked a whole, assembled engine out of it.

So every type of screw, nut, bolt, and washer. Every type of transmission assembly and engine assembly. Every passenger seat. Every floor mat. Every light bulb and every plastic housing. Every wiring harness. Every radio and CD player.

This is itself a great incentive to use COTS parts, reduce number of unique parts, and adhere to standards. Maybe you use a #6 bolt somewhere instead of trimming weight and cost a tiny bit by using a #5 there. Maybe you standardize the dimensions and mount points of your engine compartments, so that 20 years from now, replacement engines can be diverted from the supply chain for newer cars rather than pulled from a warehouse stockpile that has been taking space and gathering dust that whole time. Or maybe you set up your spare parts facility to do on-demand manufacturing or assembly.

It is a big can of worms. But I'd argue that not opening it now would be allowing it to grow even bigger and wormier as time goes on.
The writer of the article essentially admitted it was bullshit and wrote it just to manipulate the market: https://twitter.com/ShitcoinDotCom/status/965910847645212672
Bisbee, a town in Southern Arizona, recently saw its popularly approved of plastic bag ban overturned by the AZ state legislature.
This is quite simple. You simply have the running system constantly have the file or data be readable to the public. Now anyone can prove that the logs haven't been tampered with. Even better, you can just use a merkle tree data storage solution like Git to make that verification easy and fast. See Certificate Authority for a fully fleshed out solution in this nature. (I guess you could claim that merkle trees are blockchains, but in that case I would argue that the word "blockchain" is pretty meaningless. Just call them merkle trees.)
I don't know, but I think C02 isn't the primary concern. Petroleum usage and plastic waste are greater concerns. And if you're worried about the air, note that plastic manufacturing produces considerably more toxic gases than steel production.

Considering how many vehicles and buildings are built with steel on this planet, I'd bet that the volume of steel needed to provide every person on earth with a steel straw once wouldn't even be noticed by the steel producers.

Actually, I just took a few minutes to look a couple things up and did the math. The US today likely recycles more than 6M tons of steel every year (it was 5.8M and rising in 2014), and a ton of steel can produce around 40K straws, if I divide one ton by the weight of a steel straw I saw on Amazon. This means we could produce steel straws for all on earth with about 200K tons of recycled steel, or less than 4% of the steel we're recycling every year in the US alone.

Note the steel industry and the EPA have somewhat different numbers for amount of recycling, it may be due to US vs global recycling, but I went with the EPA's which is more conservative.

I don't know about Taiwan, but note that metal recycling in the US is currently twice the weight of metal recycling, and plastic is twice the weight of land filling compared to metal; in other words plastic is a much larger problem.

https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/web/html/

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-11/documents...

https://www.steel.org/~/media/Files/AISI/Fact%20Sheets/50_Fu...

With these things in mind, I'd personally be pretty surprised if a steel straw that lasts 10 years wasn't environmentally better (and by more than a little) on all scales than plastic straws for someone who drinks a soda with a straw every day for lunch.
For a navigation system those roads are mostly a "last mile" problem. They generally aren't as direct or connected as main highways, so graph based navigation naturally ignores them. Main highways are also reasonably well marked in the tiger data, so the lack of differentiation for the lower priority road type doesn't impact a system that prioritizes larger highways (a pretty reasonable heuristic).

The lack of differentiation is a big problem if you want to pick which way to go when driving around though.
Bill Ruddiman has been the most public face pushing for a ~7000 year Anthropocene.

Sadly this paper[0] remains behind a paywall and I can't find my local version. It is really the best work on the early Anthropocene hypothesis.

[0] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-...
A few podcasts: Joe Rogan, Tim Ferris, and The Art of Manliness. Mainly because they interview a lot of different people. I skip a lot, but it exposes me to a bunch of new books and things. I listen to other podcasts, but they're normally directed to specific areas.

The one that's clicked with me the most: Sebastian Junger on JRE[0]. I still need to read Tribe, but listening to Junger discuss it really aligns with me, as someone who has transitioned out of the military in the last few years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4KiOECVGLg
> It turns out that "trustless" is more subtle and not quite as discrete as we might've thought.

That's exactly it -- even in the centralized variants, the "trusted" authority doesn't have a lot of power. The main power they have is censoring transactions, both in the present (not accepting a new transaction) and in the past (rewriting the chain to omit a transaction and all of its dependents).

The ability to rewrite history is a dangerous one, but is mitigated by the fact that they can't do so undetected by the network. This is a social/economic effect rather than a cryptographic one, which has its own dangers, but means that the trusted authority risks losing (or forking) its status to a competing trusted authority for the same coin if the consensus of the network is that they cannot be trusted.

The forward security guarantees are just that the transactions are signed, and those signatures cannot be forged, even by the trusted authority, so there is no way for another actor (including the trusted authority) without access to your private keys to spend your coins.
I'd like to expand a bit and reiterate that not everyone who suffers from depression has primary depression with no discernable cause. Most seriously depressed people in my experience have various situational causes (physical health, financial, social etc) and the depression is a side effect of those and not the main issue. Without tackling the root cause, drugs usually just cover, drag out, and add issues, yet the mental health system mostly uses these drugs as a blunt instrument and fail to address the cause. In the right circumstance, and right conditions, they CAN enable someone to get out of a rut and take actions they wouldn't have without so they do have a place after someone with unexplainable depression who has tried less invasive and risky options like lifestyle changes.

I am not encouraging people not to try medication if they feel it is a good option, simply asking people to realize A. It's not a cure without a plan to fix the cause and B. Not to follow the common victim blaming that often occurs when these simple "fixes" don't work for people (OP isn't doing that and I don't intend to sound as if I am saying so...in fact they made it clear it's not a magical fix suited for all) Drugs are a tool, not a cure, and need to be wielded responsibly and properly. Sadly I don't believe that happens a lot of the time.
Here's a simple one that you can try at home. This isn't one of those 'the facebook app listens to me' privacy breaches, it's more concrete and provable. Take a friend you haven't talked to in a couple of years, and start chatting with them over WhatsApp. After some days of this, go to your Facebook feed and watch how their posts now appear prominently, even though they didn't before you started chatting.

This is simple and harmless, but this same information has other uses that are not so harmless. They may not be being used right now, but they may start to be used in the future
I know that "why not blockchain" has become a cliche and I agree that majority of proposed use-cases seem like hammer desperately looking for the nail, but maybe this is an area where it could be indeed useful?

- Create a special "evidence camera" that allows photos taken with this camera to be used as an evidence.

- When you take the photo, the camera posts digital fingerprint of the photo on the blockchain.

- To prove that camera internals have not been tampered with, it also signs the fingerprint with the "camera private key". The private key is destroyed when the camera case is opened: for the sake of the argument let's say that the value of the air pressure inside the tightly locked camera case is the private key.

- The public key of the camera is publicly known, so everyone can verify the validity of the private key.
Well I admire Wikipedia as a default search engine. That's fairly hardcore.

Krylon, eh? Are you a painter?
If you considered the suburbs of Dallas though, I'd say they are about the same. Frisco, Plano, McKinney, etc.
> that a proprietary engine

I'd rather call it in-house than proprietary. Maintaining or even publishing a project in the open is a lot of work, and it's not like there aren't a lot of open-source forums available, so I can imagine the maintainers deciding it's really not worth it.

In fact, the comment system of LWN is in-house as well, and I doubt anyone would accuse them of proprietary sympathies. They're getting there, but it's just nor a priority, or even that important in the open source world.
In Norway we went the other way - our grocery bags are so thick and sturdy that they're reused as garbage bags for 95%+ of households instead of garbage bags. Our garbage looks like this (the blue bags are free government provided bags for plastic recycling):
https://i.imgur.com/WbAsG3y.jpg

Environmental organizations here actually complained about the plastic bag tax because they feared it would lead to people buying garbage bag rolls instead of reusing the grocery bags for their garbage.

Anecdotally I'd say it also makes our garbage system "less messy" than systems that depends on bigger thrash bags - a hole in a large flimsy thrash bag is more likely and has a bigger negative effect than one in a small sturdy one.
I want to critique one particular point made in this article, becuase it’s incorrect:

> IOTA uses cryptography that cannot be broken by quantum computers. The use of such cryptography, specifically Winternitz signatures, leaves IOTA users vulnerable to loss of funds if they ever reuse an address. This attack that has already been seen in practice, with one user reportedly losing $30,000 USD worth of IOTA.

As quantum computers large enough to threaten existing cryptosystems do not exist and may not exist for many decades, this use of post quantum cryptography comes with no tangible benefit.

“No tangible benefit” is a gross overstatement and simplification. I wholeheartedly agree that 1) novel cryptography should not be adopted before it has been well-studied, and 2) threat models for motivating novel cryptography should be rational and pass a cost-benefit analysis. However, if and when quantum computers can practically break classical cryptosystems, they will be able to do against everything cryptography is used to secure today, not just going forwards. This is a stonger argument for encryption and confidentiality, but it nevertheless also applies to signatures and authentication. As a tangential point: while they aren’t perfect (in terms of efficiency), Winternitz signatures are very well studied. Given what’s available, it’s not a bad choice.

I think a lot of IOTA’s specification is pretty suspect, especially since it does utilize novel cryptography without an apparent track record or notable expertise among its team. But I also absolutely believe new cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects should be preparing for quantum computation now, if it’s possible. More pertinently, I don’t agree with the way this point was presented, because it can be interpreted as the claim that post-quantum cryptography is a useful heuristic in determining if a project has “issues”. In reality all cryptography should be suspect, and the use of post-quantum cryptography should not be dismissed immediately as a waste. With IOTA in particular, I’m weakly on the side that they shouldn’t have bothered with Winternitz signatures. But in general, I’m happy to see any project at least giving it serious consideration.
Log out of Github and then reload the page. WFM.
this already happens with lots of car parts. One example: say 20 years ago you repacked bearings, now you "just" buy replacement OEM bearing assemblies because they essentially can't be repacked or even disassembled.

"Fixing" lots of appliances means wholesale replacement of the entire "board" (i.e. component representing 90% of the total electronics) which likely never makes the device as good as new but costs almost as much as a replacement unit.
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My intention is to ensure contributing to publicly censoring/censuring costs something (intentionally tiny, but greater than zero/nothing) each time, beyond the one-time minimum karma requirement. "Downvote to disagree" seems unlikely to scale indefinitely, particularly as mobile means less willingness to contribute beyond clicking up/down (specifically now that there are apps catching on that remove all "fat-fingered web UI" friction!).

It's perfectly fine to disagree with this belief; HN itself does!

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I live on the fourth floor and the reception from my (audio only unidirectional) baby monitor doesn’t reach to the ground floor. So the stalker would need to be in one of the adjacent flats. Not an insurmountable barrier, but one that I feel comfortable with, since all I need protecting is baby babble.
Does anyone know of a deeply-argued argument against the use of plastics like these?

Don't take this question as meaning that I believe such an argument doesn't exist, or that I think they shouldn't be banned. I'm currently agnostic on the matter, because I don't feel I know enough about it.

I tend to only hear shallowly-argued reasons for banning these things (which doesn't mean their conclusions are wrong).
You know exactly what I meant. Stop starting arguments for no reason.
While it's probably not the main problem with IOTA I must say that the ternary logic is probably the most amusing and baffling thing about it. This kind of hubris is something I would expect from a very junior developer without much real world experience who already thinks he's got everything figured out.

How can one rationalize starting a super ambitious cryptocurrency project and on top of that decide to reimplement their own crypto using ternary logic for some vague theoretical benefits that would only pay out if IOTA ever becomes mainstream enough (and the benefits large enough) for people to create not only dedicated chips for it but entire industrial processes to make ternary logic silicon.

It's also completely misunderstanding the current state of IoT, chips capable of doing high grade (binary) cryptography in a reasonable amount of time nowadays are worth next to nothing and their consumption is almost negligible. It's not premature optimization, it's too-little-too-late optimization.

Doing that as a fun week end project to learn about ternary? Sure. As the foundation of your multi billion dollar cryptocurrency set to revolutionize IoT? Come on.
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Yeah, exactly this. If your article/gist/etc gains some traction it's an easy way to get people to look at your other projects. Github's success is largely dependent on the social aspect.